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No: HPFGUIDX 178153

So, JKR said a little bit more than just the Dumbledore thing, including:

"JKR: To take Remus first, Remus was unemployable. Poor Lupin, prior
to Dumbledore taking him in, lead a really impoverished life because
no one wanted to employ a werewolf. The other three were full-time
members of the Order of the Phoenix. If you remember when Lily, James
and co. were at school, the first war was raging. It never reached the
heights that the second war reached, because the Ministry was never
infiltrated to that extend but it was a very bad time, the same
disappearances, the same deaths. So that's what they did, they left
school. James has gold, enough to support Sirius and Lily. So I
suppose they lived foff a private income. But they were full-time
fighters, that's what they did, until Lily fell pregnant with Harry.
So then they went into hiding."

And I'm wondering if it's just a slip of the tongue, or how it came
out at first, but... why would James support Sirius, but not Lupin? 
Lupin was impoverished, but James and Lily and Sirius all got to live
off of James' gold?  It makes me wonder something that wasn't answered
- what was Peter doing?  Doesn't sound like he'd be a 'full-time
fighter'... which means he might be the only Marauder with a job. 
That, or impoverished, or living off the Potter gold as well?  Very
strange.

Also, why would the Potters and Sirius be in the Order at any time
that Lupin wasn't?  Dumbledore started and ran the Order, didn't he? 
So there shouldn't have been a lag between the others becoming a
member and him becoming a member.  It's very strange to me.

Also seems to imply a paucity of imagination... it's nice how many
people simply get to be rich and live that way, but it's more
interesting to give the characters careers.  There's no reason someone
couldn't be in the order and also have a real job - in fact, most of
the Order members we meet DO - professor, caretaker, auror, ministry
official,... thief.

Sometimes it really feels like JKR doesn't even want to bother coming
up with something.  She says she has so much in her head not in the
books, but it was her plan that none of the Marauders even had jobs
they used as their front?  Weird.

~Adam (Prep0strus)