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[montavilla47]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "prep0strus" <prep0strus at ...> wrote:

Adam (Prep0strus):
> 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.

Montavilla47:
LOL.  That Lupin, he just never wins, does he?  Sirius had his own
gold, from his uncle Alphard.  Plus, what was keeping Sirius from 
getting a job?  So, James splurged to get Sirius a motorcyle and 
Lupin was sewing patches on the elbows of his robes.

Couldn't Dumbledore have hired him as an Assistant-
Assisant Gamekeeper if it was that bad?  Did he have *no*
job experience before getting the D.A.D.A. job?  No wonder
Snape was so ticked off.

Or did Lupin get his experience doing all the dangerous
stuff for the Order?