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[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 178222

Prep0strus:
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.

Debbie:
This *doesn't* make any sense, but the transcript on the Leaky Cauldron is a
bit rough, and it looks as though a word might have been left out:

"So that's what they did, they left school. James has gold, enough to
support [Lupin] Sirius and Lily. So I suppose they lived off a private
income. But they were full-time fighters, that's what they did, until Lily
fell pregnant with Harry."

In addition to being rough, JKR's answers were, as many off-the-cuff
comments are, not very well crafted and as such they are capable of varying
interpretations.


Prep0strus:
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.

Debbie:
If this is what JKR said, it is inconsistent with canon.  Lupin is in the
photograph of the original Order that Mad-Eye shows Harry in OOP.  In fact,
the whole plot of POA would make no sense if Lupin wasn't in the order,
because Sirius made Peter Pettigrew the Secret Keeper on the assumption that
Lupin was the spy.  If Lupin wasn't in the Order, he wouldn't have had the
kind of information that Pettigrew passed on to Voldemort.  Accordingly, I
think JKR was saying that Sirius, Lily and James didn't have regular jobs
because they worked for the Order full-time, and that the additional
explanation for Lupin was to point out that unlike the others he was
unemployable.

Debbie
whose longtime refusal to put any credence in interview statements has been
utterly vindicated


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