Maybe 'Professor' is just a title you get when you become a teacher?
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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Fay - Sep 21, 2007 9:06:37 pm PDT #2838 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
beekaytee - Sep 22, 2007 4:48:49 am PDT #2839 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
Maybe 'Professor' is just a title you get when you become a teacher?
This is my thinking. Oddly, I just assumed that Lupin's suitcase had recently been labeled, not that he'd come from another school.
Dana - Sep 22, 2007 4:51:39 am PDT #2840 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I think Remus' suitcase is largely labeled for the purposes of exposition.
I like the theory, though, that he was tutoring students. I also like the idea that James and Sirius and Peter gave him a luggage tag (whatever the magical equivalent of that is) as a joke when they all graduated, because they were always ribbing him about being studious and professorly.
Dana - Sep 22, 2007 4:55:09 am PDT #2841 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Also, I checked the HP Lexicon, and they have no information for Remus during those years.
The only note is that it's not long before his time at Hogwarts that Snape discovers the Wolfsbane potion. It must have been a pretty sad time for Remus, without his friends to keep him company during his transformations.
Fay - Sep 22, 2007 4:57:56 am PDT #2842 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
blows nose
God, poor bloody Remus. He had a pretty crappy deal, didn't he? And no sooner reunited with Sirius than he lost him again. God. Poor bastard.
beekaytee - Sep 22, 2007 5:10:24 am PDT #2843 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
I also like the idea that James and Sirius and Peter gave him a luggage tag (whatever the magical equivalent of that is) as a joke when they all graduated, because they were always ribbing him about being studious and professorly.
Even better!
He had a pretty crappy deal, didn't he? And no sooner reunited with Sirius than he lost him again. God. Poor bastard.
And it just got worse! Remus was definitely JK's Jossian element. I will make you love him and then make you suffer for loving him. A lot.
Ailleann - Sep 22, 2007 5:38:07 am PDT #2844 of 3301
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Man, do I love Remus. Poor Remus.
Laga - Sep 22, 2007 11:36:04 am PDT #2845 of 3301
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Does the foe glass show your enemies as you believe them to be or would it show enemies you didn't know you had?
Hil R. - Sep 22, 2007 10:08:32 pm PDT #2846 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Trying to figure out the logic of the Time Turner. There's a scene in PoA where Hermione misses a Charms class. It seems that the plan for that period was for her to go to Divination, then use the Time Turner to get back to the beginning of that class period, and then go to Charms. But she forgot to go to Charms, and fell asleep in the common room. After class, Harry and Ron found her and asked why she hadn't been in Charms. What was to stop her from using the Time Turner at that point to get back to the beginning of the period and get to Charms?
Laga - Sep 22, 2007 11:15:01 pm PDT #2847 of 3301
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is it just a coincidence that pensieve is an anagram of Pevensie?