Once he found he could really talk to me, he opened up. I now know a lot about his family, which is of no interest, and Durmstrang, which very definitely is. He told me a lot about the Dark Arts once he found out about my "great interest in Defence Against The Dark Arts." Between him and Barty Crouch, Jr., who was posing as "Professor Alastor Moody" that year, I got the background on the Dark Arts that I was missing thanks to the Squirrel and Gilderoy "Aren't-I-Just-Peachy" Lockhart. Lupin had been very good, but he only lasted one year thanks to the idiotic prejudice against werewolves. Am I the only person in Magical Britain who ever heard of a cage? Honestly!