One’s background is a very important these days and it can potential say a lot about an individual. Being poor and rich give a different impression when you talk about it others. One can take that argument to an education. Going to a prestigious college gives you a different image in the eyes of others. By going to an Ivy League, professionals and other students assume that you are a smart individual and is capable of working. On the contrary going to a community college, there is a different image portrayed. While an education you receive at these institution may be the same or similar, it is the name that is associated with the school that puts one individual above another. Despite the quality and performance of the school, the name means a lot more. This has relations to Harry Potter with respects to Professor Lupin.

At the end of the novel, Professor Lupin was revealed to be a werewolf. Werewolves are perceived as dangerous deadly creatures. These “animals” should be kept away from students and because of that Professor Lupin resigns as a teacher before the tension escalates. However Professor Lupin was a caring and good Defense Against the Dark Arts professor: “So we’ve finally got a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who knows his remedies” (Rowling 90). With the stigma of being a werewolf it killed his teaching career. Parents would not trust their children with him, nor would they want an “animal” teaching the students: “they will not want a werewolf teaching their children” (423). While the education Professor Lupin was providing was excellent, it is the image of him being a werewolf that diminishes the value.