The patched robes and chipped cups seem a lot like JKR porting over real-world stuff without thinking through how magic might affect it all. We Muggles might have to make do with chipped teacups (which I could see being either ones Remus brought or school-provided ones that have been knocking about in the cupboard for fifty years), but wizards have some very simple spells to fix things like that. Robes might be harder, if wizarding tailors put anti-magical-alterations spells on them to force customers to bring them in for repairs... but we never hear of such spells. And you'd think that would only apply to new robes, anyway, not second-hand ones (which is presumably what he wears
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A new theory: during his work as a magical exterminator, Remus managed to piss off some kind of fey based creature and ended up being cursed. Some kind of bad luck curse, so no matter how much he repairs his teacups he always manages to chip them. Usually in the most ridiculous way
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I think the epilogue is a dream Harry had after he finished eating that sandwich he wanted to call Kreacher for. The reality when he wakes up could be quite different. Magical Beings of the world, unite!
Not just revenge, but suicidal revenge: he told Hagrid he wouldn't be needing the motorcycle anymore in that eerily final way. I think that in GoF, he gets to a point where he wants to be a good guardian (at least in theory)... but the rest of the time we know him, he has way too much else going on for it to really register with him as a driving motivation.
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Not just revenge, but suicidal revenge: he told Hagrid he wouldn't be needing the motorcycle anymore in that eerily final way. I think that in GoF, he gets to a point where he wants to be a good guardian (at least in theory)... but the rest of the time we know him, he has way too much else going on for it to really register with him as a driving motivation.
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