Post by Remus John Lupin on Aug 27, 2009 21:28:02 GMT -5
The Creation
Name: Remus John Lupin
Nickname: Moony, Romulus (on Potterwatch)
Species:Wizard/Werewolf
Gender:Male
Age & Birthday: 58, March 10th, 1960
Appearance:
Remus has light brown hair that is prematurely greying, and a pale face with premature lines. These are due to the great deal of stress his body underwent with each full moon. He sports a mustache and has scars cutting across his face. He is rather tall, but thin, making him appear less intimidating a foe at first glance.
Attire:
Remus wears shabby, patched clothing most of the time, though he does have some nice clothes to wear on special occations. Most of his clothes are dark in color nowadays, where as before he could be seen wearing an array of brightly colored ties at least, and lighter colored coats. When his son, Teddy is around, Remus charms what ever he is wearing to match the shade of his son’s hair, and it mimics any changes that Teddy’s hair makes.
House (If applicable): Former Gryffindor
Wand: Cherry, Thestral hair core, 10 inches.
Patronus: Some kind of large dog.
Boggart: The full moon.
The Potential
Alignment/Occupation: Order of The Phoenix Member
Personality:
Remus is very intelligent, calm, tolerant, gentle, and good-natured. Despite having suffered a great deal of prejudice in his life due to his lycanthropy, he managed to retain an ability to see the good in almost everybody and was extremely forgiving. He also has an excellent sense of humour and, when he was a student at school, was one of the Marauders. He could be described as the mature one in the group, however, because unlike his friends he never partook in bullying and even became a Prefect in his fifth year.
Considering that his Boggart is the full moon, Remus is afraid of turning into a werewolf. He might be afraid of the transformation itself, or the fact that he could harm, infect, or kill his friends and family while transformed, and know that he did it himself.
Although he had been known to be quite the talker in the past, the war has turned him into a statue, one that only seems to really open up around his only child...Teddy.
Skills:
+ Defence Against the Dark Arts Master
+ Nonverbal and wandless magic expert
+ Master Duelist
+ Charms expert
Strengths:
+ Charms
+ DADA
+ Is a Werewolf
Weaknesses:
+ Is a Werewolf
+ Has a hard time forgiving himself for all that happened in the second war.
+ Fears he may injure or kill the last member of his family...Teddy.
The Story
History:
{COPIED FROM HARRY POTTER WIKI ON REMUS LUPIN AND FIXED SO THAT IT REFLECTS THE CURRENT PLOT}
Remus was born on March 10, 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Lupin. As a young boy Remus was bitten by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback after his father insulted Greyback, thus becoming afflicted with the blood infection himself. His parents did everything that they could in order to try to find a cure for him, but all of their attempts to do so failed. Although he and his parents were unsure of the safety of allowing him to attend school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore did not see why he could not attend and encouraged him to become a student.
Remus attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978 and was sorted into Gryffindor house. To secure his safety as well as that of his peers, a shanty was built outside of Hogsmeade. This shanty had no natural entrances. There was only a secret passage leading to it from under the Whomping Willow, on Hogwarts' grounds. Remus was brought to the structure once a month for his transformations in order to prevent him from attacking other students. However this isolation caused him to attack himself out of frustration. The villagers of Hogsmeade mistook his screams for that of violent ghosts. Thus the building was dubbed the Shrieking Shack and attained the reputation for being the most haunted building in Britain. Dumbledore encouraged this rumour to keep people from investigating the noises. Remus became good friends with fellow Gryffindors James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. He kept his status a werewolf a secret from all of the students at Hogwarts, including James, Sirius, and Peter, and made up stories to explain his monthly disappearances, such as that his mother was ill and he needed to go home to visit her. James, Sirius, and Peter worked out the truth during their second year, and due to their acceptance of who Remus was and their strong friendship with him they decided to learn how to become Animagi in order to keep Remus company during his transformations as a werewolf is only a danger to humans. By their fifth year, James was able to become a stag, Sirius was able to become a dog, and Peter was able to become a rat. Once a month during the full moon James, Sirius, and Peter would sneak out of the castle under James's Invisibility Cloak, transform, get into the Whomping Willow, walk down the tunnel, and meet up with Remus in the Shrieking Shack. The four of them soon left the Whomping Willow and would roam among the school grounds and Hogsmeade by night. They called themselves the Marauders and Remus’s friends nicknamed him "Moony" because of his transformations during every full moon.
Remus was a good student and a prankster, and he and Peter would sometimes join James and Sirius in detention for mischief-making, though they did not get into as much trouble as their other friends. No other Hogwarts student ever found out as much about the Hogwarts ground and Hogsmeade as they did, and James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter used their knowledge of it to write the Marauder's Map and signed it with their nicknames. It was eventually confiscated by Argus Filch.
However, Remus' frequent disappearances riled up an unhealthy curiosity in Severus Snape, a Slytherin student in the same year as Remus, who shared an enmity with James and Sirius, and hated Remus and Peter by association. Severus followed James, Sirius, Remus and Peter around in order to see what they were up to and in an effort to get all of them expelled. In their sixth year, Sirius played a malicious prank against Snape by telling him about the Whomping Willow passageway, hoping that he would be terrified by what he found at the other end. James stopped Snape and saved his life, but Snape still uncovered Remus’s secret. Dumbledore subsequently swore Snape to secrecy, but Snape teased Remus cruelly from that point on.
Remus was also a prefect while he was at Hogwarts, although he had trouble exercising discipline over his friends. Sirius once said that Remus did not participate in the bullying of Snape, but Remus admitted that he regretted that he had never stepped in to stop it.
Shortly after graduating from Hogwarts, Remus joined the Order of the Phoenix along with James, Sirius, Peter and Lily Evans, standing up against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Remus failed to find employment following his education because of his affliction as a werewolf. However, James Potter used his wealth to financially support him.
By the height of the war, Remus’s friend Sirius Black had come to distrust him, suspecting that he might be a spy for the other side. Thus, when a prophecy was made about a child who would have the power to defeat the Dark Lord and Dumbledore identified infant Harry Potter as a possible target, Remus was not included in the plan to keep the Potters safe, though he was aware that they used the Fidelius Charm. James and Lily Potter wanted to use Sirius as their Secret-Keeper, but Sirius thought that would be too obvious, and thus suggested Peter Pettigrew instead. Not even Dumbledore or Remus knew of the switch. .
In 1993, Remus was offered the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, replacing the permanently amnesiac Gilderoy Lockhart. While the students were kept in the dark about his affliction, the staff were made aware that he was a werewolf. Remus taught the class a comprehensive curriculum of identifying and sidestepping dark creatures such as Hinkypunks and Red Caps. He also taught the class about Boggarts. It was during that class that Harry realized his "greatest fear was fear itself" when his Boggart took on the form of a Dementor. After this, Remus gave Harry private lessons in producing a Patronus as a means to control Dementors. Incidentally, being a werewolf, Remus's boggart would take on the form of the full moon. Students who saw this boggart form mistook it for a crystal ball, except for Hermione Granger, who deduced that Remus was a werewolf but kept the discovery to herself.
During his time as a professor, Severus Snape, who had switched sides at the end of the war and became Potions professor, provided Remus with Wolfsbane Potion, allowing him to retain his human mind during transformations.
Slytherin students, encouraged by Draco Malfoy, sneered at Remus' shabby clothes and poor appearance, although he seemed to ignore their comments. Regardless, his other students held him in extremely high regard and loved the hands-on style of his classes. He was considered by Harry and his friends to have been their only decent Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.
For his third years' end of year tests in June, he prepared an unusual exam – an obstacle course out in the grounds in which the students had to wade across a paddling pool containing a grindylow, cross a series of potholes full of Red Caps, cross a marsh while being fed misleading directions by a hinkypunk, and enter a trunk to battle a newly procured boggart.
The summer before Remus began his tenure as the Defence professor, Sirius Black escaped Azkaban. Remus, like the rest of the wizarding world, had believed that Sirius had betrayed the Potters to Voldemort and murdered Peter Pettigrew.
By the end of the school year, however, Remus knew the truth of what had happened and that Pettigrew was still alive, hiding in his Animagus form – Scabbers, the pet rat of Ron Weasley. Remus was reunited with his old friend Sirius and the two resolved to kill Pettigrew for his part in the deaths of James and Lily and in framing Sirius. They were stopped by Harry Potter, who believed it would be better to hand Pettigrew over to the Ministry of Magic to prove Sirius’s innocence.
However, that night happened to be a full moon, and Remus transformed into his werewolf form. Sirius was forced to turn into his dog Animagus form to protect Harry, Hermione and Ron from Remus, and Pettigrew escaped during the chaos.
After the danger had passed, Remus resigned from his position when parents learned that he was a werewolf, his resignation was much to the regret of the Hogwarts students and staff who had all grown very fond of him.
When Lord Voldemort returned, Remus joined the second Order of the Phoenix. He participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996, and defeated a number of Death Eaters including their leader, Lucius Malfoy. He was one of only two combatants to see the end of the battle unscathed, the other being Albus Dumbledore, proving Remus's exceptional skill at dueling and knowledge of magic... Later that year, Remus began working as a spy for the Order, living among fellow werewolves and trying to convince them to join Dumbledore's side.
In July of 1997, Remus participates in Order's operation to remove Harry Potter from his relatives' home before Voldemort can get to him. Remus acts as the protector of George Weasley, who takes Polyjuice Potion to become one of the "seven Potters". The party is ambushed by at least thirty Death Eaters, and George is struck by Snape's Sectumsempra spell while he and Remus flew. Remus is unable to pay Snape back in time, it being all he could do to keep George on the broom; though he eventually got the injured George back to the Burrow to be cleaned up, though he permanently lost an ear. Later in the book, it is revealed that Snape sent the spell in order to cut off the hand of a Death Eater aiming at Remus' back, presumably about to kill him. Remus is very anxious about the late arrival of his wife; Tonks had been aggressively pursued by her murderous aunt Bellatrix Lestrange.
Remus and Tonks are both able to attend the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour shortly afterwards, and bravely defend the Burrow when it came under attack as Voldemort took over the Ministry.
Remus suffers great mental anguish as the war escalates when he learns that his wife is pregnant. Remus tears out a clump of his own hair out in anxiety over the possibility that his child will be born a werewolf.. He offers to help Harry, Ron and Hermione with their search for Voldemort’s Horcruxes, but Harry ran him off, calling him a coward for even considering leaving his wife alone while pregnant. Remus leaves them greatly agitated.
Remus eventually comes to his senses and reunites with Tonks in time to see his son born. They named him Teddy, after Tonks’ father, who has recently been killed by Snatchers after refusing to turn himself in to the Muggle-Born Registration Commission. Appearing to forgive and forget their earlier disagreement in Grimmauld Place, Remus asks Harry to be Teddy's godfather. He is ecstatic over the birth of his son, but the family's happiness won't last long..
Remus is one of the many Order members who answers Neville Longbottom's call to arms on May 2, 1998, when Harry, Hermione and Ron return to Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort gatheres his army to attack the school. He organizes and leads groups to fight Death Eaters on the school grounds along with Kingsley Shacklebolt and Arthur Weasley. His wife initially agrees not to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, instead staying with their infant son, but is ultimately unable to bear leaving her husband to face such danger without her. She leaves Teddy with her mother and races to Hogwarts, where she is informed that Remus was last seen fiercely and courageously dueling Death Eater Antonin Dolohov. Tonks is murdered by her aunt Bellatrix Lestrange before she is able to find Remus.
During the brief pause in the battle, Tonks' body was laid out in the Great Hall. The nature of her death has not been revealed, but her body is peaceful-looking, implying that she was struck with a Killing Curse.
Remus returned to the battle with the image of his slay wife and still living son in his mind; scarring him with the need for revenge. At the loss of Harry Potter, the war turned for the worst, forcing Remus and the Order to fall back and return to their left over families at home. He carries with him the pain of losing his wife and his charge, Harry Potter, whom he thought of as a nephew in a way.
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