Chapter 1
Introduction / summary of Year 1 ( story/story_ ?storyid=11944231&chapter=1/)
Remus Lupin was a very clever 12 year old boy with dusty brown hair, brown eyes, a thin, but tall stature, and a sad face held a secret. Well, actually he held two secrets. One: he was a wizard who attended a magical school of witchcraft and wizardry named Hogwarts. Two: he was a werewolf every full moon.
His first year at Hogwarts was very traumatic for Remus for he was targeted by the brother of a werewolf serial killer, Frenrir Greyback who resided in Azkaban for killing or turning countless children (like Remus when he was 5). Frederick, Frenrir's equally-as-evil brother, was sent to harm as many of Remus's friends and family as possible. And Remus made a lot of friends: James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Severus Snape, and Katelyn Domer. Remus enjoyed playing pranks, studying magic, and having friends in general.
Unfortunately, Frederick managed to injure two people (including Professor Esteban Estrella who was turned), and he killed four people (including a 11 year old Katelyn Domer). Remus teamed up with the vengeful Professor Estrella and his husband to capture Frederick and turn him into the Ministry of Magic, but things went horribly wrong. Frederick dueled an 11 year old Remus and killed Professor Estrella's husband. Out of self defense and anger, Professor Esteban then killed Frederick Greyback with the unforgivable killing curse. He was then sentenced to 10 years in Azkaban.
Though Remus was happy that Frederick Greyback was finally dead at the end of the year, and he thought he could return to a normal life with his friends, he was wrong. First his friend Severus found out in the last week of classes that Remus frequently enjoyed playing pranks with Severus's nemesis, James. Though the pranks that Remus partook in were mostly harmless, Severus falsely believed that he was working with James secretly to bully him, though Remus would never. So, on the night of the last exams, Severus told Professor McGonagall that Remus and his friends were sneaking out to play a prank on the DADA teacher, Professor Malfoy. However, the boys overheard a scary conversation about a muggle murder that Professor Malfoy was having with his mystery "Lord", but were severely punished by McGonagall for sneaking out.
Secondly Remus's friends, Sirius, James, and Peter started noticing how Remus was disappearing every month. Because it took at least two days of absence to go through his transformation and healing afterwards, Remus would make up extravagant lies with the help of Professor McGonagall, Madam Pomfrey, and Dumbledore to explain his absence. But as time passed, his friends became more suspicious and demanded the truth, but Remus couldn't give it to them. On the train ride home last year he said to his friends "I fear that you will hate me more if I tell you the truth." and left them.
Today: 09/01/1972
"Have a great school year, dear." Mrs. Lupin said to Remus as they stood before the Hogwarts Express at 10:50am.
Remus sighed and mumbled "I don't know how that's possible."
His dad heard this and looked Remus in his chocolate eyes, just positioned a few centimeters below his level. "Now, I know you'll be able to make new friends without a problem. And maybe these new friends won't get you detention and grounded for the entire summer like the last ones." He said sternly.
"I don't want new friends. I don't want friends at all." Remus protested.
Mr. and Mrs. Lupin exchanged a concerned look and Mrs. Lupin said lightly "Well that attitude may change in the future, especially if you meet a nice girl this year…"
"No, it won't." Remus said sternly. He saw his mom's face drop a little. "But who needs friends when I have awesome parents like you? Plus, books and grades will be my best friends this year. I love you mom and dad, have a great year." Remus said quickly, trying to appear happy. He quickly picked up his bag and started turning away.
"We love you too." His parents said in sync, but Remus was already on the train. Remus went through the carriages one by one. He peaked in one and saw it was his old best friends James, Sirius, and Peter. He tried to hide his face and walked away quickly, but James saw him.
"Remus! We haven't heard from you in ages." James called after him. Remus stopped and looked in.
"We're sorry about last year, we just want to help." Sirius said.
"We promise we wouldn't tell anyone if you finally told us your secret." James promised. There was a silence.
"Please, just come sit with us." Peter asked.
"Ahh, sorry, have to go." Remus said quickly and walked away. Remus looked in the next carriage compartment and it was Lily and Severus.
"Hi." Remus said friendly.
"This compartment is taken." Severus said and he closed the door.
Remus sighed and continued on until he found an empty compartment near the back. He closed the door and sat down. He opened Moonlight's cage and she hopped up on the seat next to him, then lept up to the overhead shelf and curled up and quickly fell asleep.
"You're good company." Remus muttered. He opened his new second-hand Charms textbook and flipped to page 100 and began reading. Since underage wizards aren't allowed to do magic outside of Hogwarts, he'd been memorizing the spells and wand movements separately since the beginning of August. He'd probably read the entire book at least four times. After an hour of reading, Remus was interrupted by Lucius Malfoy and a group of his nasty friends including Domante at his cabin door.
"Ah, what do we have here, Remus Lupin all alone?" Lucius snickered. Remus continued reading. The three boys sat in the cabin with him. "Tell me, Remus. Why aren't you with your friends?" Remus remained silent and read. "Is it because you don't have friends anymore?" Lucius asked. Remus continued reading. Lucius looked annoyed at his book and said "Give me that!" and took the book. Remus looked up and said
"Please give that back." in a calm tone.
"Nope." Lucius said.
"Please, I'm sure you wouldn't want a old second hand book like that." Remus said.
"It is disgusting, and I don't want it, but I've realized something wonderful." Lucius said.
"What?" Remus gritted his teeth.
"That without Sirius, James, and the mudblood by your side, you are vulnerable." Lucius snarled.
"You seemed to have forgotten who made you unconscious last year." Remus said bravely. "So I wouldn't say I am completely vulnerable."
"Ah, there's that Gryffindor bravery. Let's see how brave he actually is, right lads?" Lucius said.
"I could take all three of you in a duel, no problem. But we're not allowed to do magic outside of school." Remus said annoyed.
"We don't need magic to kick your homeless ass." Lucius said as Domante cracked his knuckles.
Shit.
Remus tried to run out the door but Malfoy tripped him and pinned him to the ground as Domante kicked him in the stomach, and Adoranz Calcarook punched him in the face. Remus saw his wand rolled off the bench on the floor beside him. He reached for it and screamed "Depulso!" and the three boys were sent flying out of the cabin, breaking the glass door, into the hallway. A lot of people came running to see what happened.
A bloody and bruised Remus Lupin stood up and looked at the crowd who were a mixture between terrified and amazed. The three boys who were sent into the hall stood up and walked horrified away from Remus. Ignoring the crowd of people still staring, now containing his ex-friends, Remus held up his wand and pointed at the glass door and muttered "Reparo". The glass laying on the ground floated up into the door frame and fit together again like a puzzle. Remus then closed the door, shutting himself away from the rest of the word.
Author's notes:
12/08/2016
Hi, it's Christylee again. Just wanted you all to know that I made some changes in year 1 that affect year 2. I changed that no first years were on the Quidditch teams to follow the original story better. So James, Sirius, Lucius, and Domante were all not on the teams last year. However, I changed Katelyn to a second year so she could still be on the team. Remus still announced for the games. I like it better this way and hope you will too. Thanks!