Chapter 1

This fan fiction is set in the marauders era and is going to be from the point of view of Remus Lupin. Pettigrew will not be in this fan fiction as I hate the evil rat's guts and his character is horrible to write. The Lupin family are half bloods in this and they are also half-Italian, they do not usually speak in Italian but they might use a few phrases of it now and again. I am going to try to keep things as true to the books as possible except for the deliberate changes, so please tell me if I make any mistakes involving the plot or spelling. J

AN/ I am obviously J K Rowling because she has nothing better to do than type up a fan fiction on a laptop and then sit at home being extremely bored. In all seriousness, though I do not own Harry Potter or any of its plotlines. The names Luciano and Arianna are ones that I borrowed from the Stravagante series but I do own how those characters act. What else I own is the notepad I started writing this story in the laptop I am now typing it up on and the story inside my head.

Now it is time to get to the story… I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

As Remus John Lupin had been making his way away from his family's car and towards the busy Kings Cross station, his mind kept going back to the evens that had led to him, a werewolf, being accepted at Hogwarts, School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

He had been at home on the morning before the full moon and was getting bandages put on him by Arianna who was his cousin. She was a fully qualified healer but because magic did not work on wounds inflicted by a werewolf, she was forced to use muggle medicine to help Remus. Ever since she and her husband Luciano had taken Remus in after the incident with his parents, they had been forced to make some changes. Due to the restrictions on werewolves, they were not allowed to live in cities, so they were forced to live in in a cottage in the Scottish countryside. Remus remembered that Arianna had laughed when he had told her not to get a pain relief potion, but she had let it go anyway.

A knock on the door alerted them to the fact that there was somebody was nearby and they went to their positions. Over the five years that had lived there, they had formed a routine in the unlikely event that anybody would visit them. Luciano walked slowly and calmly to the door giving Remus the time he needed to put a shirt over his bandages and Arianna to put away her medical supplies. Then Arianna went over to the living room and grabbed a book to read randomly off the bookshelf while Remus went, as quickly as he could, while causing as little pain as possible to his room.

Once Remus was up in his own room, he went carefully over to his bookshelf and picked up a book titled "Defence Against the Dark Arts, the First Year's Guide". After his birthday, Remus had begun to receive tuition from his cousins because none of them believed he would get into Hogwarts so they had begun teaching him in their specialist subjects. Arianna taught Remus potions, charms, herbology, and transfiguration while Luciano taught him defence against the dark arts and quidditch. When they had decided on teaching him they had also bought the set list if books for a first year at Hogwarts so that when Luciano was called away with Arianna because of their work Remus could still study. They often had to go to work at a similar time for emergencies as Luciano was an auror and was need fight against the supporters of the dark arts and Arianna was a healer so would be called to heal those wounded during the battle. Remus had never minded it when they had to go away although he would look frantically through the Daily Prophet if they were not back by the next morning. Remus sat down on the bed, and began to reread the textbook.

By the time that his cousins' guest had made it upstairs, Remus was on to chapter three - Basic Jinxes. Remus looked up from his book when he heard the unfamiliar sound of the guest's footsteps along the corridor towards his room. To say the Remus was shocked to see that his cousins' guest was Albus Dumbledore would be an understatement. In the Lupins' house the name Albus Dumbledore was respected as it was in many houses all over Britain, but it was not for the same reasons. The Lupins respected Dumbledore because he was one of the few people in Britain who did not openly insult werewolves or other people who were only half-human. Remus could feel that same man observing him, as if he was trying to work out every little thought that had ever passed through Remus' brain. When Dumbledore reached the bed where Remus was sitting he did not say anything at that moment he just handed him an envelope made out of parchment and walked back towards Remus' door. Just before Dumbledore left he spoke "just talk to your parents about coming". Then Dumbledore left the room with a loud crack as he apparated away. Remus had not reacted to Dumbledore calling Luciano and Arianna his parents because that was just what everybody assumed.

Instead, he examined the letter in his hands, on the seal there was the Hogwarts crest, the eagle, badger, lion and snake. With trembling hands, he turned over the letter and saw that it was addressed to him and he opened the letter and read.

To Mr R Lupin,

You have been accepted to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Due to your condition, the headmaster has made provisions so that it will be safe for you and the rest of the students at the school. Please go to Kings Cross Station on the 1st of September and be ready to get the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9 ¾ at 11 o'clock. Send your owl back with your reply.

Deputy Headmistress

Professor Minerva McGonnagall

Remus was shocked and the letter had fallen out of his hands and onto the floor. He had been accepted to Hogwarts; the school that he had wanted to go to since he was little, but had convinced himself that he could never attend. Then his surprise had turned to anger, what had Dumbledore been thinking? How in Merlin's name would Dumbledore be able to keep the students at Hogwarts safe from a monster like him? There was no way that he could go, even if he could convince himself that it would be safe, there was no way that Luciano and Arianna could afford to buy all his school supplies, even discounting the school books that he already owned. Then he had heard the wolf's voice in the back of his mind "Why not go to this school? It is what you think that you want, besides when you get there I can feed." Remus had ignored the wolf's voice to the best of his ability and he tried to remain calm because getting angry at the wolf was as useless as getting angry with himself. Ever since he had been bitten five years ago, Remus had learned to put up with the wolf making sarcastic comments around the full moon, usually whenever Remus needed them the least. At that moment, he really had not needed the wolf's comments, because even though his common sense went against it he had really wanted to go. The fact that somebody would think that he was good enough to be classed with the rest with the rest of the eleventh year witches and wizards was so amazing that he had barely believed it.

Before Remus could have started to reconsider his decision he had gotten up carefully from where he was sitting on the bed and he had went downstairs. His cousins were sitting down in the living room and they were discussing something about the Unforgivable Curses but they immediately stopped talking when Remus entered the room walked into the room. For a few moments they had just stared at each other but then Remus took a deep breath and said "I'm not going it is too dangerous". both Luciano and Arianna had stood up at this and had looked at him as if he was crazy so Remus continued. "There is no way that Dumbledore can make me safe to be around and you know what will happen to me if I do kill somebody." Before either of his cousins could have said anything he had ran upstairs to his room and locked the door. What Remus had said was true, and his cousins had known it. If Remus ever killed a human he would not go to Azkaban. On the 1st of November the previous year they had received a new list of rules from the new head of the Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Delores Umbridge. One of those rules had been that if any werewolf or other "half breed" killed a human they would have been tortured until they had confessed and then they would have been killed. His cousins had been very angry about that as they had known that what a werewolf had done while they were transformed was completely out of their control, but they had also known that there was nothing that they could do about it. Remus had not cared because he had decided long before that list came out, exactly what he would do if he ever even scratched somebody.

He had stayed in his room reading until dinner, when he had needed to go down willingly or Arianna would have just dragged him downstairs using magic. Remus had made his way downstairs to the kitchen and had sat down at his chair without saying a word to his cousins. For a moment he had dared to think that they had decided to accept that he could not go to Hogwarts. That moment had ended when Luciano had began to speak "Remus you are going to Hogwarts. I know that you have always wanted to go and with Dumbledore's precautions in place it will be safe for everybody else. Tomorrow morning we will go and collect your school things". The rest of the meal had been spent in silence, but even though Remus had worn a scowl inside his heart was soaring. Despite the fact that it was a little risky Remus had not been able to stop himself from smiling inside.

`Okay well that's all for this chapter but the flash back is not over yet. The next chapter will include the Lupin's trip to Diagon Alley where he will bump into somebody I think we all know and love… No it is not Dumbledore, honestly! If you want to find out who it is in Diagon Alley, how he meets James and Sirius, and why he does not live with his parents keep reading and reviewing.

Until next time Mischief Managed.