Lupin's Journals #1
Sept. 1
Well I'm here! At Hogwarts! Thanks to the generous goodness of Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, and the hard work of the teachers involved on my behalf. The hat sorted me into Gryffindor, same house as my father. I write this from the boys common room. In here with me are three other boys, James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. The boy, James, is very opinionated, he thinks I'm too quiet to be a Gryffindor. He told Peter that he was too small to be a Gryffindor, so I take no offence from his banter. James and Sirius seem to be friends already. I hope I make friends soon. I hope I'm not so strange, so… dangerous as to not deserve companionship.
- Remus Lupin
Lupin's Journals #2
Oct. 1
The first month has past without incident, though I have obtained scratches and a bit or two, some of them rather deep. Without other people to target, it seems the wolf turns on itself. The important thing is that no one seems to suspect a thing, Sirius and James didn't even comment on my absents. I reckon they didn't even noticed, I heard tell that they went out with Peter that night. James owns a really nice invisibility cloak. When I asked about the rumor (I pretended to have gone to bed late and not to have seen them come in), they told me that they were just trying to navigate their way through Hogwarts so they don't get lost on the way to classes. Apparently Peter had already gotten lost multiple times that week, and James and Sirius were giving him extra practice. I suspect they were just breaking the rules to prove they could. They promised to take me with them the next time they went out. They seem really nice, and I hope that someday they might count me a friend.
- Remus Lupin
Lupin's Journals #3
Dec. 1
Third month of school. I'm getting good grades and working hard. I think Professor Dumbledore is pleased with me. At one point I remembering reading about the friendship between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin. You wouldn't think that to see James and Severus going at each other, like a pair of stags fighting over a doe's attention. I only compare them thus because they are clearly fighting for the attention of Lily Evans, a pretty Gryffindor girl in our year. I thought to stop James hexing Severus, but must confess myself relieved when Lily Evans told James off, so I didn't have to. I'm started to think of Sirius, James, and Peter as my friends, and didn't want to cause tension by telling them off.
- Remus Lupin
Lupin's Journals #4
Feb. 1
I have realized that there are ups and downs to having friends. James commented on my absents this full moon. I need to come up with better excuses than, 'Professor Flitwick is giving me extra lessons.' I'm quite convinced that they doubted my honesty. The animosity between James and Severus just grows with the change of seasons. The air grows warmer as spring approaches, but the full moon doesn't change and I feel the scars its leaving on my body. Unfortunately I'm not the only one who notices them. Sirius has commented on them, followed by James asking about how I got them. I turned the questioning into a big joke by telling them that I was attacked by a random savage cat. They laughed and to my relief, left it alone. James and Sirius have been true to their word. They have taken me on many trips at night under James's invisibility cloak. We've been out many times in the past month, and I've been out with them no less than twenty times since they first took me with them on Oct. 5. Under James's cloak, I reckon we may never get caught. I haven't gone with them every time since they invited me. There's the moon cycle to think of, and besides that, if I were to go out every time they did, I'd never sleep.
- Remus Lupin
