Tumblr has struck me again with inspiration!

Here's what I've found this time: rebelwithoutabroom: Harry Potter AU in which Remus Lupin doesn't leave Hogwarts after Snape tells everyone he's a werewolf.

And the follow up was: instead, he fucking stays where he belongs and, as the howlers start coming, insults exploding at the teacher's table every morning like clockwork, the students take notice. They see Lupin's face, and he's not even angry, he looks fucking resigned to it, like he deserves it. So the students take matters into their own hands.

There's some more of the post - examples of what the students do which you will see in this chapter!

ENJOY!

"-YOU ARE A DIRTY, NO GOOD, FILTHY HALF-BREED THAT CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH MY CHILDREN EVER!" was heard the day after Snape had revealed Lupin's secret about him being a werewolf. "I AM APPALLED AT THE FACT THAT YOU DARED TO EVEN RETURN TO HOGWARTS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, YOU FILTH!"

The students were expecting many reactions. The Slytherins in particular were looking forward to what they believe was inevitable - angry screaming. Everybody else also believed that Lupin would have either a hurt expression on his face or an angry one. Nobody was expecting for him to be calmly eating his breakfast as he let the Howler scream it's mouth off, a resigned expression on his face, almost as if he deserved it.

Harry Potter hated it. Lupin didn't deserve this. So what if he was a werewolf? He was the greatest DADA teacher ever! Their last two ones were total losers, so it wasn't like there was much competition on that front, but their 4th thru 7th year DADA teachers would have a lot to live up to. So he decided that he wasn't going to let all the howlers Lupin received to be insults.

"I'll be right back. I gotta go do something. I'll be back in ten minutes, okay?"

Ron and Hermione nodded.

As he ran to the owlery, he pulled out a piece of parchment and used the charm that turned it bright red. He started to write as many compliments as he could on the parchment before he arrived in the owlery. He sent it off with a school owl and raced back to the Great Hall.

He arrived just in time for the Howler to arrive. Remus just sighed, and most of the teachers were glaring and scowling at Snape.

"REMUS LUPIN! YOU ARE THE FUCKING BEST TEACHER EVER! DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE US NEXT YEAR BECAUSE NONE OF OUR FUTURE TEACHERS WILL BE ABLE TO COMPARE TO YOU! YOU ARE PLAIN AWESOME! SO WHAT IF YOUR A WEREWOLF? WE ACTUALLY LEARNED DEFENSE BECAUSE OF YOU! ANYBODY WHO DARES TO INSULT YOU IS JUST INSULTING THEMSELVES BECAUSE YOUR RUBBER AND THEY ARE GLUE - WHATEVER THEY SAY BOUNCES OFF OF YOU AND STICKS TO THEM! THANK YOU FOR THIS AWESOME SCHOOL YEAR THAT WAS ONLY AWESOME DUE TO YOU!"

Remus looked shocked. The entire hall looked at the now crumbling howler in shock. Ron and Hermione turned to Harry.

"Harry, did you send a howler that compliments people?" Ron asked, gobsmacked.

Harry grinned. "Who, me?"

The next day, somebody else had sent a Howler to Lupin. "REMUS LUPIN! YOUR CLASSES ARE THE BEST IN THE SCHOOL! TRANSFIGURATION AND CHARMS COMES IN A CLOSE SECOND, HERBOLOGY JUST BEHIND THEM, POTIONS CAN'T REALLY COMPARE TO ANY OF THEM, AND MOST OF THE EXTRA CURRICULARS ARE BORING IN MANY STUDENTS OPINION OTHER THAN CARE FOR MAGICAL CREATURES!"

Remus smiled for the first time since parents had started sending their insult ridden Howlers.

On Wednesday, he received another. "REMUS LUPIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A COOL GUY AND FOR ALL THE CHOCOLATE!"

By the time Friday rolled around, Remus was receiving compliments via Howler every ten minutes and it reverberated around the castle, which made classes often be interrupted. Some classes' classwork was just writing compliments for the professor.

Two weeks later, when school ended, somebody - nobody knew who it was - sent possibly the best compliment ever.

"REMUS LUPIN! MY NAME IS NYMPHADORA TONKS! I'M THE DAUGHTER OF ANDROMEDA AND TED TONKS! ANDROMEDA IS SIRIUS' COUSIN, REMEMBER? ANYWAYS, I HEARD ABOUT THE COMPLIMENT SPREE AND I WANTED TO SEND MY OWN, SO HERE IT IS! YOU HAVE THE CUTEST ASS I'VE EVER SEEN - 10/10 WOULD BANG!"

Sadly, that brought the end of Howlers to Teachers... but it did prevent more Howlers coming in.

Remus became the first teacher to teach for more than one year.