Author's Note: A lot of people have been asking for James and/or Sirius to help Remus. Not now, but very soon. That is all I can say. I hope you enjoy this chapter until then.
Chapter 11: Forgiven, But Not Forgotten."It ran towards me, attempting to brutally murder me. I drew my wand and cast a particularly great disarming spell, this sent the beast back and I took my opportunity: the knife in my hand was raised; I was ready. However! The beast rose again! It had me pinned to the floor. In desperation, I slit its neck and the blood flowed upon me. I had saved yet another villiage!", Professor Solis has spent the entire hour telling the class of his 'heroic' days as a European werewolf hunter.
However, Remus was not convinced, 'A singular spell from any wizard is not going to deter a werewolf', he thought, 'A knife? I am certain I have done more damage to myself. Liar...'.
Most of the class seemed rather impressed by the Professor's stories, having long forgotten his cruel behaviour towards Remus. All except Lily Evans. She looked disgusted and upset when he spoke.
"Class, I will see you after lunch; we can continue the class then", he smiled slightly, then added "Do not be late, Lupin".
"Urgh, What an awful man. I hate him already", Lily whispered to Severus and Remus as they walked down the corridor, out of Professor Solis' earshot, "I mean the way he spoke to you", she looked at Remus before continuing, "And, the way he spoke of it, hunting down people and killing them for something that is no fault of their own, and enjoying it. Disgusting".
"But Lily! They're dangerous! Do you know what they would do to you? Even in human form, they are dangerous and awful! Have you not heard of Fenrir Greyback?", Severus had personally enjoyed Defence Against the Dark Arts far more than he expected to and could not understand Lily's defence of such dark creatures.
"I do not believe that every werewolf would be like him...", it was Remus who had spoken this time, he felt as if he had been set on fire, slowly burning up for the past hour. He knew it, 'Everyone would hate me if they knew', he knew it...
"I'm sorry, who is Greyback?", Lily felt ridiculous for asking, being a muggle, it sometimes felt as if she was out of the loop about everything.
"He bites the children of wizards who have wronged him, in the hope that their parents will reject them, then they'll grow up to resent wizards and... and attack more people...", Remus stated this in a shockingly matter of fact voice. Though he did not find out until recently, it had been Greyback who had attacked him, and it had been his father's fault. He forgave his father but that did not mean he had forgotten.
"Oh...", Lily shrank into herself. She felt shocked and sickened, "That's... awful".
Remus did not want to eat anymore. He made some feeble excuse about 'homework' and left; he headed towards Gryffindor tower, ascending the stairs, through the portrait, up yet more stairs and into the dormitory.
He had no intention of doing his homework, he had no intention of doing anything. He crawled into his bed and curled up into the tightest ball he could, holding himself together with his arms as he cried, and cried, and cried. Finally, the desperate sobbing had tired him so much that he fell into a deep and troubled sleep.
Author's Note: This chapter was VERY short. But, all that needs to happen here has happened. What happens next is important so I want to distinguish the two.
That was quite depressing. I don't like thinking about children crying themselves to sleep. I think it's sad that so many children probably cry themselves to sleep.
I promise the next chapter will be far lighter than the recent chapters. So, we can all look forward to that! See you VERY soon!