Friday morning dawned bright and early, greeting the figure of one Remus John Lupin as he apparated outside the Hogwarts gates. Entering he wasted no time, and began a brisk walk up the path to Hogwarts. Though his pace was quick, the path was long, and Remus felt he needed to get into the school as quickly as possible. He was about to simply burst into a sprint, when he noticed the figure of one Albus Dumbledore walking towards him.

"Ah, Remus, how nice to see you this morning! I was merely heading out for my morning stroll before the students awoke and began their day. You must be here to see Harry, yes yes, he's been taking to his changes quite well, I assure you."

"Thank you Albus, if you don't mind, though it's early I wanted to speak with Severus before Harry woke up anyways, so I'll just be making my way to his quarters, thank you."

"Oh, I'm sorry Remus, of course, you wouldn't know yet, currently Harry resides, not in Severus' rooms, but the hospital wing, after a rather nasty charms accident yesterday. Severus, ever the kind man he is(though he'll never admit to it mind you), has only left Harry's side to brew fresh potions for said hospital wing."

Remus' eyes widened. Couldn't Dumbledore have mentioned that FIRST! Without even a goodbye, Remus bolted up the rest of the path, and ran full pelt, straight to the hospital wing. He HAD to check on his pup.

Bursting into the Hospital Wing Remus was greeted with the oddest sight he'd ever seen. Harry was lying, sound asleep on his bed, he left leg, and head wrapped in bandages, what was odd, was Severus Snape, was not only sitting in the chair next to the bed, no it wasn't even the fact that Severus Snape was asleep in said chair, it was that he was resting his head in his arms on the bed, one of Harry's hands held in his own larger one.

The site could've been considered cute if one were to look at it so, but Remus was merely shocked. To see the stoic, and often outright mean Potions Professor look so... human, was quite the shock to say the least.

Remus jumped as Severus stirred and sat up. He lightly rubbed the sleep from his eyes and glanced about the hospital wing before his gaze landed on Remus. After sleeping in such a position, Severus was far to tired, and sore, to glare at Remus, and therefore merely stood, and, using the Hospital Wings fireplace, flooed back to his rooms to prepare for the day. Leaving Remus staring after him, as if he'd never seen the man before.


Harry groaned as he slowly awoke. His head was throbbing painfully. He dare not open his eyes, knowing full well that any and all light streaming in from the windows would just make his headache worse.

"Harry?" a voice asked.

He recognized that voice. It was Remus. Suddenly the whole Charms lesson debacle flooded itself back into the forefront of his memory. Harry gasp and sat up quickly, far to quickly. The throbbing in his head worsened, and he felt he might be sick.

"Here Harry, drink this." Remus handed him a minor pain potion left on the nightstand by Madam Pomphrey.

After swallowing down the bitter potion, Harry felt much better. His headache was gone almost instantly, and his eyes cleared up, allowing him to get a better look at Remus. He didn't look good.

Remus had dark bags under his eyes, his skin was sickly pale, his hair had more gray that before, and his clothes were looking rattier. All in all, compared to him, Harry looked in perfect health and humanity.

Remus gave Harry a knowing look, fully aware that he probably looked like hell. The last few full moons haven't been kind to him. Remus isn't getting any younger, and he has yet to find a suitable mate, without a mate the full moon becomes an angry merciless witch, instead of the kind mother, many wolves view her as. Therefore the longer Remus goes without a mate, the harsher the full moon becomes on his body. If he doesn't find a mate soon, his body will literally be torn into pieces by the wolf within.

This is what he told Harry, minus his inevitably painful torturous death. However instead of a pitying or sorrowful expression, Harry merely looked determined.

"We'll just have to find you a suitable mate then won't we?"

Remus merely stared in shock. Harry's determination caught him completely off guard. Though he supposed it made sense, Harry's been having such a hard time lately, that he probably needs something, anything, else to focus on, and Remus just provided him with it. Remus smiled indulgently, holding no hopes to actually find someone for him, yet glad he could help Harry by providing a distraction to his own life's miserable turns.

Harry happily began prattling on about, getting Remus fixed up. The floo flared, and Severus stepped through. For a moment Severus face loosened into a relieved expression, before it was once again hidden behind an only slightly less fierce scowl.

Harry stopped rambling the moment he noticed Severus, and tentatively smiled in thanks for the care, and perfectly made potions he used.

Quick as a flash though Harry's face morphed into a frown and he asked the biggest question on his mind, "Professor, why didn't the protective band you gave me protect me like it should have?"

Severus sighed and pulled another chair over to Harry's bedside.

"Harry. The band I gave you did exactly what it was supposed to. You were bombarded with such magical force, that if you survived at all under normal circumstances, at the very least both of your legs would have been shattered, along with your pelvis and possibly your spine, leaving you permanently handicapped, again, only if you would have survived. Thanks to the strength of the magic in that protective band, you only suffered a broken femur, and a minor concussion. Thanks to Filius' and myself examining the magical residue left in the room, and Filius' own account of the magical pressure in the classroom at the time of the attack, we have concluded that it was more than one person, casting the same spell at the same time."

Harry stared at his lap for a moment. Up until now, he's only suffered petty pranks, this is the first time that, had he not had the arm band Severus gave him, he could have been murdered by the very people who once claimed to be his friends. Their pure hatred towards him, has finally sunk in, and left him feeling slightly numb, and completely alone. When he looked up however he realized that he was wrong. He wasn't alone, he has his honorary godfather Remus, and his new guardian/friend(and potentially something more)Severus and he cannot forget Luna Neville and the Weasley twins. He smiled sadly at them both.

"At least I have you guys, Luna, Neville, Fred and George."

His words just about broke both older men's hearts, and both vowed, to do whatever they can to protect and give all the love possible, to this young man, who's been abandoned time and again, by so many.


Saturday Harry is discharged from the Hospital Wing with strict instructions to keep any and all strenuous activity out of his trouble-prone repertoire. Remus decided Harry needed a little enjoyment, but was unwilling to leave him alone surrounded by the cruel students around him, therefore Remus decided to escort Harry around Hogsmeade for a fun and relaxing day out in the sun.

Though the weather was steadily becoming colder and colder, and the months slowly moving from fall into winter, this day was unusually bright and warm, many students out and about without heavy winter cloaks, or any cloaks at all, chatting amiably, and just enjoying the sun. Harry had a happy and calm smile, one that most often in the past weeks, has become less and less of an occurrence. Remus' heart was warmed to see that although Harry has changed so much, his skin a milky white that reflects many different colors, his hair a darker deeper black than before, his eyes brighter green and pupils slit, he was still Harry, kind, brave, trouble-prone, and reckless, but the sweetest ever, Harry. Just Harry.

First stop was Honeydukes for some sweets. Harry seemed to gravitate towards the cockroach clusters, and blood pops, but even he couldn't resist the call of the many different chocolates. He and Remus got into an animated conversation on the different flavors, and their favorite flavors, before finally buying nearly every flavor of chocolate offered, and left still chatting happily, and completely unaware of the strange looks from the other students and random customers. Not once had they ever seen anyone buy THAT much chocolate all at once.

For awhile they both merely wandered around Hogsmeade, Remus regaling Harry with tales of himself, James, Sirius and Pettigrew playing pranks around town, on the unsuspecting townspeople, and their fellow students. Laughing and enjoying the warm sun, Harry felt as though nothing was wrong with the world, and nothing could go wrong.

However that was all ruined when, with shouts of "Monster" and "Freak" a small group of students began throwing chicken eggs, obviously stolen from Hagrid's chickens, several of which hit him in the face. Remus cast a protective shield around himself and Harry, and while several more eggs smashed harmlessly against the shield, he pulled out a handkerchief and cleaned Harry's face of egg and eggshell. Soon enough the students hiding around and behind objects ran out of eggs, and went on their way. Remus took Harry to the one place no students would go to. The Hogs Head.

Walking in, the place was just as grungy and dusty as always, Harry wrinkled his nose and looked around. The only people in the small pub were a small group of wizards silently drinking their firewhiskey, and staring quite openly at Harry, as if he was a small gazelle that just wandered into a cave full of lions. Their stares highly predatory in nature, and made Harry feel VERY uncomfortable.

"Good afternoon Aberforth, may we please have use of your lavatory, Harry here has a mess all over him, and we need to clean him up."

Harry scowled. The way Remus worded it made it sound like Harry had made the mess all over himself and, like a small child, needed someone's help to clean it up. If it weren't for how uncomfortable those wizards made him feel, he would have just stormed off to the lavatory himself, but as it is, he followed Remus, keeping him between himself and those wizards.

After cleaning himself up Harry and Remus left the Hogs Head and began a leisurely walk back to the castle. Stopping at Hagrid's hut for a few minutes to let him know where his missing eggs went, and why. Remus then escorted Harry to the rooms he'd asked Albus to procure for him, he and Harry spent the rest of the afternoon bonding over tea. Harry adamant that he and Remus get Remus all fixed up, and out on a few dates, to hopefully find a potential mate. Who knows, maybe there's even someone in Hogsmeade for him.

As curfew drew ever closer, Harry bid goodnight to Remus, and went back to his and Severus' quarters, sitting down on the couch before the fire, to work on homework for a few before bed, while Severus as usual read a potions journal.

So it seems that ALLOT of people have figured out who the letter writers are. Not that I made it particularly difficult but still. lol I just wanna say that EVERYONE who reviewed and said who they thought it was, yes indeed you were right. I've still only got a very basic idea on what's going to happen, what I think might happen, and what should happen to keep people's attention. So it might be quite a few chapters before anything really comes to a head in that aspect.

Harry and Severus seem to be coming along well ya? At least I hope you think so. I didn't want to make them go to fast into the self discovery, denile, acceptance, etc etc, but I also don't want to go to slow, so let me know if you think it's heading along nicely or should be sped up or slowed down.

I have absolutely NO idea whom will be Remus' mate. I've got a few people in mind, but I'm just not sure. So far I'm in the idea of Harry/Remus/Severus, Remus/Hermione(just to bring her back into things since she's pretty much just been thrown into a corner doing nothing in my story so far), or Remus/Draco. So what I'd REALLY like to know the most is whether or not you'd like either of those, or you've got ideas for a better mate for Remus, please please PLEASE let me know, because I'm really not sure of who would be a good mate for Remus, and I'm not really to thrilled on either of my ideas, since this is supposed to be a Harry/Severus fan fiction, I'm not a big fan of Hermione, and I think I may just leave Draco as an evil asshole. So I really really REALLY need readers ideas on this one, since I can't keep the focus solely on Harry at all times. That would get boring after awhile, so I want to develop Remus and his relationships and such.

Read and Review, because I need them the most right now :)