Sometimes it's the quiet ones who have the most to say and sometimes it's the most unsuspecting person who hides the darkest secret. Remus Lupin was five years old when he knew something was wrong with him. This is his story.

"History is written by the winners. Anything you read about wizards is tilted to make them look like the good guys. Whole families were tortured and killed. Even the children who showed no abilities yet were taken. It became a game. Maybe a handful of people survived, and they hid. They taught their children to be private, never showing their abilities to anyone, not even family."

What if Severus Snape had taken Hermione Granger under wing secretly during her time at Hogwarts? What if Draco Malfoy really wasn't the bigot he let everyone think he was? (Follows canon mostly up until the end of GoF, and then detours off into AU territory w/Severus as father figure)