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"You have to understand that they couldn't accept werewolves. It was a danger to everyone in the school."
"Still, to go up to you and tell you that." Anna said, her voice slightly annoyed. I had barely known the two girls, having never met them before, but I liked them. Anna was loud and outspoken, good for Professor Lupin, while Isabel evened her out by being quiet.
"What do you think Harry?" Anna asked, wanting me to agree. I nodded.
"So what happened?" Isabel asked. Professor Lupin stared at her for a moment.
"I woke up that morning..."
"Remus, Remus, look!" I rolled over trying to ignore my sister, jumping on my bed.
"REMUS LUPIN!" she shouted. I sat up and glared at her. She pressed an envelope to my face.
"I got it, it's my letter!" Rena said excited. I tried to smile, but couldn't get my face to work with me. Not after the headmaster had told me I would not be able to attend school with my siblings.
"Rena, why don't you let Remus sleep?" Romulus said. I smiled at him gratefully; he was the more perceptive of the two and probably realized this wasn't the time. Rena looked at me, and nodded, probably deciding that telling the rest of the family would yield better reactions then telling me. Romulus stopped at the door.
"Remus, I'm sure Mother and Father will find a way." He said, but the encouragement was running by his sad smile. I got up slowly and dressed, though it didn't seem to matter. This is was the final proof, I wasn't human.
"IT'S NOT FAIR! HOW CAN THEY JUST WRITE HIM OFF LIKE THAT?" I heard Rena shout from downstairs. I walked down, but stood on the steps listening.
"Because, they think, like the rest of the world that just because he turns into an animal once a month he must automatically be one. Let that be a lesson to you: never teach people differently based on things they can't control." Jenna said. She was always the smart one, knowing what to say. Mom wouldn't have been able to handle it better.
"Remus, you can come in know." Romulus said. We had always been able to tell when the other was near, a mixture of being the only boys and being twins, I suppose. I walked in, and the room was quiet.
"Remus, are you going to be okay that you're not going to Beauxbatons?" Jeanette asked. I considered hitting her, she could be so heartless. Cosette beat me to it.
"Jeanette, jeez, how can you be so rude, of course he won't be okay, his twin siblings will be imparking on a mystical journey towards their future that he will not be able to follow." Cosette said. We all gave her a weird look.
"I got it from one of mom's books, the one about letting your kids open their wings and soar to new heights."
"Okay." Jeanette said, staring at her twin as if she'd grown two horns. Jenna wrapped her arm around me.
"I know how you feel. If it helps, Mother is looking for some sort of loop- hole." She whispered in my ear. It didn't help. I grabbed a biscuit, and hurried outside to take a jog. Maybe then my mind would clear up.
"That must have been horrible." Anna said, shaking her head in sympathy.
"But you went to Hogwarts." Isabel said looking up for the first time from where she scribed Professor Lupin's life story.
"Yes, I did. My siblings went off to Beauxbatons like expected. I didn't see them off, which could be considered rude, but I really didn't want to see them. Jenna was the only one who could even begin to understand how I felt. She had left the attention filled lifestyle to go by herself to a school where her name didn't count for anything. Jenna had been shy young and it was horrible for her. Only Adele and I would feel this way, the twins had each other. Two weeks afterwards, Mother began teaching me some magic. Then Albus Dumbledore came to visit..."
"He's a wonderfully bright child and deserves a chance. Dumbledore, you have to understand the headmaster of Beauxbatons won't even consider taking some precautions. He's not dangerous when he's human!"
"I know exactly how you feel Mrs. Lupin. I am here to try and help your son get the formal education he needs."
"You'll get him into Beauxbatons!"
'Wait a minute, I know Dumbledore is all-powerful and everything, but how could he affect Beauxbatons?" Anna interrupted again. I smiled; it seemed hard to remember people where out her living their lives ignoring the war. People like Anna who still had time to notice when someone's life story doesn't make sense. It was kind of a relief.
"I'm getting to that." Professor Lupin said kindly. Anna dropped her heads while Isabel giggled behind her hand.
"No, I'm sorry Mrs. Lupin, but I have not control over Beauxbatons. I am however headmaster of Hogwarts. I would be willing to accept Remus as a student next year. I could give you the books, and he can learn with you for now. I'll give him his exams at the end of the year. With the appropriate precautions, I'm sure he'll be able to fit right in." My mother burst into tears. Yes, going away to Hogwarts would be tough for her, but she wanted me to have the education I should have received.
"Thank you, thank you, you don't know what this means to me." My mother said behind the sobs and tears. Dumbledore smiled at her, then at me sitting on the stairs.
"The rest of the year was uneventful. I studied, ignored my siblings and took the exams. I passed them with flying colors. At August my mother took me to Diagon Alley. She got me all my supplies, and rented me a room at the Leaky Cauldron. I was by myself, but I was happy."
I let out a yawn, then looked at my watch.
"Kids, it's getting late, you better get back to your beds." Professor Lupin said smiling. Isabel and Anna nodded.
"Same time tomorrow?" Anna questioned. Lupin nodded.
"What is it about him?" Anna asked me as I surfed through some books on werewolves.
"I really don't know." I replied.
"There's just something about him, something that makes me want to know what ticks him off, what makes him sad, what..."
"What made him a patient at St. Mungo's when he's saner then most of the nurses?" I said grinning. Anna nodded.
"I feel the same way too. I think it's because he's not something we can figure out quickly. Perhaps it's because some part of us can sense that he needs our help to get him to tell a story the world needs to hear."
"But why Isabel, why is this story any different from another werewolf's?" Anna asked.
"Remus didn't go to a concentration camp. He went to school. He had friends that accepted him. He made a difference. He's so much different then the werewolves in those chains and so different from what we make werewolves out to be."
"Does this make us wrong?"
"What do you mean?"
"Maybe the ones we think are monsters aren't really the monsters, maybe it's us."
"Maybe it is. Want some cake?" I said standing up as I headed to the café part of the bookstore. Reading about werewolves, especially when so much of it seemed biased and untrue, was making me hungry. Anna smiled and jumped behind me.
"Two chocolate cakes." I ordered when we got to the cashier. The woman cut two slices of cake and handed them to us. I handed her a handful of coins and smiled.
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"You have to understand that they couldn't accept werewolves. It was a danger to everyone in the school."
"Still, to go up to you and tell you that." Anna said, her voice slightly annoyed. I had barely known the two girls, having never met them before, but I liked them. Anna was loud and outspoken, good for Professor Lupin, while Isabel evened her out by being quiet.
"What do you think Harry?" Anna asked, wanting me to agree. I nodded.
"So what happened?" Isabel asked. Professor Lupin stared at her for a moment.
"I woke up that morning..."
"Remus, Remus, look!" I rolled over trying to ignore my sister, jumping on my bed.
"REMUS LUPIN!" she shouted. I sat up and glared at her. She pressed an envelope to my face.
"I got it, it's my letter!" Rena said excited. I tried to smile, but couldn't get my face to work with me. Not after the headmaster had told me I would not be able to attend school with my siblings.
"Rena, why don't you let Remus sleep?" Romulus said. I smiled at him gratefully; he was the more perceptive of the two and probably realized this wasn't the time. Rena looked at me, and nodded, probably deciding that telling the rest of the family would yield better reactions then telling me. Romulus stopped at the door.
"Remus, I'm sure Mother and Father will find a way." He said, but the encouragement was running by his sad smile. I got up slowly and dressed, though it didn't seem to matter. This is was the final proof, I wasn't human.
"IT'S NOT FAIR! HOW CAN THEY JUST WRITE HIM OFF LIKE THAT?" I heard Rena shout from downstairs. I walked down, but stood on the steps listening.
"Because, they think, like the rest of the world that just because he turns into an animal once a month he must automatically be one. Let that be a lesson to you: never teach people differently based on things they can't control." Jenna said. She was always the smart one, knowing what to say. Mom wouldn't have been able to handle it better.
"Remus, you can come in know." Romulus said. We had always been able to tell when the other was near, a mixture of being the only boys and being twins, I suppose. I walked in, and the room was quiet.
"Remus, are you going to be okay that you're not going to Beauxbatons?" Jeanette asked. I considered hitting her, she could be so heartless. Cosette beat me to it.
"Jeanette, jeez, how can you be so rude, of course he won't be okay, his twin siblings will be imparking on a mystical journey towards their future that he will not be able to follow." Cosette said. We all gave her a weird look.
"I got it from one of mom's books, the one about letting your kids open their wings and soar to new heights."
"Okay." Jeanette said, staring at her twin as if she'd grown two horns. Jenna wrapped her arm around me.
"I know how you feel. If it helps, Mother is looking for some sort of loop- hole." She whispered in my ear. It didn't help. I grabbed a biscuit, and hurried outside to take a jog. Maybe then my mind would clear up.
"That must have been horrible." Anna said, shaking her head in sympathy.
"But you went to Hogwarts." Isabel said looking up for the first time from where she scribed Professor Lupin's life story.
"Yes, I did. My siblings went off to Beauxbatons like expected. I didn't see them off, which could be considered rude, but I really didn't want to see them. Jenna was the only one who could even begin to understand how I felt. She had left the attention filled lifestyle to go by herself to a school where her name didn't count for anything. Jenna had been shy young and it was horrible for her. Only Adele and I would feel this way, the twins had each other. Two weeks afterwards, Mother began teaching me some magic. Then Albus Dumbledore came to visit..."
"He's a wonderfully bright child and deserves a chance. Dumbledore, you have to understand the headmaster of Beauxbatons won't even consider taking some precautions. He's not dangerous when he's human!"
"I know exactly how you feel Mrs. Lupin. I am here to try and help your son get the formal education he needs."
"You'll get him into Beauxbatons!"
'Wait a minute, I know Dumbledore is all-powerful and everything, but how could he affect Beauxbatons?" Anna interrupted again. I smiled; it seemed hard to remember people where out her living their lives ignoring the war. People like Anna who still had time to notice when someone's life story doesn't make sense. It was kind of a relief.
"I'm getting to that." Professor Lupin said kindly. Anna dropped her heads while Isabel giggled behind her hand.
"No, I'm sorry Mrs. Lupin, but I have not control over Beauxbatons. I am however headmaster of Hogwarts. I would be willing to accept Remus as a student next year. I could give you the books, and he can learn with you for now. I'll give him his exams at the end of the year. With the appropriate precautions, I'm sure he'll be able to fit right in." My mother burst into tears. Yes, going away to Hogwarts would be tough for her, but she wanted me to have the education I should have received.
"Thank you, thank you, you don't know what this means to me." My mother said behind the sobs and tears. Dumbledore smiled at her, then at me sitting on the stairs.
"The rest of the year was uneventful. I studied, ignored my siblings and took the exams. I passed them with flying colors. At August my mother took me to Diagon Alley. She got me all my supplies, and rented me a room at the Leaky Cauldron. I was by myself, but I was happy."
I let out a yawn, then looked at my watch.
"Kids, it's getting late, you better get back to your beds." Professor Lupin said smiling. Isabel and Anna nodded.
"Same time tomorrow?" Anna questioned. Lupin nodded.
"What is it about him?" Anna asked me as I surfed through some books on werewolves.
"I really don't know." I replied.
"There's just something about him, something that makes me want to know what ticks him off, what makes him sad, what..."
"What made him a patient at St. Mungo's when he's saner then most of the nurses?" I said grinning. Anna nodded.
"I feel the same way too. I think it's because he's not something we can figure out quickly. Perhaps it's because some part of us can sense that he needs our help to get him to tell a story the world needs to hear."
"But why Isabel, why is this story any different from another werewolf's?" Anna asked.
"Remus didn't go to a concentration camp. He went to school. He had friends that accepted him. He made a difference. He's so much different then the werewolves in those chains and so different from what we make werewolves out to be."
"Does this make us wrong?"
"What do you mean?"
"Maybe the ones we think are monsters aren't really the monsters, maybe it's us."
"Maybe it is. Want some cake?" I said standing up as I headed to the café part of the bookstore. Reading about werewolves, especially when so much of it seemed biased and untrue, was making me hungry. Anna smiled and jumped behind me.
"Two chocolate cakes." I ordered when we got to the cashier. The woman cut two slices of cake and handed them to us. I handed her a handful of coins and smiled.
A/N: Another bit up. Thank you to (). I think this will answer your demand. PLEASE REVIEW! Pretty Please? See it's the pretty blue/purple button down below.... Awww, look at the pretty button.