PLEASE READ THE AUTHORS NOTE!!

AN: Eh up? First off, I'd like to say a big 'go raibh míle síle' to mistinthenight, for being my first ever reviewer!! I salute you!

Secondly, I would like to thank those who added me on their Author Alert Subscription! It means a lot to me that so many people took an interest in my first story!

Ok, now that my emotional moment is over, I would just like to bring a few things to everyone's attention:

I do not own Harry Potter, any of its characters or movie or book rights! All that belongs to J.K. Rowling!!!

Next, the writing in bold italics is Remus' thoughts, and the normal writing is the story as it is being told.

Lastly, this chapter will move quite slowly, because it's just background info, but I promise that the next chapter will much more exciting if you keep reading!!

Ok, now that that is cleared up, on with the story!!

My story begins long before I was even born.

My father was born into a wealthy, pure-blood family, The Stalwart and Eternal House of Lupin. Every pure-blood house had one of these ridiculous names, such as 'The Chivalrous and Everlasting House of Grace', and of course, 'The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.'

My father was born Jonathon Andras Suibhne Lupin, on the 12th June, 1934, his names originating from his famous Welsh and Irish ancestors. He lived with his parents and two brothers, Alexander and Sithchean, in a large estate in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Alexander was two years older than my father, while Sithchean was four years younger than him.

The three of them were accepted into Hogwarts, and even though every single Lupin had been Sorted into Ravenclaw for centuries, both my father and Sithchean broke that tradition by being Sorted into Gryffindor.

My mother was born Keena Aedammair Banda O'Hara, on the 20th August, inheriting her names from her grandmother and great aunts. She lived with her mother, older brother Michael, and two younger sisters, Dervil and Eibhilín, in a village in Leinster, in the Republic of Ireland. She and her siblings were all sorted into Gryffindor upon arriving at Hogwarts, and remained extremely close despite their age difference and different groups of friends.

My mother's family were not pure-bloods. In fact, there had been no witches or wizards in their family since the middle ages, until her parents.

John and Keena met on their very first train journey to Hogwarts when they were just eleven years old. However, as their backgrounds were so different, they didn't get along very well. My father had been brought up to think that he was better than everyone else because of his family, while my mother had been brought up to believe that it didn't matter how much money you had or how pure your blood was, it was about who you were inside.

For years they lived in the same House, but barely ever spoke, until they were in sixth year. My father had finally realised that being a pure-blood didn't make you royalty, and my mother had stopped being so naïve. They started dating, and within weeks were crazy about each other.

When they left school, John asked Keena for her hand in marriage. However, the Lupin family were horrified at the thought of having the family name soiled by a girl who was practically a mudblood, and tried to break them up. When this failed, they denounced my father, and declared that they had only two sons. The only member of the Lupin family that kept in contact with John was his younger brother Sithchean.

When John and Keena were just twenty-four, they had their first child, Rebecca Keena Medb Lupin, and two years later, in 1960, I was born…Remus John Michael Lupin.

And it's here that the story really begins…