Chocolate Frog Card: (Bronze) Wilfred the Wistful: Challenge: Write about someone who is hopeful or wistful about/for something.
March Event: Hope/Remus - 70 points
Gringotts: Character bitten by a werewolf [Plot Ideas]
Word Count: 297
Hope looked at her little boy, noticing how he seemed to be even smaller and paler than he was normally when tucked into their bed. Lyall had suggested that he spend the night in his bedroom, knowing that 'the threat' wouldn't come back since he'd done his damage. Hope refused; how could she allow her son to return to the room where he'd been mauled and traumatised, just because it wouldn't happen again? No, she wouldn't stand for it.
She rested on the edge of the bed, sitting beside her sleeping son, and smoothed his hair from his face, taking note of the tear tracks with a heavy heart. It must be so hard for him to be going through this, and at such a young age. Only last week, he was playing in the garden with his dad and discussing books with her. Now, Lyall wouldn't come near him and Remus had clammed up, barely talking ten words a day.
She knew that Remus was aware of Lyall's opinions on werewolves and he knew that that was what he was going to be, even sub-consciously he was aware. She hoped that he'd have a normal life in the future, one where he had friends and people who loved him and could overlook his full moon tendencies. She hoped that he'd be able to live as normal life as possible.
But she also knew how werewolves were treated in the wizarding world; shunned because they turned into an animal once a month, whether they wanted to be one or not. They were all shipped together in a category that was based on a few bad decisions by true monsters. Her Remus wasn't a monster! He was a good boy who would have a bright future. She hoped.