Houses Competition, yet again.

Ravenclaw, Head of House - written for Year 6, Drabble, Prompt: Diagon Alley, WC: 252

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He got in! He was going to Hogwarts!

First, for young Remus Lupin, there was joy. There was joy because he wouldn't be a recluse for the rest of life, and he would be able to be around other people for once. He could eat well, study hard, and try to make it in the difficult thing we all call life. But then there was the crushing realisation.

He would be around other people. And he was dangerous.

Professor Albus Dumbledore said he had fixed a solution to his little problem. The fact of the matter was, however, that Remus was certain no one would want to be friends with him once they discovered that his little problem was actually about him being a werewolf. Not many people gravitate towards that.

Those were his thoughts as he wandered through Diagon Alley, looking around in wonder at the many magical objects he had dreamed of for years. There were other children too, staring at his clothing, and his parents, and, he was certain, staring because they already knew (before he made a mistake and blurted his secret to many people for badgering him for answers). They were staring at him because they knew he was a werewolf, he was sure.

Remus felt claustrophobic, closed in. Maybe Hogwarts wouldn't be such a good idea after all.

That feeling lingered inside his stomach until he came to Ollivander's, and he had been presented with a wand.

He wasn't just a werewolf.

He was a wizard.

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