Remus Lupin X Reader pt5

“Can’t wait to meet the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher” Sirius said, a large grin spreading across his face and he walked with you down the corridor.

“I guess” you said tiredly, “Well whoever he is; he won’t be here next year”

“Who won’t be here next year?” Peter asked, as he and James turned to see you and Sirius walking into the classroom.

“Professor what’s his face” You said carelessly and took one of the seats in front of James and Peter, Sirius took the one next to you and the two of you turned in your seat to face James and Peter. “Any of you seen Remus by any chance?” Sirius said looking around the room.

“Nope” you said, shaking your head, “NO! I did, he was leaving the Hospital Wing but he hurried back to the common room”

“Maybe he got punched in the face!” James suggested, all too cheerfully.

“Maybe he punched someone else in the face” Peter suggested now going along with the idea. Soon you heard the murmurs of the class as they started to spread the story. Eventually you decided to add a more ‘truthful’ version. “He accidently punched him and felt so bad that we took him to the infirmary” you said in a ‘serious’ voice. Sirius grinned and then the classroom was silent when Remus walked in, there were murmurs and Sirius stood up, “Take my seat Rem, I’ve got a welcome gift for Professor Obdurant” Sirius said giving a knowing smirk, making you roll your eyes and James give an encouraging ‘Yeah’.

As Professor Obdurant walked into the classroom, you couldn’t help but notice how it looked like he had just woken up but his voice was the exact opposite, it was very cheery as he addressed the class; it was a shame that Sirius was going to make his life at Hogwarts miserable. But he was of average weight and had dark brown hair that was like a bush on his head (A/N: think Grantaire from Les Mis 2012). But as he got to his desk at the front of the classroom his odd gracefulness became a sloppy mess as you saw a spark fly from where you could assure Sirius was hiding.

Obdurant quickly caught himself on his desk and a few laughs were heard around the room. But much to Sirius’ disappointment, Obdurant didn’t seem the least bit put off and instead turned to look at Sirius, “Nice spell” he said smirking and took out his own wand and flicked the counter curse at his legs and stood up straight and shook his leg to regain feeling in it, “And by the look of your face I’d say it back fired” he said as he started to pace around the room. “And about you not having a desk, I’ll talk to Filch about getting another one in here, but we won’t be doing much in our seat since, in my opinion, this should be a more hands on class”

“I like him” you said thoughtfully to Remus who nodded, agreeing with you. “I don’t” you heard James say. You turned to look at your friend, “Why? Because he’s fine with being pranked?” you said, amused by his pouting. He didn’t answer and you just smiled in return and turned back to listen to your professor. Sirius got to sit in an old chair that Obdurant found in the classroom’s closet. But by the end of the lesson most of the class’s opinion about Obdurant was the same as yours.

“He’s alright” Sirius said crossing his arms behind his head as the five of you walked down the corridor to the Gryffindor common room. “Too bad James doesn’t like him” You said and laughed when you heard James grumble. “Something’s not right about him. He’s too… laid back” James finished, as he found the right word to describe him, “I don’t like his hair either. It’s too messy” which made everyone else look at him like he was mental.

“Remus is laid back” you pointed out.

“Betcha he’s hiding something too” James joked but you noticed Remus tense up a bit. “By the way” you stated, looking over at Remus, “Why were you in the hospital wing?” you questioned. “[Name] said you punched a bloke in the face” Sirius blurted out.

“Did not!” you shot back, “James did!”

“I was feeling a bit lightheaded and went to as Madame Pomffery for a potion” Remus clarified after you and Sirius had stopped bickering. “You do look a bit pale” you noted, “Well as long as you don’t faint or something” you joked and patted Remus’ head which made him flinch away from you, “Oh sorry” you said.

“Now you’ve scared him” Sirius complained playfully. But you and Remus were still a bit off put by each other’s actions. But the two of you just tried to join in with everyone’s laughter. Eventually the five of you got to the common room entrance and James said the password and the portrait swung open, letting you inside.

“Afternoon Evans” James said smiling smirking at Lily.

“Piss off Potter” She said, not batting an eyelash at James, “I need to talk to [Name]”

“She’s all yours, we never really like her anyways” Sirius joked. “I still wonder why we keep you around” you countered sweetly, looking at Sirius as you went to sit with Lily at one of the tables near the fireplace. “What’s up Lils?” you asked as you watched the boys go up to their room, probably not to do their homework.

“You never finished telling me about the werewolf” she said, snapping your attention back to her. “Oh right” you said smiling, “So you know how I like going for walks in the middle of the night sometimes right?”

“Yeah, you get at least five detentions a year for doing that” she said, sounding a bit worried for you. You ignored her comment and continued, Well there a forest near my house and I was walking and I was already pretty deep in the forest so I decided to go back home before my parents worried about me. And I was almost out of the forest and I heard something behind me but I turned around and there was nothing there so I started walking faster.” You said sounding board as you told her.

“But then I heard another sound and I turned around and I thought it was a wolf and I was just going to try to stare it down but it was a werewolf. But it was whimpering as if it got hurt or something. It was rather small now that I think about it. But I walked over and I tried to pet-“

“Why would you do that?!” Lily nearly yelled, “You’re supposed to cast a spell or something to protect you! You could have been bitten!”

“Well I’m sorry for not taking my wand with me!” you countered, trying not to smile, “Besides!” you said carelessly, “I doubt being a were wolf is that bad” Lily looked at you oddly so you decided go back to the story, “But I barely touched him. His fur was soft but jumped back and howled as I ran away screaming to my house” you said, ending it quickly.

“Did you tell your parents?” Lily asked, sounding worried again.

“No!” you answered like she was crazy, “They’d never let me leave the house again! I told them I saw a dementor” but then you realized that didn’t sound any better. “Such a brave soul!” came Sirius’ voice making you and Lily groan in annoyance. “So courageous” James continued, just as sarcastic as Sirius. “Someone ought to give her a medal!” Peter added making the other two burst into laughter.

“See you at dinner” Lily said and left the small table. “Take me with you!” you begged, making her crack a smile. “Don’t you worry [Name]!” Sirius said, raping and arm over your shoulders, “I’ll make sure to leave out you running away, when I tell everyone else” you rolled your eyes knowing that whatever you told Sirius wouldn’t make him change his mind about spreading ‘rumors’.


*meanwhile in another point of view a few minutes ago*
Remus was still feeling uneasy about you petting his head. Something about it felt familiar, but he couldn’t place it and it bothered him. What if he had been that werewolf you had seen, that worried him even more, he could have bitten you, or worse, killed you. And what put him off more was that you were fine with being a werewolf. Why in the world would you be fine with that?

“You okay Rem?” James suddenly said, making Remus’ head snap over to his friend, leaving his worries for another time.

“Uh, yeah just tiered, that’s all” he lied easily.

“What some cauldron cakes?” Peter offered, as they walked into their dormitory.

“Naw I’m fine, really”, he said waling over to his bed and dropped his school bag and plopped onto the bed, “I’ll just do the potions essay” he said and began to dig through his bag for some parchment and a quill.

“Come one” James said, “That’s due till Friday! You’ve practically got four day to do it! Let’s go play some wizard chess downstairs” James offered.

“Let me get this doe first; alright guys?” Remus asked, reassuringly.

“Aaaall right” Sirius whined and stepped out of the room fallowed by Peter. “You sure you’re okay Remus?” James asked, looking a bit worried.

“Yeah I’m fine James” Remus reassured his friend, even though it was the complete opposite. “Well, if something’s ever eating at ya’, remember you can tell us” James offered.

“Thank you James” Remus said looking up at him as he found the quill and parchment. James nodded and left the room, closing the door.

Remus sighed; he wished he could tell his friends but he couldn’t help but think of the worst possible scenario, being asked to be but in a different dorm, the whole school finding out, Dumbledore’s efforts to get him and education useless and being seen as a monster. Which was the only thing true so far. HE stood up and paces around the room.

The next full moon was less than three weeks away, he would need to come up with better excuses this year so his roommates would remain oblivious but he had a feeling it wouldn’t be too long until they found out. Especially with you around, and James and Sirius weren’t stupid, if you gave them the evidence they’d see it right away but Peter… Peter would just go along with it.

Remus groaned and let himself drop on his bed and stare at the ceiling, I’ll just take a nap until dinner he thought to himself and turned on his side and closed his eyes.



“On’t ory bout him [Name” Sirius said with his mouth full, after you asked if Remus was going to come down for dinner, “He’s being responsible and doing his homework” Sirius continued after he swallowed his food.

“Yeah, just like his mum wants him to” Peter teased, pointing at you. You rolled your eyes, “Don’t you guys think he’s been acting a little strange?” You questioned. James turned to look at you.

“Yeah he has seemed a little off” he said, thinking out loud, “But then again it’ only the first day of class, but he does seem a little jumpy” James added, “Well talk to him if you want” James offered.

“Naw, its fine” even though it as actually bothering you a bit but you continued to eat.



September 23rd

It was Saturday morning and you were heading down to get some breakfast when someone called your name, you flinched and whished you had walked faster or stopped by the library or something, “Hello, Snape” you said, forcing a smile.

“Have you seen Lily by any chance?” he asked.

Lily. She was the only reason you actually tried to be nice to Snape. He just kind of freaked you out and you did your best to fend off James and Sirius (and Peter who went along with it), Remus sometimes told them to take it down a notch, when they were back in the common room.

“No I haven’t, sorry” you said, trying to end the ‘conversation’ and turned away.

“Are going down to get breakfast?” he asked, you mentally groaned at his awkwardness.

“Yes” you said simply.

“I’ll walk with you” he said, and you forced a smile that made your face hurt.

“You alright [Name]?” Professor  Obdurant, asked sounding concerned as he walked by the two of you, holding a wooden cage in his arms. “Yeah, fine” you said quickly, not wanting to bother him. He nodded in return and walked off toward his classroom.

“Idiot” Snape said, looking in the direction of your, now favorite, professor.

“What?” you questioned incredulously at Snape.

“Obdurant, he’s an idiot” Snape clarified, disgust in his tone, “It’s like Black and Potter as teachers”

“He is no an idiot, he’s brilliant. And I don’t appreciate you calling my friends idiots either” you said angrily as you stopped walking with Snape. “Good day” you said, giving a snarky smile.

“I-“

“I said, Good day!” you shouted not facing him, as you walked into the great hall. You went to join James, Sirius and Peter at your usual spot at the table. You saw them huddled up and whispering to each other.

“Moring” you said, making the three of them jump.

“Alright” James said, turning to look at you and pointed, “Before you say ‘No’, I just want to let you know that it can’t be returned so you’ll have to keep it either way so you might as well use it”

“What are you talking about?” you said, wordily taking a step back for precaution.

“It nothing bad!” Peter clarified.

“And we all pitched in to get for you, even though Remus said that you could get seriously injured Sirius said, making a believable impression of Remus. But then he took out something from under the table that looked badly rapped and handed it to you. You eyed it cautiously and took it and tore the paper off on the table. Your jaw dropped when you saw what it was.

“It’s a Nimbus 1001!” a fourth year cried, as he looked over to you.

“Quidditch try outs are today and we didn’t think it would be fair for you not to go and be a chaser” Peter said, smiling sheepishly.

“Are you all mental?!” you said, nearly shouting, “I’m never going to be able to able this back to you; it must have been a fortune!” you said as you admired your new broom.

“Nothing you worry your pretty little head over [Name]” Sirius said smirking at you, “Consider it a very early Christmas present” but his little speech went unnoticed and you continued to stare at your broom, very tempted to ride it then and there.

“Do it” James encouraged, seeing the look on your face, you grinned in return and hoped onto the broom and kicked off into the air and flew around the hall until you heard the voice of McGonagall shouting at you to get down, so you flew over to where she was and quickly hoped of your broom.

“Miss [last name], I’d expect this behavior from Potter or Black but not you” she said, sounding very displeased. “You are not to fly inside the school. 10 points from Gryffindor. And I understand that you have just gotten the broom but that is no excuse to use it right away”

“But-“

She stopped you and gave a small warm smile that you weren’t expecting and spoke in a quieter tone, “Seeing how you fly so well and having your friends go through the trouble to get you that broom, I would be very pleased for you to be on the team” she finished and walked away. You couldn’t help but smile as you walked back to the table.

“Did you get a detention?” Sirius asked, with what looked like hope on his face.

“No” you said and saw Sirius hand a silver sickle to James, but you ignored it, “She only took off 10 points” you said simply.

“You should be more careful” Remus said as he sat down.

“Hell, you feeling alive Remus?” you asked as you looked at him. His hair was a mess, but not the good kind of messy like James’ and Obdurant’s hair, the i-didn’t-get-any-sleep-last-night kind of messy. He had dark circles under his eyes and was paler than usual. He had been looking sickish for a few days now but right now, he looked like he would fall over a second.

He gave a dry laugh, “It’s just the season change” he said simply.

“I don’t think you should go to try out Rem” Peter said, sounding concerned.

“Have you gone to the hospital wing?” you said, as you took a piece of toast.

“I’m fine” Remus insisted, as he took a bite out of an apple, but made a disgusted face and put it on a plate not finishing it. “If you say so” James said, shrugging and drank a glass of orange juice.



You stepped out of the girl’s dressing room, wearing the provided quidditch uniform and walked over to where James and Sirius were fixing their knee pads and boots on a nearby bench. You looked over to the stand and saw Peter and Remus sitting there and waved to them; Peter waved very enthusiastically and Remus the exact opposite that made you frown a bit. But then you noticed a familiar red head having and you from a lover part of the stands. Next to Lily was your least favorite Slytherin, who didn’t look very interested in being there.

You waved at Lily and then turned to see the Gryffindor quidditch captain, a fifth year named Celeste DeWitt. She was pretty you could see all the boys giving their devoted attention making you roll your eyes, especially when you saw Sirius and James like that. She had her reddish brown curly hair tied into a messy bun and she had hazel eyes and was of average height. Next to her was the co-captain, a sixth year named Sebastian Lutece. He had dark brown hair that was a little past his ears and looked like he could kick ass.

“Listen up!” she shouted, her Scottish accent, very evident, “Chasers over ‘ere” she said point ting to the left side of the field, “Beaters at the Reavenclaw stands and Seekers stay where you are. No Keeper tries outs, that’s my job! And only one beater this year! Now go!” she said usurping everyone off.

You, James and Sirius fallowed Celeste to the middle of the field, “Sit tight while I go and take a look at the beaters” she said and flew over to where Sebastian was interacting with the beaters. You looked over to James, who had taken off his glasses and was cleaning them; you sighed and leaned against your broom. You looked around you, there were only three other people trying out for chasers.

Celeste came back with Sebastian and another guy you didn’t recognized the girl that was with them, but you assumed she was the new beater fir the team. “Alright, here shown its going to work.  You’ll be put into three group of two and try to outdo each other in points while Lutece and Barton hit the bludgers in your direction. You’ll have you get the quaffle past me and I won’t be going easy” she looked around making sure everyone understood. “Potter, Oswin, you’re up first, you’ve got 5 minutes.” Celeste said as she kicked of her broom.

You, Sirius and the two other students went to sit on the bench. You watched as James got 30 points while Oswin, who you had found out, was a fourth year only got 10 points. After that it was Sirius and Jane, who ended up getting 20 points each.

“[last name], Collins, you’re up” Celeste shouted from the center of the field. You and Collins (because you didn’t ask him his first name so no one knows) walked to the center of the field to where Celeste was waiting. Collins was a seventh year and he had already been on the team the year before so you were pretty sure he was going to get your spot.

“Good luck” he said giving you a playful smile that made you blush. He chuckled at your reaction which made you blush even more but you put that aside when you heard the whistle blow and quickly flew to get the quaffle, which you managed to do. You avoided the bludgers that came at you. And you gave a sigh of relief as one of them sped past, centimeters from your face.

You looked behind you but you saw Collins on your right, nearing you to not the quaffle out of your hand but as you neared the goal posts you threw it, aiming at the lowest one but Collins managed to snatch it from you and got it threw the 15 point goal instead, while Celeste was going to the 5 point goal you were aiming at.

The remaining time was much like this, you getting quaffle before Collins, and avoiding anything that came your way, until you reached the goal post where he snatched the ball from you. The time ended and you flew over to where James and Sirius were. “You just need to throw it harder” James reassured you, patting your back, but his reassurance didn’t make you feel any better and you flipped your broom to rest on your shoulder.

Collins was just talking to Celeste when he saw you about you leave the field, he gave her and Sebastian a friendly pat on the shoulder and jogged over to you, “Hey!” he called after you, making you turn around, “What is it?” you asked the attractive seventh year.

“You sure you didn’t mean to try out for Seeker?” he asked giving a look.

“No, I’ve never really been Seeker when I ply for fun” you said shrugging.

“Well I was talking to DeWitt and Lutece and they agree that it would be the ideal position for you” he said, giving an encouraging grin. Just then Celeste joined the conversation, “You’re fast but you don’t have the strength to get the quaffle in the goal and you managed to get there before Matt” she said gesturing to Collins, “The seeker position is open, wanna give it a go?” she asked.

You bit your lip as you thought it over; sure it wasn’t chaser but at least you’d be part of the team. And it looked like there were mainly third years trying out, so it wouldn’t be too hard. And if you remembered correctly, the chaser from last year was a seventh year so he graduated. ”Alright” you finally said, showing an enthusiastic smile.  Collins, now known as Matt, gave you an encouraging nudge, “Go get ‘em” you nodded and walked with Celeste to the left side of the field.

“Alright” Celeste said, getting everyone’s attention, some of the people that were trying out had left after they say Celeste and Matt talking with you, assuming that you had been asked to try out for Seeker, making their chances go down. So now there were only four, including yourself. A third year girl, a fourth year boy and a third year boy. “There’s going to be five rounds. Whoever catches the snitch the most amount of time will be the new Seeker for this year” she said and left to go get the snitch from the trunk. Once Celeste came back, everyone was already in the air; the snitch was released and out of sight in a second.

Not even two seconds later, you spotted a golden shine at the opposite end of the field where you saw Sirius and Oswin having a rematch. You flew in that direction slowly and made it look as if though you were scanning the field. Once you were close to the center you bolted to the goal post and avoided Sirius on the way there and got the snitch. You saw the third year boy give you an impressed smirk.

You ended up getting the snitch three out of five times and there was no room for a rematch so you were named Seeker for the rest of the school year. Sirius, James, and Matt were the Chasers for the year. Celeste kept her position as Keeper and Sebastian and Gwen (Barton) were the Beaters.



After getting congratulations from everyone you a Remus went to the library while Sirius, James and Peter went off to get a detention. The two of you browsed the shelves but you didn’t find anything that caught your interest but Remus found an advanced transfiguration book.

You went to sit in the back corner of the library and took out your sketch book a decided to draw a bit while Remus read, “You were great at tryouts” Remus complimented, you looked up and smiled at him. “Thanks, you looked down at what he was reading and found the illustrations interesting, “Whatcha reading?” you questioned, pointing to the page.

“Oh, it’s about Animagi, wizards and witches that turn into the animal of their choosing at will. The potion is very complicated and one wrong move while making it could lead to death, it takes years to make” he said, tiredly.

“That sounds cool” you said, interested in the book, “Kind of like being a werewolf”

“Not exactly” Remus corrected, “A werewolf doesn’t have a choice when transforming and isn’t in control of his or her thoughts, where an Animagi is” he said dryly.

“That’s why I said, ‘Kind of’ Remus” you said smiling, “By the way, when did you read up on werewolves?” you questioned.

“I was bored” he said, giving a sheepish smile. You hummed in response and went back to doodling.

Remus tried to go back to reading his book but he was now thinking about you knowing so much about werewolves and other creatures and how long until you found out what he was. He shifted in his eat and then decided to close his book, not paying much attention to it anymore. You looked up at him, “Something wrong?” you asked.

“Huh? Oh um, no. I was just thinking… why do you know so much about werewolves?” he asked, sounding a bit nervous.

You tilted you heard, trying to come up with the right words, without giving a long speech as to why, “Well… I think their interesting. There are very few books actually written by werewolves and their all anonymous. Which upsets me, because they shouldn’t be treated any differently. They’re witches and wizards, it’s not like they don’t have feelings. I mean, I don’t like Fizzing Wizbees, but does that mean I should be treated any less of a person for not being a certain way. You like Fizzing Wizbees right?” you asked Remus, who nodded, “And yet here we are having a conversation. I don’t see why there should be discrimination toward them that’s all. Besides, werewolves are really cute looking” you said smiling.

Remus couldn’t help but blush when you said that, “Sorry, was that too much information?” you asked, when you saw his faint blush. “No it’s just… I never heard anyone talk like that” he said, giving a curious smile.

You smiled in return, “Come on, let’s go and get some food” you said, collecting your things and your stomach grumbled for emphasis.