A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

The room was gray, and there was not much light. Remus Lupin sat quietly on the sofa. The wolf poison potion kept suppressing his body, like some kind of terrifying spiritual creature, drawing his physical strength little by little.

The full moon hasn't come yet, but he's exhausted.

"Grumble~"

The kettle in the corner boiled, jumping and spewing a large stream of steam, and Lupin dragged himself up. Around the full moon, he tried not to use magic. After two minutes, he made a pot of tea for himself.

Throwing the tea bags into the trash can, white vapor floated above the cup, Lupin's eyes gleamed in the dimness.

"Sirius……"

He has always been an emotionally restrained person, rarely showing his true emotions. But under the dual exhaustion of body and spirit, it is inevitable that the mood falls into a persistent depression. He found himself thinking about the man again.

The photos on the wanted list don't show him what he really is. Lupin always subconsciously brought in the young Sirius, which made his feelings more complicated and sad.

"Should I tell Dumbledore about Sirius' Animagus?"

This question haunted him for a long time, but he couldn't find the courage to admit to Dumbledore that he had betrayed his trust when he was a student, not only left the screaming shack, but also wandered around with three people...

Dumbledore's trust was extremely important to him, and it was Dumbledore who walked into his home when he was a child and persuaded his father and mother to accept his admission. For the first year or two, Dumbledore or Madam Pomfrey accompanied him to transform, and then he grew up and persuaded Dumbledore to allow him to complete the full moon transformation on his own.

Screaming Shack's chains are very strong, which is one of the reasons he mentioned.

Dumbledore agreed limitedly, he set the rules, Madam Pomfrey would take him to shapeshift, but would not stare at him all the time, and occasionally let him go to the Screaming Shack alone.

He was careful to keep it a secret, although as early as the second year, he was discovered by two keen fellows, and the number of people who knew his werewolf identity expanded to six: Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey, McGonagall Professor, James, Peter and - Sirius.

Once James had a whim and wanted to learn Animagos, because werewolves were only dangerous to people, and James felt that he could become an animal to accompany him. The idea was immediately echoed by Sirius, and for a while, their enthusiasm was high.

He didn't care too much at the time, but was "happy" to provide some numbers, telling them how advanced the Animagus was, how many wizards had failed one after another over a century, and the name of the final success was not two lines on the paper.

"I love your cold humour, Remus," James told him at the time.

In fifth grade, things changed. On the first full moon back from vacation, he locked himself up in the screaming shack as usual - he was very good at it, but when the full moon passed and he recovered a little bit, he opened his eyes and saw two huge animals:

It was a big black dog and a stag, and in his stunned eyes, they became two familiar companions, James and Sirius. They grinned at him. "We hid the whole summer just to see your surprised expression."

It's hard to describe his mood at the time, both happy and sad—in order to cross the beating willow, they injured themselves all over—and even complained a little, what if he hurts them? But looking at their smiles, he compromised again.

After another two months, with the help of James and Sirius, Peter finally made it too. With their company, his mood in the werewolf state was much calmer, not always irrational, this may be because Both Jaime and Sirius' Animagos can suppress a werewolf, and no one drives him to madness.

They set off on an adventure. A werewolf and several animals run around in the dark! Looking back now, Lupin is still puzzled by his youth and ignorance, but at the time they took it as a joke and were smug about it...

He couldn't help feeling guilty too - breaking the safety rules set by Headmaster Dumbledore for himself, and although he was restless for a long time, he did not refuse to participate in the development of the next adventure.

In the office, the tea is cold.

Lupin deluded himself: In due course, I will tell Dumbledore everything, including my own hypocrisy and cowardice. He said to himself, then thought with self-loathing, come on, you should have told Dumbledore long ago about the time Sirius tried to break into the castle.

But he subconsciously postponed the decision time and time again and, like an ostrich, naively thought that Sirius had been frustrated and that he would never show up again.

"Maybe he learned the wicked black magic from Voldemort... but Hogwarts has Dumbledore and he won't make it."

With a self-loathing look on his face, Lupin picked up the cup and poured the cold tea into his stomach.

He thought of Neville and Harry, his subconscious attention to them. His attitude towards Neville was more compassionate. His parents used to be his comrades in arms. Although they didn't communicate much, the Longbottoms were very friendly people.

He could see Neville's timid character at a glance, and he hoped that Neville could overcome his fears, but Snape's counterattack seemed to make the child bear more reprimands, and he wondered if he had comforted him several times. effect.

And Harry, he's more like his own nephew...even though he hides the feeling very well.

By the way, he's also going to teach Harry the Patronus Charm, Lupin pulls himself together, he should get a boggart, he knows the creature very well, and it comes from the bedtime stories he heard as a kid - he The father is "an authority on non-human paranormal phenomena" and knows about mischievous ghosts, boggarts, and other kinds of ghosts.

Even his father and mother got together because of a wild boggart...

It suddenly occurred to Lupin that Harry would definitely ask about his parents, and how much should he reveal then? And Sirius, it seems that the more you say, the more wrong you are.

"Knock knock."

A low knock on the door interrupted Lupin's thoughts, and he pushed open the door to see Dumbledore standing outside.

"Dumbledore - why are you here?" Lupin asked in surprise.

Dumbledore said in a deep voice: "Bad news, Sirius Black took advantage of Harry and his friends to visit Hagrid and attacked them."

"What!" Lupin's eyes widened, his head dizzy. "Harry—are they okay?"

"Almost, almost he did it, Remus," said Dumbledore. "Harry's best friend is in hospital right now and there's no guarantee when the next attack will happen."

Lupin held on to the door frame and seemed to lose all strength. After a long time, he said sullenly: "I will tell you everything I know, Professor Dumbledore, including Black's secrets, including my deception to you... I only hope that you can listen to this story in its entirety, don't Left angrily halfway through."

"That's why I came to you, Remus," said Dumbledore calmly.