A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 261 Lupine's Thoughts

Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

The room was gray and there was not much light. Remus Lupine sat quietly on the sofa. The potion of wolfsbane kept suppressing his body, like some kind of terrifying spiritual creature, draining 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 spouting a large puff of steam. Lupine dragged his body up. Before and after the full moon, he tried not to use magic. After 2 minutes, he made a pot of tea for himself.

Throwing the tea bag into the trash can, white steam floated above the cup, and Lupine's eyes shone brightly in the dimness.

"Sirius……"

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

The photos on the wanted notice do not show his original appearance at all, and Lupine always subconsciously brings in the young Sirius, which makes his feelings more complicated and sad.

"Should I reveal Sirius' Animagus to Dumbledore?"

This question haunted him for a long time, but he couldn't summon up the courage to admit to Dumbledore that he had failed his trust when he was a student. Not only did he leave the Shrieking Shack, but he also wandered around with the three of them...

Dumbledore's trust was extremely important to him. When he was a child, it was Dumbledore who walked into his house and convinced his father and mother to accept his enrollment.In 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 independently.

The chains on the Shrieking Shack are very strong, which is one of the reasons he mentioned.

Dumbledore limitedly agreed, and he laid down the rules that Madam Pomfrey would take him to transfigure, but not stare at him all the time, and occasionally leave him alone in the Shrieking Shack.

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

Once James had a whim and wanted to learn Animagus, because werewolves were only dangerous to people, James thought he could become an animal to accompany him.The idea was immediately echoed by Sirius, and for some time their enthusiasm remained high.

He didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but was 'happy' to provide some figures, telling them how advanced the Animagus is, how many wizards have failed one after another in the past century, and the names of the last successful ones can't be written in two lines on the paper.

"I love your dry humor, Remus," James had 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 already very proficient, but when the full moon passed and he recovered a little bit, he opened his eyes and saw two huge animals:

It was a large black dog and a stag, and as he gaped, they became two familiar companions, James and Sirius.They grinned at him, "We hid the whole summer vacation 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 Whomping Willow, they hurt themselves all over - and even complained, what if he hurt them?But looking at their smiles, he compromised again.

Two months later, with the help of James and Sirius, Peter finally succeeded. With their company, his mood in the werewolf state was much calmer, and he was not always irrational. This may be because Both James and Sirius' Animagus can overwhelm the werewolf, and no one can stimulate him to go berserk.

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

He couldn't help but feel guilty for breaking the safety rules set by Principal Dumbledore for himself. Although he had been restless for a long time, he did not refuse to participate in the formulation of the next adventure.

In the office, the tea is already cold.

Lupine deluded himself: At the right time, I will tell Dumbledore everything, including my own hypocrisy and cowardice.He said to himself, and then thought with self-loathing, come on, you should have told Dumbledore that time Sirius tried to break into the castle.

But he subconsciously postponed the decision again and again, and naively thought, like an ostrich, that Sirius had been thwarted and that he would never appear again.

"Maybe he learned the evil Dark Arts from Voldemort...but Hogwarts has Dumbledore and he won't make it."

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

He thought of Neville and Harry, and subconsciously paid attention to them.His attitude towards Neville was more of pity. His parents were his comrades-in-arms. Although they didn't have much contact with each other, the Longbottoms were very friendly people.

He could see Neville's timid character at a glance, and he hoped that Neville could overcome his fear, but Snape's counterattack seemed to make the child suffer more reprimands, and he didn't know whether his several times of consolation had produced effect.

As for Harry, he was more like his nephew... although he concealed this feeling very well.

By the way, he's got to teach Harry the Patronus Charm, and Lupine brace himself, he should find a Boggart, he knows the creature pretty well, from a bedtime story he'd heard as a kid - he Father is an "authority on inhuman paranormal phenomena" and knows everything about mischievous ghosts, boggarts, and other ghost-like creatures.

Even his father and mother became bonded because of a wild Boggart...

It suddenly occurred to Lupine that Harry would definitely ask about his parents, how much should he reveal then?And Sirius, who seemed to get wrong the more he said it.

"Knock knock."

A low knock on the door interrupted Lupine's thoughts. He pushed the door open and saw Dumbledore standing outside.

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

Dumbledore said in a deep voice: "Bad news, Sirius Black took advantage of the opportunity when Harry and his friends were visiting Hagrid and attacked them."

"What!" Lupine's eyes widened, and his head was dizzy. "Harry—are they all right?"

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

Lupine seemed to have lost all strength, holding on to the door frame.After a long time, he said dejectedly: "I will tell you everything I know, Professor Dumbledore, including Black's secret, including my deception to you... I only hope that you can listen to this story in its entirety, don't Left halfway angrily."

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

(End of this chapter)