[HP] Aunt of the Savior

The joyful atmosphere in the dormitory instantly became stiff.

Lupine, who never expected the topic to suddenly jump to himself, turned pale.The secret that had been carefully hidden all this time was suddenly revealed, which made his expression stiff as if under a petrification spell.His mind went blank, and he was powerless to utter words of denial. "I……"

Werewolf, they still know he is a werewolf!

After all, Lupine failed to directly answer Sirius' guess, but for the other three, his reaction was almost equivalent to acquiescing to Sirius' question.

"Remus, are you really... a werewolf?" Peter looked at Lupine timidly, with disbelief on his face.

A werewolf known for being violent, ferocious, and cruel... Even Peter has vaguely sensed the truth, but Lupine's personality is not at all like the terrifying creature described in the book, and his personality is even stronger than Sirius and James. Be gentle and considerate.At least Remus never made fun of his clumsiness when he made a mistake, and Remus didn't even blame him for messing up Remus' notes!You know, even Sirius and James complained a few times at that time!

And Lupine didn't notice Peter's questioning at all, he was dazed and weak and didn't dare to look at the good friends who were with him day and night and were regarded as treasures by him.For more than a year, they gave him so much warmth, care and company, let him thank Headmaster Dumbledore from the bottom of his heart for giving him an opportunity to come to Hogwarts to study and meet these good friends.For the first time, he felt the warmth of being part of the crowd, which his parents could not give him no matter how much they loved him.

When every full moon passed, when his good friends worriedly greeted his bad face, he seemed to be so happy that he was about to fly.He tried his best to repay his friends this friendship that was so precious to him.He is even willing to cooperate with everything they do unconditionally, even if it is to find trouble with a boy who can almost be regarded as a friend to him.God, Lupine thought, he can't be a Gryffindor sometimes.But it didn't matter, he was like a drowning man who finally got a piece of driftwood, and would never let go of it, even if it wasn't always drifting in the direction he expected.

What now?What will happen when they know the truth?Lupine's parents didn't want their son to be too inferior, so they seldom told him about werewolves, but he still secretly read a lot of books about werewolves.He knew more about this after entering Hogwarts.He knew what the wizarding world thought of such creatures in general—evil, vicious, damnable even.

Seeing Lupine's appearance, James blinked and sighed.After taking advantage of Jody's matter to delay for so long, in the end he still couldn't find a suitable opportunity, and Sirius had already asked this question directly.

Sirius folded his hands on his chest and leaned against the bedpost in silence. On the surface, he seemed to be the most consistent person in the dormitory.But in fact he was not as calm as he appeared.Lupine's appearance was beyond his expectation. He obviously said what he suppressed in his heart, but it made him feel even more irritable than before.

It's not me who lied to others, and it's not me who can threaten others. When I first realized that Lupine was a werewolf, Sirius was very anxious.There is a dangerous werewolf living beside them, and that werewolf has been lying to them, even though they all regard him as a good friend!He even once wondered if Dumbledore really had a problem with his head after the duel with Grindelwald, as his parents said in private.But looking at Lupine's current appearance, Sirius felt vaguely uncomfortable.He felt that what he just did was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

"Yes, I'm sorry." However, Lupine apologized hoarsely. "I thought about it, I will be discovered sooner or later, I... can't keep it from you all the time."

"Yeah, it's not hard to notice." Sirius said sullenly.After hearing Lupine's apology, he felt even more depressed.

"I don't want to do that, I mean keep it from you. But it's also very difficult to tell you about it. For me, it's very difficult."

Lupine was not really a kid who was good at lying, especially when his friends made adventures and night outings a part of their daily lives, and his excuses were especially easy to see through.Sirius and James had sensed that Lupine had been keeping something from them since they were first graders.

The person who claims to be so weak that he needs to go to the school hospital is not in the hospital hospital bed, and has to rush home almost every month to see his mother. The excuses are contradictory and illogical. Will the good boy Lupine lie?Even if those lies were not exposed, the boys could not but be more curious.In the end, when they suddenly realized in astronomy class that Lupine was absent one day, the time of his disappearance coincided with the day of the full moon, they almost guessed the truth, even though the answer was too incredible .

Afterwards, they spent several months confirming whether Lupine's disappearance followed that pattern, and what really made them decide to ask Lupine clearly was that night, when they went out for a night outing, they actually saw At the scene where Lupine, who hadn't been seen since class, followed Madam Pomfrey towards the terrifying Whomping Willow.

Sirius advocated following Lupine into Whomping Willow for the next month to establish the truth, anyway, the cloak was enough to allow them to follow anyone undetected, so long as they were careful enough.But James finally thought that they should ask their friends directly. He always believed that as long as he asked sincerely, Remus would definitely give an answer.

But it's just as hard, tapping Remus on the shoulder in a relaxed tone and asking, "Hey, Remus, are you right that we think you're a werewolf?"—come on, that's pretty stupid.

So although it was a bit sudden that Sirius just mentioned this topic, maybe this is also good, James thought, at least he didn't have to continue to hesitate how to speak.Once the matter is brought to light, it is not so hard to say.

"Hey buddy, you know we find it hard to ask you about that too." James sat down next to Lupine and put his arm around his shoulders.

James' friendly attitude as usual made Lupine stiffen in almost a moment of astonishment.But James patted him carelessly, as usual.Under this movement, Lupine gradually relaxed.

"We've been friends since we entered school, I know, it's a bit unreasonable to go too deep into a friend's secret... well, not so manly! But we were just worried about you at first, you really don't look very good, and it turned out I noticed that you have some...furry little problems." Maybe Remus reacted more seriously to the word werewolf, James scratched his head, and changed to a more tactful way of saying it. "After all, when you're not in the dormitory, and how you look every time you come back...we also saw you and Madam Pomfrey going to the Whomping Willow—maybe you'd like to tell us something now?"

"I was bitten by a werewolf when I was a child, and then I became a werewolf. What you saw before was that Madam Pomfrey sent me to the secret passage under the Whomping Willow to transform." Lupine's mood calmed down a little, he was worried said. "That was Headmaster Dumbledore's idea of ​​getting me into Hogwarts. The secret passage leads to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade, where I can transform without threatening anyone else. "

"The legendary haunted place?" Sirius raised his eyebrows.He remembered that last year's Daily Prophet's supplement even published a messy report, but in the end it didn't have any substantive results except to hype the news that the Screaming Shack was haunted. "So it's actually..."

"Yes, that's me." Lupine nodded. "I'm there alone, I can't hurt others, it's just that I can't vent my biting desire, that's why there are those weird screams..."

"That must be hard." Peter looked at Lupine, writhing in pain.As mentioned in that report, the cry sounded painful.

"Thank goodness you didn't follow up then. I really didn't want to scare my friends." Lupine gave a wry smile that was extremely out of his age. "I have to keep my... furry secret, I can't make trouble for Headmaster Dumbledore, and I don't want to leave Hogwarts, I... like it here."

"Of course you won't leave Hogwarts." James said firmly. "Unless you read until the day you graduate from seventh grade, when we all leave."

"You...don't care? I mean, I'm a werewolf." Lupine revealed his identity for the first time, looking at them with fear and expectation.

"I think it's pretty cool." James shrugged. "I don't think there are many wizards who have the opportunity to be classmates, make friends, and live in the same dormitory with werewolves. Anyway, you certainly wouldn't treat us like lamb chops in the middle of the night, would you? You did that for a year and a half before. ..."

Lupine flusteredly denied James' joke: "Ah, no, of course, I never have that... that kind of urge outside the full moon."

"Come on, Remus, James was joking! I don't think it's a big deal either. I've lived with a werewolf for a year and a half and made friends with him. Am I going to suddenly change my mind now? Sirius also showed a smile. "As long as you don't keep any secrets from me in the future."

"I've always thought that Remus... is a nice person." Peter seemed a little timid, but he still nodded his head and said this. "very good."

"Okay, since Remus's little furry problem isn't a big deal—of course, it's a secret between us." James clapped his hands and coughed hard to attract everyone's attention, as if he just Talk to a friend about today's weather. "Then let's continue the topic just now. If the snotty man continues to pester Jody..."

Sirius raised the corner of his mouth, joking narrowly: "Come on, James, haven't you noticed that they often stay together now?"

"Sirius, are you serious?!"

"Don't worry, James, Evans is with them occasionally, so at least they're not alone..."

For a moment, James' yelling, Sirius' laughing and Peter's unashamed persuasion echoed in Gryffindor's gold and red dormitory.Lupine, who seemed to be forgotten, looked at his friends gratefully and smiled sincerely.

This little episode that happened in the Gryffindor dormitory passed quickly, but anyone could see that the relationship between the four good friends of Gryffindor was getting better and better.

However, in contrast, their relationship with Snape was getting worse and worse.