InsaneJournal

Characters: Remus Lupin & open
Time/Date: 6 October, late afternoon
Location: Common commons, Hogwarts
Warnings/Rating: TBD
Summary: Remus is studying. What a surprise!
Status: Incomplete


Remus sat on one of the comfortable couches in the common commons with his nose buried in his Defence Against the Dark Arts text and his feet toasting nicely in front of the fire. He still wasn’t entirely certain whether he liked the idea of a common commons though he suspected that had more to do with the times in which he grew up than anything else. The whole idea would have been an utter disaster in the 70s and he shuddered to think of the chaos that would have ensued if Sirius and Severus had been put in the same room for any length of time, especially with James and the other Slytherins there to make things worse.

Still it seemed to work alright now and supposed that was the difference between growing up in a time when Voldemort was causing havoc and growing up in a time when there was peace and no storm clouds on the horizon, let alone hovering overhead. It lessened the tensions between the students.

Which was just as well because catching up with nearly fifty years worth of advances in magic was a challenge. Some things hadn’t changed quite as much as others but there was still a lot of work to be done and he was actually kind of glad now that they’d put him in Sixth Year instead of where he ought to be in Seventh Year. There was no way he could have caught up in less than a year and sat his NEWTs with any confidence. Now he had an extra year to catch up and he was glad of it instead of feeling vaguely insulted as he had at first.

He turned a page in his text book and continued reading. The need to actually pay attention was useful for keeping his mind off things he didn’t really want to think about and he was half hoping he’d be interrupted and could continue to not think about them