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Remus Lupin (lukeios) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-05-07 10:57:00

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2023 10, remus lupin, tristan moore

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

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lukeios
2010-05-14 05:41 am UTC (link)

Remus looked surprised for a moment then laughed and shook his head. "Might have known that one of our big secrets isn't a secret anymore. I keep forgetting that things have really changed."

He looked startled. "Well, I read that there was damage to the school but not about that. Who on earth was throwing around Fiendfyre? You'd have to be an idiot." He'd read about it, of course, after wangling a pass into the Restricted section out of Professor Flitwick... back when Flitwick was still just the Charms teacher. But the idea of using it was just horrible.

"I know a couple of other places though," he said, getting back to the original topic. He smiled wryly. "We might find Sirius in one of them but there are others."

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not_an_orphan
2010-05-14 01:48 pm UTC (link)

Tris grinned. "There are no secrets here," he teased playfully. "At least, not once LilyLu catches wind of something."

He nodded slightly and attempted to kick his history brain into gear. "Night of the battle here, 'parently Malfoy and a couple of his cronies were going after Harry, and one of them thought it'd be a brilliant idea. He died for it, I'm pretty sure," Tristan said before he cocked his head. "Pretty sure Professor Goyle was the other one there. Crabbe, I think, was the boy who died." He was pretty sure that was what he'd seen. Or what LilyLu had shared. Honestly, sometimes it was hard to keep straight the stories from the actual history text, and who knew how much of what she was sharing was mistranslation or speculation from what Harry did tell her.

Nodding to Remus, he smiled. "Right then. Lead on and we'll see what we see," he declared.

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lukeios
2010-05-15 08:33 am UTC (link)

Remus shook his head and sighed. He recognised the names... Malfoy, Goyle, even Crabbe. But the ones he knew were these people's fathers, not the ones Tris was talking about. Then he frowned. "Professor Goyle was a Death Eater? He doesn't really strike me as being one." It unnerved him a little, the idea of a Death Eater being a teacher here but he supposed that was old habit dying a very hard death more than anything else.

He got to his feet and picked up his book before holding a hand out to Tris with a shy smile. "Give you a hand?"

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not_an_orphan
2010-05-15 03:19 pm UTC (link)

"Grey area on that one. Think it was more a case of Daddy and his mates being in the thick of things and he was bright enough to work his way out of it afterward. Don't think he was ever ..." Tristan gestured briefly to his left forearm. "You know. Officially in with them."

Tris nudged Remus with his shoulder. "He's an all right bloke, really. Pretty smart about all the forest creatures and if he is secretly a Death Eater still, he's doing a bang-up job of hiding it." Tris winked to Remus before reaching out for his hand.

He laced his fingers briefly with Remus', squeezing his hand gently as he glanced over to the other boy. While he wasn't sure exactly what they were as far as labels went, he was having fun and figured that was enough for now. Whatever came of it later, he'd roll with it like he always did.

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