RP: Remus (OPEN to any) Who: Remus Lupin and OPEN Where: Hogwarts Library When: Wednesday, 31 March, 2025, after classes Rating/Warnings: Summary: Remus has a habit of doing research for the oddest things.
There was very little Remus Lupin could think of that couldn't be helped by gaining greater knowledge. Almost everything could be improved, better choices made, more correct actions taken, if one knew just a little more about things.
Of course, getting that knowledge often involved seeking it out, which was what Remus was doing that afternoon. Once he'd dismissed the sixth year class, he stopped in the dungeons long enough to drop off the stack of second and seventh year essays he had to mark that evening and then made his way up to the Library.
As a student, Remus had always loved the Hogwarts Library. He'd spent hours amoung the stacks, sometimes for his course assignments. Mostly, he simply worked his way through books on any subject that took his fancy on a given afternoon. Alchemy, history, astronomy, even potions; he could read about the subject and the theories even if he was pants at the practical applications. There'd been one particular table near a window that he'd claimed as his whenever it was open.
That the table was still by that same window now that he was an adult made him smile in fond memory. That it was open that afternoon when he needed some place to sort through the stack of possible sources he'd pulled from the shelves already was something like serendipity in his mind.
Soon he had six stacks going, a yes and no stack for each of his three primary subjects of concern: biographies of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, social traditions of wizarding Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern legal practices. He had specific goals and limited understandings of certain things. He'd spend a couple weeks researching the basics to give him an idea where to start looking into the specifics to get what he wanted.
Thank Gods Binns still assigned obscure enough topics to warrant having some of these books still on the shelves!