Remus John Lupin

[Remus Lupin]

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Basic Character Info

Name:: Remus John Lupin

Nickname/s:: Moony

Age & Birthday:: 32 March 30th

Blood Status:: half blood

Member Grounp:: Order of the pheonix (adult)

Education Level:: graduated

House:: Gryfndor

Current Events:: engaged to tonks. joined the order of the pheonix.





Background

Family::
Mother: Mrs. Lupin
Father: Mr. Lupin
Daughter: Lesley Lillith Parker (Lupin)

History::

Remus was born on March 10, 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Lupin. As a young boy Remus was bitten by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback after his father insulted Greyback. He thus became afflicted with the blood infection himself. His parents did everything that they could in order to try to find a cure for him, but all of their attempts to do so failed. Although his parents and him were unsure of the safety of allowing him to attend school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore did not see why he could not attend and encouraged him to become a student.

Remus attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978 and was sorted into Gryffindor house. To secure his safety as well as that of his peers, a shanty was built outside of Hogsmeade. This shanty had no natural entrances. There was only a secret passage leading to it from under the Whomping Willow, on Hogwarts' grounds. Remus was brought to the structure once a month for his transformations in order to prevent him from attacking other students. However this isolation caused him to attack himself out of frustration. The villagers of Hogsmeade mistook his screams for that of violent ghosts. Thus the building was dubbed the Shrieking Shack and attained the reputation for being the most haunted building in Britain. Dumbledore encouraged this rumour to keep people from investigating the noises.

Remus became good friends with fellow Gryffindors James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. He kept his status a werewolf a secret from all of the students at Hogwarts, including James, Sirius, and Peter, and made up stories to explain his monthly disappearances, such as that his mother was ill and he needed to go home to visit her. James, Sirius, and Peter worked out the truth during their second year, and due to their acceptance of who Remus was and their strong friendship with him they decided to learn how to become Animagi in order to keep Remus company during his transformations as a werewolf is only a danger to humans. By their fifth year, James was able to become a stag, Sirius was able to become a dog, and Peter was able to become a rat. Once a month during the full moon James, Sirius, and Peter would sneak out of the castle under James's Invisibility Cloak, transform, get into the Whomping Willow, walk down the tunnel, and meet up with Remus in the Shrieking Shack. The four of them soon left the Whomping Willow and would roam among the school grounds and Hogsmeade by night. They called themselves the Marauders and Remus’s friends nicknamed him "Moony" because of his transformations during every full moon. Remus was a good student and a prankster, and he and Peter would sometimes join James and Sirius in detention for mischief-making, though they did not get into as much trouble as their other friends. No other Hogwarts student ever found out as much about the Hogwarts ground and Hogsmeade as they did, and James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter used their knowledge of it to write the Marauder's Map and signed it with their nicknames. It was eventually confiscated by Argus Filch.

However, Remus's frequent disappearances riled up an unhealthy curiosity in Severus Snape, a Slytherin student in the same year as Remus, who shared an enmity with James and Sirius, and hated Remus and Peter by association. Severus followed James, Sirius, Remus and Peter around in order to see what they were up to and in an effort to get all of them expelled. In their sixth year, Sirius played a malicious prank against Snape by telling him about the Whomping Willow passageway, hoping that he would be terrified by what he found at the other end. James stopped Snape and saved his life, but Snape still uncovered Remus’s secret. Dumbledore subsequently swore Snape to secrecy, but Snape teased Remus cruelly from that point on. Remus was also a prefect while he was at Hogwarts, although he had trouble exercising discipline over his friends. Sirius once said that Remus did not participate in the bullying of Snape, but Remus admitted that he regretted that he had never stepped in to stop it.Shortly after graduating from Hogwarts, Remus joined the Order of the Phoenix along with James, Sirius, Peter and Lily Evans, standing up against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Remus failed to find employment following his education because of his affliction as a werewolf. However, James Potter used his wealth to finacially support him.

(Remus had then met a woman named Patty Warner, who he had seen in Hogwarts, and knew she was in Gryffindor. he and her had a romantic relationship and she had gotten Pregnant.)

Few in the magical world tolerated the company, let alone the employment, of a werewolf, and almost all are prejudiced against them; thus Remus was often left without a job and with very little money. Even Ron Weasley, who had previously considered Remus an excellent professor, screamed "Get away from me, werewolf!"(However this is more likely because he belived Remus was conspiring with Sirius to murder Harry than prejudice against Werewolves) upon first discovering Remus’s condition. At one time, the Ministry of Magic(under the influence of Dolores Umbridge) even passed anti-werewolf legislation which made it practically impossible and almost illegal for a werewolf to have a job. In 1993, Remus was offered the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, replacing the permanently amnesiac Gilderoy Lockhart. While the students were kept in the dark about his affliction, the staff were made aware that he was a werewolf. Remus taught the class a comprehensive curriculum of identifying and sidestepping dark creatures such as Hinkypunks and Red Caps. He also taught the class about Boggarts. It was during that class that Harry realized his "greatest fear was fear itself" when his Boggart took on the form of a Dementor. After this, Remus gave Harry private lessons in producing a Patronus as a means to control Dementors. Incidentally, being a werewolf, Remus's boggart would take on the form of the full moon. Students who saw this boggart form mistook it for a crystal ball, except for Hermione Granger, who deduced that Remus was a werewolf but kept the discovery to herself.
During his time as a professor, Severus Snape, who had switched sides at the end of the war and became Potions professor, provided Remus with Wolfsbane Potion, allowing him to retain his human mind during transformations. Though if he wanted to he could poison him because of when they were kids. Slytherin students, encouraged by Draco Malfoy, sneered at his shabby clothes and poor appearance. Though he seemed to just ignore them, for he knew what they were doing. Regardless, his other students held him in extremely high regard and loved the hands-on style of his classes. He was considered by Harry and his friends to have been their only decent Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. this was the year that he also found out that a 13 year old Gryffindor girl, Amanda Warner, is his daughter from Patty. He also found out Patty had been killed.

The summer before Remus began his tenure as the Defence professor, Sirius Black escaped Azkaban. Remus, like the rest of the wizarding world, had believed that Sirius had betrayed the Potters to Voldemort and murdered Peter Pettigrew.
By the end of the school year, however, Remus knew the truth of what had happened and that Pettigrew was still alive, hiding in his Animagus form – Scabbers, the pet rat of Ron Weasley. Remus was reunited with his old friend Sirius and the two resolved to kill Pettigrew for his part in the deaths of James and Lily and in framing Sirius. They were stopped by Harry Potter, who believed it would be better to hand Pettigrew over to the Ministry of Magic to prove Sirius’s innocence. However, that night happened to be a full moon, and Remus transformed into his werewolf form. Sirius was forced to turn into his dog Animagus form to protect Harry, Hermione and Ron from Remus, and Pettigrew escaped during the chaos. After the danger had passed, Remus resigned from his position when parents learned that he was a werewolf, his resignation was much to the regret of the Hogwarts students and staff who had all grown very fond of him.When Lord Voldemort returned, Remus joined the second Order of the Phoenix.


Personality::
Remus was a very intelligent, calm, tolerant, gentle, and good-natured. Despite having suffered a great deal of prejudice in his life due to his lycanthropy, he managed to retain an ability to see the good in almost everybody and was extremely forgiving. He also had an excellent sense of humour and, when he was a student at school, was one of the Marauders. He could be described as the mature one in the group, however, because unlike his friends he never partook in bullying and even became a Prefect in his fifth year.

Considering that his Boggart is the full moon, Remus is afraid of turning into a werewolf. He might be afraid of the transformation itself, or the fact that he could harm, infect, or kill his friends and family while transformed, and know that he did it himself. Remus also has a depression side to him. Ever since Lily and James were killed, he wished that he could have saved them or at least been there to help them. Now that he learned that his former love Patty had been killed too, he feels as if he is alone. Remus now sees a lot of himself and Patty in his daughter Lesley and he cares greatly for her.


Likes:: Chocolate, his friends, Tonks, working for the order, magic, teaching, rights for werewolves, rights for squibs, Harry, and reading.


Dislikes::he who must not be named, death eaters, peter Pettigrew, dark magic, Snape, being a werewolf, Greyback, distancing himself, dementors, and foolish pranks.




Appearance

Description::
hair»» Remus has short dirty blonde hair.
eyes»» his eyes are a goldish grey color.
body type»» Remus is very thin.
distinguishing features»» has a ton of scars from scratching and beating himself up from turning into a werewolf.


Picture::

Celebrity:: David Thewlis



RP Example ((as the Master on a Torchwood//Doctor who site))

The master opened his eyes. He could see only black. The last thing he remembered was being held by the doctor as he laid dying. “Wait,” he thought to himself. “I died and regenerated.” The thought swirled in his head and an evil smirk crossed his face as he realized his plan had worked. He had been able to delay his regeneration until after the doctor had left!

He sat up, and realized he was covered in ash. The mournful doctor must have tried to cremate his remains. But just like a phoenix, the master was now rising from the ashes, ready to strike again at his old foe. And though he had barley been alive for more than a minute, he already was forming a plan to do it.

He remembered that handsome jack had a little team that was fond of gathering alien technology. He would probably be able to get equipment there that would aid his mission. Maybe the rift in the city would also provide the master with a few good laughs if he could open it. He then knew that he would head to Cardiff to take over torchwood, and soon, the doctor would be on his knees before his master. The master laughed meniachly at this, as the drums in his head pounded louder than ever.