Today, The Grandma has had breakfast with Remus Lupin, an old friend and a half-blood wizard. They have been talking about effort, sacrifice, struggle and friendship, some of the most important things that a person must have got if he/she wants to be a good wizard.
Remus is considered the best Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and he taught Harry Potter how to conjure a corporeal Patronus.
The Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) was the most famous and one of the most powerful defensive charms known to wizardkind.
It was an immensely complicated and extremely difficult spell that channelled the caster's positive emotions into a powerful protection. When cast properly, it evoked a partially-tangible positive energy force known as a Patronus or spirit guardian.
It was the primary protection against Dementors and Lethifolds, against which there were no other defences.
There were two types of Patronuses: the incorporeal variant, which took the form of a shapeless wave of mist, and the corporeal variant, which had a definite shape, taking on the form of the animal that the caster had the greatest affinity for.
The incorporeal Patronus was weaker than its corporeal counterpart, but the corporeal Patronus was more advanced and difficult.
The goat is one of the oldest domesticated species of animal and closely related to sheep. A dom was the gallbladder of a goat, used in the wizarding game of Aingingein. It was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm. Aberforth's Patronus took the form of a goat.
Professor Remus John Lupin, also known as Moony, is a half-blood wizard and the only son of Lyall and Hope Lupin.
He was afflicted with lycanthropy during his childhood, as a result of Fenrir Greyback's revenge against Lyall.
He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. During his school years he was one of the Marauders, best friends with Sirius Black, James Potter, and Peter Pettigrew. Together they created the Marauder's Map.
After Hogwarts, Remus and his friends joined the original Order of the Phoenix and fought in the First Wizarding War. However, Pettigrew betrayed James and Lily Potter to Lord Voldemort a week after he was made the couples' Secret Keeper. Thus Remus
had lost all of his closest friends in various ways by the end of the
First Wizarding War. The loss of his friends devastated him, though he
and Sirius Black later rekindled their friendship.
Remus taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Remus was regarded by students to be the best Defence teacher they have had thus far. He was also a professor of Harry Potter whom he taught how to conjure a corporeal Patronus, but resigned after Severus Snape revealed to the public that Remus was a werewolf.
He fought against Death Eaters once more in the
Second Wizarding War, during which he lost his friend Sirius.
Remus
married fellow Order member Nymphadora Tonks and had a son, Edward Remus
Lupin, of whom he named Harry the godfather.
Remus fought at the Battle
of Hogwarts.
Remus
briefly appeared again through the Resurrection Stone for Harry, along
with James Potter, Lily Potter, and Sirius Black. After his death his
son was raised by Andromeda Tonks and Harry Potter.
Remus was born to Lyall and Hope Lupin. His father worked at the Ministry of Magic
and encountered the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, who was on trial for
killing two children. Lyall was the only one at court to realise that
Greyback was a werewolf, as Greyback pretended to be a Muggle tramp.
Outraged when Greyback was released, he voiced the opinion that Greyback deserved nothing but death. This opinion cost the Lupin
family dearly, as Greyback decided to revenge himself upon Lyall by
targeting his son. As the nearly five-year-old Remus slept peacefully in
his bed, Greyback forced his way in through the window.
Though
Lyall was able to get there in time to drive Greyback off with powerful
spells, he was unable to prevent him from completing his evil goal. Remus became infected with lycanthropy and he became a werewolf himself.
His
parents took him to various healers and tried their best to make him a
normal boy, but there was no cure for his condition. But Headmaster Albus Dumbledore made special accommodations allowing Remus to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Remus attended Hogwarts and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. To secure his safety, as well as that of his peers, Remus
would be brought to the Shrieking Shack 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. This,
and the painful monthly transformations, made the villagers of Hogsmeade
mistake his screams for that of violent ghosts.
Albus Dumbledore,
wanting to keep the truth of these noises a secret, encouraged these
rumours. Thus, the building was dubbed the Shrieking Shack, which held
the reputation for being the most haunted building in Britain.
Remus became the very best of friends with fellow Gryffindors Sirius Black, James Potter, and Peter Pettigrew. He kept his status as a werewolf a secret from all of the students at Hogwarts, including Sirius, James, and Peter, his fellow Marauders and future Order
members. He made up stories to explain his monthly disappearances, such
as that his mother was ill and he needed to go home to visit her. He
was terrified that they would desert him once they found out what he
truly was.
However, Sirius, James, and Peter worked out the truth during their second year, and due to their acceptance of who Remus was, and their unusually 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, Sirius was able to become a dog, and James was able
to become a stag, animals large enough to keep the wolfish Remus in
check. Peter, meanwhile, was able to become a rat.
Once
a month during the full moon, Sirius, James and Peter would sneak out
of the castle under James' Invisibility Cloak, transform, get into the
Whomping Willow, walk down the tunnel and meet up with Remus in the
Shrieking Shack. Under their influence, Lupin became tame; his body was
still a wolf's, but his mind became less so when he was among them.
The
four of them soon left the Whomping Willow and would roam among the
school grounds and Hogsmeade by night. Eventually, this group of friends
came to call themselves the Marauders, and Remus' friends nicknamed him Moony because of his transformations during every full moon.
Remus was a good
student, but also a prankster. He and Peter Pettigrew would sometimes
join Sirius and James in detention for mischief-making, though they did
not get into as much trouble as their other friends.
It's unlikely that any other Hogwarts students ever found out as much about the Hogwarts grounds and Hogsmeade as they did and Sirius,
James, Remus and Peter used their knowledge of it to write the
Marauder's Map and signed it with their nicknames. Unfortunately, it
somehow ended up being confiscated by Argus Filch, but was eventually
recovered by Fred Weasley and George Weasley.
Albus Dumbledore tracked Lupin down, and offered him the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts, replacing the permanently amnesiac Gilderoy Lockhart.
Lupin only accepted Dumbledore's proposal when he explained there would be a limitless supply of Wolfsbane Potion, courtesy of Severus Snape, now the Potions Master at the school.
Remus gave Harry private lessons in producing a Patronus as a means to repel Dementors, when it became apparent that he was especially vulnerable to them because, according to Lupin, Harry had true horrors in his past that were especially appealing to the Dementors.
When Lord Voldemort returned, Remus rejoined the Order of the Phoenix.
He was a member of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry Potter from
4 Privet Drive to 12 Grimmauld Place. Lupin lived for some time at
Sirius' house, but he was not around very often as he was usually sent
on many missions for the Order.
Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks married in the north of Scotland with only witnesses from the local tavern.
Remus
was described as having a pale face with premature lines, and light
brown hair that, as he progressed through his thirties, became more and
more grey. The lines on his face and his greying hair were the results
of the great deal of stress his body underwent with each full moon. His
clothing is consistently shabby and patched, presumably because of his
inability to find a decently-paid job due to his status as a werewolf.
Remus
was compassionate, intelligent, tolerant, levelheaded, peaceful,
selfless, brave, kind, 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. Remus also had an excellent sense of humour.
True to being a Gryffindor, Lupin
was quite courageous. Nonetheless, he suffered deep-seated feelings of
shame and fear of rejection which, in certain situations, led him to
consider backing down. His greatest weakness was that, in his desperate
longing to belong and be liked, he was neither as brave or honest as he
should have been at times. His Boggart was a full moon, reflecting on
his terror of transforming into his werewolf form near humans. It also
showed his immense hatred and shame over his condition.
The name Remus comes from the brothers Romulus and Remus,
the legendary brothers who fought to the death over the control of
Rome, having been raised by a mother wolf whose cubs had died. Because
of this, some fans speculated that Remus had a brother, but Romulus is merely the code name used by Lupin for Potterwatch. Remus' intense rivalry with Romulus indicates Lupin's ongoing struggle with his other side, the werewolf.
Lupin is derived from lupinus, Latin for wolf-like; lupus, or wolf, being the basic word. Canis lupus is the scientific name for the wolf, to be described as lupine means to resemble a wolf.
Lupin
is also the name of an plant with edible seeds. The surname may also be
derived from the character of Arsène Lupin, a fictional gentleman thief
and master of disguise, who was created by French writer Maurice
Leblanc in 1905. In Leblanc's novels, Arsène Lupin is often a force for
good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Leblanc's Lupin was
said to have later inspired the character of the Lone Wolf, a jewel thief-turned-private detective in a series of novels written by Louis Joseph Vance, beginning in 1914.
Fear makes people do terrible things.
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