Bio - Remus Lupin

Name:
Remus John Lupin

Gender:
Male

Age:
17

Date of Birth:
March 10th

Blood Status:
Halfblood

Student or Teacher?:
Student

House:
Gryffindor

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Face Claim of your Character:
Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go)

Patronus:
Wolf

Strengths:
DADA/Dueling, Charms, Transfiguration, Flying

Weaknesses:
Divination, Inability to punish friends, Chocolate (he loves it), Astronomy

Wand:
10 1/2", Cedar wood and Unicorn Hair core

Personality:
Remus is very intelligent, calm, tolerant, fair-minded, 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. He also has an excellent sense of humour. However, unlike his friends, he never partook in bullying, being personally against such behaviour (possibly because of the prejudices he suffered as a werewolf), though he also stood by and did nothing to stop it. He could be described as the most mature one of the group. He even became a prefect in his fifth year. Also, unlike his friends, he was able to, or at least would try to maintain civil conversation with those he did not get along well with, a notable example being Snape.

Remus is quite perceptive, with an uncanny ability to guess the thoughts of those around him. Though he displayed bravery on many occasions, it seems that Lupin held deep-seated feelings of shame and fear of rejection (possibly stemming from persecution that he experienced beginning from when he was a child) which at times led him to consider backing down. Remus once claimed that he was cowardly, because he was unable to bring himself to tell Dumbledore that James, Sirius and Peter were Animagi, as it would have meant that he had betrayed Dumbledore's trust, which meant everything to him.

Appearance:
Reference Pic
Wolf Ref
Remus has a pale complexion with the beginning makings of premature lines due to the stress of each full moon. He has shaggy light brown hair and dark chocolate eyes. Standing at slightly taller than average height, he often seems a bit ragged and tired (especially so right before and right after the full moon). He has light scars cutting across his face and worse scars on the rest of his body from self inflicted wounds during his transformation. In werewolf form, he towers over people with the body that is mixed between wolf and man. His facial structure is of a wolf, though with less fur, with glowing yellow eyes. Despite the tall frame, it is often hunched over in a mix between standing as a man and walking like a wolf. Blueish-gray fur coats his body.

Biography:
At the of four, Remus was bitten by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, after his father insulted Greyback, and became a werewolf himself. His parents did everything that they could in order to try to find a cure for him, but there was no cure. Although he and his parents were unsure of the safety of allowing him to attend school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, did not see why he could not attend and encouraged him to become a student. He 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. Dumbledore, wanting to keep the truth of these noises a secret, encouraged these rumours. Thus, the building was dubbed the Shrieking Shack and attained the reputation for being the most haunted building in Britain.

Remus became the very best of friends with fellow Gryffindors James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. He kept his status as 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. He was terrified that they would desert him once they found out what he truly was. However, James, Sirius, 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, James was able to become a stag, and Sirius was able to become a dog, 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, 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. 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 James and Sirius 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 James, Sirius, Remus and Peter used their knowledge of it to write the Marauder's Map and signed it with their nicknames.

However, Remus' frequent disappearances riled up an unhealthy curiosity in Severus Snape, a Slytherin student in the same year as Remus. Because of Severus' enmity towards James and Sirius, he disliked Remus and Peter by association, making him all the more suspicious. He often followed James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter around in order to see what they were up to and in an effort to have them expelled. Sometime in their early school career, Sirius played a malicious prank on Snape by telling him about the Whomping Willow passageway, hoping that he would be terrified or even get seriously hurt by what he found at the other end. James, who hated Snape, was able to stop Snape and save his life in the nick of time, but Snape still uncovered Remus' secret, seeing him at the end of the passage.

Remus was also a Prefect while he was at Hogwarts, although he had trouble exercising discipline over his dearest friends, he claims Dumbledore hoped he could exert control over them as a Prefect. He was never cruel to Snape, but he also never stepped in to stop it. He felt bad and regretted it, but it's hard to stand up to your closest friends.

Anything Extra to Add?: As stated, he's a Werewolf and every full moon goes to the shrieking shack to go through his transformation. He's a prefect at school despite the mischief he sometimes gets into.