Harry isn’t quite out of his teens when it fully hits him—the war, the blood and the guts spread across the corridors of Hogwarts, the screams and sobs, the nightmares, the shadows that never seem to leave him.
It’s too much.
He gets a flat in London—Muggle London. Hermione and the Weasleys give him space. Kingsley ensures the wizarding world gives him privacy. Not that some aren’t reluctant. Rita Skeeter releases articles every day, wondering when their Boy Who Lived will return.
But Harry doesn’t see those articles.
He tries to forget who he is for awhile.
His flat is cozy. He stuffs it with plants and paintings and books. He has a cat (or three). He wears sweaters and blazers with corduroy pants. He goes to the market every morning to buy fruits and vegetables. That’s where he meets the kindly old woman who lives down the street.
She lived through World War II and so many other wars, wars that Harry has never experienced but can only imagine.
She goes to his house and she goes to hers. There’s always tea and small cakes and dinners and cocoa—apparently she believes that a teenager needs cocoa—and baking and reading and knitting.
Harry uses magic to brew the cocoa one day, not realizing that she’s standing in the doorway. She calms him by telling him that she knows all about magic.
Their conversations shift after that. They talk about their favorite creatures and how hard it was to watch them perish before their eyes. They talk about the wall that seemingly gave way to let them enter the magical world. They talk about lions and friends and family and love and betrayals and life and death.
“When did you leave?” Harry asks one day.
She pauses, a hand resting on his cat’s head. After a moment, she looks up with a heaviness in her eyes, a heaviness that Harry sees when he looks in the mirror everyday.
“I was young,” she says. “Younger than you are now. But I had already grown up. I didn’t want to leave, not really, but it became too much.”
“Do you regret it?”
“Some days I do, some days I don’t.”
“Yeah…”
It’s a few months later, when he’s helping her shovel the first snow from her walkway, that he asks, “Did you ever try going back?”
“Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t,” she says, shoving a cup of cocoa into his hands. “I was shut out as soon as I hesitated.”
He pauses, nearly dropping the cocoa, before whispering, “That’s horrible.”
“What about you?” She escorts him inside, her cane tapping against the floor that he’s magically heated to warm her feet. “Would you be welcomed back?”
“Oh, yeah,” Harry says. “Til they turn on me because they don’t like the color of my shirt or because I sneezed the wrong way or because—you name it.”
She laughs and he smiles.
“Imagine that,” she softly says. “Rulers of our worlds and we’re not even allowed in them.”
“Imagine that.”
He does go back to the wizarding world, of course, but he never forgets his London flat. He visits the street from time to time, knowing that Susan Pevensie will be there, ready to push a cup of cocoa into his hands.
Mr. Lupin, along with Messers Potter, Black and Pettigrew were all assigned a week’s worth of detention for the misuse of transfiguration, charm work and conspiring with Peeves The Poltergeist to cause mass chaos during the Halloween feast involving a giant Headless Horseman that terrified fellow students.
Detention Assigned: A written letter of apology to the staff and a week of cleaning the Great Hall by hand after dinner.
Nov 20th, 1971 –
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention from Madam Hooch for reading under the quidditch stands instead of participating in flying lessons.
Additional day of detention was added for his excuse ‘Werewolves aren’t aerodynamic’
Detention assigned:2 nights of Polishing broom handles.
Dec. 19th 1971
Mr Lupin, Messers Potter and Pettigrew were assigned detention along with Messers Black and Lestrange after the latter two got into a physical altercation in the corridors and Lupin, Potter and Pettigrew hexed Lestrange to feel as though his robes were full of hornets.
Detention Served: Writing Lines with Professor McGonagall
Dec. 20th, 1971
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were assigned detention for charming the Suits Of Armor in the Slytherin Corridor to throw dungbombs at Messers Lestrange, Avery, Mulcibur and Snape
Detention Served: 3 Saturday Afternoons pruning in the Greenhouses.
Jan 31st 1972
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention by Professor Slughorn for falling asleep in one of the large cauldrons during lessons.
Detention Assigned: 2 Nights Scrubbing Cauldrons (to be served the following week, allowing him to get the rest he required, given his specific circumstances)
Feb 14th, 1972
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were all assigned detention by Madam Pince for charming books to recite inappropriate and lewd poetry as passers by.
Detentions Served: 4 nights re-shelving books in the library.
March 29th, 1972
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention by Professor Furgal for falling asleep during a Defense Against The Dark Arts Exam.
Detentions Served:1 night helping Professor Furgal grade papers.
May 7th, 1972
Mr Lupin was assigned detention by Mr. Filch for presumably taunting Mr. Filch’s cat. Mr. Filch’s explanation “Mrs. Norris hisses and shows other signs of fear/disliking whenever Mr. Lupin is nearby”
Detentions Served:Written Lines with Professor McGonagall
Sept. 2nd 1972
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were all assigned detention by Professor McGonagall for charming a handful of Slytherin students’ hair Red and Gold
Detentions Served:2 nights banging erasers in Professor Slughorn’s classroom.
Oct 5th 1972
Mr. Lupin and Mr. Pettigrew were assigned detention by Professor Slughorn for being caught out of bed, acting suspicious in the Slytherin Dungeons after curfew.
Detentions Served: 1 night scrubbing cauldrons.
Oct. 17th 1972
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention by Professor Flitwick for making paper airplanes and charming them to hit Miss Bellatrix Black in the back of the head to amuse and “Cheer Up” Mr Sirius Black during Charms class.
Detentions Served:1 night banging erasers in Professor Flitwick’s Classroom
Nov. 5th, 1972
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention by Professor Sprout for use of inappropriate language while re-potting Mandrakes.
Detentions Served:1 evening sorting flower pots in the greenhouses.
Dec. 22nd, 1972
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were assigned detention by Professor Flitwick for charming the Choir Toads to sing inappropriate lyrics to Christmas Carols
Detention Served:1 night bathing the Choir Toads.
Jan. 16th, 1973
Mr. Lupin was assigned detention by Professor McGonagall for using inappropriate language and losing his temper during Transfiguration Class.
Detention Served:Writing Lines with Professor McGonagall
Feb 14th, 1973
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were assigned detention by Mr. Filch for charming Mrs. Norris’ fur bright pink.
Detentions Served:1 Night Polishing Portrait Frames.
April 12, 1973
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were assigned detention by Professor Slughorn for hexing Miss Narcissa Black’s lip balm to glue her mouth shut.
Detention Served: Sorting Potions Ingrediants every saturday for one month.
June 2nd, 1973
Messers Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew were assigned detention by Professor Sprout for starting a water fight in the greenhouses during Herbology lessons.
James: I brought something from school that reminds me of you.
*pulls out a stick*
James: It’s a feeling stick. Whoever is holding the feeling stick has permission to say whatever he or she is feeling without being judged. I’ll go first. Um, I feel like I want to know what you’re feeling.
Remus: *breaks the stick*
James: Believe it or not, that is not the first time someone has broken my feeling stick.
have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!
who wouldn’t see this and then look deeply into their own emotional playing field to see what improvements could be made purely inspired by the vulnerable earth. this is the face of all literal gods
That’s actually called the Overview Effect– something experienced by some astronauts that makes them see that “from space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative”.
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