This is a full calendar marking the times that Remus Lupin has had to shift during his Hogwarts years.
Year 1:
Sunday, 5 September 1971, 05:02:24 am
Monday, 4 October 1971, 01:19:30 pm
Tuesday, 2 November 1971, 10:19:24 pm
Thursday, 2 December 1971, 08:48:06 am
Friday, 31 December 1971, 09:19:30 pm
Sunday, 30 January 1972, 11:58:12 am
Tuesday, 29 February 1972, 04:11:54 am
Wednesday, 29 March 1972, 09:05:30 pm
Friday, 28 April 1972, 01:44:30 pm
Sunday, 28 May 1972, 05:27:36 amYear 2:
Saturday, 23 September 1972, 05:06:42 am
Sunday, 22 October 1972, 02:25:00 pm
Tuesday, 21 November 1972, 12:06:30 am
Wednesday, 20 December 1972, 10:45:06 am
Thursday, 18 January 1973, 10:28:24 pm
Saturday, 17 February 1973, 11:07:00 am
Monday, 19 March 1973, 12:33:24 am
Tuesday, 17 April 1973, 02:50:30 pm
Thursday, 17 May 1973, 05:58:00 am
Friday, 15 June 1973, 09:34:36 pmYear 3:
Wednesday, 12 September 1973, 04:16:18 pm
Friday, 12 October 1973, 04:09:00 am
Saturday, 10 November 1973, 03:26:42 pm
Monday, 10 December 1973, 02:34:36 am
Tuesday, 8 January 1974, 01:36:18 pm
Thursday, 7 February 1974, 12:24:12 am
Friday, 8 March 1974, 11:02:54 am
Saturday, 6 April 1974, 10:00:18 pm
Monday, 6 May 1974, 09:54:30 am
Tuesday, 4 June 1974, 11:09:36 pmYear 4:
Sunday, 1 September 1974, 08:24:48 pm
Tuesday, 1 October 1974, 11:37:54 am
Thursday, 31 October 1974, 02:19:00 am
Friday, 29 November 1974, 04:10:06 pm
Sunday, 29 December 1974, 04:50:48 am
Monday, 27 January 1975, 04:09:24 pm
Wednesday, 26 February 1975, 02:14:30 am
Thursday, 27 March 1975, 11:36:00 am
Friday, 25 April 1975, 08:54:54 pm
Sunday, 25 May 1975, 06:50:36 amYear 5 (Sirius Black, James Potter, and Peter Pettigrew join):
Saturday, 20 September 1975, 12:50:24 pm
Monday, 20 October 1975, 06:05:42 am
Tuesday, 18 November 1975, 11:28:12 pm
Thursday, 18 December 1975, 03:39:30 pm
Saturday, 17 January 1976, 05:46:54 am
Sunday, 15 February 1976, 05:43:18 pm
Tuesday, 16 March 1976, 03:52:42 am
Wednesday, 14 April 1976, 12:48:42 pm
Thursday, 13 May 1976, 09:04:00 pm
Saturday, 12 June 1976, 05:15:00 amYear 6:
Wednesday, 8 September 1976, 01:52:00 pm
Friday, 8 October 1976, 05:55:24 am
Sunday, 7 November 1976, 12:14:36 am
Monday, 6 December 1976, 07:14:30 pm
Wednesday, 5 January 1977, 01:10:24 pm
Friday, 4 February 1977, 04:56:12 am
Saturday, 5 March 1977, 06:13:12 pm
Monday, 4 April 1977, 05:08:54 am
Tuesday, 3 May 1977, 02:03:24 pm
Wednesday, 1 June 1977, 09:30:54 pmYear 7:
Tuesday, 27 September 1977, 09:17:24 am
Thursday, 27 October 1977, 12:35:24 am
Friday, 25 November 1977, 06:31:24 pm
Sunday, 25 December 1977, 01:49:00 pm
Tuesday, 24 January 1978, 08:55:30 am
Thursday, 23 February 1978, 02:26:18 am
Friday, 24 March 1978, 05:20:00 pm
Sunday, 23 April 1978, 05:11:00 am
Monday, 22 May 1978, 02:16:42 pm
Tuesday, 20 June 1978, 09:30:30 pmCan you guys just imagine how torturous this must have been? Especially in 4th year where it was on the first day… This is just heartbreaking…
Tag: harry potter
- fandom please I implore you all to talk about Dean Thomas more
- literally yelling for a red card during a Quidditch match
- painting a potter for president banner for his friend HOW CUTE
- offering to forge a signature so that same friend could go to the village with the rest of them
- actually he paints banners supporting Harry on two separate occasions four years apart
- is it weirder that he keeps doing that or that Harry keeps getting himself into situations where he requires banners
- good with a quill be still my beating heart the boy is an artist
- literally not giving a single fuck that their teacher was a “dangerous half-breed” because he respected the hell out of him as a person and educator
- IF YOU MEAN PROFESSOR LUPIN, HE WAS THE BEST WE EVER –
- and he grew up as a muggle so he had already been exposed to werewolf folklore and he had every excuse to be afraid or prejudiced and instead decided to judge him on a human level, even without the familiarity the trio etc. had to him
- standing up for that same teacher time and time again
- including to a ministry official who he just generally gave the sass to anyway
- never losing his faith in Harry even when his very best friend in the whole world and approximately 89% of the wizarding community basically thought the bloke was a nutjob
- convincing his best mate to join DA
there was a fair bit of an anti-dean sentiment in HBP best to ignore that then- never having any animosity towards his friend for getting together with his ex-girlfriend so soon
- completely supporting and defending Harry while on the run because OBVIOUSLY why stop now after seven years of doing literally that at every single opportunity
- being completely bemused by but always kind towards Luna
- helping to dig the grave on the beach
- running out into the final battle without a fucking wand
- evidently winning one at some point
- everything to do with him and Seamus however you want to view their relationship but frankly I could do a whole other post on that
also I met Alfie once and he was so pretty- dEAN THOMAS
#I bet Dean went and like fucking punched Death Eaters#and they’re so used to expecting wands that they were stunned to be punched#BECAUSE WHO IN THE WIZARDLY WORLD DOES ANYTHING BY HAND ANYMORE#So this kid just comes running at them and POW and they’re just like ‘HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS????’#dean thomas is a gift x
There’s a difference between being misunderstood and being misguided. Draco and his Slytherin friends are misinformed and misguided by their parents, they are not misunderstood. They were awful, they did horrible things, they weren’t secretly non-bigoted underneath. They can learn from their mistakes and grow up to be better people, that still doesn’t mean their past actions are excusable or that Harry was prejudiced to dislike them. They earned his dislike, they can earn his/others forgiveness too.
I had an idea aged ago for an AU where Sirius scooped baby Harry up out of the wrecked house and just booked it across Eurasia, the Arctic Circle, and then traveled around North America for a decade before Remus finds them and gives Harry the Hogwarts letter.
but I also…well, I want that AU where Remus never shows up (or he ran with them) and the plot of the main series has to happen without Harry. The Marauders didn’t know about the Prophecy! They just knew Voldie was weirdly interested in the Potters. They don’t know there’s a soul-bit stuck in Harry’s head! Sirius knows Peter betrayed them, but doesn’t know who else might be a traitor. There’s every reason to run and no reason to come back. Harry gets homeschooled or attends a wizarding school in North or South America or Australia under an assumed name. When he starts getting headaches and visions, they consult an expert on cursed scars and deal with the whole “sort of but not really a horcrux” issue, because we don’t have anything in canon saying we can’t deal with it outside of unresisted-death-spell-to-the-face, even if canon doesn’t say we can deal with it nicely either.
But that’s a side thing. That’s not the plot. The plot is, what the hell is happening back at Hogwarts with no Harry Potter? Does anyone stop Quirrell? What goes down with the Chamber of Secrets? With no Sirius escaping from Azkaban, does Scabbers even bother leaving Hogwarts? Whose blood is used in the resurrection ritual, if anyone’s? How’s the Tri-Wizard Tournament? Does Draco have a different classmate for a nemesis? Was Hermione still crying in the loo the night Quirrell let a troll into the school? What happens with Norbert? Is Dumbledore using the invisibility cloak himself or storing it guiltily in case the Potter child ever shows up again? Does he give it to someone else to use? Who helps Hagrid with Norbert and Grawp? If Remus went with Sirius and Harry, who’s the DAtDA teacher in 3rd year instead of him? Which of these poor children does Dumbledore decide to groom as horcrux-hunters? Is he going after the horcruxes himself? Desperately looking for Harry? He canonically told Harry to not “put too much store in the Prophecy” and not feel trapped by destiny, insisted that Harry would try to stop Voldemort without ever hearing it, but Dumbledore’s own actions didn’t really seem to support that. Voldie cared about the Prophecy, but if he doesn’t face down Harry over the Philosopher’s Stone, does he care as much about killing the kid? Would he even bother looking for Harry, when Dumbledore is right there and has such a longer history of thwarting him?
There are so many ways this could go!
That sounds amazing. There are SO many ways this could go.
This could be fun, yeah.
First year, assuming Dumbledore still brought the Philosopher’s Stone to Hogwarts, I think you’d wind up with Neville, Ron, and Hermoine solving things… but differently. Neville figures out the plant, Ron catches the key (because, absent Harry, he’s going to be a wannabe seeker, and he’s also likely to have more broom skill than either Hermoine or Neville). Ron gets smashed in chess, Hermoine figures out the potions… and she goes through, because she’s a fearless badass, and Neville knows she can do the charmwork better, if it comes down to it. Since Hermoine doesn’t have a deus ex machina to save her, I figure she comes up with something different… though I like the idea that she figures out how to get the stone, then just frickin’ runs, because she’s not crazy and Ghost!Voldemort can’t read her mind as easily.
Second year, I’d give the crowning moment of awesome to Ron. His wand still disables Lockhart, but he retrieves the Sword of Griffindor from the Sorting Hat and slays the Basilisk (since it’s up to him to save his sister).
Third year gets tricky, because it’s driven by Sirius escaping, which doesn’t happen in this one, but I think the crowning moment of awesome should be Ginny’s this year. Buckbeak, though, would still happen, and Hagrid getting confined. Conquering fear and darkness, after the horror of her first year, Ginny’s the one to save Buckbeak AND master the Patronus charm. Peter Pettigrew gets unmasked because of the Marauder’s Map (when RON notes that he’s always being followed by someone named “Peter”, and he and Hermoine and Ginny look it up)
Fourth year, we’re going to drop Neville in the Triwizard cup. Why? Because the forces behind Voldemort are looking at what they know of the prophecy, and the Potter kid OBVIOUSLY died, so it’s got to be Neville who will bring about the rise of the Dark Lord. Neville fails the first trial (Hagrid gives him some hints, but he’s not the flyer Harry is and doesn’t manage to get his egg), owns at the second (especially since he’ll accept some advice from Hermoine), and then goes into the maze (with relative ease… Really, a Hedge Maze to thwart Neville Longbottom?)
By Order of the Phoenix, we’re going to come back to Hermoine leading the pack. She fought hard against Umbridge, and without a lightning-scarred lightning rod, she’s going to take the brunt of the damage… she’s livid about what that woman is doing to their education. When they go to the ministry of magic, you get the head fake that tells us Neville is the Chosen One, because he’s the only living person who meets the prophecy, because no one knows about Harry.
Half-blood Prince? Fykin’ EVERYONE. Instead of Dumbledore taking one special person on a bunch of trips, he takes them on different trips for different strengths. Luna, Neville, Hermoine, Ron, and Ginny all help destroy or find different Horcruxes… and we’re going to wrap up all but one of the Horcruxes during this book.
Deathly Hallows? Oh, shit, we don’t know where most of this stuff is. There’s a missing Horcrux, there’s a missing Hallow, and THAT’s where we bring in Harry. Instead of hiding out in the British backcountry, they wind up having to deal with Harry Potter, who none of them know, and is a different person than the abused hero they’d run with. Raised by his Dads (whether or not they’re together is an exercise left to the reader), he’s got magical skill (they taught him Occulmency, which is easier when you don’t hate them), but no chemistry with any of them. He butts heads with Hermoine, especially, and with Ginny, while quietly dismissing Luna and Neville. Harry wields the Invisibility cloak, but the Ressurection stone falls to Luna (she has the strongest story link to a dead person), and Ginny winds up with the Elder Wand (because we’ve established that she’s a DADT badass as early as book 3).
I had an idea aged ago for an AU where Sirius scooped baby Harry up out of the wrecked house and just booked it across Eurasia, the Arctic Circle, and then traveled around North America for a decade before Remus finds them and gives Harry the Hogwarts letter.
but I also…well, I want that AU where Remus never shows up (or he ran with them) and the plot of the main series has to happen without Harry. The Marauders didn’t know about the Prophecy! They just knew Voldie was weirdly interested in the Potters. They don’t know there’s a soul-bit stuck in Harry’s head! Sirius knows Peter betrayed them, but doesn’t know who else might be a traitor. There’s every reason to run and no reason to come back. Harry gets homeschooled or attends a wizarding school in North or South America or Australia under an assumed name. When he starts getting headaches and visions, they consult an expert on cursed scars and deal with the whole “sort of but not really a horcrux” issue, because we don’t have anything in canon saying we can’t deal with it outside of unresisted-death-spell-to-the-face, even if canon doesn’t say we can deal with it nicely either.
But that’s a side thing. That’s not the plot. The plot is, what the hell is happening back at Hogwarts with no Harry Potter? Does anyone stop Quirrell? What goes down with the Chamber of Secrets? With no Sirius escaping from Azkaban, does Scabbers even bother leaving Hogwarts? Whose blood is used in the resurrection ritual, if anyone’s? How’s the Tri-Wizard Tournament? Does Draco have a different classmate for a nemesis? Was Hermione still crying in the loo the night Quirrell let a troll into the school? What happens with Norbert? Is Dumbledore using the invisibility cloak himself or storing it guiltily in case the Potter child ever shows up again? Does he give it to someone else to use? Who helps Hagrid with Norbert and Grawp? If Remus went with Sirius and Harry, who’s the DAtDA teacher in 3rd year instead of him? Which of these poor children does Dumbledore decide to groom as horcrux-hunters? Is he going after the horcruxes himself? Desperately looking for Harry? He canonically told Harry to not “put too much store in the Prophecy” and not feel trapped by destiny, insisted that Harry would try to stop Voldemort without ever hearing it, but Dumbledore’s own actions didn’t really seem to support that. Voldie cared about the Prophecy, but if he doesn’t face down Harry over the Philosopher’s Stone, does he care as much about killing the kid? Would he even bother looking for Harry, when Dumbledore is right there and has such a longer history of thwarting him?
There are so many ways this could go!
That sounds amazing. There are SO many ways this could go.
Third year would still work if Dumbledore didn’t hire Lupin just because Sirius broke out. Even though damn him, he probably did, but whatever in this AU Dumbledore somehow sees little Harry Lupin and his dads Remus and “Steve” Lupin (let’s be real, Sirius would ditch the black name in a second if he had the chance) and wants to keep and eye on them. So he offers to bring the whole Lupin family to Hogwarts, Harry can take classes while Remus takes over the DADA job and “Steve” fills in for the Muggle Studies job (I headcanon that was his fav subject in school) since Burbage is going on a very convenient sabbatical. And they know it’s a risk, but our doggy dads want this. They’re time in Hogwarts was the best of their lives, where two lonely boys made the very best friends they could ever ask for (even if one turned out to be a rat) and they want this for Harry since they’ve never settled down long enough for him to make friends his own age. Possibly Dumbledore throws in helping clear Sirius’s name to sweeten the deal.
So we’ve got the three Lupins going NO NOT A SINGLE WANTED MAN OR MISSING FAMOUS CHILD HERE NO SIR all year, setting off every single one of the other kids’ weird-shit alarms. Which leads to the kids running around trying to solve the mystery, Sirius running around because he “saw the little rat, Remus, he swears”, Remus running around trying to stop him from getting caught because Snape is running around going SIRIUS BLACK. RHIGHT THERE. to anyone who will listen.
Meanwhile, Harry just wants to pass his classes, beat both of his new friends Draco and Ron in the new pickup quidditch games he got started (Oliver Wood is ecstatic) and figure out why no one is telling him why they’re running around like maniacs.
It somehow still comes to a head in the shrieking shack, but now there is also the boy who lived reveal to deal with.
@lullabyknell @mzminola
Sirius Black deserved an Order of Merlin, First Class. If Peter Pettigrew got one for simply simply CONFRONTING Sirius and supposedly getting blown up, Sirius deserves one for risking his soul again and again to expose a dangerous servant of Voldemort who lurked at Hogwarts, for going into the Ministry and giving up his life to save his godson and for his (probably heroic) actions in the FWW. For that matter, he also deserves a public apology. Sometimes I think JKR just doesn’t care about him.
yes he does deserve an Order of Merlin, First Class and I’m sure Harry made sure that happened
I’m 100% certain that the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, knew Sirius deserved it too, and at some point the conversation went like this:
Kingsley: … thought you might accept the Order of Merlin on Sirius’ behalf
Harry: I’m terribly sorry, Minister, but given how Sirius felt about the Ministry, I’m afraid I’m going to have to tell you to stick it up your arse.
Kingsley: *wiping a tear* It’s what he would’ve wanted.
This is everything
In the end notes of “the faintest, slimmest, wildest chance” (x), I outlined a future in which a time-traveled Ginny Weasley, needing a job now that she’s decades in the past, adopts a terrible fake name and becomes a Quidditch superstar. (Because that’s just what you do.)
Of course, as someone mentioned, since there are two Ginny Weasleys about, this means that it’s possible that young Ginny Weasley would probably unknowingly come to look up to her older self. The scenario that was specifically detailed, however, was that young, itty-bitty, Quidditch-fanatic Ginny Weasley would (unknowingly) go up to her older self and declare something along the lines of, “I want to be just like you when I’m grown up!”
How would Ginny react to that? Well, I tend to characterize Ginny Weasley as a the sort of person who, in the unlikely and horrible situation where she is caught at a loss and unable to snark properly, would reflexively pull the “Bi/Pan Finger Guns” move. So, yeah, older Ginny Weasley does reflexive finger guns and (internally screaming) says, “Neat!”
McGonagall: Remus I haven’t been your teacher for roughly 16 years, you can call me by my first name
Remus: I don’t think you understand how much I cannot do that
I had an idea aged ago for an AU where Sirius scooped baby Harry up out of the wrecked house and just booked it across Eurasia, the Arctic Circle, and then traveled around North America for a decade before Remus finds them and gives Harry the Hogwarts letter.
but I also…well, I want that AU where Remus never shows up (or he ran with them) and the plot of the main series has to happen without Harry. The Marauders didn’t know about the Prophecy! They just knew Voldie was weirdly interested in the Potters. They don’t know there’s a soul-bit stuck in Harry’s head! Sirius knows Peter betrayed them, but doesn’t know who else might be a traitor. There’s every reason to run and no reason to come back. Harry gets homeschooled or attends a wizarding school in North or South America or Australia under an assumed name. When he starts getting headaches and visions, they consult an expert on cursed scars and deal with the whole “sort of but not really a horcrux” issue, because we don’t have anything in canon saying we can’t deal with it outside of unresisted-death-spell-to-the-face, even if canon doesn’t say we can deal with it nicely either.
But that’s a side thing. That’s not the plot. The plot is, what the hell is happening back at Hogwarts with no Harry Potter? Does anyone stop Quirrell? What goes down with the Chamber of Secrets? With no Sirius escaping from Azkaban, does Scabbers even bother leaving Hogwarts? Whose blood is used in the resurrection ritual, if anyone’s? How’s the Tri-Wizard Tournament? Does Draco have a different classmate for a nemesis? Was Hermione still crying in the loo the night Quirrell let a troll into the school? What happens with Norbert? Is Dumbledore using the invisibility cloak himself or storing it guiltily in case the Potter child ever shows up again? Does he give it to someone else to use? Who helps Hagrid with Norbert and Grawp? If Remus went with Sirius and Harry, who’s the DAtDA teacher in 3rd year instead of him? Which of these poor children does Dumbledore decide to groom as horcrux-hunters? Is he going after the horcruxes himself? Desperately looking for Harry? He canonically told Harry to not “put too much store in the Prophecy” and not feel trapped by destiny, insisted that Harry would try to stop Voldemort without ever hearing it, but Dumbledore’s own actions didn’t really seem to support that. Voldie cared about the Prophecy, but if he doesn’t face down Harry over the Philosopher’s Stone, does he care as much about killing the kid? Would he even bother looking for Harry, when Dumbledore is right there and has such a longer history of thwarting him?
There are so many ways this could go!
That sounds amazing. There are SO many ways this could go.
I had an idea aged ago for an AU where Sirius scooped baby Harry up out of the wrecked house and just booked it across Eurasia, the Arctic Circle, and then traveled around North America for a decade before Remus finds them and gives Harry the Hogwarts letter.
but I also…well, I want that AU where Remus never shows up (or he ran with them) and the plot of the main series has to happen without Harry. The Marauders didn’t know about the Prophecy! They just knew Voldie was weirdly interested in the Potters. They don’t know there’s a soul-bit stuck in Harry’s head! Sirius knows Peter betrayed them, but doesn’t know who else might be a traitor. There’s every reason to run and no reason to come back. Harry gets homeschooled or attends a wizarding school in North or South America or Australia under an assumed name. When he starts getting headaches and visions, they consult an expert on cursed scars and deal with the whole “sort of but not really a horcrux” issue, because we don’t have anything in canon saying we can’t deal with it outside of unresisted-death-spell-to-the-face, even if canon doesn’t say we can deal with it nicely either.
But that’s a side thing. That’s not the plot. The plot is, what the hell is happening back at Hogwarts with no Harry Potter? Does anyone stop Quirrell? What goes down with the Chamber of Secrets? With no Sirius escaping from Azkaban, does Scabbers even bother leaving Hogwarts? Whose blood is used in the resurrection ritual, if anyone’s? How’s the Tri-Wizard Tournament? Does Draco have a different classmate for a nemesis? Was Hermione still crying in the loo the night Quirrell let a troll into the school? What happens with Norbert? Is Dumbledore using the invisibility cloak himself or storing it guiltily in case the Potter child ever shows up again? Does he give it to someone else to use? Who helps Hagrid with Norbert and Grawp? If Remus went with Sirius and Harry, who’s the DAtDA teacher in 3rd year instead of him? Which of these poor children does Dumbledore decide to groom as horcrux-hunters? Is he going after the horcruxes himself? Desperately looking for Harry? He canonically told Harry to not “put too much store in the Prophecy” and not feel trapped by destiny, insisted that Harry would try to stop Voldemort without ever hearing it, but Dumbledore’s own actions didn’t really seem to support that. Voldie cared about the Prophecy, but if he doesn’t face down Harry over the Philosopher’s Stone, does he care as much about killing the kid? Would he even bother looking for Harry, when Dumbledore is right there and has such a longer history of thwarting him?
There are so many ways this could go!
That sounds amazing. There are SO many ways this could go.
“maybe all the students in Harry’s would-be year are playing hot-potato with Harry’s would-have-been heroics” /CACKLING/
“Dumbledore really never seemed to have a plan beyond the whole “smush Voldemort and the child of prophecy together repeatedly until success” thing.” Am now picturing Dumbledore mashing the Potter Puppet Pals figures of Harry and Voldemort together going “now kill”.
The fun thing about this cracky idea really is that it can go pretty much any way the fic writer wants, but the decisions for the Philosopher’s Stone really do affect the rest of it, don’t they?
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