Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks met when they both became members of the second Order of the Phoenix. At some point before the summer of , Tonks fell deeply in love with Remus. Although he returned her feelings he refused to become involved with her. He claimed that he was too poor, too old, and too dangerous for her, despite her repeatedly telling him that his lycanthropy did not matter to her. Tonks became very depressed over this: her metamorphic abilities suffered, she looked ill, as well as her Patronus changed to resemble a wolf.
Lupin and Tonks attended Dumbledore's funeral together. Tonks argued that their relationship was the same.
Remus tried to discourage her, insisting that " the cases are totally different " by pointing out that Bill would not not become a full werewolf, though he would experience mild symptoms of lycanthropy.
However, the two seemed to grow closer afterward, attending the funeral of Albus Dumbledore together. Remus and Tonks married in July of and they informed Harry Potter of their newlywed status just prior to the Battle of the Seven Potters.
They both expressed regret that Harry could not attend. Tonks during her pregnancy , wearing what appears to be a maternity dress. Around this time Tonks became pregnant. Harry noted that Remus seemed unhappy at both this party [4] and at the wedding of Bill and Fleur the following day [7]. This may have been because of several reasons: the anti-werewolf legislation, his suspicions that his in-laws disapproved of his marriage to Tonks [8] , or because of Tonks' pregnancy.
Remus was extremely upset by the pregnancy. The result was Remus being cursed with lycanthropy for the rest of his life at age 4. It was a bitter wake-up call for Lyall, who was unable to cure his son.
Just like how vampires can't stand garlic, or how mummies are afraid of cats, in literature, a werewolf's greatest weakness is silver. The idea seems to date back to 18th century folklore called The Legend of the Beast of Gevaudan. However, some suggest that 19th Century authors went back and altered that telling.
Regardless, silver being the thing that ends werewolves has become a staple of all literature. This is not the case in J. Rowling's Harry Potter franchise.
At no point does Rowling state that silver can actually harm Lupin in any way. In fact, there's much reason to believe that the metal would do nothing to him.
After all, he's often surrounded by various silver artifacts, including in his Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. It should come as no surprise that Remus Lupin was a skilled duelist. One of the reasons he was such a proficient teacher was the fact that he knew magic inside and out.
This definitely included dueling. In both the books and the movies, Lupin takes part in various duels. Unfortunately, he does meet his end at the hands of a more skilled duelist in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
However, he was able to use his magic long enough to put up a good fight. Although the end result wasn't entirely perfect, the fact that the director Alfonso Cuaron and his team used both methods certainly made the scene stronger than it could have been. They used various shots of actor David Thewlis in progressively heavier make-up, pieced them together, and then used CGI to blend them and enhance the more complex shots. This is the ideal technique as it also includes an actor's performance.
After all, they get to physically be a part of the transformation process instead of leaving it all to the wonders of CGI. No witch or wizard has control over the animal that their Patronus takes the shape of. The same is true for a person's Animagus. Hard as a witch or wizard may try, their personality and magical make-up determine what animal will represent them.
It's usually an animal that closely resembles them in some way, be it a physical attribute or an emotional one. Unfortunately for Remus Lupin, his Patronus took the shape of a wolf. As a child, this really upset him as it constantly reminded him of his cursed werewolf status. It was basically something that haunted him in every corner of his life.
Thematically, it makes sense for Rowling to have made this choice. It also further linked him to his best friend, Sirius Black, whose Animagus and Patronus were also a wolf. Another interesting choice that Rowling made when designing the character of Remus Lupin was emphasizing the dichotomy between his werewolf state and his human nature. When Lupin had transformed into a werewolf, he was mostly uncontrollable, vicious, and a threat to everyone and anything around him.
Unlike an Animagus, being a werewolf is anything but fun. However, in Lupin's human state, he was calm, collected and understanding. It's one of the reasons why he was such a great professor. His demeanor made him able to impart wisdom to his students, as well as keep control over the classroom without losing his temper.
Could you imagine if he had to teach the class as a werewolf? That would be a whole different story entirely. In an interview , Remus Lupin actor David Thewlis explained that he based his performance on one of his old teachers.
Although much of the character was mapped out for him in the script, as well as in J. Rowling's novels, he chooses to bring a little something of his own to him. Apparently, Thewlis could relate to the way Lupin reached out to his students as well as imparted wisdom to them. After all, he had experienced a similar circumstance with one of his own teachers. Thewlis mentioned this when asked if he had put any preparations into being a werewolf.
Rather than focusing on the mother, he found Lupin's role as a teacher far more interesting and important to the story. Not only that, but she was also one of his most powerful servants. Sometimes it's easy to forget that Remus Lupin was actually related to her by marriage. This is because Lupin married Bellatrix's niece, Nymphadora Tonks.
However, Bellatrix didn't see Tonks as her niece because she had disowned her sister, Tonks' mother Andromeda, for marrying a Muggle. This broke their pure-blood elite status as part of the Sacred Twenty Eight. Lupin's disdain for Bellatrix ran deep for many reasons. First and foremost, she represented everything he disliked. She also followed Voldemort, was bigoted against his wife, and took out his best friend, Sirius.
Eventually, Bellatrix ended Tonks' life during the Battle of Hogwarts. 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. His love of James and Sirius also led him to not do anything to stop their bullying other students, a most notable example being when Snape was constantly bullied by his friends, but Remus was terrified of losing them and therefore did nothing to stop the bullying, something that he later admits to regret.
Perhaps the most critical example of this was his temptation to join Harry, Ron and Hermione on Dumbledore's mission and abandon his wife and unborn son because he was afraid that her family would be ashamed of him being a werewolf.
However, ultimately he came to his senses. He also has been noted to dislike the form of his Patronus as it takes the shape of a wolf. Lupin is disgusted by all things wolfish as they remind him of his condition, and due to this has been known to deliberately cast a non-corporeal patronus, particularly when in the company of others, for fear it would give him away as a werewolf. His Boggart is a full moon, possibly reflecting on an apparent terror of transforming near humans.
This terror may stem from the time where Severus Snape was nearly bitten by him in his werewolf form. Remus was an accomplished and skillful wizard with extensive knowledge of Dark creatures.
Harry Potter and his friends also commented that he was the best D. The extent of Remus' relationship with his family is unknown, aside from how adored he was by his parents. During Remus' youth, his father offended Fenrir Greyback, causing Greyback to attack Remus, when he was merely four years old. Lupin are known to have been concerned over Remus being a werewolf, believing that this condition meant their son would be unable to attend Hogwarts.
However, this was proven untrue. Remus, so often melancholy and lonely, was first amused, then impressed, then seriously smitten by the young witch. He had never fallen in love before. If it had happened in peacetime, Remus would have simply taken himself off to a new place and a new job, so that he did not have to endure the pain of watching Tonks fall in love with a handsome, young wizard in the Auror office, which was what he expected to happen.
However, this was war; they were both needed in the Order of the Phoenix, and nobody knew what the next day would bring. Remus felt justified in remaining exactly where he was, keeping his feelings to himself but secretly rejoicing every time somebody paired him with Tonks on some overnight mission.
It had never occurred to Remus that Tonks could return his feelings because he had become so used to considering himself unclean and unworthy. Before he could stop himself, Remus had replied bitterly that he supposed she had fallen for his old friend " He always got the women. He had always known that he could not marry and run the risk of passing on his painful, shameful condition. Wiser than Remus, she was sure that he loved her, but that he was refusing to admit it out of mistaken nobility.
However, he avoided working with her, barely talked to her, and started volunteering for the most dangerous missions. Tonks became desperately unhappy, convinced not only that the man she loved would never willingly spend time with her again, but also that he might walk to his death rather than admit his feelings.
In spite of continuing misgivings that he was acting selfishly, Remus married Tonks quietly in the north of Scotland, with witnesses taken from the local wizarding tavern.
He continued to fear that the stigma attached to him would infect his wife and wished for no fanfare around their union; he swung constantly between elation that he was married to the woman of his dreams and terror of what he might have brought upon them both. When she became pregnant, Remus was not delighted by this, he was in fact scared that he might be passing his condition on to an innocent child.
He even attempted to abandon his pregnant wife and unborn child, but was stopped by Harry Potter. Realising the importance of staying with his family above all else, he returned to Tonks, bitterly ashamed. Lupin and Tonks both died in the Battle of Hogwarts in May , leaving their son behind in the care of his maternal grandmother, Andromeda Tonks , and his godfather, Harry Potter.
Teddy was raised by Andromeda, but would spend a great deal of time with the Potter and Weasley families growing up. Teddy was a Metamorphmagus , like his mother. Remus' son was born in Remus and his wife, Nymphadora Tonks, named him Teddy , after Tonks's father. At one point, Remus nearly abandoned his wife and unborn son, mostly out of premature shame, guilt, and the fear that his lycanthropy would be passed on and that he'd made outcasts out of Nymphadora and their child.
Rather than wanting to face his impending fatherhood, he intended to help Harry, Ron, and Hermione with their mission of destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes though he was actually unaware of what their "mission" entailed.
Harry was, however, upset with the development and got into a rather heated argument with Remus that ultimately convinced him that the best course of action would be to support his family. He returned to his wife shortly thereafter. Teddy was eventually born and despite his earlier fears and insecurities about being a father, Remus expressed joy at his son's birth and asked Harry to be Teddy's godfather. Sadly, Remus and his wife were killed at the Battle of Hogwarts , leaving Teddy an orphan when he was between two weeks and one month old.
When Remus appeared again through the Resurrection Stone , he was rather devastated knowing that Teddy would have to grow up without either of his parents, but found some solace in knowing that Teddy would be living in a better world.
Teddy was raised by his maternal grandmother, but he spent significant time with his godfather Harry Potter's family and the Weasleys. In their second year, Remus' friends figured out that he was a werewolf ; instead of shunning him, as many in the wizarding world would have, they learned how to become Animagi by their fifth year to accompany Remus on his monthly transformations, preventing him from hurting himself.
Though he was his house's prefect , Remus had difficulty trying to curb his friends' mischievous behaviour.
At some point, after Remus and his friends had all become members of the Order of the Phoenix , Sirius came to distrust Remus, fearing he might be a spy; the reasons for this are unknown.
Sirius' distrust ensured that Remus was unaware when James and Lily changed their Secret-Keeper from Sirius to Peter, and thus he believed that Sirius had betrayed them when they were murdered by Lord Voldemort. The two reclaimed their friendship after Sirius escaped from Azkaban in , and Remus learned the truth.
They planned to kill their traitorous former friend Peter, but were stopped by Harry Potter. The ending of the three Marauders who had stayed true to their friendship to the very end — James, Sirius, and Remus — was bittersweet: they all lost their lives to the two wizarding wars but were likely reunited in the afterlife,.
Severus Snape , a Slytherin student in Remus' year, shared a strong enmity with Remus' close friends James Potter and Sirius Black , who outright bullied Snape on occasion.
Although not friendly with Snape , Remus never behaved cruelly to him. It is possible that he may have subtly identified with or sympathized with the lonely, isolated Snape, seeing a reflection of himself and how he would have been treated if he hadn't found the protection of his friends. Later in life, he said that he deeply regretted not having done anything to stop the bullying. At some point in their fifth year, Snape saw Madam Pomfrey leading Remus to the passageway on the full moon; Sirius thought it would be entertaining to inform Snape of how to freeze the Whomping Willow.
Snape tried to do so, but was stopped by James before he could reach the Shrieking Shack , where Remus had transformed. Albus Dumbledore forbade Snape from revealing Remus' condition to anyone, and Snape deeply resented being put in James's debt and suspected that Remus might have been in on the dangerous prank.
As adults, Remus and Snape were civil to one another, although barely so on the latter's part. Remus claimed that he neither liked nor disliked Snape; of course they would never be bosom friends, after all that happened in their school days, but he also never forgot that Snape dutifully made him the Wolfsbane Potion, and made it perfectly every time so that he would not have to suffer at the full moon as he usually did.
Snape, on the other hand, barely concealed his bitterness in their interactions. He was irked that Remus obtained the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, which he had always wanted for himself. He suspected that Remus was helping Sirius get into the castle and tried to convince Dumbledore to stop trusting him. Snape also took to dropping hints that Remus was a werewolf to students, which was understood by at least one of them Hermione Granger , who kept the discovery to herself.
When Remus tried to inform Snape of Sirius' innocence, Snape refused to hear or believe any of it, and was determined to see Remus punished alongside Sirius. When Snape's old enemy escaped re-capture, Snape vindictively exposed Remus' werewolf status, which forced him to resign. In spite of all this, Remus believed that Snape was loyal to the Order of the Phoenix , encouraging Harry Potter to trust him and to continue his Occlumency lessons.
He was shocked and angered when Snape killed Albus Dumbledore , who had been the one to assure other Order members that Snape was trustworthy. Snape, secretly still loyal to the Order, attempted to save Lupin by aiming a Sectumsempra at a Death Eater who was poised to kill Lupin, but accidentally struck George, who lost an ear. Remus, furious, expressed a desire to have " paid him back in kind ", but had to focus on getting himself and George to safety. Lily was not on good terms with two of Remus' dearest friends, James and Sirius, but that did not mean she disliked Remus as well, given that he acted more mature and thoughtful than his friends, and did not participate in their bullying though he did nothing to stop them either.
Remus and Lily were both made prefects during their fifth year, and they were friendly towards each other. After Hogwarts, Lily married James Potter.
Although Sirius was the best man, Remus probably attended their wedding, too, given his status as one of their dearest friends. They all became members of the Order of the Phoenix , during the First Wizarding War , and fought in several battles together. When Pettigrew betrayed the Potters to Voldemort, resulting in the tragic deaths of James and Lily, Remus was devastated.
Later on, he became close to Lily's son, Harry, both as a paternal figure and a mentor. After Lupin was murdered during the Battle of Hogwarts , they were two of the four spirits whom Harry summoned.
Remus met Harry Potter , the son of his late friends James and Lily Potter , for the first time since he was an infant, in when he saved Harry from Dementors on the Hogwarts Express.
Remus was the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts during Harry's third year, and quickly became his favourite professor. The two bonded very closely.
Remus found Harry to be; intelligent, kind, and an excellent Seeker, and had strong empathy for the pain that he had experienced throughout his life. Harry admired and cared about Remus even after he found out that he was a werewolf. Remus also told Harry that the first time he saw him, he recognised him not by his scar , but by his eyes, which so closely resembled Lily's. It is suggested that Remus' classes were how Harry discovered his remarkable talent for Defence Against the Dark Arts.
He took Harry aside to teach him the Patronus Charm , assisted him in avoiding trouble with Professor Snape , and returned the Marauders' Map to him once he was no longer a professor. The two met again in the summer of Throughout the years, Remus shared with Harry many stories about his parents and godfather. He comforted Harry over Sirius's death and also offered him advice on other occasions. The only real disagreement they ever had was when Harry rejected Remus' offer to accompany him and his friends on the quest for Horcruxes.
Harry became angry and cutting; he told his former teacher that he was being selfish and irresponsible for leaving his wife and unborn child. Remus responded with uncharacteristic violence and stormed out of the house, taking refuge in a corner of the Leaky Cauldron, where he sat drinking and fuming.
James and Lily, Remus reflected, had stuck with Harry even unto their own deaths. His own parents had sacrificed their peace and security to keep the family together.
When Remus' son Teddy Lupin was born, he asked that Harry be the boy's godfather, and after Remus' death Harry played a prominent role in Teddy's life.
Remus was one of the spirits that came out of the Resurrection Stone to speak to Harry as he walked to what he believed was his death, indicating the almost familial bond between Remus and Harry. In Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them , Harry wrote in the werewolf section " aren't all bad ", showing that Remus being a werewolf did not bother him at all.
Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were among the students who were very impressed by Remus' teaching when he was professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts for their third year.
Hermione deduced that Remus was a werewolf early in the year, but kept this discovery to herself, not even telling her best friends; this is likely because she disapproved of the prejudice against werewolves and knew exposing the truth would hurt Remus. Although Ron initially reacted with fear to the revelation that Remus was a werewolf, he continued to admire and like Remus. In turn, Remus was fond of Ron and Hermione, and was particularly impressed by the latter's cleverness.
Albus Dumbledore was considered by many to be the greatest wizard of all time, and Remus Lupin was among his many admirers and staunch supporters. Dumbledore was Remus' Headmaster during his time at Hogwarts. Dumbledore accepted Remus into his school despite knowing his being a werewolf, as he valued Remus' strength of character and ability, and disregarded the stigma associated with his condition; the headmaster personally approached the Lupin family to invite Remus to school, knowing full well of the circumstances.
In fact, it was Dumbledore who, by several special precautions, ensured that Remus' werewolf status was kept secret during his school years, effectively preventing him from being ostracised from his school mates.
When Severus Snape found out what Remus truly was due to a cruel prank played on him by Sirius, Dumbledore was the one who swore him to secrecy. On his part, Remus confessed that Dumbledore's trust and exceptional kindness towards him meant everything to him, given that the vast majority of the wizarding world shunned him because of the deep prejudice towards werewolves, and Remus felt guilty for betraying this kindness by allowing his three Marauder friends illegally become Animagi and roaming wild during their schooling years.
Dumbledore was also the founder and leader of the Order of the Phoenix , an organisation that Remus joined after graduating from school, and he was trusted with many important missions. Remus was given the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts during the — school year , during which time Dumbledore requested that Snape brew the Wolfsbane Potion for Remus monthly; this, along with providing Remus with a paid job when he was suffering in poverty due to his condition, made Remus respect Dumbledore even more.
Remus and Dumbledore fought alongside one another during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries , where they suffered a devastating loss: Sirius, one of their dearest friends, died at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange. Remus told Harry Potter on several occasions that he trusted Snape because Dumbledore did so. In , Remus was devastated by Dumbledore's death after the Battle of the Astronomy Tower , and demonstrated his loyalty and faith to Dumbledore by fighting and tragically dying in the next year's Battle of Hogwarts.
Remus was always friendly with the Weasley family. Arthur and Remus fought together at the Battle of the Seven Potters , where the latter was paired with Arthur's son, George.
He saved George's life, as George would have fallen off his broomstick when he was cursed by Severus Snape. Arthur later thanked him for taking care of his son. Remus also lived for some time with the Weasley family at 12 Grimmauld Place.
However, when Sirius argued with Molly, Remus didn't take either side. Bill and Remus seemed to have been friends, as they fought together in several battles of the Second War; they were also the ones who attempted to find Mad-Eye 's dead body after the Battle of the Seven Potters. After the war, Remus and Tonks's son seemed to have a romantic relationship with Bill and Fleur's daughter.
Fred and George Weasley were also friends of Lupin. They were Lupin's students during their fifth year at Hogwarts and they also fought together at the Battle of the Seven Potters. Remus protected George from being killed; however, George's ear was accidentally cut off by Severus Snape. Lupin and the twins also appeared on the underground radio program Potterwatch and spoke to the wizarding community during the last year of the war.
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