Remus Lupin

Professor Remus John "Moony" Lupin (1960 - 1998) was a half-blood werewolf wizard born to the half-blood, Lyall Lupin and the muggle, Hope Howell. He was part of a group of friends called the Marauders when he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Remus was married to Nymphadora Tonks, with whom he had his only son, Teddy Lupin.

Early Life (1960 - 1971)
Remus was born on the 10th of March, 1960 to Lyall and Hope Lupin. He was named by a Naming Seer, who had oversaw his future and professed a name for him. When he was just a child, he was attacked by Fenrir Greyback on the full moon, due to comments made by his father about werewolves. From that point on, Lyall Lupin was more sympathetic to the race of people, as Remus was transformed into one.

Before Remus was to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he and his family were visited by headmaster Professor Albus Dumbledore, who made arrangements for Lupin's protection at the school. He was briefed on the plan of what to do when the full moon had come, but was anxious that he might hurt someone.

Hogwarts Years (1971 - 1978)
Remus started attending school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1971. He was sorted into Gryffindor house, along with James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, who would become his best friends. To keep himself safe, he would retreat to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade every night so he could transform out of harm's way. The painful monthly transformations and the screaming and howling from attacking his isolated self were interpreted by scared villagers as ghosts.

Remus kept his monthly transformations a secret to all Hogwarts students, including the ones who made up the Marauders. He would make up reasons for his monthly disappearances to his friends so they wouldn't desert him after finding out his true identity. However, during their second year, James, Sirius, and Peter understood what was happening, and decided to become Animagi to keep Lupin company.

By the time they reached their fifth year, James could become a Stag, Sirius a dog, and Peter a rat. James and Sirius would keep Remus in check, and they could fight off his werewolf form as the animals they became. Peter was able to tickle the Whomping Willow's nub so they could go through the secret entrance to the Shrieking Shack.

Remus was known to be a good student, which was the reason that he was given the role of prefect in his fifth year: to keep his friends from doing irrational things. Regretfully, however, Lupin did nothing to stop his friends from bullying and pranking Severus Snape (a Slytherin) and possibly other students.

The First Wizarding War
After graduating from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Remus joined the Order of the Phoenix along with his friends, James and Lily Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. When Remus was unable to get a job due to his lycanthropy, James was able to financially support him.

When Peter Pettigrew attempted to throw suspicion to Remus, Sirius came to distrust him, and did not tell him that he had swapped the role of secret keeper to Peter, in an attempt to keep the Potters safer, so that they would torture the wrong man.

On Halloween of 1981, however, Sirius Black was convicted of killing 12 muggles and Peter, but in reality, Peter had caused an explosion killing the muggles, and transformed into his rat self, where he would be able to escape through the sewers. Unknowing of this, Remus thought that it was Sirius who had betrayed the Potters, when they were murdered by Voldemort that same night. However, to Remus' bewilderment, James' and Lily's son, Harry survived the killing curse, thwarting Voldemort and ending the First Wizarding War.

After the war, Remus was distraught. Two of his best friends had died, and his other was a traitor. After a short time, his mother died, too. Refusing to disturb his father to come to live with him, Lupin sought after low-level jobs that were only just substantial for him. When the Wolfsbane Potion was invented, Remus saw an opportunity, and was supplied it on some occasions by Chiara Lobosca, when he sought refuge in the Forbidden Forest.

As a Professor
Remus applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching job from a desperate advertisement in the Daily Prophet, knowing full well his chances were low. However, due to the luck of Professor Dumbledore remembering his name and talents, hired him on the spot.

While he was teaching, he was given the Wolfsbane Potion monthly by the potions master, Professor Snape, whom his friends had bullied so many years prior. Here is when he met Harry Potter once again, who provided him the means of protecting himself from Dementors with the Patronus Charm, which to his surprise, took the form of a stag, just like James' did.

During this school year, Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban, which frightened Remus at first. By the end of his year of teaching, Remus had found that Sirius was on Hogwarts grounds by utilizing the Marauder's Map, along with the name of a man he had assumed died 12 years prior: Peter Pettigrew. Neglecting to take his potion on the night of the full moon, Remus ran to the Shrieking Shack where he had seen the names, and exposed Peter as his alias, Scabbers, Ron Weasley's pet rat.

As they were about to present Albus Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic that Sirius was indeed innocent, Remus had neglected to mention that he had forgotten to take his potion, and thus transformed, causing a racket and allowing Pettigrew to escape, leaving all evidence out of the question, forcing Sirius to go back into hiding.

After this night, Professor Snape slipped the fact that Remus was a werewolf to the whole school, forcing him to resign. This caused many students (mostly non-Slytherins), including Harry, to become unhappy, claiming that Professor Lupin was the best Defense Against the Dark Arts professor they ever had.

The Second Wizarding War
When word got out (undoubtedly from Albus Dumbledore) that Harry Potter had laid eyes on the rebirth of Voldemort after the Triwizard Tournament, the Order of the Phoenix was reformed. Remus joined the order, meeting many new faces, including Nymphadora Tonks, Sirius Black's first cousin once removed. He was part of the team of people who escorted Harry from 4 Privet Drive to 12 Grimmauld Place.

When Christmas of 1995 had rolled around, Arthur Weasley was attacked by Nagini while in the Department of Mysteries defending the Prophecy. Lupin joined the Weasleys and some members of the order to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries to visit him, where he also averted from the family to talk to a newly contaminated werewolf in the bed nextdoor, whom apparently had no one to visit him.

In the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Remus fought and defeated multiple Death Eaters along with his fellow Order members. He was one of the few who left the battle unscathed, but he witnessed the death of his last trustworthy member of the Marauders, Sirius Black. This obviously had an effect on him. With nowhere to turn now, having been living in 12 Grimmauld Place with Sirius for all this time, he turned to Nymphadora Tonks for support, who offered him a room at her parent's house. Here, their relationship would blossom into something more than friendship, but Lupin pushed it out of the way despite loving her, due to the fact that he didn't want to endanger her as a werewolf.

After this fight, he asked Dumbledore for a new assignment, which he gladly obliged, having him as a spy for the werewolves underground. In 1996, he visited the Burrow on Harry Potter's sixteenth birthday with the news of the discovery of Igor Karkaroff's corpse.

In 1997, at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Remus was tasked to patrol the corridors of Hogwarts Castle while Dumbledore and Harry were on a mission to secure a Horcrux. During which, Draco Malfoy helped direct several Death Eaters including Fenrir Greyback onto school grounds, causing terror and destruction in their wake. When visiting the hospital bed of Bill Weasley, he helped Molly Weasley understand that even though Greyback was not transformed at the time, Bill being maimed will still have been contaminated with the werewolf curse, but not as heavily. When Tonks heard Fleur Delacour say that it did not matter if he was a werewolf or not, and that she still loved Bill for who he was, she convinced Lupin that it really did not matter. Having been thoroughly convinced on the matter, he married Nymphadora in a small ceremony.

In the Battle of Seven Potters, Lupin was accompanied by George Weasley. When they were attacked by Severus Snape making use of his Sectumsempra spell, George lost an ear. When the pair reached the portkey to get to the Burrow, George was bleeding profusely, but when they got inside he was quickly patched up by a trembling Molly and Ginny Weasley. Shortly thereafter, Lupin and Tonks attended the wedding of Bill and Fleur, and defended the Burrow when it was infiltrated by Death Eaters.

In Hiding
When the war was at its peak of dangerousness, and tensions were high, Tonks announced she was pregnant with Lupin's baby. The stress and overall anxiety he felt drew him from his peaceful life and made him question himself, and the sanctity of the child. Remus raised concerns about how the child could possibly inherit his lycanthropy, and how if by some miracle he did not, then he was convinced that he should not have to subject it to living with a father of whom he believed that it would always be ashamed of. It was only when Harry Potter had convinced him to calm down that Lupin was in better spirits about the baby, and returned to Nymphadora once more, head hung in shame for his actions. He was sure that she was going to berate him, but when he returned she only smiled and told him that she knew he would come to his senses. Shortly thereafter, Tonks gave birth to their son, who they named "Edward Remus 'Teddy' Lupin," after himself and his father-in-law.

The Battle of Hogwarts
Lupin was one of the first to answer Neville Longbottom's call to arms at Hogwarts Castle to end Voldemort once and for all. Nymphadora Tonks initially agreed to stay with their son, Teddy while he fights, but she could no longer bear the possibility that Lupin could be dead, and came to fight anyway. At the time, Lupin was duelling Antonin Dolohov, but died at the hands of him while holding his wife's hand, when she was killed by her aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange. His death was avenged by Filius Flitwick, who killed Dolohov, due to his furiousness of his star pupil of 1975 being dead.

Before his death, Remus pronounced Harry Potter as the godfather of his child. Paired with Andromeda Tonks, Teddy's grandmother, Harry Potter made sure that even though Teddy was in much better conditions than he was when he was orphaned.

After his death, Harry used the Resurrection Stone to bring Lupin and many others back to life for a possible goodbye or hello (however you interpret it), to get reassurance that he was doing the right thing. When raised a question about Remus' son, Remus said in short that he was sorry that he never met him, but that Teddy will know why he died, and that hopefully he'd understand.

Etymology

 * Remus is the one of the characters from the famous story of Romulus and Remus, who were raised by wolves. Romulus, however, betrayed Remus and killed him, thus being able to name Rome for himself.
 * In Potterwatch, Remus' code name is Romulus, based on the same story
 * Lupin is based on the latin word "lupinus," meaning wolf-like.