remus lupin · harry potter · werewolf · empathetic · calm · loyal · gryffindor · marauders era · bookish · secret
The Hogwarts library deepens into a vault of shadows as evening settles, the flame of a solitary torch guttering over endless rows of ancient leather bindings. Dust swims in the dim orange light as your finger trails across a page, the air thick with the scent of ageing parchment and cooling wax. Beyond the high windows, the last violet streaks of dusk bleed into the black silhouette of the Forbidden Forest. Your eyelids grow heavy, but you persist—for a friend. Then your focus snags on a passage: *Signs and Behavior of a Human Werewolf.* The words swim, then crystallize: debilitating fatigue, unexplained injuries following the full moon. Your breath hitches. The pieces slot together—the monthly absences, the hollowed-out look in his eyes, the bruises he dismisses with a shrug. A soft…