Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Hope Howell has several strange encounters in the woods on a November evening
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- Part 1 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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The full version of chapter Thirty Two of Inevitable (but it's a flashback, so it can be read on its own).
Disgustingly besotted newlyweds Hope and Lyall are making lame roleplay jokes, shagging on a Sunday morning, taking the piss out of wizarding culture, and discovering the concept of institutionalised ableism <3
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- Part 2 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Originally written as a companion to 1971-1978 series but can stand alone.
Lyall Lupin tries as best he can to clean up the mess he made. His son has been injured, his wife is worried she'll be left alone to raise a werewolf, and his own department is on a rampage to capture the recent victims of Greybacks attacks for the safety of the public.
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Remus yawned. His front teeth were missing. Lyall wanted to cry. “Did the dog bite my leg off?”
“No, son.” He smiled at the absurdity and was surprised to feel hot tears run over his cheeks. “Two arms, two legs.”
Remus nodded contentedly. Lyall thought he was surely keeping his eyelids open with sheer willpower. Someone had cleaned the blood from him as best they could, perhaps to be kind, or perhaps to allow all the muggle electrical nonsense to stick. Regardless, he appreciated it. There was an itchy looking blanket tucked neatly around him up to his armpits. He shook it out and pulled it up to his shoulders. “Might as well sleep, Mouse. You won’t miss anything.”
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- Part 3 of 1971 - 1978 O Children
- Part 3 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Remus was bitten five nights ago.
Happy fucking birthday
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- Part 4 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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(The Heart May Be) The Weakest Part of Me - 1965 by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Jan 2026
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It wasn't that she didn't want Remus to have magic. It would just have been easier if he didn't.
If she were honest with herself, it took about a year for her to come around to it all. And even then, in the back of her mind, there was a slight bitterness, a fear that had soured and turned unkind, that niggled at her whenever she was reminded that one day (looming ever closer) she’d have to relinquish him.
But that part was small. And she could ignore it, more and more, as time went on.
It wasn’t long after acceptance and resignation had almost completely eclipsed her shameful disappointment, that magic ruined him.
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Direct sequel to Prelude 1964 - Puncture Repair
Hope and Lyall have managed to successfully hide Remus' affliction from the Ministry, but now they're left with the problem of the first full moon of many, many more. There isn't a parenting guide for five year old werewolves who won't sleep in their own bed.In other words, Hope has complicated feelings about magic
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- Part 5 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Hope and Lyall made a promise to "do anything for him" - and they will - but it's very hard to do it with a smile when everyone in the house is sleep deprived and traumatised, a month after the bite.
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When Remus had been freshly three, bedroom still littered with birthday presents and having just had chocolate cake washed out of his still silk-fine hair, he'd learned about monsters for the first time.
A book that her parents had sent, full of made-up creatures and whimsical nonsense. He'd cried - she remembered it so vividly - when it was time to put the book down. Not because he wanted more, but because the giant in the story was far too vivid and and had captured his little imagination in the worst way. She could see him still in her mind's eye, tear-streaked red cheeks, warbling out fragmented worries between wet gasps.
"It's okay. It's not real," she'd said.
How she wished she could still wipe his tears, kiss his head, and mean that.
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- Part 6 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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A mini fic sandwiched between two other fics... anyway...
Remus is five and he has one full moon under his belt. He is now obsessed with the passing of time and is driving his parents (and himself) mad. Lyall has an expensive solution when logic and paper calendars prove to have limited success.Series
- Part 7 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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But For The Grace of God - 1965 by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Aug 2025
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Months after Remus was bitten, things are better than Hope and Lyall had anticipated. Somehow, sheer optimism and the gall to want their life back had settled them into a routine that felt normal and sometimes even happy in the weeks between full moons.
So they settle in to the reality of their life, breathe out and have a bit of hope.
(and become complacent)
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She glanced at Remus, who was busy licking the melted ice cream from his wrist. Perhaps she’d been too selfish in her wish, years ago when he’d first performed magic. Perhaps she’d somehow wished this curse into existence - she’d gotten her secret little request, hadn’t she?
He wouldn’t go. He’d never get to Hogwarts, and he’d never be a proper wizard. He’d stay with her, like her, one foot in and one foot out of both worlds.
Quite abruptly, she lost interest in her own ice cream and offered it to Lyall, over Remus’ indignant and chocolate-smeared head.
There was the magical-world-induced inadequacy and melancholy that always got her in the end. The strange sickening feeling of jealous want and bitter resentment - perhaps with a healthy dose of guilt mixed in, too.
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- Part 8 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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All Month Long - 1968 by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
23 Feb 2025
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Childcare falls through and Lyall has to take eight-year-old Remus into the Department for Dangerous Creatures for the day.
Sweet father son fluff and a healthy dash of teenage Newt Scamander for the soul.
Prequel to another fic but makes sense by itself.
(Or, the mysterious previous meeting Newt mentions to Remus in Facsimile of Kin)
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Their eyes met, and Remus found that his father was somehow able to read his fear on his face. Lyall’s expression softened and he put his case down on the floor so he could take both of his son’s hands in his - cold from the underground corridors.
“They don’t know.” He assured him, squeezing the little icy fingers. “It’s a secret.”
Remus bit his lip, unconvinced. “But it’s their job to find dangerous creatures.” He contradicted. Lyall closed his eyes against the hurtful sting of his son’s perfectly rational concern.
“Oh Remus. You’re not a creature. You’re my son.” He rubbed his thumbs across the little knuckles and tried to push all the honesty inside him into his smile. “All month long. Okay?”
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- Part 2 of Come to the River, Son
- Part 9 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Hope Lupin hates being the novel muggle at a wizarding gathering. Tired of getting ogled at and thought of only as "Lyall's muggle wife", and with Remus safely tucked away at his grandparents' for the night, she drags her husband to a muggle New Year's Eve house party for revenge.
And tells the assembled crowd that he's a magician.
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- Part 10 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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The Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office doesn't know the difference between a biting toaster and a kelpie, half the time, so it's little surprise when 19 year old Arthur Weasley appears in Lyall Lupin's fireplace asking for help with a lethifold they had thought was simple illusionary magic in a muggle boarding school.
The risk of having Arthur Weasley in your sitting room at five-thirty in the morning is that he might well find out that your wife is a muggle.
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- Part 11 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Remus has been pestering Lyall to let him come along for a work field trip. He had been picturing something like dragons, or pixies, not terror-inducing shape-shifters. Hope thinks that Lyall's proposition of bringing Remus to an abandoned department store infested with boggarts is perhaps a touch misguided. Well, Remus is excited, now. It's too late to take it back.
And he'll have to learn to confront the now-well-buried fear eventually.(I just wanted to talk more about my personal boggart lore headcanons via the Lupins...)
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- Part 12 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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In the Summer of 1969, the Lupins look for another fresh start in Aberystwyth - immediately soured when the full moon seriously damages Remus for the first time since he was infected.
Lyall can't take another complication, Hope cannot tolerate the constant isolation, and Remus is beginning to realise that his parents are not all-knowing beings who can always mend things in the aftermath. That it was their choices that built this small, secretive and claustrophobic existence that he is rapidly outgrowing.
The secret cracks open, and really, Remus was always bound to learn just how catastrophically Lyall's choices in 1965 have ruined their lives.
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- Part 13 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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In a desperate need to feel useful in a war where they are outnumbered and overpowered, Remus offers to go undercover in a werewolf colony at the Scottish Border. Sirius, fresh from his brother's death, wishes the people he loved would just stop straying behind enemy lines.
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“This is your problem,” he accused from his back on the bed, scowling up at Sirius and full of a venomous confidence born from wine and a bone-deep sense of inadequacy. “You don’t think I can do anything.”
There was a pause. Remus was too addled to feel the sting of it.
“You’re drunk.”
“I’m right.”
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- Part 4 of Come to the River, Son
- Part 14 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Facsimile of Kin by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
05 Jan 2025
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It's the mid 80s. Remus Lupin is penniless, homeless, out of work and isolated. Newt Scamander is getting bored of Ministry-approved subjects and is looking for a werewolf to study. A suspicious advertisement for a Research Assistant in the Prophet brings the two together in a lonely workshop turned menagerie on the outskirts of the New Forest. Remus is there for the unusually modest pay and absolutely not because the researcher he's working alongside has Lily's eyes, James' boundless enthusiasm and Sirius' gentle hands.
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The sunlight was waning behind them and the low streaks of light pierced through the trees, dappling the wet marsh before them in evening gold. Remus’ feet were numb, but he wasn’t willing to complain, and instead focused his attention on the clumps of mud and thick reeds that poked above the surface of the deeper areas, waiting for magical activity.
Newt leaned in slightly, so that their heads were close enough for Remus to catch his low whisper.
“They come out at sunset of course, but I suspect it’s because of the dappling. They can be quite lonely creatures, but a facsimile of your kin is sometimes enough.”
** Edited on 13/09/25 .
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- Part 1 of Come to the River, Son
- Part 15 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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Remus hasn't seen his mother since 1st Nov 1981. It's September 1983 and he pays Hope a long overdue visit.
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“Sorry, Mam.”
“Sorry Mam!?" Hope repeated incredulously. “You’ll be sorry when you kill me from fright and then you haven’t a mother to speak of.”
His lips twitched into a smile without permission at her drama and he righted it, but not quickly enough. Hope caught it, scowled, then quite suddenly her frightened fury left her and was replaced with a shaky delight, sprinkled with disbelief.
“God, you’re a sight for sore eyes.”
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- Part 16 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
- Part 6 of Come to the River, Son
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The Man You Are (Will Know The Boy You Were) by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
09 Nov 2025
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Remus Lupin is no longer a wide-eyed little boy who must be bundled into the coal cellar once per month and hides behind his dad's legs in public. Newt Scamander is no longer a spotty Hogwarts-drop-out with questionable social skills and a suspicious calming draught habit.
Lyall Lupin would do well to remember that.
- Newt publishes his essay The Lycanthrope as Observed by Newt Scamander for internal review. Lyall reads it, gets the wrong end of the stick and picks fights his son never asked him to. Hope thinks a nice awkward Christmas dinner together will simmer them all down.
Lyall and Newt’s history together at the Ministry sandwiched in between. Not some of Newt’s finest moments…
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- Part 7 of Come to the River, Son
- Part 17 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul
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At Arms' Length by BeckettSimpleton
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
30 Sep 2025
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Newt and Remus have gone through over fifty full moons together - something was bound to go wrong, eventually
Prompts from AI-less whumptober 2025 included;
Body Horror (31)
Guilt (29)
Restraints (23)
Before it starts/after it’s over (20)
Came back wrong (15)
Painful shape-shifting (16)
Magical bind/pinned down (25)
Cleaning injuries (30)Series
- Part 8 of Come to the River, Son
- Part 18 of Chronological Lupin Content for the Soul