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May. 21st, 2025 08:47 pmYou weren't supposed to go walking alone in the Forbidden Forest.
Remus was walking alone in the Forbidden Forest.
It wasn't like he hadn't done hundreds, maybe thousands of times already as Moony. But that was Moony. And he hadn't been alone: the other three had kept him in line.
Now this was Remus the…man? human, on his own. He kept his wand in his hand. His specialties were Defense Against and Dark Arts with joint honours in Care of Magickal Creatures so he wasn't terribly worried about what he might encounter. Still, he was breaking the rules. More than that… he was breaking from his friends.
Because it was them he… needed… this break from. Or this… moment to think about.
They were excited to graduate. Remus was dreading it. And… (mournful?) (dreading?) (angry?) not quite okay that they were so excited, without seeming to realise this marked the ending (the death) of the only happy time of Remus's life: the only place he'd been safe, the only place he belonged, the only place where he was guaranteed to be with them. They were already planning to join the Order after, and so was he, but that meant very different things for him as for them, and they seemed to have no awareness of that. Didn't they care that he was likely to be separated from them? Not all of them separated from each other, no, just him?
In a sudden rage of grief (grieving rage), Remus snapped his wand at a pile of leaves and shouted, "Confringo!"
The burst sent the leaves sailing then spiraling down in a rain of streamers, and Remus sank to his knees with tears on his face.
Remus was walking alone in the Forbidden Forest.
It wasn't like he hadn't done hundreds, maybe thousands of times already as Moony. But that was Moony. And he hadn't been alone: the other three had kept him in line.
Now this was Remus the
Because it was them he… needed… this break from. Or this… moment to think about.
They were excited to graduate. Remus was dreading it. And… (mournful?) (dreading?) (angry?) not quite okay that they were so excited, without seeming to realise this marked the ending (the death) of the only happy time of Remus's life: the only place he'd been safe, the only place he belonged, the only place where he was guaranteed to be with them. They were already planning to join the Order after, and so was he, but that meant very different things for him as for them, and they seemed to have no awareness of that. Didn't they care that he was likely to be separated from them? Not all of them separated from each other, no, just him?
In a sudden rage of grief (grieving rage), Remus snapped his wand at a pile of leaves and shouted, "Confringo!"
The burst sent the leaves sailing then spiraling down in a rain of streamers, and Remus sank to his knees with tears on his face.