turns out, cassia's boyfriend suddenly becoming the wizarding world's MVP was no longer her biggest concern. when your family has danced with the darkness, sore feet is not the only consequence.
greengrass.
book 2 (half-blood prince - deathly hallow...
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When Remus Lupin knocks at your door, there is no second option. You've got to answer.
And it's not in a threatening way, or any sorts. He's not a threatening guy by nature. He won't storm down your door after fifteen minutes of silence from the doorbell.
We hope.
The truth is, when Remus Lupin knocks at your door, it's for something important. And Astoria Greengrass knew the exact reason for his knocking, two weeks ago when he did.
"Do many people know?" He had asked Astoria, sitting in the parlour of the Greengrass Manor. Steaming pot of tea on the table between them; Remus with a half-eaten chocolate biscuit, Astoria with her knees pulled into her chest, shrivelled as far back into the sofa as possible. "Of what happened to you."
"My family," she had replied. How a man like him still managed to hold such tenderness in his voice despite the thing he had been forced to become, to endure. Years of this, since he was a child. Astoria remembers when the truth had came out, that Remus Lupin was cursed with lycanthropy. She was only in second year at the time, and she felt so horrible for him. He was very kind to her in class, just as he was being right now.
"Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Harry Potter," she added. "Just them. And anyone that Greyback has told."
Remus sighed, Astoria remembers. He had rubbed a face across his hand, as though unable to process the horrors of one creature on multiple children, multiple generations.
Currently packing a clumsily-folded sweatshirt into her trunk, Astoria recalls Remus' words:
"Professor Dumbledore can make arrangements for you. For the full moon, when you go back to Hogwarts."
Astoria had shaken her head. "I don't want to go to Dumbledore about this."
"I didn't want to, either."
"How did he find out?"
"I eventually did tell him. And he led me to the Shrieking Shack for transforming during full moons."
"I don't want to use the Shrieking Shack, it could hardly hold half of my weight before it collapses."
Remus had smiled. "You might not have to."
Astoria had shifted in her curled up position. "Why?"
"There are other places in Hogwarts that are suitable for werewolf transformation. It is a big castle. Do you have parchment?"
