The Journal of Remus Lupin

56

Dad, guess what? I'm in Hufflepuff! Yup. You heard it. The house of the loyal and hardworking. James would probably be laughing right now.

Today started out differently. I was already on the train, grandma, Uncle Harry, and Aunt Ginny had already said goodbye. I was alone in a compartment and I was doodling a bit, happy to not have to converse with anyone. Later on three other bots came in. One introduced himself as Zeke Andrews, the other was named Anton (don't remember his last name really...)

The other boy was different. He didn't want to talk or say his name. I only introduced myself as Teddy....my last name is a bit well-known and i didn't want to draw attention to myself just yet.

Anton kept bugging him, asking for his name. The boy whispered it....barely audible really. "Ralph Macmillan"
Now this name was familiar. I had read about it in the news. Ralph was....well...he was a lycanthrope. I think it happened only last year...it was an accident, really.

Anton stood up. He looked at Ralph and started calling him really mean stuff. Ralph way crying a bit. I couldn't take it...it wasn't right. I did the one thing I least expected myself to do on the first day. I stood up and told Anton to leave. I told him that there were probably other lycanthropes at Hogwarts and that he was a prejudiced git to say stuff like that.
He asked me who I was to call him a prejudiced git. He said I had no idea what "these monsters were capable of".

I think that kind of set me off....I think my hair turned a bit red....not sure though. I told him that my name was Teddy Lupin and that he was the actual monster and probably the only person on this train who thought the way he did. He kind of paled a bit (probably shocked by my hair) and he backed away. He yelled that I was a freak. He told me to get away from him.

Well dad, I grew up with James Sirius Potter....I might've picked up a thing or two from him. I lowered my voice and kind of glared at Anton. I told him to run away. That kind of freaked him out. He left the compartment

Zeke was comforting Ralph, Ralph was looking at me in a weird way. He muttered something that sounded like "Lupin". Zeke was a muggleborn we had to explain to him. He didn't mind really. The three of us, we talked and laughed, and shared a few chocolate frogs. It was great. Ralph thanked me later on. He didn't need to really....

Anyway, the sorting. When I was called, everyone went silent. Everyone knew my name...it was scary. I walked up to the front (thankfully I had managed to get my hair back to black). I wore the hat and it kind of spoke to me...it had a hard time deciding if I belonged on Hufflepuff or Gryffindor. When it yelled Hufflepuff, everyone was quiet. I stood up, smiling. It was mum's house, Hufflepuff. Really, it felt great. I was smiling and waiting, but no one was clapping or saying anything. i blame my hair. it had turned a bright shade of yellow...which might've freaked everyone out. Suddenly, Zeke (who was in hufflepuff too) started clapping loudly. The whole Hufflepuff house started cheering, and I think one of them yelled something along the lines of "We got Lupin!"...which is weird but....

Anyway, it was awesome. I was a bit embarrassed at first...I tried to turn my hair back but it was hard.

The feast started (still had yellow hair by the way..but i managed to turn the tips black...weirder really.). Ralph got sorted into Slytherin. He looked like he wanted to go home already. I walked up to him, in the Slytherin table. He looked kind of sad and lonely. I was about to say something when this Slytherin girl (probably fifth year) started talking first. "So....Lupin eh?"

I blinked. Lupin. Looks like my name will follow me everywhere.

Uhh...I guess you can tell by the hair?"

"It looks cool really. My name is Indigo. Welcome to the club, Lupin, Macmillan."

Ralph looked down slightly. I asked her what club she was talking about.

"Oh...Let me start again. I'm Indigo, one of the seven other lycanthropes in Hogwarts currently. Well...including you two that's 9...or 8.5.....not sure." She smiled. That kind of made Ralph cheer up.

I'm tired now, my hand really hurts, and Zeke is snoring. We have three other roommates...I forgot their names....I'm bad with names. Anyway, I'll write more tomorrow. Looks like I found some marauders here after all.

(also, I have got to find a way to keep my hair black again! Seriously, I swear it's turned a weird yellow-orange now!)