REMUS LUPIN: 7 September, 1975

[synodic_pup]

Dear Dad,

What the HELL happened to me over the summer? I thought hanging out with Laura would set things straight oh god, NO pun intended, but here I am at school and it's a bit warm and Sirius's hair is curling around his ears and PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. Why can't I fancy ANYONE else? Why HIM? Damn him, so maddeningly perfect and incorrigible and

Comments

[favourite_son]

*sneers*
Why don't you just drop everything, if you're such a terrible failure?

Ooh, curly ear hair! I have so much love for curly ear hair! Not actual ear-hair, obviously.

[synodic_pup]

*raises eyebrow*
There is a world of difference between being a complete failure and having issues in one particular subject.

Heee me too :D It's like an arrow that says, "Lick here"!

[favourite_son]

*looks Remus up and down*
*disdainfully*
Not in your case. I'd say that if you can't even manage Potions, then you shouldn't be here at all.

Isn't it just? I have serious self-restraint issues when confronted with it! :D

[synodic_pup]

*rolls his eyes*
Well then it's a very good thing you're just another student, and not the Headmaster or something.

[leavingforlove]

Everything ok, Remus?

[synodic_pup]

Yeah, pretty much. Potions is bollocks, but that's nothing new now, is it?

[leavingforlove]

Ah, afraid I can't help you there. I was only decent at it myself. What about James or Sirius? They're pretty brilliant at it, aren't they?

[synodic_pup]

*nods thoughtfully* They're pretty brilliant at everything. But they're not always so good at explaining it to me, you know?

[brave_phoenix]

*cheerfully*
Lupin!
How's the school year going for you?

I'm not sure if Edgar and Remus have chatted before -- thought I should remedy that! Also, I've been meaning to ask -- though they were both Gryffindors, there were several years between them... So how well do you think they would know each other?

[synodic_pup]

*smiles*
Hallo Bones. S'alright, you know how it goes. Barely a week in and the professors are out to scare the trousers off you, aren't they?

I can't recall, but no matter! Hmmm... when did Edgar leave? I think we've had this convo before, but I can't remember. I'm sure they had a passing acquaintance with each other. *checks userinfo* Ah, '73. So he was a year older than Emmaline. Was he a prefect or anything? I see Remus trying to kinda stick closer to the prefects in his first couple years, which is how he becomes friens with Emmaline. If Edgar was a prefect, he might get to know him more than the average 6/7th year knows the 1/2nds.

[brave_phoenix]

*grins*
*fondly*
Yes, yes... I remember how it goes...

*thinks for a moment*
You've got OWLs this year, don't you?

[synodic_pup]

*scowls*
Yes, I do. Wouldn't be so bad if the professors didn't, well, do their trouser-scaring thing, yeah? I mean, it's just an exam. An important exam, to be sure, but still...

[gryffire_lily]

*notices Remus in the common and since they're prefects together now, decides to go over and say hello*

*cheerful but slightly awkward* Er... um, hey Remus. Whatcha doing?

Are we still doing the Lily helps Remus with Potions?

[synodic_pup]

*smiles politely, if a bit stiffly*

Hi Ev- ah, Lily. Just, y'know. *gestures to parchment* Letter to home. Fifth year and they still worry about me, don't they?

If you want to! I wanted to open up that plot here if you were still up for it, but not in a way that forced you to ;)

[batbogey_hex]

*thoughtfully*
I quite like potions, actually. I mean, I like the subject. The professor teaching the class is an entirely different matter altogether, I think.

Hee! I loved the blacked-out bit. Mmmm. Sirius' hair... <3

[synodic_pup]

*agreeably*
It's an interesting enough subjects, but I find as much as I pay attention, I still end up goofing each one up. I'm just rubbish at it, it all.