REMUS LUPIN: 11 January, 1976

[synodic_pup]

Oh HELL, Dad!

I hope you can help me out. This was not written in the fine-print when I signed on for this Prefecting shite job!

S This wee second-year comes up to me y this morning. Now, he's one of the really shy Gryffindors, and he's often teased, other kids saying he should be in Hufflepuff and that sort of rubbish. I told them off once

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[rabastanlestran]

What boy doesn’t know about sex by 13? There's something wrong with him, Remus. Honestly, I think it's your duty to educate him.

[synodic_pup]

*covers his face with his hands*
Why me?

*sighs*
I don't know, though. I mean, I assume his parents didn't tell him about it for a reason, yeah? And it'd be one thing if his friends just told him, but for me, as a figure of some authority, to take it upon myself to presume that his parents would want him to know this? I don't know... *frowns*

[rabastanlestran]

*shrugs*
You're very easy to talk to, I suppose and you don't seem all that threatening.

*small, rather nasty smile*
Well, if you don't want to tell him I always could. I

[synodic_pup]

*smiles a bit bashfully, shrugs, but doesn't deny his wonderfulness*

*eyes widen*
Please don't, Rab. As annoying and frustrating the whole thing is, I want to handle this properly.

[favourite_son]

*solemnly*
I think it's your duty. Although why you'd want a clueless freak like that to trust you is anyone's guess.

[synodic_pup]

*shrugs*
I feel bad for the kid. It's not his fault his parents are so completely overprotective.

[stagboy]

*lightly*
Tell him it's a stork. My parents told me that for years and I got all these weird ideas about bestiality and birds in the bedroom. I honestly think I was more traumatised by the truth though. God must have been having a laugh that day, don't you think?

[synodic_pup]

*small smile*
I was afraid that's what he'd say, but he did say that he knows babies come from mums, he just doesn't know how they get in there.

*considers*
Maybe I'll tell him that a mum's head can twist off...

[stagboy]

*rolls his eyes, speaks with teasing, elaborate patience*
The stork puts them in there. I don't how, maybe it's like feeding a baby bird: the stork just rams the embryo down the mother's throat.

*pauses and pulls a face*
Though sex sounds a more enjoyable option, don't you think?

[synodic_pup]

*makes a face of exaggerated enlightenment*
Oh of course! Silly me. *grins*

*nods* Yeah. I guess, if you li- if it's a choice between that and fed by a stork.

*giggles* True story. Imagine 3-year-old Katie trying to twist off her mother's head in a venture to figure out how the baby gets in Mom...

[trickster_gryff]

:D Oh dear. *giggling* Very silly. Poor Remus.

Sirius naturally can't respond to this, but I wanted to let you know that it's a very cute letter.

[synodic_pup]

I know. He's rather irked at me right now. :P

And I figured I should do a letter in that timeframe, just to assure people that Remus wasn't constantly hiding in his bed with the curtains drawn...

[trickster_gryff]

*pets Remus*

*nods nods*

[leavingforlove]

*grins* Why not just tell him? It is fairly necessary, in the grand scheme of things. I don't really see the problem.

[synodic_pup]

*shrugs, a bit uncomfortable*
Would you want Dora learning about this stuff from... *trails off and shakes his head*

Never mind, you wouldn't be so idiotic as to let her get to Hogwarts without knowing anyway. *smiles*

It's just...this is the first time that I'm really being asked to...be a Prefect. Something more than just rounds and all. I want to do this right, and I don't want to make some parents upset with me. Does...does that make sense?

[leavingforlove]

Well, it is a big responsibility, I understand that.

As for his parents, well, he's going to find out somehow, and they'd probably rather he have the theory before the practical, you know? *smiles*