REMUS LUPIN: 19 December, 1977
Ciao Gianni,
Happy Christmas! I hope you and Raphael have a wonderful holiday. Are you getting together with family at all? I'm not sure what my plans are yet. I may stay here at school with my friends, or Sirius is trying to convince me to stay with him at his flat (did I ever tell you that he ran away left his family's childhood home house? Well, he did. You're not going to be all disapproving like my mum is, are you? He's a good man, he had no other choice! God, I'm defending him and I don't even know that you need me to. Must have it bad...)
I've been thining about what to do after school. I...well, finding a job won't be easy for me, for various reasons I don't feel like getting into. Anyway. I know you don't work steadily - benefit of coming from the rich side of the family, I'm sure - but did you have any formal training? Not that I'm looking into architecture or anything, but I guess I just want to be reassured that I there are kinds of work that you can control...the hours, the days, everything.
Then again, with this war out there, there may not be time to work, if I'm going to help fight it. And I am.
I'd give my life to fight this evil.
God, I think that's the first time I've put that decision in words. That's fucking frightening, yeah? But I swear it's true.
Well, how's that for a happy holiday greeting? Sorry about that.
Love you, Gianni. Have a wonderful day, give Raphael a hug for me, and don't worry about me.
Buon Natale,
Happy Christmas! I hope you and Raphael have a wonderful holiday. Are you getting together with family at all? I'm not sure what my plans are yet. I may stay here at school with my friends, or Sirius is trying to convince me to stay with him at his flat (did I ever tell you that he ran away left his family's childhood home house? Well, he did. You're not going to be all disapproving like my mum is, are you? He's a good man, he had no other choice! God, I'm defending him and I don't even know that you need me to. Must have it bad...)
I've been thining about what to do after school. I...well, finding a job won't be easy for me, for various reasons I don't feel like getting into. Anyway. I know you don't work steadily - benefit of coming from the rich side of the family, I'm sure - but did you have any formal training? Not that I'm looking into architecture or anything, but I guess I just want to be reassured that I there are kinds of work that you can control...the hours, the days, everything.
Then again, with this war out there, there may not be time to work, if I'm going to help fight it. And I am.
I'd give my life to fight this evil.
God, I think that's the first time I've put that decision in words. That's fucking frightening, yeah? But I swear it's true.
Well, how's that for a happy holiday greeting? Sorry about that.
Love you, Gianni. Have a wonderful day, give Raphael a hug for me, and don't worry about me.
Buon Natale,