Did you know? Today is our favorite Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher’s birthday! (And no, we’re not talking about Moody. 🙄😒)
On this day in 1960, Remus Lupin was born to Lyall and Hope Lupin. Today we celebrate and honor his memory with five facts we bet you didn’t know.
His parents met because of a boggart.
We all know the first lesson Professor Lupin taught in Defense Against the Dark Arts: boggarts, specifically how to fight them. What most of us don’t know is that Remus’s father Lyall met Hope, Remus’s mother, because of a boggart.
Lyall met and rescued Hope, a muggle, from a boggart in the woods. If that isn’t a #meetcute, we don’t know what is.
He was the first werewolf to be awarded the Order of Merlin.
Remus was posthumously awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class after he died in the final Battle of Hogwarts. He was the first werewolf to receive the honor. The example of his life and death did much to advance werewolf rights in the Wizarding World, which makes Remus a true icon and advocate of the cause.
He was kind of a pushover.
Listen, we love us some Remus, but the guy was without his faults. JK Rowling said that “Lupin’s failing is he likes to be liked. That’s where he slips up—he’s been disliked so often he’s always pleased to have friends, so cuts them an awful lot of slack.” This flaw leads him to be slightly dishonest to Dumbledore, afraid to tell Dumbledore the truth about how Sirius could find a way into Hogwarts.
Snape made him endless supplies of wolfsbane potion.
To make Remus agree to teach at Hogwarts, Dumbledore arranged for Snape to supply Remus with as much wolfsbane potion as he needed to keep his wolf side under control. The potion didn’t prevent Remus from wolfing out, but it helped to keep Remus in his mind when they transformed. This made it possible for Remus to lie quietly in private instead of wreaking havoc on the school.
Fenrir Greyback turned him for revenge.
Remus was not actually born a werewolf. The Death Eater, Fenrir Greyback, is revealed in the books to have turned Remus when he was a small child. However, what most of us don’t know is that Fenrir didn’t just do this on a whim. He chose to turn Remus as a way to get back at Lyall (who worked at the Ministry of Magic) for saying that werewolves deserved nothing more than death.
Pretty brutal revenge, if you ask us, seeing as Remus was only four years old. #JusticeForRemus
Do you know something about our favorite werewolf uncle/professor/freedom fighter that you don’t? Let us know in the comments below! 👇
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