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6th June 1957.
The most wonderful date.
The date that United to childhood lovers together in the bond of marriage.
On the 6th June 1957, Lyall Lupin and Hope Howell got married and became Mr and Mrs Lupin. Some say the marriage was only because Hope was 3 months pregnant, that's not true. It was because they were deeply in love with each other. Being pregnant was just a plus. The wedding was a beautiful flower themed wedding that mixed both wizarding and muggle traditions to honour both sides of the couple. Hope wore a beautiful princess white wedding dress with her little sister, Arazona, as a bridesmaid in a beautiful pink dress. Lyall was wearing a black wizarding robe/wedding attire and his little sister, Lelia, was his best man….. Well best woman. Lyall thought it would be funny if his best friend was ring bearer so that's what he raffiel Kolgrim be. All together the wedding was amazing.
6 months later on the 2nd January 1958, Hope gave birth to a beautiful girl. The baby was named Rema Joanne Lupin. The oldest of the Lupin siblings.
Yep you heard me right the siblings and no I don't just mean the one you all know about who was born on the 10th March 1960. Remus, who was born as Luna and a girl, isn't the only sibling Rema has. Rema is the oldest of 8 children.
9 months after Luna was born, on the 26th December 1960, Max Lyall Lupin was born, making them and Luna Irish twins. Yes I used them for Max because Max was born intersex and lyall and Hope decided to use they/them untill they tell them what their gender is because they weren't born with with one single gender. The next sibling was born on the 5th june 1962. She was called Dracona because of her little secret. Dracona was born with tiny dragon wings on her back that looked like tattoos when retracted to her back. After doing extensive research, Lyall had a theory that Dracona had inherited a recessive half dragon gene from the Lupin blood but he decided to keep it secret until she started to show more traits. Now onto the 5th child and the creepy child, Snow Olive Lupin. Snow was born on 8th August 1963 with a full head of midnight black hair. Snow hardly ever cried or laughed as a baby. She would just sit and stare at people creepily.
I know. I know what you are all saying. "But writer you told us lyall have 8 children but you have only told us about 5". Yes I know but you will find out about the other children at a later date.
Now no one really knows why the Lupin's have so many kids. Some say it's because it's a trauma response from Lyall having a horrible mother before growing up in an orphanage. Others say it's because Hope loves children. And some people think all the children were accidents and Lyall wouldn't let Hope have an abortion. However, these are all just theories and we will never know the true answer.
By the time Snow was born, Rema was already 5, Luna was 3, Max was 2 and Dracona was 1. Much hadn't happened up until then though. However a couple of weeks before Snow was born, Arazona disappeared. No one knew where she went or why she disappeared. Well that's a lie. Only one person knew where she went but Hope promised to keep it a secret and acted like she didn't know.
That's the only exciting thing that happened for the next couple of years.
1965.
The year that the first tragedy to the family struck.
While at work (at the ministry) on the 9th March 1965, Lyall bumped into a man who was being taken in to talk to about something. Lyall instantly recognized the man as Fenrir Greyback. Lyall, who had been researching werewolves, said something on the lines of "you might want to neaten up, have a bath and cover those scars. You look like a horrific werewolf. They are so disgusting and dangerous and all of them should be killed off. How can those animals live with themselves? They live like animals even in human form. They are soulless, evil monsters that are deserving of nothing but death and pain". I don't think Greyback was very happy about hearing all this from Lyall because that night, Greyback broke into Rema's room and planned to attack her (because he had overheard Lyall talk about her at work). However, Rema had been scared to sleep in her own room so she and Luna had swapped rooms for the night so Greyback ended up attacking luna. Lyall was able to get into the room and blast Greyback out before he could kill Luna but it was too late to stop anything else. Luna was a werewolf now because it turns out Greyback was a werewolf. Soon after this, the Lupin family started moving houses a lot so no one would find out the family secrets. Never staying in one place for long.
That very same year, Luna started to realise she felt icky when people referred to her as she or girl or Luna. But the 5 year old didn't understand. What this icky feeling was and why she hated it.
In the summer of 1966, Dracona's tiny wings popped out her back/stopped being tattoos. She started flying all over the house. No one could stop the four year old. An old goat called Albus Dumbledore somehow found out about this secret, turned up at their house and confirmed that Dracona was a half dragon. Snow was too young to understand and all the others grew up on books and stories about dragons so only Hope was concerned and confused by the whole thing.
Also that summer, Luna opened up to Rema and Hope about the icky feeling. Hope, understanding, helped the 6 year old realise what they were feeling. But the only thing they did was let Luna wear whatever calls she wanted, male or female.
It wasn't until the following year (1967) that Luna finally got her hair cut short and started to use Remus and he/him pronouns. But only Hope and Rema knew that he did this because Remus was scared to tell anyone else.