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Our story begins on a cold day in January 1973. Actually, it was New Year’s Day in 1973. A brand-new year. A fresh new start for everyone. The time where you make resolutions that you never complete. The time of lies. The time of drunkenness. An excuse to throw a party and have a massive Sunday meal. The day when the people from the new eve’s party are hungover and their partners get to wind them up. Altogether, New Year’s Day was a beautiful time even if outside was covered in snow.
“Remus, put those banners back where they were. Dracona, wings away, please”
The lupin family had different plans to the usual New year plans. They didn’t go to a party New Year’s Eve. No, they stayed at home and watched the countdown on a muggle TV and they weren’t going to have a big family meal on New Year’s Day. Instead, they had gone to a carvery at the local pub on New Year’s Eve for the meal and the adults didn’t drink one drop of alcohol, well one of them is 9 months pregnant, so no one was hung over. Yes, the lupins were throwing a party on New Year’s Day though but this party wasn’t to celebrate the new year. It was a birthday party.
You see the oldest Lupin child, Rema Lupin, was turning 15 on the 2nd January so Lyall and Hope were throwing her a birthday party. But instead of throwing the party on her birthday, they were throwing the party on the 1st, the day before her birthday. Because birthdays are meant to be a family event only. Another reason for having the party on New Years Day was so all the parents of Rema’s friends could deal with their drunkenness and hangovers without having to worry about the kids. So, Hope and Lyall were hosting a party at their house for their 15th year old daughter and her friends.
Rema and Hope had been planning this party for weeks over letters while Rema was at Hogwarts (for her 4th year) so everything would be perfect. They had decorated the house perfectly. Streamers and banners were on the wall with Happy Birthday Rema written all over them. There weren’t any balloons because no one liked the sound of them when they popped. There was a record player in the corner of the room with a box next to it of all Rema’s favourite/chosen records. Rema had even picked out a list of activities she wanted to happen during the party so Hope and Lyall were going to make sure as many of them get done as possible.
Right now, Hope was in the kitchen setting up the last of the party food in time for when the party guests arrived. It was all cold finger foods. You know the usual party foods. Mini sausages. Pork pies. Tiny sausages rolls. Iced buns. Cold dairy free pizza slices. Mini sandwiches of different kinds. Cheese sticks. A ton of other dairy free foods. At the end of the table, Hope placed a strawberry flavoured cake. The cake was covered in pink icing and had ‘Happy Birthday Rema’ written on it. Hope was about to put 15 pink candles onto the cake when she gripped the end of the table, tightly while her face scrunched up in pain. The pain lasted a minute or so before Hope straightened up as the pain went away.
“Are you ok, love?”
Hope turns around to see Lyall before going back to passing 15 pink candles on the birthday cake. “I’m fine, Lyall”. Lyall wasn’t having any of it though as he turned her back around. “Are you sure? Because I know you have been up all night with these pains. Rema will understand if we have to miss the party and go to the hospital because you’re in labour.” Hope sighed and put a hand on his shoulder “today and tomorrow are for Rema. Not me or the baby. The baby isn’t coming until after Rema’s birthday. I’ll make sure of it. Please believe me Lyall”. Lyall nods slightly before saying “as soon as the contractions are 10 minutes apart, I’m taking you to the hospital because that’s the latest we can leave ok, Hope?” Hope just nods and waddles to the living room.
In the living room, Hope found Rema, Romulus (12/2nd year) and Max (12/1st year). “Hey Rema, are you ready for your party? Your guests will be here soon” Hope said as she entered the room. Rema nods and goes to the entrance, waiting for knocks. So, Hope turns to Max and Romulus. “Where’s your other siblings? Are they not joining the party?”. At that, Romulus just laughs so Max answers “Remus and Dracona were being mean to me again so Rema said they are not allowed to her party until they are nice. Snow just doesn’t like patties. She said they are too happy”. Hope sighs and was about to answer when there’s a loud knock at the door and the sound of Rema greeting her friends.
The room quickly filled with all of Rema’s guests who were:
~ Dorcas Meadows (12/13)
~ Pandora Lovegood (11/12)
~ Mary McDonald (12/13)
~ Lily Evans (12 nearly 13)
~ Marlene McKinnon (13)
~ Dennis Kolgrim (15)
~ Sherry Slytherin (14)
Hope left Rema and her friends to chat among themselves and catch up on their Christmas holidays for a bit because she needed to step out of the room to hide as another contraction hits. Hope ignored Lyall standing in the corner with a raised eyebrow and a paused timer in his hands. A timer that reads 12 minutes. Hope sighs, nods and goes back into the living room for the first party game before present time.
“Who wants to Play musical seats?”
Lily, Rema, Max and Marry cheered, everyone else but Romulus looked confused. Especially the pureblood’s amongst the group. So of course, Dennis started asking questions that Hope answered.
“How do we play?”
“When I play the music, you walk round the chairs going clockwise. When I stop the music, you sit down. If you don’t get a seat, you’re out. Every round a seat will be removed”
“Is this a muggle game?”
“Yes, it is a muggle game Dennis”
“It’s a child game, right?”
“Yes, that is corrected but Rema requested it. So, we are playing it. Now get ready”
The game lasted for a while. Max was the first one out because for some reason they gave their chair up to Lily. But the winner of the game was the birthday girl herself, Rema. After the game, Hope decided it was Time for parents so
“Present Ti- ahh”
Hope gripped their stomach tightly and her face scrunched up in pain. Rema and Max quickly rushed over as Max asked “are you ok, mum?”. Hope nods trying to hide the pain “I-I’m f-fine sweetheart”.
“No, you’re not”
Lyall walks in with the timer stopped at 10 and the hospital bag on his shoulder. “I’m sorry Rema, Sweetheart. But your Mum is in Labour. You and Romulus are in charge until Joanne gets here. I have already called her. She’ll be here for five minutes. Continue the party.” All the kids nod. Hope waddles over to Rema “I tried to keep her in so you can have your two days Rema. I’m sorry sweety. Know I love you”. Rema nods “I know mum. Go have my little sister”. Hope nods so she and Lyall leave.
Just like Lyall had said, Joanne Pettigrew (Peter Pettigrew’s mum) turned up with Peter 5 minutes later and the party carried on as usual. The party lasted for two hours before everyone went home. Joanne and Peter spent the night at the lupin house. Peter stayed in the boy’s room with Remus and Romulus and Max gave up her room to Joanne for the night and slept on the sofa. The next morning, everyone woke up to a call from Lyall and Hope.
“Everyone, meet your little sister Lola Lupin born at 11:50 on 1st January. Yes Rema, you don’t share a birthday with her”
On that lovely day, a new addition was born into the Lupin family and her name is Lola Lupin. The sweet innocent Lola. Born too late to join the first war. Born too late to be part of the marauders. Born too early to be at Hogwarts in the 2nd war. Born too early to be part of the golden trio adventures. But that didn’t stop her having an adventures life of her own. That didn’t stop her creating her own group of friends. This didn’t stop Lola finding love. Lola and her friendship group because just s famous throughout Hogwarts as the marauders had become and how the golden trio would be become, and they didn’t even become friends until their second year. Lola and her love’s story because just as famous as the love story of James and Lily potter Nee Evans. Lola also may have been the youngest Lupin but she soon became the oldest of the new generation of lupins. For only 3 years after Lola was born, she became a big sister to one Jenny Lupin. That day was special for Lola but not because she was no longer the youngest Lupin. No, it was because that was the day her adventures first began.
It happened on a warm summer evening in July of 1979. The sun was close to setting but it wasn’t night yet. The sun coming down looked amazing through the trees in the forest. It was beautiful. Though the reason the forest is there to begin with is a shame. That reason was to hide the secrets of one very big family.
In the middle of the forest, hidden by all the trees, was a cottage. A small three-bedroom (does it still count as a three-bedroom when the attic and the office had become a bedroom?) cottage. The cottage was beautiful with flowers all around it and up the side of the walls. The walls were painted a beautiful white colour. It was a gorgeous little cottage. The cottage belonged to a lovely family, the Lupin family. Two parents and 7 children. The outside of the cottage was peaceful and quiet. Beautiful. However, the inside of the cottage was another thing. There were toys, books, clothes and stuff everywhere. Everything was a mess. Nothing was peaceful and quiet either. There were noises coming from upstairs. Well. mainly two voices but still voices, very loud voices. In the kitchen, dirty dishes were piled up. In the living room, books were left everywhere and so were clothes and toys. The other rooms were the same as the living room.
The voices upstairs belonged to two teenagers called Dracona and Remus lupin. Both were in two different rooms. The 14-year-old Dracona was in hers and her little sister’s bedroom. Dracona had long black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing an ankle length purple dress. Dracona was just talking her sister’s ears off about vintage clothes and about how disgusting things were while designing new clothes and throwing away horrible ones. The bedroom was a disgrace. Pieces of paper and books were all over the place but, apart from the furniture and the mess, the bedroom was plain. There were three single beds and a cott. Above each bed was two cupboards for all their stuff and next to each bed was a bedside table with a couple of draws. On the bed behind the door was one of Dracona’s little sister, the 12 (almost 13) year old Snow. Snow was sitting on her bed, reading a necromancy book and ignoring Dracona. She also had long black hair and brown eyes but she was wearing a lace black dress and she had very pale skin. On the bed across from Snow (in the bed next to the cott) sat the 3-year-old Lola. Lola was a strange 3-year-old. She had big round glasses on her face and light brown hair that was tired into tight plates away from her ears and face. Now I know that doesn’t sound strange but the strange thing about Lola was that she was reading a massage book about werewolves, a book that's meant for adults only, adults who are amazing at reading.
The second voice belonged to the 16-year-old Remus lupin, who had light brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a brown cardigan and black trousers. The 16-year-old was running around like a mad man while shouting stuff like “stupid black” and “bloody full moon”. You see Remus had just finished his 5th year at Hogwarts and well, the last month didn’t go very well because Remus’s friend (well now ex-friend) Sirius Black played a trick on another student that ended with Remus nearly killing said student, so Remus isn’t very happy right now.
“Remus, Honey, come here please!”
Hearing his mother shout, Remus quickly down stairs to where his mother was. Hope Lupin, a woman with long ginger hair and brown eyes, was waddling around the living room trying to clean up the mess but was finding it very hard in her predicament. You see, Hope was pregnant with her 8th child. And she wasn’t just a couple months pregnant as well. Let’s just say, her due date had come and gone, a couple of weeks ago. “Yeah mum?” Remus says as he walks into the living room. Hope stops and turns to him smiling “Don’t you need to leave, Honey? The sun is setting”. Remus took one look out of the window, screamed a swear word and ran out of the cottage shouting “see you in the morning”. Hope was about to tell him off when her face scrunched up in pain and she gripped onto her stomach. She looked in pain for a couple of minutes before carrying on with trying to clean the living room.
“You ok, love? Also, what are you doing? The healer put you on bedrest”
Hope turned around quickly (well as quick as a pregnant woman can) to see her husband, Lyall Lupin, standing at the entrance way to the living room. But before Hope could argue about being fine and being bored stuck in bed all day, her face scrunches up in pain again as she grips her stomach. Lyall quickly rushes over and holds her.
“Lyall its time”
“Wait, what are you on about?”
“Lyall, its time”
“Are you sure?”
Whoosh
“Was that… are you in- “
“Lyall, the baby is coming”
“Oh merlin. Umm think you can apa- no wait healer said no apparating. Umm can you get up the stairs? No no no you can’t.”
“Lyall”
“Umm sofa. Sofa! you can get to the sofa. KIDS! Come on, love, to the sofa. The baby is coming. Our 8th kid is coming. Come on, love”
“Lyall!”
“Do you remember the breathing? He he he he ho ho ho ho. KIDS! Everything’s going to be fine, Love. you have done this before. Now come on He he he he ho ho ho ho”
“LYALL!”
“Yes love?”
“Breathe”
“Oh”
Hope slowly lays down on the couch as the kids that were in the house rushed into the living one after another. The kids in the house consisted of Rema lupin (18), Max Lupin (15) Dracona lupin (14) and Snow lupin (12). Max had short curly ginger hair and brown eyes. They were wearing cream overalls. “What’s happening?” Dracona asked, holding her scratch book to her chest while staring at her mum who’s in pain on the sofa. “Your little baby sibling decided tonight they shall grace us with their presents” Hope said from where she was laying. Dracona groans, Rema smiles, Max cheers and Snow just turns and walks away. “How can we help?” Max asked straight away. Lyall finally turns to the kids in his panicked state “we need towels and sterilised wat- wait where is Romulus and Lola?”. Dracona rolled her eyes “Romulus is out at a graveyard, drinking like the weirdo he is. Lola is… I don’t care where the three-year-old is. Probably trying to spot Remus out of the window. She’s that obsessed with werewolves.” Dracona said before walking off as well. This just caused Lyall to panic more but before he could say anything Hope screamed in pain, the contractions were now only minutes apart and were super painful now. “Dad, You and Max stay here and help bring the baby into the world. I’ll go find Lola” Rema said before running off.
Rema looked all over the house and she couldn’t find Lola anything but then she noticed the back door was wide open. Lola must have gotten out. Rema rushed out of the house and straight into the forest. She needed to find Lola before Remus did. She heard the growl and roar of a werewolf. She heard an ear-splitting scream.
OH NO!
Rema ran as fast as she could towards the sound. She found Lola passed out of the floor with a massive bite mark on her side and werewolf Remus about to pounce on her again, to kill her this time. Rema quickly went to grab her wand but realised she had left it in her bedroom. Suddenly she saw red. She jumps in front of Lola’s unconscious body and growls at the wolf. “Get away from my little sister. Or I will kill you myself” The wolf growls even louder so Rema growls even louder back. They keep growling and squealing off at each other until suddenly the wolf wines, bows and runs off. Rema shakes her head as the red from her eyes disappears. She quickly turned around and picked Lola up before dashing back to the house.
When Rema arrived at the cottage, she was hit by the first sound of a newborn baby cry. Her new sibling had been born. But she was too panicked to think about that. Her three-year-old sister had been attacked by a bloody werewolf. She was probably a werewolf herself right now. That's all the family needed. Another bloody werewolf child.
She rushes into the living room to find Lyall passed out of the floor and Max is trying to wake him up. “Dad. Baby is here now. Mum’s upstairs with the baby. All the gross stuff is gone. I kind of needed your help. Why did you faint? Dad! You have another daughter and she’s called Jenny. Da-” Max stopped when she noticed Rema and Lola. “Lay her on the sofa quickly”. Rema nods and snakingly her down. Max straight away started trying to clean up the blood. “What happened, Rema? Is she like Remus?” but Rema was to shaken up to answer so instead she runs off to her room. This was when Lyall woke up.
“W-what happened?”
“You have a new daughter called Jenny and I think Lola’s now a werewolf”
BANG!
“And he has fainted again!”
From that day on until September 1984, Lola and Remus spent every full moon together in that forest as werewolves. As Alpha and cub. But being a werewolf only made things in her life so much worse. She gained scars all over her body. The biggest would be the one Remus accidently gave her across her neck when she was 5. The scars made people stare at and whisper about Lola. She hated every bit of it. It made her skin crawl. She hated the attention. Being a werewolf meant her senses had been enhanced and to a child who hates loud noises and bright lights because they hurt her, this was not a good thing to gain.
As Lola grew up, so did the family and the complicatedness/trauma of the family. Many... many things happened to this family before Lola was even nine years old and for a child with a photogenic memory, her brain hurt with the memory of every little detail of what happened over the years. The 1 st wizarding war wasn’t helping one bit. It only made the next 6 years so much worse.
1979 was the start of all this chaos. 6 very big things happened that year that changed so much in Lola’s life. The 1 st two things happened in June of that year. First, the 18-year-old Max Lyall Lupin disappeared. The family lost all contract with them. No one knew where they were and only Rema, Romulus and Lyall seemed to care. Jenny and Lola never really got to know them well enough to worry about where they were but Dracona, Remus and Snow had no excurse. They just didn’t care. Dracona was even glad that Max was gone. The next thing happened on the 19 th June. While Dennis and Remus were stook on a werewolf mission, Rema went into labour with only the help of her brother in law, Bradley Kolgrim. After a long and tough labour in the middle of a storm, Rema gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. She called them Austin and Arabella Kolgrim. But the happiness of these new arrivals was soon thrown out of the window because of the 3 rd thing that happens (that also causes everything else to happen). In September 1979, Rema and her best friend, Sherry Malfoy-Slytherin, were attacked by a group of vampires, under the orders of lord Voldemort. Both were turned into vampire’s and both were giving extortionary gifts but Rema was a taken by them. To make matters worse, Dumbledore convinced everyone she had run away due to the pressure of the war. Not everyone believed him but most did. This is when the last three things happened. Hope Lupin Nee Howell started getting ill. Lyall Lupin started drinking to deal with the fact that no one believed him that Rema wouldn’t just run away like that. He also started getting angry at everything and shouting at everything. This caused the final thing to happen. The 3-year-old Jenny Lupin grew terrified on Lyall. Everything to do with Lyall terrified her. Gave her panic attacks and everything. She started to hardly leave Hope’s or Lola’s. But things only got worse for the family as after a couple mouths of Rema being missing, Dumbledore convinced nearly everyone that she must have been killed a death eater now.
1980 is when Rema finally got free of the death eaters but she had already missed so many things to do with family. She missed Hope become bedbound with her sickness. She missed the birth of her knew little brother, Marek Lupin, that happened near the beginning of June. Though Rema saw as merlin wasn’t going to miss the 1 st birthday of her twins so she escaped as soon as she was informed. She turned up at the order HQ covered in blood of the death eaters she had killed on her way out. But at least she was free now and at least she got to see her twins celebrate her birthday. A month later another shock happened. It was revealed to the family that Max Lyall Lupin was a death eater. A huge fight happened. A lot of people were hurt, emotionally and physically. That was a horrible day. But luckily enough Rema brought happiness to the family in the form of a new child. In October, without any notice, Rema adopted a little boy called Quinn. The newborn was adorable and fitted right into the family.
One of the most tragic things to happen to Lola and the family happened in January 1980, soon after Lola and Rema’s birthdays. Hope lost her battle with her illness and passes away peacefully in her sleep. The family were devastated. They truly were even if they were like Lola and didn’t understand what they were feeling so locked themselves away in their room with a book refusing to leave. The funeral took place not long later. The whole family, expecting the babies and Max, went to the funeral. The 8 year old Lola even said a speech. It was a special day to honour their mum’s life. But the next day, the three youngest Lupin siblings woke up to everything they owned, being packed. You see without his wife, Lyall couldn’t deal with the kids anymore so he shipped the kids off to live with Rema, Dennis and their kids.
This decision was the best thing Lyall could do for those kids.
They were happier.
They were free to be themselves.
They had parents (and an Aunt Vaga) who were young enough to be energetic like some of the kids need.
They had parents (and an Aunt Vaga) who cared about them and didn’t get drunk all the time.
They had a family that were their age and not 10/11/12/13/15 years older.
They had a family who understood when your hair was a sensory issue so cut it sort for you.
They had visits from friends of the parents who played with this all day.
In 1983, they even gained a new sister in the form of Vicki kolgrim (Dennis’s and Bradley’s sister who is the same age as Lola).
But with a family amazing as this and being raised by them can from the young ages of 8, 4, 1 can get confusing. As the years go on, Jenny and Marek started to forgot about their birth family and believed that Dennis and Rema were their birth family. Dennis and Jenny became so close, like father and daughter close. But unlike Marek, Jenny didn’t fully forget. She always has and always will have nightmares about Lyall and she will always be terrified of Lyall. Lola, with her photogenic memory, never forgot though. She remembered everything. She even remembered the looks Vicki gave and got when the two of them bumped into a young muggleborn called Chloe when collecting their school supplies in august 1994. She'd never forget those looks of love Chloe and Vicki had even if they didn’t notice it themselves.