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Poppy does not like this. She did not spend her life looking after him for this. She did not spend her life looking after these boys for this.
There were four. Then there was one. Then three, for a moment, then two. Then one was left. My precious young man.
There are none of her boys left. Now she tries to care for everyone, but war has torn them apart. Kids Poppy has done everything to protect, blown into the stratosphere, or coughing up blood, or, or….
Or laying here, ahead of her, the last of the bunch, more than asleep, eyes still open, staring up to the dark sky of the enchanted roof. She knows where he’s looking to. His eyes are focused on only one star. The brightest star. The star called Sirius.
It’s sad because Remus Lupin was just getting better. After 12 years alone, he found someone, a woman, and he was married, he had a one-month-old. Poppy thought he was happy. She now knows he’s happier up there.
Still, she takes a moment longer to stay by him, empty his pockets. No one else cares enough to do it. Poppy finds something and her heart shatters.
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Dear whoever finds this.
I hope you are on my side otherwise this means nothing to you.
Please pass this letter to: Pomfery, Mcgonagall, Andromeda
I am here to fight for the cause. Fight for everybody’s life. Everybody except myself. I hope to die here tonight, so I can be with them again, with all of them. You know who I’m talking about.
So know I am not lazy, I am here to fight. I am here to win. But I know that the only way I can win is by departing this world.
I do not know what comes after this. All I have here is a son and a wife. I know they will understand at some point. But anywhere is better than here. So I must go, be there something or nothing to go to.
Best wishes,
Goodnight from,
Remus John Lupin.
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The note is scrawled quickly, already a mess and only made worse by Poppy’s tear marks.
Poppy is selfish. She wants him here. But he didn’t want to be here. And all that she can grieve and mourn, she truly knows, it is all for the best. He is so much better anywhere but here.
Goodnight Remus Lupin.
Love Poppy - who will never forget you as a teenager who tried his best to hide his relationship, or as a kid who cried into her shoulder, or as an adult who brought her gifts for the infirmery.
Love from, Poppy Pomfrey, Who will never forget her eternal care for Remus Lupin, Hogwarts' first, and probably last, werewolf.