Remus Lupin

## Remus John Lupin

**Remus John Lupin**, also known as Remus Lupin, is the Former Hogwarts' caretaker and also the Wu Xi Do teacher of Theo No-Name, Padma Patil and Jim Potter.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Remus descends from an old French Pureblood family. The Lupins emigrated from France in the 17th century. Every time a new family member is born is tradition for his parents to pay a nomenographer select the best possible name to give to the newborn.

### Early Life

Remus Lupin was born on 10 March, 1960 as only child of Lyall Lupin and his wife, respectively a Pureblood wizard and a Muggle.

At the age of 4 he was bitten by Fenrir Greyback, and cursed into being a werewolf. Miraculously he proved immune to the psychological degradation that turned so many souls into psychopathic cannibals.

On his morning of his seventh birthday (immediately following a full moon), The Unspeakables came to his home and revealed that they had been monitoring him in secret for years, in order to offer the Lupins a life changing deal. In exchange for a secure and isolated home, a steady job in the muggle world, young Remus would be the main test subject for Project Romulus, a series of experiments to better understand Lycanthropy and Remus’ unheard of sanity and use it to find a cure for lycanthropy as a whole.

At the age of 11 Remus with the help of Albus Dumbledore was able to attend Hogwarts where he was sorted in Gryffindor. He was able to transform in the Shrieking Shack where he continued being studied by the Unspeakables, including Saul Croaker and Augustus Rookwood and the potion master Damocles Belby.

### First Wizarding War

During the first war Remus joined the Order of the Phoenix with his friends and was sent to spy on the Grayback pack, Fenrir Grayback however was secretly working with Peter Pettigrew, who convinced Grayback to use Remus to send misinformation to the Order.

### Post-War

After being informed of The Potter’s plans to send Harry away, he proposed himself as Harry Potter's guardian but was rejected by James for his condition. Lily took him aside however and told him that if Harry did eventually show magic, she would convince James to appoint him as Harry’s guardian and set them up with fake identities in France, something which did little to calm his outrage over James’ lack of faith in him. He later went to Peter to vent to him about the whole debacle and after a long conversation between the 2 on their friendships with James and Sirius, Peter convinced Remus to move to Shamballa to gain a fresh start and learn new magics.

In Shamballa he took the name Brother Chandra and began a rigorous study of the four paths of Wu Xi Do, learning up to step 95 of the Air, Earth and Fire paths and step 99 in the path of Water. He later begun teaching beginners in Wu Xi Do and how to become and Animagus, drawing on the methods he saw Peter and his former friends learn from the Unspeakables.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

### Lycanthropy / Animagus

Remus was born a natural wolf animagus, being able to switch between his wolf and human forms at will. However, before this instinctual ability become active, Remus was infected with Lycanthropy by Fenrir Greyback. Due to the nature of this condition, being a latent Animagus and a Werewolf, the Lycanthropy wasn't able to properly warp Remus into the usual mindless killing machine most werewolves are. However, Remus was traumatised by the idea of being a werewolf, causing his subconscious to reject his animal side, preventing his Animagus powers from fully curing him.

Due to his werewolf being "tame", he was put under heavy study by the Unspeakables to find the cause but they were unable to determine the reason why, since his Animagus powers couldn't be detected past the Lycanthropy and delving into a werewolf's mind usually causes the delver's psyche to be destroyed by the werewolf personality.

On the night of March 27th, 1993, Lupin was unknowingly cured of his lycanthropy by Harry Black. This was done by Harry using Legilimency on a werewolf Remus in an attempt to save own life. Once inside Remus's mind, Harry came into contact with both Remus' human and animal sides, showing them they were one of the same. Remus was then able to use this to cleanse himself on Lycanthropy.

### Wu Xi Do

After arriving in Shamballa, Remus Lupin became a practitioner of Wu Xi Do, an alternate form of casting magic based in martial arts, hence not requiring the use of a wand. Wu Xi Do is split into four separate paths, with each path having 433 "steps" showing a practitioner's mastery.

Unlike many practitioners of Wu Xi Do who dedicate themselves to a single path, Remus Lupin has trained in all four paths. This has led him to be a "master-of-none" of Wu Xi Do, with his skills placing him around step 95 on the Paths of Air, Earth, and Fire, with the Path of Water being his most skilled on step 99.

## References

Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 128 - Redux (Pt 2),

Harry cures Lupin of Lycanthropy, then explains how..

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