Somebody help me tame this animal -- Summer 1980

I nodded at Remus and stood up.  "That is all I can ask from you, Remus," I said.  "Well, in all honesty, that is far more than I should be able to ask of you."  I sighed heavily.  "I wish I didn't ahve to ask this of you... I know thte strain it put on your."

I stood up with the headmaster, surprised to hear him say things so honestly.  Sometimes i felt as though he was more interested in the end game than what happened to the Order in the process.  "I'll be able to manage," I said, sighing heavily.  then I remembered what type of people Greyback preyed on.  

I looked at Dumbledore.  "Sir... he attacks young children," I said slowly, "he may have new recruits there.  I'm not sure I can handle that... not with having Will... that could be what he turns into if I'm not around..." I knew dumbledore would understand.

I looked at my old student who so willingly joined the Order after graduation.  It was the one thing he thought he would be able to do so well.  He could finally do good in the world -- because he never believed he already did that good he so desperately wanted to do.  "Your son will never turn into the beast that Greyback hoped you would turn into," I assured Remus.  "You never turned into a monster, Remus, nor will your son."

I stared at Dumbledore and smiled slightly.  "At least you don't think that I was ever a monster," I said to him, even though I thought otherwise.  At least one of the greatest wizard's of the time thought I was a human being.

"And I wish that you would believe it, too," I said to him gently.  Remus John Lupin was anything but a monster and it was time he finally realized that.

I raised my eyebrows at Professor Dumbledore, surprised that he was being so kindly blunt.  If that was a way to say it anyways.  I smiled slightly at that.  "Ah, well, if you expect me to just up and believe it because you said so," I said, chuckling a bit.

I sighed.  "I've learned with you that nothing is ever that easy, Remus," I said to him, sadness in my tone.

I was startled into chuckling by the Headmaster's honesty.  "At least you admit that," I replied, shaking my head.  I knew that Dumbledore was being rather serious, but I learned to laugh certain things off -- I got that from the marauders.

I sighed. "Remus," I said to him, "taking after James and Sirius is not always a good thing." I looked at him over my spectacles with a slight smirk on my face. "But I do know it was put into your brain at such a young age there's not stopping it now."