Order of The Phoenix
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21 years old
Ravenclaw Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Trish
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Post by Luna Lovegood on Jul 24, 2017 23:41:10 GMT
The wispy blonde witch was taking her house confinement very well in the first few weeks. Her home doubled as a laboratory and she and her father used to run The Quibbler from their living room so she had no trouble setting up production in her kitchen. The whole process had slowed and new issues only went out monthly, but the fact that it was going out at all was a major victory in her book. Her father was still off on extended holiday in Peru hunting jabberwockies and his letters were inconsistent at best. As time wore on, Luna wore down. She missed magic, the build up of not using it becoming something like an unscratchable itch. It was a very uncomfortable feeling that she couldn't quite put her finger on, like everything about her was off in an intangible way. Luna was able to use very rudimentary wandless magic at first but it became harder and harder
The lack of progress at the hearings amplified the frustration, seeing her fellow Order members and not being allowed to speak to them intensified the feeling of isolation. After a particularly unsuccessful experiment she found herself unable to perform a basic scouring charm to clean up the mess. Instead of crying or screaming or cursing her lot in life, Luna decided that an act of rebellion would lift her spirits and she left her home without a moment of hesitation. The night air was thick and warm but it felt so much lighter outside than in the stifling prison cell of a home. The moon was much prettier as she stood out in the grass and looked up at it instead of gazing wistfully through a window. The moonlight made her look and feel more ethereal, highlighting the wisps of silver in her blonde hair.
The former Ravenclaw greeted a sleepy gnome as he waddled through her begonias, waltzing down the dirt path that led from her home with confidence. She lived tucked away on the far edges of Ottery St. Catchpole, away from the main roads. Once far enough away, Luna tucked her hair up into a traveling cap and pulled the collar of her shirt up to partially disguise her identity. She stuck out her wand arm to summon and board the Knight Bus and they screeched off into the night. After a rather bumpy but pleasant trip and a cup of hot chocolate, the purple triple decker bus deposited Luna in Godric's Hollow. The witch hummed to herself as she strolled through the sleepy, picturesque village to the old Victorian house that the Lupins called home.
She let herself into the home through an unlocked window she found, creeping over the squeaking floorboards 'til she found Professor Lupin's bedroom. She knocked politely, as if she was standing at the front door and not already in the man's house. Luna swayed dreamily on her feet, retreating into day dreams while waiting for the old werewolf to answer. "Hello Professor Lupin, you're looking well." the Ravenclaw greeted politely. "I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time, I thought you might not be too busy given how late it is." She held up her hand, fingers splayed out as she examined the appendage. "Do you recall that you taught me some wandless magic? I seem incapable of using it anymore and I'm quite alarmed. Yesterday I managed a couple charms and today... nothing." Luna dropped her hand back down by her side, shoulders slumping. "My experiments are suffering because of my inability to perform magic. This is a very pressing matter, you see. I was in the middle of a very important study."
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Hogwarts
Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Werewolf
Order of The Phoenix
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44 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
Wandless Magic
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Mego
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Post by Remus Lupin on Jul 27, 2017 3:06:17 GMT
Maybe he was being a bad father...but lately, whenever the twins begged him to let them stay up late, Remus let them. The house was just so empty when they went to bed and he was about at the point where he couldn't stand it any longer. They kept him from completely losing it with many rousing games of Stick the Wizard in the Hopping Pot, and Let's Be Dragons, and wizard's chess when he could get them to sit still for more than five seconds. But even the infamous Lupin twins had their limit. When Remus sneaked away for a moment to make himself a cup of tea (Moony fuel), he returned to find them both conked out on the couch.
Getting them to bed without magic kept Remus busy for a pretty long while, too. With all of the magic buildup in his system and the looming full moon, he struggled to even pick them both up, so one by one they were carried up the stairs and tucked into bed. It took a long while, but Remus was still wide awake once his task was complete. Maybe the tea had been a bad idea...with a sigh, Remus drained his mug and picked a book at random from his study and retired to his own bedroom. Reading in bed always made him sleepy.
Remus was reading a seminal study on boggarts, a well-loved classic, when he heard a knock. A very, very close knock. In fact, it sounded like someone was knocking on his very bedroom door. Remus smiled and closed his book, sure it was one of the twins come back to life from sleepiness. Polite little rascals they were, always knocking before coming in. Remus slid off the bed and went to the door, cracking it open and looking down only to see much more leg than he expected. Why, there was a full grown person standing in his bedroom doorway.
Remus' gaze shot up, and for a split second, he thought it might be Gabriel. There was a flash of blonde hair, and honestly, he couldn't think of anyone else who would be knocking on his bedroom door. Remus made a noise of surprise as he recognized the face of none other than Luna Lovegood. "Luna!" He whisper-shouted, so as not to wake the children. "How...why...how'd you get in here?" Remus stared in shock as Luna went into a very Luna-esque spiel. He had to make himself listen to what she was actually saying, because all he could really think about was how she'd gotten here. Not just here, to his bedroom door (though that was a bit worrying that she'd been able to just waltz right in)...but wasn't she on house arrest, too?
Remus stared at the hand Luna held up for some moments before speaking. His mind, heart, and stomach were all churning at all different speeds. This was risky, very risky, but he couldn't deny how happy he was to see Luna. He hadn't seen any of his people in so long...and she seemed to be doing okay. Just a little magic trouble. Remus couldn't deny, either, that he was rather intrigued by her problem. The lack of mental stimulation over the length of his house arrest might have been the worst thing about it - besides the broken hands, of course.
"Let's go downstairs," Remus whispered, squeezing past her and heading for the stairs. He looked back at her as he walked. "You say it seems to have disappeared overnight? Very strange." Hmm. "Have you been doing very much magic? They're not letting me do any. I can feel the buildup - that's bad for wizards. Perhaps that has something to do with it."
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Order of The Phoenix
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21 years old
Ravenclaw Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Trish
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Post by Luna Lovegood on Jul 27, 2017 8:14:47 GMT
"Professor Lupin!" Luna returned the old professor's whispershout with equal enthusiasm. She had an urge to ask why they were whispering but thought her time would be better spent answering another question. She blinked at Professor Lupin, the answer was plain as day to her. "Through the window, of course." If he didn't want visitors surely he would have kept them locked? It was only logical after all. "Or do you mean Godric's Hollow? Oh, I took the Knight Bus. It really was a lovely ride, I enjoy a nice cup of hot chocolate, you know." The corners of her mouth turned up in a fond smile, remembering the hot chocolate. It wasn't even cold outside but it seemed to be just what she needed. "Sometimes as much as tea."
"Are you sure that's wise?" Luna asked, stepping aside and then trailing after Professor Lupin. "My mind's always much clearer on the second floor, that's where I keep my lab. The air's a bit thinner and the wrackspurts don't care for it as much, you're much less likely to be plagued by them the higher your elevation." The blonde wrinkled her nose at his question, disliking it very much. "They took my wand, but magic isn't theirs to take as it's my natural ability" The audacity to think that a group of people had the right to take away something that was bestowed upon people by nature and genetics made her blood boil. The witch's jaw was tight with tension and her trailing footsteps became heavy as she grew more agitated.
The werewolf had a theory similar to one she'd been mulling over. "I thought it might, but I'm not sure that's a sound theory. I've been able to use a few wandless charms, you see. I've always found that wandless magic is a great deal trickier than wanded and it has required more effort and concentration but it has always worked when I needed it. Until now." Luna paused to tilt her head up to observe her surroundings. Luna had been inside the Lupin home countless times but it felt different. Off. Sad. "Do you think your house misses Tonks?"
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Hogwarts
Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Werewolf
Order of The Phoenix
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44 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
Wandless Magic
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Mego
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Post by Remus Lupin on Aug 12, 2017 21:36:46 GMT
Through the window. Of course. Remus felt a discomfiting mixture of amusement at Luna's special brand of sound logic...and dread at the fact that he'd left a bloody window unlocked. With no magic to defend himself and his children, he may as well have been locked up in the basement while someone took what he loved all over again. Remus wanted to kick himself, but there was an undeniable edge of curiosity at Luna's arrival that kept him complacent for the time being.
She had taken the Knight Bus. Luna had apparently waltzed right out of her home and onto the Knight Bus, all the way to his home. Remus had half a mind to scold her (that was purely the professor talking, the rest of him thought it was bad ass) but really...he was no better. They couldn't lock people up like this and not expect them to get flighty every once in a while, surely. "It is very good hot chocolate," he murmured his agreement, shaking his head. "This is dangerous. But I want to help you. I'm so bloody bored I can't stand it."
The pair headed for the downstairs, but not without a little protest. Remus couldn't help but smile and look back over his shoulder at Luna. "I think my children are a might bit more distracting than the wrackspurts, I'm afraid," he whispered, nodding his head at the closed door behind which they slept. Remus nodded his agreement with her displeasure, holding his hands up for a moment so she could see their crookedness. They were healing, but not fast. "That doesn't mean they won't try. They broke my hands. You'll never catch me saying this again, but I'm sort of glad you and I didn't have that much time for you to learn more before the Order was outed." Remus couldn't bear thinking about someone else facing what he did at Azkaban, especially someone like Luna.
Remus listened to Luna as he walked down the stairs, and mulled over what she said as he led her to the kitchen. "Very strange," he repeated. "What have you been experimenting on lately? Possible side effect, perhaps?" The sound of Luna's footsteps stopped behind him and Remus paused in the kitchen door, turning around to see Luna examining his house. Her question caught him completely off guard and Remus stayed silent for some moments, leaning against the threshold. He knew immediately the answer, he just didn't know how to voice it. Remus had no idea how to talk about his late wife in a way that anyone but he could understand. Of course the house missed her. He missed her. Her spirit was stuck to its walls and to him and since he'd been spending so much time in these walls as of late...Remus was sort of relieved someone else could feel it, too. Luna of all people would have a knack for that sort of thing. Or maybe she just always knew how to say the right thing.
"Or it's just sick of me," he finally said, smiling slightly and shrugging. "Who wouldn't miss her? The house, the poor garden out back, me, you." Remus eyed Luna critically for a moment, uncomfortable with his own sudden surge of emotions. "Are you doing okay, Luna? With everything?"
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Order of The Phoenix
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21 years old
Ravenclaw Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Trish
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Post by Luna Lovegood on Aug 16, 2017 9:58:21 GMT
"Hogwarts' is better." Luna commented as they mused over the comforting drink. Troubled times often made her long for the years past, sitting in the Ravenclaw common room with a nice warm beverage. Things were simpler then, in a way. Less lonely in her later years when she'd made friends. Luna often forgot to nurture personal relationships in her adulthood, too easily distracted by the responsibilities of The Quibbler and her very important research. "I sometimes envy the fact that you're able to go back to Hogwarts.. Or you were able too. The new term is starting in a few weeks, isn't it? I wonder how they'll carry on. I suppose needing a new defense professor is nothing new though, is it?" Luna meant no harm by her line of rambles, she just seemed to lack some of the necessary filters to avoid such line of talking, however sensitive the subject may be.
Professor Lupin still thought it better to move downstairs and as she was a guest in his poorly secured house she trailed behind him. "Children can be helpful if you listen to them with an open mind." the wisp of a witch countered as she made her way down the stairs. "Their perspective can be useful in working through particularly stubborn problems, give you a fresh way to approach things." Their conversation turned somber when Remus revealed his hands. Luna knit her eyebrows, puzzled by the brutality of such an act. She took the battered appendages in her hands, turning them over and back to examine them. "Muggle healing is fascinating but tediously slow. It starts with calcium deposits, for a time the bone is thicker and stronger. "As innovative as they are one would think would figure out a way to speed up the process by now."
She shook her blonde, tangled head at the idea that it was a side effect of her experiment. "I don't think so. I've been working on this experiment for quite awhile, the timing wouldn't make much sense. I've been working with tentacula venom. At first I thought I would try to weaponize it in a way, but then I got to wondering about what the beneficial properties of the venom might be. I found a few uses but the venom is difficult to obtain, as you can imagine. One day I read a book , coincidentally, on muggle medicine. They have these things called vaccines, you see. Where they take small parts of illnesses and weaken them to deliberately infect themselves to build an immunity to it. I wondered if the same can be done to tentacula venom, which would make it safer to obtain the venom. Some of the additives I've been experimenting with are a bit volatile." The market for her research with the venom was definitely a niche, herbologists and the like. "Did you know Professor McGonagall's husband was killed by a venomous tentacula? One of the Hogwart's ghosts told me."
Enough about her experiments... The Lupin Home felt odd. Stuffy and heavy and sad, it was something that Luna voiced without a second thought. There was a marked change in Professor Lupin's demeanor. "Oh, I don't think so. Your home suits you, it's old and comfortable... Like you. How could it get sick of itself?" It felt like Professor Lupin didn't need and needed to talk about Tonks at the same time. Like it would be both wonderful and terrible for him to think about her, but the conversation turned to Luna herself. She blinked her large blue eyes at the old wizard. "Me? I'm alright. Running The Quibbler has become a bit complicated but I've managed it alright. You don't have talk about me, you know. You can talk about her, if you'd like."
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