Chapter 49 - Meeting Lupin (1/2)

More than 1 year ago,

After defeating a werewolf in the Forbidden forest, taking it out by surprise, Neal imprisoned it into a snow habitat. Three days later, as the time of a werewolf transformation is over, Neal stepped inside his suitcase.

He opened the door of snow habitat and stepped inside to find an unfamiliar ȧduŀt human frozen on the ground. He pulled out his Basilisk wand, ”Awake”. Neal slowly began to walk towards him cautiously.

When he found that the man was really frozen and not faking it up, he sighed in relief, ”good. First things first”. Neal then checked the unconscious man's pockets and seized his wand before conjuring fire-making spell, ”Incendio”.

After he woke up, the man saw an 11-year-old kid pointing a wand at him. Just when he's about to move, Neal spoke, ”don't you dare to move. I have your wand and you can't escape from here. Now, answer me, what are you doing in the forbidden forest?

State your identity”. Neal expected some kind of retaliation somehow as most ȧduŀt wizards tend to look down on students. Not to mention, a few of them can even do wandless magic. But the man sighed, ”I didn't harm anyone, did I?”.

Neal replied, ”I don't know what happened before you tried to attack me. At least, I think you didn't as students rarely enter the forbidden forest”. He sighed in relief, ”thank goodness. Are you the one who helped me out?”.

Neal frowned, ”I knocked you out. I didn't help you”. The man replied, ”both are the same. Anyway, my name is Remus John Lupin. As you can see, I'm a werewolf. Since it was a full moon and my Wolfsbane potion is out of stock, I just went into the Forbidden forest to transform so that I can't harm humans.

By the way, you seem very powerful despite being a student. Sometimes Not even a proper ȧduŀt wizard can fight against a werewolf. Are you a 2nd year or 3rd year?”. Neal replied, ”no, I'm still a first-year”. Lupin was shocked, ”you are a first-year? I thought you just looked younger. How did Dumbledore allow a first-year into a place like a forbidden forest!”.

Neal replied, ”I took the help of my friend”. As he rolled his sleeves up, Isle raised her head and hissed at Lupin showing her fangs surprising him. His face changed into a frown when Neal spoke to it in parseltongue, ”stop it, Isle. Don't scare him too much. Just intimidating him once is enough”.

Lupin looked at him seriously, ”a parselmouth? who are you?”. Neal replied, ”Neal Slytherin, heir to the House of Slytherin”. Lupin was taken aback, ”no, it's impossible. House of Slytherin vanished centuries ago”.

When Lupin was wondering whether to battle him or not, as Neal was reminded him of Lord Voldemort, a parselmouth with a snake on his side, Neal replied, ”well, it doesn't matter, anyway. I'm going to release you back into the forbidden forest as we have nothing to do with each other.

I hope I never see you being a werewolf and attacking people again. Here take this”. Neal took out a medium-sized glass bottle and threw at him, ”I improvised it a little bit”. Lupin thanked him after seeing a Wolfsbane potion in his hands.

A few days later, Lupin was still left in confusion about how did he teleport from a snow habitat to the forbidden forest. He shook his head and went on his way.

When Neal looked at Lupin and blurted out, ”werewolf guy?”, Lupin suddenly became nervous as his identity is about to get exposed in front of students. If that happens, he would lose the job before he even joined as no parents would send their children to a school with a werewolf.

Lupin sighed in relief when Neal who realized how werewolves are prejudiced in the society, said, ”you are the one who saved me from that werewolf, right?”. Lupin smiled for Neal's quick thinking and replied, ”Ah, yes. It's me. It's been a while”.