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Basically, Harry and his friends go to the forbidden forest with Sirius Black in his animagus form and find an animal (fox, snake, take your pick). Then, when Sirius turns back, the animal is still beside them it triggers its own transformation. It turns into a person as well. Or what barely looks like a person. Turns out this person is Asteria Black. The long-lost daughter of Sirius Black, and she has been living as an Animagus for the better part of 13 years.

In other words, for those of you who watched teen wolf, OC! pulls a Malia Hale, basically raised as whatever animal her animagus is, and now has to adjust to human life at Hogwarts.

The Sacred Twenty-Eight were originally twenty-eight bloodlines blessed by Hecate, Lady Magic, with each family receiving a hereditary gift connected to the nature and personality of the person she first blessed. These included gifts such as Parseltongue, metamorphosis, fertility, a ridiculous amount of luck, and other rare forms of magic. They were called sacred because they carried Hecate’s favor, not because their blood was pure. After centuries of incest, genocide, and pure-blood obsession, the families fell out of Hecate’s favor, and their gifts became increasingly rare, beginning to skip generations until they appeared only once every few generations. The modern belief that the families are sacred because of blood purity is a corrupted version of the original truth: their descendants turned Hecate’s blessings into breeding programs and, in doing so, nearly destroyed the gifts they were trying to preserve.

Remus Lupin, a werewolf at a wizarding school, all because of Dumbledore’s kindness.

It does, however, beg the question.

Why only him?

Dumbledore has a bleeding heart for lost causes, for dangerous children, for things the rest of the world feared enough to lock away. So why should Remus, some random Welsh boy Albus has no real relationship with, be the only one who benefits from that heart?

Meet Barty Crouch Jr., Hogwarts’ resident demon.

Possessed at three years old, his first bout of accidental magic should have forced the demon out. Instead, it made the two of them merge. There is no demon hiding inside Barty anymore. There is no separate thing to remove.

There is just Barty.

And Barty is not like Remus.

He is not afraid of what he is. He is not spending every second trying to prove he is good enough to exist around other people. He is not trying to be good for the world.

He is trying to be good for his friends.

Remus fears his monster, and he is terrible at hiding it. His fear shows. His guilt shows. The wolf is loud and brutal and obvious.

Barty’s monster is not impulsive.

It is cunning. Calculating. Patient.

When it strikes, you would never know it was coming. You would never even know it was him.

And maybe that is exactly why Dumbledore let him stay.

cross posted on Harry Potter sub

Remus Lupin, a werewolf at a wizarding school, all because of Dumbledore’s kindness.

It does, however, beg the question.

Why only him?

Dumbledore has a bleeding heart for lost causes, for dangerous children, for things the rest of the world feared enough to lock away. So why should Remus, some random Welsh boy Albus has no real relationship with, be the only one who benefits from that heart?

Meet Barty Crouch Jr., Hogwarts’ resident demon.

Possessed at three years old, his first bout of accidental magic should have forced the demon out. Instead, it made the two of them merge. There is no demon hiding inside Barty anymore. There is no separate thing to remove.

There is just Barty.

And Barty is not like Remus.

He is not afraid of what he is. He is not spending every second trying to prove he is good enough to exist around other people. He is not trying to be good for the world.

He is trying to be good for his friends.

Remus fears his monster, and he is terrible at hiding it. His fear shows. His guilt shows. The wolf is loud and brutal and obvious.

Barty’s monster is not impulsive.

It is cunning. Calculating. Patient.

When it strikes, you would never know it was coming. You would never even know it was him.

And maybe that is exactly why Dumbledore let him stay.