
His roommates - James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black - are all from wealthy “pure blood” wizarding families. He must rely on donations from Hogwarts for his robes, books, etc. Another strike against Remus is his poverty. And I love the development of the Madam Pomfrey character as a nurse who admits how little is known about werewolves and who fights to get Remus the best care possible, educating him about his condition and showing him genuine love along the way. Only the head of his house (Gryffindor) and the school nurse Madam Pomfrey are in the loop. Obviously being a werewolf is a big one, but Dumbledore keeps it secret. The set up for young Lupin is great and we learn that there are several strikes against him right away. Edmunds for 10 months of the year is too good to pass up. Lupin distrusts authority, but a chance to leave St. When Dumbledore comes to the school and tells Lupin he is going to Hogwarts, the boy is skeptical. Lupin grows up physically and emotionally scarred both from his affliction (locked in a cell whenever he turns) and from abuse received at the hands of other boys and the school matron. Remus Lupin was not registered after his bite, but life in the boys’ school is grim. They will never be hired in the magical world, never be integrated or accepted.
#ALL THE YOUNG DUDES FULL#
They are a terrifying and hated (and poorly understood) group of people, forced to register with the wizarding government and essentially caged every time there’s a full moon.

Edmund’s, a muggle reform school for boys that has some experience with the magical world, but what we all learn is that no one has experience with werewolves. Hope, whose family disowned her after her marriage, is unable to care for her son and gives him up to St. In this story, Lyall committed suicide after his five-year-old son Remus was bitten by the werewolf known as Fenrir Greyback. Remus, born March 10,1960, is the son of a wizard father (Lyall Lupin) and muggle mother (Hope Jenkins). Writer MsKingBean89 turns Lupin into one of the most interesting characters in the Potter universe. Lupin, from his troubled childhood through the reformation of the Order of the Phoenix (it ends where that novel begins). It also made me laugh pretty hard at one point, and I don’t think I can ever look at the novels or movies the same way again.Īll the Young Dudes is the biography of Remus J. I loved this work, and it made me cry many times.

At 188 chapters (and some half a million pages) it is, they say, half as long as all 7 HP novels, and readers, let me tell you, it is fan-fucking-tastic! The Slate writer says it’s the best HP novel, and I must say that it is at least as good as Rowling’s best. I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago in this Slate piece, which raved about it.

#ALL THE YOUNG DUDES ARCHIVE#
Apparently, it is the #1 download on Archive of Our Own (AO3). All the Young Dudes is a work of Harry Potter inspired fanfic that focuses on the relationship between Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, making it what is known as a “Wolfstar” story.
