Harry Potter x Reader OneShots

Remus Lupin|| You Slipped Away Too

Fandom: Harry Potter (Marauders era)

Pairing: Remus Lupin/reader

Warnings: none :)

Concept: ok, so imagine that your family moved in next to Remus' in your last year of primary school. You're a muggle born so you don't know anything about the wizarding world but his dad quickly figures out that the girl next door is a wizard too so the day Rem gets his letter, they go over and explain to your family that it's not a prank and it's all real. So your families went to diagon alley together and sent you off to school together every year and you just sort of watched him change and grow and you fell in love with him over the years even though you're not that close anymore because you never got along with the rest of the marauders. So this is a letter you write to him to explain your feelings.

Words: 971

A/n: so, I love Moony very much and I think this is a pretty cute concept I'm sorry my writing isn't the best ilyy

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Dear Moony,

That's... you right? Or are you padfoot? I'm... not too sure we haven't talked much since the start of this year. The most I hear from you is overhearing you and your obnoxious friends in the great hall or common room. So, from that I figure you're the 'moony' which makes sense now that I look at it... yeah. Fuck I'm so bad at this

Dear Remus Lupin,

Dear Rem

Fuck. Hi,

I've gone through quite a few scrolls of parchment and I'm on my last roll now because, I just can't seem to get my words out when it comes to you.

Actually, it sort of reminds me of you. When we first met, and in our first year of Hogwarts before you found your niche, your confidence. Really, before you found yourself.

Those idiots were a big reason you changed and developed and I'm really thankful for them, however jealous I've been of them for the past 5 and a bit years. Because they're the ones that helped you, they were there for you... they were everything I was supposed to be, as your best friend... while I was your best friend

You used to be so scared and shy, you had this stammer and you couldn't get most words out without fumbling over them. Except for that one time when you stubbed your toe in the common room one October evening when you tried to go to your dorm after you finished your book. Honestly, you let out some swear words no one's ever heard of. No stammer, just a string of offensiveness.

Whatever happened to that little boy? I miss him. The boy that would spend the day before the full moon sat by the black lake with me reading, or making flower crowns or just looking out at the lake. The boy that really wanted to become friends with his dorm mates but was too shy to talk to them so he made me do it. The boy that held my hand on the whole ride to Hogwarts because I was scared of being an outcast.

Now we only ever interact when we're on prefect duties. And that, is a fact that makes me question why I love you so much still, more than platonically. Why can't I be like every other dumb little girl and like Sirius Black? That wouldn't be painful, I probably wouldn't even get emotionally attached like I am to you, you fucking wiener.

Would it really kill you to come up to me sometimes and ask how my day's been? I get it, I'm not very pretty or tallented or just perfect like everyone else and you can't risk being seen with someone below Marauder hottie standard. But Merlin's beard, who was and still is the one that stayed up every full moon just to visit you once you've detransformed? Who would tell obscene excuses to cover you? Who would be waiting in the hospital wing when you woke up with a bag of chocolate every fucking month?