charmed (remus lupin x reader)
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(professor!lupin x professor!reader) no underage or student shit
story summary: set in the prisoner of azkaban, including its major plot points. remus and y/n get hired by dumbledore last minute to teach at hogwarts, defense against the dark arts and charms respectively. not wanting the students to know they are married, they navigate the challenging year through hidden glances, hand holds underneath the table and loving moments in their offices. even with all their efforts to conceal their relationship, their chemistry does not go unnoticed by the student population of hogwarts, who grow fond of the pair as they offer them some of the best classes they’ve had in a while. their relationship as newlyweds is strengthened as teaching the next generation of wizards unlocks a sea of memories of their love story. for the second time in his life, remus holds hogwarts responsible for some of his happiest memories. he’s given the chance to create them with the love of his life, y/n, who has taught and continues to teach him that every part of him is lovable, remaining forever under her charm.
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1.
Straight out of Hogwarts, Y/N didn’t have a clue what to do with her life post-school, except for the fact that she had an affinity for Charms. Many of her friends went on to join various departments in the Ministry, which is how she stumbled into the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. She became the youngest member of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, skipping many administration posts to become directly an Obliviator thanks to the department head, who was impressed by the potency and mastery of her Memory Charms.
Unfortunately, working on the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad wasn’t as exciting as the name sounded. Most of her missions were to erase Muggle’s memories when they witnessed some piece of stupid magic - a drunk wizard deciding to create fireworks in the middle of a Muggle pub, two wizards deciding it’d be fun to duel in the middle of a crowded street… Plus, since she was the youngest and a woman, her colleagues loved to dump all the paperwork on her. She often retaliated, but sometimes she needed a day in and liked to spend the day in her office filling in reports on all the incidents they had to go interfere with.
In fact, that’s how she made her first friend at the Ministry, which would eventually lead to her to stumble into the love of her life. The Squad was off in Ireland somewhere to disband some St-Patrick’s celebration that got too magical and she sat comfortably in her cubicle, scribbling away, when all of a sudden, a hurried voice ran into your office.
“Hey, you’re an Obliviator right?” An Auror not much older looked at her, panicked. He had round glasses and messy black hair. Y/N recognized him as James Potter, a boy who she went to Hogwarts with, but was a year older than her.
Y/N nodded, pointing at the sign at her desk with her quill which read “Y/N Y/L/N, Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator”.
“Okay, great. We need you, like, right now.”
Before she knew it, she was being dragged through the Ministry by the wrist at a running pace. James led her into a room, where a family of four sat, bewildered.
“I always knew magic existed, but-“
“Lived on Grimmauld Place for 16 years of my life, never have I-“
“What’s going on?” Y/N turned to James quizzically.
He scratched the back of his head nervously, further messing up his hair.
“They’re a Muggle neighbouring family who… unfortunately-“
“We’re not Muggles!” One of the family members huffed, offended.
“You don’t even know what Muggle means!” James replied disbelievingly.
“Still. Sounds like an insult.”
James turned back to you, shaking his head, Y/N giggling slightly.
“Anyways, they witnessed my friends and I use a bit of uhm-“
“Magic?” Y/N raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms in front of her.
“Yes, so if you could just, you know, wipe their memories and we can carry on with our day!” James smiled sheepishly at her.
“And I’m assuming you don’t want me to file a report on this incident either…” Y/N’s eyes narrowed, although she smiled slightly at how funny this whole situation was.
“If you could just, yeah, that’d be great.”
“Listen, sir-“
“James.”
“Right, James. Well, James, as much as I want to help you, I am really new and-“
“Me too! I haven’t been doing this that long either.”
“I know.”
“You do?” James questioned confusedly.
“Yeah, I um, remember you from Hogwarts. You were in a year higher than me.”
“Oh…”
She can tell he was racking his brains to try to remember her, but she interrupted.
“I’m really not supposed to, you know.”
“Right, right, well I thought I’d ask, because I haven’t had much practice on my Memory Charms so I was scared I’d erase too much or something, but I guess-“
“Whoa! Wait. I’ll do it.” Y/N threw her arm in front of his wand. She turned towards the family of Muggles calmly and said:
“Don’t worry. I promise everything’ll be alright. Obliviate.” She gave an extra wave of her wand. “I added a Confundus charm, so when you get them back to whatever place, they won’t recall ever making the journey either.”
James sighed in relief as he watched the family look around at their surroundings absently.
“Ugh, Y/N, you’re a lifesaver! Please, let me offer you lunch.”
“I won’t say no to that.” She smiled.
On their way from the Ministry, they connected the dots back to their Hogwarts days.
“You and your friends were the ones that McGonagall was always screaming after! I swear, you were probably the cause behind half of the worry wrinkles she had gained once I got to Hogwarts.”
“And I remember you! You’re that poor 4th year that got lost on the 7th floor that Moony had to rescue.”
“Moony?”
“Oh, my mate Lupin.” James laughed. “Remus was the Prefect that escorted you back to the common room.”
“Oh, yeah!” Y/N laughed, turning around to make sure the Muggle family was following them. They walked behind them like children, not paying attention to where they were going. “He literally saved my life. You have no idea how scared I was to get lost at Hogwarts, you’d think during my 4th year there I’d know my way around at least a little.”
They turned into a street and let the family in Number 11.
“They’ll wake up soon and think they’ve been at home this whole time.” Y/N nodded. “So, where is this lunch you’re taking me on?”
“Right here.” James said. Checking both sides for the coast to be clear, he waved his wand and a brick wall “Number 12” appeared. They hurried inside.
“James, that you?” A woman’s voice said.
“Yeah, and I brought a guest.”
Y/N shrugged off her jacket and turned to a red-headed woman with bright green eyes.
“Lily?” She exclaimed.
“Y/N!” Lily yelled back, pushing past James to engulf her in a hug.
“You two know each other?” James asked, patting a man who passed by on the back, Sirius. He then whispered something into his ear, Y/N catching the word “Phoenix”.
“She was my Potions tutor back at Hogwarts!” Y/N said, laughing.
“You never wrote me once I graduated!” Lily pouted.
“I know, I’m so sorry. Have to admit, I forgot.”
“OH! Y/N, Y/N, Lily’s friend from the year below us! Oh my god, I’m so sorry I couldn’t quite place you before- you even had lunch with us from time to time.” James exclaimed.
“The world is so small.” Lily beamed, walking to James’ side, who put his arm around her.
“Yeah, and you must remember Remus too! Here, come meet everyone, Y/N.”
The couple lead her into the kitchen, which was crowded with a few people at the table.
“Guys, meet miss Y/L/N, she just sorted out the whole mishap over at Place 11.”
Y/N smiled at everyone shyly and shook their hands. A light-brown-haired man was last to stand up and took her hand as well. She felt her heart skip a beat at the sight of him, the boy one year older than her at Hogwarts that made her breathing go fast each time she was with Lily and her friends. Remus Lupin, whom she had a maddening crush on, but who barely saw her as more than a kid even if the age gap was just one year.
“Moony, do you remember her?” James said, as he poured himself some tea.
Remus smiled kindly at her while giving her hand a squeeze. Y/N felt warm, and oddly comforted.
“You know that fourth year who was crying on the 7th floor at night… cause she was lost, that you stumbled upon during your Prefect rounds? I even hung out with you guys a couple times after that.” She grinned.
“Yes, I remember her!” Remus laughed, throwing his head back. He seemed to put two and two together and backed up a bit again, a little in shock.
“Oh my god, Y/N?”
Whether Y/N imagined it or not, she swore she saw his eyes flick up and down her, giving her a tiny once-over.
“You’ve really grown up, wow.”
Y/N blushed.
Lupin coughed, realizing how his comment could have sounded and scratched the back of his neck slightly nervously. Y/N didn’t mind, in fact, she was more concentrated on his smile, which was kind and tender.
“Yeah, she’s not 14 anymore, and you’re not 15 either.” A booming voice was heard over her shoulder, followed by a bark-like laugh. “Did anyone tell her yet? Sirius Black, by the way.” Sirius smiled, shaking her hand.
“Tell me what?” Y/N questioned.
“Here, come sit down.” Remus gestured, pulling out the chair beside him for her.
“Have you ever heard of the Order of the Phoenix?” Sirius sat down, sounding suddenly serious.
+
Y/N stirred in her sleep, eyes fluttering open as consciousness took over her. She was warm and didn’t want to move an inch, but turned onto her other side, where she met face to face with her husband.
Remus felt her move in his arms and slowly awoke as well, peeking one eye open. Y/N simpered at him, burying her face into his neck as he smiled, squeezing her tightly against him.
“You know what I dreamed about?” Y/N eventually asked, breaking the serene morning silence.
The little cottage they called home was very old, isolated and overlooked large, dense woods filled with deep green, leafy trees. Their mornings rarely were noisy, only small chirps of birds could be heard.
“Mhm, what?” He mumbled into her hair, planting a kiss on the top of her head.
Y/N turned on her stomach to prop herself up on her elbows, beaming at him. “How we met.”
Remus laughed and wrapped his arm around her waist.
“You were like a deer in headlights.” He said.
“No! I mean, like how we met again.”
“Oh!” He chuckled. “When James brought you back. Yeah, I was quite in shock. Back then, you were just Lily’s innocently cute, younger friend that occasionally sat with us.”
“Hmm.” Y/N smiled. “Puberty hit me the year you left.”
“I remember having to tell Sirius to back off that night.”
“Wha- seriously?” She laughed, looking up at him.
“Well, yeah! It just took that one lunch for me to think to myself that you are all I want, really.”
“Shut up.” Y/N grumbled, cheeks turning red.
“It’s true!” Remus said, pressing his lips against her cheek, his mustache tickling her. “You were so smart, the way you talked about everything, but also so brave, the way you just joined the Order on the spot.”
“I didn’t have much to lose anyway-“ Y/N shrugged.
“But I also remember thinking you were just beautiful. Adorable, like a breath of fresh air, even.”
“Moony…” Y/N smiled widely, hiding her face against his chest. “Okay well, you wanna know what I thought of you?”
Lupin’s eyebrows quirked in curiosity.
“When I first saw you after all those years, it was like finding home again.”
“I swear to God, Y/N, you’re gonna make me-“
“It’s true!” Y/N continued, laughing at how flustered Remus could get from any sort of praise. “You were that tall Prefect who rescued me and I never forgot about you. Kinda kept you in the back of my mind, to be honest, after you graduated. And each time Lily invited me to sit with her friends and you were there, God- you didn’t notice me but you made me so nervous! Then, when James mentioned your name, I couldn’t believe I was going to see you again. And I couldn’t believe you had gotten more handsome.” She smiled, stroking a long thin scar that had healed pink on his jawline.
Their closeness was interrupted as a tap on the window was heard. They both sat up, grabbing their wands hurriedly.
“Love, it’s just an owl.” Remus relaxed a bit as a tall fawn owl waited by their windowsill.
Y/N rubbed her eyes, getting up begrudgingly and going to open it.
“Am I a teen again Rem’? ‘Cause, it’s from Hogwarts.”
The large letter with the Hogwarts crest was unmistakably from Dumbledore. Y/N handed it to her husband, to whom it was addressed and he read:
Remus,
I’m hoping this letter finds you well.
I seem to have made a royal time management miscalculation… You see, term starts in two weeks here and I completely forgot to fill in the Defense Against the Dark Arts vacancy. I’ve tried contacting everyone I know, but you must have heard about the misfortune the last two professors had. Quirrell was less of bad luck and more of sheer stupidity on my end, really. Was not expecting him to be so closely affiliated to Voldemort, let alone have him carry around on the back of his head. Anyways…
Would you consider teaching? It’d be fairly easy given your expertise in dueling and such, and of course, the Whomping Willow and Shrieking Shack are still here for you to use. I understand it is very difficult, but do please think about it. Severus Snape is here, and I will convince him to brew you Wolfsbane every month to make your transformations easier on you here.
James’ son is here too, you’ll get a chance to meet him and even teach him. I’m positive you’ll love Harry.
Cheers,
Albus Dumbledore
Remus finished, lips tight at the last part mentioning his old best friend.
“Teaching, eh?” Y/N asked him, sitting comfortably between his legs. “What d’ya think?”
“I’m not sure…”
“I’ll go make some breakfast. You think about it, baby.” Y/N pecked his lips softly.
Lupin cupped her face, kissing her again. She moaned softly, body melting into his.
“Or I can just stay here in bed a little longer…”
“No, no, let’s get up. C’mon, I’ll help you.” Remus swung his legs over their small bed, standing up with Y/N and giving her butt a playful smack.
“Hey!” Y/N laughed, poking him back.
+
“You know… I can get you a book if you want, right?” Lupin quirked an eyebrow at Y/N, smiling pleasantly as he lifted his gaze from his book to meet his wife’s eyes across their cozy kitchen table, who had been glued to him for the past hour. “Don’t have to just spend all day staring at my face.”
“But, your face is pretty.” She said, earning a bashful head shake from Remus. She continued to look at him from on top of her cup of tea as she brought it to her lips for another sip. “I know you want to take it. The teaching position, I mean.”
At that, Remus put his book down, pages closing. He sighed.
“It’s- it’s complicated, darling. I’m… I guess I’m a bit scared.”
“Of the responsibility?”
“No, it’s not that. What if the kids don’t like me? What if they, see me and-“
“Remus…”
“What if they find out? That I’m a-“ His voice trailed off.
Y/N put her tea down and reached for both of his hands, squeezing them hard in hers.
“Remus, they’re not going to know. No one found out when you were a student there, and no kid is going to notice. You’ve used the Willow passage how many times? And this time you’ll be a professor? You’ll have even less rules or precautions to worry about. No offense baby, but I doubt the students will care much about what their Professor Lupin is up to outside of the classroom every full moon.”
Remus chuckled at that.
“And the students won’t be going anywhere near the Whomping Willow! I doubt they’ll be allowed to this year, I heard they’re placing Dementors at every entrance with…”
They both went a little quiet at the thought of their former best friend, Sirius, who had inexplicably managed to escape from Azkaban. They didn’t like thinking too much about him and what had happened, mouths turning sour each time they even tried to imagine how he could have betrayed everyone like that…
“Plus, I kind of like the sound of ‘Professor Lupin’. Kinda rolls off the tongue quite nicely, don’t you think?” Y/N rubbed soft circles with her thumb on his knuckles.
“You know, I’m thinking it can be kind of great.” Remus finally admitted. The look of joy that appeared on Y/N’s face was enough to fully convince himself to do it. “Plus, it’d be really nice to hold an actual, steady job for once.”
Y/N rose from her chair, did a half-run half-skip thing to the back of Remus’ seat and wrapped her arms around his neck.
“DADA professor! You’re gonna be so good.” She smiled, leaning her head against his.
“You will write me, right?” Lupin said, tilting his head backwards to look at Y/N.
“Of course I will, you twat.” Y/N straightened up, hitting his shoulder. “I need to make you new robes!”
“Dear, for the millionth time, I do not need new robes-“
But Y/N was already gone into their room, where she liked to practice a rather useful skill of hers. She loved to buy fabric and charm needles and whatever tool she needed to make her own clothes. She was the happiest when wearing whatever she designed and fabric was cheap, so they could afford it as they lived on her Ministry salary alone, since Remus had trouble finding consistent jobs without getting turned away for being a werewolf. He went through robes like mad from his transformations, but still, refused whenever his wife offered to make him a new set. She made them anyway for him.
The couple spent the next few days chatting merrily about their days at Hogwarts, while Remus also worked on a lesson plan on what he thought he should cover over the term. They were both at Hogwarts at the same time, but only for a year.
“And Flitwick!” Y/N laughed, waving her wand lazily so a sleeve sewed itself to the rest of the garment she was preparing.
“He was quite possibly my favourite, apart from McGonagall. It’s going to be weird! She’s going to be my colleague.” Remus pondered, scratching out the word “poltergeist” and replacing it with “Boggart”.
“I was so scared of her.” Y/N shook her head. “She’s like all I wanted to be when I grow up.”
“Hey, you think it would work if for Boggarts, I make them all stand in a line and face it one by one? Like that, they each get a turn alone hands-on, but also we can confuse it in the end.”
“That’s a really good idea.” Y/N nodded fervently, standing up to inspect the robe she just “made”. “You know, I always wanted to be a teacher, I think… Should have considered that before I took on a stupid Ministry job.”
“Your job is not stupid, love. The Fudge administration really getting you down though, eh?”
Y/N nodded. “Last thing exciting to happen was fucking Harry Potter blowing up his aunt.”
Lupin nearly spilled his water, swallowing quickly before laughing heartily.
“I almost forgot that happened! James would have absolutely died-“
He caught himself and Y/N bit her lip. They both smiled gently. It had been 13 years they have lost Lily and James, but the mention of their death didn’t sting as much as it did at first.
“What subject do you think I’d be best teaching, eh?” Y/N asked Lupin.
He pointed at the flawless set of robes in front of them, each stitch intricately sewn on that it looked handmade.
“Is that even a question, love, Charms of course!”
Before Y/N could reply, as if Albus Dumbledore had been eavesdropping on their whole conversation, something tapped at their window again.
It was the same owl as the day before, carrying yet another letter from Hogwarts.
“It’s probably Dumbledore asking again, Remus, you didn’t send him a reply yet!”
Y/N took the envelope and was surprised to see that it was addressed to her this time. She opened it quizzically and read:
Dear Y/N,
I’m hoping this letter finds you well.
“He’s very creative with his greetings.” Lupin chuckled.
Under unexpected circumstances, Professor Filius Flitwick has decided to take leave this upcoming school year for personal reasons. So, I am currently out a Charms professor.
When asked for suggestions for his temporary replacement, Filius vividly remembered your top marks in his class for both your O.W.Ls and your N.E.W.Ts, as well as the brief times you fought alongside with the Order.
Would you possibly consider teaching? The curriculum is already planned out as we have been using The Standard Book of Spells for I don’t even remember how long. You might even have all your old copies!
Please do let me know soon, as well as give Remus a nudge too. You’d both make excellent professors, truly.
Albus Dumbledore
Y/N stared disbelievingly at the letter.
“So he does have ears everywhere.”
“I hope he does not, especially not during last night-“
Y/N hit her husband’s shoulder with the letter as he grinned cheekily, but took a seat all the same on his lap. Remus wrapped his arms comfortably around her waist, resting his chin on her shoulder to read over her letter too.
“What do you think? You and me teaching at Hogwarts at the same time?” She asked.
“First, do you want to teach Charms at Hogwarts?”
“Yes.” Y/N said timidly.
“Then it’s settled! We’ll both be spending the next year at Hogwarts then!”
Y/N turned around on Remus’ lap to face him, mouth agape.
“Professors Lupin and Lupin.” She exclaimed.
Lupin laughed, picking her up, repeating what she had said.
+
The initial joy and excitement of going back to Hogwarts together wore off slightly, as Lupin’s next transformation drew nearer. When he first started seeing Y/N, he dreaded telling her about his lycanthropy, but to his utmost surprise, not only did she not flinch or wince in any way, she proposed to accompany him next full moon.
“No, you don’t understand, it’s incredibly, extremely dangerous for a human to be around a were-“ Remus had tried to say, before Y/N had stood up and with a crack, disappeared. A single white dove hovered where she had stood, its wings flapping slowly to stay afloat.
“Y/N?”
With a crack, Y/N had appeared again.
“I didn’t know you were an Animagus.”
Y/N grinned.
“What, you thought James, Sirius and Peter were the only ones to ever succeed at it?”
Remus still grimaced, shaking his head and looking down.
“It’s still too dangerous, I won’t risk it. I couldn’t possibly think of hurting you, I’m too dangerous-“
“Remus, stop it. You didn’t hurt Peter as a rat back in the day, you wouldn’t hurt a flinging bird either. Plus, I got a serious height advantage on you anyway.” Y/N raised her eyebrows at him teasingly, transforming back again into the dove and flying up to the ceiling. Lupin wasn’t convinced.
“Y/N, you shouldn’t-“
The dove reappeared as Y/N and kneeled between Lupin’s legs, taking his face into her hands carefully.
“Please? Let me be there for you. Let me try-“
“I-“ Remus winced in his crippling self-doubt.
“I promise, if I ever feel unsafe, I’ll fly away. I promise.”
Remus nodded. “I love you.”
Y/N was taken aback, but surged forward to press her lips against his.
“I love you too.”
It was the first time they had said that to each other.
It was unfortunate that the full moon landed just two nights before the Hogwarts Express was due to leave King’s Cross, but they made do with what they can.
Y/N transformed and was currently soaring through the woods near their small house as Remus, in werewolf form, ran underneath her, howling. It was a secluded forest, no people around, and Remus had to scratch tree trunks and himself. All in all, it wasn’t the worst transformation he had ever endured.
The next day, they lazed in bed, trunks packed in advance. Y/N watched Remus sleep, a couple new cuts on his shoulder beginning to smoothen out thanks to her healing charm-work done on him. She smiled to herself.
She knew how much pain Remus had faced throughout his life, how much discrimination he faced - and continues to face because of his werewolf bite at a very young age. She knew how much he hated it, loathed this part of himself. And she wished he knew how much she loved him, and how little she cared about all of this.
She liked to think Remus knew. Knew how lost she was after Hogwarts, how depressed she was working at the Ministry. How friendships didn’t come easily to her, during school or after, how joining the Order was done completely on a whim from her end, but how it actually ended up saving her life because she had finally, for the first time in her life, found her chosen family. She finally felt home somewhere and found true friendship in all of them, perhaps even more in Remus. Him falling in love with her didn’t save her, she didn’t need saving, and neither did he, but in each other, they eventually found home, a feeling of home they had spent all their lives searching for.
When Lupin woke, they discussed about them showing up together at Hogwarts as a couple. It didn’t seem like the best idea, as they both experienced first-hand how fast rumors travelled at that school, especially ones about romance or potential romances. The students were, after all, still hormonal teenagers. Relationships remained to be one of their favourite topics to discuss, whether they were within the student body or faculty. So, they settled on pretending to be just friends when they were teaching.
+
The next morning, they got to King’s Cross earlier than everyone else to avoid being seen arriving together. Remus was still exhausted from his transformation, but held onto Y/N’s briefcase all the same. He teased her that it was considerably bigger than his, to which she just responded with: “Just ‘cause I’m gonna be a teacher, doesn’t mean I can’t be fashionable.”
“Fashionably late.” Lupin teased Y/N, knowing her reputation of never being on time.
“Oh, shut up. I’ve already decided: I’m cancelling all of my 8am classes. I have the power now, I’m Professor, who’s gonna stop me? Besides, got your sleepy ass here on time, didn’t I?”
Remus grinned softly and leaned into her to give her a kiss on the cheek.
“Make sure you get some sleep on the train, okay bubs?” Y/N said in a small voice, as Remus handed her her luggage.
“Will do, darling.” He nodded.
They arrived to the platform wall, a nostalgic sense of déjà-vu overcoming them.
They looked at each other and smiled.
“Together?”
“Together.”
They interlaced the fingers of their free hand and disappeared through the wall.
part 2
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