Chapter 977: Acceptance

Seeing that the wedding was about to begin, the guests found their seats to sit down - because Lupin and the others were inviting real friends and relatives who had been approved by them, and the number of guests in the whole wedding scene seemed to be much smaller than a normal wedding, but compared to those grand and luxurious weddings, the atmosphere at this time was less hypocritical and more sincere and warm.

There is no red tape, and the ceremony is very simple. With the wedding loudly announced to the eyes of the guests, Ted took Tonks' hand and walked towards Lupin, who was waiting in the middle of the carpet of petals.

Tonks smiled, his cheeks flushed with happiness, and his eyes seemed to revel in love, shining as bright and charming as stars. The white wedding dress was close to her skin, revealing her beautiful figure, and the flowing skirt tail even took out her slender and white legs.

The moment they stepped out of the petal arch, the petals on the arch made of various flowers flew out one after another, revolving around Tonks and Ted, and the rain of flowers made the wedding scene look very romantic.

"I am so grateful to all of you for coming to my wedding... To be honest, we actually didn't plan to do it for a while... I've always been afraid that my long-standing stigma will affect my wife, and I don't want to publicize our union, and I've been torn between two relationships, elated at the time of being with the woman of my dreams, and horrified by the ostracism I might bring to Dora..."Lupin watched his wife and father-in-law approach, and then he said in a loud voice to the guests around him, " What warms my heart is that I see in everyone's eyes that reality is much better than what happened in my stupid self-delusions. ”

Lupin's Muggle mother, Hope Howell Lupin, also got up, and could vaguely recognize her charm in her youth, and she didn't feel uncomfortable standing in the middle of a group of wizards as a Muggle.

"My son is very much like his father, Lyle, who is very smart, but sometimes he can't turn corners and is shy... You know, I was a normal guy you call a Muggle, working for an insurance company in Cardiff, and I later learned that my husband, Lyle, had become a world-renowned scholar at the age of thirty, specializing in non-human ghostly phenomena...

And I often go for walks in the forest that I have always thought to be uneventful, as a Muggle I can't see something, but with a keen sense I always feel that something is watching me in the dark bushes... Eventually, one day I came across one that I could see...

I was stupefied by the sudden appearance of a large, hideous-looking man who snarled at me with his head down, his big hands raising to cover the sky... Hearing my scream, Lyle, who was young at the time, waved his wand and let the monster retract into the mushroom field, I didn't know until later that this was a thing that was boggart, and there was no real danger..."Hope's expression looked more energetic than she had just now, and she bowed slightly to everyone present before she spoke: "Ah, I'm sorry, people are a little confused when they're old, and what I want to talk about is not the love story of my old woman... I want to tell you that it is not his son Remus Lupin who became a werewolf, but the sin of his father and me..."

"Mom, thank you, but my situation is not caused by you, you don't have to blame yourself... Let's move on to the wedding, shall we?" Lupin turned to look at his mother, wondering why she had brought it up, thinking that she was starting to get confused again.

Lupin's mother didn't shut up because of her son's reminder, she took a deep breath and continued to speak: "All of you here are friends and relatives of my son and my son's wife, so I think it is time to tell everyone how Remus became a werewolf... When Remus was four years old, the man you spoke of was secretly on his way to his first ascent, and I heard from Lyle that many dark creatures were also part of the plot to overthrow the Ministry of Magic, and that my husband, as an authority figure, even for some of the less dangerous lesser creatures, embraced the management of magical beasts... The Ministry of Control? or an invitation from the Division... Because of this, he met with Fenrir Greyback, a werewolf who was implicated in two Muggle child cases... When Lupin was attacked, my husband told me what had happened..."

There was silence in the audience, and most people were drawn to Lupin's story, except for Andromida, who looked a little impatient and made her look more like her sister Bella, but when she noticed that her daughter and husband Ted were also fascinated by the day, and realized that they didn't care about their in-laws talking about it at the wedding ceremony, she sighed and relaxed.

"The Werewolf Control Division was running quite badly at the time, and the wizarding society's avoidance of werewolves kept them from contact with others - and of course I have to thank Mr. Alan Harris and Ms. Josephine Harris for making things so much better for the werewolves. Hope continued, and Lupin's werewolf friends applauded his gratitude to Harris.

"In short, Greyback, who is not exposed, declares himself to be a vagabond, and expresses his panic in a room full of wizards and hearing that a child has died... At that time, the wizards didn't seem to have much to do to find out his identity, so the members of the interrogation committee were so convinced by him..."Hope fell into memory, "My husband was not so easily deceived, he saw the clues from Greyback's appearance and behavior, and he suggested that the committee should detain Greyback until the next full moon..."

"Hope, my in-laws, was Remus retaliated for revealing Greyback's identity?" Ted, who was a little impatient, stared at the cream belly and asked the question in the minds of many people present.

"No, the committee members laughed at my husband for letting him take care of his own boggart... And my husband, Lyle, who was polite most of the time, was enraged..."Hope fell into a sense of guilt, and she looked at her son lovingly," Lyle went on to describe the werewolf as. Soulless and evil, the only thing he deserves is to die', the council orders Lyle to leave the interrogation room and apologize to Greyback, and sends him out of the wizarding world to return to the place where he was captured, but before he can cast your spell on him that can make people forget something, Greyback's accomplices who are ambushed in place subdue the wizards of the Ministry of Magic, and the three werewolves flee - Greyback and immediately told all of his werewolf accomplices, Lyle, to describe them as successful, and then one night a few days before Remus's fifth birthday, they attacked him...."

Many witches present let out an exclamation, although Lupin is a werewolf and is already known in the wizarding society, but few people know the secret story behind it, even Lupin's friend Sirius knows so much for the first time.

"After that, Lyle tried his best to find a cure for the werewolf, but the magic spells and potions that usually seemed to me did not help our son, and from then on, our family was limited by the need to hide Lem's symptoms, and we moved from the village to the town, and as soon as there was a word of his strange behavior, we would leave again... But it's almost inevitable, except for the fear that he accidentally leaks his story or that something will happen... He wasn't allowed to play with any of the other children, and wizards and witches could always sense that Remus was always very haggard when the crescent moon came from you...

As Remus gets older, it gets harder and harder to do this, initially Lyle was able to subdue Remus at the full moon with just a swing of his magic stick, but when he was ten years old, his wolf form grew, and Lyle needed more spells to fight him to do this, don't get me wrong... We love our son, but in time I also learned about wizarding society, at a time when the wizarding world would not tolerate any uncontrolled werewolf, and our expectations for the bright future that our son once maintained seemed to have been wiped out, and Lyle homeschooled Remus because he was sure that our son would never step into a single step into magic school. ”

Lupin's mother, Hope, talked eloquently about her experience in the insurance company, so that the wizards in the audience seemed to forget the fact that it was a wedding, and even Allen, who knew the inside story and was good at speaking, couldn't help but be fascinated, and Lupin himself was a little choked up because of the scar being mentioned again, and Tonks looked at Lupin, who was about to become her husband, with tears in his eyes.

"Remus, all I have said once from beginning to end these things that I never wanted to say is because I want to tell you that it is your father and my sin that you became a werewolf, that you have suffered all this because of my and your father's stupidity and incompetence, but on the other hand, you are lucky.

Like when you were eleven years old, we found Mr. Albus Dumbledore at our door, we tried to stop him from entering, but it was in vain, and five minutes later, Mr. Dumbledore was already sitting by the fire, eating muffins and playing with you with the stones... Dumbledore told us he knew what was going on with you, because Greyback was declaring what he was doing to you among the dark creatures, and he planted a lot of eyeliner in the dark creatures... Anyway, Dumbledore finally got Hogwarts to accept you...

It's your luck, as your parents couldn't do it by someone else who was kind to you, and at school, you met Sirius, who was willing to accept you, and after graduation, you met the Harris family...

And now as your mother, I want to tell you that your greatest luck is that you have met Nymphadora Tonks... Uh, sorry, I shouldn't have called that name... Remus, Dora, is a good woman, and she has never despised your werewolf status, any more than my husband ever despised my Muggle identity...

So, Remus, my stupid son, please don't keep stressing at a woman's wedding how much you don't want this wedding or are afraid of what will happen to her in the future, believe me, trust your mother, Dora must think very clearly about these things before she wants to marry you, so what you have to do is let your wife enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime wedding... Although I don't have any position on you to say this, I hope that in the future, you can try to see yourself as a normal person, this is not to ask you to ignore your werewolf identity, but I hope you can accept it... I think Dora, Sirius, Mr. Alan Harris, Mr. Albus Dumbledore, they have accepted it a long time ago, they have received you with a normal heart... So I also hope that you will treat the people around you with this attitude... Instead of passing on the pain we have given you to others..."

"Mom, thank you, I've always been a stupid person..."Lupin, who realized that he didn't take care of his wife in the name of love after being reminded by his mother, looked at his wife apologetically, "I'm sorry... Dora... I've always been stuck in this cycle of my own making... For all sorts of essentially selfish reasons, you've been subjected to a lot... I've been wronged by a lot of grievances that shouldn't have existed in the first place..."

Lupin didn't have his mother's gift for eloquence, he just extended his hand to his fiancée, Tonks, who was being held by his father-in-law.