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Prologue summary: Remus's assignment during Harry's fifth year is to act as a guard on Dudley Dursley at Smeltings, posing as his history teacher. Nymphadora Tonks, posing as his wife (disguised and aged "appropriately") will make regular visits with his Wolfsbane Potion. Sirius is disturbed by the quiet at home, now that everyone except Remus is gone.
Chapter One
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Summary: Remus meets his office mate, a maths teacher named Allan Garvey, who tells him that his (Remus's) predecessor, boxing coach/history teacher Joe Levinson, left the position because of a mysterious disease. He also warns Remus that the boxers were pretty darned dedicated to Joe--a good fellow by all accounts--and Joe's replacement might have some trouble with them. In part 2, Remus teaches his first two classes, falling back into the position gratefully. He and Garvey are on their way to lunch when they meet a group of older kids bullying two of Remus's first form students. It appears to be led by Piers Polkiss, but the real leader of the group identifies himself--Dudley Dursley. Remus meets Dudley's class, and gets a brief Dudley's eye view of the world--full of little runts (Hitler, in Dudley's example) who need to be pounded before they start thinking they're too powerful. Tonks picks him up to take him home.
Chapter Two
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Summary: Remus realizes that he must meet and speak to his predecessor, both about Dudley and about his mysterious illness. He accepts Garvey's invitation to Sunday lunch. Tonks finds out about this when she brings the Wolfsbane and decides to come along. She also tells him that Sirius is so bored, he's cooking. Back at Grimmauld Place, Sirius is brooding, and Remus tries to take his mind off things with conversation. Tonks arrives, and the three of them plan a cover story for the purposes of "office gossip." They stay up all night taking pictures, and a weary Remus spends the next day at Smeltings in a daze. By chance, he overhears that Dudley is suspicious of him, and is therefore not surprised when he finds Dudley trying to break into his office.
Chapter Three
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Summary: Remus assigns Dudley three days of detention for breaking into his office, to be served next week, but Smeltings otherwise goes on as usual. Over the weekend, Remus and Tonks, in costume, attend lunch at Alan Garvey's home, where Joe Levinson, Remus's predecessor, tells him about his friendship with Dudley, and about an incident involving an attack by two wizarding folk that left him incapacitated. Meanwhile, Ted Tonks, a Seer, warns Remus that Sirius needs to make more connections to the world, but with a transformation coming up, Remus doesn't have time to think about it. He comes home to find Sirius sitting on the stairs with a letter from Harry.
Chapter Four
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Summary: Remus is planning to spend some time with the house-bound Sirius, and has some fun with him when he receives Harry's letter, but Kingsley Shacklebolt calls him in to do extra duty for the Order. The next day, he has to go early to prepare for his transformation. Dora, who has been making his Wolfsbane Potion, follows him out to the place where he is transforming. He is unexpectedly affectionate with her, and they are both uncomfortable about it. The moon rises.
Chapter Five
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Summary: While the moon is full, the people surrounding Remus consider their lives.
Chapter Six
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Remus goes to work the day after his transformation, not only dealing with the normal physical pain, but with anger at Sirius over his conversation with Harry, with a photograph of himself and Dora that bothers him more than it should, and with the detention he assigned to Dudley Dursley.
Chapter Seven
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Back at Grimmauld Place, the Order has gathered to decide what to do about Umbridge having been appointed as High Inquisitor at Hogwarts--putting at least three members of the Order under constant surveillance. While they are making a plan, Remus's hard transformation catches up to him; he passes out. Molly Weasley looks after him.
Chapter Eight
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Remus returns to school to find that he has to learn how to use his computer, and decides that it would be a good way to break the ice with Dudley. Dudley isn't terribly willing, but does help out. Meanwhile, Sirius, Dora, and Remus get closer through a Transfiguration duel, and Molly advises Dora that she might be doing damage to her reputation. When Remus goes back to Smeltings the next day, Dudley again confronts him with his knowledge that he's a wizard, and Remus decides that it's time to lay down a truth or two.
Chapter Nine
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Remus reveals his identity to Dudley to ver little effect--after a brief bout of fear, Dudley returns to sullenness. Remus, Dora, and Sirius (as Padfoot) attend a picnic at Alan Garvey's, where Remus again talks to Joe Levinson, and Sirius finds out a little more about the attack from the idle chatter of Levinson's grandchildren, who are playing with him.
Chapter Ten
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The Order reacts to the news of Harry's meeting in Hogsmeade. Sirius agrees to contact him (and pass along Molly's disapproval). Sirius and Remus decide to play a prank on Narcissa, to try and flush her out, but Dora comes up with a hitch in their theory of the crime--why would Voldemort have been planning an attack through Dudley when he had the Triwizard scheme going on? To make sure that they're on the right track, they make arrangements with Andromeda to examine Joe Levinson for magical injuries.
Chapter Eleven
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While Remus is transformed, Tonks and her mother go to examine Joe.
Chapter Twelve
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Several of Remus's acquaintances accuse him of not committing to various things in his life, and he responds by becoming more involved at Smeltings... not entirely to Sirius's liking. Meanwhile, to help preserve their cover, Tonks takes a flat in Muggle London.
Chapter Thirteen
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Remus attends a boxing match and sees Dudley fight... a little bit more up close than he was planning to when Dudley blames him for Joe's illness.
Chapter Fourteen
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As Remus deals with Dudley's removal from the boxing team, Mundungus Fletcher brings news of Harry's removal from the Quidditch team. Remus--in his Mr. Lewis guise--meets with the Dursleys.
Chapter Fifteen
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While Remus and Dora are enjoying a day off, Sirius escapes his confinement at Grimmauld Place, throwing the Order into disarray as they scramble to deal with his capricious moods.
Chapter Seventeen: Interlude
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While the moon is full, Remus's companions and associates have occasion to think about the issue of families.
Chapter Eighteen
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After Remus's transformation, Dumbledore contacts him. It seems that during the full moon, several werewolves were free; Dumbledore wants Remus to investigate, as he suspects Peter Pettigrew may be involved.
Chapter Nineteen
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Remus visits Peter's mother, who gives him a clue, which he follows to an abandoned house in Kent, where he finds an injured man being kept prisoner by two werewolves... and Peter. Remus tries to catpure Peter and Peter tries to convince Remus to join him. Peter slips away before Tonks and her Auror partner can capture--or identify--him.
Chapter Twenty
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Remus is brought into the Ministry to answer questions about his presence in Kent, Arthur Weasley is attacked, and the children arrive in London for the holiday.
Chapter Twenty-One
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The Christmas holidays are a respite for the Grimmauld Place family, as Harry, the Weasleys, and Hermione fill the house up again.
Chapter Twenty-Two
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While Remus is transformed, the other characters deal with some of the complexities of family life.
Chapter Twenty-Three
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When Remus and Dora escort the children back to Hogwarts, they decide to have lunch together in Hogsmeade, and Remus gets something of a shock when he starts drawing a beautiful woman at the Three Broomsticks.
Chapter Twenty-Four
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While Remus's discomfort over his new feelings is overshadowed when the Order of the Phoenix is thrown into disarray by the escape of ten Death Eaters.
Chapter Twenty-Five
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Dora comes up with a risky idea to get Joe Levinson to St. Mungo's and cure him. Remus acts on another sort of risky idea.
Chapter Twenty-Six
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Remus and Dora have only been able to enjoy their new relationship for a little while when Harry's Quibbler interview changes quite a lot around them.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
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While the moon is full, Dora and Andromeda attend a birth, and Andromeda decides to tell her family what's happened to her.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
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The Tonks family, Sirius, and Remus view Joe Levinson's memory and finally learned what happened to Dudley Dursley. Remus convinces Dudley to come to St. Mungo's and have the curse on him cleared.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
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Remus and Dora sneak a very frightened Dudley into St. Mungo's, where he is treated for Narcissa's curse. Mehadi Patil suggests a Memory Charm for him, but Remus thinks it would be a bad idea.
Chapter Thirty
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Dumledore is sacked from Hogwarts, and begins to make good on his promise to make Fudge's life difficult. Meanwhile, Dudley isn't doing well with his memories of Narcissa and the visit to St. Mungo's, and lobbies Remus for a Memory Charm, which Remus is quite reluctant to do.
Chapter Thirty-One
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Harry appears in the Grimmauld Place kitchen fire, and Sirius and Remus deal with Snape.
Chapter Thirty-Two
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The Order helps the Weasley twins get their business up and running, while Remus gives more thought to the effects of magical bullying, and reconsiders his decision about Dudley's request.
Chapter Thirty-Three
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As the moon rises on June, the characters move toward their fates.
Chapter Thirty-Four
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As the school year draws to a close, Remus and Dora begin to shut down their masquerade and look forward to the future... just as the real catastrophe begins.
Chapter Thirty-Five
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TAs the Order scrambles to re-establish control at Hogwarts after Minerva McGonagall and Hagrid are removed, Snape brings them the news that Harry has disappeared, and is probably headed for the Department of Mysteries..
Chapter Thirty-Six
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Remus, Tonks, Sirius, Moody, and Kingsley make their way through a boobytrapped Ministry of Magic to find the missing children, and battle the Death Eaters who have trapped them.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
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In the aftermath of the Ministry battle, Remus becomes a safe haven for his former students, then finds a safe haven of his own.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
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The moon rises for the first time after the battle, and the characters around Remus react to loss.
Epilogue
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Remus and the Order look forward as the students come home for the summer.
