what she says: i’m fine
what she means: it has been eight years since the release of the final harry potter book and seventeen years since the battle of hogwarts, and still i am not over the death of remus lupin. excluding his seven years at school, which were happy thanks to his friends (though still marred by both his lycanthropy and the war being waged around him), his entire life was filled with hardship and sadness. the prejudice he experienced meant not only that he was he lonely and excluded from society, but that he also lived much of his life in poverty as he was unable to find work. he lost his four closest friends, who were the brightest things in his life, in quick succession, and was left alone in the world to struggle with his condition. when 12 years later one of his friends miraculously returned to him, it was only to be cruelly taken away from him again after two short years. despite all of this he remained compassionate and kind. his lycanthropy was also the stem of much self hatred, leading him to believe that he did not deserve to find love or build a family, scared of the hardships that his condition might inflict upon them. it was soon after he finally managed to accept himself for who he was, and found love and happiness in nymphadora tonks and his son, teddy, that he (and his wife) were violently torn from the world, leaving their newborn son orphaned, and meaning that there were no longer any marauders left alive.