Marauders Insults

by Multifangirl6

One-shot "He doesn't acknowledge that these messages were insulting him. He was a million miles away, reliving memories of the good old days." When Sirius dies at the DoM, Remus uses the Marauders Map to talk to his friends.

The Marauders Insults

'Harry. Could I borrow the map?'

It was the end of the school year, 1996. A few days prior, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Neville and Luna had returned to Hogwarts. Some Order Members had followed, like Remus and here he was now, in the Gryffindor Common Room.

'Sure.' Harry mumbled.

Remus Pov

I don't think Harry even listened to what I said, but I don't blame him. He had lost so much already, he didn't need to loose Sirius too. And now he's just sitting here alone, by choice. He won't talk properly to anyone, and he barely eats or sleeps. I really wish he would open up to someone, admit he needs a little love right now.

And that when I realised. I was acting the same way. I haven't slept more than 3 hours a night since the incident, and I can't remember when I last ate. I've been avoiding everyone, doing exactly the same as Harry was now.

'Harry.' I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. 'I'm here if you need anything okay? You want to talk to someone, you can come to me. Believe me, I know what you're going through. I miss Sirius too. And everyone just wants to help you.'

He looks up to me and a faint smile paints his lips. 'Thank you.' He said. 'You can go get the map if you want, it's in the side of my trunk.'

'Oh. Thanks.' Hmm, he had heard me.

I walked up to the boy's dormitory and rummaged through the side of Harry's trunk until I found it. I smiled a sad smile then left the dormitory. As I passed the Common Room, I saw Harry talking with Ron. I'm glad he actually listened. Maybe I should use my own advice. I could go talk to Dora- No.

After Remus left Hogwarts grounds, he apparated to his house. He hadn't been there in a while as he had been housing at Grimmauld Place. But he didn't begin tidying as he would normally. Instead he sat himself down on a single person sofa and pulled out an old piece of parchment.

The scruffy Marauders Map caused Remus to smile. He placed his wand onto the parchment but instead of saying the famous Marauders words, I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good, he told it to 'Reveal your secrets'. Of course, this didn't work. But Remus knew this.

Below the words, Marauders Map, came 4 different sets of handwriting, all saying different things. The loopy writing was familiar, it was his. The tiny little scribbles underneath was Peter's. Underneath this was a note in tidy writing, and at the bottom were some messy scrawls, Sirius.

Moony, Wormtail, Prongs and Padfoot

He doesn't acknowledge that these messages were insulting him. He was a million miles away, reliving memories of the good old days. Those days when they weren't messing with Snape or pranks or Snape or Slytherins or Snape. When they would just hang out and have fun together. Before they were affected by the war, before Peter betrayed them.

I could be happy here, with my memories.

Thank you Harry. I thought.

Harry's Pov

Remus walked into the Common Room and gave me the map back. He had a smile on his face, a genuine one. As he walked off, I peered down at the writing still spread across the map.

The words;

Mr Padfoot

Mr Prongs

Mr Wormtail

Mr Moony

Slowly disappeared from the map and I smiled. Hermione and Ron's faces lit up as they saw me. I smiled again. Thank you Remus. I thought.

There we go! My first one-shot! I'm not that proud of it but what did you think? Constructive criticism is welcome.

See ya,

Multifangirl6