The Discovery
"Hey, Moony, come and look at this…" A young, handsome boy called out for his friend. The boy, seventeen year old Sirius Black was sitting in an arm-chair by the fire in the Gryffindor common room, while he was looking at an old piece of parchment.
The other boy, Remus Lupin, one of Sirius's best friends sat by a table with his home work spread out, trying to concentrate, something that wasn't easy to do with Sirius company.
"What is it this time, Padfoot? He answered with a voice filled with annoyance. Did Lily try to run from Prongs again, or was it just Snape going to the library?" He continued while he looked down on his essay, thinking of what to write next.
"No… It's just odd, you don't have any relatives at the school, right now, that you know of, do you?"
"No Padfoot, you know I don't, so why ask?"
"It just appeared a dot on the map, right outside the Room of Requirement, with the name "Ted Lupin", and I don't think that "Lupin" is that common as a surname."
Now Sirius had Remus full attention, he bent over the table and reach out for the map to have a look at it.
"Sirius it can't be right." Remus began to say, but he was interrupted by another boy, who just came in through the portrait hole.
"What can't be right, Moony, isn't Padfoot always the one with the right answers". James Potter said sarcastic, while he throw him self on the couch next to Sirius. "For example it was Padfoot who said that Lily would go out with me, but as usual she sad no." He continued with one hand running through his uncontrolled hair.
James had asked Lily Evans out many times, but had always been turned down, but he had never really lost hope, until recently, when he had started to think that maybe she actually didn't like him. When he had shared his thoughts with his two friends, Sirius had been the one who said that Lily surely had started to come around.
James glared at Sirius, and then he asked,
"So what isn't right?"
"There's a dot outside the Room of Requirement, with the name "Ted Lupin"." Remus explained, Sirius nodding excitedly.
"Is it someone we know?" James asked, looking concerned, it wasn't everyday someone just showed up at Hogwarts out of nowhere.
"I have never heard the name before, should we do something?" Remus tired face seemed a bit older than the others and there was worry in his eyes.
"Yes! We take the invisibility cloak and the map, then we go down and check this out, Moony, Prongs, are you with me!" Sirius said enthusiastically and stood up, ready to go.
"Ok, I'll get the cloak, wait for me down here." James walked to the stairs and then took them two at a time.