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Marauders Chapter 1
Remus woke up with a start. His hands were sweaty and his head was pounding. He stumbled into the bathroom and dry retched, to no avail. He leant his head against the cool wall. A single tear slid down his face. He had just had another nightmare about
that night seven years ago. The night that took his innocence, his youthfulness and his humanity.
Four-year-old Remus was arguing with his parents, Lyall and Hope. They had just told him to stay had seemed unusually serious. Remus was annoyed and sad because he had left his favourite teddy, , outside and he wanted to go out and
get it. Lyall told him to stay in his room until the morning. Remus stomped up to his room in a huff. He sat on his bed and sulked until an idea came to him. He would sneak outside and rescue his teddy bear! So Remus went quietly downstairs and snuck
out the back door. For some strange reason it wasn't locked like it usually was, but Remus payed no attention. Perhaps if he had looked a little closer he would have seen the long scratch marks across the wood. He noticed his teddy close to the edge
of the forest and ran up to it .Then he heard a strange noise, like a growl of a dog. Remus had always liked dogs so he went a little further to try and see it. Then he saw a pair of bright golden eyes staring at him. Remus whimpered , that didn't
look like a dog. Then a huge,hairy,slobbery wolf came out of the bushes, hackles raised. Remus screamed. The wolf attacked. The wolf sank his teeth into the four-year-olds chubby arm. Remus looked down and what he saw horrified him. His arm was bleeding
and a gap of flesh had been removed. Remus took in large gulps of air. He could taste the salty taste of tears and screamed again. The beast sunk its teeth in again. Remus could hear in the distance the sound of his mother screaming and his father
yelling before he blacked out.
Hope and Lyall came bursting into Remus' room. "What is it darling?" Hope asked . "Nothing" Remus said. "Just a nightmare" "If you're sure." said Hope, but she looked worried. "Anyway come down, breakfast is ready!" Remus got changed quickly into
jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs. He could hear his parents arguing with someone at the door. That was strange, Remus thought. No one ever came over. Not any more. Not since the night when Remus was bitten. Then there was a loud crack and
a very odd-looking man stood beside Remus. "Hello" said the man. He was wearing a purple robe and had silvery white hair , a long beard and twinkling eyes behind gold half-moon spectacles. "My name is Albus Dumbledore. What's yours?" " R-Remus Lupin
s-sir" Remus stuttered. He had read so much about Albus Dumbledore. He was the headmaster of Hogwarts. Just another wizarding school soon to turn him down. But Albus Dumbledore was a highly respected member of the community so Remus found himself
asking nervously, "Do you want to play a game?"
Two minutes later Lyall and Hope came into their sitting room to find their usually shy son chatting away and playing gob stones with the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. " We already told you. " Lyall said furiously. " He can't
attend." Albus Dumbledore surveyed Lyall and then asked calmly " Why ever not? " Lyall opened and closed his mouth, looking rather like a goldfish. Hope placed a reassuring hand upon her husbands arm, and smiled gently at him, calming him. Lyall took
a deep breath and turned to Albus Dumbledore. " Have you not heard that our son has a...condition that prevents him from attending school?"Albus Dumbledore looked at him. "Why yes, I have." "But then surely you know that his lycanthropy is dangerous
to him and to the people around him. " Lyall said quietly. Remus was watching the discussion with wide eyes and bated breath. " I see no reason why your sons Lycanthropy would stop him from receiving a magical education." Remus gasped, his eyes wide.
"What do you mean?" Lyall asked quietly. Albus answered, " I believe that I have found a way for your son to attend school. " Remus jumped to his feet. " Really?" He asked, trying to sound casual and failing miserably. Albus Dumbledore nodded slightly.
" I have made sure that there are nessesary precautions for the full moon " Remus jumped up excitedly. " Can I go? Can I? " Lyall glanced at his wife who nodded slightly. "Yes!" exclaimed Remus and raced upstairs.
Remus swept his hair in his face trying to hide a long, thin scar that he had received during a particularly painful full moon. Unfortunately Remus had always looked a rather thin, sickly-looking boy and had always been teased for the numerous scars
that littered his body. " Be good now" said his father kindly. "And don't let anyone find out about your…" His mother lowered her voice " condition". Remus answered quietly "Don't worry, I won't." "Now" his father said in a much more cheerful tone.
"you go out and have fun and meet some friends!" Remus nodded, a smile forming on his face. He began to walk towards the train and on his way he saw a boy around his age with a cruel-looking, haughty black-haired woman ,who Remus assumed to be his
mother for they both had the haughty look of a pureblood family. The boy shouted at the woman before jumping on the train. Remus saw to his left the Potter Family strolling in to the platform. The woman was trying to press down her sons hair. "Does
it ever lie flat?" She asked. The son laughed and jumped on the train waving goodbye. Remus turned his eyes back to his parents. "I'm scared." He said quietly. " Don't worry son, Albus has made sure that no one can get hurt. You and the other students
will be fine." Lyall said reassuringly. Remus nodded and hopped on the train, waving goodbye to his parents. Then Remus walked slowly down the train looking for an empty compartment. A red-haired girl and a greasy-haired boy marched out of a
compartment. Remus peeked inside. "Can I - can I sit here?" He asked. The two black haired boys nodded, grinning. "My names Sirius Black, what's yours?" One of the boys said. Remus took a step back. Black was a wizarding family known for blackmail,
torture and murder. The boys laughed. "Don't worry" Sirius said. " I'm not like the rest of my idiot family." Remus grinned and sat down shyly. "And my names James Potter." The bespectacled, messy-haired, boy said. "My names Remus Lupin." said Remus
quietly. "Nice to meet you, Remus!" James said cheerfully.
A few minutes later they heard the sound of scuffling in the corridor. They peeked out and saw a plump mousy boy cornered by three Slytherin fifth years. "Hey, Bella!" The dark-haired, heavy lidded girl whipped round. "What are you doing with that scum,
Sirius?" She asked, referring to James and Remus. James boiled with rage while Remus stepped back nervously. "Expelliarmus!" shouted Sirius. The wand flew out of the girl ( bella's? ) hand. Sirius quickly disarmed the rest of the Slytherins and while
they were retrieving their wands and James was asking Sirius about that spell Remus went over to the plump boy and gave him a hand up. "T-thanks" muttered the plump boy. "No problem" answered Remus. "My names Remus and these are James and Sirius."
James gave the boy a small wave and Sirius smiled at him. "M-my name's P-Peter Pettigrew." Peter squeaked. "Hello, Peter and welcome to our carriage" Remus said.
A few minutes later the trolley came by. "Anything from the trolley, dears?" The witch asked. "Anything,guys?" James asked. Remus shrugged. He would love some chocolate but his parents weren't well off. They used to be but they spent all their money on
treatments meant to cure Remus of his Lcanthropy. "A bit of everything" said James. "For everyone." Remus stared at James as he pulled out lots of gold coins. James shrugged at the look on Remus' face. " My parents are well off " He said. Remus grabbed
a chocolate frog and enjoyed the feeling of going to Hogwarts and having friends.
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