Wolfstar 3rd year
Large dusty volumes and dim light surrounded Sirius early one Saturday morning as he sat alone at the back of the library. All of his friends were still snoring in their beds so he figured he had a few hours to himself before his friends realised he was missing, and if he was lucky maybe another hour on top of that once his friends realised he was not to be found in his usual haunts.
Carefully he selected a book from the shelf brushing the dust away from the title with the sleeve of his robes then returning to his table opened the book and cursed under his breath. The writing was tiny and spidery; he screwed up his eyes and began to read.
Every since his first transfiguration lesson of the year he had been obsessed with the idea of animagi, the ability to transform himself into an animal, he had always envied a dogs characteristics, so playful and care free and now armed with the knowledge that he could, with enough hard work, become an animal he was determined to experience it.
Then he heard something in his defence against the dark arts lesson that made him even more determined to achieve his goal.
They had reached the stage in their curriculum where they were beginning to learn about darker creatures. Sirius had to sit though 2 hours of information about werewolves and how dangerous and deadly they were. He kept his fists clenched in his lap and tried not to listen as the teacher droned on about how mindless and vicious they were and then went on to list effective ways of killing them.
His hands started shaking with anger. Not all werewolves were bad, some wanted more than anything to control it, to stop themselves hurting others. He felt a gentle hand squeeze his shoulder and turned to see Remus Lupin, his best friend trying silently to calm him down, as he listened with amusement to the teacher's lesson.
Then something made him sit bolt upright in the lesson. The teacher was now talking about the affect of another animal on the werewolves' behaviour. How the presence of another animal calmed the wolf part of the brain and made it less aggressive, less likely to attack .
This he knew was Remus' biggest fear, that he would hurt someone. That the wolf part of his brain would give into that mindless anger and attack an innocent person. And so from that lesson on it because Sirius's mission to become an animagus.
A sneeze brought him back to reality. He was nearly half way through the book. He looked outside, the sun was fully up now and students were milling about eating toast or sitting by the black lake reading in the warm summer air. He pushed up his sleeves of his robes and sneezed. He realised it was him who had sneezed the first time. His eyes were sore from tiredness and the dusty air. He stood up and stretched making the dust shake from his sleeves and casuing him to sneeze again, but he didn't care. He sat down and buried his head in the book once again.
It was extremely complicated magic, but he resolved to work at it in all his spare time. He rubbed his eyes as he got a second book down from the shelf and began taking notes till his head began to swim then got up again and piled as many books as he could into his bag to read later.
He would learn how to become an animagi, he would study all summer if he had to. He had to find a way to help him because he simply could not bear the fear and pain in Remus' eyes whenever the full moon was near. Remus was his best friend and Sirius cared more for him than he did for anyone else and he would do whatever it took to see him happy.