A small ray of light cascaded through an open window and travelled until it met the sleeping form of Remus Lupin. The bright light shone through his eyelids, dragging him into consciousness. Remus brought his hands to his face, rubbing his eyes to rid himself of sleep and sat up, looking round. The familiar scene of the hospital wing met his eyes. However, what usually never happened so early in the morning was the hospital wing to have people in it. Usually, it was strange to have one bed filled at this time of day, but three beds were occupied and Madam Pompfrey was leaning over one of the beds, forcing one of her patients to swallow some medicine. She didn't even notice Remus who was now awake as she hurried to attend to the next person. Remus decided that he should probably let himself out of her way as she was obviously busy. He had just pulled on his school robes when finally Madam Pompfry seemed to acknowledge his existence.
"Oh, hello Remus. Feeling alright?" she asked
"yes thanks. I don't think I got hurt this time" he said reassuringly
"Well that's great news. I have been up all night because three imbeciles got into an argument" she muttered darkly, gathering up more bottles
"What happened?" Remus asked, curious what he had missed
"It seems as though Potter deliberately broke Black's nose" she began. Remus could already tell that this wouldn't end well "and Pettigrew tried to fix it instead of coming straight to me" Remus vaguely teaching Peter how to fix noses. He had also told him never to do so. Madam Pompfry continued "instead, Pettigrew got the spell wring and ended up completely removing Blacks nose. Black then shot a spell at Pettigrew which removed all his bones" Remus gasped
"He didn't!" shock coloured his tone
"He did" she disagreed "so in defence, Potter stepped in and they got into a muggle fight. Apparently, as they wouldn't stop punching each other, several students casted a variety of different spells at the same time which resulted into Black having three broken bones, a cracked rib, blue hands and his nose won't grow back and Potter has two cracked ribs, a fractured skull, seven broken bones and both of them have severe amounts of blood loss and covered in bruises"
Aside from all this, Madam Pompfrey wouldn't let Remus see his friends, but had been promised that there would be ne long term damage, if Sirius's nose would grow back. Remus walked down to the great hall for some breakfast and surprised to see in total, one Gryffindor sitting at the Gryffindor table. Lily Evans looked extremely angry as the Slytherin's laughed pointing at the lack of Gryffindor's. Remus sat down next to her
"Where is everyone?" he asked in a worried voice
"in Dumbledor's office. Did you hear what happened?" she asked
"Yes, I overheard some Ravenclaws talking about it and went to the hospital wing. Madam Pompfrey explained everything but didn't let me in" only half of this was a lie "but I don't get why no one's here" Lily smiled and patted Remus on the shoulder
"Everyone in the common room were throwing different hexes everywhere. I bet Dumbledor's trying to work out who's responsible for what" she explained
"Then why aren't you there too?" he asked. Lily smiled sadly
"I was in the library with Severus, doing some light reading about Polyjuice Potion. Ever heard of it?" Remus nodded
"My father gave me a book about it, it's really useful and informative. If you want you could borrow it" he offered
"thanks Remus" she said "so where were you yesterday?" she demanded
"I was at my aunt's funeral. She died of a deadly disease she caught when hunting. She liked to go out a lot" or course, his aunt didn't go out a lot because she was also nonexistent.
"Well that seems to have cleared up the matter of Peter thinking you were
attending your fathers birthday and shopping with your mother, Sirius thought you were feeling sick, Severus saw you walking towards the wimping willow, James claiming that he may have been seeing things due to the grease from his hair dripping into his eyes making him see things and you told me this morning that you were visiting your mother who is ill. Peter then claimed that her illness was just a common cold and was sorted out weeks ago. So, where were you really?" Remus raised an eyebrow, doing some quick thinking before answering
"you can't tell anyone, but I got a place at MI6 doing some research about how to domestic minds of young criminals work. For instance, did you know that most criminals are not only muggles but also late teenagers or in their early twenties?" Lily rolled her eyes "Professor McGonagall made me promise that I wouldn't tell anyone about this. I have regular meetings monthly" Remus tried his best to sound convincing
"Sure she did" replied Lily in the air of someone being able to instantly detects a lie.
"Anyways, I need to speak to Professor Flitwick about some stuff I need to catch up on" Remus said hurriedly "I'll see you in Divination?" he asked
"See you in Divination" she agreed
