1st November 1981

Remus Lupin, a werewolf and marauder was devastated. He had lost everything within a few hours. James and Lily, both were dead, no word of Peter and Sirius was in Azkaban for betrayal. He had tried to reach Harry before anyone got to him, but when he reached Godric's Hollow no one was there except his friend's bodies. He had desperately tried to find Harry but had failed. And Remus was very very desperate. His instinct was telling him to get to Harry first but he couldn't even find him. After Sirius's arrest he had also tried to meet with him but was not allowed and now here he was in his Family home, licking his wounds and trying to find some hope to live with.

He had also received a letter from the Headmaster asking him to come as soon as possible but Remus was dandling as he was not in fit shape for anyone's company. So he decided to go next day after somewhat getting himself under control.

So here he was now getting ready for his meeting with Headmaster at the Hogwarts. Remus can't even imagine why Headmaster wanted to meet with him, as far as he was concerned nothing else matter to him right now. He apparated to the Hogwarts and entered the main gate and walked towards the Headmaster's Office. He had been to Headmaster's Office so many times during his school years that he was able to easily find the Office. He gave the password to the statue on the entrance, climbed the steps and knocked on the door.

"Enter" came the sound of the Headmaster from the inside. Remus entered the Office. He saw that Headmaster was not the only occupant of the Office as Professor MacGonagall was also sitting there and both were looking very worried.

"Hello Headmaster. Professor MacGonagall"

"Hello Remus…..have a seat please" Headmaster said.

"How are you coping up Remus?" inquired the Professor MacGonagall.

" I am well professor" replied Remus taking the seat next to the professor.

" lemon drops?" asked the Headmaster.

" No thanks Headmaster, what happened? Why you called so urgently?" Remus asked while looking around the Headmaster's office and was suddenly bombarded with all the memories he had about this office about the marauders. He was so deep in the thoughts that he almost missed the warning signal his mind was giving him that someone has enter his mind. He started to observe carefully while trying to focus on what the Headmaster and professor were talking about. He knew that the only person in this office right now capable of entering his mind was the Master Legimens Albus Dumbledore, but failed to comprehend why he wanted to do so?, so he remained silent about and observed what the headmaster wanted to find out so urgently that he didn't even make the courtesy of asking about it first.

"So Albus, what is it that you require me to do?..." started Remus but trailed of as within his mind Albus suddenly came upon memory of the Marauder's first time testing the final copy of Marauders Map. It was a very short memory of all of them bending over a piece of parchment whispering softly, looking excited about something. The Headmaster found this as unimportant as he was well aware about the reputation of the Marauders and was not interested in this small piece of memory. He had already passed the memory considering it unworthy but found the block the memory was hiding in it. He tried to break the block but was unable to do so. He searched for some more time and then left the Remus's mind as he didn't want to make the werewolf aware that he was within his mind. When the Headmaster returned to his mind, he focused on the Remus and found that he was observing the books on the shelves while talking with the professor MacGonagall.

"So Headmaster, when will it be possible to visit Harry at his new home" asked Remus finally getting the Headmaster's attention.

"Remus my boy, the new guardians of Harry has strictly stated that they don't want anyone visiting Harry. So I thought it's better not to argue with them as they are doing us favor by taking in young Harry" Albus said.

"But Albus, Harry is not at…." MacGonagall started but was interrupted by the Headmaster as he started speaking again giving a pointed look to the professor "and we don't want to interfere with their taking care of Harry" completed the Headmaster.

"At least tell me who are the current guardian of Harry so that I can send him some gifts during his stay there till the Potter wills are read" Remus asked pleadingly.

"Again I am sorry my boy, I can't help you there" replied the Headmaster sadly. Remus felt dejected. He can't even see his cub, moreover he don't even know where his cub was and that felt as a very hard blow to his spirit and his shoulder's sagged.

"Well then Headmaster, you didn't even tell me why you called me here for?" said Remus bringing the Headmaster's notice to the topic.

"Ah, yes! I just want to ask you if you are aware of any of Mr. Potter's relatives that are alive or any friends other than Marauders that I am not aware of?"

"James's relatives? Why?" questioned Remus while trying to figure out what is going on in the Headmaster's mind.

"Oh, nothing serious, just wanted to alert them about any possible attack by the Death Eater's as Voldemort has been vanquished now and we haven't yet captured them all"

"As far as I know, Harry is the last Potter alive today and also the last of his line" replied the Remus.

"I thought so too, as James as well as his father never mentioned anyone before" murmured the Headmaster.

"Well then Headmaster if you don't have anything to ask, I would like to get going then….."

"Very well my boy but don't hesitate to come here if you required any help" said the Headmaster. Remus got up and said the farewell to the Professor and the Headmaster and let himself out from the Office, leaving a very confused MacGonagall and a very thought full Headmaster.

"what was that about Albus? Why did you lie to Remus about Harry's where about?" fumed the professor.

"my dear professor I do not want Remus to know about Harry being at the Potter Manor as he will attempt to go there and will be disappointed when he failed, I only just want to prevent him any more heartache. I hope you will agree with me and keep all this things from him also"

"very well, I will do as you say but I do not like it Albus" replied the professor angrily getting up and leaving the office . Albus sighed Remus had unintentionally reminded him about something he forgot altogether about and that was the Will reading of the Potters. Albus do not want the wills to be read as than the right full guardian of Harry Potter will have more power over the last heir of the potter than him and he didn't want that to happen. Albus had planned to appoint someone he trusted himself as the guardian of the prophesied child who will be the downfall of the Dark Lord. But in all the planning he had all together forgot to talk to the goblins about the wills of Potter's.

Since he had some free time, he got up and went to the fireplace to go to the Gringrotts to talk with the Goblins about the possibility of the changing the contents of the wills and if not sealing them till young Harry turns the age of 17 as well as to find out any information about how to access the Potter Manor from the account manager of the Potters.


As soon as Remus let himself out of the office he leisurely started walking down the corridor but as soon as he walked out of it, he hurried to get outside the castle. With the fast beating heart he stepped outside the Great Hall, thanking the God for escaping meeting any other residents of the castle and walked towards the apparition point trying to appear as calm as possible but not actually feeling it. As soon as he reached the apparition point, Remus sighed with relief and apparated to his home. After stepping inside his house he locked all the doors and windows and activated the ward he put around his property to keep wanderers away from him during full moon when hi is at his most dangerous form and hurried inside his old room and collapsed on his bed.

When the Headmaster was searching his mind and came across the memory of Marauders with the Map, something had strike odd to the Remus with the memory as well as the memory block inside his mind. Till the Headmaster came upon it Remus was unaware of it. Since being a werewolf, he has a very strong mind so it was very difficult to place a memory block in werewolf's mind without their consent. Since there is already a block in his memory then he must have willingly submitted to place it over there.

It must be something very very important he must be hiding within his mind.

As the memory was associated with the memory of Marauder's Map, he immediately started searching for his copy of the Map. After searching much, he found it tucked it in his first year's Charms book on the book shelf. He hurriedly opened the Map and activate it.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good"

Small lines started appearing all over the Map. Remus started searching something out of place on the Map but everything appeared as it should be. Remus started thinking about the memory again and suddenly understood what he was supposed to do as the memory the Headmaster came up on was not of the first time they were testing the Marauder's Map but it was actually about the individual maps they have created for themselves and were excited about telling each other about them. With a start Remus realized that the copy of Map he was holding was not his as he found a small symbol of antlers on one corner of the map.

"so the map belongs to James than, wonder why he replaced mine with is?" murmured Remus and started saying all the passwords he knew James may set to the Map. He must have been around the 20th password when he found the magical word "Prongslet" and the Map got wiped up clearly and slowly letters started appearing on it. What he read made him so shocked that he muttered the first word that came to his mind and found himself falling deep within his mind unable to do anything but watch.

Finally the memory is unblocked….