Chapter 2: Forms

James felt as though he just completed a chore of cleaning the filth of Hogwarts as he and Sirius left Snape foaming at the mouth. However, Snape had hit a chord in James when he brought up spending time with Lily. James has always found Lily's fiery personality and beauty attractive. He, however, was not a part of her group of friends, not that he hadn't tried. Whenever he did try to make friends with Lily he always made matters worse, because he tried to impress her. Yet what Lily found impressive was not being an arrogant prat, and that is what James often ended up being in front of her.

James and Siruis went searching for Peter so they could sit and discuss this year's adventures. They finally found him sitting alone in the last compartment. Peter had a mousy face but his figure was anything but that.

"Well, if it isn't Peter Pettigrew," Sirius said with slight mocking. Sirius didn't complete trust Peter, but James was friends with him, thus meaning Sirius was friends with him too.

"Hey guys! I was wondering when you would show up," Peter exclaimed completely unaware of Sirius's remark.

"We ran into a greasy problem that we had to take care of," sniggered James as he sat down and put his feet up on the opposite seat. Sirius closed the door and also sat down with his feet up. "Well boys, I have been doing some more research on to our task to help our friend with his furry little problem," James said casually. Sirius and Peter sat up a bit straighter. "I was able to go through some of my father's books that he thought he hid well and discovered the fine details of turning into an Animagus." James explained all of the details to how to turn into an Animagus, by the end of his spiel he saw Sirius looked very eager, while Peter on the other hand looked weary.

"I ju-ju-st don't know if we should do this. I mean this just seems so difficult and so-o-o many things can go wrong. I just don't want to be half man half animal," stuttered Peter not making any eye contact.

This is what irritated Sirius. He wanted to help his friend Remus with the unfair hand he was dealt, and he would do anything to do it. If it meant turning into an Animagus, then he would do it. They had been researching how to become an Animagus since their third year, when they discovered that Remus was a werewolf. James had finally discovered all of the details of how to turn into an Animagus. Now all that was left was to perform the task. Sirius was also excited for the prospect of doing something illegal under the noses of all the teachers. These were the sort of things that Sirius lived for.

"Well when can we get started?" Sirius said ignoring Peter.

"Well, I figure we can return to our favorite place to practice," James stated excitedly. Of course he meant the Room of Requirements, and he too was excited that they would be able to actually do something beneficial for Remus. James was curious what animal he would turn into because he knew the animal was a reflection of your spirit. "I hope Remus can get away from his prefect meeting so we can tell him the wonderful news," said James.

Just as James had said that their compartment door slip open revealing a very worn out Remus. His sandy hair was longer than he normally kept it and he had dark circles under his eyes. Of course it had only been a few days since the full moon and it always took Remus some time to recover.

"Well speak of the furry little problem and hair he is," Sirius said smiling at his little pun.

Remus just rolled his eyes and took a seat. "How was everyone's summer?" he asked.

"They were good enough," said James with a wave of his hand. He was more excited to tell Remus of his discovery. "Muffliato," James said as he waved his wand.

"Oh don't tell me that you guys already have a prank planned. You know I can't really be involved, or at least it can seem like I am," explained Remus as he pointed to his prefect badge.

"Mr. Lupin how dare you accuse us of planning pranks. You know full well that we always do as we are told," Sirius said as though appalled. "We even did some extra research over the summer, didn't we James?"

"Yes we did, and we wanted to reveal to you some of that research," James said, "but if you don't want to know that we now have all the needed research to transform into an Animagus then I guess we won't."

"YOU WHAT?!?" Remus half yelled. "I thought you gave up that crazy idea at the end of our third year."

"Ha!" said Sirius, "I thought you knew us better than that. I can't believe you fell for that lie. We just figured if we quit bringing it up you wouldn't be disappointed if we couldn't do it, but you don't want us to continue…" Sirius trailed off.

"No no no. I wouldn't mind some company during my monthly adventure," said Remus.

"That is good news because we believe we will be able to join you next month for your adventure," James said with excitement in his eyes. He quickly filled Remus in with all the details of what they were going to do.

Peter was sitting there quietly. A lot of things were running through his mind. He wanted to help Remus, but he was afraid of what could happen. He knew that he would do it, but he was going to have to rely greatly on Sirius and James.

"Sorry boys," said Remus, "but I must go patrol the halls. And thank you for the superb news!" Remus left his friends and went to go patrol the halls. 'This is going to an interesting year' thought Remus, 'I can't believe they have actually figured out how to do this.' He was completely in his own world when he stumbled right into Lily.