After the fateful night things gradually calmed down in the group; James still pined after Lily, and while Lily was beginning to ever so slightly warm up to James, she still loved to taunt him, and though Sirius still did not understand Sol's attachment to her parents, he still never the less remained loyal to his friends.
As for Hermione, it did not take long before she began to fall more and more into place, feeling comfortable around Remus and James. Lily and Sol quickly became her best friend, and although Sirius remained indifferent to her, she could not be happier.
However, Hogwarts was not all sunshine and roses. Somewhere deep in the dungeons a boy with greasy hair sat on the floor reading a letter, a letter that held the seal of two serpents intertwined in a deadly dance.
Severus,
Your talents are truly wasted on this school, and our lord wishes to give you the chance to prove your worth. You will find enclosed the potion that you will need to break the pathetic group that call themselves, The Marauders.
Slip it into Lupin's pumpkin juice on the day of the full moon, and when the sun sets he will fall under our control. His friends will never know what went wrong.
Severus, I cannot stress enough how vitally important it is for Potter, Black and Lupin to be eliminated. They are the biggest threat that our master faces
Lucius Malfoy
Severus tipped the contents of the envelope into his hands to find a phial containing a thick liquid of a metallic blue colour. The substance was one that he would later get to know as a mixture of quicksilver and Veritaserum. A dangerous mix that for an ordinary person it would only result in them falling under the truth serum. However when given to a werewolf it would mean that the effects of the truth serum would be held off until the rise of the moon, and even then it would not cause it to tell the truth. Rather it would only put it under the spell of the person that said the corresponding spell. For Severus this would be the ultimate act, an act that would bring him closer to Voldemort and his followers than he had ever been.