I feel like such a troll for dragging this out for so long. :)

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Snowy:

The letters on the parchment glowed for a few seconds before fading into the paper leaving it black once again James took the quill from Jack's fingers and printed his own name, Prongs. The same with Peter, Remus, and Sirius until James took the quill back and wrote.

Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs and Snowy

Purveyors os Aids to Magical Mischief-Mackers

are proud to present

The Marauders Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." James said and the writing too disappeared into the paper and then slowly it showed the map again. Right now it showed many dots in their respective common room but one dot bearing the name Albus Dumbledore was up and walking back and forth. It showed the area outside as well up to the black forest.

"Okay," James said inspecting his handy work, this is sorta like a rough draft we will be able to add more to it."

"James... why isn't the room of requirement on this?" Sirius asked craning his neck over Jack's shoulder.

"I tried to but its unplottable."

"Ah... Right."

"Anyway," Remus said looking at his watch, we should really get to bed. "After all exams start tomorrow!"

"Only you would worry about that!" Sirius said playfully cuffing him over the head as passes him to the stairs with James Peter following up the rear.

"See you tomorrow, Snowy." Remus said as he goes to bed.

Jack nodded watching them go and then suddenly turned to the window just in time to see a black bat fly away into the night.

(...) (...) (...)

The next day it was very hot but outside it was was beautiful and everyone knows that when you mix those two together you have a perfect excuse to be outside drinking it all in under the shade of a tree or at the lake while trying to avoid the giant squid.

However...

"Alright alright, settle down." Tiny professor Flitwick said as the students took their seats scraping them against the floor as loudly as they could.

"Look... I don't like this as much as you do but the sooner you lot get this done the sooner we can leave... yes Miss Jordan?"

"Why do we have to have exams in the middle June?" a tall black young woman with dreadlocks asked from a table behind Sirius.

"I do not know, please explain your idea to the headmaster..." he sighed levitating papers to each student.

"Okay... what's the password this time?" she asked and promptly got hit in the head with a paper causing a few to snicker until Flitwick held up his wand.

Begin!

It was dull and slow work what with the heat and the tedious questions the dripping ink didn't help much either, Remus was particularly amused when one question asked for five signs that identify a were-wolf, once or twice Flitwick caught James and or Sirius looking up hopefully at the window before catching his eye and going back to his work. Peter was looking more Helpless then usual and more then once looked over at a neighbors paper totally unaware of the professors eyes. Maybe he should talk to Dumbledore about looking into quills that will help detect cheaters since the only one who didn't look up at another work was Severus Snape who was bending over his papers with a look of pure concentration on his shallow face. The first one to finish was James and then Sirius who then proceeded to try and break the chair by leaning back on it his hair somehow falling over his face.

James looked up at the window again wondering where Jack was at.

(...) (...) (...)

Jack meanwhile was gliding with the wind towards the castle of Hogwarts hampered slightly by the dry weather. He had been experimenting and since he didn't have to worry about any fire or autumn spirits come to bitch at him about the fact that he was making the humans wonder about if the world would end or not so he had decided to bring some winter fun time to the countries that usually didn't get any snow at all. He had just finished giving his white magic to parts of the western hemisphere you know... the boring parts they would never have let him go to if they were around. Even if it wasn't his job while he was in the world at least the children got to have some fun. Gracefully he landed on top of the whopping willow its branches harmless unknowing to the snow spirit standing on top of its now chilled bark.

"Lets see... they said they'd be near the lake..." he said to himself before flying off again. In no time at all he found them but was quite shocked at what he was seeing below him.

"Right!" James was saying hotly holding his wand out to Snape who was dangling in the air. Who wants me to take off Snivellis' pants?!"

He was just about to say the incantation when a cold hand closed around his James didn't have to turn around to see who it was.

"Let go Jack," he hissed.

"No... Its not that! one of the professors is coming!" Jack whispered back.

..."So...?" but he lowered his wand anyway and Snape fell heavily to the ground.

"What is this about!?" demanded McGonnigal sternly serving the scene before her sharp eyes. She had just gotten out after reading about unnatural weather patters across the world with Albus, secretly she felt she knew who was responsible and was still very peeved and this wasn't helping as she watched Severus get up from the ground.

"Nothing professor!" Remus said quickly getting up from the tree. "We just... ah... had a little disagreement that's all!"

"Do you expect me to believe that Lupin?"

Umm...

Snape smirked and got hit with a snow-ball.

"Saturday night my office Potter! and you as well Black!" she said knowing for a fact that he was involved somehow. "Mr. Lupin come with me!"

"Don't worry mate. We'll be there!" Sirius said quietly taking his arm.

Remus smiled a little and nodded before following after the professor.

Sirius looked back at Snivilus trudging back to the castle a dark smile on his lips.

Several hours later Remus finds himself in the company of the Hogwarts nurse as they quickly leave the castle and head towards the whopping willow unknowingly seen by one.

"My goodness!" says Pomfry looking up at the branches, "did someone put a frost charm on it?" Remus just smiled before hearing a familiar chirping noise on his shoulder.

"Very well..." the nurse said as she picked up a nearby stick and prods the knot that freezes the tree and turning to the young teen. "you know what to do."

"Yes ma'am." Remus said quietly telling Baby Tooth to leave but she doesn't even budge.

"What was that dear?"

"Nothing!" Remus said quickly as he climbs into the entrance of the tree.

"Now listen Baby Tooth," he said ducking over a low board, I don't know If Jack sent you here but... please leave the moment I start acting funny... I don't think what the wolf me will see you as, he said as he came into the shack.

"But its better safe then sorry." he finished as he sat down on the bed.

An hour later Jack is perched on top of the whooping willow about to enter again until he sees a dark figure approaching the tree.

"Oh no..."

(...) (...) (..)

He did what!? James shouted jumping off of his chair and to the floor causing some to look at him.

James looked around at Peter sitting near the fire eyes wide in shock and then to the door being pushed open and entered by Sirius. One look is all it takes for him to know what's going on.

"We stick with the plan." James said pushing past Sirius and towards the hall. He brakes into a run as he takes the stairs three at a time pushes past stragglers and snogers and flies through the double doors and into the ground Jack at his heels pausing only for Jack to freeze the tree and quickly enters landing on all fours on the ground vaguely hearing footsteps and he takes off at break neck speed after him.

Jack looked at the corridor then back at James knowing he will never catch up to him in time. Thinking quickly he flies past James and places his staff on the ground frost instantly forms where it struck. Taking the hint James quickly fell to his stomach flat against the ground as if he's sledding and rockets down the passageway.

Snape painted. Just a few more just a few more steps and he would have Lupin's little secret. He gulped but pushes a door open agar. An arm suddenly closes in around his middle and at the same time another clamps over his mouth pulling his struggling body away from the door.

"Let go of me, Potter!" he finally shouted thrashing against his grasp.

"Shut up..."

"I said let-"

Before he can say or do anything he feels a strange numbing sensation fill his entire body silencing him and he falls limp in Potter's arms eyes to the ground useless but not forgetting what they say just seconds ago.

Three hours later...

The wolf prowls back and forth once or twice glancing suspiciously up at that strange bird/human thing on the hangings of the bed trying to decide if it was something he could eat it or not he hasn't had or seen any food in a while except for that odd whiff of something he had smelled a few hours ago that without a doubt was a human. It had smelled a bit like dirty laundry to tell the truth...

He growls as he sees the door slightly opened by a rat that is too small for him to bother eating and it scampers across the room comes to his paws once and then scamper to under the bed. The rat is quickly followed by a pure white fox with a strange mark on its forehead and then a large shaggy black dog with its head down quickly a deer follows into the room.

"Who are you?" the wolf growl as the deer sits on the rug.

"We are your friends..." the deers says.

"F...friends...?" the wolf asks the words seem strange as they leave his snout.

"Yes... friends." the fox said the bird thing coming to sit on top of his head.

"Believe us... Moony..." Sirius says his heart still heavy from todays events.

And deep with-in the wolf's mind an odd warmth spreads throughout its body.

Thank-you, everyone. Remus said.

(...) (...) (...)

It was fuzzy and a little blank but the memory was still there in the very back of his mind. A precious memory that he will always hold onto every last scraps he is able see until the day he dies. He know that his friends had been there for him just like they had promised him. James, Sirius, Peter, and Jack. They had come in the middle of the night to comfort the starving wolf. Hungry and desperate for blood. They had come to him in an hour of need, had healed the wolfs wound and covered the blood. He didn't care that Jack hadn't been there to help him through his transformation because what they did next would forever numb the pain his body would go through with or without him there. But... there had been something wrong with Sirius and he knew it. Barely does he hear his friends talk over his hospital-wing bed but he hears enough information to guess what its about..

Sighing groggily and a little sore Remus opened his eyes and sat up in bed and looked at his friends. Sirius and James seemed to be in the middle of a heated argument, Jack was floating in the air with his staff, Peter is sitting on a chair by his head looking down at him with wide watery eyes.

"Remus," Sirius said slowly, "I..."

"What Sirius? What do you possible have to say about it?" Remus asked neither please not mad at him just disappointed.

"It doesn't matter... It's been done. Severus will tell the nearest teacher he can and the ministry will have to intervene. Dumbledore told me that the only reason that they allowed me to come here is if no one knew about what I am. I'll be forced to leave the school... and Dumbledore.." Remus just shook his head and buried his face in the covers and turning to the side ignoring Sirius. "Where is he? he muttered into the blankest.

No one knows as a sense of dread seems to fill the room.

Yeah... I know in the book Sirius or James makes a remark to Peter about not knowing what a Were-wolf looks like despite hanging around one once a month... meaning that they've been doing it for a while so... yeah.