Prompt Challenge: Harry Potter

by Lilly Hope Holmes

A random set of prompts I found on google images. There is potential for a lot of different pairings and scenarios. Rated T for Language and possible mentions of Triggering scenes in future chapters. These will all be clearly marked and each entry should have a WARNING at the top with the prompt.

14. Chapter 14

Prompt: Moon

Warnings: mentions of panic attacks (not in detail), repressed fears, definitely depressing. BUT THERES A HAPPY ENDING

Characters: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Lilly Evans

Pairings: None

Set during the marauders' time at Hogwarts. Sometime around fourth year.

It wasn't that Remus was afraid of the moon. That's what he told himself. His boggart was the moon because of what he became every time it was full. He kept telling himself this even when he would start to sweat anytime he was outside at night, even when he was having panic attacks just seeing it through a window, even when it gave him chills to see it in paintings. He had been repeating it in his head for years. I am NOT afraid of the moon. He would whisper to himself before bed every night, shrinking away from the pale light that stretched across his room. He kept saying it until he became friends with James and Sirius and Peter. Then his mantra changed a little. If I was afraid of the moon I wouldn't have friends. Because surely they would notice if he was afraid of the moon and they hadn't run screaming yet so surely it wasn't true. He would repeat this in his head until finally one of them noticed.

"Mooney," Sirius had said. "are you okay? You mutter to yourself an awful lot. I hope you haven't gone looney because then we'd have to call you that instead." Sirius snickered at his dumb joke but to Remus Sirius's snickers were directed at him. He must have figured it out, why else would he be laughing. Remus had avoided his friends after that, fearing that they would expose his secrets to everyone. He wouldn't even talk to Lilly anymore. He had managed to avoid them for almost a month before James had cornered him and forced him to realize that it really didn't matter what he was afraid of or what he was. They were his friends and they cared about him and that was that. Too bad if he didn't like it because they wanted him around. Remus only hoped that he could protect and help them as much as they helped him.

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