December 21
The news reported daily of the white wolf that was scaring the light out of the Hogsmead residents and of the aurors and hunters that had gotten injured in their failed attempts to catch it. And because Remus wasn't interested in fatuous waffle he didn't read news papers and was thus still blissfully unaware of all this.
It was sometime after lunch. James and Sirius were in the cave keeping themselves warm by infusing their lungs with nicotine while Shishi the Kappa happily desecrated Greyback in the most vulgar ways.
"I think we should just tell him" said James. "It's like Barnabas Brocken once said: 'communication is the foundation of all good tactics.' Nothing good ever comes from withholding information. It will get out and it will all be very dramatic, very 'How could you not tell me?' and so forth. Let's just tell him before somebody dies"
Sirius scratched his back with the torn off kappa arm.
"What good will that do? You want to tell him, I want to kill it, he will further delay everything with his vegan tree hugger jargon. I mean, he knew what he was doing so what did he expect? No, let's just find it and pump it full of silver"
Shishi cackled as it hopped out of its rags and ran around pretending to be a barrel organ. Sirius popped the globe casing at his head and thought to himself that it would be really wicked if globe beasts such as these could be made to fight each other. Then he and James left the cave and returned to Hogwarts. The first thing they noticed when they came out of the forest was that the chimney on Hagrid's hut was reeking and when they saw that Sprout was inside one of the greenhouses they tip-toed back into the forest because Sprout's detentions were really hard to get out of.