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OH guess what! I'm titling this chapter-

Moonlight's Mocking

"Ready?"

Sirius grinned, flashing white teeth under the moon's pale glare. "When am I not?" He taunted, cracking his knuckles.

James raised an eyebrow at his friend skeptically, laughing. "Wormy?" He asked, his voice breaking through the warm night air as he turned to his other companion.

The pale haired boy near James looked up to his towering comparison. "What?" Peter questioned, his voice shaky and wavering next to the other's.

"Are you ready?"

Peter tilted his head, worried. "Will this time be different? Should I be prepared for something?"

James chuckled, shaking his head. "Never mind. Is anyone looking, Padfoot?"

"Nope. They never are." Sirius smirked.

James narrowed his eyes at his friend. "You didn't even check, did you Pads?" He smiled crookedly, kneeling to the ground.

Sirius bent over in concentration rather than answer, willing himself to change. His muscles responded immediately, pushing and pulling in different strange directions. An odd prickling sensation tickled his skin as dark, messy black hair poked through pores all over his body. Suddenly his jaw was expanding, widening, and his body was bending and becoming bulkier. It was indeed an odd thing, Sirius thought, to experience your bones moving and resizing to fit a new form. His short, stubby nails grew and lengthened to sharp points, a long bump formed at his bottom, into a waving tail. His ears were now pointed, sitting on top of his head and curving into the devil like curves that only some could wear with pride. He was officially furry, large, and very canine, all in a matter of 2 seconds. And somehow, during the whole process, his clothes had mysterious disappeared as they always did. Sirius looked up at the creature in front of him, who had obviously decided it was time to change, also. The large stag that was James stared at Sirius, turning it's head so it pointed to the Whomping Willow. He probably meant that Remus would be needing them soon. Sirius felt a light weight climbing up his leg with horrifying clumsiness, even for a rat. So Peter had changed, too.

Lily Evans yawned, sliding a too-big blue, cotton sweater over her head. She stumbled to a window in her dorm and peeked out it, resting her head on the ledge built into the wall. The sharp edge dug into her chin, and she shifted to get more comfortable. Her green eyes scanned the Hogwarts property, looking for any sign of animals. It was time for Remus to change, and Lily was curious to see if her theory was right that James had become an animagus to help his friend. She sighed, grateful that the other 6th year girls had agreed to stay out of the room until 10 at night. Well, then again, she had told them she would be experimenting with a stink bomb…

A flicker of moment stole Lily's attention. There, right in the open where anyone could see them, were James, Sirius and Peter. And they were melting. On closer inspection, not exactly melting, but their bodies were sinking, somehow. Sirius was getting darker, his clothes were sinking into his body, James's arms were thinning but getting longer, and Peter.. Peter was no where to be seen. Lily blinked, astonished, at what now stood right before her, proving her suspicion about the boys. They hadn't exactly tried to hide it, had they?

So where would Remus be? Before he was out in the open, but Lily was almost positive that had been an accident. After all, no one was stupid enough to stick a werewolf right in front of a school, not even the marauders. Well, so Lily hoped, anyway. She watched in fascination as the animals (Sirius had a giant lump on his back now, which Lily presumed was Peter) wandered casually closer to the giant, thrashing Whomping Willow that dominated the area near the edge of the forest. A snake of worry coiled in her stomach. Didn't they realize that the willow could kill them? They were so close to it and it was moving! She stared in surprise as the feared tree froze, seemingly paralyzed, and Sirius the dog (who Peter was no longer riding, she noted, because the lump was gone) and James the stag disappeared into a hollow at the base of the tree.