7/11/2020

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Chapter 30 (Remus Lupin)

A Plan, Revenge and an Idea.

Sunday 12th November 1972

Remus, Sirius and Peter went down to breakfast that rainy morning. Sirius was a little tired from the Quidditch match the day before and was in one of his stroppy moods. A little later than the others, James stumbled into the Great Hall, his arm in a sling and no glasses. He knocked into the table before he sat down and grimaced.

"Like to make an entrance don't you." Sirius said while gulping down some boiling hot tea, then choking because it burnt his mouth. Remus burst out laughing but stopped when Sirius glanced at him.

"That'll keep you quiet. I can't see anything without my bloody glasses!" James exclaimed.

"James! Language!" Remus, Sirius and Peter all said at once, happy to take the chance to scold James for cussing, although nobody actually considered the word 'bloody' as cussing at their age except for James, and it was hilarious. James rolled his eyes.

"I'm going to kill Aubrey when I see him."

"Surely you won't be seeing him any time soon with your eyesight." mocked Remus, who was always quite quick-witted. Sirius roared with laughter, seeming to have recovered from a burnt tongue.

"It's not funny!" he exclaimed irritated, failing to pick his fork up and picking up air. Remus was giggling and James scowled.

"I've got an idea." Remus said, trying to not get James too worked up in the morning.

"I'm only doing it if it involves doing something to Aubrey." James said.

"Well you're in luck. There's this hex I've been wanting to see used, but haven't found the right victim." Remus said with a wicked grin. Sirius laughed.

"Remus John Lupin, looking up hexes. James, I think we've been a bad influence on Moony here." They laughed and Remus grinned wider. "Come on what is it." James said.

"It's a head inflating hex. Here." Remus took out a medium-sized green book that looked old and dried out. "Engorgio Skullus. It's a variation of the growth charm. The only problem is-"

"Brilliant Moony. Come on James let's go." Sirius said in thrilled excitement. The two boys got up and ran towards the door.

"Sirius there's-"

"No time to waste!" they ran out the room. Remus sighed and he and Peter followed them out. When they finally caught up (Or when Remus wasn't waiting for Peter to catch his breath.) they were in the courtyard.

"Aubrey!" called James to a fourth-year Slytherin boy who was sitting on one of the benches with a miserable looking Slytherin girl. "Didn't your Ma ever tell you not to curse someone behind their back."

"Alright Potter, how's that big head of yours." he mocked, ignoring \James' comment. Aubrey pulled out his wand and held it casually. James laughed at the irony. Remus and Peter sat back somewhere so not to be caught in the crossfire.

"A lot smaller than your's is going to be." Sirius laughed, and then almost at exactly the same time, both James and Sirius raised their own wands and shouted "Engorgio Skullus". Purple streams of light flew out of their wands, joined in the middle and then hit Aubrey straight in the face. His head swelled. Bigger and bigger and bigger until it was the size of a small beach-ball. James and Sirius were roaring with laughter as Aubrey was clutching onto his head for dear life.

"Stop it!" shouted Aubrey. James and Sirius were clearly getting carried away, as purple jets of light spouted from their wands again. His head grew to double it's size. Remus, Peter and a few others were giggling at the size of Aubrey's swollen head (it did seem to be causing him a lot of pain, but Remus thought it was a just punishment.)

As we all know all good things must come to an end, and this particular 'good thing' came to an end when Professor Mcgonagall strided through the entrance of the courtyard, a furious look on her face.

"POTTER! BLACK! What on EARTH to do you think you are doing!" she screamed. The smiles on James' and Sirius faces vanished.

"He broke James' arm and-" started Sirius but Mcgonagall cut him off with a filthy look. She was a very formidable women when she was angry.

"My office. Now!" and she marched off as James and Sirius followed grudgingly behind her. Remus gave a sympathetic smile to them as they left. Sirius winked at him.

Remus and Peter started to laugh and waited for the other two in the common room.

"Honestly it's been half an hour, Mcgonagall can't be that angry." moaned Peter.

"You'd think they would have learnt how to be subtle by now." he laughed. It was soon after when James and Sirius came bounding into the Common Room with big grins on their faces. They strolled over to the armchairs where they were sitting.

"Only got a double detention, and old Minnie asked me to have a biscuit." James laughed.

"Yeah but you dropped it because you couldn't see the biscuit tin." Sirius said, nudging James in the ribs, who was now scowling.

"You know Moony," James said grinning, "That was an illegal hex." Remus sighed.

"Well I did try to warn you."

Tuesday 21st November 1972

Remus was lying in the hospital wing after a rough full moon. His bones ached and his head was splitting. His stomach being the easiest target once transformed, there were many new scars littered around his chest. He had gulped down his potions (which were still disgusting.) when three noisy boys came bounding through the door and threw open the curtain.

"Morning Moony!" James chimed, a book under his arm. They all had gleeful looks on their faces, looks of triumph. Remus pulled himself up in the bed, trying not to show he was in pain.

"Morning." he groaned. "Don't you have lessons to go to now?"

"Lessons can wait Moony my dear!" said Sirius.

"We've got a plan." Peter said.

"Yeah it was all Pete's idea really." James added.

"Hey and mine!" spat Sirius, faking an expression of disdain."

"And James'" added Peter.

"Fine all of ours. Anyway," James sat down on the stool next to Remus' bed. "We read that Werewolves only attack humans. Is that right?"

"Yes. I think so." Remus replied.

"Well. We thought, if we could find you some willing animals to stay with you during the full moon, you'd probably have a better night."

Remus laughed, "no animal is going to want to stick around a werewolf for very long. Besides, what if I get really hungry and eat the poor thing. Animals can sense dark creatures you know."

"You're not a 'dark creature' Moony. You just have, well, a problem." said Sirius.

"Yeah a furry problem. Anyway. So we thought, how can we definitely be sure the animals will be willing. So Sirius said something about dressing up as animals." Remus snorted and the others laughed.

"Eh it was just an idea, give me a break." Sirius said, trying to retain his dignity.

"But then, Pete said we could transfigure ourselves or transfigure each other into animals. And then I remembered about Mcgonagall being an Animagus. So-"

"So what we're saying," Sirius interrupted "Is that we could learn how to become Animagi."


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