James POV

Two months had passed since the match. The current situation? Remus had told us again, that he had to go back home for his "sick mum."

While we were sitting in our last class, Sirius said in a whisper yell, "Seriously! Does he actually believe we still buy that whole 'my mums sick' skit? To be honest every time he leaves, he's the one who looks like he's ill."

"Hey, quiet down or he'll hear you." I said looking at the desk right of us where Remus was helping Peter with something. "And to answer your question, I don't know…but I know today's the day we'll figure out."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Remus is leaving today, but its pretty obvious he isn't going home so we'll follow him using my invisibility cloak… I almost forgot we have the dates too!

After class ended, we all walked out, Remus looked at us and said, "Hey, you guys go on. I'm going to meet up with Lily since I won't be here the next few days."

"Oh ok, see you later then." I said back.

"Come on! Let's hurry before he comes back!" Sirius said running

"Wha-!? Where are we going?" Peter asked, jogging behind us

"To our dorm!"

We rushed pass everyone in the common room and went inside to open the Remus Journal.

"What are you guys doing?" Peter asked catching his breath

"Remus is leaving again today!" I said in a rushed voice, "Lets mark the dates on a calendar and see If it has to do with anything…uh anyone have a calendar?"

Sirius smacked his face

"Oh wait! I think I have one." Peter said rummaging through his bag. "Here, Remus lent it to me yesterday.

"Uh Pete, isn't that an astrology calendar? You know the ones that are supposed to find moons and stuff? "Sirius asked.

"Its fine, it'll do for now."

I started to note the days Remus had gone, "Ok there, done."

We all gathered around the calendar, and a few moments passed by with complete silence. Sirius was the first to break the silence, "Hold on, all of these dates are on full moons…"

"Full moons? But isn't that when…" Peter didn't have to finish his sentence we all knew what this meant. Our friend could very well be a werewolf. Nevertheless, I said, "It's probably just a coincidence, let's not worry over it."

"Maybe your right, but just to be sure let's do what you said."

"Do what…?" Peter asked slowly.

I explained to him what I told Sirius in class, and although he seemed hesitant, he agreed.

We decided to not worry about this until we saw Remus leave, and decided to play a few games of exploding snap.

Finally, Remus came through the door, and told us, "Well, I uh have to go now…see you guys in a couple of days."

"Yea…see you later." Sirius said a little coldly.

Remus flinched, nodded, and left.

We waited for a few minutes just to be the coast was clear. "Ok, let's go!" I grabbed my invisibility cloak which thankfully, was big enough for the 3 of us, and ran out.

We walked out, and I saw Remus heading out to the field…except, "hey, why is Remus going out to the field, that's the opposite direction of the exit."

"I knew it! He never actually goes home!" Sirius exclaimed

"And hey, isn't that Madam Pomfrey walking with him." Peter pointed out.

"So, this is what he was doing, "Sirius spoke. "Instead of going home, he was taking quiet nighttime strolls with Madam Pomfrey!"

I smacked him, "Ow! that hurt." He mumbled.

"Come on, or we'll lose them!"

We walked outside, and I couldn't believe my eyes, Remus was going very close to the Whomping Willow.

"What is he doing!?" Sirius whisper yelled, "Did he not see what happened to Davey?"

"Wait, hold on…look at what he's doing."

We all watched intently as Remus grabbed a long stick from the ground and touched a certain part of that unhinged tree. As if we didn't have enough surprises, the whomping willow stopped going berserk, froze and we saw Remus going…inside of it?

"What just happened…?" Peter said bewildered

"Woah! Secret passageway, cool! Sirius yelled.

"Keep it down! Come on, lets follow him in."

I noticed Madam Pomfrey didn't go in right away…

The tunnel led on for a while, we followed Remus as he finally went up into a room.…Merlins beard that room looked like it came straight out of a horror movie. All the walls, and furniture in that room were either torn apart or splattered with dried blood. Remus sat down on one of the ripped apart couches as if waiting for something to happen.

Everything was going well, and we were well hidden under the invisibility cloak until someone named Sirius accidently spoke a little too loud, "Holy Thestrals, what happened to this place?"

Remus jumped up so fast a Cornish Pixie would've been surprised.

"S-Sirius!?"

"Not just him…" I said slowly as I removed the invisibility cloak

"Hey…" Peter waved weakly

"What are you guys doing? You can't be here, it's not safe!"

"What do you mean by that? What even is this place, it looks like a death trap."

"I don't have time to expl- AUGH" Remus fell forward on his knees and starting screaming

"Remus!" We all said at once

"Go…werewolf…not…safe." He said between pained gasps.

I grabbed the invisibility cloak, and shoved Sirius, and Peter out of the room. They seemed to have been frozen in shock.

After a few seconds, we all heard lots of scratching, tearing, and howling. We stood there for a few minutes without saying anything trying to comprehend what we just saw.

Sirius broke the silence, "so he really is a werewolf."

"And this is why he froze at the sight of the Whomping Willow."

"I wonder why he never told us." Peter said confused

"Well, look at this from his side. Did you see how much pain he was in and how scared he looked when he figured out we were there too, he thinks, if we ever found out he was a werewolf we would leave him."

Sirius looked up, "But we won't!"

"Well, duh. But Remus doesn't think that."

"Then we'll just have to tell him! Sirius said a little too loud again. "As soon as we figure out the full details like why Madam Pomfrey was standing there…"

As if Sirius had magical powers to call on people, we heard Madam Pomfrey walking up. I quickly covered us in the cloak again before she could see us. She walked up to the door and opened it. I wanted to yell no don't go in! But as soon as she opened the door, I lost my ability to speak.

The room was now covered in fresh splashes of blood. And Remus…he looked terrible. He was unconscious, but there were hundreds of scars, and cuts all over his body. I heard Madam Pomfrey mutter as she was healing him, "oh my, this is even worst then last time…"

Finally, Madam Pomfrey was done healing the deep cuts, and whatever else she could do. Remus still had a few scars, but it wasn't nearly as bad as before.

She carefully levitated him off the floor, and started to walk out, we quickly followed behind. We walked back into the building and entered the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey gently laid Remus on the bed, put a liquid in his mouth, and closed the curtains.

I beckoned Sirius and Peter out of the room and walked until no one was near. "I think we should go back to the dorms, it's probably past one, and we should let Remus rest while we do too. We'll find some way tomorrow to go visit him."

Sirius and Peter agreed,

Remus, I thought I sure hope you're ok.