Chapter 61
The End of an Age, sort of
"If Remus were here he'd be telling us to study for exams." James said tossing the book he'd been skimming though in a pile.
"If Remus were here we would be studying for exams… or sleeping, one of the two," Sirius replied not looking up from his book.
"Probably sleeping, considering it's midnight." Peter also added his two cents.
"Has anyone found anything useful yet?" James asked impatiently.
"If we'd found anything, we would have told you James."
"This is a waste of time, we can't do this Sirius, we are thirteen years old." James tossed the other book he grabbed in the pile not even looking at it.
"I'm twelve, thank you very much, and I am willing to at least try if it means that I don't have to sit here while one of my best friends tears himself to pieces and I sorry if I figured you would be too." Sirius said angrily, picking up James' discarded book.
James didn't respond at first, he just looked at the floor in between them all. He really didn't think they could do it. Was it right for them to risk death for all three of them, or worse risking them going to Azkaban? Wouldn't that just make things even worse for Remus?
What if they couldn't do it, what is the point in wasting all this time, if they can't do it.
"I'm sorry, James. I didn't mean to snap at you like that." Sirius apologized, placing the book down.
"It's ok, I just feel like we are wasting our time. I really don't think a bunch of twelve-year-olds can become animegi."
"We'll be thirteen by the time we start trying it, if that helps any? It'll probably take nearly a year to prepare for anyway."
"That doesn't help much." James said laying back on the floor. Sirius sighed.
"I'm not giving up." He said suddenly determined. "We can do it, because it's our only chance to help Remus, if you want to give up go right ahead, I'll do it alone if I have to."
James looked at him, "You won't be doing it alone I can promise you that. This will probably be the hardest thing we do in our entire lives you know that right?"
Sirius nodded at him.
"Fine if you're so determined, let's help Remus." James concluded.
"For Remus" Sirius answered
"For Remus!" James and surprisingly Peter shouted.
They continued reading though the night, getting about an hour or so of sleep once the sun came up so it wouldn't look like they'd been up all night.
They visited with Remus until Pomfery all but dragged them out of the room. After that they snuck to hogsmeade and bought some chocolates to give him when he got out of the hospital wing.
"Did you guys get much studying done?" Remus asked lying on his bed, Pomfrey preferred for him to rest a while, though he didn't always do that.
"Not really," Sirius said knowing lying wasn't a good idea.
"What were you doing?" He asked, clearly they hadn't been sleeping.
"We hung out with Frank." James answered not completely lying. They talked to Frank for about half an hour before heading upstairs to study illegal magic.
"Oh," Remus replied
"We should plan our end of the year prank." Sirius said getting excited.
They thought about what to do for a while,
"We haven't used mud for a big prank yet have we?"
"Ya, we did that spring break."
"Oh."
"What about we let a bunch of animals in the castle?"
"We did it already."
"Urg!"
"This is getting hard," James commented.
"What about turning everyone invisible? Is that above our skill level?" Remus asked.
"Moony, nothing is above our skill level." Sirius said smiling. "Let's try it." They piled out of the dorm and headed to the library again.
They, naturally, passed Evans and Snape in the library and James and Sirius couldn't help but make him mad.
They looked for a while, then practiced for a while, keeping out of sight so no one would know what they were up too. To everyone else it just looked like they were practicing for exams. This spell was not easy, they had to sneak back in the library after curfew then come back the next day before James managed to do it, let alone Peter. They couldn't do it all at once either, they had to do each student individually. Meaning one of them had to hide in James' invisibility cloak while the others tried to make up stories about why the other one wasn't there. James decided he would hide because he was the first one to get it and they didn't want to use up any more study time on this, besides the last Quidditch game was coming up.
There was no chance of Gryffindor's loss. Ravenclaw would have to beat them by nearly a thousand points for them to lose, and Gryffindor ended up winning by nearly three hundred points, but that doesn't mean that they were allowed to slack off. They still had three practices a week, five the week before the game. That of course was adding up with the huge amount of homework they had, they barely even had time to study, let alone waste so much time on a prank, not if they wanted keep from having to retake classes anyway. The exams were challenging but the only one that was worried about their score afterward was Peter. Even Remus felt confidant in himself.
Sirius quickly felt the looming dread catch up to him. Fast the time was approaching that he would be stuck in his depressing room for three full months. Regulus was already impossible to deal with, how bad would it be when it was Regulus and his mother and cousins. He missed the Marauders already.
A/N) I fixed the ending, sorry about that last one, it was bad.