Remus Lupin the Biography Part 2
The beginning of the new school term came about very quickly it seemed. I mean it was like all of the sudden I was standing at platform 9 3/4, saying good-bye to mum and dad. Since my dad had carried my trunk through the barrier and on to the platform I wasn't ready for how heavy it was going to be. When I tried to lift it I couldn't. Two boys came up to me then, I thought I knew and realized that these were the boys I had seen in the robe shop. James Black and Sirius Potter? No that wasn't right it was the other way around. While I had been thinking about this they had fully approached me.
"Do you need some help" one said "I remember you from the robe shop"
"oh yeah thanks" I answered.
Oh no, I was stuttering like a total idiot. They introduced them self's again, the one with the really messed up black hair was James and the one who had hair slightly below his ears was Sirius. We lifted my trunk on to the train. Then we found a compartment that wasn't filled with Slytherins and sat down. It was just soon enough because train lurched forward as we pulled out of the kings cross station, not to see it again for over 9 months.
James, Sirius, and I had just started talking when a boy who looked our age burst through the door of our compartment.
"Hide me, hide me" he said gasping for air
"I kind of tried to make fun of a slytherin and look what happened, now there after me" To me, the story I was getting from this boy made it seem that he had gotten himself into this mess and he should get himself out. That must have been what Sirius felt to because he told the boy in a rather sharp tone
"Listen you were the one who went and provoked him and where in this puny little compartment could we if we wanted to hide you? Answer that!"
the little boy was shocked and looked as if he were going to cry. Sirius tried to apologize, but as soon as the word sorry was about to come out of his mouth the door of the compartment opened up and there stood 4 mean looking boys. The leader introduced him self
" I'm Severus Snape, and you have something that I want and what I want I get"
James stood up.
"not this time" and with his wand made Snape and his goons back out the door then with a flick of the wrist made the door close.
"Wow how did you do that spell, teach me oh wonderful master" joked Sirius.
"Well my dad taught me a few tricks". Said James.
At that moment the candy lady came along and we stocked up on candy. We sat eating and before we knew it we were at Hogwarts!
When we got of the train we heard a voice
"firs' years over here" we walked that way and loaded into tiny boats.
Since it was only the three of us we of course didn't get a boat to our selves. A girl named lily got in and said
"hi" we all said hi back except for James who was staring at Lilly in a weird mysterious way.
Of course Sirius being who he is started up with James has a girl friend. James told him to keep quiet and to shut up and all of that good stuff but it didn't work so by the time we got into Hogwarts James's face was cranberry red. When we got into the main hall a professor by the name of mcgonagle took us into a little room and told us what would happen. After this she told us to wait there until she returned. She came back with an old top hat and a stool. She told us to follow her. We were led into a humongous hall, the great hall. I looked at the ceiling there was none I looked again and the asked James about it.
"James, whats up with the ceiling it looks like the sky?"
"Oh its enchanted to look that way cool isn't it"
"yeah" I glanced once more and looked at the moon.
I realized it looked like I only had about 5 more days before for my transformation. I also felt a pang of guilt, should I have told my new best friends or should I not risk loosing them. I decided against telling them and snapped back to reality just in time to hear Sirius's name called. He walked to the stool and tried on the hat. Almost as soom as he put it on his head it called out gryfindor. I spaced out for a while again and then it was my turn. I walked to the stool and nervously put on the hat.
I heard its voice in my head,
"oh a good mind for studying eh, maybe ravenclaw. Oh but wait a werewolf I see, well certainly not hufflepuff, wouldn't want you to waste away there, and now that I think about it not ravenclaw either. Well that narrows it down a bit; it's either gryphindor or slytherein. I see you don't want to go to slitheren so well yes better be GRYPHINDOR".
Finally the hat shouted the thing I wanted to hear. And if James wasn't put hear at least I'll have one friend! But of course (fortunately) James was put in my house and we were all bloody happy about it. After the ceremony Prof. Dumbledore pulled me aside.
"We need to talk about your circumstance" he said
"oh yes of course" I said.
We went out side to the school grounds. He took me to a big tree that seemed to be moving on its own. The Prof. Looked down at the surprise on my face and laughed. "Don't worry it's harmless as long as you know what your doing and you and madam. Pomfrey will. This is going to be your security and the schools security on the nights of full moons. On these nights you will go to madam pomfrey at 5:00 she will give you early dinner and then take you out to this tree. There is a secret passage that runs in to hogsmead into a nice little shack. That's where you will transform and stay until you are back to your normal self. Then you will come back here and go straight to madam pomfrey for a check up. Then you will go back to class. Is this understood?"
"Yes sir" I answered.
"Good you may go back now, but there is one more thing, it is completely up to you whether you want to tell your friends or not about your secret. That is all good bye now" I ran back to the castle and ran straight into Snape.
"Watch were your going Gryffindor!"
"Sorry, sorry I didn't mean it I was distracted"
"That doesn't help we need to battle this out, tonight 1:00 East Tower. Or are you chicken?"
"Fine I'll be there no seconds"
"fine" he said.
I raced back to the common room to find Sirius and James. I figured that if Snape showed up we could play some very mean jokes on him. When I got to the common room only James was there. He was sitting with the kid we met on the train. He introduced me to him. His name was Peter Pettigrew.
"James" I said,
"I need to talk to you and Sirius. Where is Sirius?"
"Oh Sirius went to find you, he thought maybe you got lost."
"Well I'll wait 'till he gets back to talk to you"
I went up to the dorms and sat on my bed. I juggled thought of telling them my secret but again decided against it. I mean I was happy now right? Why should I ruin it? My train of thought was interrupted when James Sirius and that Peter kid came up.
"Oh hi" I said,
"I needed to tell you something. A little earlier I had a little scuff with that kid Snape that we me on the train. He challenged me to a wizards duel."
"Wow a real wizards duel cool can we come?" said Sirius
"well you can't exactly 'cause I stupid
ly said no seconds, but I was hoping to be able to play some tricks on him if he showed." "Oh I know how" James said
"one sec" he opened his trunk and took out one of the most valuable things in the world "This Invisibility cloak should do the trick"
"yes" said Sirius. If you looked at him you could almost see all the ways he was planning to use the thing for the next 7 years.
"Wow now you can come" I said
"you know since we haven't even had classes yet the most you'll be able to do is shoot sparks at each other, or at least that's what he thinks. I read some books before coming here and I know some simple spells. And I can teach them to you guys so when your in visible you can really play a joke on him"
"that rocks" said James. All the while the kid named Peter just sat there.
"I suppose your coming to then?" I asked.
"If you'll have me," he said
"well o.k. But you'll have to be careful.
For the rest of the night I taught them spells and they practiced them with the invisibility cloak on (we also looked at a map to find out where the East Tower was). By 1:00 we were ready. We snuck out of the common room and up to the tower. Snape was already there.
"Thought you'd chicken out" he said
" well obviously you thought wrong" I said "lets start"
we went to separate sides of the room and counted down
"…3,2,1"
Bang! Sparks came out of his wand and nothing happened.
" Hicupis nois" and then I started saying no over and over again. Every time I did he hiccupped. I thought I heard faint laughing. It was probably my friends. I stood still for a minute and they took that opportunity to place a spell. Water came out of his ears! He stormed out of the tower-soaking wet. My friends made them selves seen.
"That was a nice little water spell" I said
"well thank you" said Sirius "it was my idea"
"come on, lets go" I said we walked down to the common room and fell asleep. The next day classes went great except for potions. We had a very nasty teacher. She hated gryphindors but loved sliytherns. I was awful at potions so it was worse for me. But in Defense against the dark arts I was top of the class. Well that makes sense right? I was a dark creature. Before I knew it was a full moon. Madam Pomfrey took me to the tree and watched me go down the secret passage way. Little did I know my friends were watching me? I got to the shack and waited. I had bought some schoolwork and worked on that until I felt a sharp pain go through my body. I put down my work, and waited…
The next morning I found my self-asleep in the shack. I had a cut on arm I figured I had gotten last night. I went to get my stuff but last night I had ripped up while I was a werewolf. Now I would have to do it all over! My friends would help me though. But I couldn't ask them for help because then they'd ask questions.
I got to the common room and since it was Sunday there were no classes. James and Sirius were waiting.
"Were did you go last night," said Sirius immediately
"we saw you go under that tree" said James "where does it lead"?
"My mother was sick" I said lamely "the passage leads to Hogsmead station"
"well then you won't mind if we try it" said Sirius
"well, well" I was at a loss for words if the went they would end up in the shack. They might recognize that the chunks taken out of those chairs were made by a werewolf. So I changed the subject
"lets go do something to filch"
"well ok but there's something you aren't telling us".
Well that's what would happen about every full moon. I would lie to them and then change the subject. Until one fateful day. I had just gotten back from my transformation, and I was really tired I thought about going to madam pomfrey but decided I didn't need to. I was getting ready to sleep when James, Sirius, Peter, and Lily came in.
"Remus we have to talk to you" said Lily
"um number 1 your not allowed in hear and number 2 I'm kinda tired" I said. "Can this wait"
"no it can't" said James
"ok what is it" I said
"well" said Sirius "we know why you're tired. you're a werewolf aren't you? Come on admit it, your always sick on full moons, and when you come back you have numerous cuts. I mean even Lily noticed, and you and her don't even know each other that well" Oh my god, oh my god. My secret was out. I could have just denied it, but no it was like I couldn't let myself though. It was who I was. I finally answered,
"Yeah ok you figured it out"
"I'll move my stuff into another dorm I'll bet Arthur Wesley will switch."
"What are you talking about" said Sirius
"well obviously your not going to be friends with me. I'm a werewolf remember?"
"That doesn't mean anything" said James "right peter"
peter was the only one who hadn't spoken and looked terrified of me now that he knew "right, whatever" he said I was hurt by that and lily saw it
"I'm really sorry you had to keep this in for most of the year, you could have told them." She gave me a kiss on the cheek and brightened up. Of course Sirius started in
"oh now your trying to steal James's girl, what's next? do you want lily also peter?"
we hit him with pillows. I realized that I felt a lot happier with my secret out and I was glad that they figured it out.