About 3 years later:
"Listen, Peter you really have to get it right this time. Remus is counting on us. Remember to say animagus properly this time too."
That was James talking. I really wasn't counting on them but they had decided to do it anyway. I told them that they didn't have to, but they did. They became animagi. They did some research on werewolves and realized that we were only a threat to humans and small animals. If they turned into animals large enough they wouldn't be in danger from me. The only problem with that was the fact that when you became in animagi you couldn't choose your animal. If the spell worked this time on full moons they could be with me while I was a werewolf. Of course peter kept messing it up. The first time he fainted from the smell, the second he couldn't remember the words, the third he couldn't remember how to pronounce them. Now they were trying again for the fourth time. I watched with wonder, thinking wow they're doing this for me. BOOM! Smoke clouded the area that we were in. James, Sirius, and peter were dead fainted away. Oh well I thought to myself it must not have worked, I guess that that was best though considering what they were trying to do was breaking the law. I tried to wake them up but they didn't stir. So I stayed with them. In about 1hr they woke up.
"Yes, it worked" James shouted
"what do you mean it worked you guys looked like you were dead" I said
"that's what supposed to happen" said Sirius "watch"
he took out his wand and said some thing. And to my surprise he turned into a big black dog that looked like a grim. Then he changed back.
"Wow I hope your all big enough," I said
"well lets try," said James, as he turned himself into a stag.
Peter on the other hand became a rat.
"It's ok," said Sirius "you can ride on my shoulder. I'll protect you" he said the last part in a teasing way.
"Well the good thing about peter being a rat is he's small enough to fit under the tree with out being hit, and then he can press the knot when you guys come down." I said "and we can try this tomorrow because that's when the full moon is again"
We started to clean up our materials when Sirius had an idea
"if we can find a way out of the shack we can come back to Hogwarts grounds and maybe, just maybe find some other secret passage ways, I have this great idea for a map we can make"
"wouldn't that be kind of dangerous for me what if I got out of check and bit some one?" I said
"don't worry I'll watch you" said Sirius. From what we had seen Sirius easily was the biggest of all of us in animal form. We walked back to the common room in silence. When we got in Lily was there waiting for James, holding a book called Becoming and animagi
"we need to talk" she said, "now correct me if I'm wrong but you're breaking the law, aren't you?"
"You can handle this one lover boy, were're going to bed" said Sirius. We went up to bed and waited for James to return. When he did he had some ad news
"I-I kinda' told her. I'm really sorry, but she said she'd tell a Prof. I didn't give her the truth. But I didn't tell her why we did it. That's good right?"
"Well I guess as long as she doesn't tell any one." Said Sirius "she must real have power over you. LOVE power"
"shut up" after that we went to sleep.
The next day went quickly. I would have liked it to go slower considering the stunt that we were planning on pulling later. That night I went to madam pomfrey who took me down to the tree and opened for me I went in and waited. In about 20 minutes James arrived
"I'm going to transform now so I'll be ready, Sirius and Peter are coming in a few minutes. They had to figure out how to make the door of the passage stay open so we could get out" and with that James transformed to a stag.
Sirius and Peter came in next
"we figured out how to keep the door open but we had to time it so I hope you transform with in 1hr". I felt a pain go through my body.
"Transform now" I told Sirius and Peter then I directed a comment James
"Be ready, and if this doesn't work run and shut the trap door" Sirius and Peter transformed. They did it just in time be cause by the time they were done I was fully werewolf. We had made a plan during herbiology by passing notes back and forth. We were going to the forbidden forest. I hoped that tonight I would be able to gain enough control from the werewolf to follow my friends. I did…part time. Sometimes I would try to attack peter when this happened he would jump to James's shoulder and Sirius would wrestle me down. When our adventures were done, we'd laugh at all the mishaps that would occur. I mean it was safe to us.
Since Sirius was the one who was always wrestling me down I would of course snap at him and scratch him. If you got hurt in animagi form you were hurt in your human form too. So after our adventures, Sirius always looked worse than the rest of us. People started to get suspsious about this and started avoiding him. He didn't know why, and we didn't know why. We finally found out one day when we were in the hallway and almost every one was whispering "werewolf" at him. Prof. Dumbledore called him to his office that day to talk about it. When Sirius got back he looked mad
"he said that there was something that I wasn't telling him, he knew it. And he asked if I knew you were a werewolf. When I said yes, he asked me if you had bitten me. Some nerve he has. Why would you bite me you're my friend. You would never do something like that" he said all this with out taking a breath.
\"Don't worry," answered James "skip the next 2 adventures to prove to every one you're not a werewolf. While you're here you can work on that map you said you had an idea for"
Sirius didn't look too happy with the idea but he agreed. For the next 2 full moons we didn't do much because Sirius wasn't there. We mostly roamed around the school grounds. The day after the 2nd adventure that Sirius skipped, he told us to meet him in the common room after lunch. When we got there he pulled something out of his bag. It was a blank sheet of parchment. Sirius took out his wand and said;
" I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good" the parchment came alive with dots and lines. It was a map.
"While you guys were out and about I took the pleasure of making this" he pointed to the dots " these show were every one of importance is. See how they move around that's where the actual person is. The lines make up the map, and…" he paused for suspense
" almost secret passage way in the whole school and where the lead. I couldn't get them all because Filch was sneaking around with his cat. So I was thinking tonight we could gather the rest"
of course we all agreed. That night we explored the whole castle. From every hollow floorboard to every crack in the wall. When we finished the map some days later, we of course had to sign it. We didn't use our real names (I mean come on we weren't that stupid) so we thought up nicknames for each other. I was named Moony for obvious reasons, James was Prongs named for the antlers that came out of his head when he was a stag, Sirius was Padfoot for his big pad like paws, and peter was Wormtail because his tail was pink an bare. When it moved it looked like a worm.
When we signed it we knew that we had probably just become the biggest pranksters in school. It was true too. Soon we had 2 drawers in Filches cabinet all to our selves. You know it's a mystery that we never got suspended, or expelled. It was probably because we were smart and each of us except for peter was top in at least one class. Being young as we were, we thought this would solve all our problems but of course, it didn't…
In potions the day after a full moon Snape had Sirius as a partner for potions. While they were making the shrinking potion Snape casually bought up the fact that he a had seen me go into the passage under the tree and he was curious about it. Sirius then did some thing very stupid. He told Snape that if he was so curious all he had to do was use a long stick to press the knot on the tree on the next full moon. Snape said he would and thanked Sirius for the information. James happened to over hear this conversation and after class ran after Snape
"you don't want to go down there, trust me"
"when would it ever cross my mind to trust you" said Snape very curiously
"just trust me on this one" said James. And he ran off.
On the night of the next full moon James watched the tree carefully for any signs of Snape. When he didn't see him coming he went away for a while, and came back. When he came back he saw a stick in front of the tree. It hadn't been there before! "Snape" he thought while dashing through corridors and down stairs.
When he got to the tree he ran in the whole not thinking to transform. He ran and ran until he saw Snape. Snape was right in front of me backing up very slowly. I sort of remember James telling him to run and of course he did. I ran after him. James knocked him out and transformed into a stag. He carried Snape in a sort of clumsy way with his antlers. James ran fast and when he got to the tunnel entrance he threw Snape out on to the school grounds. Then James fought me until I retreated back to the shack. Then James transformed back to human and got out of the tunnel. He was deciding what to do about Snape when Prof. Dumbledore came walking by…
Well at the end of that story Sirius got 2 whole weeks of detentions, a big lecture, and another one from is mom in the form of a howler. James was awarded 60 points for his bravery, and Snape had 3 weeks of detention for even going down the tunnel. As for me, I yelled a Sirius and thanked James, and then almost did something really nasty to Snape but James stopped me. Well a good thing was Snape was forbidden to tell anyone about my secret or he'd be expelled. My exciting school life basically ended then and there. Oh sure we went on full moon adventures; and every one of us had turns with people thinking that he was a werewolf (even me). But it wasn't that exciting.
I look back on all of this now as I stand here with Sirius, Snape, and Harry Potter in the shrieking shack, by my old best friend, my still worst enemy, and my other best friends son.