Well, some persuasion has led me to upload this one early, too. Nobody took a guess who the loopy Roman werewolf was, so you'll just have to find out here. See ya at the end!

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Chapter 9: Loopy Roman Werewolf

After I left Herbology, I searched high and low for Hermione. I tried every bathroom, every empty room, every nook and cranny I could find. Despite the familiarity of the situation, I also knew that this was not occurring because of Quirrell's influence. Quirrell was dead. That meant Voldemort had taken over someone else.

"Hermione..." I moaned, sinking at the of the foot of an empty suit of armor.
"Trouble, you have found, Miss?" asked the armor. I jumped and scrambled to my feet in surprise. "Look where you are, you find what you miss."
"What?" I asked, startled. "I don't have time for riddles, I've got to find my friend."
"Trouble, you have found, miss. Look where you are, find what you miss."

"Fine. I'm looking for a person, how will looking where I am help at all?" I asked it again, getting fed up. I hated riddles, always have.

"Trouble, you have found, miss. Look where you are, find what you miss." I moved to punch the suit of armor, but missed and hit the wall. A stone I hadn't noticed before pressed in a bit.

"Trouble, you have found, miss. Look where you are, find what you miss," I repeated to myself, seeing what it meant. I hit the stone a few more times, and when it reached about two inches, the armor swung out, revealing a hidden room behind it.

"Hermione!" I cried happily. I raced into the room.

"Angel, stay back, it's a-"
The armor swung shut faster than I could react.

"-trap. Well, now you're stuck here, too."
"I guess this is why I couldn't find you," I shrugged sheepishly.

"Yeah. I think this used to be a fifth Common Room, or something," she pointed around. It looked almost the same as ours, only it was draped in violet. The fire looked as though it hadn't been lit in years, although Hermione had lit it herself.

"But you can't get out from the inside?" I asked her.

"I don't think so. I've tried a lot of things."

"Well, at least it's cozy," I said, smiling a little.

"At least," she smiled back. "We can wait it out, I guess. I couldn't even hear the armor asking the riddle. I heard you hitting the stone, of course, but that's all."
"Close to being sound-proof, too," I muttered. "I wonder..."
"What?"

"Nothing."
"You can tell me," she said.

"You wouldn't understand," I told her. "Let's just leave it at that."

"You would do well to tell her," growled a voice. "At least then..."
"Who's there," I jumped up and turned my wand toward the voice. I saw a man I'd only seen in my imagination. "The loopy Roman werewolf!"

"The what?" Hermione asked incredulously, drawing out her wand. "A werewolf!?"

"Don't worry, sir," I said, keeping my voice steady. "We can help you."
"You should try to help yourself. The one who bit me is in the dungeons. He's after someone called 'Galis'. Must be Muggle-born."
"Which one?" I asked fearfully. "Who sent him? Did he send you, too?"
He gave a dark, barking laugh. "Why would the Dark Lord send me? Romulus locked me up in here...I was trying to get in the way again."

"Again?" Hermione and I asked together.

"The Dark Lord knew that I would be the reason for his downfall. Romulus failed the first time to kill me. All in vain...unless Romulus gets his hands on Angel Galis."
"He won't," I mumbled, grimly satisfied.
"How do you know? You have an Inner Eye, like Romulus?"

"Nope. I am Angel Galis."

"Thank God. You'll be safe in here, at least."

"Angel, what is going on? How did you know who he was?"
"I...I...um..." I looked away. Could I tell her? I didn't want to lose her. I'd already fought with my brother. I hoped he was safe.

So I started back from the beginning. Only two people knew who I was now, besides my brother. That was something.

When I finished, Hermione and Remus Lupin simply stared at me.

"What? It's not that impossible anymore, I suppose."

"The thought that our world is known like that..."

"Yeah, yeah, overwhelming, I know," I sighed tiredly.

A roar resounded along the stone walls.

"It's Romulus!" Remus' eyes went wide.
"Wait, how is he in werewolf form? It's a new moon!"

"You'll learn later, right now, let's try to get out of here!" Remus started frantically looking along the wall. "The lock is here."
"Alohamora!" Hermione shouted, and the door flew open. The last person I expected to see was on the other side.

"David!"

"Angel!"

"Not a good time for a happy family reunion," Remus warned us as Romulus, in full wolf form, bared his large, sharp jaws. The wolf leapt into the air, headed straight for me. Hermione, Ron, David, and Harry all shouted at once.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" The wolf flew into the air.

Followed by a Freezing Charm by Remus.

McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Snape found us seconds later.

Confusion ensued.

"What on Earth-"
"Lupin! I should have-"
"Professor, we were-"
"We got locked up-"
"Armor asked a-"
"-riddle and-"
"SILENCE!"

A cricket didn't dare break the curse of quiet in that hall.

"Now," said Dumbledore. "Angel, what happened here?"
"Well, Hermione disappeared after Charms, but I had to wait through Herbology to go look for her. I came across this armor and it asked me a riddle, and I kind of solved it by accident by punching the wall and it swung open and Hermione was inside.

"It turned out that this werewolf, Romulus, had locked Remus Lupin inside because he was trying to warn me. Hermione and I got trapped inside until we heard Romulus and the boys out here.

"After that, well, I don't really know."
"We went looking for them, because we were worried that the werewolf might get them," Harry jumped to explain.

"And we were just about to give up," Ron added.
"When that werewolf jumped out of no where," David pointed to Romulus.

"Remus, I might ask you why you're here," Dumbledore said, a twinkle in his eye.

"I found out that Romulus was after Miss Galis, and after all he's done to me, I did not want the same fate to befall another. He's somehow been induced to remain in wolf form. He locked me up in this old Common Room and left me for dead. I don't think he expected two intelligent young ladies to come along who could solve the riddle."

"Very well," Dumbledore nodded.

"Headmaster, surely these actions should be punished?" Snape exclaimed.

"Of course not, Severus," Professor Dumbledore smiled. "And I think we have just found our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."

And that, my friends, was how we got Remus Lupin as our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for the first year. It is also our first clue in the newest of Harry Potter puzzles.

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David's got me convinced to put up the next one, too. Oy vey, I'm gonna be outta my head soon enough. Girl, Interrupted, here I come!