Chapter 7 The Secret is Out

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry," Sirius pleaded. "We honestly thought your sister was Petunia."

"You people are such dolts. Thankfully for you, Lily doesn't hold grudges like I do and I think the whole chipmunk performance was punishment enough," Rose forgave him. The Marauders blushed when Rose mentioned the chipmunks. Even though the whole thing had happened a week ago, people were still laughing. Whenever mentioned, Sirius would start talking about the shame of being beaten by girls and Rose would get mad again.

"Remus, don't you have to go visit your mother tonight?" James asked Remus and gave him a wink behind Rose's back.

"Yeah, right, I should get ready," Remus said and started off toward the Griffindor Tower

" You make up really lame excuses for being gone, just so you know," Rose told him. Remus turned around and gaped. "Oh come off it guys, I'm not thick." Peter and Sirius snickered thinking of the many times where Rose's inability to realize what was going on had left her completely in the dark. "Ok, I am thick, but I'm not THAT thick. Remus, I have been aware of your condition since second year." The four boys stood there in shock.

"Why didn't you tell us that? I spent many hours contemplating weather to tell you or not!" Remus cried.

"Do you guys realize how funny you are when you're trying to keep a secret!" Rose laughed.

"So you're not scared or going to taunt me, or throw stuff?" Remus asked cautiously.

"Well, I can't promise that I'm not going to be scared, or that I'm not going to taunt you and not throwing stuff at you is going to be next to impossible for me not to do, but it won't be over something so trivial as being a werewolf," Rose assured him. Remus smiled and gave Rose a big hug.

"Well I should going, it's going to be dark soon and I need to get to Poppy's," Remus told them.

"He calls her Poppy?" Rose asked. "I thought only Dumbledor calls her that."

"Remus is off his rocker," Sirius said nonchalantly.

"Where as you never had a rocker, right?" James asked.

"Of course, what? No!" Sirius protested. "How come you've known for longer than us and never told?" Sirius said refurring back to Remus' condition.

"You never told me that you knew, so why should I tell you?"

"Good point, we're sorry old friend. Anyway, Rose we needed to ask you a favor."

"What is it?" Rose said intrigued.

"Well, we're thinking about becoming Animagnus and it involves a complicated charm. We are all Charms deficient so we thought you could help us."

"Wait, wait, wait, you do know my strength is potions and that I'm close to failing Charms right?" Rose interrupted.

"That's not what we meant, Lily, not Petunia is good at Charms right? Could you ask her to help us?" James pleaded.

"So you want Lily not me? I'm hurt!" Rose pretended to pout and cry.

"No! That's not what I meant! We need both of your help. We need your help for the potions and Lily's help for the Charms part. Can you ask her for us?"

"Sure, I can ask her. What do you want me to say?"

"That her sister's dear friends need her expertise," Sirius suggested.

"Perfect," James told him.

"Ok, I'll ask her at breakfast," Rose promise them.

"Don't tell her what we're doing until after she agrees and we talk to her," James told her.

"Fine. I'm sure she'll agree." Rose soon found herself being hugged by three guys who were much taller than her. From the point of view of someone looking on, it would appear that the three boys were huddling and there was no one in the middle.