Hiding in the moonlight
By: Grey Wolf
Dedicated to: Sirius Black, hope you enjoy this =^-^=
Disclaimer: I don't own them; in fact there is a bigger change of them owning me that the other way around.
Note: This is about our favourite Marauders' first year in Hogwarts. It centres mostly on Lupin because he is the coolest professor ever and I just love him. Sorry this is short, I'm writing 5 papers this week and I have to study
Part 3- Moonbeams
Remus looked up at the little window of the cell his parents had made for the transformation and his small finger ran over the scar on his arm again. It had not yet risen and he still had time to think. His mind went back to when he had met Malfoy and he wished the blond haired kid was around now to try that stunt again. He smiled vindictively at the thought of letting the wolf take its anger out on the boy.
The first pains of the transformation hit him and he curled up in pain. –What if somehow I still manage to get out and hurt someone? What if I have no friends and people find out?- he thought as pain rocked his body and then his mind went blank with on final human shout of "I don't want to go to Hogwarts!" before everything turned into grunts and howls.
Up in the house Romulus and his parents sat together in the kitchen. Romulus was slightly shaking, like he always did when his brother transformed and his parents looked tired. They said nothing as the inhuman howls floated out of the basement. Their eyes mat for a moment and the same fears that where in Remus' heart where written in their eyes.
"Dumbledore assured us that Remus will be safely hidden away while the transformation occurs and no one will come near that awful howling." His father said and brought the cup of coffee in front of him to his lips.
"And most of Gryffindor likes him, I'm sure he'll make friends, and I'm there to keep that Malfoy away." Romulus said almost in a whisper.
"His transformation will be the day before you go to school, so there is no problem, every thing will be okay, tomorrow we pick up his things and then he's all set." His mother said.
The howls continued long into the night and they only when the sun's first rays enter the small window did the beast become a boy again and was Remus free to get a few hours of precious sleep he needed for the trip to Diagon Alley. He woke three hours later with the sun in his face and his mother with a bar of chocolate, a blanket and the news that he should get ready.
Romulus was waiting for his brother in his room and as soon as Remus, wrapped in the blanked entered he closed the door behind him. Remus looked at his brother unsurely. Romulus wrapped his brother in his arms.
"Everything will be fine, I promise" and his heart Remus knew it would be.