The big oak doors that were in the ballroom were too fancy to have cracks
at the bottom. She stayed a mouse and, when she didn't see anyone in the
room, she became curious. She sniffed the air around her. There was a
familiar sent in the air. She smelt James and Sirius's colognes mixed
together. She wrinkled her nose at the scent. She scuttled around the
edge of the room, to avoid them seeing her. It was not a good sign that she
didn't see them, but could smell them. She knew they couldn't all be smart
enough to know how to use the invisibility charm on themselves. She waited
underneath the Professor Roland's desk until there was a true sign the boys
were there.
She saw it soon enough, when the door creaked open, she ran towards the
door, hoping to make it outside. She barley made it and was now on a
wooden step outside. The night was clear and a full moon shone overhead,
giving everything a silvery look. She found a place to hide and turned
into am owl, so she could see everything that was going on.
She heard some mumbling as she was soaring around the grounds, and finally
saw James, Sirius, and Peter appear out of thin air. There was a cloak in
James's hand. It was an invisibility cloak, she should have known. They
weren't very common, and was probably a family heirloom of the Potter
family.
She watched the boys tentatively and perched in a tree. She saw James,
Sirius, and Peter turn into animals. James was a stag, Sirius a dog, and
Peter a rat. They walked to the whomping willow, which Gabrielle
remembered was planted there when she first came to Hogwarts. She thought
it was a bad idea to plant it there because it was a tree all right, but it
was a tree that hit you back. They were standing as close as they could to
the trunk of the tree without being hit by it. She saw Peter scuttle to
the trunk of the tree; it didn't hit him because he was so small.
Gabrielle saw him touch a knot on the tree and it froze in the position it
was in last. James and Sirius followed Peter to a trap door near the knot
of the tree. Sirius managed to open the trap door with his nose and
Gabrielle followed after them as soon as she felt safe. She swooped down
to the ground and in one smooth movement she turned into a white horse with
a blonde main, and a tiara shaped golden patch of fur on her head that was
there because of the costume she was wearing. She galloped to the trap
door and entered a damp tunnel, but was forced to turn back when she heard
steps coming her way. She was gone in a swoosh of her tail and galloped
towards the forbidden forest, which was right outside the school grounds,
and not far from the whomping willow. Once she found a hiding place, she
saw James, Sirius and Peter getting out of the tunnel, still in their
animal forms. She wondered why they even came here. Then, without warning,
she saw a werewolf in a torn up school uniform come out of the tunnel. She
put two and two together.
Lupin is a Werewolf!
