Stellarsiren: Thanks for the review.

Risi: Like I said, I'm sorry for having Snape OOC. I know he wouldn't be that mean. I'm really sorry. But Snape is a very complex character, so he's very hard to write convincingly. And yes, Sirius and James do need a howler. Badly. But they're not going to be getting one any time soon regretfully. As for the Snape/Granger subplot, I'll think about it, but I don't think it will work. I'm trying to keep the canon characters in character as much as possible, and Snape/Granger just doesn't seem to work in my mind. But, I'm not entirely in control of the story, so anything's possible.

Antoniaeast: Perhaps history is repeating itself. I'm not quite sure. I'm trying to make Lily Wright not so much like Lily Evans, but James Potter II isn't exactly like James Potter I. We'll just have to see what happens. I will tell you that there will probably not be any romance until at least the third year though.

Shu Zen: Don't kill me for this, but Harry's wife is an OC. I just couldn't see a canon character that fit the part. Her name is Corinne, and she's two years older than Harry.

Chapter 9: The Lunar Eclipse

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Sarah slammed the book she had been reading. For an hour, they had been ignoring each other as much as possible, but it had to stop. Sirius looked up.

"Look," Sarah took a deep breath. "I'm just as happy about this situation as you are, but we're not going to get anything done if we just read our books while sitting as far away from each other as the table will allow. We need to work together." Sarah sighed. "I'm not asking for you to like me, I just want to be able to talk semi civilly while we're doing this."

Sirius blinked at her, as if he was still processing the information. "Fine." He said, and went back to his book.

Sarah gritted her teeth. "That means, taking notes and sharing all the information you discover." She said.

"Well, as of yet I have discovered that Strider the Ranger is actually the heir to the throne of Middle Earth, but he doesn't want to be." Sirius said cheekily.

Sarah nearly screamed. She tore Sirius's copy of The Lord of the Rings away from him and held it over her head.

"Hey, give that back." Sirius whined. "I was at a good part."

"Not until you get some work done." Sarah said.

Sarah distinctly heard the words "Evil", and "Malfoy", muttered under Sirius's breath as he picked up the first of the books on werewolves and began to read. Sarah grinned, and put the book in her school bag. She'd give it back to him after they finished with the project. Besides, she had been trying to get her hands on a copy of The Lord of the Rings for a while. The book seemed to always be checked out.

Not much had changed except for the fact that they were now taking notes, and every so often one would tell and interesting fact to the other.

"You know that werewolves always change at the full moon right?" Sirius asked in a patronizing tone.

"Everyone knows that." Sarah said coolly.

"Bet you didn't know that on a lunar eclipse, they don't." Sirius said.

"Hmm…" Sarah muttered.

"You know, there's a lunar eclipse of the full moon tomorrow." Sirius said thoughtfully. "I wonder what it looks like."

Sarah acted as though she could care less, but secretly she was itching to tell her friends so that they could see it.

After and hour the two of them decided to call it quits. Sirius stood up and held out his hand.

"What?" Sarah asked, looking at it.

"My book." He reminded her.

"I'll give it back when we're finished with the project." Sarah said. "Two weeks isn't that long to wait is it?" Smiling sweetly at Sirius, she walked out of the library.

Sirius did scream in frustration.

"Quite Mr. Potter." Madame Pince said.

Sarah was still grinning when she reached the common room. She hurried over to where her friends were sitting to tell them what happened.

After Lily and Heather had stopped laughing, Zena asked Sarah whether or not she was going to give the book back.

"I will." She answered. "When I'm done with it. Now…" She leaned forward conspiratorially. "This will come as a complete shock, but Potter actually said something worth mentioning."

The other gasped in mock horror.

"I know." Sarah said shaking her head. "What is the world coming to? Next thing you know, he'll be speaking intelligently."

"What did he say?" Heather asked.

"There's a lunar eclipse of the full moon tomorrow." Sarah answered eagerly.

Both Zena and Heather stiffened.

"Won't that be interesting to see?" Sarah asked.

"Cool." Lily said, not noticing her other two friends discomfort. "Why did he mention that?" She asked curiously.

"Well, it may have been because he had just found out that werewolves don't change during a lunar eclipse…" Sarah mused. Zena and Heather both relaxed visibly. "Or, it could have been because he wanted to get us interested so that they could catch us out of bed."

"Is there actually a lunar eclipse tomorrow?" Zena asked.

"I checked. Yes, there actually is." Sarah said.

"Well, if they were trying to catch us out of bed, they have a surprise coming." Heather said, getting into the spirit of things.

"Aren't invisibility cloaks wonderful." Lily said dreamily.

Sarah didn't say anything. She was staring thoughtfully at Zena. She had not been ignorant of the pale girls' reactions all through the discussion, and an idea was beginning to circulate through her head. Suddenly, she stood up.

"I think I left my transfiguration book in the library." Sarah announced. "I'll be back." She left.

Sarah was a long time in returning from "getting her transfiguration book". She had been looking up something in the library. Everyone was in bed. Quietly, she crept up to her dormitory to wake Heather and Lily.

When the three of them were down in the common room, Sarah began.

"I did some research." She said. "First thing, have you noticed how Zena always disappears at the full moon to 'visit her sick grandmother'?"

Lily frowned. "Now that you mention it…" She trailed off. "Do you think her someone in her family's a werewolf?" She asked eagerly.

"That's what I thought at first, but it doesn't make sense." Sarah answered. "Surely it would be safer for her to stay at school if someone in her family is a werewolf. There's nothing she can do to help them, and if she goes, she's in danger of being bitten."

"Not if they take the wolfsbane potion." Heather said. "Don't you know about it? It's a potion…"

"…That makes a werewolf harmless. Yes, I know." Sarah finished for her. "But still, what good can she do?"

"Then why…" Lily's eyes widened. "You don't think that she's a werewolf."

"But she could just take the wolfsbane potion and…" Heather trailed off.

"But Zena's allergic to wolfsbane." Sarah reminded her. "You can stop pretending not to believe it. I can tell that you already know the truth."

Heather sighed. "Please, don't give up on her." She whispered.

"Give up on her? Because of something she can't help?" Sarah asked. "Are you crazy? Why would I do that?"

"But… What can we do?" Lily asked.

"You wondered why her dad sent us that book on animagi for Christmas." Sarah said. "Werewolves are only dangerous to humans. So if we become animals…" She trailed off, and let it sink in.

"We can keep her company." Heather finished for her in wonder. "Do you think it will work?"

"Of course it'll work." Sarah said. "Now, why don't we keep the animagi part a secret until we succeed, then we can surprise her." She said to the other two. They nodded excitedly.

Even though it was a lunar eclipse, Zena was still tense as they went out the next night. She kept glancing nervously out the windows as they tiptoed through the hallways under the cloak. This was not helping the others, as four under the cloak was a tight fit. It was lucky that they were small, but they knew that in a few years, this kind of venture would not be possible.

They got outside. Zena was still shivering nervously as they walked across the grounds.

"Relax Zena." Lily said, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"You're not going to change." Sarah said.

That brought Zena to a dead stop. The others smashed into her, and the four of them became tangled in the cloak.

"Ouch." Heather muttered. "You could have given us warning Silver."

"Sorry." Sarah said. "Zena…" She turned to the other girl.

"How… How did you know?" She asked shakily. "Did Heather…?"

"No. I figured it out myself and told Lily." Sarah answered. "Really Zena, we don't mind. It's like me being a Malfoy. We can't help what we are." She put her arm around Zena's shoulder.

"And I'm a muggle born." Lily said. "We're all outcasts in out own ways. We won't throw you out."

Zena began to cry. "You're the best friends anyone could ever have." She said through her sobs.

Sarah blushed. "Naw. We just understand you." She muttered, a bit embarrassed.

The stars shone down on the members of Silvers' Gang as they vowed that no matter what happened, they would always be friends.

Becoming animagi posed a larger problem then they expected. "Look at this." Heather nearly yelled to the other two. "We have to brew a potion, perform charms, do transfiguration, all sorts of stuff. We don't even know a quarter of the things required. It'll take us years to do this."

"Then we have to start now." Sarah said mildly.

"But none of us are really good a transfiguration, and we need to be really good at it to pull this off." Heather pointed out.

"We'll deal with that when the time comes." Sarah made a face. "If worst comes to worst, I will actually ask the Potter boys for help. But that's only as a last resort." She added quickly.

"Well…" Lily looked at the potion recipe. "Why don't we start be figuring out where in the world we're going to get some of these ingredients?"

"They're up to something." Sirius said to James one day as he watched Lily, Sarah, and Heather talking in the hall.

"Of course they're up to something." James said. "They're Silver's Gang. What do you expect?"

"No, I mean they're up to something big." Sirius answered.

"You're just sore because Malfoy won't give you back your book." James said, rolling his eyes.

"No I'm not." Sirius said indignantly. "Those three are up to something big. I can feel it in my bones."

"Sirius," James began patiently. "Even if they are up to something, there's nothing we can do about it."

"Yes there is." Sirius said.

"What?"

"We can find out what they're up to." Sirius said triumphantly.

"How?"

"I'm still working on that part." Sirius said, deflating. "I haven't quite worked out the details yet."

James sighed. "Does it really matter that much?"

"Yes." Sirius said positively. "If we find out what they're up to, we can ruin it." He explained.

"You have a point there." James said thoughtfully. "Lets talk to the others about it."

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