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The Lady of Wolves: Hogwarts.

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'How could you forget your wand?' James looked at Peter 'Tsk, tsk, tsk, tks... honestly...'

'Well, it could have happened to anyone!' Peter argued as he blushed deep red.

A scream of pain made all of them shut.

'What was that?' Sirius asked.

'We better go and find out.' James looked at his friend.

They ran, but when they got there, there was only a girl unconsciously lying down on the floor.

'It's Diana!' Informed James, Remus had been the first arriving and was now checking for vital signs.

'Is she?' Sirius went pale.

'No. She's alive' informed Remus grimly.

'What could have happened to her?' Peter was standing back.

'It looks like someone attacked her' Remus concluded coldly 'she has traces of claws around her neck, as if a wolf attacked her, though it seems too specific to be a mere wolf, see? Is just around her necklace. We should take her to safety anyway.' Remus looked worried, but he spoke serenely.

'With the muggles?' Sirius asked.

'Yup' Said Remus.

'But look at her... If someone did this, he -or it- did it on purpose. We can't let her with the muggles, besides, we don't know where are the people who know her. And even if we did, what would we tell them? We have to take her with us to Hogwarts.' Sirius said as Remus frowned.

'The one who did this might know where we took her and would go to Hogwarts as well. It wouldn't be safe for us.' said Wormtail.

'Hogwarts is the safest place she could be!' Sirius cried.

'What would we say to the teachers?' Remus said unconvinced.

'They don't have to know about it.' Sirius concluded, his eyes twinkled a bit.

'What are you thinking on?' James asked, his lips curling.

'Well, we could hide her in one of the secret passageways.' Sirius commented. James nodded.

'Ok, now, who is going to carry her?'

* * *

Remus looked at Sirius, then, he looked forward. They were almost at Hogwarts he thought. They knew the old passageways by heart, so this was rather boring.

'Hurry up in the front! Will ya? She is not as light as she seems to be!' Sirius protested.

'Should we leave her here?' Asked James thoughtfully.

'No, I'm thinking. She may wake up while we're not here. And she may need someone to take care of her. Maybe we should take her to Hagrid's.' Sirius changed the plan. 'Do you have the cloak with you?'

'Nope, I forgot.'

'Great!' Sirius commented wryly.

'Why don't you and Moony go back to the common room? Padfoot and I will handle this.' James said to the quivering Peter. Peter only nodded as if those words had saved his life. Remus looked as though as he wanted to go with them but said nothing and followed Peter. They were to go back from under the statue.

The noises of the Forbidden Forest were dreadful. Sirius and James' shoes made every kind of noise as they moved. They were walking carefully when a very familiar voice made them stop flat.

'And where do you two think you're going?'

'Huh, oh... not again!' Sirius thought.

'Oh Dear!' James sighed and looked around, and then he looked at Sirius and smiled. It took Sirius only 2 seconds to realize he had the key to their freedom on his bare hands.

'Ok, that's it I've had it with you two-' McGonagall begun.

'Professor McGonagall! We're so glad to see you!' Sirius said quickly. McGonagall raised an eyebrow.

'We are very, very sorry about wandering around in the middle of the night-' James continued, almost reading McGonagall's mind (it wasn't very hard since they knew that speech by heart).

'But at this moment our primary dilemma lies in my hands.' Sirius interrupted, showing Diana. McGonagall gasped as she saw the girl for the first time.

'We must take her to the hospital wing' Concluded James.

'What happened to her?' inquired McGonagall, looking at the girl with concern.

'We don't know.'

'Poor thing... all right, take her to the hospital wing. Still, you were disobeying the school rules and I have no other choice than to take 10 points from Gryffindor and you both will have yet another detention!' McGonagall looked sharply at them, but her tone showed she wasn't angry. In fact, her lips were far from being the thin line that characterized her encounters with the famous rule-breaking duo.

Sirius and James hurried in. They took Diana to Madam Pomfrey and after a few minutes, she was politely asking them to go outside ('Get out!'), and so they did.

'Wow! 10 points from Gryffindor! I was expecting 20 for each one!!' Laughed James when they arrived to the dormitories. Remus and Peter were already asleep. And of course, Sirius had painted their faces with his bottle of ink.

'Professor McGonagall should have been distracted' Sirius said simply as he placed a marshmallow on Peter's open mouth. Peter began to move his tongue, trying to eat the marshmallow in his sleep.

* * *

'Good Morning' Dumbledore appeared, walking through the corridor as the marauders walked towards their transfiguration class the next morning 'Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, I'd like to have a word with you in private.'

'O- of course, sir!' Sirius replied as quickly as he could.

'Do not worry about professor McGonagall, she has granted you two permission to arrive late.' Said de headmaster.

James and Sirius walked by the corridor- following the Headmaster-, until they arrived into an empty classroom.

'Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, I as a headmaster of this school would be very disappointed if two of my best students do not obey the school rules.' As Dumbledore spoke, Sirius and James gulped 'Still, I am very proud of the courage you showed by helping the girl who is now at the hospital wing.' he added while closing the room. 'Nonetheless, we have figured she is not a Hogwarts student... to bring a muggle into this school is a very severe charge so I would like you two to explain yourselves.' His penetrating stare fixed on the boys.

The room was silent as Sirius and James looked at each other. There was no way they could get rid of this one.

'We were out that night.' Said James. 'We are sorry we went out... but we heard a scream-'

'And we found her-' Sirius provided. Dumbledore arched a brow.

'We thought some magical creature had attacked her by the looks of it-'

'So we thought she would be safer here-'

'We didn't mean to-'

'That is good enough.' Interrupted Dumbledore. 'But this will become a classified information. You should be aware that should the ministry learn about your implication on this, you two might be in great difficulties.' Dumbledore looked sternly at them 'Now, as you two were the ones who found her, perhaps you might want to know about her recovery' he paused 'She is doing very well. An interesting fact is that she is not too much affected; just a bit disturbed.'

'What kind of creature attacked her?'

'We are not sure yet.' Said the headmaster.

'Is she going to stay here?' James asked

'Until she gets better, yes. Then she will have to go, of course. I will talk to her and then put an oblivious charm on her.'

* * *

'¡no, no! ¡Mi familia... no! ¿Qué he hecho? Victoria... no a Victoria... ¡NO!' Diana moaned in her sleep... suddenly she calmed... and slowly opened her eyes.

An old man with semi lunar glasses was looking at her. 'Good morning' he said.

She felt dizzy, where was she? Last thing she remembered was... the wolf... there was more... but she couldn't remember it well... it was all fuzzy.

'Good morning. May I. may I ask you a question?' she asked shyly.

'Of course' the old man looked at her kindly.

'Where am I?' she felt awfully puzzled.

'You are at the hospital wing.'

'What happened to me?'

'That is certainly unknown.'

She sat up on the bed, looked around 're-bone potion, lesion healer, phoenix feathers.' Finally she looked at the old man. By the way he dressed, she knew it could mean just one thing, a very weird thing, but very possible.

'Am I at Hogwarts?' she asked shyly. For one second, she could swear that he was stunned.

The man stood quiet for a while, then smiled, 'Yes, you are at Hogwarts.' he finally sighed.

'How long have I been here?'

'You are here since yesterday, Miss.'

'Moy, my name is Diana Moy. And you are?'

'My name is Albus Dumbledore'

* * *

After the transfiguration class, Sirius, James and Peter went to the hospital wing to see how Diana was doing. Remus was finally making his homework on muggle studies when he heard the rest of the gang walking in the library...

'She is getting better; Dumbledore is going to see her.' Sirius confessed him. There was an expression of concern in his face.

The gang left the Gryffindor common room in a hurry to wait for Diana to come out just outside the Hospital wing. However, when Dumbledore finally left the room, he walked past them rather hasty. They tried to enter to the hospital but Madam Pomfrey wouldn't let them in. She said Dumbledore had left her with strict orders that nobody should enter unless he/she was injured and to let nobody look at Diana.

* * *

It was not long since the rumor about the mysterious Hogwarts guest took over the school. She seemed to have come from inside the giant squid's stomach for some, others said it had been a student who had unsuccessfully tried to transfigure herself into a cat, but the best story yet was that she was a recent prey of a werewolf's bite (our foursome was particularly amused by this story since the moon had been getting thinner since long ago).

The hospital wing's front door was packed with curious students who pretended to be sick just to get a glimpse of the guest. After a while Madam Pomfrey would only attend those students who had obvious injuries while Filch had presented a petition that would allow him to injure students who tried to fake illness... and got into a very bad mood when it had been denied to him.

The marauders did not see Diana for two weeks, who had left the hospital wing two days after her arrival. Nobody knew where she had gone and some of them said she had just flown into the sky, taking with her the white hospital blankets. The only thing that was for real was that the gamekeeper had been hard to be seen.

Remus had left his friends, who were now visiting Hagrid in hopes of getting information, and walked down to McGonagall's office. He sometimes liked to consult his homework with her so he could improve it. The boys, however, liked to make fun of him each time he did this.

He arrived at the office and took a glance across the hall. There was nobody there. He felt a little disappointed; he had thought more people would be around to discuss their work with the professor. Sometimes there was a waiting line just outside her office (most of them were Ravenclaw students) and although it was boring to wait for hours at times outside the office, he sometimes enjoyed it. Especially when he chatted with Andrea Woods. She was brilliant, not to mention pretty, but it was very hard for him to talk to her in the Gryffindor common room, most of all because James and Sirius' constant jokes and pranks whenever Andrea approached him.

Remus was still thinking of Andrea, just about to knock on Professor McGonagall's door when he heard the distinct voice of the headmaster from the inside of the room. It seems as if they were having a serious conversation. Remus didn't want to look as if he was eavesdropping, so he walked down the aisle and turned the corner so he would not be seen. Unfortunately, Dumbledore and McGonagall walked his way and stopped just before turning the corner. Remus was about to walk away again, but something about the conversation made him stay and listen.

'What impresses me the most is that she seems to heal faster than any other muggle or wizard I have ever known.' Said Dumbledore.

'Is she alright now?'

'Yes, Minerva, if I didn't know she's here since two weeks ago, I would say she only suffered from a little faint. Poppy said the injuries were serious; we must investigate what they are. I am quite sure there might be something in our library that could be helpful.'

'So, this means we still can't tell what attacked her?'

'Precisely.' Dumbledore confirmed. 'And we still have to send an owl to the ministry reporting our situation, now that the word is out. We cannot risk the ministry finding out on their own. '

* * *

There was a knock on the door in Hagrid's hut and the door opened to show Remus. Inside, Hagrid, Peter, James and Sirius looked at him.

'Hey! Come in! Long time no seen!' said Diana flashing a smile towards him.

'Are you okay?' Remus asked at once.

'Yes, yes, I'm fine. I'm fine. It's not like an elephant walked over me.' She replied rolling her eyes in mock boredom.

'So, he really told you that you could stay here?' Sirius asked gladly. Still he wondered why had Dumbledore changed his mind.

'Yes' she replied sadly.

'Hey! What's wrong with you? Dumbledore said that you could stay and you look like you had fallen from a broomstick!' Sirius reacted. They were all eating their dinner with Hagrid.

'It's because they don't know what she has' Said Remus darkly. 'I overheard Dumbledore talking to McGonagall' he added.