April 1981

Hey, Wormtail, What's up?

Come over to the homestead Friday, if you can. We haven't heard from you in a while, and Remus is trying to come up with some way to throw a party for your promotion. Yeah, about that, congrats. You've got that whole businessman thing down pat, and you're what, almost a year out of Hogwarts?

-James

Dear Remus,

James sent me a letter-I actually think that's the first time he's done so 'just to check in' with me. Will you be at his house on Friday?

-Peter

Wormtail,

That means he wants something. If James initiates conversation, it always means he wants something. If he congratulated you, it means he wants something big. Sorry, I won't be able to make it on Friday and help you figure out just what the old shyster is up to, I've got a couple of job interviews lined up. Please don't spread that around though, the last time I had one my prospective employer suddenly had a lycanthropy-related revelation. Would you believe he had a silver chair for me to sit in?

-Moony

James,

Thanks man, see you Friday. Remus says he can't make it though…

-Peter

P.S. At last, the cookies will be mine.

Wormtail,

What's going on?

I suddenly find that one of my best friends is being evasive-nothing new from Prongs, but Padfoot? He hasn't spoken more than a paragraph to me in two weeks, and he's got that 'don't unleash that dog' expression every time I try to bring the matter up. He keeps after me to wonder where I'm going, which I guess is just the strain of all this manifesting in his guardian aspect.

They say the Dark Mark was spotted over the Baron's home the other day, but when I asked Sirius, who was with the Auror unit in charge of the investigation, he completely avoided the topic and started in about the spy. I mean, I suppose that's natural, but I can't shake something in his voice…

-Moony

Pettigrew,

Be at your office tomorrow, full-moon night. I want to speak to you in private about a friend of yours…I trust you can make your office sufficiently so?

Watch your back for werewolves.

-Alastor