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
