THE MARAUDERS #5 () Loony Moony ()
You all are such wonderful people! And as for your suggestions, I was going to do that anyway! Great minds think alike I suppose! v thanks all, you're awesome.
A/N: As for the nicknames, I know I want them right now sooooo bad! But they are only in their first year and they don't learn to transform until Year Five…(So the source tells me) I was thinking of maybe skipping a head, because there's so many things I want that I can't do when they're little :p sooooo… whatever for now. ENJOY!
I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my sister, Remmy, who claims to be a werewolf. She was the first to read this and laughed so hard that she was sent the out of the classroom in math. So this one is for you!
About this Chap: I thought that it would be oh so amusing to assume that Remus is a little less than sane during the full moon... grin
IMPORTANT!: This hasn't happened before because in the past few months Remus had been leaving school three days early before the full moon, but because of all the school he missed he decided to only 'go away' the night of the full moon…
The night was young and homework wasn't done.
"Let's leave this for later and go get something to eat." James said and stood up from his spot on the floor.
"Yeah, I'm hungry." Sirius replied.
"We just ate an hour ago." Peter pointed out.
"So?" Sirius said. "Hunger can happen anytime. Besides, History of Magic is so dull."
Remus was about to reply when he noticed a round white orb in the night sky above.
He paled.
"What is the date?" He asked, unable to take his eyes off the glowing ball.
"Um, the 22nd, why?" Sirius replied.
Oh no! Remus thought to himself. I've completely forgotten about the full moon in two days! Well with all the excitement that his roommates provided, could you blame him for forgetting?
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked, noticing the expression on Remus' face.
Remus blinked when he realized that he was being addressed.
"Uh... nothing, I was just... wondering..."
"Hey!" James piped up. "The full moon is in two days!" A strange, dark expression over came James' features; he widened his eyes, and made a weird face. "That's when all the weird stuff happens."
Peter gave a small 'meep!' They hadn't even noticed when he had arrived.
Sirius laughed and smacked James on the back, "It's when the weirdoes come out, like you!"
James punched him in the arm. "And you!"
Remus wasn't feeling too well and left the room.
"What's wrong with him?" James asked, rubbing the spot on his arm where Sirius had punched him back.
"I don't know." Sirius replied, with all honesty.
"Oh that's not cheating at all." Sirius muttered as he looked over James' homework, on which said Potter had taken up three inches with just his name.
"It's not cheating, she said six inches... and I wrote six inches."
"You know, it shouldn't have been that hard to come up with six inches of ingredients that are most often used in potions," Sirius said, crossing out several words that made no sense what so ever. "Hey, Snapesagit? That's not even a word."
"Well no matter, I got it done in record time, did I not?" James grinned and flipped through a heavy textbook about Herbs.
"Five minutes, I suppose that's pretty good," Sirius replied, handing him back his parchment. "But now you have to re-write it because you're two inches short."
James groaned and buried his head in his pillow. "Couldn't you just pretend it was right and made sense?"
Sirius was about to reply when the portrait hole to the Gryffindor Common Room opened and Remus dashed through and up to the dorms.
James and Sirius shared a glance. Well that was just totally unexpected.
"Should we go check on him?" James asked.
They slowly made their way up the dorm stairs to their room…
They could hear thumps and bumps coming from inside the room… they slowly opened the door.
Remus was on Sirius bed, dancing with James' broomstick.
"What are you doing?" James asked, this was very unlike their friend.
"Hosting a ball of course!" Remus replied and continued dancing with the inanimate object.
Both boys in the doorway raised their eyebrows, what was wrong with Remus?
"Are you ok?" Sirius asked and took a step forward into the room.
Remus' eyes widened. He jumped off the bed and pointed the broomstick at Sirius. "Why do you come here uninvited? I demand you leave at once!"
Sirius blinked, was this some kind of a game?
"What are you on about?" Sirius asked, Remus was still jabbing him with the broom.
"Would you mind not touching my broomstick—" James was saying but had to duck because Remus swung it at him.
"What the hell are you doing?" James asked, jumping over the next swing.
"If you want a battle! It's a battle you'll get!" Remus cried thrusting towards James and forcing him out of the room.
"Whoa!" James cried, narrowly avoiding getting hit by the broom. "What is WRONG with you?"
"Nothing is wrong with me! Dear Villain! I do believe YOU are in the wrong!"
James couldn't help a strangled laugh; something was just not right with this picture.
"Hey!" Sirius called, chasing them down the stairs to the slowly filling common room. "What are you doing?"
"Fear not damsel! I shall save you!" Remus cried and cuffed James on the arm.
"Ouch!" James cried back and ducked behind one of the overstuffed chairs.
"What are you DOING?" Lily Evans stood in the doorway of the stairs to the girl's dorms. Hands on hips and looking annoyed with the boy's poor display of behavior.
"Ack! The Red Monster! She rises!" Remus cried and ran back up the stairs to his own dorm.
Lily looked offended and angry stormed back up to her room.
"Sooo—" James said looking up at the ceiling and then over to Sirius. "Do you suppose anything's wrong with Lupin today?"
Sirius shrugged, "Nah, he's just a little over-tired."
James nodded, "Oh absolutely, of course he is…"
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So, Remus had poked fourteen different people in the eye, mechanically laughed all through second and growled at everyone who spoke to him in third.
He multiplied himself and preformed 'CATS' (Muggle show) on the Gryffindor lunch table and ate enough chocolate to feed five hippogriffs for a week.
He'd bitten Sirius six times by the time lunch was over and wouldn't settle down in class until he was permitted to brush James's hair.
He lit his desk on fire and pulled Lucius Malfoy's hair then ran screaming down the corridor that the hair had started it.
In their last class, he'd charmed all the desks to fight one another and they still couldn't get Peter down from the ceiling…
Now, if they could only get him out of the lake where he had gone to 'befriend the giant squid', they could call it a day.
"Remus! Come on Remus! Get out of there you'll catch a cold!"
Sirius and James were standing on the edge of the lake trying to call their friend in. Peter had been sent to the Hospital Wing because he was still hovering and Sirius and James had to bring him there holding onto his ankles.
"Go get him!" James said to Sirius as Remus made his 67th lap.
"Are you nuts? It's getting dark, I'll freeze!"
"Yeah, it's going to rain. Remus'll get struck by lightning." James said nonchalantly then stood there in silence until Sirius muttered something nasty and reluctantly disrobed and dove in after the delusional other boy.
James watched as Sirius chased him for 16 laps until finally resorting to trickery in promising Remus chocolate.
They emerged soaking wet and despite Remus's insane grinning, was shivering and his lips have turned blue.
Both James and Sirius draped their robes over Remus and keeping firm holds on both his arms, walked him back to Gryffindor Tower.
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The next day, Remus slept the entire day away in his bed with the covers drawn up to his nose, looking sickly and pale.
There was a book on his bedside table that he spent the time not sleeping reading. It was entitled, 'Lycanthrope Symptoms'. He was on the chapter labeled, 'Before Moon Insanity'.
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The day after that, Remus was gone.
"They've taken him!" Sirius cried. "He's going to be locked away at St. Mungo's and we'll never see him again!"
"Pull yourself together, Man!" James said and slapped Sirius's face.
Sirius pouted and sulked in a chair.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." James said from where he was standing by the fireplace.
"Yeah, remember what Dumbledore said?" Peter piped up. "That he was a little under the weather and should be back tomorrow."
"Yeah, he's been gone for a while before." James agreed and looked over at Sirius.
Sirius nodded and they all just stared at the fire until bed.
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"You're back!" Sirius and James cried as they sat down near Remus at breakfast.
"Of course I am." Remus said and continued eating his jam and toast.
Peter, James, and Sirius gave each other a glance, "Are you feeling better?" James asked carefully, he was sure that Remus was about to attack him or something.
"Yes, thank you." Remus replied.
"That was… um… quite some stuff you pulled on Wednesday." Sirius said warily.
Was Remus sane today?
Remus's face reddened and he lowed her head to his food. "Um… I- I suppose… I wasn't entirely… well that day…"
"I'll say!" James said. "You gave us a scare!"
"I'm sorry." Remus said and wouldn't look at them.
They were quiet for a moment and then James said, "So, how much detention did you get?"
Remus looked up, "Detention? Oh, no detention."
James looked as though someone had shoved a banana up his nose.
"NO DETENTION?"
Remus shook his head.
"If I did even one of those things you did I'd be already expelled!"
James was on his feet and wide-eyed.
"Well, I suppose… but… well… the teachers are all quite understanding…"
"Understanding?! My a---!" Sirius pulled James back down into his seat and clamped a hand over his mouth.
The teachers were all looking over at them from the teacher's table.
"It's insanity, I say." James pouted to himself.
"Yes exactly." Remus said and they looked strangely at him.
"How about you warn us next time you decide to fall off your rocker." Sirius said.
"Oh, well—um…" Remus said and pushed his food around his plate.
"Well if it isn't Loony Lupin." A voice sounded from behind and they turned to meet Lucius Malfoy and his posse.
"Let him alone, Malfoy." Sirius said and James glared menacingly.
Malfoy was about to say something but James said, "Go grow some more hair why don't you? Go away or we'll sik Remus on you!"
"Really? Well I would hope that the next time, you'll have a leash on him."
Malfoy trotted away with his nose in the air and the 'marauders' glared him back to his table.
"Stupid pompous prat." Sirius muttered.
"Pass the milk." James said. "and the chocolate."
Remus's head shot up. "Chocolate?"
James grinned, "No, just kidding."
Remus looked darkly at him.
Some things even the moon can't change.