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CarpeDiem

            Two days later, Lily's head was still spinning with shock. Who could blame her? After all, it wasn't everyday you found out that someone you knew and lived with for over 6 years was a werewolf.

            Malfoy's expression changed to one of surprise. "You mean, you didn't notice there was wolfs bane on his plate?"

            "Wolfs bane?" Arabella repeated. Everyone but her and Lily seemed to know what was going on. Their faces all showed surprise and…fear? "But wolfs bane… only… work… on…oh." Her eyes widened in shock.

            "Wait…wolfbane…what does it do?" Lily asked. She wasn't exactly a potions master, after all.

            "Wolfbane, also known as monkshood, is poison. But it has no effect on humans.It only effects werewolves. She took a deep breath. "Remus is…" She swallowed. "Remus is a werewolf, Lily."

            Lily and Arabella had spent a few hours locked in their dormitory, Hermione and Ginny trying to get them to talk the whole time. But it wasn't until Ginny left for the 6th year dormitory and Hermione had gone down to the common room to talk to Harry and Ron that Lily and Arabella started talking to each other.

            They had decided that Remus was their housemate, and, more importantly, their friend. They couldn't just turn their backs on him because, one night a month, he turned into something…not human. They couldn't, and they wouldn't.

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            While Lily and Arabella contemplated their friendship with Remus, James, Sirius, and Peter contemplated revenge. Well…James and Sirius contemplated revenge. Peter just chewed on his bottom lip and looked scared.

            It didn't take long to decide who had put the wolfbane on Remus' plate. After all, who, besides the Marauders, had known Remus was a werewolf and had cause to harm him? Only one person. Severus Snape.

            Payback time.

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            Remus felt like crap. He felt like he used to after he transformed. Before the Marauders. Briefly he wondered if everything had been a dream and he was back in his family's cottage, a little boy again.

            Then he felt a cold hand on his forehead, and Madame Pomfrey talking quietly to someone. He tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt like lead. The owner of the hand must have noticed though, because the hand moved and there was a moment of silence before he felt the edge of a cup pressed to his lips.

            He drank deeply of the warm, rich liquid and presently tried to open his eyes again. To his surprise, Lily Evans was holding the cup. He looked around, and discovered Bella was talking to Madame Pomfrey, but there was nothing unusual about that. Lily was probably just here because Bella was…. Nothing unusual about that. Nothing to suggest they knew…

            But then Madame Pomfrey left the room, and Bella and Lily took chairs on either side of him. They knew. He could tell by their eyes.

            "You don't have to stay here, you know," he said quietly. "I know you know…what I am."

            "Remus…you're right. We know. And we don't have to be here. But we are. Because you're our friend. We aren't just going to forget about you because of something that happens one night a month."

            "Honestly Remy, I though you knew us better than that."

            Remus smiled. It had been hard telling James, Sirius, and Peter, but they had become better friends because of it. He had a felling the same would happen with Arabella and Lily.

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            It may have been easy for the Marauders to puzzle out who had put the wolfbane on Remus' plate, but some people were not as fully informed. Virginia Weasley, however, was a resourceful girl. She waited outside the dungeon corridor, waiting for a certain blonde haired Slytherin to show himself.

            To Ginny's dismay, the first person to emerge from the corridor opposite her was Lucius Malfoy. Not Draco, like she'd hoped. 

            She attempted to shrink into the shadows, of which there were many, but Malfoys were notorious for spotting those that didn't wish to be spotted. He saw her as soon as she moved.

            "Well, well, well. If it isn't Hogwarts' newest little Gryffindor." He looked her up and down. "You could almost be a Weasley. But Weasleys have a tendency to be much less…attractive." He sneered as Ginny shuddered in the darkness. She shrank back against the wall and reached for her wand as he started walking towards her. To her dismay it wasn't there!

            Fear seized her heart. What was she going to do!? She was trapped, defenseless, in a deserted corridor with Lucius Malfoy!! He placed one arm on the wall near her head. He was blocking her from escaping!

            'Merlin, help me!' she thought. Lucius started to lean forward, the sneer now a sinister smirk, when, lo and behold, Ginny heard something she never thought shed be glad to hear.

            "Aren't Gryffindors a bit below you, Malfoy?" Draco Malfoy!  Lucuis straightened, not looking at all pleased.

            "What I do is no business of yours, Malloy," he drawled.

            "Yes, well I wouldn't chose to do her if I were you. Her brother happens to be the most psychotic person in Hogwarts." Ginny squeaked in protest. "Well, aside from Potter that is."

            Lucius half turned to walk away, sending a glare at both Draco and Ginny, then stalked down the hall, his robes swirling behind him.

            "Thank you, Draco."

            "What do you want Weasley? I can't believe you came all the way down here for an evening walk," he said, watching as Lucius disappeared around the coner.

            "I wanted to ask you…who put the wolfbane on Remus' plate?"

            He turned to look at her. "What makes you think I would tell you?"

            "I—I just thought—"

            "Thought what? That I'd be nice to you just because we're stuck in this God forsaken time? Don't get any ideas. The only reason I even stopped my father from doing anything to you was because I didn't want the Malfoy line tainted with Weasley blood." With that he turned and walked back down the corridor he had just come from, leaving Ginny alone in the dark.