Chapter 8 Secrets Revealed

Harry woke up late on the day before the full moon; he grabbed a piece of toast and hurried to the Potions' classroom.

Prof. Snape said, "Potter, You're late. 5 points from Gryffindor! Take your seat!"

Harry sat next to Ron, and they made the amnesia draught. They went to their DADA class next.

Prof. Lupin said, "Today, we are going to be learning how to produce a Patronous. Harry, what is a Patronous?"

Harry said, "It is to ward off the Dementors. The Patronous produces a shield to guard you from the Dementors."

Prof. Lupin said, "Good job, Harry and 10 points to Gryffindor. The spell is Expecto Patronum. I want everyone to chose a partner and work on your Patronous."

Harry helped Neville on his Patronous. They went to lunch however Harry didn't see Mark anywhere at the table.

Ginny asked, "Do you feel okay?"

Harry said yawning, "Not really."

Ron said, "I'll do the captain duties for Quiditch practice for today. You go take a little nap."

Harry said yawning again, "Okay."

He went into the common room and saw that Mark was lying down on the couch.

Mark said silently, "I wish I was dead."

Harry said, "Hi Mark. You don't mean that?"

Mark said, "Yes I do."

Harry asked, "Mark, what is wrong?"

Mark said, "I'll tell the truth. I have a mental condition called Bipolar Disorder. I have severe mood swings on and off. I had it since I was 7 when my Grandmother died. Sometimes I do stupid things like fake sick, climb up high in things, and throw stuff; I wish I could just be normal without having to do those things. I can be dangerous to be around sometimes. You hate me now!"

Harry said, "I don't hate you. Maybe there is a potion that will stop you from doing those things. Let's go to Prof. Dumbledore office; he helped me with my problems a million times."

Harry and Mark went to Prof. Dumbledore's office; Harry said the password and they went in. They saw Prof. Snape and Prof. Dumbledore talking.

Harry said, "Excuse me, but we need to talk to Prof. Dumbledore about something."

Prof. Snape said, "I have a potion to work on." He left.

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Yes Harry."

Harry said, "Mark has a condition called Bipolar Disorder. Is there any potions that will help him."

Mark said, "I had it since I was 7."

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Mark, there is new potion for wizards and witches with Bipolar Disorder called Mood Tamer that will stop you from doing bad things; you will start taking it once a week starting tomorrow. Harry, I'll see you at 7 tonight for your last Occulmency lesson."

Harry and Mark both nodded and left. Mark headed to Quiditch practice while Harry went to the common room for a nap until dinner. Harry went down to dinner and had pork chops, carrots, pies, and Yorkshire pudding. He went back to Prof. Dumbledore's office for his Occulmency lesson.

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Legimens!"

Nothing happened and Harry didn't see any of his bad memories come back to him."

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Good job, Harry; you mastered Occulmency. You may leave now."

Harry went to straight to bed for the night without any visions from Voldemort. Harry didn't wake up until noon the next day.

Harry said after taking a bite of his hamburger, "Hey Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Aquarii, and Neville."
Ron said, "You finally got up."

They all went into the library to do their homework until Harry had to leave.

Harry lied, "I going to the Hospital Wing because I have a huge headache." He walked to Prof. Lupin's office.

Prof. Lupin said, "Hi Harry."

Harry drank the Wolfsbane Potion and said, "Hi Prof. Lupin and Sirius."

The three walked to the Whomping Willow, and they crawled inside to the Shrieking Shack. Hermione, Aquarii, Ron, Ginny, and Neville were under the invisibility cloak following their friend and two teachers to find out where Harry really went on the full moon because they didn't believe his excuses. They went into The Whomping Willow and were in the Shrieking Shack; they took off the invisibility cloak and saw Harry, Sirius, and Remus.

Neville said, "Sirius, y-ou're alive."

Sirius said, "Yes, I am. You five shouldn't be here after all it is the night of the full moon."

Aquarii said as hugging Sirius, "Dad, I haven't seen since I was one."

Ron said, "Harry, I thought you were in the hospital wing."

Hermione said, "Harry, you're a werewolf."

Harry said, "Yes, I'm one. How did you know?"

Hermione said, "Remember in our first DADA class when reviewed Bogarts; your Bogart changed into the full moon like Prof. Lupin's. I didn't realize it at first until you started disappearing on the full moon nights."

Ron said, "Friends don't keep secrets from each other."

Harry said, "I just didn't want to tell you guys because I thought you wouldn't want to be my friends anymore. I guess that I should've told about Prof. Lucas being Sirius."

Hermione said, "It doesn't bother us that you're a werewolf. We like Remus just fine even if he is a werewolf."

Harry asked, "Sirius, would you mind teaching them to become animagi, please?"

Sirius said, "Yes, I would be happy to teach your friends how to become animagi starting Monday. Ron, Hermione, Aquarii, and Neville, you should head back to the castle now before Remus and Harry become werewolves." Sirius transformed into a dog.
Harry said, "You should leave now. Grr! Grr!" He was a werewolf now and he smelled humans there.

The werewolf Harry was about to attack them, but Remus howled and Padfoot jumped on him giving Hermione enough time to throw the invisibility cloak over them. The five ran back to the castle and to hospital wing for the night.

The next morning, Harry woke in his human form, and he remembered that his friends were here last night. Sirius was now Prof. Lucas, and they walked to the hospital wing to sleep. At three o'clock when he woke up and saw his five friends standing around him.

Harry asked, "Did Prof. Lupin or I bite you guys?"

Hermione said, "We only got a couple of scratches, but we're fine."

Prof. Lupin said as he and Mark walked into the Hospital Wing, "Harry, we have to go. We are going to be meeting Dudley at the Leaky Cauldron."

Prof. Lupin, Harry, and Mark took the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron where Dudley was waiting outside looking freaked out.

Harry walked over to Dudley and said, "Hi Dudley and those are Prof. Remus Lupin, my DADA teacher and our third cousin, Mark Evans."

Dudley said, "Those freaks killed my parents, and they came to my school to torture me, and I blew them up because I was so angry at them. I hate those freaks."

Harry said, "Dudley, not all wizards or witches are bad; they are plenty good ones like us. Dudley, you will be coming with us back to Hogwarts because you're wizard."

Dudley said, "Now, I'll be considered a freak by everyone."

Remus said, "Dudley, you need to just give us a chance. We aren't freaks or monsters just different from other people."

Dudley said, "I'll give it a chance. Harry, I'm sorry for treating you bad all those years because I was really jealous of you. Mark, I'm sorry for beating you up during the summer. Let's all forget about the past and start fresh."

Harry said yawning, "Okay, Dudley."

Mark said, "Okay."

The four of them went into Diagon Alley. Harry got enough Muggle money to buy a suit and some wizard money for Dudley. They went into Olivelander's Wand Shop to get Dudley a wand.

Mr. Olivelander said, "Mr. Dursley, please to see you at last. Which is your wand hand?"

Dudley held out his right hand, and the tape measure began measuring automatically while Mr. Olivelander digging through boxes.

Mr. Olivelander said as handing Dudley a wand, "14 inch willow wand with a core of unicorn tail hair. Give it a wave."

Dudley gave it a wave but nothing happened. Mr. Olivelander said, "No! Try this one it is a maple wand with the essence of dragon heartstring."

Dudley waved it and nothing happened again. Mr. Olivelander said, "Try this one. It is 14 inch Mahogany wand with the essence of bog myrtle great for transfiguration."

Dudley waved it and yellow sparks shot out of it. Dudley paid for his wand. They went into Muggle London.

Remus said, "I'll meet you three at Steph's Restaurant for dinner."

Harry, Mark, and Dudley went to a clothing shop. They all bought black suits and dress shoes. They met Remus at Steph's Restaurant. Harry and Remus had bangers and mash with milk to drink. Mark had a steak and kidney pie with milk to drink, and Dudley had a chicken dish and milk. They all walked back to the Leaky Cauldron and headed to their rooms for the night.

The next morning, Mark woke Harry up.

Mark said, "Wake up!"

Harry mumbled, "Five more minutes."

Mark yelled, "WAKE UP NOW!"

Harry said as getting up from the bed, "I'm up!" Harry got dressed in the bathroom.

Mark said as Harry came out of the bathroom, "Let's go help Prof. Lupin wake our cousin."

They both walked to their cousin's room where they saw Prof. Lupin trying to wake Dudley.

Remus said, "He's worse than James."

Harry said, "Let's do a prank to get him up."

Remus said, "Ok."

Harry throws an exploding water balloon at Dudley making a loud boom and waking him up. He jumped out of bed.

Dudley said laughing, "Alright I'm up. Good joke, Harry." Dudley quickly gets dressed.

The four ate breakfast and took a bus to the church and cemetery for the funeral.
Remus said, "I'll meet you in the coffee shop." He left.

Harry, Dudley, and Mark both went to the funeral which was pretty boring. They just placed flowers on their graves and then went to the coffee shop for some lunch and meet Remus. Dudley just had a salad and a glass of water while Harry and Remus had a roast beef sandwich with a cup of coffee; Mark had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a glass of chocolate milk.

Remus asked, "Are you three ready to go back to Hogwarts?"

Everyone except Remus said, "Yes."

They took the Knight Bus to Hogwarts, and they went into Dumbledore's office.

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Dudley, Welcome to Hogwarts! You will be sorted now."

Dudley put the Sorting Hat on.

The hat said, "You like to beat up people, but you don't qualities for Slytherin. You have a good heart because you changed your ways. You're a Hufflepuff!"

Dudley took off the hat.

Prof. Dumbledore said as Prof. Sprout entered his office, "Dudley, Madame Pomfrey wants you on a real diet. Prof. Sprout will take you to the Hospital Wing and then to your common room. Dinner is at 6 o'clock."

Dudley went with Prof. Sprout leaving Harry, Mark, and Remus with Prof. Dumbledore.

Prof. Dumbledore asked, "Mark, how is the potion working?"

Mark said, "Great, I realized what I'm doing and stop it before it happens."

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Mark, you may leave." Mark leaves.

Harry said, "I almost attacked my friends on Saturday night, but I took the Wolfsbane Potion."

Prof. Dumbledore said, "Probably you just had a reaction to it like Prof. Lupin did in your third year."

Remus said, "Remember I almost attacked Ron, Hermione, and Harry but Sirius distracted me like we did with you."

Prof. Dumbledore said, "You may leave, now."

Harry and Remus walked to the Great Hall.

Harry asked, "How come you didn't get mad at me when I was bit by a werewolf for stupidly going on a walk during the full moon at camp?"

Remus said, "It happens. When I was bitten, my parents were very supportive about it, so I was supportive about you when I saw you at St. Mungo's that is why Prof. Dumbledore asked me to come back to teach."

Harry said as heading to the Gryffindor table, "Thanks!"

Harry sat down next to his friends and ate dinner. They went into the common room.

Hermione said, "I guess we were all keeping secrets from each other. Tim is my boyfriend; I've been going out since the beginning of summer."

Ron said, "Aquarii is my girlfriend."

Neville said, "I've been going out with Luna."

Harry said, "Other then I'm a werewolf, I've been going out with Ginny. Ron you tend to be overprotective of your sister that why I didn't tell you."

Hermione said, "Let's all hit the sack."

Ron said, "What?"

Harry said, "She means go to bed."

They all went to their dorms and fell asleep for the night.