Chapter Five
The Meeting With Snape

The next day at breakfast Remus, Sirius, James and Peter were all sitting at the Gryffindor table. James and Sirius had mischievous grins on their faces as they watched all the Slytherins file into the hall and take a seat at their house table. When the last Slytherin sat down the benches started rising into the air. Remus and Peter watched this strange event, the Slytherins started screaming for it to get down but the more they screamed the higher the bench went and it started twirling in the air like a top. James and Sirius burst out laughing along with the rest of the hall. Finally the bench set itself back on the floor and the Slytherins were cursing under their breath.

"What was that?" Remus asked, holding back his laughs.

"Oh the first prank we played" Sirius answered, "went pretty well don't you think James?"

"Yep!" James answered proudly. Once again Lily Evans came walking over, but this time it was not a smile on her face, but the nastiest scowl anyone had ever seen.

"It was you that did that!" she asked horrified.

"Yep, you like it?" James answered stupidly.

"How dare you! You could've killed them all!"

"Oh come on Evans they're Slytherins, its no loss." Lily just glared at him and stalked away back to the other side of the table. Professor McGonagall handed out their schedules for the day and they had a pretty good lineup. They got the boring subjects over with first, such as History of Magic and Potions were first and second period, then they had Charms, Transfiguration, Lunch and finally Defense Against the Dark Arts. They gathered up their books and headed to the second floor for History of magic.

History of Magic was the dullest subject the entire day. Professor Binns, their only ghost teacher, gave them long, drawling notes that put the class to sleep within minutes. Sirius and James just laid their heads on the table and were out like lights, Peter was doodling on his piece of parchment and Remus was the only one paying attention and taking notes. Potions was boring as well, Professor Eufore gave them nothing but notes to copy and worst of all they had it with the Slytherins. To Remus's complete disgust he had been paired to work with his cousin.

The rest of the day was fun, Professor McGonagall let them transfigure needles to pieces of hay and in Charms they learned the levitation charm Wingardium Leviosa. When classes ended Remus and his friends hung around the front door to the Defense Against the Dark Arts room. They were waiting to see the Slytherin first years pass by so they knew when Remus had to go. They saw the Slytherin first years pass by coming out of Charms class and Sirius and James waved bye to Remus, who reluctantly followed them. Snape noticed him and turned around happily.

"Hullo Lupin," he said, sneering.

"Hullo," Remus answered dully.

"I've changed the location for the meeting, it's going to be by the lake, follow me." Snape lead the way grinning manically as Remus trotted behind him. They left the Entrance Hall and ran down to the lake. Remus heard Snape say that it was for 'select first years' but where were the others? Snape brought Remus right next to the lake

"Um... Severus," Remus said, looking around, "Aren't there s'pposed to be other people?"

"Nope, just you," Snape answered simply, "Now stand still right there." Snape muttered an incantation and ropes flew up around Remus, holding him to the spot. Snape grinned evilly.

"I always wanted to know if dogs could really float," Snape said sinisterly, "now this will all be over in a minute." Snape walked over and pushed Remus into the lake. Snape ran away laughing hysterically, while Remus was trying to break free of his bonds and screaming for help.

Unfortunately no one was out on the grounds and not one person in the school seemed to be near a window. Remus then went underwater but then went floating up again. Fuming, Remus used all his strength to rip the ropes apart and he swam to shore.

"I'm going to kill that kid!" Remus shouted. He threw the ropes into the lakes and stomped off to the castle. He didn't care that he was trailing water all the way up to the seventh floor and when he got to the common room it was completely empty. He sat down in front of the fire attempting to dry off his robes. A few minutes later the portrait hole swung open and Sirius and James came walking in.

"Snape was probably laughing because he looked in the mirror," Sirius said, James laughed.

"Or maybe he-"James started but Remus cut him off

"Or maybe he was laughing because he tried to drown me in the lake!" Sirius and James stopped laughing and looked at Remus stunned. They walked over and sat on the chairs behind him. Remus didn't bother looking at them.

"What'd he do?" James asked, unusually serious.

"He tried me up and pushed me in the lake!" Remus yelled, "Then he ran away laughing hysterically and I thought 'hmm... maybe my friends would come and help me when they realised I never showed up after about twenty minutes?' But no they're too busy contemplating what Snape might've been laughing about! I'm going to bed!" Sirius and James watched Remus march up to the boys' dormitory, his robes dripping puddles of water along the way.

"Very emotional kid, eh?" James said jokingly.

"Too true," Sirius agreed, "also didn't look at the clock, its only four o' clock. Lets go upstairs." Sirius and James jumped up off their seats and ran up the spiral staircase towards the boys' dormitory. When they walked in they saw Remus had changed out of his went robes and put on clean ones. He was sitting on his bed with his head in his hands. He didn't notice when James and Sirius had walked in and sat down on either side of him. When they sat down he quickly stood up and crossed over to the window.

"What's wrong?" James asked.

"Nothing," Remus lied.

"Oh yeah right," said Sirius sarcastically, "two minutes ago you were shouting at us and now you say its nothing!"

"I told you, its nothing!"

"Okay Remus, fine!" James said standing up, Sirius doing the same, "you don't want to talk fine! But next time you need help from us, don't be expecting it!" Remus turned and watched the two boys stomp out of the room. Remus sat again on his bed and thought that if only they knew what he was they'd know what was troubling him. Obviously he couldn't jeopardize their friendship because now it seemed like they didn't have one. He sighed, got up and headed down to dinner.

Dinner was uneventful except for the fact the Snape had drank Dung Bombs. He spat them out and they hit the girl sitting across from him and the hall burst out laughing while James and Sirius gave each other high fives. Remus would've laughed because Snape got what he deserved, but Remus wasn't feeling up to it. James and Sirius had started a conversation with Peter and were obviously keen to keep Remus out of it. He sighed, picked up his books and walked out of the hall.