"And then, it was the worst part of all," Lily said, telling the sob story that was her date with James. "He left, without any warning or explanation or anything. All I said was it was going to be a full moon!" Well, actually, it sounded like, "moohoohoon."
"I told you that Potter was no good." Sara said. "If he thinks he can run away from your date and still be able to be your boyfriend, he has another thing coming."
"I'm so sorry, Lily." Norma said a little awkwardly. "This sounds really awful. I'm sure he'll understand if you never want to talk to him again."
"But, I still like him." Lily said.
"How?" Sara asked bluntly.
"Sara!" Norma hissed.
"Well, I'm just asking! How on earth could you still like that thing, that slime named James Potter?" Sara asked. "I think you should march right up to his door and slap him in the face."
"No!" Norma said. "I mean, it's just that, well, I'm sure if James didn't have to run out, he would have stayed with Lily. So, I think if we give him another chance..."
"What do you know that I don't know about James?" Lily asked, with a wild look in her eyes. "Tell me, Norma, tell me!"
"It's not about James!" Norma said.
"Then what? What is it, Norma?" Lily said.
"It's about Remus, he's..." Norma said, but then she stopped.
"He's what?" Sara asked, genuinely curious for this good gossip.
"Okay, you guys have to promise not to tell anyone." Norma said whispering.
"Of course." Lily said quickly. Sara didn't respond.
"Sara?" Norma said.
"Well, I mean, of course I won't tell." Sara said rolling her eyes and crossing her fingers. "What is it?"
"Remus is a werewolf." Norma said. Lily gasped and put her hand over her mouth. Sara was surprised, but pretended not to be. "Sara, aren't you scared? I mean, we live in the same building as a werewolf!"
"Well, I've known for years!" Sara said, playing it cool.
"You have?" Lily asked.
"Well, yeah." Sara said. "I mean, who doesn't?"
"Well, I didn't." Lily said, kind of embarrassed. She didn't know so many people already knew. "I wonder how many Howlers the headmaster gets a day for this?"
"If you knew, why didn't you tell us, Sara?" Norma said suspiciously.
"Well, I figured I would give the guy some privacy, y'know?" Sara said. "Obviously, some other people think differently."
"You didn't know." Norma said.
"Uh, eeyeah, I did, Norma." Sara said. "Sorry, but here are our consolation prizes!" Acting like a game show host, she pointed to various things around the room.
"No, you didn't. Because if you knew, you would have told the whole school already." Norma said. "You know you can't keep a secret."
"Who said I didn't tell everyone?" Sara said.
"But not us?" Lily asked. She seriously doubted that many people knew about Remus.
"Uh, well, I didn't think you needed to know." Sara said, picking at her nail.
"But the rest of the school did?" Norma asked. Sara gave her a you-are-such-a-freak kind of look and left.
"Well, I didn't know." Lily said. "So you think James left because he went to be with Remus while he transformed? That doesn't make sense, then James could get bitten."
"Many things about the Marauders don't make sense, Lily." Norma said, and went back to her magazine that she was reading before Lily came in crying half an hour ago. 'Things are too weird at Hogwarts.' Lily thought. She turned over and started crying again over the things she didn't know about James, and how much she still liked him. Norma rubbed her back to make her feel better, but it didn't really work.
James was till with Moony as he was transforming back. "I wonder what Lily is doing tomorrow night." James said through their own language.
"Making a voodoo doll of you?" Sirius said howling-literally.
"You know voodoo dolls don't work." James said. "We just learned that in History of Magic."
"Since when are you awake in History of Magic?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I would study with Lily, so I figured it would be good to take some notes." James said.
"Amazing." Sirius said, and went back to looking at Remus transform back. He especially liked it, but Peter flinched and looked away. 'I wonder if Lily will every forgive me.' James thought, and tried comforting Peter.
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