What Blind Men See
Summary: When Remus loses his sight in a freak accident, will he finally get to see what
his friends already do?
Disclaimer: I am still a teenager, therefore I do not own anything although I may act like
I own the world, I don't and I also don't own any of these characters, and if
don't recognize them, I more than likely got them from somebody. So I state
again, I DON'T OWN THEM OR ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Chapter 1
The Accident
Remus Lupin sat in the Gryffindor Common Room reading a muggle book called 'Frankenstein'. In his mind, he was trying to compare the ways they were both alike. Both horrible monsters.
'Why do I do this to myself?' he asked in his mind.
'Because you are a full-blown monster once a month who doesn't deserve the friends he has', was his minds reply.
'Do I deserve my friends?'
'Isn't it obvious? The answer is no.'
'I guess your right,' he thought defeately.
'Of course I am, I am you after all.'
'O yeah'
Remus sighs and looks at his watch, realizing that he had just missed breakfast and if he didn't hurry, would be late for potions. He quickly grabbed his books and went off towards the dungeons.
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"Hey Jamesy, is it just me, or has Mooney been acting a little strange lately?" Sirius said, they were on their way to potions class with the Slytherins.
" You mean stranger than he usually is? Or do you mean by how he does something called studying and homework?" James asked his friend.
"Come on James, I am actually serious for once. He has been acting strange since the full moon last week." Sirius said with concern evident in his voice.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. He has been acting a little off. He is probably just in one of his moods that he gets into every once in a while. You know how he gets all depressed sometimes. Don't worry about it to much, we just have to cheer him up a little."
Sirius nodded. He knew James was right, but this time something was different with the lone Marauder. He didn't know what, but for some reason it was really worrying him.
Little did Sirius know that James was also worried about their friend. He would occasionally get depressed after his usual transformations at the full moon, but it would always pass within a couple of days. It had already been a couple of weeks and Remus was coming up on another full moon, and he just kept slipping deeper and deeper into depression.
They both saw him enter the potions dungeon just before them and he never even looked up. Sirius and James looked at each other and they could tell that the other felt the same and had the same thoughts.
"Lets go Padfoot, we'll just have to find a way to cheer ol' Moony up."
"Hey guys. Cheer up who?" Lily Evans asked.
"Huh? O, Remus is just a little off so we wanted to do something about it." James told her as he gently slipped an arm around her small waist.
"Poor Rem. Well, I am sure you will think of something, you always do. Lets go to class." Lily dragged James with her towards the doorway with Sirius unable to keep himself from laughing easily, despite his concern for his other friend. When around James and Lily, you couldn't help but feel happy, they just had this feel about them that left you that way.
As they entered the dungeon, Sirius took his usual seat between James and Remus, with Lily on the opposite side of James. Sirius quickly glanced at his depressed fellow Marauder. 'What is bothering you so much Moony?' is the question Sirius wanted to ask so badly, but instead he just said, "Hey Remus, missed you at breakfast." Remus seemed to jump at Sirius' statement, as if he didn't even know he just sat down or wasn't even there.
Remus felt very uneasy when he got to class, even more when his friends came in and sat next to him, he didn't know why though. While pondering this, he almost did not hear Sirius' remark. Luckily for Sirius, he missed the concern, he missed the concern entirely and just replied, "huh? O, yeah, I just overslept. So I just came down here. I wasn't real hungry anyway."
While Lily was reading her Potions for Dummies textbook, James was carefully listening and reading between the lines of Pad foots and Moonys conversation. He could her the concern in Sirius' voice, even if Remus could not, and he could also hear the sadness and nervousness in Remus'. However, before he could jump into the conversation, Professor Tuttleburn walked into the room.
Everything was instantly quiet, for the Head of the Slytherin house was not known for her kindness. She was a very strict and very mean professor and demanded perfection of everyone and everything. She was also the first Slytherin Head who didn't favor her fellow Slytherins at all, if anything, she was harder on them. The famous Marauders were intimidated. She quickly wrote the ingredients to the discentagreating potion they were supposed to make today onto the board before looking at them and speaking.
"Listen up. This is a very dangerous potion. You will take your time in making it. If you spill anything from you cauldron at anytime during the making of this potion, tell me immeadly. Anyone deciding to pull any type of prank on anyone else during this time will be expelled without a second thought. Is that understood?" Everyone nodded, but Professor Tettleburn took another moment to make sure the Marauders understood. "Then you may begin."
For this potion, they were working in pairs. James and Lily started immeadly and made sure everything was perfect, for they were prefects. And although Remus and Sirius got off to a bad start, they eventually made the potion as good as the lovebirds next to them.
When it came time to test the potion, Sirius decided to ask his friend the question that had been bothering him for a while now. "Hey Rem, whats been goin on with ya lately?"
"I figured you knew," Remus replied dryly.
"Is this because of Moony?" Sirius didn't know of a better way to ask this question in the middle of class, but he had to know.
"Padfoot, just-"
"Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin, I take it from the fact that you two are talking and not working that you are done." [Everyone who has ever been told this by a teacher, please raise your hand. ::The entire population of the world raises their hands::] They both nodded. "Good. Then here is a wooden block that I want you to disintegrate. If it doesn't work, then you have failed."
Sirius and Remus both looked at each other, then preceded to test the potion, but when the ground suddenly started to shake and lights went out, it was soon forgotten. It only lasted for a couple of seconds, then stopped. Some students had cried out and were now on the floor from falling out of their seats.
"Lumos. Is everyone alright?" Professor Tettleburn asked the shaken up class. There were muffled yeses all around the class, then a simple, "umm, no."
"Whos hurt." Tettleburn stated simply.
"I am."
"Remus, whats wrong?" Sirius asked his friend.
"I can't see," he said in a pained voice.
"Don't worry about that. None of us can, its just dark in here." James said hopefully.
"No, I mean my head hurts and I can't see a thing. It hurts to try and open my eyes."
"You may have got some of that potion in your eyes when the earthquake happened. Potter, Black, escort Lupin to the Medical Wing and tell Madam Pomfrey what happened." As Sirius and James took one of Remus' arms each, she added quietly to herself, "Good luck Poppy."
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While James and Sirius were taking Remus to the Medical Wing (or home sweet home), they came across a very well lit part of the castle.
"Moony, can you see anything now?" James asked as he finally got a good look at his injured friend. The top half of his face was severely burnt, his eyes were closed and his eyelids were burnt pretty badly. When he opened his eyes, the were red and looked badly even to James.
"No, not a thing," Remus replied in a very fearful voice, much like it sounded when the Marauders had found out that he was a werewolf. "Guys, whats wrong with me?"
"I don't know Moony, lets just get you to Pomfrey." Sirius said as he and James looked at each other with fear for their friend in their eyes.
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A/N: So what do you guys think? The second chapter should be coming up pretty soon.
Please review of just e-mail me. Any type of criticism will work. Even if you tell
me that I suck. Thank you for reading.
Summary: When Remus loses his sight in a freak accident, will he finally get to see what
his friends already do?
Disclaimer: I am still a teenager, therefore I do not own anything although I may act like
I own the world, I don't and I also don't own any of these characters, and if
don't recognize them, I more than likely got them from somebody. So I state
again, I DON'T OWN THEM OR ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Chapter 1
The Accident
Remus Lupin sat in the Gryffindor Common Room reading a muggle book called 'Frankenstein'. In his mind, he was trying to compare the ways they were both alike. Both horrible monsters.
'Why do I do this to myself?' he asked in his mind.
'Because you are a full-blown monster once a month who doesn't deserve the friends he has', was his minds reply.
'Do I deserve my friends?'
'Isn't it obvious? The answer is no.'
'I guess your right,' he thought defeately.
'Of course I am, I am you after all.'
'O yeah'
Remus sighs and looks at his watch, realizing that he had just missed breakfast and if he didn't hurry, would be late for potions. He quickly grabbed his books and went off towards the dungeons.
* * * * * * * * * * *
"Hey Jamesy, is it just me, or has Mooney been acting a little strange lately?" Sirius said, they were on their way to potions class with the Slytherins.
" You mean stranger than he usually is? Or do you mean by how he does something called studying and homework?" James asked his friend.
"Come on James, I am actually serious for once. He has been acting strange since the full moon last week." Sirius said with concern evident in his voice.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. He has been acting a little off. He is probably just in one of his moods that he gets into every once in a while. You know how he gets all depressed sometimes. Don't worry about it to much, we just have to cheer him up a little."
Sirius nodded. He knew James was right, but this time something was different with the lone Marauder. He didn't know what, but for some reason it was really worrying him.
Little did Sirius know that James was also worried about their friend. He would occasionally get depressed after his usual transformations at the full moon, but it would always pass within a couple of days. It had already been a couple of weeks and Remus was coming up on another full moon, and he just kept slipping deeper and deeper into depression.
They both saw him enter the potions dungeon just before them and he never even looked up. Sirius and James looked at each other and they could tell that the other felt the same and had the same thoughts.
"Lets go Padfoot, we'll just have to find a way to cheer ol' Moony up."
"Hey guys. Cheer up who?" Lily Evans asked.
"Huh? O, Remus is just a little off so we wanted to do something about it." James told her as he gently slipped an arm around her small waist.
"Poor Rem. Well, I am sure you will think of something, you always do. Lets go to class." Lily dragged James with her towards the doorway with Sirius unable to keep himself from laughing easily, despite his concern for his other friend. When around James and Lily, you couldn't help but feel happy, they just had this feel about them that left you that way.
As they entered the dungeon, Sirius took his usual seat between James and Remus, with Lily on the opposite side of James. Sirius quickly glanced at his depressed fellow Marauder. 'What is bothering you so much Moony?' is the question Sirius wanted to ask so badly, but instead he just said, "Hey Remus, missed you at breakfast." Remus seemed to jump at Sirius' statement, as if he didn't even know he just sat down or wasn't even there.
Remus felt very uneasy when he got to class, even more when his friends came in and sat next to him, he didn't know why though. While pondering this, he almost did not hear Sirius' remark. Luckily for Sirius, he missed the concern, he missed the concern entirely and just replied, "huh? O, yeah, I just overslept. So I just came down here. I wasn't real hungry anyway."
While Lily was reading her Potions for Dummies textbook, James was carefully listening and reading between the lines of Pad foots and Moonys conversation. He could her the concern in Sirius' voice, even if Remus could not, and he could also hear the sadness and nervousness in Remus'. However, before he could jump into the conversation, Professor Tuttleburn walked into the room.
Everything was instantly quiet, for the Head of the Slytherin house was not known for her kindness. She was a very strict and very mean professor and demanded perfection of everyone and everything. She was also the first Slytherin Head who didn't favor her fellow Slytherins at all, if anything, she was harder on them. The famous Marauders were intimidated. She quickly wrote the ingredients to the discentagreating potion they were supposed to make today onto the board before looking at them and speaking.
"Listen up. This is a very dangerous potion. You will take your time in making it. If you spill anything from you cauldron at anytime during the making of this potion, tell me immeadly. Anyone deciding to pull any type of prank on anyone else during this time will be expelled without a second thought. Is that understood?" Everyone nodded, but Professor Tettleburn took another moment to make sure the Marauders understood. "Then you may begin."
For this potion, they were working in pairs. James and Lily started immeadly and made sure everything was perfect, for they were prefects. And although Remus and Sirius got off to a bad start, they eventually made the potion as good as the lovebirds next to them.
When it came time to test the potion, Sirius decided to ask his friend the question that had been bothering him for a while now. "Hey Rem, whats been goin on with ya lately?"
"I figured you knew," Remus replied dryly.
"Is this because of Moony?" Sirius didn't know of a better way to ask this question in the middle of class, but he had to know.
"Padfoot, just-"
"Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin, I take it from the fact that you two are talking and not working that you are done." [Everyone who has ever been told this by a teacher, please raise your hand. ::The entire population of the world raises their hands::] They both nodded. "Good. Then here is a wooden block that I want you to disintegrate. If it doesn't work, then you have failed."
Sirius and Remus both looked at each other, then preceded to test the potion, but when the ground suddenly started to shake and lights went out, it was soon forgotten. It only lasted for a couple of seconds, then stopped. Some students had cried out and were now on the floor from falling out of their seats.
"Lumos. Is everyone alright?" Professor Tettleburn asked the shaken up class. There were muffled yeses all around the class, then a simple, "umm, no."
"Whos hurt." Tettleburn stated simply.
"I am."
"Remus, whats wrong?" Sirius asked his friend.
"I can't see," he said in a pained voice.
"Don't worry about that. None of us can, its just dark in here." James said hopefully.
"No, I mean my head hurts and I can't see a thing. It hurts to try and open my eyes."
"You may have got some of that potion in your eyes when the earthquake happened. Potter, Black, escort Lupin to the Medical Wing and tell Madam Pomfrey what happened." As Sirius and James took one of Remus' arms each, she added quietly to herself, "Good luck Poppy."
* * * * * * * * * * *
While James and Sirius were taking Remus to the Medical Wing (or home sweet home), they came across a very well lit part of the castle.
"Moony, can you see anything now?" James asked as he finally got a good look at his injured friend. The top half of his face was severely burnt, his eyes were closed and his eyelids were burnt pretty badly. When he opened his eyes, the were red and looked badly even to James.
"No, not a thing," Remus replied in a very fearful voice, much like it sounded when the Marauders had found out that he was a werewolf. "Guys, whats wrong with me?"
"I don't know Moony, lets just get you to Pomfrey." Sirius said as he and James looked at each other with fear for their friend in their eyes.
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A/N: So what do you guys think? The second chapter should be coming up pretty soon.
Please review of just e-mail me. Any type of criticism will work. Even if you tell
me that I suck. Thank you for reading.