Hope's Children
Chapter Eleven: Werewolfism and Lycanthropy
Ok before anything on this chapter starts I would like to tell you that I am amazed that I made it this far on a story and I want to thank all the people who are reading this and reviewing as a lot of times its what keeps me going on a lot of days. So thank you from your very amazed author.
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"Moon," he said quietly. "School work, life in general," he said, flopping back on to his pillow and closing his eyes. "All right, I'll help you blow Snape or Malfoy up, but you have to pick one, and Peter has agree that he's fine without my help."
"Good. Then Malfoy," he said, hopping off the bed. "Hey Peter, can I borrow Remus for a while?"
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"Shh."
"What?"
"Teachers, or students, can't tell."
"How can you tell?"
"Wolf ears."
"You're kidding."
"No, and be quiet, I'll tell you about it later."
"Fine, being quiet."
"Have you finished my Transfiguration essay yet?"
"Almost, I have mine to do too."
"Well it's due tomorrow, so finish it and quickly. And do you think I care about your homework?"
"So wolf ears?"
"Why do you care anyway?"
"Because you're my friend, and I care about you. Plus it's cool, I mean you can hear the teachers from like corridors away, do you know how great that is for pranks?"
"Sure, but I don't prank that much."
"Why?"
"I never wanted to call attention to myself, plus if I pranked than I might get fi-in trouble with my parents."
"That's not what you were going to say."
"Of course it is."
"All right, I'll leave it, but we're coming back to it later. So any other cool werewolf powers?"
Remus raised an eyebrow. "Cool werewolf powers?" Sirius nodded. "Um, other than the ears, my eyesight is better as well, and my sense of smell." How cool. "And then the big one."
"What's that?"
"I can see magic, and I can see through magic."
"Through magic?"
"I don't know what else to call it, like, um, the first day of first year and I could see where you fell down the stairs even though your father had put a spell so nobody could see."
"What?"
"Don't you remember that?"
"Sorta, but not very well."
"I remember it, you looked worse than I felt, and that was like two days after the full."
"Oh, well, I remember meeting you, but not falling down the stairs."
"I don't think you did fall down the stairs, I didn't think so then either but I couldn't say anything, I didn't know you well enough, it didn't look like you fell down the stairs."
"I probably didn't," Sirius said quietly.
"Care to tell me what did happen?" Sirius shook his head. "You don't have to. But I can help."
"No, not now at least."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure, just drop it!"
"All right, all right, but it's easier if you don't have to keep secrets. Trust me, I know."
"No you don't! Just leave me alone."
"I don't know anything about keeping secrets?"
"I know you know about keeping secrets. But you don't know anything about my secrets."
"Not if you don't tell me."
"But I'm not going to tell you, at least not now."
"All right, but if you ever need to talk…"
"I don't. I'm going to bed."
"All right, I'll see you in the morning."
"Good night."
"Good morning. Listen Sirius, I'm sorry about last night, I didn't mean to pry."
"It's all right, just leave it be. And go back to sleep, its way too early."
"Ok, good night."
"I don't know anything about what happened to Remus that makes him so secretive, but I want to help him." James looked up.
"Where is Remus?"
"In the library. I think."
"Well how are we supposed to do that? There's no cure for werewolfism."
"Lycanthropy."
"Lycanthropy?"
"It's not werewolfism, its lycanthropy."
"Ok, well there's still no cure."
"There has to be something we could do."
"I still don't know, we can research it right?"
"Remus is in the library, there's nowhere else to go."
"Isn't there a public library in Hogsmeade?"
"I suppose, but we're not allowed to go to Hogsmeade."
"We can next year."
"If my mother and father sign the bloody form," Sirius muttered, so low that James didn't hear.
A/N strange chapter I know, I'm having a lot of trouble, between the time they find out Remus is a werewolf and when they become animagi not a lot happens, so please bear with me, this was a weird chapter and it was mostly dialogue, a better on soon I hope. In the mean time I'm working on a couple of one shots. Review on your way out.
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Xandria Nirvana