Disclaimer: I own nothing of what you recognise down there.
Thanks to:
Happo: Bloody nutters the pair of you lol.
Guyunderpressure: It'll all end in tears when someone's eye gets poked out.
Passionflower: OH MY GOD I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE MOVIE! It was AMAZING! (Screams like a little fangirl). The emotional scenes between Harry and Sirius were so moving, and when Sirius runs forward to hold back a transforming Lupin from the kids slapping a hand over Remus's heart and shouting 'IT'S ONLY FLESH REMUS, YOU'RE IN HERE, YOU'RE IN HERE' I practically started shouting it too. The kids are SO much better at acting and deliver the funniest lines, Hermione punching Draco (Squeals). Plus they changed the James Potter actor and he DEFINETLY looks more the part!!! Apart from that there is a particularly good Mind, Body and Spirit shop in bath I love...it's called the Arcania (Does anyone recognise that from my other fics hehe)?
Jenna: Lmao, ah big me up why don't you. Yeah I look forward to writing that story and the whole deep thing, well they've gotta be haven't they lol!
Akuma Malik; Queen of Typos: Aye young but then again they're British and believe me when I say sexual laws here are generally ignored, the amount of 13 year olds getting knocked up around here!
Legolas19: Lol here you are.
Yaoi-is-gay-13: Indeed, and glad I could make your day.
Arigazi: I called it green or blue because that's what Lupin's mum says as she holds up the two dresses to her son lol, sorry, I should've been more informative. And bollocks once more to the spell-check thing lol. I hate that bloody contraption. You make me smile man, all these compliments coming from you lot. Wilde is a genius, wonderful poetry that man. And I KNOW, THE WEREWOLVES ROCKED LMAO!
Obviously oblivious: Thank you very much.
Elvencherry07: Ah well that's always been my stronger point. I'm an artist so I'll see something and build up a possible scene or sketch so I think that happens with my stories too.
Elrohir Lover: Jesus, I didn't realise he was beat up to that extent. Seriously, give him my blessings, shame us Wiccans can't hex people huh. Aye, Poetry is one of my most favourite things in the world so when I can mention it, I will lol. Am I gay? That's still in question but I guess the reason I keep offering my support is because as a Witch people tend to give us the same treatment ('Coming out of the Broom closet') so I like to offer my support where I can because I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of bitter thoughts.
Hp-Azn: Aye sorry about that, I'm trying on finding a way to fill up the bit up to where Sirius lets slip the secret but I'm beginning to get writer's block (uh oh) but I will march on. As for Siri and Cara, I'm trying to think of a decent one shot lol!
Yuki Bombay: Lmao, language. And I'm glad I could get you into Poetry because there really is nothing more powerful then that lol. A lot of you seem to be either into it or getting into it so that's brilliant because not only am I writing a story I'm either putting people's fav poems in or getting you guys hooked lol! I'm a poetry dealer Lmao!
Mira Black: Nah I could never hate you for that lol! My excuse is if a bunch of guys can sit around discussing lesbians why can't we do it about gay guys? Seems a fair cop to me! Aye I know the feeling though where you go about your day and you'll hear a song and go 'Ooh Ooh Remy and Siri!'
AN: I saw Harry Potter yesterday and OH MY GOD you guys will NOT be disappointed! Lupin was amazing, Sirius even more so and there's a line that Snape says that I know every HP Slasher adored...In the Shrieking Shack Snape says to Remus and Sirius who have just argued about revealing the truth that "They still argue like an old married couple!" AMAZING LINE!
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Chapter 16 – Just the Marauders
Of course my parents never did find out about the hidden meaning to Sirius's little visit and I went out of my way to let them continue living in that parental oblivion of their child being celibate.
James came round the next day and we had out typical days of Marauding companionship, no relationship ever being able to take that away from us.
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(1975)
"Maybe if I bend my knees a little more I might touch the ceiling." James said as he bounced on Remus's bed repetitively.
"What is it about my bed that you guys find fascinating?" Remus quipped as he looked up from the book he was reading, himself spread out on the floor of his bedroom on his stomach.
"They bounce really good." Sirius said from his place on the edge of the bed, jerking with James's movements then deciding to show his friend up he stood, stretched and touched the ceiling with ease. James stopped bouncing and stared at his friend.
"No need to get cocky you great tree." He muttered as he hopped onto the bed to sit cross-legged on it. They heard a faint crack as he did so and all movement stilled.
"Was that my bed?" Remus asked and the other two boys scanned the piece of furniture.
"Might've been but I can't see any cracks." Sirius said then smirked at James who was desperately trying not to laugh aloud.
Remus snorted then turned back to his books, pointedly ignoring the muffled thumps of two pillows battling it out. He couldn't fight the smirk though and eventually looked up to find his boyfriend being squished by a large puffy pillow in James's hands as muffled giggles sounded from beneath it.
"Do try not to kill him James, I –would- like him around a little longer if you please." The werewolf said dryly as he stood to sit on the bed with his two best friends.
"Why?" James quipped before he yelped when Sirius punched him on the arm.
"Damn Black, you punch like a girl." His best friend said as he discretely tried to rub his arm better.
"Yeah well I'm prettier then you so..." Sirius said shrugging in a 'it's a fact of life' sort of way.
"What? I think not...actually yeah, your pretty like a little girl whereas –I- am roguishly gorgeous with this ever delightful twinkle in my eye." He leant close to his friend pointing at his eye before grinning at Sirius's frown.
"Merlin forbid that you should be allowed to breed." Remus said as he looked at his messy haired friend as his boyfriend laughed loudly.
"That wasn't very nice." James sulked before grinning and starting a second bout of the battle.
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The three boys walked down Remus's home street towards a park that he knew was near by. They found it with ease and luckily it seemed there were no kids there today so walking at a fast pace, but not so much that they looked like they were running, they each got themselves a swing.
"James, out of curiosity, why are you set on Lily?" Sirius asked from his swing on the right and Remus who was sat in the middle turned his head curiously to the boy on his left.
At first James said nothing just looked pointedly ahead then shrugged his shoulders, a faint blush creeping onto his cheeks.
"Because." He said simply and the other two rolled their eyes.
"Because what?" Remus asked, reaching over and letting his hand slip into Sirius's as they lazily swung.
Frowning at the ground James shrugged again.
"Because she's nice."
"Lots of girls are nice Jeremy." Sirius said as he turned sideways on the swing, straddling it the wrong way as he massaged Remus's hand between his two.
"Yeah but..." James seemed to pinch his lips together before he sighed and looked at the ground in defeat.
"She's...she's Lily Evans. She always stands up for what she believes in, she never lets a bully get to her, she's smart and kind to everyone..."
"Except you." Sirius smirked, which earned him the tiniest grin from his friend.
"...Except me, and she...she has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen." He really did blush then, deeply, as he leant forwards so that his hair shielded his face.
"Why do you never tell her this stuff?" Remus asked, disbelief etched onto his features. He always figured the attraction was a physical one.
"I –try- but then the delightfully named 'Wonder Dick' side of my brain takes over and I become said title." He said a little angrily although the rouge cheeks ruined it.
"I could tell her if you like." The werewolf said but James shook his head.
"Romance through someone else, kind of loses its appeal doesn't it?" He said solemnly as he moved to sit on the swing side-straddle like Sirius.
"No, no one say I plan to do something right. Until then I'll just stay in her line of view."
The look of determination on his face was so pure that Remus and Sirius watched him in silence briefly before the dog animagi gently rested a hand on his shoulder in a brotherly manner.
"It's just you've put yourself in such a situation...are you sure there are no other girls you'd like to be with?" He said and smiling humorously James shook his head.
"Lily is my Remus." He said and after a brief moment of shared silence Sirius nodded.
"Then you're screwed."
The three of them laughed.
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(Present)
I never knew when exactly it was that James fell in love with Lily but it was prominent that he had falling hard...Thankfully. When these two put aside their differences they were perfect, your typical cliché couple of shared kisses and whispered words.
Until then James couldn't help but act ridiculously childish around Lily and Lily couldn't help but point out what a berk he was being. Harry would either find it funny or disturbing but after the pensieve incident I dare not bring it up.
We spent our holidays like any other teenagers would and towards the end we went for a brief visit to Diagon alley in London the night before Christmas Eve. Peter joined us.
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(1975)
The snow that had started the night before fell in light dances as the wind blew it this way and that, pedestrians walking with their heads down against the wind. Sirius led the small group of boys through the Leaky Cauldron, shaking off the snow that had settled on him in a similar manner to the great bear like dog form he took.
"Right through here." He said and Remus followed him with James just behind him. Peter came up at the tail end as they all moved out to the back to the magic wall.
Whipping out his wand Sirius tapped the required stones in succession until finally the wall gave a great grizzled sound of stones on stone unknitting itself and sliding away to reveal the vertical style bustling street.
"Diagon alley boys!" Sirius said flamboyantly as he spread his arms wide and bowed to let the rest of the Marauders through. When James and Peter had walked past him shaking their heads Remus smirked whilst taking the taller teens hand in his before leading the way.
The sound of medieval style busters in the street finished off the snowy scene as a choir sang an almost dark in nature hymn. Passers-by kept bumping into the four teenagers as they made their way, fresh faced, through the crowd.
James ran on ahead to reach the Quidditch shop with Peter in his wake but Remus and Sirius kept their steady pace with their hands still laced together as they browsed the various windows for possible purchases.
Yes, they too like many others here were late in their Christmas shopping.
"I'm going to get that tattoo done on my birthday." Sirius said suddenly making Remus jerk out of his thoughts and stare at him for a moment.
"Huh? Tattoo?" He said and chuckling Sirius nodded.
"Can't you remember? When I said I wanted that tribal wolf tattoo?"
Remus gave a great gasp of recollection as he nodded and smiled at his lover.
"Only now I'm going to have a black dog beside it, with the full moon as a back drop."
Remus felt something stir within his chest as he smiled at his mate. Sirius winked down at him before he pointed to the space on his back just behind his heart.
"Right there, so they can hear my heart beating."
The werewolf looked at the smiling face of his boyfriend for a moment longer before he reached a hand up to cup Sirius's cheek, stroking his thumb over the high arch of Sirius's cheek. Then he pulled him down to kiss him gently.
"Romantic bastard." He muttered affectionately before giving a gentle tug he led them both through the crowd. He stopped momentarily as he glimpsed a brilliant robe of forest green velvet in a window and sighed. He wished he could afford it but what with his curse he needed to hoard as much money as was possible.
But he saw it every time he came here, even back at the beginning of the year when he was with his mum. The robe had an intricate pattern of shimmering silver tracing patterns of Celtic style intertwining arches up the back where it meet in the middle to make a silver form of a pentacle in the centre of the back. The clasp was of a Full Moon and two Crescent Moons either side of it pointing in opposite directions, the sleeves flaring out at the cuffs.
"That'd look good on you." Sirius muttered into his ear but Remus shook his head good-naturedly as he pulled the other boy further away.
"Doesn't do well do pine for what you can't have Padfoot." He said causing his boyfriend to watch him quietly.
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"Right, We good?" James said as they all returned from various errands with arms packed full of bags. Everyone nodded and with a grin he led the Marauders back through the Leaky Cauldron pub.
"Sure you don't want me to walk you home?" Sirius asked as he, Remus and James landed back at the Potter's via the Floo network. Peter had gone off home by the same means.
Smiling Remus shook his head.
"I'll be fine Padfoot. You and Prongs stay here and wrap my presents." He teased, leaning up on tip-toe to kiss his boyfriend chastely on the lips before with a final wave at the door he turned to make his way back home.
The only sounds were off his footsteps crunching in the snow, the night sky still releasing the little ballerinas of white and briefly he looked up where he caught sight of the half moon. This time he did not fear it, not after what happened the month before.
He had a pack now...but then, he thought, in a sense they had always been a pack. The Marauders, brothers in arms in pranking and willing to do anything for one another, die if needs be.
So despite everything, even his and Sirius's relationship would never break up this close group of wizards. Right now, life was good.
No, it was better then that... it was amazing.
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"Double double, toile and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble!" I suggest to all to buy the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack. There is a particularly moving piece called 'Window to the Past' which is when Remus talks to Harry about his parents. Pulls at me heart strings it does!
Thanks to:
Happo: Bloody nutters the pair of you lol.
Guyunderpressure: It'll all end in tears when someone's eye gets poked out.
Passionflower: OH MY GOD I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE MOVIE! It was AMAZING! (Screams like a little fangirl). The emotional scenes between Harry and Sirius were so moving, and when Sirius runs forward to hold back a transforming Lupin from the kids slapping a hand over Remus's heart and shouting 'IT'S ONLY FLESH REMUS, YOU'RE IN HERE, YOU'RE IN HERE' I practically started shouting it too. The kids are SO much better at acting and deliver the funniest lines, Hermione punching Draco (Squeals). Plus they changed the James Potter actor and he DEFINETLY looks more the part!!! Apart from that there is a particularly good Mind, Body and Spirit shop in bath I love...it's called the Arcania (Does anyone recognise that from my other fics hehe)?
Jenna: Lmao, ah big me up why don't you. Yeah I look forward to writing that story and the whole deep thing, well they've gotta be haven't they lol!
Akuma Malik; Queen of Typos: Aye young but then again they're British and believe me when I say sexual laws here are generally ignored, the amount of 13 year olds getting knocked up around here!
Legolas19: Lol here you are.
Yaoi-is-gay-13: Indeed, and glad I could make your day.
Arigazi: I called it green or blue because that's what Lupin's mum says as she holds up the two dresses to her son lol, sorry, I should've been more informative. And bollocks once more to the spell-check thing lol. I hate that bloody contraption. You make me smile man, all these compliments coming from you lot. Wilde is a genius, wonderful poetry that man. And I KNOW, THE WEREWOLVES ROCKED LMAO!
Obviously oblivious: Thank you very much.
Elvencherry07: Ah well that's always been my stronger point. I'm an artist so I'll see something and build up a possible scene or sketch so I think that happens with my stories too.
Elrohir Lover: Jesus, I didn't realise he was beat up to that extent. Seriously, give him my blessings, shame us Wiccans can't hex people huh. Aye, Poetry is one of my most favourite things in the world so when I can mention it, I will lol. Am I gay? That's still in question but I guess the reason I keep offering my support is because as a Witch people tend to give us the same treatment ('Coming out of the Broom closet') so I like to offer my support where I can because I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of bitter thoughts.
Hp-Azn: Aye sorry about that, I'm trying on finding a way to fill up the bit up to where Sirius lets slip the secret but I'm beginning to get writer's block (uh oh) but I will march on. As for Siri and Cara, I'm trying to think of a decent one shot lol!
Yuki Bombay: Lmao, language. And I'm glad I could get you into Poetry because there really is nothing more powerful then that lol. A lot of you seem to be either into it or getting into it so that's brilliant because not only am I writing a story I'm either putting people's fav poems in or getting you guys hooked lol! I'm a poetry dealer Lmao!
Mira Black: Nah I could never hate you for that lol! My excuse is if a bunch of guys can sit around discussing lesbians why can't we do it about gay guys? Seems a fair cop to me! Aye I know the feeling though where you go about your day and you'll hear a song and go 'Ooh Ooh Remy and Siri!'
AN: I saw Harry Potter yesterday and OH MY GOD you guys will NOT be disappointed! Lupin was amazing, Sirius even more so and there's a line that Snape says that I know every HP Slasher adored...In the Shrieking Shack Snape says to Remus and Sirius who have just argued about revealing the truth that "They still argue like an old married couple!" AMAZING LINE!
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Chapter 16 – Just the Marauders
Of course my parents never did find out about the hidden meaning to Sirius's little visit and I went out of my way to let them continue living in that parental oblivion of their child being celibate.
James came round the next day and we had out typical days of Marauding companionship, no relationship ever being able to take that away from us.
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(1975)
"Maybe if I bend my knees a little more I might touch the ceiling." James said as he bounced on Remus's bed repetitively.
"What is it about my bed that you guys find fascinating?" Remus quipped as he looked up from the book he was reading, himself spread out on the floor of his bedroom on his stomach.
"They bounce really good." Sirius said from his place on the edge of the bed, jerking with James's movements then deciding to show his friend up he stood, stretched and touched the ceiling with ease. James stopped bouncing and stared at his friend.
"No need to get cocky you great tree." He muttered as he hopped onto the bed to sit cross-legged on it. They heard a faint crack as he did so and all movement stilled.
"Was that my bed?" Remus asked and the other two boys scanned the piece of furniture.
"Might've been but I can't see any cracks." Sirius said then smirked at James who was desperately trying not to laugh aloud.
Remus snorted then turned back to his books, pointedly ignoring the muffled thumps of two pillows battling it out. He couldn't fight the smirk though and eventually looked up to find his boyfriend being squished by a large puffy pillow in James's hands as muffled giggles sounded from beneath it.
"Do try not to kill him James, I –would- like him around a little longer if you please." The werewolf said dryly as he stood to sit on the bed with his two best friends.
"Why?" James quipped before he yelped when Sirius punched him on the arm.
"Damn Black, you punch like a girl." His best friend said as he discretely tried to rub his arm better.
"Yeah well I'm prettier then you so..." Sirius said shrugging in a 'it's a fact of life' sort of way.
"What? I think not...actually yeah, your pretty like a little girl whereas –I- am roguishly gorgeous with this ever delightful twinkle in my eye." He leant close to his friend pointing at his eye before grinning at Sirius's frown.
"Merlin forbid that you should be allowed to breed." Remus said as he looked at his messy haired friend as his boyfriend laughed loudly.
"That wasn't very nice." James sulked before grinning and starting a second bout of the battle.
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The three boys walked down Remus's home street towards a park that he knew was near by. They found it with ease and luckily it seemed there were no kids there today so walking at a fast pace, but not so much that they looked like they were running, they each got themselves a swing.
"James, out of curiosity, why are you set on Lily?" Sirius asked from his swing on the right and Remus who was sat in the middle turned his head curiously to the boy on his left.
At first James said nothing just looked pointedly ahead then shrugged his shoulders, a faint blush creeping onto his cheeks.
"Because." He said simply and the other two rolled their eyes.
"Because what?" Remus asked, reaching over and letting his hand slip into Sirius's as they lazily swung.
Frowning at the ground James shrugged again.
"Because she's nice."
"Lots of girls are nice Jeremy." Sirius said as he turned sideways on the swing, straddling it the wrong way as he massaged Remus's hand between his two.
"Yeah but..." James seemed to pinch his lips together before he sighed and looked at the ground in defeat.
"She's...she's Lily Evans. She always stands up for what she believes in, she never lets a bully get to her, she's smart and kind to everyone..."
"Except you." Sirius smirked, which earned him the tiniest grin from his friend.
"...Except me, and she...she has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen." He really did blush then, deeply, as he leant forwards so that his hair shielded his face.
"Why do you never tell her this stuff?" Remus asked, disbelief etched onto his features. He always figured the attraction was a physical one.
"I –try- but then the delightfully named 'Wonder Dick' side of my brain takes over and I become said title." He said a little angrily although the rouge cheeks ruined it.
"I could tell her if you like." The werewolf said but James shook his head.
"Romance through someone else, kind of loses its appeal doesn't it?" He said solemnly as he moved to sit on the swing side-straddle like Sirius.
"No, no one say I plan to do something right. Until then I'll just stay in her line of view."
The look of determination on his face was so pure that Remus and Sirius watched him in silence briefly before the dog animagi gently rested a hand on his shoulder in a brotherly manner.
"It's just you've put yourself in such a situation...are you sure there are no other girls you'd like to be with?" He said and smiling humorously James shook his head.
"Lily is my Remus." He said and after a brief moment of shared silence Sirius nodded.
"Then you're screwed."
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(Present)
I never knew when exactly it was that James fell in love with Lily but it was prominent that he had falling hard...Thankfully. When these two put aside their differences they were perfect, your typical cliché couple of shared kisses and whispered words.
Until then James couldn't help but act ridiculously childish around Lily and Lily couldn't help but point out what a berk he was being. Harry would either find it funny or disturbing but after the pensieve incident I dare not bring it up.
We spent our holidays like any other teenagers would and towards the end we went for a brief visit to Diagon alley in London the night before Christmas Eve. Peter joined us.
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(1975)
The snow that had started the night before fell in light dances as the wind blew it this way and that, pedestrians walking with their heads down against the wind. Sirius led the small group of boys through the Leaky Cauldron, shaking off the snow that had settled on him in a similar manner to the great bear like dog form he took.
"Right through here." He said and Remus followed him with James just behind him. Peter came up at the tail end as they all moved out to the back to the magic wall.
Whipping out his wand Sirius tapped the required stones in succession until finally the wall gave a great grizzled sound of stones on stone unknitting itself and sliding away to reveal the vertical style bustling street.
"Diagon alley boys!" Sirius said flamboyantly as he spread his arms wide and bowed to let the rest of the Marauders through. When James and Peter had walked past him shaking their heads Remus smirked whilst taking the taller teens hand in his before leading the way.
The sound of medieval style busters in the street finished off the snowy scene as a choir sang an almost dark in nature hymn. Passers-by kept bumping into the four teenagers as they made their way, fresh faced, through the crowd.
James ran on ahead to reach the Quidditch shop with Peter in his wake but Remus and Sirius kept their steady pace with their hands still laced together as they browsed the various windows for possible purchases.
Yes, they too like many others here were late in their Christmas shopping.
"I'm going to get that tattoo done on my birthday." Sirius said suddenly making Remus jerk out of his thoughts and stare at him for a moment.
"Huh? Tattoo?" He said and chuckling Sirius nodded.
"Can't you remember? When I said I wanted that tribal wolf tattoo?"
Remus gave a great gasp of recollection as he nodded and smiled at his lover.
"Only now I'm going to have a black dog beside it, with the full moon as a back drop."
Remus felt something stir within his chest as he smiled at his mate. Sirius winked down at him before he pointed to the space on his back just behind his heart.
"Right there, so they can hear my heart beating."
The werewolf looked at the smiling face of his boyfriend for a moment longer before he reached a hand up to cup Sirius's cheek, stroking his thumb over the high arch of Sirius's cheek. Then he pulled him down to kiss him gently.
"Romantic bastard." He muttered affectionately before giving a gentle tug he led them both through the crowd. He stopped momentarily as he glimpsed a brilliant robe of forest green velvet in a window and sighed. He wished he could afford it but what with his curse he needed to hoard as much money as was possible.
But he saw it every time he came here, even back at the beginning of the year when he was with his mum. The robe had an intricate pattern of shimmering silver tracing patterns of Celtic style intertwining arches up the back where it meet in the middle to make a silver form of a pentacle in the centre of the back. The clasp was of a Full Moon and two Crescent Moons either side of it pointing in opposite directions, the sleeves flaring out at the cuffs.
"That'd look good on you." Sirius muttered into his ear but Remus shook his head good-naturedly as he pulled the other boy further away.
"Doesn't do well do pine for what you can't have Padfoot." He said causing his boyfriend to watch him quietly.
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"Right, We good?" James said as they all returned from various errands with arms packed full of bags. Everyone nodded and with a grin he led the Marauders back through the Leaky Cauldron pub.
"Sure you don't want me to walk you home?" Sirius asked as he, Remus and James landed back at the Potter's via the Floo network. Peter had gone off home by the same means.
Smiling Remus shook his head.
"I'll be fine Padfoot. You and Prongs stay here and wrap my presents." He teased, leaning up on tip-toe to kiss his boyfriend chastely on the lips before with a final wave at the door he turned to make his way back home.
The only sounds were off his footsteps crunching in the snow, the night sky still releasing the little ballerinas of white and briefly he looked up where he caught sight of the half moon. This time he did not fear it, not after what happened the month before.
He had a pack now...but then, he thought, in a sense they had always been a pack. The Marauders, brothers in arms in pranking and willing to do anything for one another, die if needs be.
So despite everything, even his and Sirius's relationship would never break up this close group of wizards. Right now, life was good.
No, it was better then that... it was amazing.
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"Double double, toile and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble!" I suggest to all to buy the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack. There is a particularly moving piece called 'Window to the Past' which is when Remus talks to Harry about his parents. Pulls at me heart strings it does!