(Author note: For this chapter and the ones to come I'm going to be using Remus for the younger one that is in the memory and Lupin for the one that is standing with Harry. I hope it's not that confusing when you read it.)
Chapter 2: Who The Bloody Hell Are You?
Harry looked around and noticed that it was the exactly the same as he knew it as. As he looked around he noticed only one person standing near the entrance to the platform. Harry saw that it was a much, much younger Remus Lupin then the one standing next to him.
"Harry, this is the beginning in my first year at Hogwarts. I figured it best if we started with how I first met James and Sirius." Lupin said as he looked at himself standing by the entrance.
"But why are you alone?" Harry asked Lupin. Lupin sighed and then explained.
"My father was working that day so he couldn't come, and my mother was off taking care of my grandmother who was extremely sick. She had enough time to get me here and kiss me good-bye before taking off back to my grandmother. You have to remember Harry; this is only about two years after I was bitten. My family was still scared to be around me for to long. They were afraid that I would attack one of them. That was when I began to shut myself away from the world." Lupin said.
They watched as Remus pulled his things onto the train and disappeared from sight. Harry looked around hoping to see his father or maybe mother, but Lupin pulled him away from the platform onto the train.
"We have to stay with my younger self if we want to know what all happened." Lupin said. They walked after Remus who was all the way down at the very last compartment. He was putting his trunk away and pulled out a book. Lupin pushed Harry over by the window in the compartment so they could stand at watch. Harry noticed the book that young Remus was reading.
"If you were so afraid of people finding out about you, then why are you reading a book about werewolves?" Harry asked.
"I wanted to learn as much as I could about it. I have been doing the transformation for the past 24 months and I wanted to learn all I could about who I was going to be for the lest of my life." Lupin said.
Harry turned to look out the window and saw something that made his heart jump. Standing on the platform was his father, godfather, and grandparents. It was obvious that even then James and Sirius had known each other. And now Harry realized why he looked so much like his father, his own father looked so much like his grandfather. He grandmother on he other had had long dark blond hair and looked be a very kind and laid back type of person. James was hugging his mother good-bye as he and Sirius took off onto the train.
Harry just stood next to Lupin waiting for something to happen. Just then the door to the compartment opened and someone stuck their head in.
"Do you mind if we share this with you?" It was James who was speaking to the younger Remus. Remus quickly hid his book and nodded that they could come in. James and Sirius both stored their trunks in the compartment. James took a seat across from Remus and Sirius sat down right next to James. James and Lupin went to talking back and forth so Remus pulled his book out again.
"So, do you like Werewolves or something?" Sirius said looking at the book that Remus was reading.
"I find them interesting." Remus said as he closed the book and put it away.
"Well, I'm James Potter." James said holding out his hand to Remus. Remus took it and looked back at James.
"Remus Lupin."
"Sirius Black. Nice to meet ya." Sirius said taking Remus's hand and shaking it fairly hard. Remus pulled his arm back and shook it out.
"He was always very strong, and half the time dim witted about things." Lupin said to Harry with a smile slowly making it's way across his face.
Remus, James, and Sirius spent plenty of time just talking when suddenly the door flew open and small kind of round boy landed on the floor in front of them. Sirius picked him up and looked at him.
"What the bloody hell do ya think yur doin'" Sirius yelled at him.
"P-p-please, d-don't let h-him get m-me!" the boy squeaked at Sirius.
"And who might this 'him' be?" Remus asked, but before the boy could answer another boy came into the compartment. He had long greasy black hair and black robes. He looked like he could kill the small boy that Sirius was holding.
"And who the bloody hell are you?" Sirius bellowed again at the new boy who just appeared in the doorway.
"Severus Snape. Now if you would just hand the small boy over, I'd like to deal with him on my own." Snape said as he reached out to grab the small boy. James smacked Snape's hand down and glared at him.
"And what is it this small boy has done to you?" James asked still glaring at Snape. Snape stood him ground and looked James in the eyes with an evil glare.
"Why don't you mind your own business, and let me deal with mine." Snape said.
"I suggest you get out of here and leave this small boy alone, or else you'll have me to deal with." Sirius said as he threw the small boy on the seat next to Remus.
"Next time we meet, you won't be so lucky to get away." Snape snarled at the small boy before turning on his heels and leaving.
"It was from that moment on that your father and Sirius hated Snape." Lupin said as he stood watching the whole scene in front of him.
"So who are you?" Remus asked the small boy that was now sitting next to him.
"Peter Pettigrew." The small boy said. Harry's teeth ground together and his fists were so tight that his knuckles were turning white, while the other boys introduced themselves to Peter. Lupin put a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"When he was this age, he was still a good man. He was slow, weak, and kind of stupid, but he was still on our side. I know you have every right to be mad at him, but he never did a thing to hurt any of us while we were in school." Lupin said. Harry calmed down a bit as he watched the four young men in front of him talk. Just then the Hogwarts Express and the compartment disappeared from view. Harry and Lupin were heading to another memory.
Lupin and Harry were now standing next to the teacher's table in the Great Hall. The first years were getting ready to be sorted. Harry watched as James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, and his mother were sorted into their house. He even saw the sneer on Snape's face as he was placed into Slytherin. Once the sorting was over a much younger Dumbledore stood up and Hall went quiet.
"Welcome everyone to another year at Hogwarts. I would like to inform everyone that a Whomping Willow has been placed on the grounds this year. Please do not ask why and I ask that no one go near it. I'm sure we do not want anyone missing school because of this tree. Now, I hope you enjoy your year here and now for the feast." Dumbledore sat down and everyone began to eat.
Harry and Lupin watched as everyone ate their food and then headed up to their dormitory to sleep. Lupin pulled Harry behind him as they followed the four young marauders to their dorm room. James and Sirius sat playing a game of Wizard chess while Peter watched. Remus pulled the curtains around his bed and was hidden from sight. Harry gave Lupin a questioning look.
"I wanted to keep to myself, even though I knew that the three other boys in my room where going to end up being the best thing to happen to me I still wanted to stay hidden. It was only a few weeks until my transformation and if they got use to fact that I would hide away, then maybe they wouldn't wonder where I was that night of the month, every month." Lupin said.
An owl flew into the room through the window and flew through the curtains around Remus's bed. The other three boys in the room noticed the owl as well. It then flew out the window almost as fast as it had come.
"Hey Lupin, what'd that bird want?" Sirius yelled to Remus.
"It's an owl you idiot." James said laughing. Remus pulled the curtains back around and looked down at the other three boys.
"It's a letter from my mother about my grandmother. I'll be back later, I need to go send her a replay." Remus said getting up and running out of the door.
"Come on." Lupin said pulling Harry behind him. They followed Remus out of the portrait whole and off in the opposite way of the owlery.
"Where are we—err—you going?" Harry asked as he ran behind Lupin.
"The letter I receive that night—err--just now was from Dumbledore. He wanted to talk to me right away about my transformations. Obviously I couldn't tell James and Sirius that so I lied." Lupin said. Suddenly Lupin stopped as Remus ran around a corner and out of site.
"What the?" Harry said he ran into the back of Lupin. "Why did you stop?"
"We just talked about how Madam Pomfrey was going to take me to the Whomping Willow. That was it. Besides we are here for you to learn about your parents. We might as well move on to when the others found out." Lupin said. The ground faded away and reappeared as if nothing happened. They were now standing a few feet away from the Whomping Willow.