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Chapter 15

Peter, Sirius and James scarfed down the cold chicken as if they hadn't eaten for days. In reality, it had only been several hours, but to an eleven year old boy, what was the difference between days and hours when it came to food? The other teachers where eating slowly and neatly. Dumbledore hadn't toushed a bite of food, and was slowly walking around the clearing, muttering to himself and sending off little silver sparks with his wand.

The boys had been very surprised to learn that Dumbledore and the teachers had known they were there the entire time. Apparently they hadn't been very discreet, and all their muttered "Ow!"s and angry curses had just made the teachers laugh. Well, Peter mused, they tried, and at least they weren't being sent back. He was quite keen on trying to find Remus, the amber-eyed boy had always helped him with his homework, and was very patient.

Suddenly, Dumbledore's head shot up, eyes dancing, wand shooting off enormous gold sparks.

"The picnic is over!" here the boys gasped. Why was their precious food to be taken away? "I've discovered master Lupin's whereabouts!" Here they whooped and shot up. Peter pocketed another leg of chicken. The teachers jumped up much more nimbly than teachers should, and in a trice, the food was packed away and they were off.

"Professor? Professor Dumbledore?" Sirius asked as he hurried to keep up with the old man.

"Yes master Black?" the old man smiled.

"Where is Remus anyway?" Sirius was curious about how the gold sparks worked. How could some sparkly things show where a person was? It didn't make sense. You needed a map or something to do that.

"Well, master Black, it doesn't' quite show me where he is, but it sort of guides me. You see, the expiscor charm is a charm to 'fish out' the object that you are seeking. The sparks will shoot one way or another, and we follow the sparks until we come upon master Lupin." Dumbledore explained, and, as he finished, the golden sparks veered left, and the party changed course. Sirius nodded and stored this piece of information away for later, one would never know when it could be useful.

2 hours later, the three boys were getting very tired. The land had been steadily getting boggier and boggier for the past 30 minutes, and even Dumbledore was ready to call a rest. Suddenly though, the golden sparks shot up very high, making a low keening sound.

"He's in the area!" Dumbledore cried. "Start searching for him!" the teachers scattered, calling "Lupin!" under their breaths. Sirius, James and Peter split up too, calling more loudly than the teachers were.

It was James who found him first. It seemed as though Remus had tripped over a log and couldn't get up.

"Over here!" he yelled. "Sirius! Peter! Dumbledore! He's here!" turning towards his friend, he suddenly noticed that Remus' breathing was shallow. That wasn't right, was it? "Remus? Remus? Are you ok?" he asked. Remus made a groaning sound and opened his eyes blearily. Dumbledore came out of the trees, and rushed over to them, Sirius and Peter following behind, looking worried. Dumbledore examined Remus quickly.

"I'm afraid your friend is highly dehydrated, but he should be ok, provided we get him back to the castle quickly." Sirius let out a sigh of relief and smiled weakly. Peter jumped about, singing "We found him We found him" under his breath. Dumbledore called for the teachers again, and they made hteir way back to the castle, Remus on a floating cot before them.

YAY! they found him! and i actually updated! whoo! life is good! everything is going to be happyhappyhappy from now one! cuz the story is almost at an end. awwwww. Remus is just dehydrated, which hurts like hell, but with the wonders of magic, he will be alrighty. Reviews are welcome!