Chapter 3: Simple Plan
Thefour animals knew what to do as they could understand each other perfectly, they wandered all around the terrain of Hogwarts observed everything. When the the first rays of the sun came across the far end of the lake they walked back to the Whomping Willow, slowly Remus turned back into a human. He lay on the ground and looked very tired.
James kneeled down at his side.
"Remus…"
"Just go okay, I'll be fine, give me just a minute, this transformation cost a lot of energy," Remus whispered. He was shivering because he was naked. The clothes of the other 3 transformed with them but Remus as he had an unwanted tranformation his clothes just don't fit him when he turns into a werewolf.
"Are you sure Remus?" James said looking scared and worried at his friend.
"Go! Before Madam Pomfrey arrives!" said Remus his voice trembling in frustration. James stood up and nodded towards his other 2 friends, they walked towards the bushes where they left the Invisibility cloak, James threw the cloak over his friends and himself and they walked slowly back to the castle. Luckily it was Saturday and they could go to bed for a few hours. They slipped into the dormitory and went to bed. After 30 minutes James heard his friend Remus coming into the room and after that he fell asleep.
It was around 1.00 o' clock James woke up again by the sun which came to the small window of the dormitory. His friends were still asleep. Remus looked already much better now he was warm and had a strengthening potion. James grinned, this was a nice opportunity, he couldn't let this one slip. He got his wand from the bedside table.
"Glycirinus," he whispered. A green bubble grew at the tip of his wand. At the size of a tennisball James shook the bubble of and the bubble rose high in the air. He looked once again at his friends.
"REDUCTO!" he yelled aiming at the bubble, the bubble exploded with a hard blow that all his friend suddenly sat straight up in bed. James was doubled over from laughter. When he finally got a grip on himself he said:
"You should have seen the look on your faces when the bubble exploded, it was so funny," he said having tears in his eyes.
His friends laughed, first a little bit shocked but then they laughed. They got up and went down towards the great hall. Not many Gryffindors were there, they sat at the down at the end of the table near the teachers table and heard Professor McGonagall softly talking to Dumbledore.
"Albus, Molly just gave birth to a son, they named him Bill," she said smiling.
"That is wonderful news, remind me of sending them a card," Dumbledore said.
"Of course Albus, but there is also something else you should know, last night three Death Eaters were spotted.."
"Hush, Minerva, the walls have ears, or at least those four students over there has," Dumbledore said looking directly at the Marauders, he smiled and then turned his attention back towards his food.
The Marauders looked at each other. They of course heard the news about Voldemort and his Death Eaters but lucky for them they or there family had encountered them.
"What are we going to do today?" Sirius asked.
"We still need that recipe, how about tonight?" James said.
"It's a date," Remus said.
"How are we going to do that?" Peter asked.
"Well, one of us has to distract Rumble, so I thought you could do that Wormtail, you are terrible at Potions so you can just act like you don't understand that Vapourising Potion," James said.
"That won't be difficult, because he really doesn't understand the Vapourising Potion," Sirius laughed.
"So that's the plan, you distract him, we get the missing ingredients of the Polyjuice Potion and we all come back together in the secret chamber behind the Mirror," Remus said. They all nodded, stood up and walked away.