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Ch. 11- Remus's Secret Deepens

Over the next few weeks, Sirius and Bella developed a hate/hate relationship almost as bad as Lily and James's.

"Come on, Sirius!" said Remus, exasperated one day in early December as he dragged Sirius away from taunting Bella for the fifth time during Charms class.

Peter was right next to him dragging James away from insulting Lily.

"Are we the only sane Marauders?" complained Peter as Remus performed a Semi-Permanent Sticking Charm between James, Sirius, and their chairs.

The two boys howled loudly when they found they were stuck to their chairs. They howled even louder when they found that Remus had taken the further precaution to charm their chairs into sticking to the floor.

"Remus, you will be in so much pain once this charm wears off!" said Sirius glaring angrily at Remus.

Remus gave a weak smile. "Well, Peter and I are tired of being the only sane Marauders and having to drag you away from Meadows and Evans every two seconds!"

"Couldn't we insult Snape for a change?" suggested Peter, and he smiled as his two glued-to-their-chairs friends grinned wickedly.

"Well we have been thinking things have been a little too quiet for Snape since that er... Potions mishap," muttered James, grinning.

"We should meet in the common room tonight to brainstorm ideas for a good prank," said Sirius, his eyes glittering, "Snivellus has been downright nasty to us, and we haven't done anything!"

"You've been er... distracted," said Peter, cocking his head at Evans and Meadows across the room and James and Sirius's faces quickly became stormy.

"Well, I think we need a change for now," said James gruffly, taking his eyes off Lily Evans.

"Remmy, you're a criminal mastermind behind that innocent face! Brainstorm some ideas for a spectacular prank for Snivellus!" said Sirius excitedly as the four boys walked to History of Magic.

"Alright I'll try," said Remus quietly, his face ashen.

"Are you alright?" asked Peterm stopping in the middle of the corridor. "You're looking ill again."

"Yeah..." said Remus vaguely. "I don't feel so great. I might see Madam Pomfrey later."

When the boys entered the common room after dinner, Remus's face was even greyer.

"Didn't you go to Madam Pomfrey?" Peter asked worriedly.

"Oh yeah," said Remus in a dazed voice. "I meant to tell you at dinner. Madam Pomfrey said er... my mum's very ill and I... have to see her. I'm going home tonight."

"You won't be able to help us plan Snivellus prank then!" said James, sighing, "But family's more important. It's alright, Rem."

Remus stumbled upstairs and returned carrying a long cloak.

"Do you want us to go downstairs with you?" asked Sirius, concern showing on his usually carefree face.

"No!" said Remus rather quickly. "I'll be fine. I'll see you in... oh probably tomorrow."

He hurried out of the common room.

"I hope Remus's mum is alright," said Peter nervously.

"Well sitting mulling over it won't help," muttered James. "Let's plan Snivellus's downfall!"

"Okay, okay let's see..." said Sirius, rubbing his hands together.

"We already did the Potions spill," said James absently, tapping his quill on a blank piece of parchment.

"Ooh... WARDROBE CHANGE!" said Sirius excitedly.

"Like what?" Peter eyed him skeptically.

"We make his robes all girly pink or something!" said Sirius grinning evilly.

"And a hairstyle change?" suggested Peter.

"Ringlets or something?" said James, his quill moving quickly across the parchment.

"Yeah..." said Peter thoughtfully, "probably colour-change on his hair too."

"Okay first thing tomorrow, go to the library!" said Sirius in a commanding voice. "We look up and learn a Colour-Change Charm and Hairstyle Change Charm. Is that the only spells we'll need?"

"Yep," said James, glancing at the parchment, "Monday, the Marauders attack!"

The next morning, Peter, James, and Sirius hurried through breakfast and quickly ran to the library.

James quickly found a book called Hair Charms for the Helpless and Hairless by Belle Beautiford. He was skimming over a charm to make your hair squeaky clean when a wave of scarlet red hair whacked him across the face and the book was wrenched from his hands.

"Trying to make your hair more manageable, Potter?" smirked Lily as she read the title of the book and glanced at James's messy black hair.

"No!" said James defiantly. "I was looking for a way to permanently turn your hair green!"

"You wouldn't!"

"Oh I would."

Lily thrust the book back at James and stalked out of the library, clutching her hair.

James smirked as he quickly found the charm to make your hair grow in ringlets. He quickly wrote down the incantation and hurried over to Peter and Sirius. "Did you find the Colour-Change Charm yet?" Sirius nodded at Peter whose robes, once black, were now an interesting shade of lime-green. "I suppose that's a yes then," said James with a snort. "I guess we can think of a good prank without Remmy every once in a while."

As if on cue, Remus stumbled through the library doors and over to the table his friends were sitting at. "In the library?" he asked incredulously. "I look everywhere for youblokes and I find you in the library?"

"Shocking, innit?" said James with a slight grin. "We needed to look up some charms for Snivellus's prank."

"Oh, do tell," said Remus, excitement showing on his tired face. The three boys quickly explained the plans for the prank and Remus nodded saying, "Brilliant!"

"How's your mum?" Peter asked worriedly.

"A bit better. I er... probably will go see her again at the er... end of the month."

"Well you missed an awesome full moon in Astronomy last night!" said James, leaning back in his chair.

"Really?" said Remus, slightly shaking.

"Oh yes!" said Peter, nodding, "It was so huge!"

"And there was all this howling and stuff," said Sirius, his face bright. "Probably from the Forbidden Forest. Reckon there's a werewolf or werewolves in there. They do transform at the full moon, eh?"

"Wow, that'd be cool if that's what it was," said James, looking thoughtful. "Spooky though."

"Yeah neat," said Remus uncomfortably. "So when are we going to prank Snape?"

"Monday," said Sirius. "So, today and tomorrow we can learn and practice the charms."

"I reckon we should learn some jinxes and hexes in advance," said James. "Then we don't have to waste all are Saturdays in the library."

Sirius and Remus quickly went to the Jinxes, Hexes, and Curses section of the library and checked out four huge books on the subject.

"How'd you convince Madam Pince to let you check them out?" said Peter as they trudged up to Gryffindor Tower. "Didn't she suspect they were for pranks?"

"We told her they were for Charms homework," muttered Sirius with a loud guffaw.

"We'd better go through the books now," said James, sitting down at a table in the common room. "After we use some of the jinxes on Snivellus, Madam Pince will probably confiscate them."

The other boys nodded and they spent the rest of the weekend taking notes on various jinxes and curses and practicing the charms they needed for Snivellus's prank.

Hee hee I love my Semi-Permanent Sticking Charm part in this chapter! Reviews make your authoress happy! E.D.J.