MWPP: Through Moony's Eyes
An Invisible Christmas and Goodbyes.
Remus woke up the next day and considered to go back to bed, but then noticed a pile of presents at the foot of his bed. Remus sat straight up in his bed and saw that Sirius was halfway through his presents and James was a quarter through his.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" James and Sirius sang. There was wrapping paper, bows and ribbons strewn throughout the dormitory. Sirius had a bow on his head and it looked like James was drowning in wrapping paper.
"Thanks for the gift Remus!" James said, holding up a book out of the trash, called Practical Jokes With Magic.
"Yeah and thanks for mine!" Sirius said. Holding up his book that was titled Practical Jokes Without Magic.
Remus began to sort through and open his presents. Lily gave him the Standard Book of Spells grades 3 and 4, books that he won't have to buy for the next two years. James gave a book to him titled Werewolves are Not Bad People, Just Unlucky and Peter gave him over 10 pounds of chocolate. Sirius's gift, however, was the most hilarious gift Remus had ever received.
Remus tore off the snitch patterned wrapping paper, to find a light blue squeaky ball.
"Fook fon fee ofer fide," Sirius said, his mouth full of Bertie Botts Every Flavor beans.
"What's scary, is that I actually understood you," Remus said while flipping the ball to the other side. Remus started laughing hysterically, there stared back was a picture of the slimy evil Slytherin, Snape. Sirius swallowed his full mouth.
"It's for your transformations. This way you can beat up Snape and use him as a chew toy!" Sirius exclaimed, obviously pleased with himself. "Or you could just kick it around for fun."
"Thank you Sirius, I'm sure it'll come in handy. For all of us, for that matter." Sirius and Remus heard movement stop in James's side of the room.
"Guys, look," They could faintly hear James's voice on the other side of the room. Remus and Sirius gathered over near James as he lifted up a rainbow, silverish cloak. Remus's jaw dropped in admiration.
"You know what this is don't you? That's an invisibility cloak, I've read about them. Very rare these things are," Remus said looking gloriously at the cloak.
"Did you say invisibility?" James asked in awe. He swung the cloak around his body so that only his head was visible.
"James, that's amazing!" Sirius said gazing at the cloak. James turned towards Sirius and with a mischievous grin, pulled the cloak over his head so that he was completely invisible.
"Not fair!" Sirius yelled, looking around frantically. There was a huge clunk or the top of Sirius's head. "OW!" Sirius yelled. James reappeared laughing.
"How many people do you think we can fit under there James?" Remus asked, wondering exactly how useful this cloak can be.
"I would say about three comfortably, but we might be able to fit all four of us under."
"Do you realize how valuable this will be for pranking?" Sirius asked, with a dazed look coming over his face.
"Do you realize we can now get that Animagi book from the library?" Remus said, mimicking Sirius.
"That's right, we can sneak down there and get it," James said, thinking.
"I'll go!" Sirius volunteered, always up for an adventure.
"I'll go too," James said, who, like Sirius, was always up for an adventure.
"Ok, I'll stay here, but before you leave, do you think we should wait for Peter to wake up?" Remus asked, eyeing Peter in the corner.
"Nah," James and Sirius said together. Sirius and James slipped under the invisibility cloak, Remus saw the portrait door open and shut, informing him that the two boys had left.
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"We've got it," Sirius's voice rang through the common room. James pulled the cloak off of their heads, so that the two boys were visible. James was holding a rather large, leather bound book.
Gold lettering was pealing off on the front, but the words were still visible; Difficult Potions and Spells, Volume 7.
"Can I take a look at that James?" Remus asked, pointing to the book.
"Sure, bookworm," James joked. He handed Remus the book. Remus started flipping through the pages, stopping now and then to look at something interesting. The potion for Veritaserum was in there, along with the Polyjuice potion and the three unforgivable curses. Remus kept flipping through the pages until he came across the words Animagi.
"Do you realize what you have to do in order for this Animagi thing to work?" Remus said, still reading the book. "There are complex spells and potions we need to master, and that is not going to be very easy." Remus said, looking uneasily at Peter.
"Don't worry mate. If anyone can accomplish this, we can," Sirius said, plopping himself down into an armchair.
"I wonder what we'll be," said James in thought.
"I bet I'll be like a tiger," Sirius said puffing out his chest.
"I'd laugh if you were a dog or something," James said laughing. Sirius just scowled.
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The next five months went surprisingly well. Remus always had visitors after his transformations and always had friends that made him laugh during his tough times. He, James, Sirius, and Peter would frequently sneak down into the kitchens and look about the castle while wearing James's invisibility cloak.
The four boys were in the Great Hall eating breakfast for their last time as second years. They were all laughing at something Sirius said, when Lily appeared behind them.
"What's so funny?" she asked, her green eyes flashing.
"Its...nothing...Lily..." Remus said between laughs.
"Oh, well I just came to say goodbye. I have to leave early because my parents are taking me to America and we can't miss our flight," Lily said. All four boys got up to say their goodbyes.
"You'll write won't you Remus?" Lily said while hugging him good bye.
"Why of course Miss Lily," Remus said back. Lily left without so much as a 'see you next term' to the other three boys. James looked at where she last stood, with a glazing over his eyes.
"James...?" Sirius asked, knowing what was happening to him. " You're falling for Evans aren't you?" Remus looked up at James as well, and he could see that James was in love with her. James nodded.
"I'm falling fast."
"She doesn't like you, you do know that right?" Remus said.
"I'll just have to put the ole' James Potter charm on her then," James said ruffling up his hair. Sirius and Remus sighed, knowing that next year was going to be very interesting.