MWPP: Through Moony's Eyes
A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates. No time. Thank goodness for Thanksgiving break.
The Marauders
"Remus, you alright? You look a bit ill," James commented at breakfast.
"Maybe because it's that time of the month...if you get what I mean," Sirius said.
"Please, Sirius, don't call it that," Remus sighed.
"Well then what am I supposed to call it?"
"I don't know, just not that," Remus said, putting down his fork.
"I know," James said, " What about your furry little problem?" Remus burst out laughing.
" I have heard my 'problem' called many things, but never a furry little problem," Remus said, smiling. "Thanks James, I needed that." James beamed.
"We're going to be looking for the Room of Requirement again tonight, Remus." Sirius said, between chewing his eggs.
"I think we'll actually find it too," said James. "We're going to take a stroll to the kitchens and see what the house elves know about it."
"After all we have to start brewing this animagi potion soon if we want to master this thing before we graduate," Sirius stated.
"You don't have to go through with this," Remus said.
"We discussed this already Remus. We're going through with this if you like it or not." Sirius said immediately. Remus laid his head down on the table and closed his eyes. The pain was just getting too much.
"Don't die Remus," James said. Remus smiled faintly.
"Not yet," he said. "We haven't found all the secret passage ways yet."
"Very true," Sirius said, finishing up his last piece of toast.
"Well we better be heading off to Potions," Peter said.
"Yay, Potions," Sirius said sarcastically. "We get to listen to Slughorn's constant praise for Lily."
"Lily's pretty," James remarked.
"Snap out of it lover boy," Sirius exclaimed.
"Let's just go," said Remus miserably. They walked down into the dark dungeons to where Potions class was held.
"Now today class we'll be making a Shrinking Solution," Slughorn greeted the class. "I'm sure Miss. Evans here won't have a problem with that." Lily glowed. A snort sounded from the back corner of the room, where Sirius was sitting. "Now the extra supplies are up here, in the front."
"I'd shut it is I were you...Sophie," Lily whispered as she passed by Sirius.
"Humph," Sirius said. Lily walked over to where Remus was sitting, once again his head was on the table.
"I'll bring you some chocolate frogs tomorrow morning," Lily said, sympathetically as she patted Remus's back.
"Thanks Lily," Remus croaked.
"Here you go Remus," Peter said when he brought back the supplies Remus would need for his potion.
"Thanks, Peter, " Remus got to work cutting up his daisy roots and plopping them into his cauldron. His potion turned a slight shade of orange, even thought it was supposed to be acid green in color.
"Here Remus, you forgot the rat spleen," offered Sirius, as he dropped one in. Remus's bubbling potion became the right color. He smiled to show Sirius his thanks.
The next few hours went about the same. Remus, too weak to do much by himself, got constant help by James, Sirius, and Peter. They helped whenever they could, knowing that Remus wasn't going to have the best night of his life.
"We'll see you tomorrow," James said as the dropped Remus off in the Great Hall.
"Don't forget about the Room of Requirement," Remus reminded them.
"Oh we won't. We're looking for it for you," Sirius said. "And we never forget you on these nights."
"You guys are great,"
"We know," James, Sirius, and Peter chorused.
"See ya, Remmy," Sirius said, and with that the three boys left.
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"Thanks for the chocolate frogs, Lily," Remus told Lily before she left the hospital wing. Lily waved goodbye and headed out the door.
"Remus!" said an all too familiar voice. Remus could see the head that belonged to the one and only Sirius Black, sticking around the large doors. Peter and James followed suit. "We have so much stuff to tell you!"
"Like?"
"The fact that James and I have double detention."
"What did you do this time?" Remus asked, not surprised.
"We'll tell you when you get out of here," said James, pointing to Madam Pomfrey.
"Oh, gotcha," said Remus, understanding.. "Excuse me, Madame Pomfry, would you mind if I stepped out for a bit?" Remus asked. Madam Pomfrey glared at him.
"I suppose, but only for five minutes." Remus got out of bed gingerly and walked into the hall, wincing with every step, while holding a wriggling chocolate frog in his left hand.
"Now, why do you two have double detention?"
"Well," James started. "You see, Sirius and I were looking through a hex book with illegal hexes," Remus smacked his own head. "And we found one that looked interesting."
"So we sorta tried it out," Sirius continued. "On that one Slytherin in second year...what was his name?"
"Audrey? No...Aumby? Aubrey...that was it," James supplied.
"Yeah him. And, well, the hex sorta made his head swell to twice its normal size," Sirius said.
"And then we got caught by Flitwick." James finished.
"Why am I not surprised?" Remus asked.
"But that's not all that happened last night," Sirius said, with a michevious twinkle in his eye.
"You found it!" Remus asked, bewildered.
"7th floor, across from the tapestry. Walk past it thinking about what you want three times, and a door will appear. That lease to the Room of Requirement." Sirius grinned.
"Great! Well I better get back in bed before Madam Pomfrey knocks my head off." Remus walked back into the hospital wing, Sirius, James, and Peter at his side.
"Dumbledore wants to see you boys in his office," Madam Pomfrey said. The four boys exchanged nervous glances. "The password is sugar quills," she continued before muttering how Dumbledore should know not to take Remus out of the hospital wing.
"Where exactly is his office?" Sirius muttered to Remus.
"I'll show you, I had to go there during first year to discuss arrangements about my problem," Remus said. He led the way to the stone gargoyle that leads to Dumbledore's office.
"Sugar quills," Remus stated clearly. The stone gargoyle moved out of the way to reveal a revolving staircase. The four boys stepped onto the staircase and rotated up into a tower. They arrived at a door, and James, being in the front, knocked on the door, and peeked in.
"Um, Professor Dumbledore?" James asked cautiously. "Sirius, Remus, Peter, and I are here like you asked." In the corner of the room an old looking wizard came into view.
"Oh boys, please, come in," Dumbledore greeted them. Remus, James, Sirius, and Peter all stepped into Dumbledore's office, which was full of various odd looking gadgets.
"Nice office," Sirius commented.
"Yes, well being headmaster does have its perks," Dumbledore replied, smiling. "Please, sit," Dumbledore waved his hand and there appeared four identical chairs. Dumbledore looked at Remus. "I suppose Poppy wasn't too thrilled when I pulled you out of her care," Remus nodded.
"Professor Dumbledore, why exactly did you call us up here?" James asked.
"Oh that's right," said Dumbledore. "The staff is get a bit annoyed by your constant pranks. Even though I think they are amusing, the staff would like for you to tone it down a bit." Dumbledore chuckled. "I would say that you four are a couple marauders. However, that illegal hex that you two," Dumbledore looked over at James and Sirius. "Did on Bertram Aubrey was going a little too far. But, I found that the stunt you four pulled at Hogsmead was highly amusing."
"You know about that?" Sirius asked, shocked.
"There isn't much that goes on in this school that I don't know about, Sophie," Dumbledore winked.
"You aren't going to tell Filch are you?" James pleaded.
"No, I don't think Argus needs to know about that," the boys let our a sigh of relief. "You boys are free to go. It came to my attention that some of you have double detention, and I'll never hear the end of it from Poppy if I keep Remus up here a second longer." The boys smiled and started to walk out the door. "Oh, Sirius and James?" Dumbledore called. Sirius and James spun back around. "Congratulations on making the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Beater and Chaser correct?" Sirius and James nodded. "And I heard that your marks are improving Peter, good job." Peter smiled and they all left the room.
"You know how Dumbledore said us four are a couple marauders?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah," answered James.
"Well, I think that's what we should call ourselves."
"Hm, the marauders," mused Remus.
"Has a nice ring to it," James grinned. Peter nodded. "You know what I want to find out?" Remus, Sirius, and Peter shook their heads. "How Dumbledore knows everything."
"Seriously!" Sirius exclaimed. "You reckon he knows about our animagi stuff?"
"No, if he did, we'd already be expelled." Remus said.
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"Alright, this is where it's supposed to be," Sirius said, talking about the Room of Requirement.
"And we're supposed to walk by three times, thinking of what we want, right?" Remus questioned. James nodded. " So, we'll be thinking of a place where we can brew an animagi potion." James nodded again. The marauders walked back and forth three times, and sure enough, a door appeared. Sirius grabbed the handle, and slowly opened the door.
"You've got to be kidding me," Remus breathed.
"Look at this place! It's perfect," James exclaimed. Indeed it was. The room was well lit with a huge silver cauldron in the middle. Cupboards were filled with all the ingrediants they needed. On the north side of the room sat a huge bookcase with two armchairs on each side.
"All these books," Remus said in awe, while flipping through the pages. "All the spells and potions we'll need are in these books."
"Well, we better start this thing," Sirius commented. The rest of the boys nodded as Remus grabbed a book off of the book shelf.
"Says here we need lacewing flies, shredded boomslang skin, and a sliced dragon heart to start with. ," said Remus, as James looked through the various contents in the cupboards. He made a face when looking at the dragon heart, floating in a green liquid. "Then we let it boil for two weeks before adding the other ingredients."
"What exactly is this potion doing to us?" asked Sirius.
"Well, seeing as this potion is very similar to the polyjuice potion, I reckon it'll make your bodies flexible to transform into the new shape that you'll be adopting," said Remus.
"What would we do without you Remus?" James joked, while dropping lacewing flies into the cauldron.
"You wouldn't be breaking the law," Remus said bitterly.
"You don't know that," Sirius said, smiling.
A/N: Thanks for reading, a review would be nice..