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August 3rd 1978
Transcript of meeting between Remus Lupin and James Potter.
(Ok, so maybe it wasn't a meeting, but I can put it in the book because we were talking about Order business, and I think that I should just get the book to write it down as we say it, so that I don't need to write the whole thing down later.)
Don't be lazy James
Lily!
Ok, ok, I won't start again.
Lupin: Hey. What's that in your hand?
James: book. For Dumbledore. Forget about it, I wanted to see how you were going.
Lupin: Why? I'm going fine.
James: Remus-
Lupin: seriously James.
Note from James Potter added after the conversation; notice that I refrained from turning that into a pun about Black's name? Am I growing up or what?
'Or what' James.
Lily!
Going…
James: I know, I know you're not. I'm not. None of us are. But at least the rest of us talk about it. The girls have each other, I have Lily, and Lily talks to me. I even get a chat in with Ella sometimes, but you just shut yourself up.
Lupin: Does Ella talk about me when you two talk?
James Sometimes. She's worried about you Remus.
Lupin: She shouldn't be. I told you, I'm fine.
James: Moony! I know that you're not. (Pause) are you worried about Wormtail?
Lupin: Shrugs I suppose. But he's a grown man; he can take care of himself.
James: I'd be worried if even Dumbledore was away for this long.
Lupin: I guess. He is sometimes though. I wish I knew where he went…
James: Why? So that you could follow him?
Lupin: No, just curious I guess. It's so hard, sitting here doing nothing, isn't it?
James: Exactly. Lily's out doing something important tomorrow and the three of us will be here, inside, trying to write a best selling novel.
Lupin: best selling novel?
James: I was exaggerating. He wants me to record every body's missions in this book here. Not that I have any myself…
Lupin: Maybe he's saving us for something big…
James: Like what?
Lupin: No idea. But I hope that's it.
James: Are you scared He'll find you?
Lupin: I'm scared Ella will find me.
James: What the ruddy hell do you mean by that Moony?
Lupin: I mean I want to propose to her, and I cant because that will be a good as cursing the girl.
James: You're kidding!
Lupin: Nope.
James: Why would that be a bad thing?
Lupin: James, Voldermort wants me as his Death Eater. That's the sort of person that I am. I've been fooling myself the past seven years Prongs. I'm not like the rest of you. I can't get married. What would happen when I lost control? What if I bit her?
James: It's no different to what the two of you are doing now, unless you're suggesting that you break it off with her, which would probably be enough to push her over the edge at the moment.
Lupin: Really?
James: She loves you Moony.
Lupin: mmm. Thanks for talking Prongs.
James: Do It Moony. Or I'll hex you.
Lupin: Oh thanks, that's encouraging.
James: You're welcome.
Note: indecipherable squeal from the other side of the room.
Lupin: Lily! You all right?
James: She's fine. Just reading a, er, letter from Dani, that's all.
Lupin: Really? How are they going?
James: Great! I'd better be going back to my writing now Lupin, if you don't mind. It's the only useful thing that I can do at the moment, and I want to do a good job.
Lupin: Sure thing.
End Of transcript
Lily, You are a dead set idiot
Sorry James! It's just so exciting!
I know, but you cannot tell Ella
I wont, promise. Sorry for squealing like that. But I read it on the page and I couldn't control myself.
Girls are weird.
Oh you love me James Potter.
That's right, I do, so sod off and let me finish writing.
Ok. Squeals
Date: 4th August 1978
Headquarters is quite. Everyone is gone but Remus and I. Ella is doing the shopping and Fawkes picked up Lily an hour ago. Remus isn't presenting much company. Is sitting on bed muttering to himself. Think he has finally cracked. Wait, I shall ask him. The book will transcribe, because; 1. It's funny reading back over conversations that I've had, and 2. Um, maybe we will discuss something remotely related to the order.
Note: Is most probably the first one.
Transcript of conversation held between James Potter and Remus Lupin:
James: Oi Moony! What the hell are you doing? Have you finally gone mad?
Lupin: No.
James: well then what's with the talking to yourself?
James: I'm practising.
James: For what? The time you get shipped off to Mungos?
Lupin: No, idiot, for when I propose to Ella.
James: Soon? When?
Lupin: tonight, hopefully…
James: TONIGHT! Do You have a ring?
Lupin: Yes, I've had it for a while actually.
James: Moony, that's gorgeous!
Lupin: Did you just say gorgeous?
James: Did you just laugh? I don't care if I sounded like a girl, I can't believe you finally laughed!
Lupin: What do you mean?
James: I'm happy that you're happy, that's all. You've been pretty down lately.
Lupin: Hope she says yes.
James: Cause she'll say yes.
Lupin: Don't get my hopes up.
James: ok, but she will.
Lupin: Do you know when Sirius will be back here?
James: Soon, I think. It sounded like it in his letter, at any rate.
Lupin: Oh. I wanted him to be here. Wormtail too, but you know…
James: We'll all be there for the wedding.
Lupin: Stop it James! Now if there isn't a wedding I'll get even more upset.
James: Trust me Remus, there'll be a wedding.
Lupin: James…
James: Ok, ok… Ohh, can I plan your stag's night? Think about it! I'd be perfect!
Lupin: James! I wont have a stag's night if there is no wedding!
James: Ahhh, but there will be.
Lupin: James-
James: A beautiful wedding, with white dresses and black-
Lupin: At least you didn't say gorgeous again.
James: I heard that!
Lupin: Yeah, I said it loudly.
James: Lily's rubbing off on me, she says that too much.
Lupin: where is Lily?
James: off with Dumbledore.
Lupin: Lucky Lily.
James: I know.
End of transcript
Report made by Lily Evans.
Well I went with Dumbledore. Fawkes came and picked me up, and I was taken to his office in Hogwarts. It felt weird to be back in the castle again, after leaving it so finally at the end of last year.
There was the pensive, on his desk. I remembered when we went in it last year, Sirius James and I, and after what we saw in there I admit that I was a little scared as to what Dumbledore was to show me.
But he told me that he would be taking me for the day, through the last two months of Order meetings, since information has begun to be leaked from within our group to Voldermort's ranks.
There must be a spy among us, we have seen it many times, and it seems that Dumbledore came across something the other day that was ominous. A startling piece of evidence.
It seems that the attack on Edgar Bones was the first circumstance that seemed to rely on evidence leaked from a spy within the order. But the thing is that this attack occurred just less than two months ago, when the eight of us graduated Hogwarts. Remus, Ella, James, Dani, Sirius, Peter, Margate and myself. The mess ups all begun when we joined the order. So it seems to fit that it is one of my best friends who is the spy.
There. I've written it. I know that every one of us has thought it ever since Dumbledore told us that there was a spy, but no ones ever actually talked about it, which brings me to the next question,; which of us is it? Because I thought that I could trust each and every one of these people, and now I know that I cant. I cant trust anyone.
Dumbledore showed me a box of people's memories from the last two months of thing that have gone on within the order. I am to travel back through them, using the pensive, and see if I can see who it could be. Dumbledore is stumped, and I don't see how I am to figure out something that stumps even Dumbledore, but I'll have to try I guess.
I sat when Dumbledore left me, and started at the paper in front of me, where I'd written the names of the seven people that I loved more than anything else in the world. And I started at the paper, tears streaming down my face, for the longest time, before I plucked up the courage to venture into the first memory.
I poured the contents of a small glass vial into the pensive, and they swam around. Falling into the pensive, I realised that it was our graduation.
James and I were just getting down off the podium after giving our head speech, and Dumbledore was stepping up to speak to the crowd. I could see that I was crying, and James had his hand in mine. I could see Dani, with Sirius' arm around her proud shoulders. Ella was smiling along the row at Remus. Peter and Margate stood together, holding hands. But that doesn't mean anything. They'd have a fight that day, if I can remember. I don't know what over, but I remember that they had fought.
I didn't feel the need to watch that closely. I was there not long ago, I don't see how that could have helped. I do understand James' mission now, though. Dumbledore wants to be able to spot patterns in everyone's behaviour, so he's getting him to write it all down, so that I don't keep having memories to visit.
After that I just sat there and stared at the paper with the names on it a little longer. The I made some notes. I don't feel comfortable putting them in here though. I felt so horrible making them. As though I was betraying my best friends, making lists of why they could be evil. I don't really believe any of it. Not really. It cant be any of them. All my day did was lead me in circles. I spent so long mulling over it that I have double the memories to visit when I go back tomorrow.
Here's a little of what I had, though I don't want any of it taken personally.
Dani: Dani's been gone for a while now, and I don't think that it could possibly be her. Her personalities too assertive for Voldermort's liking anyway. She's much more a leader than a follower. I've know her for eight years now, and she's never changed, so I don't see when she had a chance to go over to the dark side, really.
Ella: Same as Dani; I've known her for too long for her to change. She has been acting quieter lately though. I think that that's just stress. And if she was leaking to Voldermort then Remus would be the one to notice a change, and if he did notice a change then he wouldn't be proposing, would he? Anyway, I would trust Ella with my life. It can't be her. It can't be.
Margate: Quiet little Margate wouldn't hurt a fly! Let alone the whole of the order. She's always the one that people go to with their secrets, and she's independent too. I can't see her going over to the dark side, I really cant.
Peter: Peter Petigrew a spy? Even though I probably know him the least out of all the marauders, I'm positive that it's not him. He's not, I don't know, bright enough, to be involved in something as complex as this. He scares pretty easily, which is why I'm so worried about him at the moment, he's been gone for a while, and he wouldn't be that hard to ambush…definitely not Peter.
Sirius: Sirius is like a big brother to me. I can't see how he could ever turn spy.
He's been brought up so against the dark arts that it's like a passion in him. He wont even joke about it like the others do. It's definitely not Sirius.
Remus: Remus has been acting oddly lately, but I know that that's just because he thinks that Voldermort wants him over there. He's worried about having to go over to the other side. He wouldn't in a million years, that's why he's so worried. He's scared of being killed for what he believes in, because that's how far Remus would go. He would die before betraying us.
James: I love James. He wouldn't do that to us, I know that he wouldn't. I know it. I hate Dumbledore for suggesting that it's any of them, but I hate it most that there's a possibility that it's James. I don't care what anyone says. It's not him.
Wow. Thanks Lily.
For what?
For saying that about me. I'm glad you did.
I hate this.
So do I. I have no idea.
I know what you mean.
But at least I know that this bloody book has a point to it now.
Thought you'd be happy about that.
Only thing I'm happy about though.
Not me.
Why? What else is there to be happy about? On of our best friends is out to get us!
Where's Remus?
I dunno. Not here.
Exactly. You're so thick sometimes Potter.
Oh! Right! He's out proposing to Ella!
You think we should throw them an engagement party?
How? There are two of us here.
That's what you think…
What do you mean now! Stop talking in clues and just tell me!
I got an owl from Danielle today.
And?
And! And guess who'll be arriving in about ten minutes.
Padfoot?
Guessed it in one Einstein.
Who's the guy with the funny name?
Never mind, muggle thing.
So Padfoots really coming back? I don't think I've been this long without seeing him since first grade!
James, it's only been a month.
No Lily! Not ONLY a month. A WHOLE month.
I swear you two are having an affair behind Dani and my back.
Oh shut up.
Ok, ok, I'll admit, I'm excited to see the two of them as well.
Did you hear that? I think I heard them!
Report by: Danielle Doyle and Sirius Black
Date: 4th August
Well, we've been gone for a while now. About a month.
Doing very important, top secret business.
Stop trying to sound important Sirius, we're writing down what we've been up to anyway.
I know, but it's fun. I must have said the word important to James five times already.
Oh stop mentioning James, you can go upstairs and catch up with him, I'll finish the report for you.
Really? I love you even more Dani!
I know, I know, now sod off.
Now, we left almost straight after Hogwarts, which has been weird. I spent so long with everyone when we were there, and then leaving the others to themselves, it sort of felt as though the two of us have missed out on a month of our lives.
Basically we've been looking for people who Dumbledore thought would like to join the order, and could be useful and everything. Old friends of him, ex students. I hadn't met the most of them, and once in a while we'd come across something scary, like someone under the imperius curse, or who had just disappeared. The worst thing that we came across though, were the Mackay's. You would have heard of them by now, through Dumbledore, or the papers. Well, we were the ones who found their bodies.
They were actually the last ones that we visited, just a couple of days ago. It seems that Voldermort caught on to what we were doing, and got some of his Death Eaters to head us off, and find people who we might be visiting in the near future. They found these two all right.
We turned up, and straight away, we could see what had happened. The Dark Mark shot into the air, terrifying. Sirius grabbed my hand, and we started into the house, which was deathly still, with the front door still thrown wide opened.
There were signs of a struggle here and there. An overturned lounge and a broken lampshade. There were shards of glass on the ground as though someone had dropped a glass, or thrown it. And then we saw them. The lady was not much older than us, probably a year or two, though I never saw her at Hogwarts. Might have missed her though. The man was a few years older, maybe 23? Anyway, they were staring up, their faces blank, and their open eyes glass. I burst into tears, and Sirius grabbed me. I think it was just the shock; the immensity of what Voldermort could do to a person. I didn't even know the two people at my feet, but I felt, looking into their blank eyes, and standing in their ruined home, as though I had known them my entire life.
We send a message to Dumbledore, and he was there at once. They were taken away, and so were we. We stayed at Hogwarts for a night or two, while I regained myself, for I knew that when I saw my friends I would have to retell the story, and Dumbledore was very understanding. I can't believe that I lost my nerve, just like that, over two complete strangers, but it wasn't just that. While I stood there, and looked at them, all I could picture was one of you; Sirius, Lily, any of you. I couldn't help but think of what I would do if it was one of you, lying there, the Dark Mark cast over your bodies.
We stopped looking for the people after that. Dumbledore says that there aren't many more, and that they could be in danger if Voldermort finds out that we're continuing. We're going to have to lay low for a while.
Another thing is, I don't know any one who knew where we were going, and what it was that we were doing. Unless someone came across the list of names that Dumbledore had given us, and knew the password to read it. But it can't have been a stranger. The paper wouldn't have been that hard to come across, could have been picked up by anyone, but we used a password that only our best friends could have ever known. We didn't even tell Dumbledore what we were using. In wont say it here, but lets just say that I solemnly swear, that whoever found out the password is definitely up to no good at all. I feel so betrayed, like I can't trust anyone.
The mission has made me more confused than I ever have been in my life. Even more confused than the time when I didn't know whether I liked Sirius or not, and back then I thought that I could never be more confused! Boy, were we naive.
But for the time being, the two of us are here at headquarters, until Dumbledore needs us, and I've calmed down a little.
Transcript of meeting, between Danielle Doyle, Sirius Black, James Potter and Lily Evans:
Lily: Dani! Are you ok?
Dani: Why wouldn't I be ok?
Lily: you're eyes are red
Dani: No, I just yawned, that's all.
Lily: Yawning doesn't make your eyes go red…
Dani: Drop it Lils.
Lily: Ok.
Sirius: Come over here sweetie.
James: Sweetie?
Sirius: I was talking to Dani, not you.
James: I know, but you just said sweetie!
Sirius: So? You call Lily sweetie all the time!
James: I know, but you don't seem like a sweetie kind of guy…
Sirius: Are you saying that I'm not sweet?
James: No, don't worry Padfoot, you're very sweet.
Sirius: sweeter than you are, anyway.
James: What as that?
Dani: Look at them, we're back five minutes and they're arguing like an old married couple…
Lily: Speaking of old married couples, when will Remus and Ella be back James?
James: Soon I hope…
Dani: Where are they?
James: I don't know if we're allowed to say…
Dani: Hey! You have to tell us!
James: No we don't!
Lily: James, they'll find out anyway…
James: Lily, control your glee…
Lily: Shut up! I am excited!
Dani: Lily! Tell me now where they are or I'll hex you!
Lily: Remus is proposing!
Dani: Really? That is so great!
James: I can't believe it! Sirius won't tell me his top-secret mission and you just gave away my one secret…
Dani: Top secret mission? James you tool, I wrote it in the record book, you should read it all now if you want to!
James: Are you serious? Where's the book?
Dani: Over there, writing down everything that we say. This is a meeting, isn't it?
James: well then, I want to have a look.
(James Potter walks over to a very handsome book that it sitting in the corner, and marvels at its beauty)
James: Hey! The book is writing good stuff about itself!
Dani: What do you mean?
James: I mean, that it just said "James walks over to a handsome book and marvels at its beauty!
Dani: That's funny. Sit down James, you can read it later.
James: true. It's not actually as exciting now that I'm allowed to know…
Lily: That would be right…
Dani: Did you just hear that? I think that Ella and Remus are home!
Lily: Oh My GOD! That's so exciting! I am so excited! I am so overly excited that it's not funny!
James: Lily, calm-self.
Lily: James, shut-up.
End of transcript
A/N: Thanks so much for the positive feedback from the last chappie, so relieved that u guys like the new story! I got sooo excited! Thanks, pls keep reviewing, it puts the biggest smile on my face!
Ps: I am sooo excited! Hopefully we'll see who plays our favourite 5 this month! OMG!
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