Harry Potter and His Sixth Year

Chapter Seventeen: Interlude

For many the full moon is romantic. Many girls dream of having their first kiss under the moon's rays. However, Remus Lupin could never kiss his true love under the full moon's light. Remus hated the full moon. He was afraid that he would hurt someone he loved every time the full moon occurred. When he was in school his three best mates became animagi for him, but he still worried that he would hurt on of them. The full moon made the wolf take over his body and mind. And when the wolf took over his mind there was nothing Remus could do about it until the Wolfsbane potion was invented. By taking the potion the three days prior to the full moon the moon only forced him into the wolf shape but he kept his human senses and mind.

So a day prior to the full moon Remus pulled out his pendent that would take him to the elven world. He arrived in the grand foyer and his werewolf ears told him that Padfoot, Prongs, and Lady Flower were on their way to greet him.

"Moony!" Sirius screamed, "It's been ages, what took you so long?"

"It's only been about a month, Padfoot."

"Well it has been much longer than that here, you forget elven time travels much quicker than human time."

"So how have you guys been without me?"

"Bored. But I have a plan and I need your help. Plus James has n idea about having a reunion but we have a small problem," Sirius said starting to get hyper.

"What's the problem?"

"You can't change into a werewolf by will."

"Well then maybe I can take the animagus potion and train to be an animagus like you guys."

"But McGonagall always said that magical creatures don't have animagus forms because they are already animals," Lily interjected.

"Well I can always try."

"Moony, that means we won't be able to romp for a really long time," Sirius said in his best whining voice.

"Better late then never, Paddy. Besides don't you want to romp with Goldwing?"

"Yes, he's never been to a Marauder's rumble."

"Well he won't be here for two more Earth months, so hopefully by the time he comes here I will be an animagus."

"Does that mean you are going to stay with us?"

"No Prongs, I can't, I have a mission for the order. But maybe I'll make more trips here, like on the weekends or something."

"Yay!" Sirius said screaming and jumping for joy. His hyperness coming back. "Now I need to tell you something privately. Lily, James, if you will excuse us, I have to talk to Moony."

"You better not be creating more mischief Sirius Black," Lily said while Sirius and Remus were leaving the room.

Sirius started leading Remus all over the grounds of the palace. Remus was starting to get annoyed. He had been running all over the grounds with Sirius for twenty minutes and Sirius still hadn't told him anything. :Sirius, where are we going?"

"Shhh! We have to make sure no one is following us. We should be there in about five minutes."

When Sirius said this Remus was immediately reminded of the Marauders when they were at school. If Sirius ever had a plan for a prank they would always double if not triple their footsteps to the Den. The Den was the Marauders' secret place, so secret that its not even on the map.

"Paddy, did you ever tell Harry where the Den is?"

"No, I'll tell him at Christmas. I don't want to give away all of our secrets at one time. Now we are here, Padfoot's Dog House in a tree."

"Good name," Remus managed to say through his hysterical laughing.

"I know, I thought it up all on my own. Now on to business. Lily, with the help of Harry, successfully pranked the Marauders. Nobody pranks the marauders without getting pranked back."

"Padfoot, you're forgetting something, Lily's a marauder now."

"True, but she wasn't when she pranked us. Now we need to do something she will enjoy but be annoyed with."

"Like what?"

"Ummm, I'm not exactly sure yet. That's why you're here!"

"Well then, what does Lady Flower love?"

"Jamesie! Oh, that gives me the most brilliant idea. We will stick them together."

"There needs to be more than that, she did turn us into Quidditch balls."

"How about we make Jamie smell?"

"Okay, but he will only smell to Lily, to every one else he will smell normally. That will get Lily annoyed."

"Yeah, yeah, and it will be a time release spell. How about twenty-four hours?"

"Sounds good to me, do you have the book of useful pranking spells?"

"Yup, it's right here," Sirius replied.

Twenty minutes later the duo was walking back to the palace for dinner. At dinner the topic of what the two were doing came up, Remus responded, "Sirius was having trouble getting it up for his tutor friend."

Sirius' face immediately turned red, "I can get it up by just thinking about her, want to see?"

"Gross, gross, way more than I needed to know. Can we change the topic please?" Lily asked in an almost begging tone.

The rest of dinner passed relatively calmly for the Marauders with no more crude jokes. Soon after dinner everyone retired to their rooms. At one thirty in the morning Sirius went to wake Moony so they could prank Lily. They successfully cast all of the spells while remaining hidden by the disillusionment spell.

The next morning Lily woke up and yelled, "Sirius!" The rest of the day Sirius spent with his tutor learning the elven culture and Remus drank the animagus potion under James' supervision. T turned out Remus did have an animagus form, he is a wolf. Over the rest of his five dy stay Remus divided his time between practicing his animagus form and searching for a cure to lycanthropy.

Author's Note: So here is another chapter. I'm going on vacation next week, so it would be amazing to come back to a lot of reviews in my inbox. hint hint The next chapter is in the planning stages and the beginning is already written. However, I don't know when I will have time to post. This week I'm going on vacation, the following week starts band camp. Band camp is for two weeks then Field Hockey starts. So hopefully I will be able to write during the weekends while I'm at my dads. So I'm sorry in advanced about the lateness of the next chapter.