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The Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers

Chapter 4 – The Meeting

After the feast, all the students went to their common rooms. Lena got up and told her friends that she'll be going to see Dumbledore. Gwen and Cyndi nodded and left with their other house mates to their common room.

Lena walked out of the Great Hall with professor Sprout and headed to the Headmaster's office. When they were there, Professor Sprout said the password and the stone gargoyle moved aside, allowing a round staircase to appear. Lena and Professor Sprout climbed the stairs and reached the headmaster's office. They knocked and entered.

Professor Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk and Professor McGonagall was standing next to him. Lena walked into the office slowly, not knowing the exact reason to be called here.

"Miss Wolf," Dumbledore said, "have a seat please." He waved his hand and a chair appeared in front of the desk.

"Thank you, Sir." Lena said as she sat down and Professor Sprout went to stand next to Professor McGonagall.

"Do you have any idea why you were summoned, Miss Wolf?" Dumbledore asked.

"No, Sir." Lena replied.

"Your parents have written to us a week ago, informing us that you have been bitten by a werewolf about a month ago." Dumbledore said.

Lena looked at the floor and blushed. Her secret was out and she was about to get expelled.

"Should I go and get my things?" she asked.

"Get your things?" The Headmaster asked.

"I'm going to be expelled, aren't I?" Lena said, looking in the Headmaster's eyes. "Werewolves aren't allowed to study at Hogwarts. It says so in the rules."

"I'm quite aware of the rules, Miss Wolf." Dumbledore said with a smile. "I'm also aware that you're a good student, and I'd be delighted to give you the chance to continue your education here, especially since it's your last year."

"That's be great, Sir." Lena smiled.

"Of course, no one is to know about your new... situation." Dumbledore said. "Unless you decide to tell your group of friends." Lena tensed at that comment, but Dumbledore didn't seem to notice. "And each full moon you will be escorted to a private place away from the school."

"I understand, Sir." She said.

"I will inform you about the details later." Dumbledore said and looked at his watch. "It's almost midnight. You should go back to your common room now."

"Yes, Sir." Lena said and got up.

"Don't forget to visit Madam Pomfrey tomorrow morning, to check the wound on your shoulder." Professor Sprout said.

"All right." She headed to the door and then turned back to bid them good night and then she left the office and headed to the Hufflepuff common room. On her way, she saw a couple of people sneaking out to the Entrance Hall and she remembered that she was supposed to be at the lake. She carefully headed towards the door and walked out and went to the lake using their usual sneak-out-route.

When she was there, she found out that she was the last one to arrive and everyone else was waiting for her. They were sitting on the ground in a circle.

"You're late." JJ said.

"I was at Dumbledore's office." Lena replied.

"All right. We can start our meeting now." Nim said.

As they were talking about their ride on the Hogwarts Express, Sirius Black and James Potter were hidden under the invisibility cloak that James had and they stood not so far from the group. They kept themselves hidden behind a large tree, just in case the cloak fell, so they'd have a place to hide in.

"And when Gwen finished putting the lotion on her back, I noticed a bandage on her neck, which went down to wrap her left shoulder." Cyndi said.

"And when we asked her what happened, she said that she fell off a tree." Gwen continued.

"And we always know when one of us is hiding something." Nim added.

"Lena," Pike said. "Do you have something to tell us?"

Lena sighed. She shrugged her school robe off her shoulders and then unbuttoned the first few buttons of her shirt. She pulled the left side of it off her shoulder and showed them the bandage. Then she carefully removed the bandage and they all gasped at the bite marks and scratches they saw at her neck and the top of her shoulder.

"You were attacked!" JJ said.

"Who did this?" Siri asked.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Cyndi asked.

Lena put the bandage back into its place and buttoned her shirt. Then she pulled her cloak over her shoulders and sighed.

"Remember about a month ago when we were supposed to meet at Fortesque's?" she asked and everyone nodded. James and Sirius were listening carefully from behind the tree. "And you know that I couldn't come because I was feeling sick." She continued. "The night before, I was bitten by a werewolf."

"Oh my..." Cory said in surprise.

The girls gasped and looked at each other. Not knowing what to say or do.

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Pike asked.

"I..." Lena said, her voice trembling. "I was scared of being rejected."

"WHAT!" Cyndi stood up from her spot and went to stand in front of Lena. "How could you think that? How could you even dream of that!" her hands were on her hips and she was glaring at Lena, waiting for an answer.

"I don't know." Lena said, looking at the ground.

"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" Siri asked. "We're your friends!"

"You should've told us a month ago." Slim said.

"Yeah, we would've brought you chocolate!" Dense said, trying to lighten the mood.

Lena told them about her conversation with Dumbledore and Sirius and James continued listening. By that time, both of their mouths were dropped open out of shock. There was another werewolf in the school. And to top it all, the werewolf was hit by a love spell.

"Bloody hell." Sirius whispered.

"Indeed." James replied.

"I think we've heard enough. Let's go back and tell Moony." Sirius said.

"Good idea." James said and they sneaked away from their hiding spot and went back to the Gryffindor common room.

When they were inside the common room, they ran straight to their dormitory and James quickly cast a silencing charm on the room. And they started waking Remus and Peter up.

"Moony! Moony, wake up!" James said as he shook Remus. "You won't believe what we found out!"

"Wormtail, get up!" Sirius said and nudged Peter, who sat up instantly.

"What is it?" Remus said, yawning and rubbing his eyes.

"Are you awake enough to hear this?" Sirius asked and sat on Remus' bed.

"Hear what?" Remus asked. "Speak already!"

"Lena Wolf is a werewolf!" Sirius said.

"A what!" Remus' eyes shot out on surprise.

"Are we going to have to share the Shrieking Shack?" Peter asked.

"Wait... she said something about Dumbledore arranging somewhere private for her." James said. "Do you think he was speaking about the Shack?"

"I sure hope not." Sirius said. "I don't want that lot to know that I'm an animagus."

"Neither do I." Peter said.

"Same here." James added.

"And if Dumbledore does send her to the shack, they'll know about me too." Remus said. "We're doomed."

"Agreed." James said.

The LNMUM-ers left their spot at the lake and headed back to the castle. Everyone was feeling gloomy at the point that they didn't care if they were seen by anyone at that time.

Each of them headed to their common rooms. They were lucky not to be seen by anyone by the time they were back. They all went straight to their beds.

When Lena, Gwen and Cyndi entered their dormitory, they changed into their nightgowns and got into their beds.

"Does any of you know someone called Severus Snape?" Lena asked.

"I don't." Gwen said.

"I think he's a Slytherin." Cyndi said. "Why are you asking?"

"I don't know. The name just popped into my head." Lena said.

"We'll think about that in the morning." Cyndi said and yawned. "Night."

"Night." Gwen mumbled from her bed. She cuddled under the sheets and went to sleep.

Lena stared at the dark ceiling as lay on her back. The spot where the spell had hit her didn't hurt anymore, but instead, she had a name stuck in her head: Severus Snape, and for some reason she was eager to meet him.