Chapter Six:Werewolf

Disclaimer: All the content below except for my OC belongs to JK Rowling.

Lily was running through the halls of Hogwarts, making her way toward the Gryffindor common room. She checked her wand again as she was running. 'Six O five'. I don't know how long the detention will last so we have to make it as quick as possible.

She stopped in front of the fat lady.

"Leo Specus" She tried to stop herself from breathing too hard as she slipped through the portrait hole. There were Remus and Ally, sitting on the couch engrossed in their books. Well, Remus was engrossed, Ally was watching a lady bug crawl across the window sill on the other side of the room. Luckily, they hadn't noticed her yet. She crept up behind Remus and waved obnoxiously over at Ally to catch her attention.

Ally POV

Ally had been sitting there for several hours now pretending to be studying. Whenever Remus had looked up, she would look at the text of the book with rapt attention and say something along the lines of 'never thought of it that way' or 'learn something every day'. Every once and a while when she felt him watching she would turn the page to make it seem as if she were studying. The entire time thinking she felt shewould just scream if Potter and Black walked into the room.

Ally was beginning to lose hope when she caught movement out of the corner of her eye. Lily?

Lily pointed to her Remus and Ally pulled out her wand. 'Vicis'. When nothing happened she sighed. Such a stubborn wand. 'Vicis commodo' she thought again and the time appeared. Six O seven.

Ally signaled to Lily to head upstairs and she silently put down her books. Remus had given up watching to see if she was studying and was thoroughly engrossed in his book by now. How can that guy still be studying? It's been like four hours by now! She silently slipped up the girl's stair and Lily met her with the potion out on the floor.

"Ew." she said at the look of it.

It was a bubbling brown-grey potion with chucks of something in it.

"Oh, buck up Als and deal with it. Just one chug and it'll be all over." She took a ladle and poured it into two glass cups they had smuggled from the kitchens a week ago for this purpose.

Ally looked at her as if she was crazy but decided to take her advice. Just one sip...

She looked at Lily who was wearing robes to big for her.

"You change fast!"

"Yep," She motioned over at bundle of clothes on Ally's bed. "Those are Sirius' I took them a couple days ago and they haven't noticed. Go change quickly!"

Ally pulled shut the curtains around her bed and swapped the clothes she was wearing with Sirius'. Opening the curtains she walked over and sat down next to Lily. Lily handed her her glass and they both slipped the hairs they had in. Ally's glass turned a dark glossy black and she looked over a Lily's which turned into a swirl of white and blue.

Weird... she thought before tipping her head back, plugging her nose and downing the potion. She swallowed it reluctantly, and in truth... it wasn't all that bad. It sort of tasted like pancake batter and she felt a tingling sensation all over her body. Looking down at herself she saw her body slowly morph into Black's.

(A/N To explain why it wasn't painful: I had this theory that the only reason Harry and Ron felt pain when turning into Slytherins was that the Slytherins were their moral opposites. So turning into them would cause them pain because they're souls objected to the Slytherin's bodies. Anywho, on with the story.)

Ally turned to look at Lily and nearly jumped.

"Wow, you have no idea how much you look like Potter right now..."

"Hmm, could that have anything to do with the fact that I'm in his body?"

"Now where would you get such a far fetched idea like that?"

Lily paused before saying something.

"Our voices haven't changed..."

Ally realized it too.

"I guess we'll just have to fake it." She lowered her voice. "Sound better?"

"Yeah a bit..." Lily paused and did the same thing. "How's this?"

"A little more arrogance and I think you've got it."

Lily laughed and nodded. They stood up and walked out of the room. Making their way down the stairs Ally stopped Lily.

"How are Potter and Black going to get away with walking down the girl's dormitory stairs? Everyone will talk about it."

"No worries, I already thought of that."

Lily pulled out her wand and peeked around the side of the stairs. After looking intently around the room for a few seconds she put away her wand.

"It looks like were in luck. The only person down there is Remus and a first year. Remus is too engrossed in his book and the first year is asleep on one of the big chairs."

"Really, and what about interrogating Remus? How are we going to do that? He's really smart, you know, and will pick up on something fishy."

"Don't worry, I've got an idea."

Ally looked at Lily curiously.

"Does it involve physical exertion?"

"No."

"Great, lead on."

Lily led the way down the stairs and Ally hung back. They both plopped down on the couch next to Remus and Ally kicked her feet up onto the coffee table. It just seemed like a Sirius thing to do.

Remus looked up from his book and his face showed that he was rather relieved to see them.

"Hey, where were you?" He closed his book in his lap.

"Getting back at some Slytherins." Lily—er—Potter said. "They thought they could get away with jinxing our chairs in Charms."

Remus laughed a little and Ally gave out a very Siriuslike bark of a laugh.

"Yeah, I heard about that."

Ally looked at Lily and nudged her in the stomach as if saying 'get a move on'. The girl is taking forever we don't have that much time. Lily took the hint and moved on.

"So, Remus, tomorrow we were thinking of sneaking out at night and breaking into the Quidditch pitch," Lily looked over at Remus as he paled a little. "So we could play a game of two on two or something... We never get caught."

Remus' eyes darted over to the little first year curled up in the arms chair and sat up straight, suddenly very alert.

"B-but I thought... tomorrow is the full moon..." He scrunched up his hair with one hand and looked at them confused. "I thought you guys were c-coming with me?"

Lily and Ally looked at each other.

"Oh yeah!" Ally said in fake recognition. "Forgot about your little thing there, Moony."

Full moon... Once a month... Disappears for a few days... scratches on his face... Gosh I just wish I could put things together for once! She looked over at Lily who seemed to be in some sort of shock. Huh... must've figured out what I can't... She turned back to Remus.

"We'll just schedule that trip for when you get back, alright?" She grinned madly at Remus who looked relieved and slumped back into the couch.

"Thanks..."
"Yeah, no problem."

Alert. Lily shot up out of her seat and turned to Ally.

"Padfoot! We've got detention with Flitwick tonight! I almost forgot!"

Wow, I guess we have detention now...

"Oh, man!" Ally jumped out of her seat and looked down at Remus. "Sorry. We'll catch you later!"

Remus waved his goodbye and returned to his book. Lily and Ally bolted out of the common room. Lily was running too fast for Ally to keep up with and every time she turned a corner she almost lost her.

"Lils wait up! You said this involved no physical exertion!"

She finally turned the corner and rammed into Lily.

"What was that about!"

Lily turned and faced Ally; she put her hands on her shoulders with a death grip.

"Ally, think about it. He disappears once a month, for several days, comes back with scratches on his face, looks deathly ill, and he goes on a full moon."

Ally's brain processed for a while and Lily stood there waiting.

Ok...once a month...gone for a while...scratches...ill...and a full moon.

"Lils, you know I can't take a hint for the life of me... Is he a vampire?" she said sarcastically.

"No!" she said seriously. "He's a werewolf."

Three Days Later...

Remus had disappeared over the weekend as usual and Lily and Ally had spent the afternoons in the library reading over material on werewolves. Ally felt especially bad for Remus after reading up on how they were seen as followers of evil. It must be hard to deal with people looking down on you. She also didn't fell any better when she read about werewolves being put down like dogs while Grindelwald was alive.

Lily was still really peeved that Remus hadn't told her.

"I've known him for six years and he can only think to tell that idiot Potter and not me?"

Yes, about Potter. He seemed to slip into his old habits of annoying Lily again. He was constantly showing off in front of her onhis broomstick or pushing her buttons to start an argument. Never once did he mention that day in the dungeons.

WhenLily told Allyabout it, she didn't quite understand whatLily was hinting at. Then again, Ally never quite understood what anyonewas hinting at.

"So what you're saying is that there is a place in the dungeons where footsteps can be heard twenty-four seven?"

Lily slapped a hand to her forehead.

"No," she sighed. "I'm saying that I think Flint was following me."

"Creepy, how do you know it was him?"

"Call it intuition, but who else, besides Potter, would be wandering the dungeons following people?"

Ally and Lily were still in the Library and it was getting dark, they had been talking for ages. Well, Lily had been doing most of the talking. Ally had been thinking about how they were going to deal with Remus. There were two routes that they could take. They could either confront Remus about their suspicions, or they could ignore the fact that they ever found out he was a werewolf and wait until he was ready to tell them.

"I think we should wait, maybe he isn't ready to tell us yet?" Lily whispered from above her Herbology homework.

"But you know Remus, it could take him years to work up the courage. I think we should just ask him about it and make it clear that we are still his friends no matter what. He may never ever tell us, and we don't know if it might be a relief for him to know that we know."

Lily sighed and rubbed her forehead in thought.

"Do we even know where he is right now?"

"Yeah, I went to the hospital wing earlier and saw a bed with all the curtains closed shut. That must be him. Visiting hours are after dinner. We should go see him and ask."

"Well, that sounds like a good idea."

"Great! Glad you agreed, I didn't want to ask alone." She slumped back in her chair, sighed and closed her book. "Maybe we could take some treats up to him... I bet Dumbledore wouldn'tcare if we stole a little food."

"That sounds like a good idea." She closed her book and began packing up all of her things. "It's about time for dinner now, pack up, let's go."

Ally picked up all her things and left the Library with Lily. They were heading down the hall when Lily stopped.

"Wait here," she said turning around. "I forgot to turn in a book."

She ran off leaving Ally alone in the halls.

Well, la-dee-da, this is fun... Ally thought sarcastically. Time of my life... really. She started to whistle a tune. What is taking her so long? The sooner she comes back, the sooner we go to dinner, the sooner we get to talk to Remus! She was getting really bored now. Swaying back and forth she started to hum Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'. This is a good song... very upbeat and peppy. She started to think about going back for Lily. Normally, she wouldn't take this long; it wasonly a three minute walk from the hallway to the library. Starting to get a little nervous, she walked down the hallway toward the library.

She started to jog and rammed into someone as soon as she turned the corner. She dropped her book bag and started to pick up her things. Whoever it was handed her her things and helped her up.

"Thanks," she muttered.

"What were you in such a hurry for?" She looked up at a familiar face a breathed a sigh of relief. Not a Slytherin.

"Nothing, Sirius, I just can't seem to find Lily."

"That doesn't call for running!" He teased. "I thought you knew the rules Al!"

"Hey! I know the rules," she replied. "and since when do you call me Al?"

"'Picked it up from Lily. Sometimes she says Al or Als. I like Al. It's reminds me of my crazy Uncle Alfred."

"ER—right then."

"Well, hey," He turned her around and marched her in the other direction she was going. "Let's head down to dinner and we'll catch up with her there."

"Er—right then."

Sirius led her down the stairs and they entered the great hall together.

Ally wondered where she was going to sit. Should she sit next to Sirius? I mean, they were friends, at the least they were acquaintances. Chances are though; he'll sit next to James and Peter. Lily won't be happy about that.

Sirius seemed to have already decided on that though. He made his way toward the center of the table. Just like she predicted, he sat next to James and Peter. So she sat next to him on the other side of the table. Actually... If Lily sits next to me, then she will be pretty far away from James. Most of the dinner went by without Lily and Ally was starting to get worried about where she was.

Halfway through dinner, Sirius and Ally were absorbed in a conversation about time travel.

"Ok, so if a person does go back in time, they would need to travel through a hole of a sort, like a worm hole or a black hole."

"Yeah, but say they did, they could only go back in time a few seconds, just long enough to see themselves go back through the worm hole. Then would their body be stuck in time repeating the same sequence of events?"

"They'd probably have to kill themselves. But would that kill their past self or would it kill their future self? It's very sketchy as to what the present is or the past is."

"Or they could just use a timeturner..."

Debating was one of Ally favorite things to do. Sirius was pretty good himself. She had actually forgotten about Lily for a few seconds before she came into the entrance hall.

"Hey," she said as she sat down. "You didn't wait."

Ally turned and smiled at her friend. "I know, but you have to admit, half an hour is pretty long for returning a book."

Lily looked shocked.

"Was I really gone that long?"

"Where were you?"

"I ran into someone who needed help with some potions homework. I would have turned them down, but I'm a prefect." Lily looked around and whispered in Ally's ear. "Or at least I have to look like one."

Ally laughed and turned back to her dinner.

Once they had finished eating they left the great hall and started the long walk to the hospital wing.

"What about Madam Pomfrey?" Ally asked Lily.

They couldn't exactly avoid her. She kept a very strict watch over all of the students under her care. Whenever she said anything concerning a patient, she meant it.

"We'll just tell her the truth; that we're there to see Remus."

"What if she won't let us see him? Dumbledore might've told her to tell anyone looking for him to go away."

"We'll insist. If she asks us any questions, we'll refuse to answer until we get to talk to him." Lily said determinedly.

"Good plan... What if she brings Dumbledore into it, though?"

"Same thing, I'm sure Dumbledore will let us through. It's not as if we're going on a werewolf hunt or anything."

"For all they know we are." Ally said. "But I guess there's no arguing with you. We'll just address her upfront."

"Yep."

The rest of the way to the Hospital wing was spent in silent, each of the girls thinking over what they were going to say. Ally's thoughts were buzzing around her head. I wonder if he'll be mad at us. Maybe he thinks we'll tell the whole school. Do all the Professors know about it? How do his parents treat him... his entire family? How do we explain how we found out? Does he know any other werewolves? Does her remember when he was bitten, who bit him? Her thoughts continued on that way for a while and she was growing more and more anxious as she climbed the steps. I never remember the walk to the hospital wing being this long... Wait... I've never even been in the hospital wing! Shouldn't I be glad about that?

They reached two very large white doors.

"Ready," Lily asked holding one of the doorknobs, prepared to turn it.

"Ready."

She pushed open the doors and the hospital wing came into view.

It was quiet, very quiet. There were rows of beds that lined each side of the room, some were filled with students and others were empty. The entire aura of the place felt clean and white and neat.

There was one bed with the curtains fully closed around it. She looked at Lily and her head nodded in that direction. They both walked toward the far end of the room and the closed off bed, knowing that that was where Remus was.

"Hold on a second." Madam Pomfrey came abruptly into view. "Just what do you two need that's on this side of the room?" She raised her eyebrows.

Ally looked around and then whispered urgently to Madam Pomfrey.

"We need to speak with Remus. Please Miss Pomfrey, it's really important."

She could see her eyes widen and quickly survey the room for any eavesdroppers that might be listening in on their conversation.

"How do you know anything about that?" She looked at Lily and her very suspiciously and there was a slight hint of fear in her voice.

"Never mind that," Lily interjected. "We really need to speak with him. And don't say he's too ill, we know he's had enough time to recuperate, it's been three days."

Madam Pomfrey sighed and shook her head in defeat.

"Alright, alright, you can go in." She straightened herself back up and added sharply. "I'll be telling the Headmaster about your little visit though."

"Of course, Madam Pomfrey." Ally replied and they lifted the edge of the curtains, slipping inside.

There was Remus as they had predicted. He looks a little scratched up, but at least he looks better than he looked four day ago. He had small scratches on his face and arms. It didn't look as if he was badly wounded at all. He was sitting there with his head propped up by several pillows, and in his hands was his DADA textbook.

When they came in he looked up and nearly dropped the book out of his hands. He fumbled to catch it and stared at them in surprise.

Lily didn't say anything and for a while the three of them just stood there looking from one person to the next. Ally was expecting Lily to say something, but she seemed lost for words, every once and a while she would open her mouth and then close it, about to say something. She looks like fish out of water. So... I guess I'm starting off the party.

"Remus?" his head snapped at attention to her. "Are you a werewolf?"

He lowered his head at her question.

"How'd you figure?"

Lily all of a sudden jumped to life.

"You disappeared every full moon for several days." she said.

"You came back with scratches." Ally added.

"You look horribly ill beforehand."

"Your mum's in perfect health."

"Have a fetish for magical creatures."

"You're a brunette aren't you?"

"You look jumpy and cover it up whenever anyone asks—What does him being a brunette have to do with anything?"

"I dunno, just wanted to keep the ball rolling." Ally shrugged her shoulders.

"Right. You know, Remus, you're still our friend no matter what."

"And we understand why you never told us."

"Never."

"Ever."

'Told us."

"Even though you never told us we won't treat you any differently."

"Yeah, you're still that geek in the bookstore!"

"We love you and hope you never, ever change."

"Never."

"Ever."

"Ever."

"Ever."

"Ever?"

"Yes, ever."

"What if I want him to be rich?"

"Be quiet Ally."

They both finally stood silent enough to hear Remus' reply. He was looking very downcast at them and his eyes were closed.

"I'm sorry."

Lily sat down next to him on the bed.

"It's okay. We won't tell anyone. But why didn't you tell us before?"

He sighed and set his book down. He opened his eyes and looked at them both. Lily was looking very sincere and sympathetic.

"I don't know. I guess I thought you guys would look at me like I was a freak."

"You're onlya freak if you read the all the Harry Potter books in one sitting." Ally snorted and Remus smiled.

(A/N hee hee.)

"Al." Lily said sharply.

"Sorry, but it's true." She sat on Remus' other side and looked him in the eye. "No one is really a freak Remus. I have my weird little things too, I may not turn all hairy like you do, but trust me, on the weirdness scale, I beat youin the long run."

He smiled up at Ally.

"Thanks, Al.'

"Yeah about that," She scratched the back of her head. "Why is everyone calling my Al?"

Remus shrugged his shoulders.

"I heard Sirius use it."

"Foiled again." Ally muttered.

"Sooooooo... are we good?" Lily asked.

"Oh!" Ally tapped Remus on the shoulder and he turned to look at her again. "And if we aren't good, I can tell you everything about Lily that makes her a freak. Seriously, there was this one time with a pair of socks—"

She was cut off when Lily threw a pillow at her.

Later in the evening.

Ally returned with Lily late in the night after spending the afternoon chatting with Remus. At around eight o clock they had opened up a bag of chocolate frogs and snacked a little while Remus told them everything. From the when he was bitten, to the Whomping Willow. Ally felt an enormous amount of gratitude toward Dumbledore. If it weren't for him Remus would never be able to come to school. Any other Headmaster would turn him away... but not Dumbledore.

When they came back to the common room at around ten o clock there was a large group of people gathered around the message board. Debapria came and dragged Ally and Lily to the message board.

"What's going on?" Liy asked.

"First Hogsmeade trip! It's scheduled for the weekend before Halloween!" Carla joined the throng. "We should all go together, I hear that there is a house that's haunted."

"And there's Zonkos!" Debapria shouted. "That's the best joke shop ever!"

"Honeydukes is the best!" Lily said looking as excited as the rest of them.

"We could go to the three broomsticks." Carla said shyly.

They all looked at her expectantly, waiting for what her favorite thing to do at Hogsmeade was.

"Well," she smiled, "I just looooove to shop."

Ally stayed up late writing a letter to her mother.

Mum,

Hogwarts is great, I'm so glad you sent me here for my sixth year. I have tons of friends, but my best friend would have to be Lily Evens. Lily's in my year and we get along great. There's also Remus who's pretty awesome.

Guess what? The weekend before Halloween we get to go down to Hogsmeade. It's a little village next to the school. There's a sweets shop, a joke shop, a pub, and everything else. There are even some rumors that there is a really old haunted house down there.

Ally smiled when she wrote that, knowing the true nature of the building.

I was wondering if you would sign the permission slip in this letter saying that I could go down. I really want to spend some time with my friends down there, and I can't if I don't have your permission.

Another thing, I don't mean to be rude, but do you think I could stay at Hogwarts over Christmas break? I totally understand if you already have an outing planned and it isn't possible for me to stay. Thought I would ask you early.

Love,

Ally

P.S.-

-My friends call me Al!

Thanxs to greenday and hp, Delilah Evans, and TrisakAminawn! My first Reviews.. ever. O.o