Since I'm not home next Sunday, I'm giving you this chapter early. This chapter leads into more important chapters so pay attention. I don't own Hp or its expanding universe. Read, enjoy, review.

Werewolf Discovery

September 30th, 1993

Fifth Year

Jo and Leilani sat down in a pair of ultra comfortable chairs in their common room after dinner one night when a realization tickled Leilani's mind.

"Hey, Jo? What date is it?" Leili asked as she pulled out a moon chart

"…Monday, why?" Jo asked, not looking up from the bit of homework she was chipping away at.

"Date, not day."

"Oh, uhh the 30th. Why?" Jo replied.

"Lupin wasn't in class today."

"Yeah, maybe he's sick."

"Maybe…" Leilani said distractedly as she mused over the moon chart.

"What? What're you thinking?" Jo looked up at her friend, she knew that tone. That tone meant Leili was onto something, or at least she thought she was.

"Tonight is the full moon." She said looking at Jo.

Jo understood where Leili was going immediately, "Werewolf."

"Uh-huh."

"Well, one time doesn't mean anything; it could just be chance."

"You're right, I'm getting ahead of myself."

When Lupin was nowhere to be found on the next two full moons the girls had their answer, Professor R.J. Lupin was a werewolf.

That night Jo broke. She crawled out of her bed and over to Leili. She began pawing at her sleeping friend's arm-she began to suspect they'd been hanging around Morgan too long-until Leili finally opened her eyes. "Whaaat?" Leili groaned, suddenly and deeply annoyed as she blinked Jo into focus. "Jo, it's like, three in the morning-"

"I need help," Jo's voice cracked a little.

Leili stopped her grumbling.

"It's driving me insane, I can't take it anymore!" Jo whispered. She was in agony. Leili sat up, threw off the covers and got up. She took Jo's hand and whispered, "C'mon, let's go upstairs."

Jo shuffled along behind her, her hair mussed from tossing and turning and all around not sleeping.

Leili put Jo in one of the big squishy arm chairs and sat across from her, "What's going on?"

"So you know how I get these weird feelings, sometimes? The ones I can't explain?"

"Yeah?" Leili said around a yawn. "Whaabouem?"

"I've got one about Ron Weasley's rat."

"His rat?"

"Yeah. I dunno know why, but I've had it since they were firsties."

"Why are you just now telling me about it?" Leili said with the uncomprehending annoyance she got whenever Jo hid something from her.

Jo looked bashful, "It was nothing! Just a weird little niggle at the back of my neck when I saw the disgusting creature. But then, this year, all month, it's been getting worse."

"Worse how?" Leili asked, fully awake now.

"Like, instead of just when the rat is around, it was whenever Ron was near, then whenever Harry was near, now I'm getting this stupid cold sweat whenever I so much as hear them talking about Scabbers and Hermione's cat!"

"That's weird."

"Yeah! I've got to get my hands on that rat and figure out why!"

"I'll help you, but seriously, next time, don't wait until it gets this bad. So what do you want to do?"

"I want to sneak into Gryffindor Tower and get my hands on that stupid little rat."

"Mmk, and how exactly do you plan on doing that? Gryffindor has a pretty good security system, what with the password and the talking portrait and all."

"It's late, she'll be asleep, maybe she'll be too groggy to realize we're not Gryffs. And as long as we're not in uniform…"

And that was how the girls found themselves outside Gryffindor's Fat Lady saying, "We forgot the password."

"No password, no entry."

"Please? I just want to crawl back into bed and sleep through the rest of the week," Leili pleaded, she so wasn't kidding.

"Then you shouldn't have gotten out of it," and that was that, the Fat Lady leaned back in her frame, closed her eyes and started snoring.

"Well, that was a bust."

For the next Month the girls began to try every strategy they could think of to get inside Gryffindor Tower. They actually got in once, by borrowing two Gryffindor ties from the laundry and sneaking in with a crowd but Scabbers wasn't there. Several months on, Leili would have to stop Jo from trying to climb down the chimney.