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Authors note sorry The update took so long. But it couldn't be helped. So please put the rotten produce down and enjoy the chapter. Also if some of this seems familiar don't be discouraged and stop reading it will definitely be the last time for the rest of the story but remember no flames it A rewrite

Chapter fourteen

Blue Moony

By Empathicallychosen

Betaed by aerohead1980

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." -- Richard Bach

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Everyone at Hogwarts knew that when you are dealing with under aged witches and wizards sometimes mistakes happen. Unfortunately for the people at Hogwarts, the more powerful the child the more damage could be caused and Harry was a very powerful little boy. The days following the second kidnaping were very hectic. Olivia and Victoria barely spent any time with Harry, Ron and Hermione because they needed some time to sort everything out, both for very different reasons.

For Olivia finding out that one of your close friends is a werewolf is a lot to handle. Finding out that you've been babysitting three wizards from the future who have some rather mysterious magical properties was well, nigh impossible. Victoria was heartbroken. She cared about Remus very deeply, and his secret was a very hard betrayal to work through.

At first Harry didn't mind staying with their giant friend while everyone tried to get things back to normal. Hagrid always had fascinating things for them to do, but as time wore on Harry began to miss his family more and more. James wasn't around much anymore. Which meant he was no longer able to teach Harry about Quidditch because he had to patch things up with Lily again. Not to mention that entire day he was gone because he had to go out and get a new wand from Diagon Alley. Sirius was about a month behind on all of his N.E.W.T.s work so playing with him was out of the question.

But Harry's real problem was Remus. He had become so sullen it frightened Harry sometimes. He was always too angry or too depressed to hang out with Harry. Ever since Victoria had found out that Remus was a werewolf, Remus never wanted to do anything fun and Harry was sick and tired of it. One day Harry overheard Sirius mention to James that the full moon was what made Remus turn into the werewolf so Harry concocted a plan. In Harry's mind if there was no moon there could be no full moon, and if there was no full moon there could be no werewolf. Harry tried his best to make the moon go away, but every night he tried it nothing happened. Until one night Harry decided he would try just one last time and to his amazement something did happen. He caused an atmospheric phenomenon. November 1977 would have another unexpected full moon. Moony was not happy.

On the night of the unexpected full moon the mild-mannered lycanthrope was quick to anger at the slightest thing. In the common room, Harry and the others were indeed very ashamed by their mistake. Harry knew that this full moon was going to hurt Remus very much and it was all his fault. For the longest time Harry and the others refused to play any kind of game. Finally, after nearly an hour, Olivia convinced Harry to play with his friends. Unfortunately, while they were playing Ron and Harry accidentally crashed into each other quite painfully and landed on top of Hermione. All three of them began to cry loudly. After two minutes Remus grew unbelievably agitated.

"WILL YOU THREE SHUT UP!," he shouted.

It took them a few moments to gather their faculties, and then Harry whispered, "Can we go see Hagrid?"

With out waiting for an answer they rushed out the portrait hole. Remus was ashamed of himself before the words even left his mouth and got up to go after them, but Lily stopped him. It was better that they all calmed down a bit first.

Harry was stunned. He had never heard Moony yell at him before. It was a little bit scary and all he wanted to do was get out of the common room as fast as he could.

That night Harry, Ron and Hermione learned how witches and wizards played marbles. They played several games with Hagrid, but when he went to go make some tea Harry, Ron and Hermione began plotting ways to make Moony happy with his cubs keen on never having Moony mad at them ever again.

"Instead of fixing the moon maybe we should just fix Moony," Hermione said.

"Yeah," said Ron. "If Moony didn't have a bad wolf in him then it wouldn't matter what the moon looked like!"

"Tonight after Lily goes to bed we can pop to Moony and

chase the bad wolf away with our magic," said Harry excitedly. Nothing could go wrong with this plan.

At that moment there was a knock at the door. Remus had come to get them.

"Hi Hagrid. Come on you three, it's time for you to get up to the castle," said Remus shuffling his feet with his hands stuck in his pockets.

So, Ron, Hermione and Harry waved goodbye to Hagrid and made their way to the castle as quietly as they could. After about a minute and a half, Remus realized what was going on. They were trying to be as quiet as they could so that Remus would not get mad at them again. He looked down at the small children, who were staring at their feet and sighed.

Placing a hand on Harry's shoulder, he said, "All right, all Junior Marauders come with me. We need to talk."

The four of them sloshed through the mountains of snow to the trees at the end of the Forbidden Forest. Still, the trio said nothing.

"I don't like it when you're sad," said Remus, solemnly.

"We're not sad," Harry weakly replied.

"You sound sad," Remus remarked.

"That's 'cause Hedwig is sad," Harry informed Remus seriously.

He held up the snowy owl to show Remus. All the werewolf noticed was that the owl was in desperate need of a bath.

"I see."

"Crookshanks is mad Remus," Hermione stubbornly interjected.

"Pig doesn't think it was very nice of you to yell at us," said Ron.

"You're right, Pig. It wasn't nice at all. I'm very sorry about that. It's just that the bad wolf makes me really grumpy sometimes. Can you tell that to, Ron, Harry and Hermione for me?"

The four-year-olds giggled.

"What's so funny?"

"We can hear you Moony," snickered Hermione.

"Good. So, do you forgive me?"

"Yeah," said the three of them together.

"But I don't like the bad wolf," Harry said fervently.

"Neither do I," said Remus, darkly. "Hey, it's starting to get cold. Why don't we go get some cookies."

"Cookies before bedtime? What will Lily say?" Hermione cocked her head to the side.

"Nothing, if we don't tell her," replied Remus.

"I still don't understand why you have to tuck us in now," said Ron in the midst of yet another tantrum.

James and Sirius had been at the Shrieking Shack for a few hours but had come back a few hours before midnight to make sure Harry was all right. Lily had promised to look in on him, but after what had happened on the last full moon James wasn't ready to take any chances. When they arrived Harry was healthy but extremely irritable. Lily had suggested that James and Sirius tuck the boys in before they left again, hoping that it would help Harry realize that he wasn't being abandoned, but so far it only made things worse. Harry and Ron were not thrilled about their new bedtime.

"Because Prongs, Wormtail and I have to go to the Shrieking Shack while Moony is sick. And if you don't stop that whining, you can put yourselves to bed," said Padfoot sternly, with his arms folded across his chest.

Harry and Ron scrambled onto their beds as quickly as they could.

"That's what we thought," said James smiling

"Prongs what is the Shrieking Shack," Ron asked as James pulled the covers over the boy.

"It's where Moony goes when he's sick," said James simply.

"How come Moony isn't in the hospital wing," asked Harry obviously perplexed.

James who had been eagerly making his way to the door stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around and headed slowly back to Harry's bedside. This was not a conversation James was looking forward to having. He wasn't sure whether it was an empathic thing or if it had something to do with the Eternus Liberi or what, but Harry and Ron were extraordinarily giving people and to understand hatred and bigotry would be beyond their natures.

"Well Harry, you see... Moony is a werewolf and a lot of people don't like werewolves and they would be really mean to Moony if they knew what he was. So he goes to the Shrieking shack instead," James replied.

That being said he stood up to leave again desperately hoping this was the end of the conversation. Sadly however he was mistaken. Ron had thrown the covers off himself and was sitting up in his bad looking absolutely appalled at the very idea that people wouldn't adore his beloved Moony. After all the fact that Remus occasionally became all furry and acquired a tale from time to time made Remus all the more fabulous to Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"Why would anyone not like Moony? He's the best," stated Ron indignantly.

"Yes we know that, but other people think he's a monster," said Padfoot trying to force Ron to lay back down.

This time it was Harry who shot up out of his bed, but before he could say a word James pushed him back down and promised that they would discuss this a lot more later. Thinking of all those dreadful full moons that would come in Harry's lifetime. James moaned when he thought of having to go through this 12 times a year for the rest of Remus's natural life.

After Harry and Ron finally settled down, James and Sirius journeyed back to the Shrieking Shack extinguishing the lit candles with the flick of their wands. Harry and Ron sat in silence in the dormitory staring angrily at the moon that glistened through their window, but one good thing had come from their conversation with the Marauders. Harry and Ron were more excited about their plan now than when Harry had first concocted it. No one would ever think of their Moony as a monster again.

After a few moments in the darkness Ron asked, "Is it time yet?"

"No, we have to wait for Lily to fall asleep," whispered Harry.

Harry and Ron waited impatiently for Hermione's arrival. While they waited Olivia checked on them a few times. Luckily Harry had learned how to fake being asleep from watching Dudley do it when he was watching television and didn't want to go upstairs and miss a late-night program. Harry figured as much as he watched Dudley fake out his parents Harry must be an expert by now. After Olivia checked on the boys a few times it was Victoria's turn and after Victoria came Lily. Harry was starting to get very annoyed. Weren't the girls ever going to go to bed?

Finally at around 12:15 Harry heard Lily heading up to her dormitory. It was all of 12:45 when Hermione arrived and the friends prepared to Apparate to the Shrieking Shack. It took all of the strength they had to break through the castle's magical barriers, but somehow they managed it. When they arrived Harry, Ron and Hermione looked around with wide eyes. The room was deserted, but a door to their right stood open, leading to a shadowy hallway.

Harry's eyes fell on a wooden chair near them. It was completely ruined and large chunks had been torn out of it; one of the legs had even been ripped off entirely. At that moment, there was a creak overhead. Something had moved upstairs. They all looked up at the ceiling. As quietly as they could, they crept into the hall and up the crumbling staircase. Everything was covered in a thin layer of dust. After what seemed like forever, they reached the dark landing. They entered the room where Moony's scent was strongest and looked around. All of the windows were boarded up. There was a magnificent four-poster with dusty hangings. The peeling wallpaper was the color of James's angry face. He had turned into a human, leaving Padfoot to wrestle with the werewolf.

"HARRY! RON! HERMIONE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! IT'S DANGEROUS!"

"It's not dangerous silly, it's Moony," said Harry innocently.

Lily woke up at five minutes to one o'clock. She wasn't sure why she'd woken up, but she figured she might as well get a glass of water before heading back to bed. As she headed for the pitcher of water on the windowsill she passed by Hermione's bed and screamed. She screamed so loud that she woke up Olivia and Victoria. Victoria was so startled she fell out of her bed.

"For Merlin's sake Lily what's the matter with you? Are you trying to wake up the whole school," mumbled Olivia sleepily.

"Hermione's gone," she gasped in reply.

Lily could feel her heart pounding against her rib cage, certain that at any moment it was going to leap right out of her chest. Olivia scrambled out of her bed so quickly she barely touched the floor.

"Okay, nobody panic. She probably had a bad dream and went to see the boys," said Victoria draping herself in her fuzzy purple bathrobe and disappearing down the hallway.

She came back a few minutes later holding up Hedwig, which was the only thing she had found in Harry's bed. Lily's scream reached a record high at this news. Olivia was pacing the floor. The flush of her nervous face made her look something like a vampire. Slowly she turned to her friends, "You don't think they've been kidnaped again do you?"

Lily, who had been staring out the window at the full moon in the sky, shook her head. She was quite certain that this time they had wandered off on there own. Immediately she sprang into action. As she changed out of her pajamas she instructed Olivia to go get Professor Dumbledore and she told Victoria to go get the nurse. The two friends raced out of the dormitory like their slippers were on fire.

As Lily went to retrieve her cloak from the wardrobe she cursed. Why did Remus have to be so hard on the kids today? No doubt it was Harry's guilt that led to this impromptu trip. Of course Lily wasn't really angry at Remus. She knew that he couldn't help it. What was really bothering her was the fact that she would have to break her promise to the boys and tell Professor Dumbledore about their becoming animagi and about their monthly trips to the Shrieking Shack. But what choice did she have? Maybe if she told the headmaster that James, Sirius and Peter had simply gone after the children and somehow got word to the boys when they arrived at the shack, it would all work out. That would work, she told herself. It had to work.

"Great work Prongs. Your son's a genius," snapped Peter sarcastically.

Harry had somehow managed to slip past James and he, Ron and Hermione made their way to the werewolf.

"Hi Moony, I'm sorry I accidentally made it a full moon tonight, but I know how to fix it now," said Harry ignoring both Peter and James.

"You know what, we don't have time for this Peter. Why don't you go get help," retorted James desperately trying to grab Harry without getting to close to the monster.

Harry somehow managed to slip past every one of James's rescue attempts. Peter mumbled something about getting the nurse to pick up whatever was left of Harry. That's when James lost it. They were in the middle of a crisis and Peter was making wisecracks. Angrily James made for Peter, who scurried downstairs (James hoped), to get help.

James couldn't watch as Harry stopped in front of Moony. He couldn't watch as his best friend ravaged the little boy who was going to be James's son. He closed his eyes, but instead of hearing the awful gnashing of teeth and violent bloodcurdling screams, James heard giggling. James opened his eyes in astonishment. It was a miracle. Where there had once been a vicious bloodthirsty beast, there was the equivalent of an overprotective wolf playing with his cubs.

"I don't believe this. This cannot be happening. I must be out of my mind."

Padfoot had transformed back into Sirius, who was completely dumbfounded. Moony was nuzzling Hermione's neck. From downstairs they could hear hurried footsteps rushing towards the stairs and then Lily called up to them sounding completely petrified. Informing them that she had brought Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

"Get up here quick you're not going to believe this," he called back.

Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey, Peter, Lily, Olivia and Victoria burst through the door just as Moony was dragging an enormous quilt over to Harry, Hermione and Ron.

"No thank you Moony we're not sleepy. We have to make you not a werewolf anymore," Ron told Remus confidently.

"Good luck with that," muttered Peter scornfully.

As it turned out, they did have more luck with simply curing Moony then they did banishing the moon. With Sirius, James, Lily, Olivia, Victoria, Professor Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall watching from the sidelines as witnesses, the floor began to shake violently. There was a flash of blinding turquoise light and where the werewolf had been, was Remus the Animagus.

Well there you are another chapter complete and only three more to go remember the rest of the chapters are all-new so read and review and no I didn't mean for that to rhyme. Thank you and... what else was I going to say oh yes happy Halloween. next chapter into the forbidden forest. Harry Ron and Hermione devise a plan to go into the forbidden forest like real marauders would

I know it's self-explanatory but there you are.

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EC