Chapter 5

Harry felt a smile make its way towards his lips. The Shrieking Shack felt more like home now that the Marauders were here than number 4 Private Drive ever could. Remus was making his way towards him; he was greeted with a warm awkward hug from Moony.

"Uhm…how are you doing Harry?" Remus asked him dumping some food on the couch.

"Fine, shouldn't you be resting though? Full moon is tonight." Harry exclaimed.

"I'll be fine, its you that am worried about." Remus stated as he made some tea for them and sat it on the table.

This was driving Harry crazy. Couldn't they understand that he couldn't tell them anything? He should just try to figure out a way home. At the same time he wanted to stay.

He wanted to meet his parents. He wanted to see teenage Remus. Most of all, he wanted to see Sirius. He missed him so much and he knew it was his fault that he was gone. Maybe, he could warn them about Wormtail… No! He knew he couldn't give anything away about his identity or the future. Still, it was so tempting.

"Aren't you hungry?" Remus asked him as he put his cup of tea down.

"Oh…yea." Harry got up from the table and grabbed a few pasties.

"Am sorry I couldn't snag you some normal food. Maybe I could get Sirius or James to get you some?" Remus asked him.

"It's fine really, I won't be staying here that long anyway." Harry replied as he took a bit out of his pasty, missing the sad look on Remus face.

"That's real unfortunate, I wish I could make it that you could stay longer." Remus said taking a sip of his tea.

"Nah, that would be really weird, seeing myself as a baby and everything, no, it's all for the best and besides I still have ten more days left here, why not spend it having a bit of fun?" Harry exclaimed putting up a fake smile.

"You know Harry, this has been nagging me forever, is you're father James?" Remus blurted out making Harry spit out his tea he was drinking.

"What?" Harry asked him shocked.

"He's not then? So who is?" Remus asked him with a kind of hopeful look on his face.

"Wow, slow down there, Moony. Why so interested?" Harry asked him curiously.

"I don't know. I just want to know." Remus replied shrugging his shoulders, looking elsewhere.

Then it finally hit Harry what was going, why Remus had asked him that question.

"Have you, uh… ever wanted to have kids of your own Remus?" Harry asked him.

Remus shrugged his shoulders and started to fiddle with his hands. "It wouldn't be to bad, it would be nice raising kids or being a uncle or something like that." Harry smiled at this.

"Not me of course, I can't stand kids, unless they were my own that is, bunch of brats the lot of them." Harry replied making Remus laugh.

"Knowing me though, I'll probably have dozens of them, they'll probably make me end up in St. Mongos." Harry replied as Remus rolled his eyes.

"And to answer your question…yea, James is my dad, but you should ask him if you can be the uncle or something like that, I know Sirius was my godfather, so that's already taken."

"I knew James would make Sirius the godfather of his kids, uncle though, I can handle that." Remus replied smiling.

"No offense, but honestly Moony, you need to get yourself a girlfriend. You're depressing me to no end. Get a wife and have some kids of your own." Harry replied making Remus laugh again.


That night for Moony was the best he had ever had. Though, Moony was very skeptical about this werewolf they appeared with his friends. He had pure white fur and dazzling emerald eyes. He was the same size as he was.

He then growled making it clear that Padfoot, Prongs, and Wormtail were his friends, not the knew guys. The other werewolf though, just looked at him curiously making Moony even more confused, what's up this wolf? Did he want to be his friend or enemy? The others were just watching the enactment between the two wolfs curiously.

Then Padfoot nudged Moony closer to Harry while Prongs did the same to Harry. Moony tried to ignore the wolf, but then the wolf started to wine making him feel guilty. Moony made a look that stated that he didn't want to have anything to do with the wolf.

Padfoot barked disapprovingly at Moony while Wormtail climbed on top of Prongs head just in case things got nasty.

Low growling rumbled from my between Moony's clenched teeth. The gray wolf charged at Harry. Harry darted left and as he turned, Moony lunged for his throat while the black dog circled us barking. Moony knew he should let go, but he didn't.


Madame Promfery had not told the marauders whether Harry was all right or not, but then again, they didn't deserve to know. What had they been doing to cause the boy to have so many scars and wounds?

So to say that the Marauders where relieved to see Harry alive and well in the hospital wing would have been the understatement of the century. Remus wanted to wake him and apologize profusely the moment he reached the raven-haired boy's bedside, but thought better of it.

The Marauders didn't actually tell Madam Promfery who the boy was, but thank Merlin Padfoot, Prongs, and Wormtail got him to the hospital wing in time or he would have become a werewolf for sure.

Madam Pomfrey was in there about fifteen seconds after them and was at the foot of the bed in a flash. They both looked at her as she quickly took out her wand and waved it over Harry for the third time.

"Thank goodness." She sighed after an unnerving silence. "Everything but the bruises and the malnourishment seem normal. He can take another Nourishment potion in the afternoon, and I'll send some with him when he leaves, as well as the salve for his bruises." The boys nodded in understanding to her words.

"When can he leave?" Sirius asked curiously.

"Soon as he wakes up most likely." She answered, pondering slightly, before returning to her office. The Marauders slipped into chairs on either side of Harry.

"He's ok," Sirius sighed, extremely relieved.

"Physically, anyway." Remus interjected.


Yea, now I have writers block...do you guys want me to name the title of the chapters or leave them be?