Chapter 3

This is the third chapter and may I say a huge thank you to every person who has bothered to review. I will contact Honey Jukes and get a shipment of Droobles best blowing gum. Anyhow onto the notes about the story. First, it is important that you know that Remus is a very conflicted person so his qualities might overlap each other. He does not believe that any group of people is better than another, but he also believes that nobody would bother knowing him because he is a werewolf and so in his eyes they are better than he is. In this chapter, you will find out why Remus is not with his parents and Lily will form a closer friendship with Remus.

Disclaimer - Once again, I own nothing at all except for the plot line. Everything you recognise is does not belong to me and some of the things you don't recognise don't belong to me either.

Now on with the story, I Solemnly Swear that I am up to No Good.

Once he had gotten onto platform nine and three quarters with his luggage, he immediately started searching for Lily Evans. His cousins seemed to understand that he needed to get onto the Hogwarts Express as soon as possible or else Remus would be to afraid to go. Arianna bent down to hug Remus as she told him goodbye and to behave at school, Luciano however had a different message for Remus. "I know that you will do well at school with all the reading that you do, so I'm not worried about that. However I am worried about you making friends, I really want you to try to make friends here okay?" Remus nodded in reply and took his luggage over to the Hogwarts Express and with Luciano's help managed to load it on board. He looked back at his cousins one last time before turning around and beginning to search for Lily. Remus had searched for Lily for ten minutes before deciding that it would be smarter to stay in one place and wait for her. Therefore, he went into one of the few remaining empty compartments and started to draw the people who were standing at the platform.

He did not notice it when Lily came into the compartment until she said, "What are you doing?" That caused Remus to jump and hastily pack up his things, until she stopped him and he calmed down. When she asked if she could see the sketchpad Remus cautiously agreed while trying to convince himself that she would not laugh at his terrible drawings. Remus stared at his feet until Lily passed the sketchpad back to him, he looked into her eyes and saw that she was not holding back laughter at his bad artwork. Even when he noticed that, he was still shocked to hear Lily say that they looked good, and asked if she could get one drawn of her. To cover up his surprise he agreed quickly and started to work. He focused on every detail of Lily's face while he was working. When he finished drawing, he passed the drawing over to Lily for her inspection and she gasped, declaring that it was beautiful and that she would keep it forever. Out of habit, Remus brushed his hair out of his eyes, not realising that his hair was covering up the side of his face with the scars.

Lily did notice and she starred at his face for a few moments before asking him "Who did that to you? Was it your parents?" Remus felt like an idiot and could not believe that he was so stupid. When he looked up into Lily's eyes, he saw that she would not let it go until she found out the truth. Therefore, he decided to tell her how he had received the scars on his face. "The people who I live with at the moment are my cousins and I moved in with them when I was six. Before that my parents used to get angry and then they would… hit me". By the time he stopped talking Remus could not stop himself from shaking. He looked up at Lily and saw that she was crying, which was something Remus was not used to. Lily got out of her seat and hugged him with tears still streaming down her face. She started rubbing his back comfortingly, which actually helped Remus to stop shaking uncontrollably in his seat. Once he was calm, again Lily stepped out of the hug and sat down in her seat.

The first question Lily asked was what had happened to his parents after he had gone to live with his cousins. Remus took a deep breath, knowing that Lily would not like what she was going to hear. "Nothing, they are probably still living in the same house." Remus was right about Lily not being happy, in fact, it was more accurate to say that she looked furious. With great restraint from Lily, she managed to keep herself from yelling, which Remus was grateful for. Luckily, for Remus, Lily sensed that he did not want to talk about it, or anything to do with his parents. In his mind's eye, he could still see the hate in his parent's eyes as they cut him with their knife. Remus was shocked that he had been able to tell her about his parents, she was the first person he had ever told about what had happened, besides his cousins of course. He was very happy about being able to talk to somebody about his problems, so in return he listened to Lily talk about her problems at home.

According to Lily, ever since she had found about her being a witch, her sister had acted horribly towards her. Petunia had been ruining her toys, clothes and Lily said that she had even seen her trying to steal the letters that Remus had written to her. Lily had also told Remus that before she had known about wizardry, she and Petunia had been extremely close. They had done everything together and Lily admitted that when she had been little she had looked up to her sister and taken her words as gospel. At first Petunia had just thought that her sister was stupid for still believing in magic so she had ignored Lily. When she had discovered that Lily really was a witch, she had screamed at Lily, calling her a monster and a freak. The last few weeks had done nothing to improve their relationship. Remus listened to her as Lily talked about her sister, and he understood. For most of his life, Remus had been treated like a freak because of something he could not change, so naturally he understood all of Lily's problems with her sister.

When Remus looked out of the window he realised that it was about two o'clock and that they should probably change. Remus told Lily this and she agreed, saying that she would come back as soon as she was finished, but that she would make sure to knock first. With that, Lily had grabbed her robes out of her trunk and left the compartment. Remus took his robes and began to get changed, thinking about the day so far. He was lucky to have a nice person like Lily in his life he knew that. What was surprising was that he had made a friend. That was something that he had never done before. When he had still been living with his parents they had kept him away from other people his age so that he would not tell any of them what his parents had done to him. He brought his hand up to his face and ran his fingers along his scars; they went from right next to his eye to just in front of his ear. Remus shook himself out of his thoughts, knowing that there was no point thinking about the past when he was having a good day for once. For a moment he wondered whether he should wear the hat or not but decided against it.

Instead of thinking about his parents, he turned his attention to the sorting. What he had said in Diagon alley he had meant, he honestly had no preference when it came to the houses. There were good traits in all of the houses, even if some people thought differently. Most of the people outside of Slytherin were under the impression that all Slytherins were evil, Remus believed that although some Slytherins did turn evil most of them were just ambitious and cunning. Both of those traits were useful for him to hone, ambition would make him try and make it slightly more likely that he would be able to get a job when he was older, while cunning would make it easier for him to keep his secret. Ravenclaw would be good for him for similar reasons, his housemates would encourage him to try hard at school and if his learning were encouraged, he would become smarter, making it easier for him to keep his secret. If he were sorted into Hufflepuff then he would have the opportunity to have friends who would be loyal enough to keep his secret if they found out. Gryffindor would give him the courage to stand up to the people who treated him like scum, although he doubted that he was brave enough to get into Gryffindor. According to his cousins, it was almost impossible to predict what house he would get into so he did not try. Instead of that, he tried to work out what house Lily would get sorted into. His first thought was Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw because of how kind and intelligent she was.

Then he thought back to some of the smaller things that she had done. Like the way she had walked confidently up to a complete stranger, just to check if he was okay. She was a lot braver than Remus had originally thought. So Remus finally decided that Lily would probably be in Gryffindor. As to how she would be sorted, he honestly had no idea. His cousins had told him that if he knew it would ruin the effect and he was mystified over how it would be done. What possible means did the staff at Hogwarts have that would be able to sense how loyal, intelligent brave or ambitious somebody was. To be able to sort they must have a device that would be able to read someone's mind. Remus thought back to all of the reading he had done on magical devices, but he could not think of any magical object that could achieve such a feet.

A light knock on the door to the compartment made him aware of the fact that Lily was finished getting changed. He went over to the door and invited her inside. She sat down and began to talk about how she had almost gotten lost on the way back to the compartment, and Remus listened to her with a barely visible smile on his face.

Well that is all for this chapter keep reading to discover, Lily's female friends, how Remus met the other marauders, what happened to Severus and it is sorting hat time. Before I go I would like to apologise for not updating faster, first I had writers block which was not fun and then when I finally worked out what to write I could not find my notepad, which had the beginning of the chapter inside of it! Let's just say the last week has been rubbish for me, I fell on a treadmill and hurt my knees, I cut my finger on a door and then the car door hit me in the back. What would really cheer me up would be your reviews! Since I forgot to do this on other chapters I would like to say thank you to remuslover101 and heiressofanor for subscribing to my story, because you people are awesome!

Until next time. Mischief Managed