Chapter 4

Already on chapter 4, I am so proud of myself for not quitting this fan fiction! Anyway, I think that it is about time for you to meet the marauders what do you think. Okay well you also get to meet Lily's friends this chapter, but I am sorry that you are going to have to wait a little bit longer to read the sorting so this is just the other half of the journey from platform nine and three quarters. I do not really have much to say except I have put down lack of appetite as one of the symptoms of the full moon so if anybody has access to the real symptoms just tell me.

Disclaimer - unfortunately I have not been able to convince J K Rowling to give me the rights to Harry Potter so until I do, none of the characters that you recognise are mine okay. (Don't worry it is only a matter of time until she caves. Muhahaha!)

On with the story - I Solemnly Swear that I am up to No Good.

After Lily finished telling him about her search to find their compartment she told him about the girls she had met when she had went into their compartment to get changed. Their names were Alice Pemberly, Mary McDonald and River Rosenburgh, and according to Lily, they were very nice. Form the look on Lily's face he could tell that she wanted to invite them into their compartment. When he suggested that, they do so her face lit up and she immediately ran off to find her new friends. Remus allowed himself a quiet chuckle at how easy it was to keep Lily happy. He jumped as he heard a loud crash and two boys ran into the compartment. The first boy had straight black hair that went down to the bottom of his neck. Most people would consider him tall but he was slightly smaller than Remus. His companion also had black hair, but the second boy's hair was shorter and much messier. The second boy was smaller than his companion was and was wearing glasses.

It took the new people a few moments before they realised that Remus was in the compartment. The taller of the two stepped forward introducing them as Sirius Black and James Potter, the smaller one being James the other one Sirius. James suddenly broke in a smile and asked if he wanted to know how they would be sorted. Remus considered the question carefully, if he said yes, than he could solve the problem for good. Then again, his cousins were probably right, if he knew that before hand it would ruin the effect of the sorting. There was also a high chance that if he said yes the boys would refuse to tell him so Remus said no. Remus struggled to keep himself from laughing at the look on the two boy's faces. Instead of a grin, their faces showed identical looks of bewilderment. The boy named Sirius spoke slowly, as if he was just coming up with an idea "So you already know how we are going to be sorted?" Remus smiled at him and replied that he did not wish to know until the sorting was about to take place. Both of the boys gave him a look that said quite clearly that they thought he was insane. Obviously all the boys thought of was how to get what they wanted the quickest rather than how to get the most pleasure from it.

Before Sirius or James was able to make a comment about his decision, Lily came back with her new friends. Lily did not immediately notice the other boys, so she ran straight past them and hugged Remus. Unfortunately, for them that she noticed them once they began wolf whistling. She pulled out of the hug, walked over to the whistling boys and pushed them both out of the compartment. Then Remus looked over at the new people inn the compartment and examined them for the first time. The first of the three girls had long blond hair that went down to her waist. Her eyes were an icy blue, were surrounded by her glasses and she was about the same size as Lily. She was looking disapprovingly at Lily, apparently she did not think what Lily had done was appropriate. The second girl was very small and had shoulder length black hair. Her dark brown eyes twinkled as she tried to hold back her laughter, probably because she didn't want to be glared at by the blond haired girl. However, the other girl was having no such qualms, as she was laughing as loudly as she could at Lily's actions. Like her companion, she had black hair, but her hair was cut so short that it looked like a boy's. She, like Lily had green eyes, but her eyes were darker. The last girl was the tallest of the girl's and she was only slightly smaller than Remus.

Once the tallest girl stopped laughing, she stepped forward and introduced herself as Raven Rosenburgh, the blond haired girl as Mary McDonald and the shortest girl as Alice Pemberly. Remus introduced himself politely and shrank in his seat as the three girls scrutinised him. Lily shot sharp looks at the other girls and they all looked apologetic. Raven explained their actions to Remus, "Sorry about that, but we had to see if you are good enough for Lily dearest". Naturally, Remus' face turned bright red as he hurriedly explained that he did not like Lily in that way, which cause all of the girls to laugh at him. As soon as they were finished laughing all of the girls (excluding Raven) became distracted when Alice caught sight of Jupiter. Even Lily, who had seen Jupiter two days ago, couldn't stop herself from running over to the owl and saying how cute she thought he was. Remus just resigned himself to it and walked over to where raven was standing.

From the expression on Raven's face, he could tell that she wasn't impressed by her friends' reaction to Jupiter. When he asked her why that was she shrugged, so he thought it best to drop the subject. So he asked her what house she thought the other girls would be in. For a moment raven looked surprised by the sudden change of topic but then she replied, "Well. I am not sure about Lily since I've just met her but I think that Mary would probably be in Ravenclaw. Alice will probably be either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff." Glad to have gotten her talking Remus told her that he thought that Lily would probably be a Gryffindor. After hearing the topic being discussed, the other girls joined in and started saying what house they thought he would be in. Raven, Mary and Alice all said that he would be in Ravenclaw, and Lily was about to tell them what she thought when the woman with the food trolley came to their compartment. She apologised for being so late while the girls bought their food. Remus didn't feel hungry and he knew that it wasn't a good sign. There were only three days left until the full moon and he was already beginning to feel the symptoms, the first of which was the lack of appetite. After the girls had bought their food, they realised that Remus was not eating anything.

Mary immediately rounded on him "Remus aren't you going to eat anything?" when he mutely shook his head she continued, "I'm sorry but that's the wrong answer." With that, the four girls began to order food from the woman with the trolley for him. When they were finished ordering the food they thought he needed (which in Remus' opinion was more than enough for three people), they put three liquorice wands in his lap. They looked at him with so much hope in their eyes that he picked up a liquorice wand and tried to convince himself that he needed to eat. He managed to force down the liquorice wand but he couldn't eat anymore. To stop the girls from forcing him to eat any more he told them that Arianna had made him eat an early lunch before he had left, which was true. The amount that he had eaten at said lunch he did not bring up. After hearing this, they relented but something in their eyes told him that there would be no option at dinner.

The rest of the journey was spent talking about lots of different things, but Remus' lack of appetite was ignored as it was just put down to nerves. Lily did tell him what house she thought he would be in (Gryffindor), but she did not say why. By the time they reached Hogsmead's station, it was dark outside, and a fog had settled over the village. The conductor's voice told them not to bring their luggage with them because somebody would collect it for them later. They heard a rough voice shouting for all of the first years to come to him. Eventually they reached the edge of a large lake and the person who had been calling them. The man was double the height of the average person and some of the first years seemed frightened of him. Remus however did not feel afraid of him because he could tell that the man meant them no harm. Once the tall man had made sure that all of the first years had reached the lake, he instructed them to get into the boats. Only four people were allowed in each boat, which caused the group of five some problems. Raven decided that because both she and Lily had a bit of a temper, they should not go into the same boat as the other boys. Remus quickly worked out the rest for himself, Alice was to shy - so she might be made fun of, and Mary might be teased because of her glasses. So with a sigh Remus volunteered to go with the other boys.

It did not take long for Remus to find the other boys, mainly because of all of the noise that they were making. Keeping in with his luck, the only other boat that had less than four people was the boat with Sirius and James in it. There was another boy sitting in the boat, but he looked extremely uncomfortable sitting there. With a sigh, Remus walked over to them and asked if he could go in their boat. Both James and Sirius broke into evil smiles and said that he could, but to their annoyance, Remus waited until the other boy agreed before getting into the boat. Remus took a moment to examine the new boy, his hair was auburn and his eyes were blue, but a darker blue than Mary's. From what Remus could tell, he was about average height. The boy introduced himself as Dorian just as the boat began to move by itself. Remus introduced himself and they began talking about the 'curse' on the Defence Against the Dark Arts position. He decided that he really liked talking to Dorian as he did not yell his opinion to the whole world, but was still interesting to talk to.

Just as they began to talk about what they would learn during the first weeks of school, James stood up and lent over the side of the boat. They immediately stopped talking and looked warily over at James. From the expression on James' face, it was obvious that he wanted to tip the boat over. As soon as Sirius walked over to join James, Remus walked over to the other side of the boat so that it would not tip over. The two standing boys turned around to see why Remus had left his seat, lost their balance and both of them fell into the lake. Remus went back to his seat next to Dorian and tried to restrain himself from laughing as James and Sirius came up to the surface, gasping for air. When he looked over at Dorian and saw that he was trying to not to laugh, Remus couldn't stop himself from letting out a chuckle. That then caused Dorian to start chuckling as well. The two soaking wet boys got out of the lake and back into the boat. For the rest of the journey neither James nor Sirius so much as looked at the other two boys, not that Remus really minded. They seemed too obnoxious for Remus to want to be close to. Not that he hated the boys; he just would prefer to be friends with other people.

Once they reached the shore, James and Sirius stalked off, while Remus took Dorian over to meet the girls. When Remus finished introducing Dorian to them, He proceeded to tell the girls about what had happened on the boat. All of the girls laughed at the story, even Mary, as she could find no fault with their actions. Before any, more could be said the tall man told them to line up in pairs in front of the castle doors. Lily paired up with Mary, Raven paired up with Alice and Remus went with Dorian. After checking that everybody was paired up, (and that James and Sirius didn't have hypothermia), the tall man knocked loudly on the doors. Remus looked around him, overjoyed that he was able to attend such a magnificent school. At that moment, Remus promised himself that he would enjoy his time at Hogwarts to the best of his ability.

What a lovely ending to the chapter, don't you agree? Anyway, Remus has made many friends including two who I made up all by myself. Read the next chapter if you want to know, what will the girl's do about Remus' lack of appetite at dinner? How will the marauders become friends? Who will be sorted where and much, much, more.

Until next time, Mischief Managed.