They spent most of the day inside what Sirius called "The Room of Requirement." It was the very room they had gone in and had viewed the memory the previous day. Everyone but Sirius showed surprise when they found the place well adapted to Animagus training.

"What is the catch to this place?" Heather asked after getting over the awe.

"You have to outline everything." He answered, "It took me a few years to work this out, I never told the others, so they never knew it was here."

"I see." Was all Heather said. When they had all met in the middle of the room, James spoke up.

"I'm sure Lily has read a ton of books on Animagi, but not everyone has read the Hogwarts library." He said, "We however are going to be using the simpler more undetectable method. It may be simpler, but since we have to do it undetectable, we have to take it slowly, but then the three of us that did it, we were doing it unsupervised."

"So it will go faster, but yet, still slower than it could."

"Precisely." Remus said.

"Now I don't think we need to tell you, don't try this without our supervision, as someone might find out, and then we'll have to find a way for them not to tell." Sirius said.

"How are we going to do this?"

"To find out your form, you usually use the charms, however, McGonagall would definitely be able to pick out the charms, so we began to study if there was a way that we could do it without the charm. Well, there wasn't, so we studied the spell, and developed our own potion that has the same effect as the spell, except for the fact that you fall asleep and see it in a dream rather than in front of your own eyes. You will be able to remember your form perfectly, and we expect you to write down everything that you can about them."

"Okay, so, how long does this potion take to make?"

"An hour, two at the most. Sirius, I do believe you said this room can transform into a potions storeroom, with ingredients."

"Yes, it just won't make food. But no one really will live in here right?"

"Shouldn't have to."

"Well, let's leave the room momentarily, and then we will come back in and grab what we need, Prongs, you got the list?" Sirius said. James nodded, and they all stepped out of the room, and it sealed behind them. Sirius walked past three times, and a smaller door appeared. He opened it and James began to read off the supplies. Half-an-hour later, Sirius stepped out, looked at the pile of supplies, and closed the door. He once again walked three times past the wall, and the door that they originally entered appeared again. They helped him carry it all in, and then James conjured a cauldron.

Heather watched her brother and Remus begin adding the ingredients to the potion, and walked over to one of the tables, and sat down. It wasn't too much longer, before another person joined her there.

"Hey, you tired?" asked Sirius.

"Nah, just felt like sitting down, aren't you supposed to be helping with that potion?"

"To tell you the truth, I wasn't much help from this point until after I got mine down. That day when you asked us if we were doing anything illegal, James already had his down, but Remus didn't want us out there until all of us had gotten it down, so that he didn't attack one and there would be no one to help." Heather inwardly laughed. She looked up into Sirius' eyes, and saw a spark of something in them.

"That sounds like you were slacking off." The others approached the table, as the potion had to simmer for a while.

"Well, it did take us a while, but we had to do it without being caught. First, we will find out your animals, and then you will have to learn everything about the transformation, and then, and only then we will move on to the actual transformation." James said, "It took us a while to convince Peter not to tell, and with the way he is, I don't know if he can keep up the act. Maybe we shouldn't have him with us, he wasn't much help, and he did struggle through his form."

"Plus, then he could be our alibi." Remus said. The girls looked at them, and reluctantly nodded. Then Remus continued, "They usually won't know what's going on, but I think McGonagall is becoming suspicious of the way I come in every full moon."

"Hardly ever hurt anymore?" Sirius asked, Remus nodded, before he and James got up to go check on the potion. Lily and Hermione got up and moved to the bookshelves and grabbed a few books before heading to the couch to relax and read. This left Sirius and Heather at the table.

"Back to our discussion that we were having before we were interrupted by the others?" he asked. She laughed suddenly, and then looked at him again.

"S . . . Sirius, I . . ." He picked up her hand, in his, before speaking.

"Heather, I know I've been a stupid jerk and that I've gone out with several girls, but none of them compare to you. Will you go out with me?" She looked at him, before realizing what he had said.

"G . . . go out with you? L . . .like . . . boyfriend-girlfriend type going out?" she asked. He nodded and then spoke up.

"If you don't want to that okay, but . . ." he started but never finished that sentence as she stood up, and walked around the table, to hug him.

"My answer is yes." She said. He looked at her in surprise. Not too much later, much to both teens dismay, James interrupted them.

"The potion took less time, seeing as we didn't create it from memory, its ready." He said, missing the point that his sister and best friend had just started dating. He walked back to the cauldron, and the two teens kissed briefly before heading over. Remus had conjured three goblets, and scooped some potion into each, by the time they had gotten over there. He motioned for Lily and Hermione to come and get their goblet. The three girls grabbed the goblets, and, careful not to spill, went over to the couch, and sat down. Heather sniffed the potion, and was met with a putrid odor.

"Couldn't you come up with a better smelling potion?" she asked. She looked at Remus who was shaking his head.

"Nope, took us a few months to figure out how to make it so it would work with the desired effects." He said, she knew that he meant him and James. She plugged her nose, and chugged the goblet.

"So . . ." she said.

"Just wait, its comin . . ." he didn't finish the word, before Heather's head dropped, and they could tell she was asleep.

Heather seemed to just drop into the middle of a forest. As lifelike as it looked, she knew it was a dream. She stood up and dusted herself off, before hearing barking noises in the distance.

"This had better be good." She said, she had quite liked the peace and quiet. She headed off in the direction that she thought the noise had come from, and found a brown dog trapped inside of a hunter's trap. She walked over to it.

"Poor thing." She said, "How did this happen?" The dog replied by barking. She pulled the trap apart, and the dog came over to her. It licked her face, and jumped on her.

"I'm supposed to be looking for my animal, you see." Of course it hadn't quite dawned on her then. She took a look at the leg and noticed scars already on the wound. "Well it is a dream." She thought out loud. She then took a look and realized that the scars were the exact shape of hers that she had received from falling out of a tree a few months back.

"Could you be the animal I'm looking for?" she asked. The dog barked and jumped on her again. She nodded, "But I should be waking up, I found my animal." The dog seemed to pick up on something just then, and ran off to the right. Heather having a sense that something was going to go wrong followed it. As they ran, she began to hear a tune. She knew she had heard that tune before, and still couldn't figure it out. The dog stopped ahead of her, and she walked into the next clearing. A lone tree stood in the middle. The song seemed to be coming from the tree itself. She approached it, pushed away some of the branches, and saw the singer. It was a bird, about three feet tall, and it was singing, as she reached out to pet it, it burst into flames, and she knelt down to the ground, feeling she knew what the bird was. A few seconds later a tiny head pushed its way out of the ashes, and then it was full grown again. Heather, once again saw the scars on its left leg.

"It can't be . . . I have . . ." the world went black, and she heard voices from above.

"What's taking her so long, me and Lily were done ages ago?" Hermione asked. She was worried for the young girl. Suddenly her mouth opened, and words came out.

"It can't be . . . I have . . ." she was stopped by James nudging her. The young girls sat up, and looked around at her friends.

"Heather, what is it, what's your form?" Sirius said, scared to find out.

"I . . . I have . . ."

"Yes . . ." the three boys pressed.

"I have two forms." She said.