Chapter 6

The Punishment

Lily and Julia stared up in horror at the twisted face of Argus Filch.

"Well well," He cooed. "What do we have here? Two Gryffindors out of bed after hours..." An evil smile curled across his stumbled face.

Of all the things Lily and Julia had worried about; of all the things that could have gone wrong, neither of them even bothered to think what might happen if they were caught. They had been around the castle after hours but had stayed with the Marauders who somehow always knew when trouble was coming.

Lily cleared her throat to gain time to think. This was bad, and she knew there wasn't much that would get her out of this. "Well you see, sir," She added for the 'sir' flattery reasons. "Julia here was feeling a bit ill this evening so I thought some fresh air might do her some good."

Julia nodded in agreement and gave a convincing cough.

Filch shook his head, "Aye that's not going to get you out of this one. McGonagall's going to be furious..." He sang not believing their story at all.

"Please sir, don't turn us in." Julia pleaded.

"And why shouldn't I?" He snapped at her.

"Because we really are good students and don't get in trouble much." Lily said.

"But you're friends with the Marauders eh?"

Lily shook her head. "Heavens no, not those filthy troublesome students." She lied hoping to gain his trust a little.

Argus studied her face deciding whether to believe her or not.

"I'll tell you what," Lily continued. "I know one of your jobs is to clean up the 5th corridor. So what do you say Julia and I clean it up for you tomorrow after classes and you just forget about turning us in." Lily suggested biting her lip.

Filch nodded, "Like as in repentance?"

"Yeah like that." Lily replied.

Again Filch nodded but more frantically, "That will work. Tomorrow after your classes, met me in my office. You'll clean the 5th corridor including the bathroom on that level with no magic."

"Sounds like a deal to me." Lily said cracking a grin.

"See you tomorrow then." Julia said and the girls headed off to their dorms.

"I don't think so..." Filch put his hand out in front of them to keep them from going any farther. "We still have to talk to McGonagall."

"But you said-" Began Julia.

"Nah, I lied." He began. "I much like the idea of turning you in and having you cleaning the corridor. But who knows if you'll even be around tomorrow..."

"You think we'll be expelled?" Julia asked.

Filch nodded. "Most definitely."

Lily and Julia exchanged nervous glances and Lily frowned angrily. "Bloody git..." Lily muttered rudely pushing past Filch. "I'll lead myself thank you."

Julia threw Filch a dirty look too and followed Lily to McGonagall's office.

They reached the tall door to her office a few corridors later, Filch trudging behind them wheezing and sucking on an inhaler.

Lily sighed before knocking on the door. "Is something the matter?" Asked a tired voice from within.

"Er..." Lily began.

"Yes something is very the matter." Filch began. "I caught two students outside tonight. Do you remember what tonight is?" He asked referring to a secret known among the staff about R. Lupin.

Some hurried footsteps later, the door to McGonagall's office swung open and their Transfiguration professor stood in front of them in a nightgown and cap.

"Evans and Carr!" She exclaimed looking over both of them. "I would have never suspected..."

Her voice trailed off and the girls hung their heads.

"Well they were outside and what trouble they caused! Probably out there vandalizing the property or-or causing general chaos."

"And did you see any of that Mr. Filch?" McGonagall asked.

"Of course he didn't." Lily piped in with a roll of her eyes. "Because we didn't do any of that."

Filch scowled but didn't say anything.

"I ask that you speak to adults more respectfully Miss Evans." McGonagall said before turning to Filch. "Well thank you for turning them in, I'll deal with it from here."

Filch frowned. "But I think I should stay be-" He began but McGonagall shook her head.

"That is all Mr. Filch." She replied in a final-like tone.

"Right," Filch said backing up from the door. "Oh, and they both have a detention with me after classes tomorrow. They said they wanted to clean the 5th floor in repentance..." Filch said smirking at Lily.

The girls frowned and Lily spoke up, "We never said we wanted to."

"I think that is a fine idea." McGonagall replied and the girls groaned. So much for trying to talk themselves out of trouble, it just landed themselves in more work.

"Girls please come in." Their professor said gesturing to her office.

Both girls abide the order and took their seats in front of McGonagall's desk. They were both extremely nervous and Lily was still digging a hole in her lip from biting on it so hard because of it.

Sure they had been in trouble before. But they usually landed in a mess when the Marauders were around. The Marauders seemed to have a knack for getting out of trouble mostly because teachers adored them. However, Julia and Lily had never been caught for doing something a severe as leaving the castle at one o'clock in the morning.

"I don't know what you were thinking when you decided to leave the castle..." McGonagall began and the girls prepared themselves for a lecture. "I won't bother asking because, of course, you won't tell me.

"But two of my best students out at a time like this?" She exclaimed angrily. "You two should be ashamed of yourselves." She continued waving a strict finger at the girls. "And on a night like tonight!"

"What do you mean Professor?" Lily spoke up.

"About you being ashamed of yourself?" She asked in a slightly annoyed voice.

"No, no. I mean what do you mean by 'on a night like tonight'?" Lily asked.

"Oh, well-" McGonagall said taken off guard by their question. "I meant it's awfully foggy out tonight. Terribly dangerous."

"It wasn't foggy." Lily replied back, her cheekiness showing.

"Er, well it was supposed to be. And it was supposed to rain as well." McGonagall said.

"Oh really? We could use a good rain." Lily continued.

"Really. The plants are all wilting around the lake." McGonagall replied and Julia raised an eyebrow at the fact McGonagall had gone off topic like that. "But that's beside the point." McGonagall changed the subject back.

McGonagall had always enjoyed Lily's company because she was one of the few students that could keep up a conversation with a Professor. Most students never bothered talking to the teachers because they thought of them as cruel people who only wanted students to slave over their studies. However, Lily was different and that was why McGonagall had steered off subject. Not to mention the fact it was one o'clock in the morning had caused her brain to slip into a drowsy mood.

"You know the rules, both of you." McGonagall continued. "You can't go out walking about at night. It's extremely dangerous especially with the Forbidden Forest's not that far from the front gate."

"We're really sorry Professor." Julia piped in.

"I should think so because you both are in a lot of trouble."

"Will we be expelled?" Julia asked nervously. She had more to worry about if she was expelled than if Lily was.

"No, you won't be." McGonagall said causing Julia's face to light up gratefully. "But if this happens again, I won't hesitate to expel either of you."

"Thank you Professor." Julia replied gratefully.

"But you're not getting off that easily." She said but neither of them thought they would. "I'll be taking 50 points off of Gryffindor each and you will serve detention with Mr. Filch tomorrow and with me the day after. I will also be telling your parents. And Julia, your brother will know as well."

Julia frowned and slumped in her seat. Lily's brow furrowed as she wondered why McGonagall would tell Julia's brother and her parents. After all, Tom, her brother, was upstairs snoring away in the Ravenclaw dorms. Why would he care if Julia got in trouble?

"That is it for now. I'll write to your guardians now and then I'm off to bed. Both of you should consider getting some rest as well." She concluded.

Both girls stood up and walked out the door.

"It could have been worse..." Julia said trying to cheer herself up. She wasn't that upset about having the two detentions or losing the points for Gryffindor, though her housemates wouldn't thank her. She was more concerned about the telling her brother part. Julia had rarely ever let Tom, her brother, down and when she did she felt horribly about it. After all Tom had done so much for her, and getting herself in trouble was no way to repay him.

"Yeah we could be packing now." Lily said stepping up the first step towards the Gryffindor Common Room.

"So what do you think was going on at the Shack?" Julia said.

Lily shrugged. "I haven't the slightest. But at least now we know where they go."

"Maybe we can pry something out of them now." Julia replied. "Perhaps use blackmail?" She joked.

Lily chuckled. "Not a back idea."

"I'm still really worried about them." Julia voiced her concerns again.

"Don't be Julia. They're smart, they'll get out of there." Lily assured her.

"Yeah but that dog looked fierce not to mention those other animals wrestling on the side." Julia said with a shiver.

"Any idea what those animals were?" Lily asked.

"I don't know, I couldn't really see them in the dark but one of them looked like a wolf or something." Lily froze a thought striking her.

"Wait a wolf?"

"Yeah, that's what I said."

"Like a werewolf?"

Julia frowned at her friend. "A werewolf? Well I've never seen one before but why would there be a werewolf in the Shrieking Shack? Don't they live out in the forest?"

Lily was slowly gluing the pieces of the puzzle together. "Is it a full moon tonight?" Lily asked Julia. She made her way over to and open window down the corridor.

"I didn't notice." Julia replied following her friend not seeing where this was going.

"It is." Lily said looking up at the full moon overhead; a mist of clouds slowly covering it.

"So you think it was a werewolf?"

Lily nodded, "Yeah."

Julia's mouth dropped. "Then that means one of the Marauders could have gotten bitten!"

Lily shook her head. "I don't think so..." She said before heading towards the common room door.

"But they were in there. Why couldn't they have gotten bitten?" Julia asked mumbling the password to a disgruntled Fat Lady.

Lily didn't answer this question until they were both in their dorm. She lit some candles not caring that they were so bright they woke up their roommate.

"What time is it?" Kara asked yawning loudly. "Will you shut those bloody lights off!" She demanded after discovering it was only two in the morning.

Both girls completely ignored her as Lily flipped through the calendar. "They were gone that Saturday morning before we went to Hogsmeade. Remember just at the end of March." Lily landed on the March page and ran her finger down the Saturday column until she reached the weekend she was talking about. Under the date, Full Moon was written.

Lily looked up at Julia and frowned. "When else where they gone?" She asked Julia.

"I remember they weren't here last Valentine's Day." Julia said.

Lily rummaged through her top dresser draw and pulled out the year before calendar. She was a bit of a pack rat and never liked to throw anything away.

"February 14th; Full Moon." Lily read.

"So they go to the Shrieking Shack every full moon?" Julia thought out loud. "Do you think they go purposely to see the werewolf?"

Lily shrugged. "I have absolutely no idea."

"Can this please wait until tomorrow?" Whined Kara.

Lily reluctantly nodded realizing they couldn't talk about this in front of Kara and blew out the candles.

The next morning Lily and Julia sat at the Gryffindor table silently. A few seats over Kara looked to be painfully snogging her boyfriend and Lily and Julia were doing everything in there power to distract themselves from the scene.

Four boys entered the Great Hall all looking extremely drowsy. Julia looked up to see the Marauders joining them just at the end of breakfast.

They filled up there plates silently and Julia nodded to Lily before she said, "You going to tell us why you were in the Shrieking Shack last night."

"Nope." Was all Sirius said.

Lily frowned. "But we followed you all the way there and even got caught and you're still not going to tell us." Julia said frustrated.

"You got caught?" Sirius asked a grin spreading over his face.

"Well yeah. By Filch." Lily answered.

"Amateurs." James muttered smiling a bit.

"If you don't tell us, we'll just follow you again next month." Lily said and when the boys made no reply she added. "You know next month; on the full moon."

All four boys looked up at her revealing that she had been right about them going there every full moon. Lily stabbed a piece of egg and ate it not breaking eye contact with James.

"Now you wanna tell us?" She asked.

James turned to Remus and shrugged. "It's your call man. I mean I don't think she knows." He looked over at Lily before saying. "She thinks she knows but she doesn't."

Lily frowned. "I very well do know."

Sirius rolled her eyes. "No you don't."

"So what's it going to be?" Julia asked Remus. "Please tell us!" She pleaded.

Remus looked down at his plate and sighed. "Come to our dorm tonight." He answered.

Both girls' faces broke out into a grin and they went back to eating happily.

"Thanks Remus." Julia said.

Remus shrugged and began eating his bacon.

The Gryffindor's classes went by in their usual fashion. During History of Magic, all but Lily went to the land of Nod, snoring away loudly; Professor Binns being completely oblivious to the fact over half his class was zzzing. Lily would have gladly used this time to catch up with some sleep but she knew both herself and friends would need the notes for the next examine so she remained awake if just barely.

Then Potions, where Slughorn again praised Lily throughout the entire class. He seemed to idolize Lily but everyone knew differently. It was common knowledge that Slughorn liked holding power and he could hold power if he knew important people. It was guessed that he thought Lily would make something great out of her Potions skills someday and that's why he gave her so much attention; of at least that's what James would say.

Both Transfiguration and Charms went by rather uneventfully. But they ended their day with Defense Against the Dark Arts, which was always far from boring.

Lily was brilliant at Potions and Charms and James had always been better at Transfiguration and Herbology. But neither of them could seem to claim themselves as 'the better one' at Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Lily's hand shot up in the air. Professor Wittingman nodded for her to answer.

"A Denver Troll, sir." She said.

Wittingman nodded. "Very good Miss Evans." Lily shot a smart smirk to James who was sitting next to her.

"So what it was only one..." James said waiting patiently for Wittingman to ask another question to the class.

"And does anyone know who first discovered the Denver Troll?" He asked the students.

James and Lily's hands shot up before the question was even finished. Wittingman sighed slightly annoyed by the two's enthusiasm; him being a rather dull person.

"Mr. Potter?" He said.

Lily frowned and sat back waiting for James to answer.

"Louis Hamerton." He answered and Lily muttered at the same time; making it clear that she had known the right answer as well.

"Well done." Wittingman said with a nod.

Sirius was busy a few seats down tallying up the score for the two of them. A tick mark under James or Lily for every right answer they answered correctly.

"And do either of you know when he discovered them?" He asked Lily and James seeing as they were the only two who ever answered any questions in class.

Lily frowned; not knowing the answer and James raised his hand up casually not really sure.

"James." Wittingman called.

"Uh, was it April, 1322?" He asked remembering reading that date in their homework assignment.

"Yes correct."

James smirked at Lily. "And now I'm up."

"So what it's just by one." She mocked.

"But one point is enough to win." He whispered though he shouldn't have even bothered because Wittingman was still looking at them.

"It's not over until it's over." Lily replied.

"And do you two have something to share with the class?" The professor asked the class.

"No." Lily muttered.

"Yeah, I'm up by one." James replied cheekily and Lily scowled.

"Well I'm afraid for you Miss Evans but James has won this round because is over." Professor replied and Lily frowned.

"Oh would you look at that Lils." James replied. "Seems that I have won."

Lily poked her tongue out at him, "S'all right, I won last two classes."

"But I won the three before." James said a smile curling across his face.

"And why can't you two just call it even?" Remus asked.

"Yeah you two have been at this since first year and it's quite clear that you're both good at it." Julia said throwing her bag over her shoulder.

"But who's better?" Lily asked rhetorically.

"Me." James replied grinning.

"Shove off. One win doesn't make you the best." Lily said shoving him playfully.

"Does too." He replied.

"Doesn't. What about in Quidditch? You can't just win one game to win the cup. You have to play good all season." Lily replied figuring if she compared it to his love of a game, he'd be forced to realize she was right.

James knowing she was indeed right, choose to ignore this comment and change the subject. "So what was your punishment for thinking you could outsmart us last night?" James asked Lily and Julia.

"A total of a whopping 100 points from Gryffindor." Lily began.

"A detention with Filch right now and one with McGonagall tomorrow." Julia finished. Sirius laughed.

"Have fun with that." He said. "Filch's detentions are the worse because he has you do the stupidest things."

"Yeah. Remember the time he had us wash his socks in a tub?" James asked with a chuckle.

"And you hexed them so they'd shrink when Filch tried to put them on." Sirius replied.

James nodded and chuckled again, "That was a fun detention."

"How can a detention be fun?" Lily asked who was not at all looking forward to their detention tonight.

Remus grinned. "These two always seem to make detentions fun." He said nodding to James and Sirius.

Lily rolled her eyes not believing it.

Julia and Lily made their way down the 5th corridor rather slowly not at all liking the idea of spending 2 hours with Filch and his smelly cat.

"Let's get this over with." Lily said turning the corridor and finding Filch standing there with two buckets of water and other assorted cleaning supplies.

Filch grinned at the sight of them; quite excited to know that two troublemakers were about to get what they deserved.

"So where are we starting?" Julia asked Filch. She just wanted to get this detention over with.

"I don't care where you start. I just want this corridor cleaned without magic." Filch said. "The floors, windows, walls and all of the armor needs to be cleaned."

Lily sighed and picked up a bucket getting to working. She was distracted by a loud crash coming from upstairs. Filch frowned and looked up at the ceiling.

He turned frustrated to Julia and Lily. "Give me your wands." He said.

Lily shook her head and Julia backed up holding her pocket with her wand safely in it.

"I'm not going to bloody hex you." Filch said holding out his hand for the wands.

"Why do you want them then?" Lily questioned. "You can't do magic."

Filch's face distorted at the mention of his lack of magical abilities. "Give me the bloody wands."

"Just tell us why first." Julia answered.

Both girls were very protective over their wands like any witch or wizard should be. Without them, they were completely vulnerable.

Filch sighed and explained. "I'm going upstairs to see what made that noise and while I'm gone I don't want you two doing magic to clean the hall."

"Oh," Lily said and handed him her wand though she really would rather not part with it.

Julia followed suit before Filch went waddling upstairs, his stupid cat following him meowing the whole way.

"It's okay Miss Caroline. We'll find the troublemaker who did that." He purred to the cat.

Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to her work.

"Boo!" The owner of the voice shoved Julia gently for an added effect.

Julia shrieked and wheeled around to find none other than Sirius Black. She grinned and shoved him back. "That was not funny!"

Sirius laughed. "Yes it was especially the shrieking. You know, you should try not to do that so loudly or we'll all go deaf." He teased and the three other Marauders joined him at his side.

Julia rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at Sirius. "What are you doing here?" Lily asked.

"Coming for you." James replied.

"Coming for us? What's that suppose to mean?" Julia asked.

"We've come to prove Lily wrong." James continued.

"How?" Lily asked curiously.

"You said that you didn't believe a detention could be fun." Sirius reminded her. "So now, we're going to show you're wrong."

James pulled out his wand, "Scourgify!" He casted on the corridor. The corridor turned from a dull dirty state to a sparkling clean one.

"James! What were you thinking?" Lily demanded.

"I was thinking that if I did that you two wouldn't have to spend the rest of this detention cleaning the corridor." James explained.

"And don't you think it'll look suspicious when Filch comes back here in ten minutes and sees the entire corridor perfectly clean. No one can clean that fast James." Lily asked irked.

James shook his head. "He won't be down here in ten minutes."

"And you know that because...?" Lily asked her eyes narrowing at him.

"You got to learn to trust me Lily." James said with a wink to the angry red head.

Julia looked over at Sirius who nodded with a grin letting her know that they had nothing to worry about.

"Well let's get out of here. I can't stand the smell of this Muggle cleaning crap." James said heading down the corridor. The Marauders followed him and soon Julia joined them.

Lily stayed frozen for a while. She was torn with trying to be a good student and listen to what Filch had said and wanting to have a good time; At least a better time then just staying in the corridor.

It was the idea of having fun that drew her to follow James down the hall throwing the caution against the wind.

"Wait for me!" Lily called sprinting to catch up with them.

James turned to Lily, "For a second, I thought you might not come."

"For a second, I thought so too." Lily replied smiling up at him.

"Glad you changed your mind." He said winking to her.

"So where exactly are we going?" Julia asked.

"Somewhere that neither of you have been before." Sirius replied.

"The guys bathroom?" Lily jokingly asked.

James rolled his eyes and grinned, "Maybe some other time Evans."

"Then where?" Julia asked.

"Don't worry, you'll like it." Remus assured her.

"And if this is some kind of prank I will not hesitate to hex all of you." Lily said.

"Yes you will." James said with a chuckle. "You're forgetting you don't have your wand." He reminded her tapping her nose as if she were a child.

Lily frowned, "Right..."

"She could always take your wand first." Julia suggested with a smile.

"Nah, Lily is harmless without a wand." Sirius said.

"Am not." Lily said though she knew he was right. Lily was mostly brains and some physical strength.

"Are too." James argued.

Lily frowned. "Oh shut up. Julia could kick your arses for me then."

James looked from Julia to Sirius and nodded. "Yup she probably could."

"Nah, Julia would never get mad enough to do that." Sirius said. "I don't think I've ever seen her upset or angry."

"What can I say; I'm very easy going." Julia replied with a smile.

"You make a good point Sirius." Lily said.

"I do?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow at Lily.

Lily rolled her eyes and continued. "Yeah, I don't think Julia has ever been mad. At least you don't show it." She said to Julia.

Julia shrugged not really enjoying this conversation solely on her lack of anger.

Sirius seemed to noticed this because he put his arm around her and said, "Now, now, let's stop picking on Julia's lack of sensitivity."

He teased making Julia chuckle.

"Almost there..." James said turning the corner again.

Soon the group stopped in front of a large portrait of a bowl of fruit. "We're here." Sirius announced.

"Now everyone gather around the painting and let's admire it for the next hour and a half." James joked.

Lily frowned completely confused as to why they were here.

"Who wants to do the honors?" James asked the group.

"Julia does." Sirius said pushing the girl towards the portrait.

"The honors of what?" Julia asked confused.

"Tickle the pear." James said grinning at the look Julia was giving him.

"The pear?" Julia replied not knowing whether this was a joke to make her look like a complete fool or not.

"That's the green one Juls." Sirius teased from behind her.

Julia grinned at the comment and took a step towards the painting. "Thanks Sirius I really couldn't have figured that out by myself..." She joked sarcastically and looked over the painting.

Julia reached forward and did what the Marauders had told her; tickled the pear. The pear wiggles and let out a squeal. Julia raised an eyebrow at the portrait and took a step back as it swung open.

"Well done Juls." Sirius said stepping into the secret passageway.

"I do try." Julia said sardonically and followed Sirius's led into the passageway.

"Where does this led?" Lily asked.

"Again Evans, gotta learn to trust." James said with a grin as he entered the corridor.

Lily rolled her eyes and followed them in after Remus and Peter.

Lily's mouth hung open as they entered the school kitchen. "But-How-?"

"All props to finding the kitchens goes to Lupin." Sirius replied helping himself to some chocolate cake meant for diner that night.

"Ah, it was nothing." Remus said.

"Nothing? I don't think so." Julia said shaking her head.

"Really how many people do you think know how to get in here?" Sirius asked Remus.

"I'd say about six now." James replied for Remus. Remus merely shrugged and headed over to the pantry for something to eat.

Lily hopped up on the counter and began to help Sirius devour the chocolate cake.

"This is brilliant." Lily said.

"Do you guys come down here often?" Julia asked also helping herself to some food.

"All the time." James replied sitting on the counter next to Lily.

"Can we know why you guys went to the shack now?" Lily asked changing the subject.

All the Marauders turned to Remus, "Again, your call." Sirius said.

Remus shrugged, "I suppose now is better than later." He said with a sigh. "Alright but you two have to promise me you won't freak out." He said to the pair of girls.

They both shook their heads, "We won't."

Remus looked to James trying to think of the best way to say this, "Okay then... When I was five, I was-" He paused taking a deep breath. "Bitten by a werewolf."

Lily let out a small gasp and covered her mouth with her hand but Julia's face remained expressionless.

"So, on the full moon I transform to a werewolf." Remus let out a sigh and shrugged. "That's why we were at the shack last night."

Lily felt a sinking feeling in her stomach as she realized the pain Remus must have gone through every month or so. She didn't know what to say; she felt so horribly, so she did the only thing she could think of and hugged him.

"I'm sorry Remus for following you like that then. We shouldn't have been so nosy." Julia said her face still remaining expressionless as if she did not just find out that one of her best friends was a werewolf.

Lily pulled away from Remus wiping a tear from her eye before taking her seat back on the counter. "Geez Evans, we don't need you to break down on us." Sirius said trying to cheer her up.

Lily smiled and sniffled. "So long have you guys known?" She asked the Marauders.

"Since third year." James said.

"Yeah they caught on after a while." Remus said.

"But why would you three go with him? I mean what if you were bitten?" Lily asked.

James and Sirius exchanged looks. That hadn't expected this question.

"In case something happened..." James said with a shrug.

"You don't care if you get bitten then?" Lily asked confused.

"Well I-We..." James sighed and decided just to tell her instead of playing twenty questions for the next hour until she finally ripped the information out of him. "We won't turn into a werewolf if we're bitten-" He began but was interrupted by Lily.

"Are you daft? Yes you will." Lily piped in.

"No we won't." Sirius replied with a roll of his eyes. "Let him finish."

"We won't turn into werewolf if we're bitten because we're not exactly human at the Shack." James said trying to break this news to them as lightly as he could.

Lily let out a laugh, "What are you aliens then?"

"Yeah James, you're not making much sense." Julia added.

"Okay I was trying to do this in a way so you two might not freak out when I told you but seeing as you've made that impossible..." James said with a grin. "May I introduce you to Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs; 5th year, Gryffindor Animaguses." He finished.

Julia's mouth dropped and Lily shook her head.

"You can't be animaguses." She said apprehensively.

"Can too, we taught ourselves in 3rd and 4th year." Sirius replied.

"Impossible. It takes more than two years for adult wizards to learn. And you couldn't have possibly learned in two years at 13." Julia said not believing a word they were saying.

"Wanna bet?" Sirius challenged her.

"Yes I would like to bet." Julia replied confidently.

Sirius shrugged and did what Julia didn't believe; he turned into a big black dog.

Julia's mouth dropped as the dog, Sirius, came prancing over to her slobbering her with a big wet kiss across the face. James laughed as Julia scrunched her nose and wiped the dog slobber off her.

"So you go with Remus every full moon so he doesn't have to transform into a werewolf by himself." Lily said finally catching what they were saying.

James nodded and Sirius turned back into a human. "Every full moon."

Another silent tear feel down Lily's face and James asked, "What now Lils?"

Lily shook her head and covered her face with her hands, "I just can't believe-You guys are such good friends; good guys that you'd sacrifice so much for each other."

"And that's worth crying over?" Sirius asked. Julia turned to him and clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Hush up you." She said and Sirius grinned behind her hand.

"So this is one of those happy cries then?" Remus asked her.

Lily nodded. "Well sorry but you might need to pull yourself together fast cause Filch is on his way back to the corridor." Was the first thing Peter had said all afternoon.

Lily looked up having no idea how Peter had known that but she realized how much trouble Julia and herself would be in they were if they were caught skipping a detention.

James stood up and hurried to the door. "Come on let's get out of here."

"Where is Filch now?" Sirius asked Peter who was holding a piece of parchment.

"The 6th floor stairs." He replied.

"Come on we haven't that much time." Remus said heading towards the door.

A/N- Wow this crap just pours out...Sorry for this incredibly boring chapter. I know you guys already know the story about Remus and him being a werewolf so it was probably pretty yawnful to read.

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Same drill with the reviews. I'm waiting for 10 reviews to post the next chapter. The sooner I get the reviews in, the sooner the chapter will be posted because I have 90 of it finished.

So you're only making yourself wait if you don't review!

And tsk tsk again to those people who put me on Alert but didn't review. It's not that difficult I promise! Just a few short words and then send in the review. Easy as pie. Maybe next time I'll start mentioning name... :P