Chapter 20-

The Hogwarts Express had just pulled up, for the first time; James and Lars were the first ones in the station. Montague's parents were still away. James and Lars waited outside for some of the students to return.

Sirius had suddenly appeared, and ran away from Montague and Regulus, and talked to Lars as Lars parents met Sirius for the first time.

"You seem really nice," Mary said to Sirius. "Where is Remus?" Mary asked of Lars' closest friend.

"He will be here soon," Lars said, as Montague, as well as Regulus avoided looking towards Lars, they were the first on the train.

Time went on and Remus still hadn't arrived, neither had Peter.

"That clumsy one!" Sirius laughed as James and Lars walked with Sirius onto the train, the three of them took a compartment farthest from Montague and Regulus, they noticed Severus board the train and say a word to who appeared to be Peter.

"I'm going to say something!" Sirius yelled out, as Lars held him back.

"Tell James about your break first!" Lars yelled to Sirius, which seemed to distract him, as Severus passed the compartment, not saying anything.

"It wasn't as bad as you would think," Sirius smiled to a nervous James. "I stayed away, and Montague was noisier than anyone else in that house."

James seemed intrigued. "What was discussed?" James asked Sirius, as Peter boarded the compartment.

"Montague wanted to begin to learn advanced magic," Sirius said lowly, so nobody else heard it. "Bellatrix taught him!" James interrupted then.

"Who is that?" James asked, interested, nothing ever escaped James' interest, especially concerning dark magic.

"My cousin, she is weird, but very tolerable," Sirius said straight to James.

"We better realize that we are no longer alone!" Lars laughed, as the compartment opened and there stood Remus. He looked very worm down and depressed.

"What happened to you?" James screaked out, Remus looked very sickly, but seemed to be regaining his strengths.

"You want to know?" Remus asked everyone. "There is a lot more than what you think,"

Lars knew it was completely the werewolf that Remus was going to tell them.

"Maybe you should wait," Lars requested to Remus. "Better off they have no idea until we get to Hogwarts,"

Nobody else argued, Lars was right. Too many people around, including Montague and Severus.

"Back to your family Sirius," Lars started saying. "You said they are very powerful," Sirius nodded.

"My one cousin, she barely looks at me," Sirius said, looking away from everyone. "Nobody in my family looks at me anymore," James patted Sirius' back.

"Do you consider us family?" James asked to Sirius, who tried to avoid the question. Peter had been listening in the whole time, saying nothing.

"How about we ask Peter something?" Lars asked the rest. "Ask him how come he has been so quiet,"

Peter shrugged. "I want to be a friend, a good friend." Peter saw James laugh.

"What else would you do Peter?" James laughed, as before they knew it, they were less than a mile from Hogwarts.

Sirius and James ran off just like they normally do. Leaving Lars and Remus together.

"It should be fine," Lars whispered to Remus. "They would find out eventually anyway," Remus looked down, just afraid to face the truth.

"What should I tell them?" Remus asked Lars. "How should I say it?"

"Just like you told me," Lars smiled, and ran up to catch the boats back, as Peter had jumped on the boat with Sirius and James. Lars got caught on the boat with Lily and Anna. They had been talking, Remus was talking to Kingsley.

"Nice holiday?" Lars asked to Anna, avoiding eye contact with Lily.

"Ask Lily," Anna yelled. "Don't avoid her!" Anna had yelled to Lars eye, startling him, leading to the talk with Lily.

"How was it Lily?" Lars asked. "Fun?"

"Better if you didn't ignore me," Lily said, eventually smiling. They played a joke on Lars.

Lars enjoyed Lily and Anna's company all the way back to the castle. Classes were set to start again, so Lars had to get up early. Slughorn had to reschedule the slug club.

Eventually they all arrived back. Too late for the feast, so they all went to bed. As all of Lars' friends reached the Gryffindor common room, Remus ran to bed, somehow falling asleep almost the minute his head hit the pillow. James and Sirius stayed up to play with the fireplace, so Lars headed to bed.