Chapter 24-
Lars made it back to the common room to see Sirius and James sitting by the fire, putting it in and out, watching Peter laugh and giggle every time they did so.
"You came back early?" James asked Lars, as Sirius continued to impress Peter. "Why?"
Lars managed to sit down and almost immediately feel better. His back was in a bunch of pain, but he couldn't tell James or Sirius what happened. Lars decided to lie.
"I wanted to enjoy time back up here," Lars said, trying to conceal his lie. "We haven't talked much," James nodded in agreement, falling for Lars' lie.
"We could take a little walk," James laughed, the moon was beginning to come out, and Lars started to get nervous. Remus wasn't there again, and this has been the 4th time in the last 2 months he had left on a night, on a full moon…
"Let's go searching," Lars yelled out, as it seemed nobody else had realized Remus was gone.
"Searching?" Sirius said confused. "Where?"
Lars finally spoke what he felt. "You noticed that Remus leaves every few weeks?" Lars asked to James and Sirius, as suddenly Peter spoke out.
"He seems to go out somewhere," Peter said loudly, finally speaking out for himself. "Always goes to the same place," Peter saw James and Lars stare at him.
"Where does he go?" Lars asked Peter, and Peter seemed to know.
"The Shrieking Shack!" Peter yelled out. "He's been doing this since last year!" Peter smiled, as Lars, James and Sirius seemed to take that information and work with it.
"We should go now," Lars said. "The Slug Club would be finishing soon," Lars saw everyone agree. "We can't be caught, we have gotten in trouble enough," Lars ran off to leave. The full moon had about fully come out, meaning they needed to hurry.
Lars, and James ran through the school, careful that no Professors were around. James now understood Remus had left to become a werewolf in the shrieking shack.
"This would be awesome," James laughed. "To see Remus as something different,"
"Not so much!" Lars said almost too loud, as they exited the castle. "Remus could kill anyone in his state," Peter began to back off, and try to run back, but Lars grabbed him and threw him forward.
"James, Sirius," Lars said, smiling. "Please keep Peter close," They continued on and up to the spot where the Shrieking Shack seemed to be under, according to Peter.
It was underneath a huge tree. It was a monstrous tree, holding something more than just leaves and branches. It seemed to be alive, it attempted to grab Sirius, who quickly slide underneath it and got inside the Shack, followed by James, who had been attacked but slid in. Lars refused to go inside before Peter, so Lars felt the pressure. The tree had hit Lars in the back where he was injured before, and barely able to move, kept close with Peter who had somehow been knocked into the Shack, which Left Lars alone. Lars battled with the tree to get inside, but it seemed to refuse to let Lars inside.
In much pain and despair, somehow Lars jumped over a couple branches in slid inside, but not before noticing a pair of eyes staring at him, he managed to take a glance at the person also, it was Severus….