'Sybil, can I please borrow Mr. Weasley for a second?' Remus asked. Ron was in class, he had Divination right now, but Remus thought that he could miss that. It was not a very important class to Remus' opinion.

'Yes, of course, Remus,' professor Trelawney said with her woolly voice.

Ron didn't look very happy, but he left the class. Remus waited for him outside.

'What do you want?' Ron asked rudely.

'Now that is no way to talk to your professor, is it? I wanted to have a talk,' Remus said. 'Would you like some tea?'

'No, thanks. I need to go back to class.'

'You can't really make me believe that you are eager to go back to that class,' Remus said, smiling a little.

Ron didn't know why Lupin wanted to talk to him, but he didn't trust it. He seemed just as calm and friendly as usual.

'What do you want?' Ron asked again, not really changing the tone in his voice.

'I've told you, I wanted to talk.'

'Then talk.'

'I'd really appreciate it if you would be a little bit more respectful towards me.'

'How could I? Half an hour ago you wanted to kill me and now you are asking me to be respectful? Don't be so stupid. I'm warning you, I have my wand with me, so I wouldn't try anything if I were you,' Ron said, grabbing his wand.

'Don't be silly, Ronald, we both know that I am better in dueling. That is not why I am here. I wanted to apologize,' Remus said calmly.

'I don't believe you. Petrificus Tota….' Ron said, but before he could finish his spell, Remus grabbed his own wand.

'Expelliarmus!'

Ron's wand flew through the air and Remus caught it.

'Now please hear me out,' Remus said.

'Give back my wand,' Ron commended.

To Ron's surprise, Remus did indeed give him back his wand.

'I am sorry for what happened earlier. I didn't mean to hurt you, or to scare you, I don't really know what I was thinking. I should have talked about it with you and I shouldn't have reacted the way I did. I am sorry about that, I really am. I hope you can forgive me and that we can forget about this,' Remus said and he waited for Ron's reaction.

Ron watched his professor carefully, he didn't really trust him. Besides, Remus was the one who had Hermione right now and Ron was not going to accept that. He was going to make sure that the whole school would find out that there was a werewolf teaching at Hogwarts.

'Of course, I accept you apologies,' Ron said as neutral as he could. He didn't want to let Remus know that he still didn't trust him. It was important that Lupin trusted him, because that would make his plans a lot easier.

'Thank you, this makes me feel better,' Remus said truthfully.

'I should go back to class,' Ron said grudgingly.

'Are you sure?'

Ron thought about it for an instant. He could skip his class right now, but that would mean that he had to come along with Remus. But Divination wasn't that great either. Although in class he still had Harry, which made it a lot better.

'Yes, I'm sure, I really need to follow this class. I already have problems with Divination,' Ron said and he turned back to the classroom.

Back in class, Ron didn't pay much attention to what professor Trelawney had to say. It wasn't that interesting, he supposed. His mind was elsewhere. He was thinking of a way to keep Remus away from Hermione. Therefore, he needed the help of someone else. He didn't want to get into a fight with Remus himself. He needed someone who wanted to reveal Remus' secret so that he didn't have to do it himself. But where was he going to find someone like that? Harry wouldn't do such a thing. Harry would never want to reveal Remus' secret.

After class, Ron went outside, just to get some fresh air. He sat down on a bench and picked up his book about werewolves, which he had borrowed from the library. Maybe there was something in it that he could use against Remus, something that would expose Remus' secret even without Ron's assistance. Suddenly Ron felt that someone sat down next to him. It was a man, he was short and he looked rather dirty. Ron had never seen him before in his life.

'Who are you?' he asked.

'Doesn't matter for now. Why are you reading that book? Do you know something?' the little man asked.

'I don't… Why do you want to know? You don't even know me!' Ron said, he looked around to see if someone saw the two, but there was no one outside. It was probably too cold for most students.

'Trust me, I know you better than you can possibly imagine. Back to my question, what do you know about werewolves? Do you know one?' the man asked again.

'As a matter of fact, yes, I do. But I want to know who you are, you are just coming out of the blue and now you're talking about werewolves. Why exactly do you want to know?' Ron asked curiously. He didn't fully trust the man. How could he? He had never seen him before.

'I think I know who the werewolf is you know. And I also think that you don't like him,' the man said.

'You may be right about that,' Ron answered.

'I think I might be able to help you. Because I want to get rid of that werewolf in question as well, for personal reasons,' the man said with an unpleasant smile.

'Tell me who you are!' Ron said, now getting a little bit impatient.

'You can call me Peter.'

'Well, Peter, I am not sure whether I can trust you or not, you know? So please leave me alone so that I can take care of my own business,' Ron said and he wanted to walk away, but Peter stopped him.

'Listen, Ron, I know that you want to have Remus Lupin out of your way. So do I. I have my own reasons for that, but I assure you that you can trust me on this,' Peter said.

'You know my name? You know professor Lupin? Who the hell are you?' Ron demanded.

'You'll find out soon enough. So, what do you say?' Peter asked.

'We can certainly try to work together, I suppose,' Ron said hesitantly.

'Good. So do you already have a plan?'

'No, I was just thinking about a way to reveal Lupin's secret, so that he is forced to leave Hogwarts,' Ron answered.

'What if I knew the perfect way to do exactly that?'

'Are you serious? What are you thinking of?'

'I'm going to spread the news. Anonymously.'

What they didn't know, was that someone else was listening.

'And? Did you say sorry?' Hermione asked as Remus had returned to his office.

'Yes, and he said that he accepted my apologies, although I don't really know if he trusts me anymore,' Remus answered.

'I think it is great that you've apologized,' Hermione said.

'And I think it is great that you are still here,' Remus said, kissing Hermione's cheek lightly.

'Yes, I've made you a promise. And I never break my promises,' Hermione giggled, enjoying the kisses on her cheek.

'And I love you for that,' Remus said, looking for Hermione's lips. His hands were now drawing circles on Hermione's back. His kiss became somewhat rougher and more demanding.

Suddenly Remus pulled back and he signed that Hermione had to be silent. He had heard something at the door. Someone was behind the door. He pointed at it to make clear what was happening towards Hermione, and then he approached the door carefully. When his hand was on the handle, he grabbed his wand and kept it ready in front of him, in case the eavesdropper would attack. He drew the door open very quickly and pointed his wand at the man in front of him, but he lowered his wand as soon as he saw who it was.

'Sirius?' Remus asked surprised.

'Remus!' Sirius exclaimed and the two men hugged each other as though they were two lost brothers who had finally found each other after years.

'Uhm, this is Hermione… my uhm…' Remus said, but Sirius made a sign that he didn't have to explain.

'Yes, I know who she is. Nice to meet you, Hermione,' Sirius said and Hermione gave him a smile, not really knowing what she had to do else.

'You have no idea how great it is to see you again! I'm sorry I didn't believe you all this time, but you need to know that I…' Remus said, but again, Sirius cut him off.

'I know, you don't have to apologize, I have been suspecting you as well for a very long time. Until… well… until Peter… That is why I am here. Peter. He is here, at the castle. But you already know that, I suppose?' Sirius asked, glancing at the Marauders Map that was still on Remus' desk. When Remus nodded, Sirius continued. 'Peter is a servant of Voldemort, he can't be trusted. But you certainly knew that as well. I've seen Peter, he was talking about you. With another boy, red hair, tall, he looked like a Weasley, but I am not sure.'

'Ron?' Hermione exclaimed.

'That's it! Peter used his name, yes, Ron. They were talking about something, and I had to warn you,' Sirius said.