James Potter {S1EP1} - Moons with Moony
Disclaimer: This is a fan-written TV show following the Marauders lives through their fourth year, right up until the death of Lily and James. Each year will have a separate book, and each episode should have separate chapters (although their may be some part twos.) I also plan to have a book of bonus and deleted scenes. Although script writing may seem easy, it can be difficult, so please don't think I can just whiz all of this out of nowhere. - Happy reading!
PART TWO
Scene Six: McGonagall's Office (Back to Scene Four)
Now, all of the boys are sitting around McGonagall's desk with moved chairs, and they are all relaxed and looking casual, joking around. {Credits to incorrectmaraudersquotes for the first three lines of this scene}
McGonagall: I wondered when you'd be back, I just didn't expect it to be on the first day.
Peter: Did you miss us?
McGonagall: (smiles) I never get a chance to miss you. It feels as if you're in my office every day.
James: (kind of excitedly) Also professor, it seems like the advice you gave me on Evans kind of worked. I mean she talked to me first so.
Sirius: WHAT?
Peter: Lies!
James: No no, Remus was there. Weren't you Rem?
Remus: (nods)
McGonagall: Looks like you owe me an ice cream from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.
Sirius: What? I was so looking forward to my chocolate chilli ice cream.
McGonagall: Well now I'm looking forward to my butterbeer ice cream. (Notices Remus is being quiet) I know how you must be feeling, first day and all, but you're going to be okay, Remus.
(Everyone goes silent, looking away from Remus to give him some space, except for McGonagall, who looks straight at him)
Remus: (he himself stays silent for a while, looking down at his hands) It's just... all the days in the month and the full moon had to be... had to be today? Today? The first day of school?
McGonagall: It's distasteful, I know, Remus. Sadly, there's not much else you can do other than accept your fate and say screw it, master it and eventually just be a little bit in control of it.
Remus: I guess
McGonagall: (looks outside window) Speaking of, you boys better get going. Remus needs to go into the forest and you three need to go straight to the Gryffindor dormitories, do you understand me?
Peter: Yes, professor.
Sirius: Of course we will (flashes her a grin)
(They all get up to leave, laughing and pissing around. She watches them out, smirking and shaking her head fondly)
Scene Seven: Corridor in Hogwarts
The boys all have their arms around each other. Remus is at the end of them all and simply wraps his arm around James' waist. He is nervous about the full moon.
Peter: (noticing Remus's worry) Don't Worry Rem, we'll be right beside you.
Sirius: Exactly. Nothing to worry about when you have people as devilishly handsome as us to help out, hm?
They split apart to discuss
Remus: Who are you three kidding? This is the first time we've tried something like this and it could be seriously dangerous for you guys... I don't want you three out there with me.
James: What? You can't go back now? We're frickin- (looks around quickly and leans forward, whispering slightly) we're animagi now. We're doing this, do you hear me Remus?
Remus: I hear you perfectly fine, James. I'm a werewolf not bloody earless.
Sirius: (pointedly) you will be with that cheek, young man. (Remus glares at him) Okay, all jokes aside, we're not leaving you out there by yourself.
Remus: Right. But you won't have a choice if I tell McGonagall you guys are planning to sneak out tonight.
(James is very taken aback, gulping. He feels really bad for his friend.)
Peter: (passionate) Moony, what you become doesn't define you. We know you when you're you, and we know you when you're not, because we're your best friends, and that means we stick by you through both of those kinds of situations. Just because you think you're a monster, fuck it, just because bigots think you're a monster, does not mean you are one. We're sticking by you is my point, because uh well, (beginning to realise he was very brash and starts becoming shy again, playing with his sleeves) I'm not sure any of that made any sense but...
Sirius: I couldn't have put it better myself, Pete.
James: (nods reassuringly) Wormtail's right, Moony.
Remus: (moment of hesitation before straightening his back and holding his chin high) Go back to your dorms or I'll tell McGonagall.
Sirius: (agressively, loudly) You're an idiot!
(Remus and him hold eye contact)
Sirius: Why won't you let somebody help you! You're going to be sad and lonely in this world if you don't let us in and I don't want that for you.
James: Let's go
Sirius and Peter: What?
James: (nodding slowly) Let's go to our dorms. Come on. (He begins walking away)
Sirius: (outraged) James!
Peter: (frowns but then realises what James is planning) Sirius, just leave it. It's what he wants and we should obey his wishes. (He walks off in James's direction too)
Sirius: I can't believe this...
Remus: (smiles sadly) (softly spoken) go.
(Sirius opens his mouth to argue)
Remus: (still softly) don't. Please. Just go.
(Sirius stares at Remus for a while, who refuses to make eye contact. He nods as if he accepts it and walks away with James and Peter)
Peter: we're sneaking back out there the moment the moon makes a show, right?
James: (smirks) wouldn't have it any other way.
Scene Eight: (The journey to the shrieking shack)
As VOICEOVER plays, it flickers between Remus making his way to the Shrieking Shack, the boys doing so and also people going to sleep in their dorms etc. This will be indicated throughout the monologue in italics.
James (voiceover): Remus walking towards the Shrieking Shack entry near the whomping willow, looking around nervously. The camera shakes as if it is a person walking too.
He's a fighter. He's got some kind of... way about him. A fire in his soul and even if it dies out into smoke and ashes for a while, he's always always always burning. He never gives up. I'm just scared that this?
The boys running through corridors together, playing pranks, having a laugh, getting into trouble.
This is going to be the thing that forces his fire to burn out. This is going to be what damages him beyond repair. The ridiculous idea that he's a monster.
Remus sleeping in the library surrounded by piles of books, some open to pages about werewolves.
That he doesn't deserve to be loved.
Remus locking himself in the bathroom to cry.
That he doesn't deserve us as his friends, that he doesn't need us, that we don't need him, that we can't handle what the whole fucking wizarding world can't seem to handle either.
Wizarding World having anti-werewolf protests. Then goes back to Remus making his way past the Whomping Willow. Then focuses on boys coming out of the school behind him.
I know all three of us are going to stand by him. I just hope to God this animagi things work out because if it doesn't he's going to push us away even further.
Lily and Alice in their dorms, Lily clearly still worried about something.
He didn't even want to tell Evans, and they're so close. (Sadly) closer than I'll ever get...
Pans over to the boys, who are visible from her dorm window, they are now continuing the conversation from the monologue.
Peter: I'll try help you guys best I can, but being a rat and all... How am I going to help you?
Sirius: Don't worry, wormtail, all three of us will be help to each other as long as we work as a team.
(James shushes them and they follow Remus down into the Whomping Willow secret entrance)
Scene Nine: The boys walking down the secret entrance
The boys walk carefully and begin to hear noises, so they look around at each other cautiously. After exchanging eye contact, James nods, and they turn into their animagi form. They continue forth as their animals, and from the mouth of the entrance they see Remus Lupin, stripped completely naked (the audience cannot see anything inappropriate however) and waiting for the full moon to transform him.
Eventually, he begins to twitch and his face elongates. Their animagi forms seem distressed as they watch. When fur begins to sprout off of him, Sirius, as a dog, indicates by soft barking that they need to go and they all three run out. Peter is clinging to James' s antlers, which are not very majestic, as they are simply antler buds at the size of around two inches. He eventually runs down the stags neck and clings to his fur instead.
The boys are all outside (minus Remus, who is still in the shack) and stand waiting. As a wolf eventually ventures out, it snarls at the stag, who begins running away from Hogwarts and into the forest so that the wolf runs after and follows. The dog sits and barks to the moon before running after them as the camera pans out.
A chase ensues. I would like to keep this to the creativity of the director, so let's just say for now that there are a few occasional scraps between wolf, deer and dog. More chase, then peter is now on the floor trying to nip at the wolfs paws to stop him from attacking Sirius, which he is about to do, when James literally gets on top of him because he's seriously hurting Sirius, and wolf/Remus throws him off of his back, landing him over a cliff. (Not tall enough to kill him. Enough to do damage.)
The scene fades, showing James no longer in his animagus form over the edge of the cliff, knocked out.
End of episode.