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The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 13: Suspicions
After two weeks of planning, The Marauders had their prank all ready. All the research for the prank, such as looking up spells, potions, and making sure nothing would go wrong so no one would get hurt was done by Remus. If any potions had to be made, they would be done by James or Sirius with Remus helping them. Peter was rubbish at potions; Remus was better than him and did good in the class, but James and Sirius were the potion masters of their group as they did the best in the class of the four. Peter, the least talented of the group, just threw ideas for their plans in and helped execute the prank at the end.
Since the prank was so late after their return, they decided to not sign the prank from the Marauders. People might suspect that the Marauders are them because of Remus's father being killed during the break, so they didn't perform the prank when the students returned because they were worried about Remus.
Remus was still sad about his father's death. Sometimes it was so bad that he was distant from everyone. He would go off to a corner of the common room, their dorm, or the library and just sit there, staring at nothing.
James, Sirius, and Peter didn't blame him for doing this. It was his father that died. They understood that he was incredibly upset over it and allowed him to go off into his mind on his own. Sirius found out that when he is brooding, Remus is thinking about the past when his father was alive. They quickly learned that when Remus was brooding, he was happy and didn't want to be pulled from his thoughts. After thinking about his father, Remus felt better. Thinking about all the wonderful things he did with his father made him happy. His father was a happy, fun, excitable man and Remus loved him for it. That was how Remus described him when his friends asked about him.
James, Sirius, and Peter ran into the common room two weeks later to find Remus sitting on a comfy chair in front of the fire place reading a book. Sirius sat on the couch with James and Peter.
"Remus, are you excited?" Sirius asked, practically bouncing with excitement the day before they were going to play their prank. He had a big grin on his face.
Remus grunted and continued to read. He was trying to relax. Tomorrow was the full moon. Even though he took the Minor Infirmus potion, Remus still felt the effects of the full moon approaching. He was annoyed that his friends had to do the prank on the day of the full moon, but his friends were really stubborn about doing it on this day. Remus couldn't blame them. They had to put it off a lot because of him. At least he convinced them to do it at lunch instead of dinner. He would have missed the prank if they did it at dinner and that would have sucked since this prank seemed really fun to do. It was going to one of their best.
James frowned. "Are you listening to us?"
Remus grunted again.
James rolled his eyes and pulled the book out of Remus's hands. "Remy, we're trying to talk to you. You know, it's quite rude to read when someone is talking to you."
The young werewolf looked up and glared at him. "You know, it's quite rude to bother someone when you can clearly see they are doing something else. Just cause you enter a room doesn't mean everyone has to give you their undivided attention."
Sirius barked out a laugh.
Remus turned to glare at him. "That means you to, Black."
Sirius stopped laughing and raised a brow. "Black? What's with you today? You never call us by our surnames."
"Nothing." Remus hissed and grabbed his book back. "I'm just in a foul mood today."
"You don't need to take your irritation out on us. We just wanted to talk with our friend." James replied, with emphasis on the last two words.
Remus growled and threw his book on the table. "Fine. What do you guys want?"
James frowned and crossed his arms. "I don't feel like telling you if you're going to make it sound like a chore to talk to us."
Remus glowered at him and picked his back up. "You really need to make your mind up." He growled, opening his book.
"Sheesh! You really made an effort there to talk with your friends." James snarled, angry flashing in his eyes. "You may be in a foul mood, but that doesn't mean you can ignore us."
"MAKE UP YOUR BLOODY MIND, POTTER!" Remus yelled raging mad, slamming his book shut and standing up.
The rest of the students in the common room looked up and watched the two yelling boys. They couldn't concentrate on what they were doing with all the yelling, so they figured they might as well watch the fight.
"What's up with James?" Sirius whispered to Peter. "He never loses his temper like this. He's supposed to be the calm, rational minded one."
"MAYBE IF YOU JUST MADE AN EFFORT!" James screamed, jumping out of his seat as well.
Peter shrugged. "Everyone explodes at times. Something might have happened before we met up with him in the corridor and came back here…."
"MADE AN EFFORT AT WHAT?" Remus snarled loudly, interrupting Peter.
"He might be taking his frustration of what happened out on the first person who irritated him more, in this case being Remus." Peter finished, before James could continue with the fight.
Sirius sighed. "Two angry boys. This won't go well. Should we intervene or let them get it out of their system?
"AT BEING A FRIEND!" James roared, fists clenching at his sides.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT NOW?" Remus yelled angrily, annoyed, and extremely confused.
Sirius and Peter looked at each other nervously. "Maybe we should stop this from going any further. I don't think I can take this yelling anymore. They are getting louder each time they yell."
"It's not just you. I think everyone else is having trouble with the yelling to." Peter replied, pointing at the other students in the common room.
"YOU KNOW BLOODY WELL WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" James yelled, red in the face.
"NO, I DON'T!" Remus screamed.
Sirius sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I'll take Remus, you take James. Calm him down and we'll meet behind the mirror on the fourth floor in half an hour."
"Why do I have to take James?" Peter asked, confused.
"He'll be easier to calm down. I'll take the harder one." Sirius answered.
Peter nodded his head and looked back at his two fighting friends. "They have their wands drawn. We better intervene now!"
Sirius drew his own wand. "Expelliarmus!"
James's and Remus's wands flew out of their hands and to Sirius, who caught them. He handed James's wand to Peter and pocketed Remus. After that he grabbed Remus's arm and dragged him away from James and passed Peter, stopping briefing to tell Peter to take James to the mirror room. He then dragged Remus to the library since that was one of Remus's favorite places in Hogwarts.
In the library, Sirius forced Remus to sit on the floor in the back of the library where hardly anyone went. He sat across from Remus and stared in the irritated boy's face. "You okay?"
Remus growled, a growl that sounded like a dog Sirius noted. "Okay? Who that hell does James think he is? Accusing me of not attempting to be friends with you guys? When have I ever attempted not to be your friend?"
"When we met on the train." Sirius answered calming, even though he had a raging boy in front of him that looked like he could tear him to sheds at the moment.
"Yes, but we're friends now. And he was accusing me of trying to not be friends anymore. How dare he?" Remus snarled, eyes flashing dangerously.
Sirius sighed. 'This is going to take time. I hope Peter is having better luck.'
Peter sat on his bed nervously. James was pacing back and forth in front of him. "Why did you do that?"
"Do what?" James asked.
"Yell at Remus and accuse him of not being our friend. I think something happened with you in the corridor before Sirius and I met you." Peter elaborated.
James sighed and sat on the bed next to Peter. "I met Snivellus in the corridor."
"So? You just hexed him like you normally do, right?" Peter asked.
"Did you see Snivellus around me or me laughing at what I did to him?" James snapped. Peter flinched away. "Sorry Pete. I shouldn't take my anger out on you."
Peter frowned. "But you'll take it out on Remus?"
James shook his head. "He's the one I'm mad at. Anyway, Snivellus started talking to me before I could hex him."
"What'd he say?" Peter inquired.
"He said something about Remus's Aunt Margie. The bloody git was apparently eavesdropping on us when we were talking about her. He said that Remus was acting differently now with his father dead then he was when his Aunt Margie died. I was thinking the same thing, but I thought I was the only one to notice it. The fact that Snivellus noticed it to makes it worse." James growled.
Peter thought about Margie and frowned. "He said Aunt Margie was his favorite aunt, but he wasn't really all that upset when he got back from the funeral. But his father was killed in front of him. It might just be worse this time. No reason to yell at Remus."
James frowned. "It's not just that. Remus told me that his Aunt Margie worked at the ministry as an Auror. You know that my dad is Head Auror at the Ministry, right?"
"Yeah?" Peter replied, confused.
"I asked my dad about her and some of what she did for the Auror department." James said, glaring at the window. "He said that no one name Margie ever work at the Ministry, let alone the Auror department."
Peter frowned. "Are you saying that Remus lied?"
"Yes." James hissed angrily. "I want to know why he would lie like that."
"That's why you're angry at him?" Peter questioned, now looking a bit angry himself.
James nodded his head. "Where is Remus?"
"Sirius took him somewhere to calm him down. He told me to meet him behind the mirror in half an hour with you. We should go if we want to be in time to meet him and Remus." Peter replied, standing up. He handed James his wand back.
James took it and stood up. "Good. I get to hex little Remus now."
"Don't hex him. Talk to him calmly first." Peter replied. "Maybe your dad was wrong. We don't have all the facts yet."
"Remus is lying. I know it. He disappears every month." James growled.
"He didn't last month." Peter replied.
"He went home for Christmas. He even said he wanted to stay for Christmas, but couldn't, then looked at his calendar. Something is going on." James snapped back. "I'm going to find out what. You're going to help me, right?"
Peter rolled his eyes and left the dorm with James. "You could be wrong." At James's glare he continued. "How about this? If he disappears this month, I'll help you. And let's not tell Remus that we think something is going on. He'll get all mad and defensive."
James growled. "Fine, but we're keeping a record of when he disappears and what he tells us is his excuse."
"I didn't say I was going to help you just yet. I said IF he disappears this month, I'll help." Peter replied.
James sighed. "You right. We'll wait and see if he disappears. I guess I have to make up an excuse that Remus will buy for why I was yelling at him. Also, we won't tell Sirius any of this until Remus disappears this month."
"IF he disappears." Peter said.
"He will." James replied. Their conversation ended since they reached the mirror. Making sure they were alone, Peter and James entered the passage.
The torches in the room were already lit. They had added torches in there so they could have light when they came there to talk in private. They used a spell that Remus found that would light the torches.
In the center of the room, sitting on the floor, were Remus and Sirius, who looked bored out of their mind.
"Yo!" Sirius greeted. "Bout time you two got here. Now you can tell us why you are so mad at Remus, James."
James sighed and put his hands in his pockets. "Remy, I'm sorry for yelling all that stuff. I'm not mad at you. I was upset. I got into an argument with Snivellus before we came back to the common room and hexed him. Minnie showed up and gave me double detention for Saturday. I was annoyed because it means that I'm going to miss Quidditch on Saturday. I just took my anger out on you. I didn't mean anything I said."
Remus smiled and nodded his head. "No problem. I'm sorry too. I'm just not feeling well and it makes me irritated to not feel well."
Sirius looked at James suspiciously. What James said sounded more like a lie to him. He didn't see anything amiss when he saw James in the corridor.
James glared at Sirius. He knew from the suspicious look he was getting that Sirius didn't believe him. The glare told him to be quiet.
"So, is everything for the prank all ready?" Remus asked, missing the suspicious look from Sirius and the glare James gave Sirius.
"Yeah. We finished putting the spell on the suits of armor. Did you get your part set up, Remus?" Peter asked.
Remus nodded his head. "The house-elves were excited to give me something besides chocolate."
"What did you ask them to give you?" James asked, warily. Remus hadn't told them what he was going to get from the house-elves that was suppose to help them with the prank. He kept this part a secret.
Remus smirked. "Not telling."
The next day at lunch was hectic. It started out as a normal lunch. Students all around were enjoying their lunch, talking happily with their friends. That was until all the suits of armors that lined the hallways came into the Great Hall.
All the students stared curiously at the suits of armor. None of them had seen them walk before.
The suits of armor reached inside themselves and pulled out what looked like dung bombs.
James looked at Remus curiously. "Wha…"
"Just watch." Remus mouthed back.
The suits of armor pulled a stick out of the top of the object and threw them high in the air. When the objects hit the ground, they exploded. People in the area that the object exploded in, screamed. They were covered in jell-o and the smell of onions filled the hall, making people start to tear up.
"Damn Remy, that's evil. Why would you mix the smell of onions with jell-o?" Sirius replied, rubbing his eyes.
"All for the fun of torturing the students of teachers." Remus replied. He looked worse than everyone else because of his heightened werewolf senses.
"This is torturing us." James said, rubbing his eyes frantically.
Remus shrugged. "Oh well. At least a bomb hasn't hit us yet. It would be worse if that happened." Remus looked around the hall through his tear filled eyes. The students were screaming in annoyance at being covered in jell-o and crying at the same time from the smell of onions. The only people not covered in jell-o were the Marauders and the teachers. "Did you guys charm the suits of armor not to attack us?"
"Yeah, why?" Peter asked.
"We're going to get caught because of that." Remus answered, glancing at the teachers to see that they were looking at the four boys suspiciously.
"POTTER! BLACK! LUPIN! PETTIGREW!" McGonagall yelled angrily, stomping down from the Head Table.
The suits of armor turned their attention to her and five bombs went flying at her and the other professors, but especially McGonagall. When the explosion ended, McGonagall was standing there covered in blue, red, green, orange, and yellow jell-o, while crying from the onion smell. This was too much for the Marauders and they fell out of their seats laughing.
"STOP THE SUITS OF ARMOR AT ONCE!" McGonagall yelled.
Remus sobered up immediately, being the only one of his friends to do so, leaving him as the one to stop all the suits of armor. When he was done, Remus grabbed some jell-o off the floor and dumped it on each of his friends to get them to stop laughing.
"REMUS!" The three boys yelled angrily and tackled him to the ground, into a pile of jell-o behind him. They started wrestling in the jell-o.
That's as far as they got before McGonagall shot something in the air that made a big BANG sound. They stopped play-fighting and looked at McGonagall expectantly.
"You four." McGonagall looked furiously at them. "This….this…is."
"Ooooh. Look at that. Minnie liked our prank so much that she can't even form a sentence." Sirius said, smiling brightly.
"You're going to get us killed." Remus hissed in his ear. "Shut up."
"You four are going to clean this hall up tonight without magic, then you are each getting a month of detention." McGonagall hissed.
Remus paled and stood up. He looked at her nervously. "Professor, I can't come to detention tonight."
McGonagall glared at Remus.
The hall grew deathly silently. No one ever told a professor they couldn't go to detention because they had something else on their agenda. You especially didn't say it to McGonagall. It was like signing your death warrant.
"Mr. Lupin, you don't tell me when you can or can't go to detention. You will go when I assign it to you." McGonagall said, dangerously.
'Did she forget what today is? She must have. Damn, this is going to be hard to explain without everyone finding out. Maybe I should wait….' Looking around the hall, Remus knew that wasn't a possibility. Everyone was looking at him expectantly. The teachers, Dumbledore included, looked amused as if they wanted to see how he got out of this without giving his secret away. 'Evil teachers. I can't back out now. That would make people think I was afraid. Damn. I'm picking up things from Sirius and James.'
"Professor, you know I can't come tonight." Remus replied, trying to stay polite so he wouldn't get in more trouble.
"I do, do I?" McGonagall asked.
Remus scratched his head and looked up at the ceiling in thought. 'Need an excuse. A good excuse as to why I have to leave.'
"Don't tell me you forgot?" Remus questioned back, trying to buy time as he thought up an excuse.
McGonagall raised a brow. "Please inform me of what I forgot, Mr. Lupin."
"How could you forget? You just informed me yesterday after class. I thought you of all people would remember being as clever and understanding as you are. Can't you let me out of detention tonight? You know, since m-my…..m-mother is severely ill and really upset f-from my," Remus gulped and closed his eyes. He was glad that he had added onions to the bombs. It helped him cry and people wouldn't realize that he is actually crying. "From my father's death. Please be considerate and let me out of detention. I really can't make it tonight. I know you have a kind heart under all the sternness. You wouldn't make me serve detention on the night I have to go home, would you?"
James looked at Peter pointedly and raised a brow as if to say 'See, I was right.'
Peter groaned. He didn't like snooping in his friends' business.
Realization crossed McGonagall's face half way through Remus's speech. She smiled. She saw what Remus was doing. He was putting an act on to serve all the students' curiosity at what was going on. And she, the stern, never give in McGonagall was going to have to bow down and lose for once. "Of course, Mr. Lupin. I'm terribly sorry. I completely forgot. So, let's say three weeks of detention for you. Your friends, on the other hand, are still getting a month and have to clean the Great Hall without magic."
Remus sighed. "Of course Minnie." And with that, Remus ran out of the Great Hall before McGonagall could say anything.
James, Sirius, and Peter stood up and ran out of the hall, following Remus to their dorm. They caught up to Remus when he reached their dorm. He disappeared into the bathroom to take a shower to get the jell-o off. Peter came into the bathroom and took the second shower stall. When they were done, James and Sirius took their own showers.
Remus sat on his bed, fidgeting and looking at his friends worriedly.
James grabbed his bag and looked at Remus. "We have to get to Double Charms. Are you okay?"
Remus looked up at James. "I'm sorry about leaving you guys alone to clean up that mess and getting out of a week of detention."
"Oh." James dropped his bag and walked over to Remus. He hugged Remus. "Don't worry about that. It's understandable. I'm sorry about your mom."
"Thanks." Remus whispered.
"Good. Now no more being worried about this. Time for Charms!" James declared, grabbing his bag and running out of the room.
Remus smiled and followed after his friends.
That evening, Remus left his friends in the Great Hall to clean it up so the students could eat dinner and went to the Whomping Willow. He told Madam Pomfrey he could go by himself that night. When he reached the trap door into the shack, Remus put his bag of clothes that he brought so his friends wouldn't be suspicious on the ground with his wand. After taking his shoes and school robe off, Remus climbed into the Shrieking Shack.
"We got Astronomy tonight." James said, as he cleaned up some jell-o off the floor.
"Oh joy!" Sirius muttered sarcastically. "I wish I could get out of it like Remus."
James glared at Sirius. "So you want your mother to be severely ill?"
Sirius smiled at that thought. "That would be wonderful!" Then he frowned. "But that's cause I hate my mother. It must be hard for Remus to have his mother really sick after his father died."
James gave a harsh, sarcastic laugh. "His mother isn't sick."
Sirius looked at James shocked, then turned to Peter. "What's with him?"
Peter sighed. "James, tell Sirius what you told me yesterday."
James explained the conversation he had with Peter the day before.
"You think he's lying to us?" Sirius asked, skeptically.
James nodded his head, then turned to Peter. "You said you would help me figure out what is going on if Remus disappeared this month. You have to help now."
Peter sighed. "Fine. What about you, Sirius?"
"I think you're both crazy. Remus wouldn't lie to us. We're his friends." Sirius replied, though he looked a little worried. "I'll help you guys, but if we don't figure anything out, we're going to apologize to Remus for not trusting him."
James smiled. "Thanks Siri."
"Look at that moon!" Peter exclaimed that night during Astronomy. "Too bad Remus can't see this full moon. It's so big this high up."
"He can see it next time." James replied, writing down the name of the star he was looking at through his telescope. "I really wish he didn't disappear today though."
"I know. He must have known he was going to have to leave today though." Sirius said, readjusting his telescope.
James looked up from his chart with a raised brow. "Why do you say that?"
"He kept trying to get us not to do the prank today. I guess he knew he was going to have to leave today." Sirius explained suspicion clear in his tone.
James frowned. "I wonder what it is that he isn't telling us."
Peter scribbled down on his chart. "Whatever it is, it has to be bad if he isn't telling us."
"Bad or not, we're still his friends. Whatever it is, he should trust us with it." Sirius growled, putting a hole in his chart with his quill by accident. "Damn it."
James laughed. "Nice Siri, nice."
Sirius grumbled to himself.
The wolf ran around the shack lost. It knew that its father was gone. He died after the last full moon. This made the wolf extremely upset. His father was the one who kept the wolf calm. He was always in the wolf's thoughts that helped keep him calm. Before Hogwarts, Auva was the one who helped him after the full moons and made Remus feel better with his jokes.
Now Auva was gone. The wolf was freaking out. Even at Hogwarts, Auva was with Remus and the wolf in spirit, helping Remus get through the transformation. That wasn't possible now. His father was gone and could no longer help him.
The wolf was going crazy with knowing that Auva was gone. It was running all over the house, attacking itself and everything around. It wanted to find its father. It didn't want it to be true.
The wolf howled in pain as it attacked itself.
"Did you hear that?" James asked, looking up from his star chart.
"That howl?" Sirius questioned.
"Yeah." James answered.
Peter paled. "You don't think it could be a werewolf, do you?"
"Of course not. What would a werewolf be doing around here?" Sirius replied, though his voice was full of uncertainly and fear. "It's probably just a wolf."
James smiled reassuringly. "Yeah, besides it can't get into Hogwarts. It's probably in Hogsmeade or something. It's fine."
Madam Pomfrey paled when she saw Remus the next morning. He was extremely pale, covered in more wounds then usually, and looked like he lost a lot of blood. She conjured a stretcher up for him and covered him in his robe. After grabbing his stuff in the tunnel, she took the young boy to the Hospital Wing and placed him in the private room in the back.
As she was working on his wounds, Remus started to wake up. He groaned and looked at Madam Pomfrey through squinted eyes. "I hurt a lot." He mumbled to her.
"This was a horrible moon." Madam Pomfrey replied, sympathetically.
"My chest hurts." Remus whispered. It hurt to talk loudly. His throat was hurting just as much as his body.
Madam Pomfrey examined his chest and pushed down on his ribs. This made Remus scream, so Madam Pomfrey immediately stopped. "Sorry. I think you have some broken ribs."
"Wonderful." Remus said through clenched teeth. "The wolf was really upset this month."
"Why?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Cause of my father being gone." Remus said slowly, trying to breath with his broken ribs was really hurting him. "The more upset or mad I am around the full moon, the worse the moon."
Madam Pomfrey smiled sadly. "Stop talking. I think you should stay here longer then you usually do. The soonest I'll let you out will be Monday, but even that might not happen. It depends on how you heal from now to then."
Remus groaned. "I hate hospitals, but it looks like I'm destined to live in one."
"What are you doing, James?" Sirius asked, watching his friend write in a brown leather book.
"I'm going to keep track of the days Remus leaves and his excuse for leaving, along with anything I find suspicious about what he says or does." James explained. "I'm going to use those spells he showed us to put a password on the book so he can't read it."
Sirius sighed. "You are taking this really seriously." He sat up on his bed. "What are the passwords?"
"To open it the password is Dare to Dream. To close it the password is R. J. Lupin." James explained. "He'll never guess that."
Sirius rolled his eyes. "What do you have so far?"
"He's disappeared four times during school so far. We don't know about December, but it's most likely he would have if he didn't leave for Christmas. Anyway, his first excuse was a sick mother, then his Aunt Margie was sick, then she died the next month. This month it was his mother is severely ill."
Peter looked up from his essay. "Did you notice that he eats very little around the time before he leaves?"
"The first time he disappeared, he didn't eat anything at all saying that he was queasy. He might be forcing himself to eat now so we don't notice anything is wrong." James said, frowning. He wrote down the observation in the observation section in the book. The first few pages were dedicated to the date he leaves and his excuse. "Did you guys notice anything else?"
"He's always irritable." Sirius answered, thoughtfully. "Always in a right foul mood before he leaves. He takes his mood out on us or releases his annoyance in pranks. He also seems weak to, like he has no energy."
James nodded his head and wrote both of those down. "I wonder when he's coming back. He's been gone for four days."
"Think of all the homework he's missing. I bet he's going to go camp out in the library and starve himself again." Sirius growled.
James slammed his book closed and locked it with the password. "Oh no, he isn't."
"What are you going to do to stop him?" Peter asked. "He won't copy our work. He hates copying."
"I'll find a way." James replied. "Come on, it's time for Quidditch. Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw!"
Remus sighed on Tuesday and looked at Madam Pomfrey as she checked his wounds. "Can I please leave? I'm bored here."
"How do you feel?" Madam Pomfrey asked.
"Bored." Remus answered.
Madam Pomfrey smiled. "Very funny, Remus. I was referring to your wounds. You still have a deep gash on your stomach that isn't completely healed. Your ribs seem better though."
"Broken bones are easier to heal with magic then the cuts I give myself because I got the broken bones from jumping down from the second floor and running into walls. They aren't actually werewolf wounds." Remus explained.
"You should have told me that sooner. I have a potion that could have helped a lot." Madam Pomfrey replied.
"Well, you told me not to talk." Remus said, grinning. "Can I have some chocolate? It helps me after the full moon."
Madam Pomfrey laughed. "I know that. You are always gulping it down while you're in here. If you're sure, I can let you leave today. Just be careful. You could tear this gash open again. It's not fully healed. Just drink this potion and you can leave. I go get you some chocolate while you drink it." She handed Remus the potion and left the room.
Remus drank the potion and made a face. He hated the potions he had to drink after the full moon. It was part of the reason he ate chocolate. Chocolate took the potion taste away.
After getting some chocolate frogs from Madam Pomfrey, Remus left the Hospital Wing. He went to his dorm to get his bag and head to Transfiguration, which he was late to since Madam Pomfrey made him late.
"Morning Professor!" Remus greeted happily, as he threw the classroom door open with a bang.
"Mr. Lupin, I would appreciate it if you entered my classroom like a normal student." Professor McGonagall snapped. "So, turn around, go outside, close the door, then come in like a normal student."
Remus looked at the door, then at McGonagall. "Seriously?"
McGonagall frowned and pointed at the door. "Now Mr. Lupin."
"Unbelievable." Remus grumbled. He left the classroom and closed the door. He knocked on the door and opened it. "Morning Professor."
"Good." McGonagall replied, nodding her head. "Now sit down."
Remus mumbled to himself as he sat in his seat in front of Sirius and James, next to Peter.
After class, James and Sirius burst out laughing. "Nice Remus. You annoyed McGonagall."
"I can't believe she made me do that." Remus grumbled.
"I can't believe you slammed the door open." Sirius replied, smirking. "You almost gave her a heart attack when you did that. She soooo wasn't expecting it."
Peter crossed his arms and pouted. "She's not the only one. I say about half the class jumped."
"You included." James said, smirking.
"Whoops." Remus replied, not sounding at all like he was sorry. "Anyway, can you guys give me all the notes and assignments I missed?"
James stopped walking and turned to Remus. He crossed his arms. "You have three days of work and today's work to catch up on. The last time this happened, you camped out in the library and practically starved yourself."
"Because I had to get the work done." Remus replied.
"We aren't letting you do that again." Sirius said. "We're going to give you the notes and work for one class at a time and we're going to help you get it all done. And you'll stop when we tell you to stop. We're not letting you over-work yourself this time."
Remus open his mouth to protest, but James glared at him, so he closed his mouth.
"Good boy," James replied.
Remus frowned, "Sirius is the dog here, not me."
"Hey!" Sirius snapped. "I'm not a dog."
"Your name is the Dog Star, so yes, you are a dog." Remus replied, smirking.
"I'm not a dog." Sirius kept grumbling the rest of the day.
A/N: Please review!