CHAPTER 3
The next morning, Claire dressed me and did my make up and hair once again. This time I ended up wearing a pale blue hooded sweatshirt with a brown monkey face on it, skinny jeans, and brown boots with fringes. She put a shimmery brown color on my eyelids and once again did everything neutral colors.
"There. Cute, but not drop dead gorgeous like yesterday. This will separate the men from MOST of the dogs." Claire noted when she was done.
"How?" I asked.
"Because yesterday, they saw what you could look like. Today they're just going to see a halfway point. And if Remus doesn't like it, he's not worth your time." Claire replied. "besides, he strikes me as the kind of guy that doesn't want a very classy dressing girl. Something like this oughta really catch his attention."
I walked down to breakfast and once again Chris complimented me. I wasn't sitting there long before Sirius came and recruited me to go sit with the Marauders.
"I feel bad for leaving you two." I said.
"Go. It may help the plan. A lot." Chris said. Claire nodded so I allowed Sirius to lead me to the others.
"I know what you're trying to do." he said halfway between my friends and his.
"Oh yeah? What's that?" I asked.
"You have your eye on a certain Mr. Lupin and you're trying to get him to turn his eyes to you." Sirius replied.
"And what makes you so sure of that?" I asked.
"Because, sweetheart, I'm Sirius Black."
"I'm not your bloody sweetheart." I snapped.
"Of course not. You're Moony's girl." Sirius laughed. I glared at him. "Oh wait…you're not his girl, you just wish you were." he didn't laugh while saying it, so I knew he wasn't making fun of me for it.
"You know, I could easily help you get him." Sirius said.
"How?" I asked. Right then we arrived at where the other Marauders were sitting.
"Owlery at lunch." Sirius said, looking at me. I knew the others didn't realize he had been talking to me when he said it.
"What?" Peter asked.
"I've got to go to the owlery at lunch to send an owl to my dear uncle." Sirius lied smoothly. Then again I guess when you pull as many pranks as Sirius had, lying came easily.
History of Magic came way to quickly. The only bright side was getting to be right next to Remus.
Oh great. Claire's finally starting to rub off on me. I thought. I shook my head vigorously at the thought, causing Remus to look up at me from his notes.
"are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah." I replied.
"You look nice." he said. I smiled and that was the last time we spoke during first period that day.
We went to Divination afterwards. To my surprise, he sat with me at my table where I normally sat alone.
"So are you going to sit with us at lunch?" he asked.
"Um no, I've got something I really need to take care of at lunch." I replied. He didn't look fazed.
"Alright." he said. We were silent through that class and I hurried to the owlery. I almost ran into Sirius.
"In a hurry?" he asked, laughing.
"Well I wanted to make sure none of your friends saw me headed up here because then they'd think we were up to something." I replied.
"True. And I doubt that Moony would go for someone that I had." Sirius noted.
"So why did you want me to come up here?" I asked.
"how opposed are you to being an unrecorded Animagus?" Sirius asked.
"Already am. So are Chris and Claire." I replied.
"Meet me at the Whomping Willow right before the moon comes up tonight." he said before leaving. "Oh, don't bring your friends. Come alone."
I walked down to lunch and sat with Chris and Claire.
"So how has your day been?" Claire asked.
"Pretty good." I replied.
"Still no move from Remus?" Chris asked. I shook my head.
"Tomorrow we are stepping up the game plan." Claire said. I laughed.
"And what exactly do you plan on doing?" I asked.
"Well since its Hogsmeade weekend, you are going to look amazingly hot and rub it in his face at breakfast to see if he asks you to go with him." Claire replied. I groaned.
"What took you so long getting to lunch?" Chris asked.
"Sirius wanted to talk to me away from the others." I replied. Claire's eyes grew wide.
"Did he ask you out?" she asked.
"No, he was giving me advice how to get Remus, and now I'm supposed to go ALONE to the Whomping Willow right before the moon rises tonight, for some odd reason. He wanted to know if I would become an unreported Animagus and I told him I already was." I replied.
"That's interesting." Chris muttered. His eyes grew wide. "I know why, but I think its best if they tell you the reason themselves."
The rest of my day passed by uneventful. I sat in the common room until it was time to go meet Sirius.
To my surprise, Remus, James, and Peter were all with him.
"What's she doing here?" Remus asked.
"I asked her to come." Sirius replied. "Lizzie, care to show us you're other side?" I knew what he was talking about and transformed into my Animagus form. I was a slender silver wolf.
I turned back after they'd all had time to take in what I was.
"And why did you want me to show you?" I asked.
"You'll see in a few minutes." Sirius replied.
"Bloody hell if she will. She's not going to see this." Remus snapped.
"Moony, calm down. She may as well be considered a Marauder because she's going to be hanging out with us, hopefully." James said, looking at me.
"If you want me around, I'll hang out with you guys." I replied.
"She may be a Marauder now, but she is NOT going to see this." Remus snapped. That's when it all clicked in my head.
"Oh my God." I said, my eyes going wide.