After hastily making sure her cloak is covering everything Ramona tells Sirius to leave and to get the others calling a Marauders meeting to take place. After putting her uniform on Ramona goes to the food hall for Ramona is extremely hungry, strangely though ... Ramona doesn't feel drained of energy and depressed like she usually does after the full moon.
Padfoot. Ramona knows she feels better for her Wolf side now has a friend. As Ramona is eating she struggles to hide her emotions, struggles to hide how happy her Wolf side is. It feels like her Wolf side is twirling and shaking its tail. Like her Wolf side was a prisoner all its life and now it's free. Ramona has a huge smile on her face.
"You know, your mood swings are quite disconcerting, is it a Wolf thing?" whispers Lucius.
Ramona snaps her head to Lucius, who is sitting next to Ramona with a straight back and a slight smirk on his face. Ramona rolls her eyes, "You joining the Gryffindor table for breakfast? How delightful, what would you like?"
Lucius sneers, "Nothing. I have a question for you Ramona, when I leave, tell me .. how bored will you get?"
Ramona chuckles at his narcissistic question, "Oh, tremendously bored. I'll make do though."
Lucius grabs Ramona's right forearm and leans in to whisper, "One would think you would be smart enough not to antagonise someone who knows your secret. I could be a good ally to you Ramona. Since you are still young I'll forgive your antics and if in the future you feel that the likes of people such as Dumbledore do you injustice, I may consider working with you."
Lucius then smiles after seeing Ramona's reaction then gets up and leaves. He thinks I have mood swings. Ramona snorts to herself.
Marauders form a circle in an abandon classroom. James takes out his Diary and starts writing, "So a meeting of Marauders has been called, what is the problem?" asks James to the group.
"Sirius's death wish." announces Ramona.
Sirius grabs his arms around his stomach in shame, "Remy it's not like that."
James coughs annoyed, "Crime?"
"He visited my wolf."
James and Peter gasp. Peter mumbles, 'That sounds like a death wish to me'
After Ramona and Sirius explain the story James and Peter are speechless. James is the first to get over their silence, "MERLIN that's so cool! Pete and I have to join."
Without Ramona's approval the two start learning to become an animagus as well. In these sessions Ramona tries to learn the Patronus, which is quite difficult for her for she doesn't have many happy memories. Ramona finds becoming an animagus pointless because her form most likely will be a Wolf.
With the three troublemakers focusing so much on becoming animagus and Ramona learning the Patronus charm the pranks stop completely. This has everyone on edge and wondering what happened and what the Marauders are up to this time. No one more curious than .. Severus. The four though are able to use their knowledge of the School to their advantage to avoid being followed by him.
Humming to herself Ramona is happy. Top in defense for three years in a row, finally able to cast a Patronus. The three of her friends mock the fact that her Patronus form is a Wolf. Their mocking doesn't stop her from feeling a sense of achievement of completing the charm. The memory that Ramona uses isn't a human memory, it's her Wolf memory of meeting Padfoot for the first time.
James and Peter still haven't been successful in becoming animagus's, they still haven't been discouraged though.
Tonight is the end of year feast and the fact that Gryffindor won the Quidditch cup due from James is another reason that is making Ramona happy. The Slytherin's tries such underhanded tactics but the fact that Gryffindor comes on top proves to Ramona cheaters don't succeed.
Noticing she is being followed forces Ramona to take a more common way to their spot of meeting. After a few staircases going the wrong way Ramona then tracks back to the right location but it still doesn't get rid of her stalker.
After rounding another corner Ramona removes her wand and casually leans on the wall facing the direction of the follower.
"Well well well, hello Severus. Never thought you'd be a fan of mine. Please stop stalking me, for what have I ever done to you?"
Severus isn't impressed about being caught in the act, "What are you four up to?"
Ramona removes herself casually from the wall and makes sure her wand is ready. DISTRACT, Distract, Distract. Ramona's Wolf instincts slightly takes over. Severus is smart and will figure out Ramona's secret and Ramona's Wolf knows this.
"Naw, pranks happening? Everyone is such a victim crying pathetically that they are targets. No pranks happening? What are you monsters planning to do now! You're just itching for reasons to hate us, just because we are better than you."
"Nice one Remy!" shouts James from behind Ramona, then James and Sirius laughs.
"Leave us alone Snape." says Peter.
Severus seeing that Ramona is no longer alone decides staying isn't worth it and leaves.
Ramona looks to her father in the distant and flinches remembering the last time.
"Merlin my father is such a narcissistic toerag, I hate him so much." says Ramona to James.
James nods in agreement. Ramona takes a slight gasp in shock when someone purposefully pushes past her. It's Severus.
"What a greasy haired git, anyway don't worry about your father if things get too bad contact me all right." replies James.
