Wild Moonlight

Tellig Ana a Story

"So, what will it be?" I asked Anastasia as I showed her around the house I used to call home. "Do you want to stay here, or do you want to go back to America?"

"I think I want to stay here." She smiled. "That way I can get to know my family, and go to the school you went to."

"Well do you want me to tell you a story?" I asked. She nodded her head and sat down on the couch. "Okay. Long ago there were a group of pranksters. They were the best of friends, and they called themselves the Marauders. There was Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Wolfie, and Prongs. Although they were pranksters, they came together for a very different reason. You see, Moony was a werewolf."

"A werewolf?" She asked.

"Yes, a werewolf." I smiled. "Moony and Prongs were friends with Wolfie way before they started hogwarts, but they all became friends with Padfoot and Wormtail after they started school."

"Why do they have such weird names?" She asked.

"They were code names." I told her. "You see when the others discovered that Moony was a werewolf, they wanted to do everything in their power to help them."

"So how did they help him?" She asked.

"They became animagi." I told her. "Every full moon Padfoot, Prongs, Wolfie and Wormtail would go out with Moony and help him through the transfomation. Padfoot turned into a big cuddly dog, and Prongs told him he should stay that way. Prongs turned into a stag, a deer. Wolfie turned into a golden wolf, and wormtail turned into a rat."

"What good is a rat against a werewolf?" She laughed.

"He had his uses. Wormtail was alway very mousy, even in his wizard form." I sighed. "He mostly just wanted to fit in. You see Prongs was best friends with Padoot and Wolfie, and Moony was Wolfies other bet friend. It always seemed that Wormtail was almost always left out."

"That's so sad." She cried. "What happened to them?"

"Prongs went off to marry the girl of his dreams, Wolfie moved to America, Padfoot married a very beautiful woman, and i don't know what happened to Moony." I told her.

"What about Wormtail?" She asked.

"I don't know if he got married, but I was told he died a long time ago. Along with Prongs." I said sadly.

"They died?" She asked me. "So what about happened to the girl Prongs married?"

"I heard that she was with him. The war blew up in their face." I said. "You should have seen the woman Prongs married. When they were in their forth year nobody thought he would get a chance with her. She would always call him an arrogant toe rag, and reject him every time he asked her to be his. Then one day she saw the compassion he had for his friends, and something changed."

"What did he do?" She asked.

"Wolfie was really sad and angry. She turned into a wolf and tried to bite anyone who went near her, and Prongs didn't care. He made everyone go away, and he went closer and closer until she bit him, but all he did was pet her. He let her cry and cry until she fell asleep and then she wrapped her up in a blanket and carried her back from the shreiking shack all the way back to hogwarts."

"Why was she sad and angry?" She asked me.

"Wolfie hadn't told Moony a big secret about a girl Moony liked. When Moony found out he started yelling at her for the very first time." I laughed at how chldish I sounded back then.

"How do you know them?" She finally asked.

"That's a story for another day I'm afraid." I told her.

"But mum!" She whined.

"No buts, now off to bed." I told her. It was getting late and we had a long day ahead of us.

"Okay." She sighed. "Goodnight mum."

"Goodnight dear." I smiled and kissed her forehead before she went upstairs to her room.