The Years We Were Alive: Year 2

Seeing Red, Being Red

January 16, 1973

"I can't believe it's another full moon again," Remus whined.

"I know, the time kind of flew," Lizzie nodded to him, "but you have a few days before you go all moonish,"

"Moonish?" Remus chuckled.

"Yeah, a bit moony," Lizzie chuckled back, "I can try more protective spells overstuffed animals because you really do look better afterward when you have those,"

"Thanks, Liz, I think I'll be okay though," Remus smiled, "I need to stop destroying your stuffies,"

"No no, it's fine, I can fix them, it's really no big deal,"
"Alright then, yeah," Remus was always hesitant to ask for help, but Lizzie was always insistent that he should take her help.

"I'll go to the library tonight and look for stuff, if I take the cloak, I can also look for books about your moony problem, maybe I'll be able to find something to help you,"

"What if someone catches you? What are you going to say about having all those werewolf books?"

"I was already interested in the moon before I found out about you, I think I'll be fine. Which reminds me, we're doing a moon unit in astronomy soon, and I'm excited to be able to pass it,"

"That's true, just be careful alright?"

Lizzie and Remus then left the dorm together. It was a very cold day, so they bundled up on their way out to the greenhouse for herbology. Lizzie wasn't looking forward to it. She had a hard time in the class anyway, and with Snivellous being there it was going to be a struggle for sure.

"Welcome class! Today we're learning about tubule plants!"

Lizzie groaned. It was only loud enough for Sirius to jam his elbow into her ribs to tell her to stop it. Usually, he was light about it, but that time it hurt a bit.

"Ouch," she jammed her elbow into his ribs back.

"Oi!" Peter called. Lizzie had pushed Sirius into him.

"Truce," Lizzie suggested to Sirius. He stuck out his hand to shake on it. As they grew older, they were more physically playful like that. The thing was, Sirius was stronger than he looked, and he was certainly stronger than Lizzie. So, she used much more of her force to get back to him while he was able to easily hurt her. She never held the grudge though, she just had to let him know he did something.

"Must I separate you?" Professor Sprout called to the marauders.

"No ma'am," Sirius responded. They were standing in the greenhouse around one large table with a ton of tuber plants. Lizzie thought they looked a bit creepy. She wasn't a fan of their appearance. Were they slimy?

Their professor gave them their lesson and set them off to start to hold and examine their plants. They had to identify the different parts of the plant. That was where Lizzie was terrible. It was the anatomy of a plant, and she was a lost cause. She was whispering to Sirius for help, and occasionally James too.

"Having trouble with magic muddy?" Snivellous leaned across the table to tell Lizzie in a way that Lily wouldn't hear. He was so clever about that.

Lizzie could have popped with her anger. She felt her heart begin to pound and then suddenly the glass vial she was holding in her hand was crushed. She hadn't noticed.