If it's not supposed to be, why does it feel right?

Part 16.

Regulus awoke at six a.m. he had about three hours to get ready now. So he stood up, and walked as usual into the bathroom. He took a shower, and when he was done dried himself off. When he looked into his reflection, he saw that he had changed. Not much but he just looked happier. He couldn't describe it, it was not that he was smiling at his reflection or anything, but his eyes just looked so happy. Regulus got dressed and put on the jewellery he got for Christmas. Then he walked downstairs to get a cup of coffee.

He took the mug, which was still very hot and placed it on the table in front of him. A few moments later, James came downstairs, "oh, hi.", he said when he spotted Regulus, "morning", Regulus just said and continued to drink. James went into the kitchen and came back a few seconds later, also holding a mug filled with coffee. He sat down next to Regulus, "and? Are you exited to go back to Hogwarts?", he asked, Regulus shrugged, "I guess. I am looking forward to seeing my friends again though.", James grinned, "yeah I get that. The two weeks with you and Sirius were fun though.", Regulus nodded, "more fun that I thought it would be.", he agreed.

Two hours later, the three boys had packed and now the five of them sat in the muggle car again. But this time it was less uncomfortable. One and a half hours later, they were at King's Cross. The boys ran towards the wall between platform nine and ten, and got to platform nine three quarters that way. The train was standing there and luckily the platform was rather empty. The three of them got into the train, and Regulus looked for an compartment he could share with Barty and Pandora.

The two other boys found place in their usual compartment once again. A few minutes later, Remus passed Regulus compartment, and Regulus saw how the tall boy got even worse. His eyes were tired and filled with pain, and the huge scar that pulled across his face, was now joined by an a little smaller, but still as effective scar. Regulus looked after the boy and in the moment he walked out of his view, he saw Pandora. He stood up and opened the compartment door, "Panda!", he shouted and the girl looked up at him, a smile grew on her face and she started walking towards him.

"I missed you, Reggie.", she said, and they hugged for a good minute, "I missed you too.", Regulus said and let go of her. They sat down on the seats, and Pandora smiled at him. "So how were your holidays?", Regulus asked, "oh they were good. I love the necklace you gave me by the way. I never take it off.", she said and pulled the necklace out of her T-Shirt, Regulus smiled, "I'm glad you like it."

Later Barty joined them in their compartment, and they started a full on conversation about their holidays. Barty spend them with his parents and he seemed to have had a boring time. Pandora told them about the thousands of letters she had gotten from Xenophillious. And Regulus only told them parts about what had happened with the Potters and his brother.

When they arrived Hogwarts, it was time for dinner. They are and later went to their common rooms. Regulus talked to Severus for a bit, and then went upstairs to his dorm, because they had class tomorrow.

The next day Regulus was very tired. He had had his issues falling asleep the previous night, and then had his issues not falling asleep the whole day. Now he was sitting in the common room. He had his last period of the day half and hour ago, it was defence against dark arts. He was thinking about this new theme they had, werewolves. Something told him, that he needed to dig a little further.

He went upstairs to his dormitory and grabbed the magical creatures book. He looked at the werewolves chapter. 'Sometimes carry injuries themselves' he thought about Remus scars, that covered his arms, legs and face. 'Get very moody around full moon.' "How's Remus?", James asked, "not so good. It was full moon you know how moody he gets. And he gutted his elf so much.", Regulus remembered the conversation between James and his brother. 'Moony' Regulus thought of the nickname the boy was given, 'could it be? Is Remus Lupin a werewolf?', he asked himself. The chance and signs were there.

'But what are the others? If their nicknames have anything to do with them or their identity.. Wormtail.. Padfoot.. Prongs..', Regulus thought about it. He looked through his book, but there was nothing making sense, except- "the Mauraders are animagus.", he thought out loud. Luckily there was no one in the dorm room except him, but he still liked around checking.

'That's why they didn't speak that much last year. They must have carried that leave.' Wormtail could be, 'a rat. Rats have a tail that looked like a worm.', Promgs? 'Maybe a deer? Or a Stag?' And Padfoot? 'Probably a cat- no a dog. Sirius is more of a dog person.' Regulus had to find out if his theory was right. He could just be imagining all the hints but to him it seemed pretty accurate.

Regulus did remember seeing a black dog follow him around in diegon alley. 'If that was Sirius.. Merlin that would be wired.' Regulus thought.