Little Angel

Second Year

It was the first week of term and Remus had been distant and lost in her thoughts for the whole week. The boys had staged an intervention in the dining hall during lunch and she had promised to explain later.

"I think I'm a werewolf," Remus said when they were all back in the boys' dormitory after classes.

"You what?" said Peter, dropping the books that he was holding.

"I'm a werewolf" she repeated

"Of Course, you're not," James dismissed.

"No I am" she insisted

"Don't be silly Remus, did you get bitten by a werewolf on a full moon night?" asked Sirius.

"Not that I know of"

"Do you transform into a bloodthirsty beast every full moon night?"

"No"

"Then," he said with raised eyebrows and hands on his hips.

"I think I may be half-werewolf are another type of werewolf that doesn't do these things"

"Nothing like that exists Remus why are you saying these things"

"Because, I think I became a werewolf" she cried, the boys had never seen her cry before so they knew that something was up.

"What"

"I woke up one-morning last week and I just felt like a wolf you know, I felt different. I got up from my bed and I was short and my eyesight was weird and I went out the door by pushing against it with my snout, a maid saw me and screamed and then fainted and then, I went back into my room and then I woke up human," she said.

"You were just having a nightmare Remus"

"That's what I thought, but then, I went out and the maid, the one from earlier, was telling everyone that she had seen a wolf in the house. My father was furious at me because he thought I played a prank on her with my magic. But I have no idea what happened."

"I don't understand moony, maybe it was some of your magic, like what you have when you're a child, it's extremely rare but--"

"That's not all," she said cutting James off

"It's not"

"No, last night I was lying on the bed thinking about it and--"

"And what"

"I just don't know how to describe it. I was wondering if I really became a wolf And I felt like I was a wolf-like, I had fur and my body was heaved and I had big teeth

"You felt it"

"Yeah and I fell asleep and woke up normally but there was a hair on the bed, wolf hair"

"How do you know it was wolf hair?" Sirius challenged.

How else did this get on my bed she said pulling out a lock of hair that was definitely not human.

"What if someone's playing a prank on you?" Peter asked.

"Who exactly is my father, or the servants who have no magic exist? Wait, was it one of you, if it was I swear--"

"Of Course, it wasn't one of us Remus," said James. She turned to look at the other two.

"What? I was locked up all summer" said Sirius.

"And I was the one who suggested it"

"But what if it's someone else, the girls, or I bet it Snivellus trying to get back at us"

"But that doesn't explain the 'me feeling its part"

"Could have been a spell"

"Wait. I think" said James, interrupting Sirius and Remus's argument.

"What"

"I think what if you are an Animagus"

"What is that?"

"It's when a wizard can transform into an animal, without needing any extra spell or potion. But you can only be one animal. Will Moreno from the third year told me that Professor McGonagall is one."

"Really"

"Ya, She can transform into a cat, she showed the third years on their first day of class."

"And you think I can do that too"

"Remy, why don't we go to the library tomorrow to check, I don't really know much about the topic other than that McGonagall can turn into a cat."

"Ok. sounds good"

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The four marauders were huddled up in their room the next night, after reading through the Animagus section of the third-year transfiguration textbooks.

They had learned that natural Animagi were very very rare and that they mostly showed their animal form very early on but Sirius argued that Remus might not have transformed before now because she didn't know that she was a witch. He had told her to try and transform so that they can find out.

"Remus I believe in you, but don't worry, if it doesn't work we can talk to professor McGonagall tomorrow" Sirius reassured her.

"Ok, let's do this," said Remus, standing nervously in the middle of the room, she was both terrified and excited at the same time.

"Ok, close your eyes, take a deep breath and imagine you are a wolf" instructed James.

Remus closed her eyes and did as she was told but nothing happened, she felt ridiculous and was about to call off the whole thing when she heard a shriek she opened her eyes and there she was, a wolf.

She looked at Sirius who was the first to rush to her side "oh my god, Remus I can't believe this worked, this is so cool you're a wolf" he chatted away happily and so the rest of the boys joined him, taking turns to run their hands through her soft fur. In no time, the boys settled down on the rug, sinking their heads into the wolf's soft fur, and fell asleep all the excitement of the day catching up on them, this was the first-ever puppy pile of many more to come.

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I'm dying of pressure here, I just hope all this ends in three months when I finally get into a collage. I did something stupid today, like come out to a homophobic person who has leverage against me. Honestly, I needed to do something to get my mind off that and hence the chapter update.

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