Today was a big day for the Marauders. The first genius plan that they had come up with that was not a prank; and it was called The Marauder's Map.
It had taken months and much work, mostly from Remus and Charlotte, to create. It was designed to show where everyone has at every second, of every minute, of every day.
"Leave it half an hour, and it'll be ready." Remus said to the other 4 Marauders.
"Half an hour? You're joking! I can't wait that long!" Sirius groaned loudly.
"Do you want it to work properly?" Remus asked sharply.
"Well no one wants a faulty map!" Sirius retorted.
"Shh!" The others shushed him as they were in the Gryffindor Common Room. Lucky for them, no one else heard them.
"Anyway," James started. "Let's meet back here in 30 minutes. Okay?"
"Okay."
"Yup."
"Yeah."
"Alright then."
And with that, the Marauder's departed, 2 each in a direction, all except Sirius, who went to see Joe.
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Remus and Lottie walked, arm in arm, together down the hallways of Hogwarts. They enjoyed the comfortable silence between them until Remus suddenly spoke up.
"You need a nickname." He said.
"Pardon?"
"A nickname. For the map. Y'know how I'm Moony, Sirius is Padfoot, Peter is Wormtail and James is Prongs."
"Yeah. Right."
Charlotte started to panic. She'd found somewhere to transform once a month without worry, and used a ton of concealer the next morning to hide scars. If Remus found out, he'd be horrified to find out that she was a monster.
A freak.
A menace to society.
A laughing stock.
If only she knew what the name 'Moony' meant.
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"Lottie, hello? You okay?" Remus stood there, shaking her shoulders. They had stopped walking now as Charlotte was frozen in thought.
"Lottie?" He started to panic. He knew about how she would sometimes freeze it thought, but it was never as bad as this when she started to hyperventilate.
"Charlotte?!" He looked through her bag to find her inhaler, gently moved her to a wall and he pressed the inhaler to her pink lips once.
Charlotte snapped back to reality at the inhaler's click.
She took a deep breath in and tried calming herself down, like her aunt taught her when she was younger.
'Deep breath in Char Char.'
'And out again.'
'Good girl. Well done. Whenever you get stressed, remember this or something bad can happen. Always remember your inhaler, okay? No matter what.'
'Okay auntie.' A six year old Charlotte spoke airily.
'Good."
"Are you okay Lottie?"
"Yeah, Rem. I'm fine."
"I was suggesting a marauder name for you."
"Oh? What was it?" Charlotte asked inquisitively.
"Lycan. I thought because your nickname was Lottie and it sounds cool."
"Yeah. I like it."
"C'mon then, Lycan, let's go to the Library.
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EDITED 19/11/23
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Fantasy"𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓂 𝒷𝓁𝑒𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔." Where Charlotte 'Lottie' Black and Remus Lupin aren't as different as they thought they were. Disclaimer! I own no rights to the Harry Potter Franchise...
