Remus Lupin sat down on his chair in his office, and Laura Potter sat in a chair across from him. She had the Marauders' Map in her hands while Lupin tried - and failed - to correct some homework. He couldn't concentrate on anything.
"How did you even do this?" Laura suddenly spoke up. Lupin blinked and looked up at her, confused as if he had forgotten she was there. She had been silent the whole time and only now chose to speak up.
"Uh, I didn't do it alone. I had help," he humbled.
"My dad's?" She asked hesitantly. Lupin looked at her, and once more noticed how much she looked like her mother. He nodded, answering her question. "Sirius?" She proceeded to ask. Remus almost laughed.
"No, Sirius could barely stay still for an hour for a class, he wouldn't have been able to help us out," Remus said with a smile. "We got Peter's help, though." He paused. "I thought about what you said... about Peter... and it's impossible. You couldn't have seen him. The map can't have been wrong."
"That's quite the confidence you have in your own work... but I swear, he was right there," Laura argued. "But only on the map. Like, I could see the little footsteps, and he supposedly walked right past us, but I couldn't see him."
"Are you sure?"
"Well, unless Harry and I hallucinated the exact same thing... here, I can try to find him again." She pushed a few things around on Remus' desk and placed the map down. She looked all over for the name Peter Pettigrew, but froze when she saw another name appearing on the parchment. "Uh-oh."
"What?" Remus stood up and walked around his desk to see what Laura was seeing.
"That is a bit not good," she said hesitantly, pointing to a name on the map. Remus was shocked to see what he saw next. The name Sirius Black was written on the parchment, next to the Whomping Willow, and Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley were right in front of him.
Remus immediately bolted from his office, Laura quick on her feet behind him. They had to reach the Shrieking Shack.
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