𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗭𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗡 [𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍]

Chapter Fourty: Valentine's Day

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Hogwarts in February is a winter wonderland, with its white caped turrets and snow caked windowsills that glowed orange from fires and candles lit from the inside.

Filch cursed every living soul under the age of twenty that was in the castle because of the foot prints they left on his precious floors when they came back inside after a long day of snowball fights, snowman building and skating on the now frozen Black Lake.

Tygrysku, Lily's huge and unnaturally furry calico cat, spent the whole day lying on the red worn out rug in front of the common room fire place and hissed at Sirius, Peter and James whenever they tried to sit there.

"I swear this cat can Disapparate." said James one evening when the fur ball appeared out of nowhere and started hissing at them.

Remus sighed. "If you took your eyes off the mirror long enough to look at Hogwarts, A History every once in a while, you'd know no one can apparate on the grounds of Hogwarts. Not even Dumbledore and certainly not some cat."

"Know it all." James muttered.

Tygrysku lept onto Remus's lap and started to emitt a series of contented purrs when Remus scratched behind his ears.

"Why does he like you so much, anyway?" James asked Remus while he eyed the cat with narrowed eyes.

"Maybe because I'm nice to Lily." Remus muttered, his fingers still scratching Tygrysku, who was purring with his eyes closed.

"Hey. I'm nice to Lily." James said, getting all defensive.

"I don't think harassing her every chance you get and making her life as a prefect harder with all the trouble you get into, counts as being nice." said Remus matter of factly, a small smile making its was onto his face when the cat snuggled deeper into his oversized jumper. "Same goes for you, Padfoot."

And if cats could smirk, Tygrysku definitely smirked up at Sirius when Remus said that.

Sirius suddenly pushed the cat off Remus's lap. "Get away from him, Tygrysku." he said to the cat as Tygrysku hissed up at him from the floor. "Moony is my man."

"Why did you do that for?" complained Remus, his eyes trailing after the cat as it slinked of to the girls' dormitory.

"He looked at me funny." Sirius's defended himself, trying not to shrink in on himself when Remus glared at him.

"Merlin's beard, Sirius. It's a cat."

"Well, Padfoot's a dog."

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"What happens if you put a werewolf on the moon?" James randomly asked during dinner.

"I guess he'll spontaneously combust." Sirius answered, reaching across the table to take a bread roll.

"What if he's wearing those suits Muggles wear when they're on the moon?" James prompted.

Sirius swallowed before answering. "He'll rip the suit off when he becomes a werewolf then he'll spontaneously combust."