Little Moonfoot

Meeting Prongslet

The classes had gone far better than Remus had anticipated. In a month, defense against dark arts had become everyone's new favorite subject. Remus realized how much he had missed doing something he loved rather than the menial jobs that he had held over the years.

He had met Harry and Hermione again in their first lesson with the boggart. He had knowingly not let them both face the boggart. He could justify that he hadn't let harry face the boggart because it might turn into you know who but he dint know why he hadn't let Hermione have a go. The thought of her facing her greatest fear even in the form of a boggart was not a pleasant thought for Remus.

He had also met the twins Fred and George who were as promised, pranksters. He couldn't help liking to them for their marauder spirit. He was also aware that the boy from the station earlier is Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy's son, whose attitude is not much different from his fathers'.

Overall, Remus had a pretty good feeling about his life now, usually this was when everything started going downhill.

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Remus woke up on the morning of Halloween day in the shrieking shack. He was curled up on the bed with a thick blanket over him and a pillow under his head. The ache in his bones was much lesser than usual and the sun shined a little brighter though the blinds.

He knew that he wasn't supposed to be like this. He was supposed to be curled up bloody and broken in a corner. The wolfsbane had no effect on the pain of the transformation, the breaking and mending of his bones so he knew that he should be in a lot more pain right now. Moony even in his subdued state should not have been able to get in between the covers on his own.

He knew only one person alive who dared and cared enough about him to put him on a bed after a full moon but that person was also the one who had killed the rest of his family. Remus got up with a sigh and proceeded to clean and heal himself. He felt a deep sense of dread knowing that there was not much for him to take care of anyway. But he couldn't tell about this to Dumbledore because that would mean revealing about their animagi and Remus was not ready to break that promise to the marauders.

So he got up and left towards the castle that was getting ready for Halloween. He had to face the twelfth anniversary of the worst day of his life.

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Remus got out of his office in the evening to find a solemn looking harry walking down the corridor

"Harry?" Harry doubled back to see who had spoken and met his gaze.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Where are Ron and Hermione?"

"Hogsmeade," said Harry, in a casual voice.

"Ah," said Lupin. In the effect of the full moon, he had forgotten that today was Hogsmeade day. "Why don't you come in? I've just taken delivery of a Grindylow for our next lesson."

"A what?" said Harry and followed him into his office. In the corner, stood a very large tank of water swam the Grindylow.

"Water demon," he said. "We shouldn't have much difficulty with him, not after the Kappas. The trick is to break his grip. You notice the abnormally long fingers? Strong, but very brittle."

The Grindylow bared its green teeth and then buried itself in a tangle of weeds in a corner.

"Cup of tea?" Remus said, looking around for his kettle. "I was just thinking of making one."