First Year- Prank
Remus Lupin
A week flies by and Remus still hasn’t talked to Sirius about that night up in the Owlerly . He honestly thinks it's for the better, that way no one gets hurt. It's better to bury things away than deal with them. If he were to talk about everything in his life he’d never stop talking. It's better this way, hes sure Sirius doesn't want to talk about it either.
Remus knows he was pretty rude but he wont sit and lie to him about where his scars came from. They aren't friends, as much as he’d like to be friends , he can't. It's too risky, why risk them knowing hes a werewolf ? When he doesnt have to be friends with them, it’s better off this way. No one gets hurt.
His Mum still hasn't written back, and he can't help but become more and more anxious by the day. Hes thought of every possible thing that could've happened. What if shes gotten worse? He keeps waiting for a letter to show up at breakfast, but there hasn't been one. She said she was getting better, so why is it taking a week for her to respond? Remus just needs to relax, she's fine. She is alright, he tells himself. But what if she's not? He need answers.
He heads down to breakfast and sits down next to Peter. “ good morning Remus,” Peter says with a soft smile.
“Good morning Peter,” he gives a slight smile.
“How’d you sleep?” Peter asks.
“Just fine, you? ” Remus lies, he barely slept last night he couldn't help but stay up overthinking everything, his Mum, Sirius, the full moon. He hate how much he overthinks, his mind is constantly going 1,000 miles per hour. And he can’t seem to slow it down.
“I slept well” Peter goes back to his breakfast. Remus starts to grab a piece of toast when he sees an owl fly near him.
It's his owl! He feels a weight come off his chest and lets a breath go, he didn't know he was holding in. Remus grabs the letter from his owl’s talons and gives it a pat on the head and a piece of toast. His owl flies off and he looks down at the letter, his mothers signature is on the letter.
he traces this thumb over the writing, his stomach fluttering at the sight of sign of his mother.
“Ooo Remus you got a letter! where is it from?” Peter says looking over my shoulder. Remus opens his mouth to say something but James beats him to it.
“Pete's personal space?” James reminds Peter
“Right, Sorry Remus” Peter backs up.
“ It’s alright, the letters from my Mum,” Remus answers, remus flips the letter over he analyzes the wax holding the letter closed.
“Oh how nice, well are you going to open it?” Peter says with curiosity.
“I think i'll open it after class,” he says putting it in his back pocket. He doesn’t need someone reading it. Snape was an inch close to reading it last time, so he makes a mental note to be more careful. Remus looks over to Sirius since he hasn't said anything since he’s been here, and he's looking at me, the moment we lock eyes we both look away.
“James, what are you doing?” Sirius clears his throat , at James writing down on a piece of parchment.
“Homework,” James says, not looking up.
“James I thought you were the responsible one of the group,” Remus remarks sarcastically putting a hand to his chest.
“Oh piss off,” James says. He finishes up his homework and squints his eyes at remus, Remus squints back teasing him.
“Alright, I'm off to class,” Remus says grabbing a piece of toast and leaving.
After class, Remus rushes to his dorm to open the letter. He gets there and James, Sirius and Peter are already there. Remus sighs, he swears he can't get any privacy in this school. Remus sits down on his bed and grabs the letter out of his pocket.
He opens it up and the smell of his Mothers perfume fills the air around him. His stomach does a flip , instantly longing for home. He quickly grabs the letter and starts to read it.
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Dear my darling Remus
I am so very sorry that I’m writing this so late. I never looked at my mail last week, you must forgive me. So you got into Gryffindor? I knew you would, you are the bravest person I know, I mean you go to this new school, you deal with the full moon and me being sick. I mean you are so brave and I am so proud of you. Anyways, there isn't really anything new going on here, I haven't gotten more sick, but I haven't really gotten any better, but it’s right. I’m taking it one day at a time.
I went out to the garden and picked my favorite flowers, periwinkle and daffodils, before they die this winter. I just wanted to send you some. I was thinking about setting up a greenhouse so they won't die during the cold weather, but I'm not going to worry about it right now.
Sorry, this is kind of a short letter, but I'm glad you're settling in at school. I love you so very much, and don't worry about me, I'll write to you if anything happens, all right?
Love, Mother
~
He look into the envelope and pull out the flowers, Remus smells them and they smell like home. Like Mum.
“Remus You alright over there, mate?” James asks
“Yeah, fine,” remus answers say, not looking up admiring the flowers. He scrunches up his nose to prevent tears from forming in his eyes which works.
“Ooo, are those periwinkles?” Peter says coming up next to Remus
“Yep” Remus smile.
“Periwinkles are my favorite kind of flowers, where did you get them?” He asks, looking at the flowers in awe.
“My Mum they’re one of her favorites,” Remus say
“Well she has an amazing taste your Mum” Peter lays back on his bed.
“Okay, are we ready to do this prank or what?” James asks, sitting crisscrossed on his bed.
“Yes!” Peter says sitting up and clapping his hands together.
“I have a surprise for you”
“A surprise?” Peter looks at James with curiosity.
“Yes but you must cross your heart and never tell a soul,” James says pointing a finger at all of us.
Peter and Sirius quickly cross their hearts.
“What is it with you guys and crossing your hearts?” Remus scoffs
“Oh c’mon Remus, it's going to be worth it, I promise” James holds his hands together.
“Really? you cross your heart?” Remus teases sarcastically mocking him
“Yep cross my heart” James crosses his heart and remus roll his eyes at him.
“Please?” James gives me puppy eyes.
“Your charm doesn't work on my Potter” remus crosses his arms
“You think I’m charming? James puts his hand to his chest in flattery.
“Did you guys hear him? He says ``I have charm” James looks at Sirius and Peter then back to Remus
“It wasn't a compliment, y’know what this better be good” Remus crosses his heart and waits for James to show his big “Surprise”.
“Alright, now feast your eyes upon this” James puts his hands behind his back then brings them back holding up a blanket.
“What exactly are we feasting upon?” Remus furrows his eyebrows unimpressed.
“I’m getting to that” James scowls at me.
“Well? What is it?” Peter asks.
“Yeah, this doesn't seem like a huge surprise you were telling us about” Sirius adds
“Will you let me finish?!” James says in annoyance. All of us start laughing except James who's trying to be serious and show us his big surprise.
“Okay, okay, show us,” Remus waves his hands after he stop laughing.
“That's what I'm trying to do!” James says. “Alright, so this is what I've been trying to show you” he holds his hands up again.
“I still don't see anything, James are you alright?” Remus teases
“Oh, my Merlin!” James says “Y’know what?” James puts his hands over his head then suddenly he disappears.
“It's a bloody invisibility cloak !” Sirius shouts in shock. Peter and Remus just sit there with our mouths wide open.
James pops up in the room again, his hair all rustled from being on the cloak.
“That is exactly what I have been trying to say,” James says in a stronger voice than usual.
“This is genius James, when did you get an invisibility cloak? “ Sirius asks
“It’s been in the family for generations and now it's mine,” James says.
“Brilliant” Peter says
“Right! So what I was thinking is we can go up to Snivellus with the cloak on and dye his hair he’ll never know it was us”
“Ah he’ll never see it coming!” says Sirius
“When?” Remus ask
“What?” Sirius raises his eyebrows at me.
“When are we going to do it?” Remus asks bluntly. “Won't he hear us if we do it in the middle of the day?”
“You’re right, he would hear us,” James says putting a hand to his chin to think. “How about we do it when he's sleeping?!” James exclaims.
“How would we get into the Slytherin common room?” Sirius questions.
“We could go down there and with the cloak on and hear someone say the password then come back when they're sleeping and dye his hair” he suggest
“Oh, that's brilliant Remus!” James jumps up and down.
“Okay calm down!” Remus laughs .” well have to do it tomorrow night before everyone goes in there for the night, I'm pretty sure everyone's already there.”
The boys all nod their heads.
“Okay, Im excited, Snivellus is going to look bloody ridiculous” Sirius laughs.
The rest of us laugh.
The next morning , The boys all rush down to breakfast excited for tonight. Remus sit in between James and Peter and Sirius sits next to James as usual.
“James so what time should we go?” Sirius whispers to James
“right after dinner, that should be a good time, right?” James whispers back to Sirius, unsure.
“Hey, Remus, where ever did you get that bracelet?” Peter asks me, referring to the bracelet my Mum made me.
“Oh, my Mum made it for me” remus smile admiring the bracelet.
“Oh! That's so cool, it's real pretty” Peter gives me a soft smile.and Remus smile back.
Classes are almost over for the day and potions class just started.
Snape is sitting right behind me which is not the best for my sake, but it is what it is.
Sirius comes into class and sits next to me.
“You’re late” he tells Sirius.
“I'm not late, everyone else is simply early,” Sirius clicks his tongue to the roof of his mouth , sitting back his voice coated with his usual cocky voice.
“Mr Black, you're five minutes late” Slughorn says
Remus wiggles his eyebrows at Sirius and he rolls his eyes at Remus
“I’ll let this one slide since this is your first time late, but don't let it happen again.” Slughorn says sternly.
“Yes Sir '' Sirius responds assuring Slughorn he won't be late again.
Slughorn gets back to teaching.
“Everyone else is simply early” remus mocks Sirius .
“Oh shove off” Sirius gently bumps me with his elbow. Remus elbows him back.
“At Least I wasn't late” Remus states crossing his .arms.
After the rest of our classes they all scurry back to our dorm.
“Oh my merlin I’m so excited, this is going to be wicked” Peter excitedly says.
“Okay I have the cloak” James announces.
“Wait we’re all going under it together?” Remus questions.
“Yeah, unless you want to stay”
“Oh please don't stay ,Remus you have to come” Peter whines.
“I’m not going to stay, I'm the one Snape was being a prick to in the first place remember?” He states “I was just asking , will we even all fit under it?” He ask again.
“Oh yeah, there’s tons of space under it, now c’mon before it's too late” James rushes.
“Everyone have their wands?” James asks , and we all nod our head.
James lifts his hands up and Sirius and Peter go under it and they disappear into thin air.
James waves his hand at me motioning remus to go in. He gos under his arm and it's slightly darker under here.
It's like putting yourself under a sheer curtain, except it's invisible. Hes absolutely amazed, his Mum wouldn't even believe him If he told her what he was doing right now.
James comes under, and they are all huddled up right next to each other.
“It's nice and cozy in here” James jokes.
They go down to the Slytherin chambers and wait for someone to go in so they can hear the password.
Some tall dark haired boy comes up and we all straighten up against the wall.
“Pureblood,” the boy says. Remus almost laughs, of course Pureblood is their password.
Bunch of twats.
“Of course Pureblood is their password” James whispers to us after the boy go inside the common room.
The rest of them softly laugh, Remus laughs as well even though he basically said the same thing in his head not even two seconds before. He Imagines how funny he would be if he said what was on my mind all the time, hed be a comedic genius.
After a while of waiting for people to go to sleep.
Peter yawns. “I'm tired, can we do it now” Peter whispers.
“I think it's fine to go now, okay boys, quiet steps” James whispers to the group.
“Pureblood '' James says, we walk in and it's all dark and gloomy in here compared to the Gryffindor common room.
It's empty in their common room, everyone must be asleep.
“Ha, they’re already asleep” Sirius comments.
The get to boys dormitories and check the first room, and there lies Snape, sleeping.
Peter snorts at the sight .
“Jeez he looks even greasier sleeping” Sirius whispers.
The rest of us quietly laugh.
“Okay who's going to do the spell ?” asks James
“Remus, you did it perfectly in the library, you should do it” Peter says softly.
“Yeah Remus you did it perfectly last week” James told me.
“Thanks, but are you sure I should?” Remus asks quietly .
“Yes” Peter ,James, and Sirius all agree.
“Okay” he grabs his wand out of his pocket. He takes a deep breath and points his hand at Snape's hair. “Colovaria Pink” he whispers.
His hair turns a bright pink. And Remus nearly lets out a laugh.
“Brilliant, Remus you did it!” Sirius whisper shouts.
“Great job Remus” James rustles Remus hair and he swats him away.
“He looks way better with pink hair” Peter smiles.
The boys all laugh.
“Okay , okay lets go” James rushes
We head back to our dorm and all go sleep. They wake up in the morning excited to see Snape's hair again. They all rush down to breakfast and Snape isn't there yet.
“Maybe he's embarrassed” Sirius shrugs.
James grins looking at the door.
The boys look over to the door and see a patch of bright pink.
Snape walks in the great hall with his head down.
We hear giggles and laughs spread across the room like wildfire.
Snape sits down at the table behind them.
He turns around. “Nice hairdo Snape, it really fits you” he grins his voice smug.
James Sirius and Peter all laugh and Snape gives me a deathly glare.
“Loony” remus says under his breath but loud enough for Snape to hear him.
“Piss off, your the loony” Snape says harshly.
Remus turns right back around. “Says the one with bright pink hair ” remus remarks.
“Don't test me, Loony Lupin remember what happened last time”. He says roughly referring to when he punched remus in the nose.
“Do you not remember me punching you first?” He gives Snape a raise of his brows. Snape opens his mouth then closes it back up.
Remus rolls his eyes then turn back around and eat his breakfast.