First year- Halloween
Remus’s Lupin
A couple of weeks later.
It's almost Halloween, and that seems to be the only thing James Potter talks about. He never thought someone could be so excited about a holiday. Most of the surrounding people don't even celebrate, it's not even going to be Halloween for two more weeks now. Remus and his Mother always buy a bunch of candy and watch horror movies together. It’s going to be different without her this year.
“I don’t understand why wizards wouldn't want to celebrate an amazing holiday such as Halloween,” James says. Stuffing his face with breakfast.
“I don't quite understand yet, so Halloween its muggle holiday where they just go around town and get free candy from strangers?” Sirius questions, putting two fingers to the bridge of his nose.
“Yep, I don't get why you're so confused. It's not that big a deal.” Remus moves his lips into a straight line.
“Remus! This is almost the coolest thing I've ever heard of. It most certainly is a big deal,” Sirius says, getting questionably loud.
“How have you not heard of Halloween?” Peter asks.
“My parents don’t necessarily talk about muggle things such as Halloween,” Sirius shrugs and looks down at his breakfast.
“Don’t worry mate, I'll give you your very first Halloween,” James says, patting Sirius on the back.
“Wait really?” Sirius says, popping his head up.
‘“But James, they don't even celebrate Halloween here” Remus interrupts.
“Ah, Remus we’ll celebrate Halloween here” James sticks his pointer finger up trying to make a point. “We can get a bunch of sweets and stay up all night telling a spooky story.” James smiles.
Peter claps his hands together, “ oh that sounds like a great idea!” Peter smiles ear to ear.
“But where do we get all the sweets?” James furrows his brows in a thought slump.
“I don't know but we’ll think about it later, class' ' Sirius says, hauling his bag over his shoulder.
“Right, shoot!” Peter says abruptly.
“What? What is it?” Sirius questions worriedly.
“Homework! I forgot to do my homework,” Peter says, flopping his hands down to his side.
“For what class?” Remus asks reaching into his bag to help him with his homework.
“Transfiguration” Peter sighs.
"Got it , here you can use this," he says with a soft smile, handing Peter the paper.
"Really? , you don't have to " Peter looks at remus with wide eyes and a small smile.
"Yeah, go ahead, I really don't mind," remus reassures him.
"Thanks Remus, you're a lifesaver" Peter puts a hand to his chest with relief.
Transfiguration is right after herbology so he has an hour to finish it.
Remus sits next to Peter in class so he can give remus back his homework when we're done.
Peter finished up his homework and passes it back to Remus.
"Thanks again Remus" Peter whispers softly.
"It's no problem ,really" he pats Peter on the shoulder and focus back onto class.
After the rest of our classes. Remus starts walking back to the dormitory. James, Sirius and Peter have already gone back.
Remus walking in the halls , he’s starting to realize he's most likely lost, This is a big school. He doesn’t know how anyone is able to not get lost in here especially when you're taking random walks.
He walks around a bit more and finds this big sheet of parchment laying on the ground. He immediately picked it up ,out of curiosity.
It's a blank page with a bunch of random lines on it. He looks around and sees a bunch of papers all bunched up near the wall. He looks right above the papers and there's a crack in the wall and the wall seems to be open a little. It kinda makes it look like a door leading to a passageway.
He tries to open it and with one yank it opens, he widens his eyes and it's just an alley.
An alley. Remus takes a big deep breath and clutch onto the paper from the floor. He walks down the alley, Which he knows isn't the safest of options but hes too curious of what could be down here.
He holds on to the paper and then there's a staircase. He walk up the stairs and there's just a door. Right above him, a ceiling height door,
Remus lifts the door and it makes a loud squeak .
He pops his head into the room and it's dark, remus jumps up enough to get inside the room.
And it's a room full of all kinds of sweets. Most of them are magical like the ones that were on the train.
This must be diagon alley , it seems way different in the dark.
Hw looks to see if there's any people in the store, and there’s no one.
He grabs two handfuls of candy, and shoves them into the pockets of his robes and quickly head back to the dorm room before the boys come wondering where he is.
When he gets back to the common room it's quiet , everyone must already be in their rooms. He walks up to his dorm and Peter seems to already be sleeping and James and Sirius are laughing about something on James bed.
He furrows his brows and heads to his bed quietly, but they seem to catch him
“Remus!” Sirius pops up from
“Shhhhh” James says, covering Sirius's mouth quickly. “Peters sleeping” James slowly uncovers Sirius mouth.
“Yeah, yeah” Sirius whispers rolling his eyes, “Anywho, Remus, where have you been?” Sirius grins, raising an eyebrow.
He decides not to tell them about the passageway, it’ll open a whole can of worms and he personally want to go to bed.
So he shrugs “Just taking a walk” he puts his hands in his pockets, he completely forgot about the sweets the wrappers crinkle together in his pockets. James and Sirius both look at each other with confusion then back at Remus. James rests his head on both of his hands.
“What do you have there Remus?” James smirks.
“None of your business' ' he turned his head away knowing full well he grabbed the candy for them.
“Oh, c’mon show us Mate” Sirius sits up. James does the same and crosses his arms.
Remus sits on his bed, “Alright, but you can't have it all”” he squint his eyes at the two of them and empty out my pockets onto the bed.
Both of their jaws drop, their eyes bug out.
”Remus Lupin!” Sirius Jumps up, James along with him elbowing his side for yelling, but it's too late. Peter’s already tossed over onto his side.
“What's going on?” Peter says with a soft, tired voice rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. “Is that sweets on your bed, Remus?” Peter sits up furrows his brows and squints to get a better look of what in the world woke him up and what's stacked up on Remuss bed.
“Do you want some sweets Pete?” Remus asks smiling. He looks down to the sweets then back up to Peter to see he's already right next to him
Peter grabs a couple of sweets and sits on the edge of my bed, “Where did you get these?” James widens his eyes.
“Not telling” remus grins smugly. He likes knowing where this place is by himself. But who knows, maybe he’ll tell them. James and Sirius stare at him blankly, “Well… Are you going to stare at me or eat these?” He asks changing the subject.
James quickly goes to grab some sweets only picking the sour ones. Sirius also goes to grab some and grabs the chocolate remus grabbed for himself, he smack his hand away. “That one’s mine” he grabs the chocolate and sit back opening it up to taste the bitter richness of it.
For some reason he feels warm and safe, Comfortable. Like it's Christmas and he’s by a warm fire. But hes not, hes with three people he met only a little over a month ago.
***
Two weeks later At breakfast. The full moons in three days , he feel a lot less anxious than last time, but still, even though there’s Potions and spells to fix the pain afterwards, It's still hell.
It's halloween and that seems to be the only thing Sirius talks about, how has he never heard of halloween ? are his parents that into being wizards they don't talk about muggle stuff. It’s ridiculous how your eleven year old child doesn't know holidays because you won't associate yourself with non magic people. I get their boring and all and magics cool, but so is halloween. If they just let him know about halloween then he wouldn't get an ear full of Sirius blabbering on and on about it.
Remus has been working on a map of the whole school. It's just been something hes been putting together since finding the secret alley to diagon alley.
“Remus you have to tell us” James says when the four of us are walking back to the common room after dinner
“Tell you what?” He raises a brow to him. There's a big chance he's talking about the other week and just showing up with sweets.
“How the bloody hell you randomly got handfuls of candy out of nowhere” James flaps his arms out then back to his side.
“Yeah Remus just tell us, we won't tell, even if y’know stole it” Peter says the last part whispering.
“I didn't steal anything, well actually…” he pauses , totally forgetting that he actually went in there and stole handfuls of sweets.
Sirius gasps sarcastically “ Did you steal those, Remus whatever your middle name is Lupin!,” Sirius .
Remus glares at him and he grins back . “Its John” Remus states “ whatever C’mon I’ll show you” he hopes they don't tell anyone about this, hes enjoyed having this. He doesn’t want it to get out to a Professor and they close it up.
he walk ahead of them , he gets into the hallway where the passageway is. “You lot better not tell anybody about this” he point a finger at them all sternly, They all nod quickly.
he opens the door and the boys all huddle up near him, they must be scared. He did just bring them into a dark alley , for all they know the boogeyman could be at the end of it.
“Remus, are you sure this is safe?” James asks worriedly, putting a hand through his hair.
“Yeah, yeah it's safe” he reassures him, which reassures Sirius and Peter. We get to the end, he hurrying walk up the stairs and lift the ceiling door open. Remus pops his head up, checking if anyone is around.
“Give me a lift! “ he hollers to the boys, who have concerned looks painted on their faces.
“A lift?” Sirius questions “Like lift you up?” Sirius furrows his eyebrows.
“Yes! For god's sake” Remus ends up lifting himself up.
“What's up there? “
“Are you sure it's safe? “
“What is going on?”
series of questions asked from all of them.
“Just jet up here” he groans, reaching out his arm to lift up James then Sirius then Peter.
After everyone's up we all look around, and he hear gasps come out of all of their mouths
“Remus John Lupin, holy merlin, wow “ Sirius utters .
“You never fail to amaze me, I mean first with the prank and now this, I mean merlin” James remarks patting Remus on the back which earns him a glare in return.
“You mean to tell me, you've known about things for two weeks and didn't tell us?” Peter gleams with amazement .
“I wanted to wait until Halloween “ he lies. Halloween just conveniently happened to be on the day he got fed up with their whining about where he got the candy.
“Sirius what's the time?” He asks, Curfew must be in a little bit. Sirius looks down to the watch on his wrist. “Eight fifty two , why?” Sirius questions “Curfew it in eight minutes, hurry up and grab something” he rushes them.
The boys grab handfuls of sweets, shoving them into their pockets. After a couple minutes of picking stuff out , he tell them we should go.
they get back to the dorm and start shoving our faces with candy. Sirius takes his tie and ties it around his head and James does the same thing.
they spend the rest of the night eating candy joking. they huddle around each other with pillows and blankets and Remus starts telling a scary story. Peter wraps himself in his blanket.
“Peter I can stop if you want me to. stories aren't that fun anyway” remus suggests softly , I don't want to scare him.
“What? No , it's fine to keep going, I like scary stories' ' Peter says quickly, his voice hardly convincing “I'm not scared or anything” Peter adds on, but slightly quieter , wrapping himself tighter in his blanket.
“Okay, I'm going to keep going” he say not in a very sure voice. Remus keeps telling the story, then Sirius tells his story, then James , but James was just making jokes the whole time. Which seemed to untense Peter.
James really seems to care about Peter, Him and Peter knew each other before Hogwarts. Peter told remus the other day they went to this training school for younger witches and wizards when they were younger. So they've known each other for a while longer than Sirius and him. Sirius said he was homeschooled in his younger years, so was Remus, he couldn’t go to regular muggle school. Because of his condition.
The night goes on and James and Peter eventually fall asleep right there in our little storytelling circle.
“ I know I've been going on, and on about Halloween but this was a lot better than I imagined, thank you, best Halloween ever” Sirius says softly with a tired voice.
“It's your first Halloween. How do you know it's the best?” Remus questiona him.
“I don't know, I'll probably look back on this day in ten years and still remember this as my first Halloween and that’ll make it the best” Sirius utters slowly falling asleep.
“You lot are very sentimental” Remus states, huffing out a laugh quietly .
“One of my many traits is Remus” which is the last thing Sirius says before falling asleep.