November 10th, 1978"What'll happen when he transforms?"
"I... I can't say," Madam Pomfrey replied, "but it's likely that he won't surv―"
"Thank you, Poppy," Sirius quickly interjected.
The torture received at the hands of his own kind had devastated Remus physically
and magically. He had gone into the werewolf pack as Dumbledore instructed, seeking out
the comforts and security offered by their numbers. Most had accepted him in quickly,
noting that he seemed harmless to their rather large pack. He had lived among the other
wolves in their human forms until the full moon approached and they all began to shift
within a secure forest outside of Suffolk. Without the Wolfsbane Potion to keep him in
control, the Alpha in Moony had taken over completely, and the current Alpha of the large
pack picked up on his scent. The two wolves fought brutally for dominance. While Moony
had been the stronger of the two, the sheer number of sired progeny gave the older Alpha
the advantage.
Remus had woken, brutally wounded and beaten, covered in bites and scratches
deeper than he had ever given himself over the years. In his weakened state, he had been
chained and starved, then tortured for information.
"The only thing that offered me any hope in the success of my mission," Remus told them, "was
that the pack believed I had been sent by You-Know-Who. It made all of the wolves suspicious of the Dark
Lord. They said they won't deal with Death Eaters now."
With Remus denying any and all affiliations with any group, the pack had become
nervous and split off into smaller groups, the Alpha taking charge of his own heading
south, while three other groups headed in the other directions. Remus was dragged to
Whinfell Forest, where he had been cursed and then attacked post-transformation. Left to
die, he had managed to get away when the other werewolves went hunting for food, and
eventually he collapsed between two trees on the bank of a nearby raging river.
Madam Pomfrey declared it a miracle that Mia and Sirius had found him at all.
Alastor Moody declared it suspicious and suspended Sirius from his Auror duties pending
further investigation.
The bite wounds from the other werewolves had bled Remus out, and the lack of
food and poor living conditions prevented him from properly healing—