Chapter Thirty-Six
Wait and See
I miss that town, I miss the faces
You can't erase, You can't replace it
I miss it now, I can't believe it
So hard to stay, Too hard to leave it
(Photograph - Nickelback)May 25th, 1975I need a place that looks like the Forbidden Forest where no one can enter but me.
She concentrated on that exact thought as she walked, passing in front of the stone
wall on the seventh floor three times. Slowly, a circular wooden door appeared, and Mia
let a smile cross her face as she opened it and walked into the Room of Requirement. The
view was incredible.
Kicking off her shoes as she stepped inside, she moved through the magically
created trees and undergrowth, feeling the soft grass on her bare feet. Where there should
have been a wall to her left, instead was a view extending to the Black Lake. To the right,
she could see the shadow of Hogwarts, which was odd since she was technically inside the
castle at the moment.
The forest lay ahead of her, and Mia smiled as she walked through the shadows of
the trees, glancing upward at what should have been ceiling. Instead, she saw sky lit only
by a perfectly circular moon, hung large against a black background. A full moon was her
motivation for this, and she used it to calm her, to relax her as she wiggled her toes into
the soil. A part of her felt guilty that she was using the very thing that caused Remus pain
to take away her own anxieties. To persuade her guilt to leave, she reasoned that, in the
end, this would make it easier for him.
It was good to know that Padfoot and Prongs—and yes even Wormtail, for now—
would soon be there for Moony during his transformations, but she longed to be there
with them. With him.
It had taken months to get the meditations down correctly, to relax enough to allow
herself to dip into her "inner animal"—an animal she had assumed would have been an