get frustrated with Sirius and send him away. Remus was charged with escorting him to the
common room as Sirius stubbornly refused to be treated for his black eye, split lip, and a
burn on his neck from a wayward hex that he swore up and down he would get Snape back
for.
Mia was worried.
Sitting in the common room, biting her nails, she expectantly kept her eyes trained
on the door. None of the boys had taken the carriages back to the castle from Hogsmeade
Station, and the Gryffindor table had been filled with rumours of a fight that had broken
out between several of their own and some Slytherins.
After some prying, she discovered that most had ended up in the infirmary, but that
they would be well enough for classes. Still, she waited on the sofa, staring at the door as
though she could will at least one of them through it to give her some reassurance that they
were all fine.
She hoped it would be Remus.
He had begun pulling away from her since the first full moon of their second year.
She had not been aware if James, Sirius, and Peter had told him that they knew his secret,
or if the Wizard's Oath she made the three boys take included Remus in their secrecy.
Either way, no one mentioned it to her again. When she arrived at the hospital wing the
following month to be with Remus, Madam Pomfrey sadly sent her back to the Gryffindor
common room, letting her know that Remus had requested he be left alone.
Each month during the week of the full moon, Remus retreated into himself,
ignoring anything she said or did to bring up his health or condition. She tried multiple
times to talk to him, pleading with him to let her help.
On a good day, he would explain, "Please, Mia, stop waiting for me. It makes the
walk back to the hospital wing that much harder."
On the days after the full moon, if she asked how he was feeling, he would
completely ignore her and leave the room if possible.