Lily visibly recoiled at his words. When James and Sirius moved behind her, she
held her hand up and turned to glare at them. "Everyone out of the hallway right now, or
I'll start taking away points!"
"One of these days, you're going to have to choose a side, Evans." Sirius glared at
her before turning around to storm out of the corridor, leaving behind James and Mia, who
were busy holding up Remus.
"Ignore him," Mia said.
Lily frowned. "Which one?"
"Both? All?"
March 17th, 1976"Mia? Mia, wake up."
"Peter?" Mia rubbed her tired eyes, looking down at the boy who was standing at
the foot of her bed, practically quivering. "Peter, I swear to Merlin, if you're actually here
in the girls' dorms I am going to hex you into next year. How the hell did you get in here?"
"Rat," Peter said, pointing at himself as though that were a fully articulated sentence.
"Fine. That answers the how; I'd like to know why. If Mary knows you can sneak
into the dorms, you're a dead man. Not even Jamie can protect you from Mary's wrath."
"Mia, you have to come with me. Something happened. We can't get him to calm
down."
She bolted up, throwing her legs over the side of the bed. "Peter, where's Remus?"
The full moons had been getting progressively worse since the werewolf sightings
in Scotland. Attacks were getting closer and closer to Hogsmeade and, therefore, Hogwarts.
Remus was a constant nervous wreck, and the fact that the four Animagi could no longer
be with him in the shack made it all the worse.
"He's in the Room of Requirement; James was able to lock him in." Peter's small,
watery eyes were as wide as they could be, the sight unnerving Mia as she jumped out of
her bed, slipping on her outer robes as quickly as possible.