Tales > The Marauder's Official Guide to What to Do When You find out Your Friend is a Lie-Chant-Rope

"Remus, er, can we talk to you?" asked James quietly, sitting down on a
desk in the deserted classroom he and the other three marauders currently
occupied.

Remus sighed; he should have seen this coming. They knew. "Sure," he said,
trying not to let his voice quaver too much.

"Remus," said Sirius "James and I-er-well, -- we -damn it, there's not
really a nice way to say this Remus. I mean, I... You say it, James."

James frowned and glared at Sirius. "Thanks Sirius. Anyways, Remus, you've
been, leaving.once a month and ...Sirius and I kind of...figured out, that
you're...well..."

"That I'm a werewolf," said Remus, looking carefully at the floor.

"Yes, and we-"

"You don't want to be my friends anymore, I understand, it happens a
lot.this kind of thing. I'm sorry I lied to you two, but just..don 't tell
anyone."

"What the heck are you talking about?" asked Sirius. "Why on earth wouldn't
we be your friends?"

"Because I'm a lycanthrope."

"I thought you were a werewolf, not a leechat.a lie-cant.a leech at.."

"Lycanthrope, Sirius," said James "It means werewolf."

"Oh..I knew that. I was just kidding. Anyways, Remus, we still want to be
your friends. Don't be stupid."

"You do?"

"Sure," said James "we want to help you".

"You do?"

"Duh," said Sirius "What kind of idiots do you think we are, Remus? Anyways,
I think it's kind of cool that you're a werewolf."

"You do?"

"Yeah, I've never met a real werewolf before. Neither has James or Pete.
Besides, we think we might know a way we could help a little."

"You do?"

"Uh-oh. James, hit him," said Sirius "Remus skipped a groove again. He'll be
saying 'you do?' forever if we don't."

"Shut up, Sirius," said James "Remus, we do think we can help you ,but it
might take a while to figure out how to do it right."

"Why?"

"Well, first of all it's kind of an NEWT level spell, and next of all it's
kind of illegal."

"What!?"

"Told you he'd say that," said Sirius "And don't worry Remus, we never get
caught."

"Er," said Remus.

"Hey!" a fifth year perfect poked her head into the classroom "You guys
should be in bed. The curfew for first through fourth years was an hour
ago."

Sirius grinned embarrassedly, "Well, almost never."

Remus smiled, he had the best friends in the world.