[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

In a few days it will be the Christmas holiday, and most of the Hogwarts students are busy packing their luggage in the evening, but there is no one in the Gryffindor boys' dormitory No. [-].

At this time, James, Sirius, and Peter, who were wearing the cloak of invisibility, were staring nervously at the other two people under the Whomping Willow.They saw that Madam Pomfrey from the school hospital raised her wand and cast some spell at the Whomping Willow. The branches of the Whomping Willow slowed down with the cold wind and made a "click" sound There was a sound, and then Remus quickly got into the branches, ran to the edge of the tree trunk and did not know what to do, the branches of the Whomping Willow completely stopped.Remus and Madam Pomfrey walked into a passage behind the Whomping Willow, and after a while, only Madam Pomfrey turned back.She walked out of the "sphere of influence" of the Whomping Willow, turned around and said a spell silently to the Whomping Willow, and the branches of the Whomping Willow began to dance again.Then she walked back to the castle.

The three voyeurs looked at each other inside the cloak. Ten minutes later, the full moon rose, and from the depths of the tunnel behind the Whomping Willow, there was a sound of "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".

Peter shuddered.

At this moment, Peter really realized how much courage and perseverance it takes to make friends with James and Sirius.It was dark and cold at the end of December, and Peter really wanted to go back to the dormitory, but James and Sirius insisted on guarding by the Whomping Willow.Seeing that they were determined, he could only helplessly accompany them.Fortunately, they put a warming spell on him, otherwise Peter would have frozen to death if he didn't think he was killed by a werewolf.

The full moon, which symbolizes happiness and reunion in eastern countries, is now hanging alone on the branch of the Whomping Willow in Hogwarts.

Peter was about to fall asleep, but he was woken up suddenly by James. At this time, the sky had already turned pale, and Madam Pomfrey was walking into the secret passage beside the Whomping Willow.

After a while, she came out by herself again, but her movements were very strange, as if she was supporting someone.Peter heard Sirius say in a low voice, "It's the Disillusionment Charm."

The three people under the invisibility cloak followed Madam Pomfrey to the school hospital, and while she was supporting Remus without closing the door, they slipped into the ward.

They saw Madam Pomfrey remove the Disillusionment Charm from Remus.Remus at this time was really scary, his whole body was covered in bloody cuts, some of which were even deep enough to show his bones.

Wouldn't he be able to stand up without Madam Pomfrey's support?Peter thought, shivering again.

Madam Pomfrey helped Remus to lie on the hospital bed, and began to cast a healing spell on him. After a while, the bloody cuts on Remus' body gradually healed, leaving only faint white marks, but his His face was still bloodless.After Madam Pomfrey left, he lay quietly on the bed, closed his eyes, and looked very tired.

James took off the Invisibility Cloak, and Sirius chanted a Silencing Charm softly, and the sound of the incantation woke Remus awake.

He sat up suddenly, staring at the three roommates in front of him in horror, even more than when he looked at his Boggart.

Remus has always faced everything so calmly, Peter never thought that he would show such an emotional expression.

"You are a werewolf." Sirius stated the fact calmly.

After hearing these words, Remus' body shook violently, and his already pale face almost became transparent.His hands subconsciously held onto the quilt tightly, and after a long time, he slowly let go.He lowered his head, took a few deep breaths, and then slowly said: "Yes, I am, I'm sorry..." The voice was so hoarse that it almost didn't look like him.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, Peter still felt his heart tremble when he heard Remus admit it with his own ears.

The atmosphere in the ward seemed to be frozen, and no one spoke for a long time.

In the silence, Remus finally couldn't take it anymore. He raised his head, trying to stay calm, but his body was still shaking.

However, just as he was about to speak, James strode forward, patted him on the shoulder vigorously and said, "You kid is really not mean, and you have kept this matter from us for a whole year. This time you You must write a self-criticism, let me think about it, you need at least three pieces of parchment. Tell you to hide it from us, tell you not to treat us as friends!"

"James, you're too stupid." Sirius also stepped forward and shaved James' head off. "It's not easy to catch Remus making a mistake. You should also think of some useful punishment tactics. Write a self-criticism, Thank you for thinking it out! The review paper can’t be eaten, at least you have to let Remus write three papers on the history of magic for the three of us to be worthy of your injured weak heart!"

"You're the one with a weak heart, and your whole family has a weak heart!" James turned his head and glared at Sirius.

Peter was completely speechless when he saw that James and Sirius had started their mutual harm mode again at such a serious moment.

"You...you are not afraid of me?" Remus raised his voice an octave incredulously, "You... still consider me...friend?" He said the word friend tremblingly.

James immediately stopped arguing with Sirius when he heard that, he looked back into Remus' eyes, and said with a smile: "Of course, in my opinion, that's just a little hairy problem."

Then, Peter saw Remus' eyes turn red.He sighed in his heart: It seems that he is destined to accept a werewolf as his friend.

Late the next night, James, Sirius, and Peter followed Remus to the Whomping Willow on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

"How do we get in?" James asked, looking at Remus.

"You really want to go in and have a look? There's actually nothing to see there, it's just a dilapidated house." When the matter came to an end, Remus hesitated.

"We're all here, of course we have to go in and have a look." James and Sirius said in unison.

Sighing, Remus taught a few of his companions the spell to slow down the Whomping Willow's movements and how to make it completely still.A few people walked up to the Whooping Willow, only to find a big opening at the root of the tree. Through the big opening, they entered the secret passage inside. After walking around for a long time, they finally saw a light.

"Merlin, it turns out that the environment in the Screaming Shack is so bad! This really...too subverts my imagination." When everyone finally got out of the tormenting secret passage and saw clearly the furnishings in the room before them, Zhan Mu couldn't help expressing such emotion.

The room was indeed terrible. The only furniture—a few wooden chairs—were knocked over and the windows were boarded up.On the floor, on the wooden boards on the windows, on the walls, and on the chairs, there are old and new scratches and bloodstains everywhere.At first glance, it looks like a scene of torture/killing.

"Dumbledore prepared this place for me," Remus said quietly, "I heard that the ghosts of Hogwarts would sometimes come here to gather here, but after I entered school, the headmaster told me about it." They, they don't come much. And the haunted reputation of the screaming shacks they left behind is a cover for the howling and biting of my incarnation. Every time Madam Pomfrey sends me Come here, and then put a magic barrier against werewolves in the passage, so that I can't go out from the passage, and the Whomping Willow outside is to prevent the students from breaking in and seeing me. Even if I come out of the Whomping Willow I was accidentally seen by someone, and it could be explained that the wound on my body was hit by the Whomping Willow. But Madam Pomfrey still insisted on casting the Disillusionment Charm on me, saying that would be safer. Headmaster Dumbledore, he really A great man, if he hadn't pledged his reputation, I would never have had the chance to come to Hogwarts."

However, Sirius was somewhat disapproving: "This has ensured the safety of other students, but it is too inhumane to lock you here and let you scratch and bite yourself."

Remus smiled wryly: "At that time, I wasn't considered a human being at all, what kind of humanity was there?"

Such an answer made the atmosphere even more depressing in an instant.

"Haven't you tried any way to control your mind?" James asked. "When I was very young, I seem to have heard my dad who made potions all the time mentioned that there was a St. Mungo's healer who came to talk to him. We have discussed a medicine that can keep werewolves sane during transformation, and I heard that this medicine has been invented now."

"I think what you are talking about should be wolfsbane/potion. When I was young, its inventor, Mr. Damocles, once treated me, but he said that wolfsbane/potion is not suitable for minors, otherwise it will Puts a huge burden on my heart."

Upon hearing this, James drooped his head in disappointment.

"Oh, it's just a solution. James, why are you so downcast? We'll go to the library and look it up later, and we'll definitely find a solution," Sirius said.

"But if there was a way, the headmaster would have used it a long time ago, so why bother?" Peter also interjected at this time.

Remus looked at the three people in front of him talking to each other, and his nose suddenly became sore.He recalled the unbearable memories of those neighbors who accidentally knew his identity when he was young, throwing stones at him and calling him a monster. Looking at these three people, not only did they not dislike him, but they were still trying to help him find a way .

A strong sense of happiness welled up in his heart.

"It's okay, it's okay even if there's no other way," Remus said, sniffling, "I already feel extremely lucky if you all know my identity and are willing to treat me as a friend. In fact, transformation is not as good as you It's as bad as I thought, it just looks more scary."

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Since Remus's secret was revealed, the relationship between the four people in the Gryffindor boys' dormitory No. [-] has developed by leaps and bounds.James and Sirius used to think that Peter was too cowardly and not like a Gryffindor at all, but after this incident, they completely changed their views on Peter.They are not even afraid of werewolves, how can they be said to be cowardly?Since then, the Gryffindor four-person robbery team was formally established.

However, compared to the catalyzed friendship of the boys, the Gryffindor second-year girls had some small unhappiness.

On the last night before the Christmas holiday, the sky above Hogwarts began to snow heavily.The next day, the entire castle was covered in silver.Lily had just finished correcting her roommate Alison's Potions thesis when she saw another roommate, Mary, push the door open.

"Mary, you are finally back. Lily and I have been waiting for you to come back so that we can go out to have a snowball fight together." Alison leaned forward and said.

"Go ahead, I won't go." Mary lost interest.

"Huh? Aren't you always the most active in this kind of thing? What happened today?" Alison asked suspiciously.

Lily looked at Mary's uneasy expression, and hurriedly asked, "Did something happen?"

Mary looked at Lily and frowned, as if trying to endure something, but she couldn't hold back after all: "It's not your childhood sweetheart, who called Gus a Crucible Killer."

Lily immediately became embarrassed when she heard the words: "Uh... that... Severus... he is wrong to say that, but he just... just likes potions too much, so he can't tolerate other people's poor learning of potions." good."

"Come on!" Mary immediately said unconvinced, "He likes potions and no one stops him, but he is not a potion professor, and Professor Slughorn hasn't spoken yet, so Gus potion is good for him What's the matter with Snape? He must have been too lenient."

"Mary, I know it's wrong for Severus to say that about Guspard, but if Guspard hadn't publicly said that Severus couldn't even ride a broom in the flight class last semester, Severus wouldn't have targeted him like that."

"So it's Gus' fault? Do you think those Slytherins were right to call me a Mudblood, too? Gus should have let them call me?"

"That's not what I meant!" Lily's face flushed. "I just wanted to say that Sev didn't bother Guspard for no reason, but I didn't deny that he used that word to call you nasty!"

"So what? Didn't you just turn around and forgive him?"

Seeing Lily and Mary talking to each other, Alison twitched the corners of her mouth.Snape in Slytherin is Lily's childhood sweetheart, and Guspard in his own college is Mary's childhood sweetheart, and Guspard and Mary have even established a romantic relationship not long after the beginning of this semester.Snape is a top student in potions, but Guspard's potions are terrible, so he is often ridiculed by Snape.This isn't the first time Lily and Mary have quarreled over their childhood sweethearts.

Not to mention that Alison was unfair to Lily, most people would naturally help her own college, not to mention that Snape was gloomy and had a very bad attitude towards their Muggle-born classmates.So when the two quarreled, Alison naturally favored Mary in most cases.But Lily... well, that's what one can say.She grew up beautifully, smart and good at learning, but she has no pretensions and a good heart. No matter what difficulties she and Mary have, Lily has always helped her whenever she can, and she will spend at least three hours a week for her. And Mary tutoring potions.Based on Lily's conditions, it is definitely the object that boys are eager to pursue.But because of her friendship with Snape, apart from having an affair with Sirius, none of the Gryffindor boys showed signs of trying to pursue her.

Feeling that she wanted to digress a bit, Alison quickly shook her head and pulled herself back, and then stepped forward to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, you guys have quarreled about this topic many times, we are women in the new era, what are you doing?" Well, I quarreled because of those stinky boys. It’s not worth it to hurt your peace because of them.”

"I don't want to quarrel, but every time I try to forget about it, Snape always jumps out to kill me." Mary was still angry.

Lily sighed helplessly, she had persuaded Severus countless times, but when the man got angry, he couldn't control his mouth at all, so she was already desperate to seek improvement from Severus.But she really didn't want to lose any of her friends.She tried hard to suppress the sense of powerlessness and frustration rising from the bottom of her heart, and said wearily: "I'm sorry, Mary, I'm really... sorry. I also know that there is no way for this matter to continue like this. Look at this Okay, if Guspard is willing, let him listen to it when I teach you and Mary about potions in the future, and it will be considered... my compensation to him."

Mary, who has always been soft rather than hard, felt embarrassed when she heard Lily say this.Like Alison, she has actually always liked Lily.Snape was indeed unpopular, but she always blamed Lily for it, which seemed very narrow-minded, especially now that Lily offered to help Gus with potions.

Although Mary sometimes speaks only for her own pleasure, and occasionally hurts others, she is a girl who knows her mistakes and can correct them.Since she felt that her attitude just now was wrong, she immediately apologized: "Lily, I...I cared too much about Gus, so I just couldn't choose what to say just now. You...don't forget to take it to heart, and don't say anything about compensation or not." , you didn't feel sorry for Gus, let alone me."

"No, I have." Lily lowered her head and said in a low voice, "As you said, I knew how Severus scolded you, but I forgave him easily. I am friends with him, and you I'm also a friend, but I couldn't let him learn to respect you, and instead made your relationship worse and worse, I really failed in life..."

Mary and Alison looked at each other, not knowing what to do.Lily had always been very cheerful, and it was rare for her to be so depressed. Even when she lost the bet that time, she just hid and calmed down by herself. When she returned to the dormitory, she returned to her cheerful appearance.Therefore, they had absolutely no experience in comforting her.

Fortunately, Lily didn't stay down for too long this time. Soon, she raised her head and shook her head and said, "Forget it, don't think so much! Just like Alison said, because of those stinky boys, we hurt our friendship." , It’s really not cost-effective. Let’s go to a snowball fight. No matter how much unhappiness we have in our hearts, we will take advantage of it to vent out. After the snowball fight, we are still the three golden flowers of Gryffindor, how about it?”

"Good!" said Mary and Alison in unison.