Lupin's True Love

December 24, 1973

Veronica frowned as she watched James ignore his book bag once again. They had been alone in the Gryffindor common room for three days had he hadn't opened a single book in all that time. She growled low in her throat knowing that he wouldn't hear it. I can't believe him. I even asked his about that Transfiguration homework and he still didn't look in his bag. James went over to the table that was hiding his bag. Veronica sat up slightly and watched as James started to rummage through it. She held her breath when he pulled out both books. He looked them over before looking over at Veronica. She managed to turn back to her copy of The Hobbit before he saw her watching him.

"Um...Vee?" James turned the books over as Veronica looked up from her book.

"What?" Veronica climbed to her feet and moved toward the table.

"Did you put these in here?" James handed her the books.

"How to Become an Animagus and Behavior of Werewolves. What makes you think that I put them in your bag?" Veronica perched herself on the edge of the table.

"I guess not. Maybe Sirius put them in here." James flipped open the book about werewolves to the page that Veronica had marked for him. "'Werewolves are only dangerous to humans. If a human were an animagus, they would not be harmed when a werewolf bites them. No one is sure if this is fact or fiction but many speculate that a werewolf will even adopt other humans into his or her pack with the werewolf as the Alpha male or female. If this were to happen, all others would be subjected to the whims and fancies of the Alpha werewolf.'" James laid the book onto the table and rummaged through his bag for a quill and parchment.

"What are you doing?" Veronica had slid into one of the chairs surrounding the table.

"I'm writing Sirius. I think I just found a way for us to help Remus." James started to scribble onto the parchment.

Veronica smiled to herself as she went back to her chair before the fireplace. It's about time he found those books. I was starting to think that I should have sent them to Sirius or even Peter. Veronica looked up from her book every few minutes to check on James's progress. Her smile was hidden behind her book as James stopped writing every so often to find a notation in one of the two books.

"Are you finding everything okay, James?" Veronica closed her book with a snap.

"Yeah. You wouldn't believe what we've got to go through to become Animagi."

"Really?" Veronica was pretending to be interested. She already knew what she had gone through, and was still going through. "What do you have to do?"

"First you've got to find your form. It says here that you've got to brew a potion but the recipe's not here." James slammed the book closed. "I can't believe this. I find a way for us to help Remus and now we're going to have to find the recipe for the potion. This is crazy."

"What's crazy is the fact that you and Sirius actually think this is going to work." Veronica hid the smirk on her face and turned back to the fireplace and her book.

"It will work. I'll find that potion and you're going to be sorry that you didn't help us." James grabbed both books and ran out of the common room.

I'm going to be sorry that I didn't help them? They're going to be the ones that are going to be sorry. Veronica reached into her red bag and pulled out the potion book that contained the recipe for the Animagus Potion. "They're never going to find this." Veronica giggled as she slid the book back into her bag and walked out of the common room to go and eat down in the Great Hall.