August 30th, 1976

They are, once again, lying in Remus’ back yard. In two days they will catch the Hogwarts Express and go back to school for their sixth year, which promises to be a particularly good one. The sky is blue. Bluer than a blueberry, bluer than Sirius’ Appleby Arrows t-shirt, bluer than Ravenclaw’s robes. They are eating sucrose- ( Read more... )

August 26th, 1976

Remus doesn’t want to go to Diagon Alley with the others. It’s hot out, and frankly, he’s feeling distinctly lazy. And he’s spent the last four days successfully avoiding Sirius, so he doesn’t want to stop now, for fear of-he doesn’t know what. But he does need to buy his new books and replenish his stock of school supplies, ( Read more... )

August 22nd, 1976

He’s sitting in the basement of James’ house, ostensibly because it is much cooler here than anywhere else in the house. Mostly he just likes the room, dark and full of spiders, with tiny little windows near the ceiling, and an old lawn chair in the middle. He’s sitting on the lawn chair, thinking. Sirius Black does not just ( Read more... )

August 19th, 1971

Remus spends the last two weeks of summer in a constant state of nervous excitement. His parents look happier than they have in a long time, so proud are they that their son, a werewolf, is going to Hogwarts. He marks off the days on the calendar, half willing time to move faster, half wanting it to slow down, so that he can ( Read more... )

August 18th, 1976

“Moony, wake up.” Remus knows, on the edges of sleep, that someone is speaking to him, but all he hears is murmuring, hushed whispers of nothing. “Moony, Moony, Moony.” He opens his eyes and everything looks a little blurry, but he sees Sirius crouched over him, hair wild and eyes glowing, with a finger to his lips.

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August 14th, 1976

That afternoon, the three of them show up on Remus Lupin’s front porch in the rain, dripping wet. In their swim trunks. This, Remus thinks, cannot end well.

Sirius watches Remus carefully, and thinks he looks a little cornered. They’ve been avoiding each other, and Sirius jumps a little every time anybody mentions Remus. ( Read more... )

August 9th, 1976

Peter does not like heights. Peter really does not like heights. Which explains why he is sitting at the bottom of the basket of a hot air balloon, getting in the way and being tripped over, and very resolutely not looking over the edge.

He has no problem with spiders or snakes. He is not claustrophobic (being a rat ( Read more... )

August 5th, 1976

Somehow, when James wasn’t looking or was half asleep and too incoherent to do anything about it, his mum talked him and Sirius into going to a lecture at the Muggle library in their neighbourhood. Something about, “So your brains don’t go all squashy while you are busy lazing about and eating all the food in the house.” ( Read more... )

Title: Because of Dress Robes
Rating: PG
Prompt: # 2 at
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August 1st, 1976

It has been August for precisely five hours, but already the sky is that brilliant blue Remus associates with August, and only August. It is never that colour any other time of year. But the calendars in Remus’ bedroom (there are three of them) all still say July. He has a suspicion that they will continue to say July for at least ( Read more... )