Eat You'll Feel Better

Freya spent her first day at Hogwarts familiarising herself with the castle, and the classrooms. She managed to find the classrooms she would be in, though because of her exploring she hadn't properly met Lily, Marlene or Alice, as Mary wanted her to.

Freya sat in her common room, reading through her textbooks to catch up with what the other students were learning at Hogwarts. Remus told Sirius, James and Peter that he had been assigned to show the new girl around, they tried to convince him to ditch her, he could have told them she was like him. However, it wasn't his place to say anything.

Freya had already been late to her morning class through getting lost, even though she had gone over the route many times. Rather than spending a lot of time in the great hall, she arrived at her afternoon class early nearly 20 minutes early.

Professor McGonagall allowed Freya to sit in the classroom with her while they waited for the other students to arrive. She read through what McGonagall had previously been teaching the students, she was so engrossed in the book that Remus startled her when he handed her a note.

'McGonagall, wants me to prepare you for our full moon, meet me on the seventh-floor corridor, after this class.

R.J.L'

Freya looked up, nodding her head at him, Mary sat next to her, helping Freya with any questions she had about Transfiguration. Helping her when she misunderstood something, though Transfiguration, seemed to be a little more simple at Hogwarts. The lesson was particularly difficult at Ilvermorny.

Like Remus told her, she headed towards the seventh-floor corridor, she looked around for Remus. However, she thought she might have had the wrong floor, as she couldn't see him anywhere. She waited a little longer, she had to know what could happen on the night she dreaded most.

"Freya,"

She heard looking around, she spotted Remus around the corner of a corridor he gestured for her to follow him. Freya followed him, he stopped at a wall, that turned into a door, Ilvermorny didn't have any secret hidden rooms like this.

Then again Hogwarts School was founded a whole 500 years before Ilvermorny, the magic that helped to create the school would have been very different. Freya looked around the room they walked in, a cosy little spot with a few books and a sofa with pillows and a blanket.

"It's not much but I come here when I get a little irritable," Remus told her, taking a book from the pile on the floor,

"Here, I read it all pretty quick, it was very interesting learning the differences between types of werewolves," he said, Freya smiled

"Glad you enjoyed it, so what did McGonagall want you to tell me," Remus cringed sitting down on the sofa.

"It isn't an easy topic, but think of the process as breaking each individual bone in your body then shaping it into another form,"

"That sounds horrible and painful,"

"Unfortunately it is, but Madam Pomfrey will give us a bottle of Wolfsbane to take every day for a week before the full moon, which should ease the transformation," Remus explained, Freya nodded not saying anything.

"You're scared, I understand, it's not something that'll be easy the first time or the first couple of times,"

Freya slumped on the sofa, holding her face in her hands, tears began to fall from her eyes, she had dreaded this part there were only eight days until her first full moon. Remus didn't want her to be upset, he wrapped his arm around her, which only made her cry a lot more.

"I'm sorry,"

"You don't have to be sorry, it is scary, I know it won't be easy, but we'll go through it together," she wiped away her tears, "you won't be alone, not like I was, it might help me to have you there with me,"

"So we can help each other?" Freya mumbled

"Yes, if you want to come with me tonight, I'll be going to the hospital wing to get the Wolfsbane," Freya nodded,

***

Later in the common room, Freya asked Professor McGonagall to do some extra credit to get a better understanding of the lesson topic she would be learning. Remus descended from the boy's dormitory, Freya looked out of the window, 'Was it night-time already?' time had flown by.

She quickly hurried to him, following him out of the common room, Remus walked down the corridor. The pair were stopped by a prefect who asked why they were out of bed after hours. Remus showed them a note that McGonagall told him to show anyone teacher or prefect if he was caught out of bed after hours.

"Ahh, Remus right on time as usual, here's you wolfsbane," Madam Pomfrey said, handing Remus his bottle of wolfsbane.

"Freya, all you need is a small portion of the potion, it should last you through to the night of a full, best to eat something sweet after the taste isn't the best," Madam Pomfrey explained, handing Freya her bottle of wolfsbane.

Freya and Remus left heading back towards the common room where they stayed awake for another two hours. Until the clock struck 12 am, Remus told Freya that now would be the perfect time to take their first sip of wolfsbane.

"Ugh,"

"I know, it's awful, here" Remus handing her a bar of chocolate "eat you'll feel better,"