Revealed~!

Loki's plan to trap the Aurora Order was simple.

He would become an important link between them and the target they were following. Sirius Black's appearance had given Loki a fantastic idea.

Sitting on one of the back benches in the classroom, Loki waited with everyone for Professor Lupin to arrive in class.

Except, surprising everyone was Professor Snape, who entered the class with his cloak billowing behind him and swung his wand causing chalks to fly up to boards and begin drawing or writing on them.

Everyone grew tense and silent.

Snape looked over at everyone, pausing slightly on Loki, but then he continued to look at the rest of the class.

Just as he opened his mouth to speak to everyone in the same dreary and disappointing tone he used in the potions class everyone heard loud footsteps and a *bang* that slammed the class door open.

"Sorry Professor Lupin, I'm lat-!" Harry's words froze as he made eye contact with Professor Snape whose lips had trembled into the faintest hint of a smile as he spat out the next words, "This lesson began a minute and a half ago Mr. Potter."

Harry didn't move still staring at Snape since he knew there was more to come.

"Ten points from Gryffindor.", Snape said with mirth but Harry didn't move still, "Where's Professor Lupin?" he asked.

"I don't think I am required to explain nonsense just to get you to sit down in my class Mr. Potter. Five more points from Gryffindor, and if you don't follow me, it'll be fifty next time."

Harry slowly lowered his head while maintaining eye contact with Snape until the last moment before it snapped. He then shifted through the desks and sat down at an empty spot on a bench beside Ron.

"As I was saying before Mr. Potter interrupted me, please turn your books to the page three hundred and ninety-four."

Everyone grew confused since this was toward the very end of the book and when Loki finally flipped his pages he arrived at a page with a dangerous drawing of a werewolf.

As soon as Loki saw the page his eyes widened.

What scared Loki wasn't the picture of the werewolf on the page, but the thing hiding at the top, behind the clouds.

It was a picture of the full moon.

Having been thinking about the full moon just a while ago, Loki's head immediately snapped in Snape's direction.

Snape seemed to be waiting for this exact moment since as soon as he met Loki's eyes, he nodded imperceptibly and his lips pulled into a soft smile. The smile one wears seeing their enemies fail.

'He's a Werewolf!'

'Professor Lupin's a werewolf!'

Loki blazed through the rest of the class, his attention still rolling through the revelation that Professor Lupin was actually a werewolf.

'If he's a werewolf then does that mean he's of the chained pathway?'

'But if he is then why did 'Adam' hire him?'

'Is he one of the good ones like Miss Sharon and Marik? Is he trying to control his transformation during the full moon and retain his sanity so that he doesn't become an uncontrollable monster?'

'Is that why Professor McGonagall asked me to 'judge' them before accusing them?'

'That's dangerous. I wonder how 'Adam' is confident enough in Professor Lupin that he won't harm any student or go out of control.'

'*sigh* what a disappointing revelation.'

Loki felt his potion digest from having solved this cryptic puzzle and his potion was now digested to thirty percent.

'What does Professor Snape even want us to do with this information?'

'It's not like 'Adam' will go back on his decision just because people complain a little, and it isn't like Professor Lupin has done anything wrong yet?'

'But on top of everything no student who might recognise that he's a werewolf even has any real proof of him being so!'

'How are they even going to accuse him!? Just shout at him?'

'Given how 'Adam' has allowed Lupin into the school, he probably has control over his transformation, making it impossible for anyone to see him as a werewolf during Full Moons.'

'He could probably just tell everyone that he has a rare disease or a curse or malediction that is empowered by the moon.'

'Thinking of moon….is the moon in this world corrupte- I better not think about it outside the Sefirah Castle.'

Loki caught himself and went through the motions for the rest of the day arriving at an empty classroom after all his classes and extracurricular activities to set up a simple ward.

'Come on Loki, I know you can do such a simple thing.' Loki thought to motivate himself as he designed his first ward.

Spiritually floated out of his wand, forming runes and figures that only Loki could see. Everything arranged itself in concentric circles as it latched onto the window handle like how Lupin's wards were attached to the door.

The runes circled around each other, snapping into place in a tightly knit puzzle that looked hard to break easily. 

There was a rather special rune inside the ward that Loki had cooked up. It was the rune that was behind his chair in the Sefirah castle. The rune was a simple spinning anticlockwise swirl with several clocks on its arms.

Loki then changed his appearance using an illusion and with the help of an owl from the owlery, Loki quickly wrote a letter containing step-by-step instructions and sent it out of Hogwarts.

'Hmm…hopefully my address for Sirius is right.'

'I mean it's not like he has any other place to hide in.'

'And my potion did digest a little after which I double-checked it with divination...I hope he's not too scared and checks my letter so that he can get curious as to what I'm talking to Aurora Order about.'

'He probably will…he's not one to simply obey someone else with all that pride.'

Sometime later and some distance away from Hogwarts castle, on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, in the Shrieking Shack, an unkept man became startled when he suddenly heard an owl tap its beak on the broken window of the broken house.

"An owl?" Sirius mumbled. "Has my position been compromised?"

He pulled out a wand that he'd stolen earlier and cast several detection spells on the owl and the letter it was carrying to make sure there was no foul play.

And once he was certain, he picked up the letter from the Owl's beak freeing it up for it to fly away immediately.

Sirius looked at the address on his letter and his eyes widened, although it wasn't addressed to him directly it contained the address of the Shrieking Shack.

'How did he know I was here?'

'Divination?'

'But I made sure to put up anti-divination spells that'd have interfered with any divination!'

With the *sigh* after having gotten no answers from his mind, Sirius began to perform the exact steps the letter described.

He set up an altar with a single candle and then sealed the shrieking shack with a wall of spirituality so that no one could disturb him here and find out what was going on inside the room.

Picking up the parchment that Loki had sent along with the letter of his instructions, Sirius grew a little curious.

'What is he telling them?'

Sirius carefully cast several diagnostic charms on the parchment to see if it had any trap wards or enchantments on it but Sirius was surprised to find that there was nothing of the sort on it.

It was a plain letter.

'I mean the instructions didn't say I couldn't read, did they?'

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