Presented as the contents of an old shoebox under Remus Lupin's bed, The Shoebox Project tells the story of Marauders-era Hogwarts through letters, photographs, and diary entries.
"This story will lift you up and make your life a little better, and...
Part Five Losing Moony Four photographs, many notes, and part of a journal.
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The three boys gather under the shade of a low hanging tree and watch the limbs of the Whomping Willow shift of their own accord. The breeze stirred up by the sentient, mammoth creature makes the chill air yet more chill. The boys are purposeful in their actions; they do not allow the night to make them feel as if they are ant-sized shadows scurrying from one hiding place to another. They are themselves even in the warped truths of nighttime. They areindependent of the moon. They are lucky.
The tallest boy adjusts his glasses, catching moonlight sharply along the glass. He flashes like an unexpected star.A shorter boy watches the aimless, searching motions of the willow branches thrashing against the sky. He is often afraid of the metal smell on the air. The third boy paces near them, counting silently to himself each step. He is impatient, an awkward jangle of energy.
The moon is consumed by the momentary clouds, which cast the grounds in shade after shade of darkness. "Now,"the tallest boy says. The shift in the wind echoes his words over the bending grass. "Now," he says, a little sharper, the edge in his voice like the edge in the wind, and the two others glance at him and at each other, and the third boy,the restless dark boy, nods sharply. And then their shadows, dark against deeper dark, twist. They change.
