Severus looked at the note for a long time. He wanted to blame Remus for the pummeling he received, but he couldn't even force himself to get the wrong idea about it. It had been troubling enough to keep Severus up and awake for most of the night.

As he had plans to be in the library after dinner anyhow, his work on the potions paper almost finished so that he could not devote himself entirely to copying all of the books he needed to be an animagi for when his Restricted Section pass ran out. Meeting Remus was not going to be too difficult.

Even so, he didn't quite look up when the other boy came towards him. He knew he was there, but he was copying and important passage.