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Wolfstar June 16, word count 340

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The street was crawling with undercover Aurors. Remus didn’t need to be able to smell their magic to know. They stuck out like sore thumbs. One was wearing riding jodhpurs and a cricket jumper for crying out loud, and don’t get him started on the one wearing a skirt as a top. It was a good thing that he was under the invisibility cloak. 

He and Padfoot moved as inconspicuously through the crowd as possible. Remus had to be careful not to walk into anyone, but thankfully, the enormous, shaggy, black dog with no visible owner walking down the street was just scary looking enough that people were giving it a wide berth. 

They got to the part of the street that Remus recognised from Sirius’s memory, and Padfoot put his nose to the ground. The magical clean-up team had done a good job hiding all traces of magic use, and the Muggle road team were well on their way to starting to fix the road; they had a barrier up at least, and there was a works van with at least one man in a high-vis vest in it.

Padfoot began whining, and Remus looked down. Padfoot had moved away from his side and was pawing at the iron drain cover. Remus bent down, being careful to make sure his body was totally covered, and looked into the drain. There, caught on a rusty flake of iron, was a clump of rodent hair.

Very carefully, Remus collected it, placing it inside a clean handkerchief and storing it safely in his pocket. If this was Wormtail’s fur, then they might be able to use a tracking spell on it and find the rat. 

“Can you sense anything else?” Remus whispered, knowing Padfoot would be able to hear him. The dog gave the drain one last sniff, but snorted out a breath through his nostrils. That was a no then. “Let’s get out of here,” Remus told him, and the dog bounded off down the street, the Auror’s none the wiser. 

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