The night of the full moon soon arrived.
Lupin had felt rather good since taking Douglas's medicine.
Especially after drinking the bitter Wolfsbane Potion and combining it with the seated meditation Professor Douglas had taught him.
Lupin could clearly feel that the particularly pronounced agitation that preceded his werewolf transformations was gone.
This greatly boosted all three men's confidence.
Just after dark, with Dobby's help, they arrived at the Shrieking Shack.
Lupin surveyed the furnishings inside the Shrieking Shack. If they had not seen Hogsmeade a short distance away through the gaps in the walls, just as night fell over it, he and Sirius would have thought they had come to the wrong place.
It no longer looked the way it had when they used to stay there. Although dust still covered the room and the walls were mottled, the furniture that had once been smashed had been cleared away.
Now there was a huge table in the middle of the house, with a hollow center that seemed intended to hold a pot. Three undamaged chairs stood around it...
Lupin looked at the hole in the wall and said with a slight frown,
"It looks as though someone came in through that hole in the wall, and even lived and ate here. I wonder whether they ever sneaked into Hogwarts from here..."
Sirius walked over to the underground passage leading toward Hogwarts, examined it carefully, and said,
"This passage seems to have collapsed. It looks as though someone blew it up. Should we find somewhere else?"
Watching the two of them pass judgment, Douglas awkwardly cleared his throat, then used a spell to clean out the room, sealing the hole he and Bill had made back then while he was at it.
"I think this place is fine. Ordinary Apparition