A long time ago, when I was called Padfoot
Chapter 1: The Coalition
Disclaimer: Well you probably know the rigmarole (story), but I'll say it anyway. most of the places, people, or things in this story come from Harry Potter. They are J. K. Rowling's and not mine.
Background: For those of you who don't know or forgot or whatever, here is a little basic background for my story. Harry and Hermione have just practically shoved Sirius on Buck beak and told him to go. The Last Sirius knows of anyone is that Dumbledore and Snape are somewhere around Hogwarts. Lupin is still a werewolf, and someone is coming back with a dementor to give Sirius the dementor's kiss. Ron is in the hospital wing but will be all right, and Harry and Hermione waited until he was gone form sight before hurrying back. This is from where you last see Sirius in PoA to (hopefully, if I get that far) to where you see him in GoF.
Note: I may have gotten some facts wrong, and if I did, and you notice, please tell me and I will try to change it asap. ~*'s mean a change form me to Sirius and ~'s mean a change from Sirius at the present to Sirius's memories or all vise versa. It helps to clarify what's what.
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As Hogwarts dwindled in the distance the black haired man sank down on a hippogriff's moving back. The darkness of sleep crowded around again. He waved a hand half-hearted to cast it away, but that didn't even slow it. It crowded in and Sirius Black fought a battle inside himself. His gaunt, sunken face grew pale as memories crowed into his dreams. He made a valiant effort and shrugged of the memories and turned Buckbeak towards Hogsmead and the small place in the hills where he could hide until he could move on.
Buckbeak turned and Sirius felt the wind whip at his face and loose, gray clothes. He was gaunt and had just sinewy strength left, and not much of even that. Buckbeak turned and Sirius knew he had about an hour or so until they reached the safe haven. He quickly tied the ends of the rope that led Buckbeak to him, so when he fell asleep, which he knew he would, he wouldn't fall of. He tried to settle as comfortably as he could and get some rest, if not sleep. But he found himself falling into an un-restful sleep, without much rest.
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Sirius was walking on Hogwarts grounds, it was spring break, the whole Coalition was there. The Marauders; James, Peter, and Reamus, and the Applauders; Lily, Zara, Jane, and Karey; together they formed the Coalition. The Marauders had been Sirius's idea, the Applauder's Lily's and the Coalition's James's.
Zara had been his friend since the two had a fistfight during their first year and had nearly killed each other. The rest of the group had been surprised to see the two f them walking out of the hospital wing together, joking as if they were old friends. James had gotten up the courage to later ask Sirius what had happened, Sirius had grown thoughtful, a rare expression for the prankster and fighter. "Not much," he answered evasively, "We just talked," and that was as much as he ever said on that subject ever again. She was a tall 6' teenager, as tall as him and had brown/red hair laced with black and blonde. The hair was down to her calves, and she probably used 5 million spells to keep it out of her way and untangled. Her nickname was "tongue of gold", because she had gotten the Marauders out of more scrapes than any of them cared to admit.
Jane was a blonde girl, 5'4"-ish and "pleasantly plump" as she laughingly referred to herself. She was a county girl and friends with Peter, plus she was incredibly handy. She was artistic too, she could do lots of crafts and could draw very well. She always could whip up some device or another to get Sirius down a tower wall, or rig some set of doors so they wouldn't close so James could get somewhere in his invisibility cloak. They all laughed at the stories James and Sirius had told about running around the kitchen, James in his invisibility cloak and Sirius running around pointing out things that James was doing while at the same time he was mixing up orders while the house elves watched James' antics. One time James and Sirius had managed to delay the closing feast a whole hour. The teachers coming down had no luck in catching either of them, both of whom were under James' cloak. But once Dumbledore came down, they quickly scampered up stairs and into their seats. For some reason, Dumbledore assigned them more homework than the rest of the class when they got back from break for about a week. They learned their lessons well, they steered clear of Dumbledore, who was the only one who could keep them somewhat in line.
Karey had brown hair, and reading glasses. She had been discovered by Reamus literally stumbling over her. He had been looking for some old book in the back section of the library when he fell across Karey. She had been surrounded by dozens of old books. The books, Karey, and Reamus went flying. Karey had been buried in books, and Reamus had landed a ways distant. He went back and dug her out, and helped her gather up all the books. Karey had joined the group with Reamus explaining how he had "dug her up in the library, under some old tomes about dark creatures". The joke had stayed. She had been pulled into the group and helped James and Sirius help the others with their homework. She always knew the oddest facts, which helped the other remember things a lot better. Plus she could go on about this or that and cause a teacher to get going, and cause them forget that they had assigned homework to turn in. Which caused those who hadn't done the work to grin appreciably as Karey started in about some case of "some hinkypunk doing this and that, and this nobody said so and so, and why was that professor?" Afterward the next day, the teacher would start the class off by blushing either slightly or so hard they turned bright red, and then asked everyone to turn in their homework. Dumbledore was the only one who they couldn't fool. When Reamus had prodded Karey to try it, Dumbledore had assigned a 5 roll parchment essay for Karey, about the subject and 2 rolls from the rest of the class. Reamus offered to do Karey's 5 rolls, which she ended up doing half herself in helping him.
Lily was there too of course. She had a quick wit and smile that seemed to tantalize James, she always seemed to have some sarcastic remark on her tongue which led Sirius, Zara, and Lily into some big debate, the others wouold join at the bedinning, but quickly drop out or add a comment from time to time. Each one ended with James gathering enough strength to stop laughing and to put a hand over Lily's mouth, which effectively stopped it. Sirius had been wondering how far it would go between those two. They seemed to be getting serious.
He was walking around the lake; he seemed to vaguely recall that the others were on the other side, waiting for him. He tripped and looked up to see James standing over him, holding his hand out to help him up. But suddenly the hand changed, and the body changed slightly too, though not by much; the eyes became green and the body grew smaller, it was Harry.
"Harry?" his raspy voice queried. " You killed my parents," Harry said, his voice only shaking slightly. Sirius was pierced to the heart by that face and those eyes, the eyes of Lily, his friend, and the face of James, his best friend and brother in all but blood. Both features were twisted into an intense hate-filled contained fury, which seemed to grow stronger as it was focused. The eyes seemed to burn holes in Sirius, and the lips seemed to snarl in a way oddly -familiar. The look cut Sirius deeply. He had only seen James's face that filled with hate a couple of times, but each time was burned into his memory and could be brought up easily. James had always been the peaceful, step into someone's else's shoes kind of a guy, but when his face went that way, Sirius felt sorry for the other guy, unless it was Snape. But how he was the other guy who was feeling James' intense hatred passed onto his son.
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He drifted into another dream. The hate-filled face remained, but the eyes turned black, and the hair slick, and the nose grew longer and curved downwards into a hook-like shape, and suddenly Snape stood over him. Snape, the greasy slime ball, was leaning over Sirius and said, sneering, "Awww, poor little guy, looks like he needs some help," he dropped his baby voice and signaled, two of Snape's cronies moved in and grabbed the still woozy Sirius.
Sirius remembered this day. It had been a warm day during Easter break. Sirius had been moving down a corridor, deep in thought. He saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned to look at a shadow that had detached from the wall, then a fist connected solidly to his temple, he had woken up to Snape's lovely face.
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Well, what do you think? I am working on proofreading a couple of chapters I just wrote to add on to this one, at least two more. As soon as I have written a chap I put it up, I do not believe in the "write 5 extra chaps to relase one a week" thing. As soon as I have one I will put it up. Please r/r QUICKLY (we writers are very selfish about reviews)!
~Kit ;)
Chapter 1: The Coalition
Disclaimer: Well you probably know the rigmarole (story), but I'll say it anyway. most of the places, people, or things in this story come from Harry Potter. They are J. K. Rowling's and not mine.
Background: For those of you who don't know or forgot or whatever, here is a little basic background for my story. Harry and Hermione have just practically shoved Sirius on Buck beak and told him to go. The Last Sirius knows of anyone is that Dumbledore and Snape are somewhere around Hogwarts. Lupin is still a werewolf, and someone is coming back with a dementor to give Sirius the dementor's kiss. Ron is in the hospital wing but will be all right, and Harry and Hermione waited until he was gone form sight before hurrying back. This is from where you last see Sirius in PoA to (hopefully, if I get that far) to where you see him in GoF.
Note: I may have gotten some facts wrong, and if I did, and you notice, please tell me and I will try to change it asap. ~*'s mean a change form me to Sirius and ~'s mean a change from Sirius at the present to Sirius's memories or all vise versa. It helps to clarify what's what.
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As Hogwarts dwindled in the distance the black haired man sank down on a hippogriff's moving back. The darkness of sleep crowded around again. He waved a hand half-hearted to cast it away, but that didn't even slow it. It crowded in and Sirius Black fought a battle inside himself. His gaunt, sunken face grew pale as memories crowed into his dreams. He made a valiant effort and shrugged of the memories and turned Buckbeak towards Hogsmead and the small place in the hills where he could hide until he could move on.
Buckbeak turned and Sirius felt the wind whip at his face and loose, gray clothes. He was gaunt and had just sinewy strength left, and not much of even that. Buckbeak turned and Sirius knew he had about an hour or so until they reached the safe haven. He quickly tied the ends of the rope that led Buckbeak to him, so when he fell asleep, which he knew he would, he wouldn't fall of. He tried to settle as comfortably as he could and get some rest, if not sleep. But he found himself falling into an un-restful sleep, without much rest.
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Sirius was walking on Hogwarts grounds, it was spring break, the whole Coalition was there. The Marauders; James, Peter, and Reamus, and the Applauders; Lily, Zara, Jane, and Karey; together they formed the Coalition. The Marauders had been Sirius's idea, the Applauder's Lily's and the Coalition's James's.
Zara had been his friend since the two had a fistfight during their first year and had nearly killed each other. The rest of the group had been surprised to see the two f them walking out of the hospital wing together, joking as if they were old friends. James had gotten up the courage to later ask Sirius what had happened, Sirius had grown thoughtful, a rare expression for the prankster and fighter. "Not much," he answered evasively, "We just talked," and that was as much as he ever said on that subject ever again. She was a tall 6' teenager, as tall as him and had brown/red hair laced with black and blonde. The hair was down to her calves, and she probably used 5 million spells to keep it out of her way and untangled. Her nickname was "tongue of gold", because she had gotten the Marauders out of more scrapes than any of them cared to admit.
Jane was a blonde girl, 5'4"-ish and "pleasantly plump" as she laughingly referred to herself. She was a county girl and friends with Peter, plus she was incredibly handy. She was artistic too, she could do lots of crafts and could draw very well. She always could whip up some device or another to get Sirius down a tower wall, or rig some set of doors so they wouldn't close so James could get somewhere in his invisibility cloak. They all laughed at the stories James and Sirius had told about running around the kitchen, James in his invisibility cloak and Sirius running around pointing out things that James was doing while at the same time he was mixing up orders while the house elves watched James' antics. One time James and Sirius had managed to delay the closing feast a whole hour. The teachers coming down had no luck in catching either of them, both of whom were under James' cloak. But once Dumbledore came down, they quickly scampered up stairs and into their seats. For some reason, Dumbledore assigned them more homework than the rest of the class when they got back from break for about a week. They learned their lessons well, they steered clear of Dumbledore, who was the only one who could keep them somewhat in line.
Karey had brown hair, and reading glasses. She had been discovered by Reamus literally stumbling over her. He had been looking for some old book in the back section of the library when he fell across Karey. She had been surrounded by dozens of old books. The books, Karey, and Reamus went flying. Karey had been buried in books, and Reamus had landed a ways distant. He went back and dug her out, and helped her gather up all the books. Karey had joined the group with Reamus explaining how he had "dug her up in the library, under some old tomes about dark creatures". The joke had stayed. She had been pulled into the group and helped James and Sirius help the others with their homework. She always knew the oddest facts, which helped the other remember things a lot better. Plus she could go on about this or that and cause a teacher to get going, and cause them forget that they had assigned homework to turn in. Which caused those who hadn't done the work to grin appreciably as Karey started in about some case of "some hinkypunk doing this and that, and this nobody said so and so, and why was that professor?" Afterward the next day, the teacher would start the class off by blushing either slightly or so hard they turned bright red, and then asked everyone to turn in their homework. Dumbledore was the only one who they couldn't fool. When Reamus had prodded Karey to try it, Dumbledore had assigned a 5 roll parchment essay for Karey, about the subject and 2 rolls from the rest of the class. Reamus offered to do Karey's 5 rolls, which she ended up doing half herself in helping him.
Lily was there too of course. She had a quick wit and smile that seemed to tantalize James, she always seemed to have some sarcastic remark on her tongue which led Sirius, Zara, and Lily into some big debate, the others wouold join at the bedinning, but quickly drop out or add a comment from time to time. Each one ended with James gathering enough strength to stop laughing and to put a hand over Lily's mouth, which effectively stopped it. Sirius had been wondering how far it would go between those two. They seemed to be getting serious.
He was walking around the lake; he seemed to vaguely recall that the others were on the other side, waiting for him. He tripped and looked up to see James standing over him, holding his hand out to help him up. But suddenly the hand changed, and the body changed slightly too, though not by much; the eyes became green and the body grew smaller, it was Harry.
"Harry?" his raspy voice queried. " You killed my parents," Harry said, his voice only shaking slightly. Sirius was pierced to the heart by that face and those eyes, the eyes of Lily, his friend, and the face of James, his best friend and brother in all but blood. Both features were twisted into an intense hate-filled contained fury, which seemed to grow stronger as it was focused. The eyes seemed to burn holes in Sirius, and the lips seemed to snarl in a way oddly -familiar. The look cut Sirius deeply. He had only seen James's face that filled with hate a couple of times, but each time was burned into his memory and could be brought up easily. James had always been the peaceful, step into someone's else's shoes kind of a guy, but when his face went that way, Sirius felt sorry for the other guy, unless it was Snape. But how he was the other guy who was feeling James' intense hatred passed onto his son.
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He drifted into another dream. The hate-filled face remained, but the eyes turned black, and the hair slick, and the nose grew longer and curved downwards into a hook-like shape, and suddenly Snape stood over him. Snape, the greasy slime ball, was leaning over Sirius and said, sneering, "Awww, poor little guy, looks like he needs some help," he dropped his baby voice and signaled, two of Snape's cronies moved in and grabbed the still woozy Sirius.
Sirius remembered this day. It had been a warm day during Easter break. Sirius had been moving down a corridor, deep in thought. He saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned to look at a shadow that had detached from the wall, then a fist connected solidly to his temple, he had woken up to Snape's lovely face.
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Well, what do you think? I am working on proofreading a couple of chapters I just wrote to add on to this one, at least two more. As soon as I have written a chap I put it up, I do not believe in the "write 5 extra chaps to relase one a week" thing. As soon as I have one I will put it up. Please r/r QUICKLY (we writers are very selfish about reviews)!
~Kit ;)