CHAPTER ONE : THE GREY BLACKS
Normal is narrativishy, itali. is the smart-mean side of author, bold itali is the other side of author, and bold is any guest that decide to pop in (oh and any thing underlined is more guests)
First of all i shall state the obvious, I DO NOT OWN HP NOR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS.
This takes place in MWPP era and kicks off on there first year. This is my first attempt at a HP fic so i would enjoy any tips and i apoligize if i get anything wrong.
In this story Remus doesn't start with the others, you'll see why eventually, but they do meet early on, or at least some.
I intend for this to eventually be a SBRL slash and JPLE, though im not sure how long it will go for, or if the pairings will be in a sequal
Als-
DO YOU EVER SHUT UP!
Well I-
NO! You've said enough, I'll talk.
But I-
Remus will enter first, followed shortly by the others.
Now the story will start before these two...people get in a fight.
C Remus' Pov C
The newest batch of first years made their way off the train, to the boats, across the lake and before the doors of Hogwarts with the usual chatter of excitement. Most were wondering about how they were to get sorted into houses, the muggle-borns worried about there being a test, while the others told outragous tales about having to fight dragons presumably told to them by older siblings or family members who tried to scare the first years. One even told about how they would have to go through a physical challenge.
"-and then you'll duck under gargoyle statues who will spit fire through their nostrils as their eyes squirt acid that will burn your very skin off! Once you get past that you'll have to climb the moving stair cases-" By now just about everyone was listening and watching the boy gesture wildly.
"What's so bad about moving stair cases?" a red-haired girl demanded of the boy, interrupting his tale.
"M-moving s-s-stairs? W-wouldn't it be enough troub-ble walking up normal s-s-stairs?" a short pudgy boy with mousy brown hair squeked.
"Well essentially nothing, unless of course your accident prone like our bubbly bashful brunette friend here, but if you get to a certain point then it turns into a slide. NOW! What's so bad about a slide you ask!" he interrupted before the red head could ask "Nothing really unless it changes into one while the stair case moves and your left sliding off, to your impending doom, unless you know a cushioning spell or summoning spell for a broom, and know how to actually fly."
"But surely the teachers wouldn't let us do anything dangerous!" the red headed girl stated glaring at the boy.
"Oh don't mind him, he's Sirius, as in heir to the Black house hold, and everyone knows you can't trust a Black! I mean just look at his parents!" a girl sneered as she passed by. The boy, sirius, stiffened before turning to the girl and the group of now sneering gossipers with a large grin that can only be told was fake because of the coldness in his eyes.
"Your family nor your parents determine who you are only your actions do, silly girl, you should know that! But then again we are here to learn aren't we?"sirius sneered in a disturbingly cheerful voice one uses towards todlers "And Lily dear, my lovely Lily-flower, what do you define as 'Dangerous'?" sirius asked turning to the red head.
"Well if you can get hurt doing it then it's dangerous." Lily nodded, pleased with her argument.
"Ahh, yes! But you can get hurt walking, and yet your allowed to; And people do get hurt playing Quidditch, and yet there are quidditch teams, one for each house. Besides if you live your life safe then nothing fun will ever happen to you, you have to take risks thats what life's about, the ride not the destination! Eve-"
"You would make a wonderful motivational speaker, but I'm afraid that we don't have time for your preaching. Single file everyone! Single file! It's time for you to be sorted!" Minerva McGonagall said ushering them into the Great hall. The sorting hat resting on it's stool waited for it to quiet down before singing this years song,
"In times of old, when I was new,
And Hogwarts barely started,
The founders of our noble school Thought never to be parted.
United by a common goal,
They had the selfsame yearning To make the world's best magic school And pass along their learning.
"Together we will build and teach"
The four good friends decided.
And never did they dream that they Might some day be divided.
For were there such friends anywhere As Slytherin and Gryffindor?
Unless it was the second pair Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw,
So how could it have gone so wrong?
How could such friendships fail?
Why, I was there, so I can tell The whole sad, sorry tale.
Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those Whose ancestry's purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose Intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those With brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot And treat them just the same."
These differences caused little strife When first they came to light.
For each of the four founders had A house in which they might
Take only those they wanted, so,
For instance, Slytherin Took only pure-blood wizards Of great cunning just like him.
And only those of sharpest mind Were taught by Ravenclaw While the bravest and the boldest Went to daring Gryffindor"(1)
The upper classes clapped and the first years stood staring as the sorting hat song ended. McGonagall started naming first years, but i didn't pay much attention as i hovered toward the Gryffindor table, i did look up when it came to the boy.
"Sirius Black!" McGonagall called and the Slytherins all leaned forward in anticipation. Every one shifted uneasily as minutes passed and still no house was called, then finally the sorting hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR!" Sirius let out a yell of joy, throwing the hat in the air , catching it and setting it on it's stool before charging to the Gryffindor table.
"WHOOO! SIRIUS!" some girl with brown hair that resembled sirius yelled from the Ravenclaw table.
"THANKS ANDY!" he yelled back, and with that the sound barrier was broken and the Gryffindor table erupted in cheers for their newest member. Curious, i drifted closer, floating right next to him, he glanced at me briefly before turning back to the sorting with a puzzled frown. The red head from earlier, Lily Evens, was sorted into Gryffindor also, along with Peter-something-another, the boy afraid of gave a cry of joy when a James Potter was sorted into the same house as him. Both boys shared a grin before returning to the sorting, they booed loudly when a boy named Snape was sorted to Slytherin.
"Before we tuck in to our welcome back feast i must inform-" The headmaster proceeded to tell the first years that they weren't allowed into the Forbiden Forest, and announced that the grounds keeper had a list of things that weren't allowed ang what you can't do. Lily and Peter payed apt attention to the speach, siruis and james got distracted after 'Forbidden forest'.
"What do you think is in there-" when he recied a shrug as a reply siruis continued "Maybe there are threstals, or hippographs!"
"What about cenatars! I hope there aren't any werewolves though" james said shivering slightly.
"Why?" and i leaned forward to find out also.
"My father said they are blood-thirsty creatures, that are into dark magic." James whisperd conspiratly.
"Mmmmm...kinda like all Blacks, eh?" Sirius stated deadpaned.
"W-what! N-no i didn't mean- i just- i-i-i'm sorry, i didn't mean it like that!" James spluttered.
"Not everything is as it seems..."sirius huffed before turning back to the headmaster, leaving james to try and word an approprate appoligy.
"I know you can't hear me, but what you said means a lot to me." i whisperd into sirius' ear, he shivered before repling
"Why wouldn't i? I can see you just fine." I stared at him shocked, no on has ever been able to see or hear me before.
"B-because no one has before." i squeked my reply after he turned to raise an eyebrow at me.
"Well, i guess i'm just special, huh?" he replied with a smirk.
"In more ways then you know, sirius. Oh, i'm Remus- i mean my name is remus lupin." i say.
He opened his mouth to probably question how i knew his name when James interupted him, "Sirius...mate, who are you talking to?"
"Remus. He didn't appreciate what you said earlier, i think you hurt his feel-lings." sirius sang the 'feelings' part, and i growled deep in my throught, causing him to laugh.
"But...there's no one there, sirius.."James stated unsurely, probably concerned for his friend's mental capacity.
"Are you trying to say remus isn't real? Thats rude, he's right next to me."Sirius growled in reply.
"No one but you can see or hear me, sirius, so unless you want to be sent to the infermery you should explain to the people staring that you have an imaginar friend or something!" i all but shout at him, worring that he could get sent to a mental hospital because of me.
"Sirius...?"James trailed off unsure how to react while the nearby students stared.
"James, this is Remus Lupin," Sirius gestured to me and the people glanced at the seemingly empty spot before turning back to sirius as he continued "he is my imaginary friend. I get bored at home, so i created someone to talk to, it also helped that my mother nearly fainted when she found me arguing to my self. She did faint when she found out he was muggle-born." James and the other kids stared slack-jawed at sirius.
I chuckled lowly before nodding towards then "Are they slow, or does he just have something wrong with him?"
"Hey, james, my imaginary friend thinks you have mental issues." sirius stated cheerfully. A few people continued to stare, but some were coming out of it and laughing at sirius' comment.
"Let the feast begin!" the headmaster called out, and instantly food appeared, distracting people, that boy, Peter was practically drooling.
"Because i'm sure you don't eat nearly enough to not be drooling all over your food." i drawl looking at peter with a mixture of awe, disguest and horror. As i was talking sirius was trying not to laugh, but catching sight of my face he broke into a slightly histarical laughter, causing james to look at him questioningly before sirius managed to gasp out a broken and butchered 'remus' before tearing up.
"It wasn't that funny." i mumbled embaressed.
"What did he say?" james asked curiously and slightly incrudiously when sirius was done.
"He said- and i quote- 'Because i'm sure you don't eat enough to not be drooling all over your food' while staring at peter with a look of horror, james horror!" sirius said before laughing again bring others in this time while peter flushed in embaressment.
"Sirius, your emberessing the poor 'bubbly bashful brunnette'" i say with air quotes around bubbly bashful brunnette.
"So, he was the one drooling, besides, you said it not me. James pass the patatoes, will you?" sirius said nodding to the bowl of mashed patatoes just out of reach.
"But you did't have to tell everyone, take some corn with your patatoes." i say pointing out the corn on the cob next to lily.
"I don't like corn that much, plus mashed patatoes are healthy enough without another veggie to corrupt it." sirius states piling ham, gravy, and some kind of pie on his plate.
"Ugh..could you at least eat normally, with a, i don't know, fork?" i stated watching him pick up patatoes with pieces of ham.
"Forks give off a sort of metalic taste, i don't like it, if i'm gonna eat something i wan't to taste it and only that, not the silver-ware." sirius stated inbetween bites.
"Then dunk the fork in gravy to cover the taste, the way you eat is disguesting." i groaned.
"Thats a good idea remus, never thought to dunk the fork in gravy. And the way i eat is not disguesting, if it was somebody would have said something, and even if they do say something i'm still eating more dignified then peter over there." sirius stated nodding to the boy who was all but diving into his food without use of even his hands.
"They're probably sacred you'll spit food all over them." i stated.
"We're just too scared to say anything incase you spit food all over us, but the way you eat is disguesting." James stated crinckling up his nose. Sirius and i blinked before laughing, causing james to look at sirius questioningly.
"Remus just said the exact same thing not two seconds before you." sirius clarified.
"This is going to get confusing, with you laughing out of no where." james stated.
"First years! Gryffindor first years, over here! Follow me, and stick close!" a gryffindor prefect shouted, causing the now finished eating first years to follow him, all around the same calles came but for different houses.
"Remus, where is the gryffindor common room?" sirius asked as we all made our way up a staircase.
"Gryffindor has a tower, so does Ravenclaw, Slytherin's are somewhere in the dungons, and i always forget where Hufflepuff's common room is." i reply.
"So Gryffindor and Ravenclaw have towers and Slytherin has the dungon? The dungons, how appropriate." sirius drawled catching the attention of the group.
"How do you know where the common rooms are?" the prefect demanded.
Sirius looked at him appraisingly before answering with a shrug, "Remus told me, didn't you hear me ask him earlier?"
"B-but he's not real, how would he know something you don't!" the prefect demanded again
"Just because he's my friend doesn't mean he's always with me" Sirius replied, causing the prefect looked at him oddly for a second before continuing towards gryffindor tower, i leaned in close to whisper in sirius' ear
"You have to be careful, maybe you shouldn't talk to me."
Sirius scoffed "I'm not going to ignore you because people think it's weired, you are my friend and people will have to get used to it!" I looked at him for a second, causing him to shift uncomfortably, before rewarding him with a smile, he beamed back in response.
**FF**
"What classes do you have tomarrow?" i asked as sirius, peter, and james put away their clothes and got ready for bed.
"Potions with slytherin- ugh...transfigueration with ravenclaw...and charms with ravenclaw? I think Defense Against the Dark Arts with hufflepuff, care for magical creatures with slytherin, and herbology with hufflepuff is tuesday...Oh! and astronomy- just gryffindor- wednesday night." sirius stated while he changed.
"So Slughorn, McGonall, and Flitwick? I bet you that McGonall will have you tranfiguring cups to rats or porqupines to pin cushions. And Flitwick will have you levitating feathers." i stated nodding, laying down on the empty bed looking at the wall beyond sirius' bed.
"Flying feathers, and furry cups? what about slughorn?" sirius asked turning towards me and tilting his head.
"Seeing as your a Black-" sirius pulled a face " - and james is a Potter, the i think he'll try to get you guys to join his 'Slug Club'." i said with air quotes.
"Why would he want Me and James to join his- what was it- Slug Club?" he questioned gaining The other ocupents' attention.
"hmmm...I got it, Sirius- grab your wand." i said.
"Remus,what are you gonna do?" sirius asked after grabbing his wand from his bedside table.
" Repeate after me : D'ecoutez a regardez et de regardez a ecoutez alors les garcons peux comprends tu aussi.(2)" i said while making wand movements.
"D'ecoutez a regardez et de regardez a ecoutez alors les garcons peux comprends tu aussi." he repeated with the same movements directed at me, there was a light spark.
"Did it work?" i asked and the resonse was imediant, peter dove under his covers with a squeak, james looked at where i was laying with his mouth hanging open and eyes wide, and sirius looked at his dorm-mates curiously.
"R-r-remus is real?" james stuttered getting over his shock and peter peeked out from the covers.
"Well, i would hope so, because if not then you guys are clinically insane." i drawled eying james.
"Thats kinda creepy, a voice with out a face- or body for that matter." james replied.
"Remus has a body, mate, you just can't see it james- what did D'ecoutez a regardez et de regardez a ecoutez alors les garcons peux comprends tu aussi mean?" sirius asked leaning closer eagerly.
"Roughly it's supposed to be ' From listen to look and from look to listen so these boys may understand you too' if you took out the 'et de regardez a ecoutez' part then peter and james would have to read what i was saying. " i stated.
"R-r-rem-mus-s...w-why d-d-didn't y-you h-have s-s-sirius do the s-spell earlier?" peter stutted geting out from under the covers.
"Then everyone can hear me- at least the boys and he would have gotten in trouble, and i didn't think it would work." i replied sheepishly.
"But what drove you to it now?" james and sirius asked curiously.
"So sirius wouldn't have to explain the slug club to you, The Slug Club is a club of Slughorns favorite students, they usually have some kind of connection that causes slughorn's interest. Like students that show exceptional talent, or have family members in high places, or come from pure-blood families like you two." i said.
"So he just want connections for himself? That's kinda...sleezy." james declared scrunching up his face causing me to laugh.
"Why did you guys boo for...severus...sneverus...snivllus...snape!" i asked trying to remember the boy's name.
"That's fantastic Remus! Snivllus!" James and sirius bursted out laughing after sharing a look.
"But we booed because snivllus is a slimey git-" sirius started
"-who should learn how to use a shower." james finished.
"Oh dear, i believe i've just made life very hard for that kid..."i mumbled to myself before yelling "Boys! Get to bed, you have classes tomarrow!"
"Yes mom!" the three boys called mock saluting me before going to thier beds.
"hey remus, why can't anyone else see or hear you?" sirius asked after they all were under the blankets, the lights were off, and the other two were already asleep.
"That is a story for another time.." i said softly turning to look out the window sadly.
"...hey remus..?"
"...yes sirius..?"
"...i'm glad i can see you.." sirius slurred before sleep claimed him.
"...me too sirius..me too." i wispered softly, looking back at him before disapearing from the dorm.
1 i chose the 1995 song because its my favorite and it's the year of my birth.
2 D'ecoutez a regardez et de regardez a ecoutez alors les garcons peux comprends tu aussi. - roughly it's supposed to be ' From listen to look and from look to listen so these boys may understand you too' - if it's not sorry it's my first year of french.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK!
i told you not to *sneezes* talk
...FINE...I HOPE YOU GET SICK