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James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew were once again sitting in their dorm room trying to meditate. Actually, James thought that Peter might be sleeping judging by the light rumbling sounds coming from the bed to the left of the window.

Sirius, on the other hand, wasn't paying attention to Peter or James. In fact, he wasn't paying attention to anything at all except of the snuffling sound that he just couldn't place. He could swear that he had heard the sound before, but since he lived in a city it could have been anything. He tried to see what was making that noise.

This wasn't the first time he had heard the snuffling sound while meditating, but he always came out of the trance before he could see what the animal was. He knew that he wasn't a bird, because what kind of bird makes snuffling sounds? He also knew that he wasn't a lizard, or (thankfully) a snake. Although he never seen the animal, he knew that he was quite large.

Today, Sirius was determined to see what his form was. He took a deep breath and mentally followed the sound. He had to follow the sound or he would never learn what his inner animal was … he had to know.

It was then that he saw the tail. He was entranced by the way it waved back and forth. It looked like the animal really enjoyed waging its tail. Suddenly the animal turned around and Sirius found himself staring into a pair of deep, soulful, gray eyes. He recognized them as the eyes he saw every morning as he looked in mirror, as he did his hair.

Sirius took a closer look at the animal and let out a scream when he saw what it was.

"James! James! I'm a grim. I saw my Animagus form and it's a grim. I'm the omen of death. I don't want to be the omen of death!!"

"Are you sure you're not just a dog?" asked James a bit groggily.

"I know what I saw. I'm going to kill everyone!" Sirius was a little too loud and James was afraid that people in the Common Room would hear the 'kill everyone'.

"Sirius, keep your voice down. You don't want a repeat of last year." He tried to calm down his friend, but it didn't seem to be working.

"But I saw a grim and it had my eyes!"

"Calm down and think about this rationally. For one, your name means 'dog star,' so that might be the reason you're a dog. Also, it's impossible for an Animagi to be a magical creature. So you can't be a grim. Anyways, I should have known that you were a dog. You always act like an over grown puppy," joked James.

"I'M NOT AN OVER GROWN PUPPY!" he tackled James onto the floor and they burst out laughing.

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