Chapter One: Cursed
This first chapter is from Remus Lupin's POV (He's only about 4ish at the time).
Written for The Gemstone Challenge/Competition: Agate (Write about a Gryffindor).
Written for the The Greenhouse Competition: Carnation – White (Write about a character as a child).
Mummy said I'm not allowed to go outside when it's dark. Mummy said I can't go out by myself. I don't always listen to my mummy. And on this night, I didn't listen to mummy. It was night-time and that meant that it was dark. The moon was really big and white and round that night. Mummy always said the moon will light the way in the night-time. There's no sun anymore, just the moon. The moon isn't supposed to matter much but.
Teddy is my favourite teddy. He's a brown bear that I got when I was just a baby. He's a bit old now and Mummy sowed some patches on to Teddy so he didn't fall apart. But Teddy is the same age as me and he'll always be my favourite teddy. I only went out to get Teddy because I didn't want him to be out all night on his own!
I opened the door and walked outside in the back garden and picked up Teddy. I couldn't remember how he got outside but when I got him, he was almost as cold as ice cream! I got him though, and that's good because I would get him warm. But there was a huge doggy over by the trees. It had scary yellow eyes and it was growling; I didn't think it was a very friendly doggy. I wanted to go inside because the doggy was big and scary and I didn't think it was a nice doggy.
But the doggy growled at me and I felt really scared. Doggy's only growl when they're angry which meaned the doggy was angry at me. So I tried to run in to the house away from the big, scary doggy but it runned after me and it bited my arm. I screamed because it hurt a lot and a lot and there was lots of blood coming out my arm. I think I was screaming for a big long time.
"MUMMY!" I shouted to Mummy because she would get rid of the doggy and the bleeding and I'd be okay again. The doggy bites me again and then I couldn't see anything at all.
When I woked up, I felt really tired. I don't know why I was tired but because I'd surely been sleeping for ages. But I heard Mummy and someone else who I didn't know talking and Mummy sounded quite sad. This made me sad as I don't like my Mummy being sad.
"He's cursed now," the other person was saying to Mummy and I couldn't hear what Mummy said because I think she was crying. It made me sad that Mummy was sad but I felt too tired to go and see Mummy to give her a hug. Why was I so tired?
I wondered who was "cursed" and what "cursed" meaned. It must have been a bad thing because Mummy didn't hardly ever cry. Was he cursed? Was it because of the big doggy because that's the last thing he can remember and mummy wasn't crying before the big doggy got there. And he was very angry at the big dog.