Angel: ok... ummm … so I knew it would take me forever to update book one and to even start on book two … so I skipped ahead to book three … I hope you guys don't mind … I just hate the first two … they don't seem as exciting as the third one!
Chris: She's a geek.
Angel: am not!
Chris: it takes you three to four second to recognize the theme song for the Harry Potter movies!!! That makes you a geek.
Hermione: moving on!!! Angel does not own Harry Potter, only Chris and other things you don't recognize from the series ….. HarokiTellsTales owns Kimi but is loaning her to us!!
Christina 'Chris' Potter cackled as she darted away from Sirius Black, he was chasing her around the yard, trying to catch her and punish her for her latest prank.
"Can't catch me! Can't catch me, Siri!!" She called, and he remembered when she was five years old and ran from him trying to get out of a bath.
"Just you wait, Potter!!" he shouted, she shrieked with laughter as he neared.
"Ron!!! Help!!" She shrieked, darting around the boy, who leapt out of Sirius' way.
"Sorry Chris, but I was a victim of the prank too!" He laughed at her scowl as she ran further away from the older man.
"Face it, Sirius!! You're getting old!! No way can you out run me!" She taunted.
"I don't need to out run you, just out smart you!" he answered; she looked over her shoulder at him to give him a confused look and ran into another person.
"Oof!" She grunted, as the person grabbed her to stop her from falling. She looked up and saw her godfather Remus Lupin.
"Uh oh, I'm in trouble." She murmured, the sandy haired man grinned down at her.
"Oh, big time." He answered, she pouted at him and he took her wrist and led her back to the house to make her clean up her mess.
"Aw come on!" She whined, staring in horror at what her prank had done to the kitchen.
"Clean it up within the hour so I can start on dinner and no magic!" Remus said, before heading back outside.
"So not fair!" She whined, before getting to work.
"So how do you feel after a hard day's work?" Harry teased his twin, she scowled at him fiercely.
"You say that as if I've never done a hard day's work." She retorted, he grinned at her and she leapt at him tackling him to the ground, wrestling with him. They laughter, along with their friends, caused Remus and Sirius to smile in the kitchen.
"You win!" Chris cried as her brother locked her into a headlock, Harry laughed and let her go, she smirked and punched him in the arm.
"Dinner!!" Remus and Sirius called Harry and Ron raced into the dining room followed by Hermione, Chris, and Kimi. They all sat around the table and piled food onto their plates.
"So, how much longer until we get rid of you lot again?" Sirius asked.
"Sirius!" Remus scolded, Sirius grinned at the other man.
"Two days." Kimi answered calmly.
"And trust me, it'll be more like we're getting rid of you rather than you getting rid of us." Chris teased, Sirius placed a hand over his heart as if she wounded him.
"Ron!" Hermione suddenly shrieked, pointing to the middle of the table where his gray rat, Scabbers sat.
"Scabbers! You know that you're not supposed to be on the table!" Ron cried grabbing him off the table, taking him upstairs to his cage. Remus and Sirius shared a significant look that the kids missed.
"One good thing about this year that we don't have to put up with Gilderoy Lockhart!" Harry groaned rolling his eyes, as Ron rejoined them.
"Hear hear!!" Chris, Ron, and Kimi cried.
"He wasn't that bad!" Hermione said, Chris rolled her eyes at her best friend.
"Hermione, the man was a bleeding idiot!" She cried.
"Language." Remus said. Hermione said nothing but scowled at Chris lightly.
That night found Chris squished in her bed between Hermione and Kimi, normally the two other girls slept on cots in Chris' room, but they had been watching horror movies, which had freaked Hermione out. Chris and Kimi weren't bothered by horror movies, but they had all fell asleep in Chris' bed anyway. Chris sighed and carefully climbed over Kimi and headed out of the room. She tiptoed down the stairs but froze when she heard Remus and Sirius talking in the living room.
"Do you really think it was him, Pad?" Remus asked.
"I knew I should've gone after that traitor when I had the chance." Sirius snarled.
"If you had we wouldn't have the twins, let it go for now, you know what we have to do." Remus answered.
"I know, I know …. The twins aren't going to be happy about it, especially Chris." Sirius murmured, Remus didn't answer, but suddenly he appeared at the bottom of the stairs.
"Chris, what are you doing up?" he asked her, she skipped down the rest of the stairs to his side.
"I couldn't sleep." She answered, he led her into the living room where Sirius was waiting.
"The movie?" Remus asked.
"No, you guys know that scary movies don't bug me … I live in one." She laughed, Sirius chuckled lowly and pulled her onto the couch next to him, she cuddled up to his side and felt like a four year old again.
"So what's wrong?" Sirius asked her.
"Not tired, too excited, and can't wait for school to start again!" She said cheerfully.
"Never would have thought we'd hear those words out of your mouth." Sirius teased, she rolled her eyes and elbowed him lightly. There was squeaking sound and the three looked down, Scabbers was crawling past Sirius' foot, he reached down and plucked the rat off the floor, it began to squeal loudly.
"Aww, poor thing. Come here. It's ok, Siri wouldn't hurt you boy, Shhh." Chris cooed, taking the rat out of Sirius' hand and cradling it close to her. Scabbers quieted and gently nibbled on her fingers causing her giggle. She felt herself drifting to sleep on Sirius' shoulder as she held Scabbers close.
"Night, Princess." She heard Remus said faintly, she mumbled lightly but was too far out of it to protest to the nickname. She jolted awake the next morning at the sound of her brother and Ron thundering down the stairs with Hermione and Kimi following calmly behind them.
"Merlin's beard you're loud!!" Chris groaned, her friends laughed at her.
"Come on Chris, we have to finish getting ready!" Hermione said, pulling her best friend to her feet.
"For what?" Chris asked sleepily, holding Scabbers gently in one hand.
"The train, we only have a couple of hours." Kimi laughed as Ron took Scabbers form Chris.
"So there you are, I was looking for you." Ron cried, Chris smirked at him before heading upstairs to finish packing her trunk and to get dress.
"You guys have fun, but be careful ok." Mrs. Granger said, it was the same warning she gave them every year. Chris laughed her off like she did every year, Hermione hugged her mother tightly before they headed to the platform.
"Aren't you guys going to give us some redundant warning like you do every year and leave?" Chris asked, rolling her hazel eyes.
"Actually …. We're going with you this year." Sirius said.
"WHAT!!" Chris screeched, people turned to look at them.
"You're looking at your two new Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers." Sirius grinned.
"No, no no!!" Chris cried stomping her foot with each cry, their friends were staring at them in shock.
"Chris." Remus said warningly.
"ok … this will be ok … but we're laying down some ground rules." Harry said, resting a reassuring hand on his sisters' shoulder.
"Oook." Sirius said slowly.
"one you don't know us outside the normal school thing, no familiarity ok! And two, absolutely NO embarrassing us!" Chris stated.
"three: no saying anything about any of our friends, we get to pick who we hang out with. And finally four, and this ties in with rule one: don't treat us any different than any of the other students." Harry said.
"I think we can live with that." Remus chuckled while Sirius smirked.
"oh, Merlin, this year's gonna suck!" Chris cried leading them onto the train.
"It may not be that bad." Kimi said.
"you don't know Sirius." The twins said together. They all found a compartment and threw their carry-on backpacks up onto the overhead baggage area, Chris and Hermione let Crookshanks and Blaze out of their baskets and let them roam wherever they pleased. They were about half to Hogwarts when they got their first visit, it was Draco Malfoy. Chris let out a girly squeal and threw herself at the boy who grunted in surprise, it wasn't usually like Chris to do something like that.
"well, that's a greeting." He said amusement in his gray eyes, she laughed.
"nope! That was a thank you for my birthday present! I love it!!" She laughed, fingering the locket he had sent her for her thirteenth birthday.
"good to know." He said, as she finally pulled away from him, then she gaped at him in shock.
"what?" He asked.
"Merlin's beard!!!" She shrieked leaping away from him.
"what!!" He cried.
"I'm the shortest person here!! When the bloody hell did you get so tall!" She cried, he smirked at her and raised himself to his full height.
"Language!!" Hermione said, before Remus could, Chris rolled her eyes.
"and you finally stopped slicking you hair back, thank Merlin." Chris said, reaching up to run a hand through his short pale blonde hair.
"yeah yeah, you've only been on my case about it for two years." He muttered, shoving her hand away, she laughed and threw herself into a seat, patting the spot next to her, he slouched in the seat next to her.
"Potter, Weasley, Hermione, Kimi." He said in greeting, the boys always used each other's last names, the girls never understood it.
"Malfoy." Remus and Sirius watched the exchange in silence. A few minutes later the compartment door opened again and two redheads stepped in, Chris grinned at her two favorite people.
"well, well, if it isn't our favorite third years." One of them.
"shut up, George." Ron grumbled.
"that's Fred." Chris said, smiling as the older prankster winked at her.
"whatever!!" Ron cried, Chris' smile turned into a grin.
"how can you tell?" Sirius asked, examining both boys.
"she's the only one who can, it's strange." Harry murmured.
"what do ya say, men? Five galleons for a guess, if you win you get ten galleons!" George said, Chris shook her head, they always refused to let her play.
"alright! I'm in!" Sirius cried.
"you two do realize your scamming a teacher right?" Hermione asked.
"it's only a scam if he gets it wrong." Fred teased.
"which he probably will." Kimi muttered, the twins had been moving around the compartment switching places to confuse Sirius. Chris watched in amusement as Sirius looked back and forth between the two redheads.
"you'll never get it!" she sang, knowing which was which.
"so why don't you tell me." He retorted.
"that's cheating, I'm not allowed to play." She pouted.
"I'm sure we'll come up with another game for you Chris." George said, she grinned.
"well, it had better be fun or I'll lose interest quickly." She said with a mock-serious look on her face.
"of course, nothing but the best for our princess." Fred teased.
"Thank you, kind sir." She answered, they shared a smirk.
"Ready?" George asked Sirius, who nodded.
"you're Fred and you're George." He said pointing to each they grinned and held out a hand.
"sorry, that was wrong." George laughed, Sirius grumbled and paid them each five galleons.
"sucker." Chris murmured smirking at the man.
"how do you do it?" Sirius asked her, she grinned.
"It's a gift!" She laughed.
"well, we'll be off." Fred said, as he and his twin bowed to them as they exited the compartment.
"Don't forget my game!" Chris cried after them.
"We would never!" they called together as they shut the door.
"I could give them detention for scamming me." Sirius murmured, Chris grinned.
"they probably want you to. It's what they do." She answered.
"Chris and the twins spend most of their time in detention." Hermione murmured, Chris grinned.
"Ahh, good memories." Chris sighed happily.
"and just what were you guys up to?" Draco asked her with a smirk, she sent him one of her own.
"wouldn't you like to know." She taunted, he grinned.
"Chris!" Remus said.
"What!!!! What were our rules!! You can't do that anymore until we're at home!!" She howled, before he could answer the train jolted to a stop.
"we can't be there yet." Kimi said as she and Hermione tried to peer out of the window, Ron stood behind them doing the same thing.
"It looks like someone's coming onto the train." He whispered, suddenly it began to get very cold, Chris shivered and Draco put an arm around her, they all looked around in confusion, only Remus and Sirius seemed to know what was going on and they didn't seem happy about it. The door to their compartment slid open and floating in the doorway was a creature Chris had only read about. None of them could see what exactly it was all they could see was its pitch black cloak, the cold feeling increased, it seemed to be gripping her very heart. She began to feel funny, like she was fading into nothingness.
"Not them! Not my babies! Please!!"
"Stand aside you silly girl, stand aside!!"
"I'll do anything! Please! Take me! Spare them and take me instead!!"
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Nooo!"
Both Harry and Chris sat up suddenly gasping, they had been lying on the floor of the compartment with Sirius and Remus leaning over them. They collapsed back onto the floor, both of them trembling and still feeling cold.
"Eat this!" Remus said pressing something into their hands, half a chocolate bar each.
"contrary to popular belief, chocolate does not cure everything." Chris mumbled.
"Eat." He ordered, before he and Sirius moved out of the compartment. Harry dragged himself up onto the seat next to Hermione while Draco reached down and pulled Chris up by her arm.
"what happened?" Harry asked.
"Dunno. That thing came in here and everything got cold, felt like I'd never be happy again. Then you two sort of went rigid, Remus and Sirius jumped up and mumbled some spell that made it go away." Ron explained.
"You had us worried." Kimi said.
"And did any of you?" Harry asked, their friends shook their heads, it had only been Chris and Harry.
"was someone screaming? A woman?" Chris murmured.
"No."
"But I heard it! A woman, she was begging someone and then she screamed!" Chris cried, Draco set a hand on her shoulder.
"Chris, no one was screaming." He said softly, she shuddered and took a huge bite out of her chocolate.
Chris stood in front of the teacher's table with the rest of the chorus staring out at the great hall, there had been more of those creatures all across the school grounds, she didn't like it one bit. She focused on the conductor as he turned to them and lifted his arms at once they all began to sing.
"Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
Eye of newt and toe of frog
Whool of bat and tongue of dog
Adder's fork and blind worm's sting
Lizard leg and owlet's wing
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes
In the cauldron boil and bake
Fillet of a fenny snake
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf
Witches mummy's maul and gaulf
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes" one of the toads croaked loudly and Chris couldn't help but giggle, then they were all shooed back to their seats. She skipped down the aisle and took her seat next to Hermione. Dumbledore stood up to give his opening speech and everyone fell silent.
"Welcome, welcome to another year at Hogwarts! As I am sure you have all noticed we have visitors on campus this year! They are the Dementors of Azkaban and they are here on official Ministry of Magic business! They are stationed at every entrance to the grounds, and while they are with us, I must make it plain that nobody is to leave school without permission. Dementors are not to be fooled by tricks or disguises - or even Invisibility Cloaks. It is not in the nature of a Dementor to understand pleading or excuses. I therefore warn each and every one of you to give them no reason to harm you. I look to the prefects, and our new Head Boy and Girl, to make sure that no student runs afoul of the Dementors. It is not in the nature of a Dementor to be forgiving, they will not separate friends from the one they are hunting." Everyone was silent, Chris and her friends shared a look, wondering who the Dementors were 'hunting'.
"But hope is always present, if one only remembers to turn on the light! ….. on a happier note, I am pleased to present Professors Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, they will be taking over as your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers! And as most of you may have heard Professor Kettleburn has retired, but do not fear, his replacement shall be Professor Rubeus Hagrid!" everyone clapped, but the Gryffindor table was the loudest.
"we are definitely congratulating him!!" Harry laughed, Chris nodded in agreement, Hagrid had always been a great friend of theirs. Quickly dinner came and went and everyone exited the Great Hall heading for their respective Common Rooms.
"Congratulations, Hagrid!!" they chorused, approaching the table, he grinned down at them.
"Thank you, I hope to see you all in class!" He said, they could see the excitement in his eyes.
"Oh we are SO there!" Chris answered, Hagrid waved them off and headed for his own hut. Chris led the way over to Remus and Sirius, who were talking with Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape.
"hey guys!" Chris chirped.
"are you sure you want to be seen with us, it may ruin your reputation." Sirius teased.
"oh please, they're too afraid of her too bad mouth her, I think her reputation will live." Hermione said, Chris grinned.
"you should be heading to bed." Remus scolded.
"the rules!!" Harry cried.
"'Sides, I wanted to ask you something." Chris shrugged.
"what?"
"Who are the Dementors hunting? Don't lie I know you know. It's also the reason you're teaching this year." She said, the four adults looked at each other.
"you know we'll just figure it out on our own." Kimi said, Remus and Sirius shared a smirk.
"enjoy the mystery then." Remus said, Chris groaned.
"way to go, Kim! They were going to tell us!!" She cried.
"sorry?" Kimi asked, Chris groaned again and turned on her heel.
"fine! We will enjoy the mystery and when we figure it out, you'll be sorry for not telling us!!" She declared, her back to them, they snorted and she began walking off.
"you do realize it's going to be much worse now that we have to figure it out on our own right." Hermione grinned up at them, Remus and Sirius frowned lightly.
"So much for a quiet year." Ron said, clapping Harry on the shoulder.
"with Chris, Fred and George it'll never be quiet." He answered as they all turned to catch up with Chris.
"I don't like this Sirius." Remus murmured.
"not like we can do anything about it now. You should've just told them. Especially since he's going to be in Harry's dorm! If they die it's your fault and you can explain it to Lily and Prongs." Sirius retorted, Remus scowled at him.
"what are you twelve, grow up!" Remus snapped, before walking away.
"make me!" Sirius answered, dashing after him.
"I'm sure they're safer already." Snape said dryly before sweeping away.
Angel: And there you go!
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Hermione: please and thank you!!