Chapter 3: Blacks and Princes

There is no where in castle that isn't on the map, thought Sirius. Where can she be?

After frantically searching for a while, he noticed the dot named Katja Wagner emerging from somewhere on the seventh floor. There are no secret passageways from there! Sirius thought. Where was she?

As he watched, he noticed that the dot was moving towards the Common Room, so he cleared the map, and sure enough, a couple of minutes later, Katja walked in. After giving her a couple of minutes alone in the Common Room, he went downstairs to talk with her, and sat down on the couch that she was sitting on. This just happened to be his favourite couch in the Common Room and, although he didn't know it, it was also a favourite of Katja's.

"Kat, what is wrong? You can tell me anything, you know," Sirius said consolingly, asking how she was.

"Sirius, there is nothing that you can do. Most of my family became caught up in this country's War after they arrived here, and most of my friends from back in Australia are Muggle-born, so they can't come here."

"It's all right, Katja," said Sirius. "You can cry on my shoulder if you want to."

Although she knew that she needed to get her homework done before the weekend, she decided to take Sirius's suggestion and sat there for a while. Sirius was rubbing her arm, when she winced in pain.

"What's wrong, Kat? Are you hurt?"

"I was bitten by an animal a couple of days before term, and Madame Pomfrey healed it, but it is still a little tender."

"Why don't we go up to my room, and I can show you something cool."

When they went up to his Dormitory, with Katja announcing herself loudly as she went up the stairs (as per regulations), Sirius shifted into Padfoot. Not to be outdone, Katja said, "Watch this," and turned into her wolf Animagus form. The fact that she was still able to shift into this form surprised her, since she didn't know whether her new condition would take away that ability or not.

"That is so cool!" said Sirius. "A wolf Animagus—they are rare! I haven't seen one of those in a while! And you don't have to change into your form every month." he said this last part in an undertone, but Katja could still hear him quite clearly. He then asked, ‟Do you have a name for your Animagus?"

‟No, not yet," responded Katja.

‟That is very good! We get to name you, then! By the way, the Marauders are going to go to Hogsmeade this weekend. Would you like to come with us? I'm sure that we could ditch the others and go to Madam Puddifoots' or The Hog's Head or The Three Broomsticks."

She waited a minute and saw the look on Sirius's face go from happy hopefulness to despair. Then, just as he was about to apologise, she said, "Of course I'll go with you. But what is 'Hogsmeade'?"

"It's the only completely Wizarding village in all of Britain. It's great! There's Zonko's Joke Shop (James and I are thinking of buying stock in it—we buy enough there), Honeyduke's Sweet Shop (one of the entrances from the school to Hogsmeade), a couple of clothing shops, the WWN headquarters, a Post Office...there's all sorts of stuff there. It's even going to be a Hogsmeade Weekend, not that it matters much to us."

She and Sirius then decided to go down to the library to get some work done, but once they got there, Sirius realised that he had left one of his books in the Common Room. He didn't see that there was someone waiting in the shadows. When the figure emerged from the shadows, Katja realised that it was someone who wasn't meant to be in the school in the first place—Lucius Malfoy. This version of Malfoy, at the age of 23 looked like Draco had after the War. The man came over to her.

"Hello, Katie," the blonde, who looked amazingly like his son, said. "I would love to take you for a walk. Hogwarts males can be very charming."

"Sir, I don't know your name!" Katja told him. ‟And my name is Katja." If he's going to flirt with me, he should at least get my name right, she thought.

She couldn't believe that Malfoy's father thought that she was good looking, and was trying to hit on her. His views disgusted her, so his being interested in her was disgusting. She decided to take the polite route. "It may interest me, but I must refuse. I'm sorry."

‟If I told you that I was a pure-blood, would that raise your incentive to go on that stroll with me?" countered the blond menace.

‟I am a pure-blood, and unfortunately for you, I am already dating a 'pure-blood', not that it matters much. All I care about is how nice a person is. Therefore, your antiquated views have no place with me," Katja replied in a steady voice. She was just able to keep herself from raising her voice.

Right now, all she wanted to do was curse Malfoy back to his multimillion Galleon manor, but she knew that, due to her position as a teacher's assistant, she had to restrain herself. Malfoy then asked her who she was dating, to which Katja mentioned the only person possible for that position.

"Black," she said. "Sirius Black."

Malfoy's look was priceless. At 'Black', he had on a satisfied smile, as if thinking that she had made a "proper" choice, but at "Sirius," the smile shifted into a face of anger and confusion, as if he was asking why the hell she would be going out with a blood-traitor like that. Katja could almost laugh. Just then, Katja heard a voice from around the corner.

"I didn't know that you and Sirius were going out," said the voice. Turning around, Katja realised that it was Lily Evans.

"He just asked me to Hogsmeade this weekend. I think he's interested in that type of a relationship, but half of the reason that I said that was to get rid of that blonde Slytherin."

"Malfoy. Lucius Malfoy. I'd be careful around him, Katja. He can be really nasty when he is angry. I crossed him once, and he hexed me badly—he wasn't right until term ended. James got him with a Kicking Jinx."

"What's that?" asked Katja.

"It makes it so that it feels like you are constantly getting kicked on the rear end. James had looked up the spell, but not the counter-spell. I'll see you later in the common room, Katja."

Soon, Sirius came back down to the library. She didn't tell him about the conversation with either Malfoy or Lily, and they started doing their work. Katja thought that if this kept up, she would really set Sirius and friends on a good track. After a while, Sirius spoke up.

"You know your form—it's very much like Remus's," he started. "And your work ethic is very similar to his, too. He's the one you should be going out with, Kat."

"Padfoot, you know that he's out of my league! I mean, we may be some of the most Ravenclaw-ish Gryffindors the castle has ever seen, but I find you to be so good-looking. I am also very courageous. It's not my fault I'm not a dog. Now, we should probably finish this up so that we can spend more time in Hogsmeade."

They finished up their work quickly and went back up to the Common Room, where she called the house-elfs for some hot-chocolate, which they, of course, brought saying, ‟Can we's be getting you anything else, Student-Teacher-Boss, ma'am?"

On the other side of the Common Room, Lily was talking to James.

"Hey, Evans, how are you today?" James asked as he made his hair look wild. ‟Would you like to go with me to Hogsmeade this weekend?"

‟All right," said Lily, almost begrudgingly. The fact that she said that she would go caused James to exhale significantly. He also almost fainted from shock. He noticed that she still looked a little tentative. "What's up?"

"Oh, I just overheard a conversation between Malfoy," at this, James spit on the common room floor, "and Katja. She says that she is going out with someone else."

"Oh, crap," said James. "Sirius is going to be inconsolable."

"Why, James?"

"You know Evans, haven't you been paying attention, today? Sirius can't keep his eyes off of her. I think he fancies Katja." This part, Katja was able to hear, and it bolstered her spirits. Sirius Black liked her in addition to finding her attractive. So the feelings are mutual.

"Well," started Lily, "I don't think so. Apparently, Katja got so disgusted with that creep Malfoy, she said that she and Sirius were going out! Apparently, Sirius also asked her to go to Hogsmeade with him, as well."

‟Man, is he good!" said James. ‟That girl will whip him into shape. I mean, the last girl that Sirius pined after was you."

‟Black was interested in me?" asked Lily.

‟Only until he saw that both Snivellus and I were interested, which took about a month."

‟You know," said Lily. ‟Except for that whole thing with Severus, you're actually a nice person James Potter. All these years I've been forcing myself to see your bad side, but deep down, sometimes a little too far deep down, you're a nice guy. When you ask me the same question for the 427th time, I might say 'yes'."

On Saturday, everybody got a late start. This might be due to the fact that breakfast wasn't even served on weekends until 0830. By 1000, the Marauders were going past Filch, who was in just as much of a foul mood as usual. Katja had her beaded bag, with her Invisibility Cloak inside it, while Lily had a purse. James, Sirius, and Remus just wore their regular cloaks. They went to Honeydukes, where they purchased all sorts of sweets. They then went to James' and Sirius' favourite shop—Zonkos. Katja could see much of Fred and George in the two.

After a while, Lily and Katja got tired of looking at prank items, so they told the guys that they were going shopping at the clothing store. Katja was amazed to see the type of wizarding apparel at the shop. They had concert shirts for the latest "Jefferson Broomstick" tour, T-shirts for "The Hippogriffs," "The Sorting Hats," and "The Purebloods", and normal wizards robes for all occasions. Like Malkin's shop, the tape measure measured of its own accord, and then the employee would make the alterations. While Katja was at the store, she saw the cutest purse with the logo of an Aussie band, that she bought to maintain her cover.

The two witches then went to Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop, where they looked at all types of quills. They ended up buying an Eagle-feather quill and some rainbow ink. They both found diaries that they bought and enchanted with a spell, so that they could talk to each other. It was soon approaching noon.

"We told the guys that we'd meet them at noon, right?" asked Lily.

"Yes, we should meet them in front of the pub...what's it called again?"

"The Three Broomsticks" answered Lily. So they walked back to the pub, where they met their other halves. Sirius and Katja decided to go to Madam Puddifoots, while James and Lily were going to the Hog's Head. Not having partners, Remus and Peter stayed at the pub.

At Madame Puddifoots, which wasn't so atrociously decorated as it wasn't Valentine's Day, Sirius and Katja got coffees and started to talk. They quickly got to the topic of Katja's friends, and she told him of her adventures with Harry and Ron, leaving off last names, of course. One of her first stories was how Ron and Harry had saved her from a mountain troll the first year of school. She then told him that their second year, the two boys had flown a car to the school, because the normal transportation was somehow blocked for them.

‟The Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that year was a fraud. He wrote his books which claimed that he had defeated all sorts of Dark Creatures, but in reality, all he was doing was Obliviating the people who had actually defeated the Creature. It's sort of funny, as Memory Charms were the only thing that he could do properly—he didn't even know how to do a proper shield charm. What about you? What's your family like?" she already knew the answer, but thought that it would seem polite to ask about them anyway.

He told her that there were only a couple of people in his family that he could stand, and that Andromeda, who had married a Muggle-born, was one of them. He mentioned that he thought that Andi had a child a couple of years ago, but he had never seen the child—whose name he thought was Nymphadora.

"The whole lot of the rest are sick, evil, Dark Lord-loving bastards. My mum threw me out of the house last year, because I didn't follow the family's ideals. My house-elf used to try and find every loophole so that he wouldn't have to do my bidding. My cousin Bellatrix already joined the Dark Lord, along with my brother, Regulus. I'm not part of their family any more," he said before continuing on with, ‟My true family is here, at Hogwarts. James and Remus, they are like brothers to me. Of course, Peter, I wouldn't trust any farther than I could throw him. Katja, would you really like to go out with me?"

"Of course I would, Sirius," answered Katja. She paused a moment before asking in a playful tone, ‟How much do you know about Muggle culture?"

"Not much," he replied. ‟Although I did take Muggle Studies to annoy Mother. Why? What do you have in mind?"

‟Muggles have this invention called a cinema, that is like a play, except it is shown on a big screen. There's a Muggle town not too far from here called Duffstown, and it's bound to have a cinema. I've heard that it is playing a great new show called 'Star Wars'. We should go," answered Katja.

‟That sounds like a great idea," answered Sirius. ‟You can Side-Along us to the theatre, and we can watch this 'film'."

They Apparated into a small alleyway outside a theatre. Katja and Sirius went into the theatre, bought tickets for the next showing. Katja handled the transaction because her interactions with other wizards [Arthur Weasley] told her that, if she didn't want to make a scene, she should handle anything having to do with "Muggle-money." They bought popcorn at the concessions stand and went into the screen that was playing "Star Wars." As the movie started, Sirius was amazed at Muggle ingenuity.

After the movie was over at about four in the evening, they Apparated back to Hogsmeade. As they walked back to Honeydukes, all they were talking about was the film. Currently, Sirius was comparing the Force to magic.

‟The Force is almost like our magic, except that they don't need wands. It's almost like they are mages—a rumoured type of Witch and Wizard that doesn't need a wand. And the Force Choke is sort of like our Constrictor Curse."

Soon, the two started to talk about their favourite parts of the film, and they both agreed that the lightsabre battle between Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi.

"It was great!" said Sirius. "I've seen some fencing duels before, but that was better than all of them!"

"I agree," said Katja. The two teens met back up with the rest of the Marauders, and everyone went up to the castle. After a long day at Hogsmeade (and other places), they were quite hungry, so they went to the Great Hall, where they ate Shepard's Pie that was served with mashed potatoes and corn. After they were done eating, they went back up to the Common Room.

There, they continued their talk about their lives. Katja told Sirius that she had been raised like a Muggle, had gone to a Muggle school, and hadn't really known about Magic until she received her school letters from Victoria and James Cook (in nearby New Zealand). This story, of course, was false, because Katja had only ever received a Hogwarts letter, but this helped bolster her credentials as a Muggle-raised Pure-blood witch.

"Naturally, at school, people looked down on me because I acted like a know-it-all, and I acted like a Muggle-born."

Then Sirius decided to tell her about his parent's pure-blood mania, and how he had always been fascinated by Muggles. "They come up with the most amusing things to replace the stuff we do with magic," he said. He then decided to tell her how he decorated his room at his family house. "I've got Gryffindor banners all around, and I even bought a couple of Muggle magazines for the motorcycle pictures. The best part about it is that I put a Permanent Sticking Charm on all my wall coverings. My blasted parents won't be able to take anything down."

As he said this, he look at Katja, who was staring at him in amazement. Here he was, admitting something that he did mere weeks previous, and having the courage to do something like that! He was as surely a Gryffindor. Sirius quickly continued on.

"I plan to save up my money and buy a Muggle motorcycle and then enchant it to fly. That should be an interesting experience, don't you think?"

"Isn't that a breach of the Decree for the Protection of Muggle Artefacts?" Katja questioned, going into Hermione-mode.

"Well, if I was actually intending to fly the bike, then yes it would. But if I just want to see how the en-gi-ne works, then that's perfectly legal," responded Sirius.

Katja laughed and said, "It's engine, and you sound a lot like Ron's dad. He is fascinated by anything having to do with Muggles. He works in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office in West Berlin. One year, I got him a fuse, and he was as happy as James was this afternoon with Lily. I really miss him, and I wish that I could go see him."

"Why can't you?" Sirius asked.

"He's gone into hiding because he's a Muggle-born. If I went to see him it would be a dead give-away, wouldn't it. I'm just so glad that I have someone like you to talk to, Sirius. Even Ron and Harry never talked to me like this. I had to go to Ron's sister Gin to talk about anything. But then she goes off with one of my dorm mates, and my best friend ends up with another one of them. And finally, my other best friend is too damn thick to realise anything about women. Especially about me!"

"Wait, do I have competition here, Katja Wagner?" he said chuckling. "If and when you need me, I'll always be here for you."

By the time this was all over, they decided to go up to their respective beds. She realised that she now hoped that Dumbledore had no clue as to how to send her home. She was rather enjoying herself here, and although she had never thought of him like that before, she was falling in love quite quickly with Sirius Black.

A/N: The revisions started back in Chapter 1, but there is a Grammatical Change/Incorrect Translation here that I fixed. I also took out a small section of the old Chapter 4 (now in Chapter 2)

This is the new and improved version of Werewolf. The story will follow itself better to its own canon. If people PM or review that they dislike the Australian version, I will replace it with the original revised copy (which may not be as well edited)