AN: Hi everyone by a popular vote of 3:2 (not including my own vote) I will first post the original version of the sequel. If you really, really really, don't like it I will post the modified version soon. Sorry if this upsets anyone, but the vote was fair. Anywho on to the first chapter of the sequel of The Patronus!!
A few weeks after the trial everything was going perfectly for the new family of Sirius, Remus, and Harry. Sirius had gained custody of his godson, but unfortunately, had to register Padfoot his Animagi form. Sirius was staying at the castle with Harry and Remus to help his friend teach. Not that Moony needed it of course. Dumbledore had introduced Sirius immediately after they had returned from the Ministry. Not noticing the stares he was getting Sirius, and being the child at heart he was, he sat down at the Gryffindor table with Harry, Ron and Hermione to join them for lunch, seeing as he had not had a decent meal in weeks. After getting over the shock many Professors had come to congratulate him. In between feeding his face Sirius met many members of the Gryffindor house. Neville, Seamus and Dean looked, speechless, at Harry who just wound up laughing at it all. Why not laugh? His life was looking up for once. Anyways, back to the few weeks after. The two remaining Marauders headed down to the shack to spend the night with Moony. When they arrived though, they were not alone. A large black dog was currently entertaining itself by rolling around on it's back, but as soon as he saw the tow men enter he barked in welcome, then walked up to them.
"Hello to you too. I was wondering if you were going to come." Remus said
At that the dog rolled it's eyes as if to say 'Well obviously'. Sirius meanwhile had no clue who the heck this dog was.
"Uh, Moony?" he asked looking at the dog
"Ah it would seem Padfoot's being a bit slow. If you would then, Harry." Remus said with a smile. The dog obliged by becoming an emerald-eyed, black haired, teenage boy.
"Well you're oddly quiet" Harry said watching Sirius as he struggled to come to terms with what he had just seen.
"Enjoy it while it lasts Harry" Remus said with a dramatic sigh. "I'm afraid it doesn't happen often."
That brought Sirius out of it and he shook his head.
"Who knew?" Sirius said
"I did" Harry said sarcastically
Sirius growled "Well obviously!"
All three of them started laughing, just before the moon rose. As Remus transformed Padfoot and Harry did as well. When the werewolf looked up they saw the familiar amber eyes of Remus, with just a hint of gold in them. Padfoot led the way out of the Shack, where they stopped to see Professor Dumbledore well away from the trashing branches of the Willow.
"Boys do happen to know where Harry is? He's not in the dorm room." Dumbledore said before the canines could take off.
Meanwhile the werewolf had looked at Padfoot before making the closest sound to a laugh he could make. Dumbledore seemed confused by this before Harry had transformed.
"Ah, Professor, I think I'll be fine for the night." Harry looked amused but not nearly as much as Padfoot and Moony, who was still making the slight hiccuping noise that passed as laughter for a werewolf.
Dumbledore, however, recovered quickly and said with a chuckle, "Well I'll be off then. Have a good night boys." He went back up to castle as Harry transformed and the three made their way into the forest.
The next day during classes no one could tell the Boy-Who-Lived had been out all night with a werewolf.
"So how'd it go last night?" Ron had asked quietly during breakfast
"Fine nothing really exciting happened." Harry said piling food onto his plate.
"Well I just can't wait until we can come with you." Hermione said "And don't you forget to call that meeting tonight,"
"Oh, right" Harry said pulling out his galleon and changing the date inconspicuously. A collective jump could be seen as those in the DA felt their own galleons grow warm and vibrate. They all looked towards Harry who was nodding slightly while eating his breakfast.
Later that night a group of kids could be found standing by a seemingly normal wall. Until that is, a door materialized. The kids opened it and went in excited. A few minutes later Harry was calling for order.
"Hi everyone I guess you still have your galleons on you then. Thats a good thing, because here I was thinking I would have to go around the whole school searching for each and every one of you... Not a task I wanted to be doing but this makes it so much easier. Now before we begin any questions?"
"What happened last June?" Hannah asked from the back.
"Last June, Ok Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, and Luna if you could join me up here please?" Harry asked as soon as they were assembled Harry continued "This is the group of prats that wouldn't stay behind and let me go off to the Ministry by myself. Ok they aren't prats, but they are all bloody stubborn. You see I got this vision of Voldemort in the Ministry and went to head him off. Umbridge stopped us, we gave Umbridge to the centaurs. So then we rode Hagrid's threstrals to the Ministry. Where we all got in a fight with Death Eaters. Some... people from our side showed up and helped us in the duel. Hermione had been cursed, Ron had been attacked by a brain, Luna,and Ginny had broken her ankle and couldn't help us anymore, which left me and Neville. Great fighter he is too, but anyways Dumbledore shows up and is dueled by Voldemort. Bloody amazing never seen anything like it, but I wasn't marveling at that at the time, too worried about everything else going on. That's also when Sirius was caught but thats the gist of it anyway."
There were many wide eyed stares at this point but then Cho recovered and asked "Is it true that you put a shield patronus around Black?"
"Yes well actually two, but yeah anyone know anything about shield patroni?" Harry asked
After a few seconds Susan raised her hand and said "Shield Patroni are like a regular patronus, except that they can protect from a distance or around something, kind of like a ward in a sense that you could put it around a house or a room. The only real thing that makes Shield Patroni so rare is the fact that the emotional bond between the caster and the person or object has to be immensely strong, even more so for a corporal patronus. My auntie heard Minister Fudge talking about the patronus you put around Black. He said that it's the strongest patronus he had ever seen not mentioning the fact that it was a shield patronus. And you said you put up two? Wow. But enough about that I want to know how you got close enough to Black, while he was in Azkaban, to put up the patroni."
"Wow Susan. That's the kind of speech I would expect from Hermione. Very good. As for Fudge he didn't even know what shield patroni were until Dumbledore explained it to him after Sirius was supposed to be Kissed. Asked Dumbledore to take it down actually, the idiot, as for how I got close enough to put it up. I just followed in Sirius's footsteps, but instead of breaking out, I broke in." Harry paused as most people gasped at his words he grinned "It was easy really guards asleep no dementors in sight I was in and out. Anyway enough about my summer. Pair up disarming charms on 3."
The DA practiced flawlessly, and after two hours of review Harry called it a night, and sent the kids back to their dorms.
As Harry flopped down on a couch he had the room provide he said "You two can come out now." Ron and Hermione didn't know what he was talking about but they soon did as Sirius and a tiered looking Remus materialized on the couch next to Harry.
"You should be asleep Moony" Harry said worriedly
"Oh come on, I get enough of this with Padfoot. I'm fine." Remus said sounding agitated
"Ok..." Harry said and then added in an undertone to Ron "Remind me not to ever mention sleep."
Remus growled playfully "I heard that"
"Heard what?" Harry asked obliviously "We're going down to the Chamber to get some Animagus practice in. You could come if you want to."
The trio got up looking at them expectantly.
"Well are you coming? It's not like you can get in without Harry." Hermione asked.
"What Chamber are we talking about?" Sirius asked as they made their way down to Myrtle's bathroom.
"Nothing much..." Ron started
"Just the Chamber of Secrets." Harry finished.
"The what?" Remus said weakly as they walked into Myrtle's bathroom.
"The Chamber of Secrets. And before you ask, no it's not just a legend. But only a Parselmouth can open it. Killed a basilisk down here in my second year, stupid thing almost took me with it."
Harry briefly explained his second year.
"Oh, hee hee, hi Harry" Came a girlish voice from above
Harry sighed inaudibly "Hi Myrtle. How are things?"
"Oh going fine for a ghost, Harry. Are you and your friends going down the sink again?"
"Yeah we are Myrtle see you when we get back." Harry turned to the sink.
'Open' Harry hissed. The two Marauders jumped as the sinks began to move to create an open tunnel.
"You aren't serious?" Sirius asked
"No you are." Harry said as they pushed him down the drain. Literally. They went towards Remus next.
"I think I'll just jump." Remus went down then Hermione, then Ron, and finally Harry. He then led them safely to the large main chamber. They began to practice, Harry included. When Harry transformed he noticed something slightly off. Slightly wasn't the word for it. Instead of his usual dog form he was now an emerald-eyed, black-maned lion.
"How does that work?" Harry asked weakly as he returned to normal.
"You've accessed your second form. Not everyone has one, but once you have your second form, you can't use your first one. But a lion! That's a really huge achievement, the last lion animagi was Godric Gryffindor himself. Good job Harry!" Remus said
Just as he finished saying that they heard another small pop. Hermione had transformed into a beautiful light brown, almost sandy looking, wolf.(1) She barked happily, then padded around testing out her new legs. Harry joined her as a lion while they waited for Ron to transform. Thirty minutes later he did as a handsome red panther.(1)
"Wonderful guys! Thats awesome!" Remus said as Padfoot joined the two large cats, and wolf. As Padfoot, Harry and Ron ran around chasing and play fighting with each other Hermione padded over to Remus and sat down next to where he was leaning against the wall watching with a sad smile. She whined to get his attention. He looked down at her and rubbed her head.
"Why aren't you playing with them?" Remus asked her.
The wolf nudged his leg, and he sat down as well. She layed her head on his shoulder and watched the group. Hermione knew Remus felt left out, but was trying hard not to show it. She transformed into herself and gave him a hug.
"We're only doing for you. You know that right?" She asked
If any of the other animagi noticed Hermione and Remus's conversation they ignored it knowing Hermione could get Remus feeling better. Sirius may be his best friend, but there were somethings guys just didn't understand about each other. Remus nodded. She smiled then got up transformed, then pulled Remus into the fray of wrestling animals as well. They stayed down in the Chamber for a while before going back up.
A week later on Friday night Dumbledore came back from a Wizmagot meeting, looking somber. After dinner he called Remus to is office, but Harry knew something bad was going on so he followed under the Invisibility Cloak. In Dumbledore's office he and Remus began talking.
"Remus my boy, the Wizmagot has reached a decision about the law I told you about a few days ago."
Remus stiffened then nodded for Dumbledore to continue. Harry was trying to figure out what law he was talking about before he remembered walking in on a conversation a few days back.
Flashback
"So Remy, what did old Dumble's want?" Sirius asked leaning casually back in his seat.
"Umbridge proposed another law"Remus said
Sirius ceased to look casual at all and instead looked mad and worried.
"What's the hag done now?" He asked
"Nothing's happened yet, but she proposed that werewolves should be" Remus paused here and Harry knew that Remus had noticed him but Remus continued anyway, "that werewolves should be enslaved."
Sirius looked furious and said "That bitch. That probably won't pass Remus. Not with all Dumbledore's friends in the Wizmagot."
"Yeah well, all we can do is hope." Remus said bitterly.
End Flashback
As Harry remembered this his blood froze. Dumbledore was acting somber, and the only reason for that would be that the law had passed.
"Remus, I'm sorry to say that the law has passed." Dumbledore said.
Remus closed his eyes for a minute then he opened them again.
"Now what?" he asked quietly.
"You would most likely want to leave your wand here, just in case. Then an arorar will be here in a few minutes." Dumbledore explained
Remus nodded then hid his wand on a shelf, but then the fire in the fireplace turned green and Tonks came tumbling out. She had to be wearing what had to be the closest thing Remus had seen to her natural looks. She had long slightly curly black hair and grey eyes. She stood up, brushed herself off and looked around. She saw Remus and ran over to him and gave him a huge hug, while whispering apologies. He calmed her down, then turned around, pulled the cloak off Harry and into a hug.
"That never works with me you know that." Remus said as he let go of Harry. "Now go find Padfoot and try to keep him out of Azkaban, Ok?" Remus asked.
Harry nodded then looked like he wanted to say something, but just nodded again and left.
As Harry left Remus looked at Tonks and said "Ok where are we going?"
AN: backs away from slowly forming mob of readers Um Ok yeah if you don't like it tell me, if you like it tell me.
About th second form thing, thats just something I totally made up, because I liked Harry better as a lion than a dog.
(1): If you don't like the Animagus forms I chose I am sorry but it is my story.
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