A/N: Thanks for the reviews!
So, are you wondering about what happens after the cliffhanger? HA Well, I'm not gonna tell you. HEHEHE (yet)
ALSO, Sorry, but this will also be another VERY short chapter. This is mainly a filler, because I wanted to show where the loyalties of some of the Light are and also because I wanted to put in a quote from The Dark Knight that I think fits Comedy and Tragedy very well in this fic.
I feel that this story is slowly winding to a close, but I do not know how much more there will be. This fic was never meant to be long by any means, so it very probably won't be more than fifteen total chapters, but my mind and fingers will do as they please.
WARNINGS: See Prologue
This is unbeta'd. If you would like to beta, please contact me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor do I make any money from the writing of this fiction. No copyright infringement is intended.
Chapter 7
As the silence kept on, it got more uncomfortable for Draco. Suddenly, one voice spoke up.
"You know, Draco, I have regretted not taking your hand on the train since…oh, I'd say around when my name came from that thrice damned Goblet. So, since we're here, I would like to offer you that hand you offered me on the train."
Draco, confused at the sudden want of his friendship, looked up from where he had been looking at the hands in his lap, and gasped at what he saw.
.:OoO:.
January 5, 2009
Remus had been sitting in the library of 12 Grimmauld Place reading while waiting for Sirius to come down from his nap. Ever since picking Harry up from Azkaban, he had had a few sleepless nights due to nightmares, and was currently trying to catch up on lost sleep.
Sirius walked into the room and sat down on Remus's lap, completely obscuring his view of the book.
"What should we do with Harry, Remus?" he asked.
"That's up to you, Siri. But I would follow him until the ends of the earth if you or he asked me to."
Sirius seemed to think over before echoing Remus's sentiments.
Remus hugged Sirius close and kissed him. "So," he said. "It's decided then. We'll go to his hideout tomorrow and see if he'll take us, even after what we did to him.
.:OoO:.
Albus was having a bad few days. This had all started when he had brought Harry back from Azkaban. First, Ronald had gone missing. Then the twins and Harry had left. Then Ginevra had gone missing. And, Tom's attacks had slowed down as well, making Albus suspicious of more attacks soon.
So, Albus called an Order meeting. Everyone was there, and they discussed Tom's actions. Talk then turned to Harry, and his actions of late.
"He was supposed to save us," Kingsley said. "Why isn't he doing what he was made for? Why has he been helping V-V- You-Know-Who and not killing him?!"
"I do not know, Kingsley. But he seems to be doing as he pleases, and not what we taught him to do. Not doing what is right."
"We just need to figure out what he wants, then give it to him," said Kingsley. A chorus of agreement rose from the Order.
It was then that Remus spoke up. "Perhaps this is a man you don't fully understand… A long time ago, during the lull in between the wars, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working with the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anyone who had traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing the stones away."
Kingsley looked at him with an expression of pure bewilderment. "So why steal them?"
Remus looked him in the eye. "Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
.:OoO:.
Bold is from The Dark Knight, spoken in the movie by Alfred Pennyworth (what is said by Remus) and Bruce Wayne (what is said by Kingsley)
A/N: SOOOO, I am VERY sorry about the length of this chapter. This is just meant to be a filler to show Siri's and Remy's loyalties and to use the quote in italics.
So, what did Draco see last chapter? Will Harry accept Sirius and Remus? Read on and find out! (But what Draco saw probably won't be revealed until the last chapter/epilogue.)
