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Chapter 9
The six 'adults' of Marauder Manor, the majority of them being children at heart, were all waiting for the others to come through the fire. When Hunter stepped through, with Fenrir Greyback, Sirius did the first thing he thought of; grabbed Hunter, and pulled her behind him. Greyback growled at him, and Remus stepped forward, eyes gold and growling back.
"Oh, sweet Merlin." Hunter said. "This is a fight just waiting to happen." The fire lit up again, and Fred stepped through with Hiriko. Fred came to stand beside Hunter, and very soon, Hermione and then George stepped through.
"I think we should go to the main living room." Bill suggested. He led Fenrir and Hiriko, who kept a hand on her mates arm to keep him from accepting Remus' obvious challenge, and the rest of them followed behind them.
The main living room was much larger than the Marauder Den. There was a large fire place, and a large view of the grounds. Hunter found herself sat in between Sirius and Remus. Tonks was sat on Remus' other side, and Fred was to the other side of Sirius. Charlie, Bill and Fleur were on another sofa, and George was sat on an armchair, with Hermione on his lap. Fenrir and Hiriko were sat on the sofa opposite the one Hunter was sat on.
"So this is where you disappeared to. You are aware that the entire wizarding world is in turmoil over your disappearing act, don't you?" Fenrir started, looking Hunter in the eye, after looking round the room.
Hunter just nodded and looked to her two guardians to explain. She didn't want to talk about it.
"I take it you have heard of the Lex Potestatem ritual?" Remus asked.
Hiriko's ears went flat against her forehead, and Fenrir growled.
"Who?" Fenrir asked sharply.
"Dumbledore." Sirius said. "We found out, and came up with a plan to get Hunter here, to safety. The question is, what are you doing here?"
"We were looking for Hunter." Hiriko answered. "We wanted to see how much she'd grown since we last saw her."
"You saw her before? When?" Remus asked.
"Lilly and James brought her to see us, when she was a month old." Fenrir said.
"So that's where they went on vacation. But how did they know?" Sirius said.
"Lilly never answered. We met her and James for the first time about two weeks after they married. The pack almost tore James apart when they saw him on pack territory. He ended up being the first Vampire to ever be accepted into our pack." Fenrir said, smiling.
"They were planning on telling you who we were, but they could never find the time, or the way." Hiriko said.
Sirius and Remus nodded, before Remus stood up. He looked at Fenrir pointedly, and said, "We need to talk." With that, he left the room. Fenrir also stood up, and then followed Remus out the room.
Hunter stiffened slightly." I'm gonna…."
"She's going to sneeze!" Fred said. He, Sirius and Tonks quickly evacuated the sofa, just in time for Hunter to sneeze. Just as she did, the sofa tipped backwards as she transformed into a small white wolf, well small by werewolf standards. She shook her head, and heard laughing. Hunter tried to get up, but found her movement severely restricted. Hunter looked behind her to see that she was stuck under a coffee table. She whined. Why did she always have to end up transforming whenever she sneezed? It was hard to control, and a bit annoying.
Fred and Hermione came over, and pried the table off her, leaving Hunter free to get up. She was stuck like this for at least an hour now. She looked behind her, and saw that she only had one tail now, as always.
"Yes, you still transform into a wolf, love." Fred chuckled, scratching behind her ears, just where she liked it. Hunter let out a little whine of contentment, and flopped down onto her stomach. Fred came down with her, to continue scratching behind her ears.
"Does she always change when she sneezes?" Hiriko asked.
"Yes, she does." Sirius answered. "She's trying to control it though, we try to help her, but not even Mooney changes when he sneezes, so… well, we don't know how to help her stop."
"It's both funny and annoying." Fred said.
"Yeah, the amount of cleanups we've had to do in the store." George said.
Hunter rolled her eyes and huffed. Suddenly, Remus and Fenrir came back into the room.
"Dumbledore must have been messing with us long before we thought." Remus said darkly. "He must have known Lilly would end up with James somehow. He wanted to control the relationship, and then find a way to get them out of the way to get to their child. Any bets that he faked the prophecy to do just that?" Both Remus' and Fenrir's eyes were gold, showing that their wolves were quite close to the surface.
"If I find out he did, I'll drag his death out even longer than I was planning to." Fenrir growled.
"Oh he planned it that way. Remember that vision Hunter got? Voldemort actually was out of control of his actions. He was being possessed by the spirit that Dumbledore controlled." Hermione pointed out.
Hunter cocked her head to the side, and then let out a whine. She had an idea. She let out a wolf equivalent of a sigh, and then started to scratch a message into the wood of the floor. Tipsy was going to have a huge go at her later.
"Yes, Hunter, we are going to reveal Skeeter for what she is." Fred said.
Hunter shook her head, and scratched more into the floor board.
"What do you mean, send her a tip off?" Fred asked, and then looked at the rest. "Oh, about Dumbledore. Yes she will have no problem slating him, I completely agree. Plus, she's in Hermione's back pocket."
"That's not actually a bad idea." Hermione said. "Get the truth out into the Daily Prophet, or at least, part of the truth, and then, when Dumbledore's no longer a threat, dish the dirt on Rita."
"Just so long as I get to hunt her down on the first full moon after that." Fenrir said.
Hunter let out a sound that was obviously a laugh. She was so going to watch that.
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