CHAPTER NINE
Harry sat up so fast making his head spin. He had heard the front door slowly creak open and stop at wall making a slight thud against the wall.
"This
place is seriously haunted" Harry told himself as he jumped out of
bed grabbed his wand and headed down the stairs.
"Who are you
and what do you want?" Harry asked the figure
"It's Remus Harry, I came to check on you make sure you were ok" Remus Lupin told him.
"Hey Lupin, how are you?" Harry replied smiling, his wand hand relaxing.
"I'm good, a bit worried about you. How are you?" Lupin replied.
"I'm
good" Harry lied. "Actually I'm glad you're here I want to
ask you something" he continued.
"Sure what's up?" Lupin
asked him. But Harry didn't reply, instead he stopped dead in his
tracks as they headed into the kitchen. Instead of where his letter
sat, there was another letter. A short letter written in, Sirius'
hand writing.
"Bloody hell" Harry breathed explosively.
"Harry what's wrong?" Lupin asked cautiously
"I don't know but well see this letter" Harry said handing the letter to Lupin "it wasn't here last night my letter was" he finished and before Lupin could say anything Harry explained everything to him.
"…and
then I wrote him a letter" Harry finished saying. Lupin had no idea
what to say. Part of him wanted to believe that Harry and Sirius
could contact each other, but the logical Lupin was telling him there
was another reason for it.
"Harry are you sure you aren't
imagining things? There is probably a logical explanation for this"
Lupin replied.
"Ok Mr. Logical, what is it then? How can I imagine this letter being here, you holding this letter and mine being gone and everything else?" Harry retorted back with an eye brow raised at Lupin.
"You
know you can't bring people back from the dead Harry? I'm sure
Dumbledore has told you this before" Lupin replied warily. Harry
was shocked, how could Lupin not want his best mate back.
"How
can you not be excited about this?" Harry yelled.
"Don't get
me wrong Harry, if we could get Sirius back it would be fantastic but
it's not possible" Lupin told him, his voice full of pleading.
Harry didn't have a reply, he knew Lupin was right, Sirius died but
how does that explain everything that's been happening.
"Ok
how about this you stay here tonight and I write back to Sirius. I'll
leave it on the table and we'll see what happens. If nothing
happens, I'll forget about it" Harry put forward. Lupin looked at
Harry for a moment not wanting to crush his spirits but knowing the
only way to figure this all out was to go by Harry's plan.
"Ok
Harry, if we do indeed get a reply from Sirius than I'll help out
and do whatever needs to be done to get him back" Lupin told him
"But if we receive nothing, than you'll go straight to Ron's
and move on from this?" Lupin continued.
"Deal" Harry said
and set off to write a letter to Sirius. Meanwhile, Lupin had his own
letter to write. Harry attached Lupin's letter to Hedwig and off
she went to wherever her destination was, Lupin didn't tell Harry.
"Well for now we shall go get some food for this place. If we're both going to be here we'll need some food" Lupin told him and they both set off out of the house.
