Small Note

Sakura: So far we are ten chapters into the story and I'm happy at all the reviews I keep getting. This chapter has one of my favorite scenes from the movie, but I changed it a little to make it fit the story. Plus Remus will tell Yuugi something he did not know... Oh and this is a continuation of the last chapter!

Chapter 10

Boggart in the Wardrobe

Defense against the Dark Arts was Yuugi last class for the day and his papa would probably ground him if he did not show up. Honestly Yuugi would love to avoid all his classes, but he needed to quit hiding. It had always been his dream to attend Hogwarts and that dream was turning into a nightmare. The only times of day Yuugi had to look forward to were the classes he had friends in. Those were the only times he felt like he belonged, but sadly Defense against the Dark Arts was not one of those classes. He had his lover and papa in the class with him, but the looks he got from students in the hall never made him feel better about going to class. This was his first lesson with Defense against the Dark Arts, so he made sure to be early to show his family he was at least trying.

Arriving early had seemed like a big mistake as soon as Yuugi turned the corner. Outside the class room both third year Gryffindors and Slytherins stood in lines waiting for the doors to open. Gryffindors on one side while Slytherins on the other as they quietly talked in their groups. He quickly took note that Malfoy happened to be standing near the door with his back to Yuugi. A small bit of anger started to form as he stared at the blond. This one student was the cause of most of Yuugi's problems. If only the stupid kid had listened to Hagrid. A part of Yuugi hated that he had saved the boy from losing his arm, but the stronger side of him kept saying it was the right thing to do.

It seemed as fast as his anger came it went away just as quickly as a thought passed by him. If he couldn't get the students to like him, he could at least have a little fun. Yuugi wasn't one to pull pranks on someone, but it was mostly because he never tried it. Yami had once told him of some of the pranks he and his cousins pulled on others. Plus once Yuugi remembered hearing from his papa, that his father had been a big prankster. It must run through Yuugi's blood, so what was the harm.

With light foots steps and calm breathing Yuugi carefully walked up to the line of Slytherins. A lot stopped their conversation and stared at him as he walked by but he paid them no mind. Even some Gryffindors were staring his way, but he made himself focus on the blond right in his path. As quiet as a mouse Yuugi stood behind Malfoy and without warning let out a very wolf like growl.

Laughter was all that was heard throughout those halls as Malfoy and his lackeys jumped about a foot in the air. Yuugi had to bite his bottom lip to keep from busting out laughing himself. Malfoy turned with sharpness toward whoever scared him and whatever color was on his face quickly went away. The boy looked like he had seen a ghost when he looked at Yuugi.

Yuugi gave a gentle smile like he did nothing wrong. "Better watch your back, Malfoy. This wolf has a few tricks up his sleeves." He didn't wait for a respond back as he moved around the frozen boy and entered the classroom. Once the doors shut behind him, did he left out a breath and sighed. He certainly got everyone in good moods and he hoped some of his classmates would warm up to him now.

"What was with all that laughter?" Yuugi looked up as Yami walked toward him. The younger wasted no time in running into his arms. They may have just seen each other at lunch a few hours ago, but whenever Yuugi was with Yami he felt better.

"Oh nothing really, just trying to lighten the mood out there," Yuugi replied with a cheeky grin. "I have a feeling my week might be turning around."

Yami smiled at that. "That's good to hear Aibou. What kind of stunt did you pull?"

"It was nothing big, just made a boy out there nearly pee himself." Yuugi looked around Yami to make sure his papa wasn't around to hear that. There was no telling how Remus would feel about him pulling pranks. "Where is papa?"

"Upstairs in his office, I was just getting the lesson ready for the students." Yami flicked his wrist with his wand in hand and a few desks moved to the side leaving the middle of the floor empty except for them. "I think you'll like today's lesson."

Yuugi looked around the room some more but did not see anything interesting except for an old wardrobe sitting tall beside his papa's desk. "What's today's lesson about?"

"That will be a surprise if you wish to join in," Remus spoke out as he left his office and walked down the few spiral stairs to the bottom floor. He approached his desk and lean against it. "So what do you think of my classroom?"

Yuugi quickly left Yami's arms and ran up to his papa. He hugged him like he hadn't seen him in days when it had really only been hours. Since the two started to talk more they were slowly repairing their relationship. There were times when Yuugi felt he didn't hug his papa enough. "It's cozy feeling, but are you sure you can't tell me what the lesson is?" Yuugi begged as he tried his puppy dog eyes on his papa. They always worked when he was little and Yami couldn't resistant them.

Remus shook his head and patted Yuugi's shoulder. The boy let go with a pout and put his things beside the large professor's desk. Since there were no seats around, Yuugi found a nice corner of the desk to make himself comfortable on. He would probably get confused looks by sitting on the desk, but honestly he didn't care. None of those students wanted to be near him, so he would stay as far away as he could.

Yami rolled his eyes at his little lover and went to let the other students in. He pulled the two huge doors open and the students started to file in. They looked around at the room trying to figure out where the desk went, before they just stood in the middle of the room in two huge groups. Yami closed the doors once the last student walked in and made his way back to the front. He moved to stand beside Yuugi as Remus welcomed the class and began the lesson.

"Today's lesson we will have a little fun," Remus stated as he surveyed the large group. "Who would like to take a guess as to what it is I have in this wardrobe?" At the mention of the wardrobe, it gave a sudden shake startling most of the class and even Yuugi. He had no idea what his papa had trapped in there and by the way the wardrobe shook he probably didn't want to know.

Out of nowhere a student spoke up but Yuugi couldn't see who, "That's a boggart…" Yuugi had never heard of such a thing from his small lessons during the summer, but he was certainly about to find out as his papa was glad that someone at least knew what it was.

"That is correct, now can anyone tell me what a boggart looks like?"

As soon as the question was asked, Hermione seem to appear out of nowhere beside Harry and Ron startling the red hair boy. "No one knows," She stated, "Boggarts are shape shifters, it can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us the most. That's what makes them so…"

"Terrifying…" Remus finished for her as he moved to stand closer to the wardrobe, "Luckily a very simple charm exists to repel a boggart. Let's practice it now, without wands please."

Yuugi noticed Yami breathe a sigh of relief at that. It seemed Yami was learning how hard it was to teach students who were just beginning to learn magic. If only magic came easy to everyone, but then there would be no use for schools such as this one. They continued to watch as Remus began to teach the students the spell.

"After me, please… Riddikulus…"

The class followed after, "Riddikulus!"

"Very good," Remus said to the class, "So much for the easy part, the incantation is not enough. What really finishes a boggart is laughter. You need to force it to take the shape you find the most amusing, let me explain…" He looked around the room before his eyes landed on Yuugi. "Ah, Yuugi would you join me please."

Yuugi gave a shrugged and hopped off the desk heading over to his papa and standing in front of the wardrobe a few steps away like Remus wanted him to. They stood both facing each other as Remus gave him a smile. "Now Yuugi, what frightens you the most?"

That question was bound to be asked one day, but honestly Yuugi wasn't sure what he feared the most. There were things he feared such as never seeing his parents again, never having any friends, and losing either Grandpa or Yami or both someday. There used to be many things he feared but after getting to be with his papa again, finally making some friends at Hogwarts, and Yami remaining firmly by his side, there wasn't much for him to fear. "I'm not sure…"

"Well then a surprise it will be, now I want you to picture something funny. Anything at all that you might want your fear to turn into." It wasn't the best example for the start of the lesson, but in no way was Remus going to leave his son out of the fun. The only fear he had at the moment was finding out what his son might fear in life.

Yuugi nodded and started to think of something funny anything at all to make the charm work like it was supposed to. He did not want to look like a fool in front of his classmates. "Alright I'm ready…" Inside he was a nervous wreck, but he wouldn't let anyone know.

"On the count of three Yuugi," Remus stepped away to the side and everyone stepped back to give Yuugi room. "One...Two..."The professor raised his wand and pointed it at the handle on the wardrobe. "Three!"

Sparks shot from the end of the wand and the wardrobe slowly opened. It was dark inside and at first it seemed like nothing was going to happen until suddenly a bloody hand reached to grab the edge of the opening. A figure dressed in rags of a prison uniform slowly came out and once it was fully out did it raise its head. Everyone in the room gasp with a few screams. It was only a boggart, but it also seemed so life like.

Sirius Black stood before everyone in the same clothes he broke out of prison. He looked just like he did in the photo of the newspaper, but the only difference was his hands had blood all over them and it covered his upper body too. The evil smirk he wore was one of a murderer who was looking for his next kill. His sights at the moment were on Yuugi, who stood frozen to the spot. This was his fear and even he wasn't prepared for it.

Slowly the fake Sirius walked toward Yuugi, who wasn't sure what to do anymore. 'This is my fear…' Yuugi thought to himself as he watched his fake father approached him, 'I'm scared of my own father…'

As Yuugi was lost in his thoughts and trying not to cry, Yami feared Yuugi wouldn't do anything. The class seemed to be frozen in fear also and Remus looked like he wasn't sure what to do. This may have been Yuugi's fear, but there was no way it wasn't part of Remus's fears too. There was a brief moment when Yami wanted to step in and stop this, but he happened to catch the new look in Yuugi's eyes.

Yuugi's eyes had changed. They grew hard and mean like he was mad about something and Yuugi was rarely ever mad. Yami stayed back and continued to watch. Deep down he knew Yuugi could handle himself.

"You're not my father," Yuugi said as if a whisper so only few caught it including Remus. The figure stopped as if trying to figure out what Yuugi had just said, but continued to hold the murderous look in its eyes. "You're not my father!" He shouted this time wanting to get that point across to everyone in the room.

"Riddikulus!" The charm was casted so quickly and easily without the use of a wand as Yuugi continued to glare at the thing in front of him. It reeled back a little and started to change. Before everyone's eyes the new Sirius Black had fake dog ears sitting on top its head, a fake tail attached to his pants, and paint on his nose to make it appear black with whiskers. The prison uniform changed to a simple black shirt and black pants and there was no more blood.

No one knows where the laughter started, but once someone started it everyone joined in. The boggart moved backwards unsure of what was going on. A small smile made its way onto Yuugi's face as he turned to look at his papa. Remus shared the same smile and clapped for a job well done.

"Excellent! Now everyone line up," Remus turned to an old record player behind him and played some music as the third years all tried to line up and have a turn.

Each student would walk up and the boggart would change into what they feared the most. Then the student would change it into something funny causing the whole class to laugh. Yuugi had taken his place back sitting on the desk beside Yami as he watched the boggart change from professor Snape, to a spider, to a snake, to a mummy, to a banshee, to a severed hand, to a rat, and the list kept going. It was about when they were half way through the students when Harry stepped up and Yuugi was curious to see what the boy feared.

In front of everyone's eyes the boggart took a moment before changing into the oddest thing Yuugi had ever seen. It was a hooded figure floating in midair and was reaching a skeletal hand out for Harry while leaning its hooded face closer to the boy. Remus seemed to know what it was as he quickly placed himself in front of Harry and the boggart quickly changed shape again.

Everyone looked on confused as a silvery-white orb looking almost like the moon hanging in the air in front of Remus, who said, "Riddikulus!" The orb turned into a balloon which flew around the room as it lost air, before Remus finally sent it back into the wardrobe and locked it with the flick of his wand.

"Excellent!" cried the professor as the class broke into applause. "Well done, everyone… let me see five points to Gryffindor for every person to tackle the boggart…." He went on to give out points to others who may have answered questions, a few Slytherins who tackled the boggart and then gave them a short homework assignment due for next lesson.

Yuugi watched as the class filed out for the day, before giving Yami a kiss. He hopped of the desk and grabbed his bag before making his way over to his papa. They stood beside each other for a moment as the last of the students left and then Yuugi turned to his papa. "If it's okay with you, I wouldn't mind dinner in our common room. I would like to talk with you about a few things."

Remus agreed and gave his son a brief hug before watching him leave. He closed the door behind Yuugi then turned back to where Yami stood waiting by the wardrobe. "That's the only class the boggart will be of any use. I'll let Dumbledore know that it needs removal from the castle." He explained as he went to work putting the desk back where they belong.

Yami nodded, but continued to stare at the wardrobe. It was amazing how much one little boggart could affect people like Yuugi and Remus. Yuugi had an unknown fear about his father, while Remus's true fear was the full moon. They both had so much pain in their lives and he wished he could do something to lessen it more. One time a boggart had happened to get into the basement of his family home and scared the crap out of Yami when he was only ten. That was when he had a huge fear of snakes since he was almost bitten when he was seven. When a six foot tall snake comes out of your basement, who wouldn't run away screaming. Now, Yami was not even going to try and see what his new fear would be, because it could be anything just like Yuugi's had been. No Yami had enough to deal with at the moment worrying over his partner.

Dinner that night in the common room ended up being fairly quiet between the three. Yami tried to make conversation with Yuugi asking him about his other classes, but it seemed the only thing on Yuugi's mind was the boggart. There was no talk about the boggart however until after supper when they ate dessert. Over a cup of tea and some cheesecake did Remus finally bring up the topic that both he and his son were dreading.

"Do you really fear your father, Yuugi?" Remus asked and had this look like he didn't even want to ask it. As much as Yuugi preached about how his father had to be innocent and that he was a good man. By the look of the boggart today it told a whole different story of what was going on in the younger's head.

Yuugi shook his head, "No I don't. I know my father is innocent, I just have stuck in my head everything that everyone has told me." He put his fork down not feeling all the up for dessert anymore. "I see those pictures of him in my head and I know what the ministry has told everyone is not true. However I guess deep down I fear that they are telling the truth."

Yami looked toward Remus. "I've heard the stories, but was there really any true evidence that Sirius did all of that?" He wanted to believe the ministry wouldn't just lock up an innocent man for no reason. His parents worked for the ministry and if it was corrupt he wanted them to stay safe.

"I heard there was evidence, but was never shown any no matter how much I wanted to see it." Remus explained as he wrapped his hands around the now cooling cup of tea. "That day will always haunt me, because I remember Sirius had come home upset over something. I hadn't seen him in a few days and I had been worried sick that something terrible had happened to him. We had friends who were killed a few days earlier and I feared the same had happened to him but no one had come to inform me that Sirius was dead." He looked to Yuugi to see his son was looking at him listening to every word he said. The boy deserved the real truth so he continued on. "It was nearing your bedtime, but Sirius was always the one to rock you to sleep. Over those few days I just waited until you feel asleep on your own since nothing else worked. That night however Sirius came barging in through the front door startling me and waking you when I almost had you asleep. He went straight upstairs toward the bedroom and I followed with you in my arms. The whole time he was rummaging through drawers and packing bags, he kept yelling at me that it wasn't safe and he had to go away for a while. You kept crying and reaching out for him, but he paid no mind to my questions or your cries…."

Yuugi nodded. "I may have only been three, but somehow I still remember bits of that night. People from the ministry came not long after and took my father away didn't they?"

"Yes, I couldn't make head or tails of what was going on. It was chaos that night and I had you to worry about, but I wanted to know why Sirius was being taken away. It wasn't until the next day when the minister himself came to the home and told me of Sirius's crimes. A day or so after that, others came and took you away saying the home wasn't safe, but that was far from the truth." Remus reached across the small table and held one of Yuugi's hands. "A werewolf would never hurt his pups for any reason. They were just lucky it wasn't the full moon or you would have never been taken from me."

The younger couldn't help the smile that came to his face at those words. He had no doubt that his papa would have protected him from anyone who tried to take him away. "I know this might be bringing up bad memories. However Dumbledore told me my father was accused of telling someone known as Voldermort the location of a family he was supposed to keep secret. Those friends you mentioned before were they apart of that family?"

"I'm not surprised Dumbledore told you most of what happened and it wouldn't be wise to say Voldermort's name out loud. Some still fear the name even though he is considered dead." Remus mentioned before returning to the question asked, "Yes, the family that was killed was a husband and wife by the names of Lily and James Potter. Lily and I had been close friends before I met and became close to Sirius. Sirius and James were the best of friends and it was thanks to James that Sirius had some place to go after his third year. My parents never approve of our relationship and when Sirius's mother died he had nowhere else to go. Lily and James were both dear friends of ours and it hurt us deeply when they died. That was why I was so worried when Sirius disappeared for those few days."

Yuugi took in every word that was said but one word stuck out. "Potter..? They aren't related to Harry Potter are they?"

Remus nodded. "Harry was their son. He was placed in the care of his aunt and uncle after his parents were killed. I almost thought Sirius would get custody of the boy since he was named Harry's godfather. Then the arrest happened so I knew Harry wouldn't be coming to live with us."

The news shocked Yuugi. If Sirius hadn't been accused of having a hand in the Potters death, then he would have maybe had a younger brother. There was still the part of Remus being a werewolf so there was a high chance he wouldn't have been placed in there care if he had an aunt and uncle who could take him in. "So was that why you stepped in front of the boggart for him?" Remus hadn't stepped in front of the boggart for Yuugi, but he did for Harry and that made Yuugi feel a little less loved at the moment.

"No, that was not it at all. I was overcome with shock at what the boggart turned in to for you, plus I knew you were strong and could change that nightmare into something happy. "Remus squeezed Yuugi's hand to reassure him. "Harry may not be my son, but I've always kept an eye on him just like I did with you even through neither of you were aware of it. Harry has an aunt and uncle who hate him and what he is, so when he comes to Hogwarts he has a place to get away. If anything I would love for the two of you to be friends. Both of you have been through so much in your short amount of years and it isn't fair to either of you."

"What was his fear?" Yuugi asked although he was still mad at Harry for hogging his papa. Harry may have been through a lot, but a possessive side of Yuugi didn't know he had wanted his parents all to himself.

"A dementor, he witnessed one on the train here and it left an impact on him. Even though it was a fake one, they still have the same effects of a real dementor. Dementors make a person relive their worst nightmare sometimes and seem to take all the happiness away." Remus explained to them as he let go of Yuugi's hand to finish his tea. "I wanted the class to be fun so I had to put a stop to it."

Yami who had been silent the whole time startle the two by speaking up, "So you fear the full moon?"

Remus nodded. "It would seem silly to most, but to a werewolf like myself it's one of the few things I fear the most. Some werewolves embrace the full moon while I would prefer to be a normal human." He took another look at Yuugi and had this sad look in his eyes. "I wish my curse wouldn't have passed onto my son, but it's good to know he embraces the wolf within him."

Yuugi couldn't stop the smile that came to his face. "I'm proud of who I am and who my parents are."

Those words lifted some tension that had grown in the air and after a few moments of silences while Yuugi finished his dessert, they all decided to call it a night. Remus retired to his room, while Yami stayed up with Yuugi by the fireplace for a little while longer before they retired to their room. The day had been interesting and Yuugi could only hope the follow months he had at Hogwarts would get batter.

Sakura: I realize Neville was supposed to be the guinea pig to try the boggart first, but I decided to change it up. It took me forever to figure out what to make Yuugi's fear, but then I figured the best one would be his own father. As much as he wanted to believe his father is innocent, he hasn't been shown any proof that Sirius did not kill his friends.

I also decided to add Yuugi learning a little about Harry since I have something planned to bring those two close soon enough. As the story goes along Yuugi will continue to learn more and more about his parents past along with more about his own childhood, since the few pictures Yuugi has can only tell so much.

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