Chapter 10: Queen Anne
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Ann ran from shadow to shadow, she took her hair out of its traditional braid, and let it out to cover her like a big black cloak. When she reached the library she quickly found a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them she paged through the book and found the section on werewolves, she had left her stash of werewolf books at home for her brother. As soon as she found the section she was looking for Ann tore out the page and ran. She reached the fourth floor okay but that is when she saw a small brown tabby, Ann swore and turned around and ran. Ann ran into the first broom closet that she saw. After she closed the door and took a step she tripped and then swore.
"Ow! What was that?" Ann grumbled rubbing her sore foot.
"Huh? Who's there?" said a sleepy male voice.
"Who's that?"
"Me!"
"There is over five hundred 'me's in this school so tell which one you are and I'll decide whether or not to curse you."
"Ann? Is that you?" asked the voice, then there was a grunt and then the same voice said "Hey James, found Ann!"
"Oh good now will you let me sleep!" groaned a different voice.
"Sirius? What are you doing here?" Ann asked confused.
"Sleeping and if you would be so kind to let me return to ..."
"WHAT ARE YOU THREE DOING HERE!" screamed a new voice from the other side of broom closet.
Ann turned around and saw a pissed off Black, wearing a dressing robe with nothing underneath, standing in front of a double bed in which was a boy laying looking shocked and embarrassed. "What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" Ann screamed back though not as loud.
"I was having a very good date then I hear you come in!" Black shrieked then turned to her younger cousin "And you…" Sirius paled "how long have you been sitting there?"
Sirius gulped, "Well, when me and James came in here we might have heard some groaning…" Black's mouth opened, so Sirius quickly slurred together "butwedidnotseeanythingatall,nothing!"
Black closed her mouth and looked back at the boy that was still in bed and laughed, "I don't know, Ted, should we let them live or not?"
The boy, now introduced as Ted, shrugged and looked to find his clothes that seemed to have disappeared. "So, where are we any way?" James asked, now fully awake at the thought of seeing Black in her dressing gown.
Ted spoke up from the bed, "These is the Room of Requirement, if you really need something and pass this area thinking that then this room will appear full of what ever you want, for example you needed a place to hide and it appeared..."
"Just like you needed a place to get laid and it provided a bed." Sirius muttered, causing Ann and James to laugh and Black to whip out her wand and through him against the wall.
Black turned around to face the rest of the group, and asked "Now why are you wandering the halls at this time of the night? And why did you have to ruin my date?"
Ann spoke up first, "Well I was researching werewolves in the library till about twenty minutes ago then I found what I needed so then I ran out of the library and ran into Ms. Norris out side of this door. So I ran in here tripped on Sirius and you know the rest."
Black turned to James, "And you?"
"Well after Ann ran out of the common room, we followed her but ran into Ms. Norris and we ran in here, then Ann came in, ect, Ect."
"Oh great, so now Ms. Norris is outside! I guess we will have to spend the rest of the night here" Black grumbled, three more beds appeared and the double spilt into two twins.
Sirius climbed into the bed nearest him, and said loudly "Well I guess we should be getting to bed, er, sleep." Then he rolled over and started to loudly snore.
James, Ann, and Black all did the same, well except the snoring.
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The next morning, the five students woke up and went to breakfast, after Ann asked Ted if he would like to join the unofficial marauders. He of course accepted, because Black would have probably dumped him if he didn't.
At breakfast Ann called an emergency marauder meeting for the next day, in the hospital wing. When asked why in the hospital wing, all Ann said was so that Remus could be there.
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The next day Ann stopped everyone in front of the door of the Hospital Wing, and asked them if they thought if Remus was a good man, and if they liked him. Of course every single person answered 'Yes' with a confused and scared look on their faces. When everyone was in front of the door, Ann opened it and stuck her head in. when she spotted Remus all scared and tired she called out "Yo-ho! Hey how's the sick? I brought you some visitors!"
She opened the door open and walked in leading the entire marauder club. Madam Pomfrey came over to tell off the large crowd; Alice turned to face her and asked if they could have some screens, because this was a private 'study group'. Madam Pomfrey pursed her lips but she couldn't argue with a 'study group' so she set up some screens and got the group some chairs. Ann sat in the chair by Remus's head, with Sirius sitting by her, and James across from them. Ann cleared her throat, "Can we have some privacy?"
James nodded and raised his wand and muttered something. "What did you do?" Black asked.
"I made it so to anyone else not in the meeting wouldn't hear a thing." James said proudly.
"Oh." Black said simply.
Ann rolled her eyes, "All I wanted was for some one to close the opening in the screens."
James shrugged. "Where did you learn to do that?" Frank asked.
"I borrowed from one of the Slytherin grease ball."
"You mean he taught you, or you beat it out of him?"
"uh, well he didn't teach me."
"Oh, then I don't know about it, as a Prefect anyway."
"Any way!" Ann said irately "Back to the main point of this meeting, Remus Lupin."
Remus looked at Ann then at his feet; he mumbled barely auditable so that only Ann could hear, "Yes Ann you may tell them."
"Tell us what?" Sirius asked overhearing
"Remus?" Ann asked, he sunk in to his bed and tried to act like he was not there. Ann took a deep breath and said "He's a werewolf."
After about a second for the news to sink in there were mixed reactions. James fell off his chair, Selene whined, "I was sure it was Lunaritetis!"
Alice said to Frank, "Well that explains the new rules about the full moon nights that we were supposed to be enforcing last year."
Frank nodded, while Sirius spat out the Butter Beer he had brought with him all over the floor. Black however leaned over her cousin and asked Ann how long it had taken her to figure it out. Even though everyone reacted in their own way, no one seemed to be mad at Remus; even the new Ted Tonks was surprised but not shaken. Ann called the group back together, "Now that we all have heard the truth. We must promise never, to tell any one." Ann glared at everyone as she said this; the only one who didn't flinch was Black, who nodded in agreement. Ann continued "So now that is settled, is there anything else?"
James cleared his throat, and raised his butter beer bottle, "I would like to make a toast."
Ann raised her eyebrow. "For what?"
"For Queen Anne, the second wife of King Henry the eighth who was a witch like you Ann."
"She was not a witch, and how do you know that? I thought you didn't read."
"I don't read, but that is what the Slytherins are calling you 'Queen Ann' for your leadership in the Marauders, and marauders. Also because they believe that you have brought on this rebellion, and slept with me, Sirius, and Remus."
Everyone laughed, and then James passed around the bottle and everyone toasted the 'Queen'.
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The Gryffindor Common room was in an uproar. Not only had Gryffindor had won the Quidditch Cup, they had won the house cup. Thanks to the countless fights, and pranks the marauders and Marauders and framed the Slytherins for. Now the marauders club had become an official 'study group' and met once every two weeks in the Room of Requirement.
The celebrations had gone on well past midnight when Professor McGonagall came in and shouted for everyone to get into their beds. Lilly had stayed in the common room to study, and Sarah and Elizabeth were trying to sneak into the boys dormitories, again. So it was only Ann and Selene in the room, Ann was about to drift of to sleep, when she heard a deep voice on the other side of her bed say,
"So it begins,
The paces are quickening
Soon only the phoenix and snake will fly
And one who steals will be dead
While others live half lives
Half memories, half dreams and half truths
Will rule the world until
It begins again."
Then it was cut off by Selene's loud snore. Ann rolled over and saw Selene sleeping peacefully, Ann whispered "what will begin? Who will die? And what the hell do you mean by half lives?"
When the voice would not answer her, she swore. Now the world was out of control and into riddles.
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AN: Now! Finally that I got this chap. up! This chap has my two favorite things in it riddles, and the wives of King Henry the eighth. If any one would like to guess who made the prophecy and what they were speaking of, please guess. You won't find out until the end of this fic and that is a way off. Sorry about the time it took to out this up, really! Please review! I don't care what kind even if it says that this fic sucks. Please!