Author's Note: To ensure the mood, I decided to write a bit about the interview. If you wanted to know why Sherlock changed so much from Year 2 to Year 3, read this. Otherwise, have some emotional Sherlock!
Disclaimer: Not mine, nor will it ever be.
"Look at this!" groans John, handing Sherlock a copy of The Daily Prophet.
Sherlock Holmes, at age twelve, is the youngest of all the Tri-Wizard Tournament champions. Even at his young age, Sherlock has suffered more than most adults. As a child, he has faced criminal mastermind J. Moriarty, an escaped Azkaban prisoner. When asked about his past encounters with Moriarty, Sherlock become incredibly distraught.
"As you may know, Moriarty has been after me for many years. He has chased after my brother and me countless times and nearly killed us several of them. No, I have not escaped unscathed. I often fear that he's going to show up one day and kill off my brother, Mycroft and my Best Friend, John Watson. They mean the world to me. I don't know what I'd do without them. You know Mycroft, the Junior Assistant of the Minister of Magic? I'm so proud of him. He's accomplished so much! I look up to him. He is my role model in everything. And then there's John!
"He's a wonderful person. He came into my life just when I needed him, and he's helped me through everything. I would be lost without them, which is why I protect them with my life. Moriarty will not take them away." Replied Sherlock as he wiped tears from his pale blue eyes.
Sherlock grows incredibly angry as he reads the article. Not only could he never recall saying in his life, let alone in that broom cupboard. Different phrases jump out at him.
Sherlock may have found love in his troubled life. According to Sebastian
Moran, a good friend of Sherlock's, he is rarely seen out of the company
of John Watson, an incredibly handsome Muggle-born boy who, like his
friend Sherlock is one of the top students in the school.
Rita- no, Jenny- Cecil- wait, Kat- oh, Kitty Reilly had not only transformed his curt, angered replies into sickeningly sappy paragraphs and had interviewed other students about him as well, she had lied about his friendship with John. Every sentence dripped with lies. And she had written him with too much emotion. Hadn't he left behind all of that emotion when- no, too soon for Redbeard- when Mycroft left?
"What is this rubbish?"
"I don't know, John, but I don't like this woman. She needs to stop."
People- mainly Slytherins- began quoting the lies at him and making sneering comments. He ignored them to the best of his abilities. John didn't take it as well, shouting at people who poked fun at him and being in a general bad mood when it was mentioned.