I do not own Harry Potter I am not that intelligent, or awesome. That would be J.K Rowling. Everything in bold belongs to her as do all the characters.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Frank all sat around the couches discussing the things they had already read about, Frank had tried to get them to tell him more information about what was to come but they weren't budging. Soon enough they were laughing and joking about everything, and the boys were extremely interested to hear about auror training. Frank was delighted his son was interested in becoming an auror.
"I would love to teach Herbology really but Sprout doesn't seem to be going anywhere any time soon, maybe once she retires I could try for it, but I would like to be an auror until then."
"Well I would like to go into the regulation and control of magical creatures, I really think the treatment of house elves is disgusting, I know they like being enslaved but they deserve to have some rights," said Hermione.
"Well it just depends who they work for some house elves have it made, my aunt is loves hers like it's her child or something it's kind of disturbing, but I know what you mean a lot of house elves get treated terribly. You will have a hard job changing that though most house elves would be offended if you offered time off and money and such, and he ones that are treated horribly would be too afraid to speak up," said Frank. "Plus they don't like to admit it but the Ministry is very prejudice against a lot of magical creatures."
"Oh trust us, we know, they don't get much better in our time either." said Harry.
Up in the Gryffindor common room Peter Pettigrew had just gone to bed. Sirius and Remus were sitting in a secluded corner talking about the days event and what they'd learnt.
"It must have been bad if they decided the best thing to do would be to travel back 13 years to change everything," said Remus. "That was a risky decision and still could be if we decide not to change things they might get stuck hear what if it doesn't work for the return trip."
"What do you mean decide not to change things James and Lily are going to die in three years if we don't and I'm not letting that happen," said Sirius.
"I know it's just how many more people died, I mean as horrible as it is Harry isn't the first kid in the world to grow up without parents, that doesn't really warrant a massive time travel trip."
"Do you think we die," asked Sirius.
"Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if everyone in the room dies," answered Remus frowning, "another thing I want to know is why Peter's not there."
"Maybe he's dead too in Harrys time."
"Yeah but Lily and James are dead and they're in the room with us."
"Yeah but if Peter died before them, or Harry never knew Peter or how he die,d then this book won't tell us, and'll be no good in stopping it from happening so they'd be no point inviting him. At least with Lily and James we know how they died, we may be able to change that," said Sirius.
"Maybe but did you see their faces when we asked about him, it seems like they certainly knew who he was," said Remus.
"God only knows, I guess we'll find out though," said Sirius
It was eleven O clock and James and Lily were heading back up to the Gryffindor tower after their night time patrol.
"I can't believe we don't even get to know out son, and things must get really bad for them to come back here, and these books seem to revolve around him, and we're not even there to help him. I just feel helpless," said Lily for what seemed like the hundredth time.
"I know," said James in a comforting tone. "but if they've come back we have the chance to change things, and hopefully we will change things."
"But why did Voldemort want to kill us in the first place, there're thousands of witches and wizards out there that are against him," replied Lily
"I really don't know," said James. "It seems we have a lot of questions we need answered. I can't believe Regulus is there and supposedly helps, every time Sirius has mentioned him it seems he's on course to become as death eaters, as well as Snape for that matter."
"I was surprised to see them there, I haven't talked to Snape in over a year but when I mentioned joining them to him, he never denied it."
"I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason they helped was to save their own necks, because it probably isn't out of the goodness of their hearts," replied James in a disgusted voice. "Runespore,"
"Very well," said the Fat lady opening up to let them in.
Up in the Slytherin dorms Regulus was in the boys wash room getting ready for bed. As he took off his shirt his eye caught the newest addition to his body. He ran his hand over the mark, he had had it since the summer holidays after his fifth year, he would have joined as soon as he turned sixteen if he wasn't in school, but now, now, he didn't know what to think. Even if he did help with the destruction of the Dark Lord, it wasn't going to end well for him. If he betrayed his master surely he would be killed. What was he going to do and what on earth made him turn his back on everything he knew.
He had wanted to join the Dark Lord since he first got told about him years before, he believed in his mission, why would he suddenly change his mind.
He was terrified some of the people in the year above him would find out what he was doing in the room of requirement. He knew they weren't able to talk about what they were doing in the there but he still didn't trust that it wouldn't be found out, and if they did they would surely tell, he knew some of them had already joined the death eaters.
He was scared to go back there but at the same time needed to know what made him change his mind.
All this going round in circles was doing him no good. He finished getting ready for bed and tried to push thoughts to the back of his head, but it was the first of many sleepless nights for Regulus.
AN. Extremely short chapter all because I wanted Regulus to start angsting over everything. I am not 100% happy with it but I wrote it like four times.