Chapter 21

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August 14, 1995 11:32am

Grimmauld Place was scary; you never knew what you were going to find, and inanimate objects might attack you. Tonks was getting rather annoyed by this, and finding a ghoul in one of the bathrooms did not help.

"Sirius!" she said as she entered the living room where her cousin, Hermione, Harry, and Ron were sitting around doing nothing.

"Yes, Tonksie?" he said in a bored voice.

"There's a ghoul living in the loo. Help me get rid of it!" Tonks ordered.

Sirius merely yawned. "Why can't you do it yourself? After all, you are an auror..."

Aggravated by her cousin's laziness, Tonks crossed the room, grabbed his arm and began dragging him to the staircase.

"Fine, fine, I'll help!" Sirius grumbled. He began stomping up the stairs, Tonks and the three teenagers following.

They arrived in the bathroom, where loud moaning noises were coming out of the toilet.

"What's it doing in there, I wonder," Sirius muttered. He waved his wand at the toilet, and an ugly, ogre like thing appeared. It had buckteeth and evil looking red eyes. It stared at Ron and Tonks for a while, apparently intrigued by their bright hair, then picked up a roll of toilet paper and threw it at Sirius.

"Hey!" Sirius said. "Immobulus!" He aimed his wand at the ghoul, but it moved away, causing the spell to hit the wall, where it bounced off and hit the sink, which caused the sink to explode.

"Great job Sirius!" Tonks shouted as she tried to repair the sink with her wand. The ghoul started to throw shampoo bottles from inside the shower at her cousin, who curled into a ball on the floor.

"Can't you three help?" Tonks asked Hermione, Harry, and Ron.

"Sorry," Hermione giggled. "But we're not allowed to use magic outside of school."

Tonks stuck her middle finger out at her, which seemed to annoy the ghoul, who began throwing toothpaste tubes at her and Sirius.

"HEY! STOP THAT!" Sirius shouted.

"Maybe it thinks you should brush your teeth," said Ron unhelpfully.

Sirius smiled at Ron, showing his ugly, blackened crooked teeth; they didn't have toothbrushes in Azkaban.

Meanwhile, Tonks was firing hex after hex at the stubborn ghoul, who was now throwing knives. Yes, that's right, knives. "I thought ghouls were supposed to be harmless creatures!" she shouted as a knife stuck in the wall behind her.

"Stupefy!" Hermione shouted. The ghoul collapsed on the floor, and Sirius vanished it with a wave of his wand.

"What happened to not using magic outside of school?" Tonks asked.

Hermione blushed and muttered something.

"OH MY GOSH!" Fred said, as he entered the bathroom.

"Little Ms. Perfect BROKE A RULE!" George exclaimed as he followed his brother.

"You two!" Tonks said. "You're of age! Why didn't you help?"

"Because, you're an auror, we wanted to see if you lived up to your title," the twins said at the same time. "And it was hilarious to watch." They left the bathroom, muttering, "What a failure."

"Am I the only person that's wondering why there were so many knives in a bathroom?" Sirius asked.

They looked around; dozens and dozens of knives, shampoo bottles, and toothpaste tubes were everywhere. Deciding that it was best not to comment on the situation, the two cousins vanished all the mess and decided to ignore the broken sink.

"What is going on in here?" Remus exclaimed, walking into the bathroom. "Why are you two still in your pyjamas? It's nearly noon! And what happened to the sink?"

"Why are you still in your pyjamas, Moony?" Sirius asked.

Remus glanced down at his body and blushed. All he was wearing was a plain white undershirt and a pair of boxers. "Because I was asleep, that's why."

"But Moony, as you kindly just informed us, it's nearly noon," Sirius said, enjoying his friend's embarrassment.

"Yeah, well, it was full moon four days ago and I haven't been getting much sleep lately," he muttered. He turned and left the room, hoping that Tonks hadn't noticed the dozens of scars crisscrossing his arms and legs, which of course, she had.