The Thing with Feathers

by Moony245

I knew that I would never forget the day that Tonks went back to 1997, but if you want the truth, I half-expected never to see her again. That is, until one day in the summer of 1995 when a purple-haired witch came to an Order meeting. There was only one problem: she didn't remember me. A sequel to A Twist of Time. T to be safe. Read and Review, please :D

6. Chapter 6: Hope

HOPE

Hello again! I felt really bad about making you all wait so long between chapters and possibly not responding to a bunch of your reviews, so I decided to post another chapter! This one is mainly filler, so hopefully I'll finish writing another one later today, and I'll post it when it's done. Anyways, hope you like this. Don't forget to Review, please!

Harry Potter is not mine :(

Well, time went on, as it always does. I did whatever I could to try to convince people that Sirius was an innocent man. I made several petitions, and after carefully reading and rereading my wording to make sure it sounded persuasive, I would ask anyone that would listen to read it. I was lucky if I got more than five signatures including my own.

After about the tenth failed petition, I tried going to Mad-Eye and Dumbledore, attempting to force them to see my point of view. While they both understood, they told me that it was useless to try to get him out. It didn't matter what I did, Mad-Eye had said, the Ministry was going to keep tightening their grip until they had squeezed out every measureable amount of disloyalty and uncertainty.

After receiving little help from members of the Order, I went to newspapers, trying to get them to hear my story. Even though several reporters admitted it was a tempting project, they said that they were not permitted to take information from someone "with my condition".

I had tried everything I could think of (including writing a book, which ended similarly to the newspaper effort), yet no one besides me believed, or had the courage to believe, that Sirius was wrongly accused.

It was strange. After having Sirius and Tonks around for so long, it was lonely to have them suddenly disappear. Sirius was now stuck in prison, and it made my stomach flip to think of what they could be doing to him in there. Tonks was now decades away, and while I was thrilled that she had made it home safely, it gave me an empty feeling when I thought that it was quite possible that I would never see her again. All I could do was wait and hope that everything was alright in the end.

I'm really sorry that this was so short. Like I said, it was mostly filler, so hopefully I'll be able to post another chapter soon. Send me a Review with your thoughts :)