Chapter 55

Chatting at Hagrid's

Sirius and Remus climbed back though the statue. They weren't surprised to see the paintings still fighting. They laughed before walking off.

"Do you have any idea how awesome this is? We can leave when ever we want."

"You know what I'm going to say about that."

"Ya, ya, I know we have to make sure we can't get caught and we can't stay long. But still…" He didn't continue, he knew he didn't have too. "It's an easy cure for boredom. And even better, anytime we need an…" He paused as they walked into a room with other students and waited till they left the room to continue. "Anytime we need potion ingredients for one of our pranks we don't have to risk getting caught by Slugbreath to get it" Remus thought about this for a moment.

"You do have a point. We won't have to steal anything anymore, now that we can just buy it. But not everyone is as easily bribed as the bartender, Sirius. How do you plan on keeping them from telling?"

"Easy. If they tell on us we can't buy stuff from them anymore. So they'd be loosing money. Not everyone can be bribed no, but shopkeepers need to make a living don't they?" Sirius smirked, causing Remus to sigh.

"I really don't think I need to repeat myself, but you really scare me sometimes."

"I scare a lot of people. Peter runs every time I get mad, and we live together." Sirius laughed

"Peter doesn't count. Snow piles scare Peter." Remus reminded him, remembering how Peter completely avoided large pileups of snow when they were going to visit Hagrid. That was when James found out Sirius had never played in snow before, they still hadn't had a chance to have that snow fight.

"Very true." Sirius nodded. "Oh we should go visit Hagrid, he said he'd let us feed his pet thing." Sirius said excitedly.

"I think that's a life experience I could live without." Remus said, but sighed and followed him out anyway.

Hagrid was already outside when they got there. Before they could say hi to him they heard a barrage of barks coming from the back yard. Sirius' smile widened. He ran over to greet 'his' puppy.

"I wish animals liked me that much." Remus said watching Sirius wrestle with the three headed dog, inappropriately named Fluffy.

"Yer can't really blame them." Hagrid winked at him. "Yer a darn scary thing yer are." Remus just laughed.

"Can I untie them Hagrid. I won't let them leave the yard." Sirius asked, barely able to push the large dog off of him.

"Yer catching 'em if he runs off." Hagrid answered. Sirius just nodded and let the dog loose. It didn't go anywhere, just jumped back on Sirius.

Remus laughed, Sirius looked just as much like the dog, as the dog did. Maybe more, since that dog had three heads. Sirius acted more like a dog then him, but he actually was one, at least he was once a month. Maybe that's one of the reasons Sirius liked him so much, Sirius just liked mutts.

Sirius stood, trying to keep Fluffy from pulling him back down.

"What ar' yer gettin' everyon' for Christmas?" Hagrid asked, mostly trying to make conversation.

"I'm not sure yet really. I'd like to get my parents something nice, but I don't really have a whole lot of money to do that."

"I.."

"I know Sirius, but I'd really rather not barrow it from you."

"Didn't really think you would." Sirius shrugged it off. "I'm giving Peter a Spell book. Something really, really easy." Remus laughed.

"Getting tired of teaching him?"

"I totally understand why James gave up."

"I must say though, you are much better at it then he is."

"Really? I don't know about that."

"Believe what you want." Remus shrugged.

"Why didn' you go home Remus?" Hagrid asked.

"Uh, err." Remus looked around to make sure there was no one else around. "My neighbors found out I'm a werewolf, they don't think it's the safest time for me to come home right now." Remus said, ignoring Sirius' growl, which in turn made Fluffy bark loudly.

Hagrid sighed, "I think I know how that feels"

"It's no big deal, I mean, it's not like I'm not use to it."

"Stop asting like a tough guy, Remus, it doesn't fit you." Remus stuck his toungue out at Sirius. "I'm not."

Sirius rolled his eyes in responce. Fluffy barked, complaining that Sirius had stopped petting him.

"See, even Fluffy doesn't like it." Sirius smiled at the dog and started playing with it again.

"They're barking at you, not me."

"Why would they be barking at me? They love me." Sirius ran over to Remus, the dog began to follow but refused to get within five feet of the werewolf. They began growling at him.

"Go away, I don't want it attacking me." Remus pushed Sirius back over to the dog. Fluffy quickly began sniffing Sirius, as though making sure the 'scary monster' didn't hurt him.

"And you thought they were barking at me." Sirius smirked.

"It's not my fault they're afraid of me. They, unlike you, are smart enough to stay away from monsters." Remus was surprised by the glare Sirius gave him. "Joking, Joking. Calm down."

"Sure you were." He said sarcasticly, but he turned back to the dog anyway. Remus sighed, Sirius hated it when he put himself down in any way. James did also, but Sirius would go as far as giving him the silent treatment for it.

"Yer no monster, Remus." Hagrid put his huge hand on Remus' tiny shoulders.

"I know." He said unconvinsingly.

"No, the real mosters are the dark arts maniacs thats been in the news lately. You hear bout that kid who killed his own mom because she was a muggleborn?" Sirius asked Haggrid, knowing Remus already knew about it.

"Nah, don' read news anymore. Too depressing for me."

"Got that right." Sirius complained. "Nothing good seems to be happening according to them."

"It could be worse," Remus said, not willing to look at the negative.

"It's going to get worse. There's a war starting, as long as this Voldemort guy's alive things will only get worse."

"It can't be only one guy, Sirius."

"No, but he makes everything ten times worse."

"Who is he, I mean it's like he just appeared out of nowhere."

"Even I don't know the answer to that, Moony." Sirius said, ending that conversation. It was a while before anyone spoke again, and when Remus finally broke the silence it was only to tell Sirius they should be getting back to the castle.

Remus couldn't stop thinking of Voldemort, even after he'd gone to bed. He was against muggleborn wizards, and he was willing to kill them in any possible manner. It wasn't hard to figure out who'd he be going for next. Werewolves. Especially half blood werewolves.

If Voldemort didn't go down. Chances are he wouldn't live to see the end of this war.