Part 9 Live Free or Die
By Admiral Albia

A/n; Well, I know that this idea's been done before, but the main part isn't Sirius getting freed here.. it's what happens afterwards... and I can practically guarantee that that bit's original. As you may have guessed, Sirius has a choice between living free... or dying. But Harry and co. have to make it for him...

Disclaimer; I own nothing except Sirius' pets and the words Cargen and Copin. Happy? Oh yes, and I also own this **** painting... "I'm not letting you into your secret room now!" The words Puffskein and Crup belong to J.K. Rowling too; it's in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them which was released for Comic Relief.

Changing;
[][][] means the POV is changing; probably from Sirius in the first person to third person or vice-versa.
/\/\/\ means the scene or time is changing...

Chapter 9; Epilogue
"I still don't believe you didn't tell me!" Sirius was saying five minutes later.
"You've said that about twenty times now, Sirius. Try something different..."
"Uh, Sirius?" Harry shoved his way through the bedside crowd... and saw his godfather properly for the first time since the trial.
If Sirius had been thin before, it was nothing to what he was now. He might as well have been a skeleton for all the fat that was on his bones, and his face was, if possible, even more sunken than it had been when he escaped Azkaban. He noticed Harry's stare and grinned lopsidedly.
"I was ill, remember? And I ate even less than usual. What did you want?"
"I...uh...um, Ron's going insane with all those spiders on him... can you get them off?"
"Sure." The spiders suddenly detached themselves from Ron and scuttled out of the room, just as Fred and George reappeared , followed by five house-elves, all of whom were carrying food of some description. One of them was Dobby, and as soon as he'd put down the jug he was carrying, he ran over to Harry.

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"Ah, here come the teachers," Dumbledore said quietly. After much arguing and many, many puppy-dog eyes, Sirius had finally been allowed outside; and he looked far better now than he had at all in the week that Madam Pomfrey had forced him to stay in.
"The teachers come a week early?" Harry asked in surprise.
"Yes; to get ready for the new year."
"Really?" James sounded interested. "Remus, didn't you say Snape was teaching here?"
"Uh-huh, but... oh!"
"Where's Sirius?"
"Over there." The two of them headed off and, seconds later, the three remaining Marauders were in a huddle. Lily groaned.
"They're plotting again... I dunno, I was kind of hoping they'd grown out of it by now... it was embarassing last time..." A/n; see Marauders in Hospital>
"Harry, can we borrow the map and the Cloak for a couple of weeks, please?" Remus called over.
"Yeah, sure. D'you want them now?"
"Not right now, no... but thanks!" Harry wandered over to Ron and Hermione.
"This could be interesting," Ron said with a grin.
"Very interesting," Hermione agreed.
"What are they going to do?" Fred asked eagerly from behind Harry.
"Probably everything they can think of," Lily said gloomily. "I don't know why I bother, really I don't..."
"Really? What kind of things?" Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Lily.
"Well, let's see... they put glue on the perches in the Owlery once, I think... and then there was the... thing... with the chair and the Dungbomb... and, ugh, all those appearance spells... and they turned the Minister for Magic into a blue teddy once, I think... it's not funny!" But Fred and George weren't laughing; they were looking at the Marauders with some kind of reverence in their eyes... then, Fred dug into his pocket and produced a Canary Cream; and the twins Weasley headed purposefully over to what was really their adult counterparts...
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A/n; The end of the story *sniff*. I'll continue it in another story, don't worry. And incidentally, Remus isn't stupid enough to eat the cream... but the other two are... then again, though, Remus has taught Fred and George.
Part two of this Trilogy/Quartet will most likely be called `The Prankster War`; it'll also be a sort-of sequel to Marauders in Hospital...
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