If you Want to Destroy my Sweater....
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part five.
hmm... this should be fun...
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Sirius practically skipped into the gryffindor Common room, causing many of the students in there to give him weird looks, he disappeared up the steps to Harry's dorm where he caught Harry and Ron hiding a few dungbombs under Seamus' pillow.
"Hi Sirius." Harry said, quickly hiding the rest of the dungbombs, thankfully Sirius was too busy grinnig stupidly to notice. "Did i miss something?"
"Ohhhh, yeah." Sirius nodded.
"What did i miss."
"Semi-strangulation. Not much." Sirius shrugged, "However, i hope you've got some very very clean special robes."
"No, i haven't, why?"
"I'm getting married." Sirius grinned, flumping down on Harry's bed. "Isn't this.. cool?"
Harry's jaw dropped, "Um wow."
"Who's said they'll put up with you?" Ron asked smiling.
"Eddie." Sirius let out a laugh. "You should have seen her face... Well actually that might have been because she was getting strangled by a duvet at the time.. but hey."
"Whoa whoa, too fast..." Harry slowed Sirius down, "Why was she getting strangled by a duvet?"
"I was bored last night, Snape wasn't around to take the piss out of, so i charmed her duvet."
"I bet she was really amused." Ron grinned, knowing the probable reaction their DADA teacher would give.
"Tell me about it." Sirius rolled his eyes.
The dormitory door slammed open and Remus walked in, half dressed, "Did i hear that right?" he asked. "I heard someone giggling maniacally down the corridor, and the voice had to belong to you..."
"Oh you heard it right." Sirius dragged his friend into a bear hug. "I'm geting married, i'm getting married.... oh my god i'm getting married."
Remus raised an eyebrow. "Well done, your powers of deduction are remarkable."
"I know." Sirius nodded. "You've got a special task in all of this too."
"Sirius, calm down." Harry pleaded, it looked very much like Sirius had been on the receiving end of a strong overdose of cheering charm.
"What's that then?" Remus asked warily.
"You, Moony, are going to be my best man." Sirius smiled happily, "Don't look at me like that, i'm not drunk."
Remus joined him grinning, "Really?"
"Yeah." Sirius nodded, getting off the bed, "Excuse me, i have to go and gloat at people."
****
Edea was consulting Professor McGonagall the next day on a field trip to the fens in order to have some hands on experience with hinkypunks and such like, when a black raven flew through the window landing on Edea's shoulder.
Edea pulled out the letter and read it out, "Miss DuCruet, we have had a sighting of the fugitive Peter Pettigrew on the second of September just outside Cambridge, England. We are sending out a collection of Aurors and Ministry officials to the area. It would be of help if you could join them immediately. Yours, Arabella Figg."
"I suggest you leave the class to Remus." Professor McGonagall said quietly, "You should go and find him immediately."
"yes, i think so too. I'll talk about his trip later, is that alright?"
"Of course."
Edea pocketed the letter and quickly walked out to find Remus.
****
Sirius and Remus were busy playing with the Giant Squid, reminiscing of old times.
"Yes, but it technically wasn't my fault." Sirius said, letting the squid wrap its tentacles around his wrist, "It was our first day at Hogwarts, me and James didn't know you just then."
"James..." Remus had a sad smile, "I wonder if he knew..."
"Knew what?" Sirius asked
"No, don't worry. I'm just being nonsensical."
Sirius gave him a doubtful look, "You know, its not our fault."
"I know."
"But it was my idea to give Peter such a responsibiliy, we should have known."
"We couldn't possibly have known." Remus shook his head, "And plus, it did create fourteen years of peace. He's still weak, if they catch him now, he'll be gone."
"They said he's immortal, he basically proved that."
"You know who else is immortal?"
"Edea's not." Sirius shook his head, "not immortal, that tattoo, it just lowers the chances of her dying, keeps her alive longer, to what extent i don't know, i dont think she knows either.."
"It's proved rather handy, dont you think?"
"Indeed." Sirius threw a biscuit to the squid. "But i've got questions that overshadow it."
"We all do."
"She's worse than Snape with her Dark magic." Sirius admitted, "She's perfect Death Eater material."
"She's had the chance, too many times." Remus told Sirius, "She's not one to do that."
"That's what we said about Peter."
"We said he was too weak to turn, Edea's anything but weak." Remus watched as the Squid balanced the biscuit on a single tentacle, befor disappearing beneath the surface.
"And then there's Harry.." Sirius frowned, "Permanently famous, he wont ever have a normal wizards life, like say.. Arthur Weasley."
"Sirius," Remus almost laughed, "I think that any life other than the Dursleys is very welcome to him, dont you agree?"
"Well... of course. But he's had so much to deal with lately."
"Are you getting sudden parental streaks, Mr Sirius Black?" Remus grinned.
"Save me." Sirius replied with a smile. "oh, doesn't she look cute when she's running!" Sirius pointed at Edea who was hurtling towards them.
"Piece of advice... Don't tell her that." Remus said quietly.
"Hey Eds," Sirius stood up, "Out for a run?"
"Pettigrew." Edea said in one word, the faces of Remus and Sirius lost all humour.
"Where?" Remus asked, his voice deadly.
"Cambridge. Somewhere on the outskirts." Edea rattled off.
"We're coming." Sirius nodded. "Apparaition outside the gates?"
"Yes." Edea answered, and all three of them started running towards the boundary of the school grounds.
****
Harry pelted up towards Dumbledore's office. "Headmaster?!" He asked, "Professor Dumbledore!?"
"Harry?" Dumlbedore stepped out of his office, "Whatever's the matter?"
"Owl.. i got this morning." He panted. "Threat."
Dumbledore took the note from Harry, it was plainly Peter's writing.
"Those you have sent after me are heading into a trap of their own device, they thought i did not know they were coming? How foolish. Voldemort left me his powers when he died, i can see what is to come, please permit me to send your three associates home in boxes. Small boxes."
Harry looked towards his ageing headmaster. "Professor?"
"Oh.. as usual... dear." Dumbledore sighed. "Harry i want you to go back to your lessons, and think nothing of disappearing under that cloak of yours to find them, do you understand me?"
Harry nodded weakly.
Dumbledore started pacing his office, which Harry took as his cue to leave.
****
Edea, Sirius and Remus appeared in a small village outside cambridge itself, their apparition going unnoticed by the local people.
"So?" Sirius was geting fidgity. "Where do we start?"
"No idea." Edea answered truthfully
"Well, why don't we try a magic location spell..." Remus scratched his head, "You know, if we pin it down to animagus transformations.."
"Genius." Sirius exclaimed, "They should have hired you at the ministry."
"You know that's just a ridiculous idea." Remus smiled weakly, "Don't get me started on what i think of the ministry."
"Excuse me.. I work for the ministry." Edea butted in. "Do we really have th time for all this gabble?"
"She has a point." Remus shrugged, "Wel, as far as i know, we have to sort of create a new map, any animagus magic will appear as red splotches of ink on the map after we do the incantation."
"Sort of the Terrus Minimus charm?" Sirius scrunched up his forehead trying to think.
"Exactly."
"Do we have parchment?" Edea asked, then grinned as Sirius produced a scrap of parchment out of one of his many pockets. "Remus, tell us what to do."
After a brief consultation, the three of them were sitting in a sort of triangle-circle with the parchment in the middle chanting "Portare la nostra terra" until the parchemt started to glow, faint lines streaming across the page marking out roads and fields.
"Check it out!" Sirius grinned, "That charm was our own invention too!"
"OKay, now for the magic tracing." Remus pointed his wand at the parchment- "la magia marca del'Animagi."
Nothing happened.
"That... really worked." Edea raised an eyebrow, pointing her own wand at it. "Magius Marcium del'Animagi"
A faint blob of red ink was glowing in one corner of the map.
"Bingo." Sirius grinned.
TBC
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part five.
hmm... this should be fun...
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Sirius practically skipped into the gryffindor Common room, causing many of the students in there to give him weird looks, he disappeared up the steps to Harry's dorm where he caught Harry and Ron hiding a few dungbombs under Seamus' pillow.
"Hi Sirius." Harry said, quickly hiding the rest of the dungbombs, thankfully Sirius was too busy grinnig stupidly to notice. "Did i miss something?"
"Ohhhh, yeah." Sirius nodded.
"What did i miss."
"Semi-strangulation. Not much." Sirius shrugged, "However, i hope you've got some very very clean special robes."
"No, i haven't, why?"
"I'm getting married." Sirius grinned, flumping down on Harry's bed. "Isn't this.. cool?"
Harry's jaw dropped, "Um wow."
"Who's said they'll put up with you?" Ron asked smiling.
"Eddie." Sirius let out a laugh. "You should have seen her face... Well actually that might have been because she was getting strangled by a duvet at the time.. but hey."
"Whoa whoa, too fast..." Harry slowed Sirius down, "Why was she getting strangled by a duvet?"
"I was bored last night, Snape wasn't around to take the piss out of, so i charmed her duvet."
"I bet she was really amused." Ron grinned, knowing the probable reaction their DADA teacher would give.
"Tell me about it." Sirius rolled his eyes.
The dormitory door slammed open and Remus walked in, half dressed, "Did i hear that right?" he asked. "I heard someone giggling maniacally down the corridor, and the voice had to belong to you..."
"Oh you heard it right." Sirius dragged his friend into a bear hug. "I'm geting married, i'm getting married.... oh my god i'm getting married."
Remus raised an eyebrow. "Well done, your powers of deduction are remarkable."
"I know." Sirius nodded. "You've got a special task in all of this too."
"Sirius, calm down." Harry pleaded, it looked very much like Sirius had been on the receiving end of a strong overdose of cheering charm.
"What's that then?" Remus asked warily.
"You, Moony, are going to be my best man." Sirius smiled happily, "Don't look at me like that, i'm not drunk."
Remus joined him grinning, "Really?"
"Yeah." Sirius nodded, getting off the bed, "Excuse me, i have to go and gloat at people."
****
Edea was consulting Professor McGonagall the next day on a field trip to the fens in order to have some hands on experience with hinkypunks and such like, when a black raven flew through the window landing on Edea's shoulder.
Edea pulled out the letter and read it out, "Miss DuCruet, we have had a sighting of the fugitive Peter Pettigrew on the second of September just outside Cambridge, England. We are sending out a collection of Aurors and Ministry officials to the area. It would be of help if you could join them immediately. Yours, Arabella Figg."
"I suggest you leave the class to Remus." Professor McGonagall said quietly, "You should go and find him immediately."
"yes, i think so too. I'll talk about his trip later, is that alright?"
"Of course."
Edea pocketed the letter and quickly walked out to find Remus.
****
Sirius and Remus were busy playing with the Giant Squid, reminiscing of old times.
"Yes, but it technically wasn't my fault." Sirius said, letting the squid wrap its tentacles around his wrist, "It was our first day at Hogwarts, me and James didn't know you just then."
"James..." Remus had a sad smile, "I wonder if he knew..."
"Knew what?" Sirius asked
"No, don't worry. I'm just being nonsensical."
Sirius gave him a doubtful look, "You know, its not our fault."
"I know."
"But it was my idea to give Peter such a responsibiliy, we should have known."
"We couldn't possibly have known." Remus shook his head, "And plus, it did create fourteen years of peace. He's still weak, if they catch him now, he'll be gone."
"They said he's immortal, he basically proved that."
"You know who else is immortal?"
"Edea's not." Sirius shook his head, "not immortal, that tattoo, it just lowers the chances of her dying, keeps her alive longer, to what extent i don't know, i dont think she knows either.."
"It's proved rather handy, dont you think?"
"Indeed." Sirius threw a biscuit to the squid. "But i've got questions that overshadow it."
"We all do."
"She's worse than Snape with her Dark magic." Sirius admitted, "She's perfect Death Eater material."
"She's had the chance, too many times." Remus told Sirius, "She's not one to do that."
"That's what we said about Peter."
"We said he was too weak to turn, Edea's anything but weak." Remus watched as the Squid balanced the biscuit on a single tentacle, befor disappearing beneath the surface.
"And then there's Harry.." Sirius frowned, "Permanently famous, he wont ever have a normal wizards life, like say.. Arthur Weasley."
"Sirius," Remus almost laughed, "I think that any life other than the Dursleys is very welcome to him, dont you agree?"
"Well... of course. But he's had so much to deal with lately."
"Are you getting sudden parental streaks, Mr Sirius Black?" Remus grinned.
"Save me." Sirius replied with a smile. "oh, doesn't she look cute when she's running!" Sirius pointed at Edea who was hurtling towards them.
"Piece of advice... Don't tell her that." Remus said quietly.
"Hey Eds," Sirius stood up, "Out for a run?"
"Pettigrew." Edea said in one word, the faces of Remus and Sirius lost all humour.
"Where?" Remus asked, his voice deadly.
"Cambridge. Somewhere on the outskirts." Edea rattled off.
"We're coming." Sirius nodded. "Apparaition outside the gates?"
"Yes." Edea answered, and all three of them started running towards the boundary of the school grounds.
****
Harry pelted up towards Dumbledore's office. "Headmaster?!" He asked, "Professor Dumbledore!?"
"Harry?" Dumlbedore stepped out of his office, "Whatever's the matter?"
"Owl.. i got this morning." He panted. "Threat."
Dumbledore took the note from Harry, it was plainly Peter's writing.
"Those you have sent after me are heading into a trap of their own device, they thought i did not know they were coming? How foolish. Voldemort left me his powers when he died, i can see what is to come, please permit me to send your three associates home in boxes. Small boxes."
Harry looked towards his ageing headmaster. "Professor?"
"Oh.. as usual... dear." Dumbledore sighed. "Harry i want you to go back to your lessons, and think nothing of disappearing under that cloak of yours to find them, do you understand me?"
Harry nodded weakly.
Dumbledore started pacing his office, which Harry took as his cue to leave.
****
Edea, Sirius and Remus appeared in a small village outside cambridge itself, their apparition going unnoticed by the local people.
"So?" Sirius was geting fidgity. "Where do we start?"
"No idea." Edea answered truthfully
"Well, why don't we try a magic location spell..." Remus scratched his head, "You know, if we pin it down to animagus transformations.."
"Genius." Sirius exclaimed, "They should have hired you at the ministry."
"You know that's just a ridiculous idea." Remus smiled weakly, "Don't get me started on what i think of the ministry."
"Excuse me.. I work for the ministry." Edea butted in. "Do we really have th time for all this gabble?"
"She has a point." Remus shrugged, "Wel, as far as i know, we have to sort of create a new map, any animagus magic will appear as red splotches of ink on the map after we do the incantation."
"Sort of the Terrus Minimus charm?" Sirius scrunched up his forehead trying to think.
"Exactly."
"Do we have parchment?" Edea asked, then grinned as Sirius produced a scrap of parchment out of one of his many pockets. "Remus, tell us what to do."
After a brief consultation, the three of them were sitting in a sort of triangle-circle with the parchment in the middle chanting "Portare la nostra terra" until the parchemt started to glow, faint lines streaming across the page marking out roads and fields.
"Check it out!" Sirius grinned, "That charm was our own invention too!"
"OKay, now for the magic tracing." Remus pointed his wand at the parchment- "la magia marca del'Animagi."
Nothing happened.
"That... really worked." Edea raised an eyebrow, pointing her own wand at it. "Magius Marcium del'Animagi"
A faint blob of red ink was glowing in one corner of the map.
"Bingo." Sirius grinned.
TBC
