part eighteen
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"SNAP!" Ron exclaimed.
Harry and Ron were covered in black soot as the cards exploded in their faces.
"Fifteen games to three." Ron looked up at Harry, "You dont normally lose... you alright?"
"I'm not allowed to say." Harry muttered quietly, "Dumbledore said i wasn't supposed to tell anybody, not even you."
Ron looked a bit crestfallen at that comment, "He doesnt trust us?"
"No, its not about trust. Probably more about keeping it as close to the family as it has to be." Harry sighed, wiping the soot off his glasses, "Tell me more about Hermione."
"Well..." Ron looked like he was trying to organise his thoughts, "I think she was actually trying to revise some astronomy stuff, she had books all over the place, and was peeringinto a telescope when i went up to the tower."
"And?"
The lights in the rooms went out at that point, signalling curfew and bedtime.
"I'll tell you in the morning." Ron said, climbing into his bed. "Not really that interesting."
"Beats divination homework, believe me."
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"I thought you'd be here." Sirius murmured, sitting down on part of a broken brick wall.
"Obvious, am i?"
"No, but we all come here when we're annoyed, and stressed out." Sirius pointed at what remained of a side wall, covered in ivy leaves. "We'd all huddle near there and let it spew forth to James. He knew how to raise the spirits."
"Not really much left of it now, is there." Edea said, looking down at her hands. "People taking bits of bricks away as relics of the house of the boy who lived."
"We're kind of skirting the issue here a bit aren't we?" Sirius grinned weakly. "Always the same, if it dont fit right, take it to the Potters, they always know what to do."
"Give me an issue, i'll talk it out."
Sirius thought for a while, "Tell me about this Lucifer boy."
"I honestly dont know much of what happened after i left until now, he's a bit of an arrogant ass, gets that from his dad no doubt."
"I talked to him, he's an okay kid once you get talking. Not slytherin material." Sirius let out a sharp breath, "I er... told him to come round and visit."
Edea almost fell off the wall. "WHAT?" She shrieked, it echoed round the glade. "Sirius! The last time we 'talked' about this, you went all moody and evil, refusing to belive it, what changed?"
"I had a good talking to, and wanted to say i'm sorry." Sirius gave her a look, "I was NOT evil."
"What we going to do? We have a peter-voldie hybrid on the loose, an irate snape, a younger irate snape, harry, and oh.... does Remus know the moon's rising in an hour?"
Sirius snapped out of his reverie, "What? FULL moon?"
"No more no less." Edea said, "He doesnt know, he's forgotten..."
"He couldn't have."
"He hasn't had any wolfsbane..." Edea mumured, "We need to get back... NOW."
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The group was sitting on various chairs, in complete silence. Severus was never letting his son more than an arm's length away from him. Lucifer was getting annoyed, "Dad, i want to go check the telelscope, we get to see the other side of the moon tonight, it like... is really rare and all..."
Everyone's eyes suddenly turned to look at Remus. Who's eyes widened, then he pulled something out of his sleeve, "Oh." He said simply. "I should get out of here... as quickly as possib..."
BANG
Someone had tried to apparate into the room, and because of Snape's anti-apparition charms, they had got themselves splinched.
"Great, why didnt you tell me you could disapparate but not apparate?" Edea's voice called out. Half of her was floating in a shimmering mess in the air. "This happens to be very painful."
Another bang, and the bottom half of Sirius was floating in mid air as well.
"Who says we should call for the magical reversal squad?" Anna grinned.
"This isn't funny." Edea shrieked. "I have half of me left behind with the top half of Sirius."
"I pity that particular half." Severus muttered under his breath.
"Look, i really have to find somewhere safe...." Remus got up and was pacing the room. "I can't stay here... and.."
A goblet full of a smoking blue substance appeared on the table before him.
"Drink it." Snape said icily. "Then get the hell out of here."
Remus didnt need telling twice, he downed the wolfsbane and disapparated, most probably to the shrieking shack.
"Ummm.... help?" Edea murmured.
"We'll call Moody." Anna muttered, turning to the fireplace.
"NO!" Edea shrieked, "He'll laugh..."
"Your point being?" Snape sneered.
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"MUMMY!" A small child screamed out as she saw the top half of Sirius Black floating about 7ft in the air above her.
"Shut UP!" Sirius wailed, "Uhh, i mean... nice muggle, good child... now now, theres no need for screaming."
After the girl had run away, a group of teenage wizarding kids had stumbled upon the scene.
"Whoa check it out man, The Azkaban Guy's splinched himself!" The group leader said in his gravelly voice. The rest of the group stood there laughing, until they realised half of the ex-auror was floating above them too, the entire right side of Edea was frowning down on them.
"You are SO lucky i'm left handed." Edea clenched her fist.
"Shes good with her hands." Sirius informed them.
"SIRIUS!" Edea shrieked,
"What? I was telling it like it is."
Suddenly there was a pop and Mad eye Moody was looking up at them.
"AHAHAHAHAAAA!" He laughed in his own weird fashion. "I thought i taught you better..."
"You thought very wrong."
"Seperatis apparatum corpus!" Moody pointed his wand at Edea, who fell to the floor in one piece.
He did the same with Sirius, who landed in a heap next to the remains of a fireplace.
"Ouch." Sirius muttered, standing up. "Would be an underestimate."
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"Oh don't worry about Snape, he's *naturally* anally retentive." Edea had told her class one morning when they had just spent the first half of her lesson complaining about the amount of potions homework they'd been set. It had been a week since the whole splinching incident, and that had travelled round the school like wildfire, it didnt help, when Remus found out and practically spewed his pumpkin juice over the table.
"That's not a nice thing to say." One Ravenclaw fourth year told her.
"Uh okay." Edea leaned back on her chair, "How about i rephrase that whole sentence into, if i was you, i'd just do the homwork anyway, cuz he wouldnt change for the better if you didnt do it, and i dpeak from experience when i say he's one hell of an impudent little.... uh.... um...."
"Having trouble discussing my talent in words, DuCruet?" Snape sneered, walking into her classroom.
"Out." Edea pointed her wand at him. "This is my room, go intrude on someone elses."
"Or you'll do what? threaten to splinch yourself again?" Snape smirked, as he received a very nasty display of faces from her class.
"Severus tight-ass Snape... Get the hell out of my room.... NOW." Edea threw her textbook at him, she didnt care that the rest of the class was now gogging at her litle display of 'rage'.
Snape sneered at her, "And you'd know all about that wouldnt you...."
"ARGH." Edea launched at him, physically shoving him out of the door.
"Um, Professor?" A small boy stood up, "Doesn't Professor Snape..."
"NO HE DOESNT." Edea said, shutting the door behind her.
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Elsewhere in the castle, Sirius Black was busy with Harry in the library, researching.
"So, you think that we could create a sort of barrier?" Harry asked, flipping through huge volumes on barrier charms.
"i think so, i mean, Peeves is a poltergeist, so it'd have to encage spirits and non-bodied things too." Sirius stumbled back to their small table, carrying a stupidly tall pile of books.
"Why dont we ask Remus?" Harry ventured.
"Cuz..." Sirius screwed up his face, "Reemiekins is having a very well earned break somewhere not here with his friend."
"You never told me what happened at the Malfoy's place." Harry said cautiously,
"Apart from Eddie dressing up as a Malfoy, calling herself Eddiemort, us jumping out of a window, uhm.... being a ritual sacrifice, almost dying, running like hell and splinching myself? theres not much to say." Sirius said quietly. "And the last detail is something i'm not too proud about,"
"You're hiding something." Harry said,
Sirius sighed, he hated it when Harry could see straight through him, just like James could. "We went somewhere else. Godric's Hollow in fact."
"My parents house?" Harry asked quietly.
"Yes, or what was left of it. Harry... people are taking bits away, and its not just the house itself thats there, all the possessions must be in there under the rubble somewhere and i dont know if some unworthy scavengers have been taking them to sell on as prized articles of historical evidence or something like that."
"WHAT?" harry stood up, knocking a book off the table, "Who is doing this?"
"I dont know, most people who come to uh.. 'visit' it seems."
"Sirius... I have to go there, i know i've never faced going back befroe.. i just want to see it, i need to see it." Harry looked up at his godfather, who's eyes looked as dark and empty as when he came outof Azkaban, "I.. want you to come with me."
Sirius nodded, "I'll come with you."
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"What did you want earlier?" Edea asked, slamming the dungeon door behind her.
"Our son came to me with a very... interesting question." Snape smirked at her. "It seems that your dear husband has taken to Lucifer."
"Is that all? i know that already, you think i'm blind?"
"He wants to stay with you over the holidays it seems." Snape closed in on her, "Do you think that's wise?"
"Why not?"
"I told you to stay away."
"I'm sorry to inform you that i dont jump through hoops on command, especially not when its you, and you of all people should know that by now." Edea hissed, "You will let me see him or i'll take you to a magical court of law."
"The court system is corrupt since you last paid a visit, its run by death eaters, they're no more likely to give you our son, than kill you on the spot the moment they see you."
"I'll take that chance," Edea smirked in return, "Besides, you're telling me they dont want your head on a platter?"
TBC
yay another chapter, oh i have to point out at this stage that Lucius Malfoy isn't dead, he's in Azkaban, mad, but the again he was always a bit mad. hehehehe...... evil laughter....
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