Chapter 3: The Professor and the Werewolf

Chapter 3: The Professor and the Werewolf

Katrina was up. Kevin could sense it. He could also hear it. He pulled himself out of the sand, dusted himself off, and stared around. Ocean and sand surrounded them. In the distance he thought he could see a small village. Katrina was shouting at the gulls surrounding them, shooing them off with brilliant streams of fire. Kevin joined her.

" Where are we going?" asked Kit, five minutes later as they began walking towards the city.

" I don't know. First we need a transport. Then we can talk destination."

" Do you suppose we should try turning into bats?" Kit asked.

" No, not yet. Let's see if there's a simpler way of transportation. Like brooms," Kevin replied, beginning to run.

" Don't you suppose we should check if it's a muggle city or not?" Kit asked, trying to keep up with her brother's long stride.

" No. Even if it is, there's bound to be someone who's magical or from magical descent there."

" Whatever," was the reply as they neared the city.

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Severus Snape, an ex-Death Eater was sitting on the wide porch of his vacation house, looking out towards the beach. Maybe today he'd go swimming, he thought. All of the sudden he saw two figures sprinting up the way.

Getting up, he walked over to them as they stopped and flopped down, gasping for breath. They looked awfully familiar, yet he couldn't place them. Oh well. The girl jumped up the moment she spotted him, with the boy a second behind her. Both looked like a cross between some sort of strange being and a human.

" What do you want?" the girl's voice was filled with defiance and independence.

" I just wanted to introduce myself, " said Snape silkily. " I am Severus Snape, a professor for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He stopped suddenly. He couldn't believe he just told them about Hogwarts. What if they were muggle kids? But they weren't. Snape could tell already that they weren't.

" That's nice," said the boy. " We're Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. " Snape rolled his eyes.

" Nice to meet you Mr. Claus and Ms. Bunny. Now why don't you tell me your real names?" he asked, pulling out his wand threateningly.

" Katrina Black," said Kit, eyeing the ex- Death Eater with distaste.

" I'm Kevin Black," Kevin retorted sharply. "We're not scared of you, so you can put that dumb stick away." Right then Snape's wand burst into flames. " I need to find a place with a broomstick shop, or some floo powder," said Kevin swiftly.

" I see. You wouldn't happen to be related to that murderer Sirius Black, would you?" Snape asked, his eyes narrowing as we watched his wand burn down to a molten piece of wood. He tossed it away.

" Sure are, buddy, and if you got something personal against him, that's your problem," said Katrina, starting to walk off.

" Hey!" yelled Snape, starting to go after her. He was suddenly stopped in his tracks. Very slowly he turned. He was trapped in a circle of emerald-violet fire. With a growl he hurled himself at Kevin, who held him captive.

" Leave us alone." Kevin snarled, sounding at that moment just like Sirius. Carefully keeping his hand that suspended the fire pointed at Snape; Kevin began to follow Kit, who was already half a block in front of him.

Letting go of the fire and watching Snape fall to the ground, completely weakened, Kevin ran to catch up with his sister.

It happened that there was another of Sirius' schoolmates in that city. Remus Lupin was sweeping the dirt off of his stairs, listening to music. Distantly he heard laughter.

" We really got him that time Kevin."

" That idiot. I wonder how he ever came to work at a school."

" Really!" Laughter again. Something made Remus look up, something that later on he was very glad he had.

Two young kids were headed his ways, both with long hair, though one was undoubtedly a boy. Both looked so much like Sirius Black, his one-time friend, that it made Remus' heart ache.

There was no question about it; these two must be two of Sirius' siblings, probably the younger two, Kevin and Katrina. They had grown so much, he thought sadly.

Kit and Kevin had just started up the street when a voice called them over.

" Hello? You two children over there. Come here please," called Remus.

Kit and Kevin turned to see a young man, probably as old as Sirius standing on the porch of a wide house.

" Come on then," said Kevin with a shrug. Kit nodded and followed her older brother.

Remus noticed how thin both were, yet how graceful. Both reminded him of flowing water, deadly, yet in a sense, flowing.

At last Kit and Kevin were at the door. " I'm Remus Lupin," said Remus. " One of your older brother's friends from school. Does the name Moony ring a bell?"

" I'm Kit," said Katrina, baring her fangs in a grin.

" This is Kevin, and yes, Moony does rather ring a bell. Sirius used to tell us all sorts of stories about how the Hogwarts Four caused destruction and fun for everyone."

Remus laughed. It was the first time he'd really laughed in a long time, he realized. How he'd missed Sirius, yet been wary of him the past years, never making contact for fear of one of his best friends turning on him like he turned on Peter.

" Yes, that was us, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter, the destructive Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs. Can you stay for lunch?" asked Remus.

" I guess. You don't suppose you have any Floo Powder hanging around do you?" asked Kevin, getting right to the point.

" No, I have none, but I know where you can get some. Come in. We'll eat lunch first and then I'll take you to Diagon Alley. Where do you need to go exactly?" asked Rem as he took the two kids in and seated them at a bare table.

" Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - school for Jonathan Black during the school year, place of memories for Alexander, Terence, and Sirius Black, graduates," answered Kit promptly.

" I see," was the reply. " I can take you to Diagon Alley, but from there you'll be on your own. Next week is a full moon you know," said Rem quickly.

" What's a full moon got to do with anything?" asked Kevin.

" Oh, nothing, nothing to do with anything, of course," said Remus nervously, missing the concerned glances that passed

between the youngest Black children.

" Eat up now. In an hour we'll leave."