Disclaimer: Everyone except Harriet and her family belong to JK Rowling.
Harriet belongs to me. Remus belongs to JK Rowling in the copyright sense,
but really, he's mine! I will marry Remus Lupin! Mhuahahahahaha!
Werewolf-Part1-Harriet's POV
When I arrived in the building with my parents, who spoke to the woman at the desk, two large men grabbed me and forced me into a cage. My parents and I protested against it as it was not the full moon so I was harmless, but they paid no attention. During my trial I wasn't even allowed to defend myself. The man who was practically running the trial, Lucius Malfoy, announced the verdict.
"It is the decision of the Comittee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures that the werewolf Harriet Rivers hereafter called the condemned shall be executed on the first of September. To be executed by beheading to be carried out by the Comittee's appointed executioner Walden Macnair"
I sat down on the bottom of the cage in shock. It was impossible! They just didn't do that these days. Not in England! Of course to them I wasn't human, though five years before I had been. When we were back in the reception area I was let out. I had a plan to escape...
..I decided that I was going to escape at night on my broomstick that night, though I didn't know where I was going to go. I overheard the woman at the desk talking:
"I remember a case like this about...hmm, about twenty five years ago, I think, with a young werewolf who'd killed someone. His name was Remus Lupin, such a sweet boy... The case could have ended ike this too, except that Albus Dumbledore let him go to Hogwarts. I think we've still got the files somewhere. It's sad really, about these werewolves. I mean, they're people too but they can't control what they do at the full moon and then, well they're treated like animals. I really don't know how Macnair can do it." This gave me the idea to complete my plan. I leaned face down on the filing cabinet half pretending to cry, but partly really in tears. I just exaggerated a little. I was really looking for this 'Lupin's' files. When I found them I tore off his address from the top of the page. It was somewhere in Derbyshire. When I got home my parents let me go inside although they had been told that I must be 'kept tethered and isolated' I got a map, and ripped out the page showing Derbyshire and my broom, and put them outside in the shed. My mum came into my room,
"I really don't know what we can do. The Comittee will never change their minds..." For a moment I wondered whether I should tell her about my plan, but it wouldn't help. She'd want to come with me, and the if we were caught she'd be in trouble with the Ministry. I couldn't.
"We've had a letter", she said. They know you've come into the house when you should be tied up outside. I'm sorry..." I went outside and tied myself to the fence. I knew I'd easily free myself. That was how I got into that mess...
When everyone had gone to bed and all the lights in the house had gone out, I got my things out of the shed, mounted my broom and flew away. After several hours I got to the right area, but Remus's home was well away from any main towns and it took me ages to find the house. When I finally arrived I nervously went to the front door and knocked. A man of around thirty five answered it, his face illuminated in the light of the waning moon. I wasn't quite sure what to say.
"Er..Erm...Are you Remus Lupin?" I asked, and he nodded. "I heard someone mention you at the Comittee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures and I wondered if you could help me." His puzzled expresion changed to concern.
"What were you doing at the Comittee? Do your parents know you're here? How did you find where I live?"
"I.. my parents do't know I'm here. I ran away. I had to, because of the trial. I'm a ...a..." I couldn't say it.
"A werewolf?" Remus finished for me. I nodded slightly and blushed, bright red. "You don't have to be ashamed." he continued. "We can't help being what we are. Anyway, your trial. How did it go?" I shuddered.
"It was horrible "
"The verdict?" Remus asked quietly. I was sobbing by this point. Unable to speak I drew a finger across my throat. After a few minutes when I had calmed down, he asked me how I had found him and I told him everything. "We'll go to Dumbledore in the morning. He'll be able to help.
In the morning we got onto our broomsticks to fly to Hogwarts. "I'd normally apparate, but you won't have learned how, so we'll fly. You'll be able to get your apparating license in...Oh, I don't know. How old did you say you were?"
"I'll be thirteen in December-if I make it 'til then" I said feeling depressed.
"Don't worry" Lupin said. "Dumbledore will be able to help." We flew on in silence for a while, then Remus asked me curiously "What do you do at school? I mean, at the full moon?"
"Oh, I have to take a disgusting potion and then I am harmless, but I have to hide so nobody sees me and finds out, but my best friend knows. I hide in this hut, under a secret passage..."
"The shrieking shack." Lupin murmured. "Yes, I remember it well... Oh, here we are!" he added, cheering up visibly. We swooped down and dismounted our brooms. Then we walked towards the castle door....
When we got into Dumbledore's office he began talking straight away, urgently.
"Harriet? Remus? What's this all about?" Remus nodded at me so I spoke first.
"You know I'm a...a werewolf, proffesor. Well I, I killed someone." I started to panic. What if Dumbledore said it was my fault, what if he didn't help me...? "I couldn't help it. I was tied up in the yard at home but I escaped. I jumped over the fence and..."
"It's alright, Harriet. I know it wasn't your fault. I won't expel you. Were you caught?" I nodded slowly.
"It was my trial yesterday." turning away I muttered "Execution, next month. That's why I ran away. I'm scared, Professor."
"Execution!" Dumbledore exclaimed. "You!" I shall have to go to London immediately. And he left. It was about forty-five minutes before he returned, walking slowly, looking down at his feet. "I'm sorry Harriet. There was nothing I could do. The Minister off Magic is on there side. You remember what I told you at the end of last term?" he asked. "About Voldemort?" I winced at him saying the name, but nodded. "Well now, after our arguament he disagrees with all I say. Like this-You." I tried not to show how disappointed I was.....
"I have been ordered to hand you over to the Ministry" Dumbledore continued.
"And, are you.going to?"I asked. Dumbledore shook his head and said
"Of course not, but we shall have to go intohiding. If we get caught I shall probably be sent to Azkaban, as well as you being.ah.Where did I put that invisibility cloak?" He began searching through a cupboard. At this moment someone banged on the door.
"Really, calm down, banging won't help, there's a password." said Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic. "Er. Cockroach Cluster. Oh, he's changed it.Fizzing Whizzbee..Sugar Quill. Yes!" The door opened and Cornelius Fudge walked in, followed by two dementors, and the two men from my trial. They grabbed me and forced me into a cage. The dementors dragged Dumbledore away. Remus was left alone in the middle of the room. As the dementors passed me I could hear Lucius Malfoy's voice again in my head 'sentenced to execution by beheading.' repeating over and over again. I felt dizzy and sat down.
I didn't know where I was. I must have fallen asleep of something. The bars of the cage were digging into my back uncomfortably. I stood up and could see that I was in a large room at the back of a crowd. As the people saw me stand up they moved away looking frightened. I couldn't understand it. I still can't. I mean, I'm human like them, most of the time. I'd never hurt them before, and I hadn't deliberately hurt anyone before. What I had done at the full moon wasn't my fault. was it? I was feeling guilty again so I tried to concentrate on what was going on around me. Someone was talking.
"Albus Dumbledore, you are here to answer to the charge of attempting to prevent the Committee fo the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures from carrying out the sentence passed on the second of this month. How do you plead?"
"Guilty. I did indeed try to save an innocent girl's life. Alas I have failed. I am sorry Harriet." As Dumbledore said this the judge went very red and then he shouted,
"Innocent girl! Harriet Rivers is a werewolf and a murderer!"
"NO!" I shouted. "I am not a murderer. I couldn't help what I did. You can't understand. You are not a werewolf." I was loosing control. Whenever I get provoked I get really angry, I know I should try to ignore people and not let them bother me but it doesn't work.
"Harriet." Dumbledore said gently. "Don't make things worse for yourself." Make things worse! How could I possibly do that? Things couldn't get any worse. The judge although a little shaken proceeded with the trial.
"Albus Dumbledore found guilty. I suggest a sentence of no less than six months in Azkaban." Now I felt really bad. I had gone to Dumbledore for help, and although I was no better off for it,now I'd got him into trouble. Dumbledore was taken away by the dementors again. I was taken back to the Comittee where Lucius Malfoy had an unpleasant grin on his face.
"It has been decided to-" he was interrupted.
"You can't do this." shouted Remus Lupin.
"Oh really?" said Malfoy. "Who are you to tell the Committee for the Disposal of dangeros Creatures what to do?"
"My name is Remus" he answered simply. "Will you let her go?"
"No I shall not. Have him thrown out please." Remus was sent out.At least he was safe away from here. I knew that they wouldn't care if he'd done anything or not, they're just predjudiced against us.
"It has been decided to move forwards the execution of the werewolf, Harriet Rivers to." I held my breath. How much time would I have to plan my escape.? "Tonight at ten o'clock."
No! How was I going to plan my escape in just four and a half hours. It was hopeless. I began screaming and crying. While I still hoped that I would be able to escape, I had mostly managed to hold back, and stay calm, but now- what was the point? I just sat in the bottom of the cage, staring blankly into space. Hours passed, then I was taken into a different room. A tall man with a thick balck moustache was running his finger along the blade of an axe. I pressed up against the far side of my cage, more terrified than I had been before,but I was pulled out of the cage and dragged towards him. I was trembling. But there was one thing that I had forgotten:the full moon. As I was pushed down to the ground, it came out from behind a cloud, and I escaped. I don't know how, or what I did, because I wasn't in control. That was the first time I was actually glad of what I was : a werewolf.
Werewolf-Part1-Harriet's POV
When I arrived in the building with my parents, who spoke to the woman at the desk, two large men grabbed me and forced me into a cage. My parents and I protested against it as it was not the full moon so I was harmless, but they paid no attention. During my trial I wasn't even allowed to defend myself. The man who was practically running the trial, Lucius Malfoy, announced the verdict.
"It is the decision of the Comittee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures that the werewolf Harriet Rivers hereafter called the condemned shall be executed on the first of September. To be executed by beheading to be carried out by the Comittee's appointed executioner Walden Macnair"
I sat down on the bottom of the cage in shock. It was impossible! They just didn't do that these days. Not in England! Of course to them I wasn't human, though five years before I had been. When we were back in the reception area I was let out. I had a plan to escape...
..I decided that I was going to escape at night on my broomstick that night, though I didn't know where I was going to go. I overheard the woman at the desk talking:
"I remember a case like this about...hmm, about twenty five years ago, I think, with a young werewolf who'd killed someone. His name was Remus Lupin, such a sweet boy... The case could have ended ike this too, except that Albus Dumbledore let him go to Hogwarts. I think we've still got the files somewhere. It's sad really, about these werewolves. I mean, they're people too but they can't control what they do at the full moon and then, well they're treated like animals. I really don't know how Macnair can do it." This gave me the idea to complete my plan. I leaned face down on the filing cabinet half pretending to cry, but partly really in tears. I just exaggerated a little. I was really looking for this 'Lupin's' files. When I found them I tore off his address from the top of the page. It was somewhere in Derbyshire. When I got home my parents let me go inside although they had been told that I must be 'kept tethered and isolated' I got a map, and ripped out the page showing Derbyshire and my broom, and put them outside in the shed. My mum came into my room,
"I really don't know what we can do. The Comittee will never change their minds..." For a moment I wondered whether I should tell her about my plan, but it wouldn't help. She'd want to come with me, and the if we were caught she'd be in trouble with the Ministry. I couldn't.
"We've had a letter", she said. They know you've come into the house when you should be tied up outside. I'm sorry..." I went outside and tied myself to the fence. I knew I'd easily free myself. That was how I got into that mess...
When everyone had gone to bed and all the lights in the house had gone out, I got my things out of the shed, mounted my broom and flew away. After several hours I got to the right area, but Remus's home was well away from any main towns and it took me ages to find the house. When I finally arrived I nervously went to the front door and knocked. A man of around thirty five answered it, his face illuminated in the light of the waning moon. I wasn't quite sure what to say.
"Er..Erm...Are you Remus Lupin?" I asked, and he nodded. "I heard someone mention you at the Comittee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures and I wondered if you could help me." His puzzled expresion changed to concern.
"What were you doing at the Comittee? Do your parents know you're here? How did you find where I live?"
"I.. my parents do't know I'm here. I ran away. I had to, because of the trial. I'm a ...a..." I couldn't say it.
"A werewolf?" Remus finished for me. I nodded slightly and blushed, bright red. "You don't have to be ashamed." he continued. "We can't help being what we are. Anyway, your trial. How did it go?" I shuddered.
"It was horrible "
"The verdict?" Remus asked quietly. I was sobbing by this point. Unable to speak I drew a finger across my throat. After a few minutes when I had calmed down, he asked me how I had found him and I told him everything. "We'll go to Dumbledore in the morning. He'll be able to help.
In the morning we got onto our broomsticks to fly to Hogwarts. "I'd normally apparate, but you won't have learned how, so we'll fly. You'll be able to get your apparating license in...Oh, I don't know. How old did you say you were?"
"I'll be thirteen in December-if I make it 'til then" I said feeling depressed.
"Don't worry" Lupin said. "Dumbledore will be able to help." We flew on in silence for a while, then Remus asked me curiously "What do you do at school? I mean, at the full moon?"
"Oh, I have to take a disgusting potion and then I am harmless, but I have to hide so nobody sees me and finds out, but my best friend knows. I hide in this hut, under a secret passage..."
"The shrieking shack." Lupin murmured. "Yes, I remember it well... Oh, here we are!" he added, cheering up visibly. We swooped down and dismounted our brooms. Then we walked towards the castle door....
When we got into Dumbledore's office he began talking straight away, urgently.
"Harriet? Remus? What's this all about?" Remus nodded at me so I spoke first.
"You know I'm a...a werewolf, proffesor. Well I, I killed someone." I started to panic. What if Dumbledore said it was my fault, what if he didn't help me...? "I couldn't help it. I was tied up in the yard at home but I escaped. I jumped over the fence and..."
"It's alright, Harriet. I know it wasn't your fault. I won't expel you. Were you caught?" I nodded slowly.
"It was my trial yesterday." turning away I muttered "Execution, next month. That's why I ran away. I'm scared, Professor."
"Execution!" Dumbledore exclaimed. "You!" I shall have to go to London immediately. And he left. It was about forty-five minutes before he returned, walking slowly, looking down at his feet. "I'm sorry Harriet. There was nothing I could do. The Minister off Magic is on there side. You remember what I told you at the end of last term?" he asked. "About Voldemort?" I winced at him saying the name, but nodded. "Well now, after our arguament he disagrees with all I say. Like this-You." I tried not to show how disappointed I was.....
"I have been ordered to hand you over to the Ministry" Dumbledore continued.
"And, are you.going to?"I asked. Dumbledore shook his head and said
"Of course not, but we shall have to go intohiding. If we get caught I shall probably be sent to Azkaban, as well as you being.ah.Where did I put that invisibility cloak?" He began searching through a cupboard. At this moment someone banged on the door.
"Really, calm down, banging won't help, there's a password." said Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic. "Er. Cockroach Cluster. Oh, he's changed it.Fizzing Whizzbee..Sugar Quill. Yes!" The door opened and Cornelius Fudge walked in, followed by two dementors, and the two men from my trial. They grabbed me and forced me into a cage. The dementors dragged Dumbledore away. Remus was left alone in the middle of the room. As the dementors passed me I could hear Lucius Malfoy's voice again in my head 'sentenced to execution by beheading.' repeating over and over again. I felt dizzy and sat down.
I didn't know where I was. I must have fallen asleep of something. The bars of the cage were digging into my back uncomfortably. I stood up and could see that I was in a large room at the back of a crowd. As the people saw me stand up they moved away looking frightened. I couldn't understand it. I still can't. I mean, I'm human like them, most of the time. I'd never hurt them before, and I hadn't deliberately hurt anyone before. What I had done at the full moon wasn't my fault. was it? I was feeling guilty again so I tried to concentrate on what was going on around me. Someone was talking.
"Albus Dumbledore, you are here to answer to the charge of attempting to prevent the Committee fo the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures from carrying out the sentence passed on the second of this month. How do you plead?"
"Guilty. I did indeed try to save an innocent girl's life. Alas I have failed. I am sorry Harriet." As Dumbledore said this the judge went very red and then he shouted,
"Innocent girl! Harriet Rivers is a werewolf and a murderer!"
"NO!" I shouted. "I am not a murderer. I couldn't help what I did. You can't understand. You are not a werewolf." I was loosing control. Whenever I get provoked I get really angry, I know I should try to ignore people and not let them bother me but it doesn't work.
"Harriet." Dumbledore said gently. "Don't make things worse for yourself." Make things worse! How could I possibly do that? Things couldn't get any worse. The judge although a little shaken proceeded with the trial.
"Albus Dumbledore found guilty. I suggest a sentence of no less than six months in Azkaban." Now I felt really bad. I had gone to Dumbledore for help, and although I was no better off for it,now I'd got him into trouble. Dumbledore was taken away by the dementors again. I was taken back to the Comittee where Lucius Malfoy had an unpleasant grin on his face.
"It has been decided to-" he was interrupted.
"You can't do this." shouted Remus Lupin.
"Oh really?" said Malfoy. "Who are you to tell the Committee for the Disposal of dangeros Creatures what to do?"
"My name is Remus" he answered simply. "Will you let her go?"
"No I shall not. Have him thrown out please." Remus was sent out.At least he was safe away from here. I knew that they wouldn't care if he'd done anything or not, they're just predjudiced against us.
"It has been decided to move forwards the execution of the werewolf, Harriet Rivers to." I held my breath. How much time would I have to plan my escape.? "Tonight at ten o'clock."
No! How was I going to plan my escape in just four and a half hours. It was hopeless. I began screaming and crying. While I still hoped that I would be able to escape, I had mostly managed to hold back, and stay calm, but now- what was the point? I just sat in the bottom of the cage, staring blankly into space. Hours passed, then I was taken into a different room. A tall man with a thick balck moustache was running his finger along the blade of an axe. I pressed up against the far side of my cage, more terrified than I had been before,but I was pulled out of the cage and dragged towards him. I was trembling. But there was one thing that I had forgotten:the full moon. As I was pushed down to the ground, it came out from behind a cloud, and I escaped. I don't know how, or what I did, because I wasn't in control. That was the first time I was actually glad of what I was : a werewolf.