A/N: Welp! I have been drawing the non-HP version of Astra Knight and am almost done with the entry. In the beginning we see here dreaming about her father's death, which she swears that she wasn't there, that no one knows exactly what happened to him. We then see her going to school at Austin(::grovels humbly to the crockett gods for such an insult:::) Academy. She describes what the origin of her society is.
"I am a witch in training. In my school there are hidden doors, hidden rooms, and there are people you wouldn't even know were there. A thousand years ago, the council of twelve divided to form the three circles. The first don't tell their children. The second teach the boys and girls separately from eachother. The third teach their children magic as well as mundane subjects."
Then, she introduces her life and goes to class. The class gets a new student who looks like a cross between Tom Riddle and Tamahome. Mainly like my version of Tom.... ::drools:: Then, the class is attacked.
Chapter Eighteen
After that morning, Harry kept his eye on Voldemort. He had somehow made himself appear to look seventeen, as he was posing as a seventh year. He could always be seen watching Harry from some corner in the hallways. Harry kept close to Astra and the others. It had been two days since their arrival and Harry was getting pensive about Voldemort's purpose.
"He's even creepier than before!" Astra growled as she watched Voldemort smirk at her and disappear in a crowd of Slytherins.
"It's Tom Riddle all over again...." Harry whispered to her. She gave him a questioning look. "That was Voldemort's birth name until he changed it. I had accidentally come across his diary in my second year when strange events in the school started happening about the Chamber of Secrets."
"Ah... He was like this when you read his diary?"
"No... he was like this when I ran into him in the Chamber while trying to save Ginny." Harry said. Astra smirked at him and he blushed. "Stop.... I wasn't saving the damsel in distress! I was saving a friend!"
Suddenly, Astra bumped into someone rather hard and knocked them onto the floor. She glanced down smiling sheepishly. "Sorry! I didn't mean to hit you..." she said.
She suddenly saw the person. It was a seventh year boy with very pale skin, a few freckles on his nose and cheeks and silvery blonde hair. He wore glasses as well. He rubbed his shoulder painfully. "That hurt... be careful next time." He said as he got to his feet.
Another seventh year showed up beside him. "Are you alright, Kevin?" He asked. He was almost taller than Kevin was. He had very pale skin and long shimmery black hair that was tied back into a ponytail. He glanced at Astra with those lamplike eyes of his.
"I-I'm sorry.... I didn.... excuse me..."
Harry had to run to keep up with Astra. He huffed as she ran past a bunch of people and hid behind a wall that led to the stair wells. "Are you alright, Astra?"
"Yes.... I'm fine... that was just waaaaay too strange for me...." She shook her head suddenly. "It was Professor Wizworth.... He knew my father!"
"Apparently, they went about the same time as my parents did... So... what do we do if we have both of our fathers to keep an eye on?" Harry smiled. Astra gave a look that seemed to say, "Cute... real cute."
Harry was suddenly aware of being watched. He saw a pair of green eyes staring at him from under the stair case Astra had led them to. He stared back pensively. "Hello?"
"I thought there was something odd about you two..." the green eyes said calmly.
They both watched as Lily Evans walked out of the shadows with look similar to Hermione's when she's figured something out. "W-what is odd?" Harry stammered out. He tried to keep his face straight, but it wasn't working as his cheek twitched.
Lily came closer and stared up into Harry's eyes. She lifted her hand and brushed a lock of Harry's wayward hair off of his forehead. "Where did you come from." she asked softly. She looked about as nervous as Harry did.
"Ah hell... well... I guess we broke a few more laws with this one..." Astra said. "I knew I couldn't keep up that damned accent with out you there..." she smirked at Harry.
"I know you aren't from this time period... I've felt it since the night Sirius showed up with you at the door. Where are you from?" she asked again.
"As did I when we found you..." came another voice from around the corner. Harry gulped and turned around. He saw James, Sirius and Remus watching. James watched Harry very carefully.
"Like I said... we screwed up big time, Har...." Astra gulped.
"So... what you are saying is that you two are from the future? Why the bloody hell would you want to come to THIS time for." Sirius said.
"It wasn't our choice... We were sucked into some kind of whirlwind and brought here along with one other." Harry was sweating now. Lily's eyes were boring into him as were James'.
"Who...." James said.
"I think that if they have figured out this much and heard as much as we have told them, I don't it would hurt to tell them, Harry...." Astra said looking like she had lost a game of gobstones and was now drenched in foul liquid.
"Voldemort..." Harry said.
Everyone seemed to stare at him with a combination of fear and disbelief. "How could anyone let that monster live?" Sirius growled.
"He does it on his own, thank you very much." Astra growled back. "It's not like WE'VE been able to get rid of him!"
"I was wondering why this meeting hasn't caused a major paradox...." Remus said placidly.
"Funny... so have we..." Astra countered.
"Peter wouldn't survive this conversation..." Sirius grinned at James. "Too much double talk."
Harry fought the urge to tell them about Peter betraying them. In fact, he opened his mouth to say something, but felt a sharp pain hit his shin. Astra had kicked him hard. She glared at him with a sort of death glare.
"What are your names... your REAL names... we won't tell Dumbledore about this..." James said placidly. He looked as though he were thoroughly enjoying himself.
"Astra Knight..." Astra said quickly.
"Ah... so you are the..." Sirius began.
"Daughter..."
"Of that Kevin fellow that's in Seventh year. Him and that bodyguard of his, Sky Wizworth." Sirius said with a grin.
Harry didn't fully register the look on Astra's face. He saw surprise, but he didn't know exactly what she was surprised at. Everyone was staring at him now. He sighed heavily. "My name is Harry.... Harry Potter..."
Sirius stopped grinning and stared. "Great Merlin..." he whispered.
James stared at Lily. Lily walked over to James and he put an arm around her shoulders. Sirius walked over to Harry and grinned as he suddenly mussed up Harry's hair. "Like this kid's hair could get any worse...."
"It just grows that way!" James and Harry growled together.
"I knew it was too good to be true that they had missed yer looks..." Astra smirked.
"If he's your son, James... what should we call him?" Sirius grinned.
"Well... he's a little Prongs..." said Remus.
"Prods!" James laughed. "Prods it is!"
"Welcome, young Prods... to the land of the insane." smiled Lily as she held onto James.
"I still can't figure something... where is Voldemort?" Remus said.
Astra suddenly jerked on Harry's arm and motioned with her head at the hallway where Harry could see the familiar pair of red eyes boring into him. James turned and raised an eyebrow. "You've got to joking...."
"That's not Voldemort... he's this old guy with creepy eyes." Sirius said as he glanced at Voldemort. Voldemort turned his gaze away and started to head off with a small crowd of Slytherins when someone pounced onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck gleefully. "What the blazes....?"
"The Snapette strikes again...." James smirked.
"You know... I think someone ought to name a horrible disease after her...." Remus said thoughtfully with an evil smirk.
"I think someone should dedicate a horrible condition to Snape!" smirked Sirius. He turned and smiled down at Astra. "Well, Barbarella.... how about spending some time alone with me...."
Astra punched Sirius in the jaw. Lily shook her head at him. "You are hopeless, Sirius..."
"Like a quarts watch! He takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.." Astra mimicked Lily.
Sirius sat up quickly. "I wouldn't mind some licking..." he smirked up at Astra from the floor. She blushed furiously and stomped on his chest as she walked over him.
"Aw.... did poor Sirius get his heart stomped on again?" James said as he picked Sirius up off of the floor.
"Not in the least.... She's a spicy one, that girl... like hell I'm letting her out of my sights!" He smirked with a devious glint in his eyes. Harry shook his head at Sirius. He wondered how this boy came to be the man he ended up living with. Azkaban... it was the only answer.
"We have to get back to our own time at some point... I have a game to play on Saturday..." Harry said as he grabbed Astra's arm before she walked too far away. James' interest seemed to have been pricked.
James came up beside Harry as they walked to Gryffindor tower. "When we get up to our dorm, Henry... I want you to tell me about how you played." He winked at Harry.
Lily came up beside Astra as they passed Kevin Knight and Sky Wizworth. Sky stared at Astra oddly as she glanced at him and blushed slightly. "The blonde is your soon to be father? Do you know anything about that boy that always hangs around him so suspiciously?" Lily asked her quietly.
"Not really..." Astra said.
They passed Severus Snape as he glared at James and his friends. "I see you have a couple of new friends in your ranks, Potter." He sneered. Harry noticed that he wore glasses. The Professor he knew didn't wear glasses.
"Aw... the ickle potions geek can't take being alone?" Sirius sneered back.
"You above all other people should know that I'm never alone... you people seem to riddle my life with enough strife as it is..." he growled. Suddenly, he was hit on the back on the head by a flying table.
"OOPS! I lost my grip! Silly me!" cried Aldonia Snape from fifteen feet away. She was dragging Voldemort by an arm as he tried to scramble away on his other limbs.
"Let me go! Let me go!" he cried.
"Never! You're so pretty, I can't let you leave!" Aldonia laughed that horrible laugh.
"Very disturbing behavior...." Severus mumbled as he got up off of the floor with blood trickling from his head.
"Oh dear... I'm going to take him to the infirmary..." Lily said as she kneeled next to Severus.
"Watch out, Jamsie... He's going to steal your girlfriend!" Sirius jabbed at James' ribs.
"Get away from me, Evans!" Severus growled as Lily tried to sop up the blood with a handkerchief.
"Oh hush up, Snape! I'm trying to be helpful!" she growled at him.
"I don't need your help, Evans! I'm fine on my own!" He took the handkerchief that she had pressed to his forehead and stalked off.
"He's a loner if I ever met one...." Remus said placidly. "Let's go up to the Tower, then..."
When they walked up the stairs into the boys' dormitories, Harry noticed that Peter was no where to be seen. James flopped onto his bed and coaxed Lily to his side. She smirked at him as he put an arm around her waist. "Any higher and I'll have to hurt you, Jamsie..."
"So what's this about Quidditch on Saturday?" James smiled at Harry. Harry sat on his bed, which was next to James'. Sirius came over with Remus and sat on James' bed. Astra sat next to Harry.
"He's Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and he plays seeker." Astra smiled. James' smile grew wide, then he became depressed.
"What's wrong, James?" Remus asked.
"But... I'm a chaser.... why aren't you?" His bottom lip quivered as if he were going to cry.
"Because I'm a seeker... I'm fairly good, I should think." Harry said.
Astra smirked. "He's an excellent seeker. He started in his first year! He was the youngest seeker in--"
"Almost a century..." said Sirius. "Wow... now this is cool..." He slapped James on the back and knocked him off. "Oops... sorry, Prongs..."
James lifted himself off of the floor and smiled at Sirius through gritted teeth. "Sirius...? How would you like to be thrown from here to the Slytherin dorms?"
They started chasing eachother around the room while Sirius laughed maniacally. Lily walked over to Harry's bed and smiled. "So I'm going to be a mother?"
"Y-yes...." Harry gulped.
She suddenly got stars in her eyes. "Oh good! I can't wait!" She smiled blissfully. "I hope you don't turn out to be too much trouble..." she mussed up his hair and giggled. Harry opened his mouth and felt a jab in his ribcage. Astra was still going strong.
Lily glanced at Astra giving him that look and raised an eyebrow. "You aren't my soon to be son's girfriend are you?"
Astra blushed and giggled. "If I was, I wouldn't have so many guy problems with the usual prospects!" They both giggled together.
Harry sighed heavily. "Not another one...."
"Oh, buck up, Harry.... I was only making sure that mumsie's ickle boy finds the right girl!" Lily said as she pinched Harry's cheek.
"Did I hear you correctly? I THOUGHT you were single! HA!" Sirius dashed over to Astra in a flash. He smiled roguishly at her. She growled at him.
"Sirius... I think you ought to rethink your position... she may be able to do more than just hit you..." Remus said with a smile.
Sirius seemed to catch Remus' drift and backed off a bit. "So... where do you come from?" He said as he brought his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
"I'm from Texas... in America..." she said cheerfully. She was suddenly aware of music being played. "Is someone playing 'American Woman'?"
Sirius stopped singing using the end of a broomstick as a microphone. "American Woman! Stay away from meeeeeeee...."
"And I thought things couldn't get any weirder...." Harry stated as he watched Sirius get hit on the head by a book being thrown at his head.
"So how will you be getting home? I'm sure that your friends are missing you right?" asked James who sat down next to Harry in the absence of Astra. She was chasing Sirius around the room with five books which she seemed to be aiming straight for his head.
"I don't know... We sort of just came here without really knowing it. When I saw you... I wanted to jump for joy and jump out the nearest window." Harry stated. James had his arm around Harry's shoulder with the sort of smile Harry usually got from Sirius. It was a patronly one. Then, he realized that if Astra had heard him say what he did, she would be doing more than just jabbing him in the ribs.
James and Lily didn't seem to notice Harry's reference. They were waiting for him to go on. "We intercepted Voldemort trying to steal the stone away from a Soul Reaver and got caught in the time wave... if that is what you could call it."
"That sounds about right..." Astra said breathlessly. She stumbled over to Harry's bed and flopped back onto it. "Damned boy... he's worse than Draco..." She blushed furiously at that statement.
"You have a boy already?" Lily said with surprise written all over her face. Then, she turned to Sirius who was walking toward Harry's bed as well and smirked. "Well now... to assume is to make an ass out of you and me...."
Sirius stopped. He just stood there staring at them all. Then, he smiled. Harry wasn't sure what was going through that brain of his, but it didn't look like a very convincing smile. "That's alright.... I can find other girls who are more willing..." Then... he walked out of the dorm and shut the door quietly.
Lily looked horrible. "I can't believe I just did that to poor Sirius...." she said. "He looked like a puppy who had been smacked a few too many times by his master."
"He'll be alright... just as soon as he gets a woman to cooperate with him." Remus said. "I'll go see if I might be able to help him."
"Remus... do you realize what time of the month it is?" James said.
Remus stopped and turned pale. "Oh no.... oh God!" He stuttered in fear.
"Is he going to turn into a werewolf tomorrow night? Or tonight? I don't remember when the full moon is..." Harry said hurriedly.
James and Remus stared at him. "So you know...? I guess you would with him hanging around the house, right? I mean... what would happen to him if he didn't have his best mates with him half the time." James laughed. Harry gulped, but didn't say a word. One look from Astra's steel like eyes made sure of that. She had the uncanny ability to keep a pleasant smile on her face and yet her eyes told you everything you needed to know.
"The full moon is two days off, Harry... I am worried about that.... but this is worse..." Remus said placidly. There was barely a twitch in his kind face. He looked almost exactly like the older version of him, minus the few premature gray hairs and small wrinkles.
"What could be worse than tuning into a monster once a month?" Astra said. She and Lily giggled heartily.
James, Harry and Remus blushed crimson. "Stop thinking about that!"
"You'll see tomorrow...." Lily said with a smile on her young face.
"I am a witch in training. In my school there are hidden doors, hidden rooms, and there are people you wouldn't even know were there. A thousand years ago, the council of twelve divided to form the three circles. The first don't tell their children. The second teach the boys and girls separately from eachother. The third teach their children magic as well as mundane subjects."
Then, she introduces her life and goes to class. The class gets a new student who looks like a cross between Tom Riddle and Tamahome. Mainly like my version of Tom.... ::drools:: Then, the class is attacked.
Chapter Eighteen
After that morning, Harry kept his eye on Voldemort. He had somehow made himself appear to look seventeen, as he was posing as a seventh year. He could always be seen watching Harry from some corner in the hallways. Harry kept close to Astra and the others. It had been two days since their arrival and Harry was getting pensive about Voldemort's purpose.
"He's even creepier than before!" Astra growled as she watched Voldemort smirk at her and disappear in a crowd of Slytherins.
"It's Tom Riddle all over again...." Harry whispered to her. She gave him a questioning look. "That was Voldemort's birth name until he changed it. I had accidentally come across his diary in my second year when strange events in the school started happening about the Chamber of Secrets."
"Ah... He was like this when you read his diary?"
"No... he was like this when I ran into him in the Chamber while trying to save Ginny." Harry said. Astra smirked at him and he blushed. "Stop.... I wasn't saving the damsel in distress! I was saving a friend!"
Suddenly, Astra bumped into someone rather hard and knocked them onto the floor. She glanced down smiling sheepishly. "Sorry! I didn't mean to hit you..." she said.
She suddenly saw the person. It was a seventh year boy with very pale skin, a few freckles on his nose and cheeks and silvery blonde hair. He wore glasses as well. He rubbed his shoulder painfully. "That hurt... be careful next time." He said as he got to his feet.
Another seventh year showed up beside him. "Are you alright, Kevin?" He asked. He was almost taller than Kevin was. He had very pale skin and long shimmery black hair that was tied back into a ponytail. He glanced at Astra with those lamplike eyes of his.
"I-I'm sorry.... I didn.... excuse me..."
Harry had to run to keep up with Astra. He huffed as she ran past a bunch of people and hid behind a wall that led to the stair wells. "Are you alright, Astra?"
"Yes.... I'm fine... that was just waaaaay too strange for me...." She shook her head suddenly. "It was Professor Wizworth.... He knew my father!"
"Apparently, they went about the same time as my parents did... So... what do we do if we have both of our fathers to keep an eye on?" Harry smiled. Astra gave a look that seemed to say, "Cute... real cute."
Harry was suddenly aware of being watched. He saw a pair of green eyes staring at him from under the stair case Astra had led them to. He stared back pensively. "Hello?"
"I thought there was something odd about you two..." the green eyes said calmly.
They both watched as Lily Evans walked out of the shadows with look similar to Hermione's when she's figured something out. "W-what is odd?" Harry stammered out. He tried to keep his face straight, but it wasn't working as his cheek twitched.
Lily came closer and stared up into Harry's eyes. She lifted her hand and brushed a lock of Harry's wayward hair off of his forehead. "Where did you come from." she asked softly. She looked about as nervous as Harry did.
"Ah hell... well... I guess we broke a few more laws with this one..." Astra said. "I knew I couldn't keep up that damned accent with out you there..." she smirked at Harry.
"I know you aren't from this time period... I've felt it since the night Sirius showed up with you at the door. Where are you from?" she asked again.
"As did I when we found you..." came another voice from around the corner. Harry gulped and turned around. He saw James, Sirius and Remus watching. James watched Harry very carefully.
"Like I said... we screwed up big time, Har...." Astra gulped.
"So... what you are saying is that you two are from the future? Why the bloody hell would you want to come to THIS time for." Sirius said.
"It wasn't our choice... We were sucked into some kind of whirlwind and brought here along with one other." Harry was sweating now. Lily's eyes were boring into him as were James'.
"Who...." James said.
"I think that if they have figured out this much and heard as much as we have told them, I don't it would hurt to tell them, Harry...." Astra said looking like she had lost a game of gobstones and was now drenched in foul liquid.
"Voldemort..." Harry said.
Everyone seemed to stare at him with a combination of fear and disbelief. "How could anyone let that monster live?" Sirius growled.
"He does it on his own, thank you very much." Astra growled back. "It's not like WE'VE been able to get rid of him!"
"I was wondering why this meeting hasn't caused a major paradox...." Remus said placidly.
"Funny... so have we..." Astra countered.
"Peter wouldn't survive this conversation..." Sirius grinned at James. "Too much double talk."
Harry fought the urge to tell them about Peter betraying them. In fact, he opened his mouth to say something, but felt a sharp pain hit his shin. Astra had kicked him hard. She glared at him with a sort of death glare.
"What are your names... your REAL names... we won't tell Dumbledore about this..." James said placidly. He looked as though he were thoroughly enjoying himself.
"Astra Knight..." Astra said quickly.
"Ah... so you are the..." Sirius began.
"Daughter..."
"Of that Kevin fellow that's in Seventh year. Him and that bodyguard of his, Sky Wizworth." Sirius said with a grin.
Harry didn't fully register the look on Astra's face. He saw surprise, but he didn't know exactly what she was surprised at. Everyone was staring at him now. He sighed heavily. "My name is Harry.... Harry Potter..."
Sirius stopped grinning and stared. "Great Merlin..." he whispered.
James stared at Lily. Lily walked over to James and he put an arm around her shoulders. Sirius walked over to Harry and grinned as he suddenly mussed up Harry's hair. "Like this kid's hair could get any worse...."
"It just grows that way!" James and Harry growled together.
"I knew it was too good to be true that they had missed yer looks..." Astra smirked.
"If he's your son, James... what should we call him?" Sirius grinned.
"Well... he's a little Prongs..." said Remus.
"Prods!" James laughed. "Prods it is!"
"Welcome, young Prods... to the land of the insane." smiled Lily as she held onto James.
"I still can't figure something... where is Voldemort?" Remus said.
Astra suddenly jerked on Harry's arm and motioned with her head at the hallway where Harry could see the familiar pair of red eyes boring into him. James turned and raised an eyebrow. "You've got to joking...."
"That's not Voldemort... he's this old guy with creepy eyes." Sirius said as he glanced at Voldemort. Voldemort turned his gaze away and started to head off with a small crowd of Slytherins when someone pounced onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck gleefully. "What the blazes....?"
"The Snapette strikes again...." James smirked.
"You know... I think someone ought to name a horrible disease after her...." Remus said thoughtfully with an evil smirk.
"I think someone should dedicate a horrible condition to Snape!" smirked Sirius. He turned and smiled down at Astra. "Well, Barbarella.... how about spending some time alone with me...."
Astra punched Sirius in the jaw. Lily shook her head at him. "You are hopeless, Sirius..."
"Like a quarts watch! He takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.." Astra mimicked Lily.
Sirius sat up quickly. "I wouldn't mind some licking..." he smirked up at Astra from the floor. She blushed furiously and stomped on his chest as she walked over him.
"Aw.... did poor Sirius get his heart stomped on again?" James said as he picked Sirius up off of the floor.
"Not in the least.... She's a spicy one, that girl... like hell I'm letting her out of my sights!" He smirked with a devious glint in his eyes. Harry shook his head at Sirius. He wondered how this boy came to be the man he ended up living with. Azkaban... it was the only answer.
"We have to get back to our own time at some point... I have a game to play on Saturday..." Harry said as he grabbed Astra's arm before she walked too far away. James' interest seemed to have been pricked.
James came up beside Harry as they walked to Gryffindor tower. "When we get up to our dorm, Henry... I want you to tell me about how you played." He winked at Harry.
Lily came up beside Astra as they passed Kevin Knight and Sky Wizworth. Sky stared at Astra oddly as she glanced at him and blushed slightly. "The blonde is your soon to be father? Do you know anything about that boy that always hangs around him so suspiciously?" Lily asked her quietly.
"Not really..." Astra said.
They passed Severus Snape as he glared at James and his friends. "I see you have a couple of new friends in your ranks, Potter." He sneered. Harry noticed that he wore glasses. The Professor he knew didn't wear glasses.
"Aw... the ickle potions geek can't take being alone?" Sirius sneered back.
"You above all other people should know that I'm never alone... you people seem to riddle my life with enough strife as it is..." he growled. Suddenly, he was hit on the back on the head by a flying table.
"OOPS! I lost my grip! Silly me!" cried Aldonia Snape from fifteen feet away. She was dragging Voldemort by an arm as he tried to scramble away on his other limbs.
"Let me go! Let me go!" he cried.
"Never! You're so pretty, I can't let you leave!" Aldonia laughed that horrible laugh.
"Very disturbing behavior...." Severus mumbled as he got up off of the floor with blood trickling from his head.
"Oh dear... I'm going to take him to the infirmary..." Lily said as she kneeled next to Severus.
"Watch out, Jamsie... He's going to steal your girlfriend!" Sirius jabbed at James' ribs.
"Get away from me, Evans!" Severus growled as Lily tried to sop up the blood with a handkerchief.
"Oh hush up, Snape! I'm trying to be helpful!" she growled at him.
"I don't need your help, Evans! I'm fine on my own!" He took the handkerchief that she had pressed to his forehead and stalked off.
"He's a loner if I ever met one...." Remus said placidly. "Let's go up to the Tower, then..."
When they walked up the stairs into the boys' dormitories, Harry noticed that Peter was no where to be seen. James flopped onto his bed and coaxed Lily to his side. She smirked at him as he put an arm around her waist. "Any higher and I'll have to hurt you, Jamsie..."
"So what's this about Quidditch on Saturday?" James smiled at Harry. Harry sat on his bed, which was next to James'. Sirius came over with Remus and sat on James' bed. Astra sat next to Harry.
"He's Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and he plays seeker." Astra smiled. James' smile grew wide, then he became depressed.
"What's wrong, James?" Remus asked.
"But... I'm a chaser.... why aren't you?" His bottom lip quivered as if he were going to cry.
"Because I'm a seeker... I'm fairly good, I should think." Harry said.
Astra smirked. "He's an excellent seeker. He started in his first year! He was the youngest seeker in--"
"Almost a century..." said Sirius. "Wow... now this is cool..." He slapped James on the back and knocked him off. "Oops... sorry, Prongs..."
James lifted himself off of the floor and smiled at Sirius through gritted teeth. "Sirius...? How would you like to be thrown from here to the Slytherin dorms?"
They started chasing eachother around the room while Sirius laughed maniacally. Lily walked over to Harry's bed and smiled. "So I'm going to be a mother?"
"Y-yes...." Harry gulped.
She suddenly got stars in her eyes. "Oh good! I can't wait!" She smiled blissfully. "I hope you don't turn out to be too much trouble..." she mussed up his hair and giggled. Harry opened his mouth and felt a jab in his ribcage. Astra was still going strong.
Lily glanced at Astra giving him that look and raised an eyebrow. "You aren't my soon to be son's girfriend are you?"
Astra blushed and giggled. "If I was, I wouldn't have so many guy problems with the usual prospects!" They both giggled together.
Harry sighed heavily. "Not another one...."
"Oh, buck up, Harry.... I was only making sure that mumsie's ickle boy finds the right girl!" Lily said as she pinched Harry's cheek.
"Did I hear you correctly? I THOUGHT you were single! HA!" Sirius dashed over to Astra in a flash. He smiled roguishly at her. She growled at him.
"Sirius... I think you ought to rethink your position... she may be able to do more than just hit you..." Remus said with a smile.
Sirius seemed to catch Remus' drift and backed off a bit. "So... where do you come from?" He said as he brought his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
"I'm from Texas... in America..." she said cheerfully. She was suddenly aware of music being played. "Is someone playing 'American Woman'?"
Sirius stopped singing using the end of a broomstick as a microphone. "American Woman! Stay away from meeeeeeee...."
"And I thought things couldn't get any weirder...." Harry stated as he watched Sirius get hit on the head by a book being thrown at his head.
"So how will you be getting home? I'm sure that your friends are missing you right?" asked James who sat down next to Harry in the absence of Astra. She was chasing Sirius around the room with five books which she seemed to be aiming straight for his head.
"I don't know... We sort of just came here without really knowing it. When I saw you... I wanted to jump for joy and jump out the nearest window." Harry stated. James had his arm around Harry's shoulder with the sort of smile Harry usually got from Sirius. It was a patronly one. Then, he realized that if Astra had heard him say what he did, she would be doing more than just jabbing him in the ribs.
James and Lily didn't seem to notice Harry's reference. They were waiting for him to go on. "We intercepted Voldemort trying to steal the stone away from a Soul Reaver and got caught in the time wave... if that is what you could call it."
"That sounds about right..." Astra said breathlessly. She stumbled over to Harry's bed and flopped back onto it. "Damned boy... he's worse than Draco..." She blushed furiously at that statement.
"You have a boy already?" Lily said with surprise written all over her face. Then, she turned to Sirius who was walking toward Harry's bed as well and smirked. "Well now... to assume is to make an ass out of you and me...."
Sirius stopped. He just stood there staring at them all. Then, he smiled. Harry wasn't sure what was going through that brain of his, but it didn't look like a very convincing smile. "That's alright.... I can find other girls who are more willing..." Then... he walked out of the dorm and shut the door quietly.
Lily looked horrible. "I can't believe I just did that to poor Sirius...." she said. "He looked like a puppy who had been smacked a few too many times by his master."
"He'll be alright... just as soon as he gets a woman to cooperate with him." Remus said. "I'll go see if I might be able to help him."
"Remus... do you realize what time of the month it is?" James said.
Remus stopped and turned pale. "Oh no.... oh God!" He stuttered in fear.
"Is he going to turn into a werewolf tomorrow night? Or tonight? I don't remember when the full moon is..." Harry said hurriedly.
James and Remus stared at him. "So you know...? I guess you would with him hanging around the house, right? I mean... what would happen to him if he didn't have his best mates with him half the time." James laughed. Harry gulped, but didn't say a word. One look from Astra's steel like eyes made sure of that. She had the uncanny ability to keep a pleasant smile on her face and yet her eyes told you everything you needed to know.
"The full moon is two days off, Harry... I am worried about that.... but this is worse..." Remus said placidly. There was barely a twitch in his kind face. He looked almost exactly like the older version of him, minus the few premature gray hairs and small wrinkles.
"What could be worse than tuning into a monster once a month?" Astra said. She and Lily giggled heartily.
James, Harry and Remus blushed crimson. "Stop thinking about that!"
"You'll see tomorrow...." Lily said with a smile on her young face.
