AN: Hi, sorry this took a little long, but you may have to get used to it, since I have classes again. I could drop out, but then non of you would ever get to see my name in the Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban movie credits, which is a right that I refuse to deny myself, especially since I heard that Jude Law might end up playing Remus and Ewan McGregor might play Sirius. Yippy Skippy! I hope you guys liked the last chapter. It was my strange attempt to add some comedy to the story, and I just love Relena's shirt, which was inspired by a friend of mine who accused me of being a Harry Potter…well you get the idea. In this chapter some people make some promises that they might not be able to or might not want to keep.
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Disclaimer: I don't own a lot of things. I don't own Harry, Ron, Sirius, Remus, or Hermione. :: Runs off to cry in a closet:: I do own Miguel, Spridal, Relena, and the plot! :: Cheers:: I don't own Vampires or Lethifolds. Lethifolds are ancient magical creatures that I wouldn't want to met in a dark ally, same with Vampires, but since I am a personal friend of Louis, Lestat, and Gabriel I figure I'm safe with most of them. (Except Robert, who nobody likes.) I also own Casey, Roin, Lola Palm, Lula Bell, and Jenna Corinth. I DO NOT, YES I REPEAT, I DO NOT OWN THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!
Spridal looked up at the clock hanging on the wall in the Gryffindor common room. 11:30! She had Charms first thing in the morning too! Slowly she closed her Transfiguration book and looked around the common room. It was deserted except for Harry and Ron who were playing wizard chess and Hermione who was rubbing the back of Ron's neck and whispering encouragement in his ear.
"Yes!" Harry shouted before getting up and doing the strangest victory dance that any of them had ever seen. "Oh, it's just a jump to the left! And then a step to the right! Put your hands on your hips! And squeeze your knees in tight!" As he sang he followed his own directions causing both Spridal and Ron to wonder if he was insane. Hermione on the other hand just looked on in mild amusement.
"Ah, come on you guys! Don't tell me you've never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show!" Harry whined.
"Harry, oh course they haven't!" Hermione scolded, "And as I recall a year ago you hadn't seen it either. How on god's green earth did you get the Dursleys to let you see it? I had always figured that they would be uncomfortable with transvestites."
"They didn't let him see it! I have seen the movie Hermione!" Ron sounded annoyed. "For Merlin's sake, we saw it when Harry was at my house over the summer! Sirius took us to see it!"
"RON!" Hermione looked horrified, and Spridal was sure that her own jaw had hit the floor. Sirius? As in Sirius Black? Oh, Relena wasn't going to like this one little bit.
"Harry, who is Sirius?"
"Um, well, he's my godfather."
"Tell me you aren't' talking about the I-escaped-from-Azkaban Sirius Black."
"Well, sort of."
"HAROLD JAMES POTTER! HOW COULD YOU? HE COULD HAVE MURDERED YOU! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT SO EVER OF EXACTLY WHAT HE DID TO END UP IN AZKABAN? TRUST ME IT WASN'T JAYWALKING!"
"Shh, Spridal calm down. We'll tell you what happened. You would have found out sooner or later any way." They spent the next half hour trying to explain the events of their third year, during which Sirius' presence had become known to Harry. When they were finished, Spridal sat there dumb struck.
"So you're telling me that Peter Pettigrew is responsible for this whole thing?"
"Yes, but you can't tell another living soul about this Spridal."
"I need to tell Relena! What if she attacks him? You should warn him Harry!"
"I already have, and no, you can't tell Relena anything. This is important Spridal. Please don't tell her." Harry pleaded. With a sigh Spridal agreed, and then turned to go up to her dormitory knowing that she should tell Relena, but wouldn't because she had made a promise to Harry.
Remus sat in his office looking through his lessons for the sixth and seventh years. Miguel and Relena would be here any minute. God, Relena would be teaching here. It wasn't like they could just avoid each other. How was he going to face her? She had betrayed him. She had said she didn't care when she had found out that he was a werewolf, but only two months after he asked her to marry him she had disappeared.
Of course he did know where she had gone. Severus had sent him letters asking him to come talk to her. Telling him that he needed to work things out with her, but one day the letters had just stopped. Remus had often wondered what made them stop. He had also wondered why she had gone to Severus. She could have gone anywhere. She could have gone back to America to live with their friends, Casey and Roin, but instead she had gone to Snape. Questions had been posed by everyone as to the nature of Relena and Severus' relationship. Many had thought them to be an item, but Remus hadn't believed it. Well, not until he got that first letter from Severus, and then that little voice in the back of his mind had started to nag at him again. The one that always told him he wasn't good enough to be around other people, the one that told him he wasn't good enough for her. No wonder she had chosen Snape. Why have a tired monstrous werewolf when you could have a brilliant mad scientist? Many a girl had made the same decision through out the generations, and Relena was just like any other girl, though Remus had to admit that she had gotten a lot stronger in the passing years. Well, of course she had! She was a werewolf now wasn't she and she was endowed with the super human capabilities given to all werewolves.
Suddenly there was a knock at Remus' door. "Come in," he called sitting up just a little straighter than usual. The door creaked open, and there stood the impressive figure of Miguel Darkhunter. For a moment Remus began to look around him so that he could see Relena, but he caught himself before Miguel noticed anything.
"Miguel, please do come in and sit down."
"Don't mind if I do Professor," Miguel said taking a chair in front of Remus' desk. They eyed each other for a few minutes before Miguel spoke again. "All right Lupin, listen up," he said in a stern sort of voice, "I know all about you and Relena's relationship of yesteryear, or at least I know everything that Relena wants me to know. I don't appreciate you pulling that little stunt the other day where you pretended not to have a clue who I was, but," here Miguel paused, "I'm going to try to be chummy with you. Relena says there's no reason I shouldn't be and since she's the boss I'm gonna listen to her, for once, but be warned, if she tells me to beat the puke out of you at anytime then I'm going to do it. Got that?"
Remus nodded his head yes. "Why is it that every time I talk to one of Relena's guy friends I feel like I'm talking to James about her all over again?"
"Ah, cheer up!" Miguel said a little more casually, "Relena just attracts older brothers like honey attracts flies. I stopped trying to order her around a year after we meet, which, if I do say so my self, is why I'm one of the few guy friends she confides in. So Professor Lupin, what are we teaching the sixth years? I figure since they're our first class I should get things straightened out with them first."
"Well, it's rather complicated…"
"Ah, Relena and I can teach anything! Just not how to kill werewolves. I won't put Relena in danger like that." Inside Remus gave a huge sigh of relief.
"Well the sixth years are working on Lethifolds. They're pretty dangerous, you know?"
"Yeah, I know. Nasty little buggers, I met up with a few of them in Guatemala three years ago."
"Really? I'm hoping the students will never have to face one. I'm not sure how I could get one up here. They usually live in tropical climates. I'm not sure if one could even survive up here."
"Oh, they can survive up here all right. They just tend to get stomach cramps, so they don't like it much. You ever been up against one, Remus?"
"Yes, once in Miami. Relena and I were there doing some research on ghosts. We decided to venture out to the Everglades and all of a sudden one just attacked us! It really was very frightening. If it weren't for my Patronus I'm certain I would be quite dead today."
"Yeah, well they are pretty scary. The worst part of it for me was the fact that you just disappear. Think about that no one would even have a clue what happened to you, but you know what I find strange. Isn't it rare for them to attack while their victims are awake? And isn't Miami a little far north for a Lethifold?"
"Yes, I though so as well, but the strange thing is that I didn't even realize it was there until it started crawling up my leg. Usually, I can sense when a creature like that is around. You know years of working with dangerous creatures, wizards, and the like."
"All I know is that you have to be pretty good with a Patronus to defend yourself against a Lethifold. If it weren't for Relena's we'd both be dead."
"Relena can cast a Patronus?"
"Of course she can, a pretty strong one too. Mine's not nearly as good. I figured you'd know she could cast one. You were the one who taught her how to cast it right?"
"I started to, but we separated before she got very far. Why?"
"No reason, it's just the shape of it. It's a wolf. I always figured it was because you had taught her, but as usual I probably underestimated her. She probably takes some weird kind of comfort in the idea that she could beat up just about anybody she wants to. She's like that you know."
"Oh, well, anyway the seventh year's are learning about vampires…"
"Yes, finally, I've been waiting for you to bring up something a little more physical. I love hunting those nasty little blood suckers!'
"Um, don't you hang around with a vampire?"
"Who? You mean Robert? Nah, he just shows up to piss everyone off every once in a while. Some days I wish Relena would just kill him. There are some days when I'm sure she wants to, but she won't. She's to nice to some people."
"I'm sure she is," Remus agreed, but inside he was thinking NOT.
"You ever meet up with a vampire, Remus?"
"Yeah, in Romania. It wasn't an experience I'd like to repeat."
"I know what you mean there. Speaking of Romania, you like Quidditch?"
"Who doesn't?" Remus was really starting to like Miguel. They might actually be friends. Miguel had an attitude about him that put people at ease, but his massive form still reminded you that it wasn't a good idea to make him angry.
"Have you seen the new Romanian seeker? He looks like a vampire himself."
"Yes, I do suppose you're right," Remus said leaning back in his chair.
"So when does Quidditch season start around this school?"
"The first game is on Saturday."
"The day after the Halloween dance? Who's playing?"
"It's Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw."
"Oh, hey, Gryffindor is Relena's old house. We don't have house over at the Walk in Australia so don't bother asking me about mine. What was your house?"
"Me? I was a Gryffindor."
"Really, you play for the house team?"
"No not really. I was more of a sidelines type of guy."
"Me too. I'd rather watch them whack those bludgers at each other then at me. I know Relena's pretty good at Quidditch. I played her once. Excellent chaser."
"Chaser? Relena played as a chaser?"
"Why is that so strange?"
"It's just when she came to Hogwarts she was a beater."
"A beater, huh, well I should have known. Matches her temper. Who are you routing for?"
"Gryffindor."
"Name one thing that makes them have such a good chance at winning.'
"I can name seven. Ron Weasley, Lola Palm, Virginia Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Lula Bell, Jenna Corinth and Harry Potter."
"Hmm, Harry Potter you say? As in Relena's nephew?" Remus nodded his head. "I wonder how mad she'll be if I bet against him."
"Miguel what are you purposing?"
"I bet you ten galleons that Ravenclaw will beat Gryffindor."
"Now, you're just being foolish."
"Am I? Well then why don't you just accept the bet? Come on, it's all in good fun. Plus if I win everyone gets to watch Relena beat the crap out of me for betting against Harry."
"All right, I'm in." They shook hands.
"Good. I like you Remus. You aren't a coward, but you are cautious. I think we're going to be good friends."
"Thank you. What are you going to do now? I don't have any classes today. You want to go down to Hogsmeade, and grab a butterbeer?"
"Hmm, well I need to go down to Hogsmeade, but it's to do a little bit of work. Hey Remus you wanna help me with something this afternoon?"
AN: I have to wonder what Miguel needs help with. Take a guess. What will happen when Relena finds out about Sirius and will Spridal tell her? What will happen when Relena finds out about Miguel and Remus' bet? Why on earth would Harry use the Rocky Horror Picture Show for a victory dance? Your guess is as good as mine. Stay tuned for the next episode of…. wait wrong show.
Official Initiates of Avalon:
Leogrl: Who says anyone ever tells Relena about Sirius? She'll find out, but I'm not sure exactly who if anyone will tell her.
Kari: Thanks. I'd love to keep Sirius.
Singer: Yes, we shall all sue Comcast! Anyway, I'm going to be quick since a lot of people want to talk to you today. I think the Bahamas thing sounds great, but I wonder what the characters think…
Entire Harry Potter Cast: Aruba, Jamaica. Ohhhhhhhhh, I wanna take you to Aruba, Bahamas…..:: continue singing Jimmy Buffet's "Kokomo":: Well, I guess that's a yes. I knew I sound have gotten Harry a Dido CD for his birthday, but Ron insisted on Jimmy Buffet. Yeah Remus and Relena lived together. They were pretty deep, but Anne wants to talk to you so here she is.
Anne: Thanks for the tickets! I'm going down there even if I have to go myself.
Severus ::mumbles:: Good because I'm not.
Anne: Yep, I just love lifeguards.
Severus: All right I'll go!
Anne: Gets him every time. ::wink:: Thanks again! Bye!