Chapter six.
It was completed. After a year of work, it was done. The girls had completed the animagis potion and were ready to test it out. The animal that they would become was the animal shape of their will. They had no choice over their animal shapes. Filled with excitement, the girls ladled the potion that they made in an abandoned closet and first Lilly drunk hers. She grew bigger, and her form was that of a horse, a color, not of white, but of a fiery red chestnut. She pranced around a bit and then turned back, bouncing with excitement. Tania was next to drink hers. Her figure grew smaller, as she turned into a calico cat. She washed a paw, chased her tail (cats do do that, you know. Tuffy, our first kitty, loves to try and catch his tail.) and then turned back to her normal self. It was Jennifer's turn. She downed the potion and also, grew bigger. She had turned into a brown bear. She gracefully galloped around the enlarged closet and turned back to her self. The others were a little shocked as seeing their friend as a bear but Jennifer bounced over and hugged them both around the neck, beaming with happiness.
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It was the full moon and the plans had been set. After Remus had done his transformation, the rest of the boys went out to met him in the shrieking shack. Remus was a werewolf and only dangerous to humans. They had become animagis to accompany him on adventures and keep him from being lonely. They had decided to roam the farthest part of the forbidden forest, the only place they hadn't been yet. Just as they were leaving the castle, they heard girls giggling. Slinking into the shadows, the pair watched as Jennifer, Evans and Coela walked out on to the grounds and around the end of the castle and out of sight. The boys hurried on and into their shapes. Sirius, as a dog, slinked around the edge of the corner and couldn't find the girls. Instead, he saw a bear and a horse walking side by side. A cat was riding on the bear's back and they were heading into the Forrest. After a quick conversation with James, they made a quick change of plan. They hurried to go get Remus and they followed the odd trio, with the wheels in their minds creaking from thinking to hard. They knew that these animals were some sort of wizards, most likely witches that they liked/hated. They were the only ones that they knew of that had the talent and resources to become animagis.
They watched as the trio played, raced, climbed trees. For those of you who need clarification, NO, horses do NOT climb trees.
Dawn came quickly and every one had turned back, first the girls, and then the boys, who had done a little more exploring of the unknown section of the Forbidden forest before turning in.
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The girls knew that there was another set of animagis roaming the woods at night. There had to be. It was the same animals as the ones that Jennifer had seen late at night, the wolf, dog, stag, and rat.
They had developed nicknames for them selves. Not about their animagus forms, but about their names. Lilly was Flower, Tania was Faerie, and Jennifer was Spirit. Soon after that, though, they had to change Lilly's to Tiger because Flower was too obvious. They named her Tiger because of her hair and the flower Tiger Lily.
It was interesting. Lilly and Tania's hate for Black, Potter and Lupin was wearing off. They were now more of a nuscience, then someone to loath. They had turned off on the prank idea after the attack on them, knowing that something worse could happen if they continued.
They now poured most of their energy into their studies, making the best grades in the class and studying things for the classes above them. Lilly was best in charms, Jennifer was best in Transfiguration, and Tania was best in Potions, surprisingly. She has somehow made truce with the horrid Professor Fangle, the one teacher that hated teaching. She was small, mean and shrewd. Yet Tania could make her smile, something that one hardly did. Professor Fangle favored no one. Not the best students or the Slytherins. It was rumored that Tania had actually had a decent conversation about advanced potions with Fangle which was highly improbable with all her other students. The students that she talked about the most on how bad they were was Potter, Black and Remus. She complained about them daily. She gave them more detentions than most of the other teacher combined. They shared a loathing that was equal on both sides. Only they couldn't do anything to her without her giving them a detention. And hers were the worst in Hogwarts. She made her detentionees clean out jars of molding frogs intestines, blend hog's eyes by hand, and other disgusting stuff that had to be done. Better them than her, was Fangle's motto.
As the end of the year drew to a close, Jennifer was growing antsy. Lilly thought it was about her brother's wedding, Tania thought it was about her crush on Remus and Remus thought it was about the rising of Voldemort. It seemed Remus knew her better than the others, but then again, he didn't know about her brother's secret wedding, and wouldn't say anything about crush that she had, even though Lilly and Tania had given him some ideas.
Why her brother's wedding was secret, was because he was an auror. He didn't want any one associated with Voldemort know that he was getting married, bad things happened to married couples that were fighting against the Dark Lord. He would murder one in front of the other and they would go insane with rage. Then he would kill the other slowly and painfully and laugh the whole time. The worst way to die. To die knowing you failed.
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After three years of intense work, James's parents were not fighting any more. They had tried, and had worked through all the problems. They had nearly given up three times but they gave it another shot, and it worked.
If only other parents would try that hard. As soon as James's parents were back together, Sirius's parents separated. Sirius thought it was for the better, he had no idea why his parents got married in the first place. When asked about it, he just shrugged and walked away.
They were in their bedroom, planning for the next and last adventure of this year late at night. It was about one in the morning when they began to get ready for bed.
Then they heard a piercing scream from the common room.
They flew out of the room and into the common room were they found Jennifer sobbing in a chair with Evans and Coela trying to comfort her. It looked like they had no idea what was going on but they were doing their best. Evans raised an eyebrow when she saw that James didn't have a shirt on. He noticed the glance and he blushed slightly.
"What happened?" Remus asked. Evans muttered "Stupid question. We would tell you if we knew."
Jennifer looked up at Remus's question and leaped up from the chair and threw her arms around his neck. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." she kept mumbling, unable to say anything else. Remus awkwardly put his arms around her too, ignoring the looks that every one was giving him. There was quite a crowd who had woken up at the sound of Jennifer's scream. Now they were milling around and some were heading back to their various dorms. A minute later Jennifer detached herself from Remus and fled up to the girls dorm.
The rest of them stood there, not knowing what to do, but then looked at Remus with odd expressions on their faces. He blushed and then scowled.
"What's every one lookin' at me for? Go away!!!" He hugged himself and sat in a chair by the fire, thoughtful.
"What was she screaming about?" Sirius asked, stunned a bit by the whole thing. The girls made finger movements that must have been muggle sign language. They seemed to be arguing but then made up their minds.
"It has to do with Jennifer's –, well, we feel that she needs to tell you when she's ready. It's not fair for us to tell you." Tania said. She caught the raised eyebrows in her direction and just shrugged. Nothing they could do about it. It was fully up to Jennifer.
Lilly looked at her watch. Passed one in the morning. Shavit, she need all the sleep she could get for the next day, they were started on a complicated spell in charms and even Lilly needed to pay attention in class. When she announced the time every one grumbled and headed up to bed. Well, every one except Remus, James and Sirius. After Lilly, Tania and every one left, they sat down in chairs next to Remus and stared in to the fire.
Every one was so lost in their thoughts that they didn't see Jennifer come back until she spoke.
"Ummmm, I think you guys need to know what's going on." She moved and sat down on the floor in front of them. She sat there a moment, looking up and into their faces and then started.
"At the beginning of the year, I began to have dreams. Then they began to come true. I was scared at first. But I got used to it. I had plenty of odd dreams, but the oddest was the only one that I couldn't figure out. I dreamt that I saw a stag, a wolf, a dog and a rat." Her eyes flicked to the right people when she said each. The boys squirmed in their seats.
"Then Dumbledore called me to his office and told me that what I am experiencing are the maturing abilities of a Seer. Seers run in my family and the talent manifests itself in every fourth generation. I just happened to be the next in line." She smiled briefly. "Now I suppose you want to know about my dream tonight. It contained three parts. The first part was about Remus. It was about when he was young and he wanted to play in the forest and got lost. There he was bit by a werewolf, hence condemning him for the rest of his life. The second part of my dream has to do with me and so I can't tell you what it is. The next part is about a young baby. His name is Harry. He looks exactly like James except for one aspect, his vivid green eyes. He's surrounded by green light and has a lighting shape scar on his forehead. I think that it's James's son, but who knows. I don't. Yes, I know this sounds weird, but it could be worse. There are other kinds of Seers that live in the future, while their still living in the present. There are kinds of Seers that cannot touch the skin of other people, because then they would faint and dream of their future. I got of easy. So yeah. That's it." She blushed and then shrugged. The boys sat for a minute, piecing together every thing that had happened. It all made sense.
One by one they broke the silence with an occasional question and then went back up to bed. All except Remus and Jennifer, of course. They sat by the fire on a couch, arms around each other, just sitting there. Eventually they dropped off into sleep and didn't mover for the rest of the night. All of them had dreamless sleep. Relief, at last.
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Okay pple, I have been banned from logging on to the fanfiction.net, so every thing will be posted here. This is the sixth part to forever in my dreams and it will not be the last. I think the next two chapters will be more dramatic, if this is boring. Long live the Queens! Amen. (Amen means agreed for all of you people out there)
Disclaimer. Man do I hate these things. Believe what you want. I you think that I master minded all of these chars, then I would be flattered, but that's not true. Anything you recognized from the books, J. K.'s any thing else, mine.
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