Ch 2 moony padfoot tawny and paws
Harry glanced around the familiar room of Mrs. Figgs house but realized something was missing. Just as he realized what it was Cindy appeared by his side with a small pop.
"Where are your cats?' Harry asked curiously.
" Gone " she said matter of factly " I got a dog" Harry's eye's immediately brightened.
" What does it look like?" Harry asked trying to hold back a laugh. Cindy saw what he was up to and decided to play along.
" He is big black and out in the back yard waiting for you" she watched Harry's eye's as they started to shine and glow with excitement. He turned around and practically jumped out to the back yard. A big black dog was chasing squirrels up the tree and barking enthusiastically even though Harry was sure he knew his efforts were futile.
" Sirius!" Harry yelled out while running to the big dog. The dog turned into a man who was wearing a look of pure joy on his face as he went to hug is favorite godson. Cindy stood by the door watching them thinking about how cute they were. After about a minute and a half they finally let go of each other and started to tell each other everything that had been going on. Cindy walked over to them.
"The team is back together!" she proclaimed.
"Huh?" Harry and Sirius replied in unison, looks of obvious confusion on their faces.
"The marauders are back! We have four people now!" Cindy said with a look of joy on her face.
" Wait a second" Harry said, " Were you a marauder too?" Sirius shook his head and started to argue when Cindy said,
" Honorary member" she said with pride," James let me tag along he even helped me become an animagus."
" Oh yeah " Harry said remembering what had happened earlier," you're an owl right?"
"You are right!" she said enthusiastically," I'm tawny, well that's my animagus nickname from school, she now we can be the marauders again!"
" Not without James " Sirius stated frowning a little " besides Harry has to become an animagus first"
" But I already am," Harry said. This came has a shock to everyone and they stared back at him amazed.
" But…what…how…er…" Sirius stammered. Cindy however was positively delighted.
" Well Sirius" Harry mumbled looking down, " Hermione gave me an advanced magic book for learning defense spells for a future encounter with Voldemort… er and Dumbledore put an undetectable magic spell on the house and one day I got bored so I just thought it would be a fun challenge, besides I have some of my dad's notes and well… …. … It worked and I think it will come in handy."
" Ooh Harry what animal did you choose to be?" Cindy said unable to contain her excitement a second longer. But Sirius was still frowning.
" Harry that's illegal you know " Sirius said in a discipline sort of voice.
"Hey Sirius you did it too!" Harry stated in his defense.
"Congratulations I think you two have found the worlds weakest argument." Cindy said laughing. " Come on Sirius you are being a spoilsport you are just jealous because he managed it quicker than you did" Sirius scowled at her, but Cindy just ignored him. "Harry go on show us your animagus form!" Cindy said with a look of pleading in her eyes.
" Okay" Harry said he looked up at Sirius, " your going to like this you know." With that Harry transformed into a very handsome fairly large golden retriever. Harry loved transforming. It was a new found freedom. It made it easy to escape his troubles and just enjoy being alive. Sirius looked down at the dog standing where Harry was and saw Harry's emerald eye's looking up at him. His frown turned into a huge smile. He transformed into the great black dog, gave a small yelp of happiness, and proceeded to playfully attack Harry, who easily dogged him and ran off into the forest on the edge of Cindy's backyard.
"There's nothing better than this!" Harry barked to Sirius, who barked back in agreement.
Cindy sat on the step watching the two for a while before transforming into the tawny owl and taking off. As much as she hated to spoil their fun, they still needed to talk to Harry about the real reason of their meeting.
She flew over to them and after much angry hooting and pecking and a lot of unneeded barking and snapping from Sirius, the trio started back.
" Thanks for ruining our fun Cindy!" Sirius said after changing back. Cindy rolled her eyes.
" We still need to talk to Harry about you know what." Muttered Cindy so only Sirius could hear her. Sirius groaned.
" I want to play with my animagus godson!" Sirius whined " it's like being back with James!" yelled Sirius stamping his foot. From Harry's point of view it looked like Sirius was a baby throwing a tantrum. When Harry pointed this out to them Cindy laughed and Sirius tried to throw Harry a threatening look but failed miserably and started howling with laughter along with Cindy.
" Come on" said Cindy panting from all the laughter, " moony will be here any minute and we need to be ready!" Harry looked up at her and started to smile.
" Remus is coming?" he asked, " I haven't seen him since my third year, he was my defense against the dark arts professor. The best one we ever had, then he had to go and leave all because that stupid Snape had to and tell everyone that he was a werewolf." Harry wondered where Snape was now. Dumbledore had sent him to do something, but Harry didn't know what. He thought he might have set off to be a spy for Dumbledore again, but he wasn't sure if Snape was really someone to trust, but Dumbledore was never wrong about these kinds of things.
" I got to add that to my list of things why Snape needs to be punished." Sirius said with a look of hate on his face.
" Stop being so gloomy!" Cindy said happily. " Come on we are all back and better that ever! When Remus gets here we can tell him about Harry." Harry frowned. What if Remus thought it was bad that Harry was an animagus. Harry knew that it was illegal but Sirius had done it, so had his father. Remus isn't your professor any more Harry told himself, he'll be proud.
"You know what Harry?" Sirius said suddenly, "You need a nick name, how about woof?" Sirius asked. Harry rolled his eyes.
"Oh yeah padfoot very clever, really witty." Cindy said sarcastically. Sirius mumbled something under his breath.
"How about paws?" Cindy asked, "It is a heck of a lot better than woof."
"Hey I like it what do you think padfoot?" Harry asked.
"Oh its good. Tawny always was a show off." Sirius mumbled. Cindy glared at him. Harry smiled.
"What?" Cindy asked curiously.
"Nothing." Harry said shrugging.
" Lets go in." Cindy said. The trio headed back to the house. When they got inside they realized that someone had been in since they were outside. A wave of panic swept over Harry. Sirius's eye's widened as he looked around the room at the fallen books shelves and the turned over table. Various objects scattered all over the floor.
" Take Harry and go!" Cindy yelled to Sirius looking afraid. " It might be Voldemort." Harry nodded and started to head towards the door but Sirius stopped him.
" Wait." He said to Harry. Then he turned to Cindy and asked, " tonight is the 31 right?"
"Yeah." said Harry, " today is my…wait." Then he realized what Sirius meant. Just then a howl sounded from out side.
" The full moon!" they said in unison. Sirius immediately transformed and raced outside to look for Remus. Cindy sighed.
" Wait here Harry." She said. Harry shook his head.
" No!" he retorted. " I'm an animagus too remember? I can help Sirius find Remus." He raced out the door. Cindy didn't bother stopping him. She knew that if he was anything like James, it would be next to impossible. She smiled and transformed into an owl and flew off to help.
Harry looked around, trying to find Sirius. He heard a yelp a little ways down. Oh no Sirius is having trouble, he thought. He dashed down the street and was stopped by a very large wolf who surprised Harry by hoping out from behind a car. Just as the wolf who Harry assumed was Remus was about to attack Harry, a giant black dog knocked Harry out of Remus' reach. Sirius, Harry thought relived. He watched Sirius walk over to Remus who to Harry's surprise immediately calmed down and Sirius started trying to explain to him that the strange golden retriever was a friend. Remus walked over to Harry and sniffed him. Recognizing Harry, he let out a yelp of happiness and waged his tail. Harry backed away, unsure of to do. Sirius started leading the Remus back to the house. Harry looked up and saw a tawny owl flying overhead, he turned to follow Sirius.
When they got back to the house Harry transformed back and waited for Cindy. The tawny owl that had been flying over them landed next to Harry. Then Harry remembered that that was Cindy. Sure enough where the owl had been was Cindy. Harry smiled up at her.
" That was the weirdest thing I have ever seen." Harry confessed to Cindy, " and I have seen some pretty weird things."
" Well," said Cindy thinking hard, " I think that because Remus and Sirius go way back, and he, as a wolf, remembers being with Sirius, it sort of calms him down. It took a long time for Remus to act that calm as a wolf. He only acts that way when Sirius or your father is around though. When Sirius showed him that you were a friend, Remus believed him and listened. I think they share some sort of a bond but I'm not really sure." Cindy looked up at the sky. " This reminds me of the old days." She said tears forming in her eyes. She turned to Harry and gave him a hug. Harry hugged her back, glad that he had found family that loved him. Harry heard Remus and Sirius howling at the moon in the backyard. He smiled. As weird as it was, he felt at home. Cindy broke the silence.
" You need to sleep, here follow me and I'll show you your room."
" Ok" Harry said trying unsuccessfully to stifle a yawn. Cindy laughed. Harry followed her up stairs into the first room on the left. It was a lot bigger than his room at the Dursleys. It seemed oddly familiar. Harry looked around smiling.
"I think I have been here before." Harry stated. Cindy smiled and laughed. Harry looked at her confused.
" Well Harry, " she said still smiling, " this is the room you were born in. I'll never forget that day. James was so protective of lily that day. He never left her side. You were so tiny. James guarded you so closely, but when he couldn't make you stop crying he gave you to lily. Sirius ran in the room and scooped you out of lily's arms, much to her disappointment, and started singing to you." Harry laughed.
" I bet there were some problems with that." He said smiling. Cindy nodded laughing.
" There were," she said. " You thought it was so funny you started to smile so big. It made James so mad that Sirius's off-key singing made you happier than his funny faces. He walked over to Sirius and grabbed you and handed you to me, and started to tell Sirius to get it into his head that he was the father. You were smiling in my arms and I hugged you close. You were so tiny and you looked up at me and reached up and put your little hand around my finger." Harry looked over at Cindy and saw fresh tears in her eyes. She smiled at him and gave him another hug.
" Oh I miss them so much." She said with a sigh. " Well go to bed we have a lot to talk about in the morning."
Harry closed his eye's that day had been the best present he had ever gotten. He hoped the days that followed would be just as good. He smiled again and fell asleep.
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