~ A/N: I can't believe I'm actually doing this. I mean, it's the middle of
my exams and my way of stress relief is typing fanfiction?!?!?!?!?!? Well,
I guess I did say I would keep updating didn't I? Here we go again. (Please
excuse all spelling/grammar mistakes) ~
~ Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harry Potter. I repeat I do NOT under ANY circumstances own Harry Potter!!! I would like to though. tell me when it's up for sale!!! ~
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So far in the story, Harry follows Lupin back to Hogwarts where he is going to be in strict intense training for the whole summer. He sees Sirius again and Sirius had just given him a serious talk where Harry ended up grieving for the death of Cedric one last time.
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Sirius conjured a box of tissue with his wand and handed it to Harry. "That wasn't so bad was it now?" Sirius asked gently. Harry shook his head, looked up and returned Sirius' smile weakly.
"I think I'll let you rest now Sirius, you must be really tired after doing all those stuff Dumbledore told you to do not to mention acting as my father just now. What was I thinking when I thought about coming to you for a story? I'll be off now." Harry said suddenly when he realised that Sirius was wearing an extremely tired looking face.
Sirius looked up surprised at the sudden change of topic. "Okay then Harry. Off you go and let me rest!" said Sirius jokingly.
Harry nodded and managed a smile to Sirius before heading out the door.
As soon as he was gone.
Sirius sighed. 'I hope I wasn't too harsh on him.'
"No you were. Brilliant job Sirius," a quiet voice said as Sirius jumped up.
"How long have you been here Professor Dumbledore?? How much did you hear? I never noticed. Was I too." Dumbledore cut across Sirius before he could finish his questioning.
"No, no, Sirius. Harry needed a father figure. He really needed someone to talk to him as a father this holidays, someone who would understand and knows the truth. No doubt the Dursley were not going to fit those criteria. You were the only one close enough to him to get through him. You did the right thing Sirius," assured Dumbledore.
"I certainly hope so Dumbledore, I certainly hope so," replied Sirius.
"Alas! I forgot to tell Harry not to send any owls to Ron and Hermione informing them of his training he must tell NO ONE!!" Dumbledore gave Sirius an apologetic look as he rushed out calling after him, "I'll get some rest if I were you! Long summer ahead!!"
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Meanwhile Harry was wandering around aimlessly looking at the castle that had been his home for the past 4 years. He absentmindedly walked down the corridors thinking over what Sirius had just told him. He was still drifting around pointlessly when he called Moony call his name. He turned to find a concerned looking Lupin.
Moony took one look at the blank looking Harry and guesses what he had just gone through. In a casual voice he asked,
"Harry! Would you like to come to my room for a few minutes? We can relax there with me telling you stories of your dad and Sirius, some which I doubt Sirius will tell you."
Harry brightened up at the sound of 'stories of dad and Sirius' and 'doubt Sirius will tell.' 'Ah!' he thought, 'Moony is going to tell me stories that Sirius won't like.' He immediately followed Moony to a room where he had never noticed before, down the hall from his own room. By now, Harry was getting used to all the different portraits being entrance to different rooms. Lupin spoke the password, "crystal orb" and led the way into the room. Harry entered Lupin's room, which he noticed was filled with reasonable amount types of strange creatures.
"You really like magical creatures don't you Moony?" asked Harry.
Lupin followed his stares around the room and grinned. "Yup! But I'm more cautious than Hagrid. And I don't just like dangerous creatures," he added with a smile, "I've got an interest in magical creatures, especially those that can be obstacles to humans. Just like the boggart and the red caps."
"Sit down Harry," Lupin said as he directed him to a comfortable seater. Lupin leaned back relaxing and asked Harry if he'll like some butterbeer. Harry accepted and before long they were chatting away happily and Harry was begging with Lupin.
"Come on, just one! Just tell me one story and I'll stop pestering you!" Harry pleaded. "Please? With a cauldron cake on top?"
Lupin gave in. "Okay, okay! ONE! Let me think. Hmm. okay then, I'll tell you a favourite of mine."
Lupin sat back and thought back as he was recounting the 'good old times.' Lupin straightened up and took out his wand. "Accio photo album," he commanded as the photo album went flying at him. He rummaged through the pages until he came to one where he started laughing his head off. Harry looked at him curiously. Lupin held up the album and pointed to a certain photo. Harry's jaw dropped in utter surprise. It was a photo of Sirius, his godfather, kissing Lily, his MOTHER!! He looked up wide-eyed.
"Moony? Explain."
Lupin leaned back again after putting the album down in front of a nearly fainting Harry.
"It all happened like this, in our sixth year, James, your father could finally declare his love to Lily (your mother) without blushing furiously. That year was also when Peter, James and I found out Sirius had a secret crush on someone. No matter what we did Sirius's mouth would not open an inch. Finally, one night during the Christmas holidays when everyone including Peter and James had gone home for the vacations, Lily, Sirius and I were sitting cosily in the Gryffindor's common room where we were playing Exploding Snap.
"Now, there's a limit to the number of times you can play Exploding Snap before you go mad, before long we were all sick and tired of it. Finally Lily gave me a sly and cheeky look before announcing that she was going to teach us how to play a new muggles game called Truth or Dare. I, unlike Sirius take Muggle Studies classes so I've heard of it before and I immediately guessed what Lily had in mind. I shot her an evil grin and agreed. Sirius had no idea what so ever what Truth or Dare was. When he finally got the message he was so excited about the new game he'd let down his guard completely, very unlike him.
"Sirius decided to go first. 'Lily,' he said in an excited voice, 'truth or dare?' Lily just smiled and said, 'dare.' Sirius grinned menacingly. 'Okay, you have to announce that you've had a secret crush on Snape for as long as you could remember tonight at dinner.' Lily had paled considerably regretting that she had brought up this topic. 'Okay,' she had agreed shakily. She was quite lucky as we and 3 other first years' students were the only ones left for the holidays everyone just thought she was drunk or something.
Then she asked me and I said dare as I was afraid they'll ask something embarrassing. My dare was to break a rule under all the professor's noses and see their reaction before acting drunk. I agreed straight away since I always did that anyway! We won't go into details as to what happened that night but it was finally my turn!! I grinned recklessly and asked Sirius that fateful question, 'truth or dare?' suddenly Sirius realises he's been tricked. He certainly won't say truth since he knows what question we'll ask, and he knows that my dares are the worst dares ever!!
"It was so funny watching him so helpless! Finally he said 'dare' in a really weak voice and collapse onto a chair. I grinned a wicked smile and dared him to kissed Lily like they're in love. You should have seen his face! Oh! And Lily's too!! They looked like they were about to commit a murder!! I only crossed my arms and waited. I turned around and muttered a summoning charm under my breath while Lily braced herself. Just as they kissed I brought my new camera up to my eyes and snapped them kissing before they could say cheese. The result was marvellous! They both looked up shocked and turned chasing me like buffalos. James had never seen this photo. If he had he might have murdered someone!!"
As Lupin finished his story he suddenly lost it all and began to laugh until tears fell down his face. Harry joined in. Just then. Sirius entered the room. He took in the scene in front of him and scanned the room curiously.
'Uh oh!' Harry and Lupin thought silently in unison. They glanced at each other before they exchanged a horrified/amused look.
Sirius saw their look and his curiosity took control of him. In an instant he'd given them both a look of warning and scanned around the room with sharp eyes like an eagle. Harry and Lupin backed away slowly towards to door.
Sirius scanned the room quickly with a fast glance but when he couldn't find anything suspicious he looked the room over with scrutiny eyes carefully. 'Nothing suspicious,' he thought, suddenly with the corner of his eyes he caught a glance of something strangely familiar and yet he felt that the thing he'd found was menacing. He threw Harry and Lupin a warning look and stepped towards to album for a better view.
'Oh no! It can't be!!! Don't tell me! NOO!!!!!' shouted Sirius inside his head.
Lupin and Harry were now a step away from the entrance.
Sirius realised what it was straight away and gave a somewhat frightened yelp. Harry walked backwards, sensing what was about to happen. He was about to grab Lupin and drag him through the entrance when.
"Oh no you not matey!!!" thundered Sirius.
"Look Sirius, I could explain," began Lupin.
"Oh no you don't Remus!!" Sirius yelled. He looked like he was going to explode. His face was scarlet and gave Harry a sense of forbidding.
~ A/N: There! I finally finished!! Sorry guys, I'll have to end it here!! Didn't really mean to put it at a cliffhanger. So what will happen next? What will Sirius do to Harry and Lupin? Read on to find out!!! I'm so dead!!! I'm supposed to be in bed by now, so tired man!! I'll put the next chpt up when I get time. zzZ.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my reviewers: ? LadyAnna - Thanks so much for your review AND your email!! I totally agree, Sirius is such a great character!!!!!
? Ian - thanks for your review and thanks for putting me on your list!!! I'll try my best to keep updating it. I'm in the middle of my exams right now so forgive me if the chapters are coming out late. I promise they'll come at a faster rate after the exams!!!
Thanks to anyone else who reads this!!! As this is my first fanfic, I'll love reviews but I'm not fussy. R/R if you like it!!!
~ Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harry Potter. I repeat I do NOT under ANY circumstances own Harry Potter!!! I would like to though. tell me when it's up for sale!!! ~
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So far in the story, Harry follows Lupin back to Hogwarts where he is going to be in strict intense training for the whole summer. He sees Sirius again and Sirius had just given him a serious talk where Harry ended up grieving for the death of Cedric one last time.
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Sirius conjured a box of tissue with his wand and handed it to Harry. "That wasn't so bad was it now?" Sirius asked gently. Harry shook his head, looked up and returned Sirius' smile weakly.
"I think I'll let you rest now Sirius, you must be really tired after doing all those stuff Dumbledore told you to do not to mention acting as my father just now. What was I thinking when I thought about coming to you for a story? I'll be off now." Harry said suddenly when he realised that Sirius was wearing an extremely tired looking face.
Sirius looked up surprised at the sudden change of topic. "Okay then Harry. Off you go and let me rest!" said Sirius jokingly.
Harry nodded and managed a smile to Sirius before heading out the door.
As soon as he was gone.
Sirius sighed. 'I hope I wasn't too harsh on him.'
"No you were. Brilliant job Sirius," a quiet voice said as Sirius jumped up.
"How long have you been here Professor Dumbledore?? How much did you hear? I never noticed. Was I too." Dumbledore cut across Sirius before he could finish his questioning.
"No, no, Sirius. Harry needed a father figure. He really needed someone to talk to him as a father this holidays, someone who would understand and knows the truth. No doubt the Dursley were not going to fit those criteria. You were the only one close enough to him to get through him. You did the right thing Sirius," assured Dumbledore.
"I certainly hope so Dumbledore, I certainly hope so," replied Sirius.
"Alas! I forgot to tell Harry not to send any owls to Ron and Hermione informing them of his training he must tell NO ONE!!" Dumbledore gave Sirius an apologetic look as he rushed out calling after him, "I'll get some rest if I were you! Long summer ahead!!"
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Meanwhile Harry was wandering around aimlessly looking at the castle that had been his home for the past 4 years. He absentmindedly walked down the corridors thinking over what Sirius had just told him. He was still drifting around pointlessly when he called Moony call his name. He turned to find a concerned looking Lupin.
Moony took one look at the blank looking Harry and guesses what he had just gone through. In a casual voice he asked,
"Harry! Would you like to come to my room for a few minutes? We can relax there with me telling you stories of your dad and Sirius, some which I doubt Sirius will tell you."
Harry brightened up at the sound of 'stories of dad and Sirius' and 'doubt Sirius will tell.' 'Ah!' he thought, 'Moony is going to tell me stories that Sirius won't like.' He immediately followed Moony to a room where he had never noticed before, down the hall from his own room. By now, Harry was getting used to all the different portraits being entrance to different rooms. Lupin spoke the password, "crystal orb" and led the way into the room. Harry entered Lupin's room, which he noticed was filled with reasonable amount types of strange creatures.
"You really like magical creatures don't you Moony?" asked Harry.
Lupin followed his stares around the room and grinned. "Yup! But I'm more cautious than Hagrid. And I don't just like dangerous creatures," he added with a smile, "I've got an interest in magical creatures, especially those that can be obstacles to humans. Just like the boggart and the red caps."
"Sit down Harry," Lupin said as he directed him to a comfortable seater. Lupin leaned back relaxing and asked Harry if he'll like some butterbeer. Harry accepted and before long they were chatting away happily and Harry was begging with Lupin.
"Come on, just one! Just tell me one story and I'll stop pestering you!" Harry pleaded. "Please? With a cauldron cake on top?"
Lupin gave in. "Okay, okay! ONE! Let me think. Hmm. okay then, I'll tell you a favourite of mine."
Lupin sat back and thought back as he was recounting the 'good old times.' Lupin straightened up and took out his wand. "Accio photo album," he commanded as the photo album went flying at him. He rummaged through the pages until he came to one where he started laughing his head off. Harry looked at him curiously. Lupin held up the album and pointed to a certain photo. Harry's jaw dropped in utter surprise. It was a photo of Sirius, his godfather, kissing Lily, his MOTHER!! He looked up wide-eyed.
"Moony? Explain."
Lupin leaned back again after putting the album down in front of a nearly fainting Harry.
"It all happened like this, in our sixth year, James, your father could finally declare his love to Lily (your mother) without blushing furiously. That year was also when Peter, James and I found out Sirius had a secret crush on someone. No matter what we did Sirius's mouth would not open an inch. Finally, one night during the Christmas holidays when everyone including Peter and James had gone home for the vacations, Lily, Sirius and I were sitting cosily in the Gryffindor's common room where we were playing Exploding Snap.
"Now, there's a limit to the number of times you can play Exploding Snap before you go mad, before long we were all sick and tired of it. Finally Lily gave me a sly and cheeky look before announcing that she was going to teach us how to play a new muggles game called Truth or Dare. I, unlike Sirius take Muggle Studies classes so I've heard of it before and I immediately guessed what Lily had in mind. I shot her an evil grin and agreed. Sirius had no idea what so ever what Truth or Dare was. When he finally got the message he was so excited about the new game he'd let down his guard completely, very unlike him.
"Sirius decided to go first. 'Lily,' he said in an excited voice, 'truth or dare?' Lily just smiled and said, 'dare.' Sirius grinned menacingly. 'Okay, you have to announce that you've had a secret crush on Snape for as long as you could remember tonight at dinner.' Lily had paled considerably regretting that she had brought up this topic. 'Okay,' she had agreed shakily. She was quite lucky as we and 3 other first years' students were the only ones left for the holidays everyone just thought she was drunk or something.
Then she asked me and I said dare as I was afraid they'll ask something embarrassing. My dare was to break a rule under all the professor's noses and see their reaction before acting drunk. I agreed straight away since I always did that anyway! We won't go into details as to what happened that night but it was finally my turn!! I grinned recklessly and asked Sirius that fateful question, 'truth or dare?' suddenly Sirius realises he's been tricked. He certainly won't say truth since he knows what question we'll ask, and he knows that my dares are the worst dares ever!!
"It was so funny watching him so helpless! Finally he said 'dare' in a really weak voice and collapse onto a chair. I grinned a wicked smile and dared him to kissed Lily like they're in love. You should have seen his face! Oh! And Lily's too!! They looked like they were about to commit a murder!! I only crossed my arms and waited. I turned around and muttered a summoning charm under my breath while Lily braced herself. Just as they kissed I brought my new camera up to my eyes and snapped them kissing before they could say cheese. The result was marvellous! They both looked up shocked and turned chasing me like buffalos. James had never seen this photo. If he had he might have murdered someone!!"
As Lupin finished his story he suddenly lost it all and began to laugh until tears fell down his face. Harry joined in. Just then. Sirius entered the room. He took in the scene in front of him and scanned the room curiously.
'Uh oh!' Harry and Lupin thought silently in unison. They glanced at each other before they exchanged a horrified/amused look.
Sirius saw their look and his curiosity took control of him. In an instant he'd given them both a look of warning and scanned around the room with sharp eyes like an eagle. Harry and Lupin backed away slowly towards to door.
Sirius scanned the room quickly with a fast glance but when he couldn't find anything suspicious he looked the room over with scrutiny eyes carefully. 'Nothing suspicious,' he thought, suddenly with the corner of his eyes he caught a glance of something strangely familiar and yet he felt that the thing he'd found was menacing. He threw Harry and Lupin a warning look and stepped towards to album for a better view.
'Oh no! It can't be!!! Don't tell me! NOO!!!!!' shouted Sirius inside his head.
Lupin and Harry were now a step away from the entrance.
Sirius realised what it was straight away and gave a somewhat frightened yelp. Harry walked backwards, sensing what was about to happen. He was about to grab Lupin and drag him through the entrance when.
"Oh no you not matey!!!" thundered Sirius.
"Look Sirius, I could explain," began Lupin.
"Oh no you don't Remus!!" Sirius yelled. He looked like he was going to explode. His face was scarlet and gave Harry a sense of forbidding.
~ A/N: There! I finally finished!! Sorry guys, I'll have to end it here!! Didn't really mean to put it at a cliffhanger. So what will happen next? What will Sirius do to Harry and Lupin? Read on to find out!!! I'm so dead!!! I'm supposed to be in bed by now, so tired man!! I'll put the next chpt up when I get time. zzZ.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my reviewers: ? LadyAnna - Thanks so much for your review AND your email!! I totally agree, Sirius is such a great character!!!!!
? Ian - thanks for your review and thanks for putting me on your list!!! I'll try my best to keep updating it. I'm in the middle of my exams right now so forgive me if the chapters are coming out late. I promise they'll come at a faster rate after the exams!!!
Thanks to anyone else who reads this!!! As this is my first fanfic, I'll love reviews but I'm not fussy. R/R if you like it!!!