Remus' white room tm
Author: Remus/Minnie
Disclaimer: "Remus' white room" tm is a trademark of Minnie Productions and Stuff. Any similarity with some already existing show or fanfic is not conscious. Any characters from Harry Potter belong to J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling, used with permission from my Author's Licensetm. Any songs or CD:s by any singer or group recognizable is owned by them, used with permission from my Author's Licensetm. If you quote anything from this story, you have to name the source you got the quote from, which means "Remus' white room"tm. © Minnie Productions and Stuff. Any unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, borrowing or stealing (of ideas etc. etc.) is prohibited.
M/N: Well, what can I say? What do you think of my disclaimer, btw? ~_^! This is the fourth chapter based on an idea that is the result of staying awake from Saturday 11:35am to Sunday 02:30am... Hope you'll enjoy it! Read, and please, do review afterwards! (No, I din't succeed to change this text... ^^;;) WARNING! WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM BOOK 5! IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT, THEN CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Rating: G – PG13
Chapter: 4 (four)
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"Ha, my knight will finish of your pawn. Sorry, dad..." Draco said with a snigger as his knight moved towards Lucius' pawn.
A few days later, everything had settled down a bit. Minnie had come over her rage against Lucius, partly because of that Lucius had pleaded to Remus to help him. Remus had thought for a while, before letting a copy of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" appear on the fluffy table. Minnie had immediately dove over it as a cat on a ball of yarn, or as a wolf on a prey, or... yeah, you get the figure. Now she was sitting in Fluffy Three, deep down in reading. Gilderoy was lying on one of the couches eating a caramel apple, and father and son, Lucius and Draco was playing wizard's chess. Everything was quiet, except from Gilderoy's chewing and the repeated sound of breaking chess pieces. But suddenly Minnie sat upright in the chair.
"What?!" she shrieked.
Gilderoy started and stared at her, and Lucius' pawn jumped high which resulted in that Draco's knight missed him with the sword.
"What are you screaming about?" Draco said, obviously annoyed.
"Sirius related to Draco?!"
Lucius narrowed his eyes. "What are you talking about...?"
"Listen to this! '"Oh, yeah, her mother Andromeda was my favourite cousin," said Sirius, examining the tapestry closely. "No, Andromeda's not on here either, look –" He pointed to another small round burn mark between two names, Bellatrix (M/N: Love that name!) and Narcissa. "Andromeda's sisters are still here because they made lovely, respectable, pure-blood marriages, but Andromeda married a Muggle-born, Ted Tonks, so -" Sirius mimed blasting the tapestry with a wand and laughed sourly. Harry, however, did not laugh; he was too busy staring at the names to the right of Andromeda's burn mark. A double line of gold embroidery linked Narcissa Black with Lucius Malfoy and a single vertical gold line from their names led to the name Draco.' What /is/ this?!"
Draco blinked and looked scared from Minnie to his father. Lucius just gaped as a fish on land, unable to say anything.
"This means that Draco is Sirius' first cousin once removed! It can't be... It just can't be!"
"MINNIE!" a voice thundered.
Minnie tried to say something, but her voice seemed to be gone. She looked around and then up at the roof.
"Minnie! You're breaching one of the most important laws! Never tell the characters about the future!"
"But I knew we were related!" Draco shouted out.
Everybody looked at him, and he snorted.
"It's not like I walk around happy to have a mass-murderer in the family! We never speak about him as a relative, you know..."
At his words, Minnie flew over the table and tried to strangle him. But before she knew it, she ended up in a straightjacket. She rolled her eyes and glared furiously up at the roof.
"It's for your own good, Minnie, mind you. Now I'm just going to make them forget all about it, just wait a second..."
Gilderoy's, Lucius' and Draco's eyes were dimmed for a short moment, and so they continued what they had been doing.
"Ha, my knight will finish off your pawn. Sorry, dad..." Draco said with a snigger as the white knight crushed the black pawn.
Draco and Lucius had just finished their fourth game of chess and was about to begin on their fifth (Draco had won three out of four). Minnie was still reading, now with a caramel apple in her hand. The straight jacket was gone, but her voice hadn't been returned. Gilderoy was sleeping on the couch. In Minnie's kitchen, Remus sat at the computer chair, eating a sandwich while watching the screen. He had set the format to full screen mode, which meant the window where he could see the room covered the whole screen. He sat up and put the sandwich on the table behind him.
"This is getting a bit boring, actually. If they won't take own initiatives, then I'll have to do something..."
He clicked on the menu on the upper part of the screen.
"Menu... Add/Remove... Add new... Person..."
A little window opened, reading 'Who do you want to add?' and a text window. Remus began clicking on the keys, and the name 'Severus Snape' appeared. So Remus clicked Enter, and a new window showed. 'Loading information on Snape, Severus...' it read, and a couple of seconds later 'Upload finished. Transferring Snape, Severus to room...'.
"Like that..." Remus sneered.
With a start, Gilderoy awoke. He sat up and looked sleepily around. So he stretched and got to his feet, walking over to the fridge.
"Always these darn apples..." he mumbled. "I'm thirsty..."
As he opened the door to the fridge, about to get something to drink, he was tackled (literally) by something black that shot out of it. Gilderoy tumbled backwards, and the black thing flew (screaming) diagonally over the room and landed in the corner.
"I'm sorry, Severus! I do not control how people enter the room, promise!" Remus chuckled.
The thing, stood up and tried to straighten its clothes, and now you could see that it was no other than Severus Snape, Potions teacher at Hogwarts. He looked angrily around.
"And what does this mean? Where am I and who brought me here against my will?"
"You're in my white room, I brought you here because I was bored. The activity in the room had ceased, see?"
"And you think that is a reason to bring /me/ in here, werewolf?" Severus snorted.
But Remus didn't get any chance to answer that, for now it was Severus' turn to be tackled. Suddenly Minnie came flying right at him, once again making him fall to the floor. Usually Minnie would have squealed at the sight of Severus, but as said, she had no voice. She glared up at the roof and mimicked something to Remus. She waited a second, then jerked as her voice returned.
"That's better, thank you, Remus..." she said before turning to Severus again and giving him a breathtaking hug.
"You're... chocking me...!" Severus protested.
"Oh, sorry..." Minnie said with a blush and got of him.
Severus got to his feet again and looked around in the room. "Who are these people?"
"This is Lucius Malfoy and his son Draco, Minnie or Minerva, and Gilderoy Lockhart. I assume you meet all of them apart from Minnie, am I right?"
"Well, yes... But who are you, then?"
"Don't you recognize the voice of your old friend? I'm Remus Lupin!"
Severus stared up at the roof. "And how come I can hear you, but not see you?"
"Stop asking so many questions, but it's because you're in a computer program. Now don't look so sceptical, it's a tad hard to explain, so don't bother to ask. All I have to do is writing in a few things, and voíla!"
Severus just blinked. Remus sighed.
"Aw, never mind. Go and make acquaintances with the others, would you? I'll return later, see you all!"
As his voice couldn't be heard no more, Severus shook his head and went over to sit down in the chair Minnie had just abandoned. He looked around at the other persons in the room. Gilderoy was just about to stand up after he'd been tackled and shot a nasty glance at Severus. Draco and Lucius hadn't looked up one single time since Minnie interrupted their playing with her shrieking, and Minnie plunged down on the free couch.
"So," she said, "what should we do now?"
Gilderoy sat down in the couch again, straightening his hair. "As long as it doesn't involve any tackles or anything alike, I can do whatever..."
Minnie sank down in thoughts for a moment, then perked up with a smile on her face.
"I know!"
The persons around her looked up. "What?"
"We can play hide and seek!"
Draco tilted his head, and then nodded. "Sure, I'm in."
There was agreeing mumbles from Gilderoy, Severus and Lucius as well. Minnie stood up and pointed to Draco.
"You'll begin to seek, okay?"
"Sure thing, Minns!"
"Minns?"
Draco gave her a smile before he turned around and began to count. "I'll count to thirty. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven..."
And the others began to look for hiding paces. Minnie hid in South Closet, Lucius under one of the sofas, Severus under the other, and Gilderoy moved out the fridge a bit from the wall so that he could hide behind it.
"Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!" Draco said and looked up again.
He looked around in the room and spotted the moved fridge. He walked up to it and looked behind it.
"Hello, Lockhart, found you."
Gilderoy grunted and move out of his hiding pace and walked over to sit down at the couch again. Draco continued searching, and soon found Severus and Lucius. So he set out to find Minnie, which wouldn't be too hard according to him. I mean, how many places are there to hide in that room? But the funny thing was, he couldn't find Minnie anywhere. He looked on every possible place, deep into the four closets, but no Minnie anywhere.
"Minns, where are you?" he asked out in mid-air. "Can't find you, come out!"
"Where d'you get that nickname from?" asked a voice right next to him.
Draco jumped high and wheeled around, but he saw no one who could have said that. It had been Minnie's voice for sure, but Minnie was nowhere to be seen.
Draco frowned. "Where are you?"
"Search for me where you cannot see..."
"What a lousy rhyme!"
"Well, it's the only thing I came up with, 'kay?"
"I give! Reveal yourself!"
As he said this, Minnie chuckled and pulled of the Invisibility Cloak she had been wearing. Draco and the others just stared at her.
"Where the hell did you get that cloak from?"
"Well, duh... From the closet, what else? I found it laying there, a bit dusty, but otherwise in perfect shape!" Minnie smirked.
Draco stood still for a few seconds, weighing back and forth on his heels while eyeing the cloak. Then suddenly he shot forwards, grabbing the cloak and tackling Minnie at the same time. They both toppled over and rolled away over the floor while fighting about the cloak.
"Give it to me!"
"No! It's mine, I found it!"
"Let go, it mine!"
"It came to me, my oooown!"
Severus, Gilderoy and Lucius looked at them, then at each other. They all carried querying looks on their faces.
"I don't know," said Snape.
"It's your son," said Gilderoy, inclining his head at Lucius.
"I haven't done anything," said Lucius and shook his head.
"You want to play wizard's chess?" Snape asked. "The one who wins get to meet Gilderoy."
"Sure," said Lucius and Gilderoy in chorus.
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Like that, another chapter finished. Listening to Enya's CD "A day without rain" atm, very good, very good indeed. Just to update you, I've finished the book rather long ago by now (Date: July 31 2003). I really hatehatehate Joanne for ending it that way! I /cried/, okay? How could she?! See, I succeeded not to spoil anything for those of you who haven't read it yet. But if you feel the same, plz contact me! Well, now I better go write chapter 5, then. I really must get better with updating. But that's who I am, I can only write when I have my dear Imagination by my side. And she often takes vacation, or refuses to help me with certain stories... :P Well, well, anyway. Hope you enjoyed this, and look forward to the next! Namarië!
