A/N Thanx to all the reviews. Jubilee thanks for taking a break in your
battle to review. And I know that Mrs. Weasley knows in the book and she
kind of does here. If you can chill for a while I'll explain this chapter
or the next one.I'm not going to go in fll detail explanation but this is
the general conversation. Or rather the exact minus every detail in book
three that they needed in the explanation but you better know what they
said or you're basically screwed. PLZ REVIEW!
Chapter 6*~~ Tales and Impatience (Sort Of)*~~
"Well." Sirius was looking very thoughtful. He was half trying to get over the moment of shock at this little girl finding trust in him. 'Well,' he thought reasonably, 'she's not a girl. She's a very developed young lady. Oh gross! Harry is definitely in love with her. Even if he doesn't say it.' "We could reenact it but."
"Bloody hell we are! I would have to relive about fifty pound of pain!" Ron snapped.
"Oh yeah," Sirius said remembering. "You did get stunned or something by Pettigrew."
"And if I recall you broke my leg!"
"That's definitely one in the trust column," Moony muttered.
"Why don't you try explaining?" suggested Ginny sweetly.
"Don't act so sugar coated just because Remus is here," Ron said teasingly.
"Yes, he IS a partner in crime!" Percy said irritated.
"And a professor," Sirius said disgustedly.
"Once again, I did NOT hear that."
"You're a nancy professor. Yelling at all the little children. Just like you got yelled at!"
"You got ten times the detentions I did!"
"I almost beat James. You had only 798. James had 1,234. I," Sirius said defiantly, "I had 1,201!"
"How can you remember those?" asked Ron flabbergasted.
"Hello! Earth to idiots!" Ginny snapped impatiently. "Don't you have something to, let's see, EXPLAIN!"
"Right!" Moon and Padfoot said together.
"Well, I guess it starts when James and we graduated from Hogwarts." Remus and Sirius began to explain with some inputs from Ron. They carefully left out the Marauders identities. Near the end Sirius dropped off. They had reached the part where Snape was about to get knocked out when..
"Can I see that?" Sirius asked cutting in on Moony and Ron, pointing to the paper in Mr. Weasley's hand.
"Why would a murderer need to see the paper?" he sneered.
"Human interest?" he suggested. "Look, I just want to see what dear old Rita wrote about me. We all know about her infatuation with the grease ball." There was silence. "Or not."
"That idjit likes Snape? No wonder she's so stupid, idiotic, and snotty," Ron muttered. Moony sniggered as did the twins. Sirius fell into gales of giggles.
"You look like a girl Sirius," Remus retorted. Sirius stood.
"HEY !"
"I speak the truth," Moon continues solemnly.
"That's it!" Sirius raised his wand. Everyone shrieked. Or rather Mrs. Weasley shrieked, the Weasley men screamed, Mr. Weasley hissed, Ginny looked uncertainly at him, and Ron broke down in laughs.
"HE'S ABOUT TO BE MURDERED AND YOU'RE LAUGHING!" yelled Charlie. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU!"
"Dude, chill, I just got hit by a few stunning spells. Dark stunning spells. Thanks to their friend." He pointed to the two Marauders Sirius's wand had vanished and Remus was holding in laughter. It didn't quite work as he burst out in laughter.
Mrs. Weasley looked deep in thought. "And you said I was pathetic," Sirius scoffed. Moony stopped.
"No, I said you were girl."
"Well then, I say you are pathetic," Sirius said shrugging. He looked up at Mrs. Weasley. "Mrs. Weasley?" She didn't seem to hear. "Ron, is your mom alright?" he asked worriedly.
"She's thinking about something. That's the way she always looks when she'd trying to remember something big."
"She probably knew Peter," Ginny said grasping their attention. "Now, weren't we somewhere with Professor Snape?"
"More like Professor Slime Ball," Sirius hissed.
"Gigantism Slime Ball," Remus said.
"Idiotic Gigantism Slime Ball."
"Humongous Idioti-" but Ginny cut Remus off.
"We get the picture."
"Sorry," Sirius said, not looking it.
"Are you sorry you're a murderer?" spat Bill.
"No, as I'm not a murderer I find it impossible to be sorry for murdering someone. Now attempted murder. kind of. He deserved it mind you, the traitorous bastard but." he never finished.
"Just keep explaining!" Ginny said pulling on her hair. "I want to know!"
"Calm down," Sirius said in alarm. "You'll pull out all of your Lily hair."
"Lily hair?" questioned Percy, curious beside himself.
"Yup, her hair is flaming red. Lots of curls, tame, soft, smelling like strawberries. I have great sense of smell as I'm kind of a dog. That's exactly the way Lily's hair used to smell," Sirius explained. He seemed lost for a moment. He snapped back to reality with Remus's next comment.
"Well, after a week. She'd smell like dirty, afraid, scum, idiot at first. She did live with Petunia." Sirius sniggered. Fred and George exchanged grins as they had a new idea for taunting a certain Slytherin in their year.
"That's very nice and very true but aren't you going, oh, what's that word. EXPLAIN! God how long can it take for two grown ups to explain why one of them is not a murderer!" Ginny said pulling on her hair again and then burying her face in her hands with exasperation. Sirius looked mock startled.
"Keep your hair in!" His eyes were back on the paper. He began to find it easy to ignore Mrs. Weasley's muttering as that was how Arabella had been. "Please, I;m a celebrity, let me read about myself once again!" He pretended to look fragile and wistful.
"You really shouldn't do that, you look like the devil," Ron commented.
"You never know, he might be," Moony warned, grinning. Ginny stood up so suddenly even Mrs. Weasley turned to look at her.
"Dad, may I see the paper?"
"Alright, here," Mr. Weasley said handing it to her. She walked over to Sirius without hesitation and handed it to him. "GINNY!"
"The only way we'll ever hear the end of that story is if he can read this!" Ginny said stoutly before plopping down onto Ron's bed. Sirius looked apprehensive at first but then sat down next to her. The Weasleys men moved towards him glaring.
"No way," said Remus moving in between them and Sirius and Ginny with Ron at his side.
"Oh, goody!" Sirius squealed. He looked giddy but it faded as he concentrated on reading. Ginny leaned over his should and read as well. The whole time her brothers and father glaring at Sirius. Not counting Ronald of course.
Sirius Black- Captured!
The widely known murderer Sirius Black has been caught! He was seen in Parkway near the mountains by the witch Gladia Jenkins. She immediately apparated to the Ministry. There she rushed to the Ministry official nearest who was a member of the Magical Law Enforcement Committee. Henry Whipple told her to tell as many as she could while he apparated to catch him.
When Henry got there he found a calm Sirius Black sitting on the ground drawing in the sand road. He looked up with a cross expression. After speaking to Whipple he said that Black coolly said, "It took you forever," as though greeting an old friend who was late for a meeting.
As a matter of fact Black and Whipple had gone to school together though Black had been in Gryffindor and Whipple in Ravenclaw. They both were keepers for their house quidditch teams and both great players. Whipple had also been close friends with Remus Lupin(an article was on him in Tuesday's paper), Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter.
Black is going to be given a trial this time as it was requested by Albus Dumbledore for reasons unknown. He has been charged with the murder of a dozen muggles and the wizard Peter Pettigrew, Order of Merlin First Class. He is also being charged with a betrayal that is unknown.
When I interviewed Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic, I was told that Black was released into custody of a wizarding family. Or rather he was I custody of Dumbledore for one day. If he could find a wizarding family to take him in until his trial on September 2nd he would be allowed.
In a brief talk with Sirius Black himself I was able to uncover a few interesting facts. He is the godfather of Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived and destroyed his master. Black has great interest in quidditch. He likes doing cross-words and making a mess in Lupin's kitchen.
When asked why he had not run away after being seen he replied, "I have no reason to run for the hills. I have something, no, someone to stay here for. He's going to need me, I know it. I can feel it. I have since the end of the Triwizard Tournament and I know why. Voldemort is back and this is the only way to protect four people. I've had a visit from the ghost of Future Magic and if I'm not caught, no one will live through Voldemort's rein."
I, your faithful reporter for the Daily Prophet, will be attending his trial and will be giving you an exclusive on it. But with this statement of his we must ask ourselves is You-Know-Who is back. Who is Black going to be protecting? And is he telling the truth about his capture?
All of these questions will be answered in the Daily Prophet on September 3rd.
By Rita Skeeter
"You talked to Skeeter?" asked Ginny looking at Sirius once he had set the paper down.
"Yeah, it was last night, right before dinner. She showed up at my cell in Azkaban and asked me to follow her. The dementors opened it and followed us down the hall. We went in this isolated room and the dementors waited outside. She started talking and I just answered. I was not really paying attention. They weren't complicated questions. They were about things I had seen over and over in my head.
"The dementors couldn't make me crazy but they could make me relive every decision I made that ended in catastrophe." There was silence and then Remus came up with a smart-alic comment.
"Like what happened in fifth year?" Sirius went deep scarlet.
"Don't talk about that!"
"Oh, I think I will. Who wants to hear a story about Sirius in fifth year?!"
"I would like to hear the rest of the story you already started!" Ginny snapped peevishly. They were getting so off track. She had a nagging feeling they didn't want to complete the tale. Why she didn't know.
"I DO!' Ron yelled and Ginny's words were forgotten. She sighed.
"Alright, let's hear this thing!"
"Well, we were on the Hogwarts Express and we were just talking," Remus began as Sirius glared daggers into him. "Then we began to come up with schemes for that year. Sirius dumbly suggested we enchant a few teachers. He wasn't actually being serious as he was Sirius," a few confused expressions were on faces. "I men he was being dumb like always," Sirius growled in a dog like fashion.
"So when we got there and were inside after the Peeves extravaganza, he always tried to show off in front of us because he hated the fact we had more detentions by our fifth year than he had had in his whole life, we began to eat. James and I slipped a potion we had made in Sirius's goblet.
"In ten minutes each teacher had a different colored face and Dumbledore-" Sirius leapt up and planted his hand over Remus's mouth. Not in the least bit miffed Remus bit hard on it and Sirius yelped.
"OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sirius yelled. Remus didn't seem to be paying attention.
"Had a green and blue polka dot beard! Everyone was laughing and then our potion began to take effect. Sirius leapt onto the top of Gryffindor table and sang 12 ½ Days of Christmas. He interpreted a tap dance to go along with it and then began ot chant that he was a lady!
"Then he decided to tell everyone weird things about people-" but Sirius cut him off.
"Not about people, about YOU! And James and Peter but still. I told everyone about how you slept with teddy bear named Juju until the summer! And you sucked you thumb until you were ten!" Sirius said proudly.
"Gee, thanks Sirius," Remus said huffily. Then a grin lit his face and he seemed year younger despite the grey hairs that freckled his hair. "He told everyone in a loud booming voice that he had enchanted McGonagall's face green ice it was his favorite color and he was deeply in love with her!
"After the teachers had countered our potion and calmed everyone down we got in huge trouble. Dumbledore was grinning but he called all four of us up. Peter had no idea what was going on so Dumbledore told him to sit.
"Sirius got a day's detention for enchanting faces but was complimented on his color selection. James and I on the other hand were let off by Dumbledore but McGonagall, who was bright red instead of green, was furious and as head of Gryffindor gave us five days of detention and a band from Hogsmede the next weekend.
"Not like it mattered, we were still there.." Remus trailed off grinning madly.
"Very interesting," Ron said laughing in his stomach but not showing it. "You, er, are in love with McGonagall Sirius?"
"Hard har har!" he snapped but then began laughing like a maniac.
"And that is Sirius," Moony muttered putting his head in his hands.
"And Sirius is still a murderer," Ginny muttered. "Look if you aren't going to finish your story I'll be finding a way out now." She moved towards the widow.
"WE'LL FINISH IT!" Ron yelled grabbing her arms. She grinned at him.
"Good. Now onward!"
"That's it!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed.
To Be Continued. (again.)
A/N The polka dot thing is a tribute to Margarita Mocha for a certain pair of boxer shorts and a note to her, Y knows what PB is! She's gonna kill me! *hisses softly* Thongs. You don't want to know anyways sorry for the cliffy but my sis needs the keyboards and the rest for homework!
Chapter 6*~~ Tales and Impatience (Sort Of)*~~
"Well." Sirius was looking very thoughtful. He was half trying to get over the moment of shock at this little girl finding trust in him. 'Well,' he thought reasonably, 'she's not a girl. She's a very developed young lady. Oh gross! Harry is definitely in love with her. Even if he doesn't say it.' "We could reenact it but."
"Bloody hell we are! I would have to relive about fifty pound of pain!" Ron snapped.
"Oh yeah," Sirius said remembering. "You did get stunned or something by Pettigrew."
"And if I recall you broke my leg!"
"That's definitely one in the trust column," Moony muttered.
"Why don't you try explaining?" suggested Ginny sweetly.
"Don't act so sugar coated just because Remus is here," Ron said teasingly.
"Yes, he IS a partner in crime!" Percy said irritated.
"And a professor," Sirius said disgustedly.
"Once again, I did NOT hear that."
"You're a nancy professor. Yelling at all the little children. Just like you got yelled at!"
"You got ten times the detentions I did!"
"I almost beat James. You had only 798. James had 1,234. I," Sirius said defiantly, "I had 1,201!"
"How can you remember those?" asked Ron flabbergasted.
"Hello! Earth to idiots!" Ginny snapped impatiently. "Don't you have something to, let's see, EXPLAIN!"
"Right!" Moon and Padfoot said together.
"Well, I guess it starts when James and we graduated from Hogwarts." Remus and Sirius began to explain with some inputs from Ron. They carefully left out the Marauders identities. Near the end Sirius dropped off. They had reached the part where Snape was about to get knocked out when..
"Can I see that?" Sirius asked cutting in on Moony and Ron, pointing to the paper in Mr. Weasley's hand.
"Why would a murderer need to see the paper?" he sneered.
"Human interest?" he suggested. "Look, I just want to see what dear old Rita wrote about me. We all know about her infatuation with the grease ball." There was silence. "Or not."
"That idjit likes Snape? No wonder she's so stupid, idiotic, and snotty," Ron muttered. Moony sniggered as did the twins. Sirius fell into gales of giggles.
"You look like a girl Sirius," Remus retorted. Sirius stood.
"HEY !"
"I speak the truth," Moon continues solemnly.
"That's it!" Sirius raised his wand. Everyone shrieked. Or rather Mrs. Weasley shrieked, the Weasley men screamed, Mr. Weasley hissed, Ginny looked uncertainly at him, and Ron broke down in laughs.
"HE'S ABOUT TO BE MURDERED AND YOU'RE LAUGHING!" yelled Charlie. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU!"
"Dude, chill, I just got hit by a few stunning spells. Dark stunning spells. Thanks to their friend." He pointed to the two Marauders Sirius's wand had vanished and Remus was holding in laughter. It didn't quite work as he burst out in laughter.
Mrs. Weasley looked deep in thought. "And you said I was pathetic," Sirius scoffed. Moony stopped.
"No, I said you were girl."
"Well then, I say you are pathetic," Sirius said shrugging. He looked up at Mrs. Weasley. "Mrs. Weasley?" She didn't seem to hear. "Ron, is your mom alright?" he asked worriedly.
"She's thinking about something. That's the way she always looks when she'd trying to remember something big."
"She probably knew Peter," Ginny said grasping their attention. "Now, weren't we somewhere with Professor Snape?"
"More like Professor Slime Ball," Sirius hissed.
"Gigantism Slime Ball," Remus said.
"Idiotic Gigantism Slime Ball."
"Humongous Idioti-" but Ginny cut Remus off.
"We get the picture."
"Sorry," Sirius said, not looking it.
"Are you sorry you're a murderer?" spat Bill.
"No, as I'm not a murderer I find it impossible to be sorry for murdering someone. Now attempted murder. kind of. He deserved it mind you, the traitorous bastard but." he never finished.
"Just keep explaining!" Ginny said pulling on her hair. "I want to know!"
"Calm down," Sirius said in alarm. "You'll pull out all of your Lily hair."
"Lily hair?" questioned Percy, curious beside himself.
"Yup, her hair is flaming red. Lots of curls, tame, soft, smelling like strawberries. I have great sense of smell as I'm kind of a dog. That's exactly the way Lily's hair used to smell," Sirius explained. He seemed lost for a moment. He snapped back to reality with Remus's next comment.
"Well, after a week. She'd smell like dirty, afraid, scum, idiot at first. She did live with Petunia." Sirius sniggered. Fred and George exchanged grins as they had a new idea for taunting a certain Slytherin in their year.
"That's very nice and very true but aren't you going, oh, what's that word. EXPLAIN! God how long can it take for two grown ups to explain why one of them is not a murderer!" Ginny said pulling on her hair again and then burying her face in her hands with exasperation. Sirius looked mock startled.
"Keep your hair in!" His eyes were back on the paper. He began to find it easy to ignore Mrs. Weasley's muttering as that was how Arabella had been. "Please, I;m a celebrity, let me read about myself once again!" He pretended to look fragile and wistful.
"You really shouldn't do that, you look like the devil," Ron commented.
"You never know, he might be," Moony warned, grinning. Ginny stood up so suddenly even Mrs. Weasley turned to look at her.
"Dad, may I see the paper?"
"Alright, here," Mr. Weasley said handing it to her. She walked over to Sirius without hesitation and handed it to him. "GINNY!"
"The only way we'll ever hear the end of that story is if he can read this!" Ginny said stoutly before plopping down onto Ron's bed. Sirius looked apprehensive at first but then sat down next to her. The Weasleys men moved towards him glaring.
"No way," said Remus moving in between them and Sirius and Ginny with Ron at his side.
"Oh, goody!" Sirius squealed. He looked giddy but it faded as he concentrated on reading. Ginny leaned over his should and read as well. The whole time her brothers and father glaring at Sirius. Not counting Ronald of course.
Sirius Black- Captured!
The widely known murderer Sirius Black has been caught! He was seen in Parkway near the mountains by the witch Gladia Jenkins. She immediately apparated to the Ministry. There she rushed to the Ministry official nearest who was a member of the Magical Law Enforcement Committee. Henry Whipple told her to tell as many as she could while he apparated to catch him.
When Henry got there he found a calm Sirius Black sitting on the ground drawing in the sand road. He looked up with a cross expression. After speaking to Whipple he said that Black coolly said, "It took you forever," as though greeting an old friend who was late for a meeting.
As a matter of fact Black and Whipple had gone to school together though Black had been in Gryffindor and Whipple in Ravenclaw. They both were keepers for their house quidditch teams and both great players. Whipple had also been close friends with Remus Lupin(an article was on him in Tuesday's paper), Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter.
Black is going to be given a trial this time as it was requested by Albus Dumbledore for reasons unknown. He has been charged with the murder of a dozen muggles and the wizard Peter Pettigrew, Order of Merlin First Class. He is also being charged with a betrayal that is unknown.
When I interviewed Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic, I was told that Black was released into custody of a wizarding family. Or rather he was I custody of Dumbledore for one day. If he could find a wizarding family to take him in until his trial on September 2nd he would be allowed.
In a brief talk with Sirius Black himself I was able to uncover a few interesting facts. He is the godfather of Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived and destroyed his master. Black has great interest in quidditch. He likes doing cross-words and making a mess in Lupin's kitchen.
When asked why he had not run away after being seen he replied, "I have no reason to run for the hills. I have something, no, someone to stay here for. He's going to need me, I know it. I can feel it. I have since the end of the Triwizard Tournament and I know why. Voldemort is back and this is the only way to protect four people. I've had a visit from the ghost of Future Magic and if I'm not caught, no one will live through Voldemort's rein."
I, your faithful reporter for the Daily Prophet, will be attending his trial and will be giving you an exclusive on it. But with this statement of his we must ask ourselves is You-Know-Who is back. Who is Black going to be protecting? And is he telling the truth about his capture?
All of these questions will be answered in the Daily Prophet on September 3rd.
By Rita Skeeter
"You talked to Skeeter?" asked Ginny looking at Sirius once he had set the paper down.
"Yeah, it was last night, right before dinner. She showed up at my cell in Azkaban and asked me to follow her. The dementors opened it and followed us down the hall. We went in this isolated room and the dementors waited outside. She started talking and I just answered. I was not really paying attention. They weren't complicated questions. They were about things I had seen over and over in my head.
"The dementors couldn't make me crazy but they could make me relive every decision I made that ended in catastrophe." There was silence and then Remus came up with a smart-alic comment.
"Like what happened in fifth year?" Sirius went deep scarlet.
"Don't talk about that!"
"Oh, I think I will. Who wants to hear a story about Sirius in fifth year?!"
"I would like to hear the rest of the story you already started!" Ginny snapped peevishly. They were getting so off track. She had a nagging feeling they didn't want to complete the tale. Why she didn't know.
"I DO!' Ron yelled and Ginny's words were forgotten. She sighed.
"Alright, let's hear this thing!"
"Well, we were on the Hogwarts Express and we were just talking," Remus began as Sirius glared daggers into him. "Then we began to come up with schemes for that year. Sirius dumbly suggested we enchant a few teachers. He wasn't actually being serious as he was Sirius," a few confused expressions were on faces. "I men he was being dumb like always," Sirius growled in a dog like fashion.
"So when we got there and were inside after the Peeves extravaganza, he always tried to show off in front of us because he hated the fact we had more detentions by our fifth year than he had had in his whole life, we began to eat. James and I slipped a potion we had made in Sirius's goblet.
"In ten minutes each teacher had a different colored face and Dumbledore-" Sirius leapt up and planted his hand over Remus's mouth. Not in the least bit miffed Remus bit hard on it and Sirius yelped.
"OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sirius yelled. Remus didn't seem to be paying attention.
"Had a green and blue polka dot beard! Everyone was laughing and then our potion began to take effect. Sirius leapt onto the top of Gryffindor table and sang 12 ½ Days of Christmas. He interpreted a tap dance to go along with it and then began ot chant that he was a lady!
"Then he decided to tell everyone weird things about people-" but Sirius cut him off.
"Not about people, about YOU! And James and Peter but still. I told everyone about how you slept with teddy bear named Juju until the summer! And you sucked you thumb until you were ten!" Sirius said proudly.
"Gee, thanks Sirius," Remus said huffily. Then a grin lit his face and he seemed year younger despite the grey hairs that freckled his hair. "He told everyone in a loud booming voice that he had enchanted McGonagall's face green ice it was his favorite color and he was deeply in love with her!
"After the teachers had countered our potion and calmed everyone down we got in huge trouble. Dumbledore was grinning but he called all four of us up. Peter had no idea what was going on so Dumbledore told him to sit.
"Sirius got a day's detention for enchanting faces but was complimented on his color selection. James and I on the other hand were let off by Dumbledore but McGonagall, who was bright red instead of green, was furious and as head of Gryffindor gave us five days of detention and a band from Hogsmede the next weekend.
"Not like it mattered, we were still there.." Remus trailed off grinning madly.
"Very interesting," Ron said laughing in his stomach but not showing it. "You, er, are in love with McGonagall Sirius?"
"Hard har har!" he snapped but then began laughing like a maniac.
"And that is Sirius," Moony muttered putting his head in his hands.
"And Sirius is still a murderer," Ginny muttered. "Look if you aren't going to finish your story I'll be finding a way out now." She moved towards the widow.
"WE'LL FINISH IT!" Ron yelled grabbing her arms. She grinned at him.
"Good. Now onward!"
"That's it!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed.
To Be Continued. (again.)
A/N The polka dot thing is a tribute to Margarita Mocha for a certain pair of boxer shorts and a note to her, Y knows what PB is! She's gonna kill me! *hisses softly* Thongs. You don't want to know anyways sorry for the cliffy but my sis needs the keyboards and the rest for homework!