"JB, did you ever take driving lessons while you lived as a muggle?"
James asked, as he was bounced around in the back seat, ducking every
couple of seconds as JB narrowly missed cars coming the opposite way.
"Nope, I was too young to be allowed to drive then. But I saw everyone else drive, so I know pretty much how to drive." She answered, quickly checking the time. It was almost 11:00, so she smiled and slowed down slightly. James sighed slightly, holding his heart his eyes wide.
"If we get killed, you are so dead." James said, and JB smirked through the rearview mirror.
"If we get killed I'll already be dead." She said, and James glared and turned to watch cars pass them quickly on the left. Sirius was the only one who seemed to be having fun. He was smiling and laughing, watching closely as JB turned sharply and overran the speed limit. Lupin, on the other hand, was taking this worse than James. He was crouched down low in his seat, and he refused to get up.
"Hey moony, you'll get more hurt if you're in that position then if you were sitting up in the seat." Sirius, said, glancing back at him, his eyes full of laughter. Lupin mumbled something under his breath and JB pulled over to the side of the highway, turning around to Lupin.
"Sick? You can puke over here." She said, and Lupin could tell she was holding in laughter. He frowned slightly, but didn't move. "What, scared that a car is gonna hit you? Geez. Everyone should know how to drive. If you ever want to live on your own that is. But I'm sure you and James will just live at Hogwarts forever." She laughed, and turned, starting the car up again.
"Puke now or forever hold you lunch." Sirius said, laughing. Lupin glared at the back of his head, and then turned and watched the floor. JB sped off, and around a turn. She looked over at Sirius for a split second.
"Hey Sirius, do you have the map with you? Cause I don't think I'll be able to find my way that easily." She said, and Sirius nodded pulling it out.
"Take a right turn off the highway at exit 38." He said, his eyes watching the direction carefully. JB nodded, and started counting, following the numbers on the sign.
"28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39.!" JB's eyes widened, and she quickly pulled over. She turned to face Sirius. "Where's the exit?!" She asked, and Sirius checked the map.
"Umm. two more exits down; it goes up to 40, and then starts going back down in numbers. Weird." JB nodded slowly; somehow getting the feeling Sirius was telling her the wrong directions. She slowly pulled back out onto the road, a couple minutes later finding the exit. She pulled onto it, and Sirius checked the map again.
"Turn left onto Main St. Then follow the road until you get to Franklin St." Sirius said. JB nodded slowly, turning quite suddenly without using the blinker. She revved the engine and was soon going about 70. James squeaked, and the werewolf ducked lower, covering his eyes.
"Here we go!" She said, stopping short in front of a driveway, pulling slowly in. Lupin peeked up over the seat, glancing up at a tan house. He slid out of the car like mush when JB opened the door, then he grinned like a maniac and kissed the ground. JB rolled her eyes and walked over to Sirius, then looked up at the house.
"I wonder who used to live here, and if they left us anything." She said, and Sirius nodded. Then he grinned and turned to her.
"Race ya in." He said, and JB grinned as well.
"You're on." They both started running towards the house, tripping up the stairs and almost falling on their faces a couple of times. Sirius ran right into the door and JB skidded to a stop next to him laughing.
"Ouch." He said, slowly pushing open the door and looking inside. It was completely empty. JB frowned slightly, giving her bag a glance.
"I'm sure they'll let us fill the house up with magic, since they didn't give us any muggle money." She said, quickly taking out her wand before anyone could stop her. Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, why not make this place perfect. Everything a muggle would want or have. Remember, that means we can't have cauldrons and stuff. We'll have to learn how to use a stove." He said and JB shrugged.
She waved her wand in the air, creating everything that should be in the kitchen. She mad a table, some chairs, a couple countertops, and a butchers table with a bread drawer. The put a tea kettle and a microwave on one of the counters, and a lamp and sink on/in another. She made a fridge and a stove, and finished it off with some decorations. Including making the wall a tan that was slightly lighter than the house.
She grinned and ran off to the next room, which was a bedroom of off the kitchen. She waved her wand, making baby blue wall and blue carpeting appear. She made a small one person bed, and a dresser. She looked in the closet and added a few drawers to hold cloths as well. She looked around the room, and added a light fixture on the ceiling and a light switch on the wall by the door.
Sirius hurriedly took out his wand, wanting to try his luck at the dining room, which was back the other way, also off the kitchen. JB gave him a doubtful look, but allowed him to make the dining room. Sirius grinned, and waved his wand, a long table that could seat 6 easily appeared. He made a desk by the wall, and put four chairs around the table, and one by the desk. JB watched him and laughed as he put a large cabinet at the back wall, filling it with plates and such.
"Interesting, but you need to add one thing to this desk." She said, waving her wand a making a computer appear. ((AN- I know that they most likely didn't have computers back then, or one's like ours, but come on. This is my story and I can add to it what I want.)) Sirius titled his head to the side and shrugged. JB turned and ran off past a staircase to the living room.
"Hmm. We need a TV, and Stereo, a DVD player, a VCR, a couch, a chair, a coffee table, and a magazine shelf." She muttered to herself, making each appear as she said it. Sirius nodded his approval, and James and Lupin just watched.
"Cool. Now for the upstairs!" Sirius said, jumping up each stairs two at a time. JB followed him, still smiling. Sirius turned sharply to the right, looking into another bedroom. JB walked in after him, looking around.
"I like this one." She said. The walls were already colored a light purple. The floor was wood, and it was slightly worn. There was a window in the back of it in a little section of the room that was almost separate. In the window were bee's nests. She smiled and walked over to the window, watching the bees.
"Hey, what about a two person water bed, I've seen them in muggle magazines." Sirius said, making one under a second window across from the door. JB smiled and make a work desk next to the bed, making a lamp and a digital clock appear on it. She turned and made a shelf at the foot of the bed, numerous knick knacks appearing on it as she turned to the other side of the room.
"Now time for Eagle Arrow." She said softly, pulling her backpack off her should and setting it on the water bed. She pulled the small cage out, waving her wand and making it full sized again, as well as the owl inside of it. She placed in next to a dresser that Sirius had just made.
"Hey, don't you think you should make Eagle Arrow into something more like a dog or a cat or a parrot or something?" James asked, and JB gave him a look.
"And ruin his appearance? For Eagle Arrow to be changed into a dog, no offense Sirius would be simply embarrassing." JB said, and Sirius shrugged, taking no offense whatsoever. James simply shrugged, stating that if they had a pet owl they might get in trouble.
"Yeah, Prongs is right. If anyone came by and saw an owl we might get arrested by the please-men." Sirius said, very obviously imitating how some wizards spoke. JB laughed and nodded.
"Yes, I know that, but." She turned to her owl, who was cleaning his blackish gray feathers. "Hey buddy, how would you feel if you were a dog?" She asked. The owl gave her a reproachful look, and hooted softly. JB nodded slowly. "I know you'd feel uncomfortable, but you can't be seen like this. Just for a year, okay?" She said quietly. The owl seemed to think for a moment, and then it ruffled its feathers and clawed at the cage bars.
JB nodded, smiling. She opened the cage, letting Eagle Arrow fly around the room freely. After about 20 minutes, the owl flew over to JB and landed on her should, pecking at her ear. JB picked the owl up and set it on the floor, frowning slightly. She'd never been very good at transfiguration, but she knew her owl wouldn't trust anyone else to do this.
"Are you sure you wouldn't let James transform you?" She asked, quietly to her owl, and he hooted loudly, shaking his head. She sighed, looking at her wand and quietly reciting the spell in her head. Then she turned back to Eagle Arrow and waved he wand, almost shouting the spell.
Eagle Arrow hooted, and his hoot sounded gravely, and soon sounded like a dog's bark. His feathers disappeared, being replaced by black fur. His eyes changed from yellow to a yellow-ish green. Eagle Arrow grew pointed ears, almost like a cats, but definatly a dogs. Like German Shepard ears. His tail grew longer and furrier, and after the transformation, Eagle Arrow looked much like a black German Shepard.
"Wow, I did it." She said, sounding very relieved. Eagle Arrow jumped up onto JB and she crouched down. Eagle Arrow licked her face and barked loudly. Sirius grinned, watching the dog and feeling not quite as alone, and then he had a sudden thought.
"Oh no. JB, what about Remus? What're we gonna do once a month when he's a werewolf?" Sirius said, and JB looked up at him, her eyes widening. Lupin looked down at the ground sadly, his look telling everyone that he thought he'd ruin the project. Sirius walked over to him and patted him on the back.
"Great, now I'm going to make us all fail." He said, sitting down on edge of a plastic container just recently placed there to hold stuffed animals and such. Sirius sat down next to him and turned his face toward his.
"Don't think that way Moony. I'm sure if we all transform into our animal forms you'll be fine. Just don't go killing the house, after today we're all going to have to find a way to get muggle money and not use magic." Lupin looked up at Sirius, then at everyone else. He had a little trouble trying to think of James and JB in the house. James' antlers would get caught and everything, not to mention the fact that stags don't usually go in houses. And a falcon flying around the house wouldn't be very good either.
"But, what if we get caught. If someone walks by and sees a house full of animals, three of them wild, they would call the police or the pound." He said, his face in his hands. JB frowned, and walked over to him and Sirius.
"Remus, if anything happens to any of us, we'll all be there. No one will be able to get in our way. Now come on, we have to finish the last two rooms." She said, and Sirius nodded. The two walked into the other room to make it into another bedroom, similar to the one they had just made, except without a double person water bed. It had a single person water bed.
"Hey, what'll we do with this room? It looks like it used to be a storage room." JB said, and Sirius nodded.
"Yeah. Hey! Maybe with we reinforce the walls and floor and make them sound proof, that's where Lupin can transform! We don't have to put anything in here!" Sirius sounded excited, and JB thought he had a reason too. He had a great idea.
"Right, that's perfect!" She said, quickly waving her wand around the rooms. She made the room glow with a light of its own and made the walls thicker and padded. She looked at the floor and made it a strong metal so that it wouldn't break. Then she backed out of the room and walked over to Lupin.
"Hey Lupin, check out the werewolf room." She said, and Lupin slowly got up and walked in. He smiled, seeing that it was perfect. Nothing that could break, and completely soundproof.
"Wow." Was all he said.
"Now come on, let's go the bank to see if we have any muggle money there." James said, and JB thought for a second then grinned.
"Before I learned that I was a witch, my parents had given me a bank account, by now I should have nearly $2000." She exclaimed, and James and Sirius cheered.
"To the bank!"
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How did you guys like it? I thought this chapter was cool, because I got to design the house how I thought it would be cool. But just now I realized that I forgot the bathroom. We'll just say that it's normal and didn't need to be changed. I know that some of the stuff I put in the house was only recently made, but I thought that they should be added because it's not wizard like. So just deal with it. R&R! Ja ne!
"Nope, I was too young to be allowed to drive then. But I saw everyone else drive, so I know pretty much how to drive." She answered, quickly checking the time. It was almost 11:00, so she smiled and slowed down slightly. James sighed slightly, holding his heart his eyes wide.
"If we get killed, you are so dead." James said, and JB smirked through the rearview mirror.
"If we get killed I'll already be dead." She said, and James glared and turned to watch cars pass them quickly on the left. Sirius was the only one who seemed to be having fun. He was smiling and laughing, watching closely as JB turned sharply and overran the speed limit. Lupin, on the other hand, was taking this worse than James. He was crouched down low in his seat, and he refused to get up.
"Hey moony, you'll get more hurt if you're in that position then if you were sitting up in the seat." Sirius, said, glancing back at him, his eyes full of laughter. Lupin mumbled something under his breath and JB pulled over to the side of the highway, turning around to Lupin.
"Sick? You can puke over here." She said, and Lupin could tell she was holding in laughter. He frowned slightly, but didn't move. "What, scared that a car is gonna hit you? Geez. Everyone should know how to drive. If you ever want to live on your own that is. But I'm sure you and James will just live at Hogwarts forever." She laughed, and turned, starting the car up again.
"Puke now or forever hold you lunch." Sirius said, laughing. Lupin glared at the back of his head, and then turned and watched the floor. JB sped off, and around a turn. She looked over at Sirius for a split second.
"Hey Sirius, do you have the map with you? Cause I don't think I'll be able to find my way that easily." She said, and Sirius nodded pulling it out.
"Take a right turn off the highway at exit 38." He said, his eyes watching the direction carefully. JB nodded, and started counting, following the numbers on the sign.
"28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39.!" JB's eyes widened, and she quickly pulled over. She turned to face Sirius. "Where's the exit?!" She asked, and Sirius checked the map.
"Umm. two more exits down; it goes up to 40, and then starts going back down in numbers. Weird." JB nodded slowly; somehow getting the feeling Sirius was telling her the wrong directions. She slowly pulled back out onto the road, a couple minutes later finding the exit. She pulled onto it, and Sirius checked the map again.
"Turn left onto Main St. Then follow the road until you get to Franklin St." Sirius said. JB nodded slowly, turning quite suddenly without using the blinker. She revved the engine and was soon going about 70. James squeaked, and the werewolf ducked lower, covering his eyes.
"Here we go!" She said, stopping short in front of a driveway, pulling slowly in. Lupin peeked up over the seat, glancing up at a tan house. He slid out of the car like mush when JB opened the door, then he grinned like a maniac and kissed the ground. JB rolled her eyes and walked over to Sirius, then looked up at the house.
"I wonder who used to live here, and if they left us anything." She said, and Sirius nodded. Then he grinned and turned to her.
"Race ya in." He said, and JB grinned as well.
"You're on." They both started running towards the house, tripping up the stairs and almost falling on their faces a couple of times. Sirius ran right into the door and JB skidded to a stop next to him laughing.
"Ouch." He said, slowly pushing open the door and looking inside. It was completely empty. JB frowned slightly, giving her bag a glance.
"I'm sure they'll let us fill the house up with magic, since they didn't give us any muggle money." She said, quickly taking out her wand before anyone could stop her. Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, why not make this place perfect. Everything a muggle would want or have. Remember, that means we can't have cauldrons and stuff. We'll have to learn how to use a stove." He said and JB shrugged.
She waved her wand in the air, creating everything that should be in the kitchen. She mad a table, some chairs, a couple countertops, and a butchers table with a bread drawer. The put a tea kettle and a microwave on one of the counters, and a lamp and sink on/in another. She made a fridge and a stove, and finished it off with some decorations. Including making the wall a tan that was slightly lighter than the house.
She grinned and ran off to the next room, which was a bedroom of off the kitchen. She waved her wand, making baby blue wall and blue carpeting appear. She made a small one person bed, and a dresser. She looked in the closet and added a few drawers to hold cloths as well. She looked around the room, and added a light fixture on the ceiling and a light switch on the wall by the door.
Sirius hurriedly took out his wand, wanting to try his luck at the dining room, which was back the other way, also off the kitchen. JB gave him a doubtful look, but allowed him to make the dining room. Sirius grinned, and waved his wand, a long table that could seat 6 easily appeared. He made a desk by the wall, and put four chairs around the table, and one by the desk. JB watched him and laughed as he put a large cabinet at the back wall, filling it with plates and such.
"Interesting, but you need to add one thing to this desk." She said, waving her wand a making a computer appear. ((AN- I know that they most likely didn't have computers back then, or one's like ours, but come on. This is my story and I can add to it what I want.)) Sirius titled his head to the side and shrugged. JB turned and ran off past a staircase to the living room.
"Hmm. We need a TV, and Stereo, a DVD player, a VCR, a couch, a chair, a coffee table, and a magazine shelf." She muttered to herself, making each appear as she said it. Sirius nodded his approval, and James and Lupin just watched.
"Cool. Now for the upstairs!" Sirius said, jumping up each stairs two at a time. JB followed him, still smiling. Sirius turned sharply to the right, looking into another bedroom. JB walked in after him, looking around.
"I like this one." She said. The walls were already colored a light purple. The floor was wood, and it was slightly worn. There was a window in the back of it in a little section of the room that was almost separate. In the window were bee's nests. She smiled and walked over to the window, watching the bees.
"Hey, what about a two person water bed, I've seen them in muggle magazines." Sirius said, making one under a second window across from the door. JB smiled and make a work desk next to the bed, making a lamp and a digital clock appear on it. She turned and made a shelf at the foot of the bed, numerous knick knacks appearing on it as she turned to the other side of the room.
"Now time for Eagle Arrow." She said softly, pulling her backpack off her should and setting it on the water bed. She pulled the small cage out, waving her wand and making it full sized again, as well as the owl inside of it. She placed in next to a dresser that Sirius had just made.
"Hey, don't you think you should make Eagle Arrow into something more like a dog or a cat or a parrot or something?" James asked, and JB gave him a look.
"And ruin his appearance? For Eagle Arrow to be changed into a dog, no offense Sirius would be simply embarrassing." JB said, and Sirius shrugged, taking no offense whatsoever. James simply shrugged, stating that if they had a pet owl they might get in trouble.
"Yeah, Prongs is right. If anyone came by and saw an owl we might get arrested by the please-men." Sirius said, very obviously imitating how some wizards spoke. JB laughed and nodded.
"Yes, I know that, but." She turned to her owl, who was cleaning his blackish gray feathers. "Hey buddy, how would you feel if you were a dog?" She asked. The owl gave her a reproachful look, and hooted softly. JB nodded slowly. "I know you'd feel uncomfortable, but you can't be seen like this. Just for a year, okay?" She said quietly. The owl seemed to think for a moment, and then it ruffled its feathers and clawed at the cage bars.
JB nodded, smiling. She opened the cage, letting Eagle Arrow fly around the room freely. After about 20 minutes, the owl flew over to JB and landed on her should, pecking at her ear. JB picked the owl up and set it on the floor, frowning slightly. She'd never been very good at transfiguration, but she knew her owl wouldn't trust anyone else to do this.
"Are you sure you wouldn't let James transform you?" She asked, quietly to her owl, and he hooted loudly, shaking his head. She sighed, looking at her wand and quietly reciting the spell in her head. Then she turned back to Eagle Arrow and waved he wand, almost shouting the spell.
Eagle Arrow hooted, and his hoot sounded gravely, and soon sounded like a dog's bark. His feathers disappeared, being replaced by black fur. His eyes changed from yellow to a yellow-ish green. Eagle Arrow grew pointed ears, almost like a cats, but definatly a dogs. Like German Shepard ears. His tail grew longer and furrier, and after the transformation, Eagle Arrow looked much like a black German Shepard.
"Wow, I did it." She said, sounding very relieved. Eagle Arrow jumped up onto JB and she crouched down. Eagle Arrow licked her face and barked loudly. Sirius grinned, watching the dog and feeling not quite as alone, and then he had a sudden thought.
"Oh no. JB, what about Remus? What're we gonna do once a month when he's a werewolf?" Sirius said, and JB looked up at him, her eyes widening. Lupin looked down at the ground sadly, his look telling everyone that he thought he'd ruin the project. Sirius walked over to him and patted him on the back.
"Great, now I'm going to make us all fail." He said, sitting down on edge of a plastic container just recently placed there to hold stuffed animals and such. Sirius sat down next to him and turned his face toward his.
"Don't think that way Moony. I'm sure if we all transform into our animal forms you'll be fine. Just don't go killing the house, after today we're all going to have to find a way to get muggle money and not use magic." Lupin looked up at Sirius, then at everyone else. He had a little trouble trying to think of James and JB in the house. James' antlers would get caught and everything, not to mention the fact that stags don't usually go in houses. And a falcon flying around the house wouldn't be very good either.
"But, what if we get caught. If someone walks by and sees a house full of animals, three of them wild, they would call the police or the pound." He said, his face in his hands. JB frowned, and walked over to him and Sirius.
"Remus, if anything happens to any of us, we'll all be there. No one will be able to get in our way. Now come on, we have to finish the last two rooms." She said, and Sirius nodded. The two walked into the other room to make it into another bedroom, similar to the one they had just made, except without a double person water bed. It had a single person water bed.
"Hey, what'll we do with this room? It looks like it used to be a storage room." JB said, and Sirius nodded.
"Yeah. Hey! Maybe with we reinforce the walls and floor and make them sound proof, that's where Lupin can transform! We don't have to put anything in here!" Sirius sounded excited, and JB thought he had a reason too. He had a great idea.
"Right, that's perfect!" She said, quickly waving her wand around the rooms. She made the room glow with a light of its own and made the walls thicker and padded. She looked at the floor and made it a strong metal so that it wouldn't break. Then she backed out of the room and walked over to Lupin.
"Hey Lupin, check out the werewolf room." She said, and Lupin slowly got up and walked in. He smiled, seeing that it was perfect. Nothing that could break, and completely soundproof.
"Wow." Was all he said.
"Now come on, let's go the bank to see if we have any muggle money there." James said, and JB thought for a second then grinned.
"Before I learned that I was a witch, my parents had given me a bank account, by now I should have nearly $2000." She exclaimed, and James and Sirius cheered.
"To the bank!"
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How did you guys like it? I thought this chapter was cool, because I got to design the house how I thought it would be cool. But just now I realized that I forgot the bathroom. We'll just say that it's normal and didn't need to be changed. I know that some of the stuff I put in the house was only recently made, but I thought that they should be added because it's not wizard like. So just deal with it. R&R! Ja ne!