MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *Continues laughing till she starts
hyperventilating and falls out the window*
Just as I suspected, I've got a load of reviews saying 'NOOOOO! HOW COULD YOU!' Well, shooting Remus was very painful to do. But necessary...
Birdie: Why?
Reaper: BECAUSE! Anyway, here's the next chapter, hope you all like... starts with Harry and Tim in the Head's office along with Umbridge, Fudge, Percy... well you guys know the rest...
Birdie: I don't!
Reaper: Yeah, that's cos you never read OotP; you're an Anime freak!
Birdie: Oh yeah... Hey Reaper, why did we start an account together if I'm an Anime freak and you're a bookworm
Reaper: Because neither of us is mentally stable enough to have our own account, and everyone else we know is either a shazzer or a barry.
Americans: What?
Reaper: Never-mind!
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Chapter 11: The Beginning Of The End
**************************
"Well what are you waiting for? RUN!" He bellowed, taking off as fast as he could.
He saw the others all going off in different directions, He decided that the library was a safe bet, and obviously Tim had the same idea.
Unfortunately, it wasn't.
WHAM!!!
The ground rushed up, knocking the wind out of him, and he felt a cold hand pulling him roughly to his feet.
Draco Malfoy.
Stupid Malfoy, tripping him up like that
"I've got one here professor"
"Oh goodie! Come on lets go up to the headmasters office"
This was not happening, this was not happening, this was not happening...
Oh shit this was happening.
"Harry!" Oh no... "Are you alright Harry?"
"Fine Tim" He groaned,
Suddenly a nasty thought struck him, if Tim had been caught too, what was to stop Umbridge from using his sister against them? Stupid cow, how he hated her. It was bad enough to lock up Lupin, using the whole werewolf thing against him, when he was one of the kindest people Harry had ever met. But to drag the other werewolves into this, especially a six-year-old child, when they weren't even involved with anything (to the extent of his knowledge) was just plain barbaric.
Tim seemed to be thinking along the same lines, judging by the anxious look on his face.
"I had expected better from you, Mr. Goodyer, what with your current... situation, regarding your sister..."
"Leave her out of this!" He cried, horrified at the thought of his little sister being hurt.
"I wish I could Mr. Goodyer, but you were warned..." She tsk tsk'd "Such a pity, you were such a good student" Tim was becoming frantic now "And the brat was quite cute... for a werewolf..."
"NO! Please! I'll do anything!"
"Too late" She said, in a tone that indicated the end of their conversation. But her verbal spar with Harry was just beginning.
"Leave him and his sister out of this, they haven't done anything!"
"So you've been telling secrets too-"
"He hasn't told me anything!" Yelled Harry, becoming angry
"Well how do you... oh, Lupin... I see, well then Mr. Potter, I'd threaten you with the safety of your old professor, but I'm afraid that by now he'll already be dead so I'm not going to-"
Her words faded from his ear
DEAD?
WHAT!? Did he miss something?
He never registered the fact that they had arrived at the Headmaster's office. He just walked through the door.
It was a blur. So fixed was he on the demise of one of his father's old best friends, he couldn't understand the conversation before him. Apparently Fudge was there, and that git Percy, and... Cho's friend Marietta? Oh, that would explain the...oh...
And then the fireplace exploded.
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Sirius was beyond angry. He was beyond stressed, he was beyond upset. He could not think of any word strong enough to express his feelings.
He just sat there, begging Remus to wake up.
But Remus had stopped responding a while ago, and now he needed to destroy Pettigrew.
"He has to die..." he whispered "And painfully too"
"BLACK!!!" The vibrations hit his ear like a bludger
He tore his gaze from his best friend's limp form to look at Tonks, who was crying heavily Moody, who was finishing off the rest of the death eaters, and those other werewolves, who were milling about panicking.
Predictably, Snape was the only one with a clear head.
"Black! Unless you want your dear pet werewolf to bleed to death, I suggest you pick him up and start moving!" He snarled, strutting around like he owned the universe.
Sirius wanted to argue, he wanted to show the slimy git who was in charge, but he also wanted his best friend to live, and the rational part of his mind told him he had to obey Snape's orders.
However much it pained him.
Snape continued issuing commands to the others,
"Tonks! Pull yourself together and start up the fire! Moody! The other death eaters are gone, get that idiotic drunk and get through the fireplace! You lot!" He addressed the werewolves "Stop mucking about and get through the bloody fire!"
There was no attempt at any disagreement; his orders were followed quickly and efficiently (Well, almost)
The group (Who at this point were still highly confused about... everything) proceeded to the fireplace.
"Dumbledore's office, Hogwarts!" Daniel yelled, deciding to be the first to go.
And he vanished in the swirling emerald flames.
Appearing right in front of Dolores Umbridge's pudgy face.
******************************
"DANIEL GOODMAN!" Umbridge shrieked, as a man wearing a lot of dusty black leather stepped through the fireplace.
The man became suddenly distressed as he laid eyes on Umbridge
"Oh shit," He exclaimed.
That was when another man, shorter than the first appeared through the fire.
"Uh-oh" He said, noticing Umbridge.
"TOBY PARSONAGE!"
Then several others started racing through the fire, all consequently becoming shocked at the sight of Umbridge.
The room was slowly becoming crowded.
"D-D- Dumbledore...." Fudge blustered "What is the meaning of this!?"
Dumbledore looked as though the one thing he didn't want to happen, had just occurred without any chance of reversal.
"MARY DRISCOLL! ELISABETH MASKELL! BRITTANY CH- Sh- chem-shem-ch--chew..."
"Chemalewski" Offered one of the women that had just appeared
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING HERE?!!!" Umbridge screeched
"Ummm..." The newcomers seemed lost for words "Escaping?"
Escaping? Harry could not, no matter how hard he tried, figure out who these people were. But they obviously weren't friendly with Umbridge so they were o.k. in Harry's book.
Then another man came through the fire, carrying a small redhead girl.
Wait, he knew that man...
To his left, he heard Tim whisper "Maddy?..."
And then he knew who they were. But where was Professor Lupin?
Then Tonks came through the fireplace, babbling unintelligibly
"So sorry Professor, but you won't believe who we ran in to! I can hardly believe it myself, oh my god..."
Then she noticed Umbridge.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"DUMBLEDORE!" Fudge roared "How did this happen!?"
"I'm afraid I don't quite understand what's going on myself, Cornelius..." Dumbledore said softly.
Then Snape appeared, followed closely by a woman with peroxide blonde hair that was slowly fading, revealing the grey-brown beneath.
Harry noticed with some surprise, that Dumbledore recognised this woman and was trying to disguise his shock.
"You wouldn't believe it Professor but..."
Umbridge looked ready to explode. Harry hoped she didn't make a mess when she did.
"Oh," said Snape nastily, looking at Umbridge like someone looking at a puddle of vomit
"M-m-m minister!" Stuttered Umbridge "I have no idea how this happened, I swear! Other than those monster's families, no one knew about the new werewolf restriction act but me, you, your assistant, Malfoy, and three selected agents, who were most definitely loyal to the ministry!"
His assistant? Harry glanced at Percy, who gave him a barely perceptible wink
Harry grinned inwardly
"Well Dolores!" said Fudge pompously "We can figure that out later, right now these... creatures... are going back where they belong"
The werewolves began to protest, but never got far, as Mad-eye-Moody stormed in to the room yelling his head off.
"MOVE! OUT OF THE WAY LADDIE! CASUALTY COMING THROUGH!"
A split second later, Harry was pleased to see his godfather rush in.
He was not pleased to see him carrying what might once have been Lupin, who looked practically dead.
"Alright people" Exclaimed Sirius "He needs help! We've got to get him to hospital wing now!"
He was alive? He didn't look like it... Harry sincerely hoped that Sirius wasn't just conjuring up the illusion that Lupin was alive to block the pain of losing another best friend.
Sincerely.
"SIRIUS BLACK!" Yelled Fudge
At this, the werewolf Harry 'met' at Christmas, promptly punched Fudge in the face. Knocking him out.*
After similar treatment was dealt to Umbridge and Fudge's unfortunate lackey, the group decided to stop delaying and proceed to hospital wing.
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Four hours later and things were looking grim.
Madame Pomfrey was almost in tears because there was so little she could do against silver poisoning. The Werewolves were sitting in a separate room, eating lunch. Or trying to eat it. Despite their hunger, the group couldn't even pick up the forks. (No, they weren't silver you ninnies...) Only Maddy seemed to have any cheer, having just been reunited with her dear older brother.
Sirius was faithfully standing by his friend, waiting for the unlikely event of awakening.
Harry, Hermione and the Weasley children had been pulled out of lessons to have the situation explained.
Tonks had told the children and Dumbledore everything she knew about the disastrous rescue.
"-but what I don't understand" She was saying confusedly "Is WHO exactly that Miranda Llunos is..."
Dumbledore sighed and Ros, or rather Miranda, gave him a look that said simply 'Tell them'
And so he did.
"Children, this concerns the past of one whom you are all familiar with, Tom Riddle..."
Ignoring the gasps, he continued "Most of you know that Tom Riddle's mother married a muggle who abandoned her after finding out that she was a witch."
He paused again; afraid of enticing Harry's temper by telling him something else that had thus far been withheld from him.
"What VERY few people know is that she had a sister. Since they were children they were best friends, and when they were older they both had the misfortune to fall for unappreciative muggles. They both died within a year of each other, both with a child they had to leave behind. The two children were brought up together in the same orphanage, both went to Hogwarts at the same time, and both carried a vicious hatred for their fathers throughout their entire lives,"
He took a breath "However, as I understand it, while Tom became Voldemort and declared war on muggles and 'mudbloods', the other was satisfied with the death of her father, and refused to go any further with the Voldemort ideology. Feeling betrayed, Voldemort ordered her execution,"
He sighed, "Obviously, The order was never carried out..."
Realising that this was the end of the happy tale, Harry took a minute to absorb the new information. Finally he began to speak "So... What your saying is..."
"Yes Harry..." Dumbledore sighed, "This is Miranda Bianca Larissa Llunos, Voldemort's cousin"
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Sirius was silently willing his friend to wake up with every fibre of his being. If he had to lose another friend to that scum Wormtail...
He didn't even want to think of the consequences.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see his godson, worry etched on his face. Obviously he had just been told about Miranda Llunos. Remus had had the pleasure of meeting the schizophrenic, and being in the same room with her for days.
"How is it?" Asked Harry
"Madame Pomfrey says he doesn't have much time left..." He forced out the terrible statement he had been told earlier "She says he'll never wake up..."
Was he crying? No. He couldn't be. Sirius Black does not cry.
/ "Since when?" / He could imagine Remus saying.
Harry was crying though, the whole ordeal beginning to weigh down on him. Sirius sighed, at least this time the poor kid didn't have to get hurt.
/ "No..."/ Said a different voice, James perhaps? What did he use to sound like anyway? / "This time Remus got hurt"/ Remus got tortured every month anyway, why did the fates have to force this on him? A particularly painful death for Sirius Black's other best friend...
Like the first one wasn't painful enough.
"He has to die you know..." He stated to Harry, hoping he would agree
"Wha-what?!!!" Asked Harry, startled
Oh yeah, thought Sirius, He doesn't know what I'm talking about
"Pettigrew," He explained hastily "This is his doing..."
Harry frowned slightly, considering the idea. "Yeah..." He said softly "I... I wont stop you next time..."
"I was hoping you wouldn't actually be there next time..." Sirius said softly
"I have a nasty feeling I will be," Harry prophesised
Sirius sighed and took Remus' hand, a gesture often used back when they were children and Remus spent a night a month alone in hospital wing.
And together, they waited for the inevitable passing of their friend.
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His world was blue.
Dark blue. Bright blue.
Blue. None of the shadows of the real world
And he was floating...
/In the end, you will be living in shadow no longer/
He wasn't living in shadow.
He wasn't living at all.
The full moon shone serenely through the blue.
...In the end...
But hey, who said that the end had to be today?
"Sirius?" he croaked
"Remus?"
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Eek! Please Review people!
Now, usually I don't like original characters that are a direct relation to the main evil person, but are not evil themselves, and fight against their father/ brother/ uncle/ mother/ sister/ etc.
But please know, Ros/Miranda isn't like most of those guys.
1. She's not a main character, just a little side-story
2. She doesn't fight against Voldemort, she doesn't really care that much
3. She is not going to have a romantic relationship with Remus, no romance in this fic people! Remus always struck me as a no-romance guy, more of a 'let's be friends' I mean, come on! I find SLASH more believable than some of the romances I've seen people subject poor Remy to.
Birdie: *Hopefully* Does that mean there'll slash in this fic?!
Reaper: Ummm... No!
Birdie: *Pouts*
Reaper: Also, there will only be one more chapter of this fic. Woo Hoo! We're nearly there people! And will Remus survive? Well, because I'm feeling nice today I'll give you a clue:
Regarding Harry Potter, I ONLY read and write Remus Lupin.
And there WILL be a semi-sequel (Which I hope you all enjoy)
Now, Reviews!
This Parrot has ceased to be: Hey cool, you reviewed me again! Yay! I suppose having people shooting at Remus is a little... umm... strange, but hey! I'm a VERY strange person! (Ask my... father... he thinks I belong in a mental asylum)/Birdie: She has FATHER issues.../Reaper: Oh shut-up Birdie... Please continue your support and enjoy the next chapter!
JeanieBeanie33: Yay thanx for reviewing, and please continue to do so...I had you confused? Interesting... I had me confused too.../Birdie: She has no idea what she's talking about, probably forgot to take her medicine again...
TokyoTeen13: I KNOW! HOW COULD I! I AM SO ASHAMED OF MYSELF *Runs off and cries in a corner* But hey! What's done is done... Of course your name was at the bottom of my page, I answer all my reviewers! Say, what do you think of my idea of a semi sequel? Would you read it?
blank: Hey, you're new! Cool! A new reviewer! Please review this chapter too! I'm glad you like my other personalities... most people don't understand, but you seem to understand... you'll be my friend wont you? Hee hee hee... Yes you'll be my new friend, it gets so lonely here in the asylum on cold nights.../ Birdie: Don't pay any attention to her, she once again forgot her medicine... the doctors say she'll be normal... someday...
Lonely N Fading: YOUR BACK! Cool! Hey, if you happen to see mbali, The Spatula Chick, Arow, Orion-san or Freakyfairy can you tell them I miss them? Back to you, thanks a lot for reviewing! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Well that's everyone! Please review Blah blah blah... (Actually, you really don't HAVE to review, but it would be nice if you did)
Look out for the twelfth and final chapter coming soon!
Just as I suspected, I've got a load of reviews saying 'NOOOOO! HOW COULD YOU!' Well, shooting Remus was very painful to do. But necessary...
Birdie: Why?
Reaper: BECAUSE! Anyway, here's the next chapter, hope you all like... starts with Harry and Tim in the Head's office along with Umbridge, Fudge, Percy... well you guys know the rest...
Birdie: I don't!
Reaper: Yeah, that's cos you never read OotP; you're an Anime freak!
Birdie: Oh yeah... Hey Reaper, why did we start an account together if I'm an Anime freak and you're a bookworm
Reaper: Because neither of us is mentally stable enough to have our own account, and everyone else we know is either a shazzer or a barry.
Americans: What?
Reaper: Never-mind!
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Chapter 11: The Beginning Of The End
**************************
"Well what are you waiting for? RUN!" He bellowed, taking off as fast as he could.
He saw the others all going off in different directions, He decided that the library was a safe bet, and obviously Tim had the same idea.
Unfortunately, it wasn't.
WHAM!!!
The ground rushed up, knocking the wind out of him, and he felt a cold hand pulling him roughly to his feet.
Draco Malfoy.
Stupid Malfoy, tripping him up like that
"I've got one here professor"
"Oh goodie! Come on lets go up to the headmasters office"
This was not happening, this was not happening, this was not happening...
Oh shit this was happening.
"Harry!" Oh no... "Are you alright Harry?"
"Fine Tim" He groaned,
Suddenly a nasty thought struck him, if Tim had been caught too, what was to stop Umbridge from using his sister against them? Stupid cow, how he hated her. It was bad enough to lock up Lupin, using the whole werewolf thing against him, when he was one of the kindest people Harry had ever met. But to drag the other werewolves into this, especially a six-year-old child, when they weren't even involved with anything (to the extent of his knowledge) was just plain barbaric.
Tim seemed to be thinking along the same lines, judging by the anxious look on his face.
"I had expected better from you, Mr. Goodyer, what with your current... situation, regarding your sister..."
"Leave her out of this!" He cried, horrified at the thought of his little sister being hurt.
"I wish I could Mr. Goodyer, but you were warned..." She tsk tsk'd "Such a pity, you were such a good student" Tim was becoming frantic now "And the brat was quite cute... for a werewolf..."
"NO! Please! I'll do anything!"
"Too late" She said, in a tone that indicated the end of their conversation. But her verbal spar with Harry was just beginning.
"Leave him and his sister out of this, they haven't done anything!"
"So you've been telling secrets too-"
"He hasn't told me anything!" Yelled Harry, becoming angry
"Well how do you... oh, Lupin... I see, well then Mr. Potter, I'd threaten you with the safety of your old professor, but I'm afraid that by now he'll already be dead so I'm not going to-"
Her words faded from his ear
DEAD?
WHAT!? Did he miss something?
He never registered the fact that they had arrived at the Headmaster's office. He just walked through the door.
It was a blur. So fixed was he on the demise of one of his father's old best friends, he couldn't understand the conversation before him. Apparently Fudge was there, and that git Percy, and... Cho's friend Marietta? Oh, that would explain the...oh...
And then the fireplace exploded.
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Sirius was beyond angry. He was beyond stressed, he was beyond upset. He could not think of any word strong enough to express his feelings.
He just sat there, begging Remus to wake up.
But Remus had stopped responding a while ago, and now he needed to destroy Pettigrew.
"He has to die..." he whispered "And painfully too"
"BLACK!!!" The vibrations hit his ear like a bludger
He tore his gaze from his best friend's limp form to look at Tonks, who was crying heavily Moody, who was finishing off the rest of the death eaters, and those other werewolves, who were milling about panicking.
Predictably, Snape was the only one with a clear head.
"Black! Unless you want your dear pet werewolf to bleed to death, I suggest you pick him up and start moving!" He snarled, strutting around like he owned the universe.
Sirius wanted to argue, he wanted to show the slimy git who was in charge, but he also wanted his best friend to live, and the rational part of his mind told him he had to obey Snape's orders.
However much it pained him.
Snape continued issuing commands to the others,
"Tonks! Pull yourself together and start up the fire! Moody! The other death eaters are gone, get that idiotic drunk and get through the fireplace! You lot!" He addressed the werewolves "Stop mucking about and get through the bloody fire!"
There was no attempt at any disagreement; his orders were followed quickly and efficiently (Well, almost)
The group (Who at this point were still highly confused about... everything) proceeded to the fireplace.
"Dumbledore's office, Hogwarts!" Daniel yelled, deciding to be the first to go.
And he vanished in the swirling emerald flames.
Appearing right in front of Dolores Umbridge's pudgy face.
******************************
"DANIEL GOODMAN!" Umbridge shrieked, as a man wearing a lot of dusty black leather stepped through the fireplace.
The man became suddenly distressed as he laid eyes on Umbridge
"Oh shit," He exclaimed.
That was when another man, shorter than the first appeared through the fire.
"Uh-oh" He said, noticing Umbridge.
"TOBY PARSONAGE!"
Then several others started racing through the fire, all consequently becoming shocked at the sight of Umbridge.
The room was slowly becoming crowded.
"D-D- Dumbledore...." Fudge blustered "What is the meaning of this!?"
Dumbledore looked as though the one thing he didn't want to happen, had just occurred without any chance of reversal.
"MARY DRISCOLL! ELISABETH MASKELL! BRITTANY CH- Sh- chem-shem-ch--chew..."
"Chemalewski" Offered one of the women that had just appeared
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING HERE?!!!" Umbridge screeched
"Ummm..." The newcomers seemed lost for words "Escaping?"
Escaping? Harry could not, no matter how hard he tried, figure out who these people were. But they obviously weren't friendly with Umbridge so they were o.k. in Harry's book.
Then another man came through the fire, carrying a small redhead girl.
Wait, he knew that man...
To his left, he heard Tim whisper "Maddy?..."
And then he knew who they were. But where was Professor Lupin?
Then Tonks came through the fireplace, babbling unintelligibly
"So sorry Professor, but you won't believe who we ran in to! I can hardly believe it myself, oh my god..."
Then she noticed Umbridge.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"DUMBLEDORE!" Fudge roared "How did this happen!?"
"I'm afraid I don't quite understand what's going on myself, Cornelius..." Dumbledore said softly.
Then Snape appeared, followed closely by a woman with peroxide blonde hair that was slowly fading, revealing the grey-brown beneath.
Harry noticed with some surprise, that Dumbledore recognised this woman and was trying to disguise his shock.
"You wouldn't believe it Professor but..."
Umbridge looked ready to explode. Harry hoped she didn't make a mess when she did.
"Oh," said Snape nastily, looking at Umbridge like someone looking at a puddle of vomit
"M-m-m minister!" Stuttered Umbridge "I have no idea how this happened, I swear! Other than those monster's families, no one knew about the new werewolf restriction act but me, you, your assistant, Malfoy, and three selected agents, who were most definitely loyal to the ministry!"
His assistant? Harry glanced at Percy, who gave him a barely perceptible wink
Harry grinned inwardly
"Well Dolores!" said Fudge pompously "We can figure that out later, right now these... creatures... are going back where they belong"
The werewolves began to protest, but never got far, as Mad-eye-Moody stormed in to the room yelling his head off.
"MOVE! OUT OF THE WAY LADDIE! CASUALTY COMING THROUGH!"
A split second later, Harry was pleased to see his godfather rush in.
He was not pleased to see him carrying what might once have been Lupin, who looked practically dead.
"Alright people" Exclaimed Sirius "He needs help! We've got to get him to hospital wing now!"
He was alive? He didn't look like it... Harry sincerely hoped that Sirius wasn't just conjuring up the illusion that Lupin was alive to block the pain of losing another best friend.
Sincerely.
"SIRIUS BLACK!" Yelled Fudge
At this, the werewolf Harry 'met' at Christmas, promptly punched Fudge in the face. Knocking him out.*
After similar treatment was dealt to Umbridge and Fudge's unfortunate lackey, the group decided to stop delaying and proceed to hospital wing.
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Four hours later and things were looking grim.
Madame Pomfrey was almost in tears because there was so little she could do against silver poisoning. The Werewolves were sitting in a separate room, eating lunch. Or trying to eat it. Despite their hunger, the group couldn't even pick up the forks. (No, they weren't silver you ninnies...) Only Maddy seemed to have any cheer, having just been reunited with her dear older brother.
Sirius was faithfully standing by his friend, waiting for the unlikely event of awakening.
Harry, Hermione and the Weasley children had been pulled out of lessons to have the situation explained.
Tonks had told the children and Dumbledore everything she knew about the disastrous rescue.
"-but what I don't understand" She was saying confusedly "Is WHO exactly that Miranda Llunos is..."
Dumbledore sighed and Ros, or rather Miranda, gave him a look that said simply 'Tell them'
And so he did.
"Children, this concerns the past of one whom you are all familiar with, Tom Riddle..."
Ignoring the gasps, he continued "Most of you know that Tom Riddle's mother married a muggle who abandoned her after finding out that she was a witch."
He paused again; afraid of enticing Harry's temper by telling him something else that had thus far been withheld from him.
"What VERY few people know is that she had a sister. Since they were children they were best friends, and when they were older they both had the misfortune to fall for unappreciative muggles. They both died within a year of each other, both with a child they had to leave behind. The two children were brought up together in the same orphanage, both went to Hogwarts at the same time, and both carried a vicious hatred for their fathers throughout their entire lives,"
He took a breath "However, as I understand it, while Tom became Voldemort and declared war on muggles and 'mudbloods', the other was satisfied with the death of her father, and refused to go any further with the Voldemort ideology. Feeling betrayed, Voldemort ordered her execution,"
He sighed, "Obviously, The order was never carried out..."
Realising that this was the end of the happy tale, Harry took a minute to absorb the new information. Finally he began to speak "So... What your saying is..."
"Yes Harry..." Dumbledore sighed, "This is Miranda Bianca Larissa Llunos, Voldemort's cousin"
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Sirius was silently willing his friend to wake up with every fibre of his being. If he had to lose another friend to that scum Wormtail...
He didn't even want to think of the consequences.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see his godson, worry etched on his face. Obviously he had just been told about Miranda Llunos. Remus had had the pleasure of meeting the schizophrenic, and being in the same room with her for days.
"How is it?" Asked Harry
"Madame Pomfrey says he doesn't have much time left..." He forced out the terrible statement he had been told earlier "She says he'll never wake up..."
Was he crying? No. He couldn't be. Sirius Black does not cry.
/ "Since when?" / He could imagine Remus saying.
Harry was crying though, the whole ordeal beginning to weigh down on him. Sirius sighed, at least this time the poor kid didn't have to get hurt.
/ "No..."/ Said a different voice, James perhaps? What did he use to sound like anyway? / "This time Remus got hurt"/ Remus got tortured every month anyway, why did the fates have to force this on him? A particularly painful death for Sirius Black's other best friend...
Like the first one wasn't painful enough.
"He has to die you know..." He stated to Harry, hoping he would agree
"Wha-what?!!!" Asked Harry, startled
Oh yeah, thought Sirius, He doesn't know what I'm talking about
"Pettigrew," He explained hastily "This is his doing..."
Harry frowned slightly, considering the idea. "Yeah..." He said softly "I... I wont stop you next time..."
"I was hoping you wouldn't actually be there next time..." Sirius said softly
"I have a nasty feeling I will be," Harry prophesised
Sirius sighed and took Remus' hand, a gesture often used back when they were children and Remus spent a night a month alone in hospital wing.
And together, they waited for the inevitable passing of their friend.
******************************
His world was blue.
Dark blue. Bright blue.
Blue. None of the shadows of the real world
And he was floating...
/In the end, you will be living in shadow no longer/
He wasn't living in shadow.
He wasn't living at all.
The full moon shone serenely through the blue.
...In the end...
But hey, who said that the end had to be today?
"Sirius?" he croaked
"Remus?"
*****************************
Eek! Please Review people!
Now, usually I don't like original characters that are a direct relation to the main evil person, but are not evil themselves, and fight against their father/ brother/ uncle/ mother/ sister/ etc.
But please know, Ros/Miranda isn't like most of those guys.
1. She's not a main character, just a little side-story
2. She doesn't fight against Voldemort, she doesn't really care that much
3. She is not going to have a romantic relationship with Remus, no romance in this fic people! Remus always struck me as a no-romance guy, more of a 'let's be friends' I mean, come on! I find SLASH more believable than some of the romances I've seen people subject poor Remy to.
Birdie: *Hopefully* Does that mean there'll slash in this fic?!
Reaper: Ummm... No!
Birdie: *Pouts*
Reaper: Also, there will only be one more chapter of this fic. Woo Hoo! We're nearly there people! And will Remus survive? Well, because I'm feeling nice today I'll give you a clue:
Regarding Harry Potter, I ONLY read and write Remus Lupin.
And there WILL be a semi-sequel (Which I hope you all enjoy)
Now, Reviews!
This Parrot has ceased to be: Hey cool, you reviewed me again! Yay! I suppose having people shooting at Remus is a little... umm... strange, but hey! I'm a VERY strange person! (Ask my... father... he thinks I belong in a mental asylum)/Birdie: She has FATHER issues.../Reaper: Oh shut-up Birdie... Please continue your support and enjoy the next chapter!
JeanieBeanie33: Yay thanx for reviewing, and please continue to do so...I had you confused? Interesting... I had me confused too.../Birdie: She has no idea what she's talking about, probably forgot to take her medicine again...
TokyoTeen13: I KNOW! HOW COULD I! I AM SO ASHAMED OF MYSELF *Runs off and cries in a corner* But hey! What's done is done... Of course your name was at the bottom of my page, I answer all my reviewers! Say, what do you think of my idea of a semi sequel? Would you read it?
blank: Hey, you're new! Cool! A new reviewer! Please review this chapter too! I'm glad you like my other personalities... most people don't understand, but you seem to understand... you'll be my friend wont you? Hee hee hee... Yes you'll be my new friend, it gets so lonely here in the asylum on cold nights.../ Birdie: Don't pay any attention to her, she once again forgot her medicine... the doctors say she'll be normal... someday...
Lonely N Fading: YOUR BACK! Cool! Hey, if you happen to see mbali, The Spatula Chick, Arow, Orion-san or Freakyfairy can you tell them I miss them? Back to you, thanks a lot for reviewing! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Well that's everyone! Please review Blah blah blah... (Actually, you really don't HAVE to review, but it would be nice if you did)
Look out for the twelfth and final chapter coming soon!