As they entered the Shrieking Shack, Emily shivered.
"Is this where we're going to transform?" she whispered, looking terrified. Lupin put a hand on her shoulder and smiled at her reassuringly. Remus smiled at her encouragingly.
"It's okay. Your mother and I used to come here to transform when we were in school"
"It's scary" she whispered again, looking on the verge of tears. She looked over to one wall to see deep claw marks and blood stained on the wall. She screamed and stepped backwards into her father, then she burst into tears.
"I don't want to be here!" she sobbed "I'm scared. I don't wanna transform!"
"Ssh, come on now, you'll be fine. You've taken the Potion, so you'll keep your mind" Logan told her soothingly. Lupin and Logan looked to each other and nodded, then they both knelt down to Emily and hugged her. Sally smiled.
"Hey, can't I join in? I kinda feel left out. You guys should pity me! I'm the one that hasn't taken the Potion" Sally said, looking upset. A flicker of a smile passed across Lupin's face as he stood up and hugged her. When he pulled away, he grinned.
"Feel any better?" Remus sniggered, but then shut up on seeing Sally's eyes narrowed at him. She nodded and kissed Lupin on the cheek.
"Thanks. I needed that" The moon was starting to show behind the clouds, but not fully, so they were still safe.
"Hey guys!" It was James', Sirius', Rose, Jay and Cherry. Logan smiled weakly when he saw Cherry.
"Hey babe"
"I came here for Ems, not for you. You still need to write me a poem Mister" Cherry said sternly. Logan looked hurt.
"Can't it be a poem in a song?" Cherry nodded.
"Yeah, alright"
"Thanks"
Suddenly, the moon appeared from behind the clouds, bathing the five werewolves in moonlight. The others quickly transformed into their Animagus forms. Emily gasped, then her limbs started shaking. The other four were reacting the same, hair sprouting out all over their bodies, snouts appearing, their bodies turning into the forms of wolves. Emily's screaming turned into howls.
"AAAARRROOOOOOO!" She howled, then sat still for a few moments, before realizing that she was still her, except she was in wolf form. She trotted over to her brother and snuggled against him. Jay, who was a panther, bounded over to Emily and tried to nuzzle against her, but she smacked him with the back of her paw. Logan let out a snort.
Sally, who was the only werewolf, unable to control herself, started growling. Lupin quickly looked over to her to find that she was glaring daggers at Prongs. He recognized that look; it was the look that said "Fresh meat". Without warning, Sally lunged at Prongs. Prongs stood frozen with horror as the werewolf came closer. Lupin quickly tackled Sally and they both ended up flying into a different room.
Lupin pinned Sally to the floor. Sally let out a long howl and tried biting at Lupin. He growled at her and she shut up, then he nuzzled against her, which caused her to lick his snout. If Lupin could've smiled, he would have done.
A bark got their attentions as Padfoot was barking madly, trying to tell them that they wanted to go and explore. Lupin nodded to show that he knew what he meant. James pranced around excitedly; Cherry, who was a fox and Rose, who was a lioness were play-fighting with Sirius and Jay. Logan and Emily were watching with what could only be described as amusement. Everyone started to make their way out of the Shrieking Shack and onto Hogwarts' grounds. If anyone looked outside their window, they would've seen five werewolves, two dogs, two stags, a lioness, a panther and a fox.
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Harry flopped down into the seat, feeling bored. Everyone that he wanted to hang out with was down in the Shrieking Shack. Ron and Hermione had a Prefect meeting about last minute arrangements for the Valentines' Ball, so he was left alone. Shutting his eyes, he found himself in silence, then the sound of the portrait opening made him look up. It was Lily. Harry smiled.
"Hey Mum" Lily smiled sympathetically at her son.
"Everyone's busy, huh?"
"Yep. I'm okay though"
"Wanna talk? We haven't really had a mother to son talk yet and I was hoping that maybe we could have one sometime"
"Yeah, we can have one now if you want. I'm not doing anything" Lily beamed at him.
"Okay, sure. But before we start, you do know that you can ask me *anything*" Harry nodded, then felt a searing pain. He clapped his hand to his forehead.
"What is it?" Lily questioned, looking worried.
"It's nothing" Harry muttered "Just my scar"
"Your scar? What's wrong with your scar?" Lily asked, looking confused.
"It's a link to Voldemort" Harry replied simply "Whenever he shows any powerful emotion or if he tortures someone, it activates my scar. Kinda like an alarm system. If Voldemort's laughs I laugh too, if he's angry, then I am, until Hermione or Ron slap me. If Voldemort 's up to something, I fall into a dream and I watch it happen and also, when Voldemort tortures the Death Eaters, I get hit with the pain also" Lily gasped.
"Does anyone else know about this other than Ron and Hermione?"
"Yeah, Sirius and Professor Lupin knows. Dumbledore knows and I think Professor McGonagall knows. Snape knows" Harry added bitterly. "But if it ever happened in yours or dad's presence, you mustn't panic or be too alarmed, it happens quite often now, seeing as he's back"
Lily nodded in understanding.
"Where's your younger self?" Harry questioned suddenly.
"Upstairs asleep and Peter's wandering around the school"
"Oh"
"So, seeing as I wasn't alive for the last fifteen years, why don't you tell me what's happened ever since you arrived at Hogwarts?" Lily suggested. Harry brightened up considerably.
"It's been great! Well . . . apart from last year" Harry added sadly, looking down at the ground. Lily looked worried.
"Well, what happened in your first year? Anything interesting?" Harry nodded and grinned.
"Well, I met Ron and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express. Ron and I just sort of clicked as soon as we met and Hermione came quite a while afterwards. When Ron and I first met her, we just thought she was a Know-It-All, but when we got to know her, we realized that was a good friend too" Lily smiled.
"We met Draco Malfoy, you know, Lucius Malfoy's son?" Lily nodded "He told me not to get involved with the Weasley's because they're the *wrong sort*, but I just ignored him, then when we got to Hogwarts, we were sorted" Lily smiled broadly at this.
"It was scary though. The Sorting Hat wanted to place me in Slytherin. It said I would do well in that house, but I practically begged it not to put me in that house and asked for Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat agreed and, well, here I am" Lily shook her head slightly, while looking amused. Harry grinned as he carried on.
"My first flying lesson was amazing!" Lily giggled.
"Oh god, please don't tell me you acted big-headed when you did really well on a broom" Lily pleaded. Harry shook his head.
"Nope. Malfoy had taken Neville's Remembrall, Frank Longbottom's son" he added on seeing his mother's confused look "and I told Malfoy to give it back, but he flew up into the air. I got on my broom and went after him and it was only when I was actually flying that I realized that it was my talent. It was so cool! Especially when Malfoy threw the Remembrall and I caught it by doing a back-flip and almost crashing into McGonagall's office at the same time" Lily gasped "Oh god, did she punish you?"
Harry shook his head and laughed.
"You'll never believe this, but McGonagall was impressed. She said that I flew just like dad and that he would've been proud. I made the Gryffindor Quidditch team in my first year. I'm a Seeker, as you know from watching our last game against Ravenclaw" Lily laughed.
"Well, that's just typical"
"Dumbledore sent me dad's invisibility cloak at Christmas!" Lily's eyes widened.
"And at the end of the first year, we found out about a something called the Philosopher's stone and I fought against a guy called Quirrell. He almost killed me, but I survived. Voldemort didn't come back to power that time!" Lily sighed, but looked at her son worriedly.
"You shouldn't take such risks"
"Hey, I'm Voldemort's number one target; I have to take risks sometimes" Lily smiled weakly.
"In second year, I found out something completely shocking and unexpected"
"What?"
"I'm a Parcelmouth" Lily gasped.
"My word, how . . .?"
"Voldemort" Harry replied simply.
"Oh"
"You know Ginny? Well, Lucius Malfoy slipped one of Voldemort's diaries into her school books when we met him at Flourish and Blott's and she found it and started using it. She was sort of in a trance and doing terrible stuff without realizing it"
Lily's jaw dropped.
"How awful for her!"
"Yeah, but, have you ever heard about the Chamber of Secrets?"
"Yes, I think I have"
"Well, Ron and I found out where it was. It was in the girls' bathroom on the second floor. I went down there and it turned out that the monster inside the Chamber was a Basilisk. I fought it, thanks to my loyalty to Dumbledore and I managed to pull out a sword from the Sorting Hat belonging to Godric Gryffindor. I killed the Basilisk and stopped Voldemort from coming back *again*, by grabbing hold of one of the Basilisks teeth that had gotten stuck in my arm and plunging it into the diary. I foiled another one of his plans" Harry said with a grin. Lily laughed and hugged him.
"I never knew I'd have such a brave and courageous son!" she said, wiping tears from her eyes.
"That's not all! In third year, Sirius escaped from Azkaban and we had to have Dementors nearby guarding the school. It was horrible" Harry said with a dark look in his eyes "But, Professor Lupin came that year and it was the best year ever. We had a really good Defense against the Dark Arts teacher!" he exclaimed "I also found the Marauders' map that year" Lily rolled her eyes.
"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs" she muttered, shaking her head.
"I also *supposedly* found out that Sirius betrayed you and dad. I was really angry and went after him. I found out all in one night that Professor Lupin was a werewolf. Sirius was an Animagus. Dad was one too, a stag. Wormtail betrayed you guys and he was posing as Ron's rat! And we saw him that night! Unfortunately, Professor Lupin forgot to take his potion and he transformed. Sirius had to tackle him out of harms' way and Peter escaped"
Lily bit her lip, looking worried.
"Hermione and I ended up using a time-turner to go back in time, so we could save Sirius. We also saved a Hippogriff that same night. Sirius flew away to freedom on Buckbeak" Lily beamed at him.
"That's wonderful!"
"Well, yeah, then we move on to last year" Harry replied sadly "I was chosen to take part in the Tri-Wizard Tournament. I didn't apply though, which made things even more frustrating. Ron thought I'd cheated and he didn't speak to me for months. Hermione helped me out, then after the first task, Ron spoke to me again"
"Well, that's good, isn't it?" Lily questioned. Harry nodded, still looking sad.
"But, have you ever heard of Cedric Diggory?" Harry asked. Lily looked thoughtful.
"Is he related to Amos Diggory?"
"Yeah, Cedric was his son"
Lily blinked a few times.
"Oh" She'd noticed that Harry had said *was*, but didn't say anything.
"Well, we ended up getting right to the end of the Tri-Wizard. Cedric and I. We both took the cup together; it was all my idea . . . all my fault" Harry noticed that his voice was cracking up and that tears were threatening to spill. Lily looked on, half worried, half terrified on what she was about to hear and at the look on Harry's face.
"I-he-we were sent to Tom Riddle's old house. W-Wormtail was there and Voldemort told him to kill the spare, meaning Cedric and he-he-" Harry trailed off, not wanting to say it, but Lily understood completely, she gasped and hugged her son tightly.
"It's alright" she whispered "My poor baby" Harry couldn't take it anymore and let the tears fall. He didn't care if he looked weak in front of his mother, he needed this.
"Is that was going on with Cho? She's still devastated over Cedric's death?" Lily asked. Harry nodded, but Lily didn't mind. She carried on hugging him.
"Harry, you don't have to lock up your emotions. You need to let them out. Promise me that you'll do that for me" Harry nodded, wiping the tears away.
"I promise, mum" Lily smiled weakly and hugged her son, they stayed like that until the next morning when everyone arrived back into the common room.
"Is this where we're going to transform?" she whispered, looking terrified. Lupin put a hand on her shoulder and smiled at her reassuringly. Remus smiled at her encouragingly.
"It's okay. Your mother and I used to come here to transform when we were in school"
"It's scary" she whispered again, looking on the verge of tears. She looked over to one wall to see deep claw marks and blood stained on the wall. She screamed and stepped backwards into her father, then she burst into tears.
"I don't want to be here!" she sobbed "I'm scared. I don't wanna transform!"
"Ssh, come on now, you'll be fine. You've taken the Potion, so you'll keep your mind" Logan told her soothingly. Lupin and Logan looked to each other and nodded, then they both knelt down to Emily and hugged her. Sally smiled.
"Hey, can't I join in? I kinda feel left out. You guys should pity me! I'm the one that hasn't taken the Potion" Sally said, looking upset. A flicker of a smile passed across Lupin's face as he stood up and hugged her. When he pulled away, he grinned.
"Feel any better?" Remus sniggered, but then shut up on seeing Sally's eyes narrowed at him. She nodded and kissed Lupin on the cheek.
"Thanks. I needed that" The moon was starting to show behind the clouds, but not fully, so they were still safe.
"Hey guys!" It was James', Sirius', Rose, Jay and Cherry. Logan smiled weakly when he saw Cherry.
"Hey babe"
"I came here for Ems, not for you. You still need to write me a poem Mister" Cherry said sternly. Logan looked hurt.
"Can't it be a poem in a song?" Cherry nodded.
"Yeah, alright"
"Thanks"
Suddenly, the moon appeared from behind the clouds, bathing the five werewolves in moonlight. The others quickly transformed into their Animagus forms. Emily gasped, then her limbs started shaking. The other four were reacting the same, hair sprouting out all over their bodies, snouts appearing, their bodies turning into the forms of wolves. Emily's screaming turned into howls.
"AAAARRROOOOOOO!" She howled, then sat still for a few moments, before realizing that she was still her, except she was in wolf form. She trotted over to her brother and snuggled against him. Jay, who was a panther, bounded over to Emily and tried to nuzzle against her, but she smacked him with the back of her paw. Logan let out a snort.
Sally, who was the only werewolf, unable to control herself, started growling. Lupin quickly looked over to her to find that she was glaring daggers at Prongs. He recognized that look; it was the look that said "Fresh meat". Without warning, Sally lunged at Prongs. Prongs stood frozen with horror as the werewolf came closer. Lupin quickly tackled Sally and they both ended up flying into a different room.
Lupin pinned Sally to the floor. Sally let out a long howl and tried biting at Lupin. He growled at her and she shut up, then he nuzzled against her, which caused her to lick his snout. If Lupin could've smiled, he would have done.
A bark got their attentions as Padfoot was barking madly, trying to tell them that they wanted to go and explore. Lupin nodded to show that he knew what he meant. James pranced around excitedly; Cherry, who was a fox and Rose, who was a lioness were play-fighting with Sirius and Jay. Logan and Emily were watching with what could only be described as amusement. Everyone started to make their way out of the Shrieking Shack and onto Hogwarts' grounds. If anyone looked outside their window, they would've seen five werewolves, two dogs, two stags, a lioness, a panther and a fox.
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Harry flopped down into the seat, feeling bored. Everyone that he wanted to hang out with was down in the Shrieking Shack. Ron and Hermione had a Prefect meeting about last minute arrangements for the Valentines' Ball, so he was left alone. Shutting his eyes, he found himself in silence, then the sound of the portrait opening made him look up. It was Lily. Harry smiled.
"Hey Mum" Lily smiled sympathetically at her son.
"Everyone's busy, huh?"
"Yep. I'm okay though"
"Wanna talk? We haven't really had a mother to son talk yet and I was hoping that maybe we could have one sometime"
"Yeah, we can have one now if you want. I'm not doing anything" Lily beamed at him.
"Okay, sure. But before we start, you do know that you can ask me *anything*" Harry nodded, then felt a searing pain. He clapped his hand to his forehead.
"What is it?" Lily questioned, looking worried.
"It's nothing" Harry muttered "Just my scar"
"Your scar? What's wrong with your scar?" Lily asked, looking confused.
"It's a link to Voldemort" Harry replied simply "Whenever he shows any powerful emotion or if he tortures someone, it activates my scar. Kinda like an alarm system. If Voldemort's laughs I laugh too, if he's angry, then I am, until Hermione or Ron slap me. If Voldemort 's up to something, I fall into a dream and I watch it happen and also, when Voldemort tortures the Death Eaters, I get hit with the pain also" Lily gasped.
"Does anyone else know about this other than Ron and Hermione?"
"Yeah, Sirius and Professor Lupin knows. Dumbledore knows and I think Professor McGonagall knows. Snape knows" Harry added bitterly. "But if it ever happened in yours or dad's presence, you mustn't panic or be too alarmed, it happens quite often now, seeing as he's back"
Lily nodded in understanding.
"Where's your younger self?" Harry questioned suddenly.
"Upstairs asleep and Peter's wandering around the school"
"Oh"
"So, seeing as I wasn't alive for the last fifteen years, why don't you tell me what's happened ever since you arrived at Hogwarts?" Lily suggested. Harry brightened up considerably.
"It's been great! Well . . . apart from last year" Harry added sadly, looking down at the ground. Lily looked worried.
"Well, what happened in your first year? Anything interesting?" Harry nodded and grinned.
"Well, I met Ron and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express. Ron and I just sort of clicked as soon as we met and Hermione came quite a while afterwards. When Ron and I first met her, we just thought she was a Know-It-All, but when we got to know her, we realized that was a good friend too" Lily smiled.
"We met Draco Malfoy, you know, Lucius Malfoy's son?" Lily nodded "He told me not to get involved with the Weasley's because they're the *wrong sort*, but I just ignored him, then when we got to Hogwarts, we were sorted" Lily smiled broadly at this.
"It was scary though. The Sorting Hat wanted to place me in Slytherin. It said I would do well in that house, but I practically begged it not to put me in that house and asked for Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat agreed and, well, here I am" Lily shook her head slightly, while looking amused. Harry grinned as he carried on.
"My first flying lesson was amazing!" Lily giggled.
"Oh god, please don't tell me you acted big-headed when you did really well on a broom" Lily pleaded. Harry shook his head.
"Nope. Malfoy had taken Neville's Remembrall, Frank Longbottom's son" he added on seeing his mother's confused look "and I told Malfoy to give it back, but he flew up into the air. I got on my broom and went after him and it was only when I was actually flying that I realized that it was my talent. It was so cool! Especially when Malfoy threw the Remembrall and I caught it by doing a back-flip and almost crashing into McGonagall's office at the same time" Lily gasped "Oh god, did she punish you?"
Harry shook his head and laughed.
"You'll never believe this, but McGonagall was impressed. She said that I flew just like dad and that he would've been proud. I made the Gryffindor Quidditch team in my first year. I'm a Seeker, as you know from watching our last game against Ravenclaw" Lily laughed.
"Well, that's just typical"
"Dumbledore sent me dad's invisibility cloak at Christmas!" Lily's eyes widened.
"And at the end of the first year, we found out about a something called the Philosopher's stone and I fought against a guy called Quirrell. He almost killed me, but I survived. Voldemort didn't come back to power that time!" Lily sighed, but looked at her son worriedly.
"You shouldn't take such risks"
"Hey, I'm Voldemort's number one target; I have to take risks sometimes" Lily smiled weakly.
"In second year, I found out something completely shocking and unexpected"
"What?"
"I'm a Parcelmouth" Lily gasped.
"My word, how . . .?"
"Voldemort" Harry replied simply.
"Oh"
"You know Ginny? Well, Lucius Malfoy slipped one of Voldemort's diaries into her school books when we met him at Flourish and Blott's and she found it and started using it. She was sort of in a trance and doing terrible stuff without realizing it"
Lily's jaw dropped.
"How awful for her!"
"Yeah, but, have you ever heard about the Chamber of Secrets?"
"Yes, I think I have"
"Well, Ron and I found out where it was. It was in the girls' bathroom on the second floor. I went down there and it turned out that the monster inside the Chamber was a Basilisk. I fought it, thanks to my loyalty to Dumbledore and I managed to pull out a sword from the Sorting Hat belonging to Godric Gryffindor. I killed the Basilisk and stopped Voldemort from coming back *again*, by grabbing hold of one of the Basilisks teeth that had gotten stuck in my arm and plunging it into the diary. I foiled another one of his plans" Harry said with a grin. Lily laughed and hugged him.
"I never knew I'd have such a brave and courageous son!" she said, wiping tears from her eyes.
"That's not all! In third year, Sirius escaped from Azkaban and we had to have Dementors nearby guarding the school. It was horrible" Harry said with a dark look in his eyes "But, Professor Lupin came that year and it was the best year ever. We had a really good Defense against the Dark Arts teacher!" he exclaimed "I also found the Marauders' map that year" Lily rolled her eyes.
"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs" she muttered, shaking her head.
"I also *supposedly* found out that Sirius betrayed you and dad. I was really angry and went after him. I found out all in one night that Professor Lupin was a werewolf. Sirius was an Animagus. Dad was one too, a stag. Wormtail betrayed you guys and he was posing as Ron's rat! And we saw him that night! Unfortunately, Professor Lupin forgot to take his potion and he transformed. Sirius had to tackle him out of harms' way and Peter escaped"
Lily bit her lip, looking worried.
"Hermione and I ended up using a time-turner to go back in time, so we could save Sirius. We also saved a Hippogriff that same night. Sirius flew away to freedom on Buckbeak" Lily beamed at him.
"That's wonderful!"
"Well, yeah, then we move on to last year" Harry replied sadly "I was chosen to take part in the Tri-Wizard Tournament. I didn't apply though, which made things even more frustrating. Ron thought I'd cheated and he didn't speak to me for months. Hermione helped me out, then after the first task, Ron spoke to me again"
"Well, that's good, isn't it?" Lily questioned. Harry nodded, still looking sad.
"But, have you ever heard of Cedric Diggory?" Harry asked. Lily looked thoughtful.
"Is he related to Amos Diggory?"
"Yeah, Cedric was his son"
Lily blinked a few times.
"Oh" She'd noticed that Harry had said *was*, but didn't say anything.
"Well, we ended up getting right to the end of the Tri-Wizard. Cedric and I. We both took the cup together; it was all my idea . . . all my fault" Harry noticed that his voice was cracking up and that tears were threatening to spill. Lily looked on, half worried, half terrified on what she was about to hear and at the look on Harry's face.
"I-he-we were sent to Tom Riddle's old house. W-Wormtail was there and Voldemort told him to kill the spare, meaning Cedric and he-he-" Harry trailed off, not wanting to say it, but Lily understood completely, she gasped and hugged her son tightly.
"It's alright" she whispered "My poor baby" Harry couldn't take it anymore and let the tears fall. He didn't care if he looked weak in front of his mother, he needed this.
"Is that was going on with Cho? She's still devastated over Cedric's death?" Lily asked. Harry nodded, but Lily didn't mind. She carried on hugging him.
"Harry, you don't have to lock up your emotions. You need to let them out. Promise me that you'll do that for me" Harry nodded, wiping the tears away.
"I promise, mum" Lily smiled weakly and hugged her son, they stayed like that until the next morning when everyone arrived back into the common room.
