Harry Potter and the Forgotten Friends
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE MEETING
In a castle far away…
The door to an office opened up, and the elderly woman in the black robe re-appeared, through the door. The elderly man looked up at her in wonder.
"Well… did you send the letters out to Black and Lupin?" He asked, putting his feather pen down on his desk.
The woman nodded, and sat down in the chair on the other side of the desk facing the man. Soon enough, she got up, and pulled the drapes back from the window.
"Looks like they've arrived." She muttered to herself, she turned and left the office.
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One man was walking across the misty grounds, leading up to an old castle. He had on muggle clothes, with a black cloak draped over top of his clothes like he was ashamed off what he was wearing. But, it was far from that. He liked the clothes that he had on. This was a different situation though, and black cloaks were very in.
"You're here too? I thought that I'd never see you again, after these long nine years." A voice said from somewhere in the mist.
Sirius stopped and looked around. No one was there. He looked around in confusion and shook his head, thinking he was imagining something.
The voice sounded again, and Sirius looked around in confusion. The figure then stepped out of the mist, and looked at Sirius. The person was also dressed in muggle clothing, with a black cloak over his clothes as well.
"Remus? Is that you? What are you doing here?" Sirius asked, looking at his old friend.
"Yes, it's me. I got an owl from McGonagall saying she needed to talk to me, and some other pers—Let me guess, you're the other person?" Remus said. Sirius nodded.
"I wonder what we've done this time. We've been out of Hogwarts for at least ten years! Even though we've been gone for so long, the Marauders are still getting in trouble. What do you bet we've done? And, here comes McGonagall." Remus said, looking ahead seeing the old strict professor walking across the ground to them.
They both sighed, as the professor walked up to them with 'the look' and her hands on her hips. She looked at them, as if they had just been caught red-handed in torturing the Slytherins.
"Oh, hi Minerva." Sirius said, looking at the professor, like he hadn't seen her standing there before.
McGonagall turned her look into a glare at Sirius. "What did you call me?" She said, shooting daggers with her eyes at him.
"I called you Minerva," Sirius said, staring at the ground kicking rocks out of reach. "I mean, we're not in Hogwarts anymore, and we're adults like you now, so I just thought…" He trailed off.
"Well, you thought wrong, Mr. Black," She said. "I'll die laughing the day the remaining Marauders' act like me." Minerva said.
The second she said 'the remaining Marauders' she regretted it. A silence came over the three of them, as Sirius and Remus looked down at the ground, as if something was there.
"Right… but anyways. Professor Dumbledore wants to speak to you both." McGonagall said, breaking the silence and starting walking off to the doors of the castle, with Sirius and Remus following behind her.
The three entered the castle, walking swiftly down the hall, trying to catch up to McGonagall. They walked past Peeves, who was going down the hallway, where the portrait to the kitchen's lay. Soon enough they were at the griffin, leading to Dumbledore's office. McGonagall muttered the password and the griffin door opened. McGonagall continued her swift pace up the stairs. Sirius and Remus lagged behind her, until they reached the door to the office.
They opened the door to the tiny office, after McGonagall gave them 'a glare' and pointed to the door. They poked their heads inside the door to see what was on the other side of the door. All they met was Dumbledore, sitting behind his desk, smiling and waving at them. The two then walked into the room, and Sirius closed the door behind him.
"Don't worry, boys. You're not in trouble… we just need to talk. Please, sit down." He said, waving vaguely to the chairs on the other side of the desk while looking at the two men. The two nodded and sat down in the chairs, and looked at the old professor.
"We need to talk about Harry Potter, and what we are going to do with a little problem that has arisen," Dumbledore said, looking at Sirius and Remus. He then continued on, knowing he had their attention. "I know that you both want to be close to Harry, but what you're both doing… something's going to happen. When it does happen, it's not going to be great. As I know, Riley has no knowledge of what you and Arabella really are," Dumbledore said looking over at Sirius, who looked down at the ground. "Anyways… the thing is Alexis does have the knowledge of what she is and what's going on," Remus nodded. "That's the thing. From what I can tell, Riley is catching on, and Alexis already knows. Harry's still out in the dark, but they could accidentally spill something out to Harry. We need to do something with this." Dumbledore finished off.
Silence took over the little office. Sirius and Remus exchanged glances and looked down at the ground. Dumbledore looked over at Fawkes, who was perched on a chairs' armrest, looking at the two strange men in the room.
"I can't really take the knowledge of what Alexis really is, unless I wipe her memory out. But, we don't know what could happen to her at the age of nine." Remus said, looking up. Dumbledore nodded, and the room went back into silence.
"Well… if you ask me, Riley's still in the dark as well. All she did was find Arabellas' trunk in the basement. It only had a few robes in it, which she thought were bathrobes, and the photo book. All the photo book had was pictures of James, Lily, Arabella, you, me, and the murderous little traitor, though out the years." Sirius said, his voice slowly going into a growl.
Dumbledore sighed, and looked at the two. "Just make sure Harry doesn't find out about this magic business. If he finds out, he might get scared and run away from the Dursley's. We can't have this, he's the boy-who-lived and Voldemort is probably still out there as we speak, too weak to carry on. Remus, remember to tell Alexis not to spill anything to Harry, same with Riley, Sirius." Dumbledore said.
The two nodded, and got out of their chairs. They sensed that the conversation was closed, as they stood up. "We'll be going home, now Dumbledore. Owl us if you need anything." Remus said, as Sirius opened the door. Dumbledore nodded to the two, as they left the office.
"What are we going to do now? If our kids are just like us, there going to tell Harry something, and it might just destroy our world." Sirius muttered.
Remus looked over at Sirius and nodded. "I know what you mean. If I don't tell Alexis she might spill, but it I do tell her she might tell anyways." Remus muttered, looking up.
The stone gargoyle had just moved aside and someone was coming in. When the person came into the view of them, the three of them stopped. It was Snape. The three of them looked at each other, and it looked like Snape and Sirius were going to kill each other right on the spot; both holding their wands tightly.
Remus sighed, and looked at the two. It looked like they were shooting daggers at each other with a look of hatred. In a flash he was between the two. He looked over at Sirius, then at Snape.
"Well, Well, Well, if it isn't you two. What are you doing here, trying to get that Potter kid back, Black?" He sneered, looking over at Sirius.
"I already have a watch over him, Snapey-boy," Sirius replied, lowering his wand and looking from Snape to Remus, "Come on lets go." He said, and exited through the stone gargoyle with Remus behind him.
The gargoyle closed up behind them. The two walked down the hall and out the stone doors. They walked across the lawns that would eventually take them down to the Muggle world, eventually.
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Riley walked into the house, wondering where her dad had gone this time. She sighed, knowing he was always doing something, and would never tell her where he was going. She sat down in one of the big chairs in their living room and looked out the window. What she saw shocked her. There was a white owl that was flying outside between her house and her next-door neighbours house.
"What? An owl? Don't owls come out at night?" Riley said to herself, and got out of her chair.
Riley got out of her chair and walked over to the kitchen door. She slowly opened the door, and saw that her mothers' back was to her, and it looked as if she was reading something, but Riley didn't know for sure/. She slowly walked over to where her mother was standing.
"Hi Mom!" Riley said, when she was right behind her mother. Her mother jumped, and quickly put something in her apron pocket and turned around to face Riley, who was now laughing fairy hard.
"Riley! What did you see?" Her mother asked, holding a spatula at Riley.
Riley stopped laughing and looked up at her mother. Soon enough, when Riley saw that her mother was shaking a spatula at her, she went into another fit of laughter. Arabella sighed, and put the spatula down. Riley looked up at her mother, and stopped laughing.
"Mom, I didn't see anything. Except, an owl flying outside." Riley said.
"An owl? In this weather?" Arabella said, trying to act surprised, but faired miserably. Riley looked at her, with an eyebrow raised.
"Well, I'm tired all of the sudden. I'm going to bed, goodnight mom." Riley said, jumping off the chair, and started running for the staircase.
"Wait! Riley, it's only eight pm." Her mother said, looking over at Riley.
Riley looked over to her mother and rubbed her eyes; "Sorry mom, very tired, got to get some sleep." Riley said, and disappeared up the stairs.
"She is too weird, just like us at school…" Arabella muttered and walked back into the kitchen.
To Be Continued…
R&R!!
~ Fire Spirit