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Chapter 36
Shopping Spree
Harry didn't like Malfoy any more than Ron did but after some of the things that he had just heard, there couldn't be much doubt that there was much more to Malfoy than anyone knew. Harry was still mad about what Malfoy had said about Cedric on the train last year, but who knows how he, Ron, or Hermione would have turned out if they had been raised by Lucius Malfoy? Apparently his father, you couldn't really call Lucius a dad, had finally driven Draco to action when he tried to force his son to kill.
"He goes." Harry said definitively.
"But Harry, it's Malfoy!" Ron was still pleading his case.
"He goes." Ron's shoulders sagged but he didn't say anything else. Ron and Hermione followed behind Harry while he approached Malfoy as he was leaning against one of the walls.
"Potty and his sidekicks come to say they feel bad for little old me?" Malfoy was wearing his usual sneer.
"Draco, please --- " Hermione was cut off.
"Don't talk to me mudblood!"
Hermione had to grab Ron so that he wouldn't punch Malfoy. Hermione hissed, "Stop it, he's just being defensive because of everything he told us today."
"What do you all want anyway?"
Harry answered, "We're going to Diagon Alley with Lupin and Sirius. We'd like you to come with us."
"And just why would I want to go anywhere with three Gryffindors, a Krum, a fugitive and a werewolf?"
Harry didn't even flinch. "We've all had a rough winter vacation. It'll do you good to go someplace different." Malfoy didn't answer. He just stood there, leaning against the wall, staring at Harry.
"Come or don't come - it's up to you."
"I'll come, but not because I enjoy your company. There are some things I need to buy." No one noticed Ron rolling his eyes at Malfoy's less than gracious acceptance.
Before long, the group was walking to Hogsmeade so they could apparate to Diagon Alley. By mutual consent the first stop was Gringotts. Christmas had all but tapped Harry out so he needed to make a withdrawal, as apparently did Malfoy. Sirius was the only one making a deposit. After a few minutes the group left the bank and headed down the main street.
"Potter, look at that." Before Harry could see what Malfoy was pointing at, Hermione interrupted.
"Look, we may never become best friends but can't we at least use first names?"
"I've never used first names. That's not how I was raised."
"Well perhaps it's time for something different. Try it."
"Oh very well, Harry, look at that." Draco said pointing at a nearby window.
Harry turned to see what he was pointing at. "Oh yeah, Sirius got me that for Christmas."
"What? You have the new Nimbus 2003?" What little color there was in Draco's face drained almost instantly.
"Yep." Harry said smiling up at his godfather. That made Draco lose his desire to go into Quality Quidditch Supplies.
Sirius offered to treat everyone to ice cream while they decided where all they were going to visit. There were a few places that everyone wanted to go but there were more places that only one or two people wanted to go. It was decided that they would first go to the places everyone wanted to visit and then they would break up into groups of two or three to visit the rest of the shoppes. Everyone wanted to go to Ye Olde Candy Shoppe so that was going to be the first stop. On the way though they passed right by Ollivander's and Harry wanted to duck in.
"I'll only be a second. I want to buy a kit to polish my wand."
Draco was the only one who minded. "I though it was settled that we were only going to the places we all agreed upon at the ice cream joint."
"It'll take less than a minute. If you want, why don't you all come in too?" Everyone followed Harry inside. The store looked exactly the same as when he had visited it over four years ago. Harry didn't see Mr Ollivander so he called out to him.
"Mr Ollivander, are you here sir? I need to buy --- "
"AHA! I wondered when you three would be coming in." The gang all looked questioningly at him. When it became obvious that he wasn't going to speak again Harry asked, "Er --- what three of us would be coming in for what?"
"Why Mr Malfoy, Ms Granger and Mr Weasley of course. You all are too far along in your studies to still be using the wrong wands. I'm extremely pleased to see all three of you."
Harry was surprised. "What? None of the three of you bought your wands here?"
Malfoy was the first to answer him. "Not that it's any of your business but I inherited my wand."
Ron's ears went bright red as he said meekly, "We bought mine at a second hand store."
Hermione quickly added, "Since both of my parents are muggles, we didn't know any better. We bought mine from a catalog."
These revelations seemed to make the wand shoppe owner almost giddy. "You see, Mr Potter, none of them had the chance you did. You of all wizards know that it is the wand that chooses the wizard. These three have been wandering loose in the wizarding world without the proper wand for far too long."
"I like my new wand, I've only had it for two years." Everyone in the room except for the owner knew that Ron didn't want a new wand because he couldn't afford to buy one.
Sirius looked thoughtfully at Ron for a second before speaking. "Ron, let me buy you this wand."
"What? No way." His ears were starting to match his hair again.
"Ron please let me do this, when Fudge first gave me all that money I decided on the spot to buy something really nice for you, Hermione and Harry. You know, for helping me."
"But I didn't help you that night."
"Ron, don't be daft. You helped me that night and then later the whole next year as well. I already bought Harry his gift." Harry was nodding fervently thinking of the broomstick he still hadn't ridden.
"Well," Ron mumbled, "if you're sure --- "
"Good, then it's settled." Sirius said smiling. "And Hermione, be thinking about what you want." She smiled at him and nodded. Her mind immediately went to some collection of books that she had been wanting.
The next hour reminded Harry of the muggle version of a shooting gallery where everyone had gone insane. As the three shoppers were testing out all the wands that they were brought, things were exploding all around them. Sirius, Krum and Lupin each paired up with one of the shoppers and righted everything they wronged. So far Sirius (who was paired with Ron) alone had: put together three different exploded vases, repaired the large window twice, re-attached the door, patched a hole in the ceiling, banished a boggart and put all four legs back on a chair.
After thirty minutes none of the prospective clients had found a wand yet. Harry was starting to get winded. (Being an underage wizard he couldn't use magic here so he kept ducking and dodging the various curses being bandied about.)
Hermione was taking it all in stride. Draco was starting to get irritated and was mumbling to himself. Ron was also mumbling to himself something along the lines of being meant to shop at a second hand store his whole life. Finally Mr Ollivander stopped rushing around and looked questioningly at the three wizards.
"Are you three best friends that are also inseparable?"
Harry snorted with laughter until Lupin jabbed him in the ribs. Draco literally jumped back away from Ron and Hermione. Ron was shaking his head so violently that all you could see above his shoulders was a blur of red. Only Hermione had the presence of mind to answer the question.
"Er --- Ron and I along with Harry are best friends but --- well --- er --- you couldn't say that we're best friends with Draco."
"To say the least." Ron added to her answer.
Harry just thought of something. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh well, it's just that there are these three wands and --- well --- let's just see if we have a match." He walked into the back and came back with one fairly good-sized box. He opened it to reveal three nearly identical wands. One was a bit shorter than the other two and a different one was a slightly lighter shade than the others. That wasn't the unusual thing though. The unusual thing was that just as soon as he opened up the box in front of the potential buyers, the wands actually jumped into the hands of the new owners.
"Whoa!"
"I'm glad you approve Mr Weasley." Mr Ollivander was chuckling. "Although I'm not sure that you had much say in the matter. It's obvious that these wands were meant for you three."
Harry had previously had some experience with a wand's reaction when it finds its master but he was curious about these.
"Mr Ollivander, what's special about these three wands? And what made them jump into their hands like that?"
"These are special wands. They're a set that I've had for an extraordinarily long time. They all came from the same creature."
"They're brothers then?" Harry asked. After Mr Ollivander nodded Harry asked another question.
"What animal do they come from?" Everyone was watching Mr Ollivander expectantly.
"Why these wands' cores are made from the tail of a phoenix."
Harry had to fight extremely hard to keep his jaw from dropping. He glanced at Sirius and Lupin to see if they were thinking the same thing that he was. While Hermione, Ron and Draco stood there staring at the wands that had leapt into their hands, Harry got the kit he wanted. Finally everyone settled up with Mr Ollivander, and the group left in search of their original destination.
Ron whispered to Harry, "That was weird. I'm not sure what to make of that man." If Ron had known that Mr Ollivander rushed to owl Dumbledore the second the all left the shop, Ron would have thought him even more strange. Whatever lingering thoughts he still harbored from buying his new wand vanished instantly when Ron and the rest of the group entered Ye Olde Candy Shoppe.
Surprisingly, no one had a bigger grin then Sirius. "Look at all this stuff! Do you know how long it's been since I've eaten a long-lasting licorice liqueur?"
"What's that?" Harry asked.
Lupin grinned before answering, "It's a licorice stick that tastes like different types of drinks and alcohol. The four of us use to scarf them down back in the old days." Lupin's voice trailed off as he thought about the old days with his friends.
Since it was so soon after Christmas, a lot of the seasonal candy was on sale. Ron mostly bought that stuff. After everyone, adults included, loaded their bags with candy the group set off for Gambol and Japes, the wizarding joke shop.
This place too seemed to hold a lot of memories for Sirius. He and Lupin were talking about something in the corner that had both of them almost in tears. Again the group, except for Hermione of course, loaded up before leaving. Ron couldn't believe that Hermione didn't buy anything.
"Hermione, even Mal --- er --- Draco and Viktor bought stuff. Everyone else bought stuff. Lighten up."
She pursed her lips like she usually did before getting on her high horse about something. "I think it's extremely foolish to be wasting your money on stuff like this. And furthermore --- "
"It may be childish Hermione," Lupin said to her with a smile, "but it is our money." Hermione blushed slightly. She didn't mean for him or Sirius to overhear her.
The next stop for the group was the Leaky Cauldron. They were going to grab something to eat while deciding who was going to go where for the last bit of shopping. Tom, the toothless bartender, smiled as he came over to the group to take their orders.
"Raw liver is today's special. Now what can I get everyone to eat?"
Everyone ordered and chatted idly until the food came. Just like at the Christmas party, everyone was going out of their way to keep the conversation light, mainly for Draco's sake. As they were nearing the end of the meal the group decided how it was going to break up. Sirius and Lupin had already talked privately and decided that the teenagers wouldn't go in groups of less than three unless one of the two of them accompanied them.
"I need to buy some new books."
"Why?" Ron asked her. "Have you read all the ones at Hogwarts?"
Ron thought that he was making a funny and was very surprised when she answered, "Nearly".
Hermione, however, was the only one who wanted to go to Flourish and Blotts. Harry, and Ron finally agreed to go with her to the bookstore if she would go with them back to the joke shop. Sirius and Viktor both wanted some new robes so they were going to Madam Malkin's together. That left Lupin and Draco to go to the apothecary for more potions' supplies and secretly Draco was hoping to drop into Quality Quidditch Supplies for a closer look at that Nimbus 2003.
Everyone went their separate ways with the understanding that they would meet back in the Leaky Cauldron in two hours time to go back to Hogwarts.
Sirius and Viktor finished their shopping early and decided to pass the time at the Leaky Cauldron having a few drinks. Sirius liked butterbeer as much as the next guy but he had a hankering for more wizard-like drinks. "Tom, I think I'll have an exploding Rum Runner and my friend here will have a --- "
"Gin and pumpkin juice."
As they got their drinks and settled down at a table in the corner to wait for everyone else Viktor asked what was different about the drink Sirius had just ordered.
"Oh well --- you see --- this drink explodes if you drink it slowly enough that any of the ice melts." They both ordered a different drink before Ron, Harry, and Hermione came in. Harry went and bought three butterbeers before joining everyone at the table. The five of them were chatting and talking merrily about everything they had bought and just spent the time enjoying each other's company. As a matter of fact they were having so much fun that Draco and Lupin were thirty minutes late before anyone really noticed.
"Sirius," Hermione started, "do you think anything happened to them?" He was shaking his head before she even finished her question.
"Moony has never had what you would call a keen sense of time. I wouldn't worry about them; I know I'm not. Let's give them another fifteen minutes and if they're not back then we'll all go look for them."
Fifteen minutes came and went.
Sirius stood up. "Let's go."
The five of them searched in the robe shoppe first. When they didn't find Draco and Lupin in there they started walking the street looking in every shoppe's window. They had just decided to go back to the Leaky Cauldron to see if they had shown up yet when Viktor saw something that made him shout.
"Look over there!"
Everyone followed Viktor to a little alley between the quidditch store and the stationary shoppe. Almost immediately everyone could see an unconscious Lupin lying sprawled out on the ground. Everyone was sprinting. Sirius, who had the longest legs, reached him first.
"Moony! Moony! Wake up!" Sirius was down on his knees shaking his old friend.
Lupin started to stir. He muttered something unintelligible and turned his head revealing massive swelling and some blood. Then he passed out again.
"Moony! Get up! We need to get you back to Hogwarts. We need to know what happened."
Lupin said something unintelligible again.
"Moony! You've got to tell us what happened?"
"Draco"
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Chapter 36
Shopping Spree
Harry didn't like Malfoy any more than Ron did but after some of the things that he had just heard, there couldn't be much doubt that there was much more to Malfoy than anyone knew. Harry was still mad about what Malfoy had said about Cedric on the train last year, but who knows how he, Ron, or Hermione would have turned out if they had been raised by Lucius Malfoy? Apparently his father, you couldn't really call Lucius a dad, had finally driven Draco to action when he tried to force his son to kill.
"He goes." Harry said definitively.
"But Harry, it's Malfoy!" Ron was still pleading his case.
"He goes." Ron's shoulders sagged but he didn't say anything else. Ron and Hermione followed behind Harry while he approached Malfoy as he was leaning against one of the walls.
"Potty and his sidekicks come to say they feel bad for little old me?" Malfoy was wearing his usual sneer.
"Draco, please --- " Hermione was cut off.
"Don't talk to me mudblood!"
Hermione had to grab Ron so that he wouldn't punch Malfoy. Hermione hissed, "Stop it, he's just being defensive because of everything he told us today."
"What do you all want anyway?"
Harry answered, "We're going to Diagon Alley with Lupin and Sirius. We'd like you to come with us."
"And just why would I want to go anywhere with three Gryffindors, a Krum, a fugitive and a werewolf?"
Harry didn't even flinch. "We've all had a rough winter vacation. It'll do you good to go someplace different." Malfoy didn't answer. He just stood there, leaning against the wall, staring at Harry.
"Come or don't come - it's up to you."
"I'll come, but not because I enjoy your company. There are some things I need to buy." No one noticed Ron rolling his eyes at Malfoy's less than gracious acceptance.
Before long, the group was walking to Hogsmeade so they could apparate to Diagon Alley. By mutual consent the first stop was Gringotts. Christmas had all but tapped Harry out so he needed to make a withdrawal, as apparently did Malfoy. Sirius was the only one making a deposit. After a few minutes the group left the bank and headed down the main street.
"Potter, look at that." Before Harry could see what Malfoy was pointing at, Hermione interrupted.
"Look, we may never become best friends but can't we at least use first names?"
"I've never used first names. That's not how I was raised."
"Well perhaps it's time for something different. Try it."
"Oh very well, Harry, look at that." Draco said pointing at a nearby window.
Harry turned to see what he was pointing at. "Oh yeah, Sirius got me that for Christmas."
"What? You have the new Nimbus 2003?" What little color there was in Draco's face drained almost instantly.
"Yep." Harry said smiling up at his godfather. That made Draco lose his desire to go into Quality Quidditch Supplies.
Sirius offered to treat everyone to ice cream while they decided where all they were going to visit. There were a few places that everyone wanted to go but there were more places that only one or two people wanted to go. It was decided that they would first go to the places everyone wanted to visit and then they would break up into groups of two or three to visit the rest of the shoppes. Everyone wanted to go to Ye Olde Candy Shoppe so that was going to be the first stop. On the way though they passed right by Ollivander's and Harry wanted to duck in.
"I'll only be a second. I want to buy a kit to polish my wand."
Draco was the only one who minded. "I though it was settled that we were only going to the places we all agreed upon at the ice cream joint."
"It'll take less than a minute. If you want, why don't you all come in too?" Everyone followed Harry inside. The store looked exactly the same as when he had visited it over four years ago. Harry didn't see Mr Ollivander so he called out to him.
"Mr Ollivander, are you here sir? I need to buy --- "
"AHA! I wondered when you three would be coming in." The gang all looked questioningly at him. When it became obvious that he wasn't going to speak again Harry asked, "Er --- what three of us would be coming in for what?"
"Why Mr Malfoy, Ms Granger and Mr Weasley of course. You all are too far along in your studies to still be using the wrong wands. I'm extremely pleased to see all three of you."
Harry was surprised. "What? None of the three of you bought your wands here?"
Malfoy was the first to answer him. "Not that it's any of your business but I inherited my wand."
Ron's ears went bright red as he said meekly, "We bought mine at a second hand store."
Hermione quickly added, "Since both of my parents are muggles, we didn't know any better. We bought mine from a catalog."
These revelations seemed to make the wand shoppe owner almost giddy. "You see, Mr Potter, none of them had the chance you did. You of all wizards know that it is the wand that chooses the wizard. These three have been wandering loose in the wizarding world without the proper wand for far too long."
"I like my new wand, I've only had it for two years." Everyone in the room except for the owner knew that Ron didn't want a new wand because he couldn't afford to buy one.
Sirius looked thoughtfully at Ron for a second before speaking. "Ron, let me buy you this wand."
"What? No way." His ears were starting to match his hair again.
"Ron please let me do this, when Fudge first gave me all that money I decided on the spot to buy something really nice for you, Hermione and Harry. You know, for helping me."
"But I didn't help you that night."
"Ron, don't be daft. You helped me that night and then later the whole next year as well. I already bought Harry his gift." Harry was nodding fervently thinking of the broomstick he still hadn't ridden.
"Well," Ron mumbled, "if you're sure --- "
"Good, then it's settled." Sirius said smiling. "And Hermione, be thinking about what you want." She smiled at him and nodded. Her mind immediately went to some collection of books that she had been wanting.
The next hour reminded Harry of the muggle version of a shooting gallery where everyone had gone insane. As the three shoppers were testing out all the wands that they were brought, things were exploding all around them. Sirius, Krum and Lupin each paired up with one of the shoppers and righted everything they wronged. So far Sirius (who was paired with Ron) alone had: put together three different exploded vases, repaired the large window twice, re-attached the door, patched a hole in the ceiling, banished a boggart and put all four legs back on a chair.
After thirty minutes none of the prospective clients had found a wand yet. Harry was starting to get winded. (Being an underage wizard he couldn't use magic here so he kept ducking and dodging the various curses being bandied about.)
Hermione was taking it all in stride. Draco was starting to get irritated and was mumbling to himself. Ron was also mumbling to himself something along the lines of being meant to shop at a second hand store his whole life. Finally Mr Ollivander stopped rushing around and looked questioningly at the three wizards.
"Are you three best friends that are also inseparable?"
Harry snorted with laughter until Lupin jabbed him in the ribs. Draco literally jumped back away from Ron and Hermione. Ron was shaking his head so violently that all you could see above his shoulders was a blur of red. Only Hermione had the presence of mind to answer the question.
"Er --- Ron and I along with Harry are best friends but --- well --- er --- you couldn't say that we're best friends with Draco."
"To say the least." Ron added to her answer.
Harry just thought of something. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh well, it's just that there are these three wands and --- well --- let's just see if we have a match." He walked into the back and came back with one fairly good-sized box. He opened it to reveal three nearly identical wands. One was a bit shorter than the other two and a different one was a slightly lighter shade than the others. That wasn't the unusual thing though. The unusual thing was that just as soon as he opened up the box in front of the potential buyers, the wands actually jumped into the hands of the new owners.
"Whoa!"
"I'm glad you approve Mr Weasley." Mr Ollivander was chuckling. "Although I'm not sure that you had much say in the matter. It's obvious that these wands were meant for you three."
Harry had previously had some experience with a wand's reaction when it finds its master but he was curious about these.
"Mr Ollivander, what's special about these three wands? And what made them jump into their hands like that?"
"These are special wands. They're a set that I've had for an extraordinarily long time. They all came from the same creature."
"They're brothers then?" Harry asked. After Mr Ollivander nodded Harry asked another question.
"What animal do they come from?" Everyone was watching Mr Ollivander expectantly.
"Why these wands' cores are made from the tail of a phoenix."
Harry had to fight extremely hard to keep his jaw from dropping. He glanced at Sirius and Lupin to see if they were thinking the same thing that he was. While Hermione, Ron and Draco stood there staring at the wands that had leapt into their hands, Harry got the kit he wanted. Finally everyone settled up with Mr Ollivander, and the group left in search of their original destination.
Ron whispered to Harry, "That was weird. I'm not sure what to make of that man." If Ron had known that Mr Ollivander rushed to owl Dumbledore the second the all left the shop, Ron would have thought him even more strange. Whatever lingering thoughts he still harbored from buying his new wand vanished instantly when Ron and the rest of the group entered Ye Olde Candy Shoppe.
Surprisingly, no one had a bigger grin then Sirius. "Look at all this stuff! Do you know how long it's been since I've eaten a long-lasting licorice liqueur?"
"What's that?" Harry asked.
Lupin grinned before answering, "It's a licorice stick that tastes like different types of drinks and alcohol. The four of us use to scarf them down back in the old days." Lupin's voice trailed off as he thought about the old days with his friends.
Since it was so soon after Christmas, a lot of the seasonal candy was on sale. Ron mostly bought that stuff. After everyone, adults included, loaded their bags with candy the group set off for Gambol and Japes, the wizarding joke shop.
This place too seemed to hold a lot of memories for Sirius. He and Lupin were talking about something in the corner that had both of them almost in tears. Again the group, except for Hermione of course, loaded up before leaving. Ron couldn't believe that Hermione didn't buy anything.
"Hermione, even Mal --- er --- Draco and Viktor bought stuff. Everyone else bought stuff. Lighten up."
She pursed her lips like she usually did before getting on her high horse about something. "I think it's extremely foolish to be wasting your money on stuff like this. And furthermore --- "
"It may be childish Hermione," Lupin said to her with a smile, "but it is our money." Hermione blushed slightly. She didn't mean for him or Sirius to overhear her.
The next stop for the group was the Leaky Cauldron. They were going to grab something to eat while deciding who was going to go where for the last bit of shopping. Tom, the toothless bartender, smiled as he came over to the group to take their orders.
"Raw liver is today's special. Now what can I get everyone to eat?"
Everyone ordered and chatted idly until the food came. Just like at the Christmas party, everyone was going out of their way to keep the conversation light, mainly for Draco's sake. As they were nearing the end of the meal the group decided how it was going to break up. Sirius and Lupin had already talked privately and decided that the teenagers wouldn't go in groups of less than three unless one of the two of them accompanied them.
"I need to buy some new books."
"Why?" Ron asked her. "Have you read all the ones at Hogwarts?"
Ron thought that he was making a funny and was very surprised when she answered, "Nearly".
Hermione, however, was the only one who wanted to go to Flourish and Blotts. Harry, and Ron finally agreed to go with her to the bookstore if she would go with them back to the joke shop. Sirius and Viktor both wanted some new robes so they were going to Madam Malkin's together. That left Lupin and Draco to go to the apothecary for more potions' supplies and secretly Draco was hoping to drop into Quality Quidditch Supplies for a closer look at that Nimbus 2003.
Everyone went their separate ways with the understanding that they would meet back in the Leaky Cauldron in two hours time to go back to Hogwarts.
Sirius and Viktor finished their shopping early and decided to pass the time at the Leaky Cauldron having a few drinks. Sirius liked butterbeer as much as the next guy but he had a hankering for more wizard-like drinks. "Tom, I think I'll have an exploding Rum Runner and my friend here will have a --- "
"Gin and pumpkin juice."
As they got their drinks and settled down at a table in the corner to wait for everyone else Viktor asked what was different about the drink Sirius had just ordered.
"Oh well --- you see --- this drink explodes if you drink it slowly enough that any of the ice melts." They both ordered a different drink before Ron, Harry, and Hermione came in. Harry went and bought three butterbeers before joining everyone at the table. The five of them were chatting and talking merrily about everything they had bought and just spent the time enjoying each other's company. As a matter of fact they were having so much fun that Draco and Lupin were thirty minutes late before anyone really noticed.
"Sirius," Hermione started, "do you think anything happened to them?" He was shaking his head before she even finished her question.
"Moony has never had what you would call a keen sense of time. I wouldn't worry about them; I know I'm not. Let's give them another fifteen minutes and if they're not back then we'll all go look for them."
Fifteen minutes came and went.
Sirius stood up. "Let's go."
The five of them searched in the robe shoppe first. When they didn't find Draco and Lupin in there they started walking the street looking in every shoppe's window. They had just decided to go back to the Leaky Cauldron to see if they had shown up yet when Viktor saw something that made him shout.
"Look over there!"
Everyone followed Viktor to a little alley between the quidditch store and the stationary shoppe. Almost immediately everyone could see an unconscious Lupin lying sprawled out on the ground. Everyone was sprinting. Sirius, who had the longest legs, reached him first.
"Moony! Moony! Wake up!" Sirius was down on his knees shaking his old friend.
Lupin started to stir. He muttered something unintelligible and turned his head revealing massive swelling and some blood. Then he passed out again.
"Moony! Get up! We need to get you back to Hogwarts. We need to know what happened."
Lupin said something unintelligible again.
"Moony! You've got to tell us what happened?"
"Draco"
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