Chapter eight Beta'd 5/11/04
Several days later, where the OWLs are about to start. Harry had be told spefically at the begining of the class before other students arrive, to hold back. Harry said okay, since after Potions, was dinner. After making a potion in today's lesson, which was the Paralysis Potion, casuing people to be paralyzed for thee hours. When the bell rang, as Harry corked his flask, again, feeling proud of his work. As Professor Snape requested, he held back, and waited for Draco Malfoy to leave the room after speaking with the teacher.
"Sir?" Harry asked, wondering what he wanted.
"As you know, the OWLs are coming up," drawled Snape, "I asked a trustworthy examiner to examine your OWLs. However, he cannot do that with everyone else, so I expect you to be here every night on the days OWLs are. You understand what I'm saying Potter?"
"Yes sir, like if there is Charms OWLs, then I'll take the charms in here with the examiner?" "Precisely, now be here at 6 sharp, he really cannot be waited, seeing he already gave some important time to you," Professor Snape said, boring his eyes into emerald green eyes.
"Of course sir, I won't be a second late," Harry said. "Anything else sir?"
"No, but how are you holding up Potter?"
"Sir?" Harry asked, taken quite aback from his question.
"Did you not hear what I asked you?" Snape asked, snapping at him.
"Yes sir, just fine, I had a bit of difficulty at first, but other than that. It couldn't be any smoother."
"What kind of difficulty?" Potions Master asked him.
"Oh, like a few times that Umbridge suspected something, but," Harry grinned, though Snape can't tell if he is or not, but Snape can hear it in his voice. "Hermione is a really good liar."
"I suppose she is, she just have to keep that to a minimum with me," Snape said, smirking. "Or I'll be forced to do Legilimency on her." Harry stared at him in horror.
"You wouldn't do that Professor, that'll be unfair!"
"I was merely jest, Potter, of course I won't perform that on her. Just have to be wary," Snape said, chuckling. Harry relaxed and shook his head.
"Well sir, I guess I'll go back to the shack," Harry said. Then he heard a soft knock on the door. 'Oh no, that knock...!' he thought to himself, knowing that knock anywhere.
"Come in," Snape called out, after sitting down grading papers. Umbridge entered, smiling, and she looked around the room, as if she's trying to find something, or someone in her case.
"What do you want Dolores?" he asked, snapping Umbridge back into focus.
"Oh, I thought I heard another voice in here..." Umbridge began, sweetly, pressing him.
"I daresay that you were," Snape said, curtly.
"Oh, well then I've must've been hearing things, since that poor boy, Malfoy have been hearing voices.." she looked around the room warily. Thanks to her, Harry decided to play with her.
"I'm sure," Snape said, "now what are you doing down here in the first place?"
"Oh, yes, of course, you do know that it's been a month, do you have Veritaserum potion now?" Snape nodded, and got up from his chair.
"It only got completed this morning," he said, getting the flask.
"Oh that's good to hear Severus," Dolores Umbridge said.
"Yes, well," he returned with the flask, "just remember, only three drops are needed, nothing more or you'll waste them all." He drawled, reprimanding her in a way. Which caused a flush to her face, obviously angry and embarrassed.
"Well, thank you Severus," said Umbridge, as she put the flask into one of her pockets in her robes. "I'll be seeing you later, good night."
"Night," he replied, staring hard at her as she leaves the room and closes the door. Professor Snape casted silence charm on the room so there will be no chance for her to even listen if she were to stand next to the door.
"Just you to know Potter, I've been giving her fake veritaserum, we really can't risk of having things revealed to the Ministry now can we?" Professor Snape explained.
"Oh..." Harry was startled by his teacher, telling what was going on with the potion.
"Well, you best be going Potter," Snape said, shuffling his papers to grade.
"Okay Professor, good night sir, Occulemency lesson tomorrow?" Harry asked.
"Yes, tomorrow, night Potter," with that Harry left, making sure no one was in the corridors and made way back to the Shrieking Shack. He greeted his godfather and his friend, grinning with a playful tackle to Sirius.
"Harry!" Sirius exclaimed, ruffling Harry's hair, grinning. "How's Hogwarts?"
"Oh, fine I guess," Harry replied.
"Any homework?" Remus asked.
"No, today was last day for classes, now I can focus completely on OWLs..."
"Oh, and how are you going to take OWLs?" werewolf asked him.
"Snape's going to bring an examiner in everyday on the days of OWLs in Potion's classroom at six in the afternoon. So I can sleep in and study in the early afternoon," Harry explained. "So, I can go up to the school at 5:30."
"Ah, that sounds like a good plan."
"Yeah, we'll help you and quiz you Harry," Sirius said, smiling. "But for this weekend, you're going to take a day off."
"Really? What're we going to do?" Harry asked, frowning wounder what they could do on a day off with two guys who was a best friends of his own dad. .
"Go into the Hogsmeade to have some fun of course," Sirius said, grinning.
"Are you mad Sirius?" Remus exclaimed. "We weren't going to do that."
"Oh come on Moony, with that spell Tonks taught us, we can't possibly be detected."
"Padfoot," Remus started, and found nothing to argue with. "Oh fine, Harry would you like that?"
"With Muto Legio charm? Of course!" Harry grinned, the thought of actually doing some shopping with his godfather. Remus shook his head sympathetically at two raven haired men in the supposedly haunted house.
"Alright, get some studying done now, Charms is on Monday isn't it?" Remus asked Harry.
"Yeah, Charms on Monday, Transfiguration on Tuesday, Astromony on Wednesday, Magical Creatures on Thursday," he paused, trying to remember. "Oh, Potions on Friday, then there's that weekend. On the following Monday, there'll be Defense Against the Dark Arts, I'll be surprised if I didn't get an Outstanding on that one."
"You're right, I'll reprimand you if you don't get an Outstanding on that!" Remus chuckled, Harry looked mortified, having no one actually reprimand him for his grades he get at school. Feeling the rush of red running through his face, and dropped his gaze to the floor, obviously embarrassed. "Oh Harry, you can't actually feel that bad!"
"Actually, no one has ever threatened me if I ever get bad grades..." he said meekly, remembering the times he had to fake 'dumbness' at muggle school. How he would be punished if he was smarter than Dudley. Shaking his head slightly, grinning, "and for some reason, I.. I... I feel happy." His eyes shifted to his shoe laces, as if they were suddenly the most interesting thing in the world.
"Nothing wrong with that!" exclaimed Remus, grinning, Sirius smiled at him as well.
"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that Harry," then Sirius muttered darkly. "Those muggle fools should have treated better..."
"Ah well, they'll have it coming one of those days," casually said Harry, pulling his charms notes out and began reviewing the theory. Remus widened his eyebrows in curiousity, and shook his head. For next several hours of studying and with Remus helping him to study the pratical and the theory examination. But of course, Sirius was playing around with charm work, such as using Wingardium Leviosa on objects around Harry and Remus. But at least Harry knows how to relate from each charm to an funny event to remember.
"Honestly Sirius!" Remus yelled experhasted.
"But Remus, I think I study better this way," Harry said, snickering. "At least I have every charm to relate to when it comes tomemorization for an event Sirius does. But I'm quite concerned of laughing manically at every question they ask me."
"See Moony, he won't fail Charms!" Sirius exclaimed, protesting, but laughing all the same.
"Oh fine Sirius, but at least WAIT for your turn! We are just going over what he's learned!"
"Yeah, and while you do that, I'll come up with something funny!" Sirius retorted.
"Well, I guess it's up to Harry," Remus looked at Harry, pleading in his eyes. Harry grinned apologetically.
"But Sirius' right Remus, I think I can actually remember this way, I will be shocked if I get less than Exceeds Expecations, if not Outstanding..." Remus sighed in defeat.
"Very well, at least it's more fun this way for studying..." Remus chuckled, as if in remembering something. "Ah, remember all those times we had to study before an OWLs examination Sirius?"
"Oh yes!" Sirius agreed, laughing about something. "We had to pull nighter every single night, and James and I always ended up hexing each other because we were so fusterated!"
"Ha, ha, I'm glad I don't have to retort to that...." Harry laughed nervously. The thought of pulling all nighter before each OWL examination is crazy. But he did hear that they all recieved really good marks, but he had to ask just in case.
"Well, did you all get good marks then?" he asked the two.
"Poor Peter, he didn't get good OWLs, except for DADA," Remus face lightened and then darkened.
"Your father got all of them Outstanding except in Herbology, and in Astromony," Sirius said. "And I got three OWLs, one is of course Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Myself, I got all of them Outstanding, except for Divinition," Remus said miserbly.
"Oh off it Moony, that teacher was a fake!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Trelawney?" Harry asked.
"No, it was a different teacher, apparently all Divnition teachers are doomed to be fakes for the class. If I didn't know any better, that post seems cursed just as the DADA position," Remus said, shrugging. "Now, we have to get back to studying!"
"Okay, okay," Sirius waved impatiently and started helping studying for Charms on Monday for Harry. Then soon, all of the charms were reviewed and ate quick dinner. The three males finally turned in to sleep for the night.
The next day, at seven in the morning, a huge black dog jumped onto Harry on his bed. Who yelped into the waking land. Feeling saliva all over his face and finally noticed it was Sirius who was licking him madly.
"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled, suddenly in bad mood from the way he was waken. Then soon fell into fits of laughter at the situation. The big dark, black dog's tail wagged happily, licking his face some more and barked. "Alright, alright, I'm up, I'm up!" Harry threw his hand in the air, feeling defeated from not being able to sleep in. Harry got out of his bed to wash himself of any saliva Sirius had licked. Which he realized needed a shower.
"Thanks a lot Sirius, I have to take a freaking shower!" The dog turned into human, barking laughing at Harry. "Oh, go ahead and laugh all you want!" he mock-pouted at Sirius. Who laughed even harder, which promptly Harry shut the door with loud bam, silencing his laughing in the bathroom. Harry shook his head, chuckling at his outbursts, and took his shower. Twenty minutes later, Harry came out, wearing blue sweater, and black baggy pants with cloak in his arms to put on once they got into Hogsmeade. Or more spefically, once they stepped out of the Shrieking Shack. He saw Remus making some breakfast and Sirius gobbling, no wait, inhaling his food like a dog with a straw.
"Morning Remus, Sirius," he made himself known as he sat down to eat.
"Mornin' Harry," Remus replied, looking up at him, smiling. He realized that Remus looked a bit ill.
"Remus, you okay?"
"Yes, just that there's full moon tomorrow, nothing I can handle, don't worry," Remus replied, grimacing yet smiling. Harry nodded acknowledging, and accepted Remus' breakfast today. "So, since no one besides Tonks, us, and your friends knows that your shape of scar has changed. So we don't have to worry about that, but let's change your mouth shape, hair color and type. How about a bowl-style hair, blonde?" Harry shook his head.
"No, that sounds too Malfoyish," Harry replied, shuddering at the thought of looking like him.
"Okay, how about dirty blonde then?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, and I think a different eye color will do too," Harry said, "dark blue eyes will do." Once he finished eating his breakfast and faced Remus, who is about to cast them on Harry. Soon, his hair, eyes, and mouth shape changed, and examined himself in the conjured mirror and gasped.
"I don't recognize myself!"
"Of course you don't, if you do, then it's pointless to go out into Hogsmeade," reprimanded Remus, chuckling and turned to Sirius.
"Oh no, you're not casting that on me, I think I'll come as a dog," Sirius said, still eating his breakfast though at much slower pace than when Harry arrived.
"But you were so keen on doing it Padfoot, what happened now? You can't say that you are chickening out!" Remus said, half in awed.
"No, fine, change my hair to buzz cut brown hair, and green eyes, make my cheeks less sullen and change my nose and mouth. I'm afraid I do have an unique nose..."
"What about your nose Sirius?" Harry inquired.
"Oh, when I was in Azkaban, some idiot punched me, see?" Sirius shifted to the side for him to examine, as well as Remus. Who widened in amazement.
"I never noticed that... but perhaps I should, it is unique," Remus studied his nose. Sirius' nose wasn't necessarily broken, but reshaped, and seem bigger and a bit flattened. "At least you don't look like Severus." Remus chuckled. Sirius looked horrorfied at the thought.
"I'm glad I don't have that Snivellius' nose!" Harry's face darkened at the name. "What Harry?"
"Don't call him that," Harry said with an edge to his voice. The two older males hestiated.
"Sorry Harry, I-I slipped," Sirius said.
"You better not mention it around me again," he said darkly, warning them both. Who looked at each other, a bit nervously, afraid that he would blow up at them. "So when are you going to change Sirius' face?" Harry changed the subject.
"Right about now..." Remus flicked his wand, and several moments of changing Sirius' features. Who soon looked like someone from America or some faraway land. "That'll do," Remus smiled.
After Sirius studied himself in the mirror, checking his face, which looked more alive, a lot less sullen, and green eyes seem to give him more life in him than dark brown eyes. His hair in buzz-cut light brown hair, and sastisfied with the look at lookd at Remus.
"What about you Moony?" Sirius asked, picking up his wand. Harry suddenly realized that Sirius has his wand and wondered how he even have his wand, but shook his head mentally. Thinking he'll ask about that later and Remus shook his head.
"I don't need to hide myself. I can just say that you two are close friends of mine and that you two are related. So, let's give you names shall we? I know, we could all be related seeing that we all have similar hair color. So, your last names would be Lupin, easy to remember if anyone asks us. Now Sirius, what should we call you?"
"Hmm, how about," Sirius began to laugh hard. "Loony Lupin?"
"No, not acceptable," Remus crossed his arms, trying not to look amused but failed all the same.
"Okay, okay fine Moony, what about Steve Lupin?" Sirius asked, seriously.
"Sound good, actually that's my second cousin's name," Remus remarked. "But he passed away years ago so don't worry if he is asked about the tirp in Hogsmeade. As for you Harry," Remus turned to him.
"Raven Lupin?" Harry smiled softly, seemingly embarrassed.
"How--?" Remus was taken aback, and stared at Sirius suspiciously.
"What Remus?" both males asked him, with a face of questioning look.
"Nothing, just coincidences," Lupin replied. "So, since you'll be Sirius' son, you'll be my third cousin. All settled? Money bags filled?" The three checked and swung on their cloaks over themselves and Remus stepped out of the house, after checking to make sure no one was near. The three males made their way into the town and stepping into the Three Broomsticks to order two butterbeers and a Firewhisky. Harry stared at Sirius for his choice, a bit baffled at his choice, and remembered who he was and shook his head, chuckling slightly.
"What Raven?" 'Steve' asked him.
"Oh nothing Steve, I was just a bit surprised at your first choice once you came here in this town. I bet it's been ages since you drank one," 'Raven' replied.
"I suppose so, it's been over 14 years that I had some..." he said, a bit in awed at how long the time had passed and downed some of his Firewhisky. Remus chuckled at the two, and shook his head.
"Honestly, Steve would always drink that stuff every day until that day," Remus said. "He seem to have been much worse after he graduated from school."
"Really Remus?" 'Raven' asked, eyes widening in wonder.
"Really Raven," he replied, laughing. 'Steve laughed along with Remus, and with 'Raven' sitting between the two. Then a sneering voice shouted from behind.
"Remus!"
Remus Lupin turned around to face who said his name, and found face to face with Professor Snape, who glowered at the two males next to him.
"WHO are they?" Snape asked, suspicously.
"Oh, this is 'RAVEN'," implying the name carefully, "and this one is 'STEVE'."
Snape rose his two eyebrows in horror, and turned around quickly, searching for something or someone perhaps.
"You three better get out of here while you can, reckless Gryffindors!" he snarled at the three brown-haired boys. "There's an attack soon and if you DON'T leave right away..!" The three stared at him in alarm, and searched the windows. Straining their ears, before acting anything. Soon, Harry heard series of popping sounds. "Shit! I have to get away," with that, Severus Snape disapparated. The three looked at each other in horror, and whipped out their wands, and went outside and found deatheaters torturing the inhabitants of Hogsmeade.
"Raven, you get back to our scantuary right now! Make sure no one sees you!" Remus ordered him, who ran in the opposite direction of Deatheaters who seem to be moving towards Hogwarts.
Harry realized then, they're attacking Hogwarts with no Dumbledore, and I'm not there..! With a terrible feeling dropped in the pits of stomach and turned his face around, checking if he's not followed. But realized only one lone deatheater was at his heels. He stopped at the end of the road and faced the deatheater. He really hoped that his change of looks fooled them Death Eaters. Ten feet away, the death eater with his white mask, and in sneering voice.
"Ready to die boy?!"
"Never I am, but I'm ready to kill you!" 'Raven' retorted.
"Such a pity, I have always seen that couragous, yet stupidity when we fought them!" taunted the Death Eater. Harry thought his voice was familiar, but didn't take chances.
"At least tell me who my attacker, or I is to say, my victim is?" he asked. Then, he realized he had provoked the Death Eater who fumed.
"I'm not the victim, you are!" enraged, "NO one tells me that I'm the victim, no, not Avery!"
"Ah-ha, so your name is Avery? Why, I know you were tortured by Voldemort." Raven taunted, knowing that it was stupid to say that. Surely, that saying could give himself away as Harry Potter.
"You DARE speak his name?! That's it! Cru--"
"Petrifictus Totalis!" he casted faster than Avery and fell with a loud slam on the ground. "Now, I suppose I should give you mercy, but I shouldn't, no. I can't, not for all the suffering you've caused upon this world!" He heard a whimper coming from Avery. "Oh, so you're scared now? Good! Because," he lowered himself on the ground towards his ear, and looked up for any coming intruders or anyone and saw they were still alone. He picked up a stick, transfiguring into a steel blade as long as the stick was.
Which was only a foot long, "I am Harry Potter." Which caused even more whimpers, widening his eyes in shock. With a sickening stabbing sound from the blade with his heart, which spurted out blood from high pressure. Avery died in only three seconds, and Harry realized what he did, and backed away, surprised at what he done. He had watched his breath, his last breath.
"..I...I'm a murderer..." with that said softly, and finally ran back to the Shrieking Shack with no one at his heels. "Oh gawd," he said to himself, slaming the door shut behind him and leaned against it. He looked at his hands, tainted of blood. "D-does this justify what I did?" he wondered, and slid down the door, and buried his hand to his face, not caring about blood on his face. "Hermione...Ron.... Neville... Dumbledore's Army...I hope you all can withstand what's happening.... oh man," he moaned, curling up on the floor. He knew he couldn't play the hero, he couldn't risk of being caught, but only Avery and the other three knew of what Harry looked like right now. So, why can't he help the others?
With new determination, and stood up, and pulled at the hatch with his wand and hurried through the tunnel, running as fast has he could to Hogwarts. His 'charmed' look will last for as long as he can take them off. So no worries of them fading. At the light's end of the tunnel and climbed up to the roots and pressed on the knob to dismobilize the Whomping Willow Tree, sprinted toward the commotion at the front gates. He saw all the staffs fighting with the death eaters. but there was too many. Even some of the sixth and seventh years were helping in battling with them. Amongst them, he saw Sirius and Rem fighting.
Several days later, where the OWLs are about to start. Harry had be told spefically at the begining of the class before other students arrive, to hold back. Harry said okay, since after Potions, was dinner. After making a potion in today's lesson, which was the Paralysis Potion, casuing people to be paralyzed for thee hours. When the bell rang, as Harry corked his flask, again, feeling proud of his work. As Professor Snape requested, he held back, and waited for Draco Malfoy to leave the room after speaking with the teacher.
"Sir?" Harry asked, wondering what he wanted.
"As you know, the OWLs are coming up," drawled Snape, "I asked a trustworthy examiner to examine your OWLs. However, he cannot do that with everyone else, so I expect you to be here every night on the days OWLs are. You understand what I'm saying Potter?"
"Yes sir, like if there is Charms OWLs, then I'll take the charms in here with the examiner?" "Precisely, now be here at 6 sharp, he really cannot be waited, seeing he already gave some important time to you," Professor Snape said, boring his eyes into emerald green eyes.
"Of course sir, I won't be a second late," Harry said. "Anything else sir?"
"No, but how are you holding up Potter?"
"Sir?" Harry asked, taken quite aback from his question.
"Did you not hear what I asked you?" Snape asked, snapping at him.
"Yes sir, just fine, I had a bit of difficulty at first, but other than that. It couldn't be any smoother."
"What kind of difficulty?" Potions Master asked him.
"Oh, like a few times that Umbridge suspected something, but," Harry grinned, though Snape can't tell if he is or not, but Snape can hear it in his voice. "Hermione is a really good liar."
"I suppose she is, she just have to keep that to a minimum with me," Snape said, smirking. "Or I'll be forced to do Legilimency on her." Harry stared at him in horror.
"You wouldn't do that Professor, that'll be unfair!"
"I was merely jest, Potter, of course I won't perform that on her. Just have to be wary," Snape said, chuckling. Harry relaxed and shook his head.
"Well sir, I guess I'll go back to the shack," Harry said. Then he heard a soft knock on the door. 'Oh no, that knock...!' he thought to himself, knowing that knock anywhere.
"Come in," Snape called out, after sitting down grading papers. Umbridge entered, smiling, and she looked around the room, as if she's trying to find something, or someone in her case.
"What do you want Dolores?" he asked, snapping Umbridge back into focus.
"Oh, I thought I heard another voice in here..." Umbridge began, sweetly, pressing him.
"I daresay that you were," Snape said, curtly.
"Oh, well then I've must've been hearing things, since that poor boy, Malfoy have been hearing voices.." she looked around the room warily. Thanks to her, Harry decided to play with her.
"I'm sure," Snape said, "now what are you doing down here in the first place?"
"Oh, yes, of course, you do know that it's been a month, do you have Veritaserum potion now?" Snape nodded, and got up from his chair.
"It only got completed this morning," he said, getting the flask.
"Oh that's good to hear Severus," Dolores Umbridge said.
"Yes, well," he returned with the flask, "just remember, only three drops are needed, nothing more or you'll waste them all." He drawled, reprimanding her in a way. Which caused a flush to her face, obviously angry and embarrassed.
"Well, thank you Severus," said Umbridge, as she put the flask into one of her pockets in her robes. "I'll be seeing you later, good night."
"Night," he replied, staring hard at her as she leaves the room and closes the door. Professor Snape casted silence charm on the room so there will be no chance for her to even listen if she were to stand next to the door.
"Just you to know Potter, I've been giving her fake veritaserum, we really can't risk of having things revealed to the Ministry now can we?" Professor Snape explained.
"Oh..." Harry was startled by his teacher, telling what was going on with the potion.
"Well, you best be going Potter," Snape said, shuffling his papers to grade.
"Okay Professor, good night sir, Occulemency lesson tomorrow?" Harry asked.
"Yes, tomorrow, night Potter," with that Harry left, making sure no one was in the corridors and made way back to the Shrieking Shack. He greeted his godfather and his friend, grinning with a playful tackle to Sirius.
"Harry!" Sirius exclaimed, ruffling Harry's hair, grinning. "How's Hogwarts?"
"Oh, fine I guess," Harry replied.
"Any homework?" Remus asked.
"No, today was last day for classes, now I can focus completely on OWLs..."
"Oh, and how are you going to take OWLs?" werewolf asked him.
"Snape's going to bring an examiner in everyday on the days of OWLs in Potion's classroom at six in the afternoon. So I can sleep in and study in the early afternoon," Harry explained. "So, I can go up to the school at 5:30."
"Ah, that sounds like a good plan."
"Yeah, we'll help you and quiz you Harry," Sirius said, smiling. "But for this weekend, you're going to take a day off."
"Really? What're we going to do?" Harry asked, frowning wounder what they could do on a day off with two guys who was a best friends of his own dad. .
"Go into the Hogsmeade to have some fun of course," Sirius said, grinning.
"Are you mad Sirius?" Remus exclaimed. "We weren't going to do that."
"Oh come on Moony, with that spell Tonks taught us, we can't possibly be detected."
"Padfoot," Remus started, and found nothing to argue with. "Oh fine, Harry would you like that?"
"With Muto Legio charm? Of course!" Harry grinned, the thought of actually doing some shopping with his godfather. Remus shook his head sympathetically at two raven haired men in the supposedly haunted house.
"Alright, get some studying done now, Charms is on Monday isn't it?" Remus asked Harry.
"Yeah, Charms on Monday, Transfiguration on Tuesday, Astromony on Wednesday, Magical Creatures on Thursday," he paused, trying to remember. "Oh, Potions on Friday, then there's that weekend. On the following Monday, there'll be Defense Against the Dark Arts, I'll be surprised if I didn't get an Outstanding on that one."
"You're right, I'll reprimand you if you don't get an Outstanding on that!" Remus chuckled, Harry looked mortified, having no one actually reprimand him for his grades he get at school. Feeling the rush of red running through his face, and dropped his gaze to the floor, obviously embarrassed. "Oh Harry, you can't actually feel that bad!"
"Actually, no one has ever threatened me if I ever get bad grades..." he said meekly, remembering the times he had to fake 'dumbness' at muggle school. How he would be punished if he was smarter than Dudley. Shaking his head slightly, grinning, "and for some reason, I.. I... I feel happy." His eyes shifted to his shoe laces, as if they were suddenly the most interesting thing in the world.
"Nothing wrong with that!" exclaimed Remus, grinning, Sirius smiled at him as well.
"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that Harry," then Sirius muttered darkly. "Those muggle fools should have treated better..."
"Ah well, they'll have it coming one of those days," casually said Harry, pulling his charms notes out and began reviewing the theory. Remus widened his eyebrows in curiousity, and shook his head. For next several hours of studying and with Remus helping him to study the pratical and the theory examination. But of course, Sirius was playing around with charm work, such as using Wingardium Leviosa on objects around Harry and Remus. But at least Harry knows how to relate from each charm to an funny event to remember.
"Honestly Sirius!" Remus yelled experhasted.
"But Remus, I think I study better this way," Harry said, snickering. "At least I have every charm to relate to when it comes tomemorization for an event Sirius does. But I'm quite concerned of laughing manically at every question they ask me."
"See Moony, he won't fail Charms!" Sirius exclaimed, protesting, but laughing all the same.
"Oh fine Sirius, but at least WAIT for your turn! We are just going over what he's learned!"
"Yeah, and while you do that, I'll come up with something funny!" Sirius retorted.
"Well, I guess it's up to Harry," Remus looked at Harry, pleading in his eyes. Harry grinned apologetically.
"But Sirius' right Remus, I think I can actually remember this way, I will be shocked if I get less than Exceeds Expecations, if not Outstanding..." Remus sighed in defeat.
"Very well, at least it's more fun this way for studying..." Remus chuckled, as if in remembering something. "Ah, remember all those times we had to study before an OWLs examination Sirius?"
"Oh yes!" Sirius agreed, laughing about something. "We had to pull nighter every single night, and James and I always ended up hexing each other because we were so fusterated!"
"Ha, ha, I'm glad I don't have to retort to that...." Harry laughed nervously. The thought of pulling all nighter before each OWL examination is crazy. But he did hear that they all recieved really good marks, but he had to ask just in case.
"Well, did you all get good marks then?" he asked the two.
"Poor Peter, he didn't get good OWLs, except for DADA," Remus face lightened and then darkened.
"Your father got all of them Outstanding except in Herbology, and in Astromony," Sirius said. "And I got three OWLs, one is of course Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Myself, I got all of them Outstanding, except for Divinition," Remus said miserbly.
"Oh off it Moony, that teacher was a fake!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Trelawney?" Harry asked.
"No, it was a different teacher, apparently all Divnition teachers are doomed to be fakes for the class. If I didn't know any better, that post seems cursed just as the DADA position," Remus said, shrugging. "Now, we have to get back to studying!"
"Okay, okay," Sirius waved impatiently and started helping studying for Charms on Monday for Harry. Then soon, all of the charms were reviewed and ate quick dinner. The three males finally turned in to sleep for the night.
The next day, at seven in the morning, a huge black dog jumped onto Harry on his bed. Who yelped into the waking land. Feeling saliva all over his face and finally noticed it was Sirius who was licking him madly.
"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled, suddenly in bad mood from the way he was waken. Then soon fell into fits of laughter at the situation. The big dark, black dog's tail wagged happily, licking his face some more and barked. "Alright, alright, I'm up, I'm up!" Harry threw his hand in the air, feeling defeated from not being able to sleep in. Harry got out of his bed to wash himself of any saliva Sirius had licked. Which he realized needed a shower.
"Thanks a lot Sirius, I have to take a freaking shower!" The dog turned into human, barking laughing at Harry. "Oh, go ahead and laugh all you want!" he mock-pouted at Sirius. Who laughed even harder, which promptly Harry shut the door with loud bam, silencing his laughing in the bathroom. Harry shook his head, chuckling at his outbursts, and took his shower. Twenty minutes later, Harry came out, wearing blue sweater, and black baggy pants with cloak in his arms to put on once they got into Hogsmeade. Or more spefically, once they stepped out of the Shrieking Shack. He saw Remus making some breakfast and Sirius gobbling, no wait, inhaling his food like a dog with a straw.
"Morning Remus, Sirius," he made himself known as he sat down to eat.
"Mornin' Harry," Remus replied, looking up at him, smiling. He realized that Remus looked a bit ill.
"Remus, you okay?"
"Yes, just that there's full moon tomorrow, nothing I can handle, don't worry," Remus replied, grimacing yet smiling. Harry nodded acknowledging, and accepted Remus' breakfast today. "So, since no one besides Tonks, us, and your friends knows that your shape of scar has changed. So we don't have to worry about that, but let's change your mouth shape, hair color and type. How about a bowl-style hair, blonde?" Harry shook his head.
"No, that sounds too Malfoyish," Harry replied, shuddering at the thought of looking like him.
"Okay, how about dirty blonde then?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, and I think a different eye color will do too," Harry said, "dark blue eyes will do." Once he finished eating his breakfast and faced Remus, who is about to cast them on Harry. Soon, his hair, eyes, and mouth shape changed, and examined himself in the conjured mirror and gasped.
"I don't recognize myself!"
"Of course you don't, if you do, then it's pointless to go out into Hogsmeade," reprimanded Remus, chuckling and turned to Sirius.
"Oh no, you're not casting that on me, I think I'll come as a dog," Sirius said, still eating his breakfast though at much slower pace than when Harry arrived.
"But you were so keen on doing it Padfoot, what happened now? You can't say that you are chickening out!" Remus said, half in awed.
"No, fine, change my hair to buzz cut brown hair, and green eyes, make my cheeks less sullen and change my nose and mouth. I'm afraid I do have an unique nose..."
"What about your nose Sirius?" Harry inquired.
"Oh, when I was in Azkaban, some idiot punched me, see?" Sirius shifted to the side for him to examine, as well as Remus. Who widened in amazement.
"I never noticed that... but perhaps I should, it is unique," Remus studied his nose. Sirius' nose wasn't necessarily broken, but reshaped, and seem bigger and a bit flattened. "At least you don't look like Severus." Remus chuckled. Sirius looked horrorfied at the thought.
"I'm glad I don't have that Snivellius' nose!" Harry's face darkened at the name. "What Harry?"
"Don't call him that," Harry said with an edge to his voice. The two older males hestiated.
"Sorry Harry, I-I slipped," Sirius said.
"You better not mention it around me again," he said darkly, warning them both. Who looked at each other, a bit nervously, afraid that he would blow up at them. "So when are you going to change Sirius' face?" Harry changed the subject.
"Right about now..." Remus flicked his wand, and several moments of changing Sirius' features. Who soon looked like someone from America or some faraway land. "That'll do," Remus smiled.
After Sirius studied himself in the mirror, checking his face, which looked more alive, a lot less sullen, and green eyes seem to give him more life in him than dark brown eyes. His hair in buzz-cut light brown hair, and sastisfied with the look at lookd at Remus.
"What about you Moony?" Sirius asked, picking up his wand. Harry suddenly realized that Sirius has his wand and wondered how he even have his wand, but shook his head mentally. Thinking he'll ask about that later and Remus shook his head.
"I don't need to hide myself. I can just say that you two are close friends of mine and that you two are related. So, let's give you names shall we? I know, we could all be related seeing that we all have similar hair color. So, your last names would be Lupin, easy to remember if anyone asks us. Now Sirius, what should we call you?"
"Hmm, how about," Sirius began to laugh hard. "Loony Lupin?"
"No, not acceptable," Remus crossed his arms, trying not to look amused but failed all the same.
"Okay, okay fine Moony, what about Steve Lupin?" Sirius asked, seriously.
"Sound good, actually that's my second cousin's name," Remus remarked. "But he passed away years ago so don't worry if he is asked about the tirp in Hogsmeade. As for you Harry," Remus turned to him.
"Raven Lupin?" Harry smiled softly, seemingly embarrassed.
"How--?" Remus was taken aback, and stared at Sirius suspiciously.
"What Remus?" both males asked him, with a face of questioning look.
"Nothing, just coincidences," Lupin replied. "So, since you'll be Sirius' son, you'll be my third cousin. All settled? Money bags filled?" The three checked and swung on their cloaks over themselves and Remus stepped out of the house, after checking to make sure no one was near. The three males made their way into the town and stepping into the Three Broomsticks to order two butterbeers and a Firewhisky. Harry stared at Sirius for his choice, a bit baffled at his choice, and remembered who he was and shook his head, chuckling slightly.
"What Raven?" 'Steve' asked him.
"Oh nothing Steve, I was just a bit surprised at your first choice once you came here in this town. I bet it's been ages since you drank one," 'Raven' replied.
"I suppose so, it's been over 14 years that I had some..." he said, a bit in awed at how long the time had passed and downed some of his Firewhisky. Remus chuckled at the two, and shook his head.
"Honestly, Steve would always drink that stuff every day until that day," Remus said. "He seem to have been much worse after he graduated from school."
"Really Remus?" 'Raven' asked, eyes widening in wonder.
"Really Raven," he replied, laughing. 'Steve laughed along with Remus, and with 'Raven' sitting between the two. Then a sneering voice shouted from behind.
"Remus!"
Remus Lupin turned around to face who said his name, and found face to face with Professor Snape, who glowered at the two males next to him.
"WHO are they?" Snape asked, suspicously.
"Oh, this is 'RAVEN'," implying the name carefully, "and this one is 'STEVE'."
Snape rose his two eyebrows in horror, and turned around quickly, searching for something or someone perhaps.
"You three better get out of here while you can, reckless Gryffindors!" he snarled at the three brown-haired boys. "There's an attack soon and if you DON'T leave right away..!" The three stared at him in alarm, and searched the windows. Straining their ears, before acting anything. Soon, Harry heard series of popping sounds. "Shit! I have to get away," with that, Severus Snape disapparated. The three looked at each other in horror, and whipped out their wands, and went outside and found deatheaters torturing the inhabitants of Hogsmeade.
"Raven, you get back to our scantuary right now! Make sure no one sees you!" Remus ordered him, who ran in the opposite direction of Deatheaters who seem to be moving towards Hogwarts.
Harry realized then, they're attacking Hogwarts with no Dumbledore, and I'm not there..! With a terrible feeling dropped in the pits of stomach and turned his face around, checking if he's not followed. But realized only one lone deatheater was at his heels. He stopped at the end of the road and faced the deatheater. He really hoped that his change of looks fooled them Death Eaters. Ten feet away, the death eater with his white mask, and in sneering voice.
"Ready to die boy?!"
"Never I am, but I'm ready to kill you!" 'Raven' retorted.
"Such a pity, I have always seen that couragous, yet stupidity when we fought them!" taunted the Death Eater. Harry thought his voice was familiar, but didn't take chances.
"At least tell me who my attacker, or I is to say, my victim is?" he asked. Then, he realized he had provoked the Death Eater who fumed.
"I'm not the victim, you are!" enraged, "NO one tells me that I'm the victim, no, not Avery!"
"Ah-ha, so your name is Avery? Why, I know you were tortured by Voldemort." Raven taunted, knowing that it was stupid to say that. Surely, that saying could give himself away as Harry Potter.
"You DARE speak his name?! That's it! Cru--"
"Petrifictus Totalis!" he casted faster than Avery and fell with a loud slam on the ground. "Now, I suppose I should give you mercy, but I shouldn't, no. I can't, not for all the suffering you've caused upon this world!" He heard a whimper coming from Avery. "Oh, so you're scared now? Good! Because," he lowered himself on the ground towards his ear, and looked up for any coming intruders or anyone and saw they were still alone. He picked up a stick, transfiguring into a steel blade as long as the stick was.
Which was only a foot long, "I am Harry Potter." Which caused even more whimpers, widening his eyes in shock. With a sickening stabbing sound from the blade with his heart, which spurted out blood from high pressure. Avery died in only three seconds, and Harry realized what he did, and backed away, surprised at what he done. He had watched his breath, his last breath.
"..I...I'm a murderer..." with that said softly, and finally ran back to the Shrieking Shack with no one at his heels. "Oh gawd," he said to himself, slaming the door shut behind him and leaned against it. He looked at his hands, tainted of blood. "D-does this justify what I did?" he wondered, and slid down the door, and buried his hand to his face, not caring about blood on his face. "Hermione...Ron.... Neville... Dumbledore's Army...I hope you all can withstand what's happening.... oh man," he moaned, curling up on the floor. He knew he couldn't play the hero, he couldn't risk of being caught, but only Avery and the other three knew of what Harry looked like right now. So, why can't he help the others?
With new determination, and stood up, and pulled at the hatch with his wand and hurried through the tunnel, running as fast has he could to Hogwarts. His 'charmed' look will last for as long as he can take them off. So no worries of them fading. At the light's end of the tunnel and climbed up to the roots and pressed on the knob to dismobilize the Whomping Willow Tree, sprinted toward the commotion at the front gates. He saw all the staffs fighting with the death eaters. but there was too many. Even some of the sixth and seventh years were helping in battling with them. Amongst them, he saw Sirius and Rem fighting.