Harry Potter and the Secrets of the Order
Chapter 3
Memory of Friends
By: Sirius **Padfoot
July 3, 2003
The Weasley's arrived around 11 that morning and Mrs. Weasley found out that Harry was already there with no problem and she is fit to be tied. The rest of the Weasley's are all standing in the kitchen waiting for lunch not paying very much attention to her.
Sirius, Dumbledore said to wait!" Mrs. Weasley yelled waking Mrs. Black and the other Black portraits up and they were now screaming about as loud and Mrs. Weasley.
"Molly please calm down Sirius didn't go get the boy, sorry Harry no offense." Lupin said sticking up for Sirius before he got mad and had the bright idea to stand up.
"Then who did? Was it you Lupin? Or was it Moody, Kingsley, or Mundugs. I know none of my lot went and got him right Fred and George." Mrs. Weasley said turning to face Lupin then her twins.
"Oh come on mum you blame us for every thing." Fred said
"Yeah we haven't even seen Harry since the train station at the end of last year's schooling." George said.
"Molly you seem so intent on blaming every male here. I did it I brought Harry here on specific orders from Dumbledore himself before you start chewing me out." Anna said as she sat down across the kitchen table from Lupin who had decided to sit down beside Sirius.
"I never thought you'd be so reckless Anna. Being an Auror, working for the ministry and the Order. You know better then any one else the dangers. Sirius is rash enough we don't need you trying to get poor Harry killed…" Mrs. Weasley said and knew she'd went to far when Anna stood up so quickly that she knocked over her chair.
"Sirius is the only family Harry has. You question every damn thing Sirius does for Harry. Now that is stepping out of line. I for one will not let you do it any more stick to your own kids Molly. And as matter of fact if you didn't hear me the first time I was on orders from Dumbledore to go get Harry. And yes I know the dangers better then you! If we had put more people around Harry then just me that would have dragged the attention of the Death-Eaters and Voldemort. The only one here trying to get Harry killed is you Molly Weasley. You absolutely refuse to let Harry know anything that is going on. Exactly how many times have you faced Voldemort Huh?" Anna yelled at Molly clenching her fists.
"I've never faced You-Know-Who!" Molly said turning white and backing away from Anna.
"EXACTLY! Harry's faced Voldemort what six time in his lifetime so far. And who was it that ran to protect Harry? Sirius! You were no where to be found that night. So I'd suggest that you leave the parenting job to Sirius and stick to your own children." Anna said angrily pointing to Ron and Ginny.
"Mum I'd suggest you leave her be." Bill said pulling his white-faced mother out of the kitchen.
"Sorry Anna, Molly just gets a little carried away." Arthur said.
"A little carried away. She didn't jump into a pond Arthur she jumped into a bloody Ocean! I've been angry with her for stepping in every time Sirius told Harry some thing to do. She over steps her bounds and a mother every time she here." Anna said still very angry.
"Thanks Anna if you hadn't of jumped up I would have tried to." Sirius said standing up slowly and walking around the table. "Now calm down before you blow something up accidentally and I don't mean Harry's Aunt Marge either." Sirius said and smiled when she laughed a little.
"Yeah Aunt Marge horrible woman she is. I've seen her on several occasions torturing Harry with those stupid dogs of hers. No offense Sirius of course." Anna said then looked at Harry's confused face. "Yes Harry I've tracked you on several occasions for the Ministry when you were little." Anna said and smiled when Sirius sat her chair back up for her. "Thanks Sirius." She said and sat down.
"You're welcome." Sirius said walking back around and sat down.
"What is it with women they are strange." Harry and earned a little glare from Anna.
"Harry I've really got to teach you about girls." Sirius said and smiled at Harry.
"Some one should write a book! They're confusing." Harry said.
"Sirius you know you were horrible to girls when you were at Hogwarts so what could you teach him?" Anna asked.
"A lot thank you." Sirius said.
"Sure. Harry if you get Sirius to write a book about guys, then I'll write you a book about girls. Guys are the most confusing thing's I've ever met in my life." Anna said and smiled down at Harry.
"Hey Sirius we've went from Guy's to thing's in a matter of seconds." Lupin said as he leaned over to Sirius hoping Anna wouldn't hear him.
"Yeah I noticed that too. And she say's we're confusing." Sirius said and smiled when Anna looked back at them.
"See what I mean Harry. They talk about you then smile at you when you look at them." Anna said then smiled when Sirius put his chin in his hand and looked way from her muttering something about girls.
"How do you know we were talking about you. We could have been talking about Harry." Lupin said.
"He only gets that stupid grin when he's just been caught talking about a woman. Since you two were looking over here and I'm the only one in here then you were talking about me." Anna said in the most logical sense.
"Don't even argue with her Moony she's known us since the first year at Hogwarts." Sirius said and looked back at Anna who was smiling at him.
"Do you mind if Mum and I come back in?" Bill asked sticking his head back in the kitchen door.
"Sure find a seat." Sirius said and pointed to all the seats that were still open at the table.
"I'll be back Sirius I'm going to go shut your mother up." Anna said and walked out of the kitchen when Mrs. Weasley walked back in.
"Oh don't worry about her she'll get over it in a while." Lupin reassured her.
"I've never seen Mum be so quiet when some jumped back in her face." George said.
"Neither have I!" Fred said stunned.
"Hey Sirius have you packed any thing? We leave with the kids tomorrow." Anna said coming back in.
"Damn I forgot this morning." Sirius said.
"Oh Sirius that's what I sent you upstairs to do." Anna said. "Oh well no use crying over nothing. Let's just go get it done." Anna said motioning for Sirius to follow her.
"Wait what's going on?" Mrs. Weasley asked jumping to her feet.
"I'm the new DADA teacher and Sirius is coming to Hogwarts with us cause I won't leave him her alone with Kreacher. You all seemed to abandon him last year after the kids when to school. I couldn't stay here all the time cause of my job as an Auror." Anna said sharply.
"Oh OK!" Mrs. Weasley said and sat back down.
"All right but I don't need a woman helping me with my cloths if you know what I mean." Sirius said.
"Fine take Harry or Remus with you." Anna said.
"Oh for crying out loud I know how to pack." Sirius said.
"I want to make sure it gets done today. Besides I've already sent you to pack once today. Now which one are you going to take up with you?" Anna said.
"Oh fine Wings. Come on Harry so she'll leave me alone." Sirius said. Then walked out of the door and noticed that Anna and Harry was following him. "What now Wings?" Sirius asked.
"Padfoot you big baby I'm just making sure you get up the stairs the first time. I'm not going into your room just making sure you don't fall down the stairs again." Anna said.
"Is that the only reason you're following me?" Sirius asked and slightly smirked at her.
"Just go pack." Anna said slapping Sirius in the back of the head.
"Ouch." Sirius said rubbing his head.
"I hate to say it Sirius but you deserved that." Harry said and smiled up at his godfather.
"You are exactly like James. He would have said the same thing." Sirius whined as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah but James would have been rolling in the floor laughing at you while he said it." Anna said laughing a little.
"True. but most likely he would have slapped me too if Lils would have been any where around." Sirius said.
"Oh god if you ever made him mad. You regretted it did you Sirius remember what poor Remus did to make him so mad." Anna said and laughed a little.
"What are you talking about me for?" Lupin asked coming out of the kitchen.
"Oh Moony remember what you did to make James so mad in out what first or second year." Sirius said.
"Oh don't even bring that up. He scared the bloody hell out of me." Lupin said stopping at the bottom of the stairs with the other three.
"What happened? Why was dad so mad at Professor Lupin for?" Harry asked a little confused.
"You can stop calling me Professor Harry just call me Remus or Lupin every one else does." Lupin said.
"You never wanted to make that man angry if you did all bloody hell broke loose." Anna said laughing at the look on Lupin's face.
"God he was horrible when he was angry. Knocked me off my broom during Quidditch practice. Nearly broke my leg. So it was Second year Sirius." Lupin said.
"Oh would one of you tell me what you're talking about please." Harry said looking up at the three.
"Oh sorry Harry. Remus here was caught out side of Potions class kissing and hugging Lily Evens. James caught them when class was over…" Anna said but was cut off by Lupin.
"I wasn't kissing and hugging her she was me." Lupin said defensively.
"Well anyway James got so mad. He liked Lily since the first year at Hogwarts and here was his best friend kissing her in the hall way when they were supposed to be in Potions class." Sirius said and was cut off by Lupin.
"I wasn't out there looking for her. She was crying sitting on the floor when I was on my way back to potions. I comforted her and she kissed me on the check then hugged me and thanked me." Lupin explained crossing his arms.
"Yeah but James. Oh my god, he was fit to be tied. He did every thing he could to black mail poor Remus. Now mind you this is before we found out he was a werewolf. Actually it was the incident where we found out. Well James found out. So Lupin had to prove he wasn't a werewolf…" Anna said but was stopped by Remus' whimpering.
"Oh shut up. That hurts." Remus whined.
"Anyway Moony here had the bright idea to eat one day with a silver fork. A whole hour of holding a silver fork and he did it too. Crazy nutter." Sirius said and Remus whimpered again.
"That hurts go on to some thing else." Remus said clinching his hands.
"Well after that James was back to square one trying to dig up blackmail on him. Well Remus here got a letter from his mum asking him questions about his monthly transformations and James got a hold of it. So he was back to calling Remus a werewolf again." Anna said and got interrupted by Lupin again.
"He scared the bloody hell out of me when he caught me trying to get back into the dorms after the full moon. him and these two here. course James scared me the most that stupid grin of his." Lupin said.
"We tried to talk to Moony about it but he shoved me into a wall and knocked James down then ran for it. Anna here was the only one that could sort of keep up being faster then us. So we let her go after him and we when the other way." Sirius said turning to Anna.
"Yea I was wondering where you two went. Anyway I finally got Remus here to stop so I could just talk to him. he started acting like the cutest little baby I've ever seen a teenager act." Anna said then smiled at Lupin.
"Oh shut up! You guy's were the only friends I had ever had. So I thought you'd be like every other person and blab it to the whole school. Come on I was only twelve it scared the hell out of me. The Ministry especially scared me." Lupin said.
"Oh he started rocking back and forth like a little child. He wouldn't even let me touch him. he was so scared. I finally got to where I could touch him and I cleaned a wound on his head then come two idiots yelling and scared him more." Anna said glaring at Sirius.
"Yeah she kicked into motherly mode though." Sirius said.
"Hey did you catch him yet!!" James and Sirius yelled as they got closer to the dark forest.
"No, no, no. look shhh…your fine Remus look I don't have any silver come here. I won't harm you. Those two are just idiots." A twelve year old Anna said reaching out her hand to a scared to death Remus as he rocked back and forth sitting on the ground.
"You're going to tell aren't you. What do you want from me?" A young Remus asked.
"Shhh Remus we don't want any thing come here. we won't hurt you I promise." Anna said.
"I'm going to have to leave now I know it. You'll tell the whole school." Remus said while starting to cry.
"No Remus we're not going to tell anyone. Oh come here. Shhh. Now come on you're fine. You're secrets safe Remus." Anna said hugging Remus so he'd stop crying she rocked back and forth with him to calm him down which was sort of working.
"Yeah right. He's been angry with me for a long time. He'll tell every one and I'll have to leave I know it." Remus said pointing at James.
"Remus yeah I try to get back at you for kissing Lils but we're friends and if I tell anyone it'll ruin your life completely. I won't ever tell anyone your secret." James said and smiled at Remus.
"I didn't even want her to kiss me and you got all mad at me. Now you've found out my secret. How can I trust you when you loose your temper so easily. You've tortured the bloody hell out of me this year. Knocking me off my broom and what not." Remus said threw his tears as he leaned on Anna who was rocking back and forth with on of her hands on his head.
"Remus he won't tell. That's one thing about James that is good, once he has given his word to a friend his mouth will never open again about it." Anna said and smiled down at the young Remus she still held in her arms.
"How do you know?" Remus asked between sobs.
"Remus look at me. Have you ever heard him say any thing about me." Anna asked.
"What do you mean?" Remus asked.
"Watch this." Anna said and transformed into an elegant owl beautiful black, white, and gray wings. Then she changed back into her normal form and smiled at Remus.
"I never new she could do that." Sirius said open-mouthed and James bit his lower lip.
"Did you ever hear him tell you I could do any thing like that?" Anna asked.
"No…" Remus said.
"Once he's given his word not another word about the subject will leave his mouth. Trust me he gave his word to me." Anna said and smiled at Remus.
"How do you do that?" Sirius asked stunned.
"I learned to do it when I was just three or four. I'm unregistered that's why I made James give me his word after we met when we were about nine. I accidentally transformed in front of him. couldn't really control it until we became friends." Anna said and smiled at James who was still biting his lip. "Come on lets get you up to bed you look like hell Remus. You're secret is safe don't ever worry about it." Anna said helping Remus up.
"I swear Remus I'll never say a word to anyone not even Peter or Lily. I never said any thing to Sirius about Anna." James said and smiled at Remus.
"Tell me about it." Sirius said. Then looked at Remus and Anna who were now looking at him. "I give you my word Remus, Anna I'll die before I tell any one." He said and smiled at them.
"I know Sirius." Anna said and smiled at him.
"Thanks you guys. You truly don't mind having a werewolf as a friend." Remus said.
"Of course not. Werewolf or just plain Remus J. Lupin, you are who you are no matter what." Anna said and smiled at him as she put his arm over her shoulder and started for the castle.
"There you are young man…oh no… Mr. Lupin did they find out?" a young nurse asked running toward him.
"Yes we did and we will be taking him to the hospital wing so don't even thing about it." Anna said.
"You are some strange individuals. Every one else would have tried to kill him. you've picked great friends Mr. Lupin that's for sure." The nurse said and smiled as Anna, James, and Sirius all helped Remus past her and into the castle.
"That was the longest day of my life. didn't get any sleep what so ever for two day's." Anna said happily as she finally finished the story.
"Dang my dad sure tried to get revenge didn't he." Harry said smiling at Lupin.
"Yeah but your dad never did tell a soul about me. Never once let it slip. He was the most trusting individual I have ever known. Heck they even learned to become Amnigusts to keep me company during my transformations." Lupin said and smiled at Harry.
"Would you have expected any thing less Remus. He was one of the most loyal people at Hogwarts. You, Sirius, James, Peter though I absolutely hate to say it, and my self were mainly the only one's who stood side by side with Dumbledore after our seventh year. Course that bloody rat was only there to get information. Damn little traitor." Anna said angrily.
"Oh don't even mention that little bastard." Sirius said angrily as he started up the stairs.
"I know what you mean Sirius." Lupin said starting up after him.
"Like I don't." Anna said following the two guys. "And to think I actually believed those stupid stories for a little while. But then I thought. Wait if Sirius did it he wouldn't have went after Peter cause he was too stupid and insugnificant of a wizard." Anna said.
"That's the same thing I thought." Lupin said.
"So you two thought I was the traitor." Sirius said.
"Sirius you thought it was us so don't go there. That's why you persisted on James changing his secret keeper to Peter." Anna said.
"Yeah I suspected every on but the one I should have." Sirius said sadly.
"I wasn't too happy that James picked you as the secret keeper to be completely honest. It was too obvious. Remus and myself were also sort of obvious. After you they'd have went to Remus and me then if all else failed Peter if he hadn't of betrayed us. I thought it best to have Peter as the secret Keeper too so I fill just as bad as you do Sirius. I trusted the little Bastered too." Anna said.
"No you don't I was the one to force James into making Peter the damn keeper. I shouldn't have. If I would have stayed the keeper James would still be alive along with Lily." Sirius said.
"Don't be stupid. You'd be dead along with my parents. Then I would have truly been alone." Harry said angrily bringing up the rear as they came to the top of the stairs.
"What makes you say that Harry?" Lupin asked.
"Think about it. Truth potions, torture, and so forth they would have dragged the information out of Sirius then killed him. after they did that they would have came after me and my parents killing them too." Harry said balling up his fists.
"by the time they had got the information out of me I would have been missing for quite a while and they would have moved your parents Harry." Sirius said.
"Yeah chose the next Keeper most likely Lupin here or Anna. Or even Peter now that would have been great whittle down at all of dads friends until Peter was left well once they used him my parents would have died anyway." Harry said.
"He's got a point Sirius. That's exactly the way it would have happened. We all would have been dead not just Lily and James. That's bad enough." Anna said sadly and looked down at the floor.
"I guess you're right Harry. But I can't help blaming my self." Sirius said.
"Just like I can't help but blame my self for when you got injured now you see what I mean. I can't just forget about it calling it the grown ups fault. It was mine." Harry said.
"No it wasn't Harry." Sirius said fermly.
"Then that Halloween night wasn't your fault darn it." Harry said angrily.
"Oh give up. He's just like James. Just as hot headed." Lupin said and smiled at Harry.
"I think I will give up arguing with him. it's useless arguing with him." Sirius said then walked into his room followed by Harry. Lupin set off down the hall for his room and Anna started back down the stairs too start lunch.
'Some times I think that man has a grudge against himself about that night. Though I can't really blame him. James' parents were murdered then Harry's was murdered. I won't let Harry orphan his kids if he has any.' Anna thought as she walked back into the kitchen to see Mrs. Weasley already cooking something.
"Hope you don't mind they said they were hungry." Molly said sheepishly.
"Don't worry I'm not going to bite your head off again. I was about to start on lunch myself. Just mind your peas and Q's about the parenting line I drew earlier." Anna said and smiled at Mrs. Weasley then started helping her with lunch.
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Authors Note: I'm glad that people think they are reading Book six. Yeah that means I'm doing something right, right? Well anyway hope you like this chapter. I thought it would be kind of cute to let every one know why Sirius calls Anna, Wings and sort of how she knows them. Don't you think so. Well anyway leave a review and tell me what you think.
THANKS,
Sirius **Padfoot