Chapter 7
Meanwhile, Sybille and Remus were still up in the North Tower and just finishing up their tea.
"Are you going to read the tea leaves?" he asked.
She looked at him confused for a second, and then went back into her mystical voice. "Oh yes, of course—er—swirl the dregs three times and turn the cup upside down on its saucer." They did so. She looked down at her own and turned a bit pale. "The skull, the club, the rat... the bat and...the...the gr—the grim."
"I take it those aren't very good signs." She shook her head and looked to the window, then snatched the cup out of his hands. She gasped.
Remus shook his head. "Doesn't sound very good for either of us."
"Actually you have a lot of good signs."
Out of the blue, a large bat swooped through the window. It soared around the room and then tangled itself in Sybill's hair. She shrieked and tried to swat it away, it chomped down on her hand. The creature wriggled its way down to her neck and sunk in its teeth. The scent of blood heightened Lupin's senses. He grabbed the bat by the wing and flung it out the window with a growl.
Sybill had already rushed out of the room and down the ladder. But the landing below was not empty. A humongous shaggy black dog was sniffing around by the steps. It turned to her and growled. She couldn't find the sanity to string any words together. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The "grim" continued staring at something lying on the ground and stared down at it for a minute. Afterwards it turned and jumped at her. She screamed again. It licked the side of her face and vaulted out of the room. She whimpered. There was the sound of footsteps above.
"Don't worry that wasn't a vampire bat." Remus was staring down at her from the trap door, except she couldn't see his eyes because of his shades. "Are you all right?"
There were some nasty marks on her lifeline and on her neck. She ducked out of sight but the scent of her blood and perfume almost pinpointed where she was. He spoke calmly to her. "Honey just taught me new a healing spell, do you need it?"
"Yes...yes I think so," she said softly.
"I can't do it from up here, and I can't touch this ladder." he said, pacing around the trap door. "you'll have to come closer."
She glanced at the silver ladder skeptically and climbed back up to the Divination room. He knelt down to help her, accidently touching the silver. He snatched her and backed away from it. "Why'd you scream?"
She trembled and looked to the floor, and then looked up."I just saw a grim," she said somberly.
"Really?" He got a strange look. "What did this grim do?"
"It finished reading its book and it licked my face." She stared at him seriously. "You know what a grim means, dear?"
"Yes," He raised an eyebrow and then realized what she was saying. "Oh," he said, "you think I'm going to kill you."
"Well, I suppose it is a rather ridiculous thought." She looked out the window again. "Very ridiculous."
"Let me see your wounds," he said, flipping out his wand. "My goodness its really dark in here." He took off his sunglasses. She gave a soft scream.
"Your eyes..." She tilted her head. "Dear, what yellow eyes you have!"
"What?" he put a hand to his temple. If Honey wasn't so sweet, he would have been rather furious that she didn't mention this. "Uh, its—part of my costume..." He grabbed Sybill's hand and said firmly, "Caffeine Carbonate." The bitemarks disappeared with a tingling sensation. "You'll need to, um, take off your hood."
Sibyll awkwardly did so, but her hands dropped when she looked back at him. "What is with your hair?"
Remus's voice quivered. "Muggle hair gel." He lifted her hair and said, "Caffeine Carbonate."
"Your teeth are awfully pointy..." Sybill whispered.
He had run out of excuses. He sighed and gave her a wolvish grin. "Really its not—"
She began to cry."Oh, I knew this day would come. Its punishment that's what it is, punishment for all my lies and practices! But of all things to happen! Everything, everything I've done was for you! I did my hair, I dressed like a—floozy—, I faked my grades, I ran around this school legally blind! And now—ohhhh!!"
She cried on his shoulder.
"Its all right, I'm not going to...hurt you." He turned away from her intoxicating perfumed and patted her on the back. "but why didn't you just tell me about— you know."
"Because I thought you'd think I was some kind of basket case," she said looking up, and then went back to hugging and crying.
"Well, most of my friends are basket cases."
"You are way too nice, Remus Lupin," she said, removing her glasses. "Way too nice." She threw her arms around his neck and brought her lips to his.
"The last word of the incantation is Esaelp," said Sirius.
"and here's your necklace." Severus handed it to her.
"How the heck did you get that?" Sirius asked.
Severus smiled, looking very dark and mysterious, except he was dressed in a cheesy pirate costume. "How'd you get past Filch?"
"Talent." Sirius sneerd.
"Boys, thank you both. Now let's just see if it will work." Honey slowly let the necklace drape around her neck, her pupils dilating into starlike gems in the center of a honeycomb set with gold and orange in a fairy's castle. She she pointed her wand at her head. "Erehw eht kceh si semaJ Esaelp." Severus looked frightened. Her pupils went back to normal. "He's at Hagrids!" she let out in one breath, falling into her lover's arms. There was the sound of a window opening somewhere.
"My goodness did you just hear somethin'?" Honey asked.
Sirius said, "Why doesn't "Sevy" take a look over by the North Tower."
Severus gave Sirius a look of hatred and went over by the North Tower. He restrained a girly scream as a very familiar shadowy figure with yellow eyes and very pointy teeth jumped down in front of him.
"Not again!" Severus whipped out his wand.
"What are you doing here?" Remus asked Snape, turning away from him to look up at the rope from which he had just climbed down. Severus kept his wand held up high, Remus sighed. "Honestly, I promise you I'm safe tonight." He looked back up at the North Tower, which a girl in a Sailor Moon™ length skirt was climbing down the side. Severus watched as well.
Remus, Sibyll and Severus went back over to Honey and Sirius.
"Find anything, Sevy?" Sirius laughed, fingering his hair.
"You did that on purpose, you knew he was going to—" Severus hissed, narrowing his eyes.
"Boys, if we really want to save James, unity is our only chance!" Honey pontificated, punching the air.
"Unity...What I don't understand is why she chose Potter of all people." Severus murmured, gazing the sky.
"Sibyll just prophecized something about the death of Ravenclaws heir, but I seriously don't think that its James." Remus said, a bead of sweat forming at his brow.
"...Ravenclaw's heir will die that be Lily?" Honey undertoned, humming a song.
Remus's breathing was growing rapid as each person spoke.
"Why would you think that?" Sybill queried, biting her nail.
"Because you've predicted her death 452 times in the past month," Honey wheezed, batting her eyes.
"Stop it please!" Remus howled, then literally howled.
"Stop what?" the group questioned, looking at him.
"Nothing— what's this about James kidnapped?"
"Well, someone has gone to strikingly elaborate lengths to get us all out of the way tonight so she could kidnap James., and she's taken him to Hagrid's hut. Ruby, I mean Rubeus, is at a Gamekeeper's convention." She looked at the wolf-boy strangely. "Remy, why do you have lipstick all over over your face?" There was a brief silence.
"Let's go hunt some Slytherins." Sirius said.
"Well, now that you're set up. Good luck, then," said Severus, patting Sirius on the shoulder.
"You're not coming with us?" Honey asked.
"Why would I want to save the object of my loathing who has continuously tortured me since I first got on the Hogwarts Express?"
"Because he saved you last year!" Honey furrowed her brow. "He saved you from a werewolf!"
"Well I guess it was in vain, because I—as you would say— ain't goin' over thay-air."
"Severus I will never speak to you ever again!" Honey shouted, "Goodbye forever!"
Remus, Sibyll, and Sirius watched in awe as the couple shared another goodbye kiss.
"Well I guess I could maybe help— no I'm still not going to go!" Severus backed away frantically.
"Then you'd better go away." Honey said as Sirius put his arm around her. Severus hesitated.
"Grrr." Remus said. Severus bolted.
"Okay, this should be easy because they don't know we're coming. We can sneak up on them. Sirius, why don't you go around the back and the rest of us will just go head on. But I think first that we should..." she glanced at Sibyll, "y'know."
Remus put his hand over Sibyll's eyes for a moment. There now was a golden retriever at her feet.
So the three of them went around to sneak up at Hagrid's hut when...
Honey was abruptly zapped back into human form by a spell.
"Expelliarmus!"
A large stag, strangely reminiscent of a certain big-eyed Disney character we all know and love, was chained to the fence. A hooded an masked person was standing at the top of the pumpkins, while 3 others dressed the same stood around her.
"Well, well, well...what have we here?" said Death Eater #2, whose voice was deep and aristocratically elegant.
"2 floozies and a freak." Death Eater #47 said, his voice cracking.
"Silence!" The death eater on the pumpkins spoke in an accent reminiscent of Elizabeth Hurley.
"Who are you people?" Honey asked.
"Your worst nightmare, Sugar. It was I who is responsible for Lily's condition, it was because of me that James discovered Sirius went out with Lily, and it was I who paid Sidney Zabini to insult you that one day. It has been my plan all along —aahhhhhheeek!" She swatted as a bat tangled itself in her hood and then flew away and across the moon. "—to kill this boy before he can sire the bane of my master," she continued calmly.
A lone tear trembled down Honey's cheekbone as the biggest smile anyone had ever seen spread on her face.
"What do you mean?" Remus asked.
"Well, as you all can tell I do know an awful lot more than I really should. Its because unknown to anyone but myself, not even Dumbledore, we have a real Seer in our midst."
"Who?" Trelawney asked.
The mysterious female deatheater continued droning. "So anyway, with a strange amount of luck this person only randomly prophecizes every once in a while, but I have been lucky to fortunately be in the vicinity when it happens, and everybody thinks this person is a fake, so I just exploit her all I want and everbody thinks I'm clever."
"Oh, you evil woman!" Honey hissed.
The deatheater was not offended. "So anyway she..this person told me that James was going to have a child who could kill my Voldy—I mean the Dark Lord and so I figured I'd just kill James."
"Then why haven't you killed him yet?"
"Well, I was thinking to just Avada him, but then Rosmerta just gave me a great recipe for venison."
"Y'all are sick!" Honey screamed. "Sick, that's just SICK!"
The evil deatheater cackled. "Kill the monster and the American, save the skinny one for later use."
"Dude..." said the aristocratically elegant death eater.
"We can torture the prophecies out of her."
Honey saw the bat from before sillohette against the moon. Suddenly a new courage rose in her bosom as she felt a surge of adrenaline. Her amber eyes were slowly beginning to change to vibrant blue, her weird glass pendant was glowing all weirdly, and her hair was all floating around. From her necklace spouted a ray of light which caused the deatheaters to jump in surprise.
"Run for it!" Honey shouted as they were distracted. So Remus grabbed Sybil and they ran.
"Get them!" the woman shouted, and Death Eaters #47 and #2 rushed after them. She zapped Honey with a powerful purple pinching spell that knocked her to the ground in horrible agony.
"Join me, we'll take over the world!" The woman death eater cackled.
"Sure." Honey said.
"Then you shall—wha?"
"Just kidding," Honey stuck her tongue out.
"Why would you even ask that? You think she's going to say yes after you beat her up?" James asked, turning into a human as Sirius untied his bonds.
"You...shut up and turn back into a deer!" screamed the woman. Sirius tossed Honey her wand.
"I'd do something, but I'm blind without my glasses." James squinted.
"Go give these Remus and Sibyll." Sirius handed him the wands and the boy tottered of. Sirius turned to the third member of this evil gang, Death Eater #118790, who was blowing bubble gum through his mask. "You, let's duel."
"'kay." So they did. Everyone. Dueling. But Honey's duel was the most exciting.
In a matter of minutes the death eater was on the ground, considerably beaten. Honey stood there, her wand raised. "Now I shall turn you in to the proper authorities!"
"You don't want to do this!"
"I don't want to do this," said Honey, a breeze gently blowing her blondish, reddish, brownish rippling hair. "I have to."
The evil death eater's voice changed from psychotically insane to smooth and seductive again. "I know who your father is."
"How?" Honey's light went out.
"Jennifer told Britney that Tabitha said that Darwin said that Rosmerta said that Bob knows this guy who works at St. Mungos who changes the sheets who told him about the mysterious lover of Dumbledore's daughter, Debbie, who told Rosmerta who then told Darwin who told Tabitha, who told Jennifer who told Britney, who was overheard by—Xeter Xettigrew—(who's name has been changed for his protection) who told her," said Death eater #118790, pointing to the woman death eater. He then ran off, Sirius at his heels.
Honey froze in place.
"Expelliarmus!" shouted the woman, Honey's rinestoned wand flying quantaciously into the woman's claw like hand. "Time to die, Sweety! Ava—" She raised her wand, but was suddenly struck down by another spell.
"I don't think so," said Severus Snape, lowering his wand.
"Sevy! I knew you would never let me down!" Honey cried as she rushed at him. He caught her in his arms and swung her around.
"Well what do know, he did come back. And you owe me 10 galleons." Remus said with a small smile as the others came into the vicinity. Sirius reluctantly handed him the money.
"The others got away," said Sibyll, "but they will come to justice one day."
"Well, now I think we'd better unmask—hang on, where'd she go?" Sirius looked around every which way.
Now where the woman had laid was nothing but a black widow spider.
"How did she do that? How did she know exactly who was coming? How'd she know Remy was a werewolf? How did she know I was an animagus?" Honey looked around and whispered. "How did she know that I didn't know my father?"
"I don't know about your father," said James, "but she dropped this." He held up the Marauder's Map.
"You know what this means?" Sirius asked.
"She must have hit Peter with a large blunt object and stolen it from him!" James exclaimed, "the poor kid. I blame myself."
The 7 of them stood there, looking around at some of the smashed pumpkins and the unnatural moon. Finally Remus spoke."Well, we'd better get back to our dorms."
"Goodnight...Severus."
"'Night, Sybill."
"Goodnight, Honey."
"Pleasant dreams, Remus."
"Goodnight, Sirius."
"Goodnight, James."
Meanwhile, Sybille and Remus were still up in the North Tower and just finishing up their tea.
"Are you going to read the tea leaves?" he asked.
She looked at him confused for a second, and then went back into her mystical voice. "Oh yes, of course—er—swirl the dregs three times and turn the cup upside down on its saucer." They did so. She looked down at her own and turned a bit pale. "The skull, the club, the rat... the bat and...the...the gr—the grim."
"I take it those aren't very good signs." She shook her head and looked to the window, then snatched the cup out of his hands. She gasped.
Remus shook his head. "Doesn't sound very good for either of us."
"Actually you have a lot of good signs."
Out of the blue, a large bat swooped through the window. It soared around the room and then tangled itself in Sybill's hair. She shrieked and tried to swat it away, it chomped down on her hand. The creature wriggled its way down to her neck and sunk in its teeth. The scent of blood heightened Lupin's senses. He grabbed the bat by the wing and flung it out the window with a growl.
Sybill had already rushed out of the room and down the ladder. But the landing below was not empty. A humongous shaggy black dog was sniffing around by the steps. It turned to her and growled. She couldn't find the sanity to string any words together. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The "grim" continued staring at something lying on the ground and stared down at it for a minute. Afterwards it turned and jumped at her. She screamed again. It licked the side of her face and vaulted out of the room. She whimpered. There was the sound of footsteps above.
"Don't worry that wasn't a vampire bat." Remus was staring down at her from the trap door, except she couldn't see his eyes because of his shades. "Are you all right?"
There were some nasty marks on her lifeline and on her neck. She ducked out of sight but the scent of her blood and perfume almost pinpointed where she was. He spoke calmly to her. "Honey just taught me new a healing spell, do you need it?"
"Yes...yes I think so," she said softly.
"I can't do it from up here, and I can't touch this ladder." he said, pacing around the trap door. "you'll have to come closer."
She glanced at the silver ladder skeptically and climbed back up to the Divination room. He knelt down to help her, accidently touching the silver. He snatched her and backed away from it. "Why'd you scream?"
She trembled and looked to the floor, and then looked up."I just saw a grim," she said somberly.
"Really?" He got a strange look. "What did this grim do?"
"It finished reading its book and it licked my face." She stared at him seriously. "You know what a grim means, dear?"
"Yes," He raised an eyebrow and then realized what she was saying. "Oh," he said, "you think I'm going to kill you."
"Well, I suppose it is a rather ridiculous thought." She looked out the window again. "Very ridiculous."
"Let me see your wounds," he said, flipping out his wand. "My goodness its really dark in here." He took off his sunglasses. She gave a soft scream.
"Your eyes..." She tilted her head. "Dear, what yellow eyes you have!"
"What?" he put a hand to his temple. If Honey wasn't so sweet, he would have been rather furious that she didn't mention this. "Uh, its—part of my costume..." He grabbed Sybill's hand and said firmly, "Caffeine Carbonate." The bitemarks disappeared with a tingling sensation. "You'll need to, um, take off your hood."
Sibyll awkwardly did so, but her hands dropped when she looked back at him. "What is with your hair?"
Remus's voice quivered. "Muggle hair gel." He lifted her hair and said, "Caffeine Carbonate."
"Your teeth are awfully pointy..." Sybill whispered.
He had run out of excuses. He sighed and gave her a wolvish grin. "Really its not—"
She began to cry."Oh, I knew this day would come. Its punishment that's what it is, punishment for all my lies and practices! But of all things to happen! Everything, everything I've done was for you! I did my hair, I dressed like a—floozy—, I faked my grades, I ran around this school legally blind! And now—ohhhh!!"
She cried on his shoulder.
"Its all right, I'm not going to...hurt you." He turned away from her intoxicating perfumed and patted her on the back. "but why didn't you just tell me about— you know."
"Because I thought you'd think I was some kind of basket case," she said looking up, and then went back to hugging and crying.
"Well, most of my friends are basket cases."
"You are way too nice, Remus Lupin," she said, removing her glasses. "Way too nice." She threw her arms around his neck and brought her lips to his.
"The last word of the incantation is Esaelp," said Sirius.
"and here's your necklace." Severus handed it to her.
"How the heck did you get that?" Sirius asked.
Severus smiled, looking very dark and mysterious, except he was dressed in a cheesy pirate costume. "How'd you get past Filch?"
"Talent." Sirius sneerd.
"Boys, thank you both. Now let's just see if it will work." Honey slowly let the necklace drape around her neck, her pupils dilating into starlike gems in the center of a honeycomb set with gold and orange in a fairy's castle. She she pointed her wand at her head. "Erehw eht kceh si semaJ Esaelp." Severus looked frightened. Her pupils went back to normal. "He's at Hagrids!" she let out in one breath, falling into her lover's arms. There was the sound of a window opening somewhere.
"My goodness did you just hear somethin'?" Honey asked.
Sirius said, "Why doesn't "Sevy" take a look over by the North Tower."
Severus gave Sirius a look of hatred and went over by the North Tower. He restrained a girly scream as a very familiar shadowy figure with yellow eyes and very pointy teeth jumped down in front of him.
"Not again!" Severus whipped out his wand.
"What are you doing here?" Remus asked Snape, turning away from him to look up at the rope from which he had just climbed down. Severus kept his wand held up high, Remus sighed. "Honestly, I promise you I'm safe tonight." He looked back up at the North Tower, which a girl in a Sailor Moon™ length skirt was climbing down the side. Severus watched as well.
Remus, Sibyll and Severus went back over to Honey and Sirius.
"Find anything, Sevy?" Sirius laughed, fingering his hair.
"You did that on purpose, you knew he was going to—" Severus hissed, narrowing his eyes.
"Boys, if we really want to save James, unity is our only chance!" Honey pontificated, punching the air.
"Unity...What I don't understand is why she chose Potter of all people." Severus murmured, gazing the sky.
"Sibyll just prophecized something about the death of Ravenclaws heir, but I seriously don't think that its James." Remus said, a bead of sweat forming at his brow.
"...Ravenclaw's heir will die that be Lily?" Honey undertoned, humming a song.
Remus's breathing was growing rapid as each person spoke.
"Why would you think that?" Sybill queried, biting her nail.
"Because you've predicted her death 452 times in the past month," Honey wheezed, batting her eyes.
"Stop it please!" Remus howled, then literally howled.
"Stop what?" the group questioned, looking at him.
"Nothing— what's this about James kidnapped?"
"Well, someone has gone to strikingly elaborate lengths to get us all out of the way tonight so she could kidnap James., and she's taken him to Hagrid's hut. Ruby, I mean Rubeus, is at a Gamekeeper's convention." She looked at the wolf-boy strangely. "Remy, why do you have lipstick all over over your face?" There was a brief silence.
"Let's go hunt some Slytherins." Sirius said.
"Well, now that you're set up. Good luck, then," said Severus, patting Sirius on the shoulder.
"You're not coming with us?" Honey asked.
"Why would I want to save the object of my loathing who has continuously tortured me since I first got on the Hogwarts Express?"
"Because he saved you last year!" Honey furrowed her brow. "He saved you from a werewolf!"
"Well I guess it was in vain, because I—as you would say— ain't goin' over thay-air."
"Severus I will never speak to you ever again!" Honey shouted, "Goodbye forever!"
Remus, Sibyll, and Sirius watched in awe as the couple shared another goodbye kiss.
"Well I guess I could maybe help— no I'm still not going to go!" Severus backed away frantically.
"Then you'd better go away." Honey said as Sirius put his arm around her. Severus hesitated.
"Grrr." Remus said. Severus bolted.
"Okay, this should be easy because they don't know we're coming. We can sneak up on them. Sirius, why don't you go around the back and the rest of us will just go head on. But I think first that we should..." she glanced at Sibyll, "y'know."
Remus put his hand over Sibyll's eyes for a moment. There now was a golden retriever at her feet.
So the three of them went around to sneak up at Hagrid's hut when...
Honey was abruptly zapped back into human form by a spell.
"Expelliarmus!"
A large stag, strangely reminiscent of a certain big-eyed Disney character we all know and love, was chained to the fence. A hooded an masked person was standing at the top of the pumpkins, while 3 others dressed the same stood around her.
"Well, well, well...what have we here?" said Death Eater #2, whose voice was deep and aristocratically elegant.
"2 floozies and a freak." Death Eater #47 said, his voice cracking.
"Silence!" The death eater on the pumpkins spoke in an accent reminiscent of Elizabeth Hurley.
"Who are you people?" Honey asked.
"Your worst nightmare, Sugar. It was I who is responsible for Lily's condition, it was because of me that James discovered Sirius went out with Lily, and it was I who paid Sidney Zabini to insult you that one day. It has been my plan all along —aahhhhhheeek!" She swatted as a bat tangled itself in her hood and then flew away and across the moon. "—to kill this boy before he can sire the bane of my master," she continued calmly.
A lone tear trembled down Honey's cheekbone as the biggest smile anyone had ever seen spread on her face.
"What do you mean?" Remus asked.
"Well, as you all can tell I do know an awful lot more than I really should. Its because unknown to anyone but myself, not even Dumbledore, we have a real Seer in our midst."
"Who?" Trelawney asked.
The mysterious female deatheater continued droning. "So anyway, with a strange amount of luck this person only randomly prophecizes every once in a while, but I have been lucky to fortunately be in the vicinity when it happens, and everybody thinks this person is a fake, so I just exploit her all I want and everbody thinks I'm clever."
"Oh, you evil woman!" Honey hissed.
The deatheater was not offended. "So anyway she..this person told me that James was going to have a child who could kill my Voldy—I mean the Dark Lord and so I figured I'd just kill James."
"Then why haven't you killed him yet?"
"Well, I was thinking to just Avada him, but then Rosmerta just gave me a great recipe for venison."
"Y'all are sick!" Honey screamed. "Sick, that's just SICK!"
The evil deatheater cackled. "Kill the monster and the American, save the skinny one for later use."
"Dude..." said the aristocratically elegant death eater.
"We can torture the prophecies out of her."
Honey saw the bat from before sillohette against the moon. Suddenly a new courage rose in her bosom as she felt a surge of adrenaline. Her amber eyes were slowly beginning to change to vibrant blue, her weird glass pendant was glowing all weirdly, and her hair was all floating around. From her necklace spouted a ray of light which caused the deatheaters to jump in surprise.
"Run for it!" Honey shouted as they were distracted. So Remus grabbed Sybil and they ran.
"Get them!" the woman shouted, and Death Eaters #47 and #2 rushed after them. She zapped Honey with a powerful purple pinching spell that knocked her to the ground in horrible agony.
"Join me, we'll take over the world!" The woman death eater cackled.
"Sure." Honey said.
"Then you shall—wha?"
"Just kidding," Honey stuck her tongue out.
"Why would you even ask that? You think she's going to say yes after you beat her up?" James asked, turning into a human as Sirius untied his bonds.
"You...shut up and turn back into a deer!" screamed the woman. Sirius tossed Honey her wand.
"I'd do something, but I'm blind without my glasses." James squinted.
"Go give these Remus and Sibyll." Sirius handed him the wands and the boy tottered of. Sirius turned to the third member of this evil gang, Death Eater #118790, who was blowing bubble gum through his mask. "You, let's duel."
"'kay." So they did. Everyone. Dueling. But Honey's duel was the most exciting.
In a matter of minutes the death eater was on the ground, considerably beaten. Honey stood there, her wand raised. "Now I shall turn you in to the proper authorities!"
"You don't want to do this!"
"I don't want to do this," said Honey, a breeze gently blowing her blondish, reddish, brownish rippling hair. "I have to."
The evil death eater's voice changed from psychotically insane to smooth and seductive again. "I know who your father is."
"How?" Honey's light went out.
"Jennifer told Britney that Tabitha said that Darwin said that Rosmerta said that Bob knows this guy who works at St. Mungos who changes the sheets who told him about the mysterious lover of Dumbledore's daughter, Debbie, who told Rosmerta who then told Darwin who told Tabitha, who told Jennifer who told Britney, who was overheard by—Xeter Xettigrew—(who's name has been changed for his protection) who told her," said Death eater #118790, pointing to the woman death eater. He then ran off, Sirius at his heels.
Honey froze in place.
"Expelliarmus!" shouted the woman, Honey's rinestoned wand flying quantaciously into the woman's claw like hand. "Time to die, Sweety! Ava—" She raised her wand, but was suddenly struck down by another spell.
"I don't think so," said Severus Snape, lowering his wand.
"Sevy! I knew you would never let me down!" Honey cried as she rushed at him. He caught her in his arms and swung her around.
"Well what do know, he did come back. And you owe me 10 galleons." Remus said with a small smile as the others came into the vicinity. Sirius reluctantly handed him the money.
"The others got away," said Sibyll, "but they will come to justice one day."
"Well, now I think we'd better unmask—hang on, where'd she go?" Sirius looked around every which way.
Now where the woman had laid was nothing but a black widow spider.
"How did she do that? How did she know exactly who was coming? How'd she know Remy was a werewolf? How did she know I was an animagus?" Honey looked around and whispered. "How did she know that I didn't know my father?"
"I don't know about your father," said James, "but she dropped this." He held up the Marauder's Map.
"You know what this means?" Sirius asked.
"She must have hit Peter with a large blunt object and stolen it from him!" James exclaimed, "the poor kid. I blame myself."
The 7 of them stood there, looking around at some of the smashed pumpkins and the unnatural moon. Finally Remus spoke."Well, we'd better get back to our dorms."
"Goodnight...Severus."
"'Night, Sybill."
"Goodnight, Honey."
"Pleasant dreams, Remus."
"Goodnight, Sirius."
"Goodnight, James."