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Chapter 2: A picture can say more than a thousand words.
Harry opened the door to his new room. It was amazing. There was a large four-poster bed, a closet, a mirror and a rocking chair by the window. He wondered for a while what Sirius and Remus were talking about. It was probably nothing important. After unpacking Harry did not have anything to do so he explored the upper floor, they probably wouldn't mind.
It was indeed an old house, he remembered how hard it had been to clean it the previous summer. While walking around he heard the outdoor slam shut, it was probably Remus since Sirius can't leave the house because the ministry of magic is still after him. Harry returned downstairs and in to the living room. A fire was burning in the hearth and some old photo-albums lay by the old wing chair. Harry was just about to sit down in the sofa and look in the albums when he heard Sirius's voice.
"Remus probably won't be back until tonight, he's going to Diagonalley and he's got to stop by at Hogwarts, so it's just you and me now. I see you've found my old albums".
"Oh, I'm sorry, you don't want me to look?"
"You can look as much as you want. We can look through them together if you want to" Sirius said smiling.
"Yes, that'd would be fun, the only picture I've seen of you is the one from my fathers wedding".
Sirius sat down next to Harry. He noticed that Sirius looked much younger. He was still a thin man but not as thin as he used to be, and his hair was clean and smelled good.
"Well well, this is a photo of all the marauders. It must have been a few weeks after we'd arrived at Hogwarts. The boy in the back, the tall one, that's your father, and the one to the left of him is Remus. I stand next to him, by Merlin I was short back then. The one sitting on the floor is Peter".
This is nice, Harry thought. He had never seen such old photographs of his father. Harry was really the spitting image of James.
"There are not many photos from our first years, most of them are from year 4 and on. This must be the Christmas in our fourth year. Peter is not there, he often went home for the holidays. It had been a full moon a few days before this picture was taken, you see how sick Remus looks".
Remus definitely looked ill, he had shades beneath his eyes, but he was still smiling.
"Um Sirius, I imagined you to be the ladies man, are there not any photos of some girls here?"
"Yes I was indeed lucky with the ladies. But the relationships were so brief I didn't bother taking their picture".
"So you never really found someone worth taking her picture?"
"You can say that I had, but I'll tell you about that some other day. Hey look, that's Remus and me in our fifth year".
Both Remus and Sirius looked very happy and they both looked good. They were sitting down by the lake were Harry, Ron and Hermione had sat many times.
"Look at the time! You can continue looking through the album if you want to Harry, I'm gonna start preparing dinner".
Harry enjoyed the wizard variant of photos much better than the muggle photos. As you know wizard photos are moving so they can really capture a moment. He looked through the album another time but when he came to the picture of Sirius and Remus by the lake he noticed something he didn't see before. If you looked really close you could see Remus stroking the top of Sirius's hand with his finger and they were both smiling wide. Harry slammed shut the album and left it in the sofa. He went into the kitchen and looked at his godfather. His mind must have been playing tricks with him, there was nothing "going on" between them, that he would have noticed before. Sirius turned around and looked at Harry.
"What's the matter Harry? You look worried..."
"It's nothing my mind was somewhere else...nothing important..."
Sirius nodded and returned to chopping vegetables. Sirius knew why Harry had a worried look. He did show him that photo on purpose. But after a while Harry did not think about the photo anymore, it had slipped out of his mind. During dinner, Harry was talking and laughing with Sirius as if he had not seen the photo of them. What Harry did not notice was the quick glances and smiles Sirius was giving him. Harry heard the door open. Remus was home.
"Any food left for me?" He yelled from the hall.
"You'll have to hurry if you want some" Sirius yelled back.
Remus joined them in the kitchen carrying some bags.
"Now, what have you been doing all day?" Harry asked.
"I've been to Flourish and Bott's and picked up the books I've ordered. I had to go to Hogwarts and visit Professor Snape, he has made me some wolfsbane that will last over the summer. And on my way home I made a quick stop at the Honeyduke's. Some whizzing whizzbees for you Sirius..." he threw a bag at Sirius.
"Thank you very much moony..." Sirius, said before ripping up the bag.
"And I don't really know what you like Harry, so I just bought you what I like the most" he said smiling.
He knelt down by Harry's chair and gave him a bag too.
"Wow! A large Honeyduke's chocolate bar! Thanks Remus!"
Harry turned to give him a hug, he was not used to people giving him stuff without reason. Remus returned the hug but stroked Harry's back with his hand. Harry shuddered, it felt weird and good at the same time hugging his old professor like this. He was 100 sure that was not just a friendly hug. Lupin looked up over Harry's shoulder and met Sirius's eyes. They both smiled.
Well know, I want lots of reviews! Please please please :) I've had lots of inspiration that's why this chapter is so long. If only me chemistry professor knew that I was writing this during class :DD
