"Good gods, I'm tired", Sirius sighed, slumping onto the bench and taking off his sunglasses.
"After that little bit of show", Severus commented contemptuouly, sitting down beside him.
"Not that, Fwooper-irritation-brains!" Sirius shot back at him. "I mean the mental feeling. Though I'm getting used to it now."
"Not an experience you can have every day, right", Remus agreed with a sarcastic smile. "Just imagine it were like that."
"Horrible. Wouldn't call that life." Sirius began to change to his normal clothes, and the others followed his example. "However, Sev, it was you who made the mistake, not me."
"I faced the greater risk with my tactics, that's all ", Severus growled. "Any problems with it, Dementor-food?"
"Now stop it!" Remus interrupted them. "All that bickering between you two, it's getting really childish. You can't even walk through a door without pushing each other through. We can't be enemies now when fighting a mighty opponent together, can't you see the point in it?"
Sirius shrugged, sighing. "As you wish, my friend. But what do we know about that strange folks, anyway?"
"Dumbledore's just telling the students. Shall we go out and listen?"
"Better not", Severus spoke up again. "I don't like the atmosphere out there now he's revealed himself. All that fear and insecureness in the air, you know."
"Right you are", Sirius sighed. "All we know is that their leader calls herself Great Witch Shudderstone or something like that. But what else?"
"Weren't you listening?" Severus said. "They're about twenty people at least, and they must be terribly powerful. Our scouts just panicked when they saw them. Have you ever heard something like that?"
"I fear we'll be promoted to scouts", Remus put in gloomily.
"I've been through worse, definitely." Sirius didn't like to remember the terrible Dementors of Azkaban, in whose custody he'd had to stay for the twelve darkest years of his life.
"Me too", Severus hinted darkly.
Remus laughed, but it was no happy laugh at all. "I seem to be joining a club of experienced heroes, then. Not afraid of a group of beings nobody yet was able to behold without fear, eh?"
"Talking of fear", Sirius said with a rather forced grin, "looking forward to our boggart practise tomorrow?"