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Chapter 16
Dinner at the Weasley's on Hermione's first day was a little tense; to say the lease. Ginny, Hermione, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley sat on one side of the table, with Ron, Fred, George, and Percy on the other. Fred and George were unusually quiet, still subdued from their experience earlier; Ginny and Hermione glared at Ron whenever they had the chance, but he was oblivious to this (as usual), and Percy was in a mood after having one of his friends ditch him because she thought Cornelious Fudge was an idiot (which he was but nobody would ever convince Percy of this). The only ones who were actually talking at the table were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Halfway through the dinner Ginny and Hermione had enough of the tenseness and both jumped up at the same time, declaring, "We're going up to our room," then ran to the stairs and up them,
"I still can't believe you'd do that to us mum!" Fred exclaimed as soon as both of the girls were gone.
"Yeah! Shocking your own sons!" George chimed in.
"You did it to yourselves. Ginny asked me for help, which I gave, and it's your own fault you were shocked," Mrs. Weasley said sternly.
"Should I even ask?" Mr. Weasley said, glancing between the twins and his wife.
"Ginny asked me to place a charm around her room, shocking anybody who tried to eavesdrop on her. George and Fred tried to be sneaks so they were given a consequence for it," Mrs. Weasley glared at the twins as she said this.
"Boys...," Mr. Weasley said warningly. "I think we need to have a talk after dinner."
Percy looked at Fred and George as they groaned. "I hope you have learned your lesson," he said sternly.
"Oh sod off," the twins said together.
"Boys!" Mrs. Weasley shrieked.
"Oy. I think I'm gonna head upstairs too," Ron muttered, quickly heading for the stairs.
Once he was upstairs he headed for Ginny's room. He opened the door and walked in and sat down on the floor. "Things are getting crazy down there!" he exclaimed.
"Ron!" Ginny and Hermione both yelled. "This is my room Ron! Ever hear of knocking?" Ginny said angrily.
Ron jumped up and started inching towards the door. He really didn't want to deal with another angry redhead right now, after escaping from several downstairs.
"Oh bug it!" Ginny exclaimed. "Want me to get us something eat?" she asked Hermione.
"Sure," Hermione replied.
Ron moved out of Ginny's way before she could shove him through the door and down the stairs (which he was pretty sure she would do).
"Wow...what's her problem?" Ron asked, truly confused.
"You don't know?" Hermione growled in frustration.
"No, I don't!" Ron growled also. "I just asked you! And remember, right after you got here, I asked you to find out what's up with Ginny!"
"So what? You're just here to pump me for information?" Hermione was becoming even angrier at Ron.
"Well, what else would I want to pump you for?" Ron fired back at her. Once they both realized what he had said, the tips of Ron's ears turned red and Hermione just smirked; too angry at Ron to be embarrassed by it.
Ginny ran back into the room, unknowingly saving Ron for any further embarrassing comments. "I got food!" she announced brightly to Hermione, before noticing Ron was still there. "Oh...you're still here?" Ginny glared at Ron.
"Yeah well...umm...just leaving," he said as he backed over to the door and walk out.
Ginny immediately slammed her door shut again. "He still doesn't get it does he?" she asked Hermione.
"No," Hermione groaned. It was one thing for him to be so blind about Harry, but not even knowing why it was wrong to just burst into a girls' room was another. 'Harry!' she thought, suddenly remembering.
"Oh! Do you think I could borrow an owl to send a letter to Harry?" Hermione asked Ginny.
"Of course. Percy just got one, which will be easier to borrow then Pig. I'll be right back," Ginny promised as she opened her door and ran back out.
Hermione had just enough time to pull out her letter to Harry before Ginny came running back in, an owl on her shoulder.
"Here ya go," Ginny said, the owl flying over to Hermione and landing next to her. "Her name is Priscilla, Priss for short," Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Can you deliver this to Harry Potter at Hogwarts for me?" Hermione asked, tying the letter to the owl's leg. Priss hooted, her way of saying 'of course.' "Thank you. Please try to deliver it quickly." Hermione opened Ginny's window and Priss flew right out.
"Thanks Ginny," Hermione said gratefully, closing the window.
"No problem, Percy was glad to help...though he is probably still going on with his speech about friendship," Ginny laughed.
"Sounds like something he should be telling Ron," Hermione said dryly.
Suddenly both girls stomachs growled, making both of them blush.
"Well, I guess we should start in on the food I brought up," Ginny suggested.
Both of them sat on the floor and grabbed a sandwich from the tray. Since they were by themselves, they forwent manners and dug in hungrily.
"Much better then sitting at the table," Ginny smiled, swallowing part of her sandwich.
The two girls heard a loud screech from Mrs. Weasly downstairs.
"Oh yeah," Hermione agreed and both girls started laughing.
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(Back at Hogwarts)
Sirius had stayed with Harry until he was sure his godson was deep in sleep. Once he left the infirmary, he knew exactly where he needed to go. He ran out of the castle and transformed in to Padfoot before continuing to the Forbidden Forest. He ran until he couldn't anymore and started howling. He howled his anger at the Dursley's; he howled for what happened to Harry; and he howled his promise that now more harm would come to his godson.
He stayed in the forest for another half an hour before heading back to the castle. He stayed in his animagus form until he was right at the front door to Hogwarts. He came out of his form long enough to open the door, then was back to being Padfoot. He still had a little ways to go before he was to his room, and he didn't want anybody to see him and asked what was wrong. Once he was in front of the painting to his room he turned back to his usual self and gave the password 'marauders' and went in. He blindly made his way into one of the main room and collapsed onto a couch. He felt completely emotionally drained and just couldn't register anything.
That was how Sirius didn't even realized Remus had entered his room until he felt a hand on his shoulder. Sirius jumped up from the couch, ready to defend himself. Once he saw it was just Remus, he visibly relaxed and fell back onto the couch.
"Remus! What are you trying to do, give me a heart attack?" he exclaimed.
"No, I was trying to get your attention. I knocked on your portrait several times but finally let myself in when you didn't answer. I found you sitting here on the couch, staring off into space. I called your name but you didn't respond...I almost thought you were petrified," Remus explained, worry still heavy in his words.
"Oh," Sirius said quietly, going back to staring off into space.
"Sirius, what's wrong?" Remus asked, sitting down next to him on the couch. When he looked closer he noticed the tear stains on Sirius's face. "Hate to be redundant here, but what's wrong?" Remus said, becoming even more concerned about his friend.
"I can't believe it," Sirius whispered, "...what they did to him." Sirius closed his eyes and clenched his hands into tight fists.
Remus was confused, having no idea what Sirius was talking about. Wait...didn't he go see Harry earlier...?
"Is it Harry?" Remus asked.
"He didn't deserve any of that...he's been through so much in his short life...oh Merlin, I'll kill them!" Sirius whispered the first part but almost yelled the last. He jumped up and started pacing around the room, a maniacal look his eyes.
'This can't be good,' Remus thought. "What happened to Harry?" he asked Sirius, which stopped his pacing.
Sirius wanted to tell Remus but this was Harry's secret to tell...but Sirius needed someone to talk to about this. 'Arghh,' he growled to himself inwardly. "I can't say," Sirius sighed, going back to the couch.
"Is there anything I can do? To help you or Harry?" Remus asked gently, understanding that if Sirius said he couldn't tell, then he really couldn't.
"Just be there for Harry...not expecting anything out of him. Any you're my best friend Moony, but could you please leave me for now? I need some time to myself," Sirius said, sadness evident in his voice.
"Of course. Will you be coming up for breakfast tomorrow?" Remus asked, a little hurt that Sirius wanted him to leave, though he did understand.
"I'm not sure...it not, I'll come find you later on," Sirius promised.
Remus squeezed Sirius's shoulder before getting up and letting himself out.
Sirius could feel the tears that he held back during Remus's visit start to come out. "Oh Harry," he whispered, before putting his head in his hands and letting the tears flow out.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed this installment hehe ^_^ Danielle said she felt like crying so hey, to me thats always a good sign lol. Well, at the last part...the first part just made her laugh. Oh! and this isn't beta'd cause I wanted to go ahead and post this so if there any obvious mistakes, I'm sorry!
I kept meaning to do this but will hopefully keep up with it each chapter. Just wanted to thank all my wonderful reviewers! passionwriter4life, Wiccan PussyKat, JessieRose, aznviolin (beta!), evanescence55, Silvercrystal77, Kelei, lyss33 scholcomp25, Raven Potter Weasley, Mar-22, Elvett, ckat44, Kelei, LAURA, Aozora-Miyako Shuki, Makotochi, Earthmom, ILOVETOWRITE456, FantaSea-Dreamer, Sarah, Alexiel11, Isfad, athenakitty, Pakerin Pyros, amanda, FroBoy, Darkluminance, Wynjara
AN: Okay, for those Buffy fans reading this. There is a line in my story from Buffy. If you know which episode it is from you get 500 points to your house of choice; if you know what line it is, you get 200.
AN 2: My friend FantaSea-Dreamer finally posted her JAG story! So if you like JAG go read it! And even if you've never seen the show (which I haven't lol) it's still pretty good. So go read and review for her!!
Chapter 16
Dinner at the Weasley's on Hermione's first day was a little tense; to say the lease. Ginny, Hermione, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley sat on one side of the table, with Ron, Fred, George, and Percy on the other. Fred and George were unusually quiet, still subdued from their experience earlier; Ginny and Hermione glared at Ron whenever they had the chance, but he was oblivious to this (as usual), and Percy was in a mood after having one of his friends ditch him because she thought Cornelious Fudge was an idiot (which he was but nobody would ever convince Percy of this). The only ones who were actually talking at the table were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Halfway through the dinner Ginny and Hermione had enough of the tenseness and both jumped up at the same time, declaring, "We're going up to our room," then ran to the stairs and up them,
"I still can't believe you'd do that to us mum!" Fred exclaimed as soon as both of the girls were gone.
"Yeah! Shocking your own sons!" George chimed in.
"You did it to yourselves. Ginny asked me for help, which I gave, and it's your own fault you were shocked," Mrs. Weasley said sternly.
"Should I even ask?" Mr. Weasley said, glancing between the twins and his wife.
"Ginny asked me to place a charm around her room, shocking anybody who tried to eavesdrop on her. George and Fred tried to be sneaks so they were given a consequence for it," Mrs. Weasley glared at the twins as she said this.
"Boys...," Mr. Weasley said warningly. "I think we need to have a talk after dinner."
Percy looked at Fred and George as they groaned. "I hope you have learned your lesson," he said sternly.
"Oh sod off," the twins said together.
"Boys!" Mrs. Weasley shrieked.
"Oy. I think I'm gonna head upstairs too," Ron muttered, quickly heading for the stairs.
Once he was upstairs he headed for Ginny's room. He opened the door and walked in and sat down on the floor. "Things are getting crazy down there!" he exclaimed.
"Ron!" Ginny and Hermione both yelled. "This is my room Ron! Ever hear of knocking?" Ginny said angrily.
Ron jumped up and started inching towards the door. He really didn't want to deal with another angry redhead right now, after escaping from several downstairs.
"Oh bug it!" Ginny exclaimed. "Want me to get us something eat?" she asked Hermione.
"Sure," Hermione replied.
Ron moved out of Ginny's way before she could shove him through the door and down the stairs (which he was pretty sure she would do).
"Wow...what's her problem?" Ron asked, truly confused.
"You don't know?" Hermione growled in frustration.
"No, I don't!" Ron growled also. "I just asked you! And remember, right after you got here, I asked you to find out what's up with Ginny!"
"So what? You're just here to pump me for information?" Hermione was becoming even angrier at Ron.
"Well, what else would I want to pump you for?" Ron fired back at her. Once they both realized what he had said, the tips of Ron's ears turned red and Hermione just smirked; too angry at Ron to be embarrassed by it.
Ginny ran back into the room, unknowingly saving Ron for any further embarrassing comments. "I got food!" she announced brightly to Hermione, before noticing Ron was still there. "Oh...you're still here?" Ginny glared at Ron.
"Yeah well...umm...just leaving," he said as he backed over to the door and walk out.
Ginny immediately slammed her door shut again. "He still doesn't get it does he?" she asked Hermione.
"No," Hermione groaned. It was one thing for him to be so blind about Harry, but not even knowing why it was wrong to just burst into a girls' room was another. 'Harry!' she thought, suddenly remembering.
"Oh! Do you think I could borrow an owl to send a letter to Harry?" Hermione asked Ginny.
"Of course. Percy just got one, which will be easier to borrow then Pig. I'll be right back," Ginny promised as she opened her door and ran back out.
Hermione had just enough time to pull out her letter to Harry before Ginny came running back in, an owl on her shoulder.
"Here ya go," Ginny said, the owl flying over to Hermione and landing next to her. "Her name is Priscilla, Priss for short," Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Can you deliver this to Harry Potter at Hogwarts for me?" Hermione asked, tying the letter to the owl's leg. Priss hooted, her way of saying 'of course.' "Thank you. Please try to deliver it quickly." Hermione opened Ginny's window and Priss flew right out.
"Thanks Ginny," Hermione said gratefully, closing the window.
"No problem, Percy was glad to help...though he is probably still going on with his speech about friendship," Ginny laughed.
"Sounds like something he should be telling Ron," Hermione said dryly.
Suddenly both girls stomachs growled, making both of them blush.
"Well, I guess we should start in on the food I brought up," Ginny suggested.
Both of them sat on the floor and grabbed a sandwich from the tray. Since they were by themselves, they forwent manners and dug in hungrily.
"Much better then sitting at the table," Ginny smiled, swallowing part of her sandwich.
The two girls heard a loud screech from Mrs. Weasly downstairs.
"Oh yeah," Hermione agreed and both girls started laughing.
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(Back at Hogwarts)
Sirius had stayed with Harry until he was sure his godson was deep in sleep. Once he left the infirmary, he knew exactly where he needed to go. He ran out of the castle and transformed in to Padfoot before continuing to the Forbidden Forest. He ran until he couldn't anymore and started howling. He howled his anger at the Dursley's; he howled for what happened to Harry; and he howled his promise that now more harm would come to his godson.
He stayed in the forest for another half an hour before heading back to the castle. He stayed in his animagus form until he was right at the front door to Hogwarts. He came out of his form long enough to open the door, then was back to being Padfoot. He still had a little ways to go before he was to his room, and he didn't want anybody to see him and asked what was wrong. Once he was in front of the painting to his room he turned back to his usual self and gave the password 'marauders' and went in. He blindly made his way into one of the main room and collapsed onto a couch. He felt completely emotionally drained and just couldn't register anything.
That was how Sirius didn't even realized Remus had entered his room until he felt a hand on his shoulder. Sirius jumped up from the couch, ready to defend himself. Once he saw it was just Remus, he visibly relaxed and fell back onto the couch.
"Remus! What are you trying to do, give me a heart attack?" he exclaimed.
"No, I was trying to get your attention. I knocked on your portrait several times but finally let myself in when you didn't answer. I found you sitting here on the couch, staring off into space. I called your name but you didn't respond...I almost thought you were petrified," Remus explained, worry still heavy in his words.
"Oh," Sirius said quietly, going back to staring off into space.
"Sirius, what's wrong?" Remus asked, sitting down next to him on the couch. When he looked closer he noticed the tear stains on Sirius's face. "Hate to be redundant here, but what's wrong?" Remus said, becoming even more concerned about his friend.
"I can't believe it," Sirius whispered, "...what they did to him." Sirius closed his eyes and clenched his hands into tight fists.
Remus was confused, having no idea what Sirius was talking about. Wait...didn't he go see Harry earlier...?
"Is it Harry?" Remus asked.
"He didn't deserve any of that...he's been through so much in his short life...oh Merlin, I'll kill them!" Sirius whispered the first part but almost yelled the last. He jumped up and started pacing around the room, a maniacal look his eyes.
'This can't be good,' Remus thought. "What happened to Harry?" he asked Sirius, which stopped his pacing.
Sirius wanted to tell Remus but this was Harry's secret to tell...but Sirius needed someone to talk to about this. 'Arghh,' he growled to himself inwardly. "I can't say," Sirius sighed, going back to the couch.
"Is there anything I can do? To help you or Harry?" Remus asked gently, understanding that if Sirius said he couldn't tell, then he really couldn't.
"Just be there for Harry...not expecting anything out of him. Any you're my best friend Moony, but could you please leave me for now? I need some time to myself," Sirius said, sadness evident in his voice.
"Of course. Will you be coming up for breakfast tomorrow?" Remus asked, a little hurt that Sirius wanted him to leave, though he did understand.
"I'm not sure...it not, I'll come find you later on," Sirius promised.
Remus squeezed Sirius's shoulder before getting up and letting himself out.
Sirius could feel the tears that he held back during Remus's visit start to come out. "Oh Harry," he whispered, before putting his head in his hands and letting the tears flow out.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed this installment hehe ^_^ Danielle said she felt like crying so hey, to me thats always a good sign lol. Well, at the last part...the first part just made her laugh. Oh! and this isn't beta'd cause I wanted to go ahead and post this so if there any obvious mistakes, I'm sorry!
I kept meaning to do this but will hopefully keep up with it each chapter. Just wanted to thank all my wonderful reviewers! passionwriter4life, Wiccan PussyKat, JessieRose, aznviolin (beta!), evanescence55, Silvercrystal77, Kelei, lyss33 scholcomp25, Raven Potter Weasley, Mar-22, Elvett, ckat44, Kelei, LAURA, Aozora-Miyako Shuki, Makotochi, Earthmom, ILOVETOWRITE456, FantaSea-Dreamer, Sarah, Alexiel11, Isfad, athenakitty, Pakerin Pyros, amanda, FroBoy, Darkluminance, Wynjara
AN: Okay, for those Buffy fans reading this. There is a line in my story from Buffy. If you know which episode it is from you get 500 points to your house of choice; if you know what line it is, you get 200.
AN 2: My friend FantaSea-Dreamer finally posted her JAG story! So if you like JAG go read it! And even if you've never seen the show (which I haven't lol) it's still pretty good. So go read and review for her!!