Ring of Eternity- Chapter 11

Any muggle who might have been passing by the old Black Mansion... might have found it strange that three full grown men were wandering around the amongst a graveyard in the dead of night. Of course, no muggle would have been able to see them, because the house was enchanted. Passersby would look right past it as if it was not even there.
Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Alaster Moody happened to be those men.
They had divided up so they could find the right headstone faster. The Graveyard was very large, and surrounded by a black cast iron gate. The grass looked like it hadn't been tended too in many years, and was overgrown with many clumps of dead yellow grass throughout it.
Moody grumbled as he stumped through the grass.
"Just like them to have a cemetery as big as a Quidditch Field! Always had to have the best of everything... even when they were dead."
Lupin sighed.
"It's here somewhere. Just keep looking"
Lupin almost expected to find Sirius' headstone amongst the many diseased Blacks, but of course he knew that Sirius had absolutely refused to be considered one of the family. He so hated the majority of his family that he eventalked ofchanging his name back when he was in school. But they had all laughed about that back then.
It saddened Lupin to think of his lost best friend. It was still hard to believe that he was gone. Just like when they had lost James... and when he thought that Sirius had killed Peter. Peter was now the enemy, however.

"I found it!" shouted Kingsley waving to Lupin and Moody.
The three of them gathered around the old tombstone of Sirius' late brother Regulus.
No grass seemed capable of growing over it. Only slivers of dead, yellow grass just barely surfaced out of the rocky dirt.

Moody looked at the two of them.
"Well... now that we have found it... what's the plan? If it is a portkey we will probably end up somewhere right in the middle of a swarm of Deatheaters," he said. "Or there is a possibility that it no longer works. It could have been disabled by now."
Lupin nodded.
"That is possible. That is why I think, if it does work, one of us should stay behind. We should not sacrifice all of us incase something goes horrible wrong. We will need Dumbledore and the others to know where to go."

Kingsly nodded in agreement.

"Well I don't want to sit out here in a cemetery all night, so we best decide quickly." said Moody, moving his large blue eye to Lupin and then to Kingsly.