Darkness and Light

Chapter 20.

The disclaimer...(yes, not any old disclaimer, but THE disclaimer.) I can not have Hp. I must not have Sm. I shall not have HpSm crossovers....'cept this one.

A.N: No one told me what a Mary-Sue is! I need to know! I'm starting an LOTR fic and I want to make sure it's not a Mary-Sue!

And thank you to the people who have reviewed at any point in my story!

Angel of the white moon

mae - Questions! =) And I know I tell you this a lot, but sadly, you must wait. I really do want to tell you but I don't want to spoil it.

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Later that very Christmas day, the trio, Ginny, and Chibiusa went outside into the plethora of falling snowflakes and started to have a snowball fight. Harry and Hermione began using their wands to aim and fire some snowballs. But then two snowballs that seemed to come from no where hit them in the heads. Harry scraped the snow from his face and turned towards the entrance where Tonks, who looked as if she had been watching then for some time, sat on the steps innocently. The snow next to her had two big handfuls missing.

"Sorry, I had to do that." Tonks said.

"Erm...why?" Harry asked.

"You're were too...lucky, I suppose the word was. I can conjure a snowball, but if I tried to shoot it with my wand, It'd probably break someone's window. Really, I barely passed my test to be an Auror because I was so clumsy."

"You're an Auror?!" Hermione exclaimed. "But...if you're an Auror, why are you a substitute teacher?"

"Really, I'd think that you of all people would know that." Tonks said.

"...Because it's a Defense Against the Dark Arts class?"

"Well, I suppose that's one of my reasons." Tonks said. She looked at Harry and smiled. Suddenly Chibiusa jumped up and down, waving hand up as if she was in class.

"Oooh! Oooh! Mememememememe! I know!" She picked up a handful of snow and said, "You came here to protect Harry!" And with that she threw her snowball at his head. It landed and exploded on his already cold face.

"Correct again!" Tonks said. "That's two out of three, but the third, sadly shall have to wait a moment."

"Why's that?" Hermione said. At that moment, Sirius as the big black dog came out from the hole in the Whomping Willow. Which was quite odd because Harry had thought he went with Remus back to his house in Ireland when Cosmos came back. Also, Sirius usually did not come out into the open, and it was very open because there were students from other houses outside who recognized him from when he came into the Great Hall a while ago, and also Tonks. Sirius went right past Harry and to Tonks who began to pet him. After a while, he walked back where he came, though to the path to Hogsmede instead. And to the Gryffindors' astonishment, Tonks waved to them then followed Sirius. The five didn't say anything for a while then,

"I'm hungry," Ron said.

"Ron, did you just miss what happened?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah, Professor Tonks just went off with Sirius. She probably thought he was a stray." Ron said matter-of-factly.

"Or," Hermione said, "Professor Tonks, an Auror, could know that Sirius, an alleged criminal, is an unregistered Animagi!"

"Yeah, but Dumbledore could testify for him, couldn't him? I mean, what's the big deal; he's an assumed criminal-murdery person, not an actual murderer." Chibiusa said.

"Yes, you know that, I know that," Harry said, "but if things went as it should, Pettigrew wasn't the Secret Keeper and he didn't tell Voldemort where my parents were-"

"Yes, you wouldn't have a scar and your parents would be alive, and the world, which revolves around Harry James Potter, would be perfect..." Chibiusa said in a sarcastic voice. "Oh, except for the slight escape from Youma in Japan, the slight hostilities in America, the nuclear arsenal issue worldwide...the world doesn't revolve around you even if one of the many forces of evil's eye is upon you!"

"I never said it did!" Harry said growing angry.

"No, you didn't say, it you implied it." Chibiusa said, growing herself angry in turn. "Voldemort did not hurt and kill just those close to you!"

"I didn't say that either!"

"Well then don't bring it up all the time!" Chibiusa said.

"I didn't! You asked me about Sirius!"

"But then you brought up Sirius and your parents! A simple, 'Oh, I don't know,' or 'Because Fudge has no mind,' would have worked!"

"If all you're talking about is playing favorites about what yours, you and Cosmos-" Harry would have gone on, if not for the familiar wind around him and the chill in his spine. His eyes grew blurry as he remembered the image of the voice that spoke.

~Please! no more! You have needless anger towards her when you should be going after what you are worried about!~

The feeling left as quickly as it came. His eyes unclouded. Chibiusa had gone, and Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were looking at him worriedly. He figured out why when he realized the freezing cold snow on his neck. He had somehow fallen in that one second into the snow. Ron and Hermione gave him their arms and helped him up.

"Chibiusa went and got Madame Pomfrey," Ginny said.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"Because you were out for like five minutes!" Ron said. "Your eyes went all hazy and you just fell back."

"I did?"

The remaining trio nodded in conformation.

"Wait - what about Sirius?!" Harry exclaimed.

"We forgot all about him, we were too worried about - oh, come on, let's go!" Hermione said.

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I know this was short, but I had a reeeealy long project, plus the fact that I had to go on this long trip last week. I'll try to get the next one up tomorrow or the next day. Remember, more reviews, more pages, more updates.