Remus sat alone in the Shrieking Shack. He was in his own mind, courtesy of
the Potion Harry had given him, but. Harry wasn't there. Remus was, as said
before, alone.
Maybe Harry was just a little late, after all, he was probably a really busy person. er. werewolf. That's it! Remus thought. Nothing to worry about.
~*~
"Shoosh Sirius." James said, he and Sirius were under the invisibility cloak when they saw a smallish, yet seemingly powerful, werewolf make his own way to the Whomping Willow and down the slide.
James and Sirius gulped. That definitely wasn't Remus. The werewolf, from what they could see, had only one eye. Then again, it may have been a trick of the moon light.
"Come on James, let's get down there quickly, it didn't appear too dangerous, and we can change into our animals just to be sure."
James looked at Sirius in the dark, he seemed certain that he wanted to go down there, so James nodded.
~*~
Remus ears perked up. He could hear the hurried patting of feet. Maybe it was Harry. Then again, it could have been James and Sirius.
Remus was at present curled up on the four poster bed and was looking at a book that he had immense trouble opening.
The door opened and in came a werewolf. Remus jumped and hit his head in surprise. The poor thing had only one eye!
'It's me, Remus. Harry.' The werewolf said and Remus realized why Harry never let his face be seen, it must look pretty freaky for him to have only one human eye, it even looked weird when he was a wolf.
'Harry?' Remus asked nervously. 'What happened to your eye?'
It would have been odd to anyone who was listening, hearing the two wolves conversing quietly, since most only ever howled when they were in need of something.
'Oh. My Uncle. er. Foster father sort of decided to cut it up.' Harry yowled casually.
'WHAT?' Remus barked.
'You heard. But anyway, let's not stay this whole time discussing me. How does it feel to be in your own mind? If you wanted, we could go out, because now it's just like an animagus form, apart from the fact that you can't chose to be in the form or not.'
'It feels excellent. I always wondered what it would be like to become an animagus, but my werewolf genes take the ability away from me. I guess you're not an animagus?'
'I am, but only because I was bitten after I was well adept to change into my animagus form.' Harry said. Remus was rather surprised, and it must have shown on his face because Harry gave a throaty growl, equivelant to a chuckle.
'But I thought that it would be taken away from you once you were bitten. What is your animal anyway?' Remus barked softly.
'If I told you, then I wouldn't be able to make sure you and your friends stayed out of trouble would I?' Harry asked lightly.
'Well, you're our age, you should know what its like.' Little did he know, Harry could hardly remember what it was like to be a child, that was taken away from him two and a bit years ago, at Voldemort's rebirth.
'I don't actually.' Harry sighed, it sounded like a soft snort coming from the wolf. 'Would you like to perhaps go into the forest tonight?' Harry asked, obviously changing the subject. Remus let it go.
'Alright.' Remus agreed and the two left the shrieking shack together, down the tunnel towards the willow.
~*~
'Do you hear that?' Sirius whined.
'Sounds like Moony and his company are on their way down.' James replied softly. (I don't know how you would explain a stag's voice. Sorry.)
'Maybe we should hide, it could be a trap?' Sirius yipped.
'Well, they are werewolves, so they would have already heard us yipping and yapping.' James snorted.
~*~
'Did you hear that?' Harry asked, making himself sound suspicious, he noticed Remus squirm uncomfortably.
'Uh. Yeah.' Remus agreed. Harry smirked as well as a werewolf could.
'OK. Let's go and see what it was.' He said. 'Don't you dare tell anyone about me, either Remus.' Harry said sternly.
'I wont. But maybe we should, uh, just go back to the shack now.' Remus trailed off as the two of them heard a Stag's voice say 'Well they are werewolves, so they would have already heard us yipping and yapping.'
'Oh dear.' Remus murmured.
'It's all right. I already know who they are.' Harry reassured his werewolf student. Remus squirmed as he and Harry rounded a corner, unfortunately, they both ran headlong into the two they were looking for. Harry got the but of James antlers and his head started bleeding, a large horizontal cut went right across the middle of his nose.
'James Potter.' Harry said as though he was used to the pain and he barely even felt it. From the look on James face he had no idea who Harry was, and was even a little scared.
'Oh no, he's going to attack us Sirius! Help Remus!' James whinnied, swinging his legs in the air.
'Calm down Mr. Potter. I am not going to harm you.' (By the way, I'm pretending all animals can talk to each other.) 'You should not be out of school.'
James seemed to realize that he was in no threat and looked at Harry curiously, causing Harry to chuckle once more, though it sounded like a growl to any human ears that might have been listening.
'Who are you?' Sirius asked, James was too busy staring at Harry's eyes.
'It really isn't any of your business, I live in Hogsmeade, moved there this year. Please leave, stay in the castle where it's safe.'
Sirius and James left after saying a hasty goodbye to Remus.
'Sorry Remus.' Harry said after the two boys were well out of earshot. 'But you should at least be happy that I know what it's like, none of my friends know about me, so it gets rather lonely. Be thankful I didn't give them a detention.' Harry gave Remus a crooked grin.
~*~
Sirius' next two days were rather boring. He went into the forest once or twice at night time, just to see if he could find Harry, who was usually with Remus. The two of them seemed to get along well, and understand each other fully now, but Sirius really hoped Harry didn't break down and tell Remus all about himself, his mind was still weak when it was his own, but in his werewolf form, that was the only down about the potion Harry had concocted only two weeks before he arrived in the past.
~*~Future~*~
"I wonder where he is." Hermione said thoughtfully. "Sirius left somewhere the other day in a rush didn't he. It's odd how Dumbledore and him are not worried about Harry, and neither is Ginny! You'd think she'd be heartbroken!"
Hermione rambled on for a good five minutes. It was the last night of the full moon and Remus, their DADA teacher, was out. During the war the three of them, and Harry and Sirius of course, had become very good friends. They usually went to his pace at this time on Friday night, but it just happened to be a full moon, and Sirius and Harry were missing, no one noticed the way Remus acted around Harry during the last semester of their fifth year. Everyone was frantic for the first couple of days, but people had calmed down at the fact that Dumbledore was calm.
Hermione and Ron didn't believe him though. They believed that Dumbledore really didn't know what was going on, and that he was worried because they had caught him talking to himself more than once in the last few days.
"Hey guys." Ginny said, sitting down across from the love birds and in front of the fire. "Being Seeker is really quite tiring."
Ginny had taken Harry's place as Seeker when he had disappeared, and she was alright at it, but no where near as good as Harry. Then again, no one was ever really as good as Harry.
An owl flew in the window at that moment. It was Pig.
"Who's the letter from?" Asked Ginny who had been pointedly ignored before. The two of them seemed angry because she wasn't worried about Harry. (But then again, she was in the Order of The Phoenix, why would she be? She knew where Harry was.)
"It's from mum." Ron snapped.
"What about?"
"Harry."
"Wont you give up on that! I'm sure Harry can protect himself. He is probably having some time off, maybe he's holidaying in Fiji or something, he deserves a break, especially after he just defeated Voldemort. Give the poor guy a rest." Ron and Hermione shuddered at the name Voldemort.
Ron glared at her, while Hermione just looked at her disapprovingly. She lent over and read the letter anyway.
**Dear Ron and Hermione.
I wouldn't worry about Harry. He's a big boy and can look after himself. He's probably off holidaying with Sirius, I heard that they wanted some time off.
How's Ginny going? Tell her good luck with her OWL's this year. Once again, I am so proud of you and Hermione, Ron. You got 11 OWLS! And Hermione got 14, but that isn't the point. You both did extremely well and I'm proud.** "She's just been telling us that all summer" Ron moaned.
**George and Fred said they wanted you and Ginny and Hermione to go down to WWW on the next Hogsmeade weekend, they need to talk, or something. Anyway. Have fun and don't worry about Harry. Dumbledore told me he's having fun wherever he is.
Love Mum.**
Ginny snorted. "See I told you!"
"Whatever, I still don't believe you." Ron snarled.
"She could be telling the truth, Ron." Hermione mused.
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How was that? Like it, hate it? I liked it. I decided I should probably let you know what's going on in the future too. I might start the next bit off with a paragraph or two about the future as well. Please Read and Review. I'm not going to babble this time, only going to answer questions.
Thanks to:-
Kerridwen
The one and Only Amazing Typo
Lord R
S@bre Bl@ck -Did you?
Animalcrazy10102 - I've been reading you're All Hope Lost story for ages now! Hehe.
TheSilverLady - I dunno how I came up with it, just thought it might make the story a little interesting.
TheSilverLady(Again) - I bet he does too.
Wquad - You SAID SOMETHING! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! (just joking by the way, but you're always just putting up a smiley face, the other chappy must have been good!
Maybe Harry was just a little late, after all, he was probably a really busy person. er. werewolf. That's it! Remus thought. Nothing to worry about.
~*~
"Shoosh Sirius." James said, he and Sirius were under the invisibility cloak when they saw a smallish, yet seemingly powerful, werewolf make his own way to the Whomping Willow and down the slide.
James and Sirius gulped. That definitely wasn't Remus. The werewolf, from what they could see, had only one eye. Then again, it may have been a trick of the moon light.
"Come on James, let's get down there quickly, it didn't appear too dangerous, and we can change into our animals just to be sure."
James looked at Sirius in the dark, he seemed certain that he wanted to go down there, so James nodded.
~*~
Remus ears perked up. He could hear the hurried patting of feet. Maybe it was Harry. Then again, it could have been James and Sirius.
Remus was at present curled up on the four poster bed and was looking at a book that he had immense trouble opening.
The door opened and in came a werewolf. Remus jumped and hit his head in surprise. The poor thing had only one eye!
'It's me, Remus. Harry.' The werewolf said and Remus realized why Harry never let his face be seen, it must look pretty freaky for him to have only one human eye, it even looked weird when he was a wolf.
'Harry?' Remus asked nervously. 'What happened to your eye?'
It would have been odd to anyone who was listening, hearing the two wolves conversing quietly, since most only ever howled when they were in need of something.
'Oh. My Uncle. er. Foster father sort of decided to cut it up.' Harry yowled casually.
'WHAT?' Remus barked.
'You heard. But anyway, let's not stay this whole time discussing me. How does it feel to be in your own mind? If you wanted, we could go out, because now it's just like an animagus form, apart from the fact that you can't chose to be in the form or not.'
'It feels excellent. I always wondered what it would be like to become an animagus, but my werewolf genes take the ability away from me. I guess you're not an animagus?'
'I am, but only because I was bitten after I was well adept to change into my animagus form.' Harry said. Remus was rather surprised, and it must have shown on his face because Harry gave a throaty growl, equivelant to a chuckle.
'But I thought that it would be taken away from you once you were bitten. What is your animal anyway?' Remus barked softly.
'If I told you, then I wouldn't be able to make sure you and your friends stayed out of trouble would I?' Harry asked lightly.
'Well, you're our age, you should know what its like.' Little did he know, Harry could hardly remember what it was like to be a child, that was taken away from him two and a bit years ago, at Voldemort's rebirth.
'I don't actually.' Harry sighed, it sounded like a soft snort coming from the wolf. 'Would you like to perhaps go into the forest tonight?' Harry asked, obviously changing the subject. Remus let it go.
'Alright.' Remus agreed and the two left the shrieking shack together, down the tunnel towards the willow.
~*~
'Do you hear that?' Sirius whined.
'Sounds like Moony and his company are on their way down.' James replied softly. (I don't know how you would explain a stag's voice. Sorry.)
'Maybe we should hide, it could be a trap?' Sirius yipped.
'Well, they are werewolves, so they would have already heard us yipping and yapping.' James snorted.
~*~
'Did you hear that?' Harry asked, making himself sound suspicious, he noticed Remus squirm uncomfortably.
'Uh. Yeah.' Remus agreed. Harry smirked as well as a werewolf could.
'OK. Let's go and see what it was.' He said. 'Don't you dare tell anyone about me, either Remus.' Harry said sternly.
'I wont. But maybe we should, uh, just go back to the shack now.' Remus trailed off as the two of them heard a Stag's voice say 'Well they are werewolves, so they would have already heard us yipping and yapping.'
'Oh dear.' Remus murmured.
'It's all right. I already know who they are.' Harry reassured his werewolf student. Remus squirmed as he and Harry rounded a corner, unfortunately, they both ran headlong into the two they were looking for. Harry got the but of James antlers and his head started bleeding, a large horizontal cut went right across the middle of his nose.
'James Potter.' Harry said as though he was used to the pain and he barely even felt it. From the look on James face he had no idea who Harry was, and was even a little scared.
'Oh no, he's going to attack us Sirius! Help Remus!' James whinnied, swinging his legs in the air.
'Calm down Mr. Potter. I am not going to harm you.' (By the way, I'm pretending all animals can talk to each other.) 'You should not be out of school.'
James seemed to realize that he was in no threat and looked at Harry curiously, causing Harry to chuckle once more, though it sounded like a growl to any human ears that might have been listening.
'Who are you?' Sirius asked, James was too busy staring at Harry's eyes.
'It really isn't any of your business, I live in Hogsmeade, moved there this year. Please leave, stay in the castle where it's safe.'
Sirius and James left after saying a hasty goodbye to Remus.
'Sorry Remus.' Harry said after the two boys were well out of earshot. 'But you should at least be happy that I know what it's like, none of my friends know about me, so it gets rather lonely. Be thankful I didn't give them a detention.' Harry gave Remus a crooked grin.
~*~
Sirius' next two days were rather boring. He went into the forest once or twice at night time, just to see if he could find Harry, who was usually with Remus. The two of them seemed to get along well, and understand each other fully now, but Sirius really hoped Harry didn't break down and tell Remus all about himself, his mind was still weak when it was his own, but in his werewolf form, that was the only down about the potion Harry had concocted only two weeks before he arrived in the past.
~*~Future~*~
"I wonder where he is." Hermione said thoughtfully. "Sirius left somewhere the other day in a rush didn't he. It's odd how Dumbledore and him are not worried about Harry, and neither is Ginny! You'd think she'd be heartbroken!"
Hermione rambled on for a good five minutes. It was the last night of the full moon and Remus, their DADA teacher, was out. During the war the three of them, and Harry and Sirius of course, had become very good friends. They usually went to his pace at this time on Friday night, but it just happened to be a full moon, and Sirius and Harry were missing, no one noticed the way Remus acted around Harry during the last semester of their fifth year. Everyone was frantic for the first couple of days, but people had calmed down at the fact that Dumbledore was calm.
Hermione and Ron didn't believe him though. They believed that Dumbledore really didn't know what was going on, and that he was worried because they had caught him talking to himself more than once in the last few days.
"Hey guys." Ginny said, sitting down across from the love birds and in front of the fire. "Being Seeker is really quite tiring."
Ginny had taken Harry's place as Seeker when he had disappeared, and she was alright at it, but no where near as good as Harry. Then again, no one was ever really as good as Harry.
An owl flew in the window at that moment. It was Pig.
"Who's the letter from?" Asked Ginny who had been pointedly ignored before. The two of them seemed angry because she wasn't worried about Harry. (But then again, she was in the Order of The Phoenix, why would she be? She knew where Harry was.)
"It's from mum." Ron snapped.
"What about?"
"Harry."
"Wont you give up on that! I'm sure Harry can protect himself. He is probably having some time off, maybe he's holidaying in Fiji or something, he deserves a break, especially after he just defeated Voldemort. Give the poor guy a rest." Ron and Hermione shuddered at the name Voldemort.
Ron glared at her, while Hermione just looked at her disapprovingly. She lent over and read the letter anyway.
**Dear Ron and Hermione.
I wouldn't worry about Harry. He's a big boy and can look after himself. He's probably off holidaying with Sirius, I heard that they wanted some time off.
How's Ginny going? Tell her good luck with her OWL's this year. Once again, I am so proud of you and Hermione, Ron. You got 11 OWLS! And Hermione got 14, but that isn't the point. You both did extremely well and I'm proud.** "She's just been telling us that all summer" Ron moaned.
**George and Fred said they wanted you and Ginny and Hermione to go down to WWW on the next Hogsmeade weekend, they need to talk, or something. Anyway. Have fun and don't worry about Harry. Dumbledore told me he's having fun wherever he is.
Love Mum.**
Ginny snorted. "See I told you!"
"Whatever, I still don't believe you." Ron snarled.
"She could be telling the truth, Ron." Hermione mused.
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How was that? Like it, hate it? I liked it. I decided I should probably let you know what's going on in the future too. I might start the next bit off with a paragraph or two about the future as well. Please Read and Review. I'm not going to babble this time, only going to answer questions.
Thanks to:-
Kerridwen
The one and Only Amazing Typo
Lord R
S@bre Bl@ck -Did you?
Animalcrazy10102 - I've been reading you're All Hope Lost story for ages now! Hehe.
TheSilverLady - I dunno how I came up with it, just thought it might make the story a little interesting.
TheSilverLady(Again) - I bet he does too.
Wquad - You SAID SOMETHING! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! (just joking by the way, but you're always just putting up a smiley face, the other chappy must have been good!