A.N. I'm soo sorry this took as long as it did to post!! I've just been busy and a bunch of other things. But here it is!!!! Don't kill me for it being soo late!!!

Shout Outs:

Katie of Gryffindor - Hey!! sorry that I didn't send this chp to you first, but I was in a hurry to post it. I got a spell/grammer check on my computer now, so I might not need a beta unless a butt load of people complain. But I'll keep you in mind!!! I liked the grafitti as well!! I always pictuerd the marauders room as being covered in stuff that the boys wrote all over the place.
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Enought of my chatter, lets get to the fic!!
CHAPTER NINE: Of Willows and Werewolves

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Draco's P.O.V.-
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"Padfoot!" Remus called down the hall way when he saw a figure turn the corner in the distance. "Padfoot, wait!"

The man in the distance stopped dead in his tracks and then slowly turned around, his eyes wide in disbelief. It was then that I recognized him as Sirius, the same man that had brought me to the infirmary this afternoon. The same man who was Harry's godfather, and supposedly Remus's lover.

"Moony, Thank God you're here. I was on my way to find Dra..... " he looked over, noticing I was there for the first time.

Remus smiled. "I'm a step ahead of you."

"As always. Harry's already in the ro.... "

Remus stopped him midsentance by placing his index finger across the other man's lips.

"Sshhh.... I know where Harry is." his hand brushed up against Sirius's check and then Finally pushed a strand of his dark hair behind his ear. "Let's just get this settled."

I heard Sirius take in a sharp breath before he nodded and turned on his heals. "Yes, let's go settle this then."

Ten minutes later, I was sitting next to Harry on one of the many couches in the room, while Sirius and Remus discussed something softly on the other side.

"Harry?" I whispered.

"Yeah."

"Have they told you anything yet?" I moved closer to him so that we could talk without having to worry about over heard.

"Nothing yet. Just something about being fixable?" he sighed, allowing himself to lean on my shoulder.

I nodded slowly and unconsciously put my arm around his shoulder. "I don't think I can stomach a night in Gryffindor."

He smacked me playfully, trying to act hurt.

"No offence though." I laughed at him.

"None taken'."

Neither one of us had much time to feel uncomfortable again, before Remus and Sirius came back over and took seats across from us.

Sirius slipped his hand into Remus's before he opened his mouth to speak.

"During my 5th year at Hogwarts," his eyes closed as he forced himself to remember. "A wizard by the name of Patrick Agence taught Defense Against the Dark Arts for a month or so, while Madam Pristine was on maternity leave. At first he seemed to be a nice old man. Kept to himself a lot, but one could still tell that he had good intentions.
"Agence discovered Remus's difference a little too quickly though and began to treat Remus like he was some sort of monster."

I looked back and forth between the two older men in front of us. Remus had his hands neatly folded in his lap and appeared quite calm and relaxed considering all that had happened, but Sirius was obviously angry. His eyes were fiery and he had his left hand in such a tight fist that I could picture the skin being pierce by his nails.

"No longer did he appear gentle," he continued. "Agence said horrible things to Remus and even taught several lessons on werewolves. Those lessons were barely accurate and they portrayed those who were lycanthropic as terrible murderers who killed thousands out of pure pleasure.
"Of course, I went to Dumbledore about this, but all he could do was talk to Professor Agence. Needless to say, that didn't do anything, but make the man worse.
"About a week later, Agence kicked Remus out of the class, claiming that teaching animals was not what he had agreed to. Lucky for us, the rest of the school didn't figure out what he was talking about. They supposed that Agence didn't like Remus because he was in Gryffindor and the teacher was defiantly a Slytherin supporter.
"This little even made me furious and even though Remus warned me not to try anything, I didn't listen.
"It didn't take long to convince James to help and on the next full moon we planned to get this guy back for everything he had put Remus through."

Harry was leaning forward slightly as he listened to what his godfather had to say, but I already had a feeling that I knew what was going to happen. This wasn't the first time that I had heard the name Patrick Agence, because the name was also in one of Severus's stories.

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Harry's P.O.V.-
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Sirius paused yet again, this time to push some of his long black hair out of his face before once again taking Remus's hand.

"James and I, brought Remus to the shack like we always did on the full moon and as soon as night fell we left and went in search of Agence.
"At the time, neither one of us had any clue as to what we were going to do, but we knew that it had to good. What ever we did tonight had to go down in the record books without our names beside it.
"Using the Marauders Map, James kept look out, while I snuck into the potions masters room to get some supplies that might be needed. So far everything was going great, but that didn't last.
"James was setting some sort of eavesdropping charm on Agence's door that I didn't understand, when the devil himself caught us. We did the only thing we could think of at the time and ran as fast as we could..
"Since James was faster then me, he got into the tunnel safely, but I tripped and Agence caught me.
"Not knowing about the willow, the man started to go after James still holding me under his arm. The tree went wild when it saw that someone that it didn't know was trying to harm James and I. Knocking the breath out of Agence, the tree grabbed picked me up with it's branches and tossed me out of the way." Sirius took a deep breath and then continued. "After I felt myself hit the ground, I quickly got to my feet and watched as the tree violently began tossing the man around.
"I wouldn't have done anything to stop this if I hadn't noticed someone else out of the corner of me eye. Severus came running towards me horrified. He said that we needed to get help and get the teacher away from the tree, but I wouldn't let him.
"At that moment, the tree froze, I guess James must have pushed the knot, but he never said it was him. Severus pulled Agence to safety and then demanded that I tell him why I wasn't trying to save the professor's life. At that moment I noticed that Severus wasn't the cold blooded Slytherin that most claimed him to be.
"I told him the whole story about Remus and what Agence had been doing. Severus listened intently. I told him that I could prove it to him. He followed me to through the tunnel. James stood in front of us and wouldn't let me bring Severus into the shack.
"I believed that as long as I was padfoot, that Remus wouldn't attack. So I smiled at James as I pushed him out of the way and opened the small door." Sirius stopped talking and bit his bottom lip. "Severus will never forgive me for that. I wish that someone could convince him that I hadn't meant for him to get hurt or for Remus to go crazy, but he will never let me take that back."

I snuck a glance at Draco. He seemed shocked at the things that Sirius had just said, but then again, so was I.

"Is it that hard to believe that we don't think Severus is a bad guy?" Remus said as he looked back and forth between me and Draco. "People can have different opinions of each other, you know."

"I know. It's just not an everyday thing to hear someone that Severus thinks so lowly of to admit that they think he's a good person." Draco replied to the question directed at us both.

"Your godfather has reason to hate the both of us. Even though Sirius didn't mean for things to go the way they did."

Sirius cleared his throat causing the other three in the room to once again give him their attention.

"There's more to tell you. I still haven't explained why you two have switched places. You would like to know that, right?"

"Yes." Draco whispered at the same time I nodded.

"Good then, allow me to explain..."

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A.N. Didn't lose anyone right?? hehe good. I know that it's a cliff hanger!! well kind of..
I actualy ment to get to the reason they had switched in this chapter, but things never work out as planned, but I promise you will find all that out in the next chapter.