Disclaimer: Ha, if I owned Harry Potter I'd bee rich and have all the manga I desire. But I don't. So sad, too bad.

Chapter 8: But the Bird's the Dumb One!

"Run" I hissed into Sasha's ear as she tore out of the room. The giant doors thundered behind us, the guards stared at her then stood watch. Leave it to Tom to put the dumb ones on guard. Before I realized it I was being pushed aside. Severus had appeared by Sasha and was dragging her to a fireplace. Sasha tripped.

"Get up." He hissed, as I stared around me wildly. As Severus had said, we probably didn't have much time before Tom got his Death Eaters under control. He grabbed powder and shouted something I didn't catch. He pulled Sasha against him.

"You're squishing me." I commented, annoyed.

"Deal with it." Sasha panted, petting my head. In a matter of split seconds we tumbled out of the fireplace onto a stone floor. I twisted myself off of Sasha only to run into a hard boot.

"Hold it right there. Who are they Severus?" Sasha pulled herself up to her full height, ignoring her ruined braids and sooty robes. Personally, she wasn't as scary as she could be.

"I am Sasha, Snake Charmer Magus, and you are scaring my snake." She said. The man, as I had identified it as such, looked down at me. I tried to look as timid, scared, going-to-pass-out-as-soon-as-possible as I could. Which wasn't very. Sasha glared and picked me up. She wrapped me around her and glared at the man. Now I got a better view of a rather not scary man. His hair was streaked with white and he looked exhausted. He didn't seem very into what he was doing.

"I'm Nagini, pet snake of Lord Voldemort up until like, ten seconds ago. Who might you be?" The man collapsed into a nearby sofa.

"I'm hallucinating, right. Snakes don't talk. Severus, what's going on?"

"Hey, I asked you a question!" I shouted, awfully annoyed at being ignored, "Look at me, not Severus, ME I TELL YOU!" The man raised an eyebrow at me.

"I'm Remus Lupin." He said, dropping is head while muttering something, that sounded a lot like "I'm going insane aren't I?" I grinned evilly.

"Don't ya know talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." I said. He looked up sharply. I stared. He had golden eyes! And I thought Tom had creepy eyes.

"And you would know." Severus said, sweeping over to us.

"I'm not the insane one, well if I am, I blame Tom and Bellatrix." I protested.

"Everyone does." Sasha and I sent him twin glowers. Poor Severus, he just didn't seem to be having a good day.

"She could blame you Severus, you're not exactly the perfect example of sanity yourself are you?" Sasha snapped.

"All of you, act your ages not your shoe size." Remus Lupin said burying his head in his hands.

"Shoe size?" I asked puzzled. He shook his head.

"American Civics teacher." He offered as an explanation. Sasha and I exchanged looks.

"You're weird." I said.

"He's a werewolf, what would you expect." Severus said, miffed. I looked at him. He has the weirdest prejudices. I mean he can deal with a talking snake, a half-blood overlord, but can't handle a less then sane werewolf? Am I the only one that finds this a bit weird?

"Severus, you're confusing Nagini." Sasha said. He raised an eyebrow at her. Sasha very regally stuck her tongue out at him. Why can't I do that!

"Back on topic, what are you doing here?" Remus Lupin asked. I looked at Sasha and Severus. Neither looked very inclined to answer. So I launched into an explanation.

"Well, I decided that Harry was rather too young to die. So I employed the use of my favorite Death Eater really a spy for Dumbledore and my keeper Sasha here and decided to undermine Voldemort's reign of annoying hypocrisy. So we Flooed here and then had a very interesting conversation on sanity or the lack therefore of in which I was very confused." I think everyone was impressed with my use of vocabulary.

"You do realize that we need to call Dumbledore?" Remus Lupin said after a big silence. I recalled my first experience with Dumbledore.

"I'm fine as long as I don't have to talk to his bird. That thing scared me the first time around; I don't need a second dose." I got three blank stares as a response. Humans…so useless.

A/N: I'm sorry for not writing more sooner, but I had the biggest writers block that I only recently cured. Sorry. AND I FOUND MY SNAKE AGAIN!

alphafemale08- Ummm, probably not.

U-nonamous- Nobody likes my angst stuff! WAHHHHH

fledge- Well, I figure she's around twelve feet long( I think something was mentioned about that in the fourth book), but Severus' pockets have enlarging spells on them…how else would he be able to carry all his stuff! Sasha is not related to anyone we know...that I'm aware of. Muggle music shall play a part, but not like in Mars Attack….what is Mars Attack anyway?