OK, yeah. I made a booboo. Sirius' parents weren't with Voldemort...at any point. So now, it's a little different. Siirus is going to explain what REALLY happened, k? Thanks! And...I had no clue that Remus was the half-blood. Where did you find that?
Chapter 16- The Goddess of the Earth
On January 2nd, the children of Hogwarts were reappearing. Sirius, who was waiting in the common room for his friends, had very mixed feelings about this.
Ironically enough, for such an outgoing person who loved and aimed for as much attention as he could get, he had liked the solitude. He had time to think of what was going on in the wizarding world, and he was hoping to tell his friends about the things he had found out just from lurking behind walls and standing in the dark. He had found three other secret passages, two which led to the village of Hogsmeade. It was a wonderful place, with shops on both ends and a scenic view of a mountain in one part...one could tell just by hearing of his adventures just how bored he was.
The first to come back was Remus. He was looking healthier than when he left, but Sirius still couldn't put his finger on why.
"Welcome back..." Sirius said, as Remus put his stuff in the dormitory.
"Yeah...thanks." Remus said, sounding a bit sad about being back.
"What? You don't wanna be near me anymore?" Sirius fake-pouted.
"Oh no...it's just...I didn't get to see my brother. I thought I would." Remus said.
"Who, Romulus?" Sirius asked. "Hey, you know, I was reading a book and did you know that there is a-"
"Yeah. Don't bring it up." Said Remus, annoyed and terrified of the legend of Remus and Romulus. He had always wondered himself if his parents had known his future when they gave him his name. After all, they already had a son named 'Romulus'. Did they really have to go and bring him into it? Give him this name..?
"Hello? Did you hear me?" Sirius was apprently waving an arm in Remus' face when he stopped fussing over his name..
"What? Sorry...no..." Remus said.
"I said, you have got to go to Hogsmeade with me as soon as Pete and James get back. It's the best place!"
"Hogsmeade..." Remus had heard of the place...Dumbledore had told him about it...why he couldn't-
His thoughts were cut off once again as James and Peter walked into the dormitory simultaneously.
"James! Peter! Great! You're here! Let's go!" All the mixed feelings Sirius had were gone as excitement to show his friends Hogsmeade. And the fact that he didn't want to talk about their holidays was another thing...he didn't want to bring it up just yet.
James on the other hand knew something was up, but followed Sirius back anyways. After all, this was his best friend he was thinking about...
"Where are-" Peter said, as he was immediately dragged out by Sirius.
"Just let's go..." Remus said, walking out behind Peter, laughing. James was the last one out, and he knew they would have to talk as soon as Sirius stopped acting like an overexcited dog.
"Wow..." James said, "This is the most amazing place I have ever been...why haven't we been here before?!"
"Yeah. All the candy you could want. All in one store!" Sirius said, looking around. This was Honeydukes, the best candy store in the world, if you asked Sirius. He wanted to show them all the Joke shop, Zonko's, and The Three Broomsticks. Especially the Three Broomsticks...
"So, how did you find out to open the witch again?" Remus asked, "I mean...Dissendium is not a very common word...is it?"
""No, but descend is...and hey, it's a cool word." Sirius defended.
"Right....let's go up there!" James said, pointing to a shack on the top of the hill. Remus went slightly rigid.
"NO!" Remus said. The other three turned to stare at Remus and he said, sheepishly, "I mean...Dumbledore was talking about that place. It's called...the.."Remus was thinking of a word that would work... "The Shriek...ing...Shack.."
"The Shrieking Shack? Sounds like fun!" Sirius said, walking closer. Remus stopped him. They could NOT go near that Shack...HE couldn't go near that Shack. Too many memories.
"Listen. It's filled with horrible spirits that no one should ever encounter." Remus said.
"What? No, please. Anyway, we can take on any spirit!" James said.
"Yeah...any spirit..." Peter repeated, although he did not look excited about meeting with a bunch of horrible spirits.
"Just promise me you'll never go near there." Remus said, look more serious than when he walked into Hogwarts on his first day. "Please."
Sirius looked at James, and James looked at Sirius...
"Fine." Sirius said, "But then let's go to the Three Broomsticks!"
"Okay..." James said, and the other two followed as they walked into the pub. "So, why are you so excited about this-oh..."
In front of him was possibly the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. With long, curly, red hair and an off the shoulder dress that matched her hair to the tint, Madame Rosmerta stood there, cleaning a pitcher. She saw the boys and put down the pitcher.
"Shouldn't you be in school about now?" She asked. Sirius walked to the front, and she laughed. "Oh, I should have known. Sirius Black, you need to stop sneaking out of that school. These are dangerous times, you know." Sirius' face went to one of foreboding, and she looked surprised. "Well...are you going to introduce me to your friends?"
"James Potter. How are you, little lady, and when can we go out?" James asked, being 'suave' in his opinion. Rosmerta laughed again- that wonderful laugh that made James' face turn bright pink.
"Damn, James. I already tried that one!" Sirius whispered in James' ear.
"When did you find THIS place?!" James asked, staring incredulously at Sirius.
"Oh, boys, come and sit down, out of the cold. Then at least when you get back to school, you'll be able to learn something instead of visitng the hospital ward..." Madame Rosmerta said.
"Can we have butterbeers?" Sirius asked, sitting at the bar. James followed, as did Peter and Remus. Remus was quite flustered, while Peter was just slipping all over himself.
"We'll see. What's your other friends' names?" She asked, looking at the other boys.
"Remus and Peter." Sirius said, waving them off. "Please, can we have butterbeers?" He turned to James, "She has the best butterbeer..."
"Only if your promise to go right back to the school after you finish them-and you finish them at a decent pace. None of this 'snail' drinking you seem to be so good at."
"Fine!" Sirius said, eagerly awaiting their drinks. He wanted his friends to be warm and fuzzy when he told them about his vacation.
"So, how do you get here, anyways?" She asked, as she put down the pitchers in front of the boys. Peter, who had not had the stuff before, sniffed it before taking a giant gulp of it, and spilling most of it down his shirt.
"Peter, you are the biggest clutz I know." Remus said, laughing. "And by the way, James....writing a book by yourself!"
"If you read it at all, you'd know that most of it is blank pages. I think that it'll probably fill itself up."
"Books fill themselves up?" Peter said, looking amazed.
"Well, there's this way of preserving memories in diaries..." James said.
"Really?" Peter said, looking even more amazed.
"Yeah, how else do you think things like our map are going to work-oh by the way, I've figured out a way to make it work. So, we should probably get something to put down the-" James said, stopping at the word 'passage'. He was saying too much to someone who obviously was for them not sneaking out of the school. "We should probably go, actually."
"But-" Sirius said, looking sad that he had to leave the pub so quickly. So many things were keeping him in his stool.
"I think she's hot too, but we need to-I mean.." James said, turning bright red as he said these words with her right there.
"Oh, you boys make me laugh. Sirius, follow your friend. You need to get back to the school, anyways, before anyone catches you here and I get in trouble. You don't want me in trouble, do you?" She remarked, and Sirius, resigned, got off his stool.
"Well, thanks for the butterbeers. Peter obviously will not be so hyper for his next one.." James said, dragging Sirius away.
As the boys heads were out of sight, Madame Rosmerta shook her head, laughed, and went back to the barkeeping. 'Those boys are going to be very interesting young men...' She though, as her towel cleaned up some of Peter's mess. 'Interesting indeed...'
"OK, why did you have to drag me away from the goddess of the earth!" Sirius said, walking into their dormitory. It was the only place they could get some privacy, seeing as the third-year girls were giggling about some boy, (James was convinced that his good looks were finally getting attention) and the sixth year boys were staring at the lastest issue of 'Witch Weekly'. Supposedly, some new broom came out, and it was the favorite for the World Cup. James would have to look into it later...
"Because...watch." James said, pulling out a piece of parchment from his pocket. It was quite ragged already, and as he touched his wand to it, lines were coming out that made it look like it was about to break, but as the three boys watched, a map of Hogwarts unfolded in front of their eyes.
"How..." Remus said, fascinated.
"Well, my dad was teaching me all these tricks, and I asked him if he knew anything about making a map of the school-I told him it was for locational purposes only, of course...you know...I want this map kept secret. But he said that he knew the perfect trick. He said some words in Latin...I wrote them on another piece of parchment...here...you can add all sorts of things on it, but you need to say the words or else everyone will be able to see them. So, yeah, we can add passages as we find them. Just remember to say the words, and they'll disappear to anyone who isn't seeking a 'hidden booty' as Peter likes to call it." The boys laughed, and James rushed on. "One thing though. For now, it'll just look like a plain piece of parchment, so we have to be careful not to throw it away.."
"I went to the joke shop in Hogsmeade and they taught me this spell that makes fun of the person trying to read it if they shouldn't be..." Sirius said, grabbing the parchment. "Uh...what was it again...er..."
"Did if have to do with the people making up a phrase?" Remus suggested.
"No, this one just made fun of anyone who tried to 'reveal it's secret'-I guess we'll just have to go back." Sirius said, grinning.
"Another day. We should just put the passages we know on it right now." James said, and started adding the passages.
About an hour later, they went down to the common room to talk by the fires.
"So, how was your vacation? By the way." James asked Sirius.
"Boring. And dull. But I've got a confession to make..." Sirius said.
"Actually, I'm going to interrupt you. See, my vacation was SO amazing! It was all boring until Christmas day-Dumbledore came by and told us that none other that the Dark Lord was coming to kill us all!" Sirius was shocked at James' excitement about it.
"That's...er...nice.." Remus said. "Most people I know wouldn't be that happy that they were about to die, but okay.."
"Well, obviously something happened, because I'm not dead, am I, you stupid prat." James said, laughing. "Yeah, so, Dumbledore is there, and my family is all evacuated and all, but I snuck back into the house and I got to FIGHT!" The other boys looked absoluetly terror-stricken. Well, Remus and Peter were. Sirius looked like he was about to puke. "And, I actually did stuff!"
"Real magic, James?" Sirius said, unable to resist.
"Yes, my dear friend, REAL MAGIC!" James said, almost jumping in his seat.
"Yeah, I knew you were going to be attacked." Sirius said, almost offhandedly. But inside, Sirius was scared stiff. What if his friends thought he was evil after this and refused to be nice to him anymore? "See, my parents heard from Snivellus' parents that the Dark Lord was going to attack anyone who publicly joined Dumbledore, and that's why I was so worried that your father was going to be with Dumbledore over the holiday. But I told them, don't worry. I thought Voldemort would be gone by now." He ended with a look of worry on his face. Someone had to say something or he was gonna crack...
"Yeah, I know that." James said, at the look on Sirius' face. "Dumbledore told my dad."
"James, you're really stupid though. You could have been killed!" Remus said, almost scolding James.
"You sound like my mum." James laughed.
"And here I though you were changing." Sirius said, much happier that no one was going after him for endangering the lives of a whole family. After all, Sirius was already hating himself for it, last thing he needed was someone else hating him about it.
"So, how was your vacation, Remus?" Peter asked, trying to get off the topic. He didn't like this takl of evil. He liked to be safe and comfy, and he didn't like the idea of anyone challanging that. He didn't like it at all.
This sucks, doesn't it...sorry, I truly am, but every time I tried to write something, it came out really stupid sounding. In fact, I now have a new respect for J.K. Rowling. How she wrote so much is a mystery to me, such talent! OK, I'm off...if anyone has some ideas for this story, go ahead and add them. If not, I'm probably going to go into their second year soon-more fun...the boys get to find out about Remus...so yeah...I'll see ya!
Leora
Chapter 16- The Goddess of the Earth
On January 2nd, the children of Hogwarts were reappearing. Sirius, who was waiting in the common room for his friends, had very mixed feelings about this.
Ironically enough, for such an outgoing person who loved and aimed for as much attention as he could get, he had liked the solitude. He had time to think of what was going on in the wizarding world, and he was hoping to tell his friends about the things he had found out just from lurking behind walls and standing in the dark. He had found three other secret passages, two which led to the village of Hogsmeade. It was a wonderful place, with shops on both ends and a scenic view of a mountain in one part...one could tell just by hearing of his adventures just how bored he was.
The first to come back was Remus. He was looking healthier than when he left, but Sirius still couldn't put his finger on why.
"Welcome back..." Sirius said, as Remus put his stuff in the dormitory.
"Yeah...thanks." Remus said, sounding a bit sad about being back.
"What? You don't wanna be near me anymore?" Sirius fake-pouted.
"Oh no...it's just...I didn't get to see my brother. I thought I would." Remus said.
"Who, Romulus?" Sirius asked. "Hey, you know, I was reading a book and did you know that there is a-"
"Yeah. Don't bring it up." Said Remus, annoyed and terrified of the legend of Remus and Romulus. He had always wondered himself if his parents had known his future when they gave him his name. After all, they already had a son named 'Romulus'. Did they really have to go and bring him into it? Give him this name..?
"Hello? Did you hear me?" Sirius was apprently waving an arm in Remus' face when he stopped fussing over his name..
"What? Sorry...no..." Remus said.
"I said, you have got to go to Hogsmeade with me as soon as Pete and James get back. It's the best place!"
"Hogsmeade..." Remus had heard of the place...Dumbledore had told him about it...why he couldn't-
His thoughts were cut off once again as James and Peter walked into the dormitory simultaneously.
"James! Peter! Great! You're here! Let's go!" All the mixed feelings Sirius had were gone as excitement to show his friends Hogsmeade. And the fact that he didn't want to talk about their holidays was another thing...he didn't want to bring it up just yet.
James on the other hand knew something was up, but followed Sirius back anyways. After all, this was his best friend he was thinking about...
"Where are-" Peter said, as he was immediately dragged out by Sirius.
"Just let's go..." Remus said, walking out behind Peter, laughing. James was the last one out, and he knew they would have to talk as soon as Sirius stopped acting like an overexcited dog.
"Wow..." James said, "This is the most amazing place I have ever been...why haven't we been here before?!"
"Yeah. All the candy you could want. All in one store!" Sirius said, looking around. This was Honeydukes, the best candy store in the world, if you asked Sirius. He wanted to show them all the Joke shop, Zonko's, and The Three Broomsticks. Especially the Three Broomsticks...
"So, how did you find out to open the witch again?" Remus asked, "I mean...Dissendium is not a very common word...is it?"
""No, but descend is...and hey, it's a cool word." Sirius defended.
"Right....let's go up there!" James said, pointing to a shack on the top of the hill. Remus went slightly rigid.
"NO!" Remus said. The other three turned to stare at Remus and he said, sheepishly, "I mean...Dumbledore was talking about that place. It's called...the.."Remus was thinking of a word that would work... "The Shriek...ing...Shack.."
"The Shrieking Shack? Sounds like fun!" Sirius said, walking closer. Remus stopped him. They could NOT go near that Shack...HE couldn't go near that Shack. Too many memories.
"Listen. It's filled with horrible spirits that no one should ever encounter." Remus said.
"What? No, please. Anyway, we can take on any spirit!" James said.
"Yeah...any spirit..." Peter repeated, although he did not look excited about meeting with a bunch of horrible spirits.
"Just promise me you'll never go near there." Remus said, look more serious than when he walked into Hogwarts on his first day. "Please."
Sirius looked at James, and James looked at Sirius...
"Fine." Sirius said, "But then let's go to the Three Broomsticks!"
"Okay..." James said, and the other two followed as they walked into the pub. "So, why are you so excited about this-oh..."
In front of him was possibly the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. With long, curly, red hair and an off the shoulder dress that matched her hair to the tint, Madame Rosmerta stood there, cleaning a pitcher. She saw the boys and put down the pitcher.
"Shouldn't you be in school about now?" She asked. Sirius walked to the front, and she laughed. "Oh, I should have known. Sirius Black, you need to stop sneaking out of that school. These are dangerous times, you know." Sirius' face went to one of foreboding, and she looked surprised. "Well...are you going to introduce me to your friends?"
"James Potter. How are you, little lady, and when can we go out?" James asked, being 'suave' in his opinion. Rosmerta laughed again- that wonderful laugh that made James' face turn bright pink.
"Damn, James. I already tried that one!" Sirius whispered in James' ear.
"When did you find THIS place?!" James asked, staring incredulously at Sirius.
"Oh, boys, come and sit down, out of the cold. Then at least when you get back to school, you'll be able to learn something instead of visitng the hospital ward..." Madame Rosmerta said.
"Can we have butterbeers?" Sirius asked, sitting at the bar. James followed, as did Peter and Remus. Remus was quite flustered, while Peter was just slipping all over himself.
"We'll see. What's your other friends' names?" She asked, looking at the other boys.
"Remus and Peter." Sirius said, waving them off. "Please, can we have butterbeers?" He turned to James, "She has the best butterbeer..."
"Only if your promise to go right back to the school after you finish them-and you finish them at a decent pace. None of this 'snail' drinking you seem to be so good at."
"Fine!" Sirius said, eagerly awaiting their drinks. He wanted his friends to be warm and fuzzy when he told them about his vacation.
"So, how do you get here, anyways?" She asked, as she put down the pitchers in front of the boys. Peter, who had not had the stuff before, sniffed it before taking a giant gulp of it, and spilling most of it down his shirt.
"Peter, you are the biggest clutz I know." Remus said, laughing. "And by the way, James....writing a book by yourself!"
"If you read it at all, you'd know that most of it is blank pages. I think that it'll probably fill itself up."
"Books fill themselves up?" Peter said, looking amazed.
"Well, there's this way of preserving memories in diaries..." James said.
"Really?" Peter said, looking even more amazed.
"Yeah, how else do you think things like our map are going to work-oh by the way, I've figured out a way to make it work. So, we should probably get something to put down the-" James said, stopping at the word 'passage'. He was saying too much to someone who obviously was for them not sneaking out of the school. "We should probably go, actually."
"But-" Sirius said, looking sad that he had to leave the pub so quickly. So many things were keeping him in his stool.
"I think she's hot too, but we need to-I mean.." James said, turning bright red as he said these words with her right there.
"Oh, you boys make me laugh. Sirius, follow your friend. You need to get back to the school, anyways, before anyone catches you here and I get in trouble. You don't want me in trouble, do you?" She remarked, and Sirius, resigned, got off his stool.
"Well, thanks for the butterbeers. Peter obviously will not be so hyper for his next one.." James said, dragging Sirius away.
As the boys heads were out of sight, Madame Rosmerta shook her head, laughed, and went back to the barkeeping. 'Those boys are going to be very interesting young men...' She though, as her towel cleaned up some of Peter's mess. 'Interesting indeed...'
"OK, why did you have to drag me away from the goddess of the earth!" Sirius said, walking into their dormitory. It was the only place they could get some privacy, seeing as the third-year girls were giggling about some boy, (James was convinced that his good looks were finally getting attention) and the sixth year boys were staring at the lastest issue of 'Witch Weekly'. Supposedly, some new broom came out, and it was the favorite for the World Cup. James would have to look into it later...
"Because...watch." James said, pulling out a piece of parchment from his pocket. It was quite ragged already, and as he touched his wand to it, lines were coming out that made it look like it was about to break, but as the three boys watched, a map of Hogwarts unfolded in front of their eyes.
"How..." Remus said, fascinated.
"Well, my dad was teaching me all these tricks, and I asked him if he knew anything about making a map of the school-I told him it was for locational purposes only, of course...you know...I want this map kept secret. But he said that he knew the perfect trick. He said some words in Latin...I wrote them on another piece of parchment...here...you can add all sorts of things on it, but you need to say the words or else everyone will be able to see them. So, yeah, we can add passages as we find them. Just remember to say the words, and they'll disappear to anyone who isn't seeking a 'hidden booty' as Peter likes to call it." The boys laughed, and James rushed on. "One thing though. For now, it'll just look like a plain piece of parchment, so we have to be careful not to throw it away.."
"I went to the joke shop in Hogsmeade and they taught me this spell that makes fun of the person trying to read it if they shouldn't be..." Sirius said, grabbing the parchment. "Uh...what was it again...er..."
"Did if have to do with the people making up a phrase?" Remus suggested.
"No, this one just made fun of anyone who tried to 'reveal it's secret'-I guess we'll just have to go back." Sirius said, grinning.
"Another day. We should just put the passages we know on it right now." James said, and started adding the passages.
About an hour later, they went down to the common room to talk by the fires.
"So, how was your vacation? By the way." James asked Sirius.
"Boring. And dull. But I've got a confession to make..." Sirius said.
"Actually, I'm going to interrupt you. See, my vacation was SO amazing! It was all boring until Christmas day-Dumbledore came by and told us that none other that the Dark Lord was coming to kill us all!" Sirius was shocked at James' excitement about it.
"That's...er...nice.." Remus said. "Most people I know wouldn't be that happy that they were about to die, but okay.."
"Well, obviously something happened, because I'm not dead, am I, you stupid prat." James said, laughing. "Yeah, so, Dumbledore is there, and my family is all evacuated and all, but I snuck back into the house and I got to FIGHT!" The other boys looked absoluetly terror-stricken. Well, Remus and Peter were. Sirius looked like he was about to puke. "And, I actually did stuff!"
"Real magic, James?" Sirius said, unable to resist.
"Yes, my dear friend, REAL MAGIC!" James said, almost jumping in his seat.
"Yeah, I knew you were going to be attacked." Sirius said, almost offhandedly. But inside, Sirius was scared stiff. What if his friends thought he was evil after this and refused to be nice to him anymore? "See, my parents heard from Snivellus' parents that the Dark Lord was going to attack anyone who publicly joined Dumbledore, and that's why I was so worried that your father was going to be with Dumbledore over the holiday. But I told them, don't worry. I thought Voldemort would be gone by now." He ended with a look of worry on his face. Someone had to say something or he was gonna crack...
"Yeah, I know that." James said, at the look on Sirius' face. "Dumbledore told my dad."
"James, you're really stupid though. You could have been killed!" Remus said, almost scolding James.
"You sound like my mum." James laughed.
"And here I though you were changing." Sirius said, much happier that no one was going after him for endangering the lives of a whole family. After all, Sirius was already hating himself for it, last thing he needed was someone else hating him about it.
"So, how was your vacation, Remus?" Peter asked, trying to get off the topic. He didn't like this takl of evil. He liked to be safe and comfy, and he didn't like the idea of anyone challanging that. He didn't like it at all.
This sucks, doesn't it...sorry, I truly am, but every time I tried to write something, it came out really stupid sounding. In fact, I now have a new respect for J.K. Rowling. How she wrote so much is a mystery to me, such talent! OK, I'm off...if anyone has some ideas for this story, go ahead and add them. If not, I'm probably going to go into their second year soon-more fun...the boys get to find out about Remus...so yeah...I'll see ya!
Leora