Sniffy: :::sniffs::: Stupid cold. You have to have my luck to have a hole in left foot and caught a cold before X-mas :::cough:::
Sirius: Maybe you should stop smoking?
Sniffy: :::glares::: Sirius. Go bother someone else, besides if I were you I would take some medicines, you may not survive the shock I'm planing to give to you....
Sirius: :::gulps::: You will not bring back my mother? Tell me you didn't, please!
Sniffy: :::smirk worth even Voldemort::: You don't know me....
Sirius: ::::runs away screaming like a madman:::
Sniffy: Run away train never going back..... Soul Asylum write a great song - I think that I will use this someday. Anyway. Chapter 11 - unbetaed version because I think that my beta lose this. READ, ENJOY AND REVIEW!!! - especial the last part.
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
We look pretty normal
Lets go back to that
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
Lets play pretend, act like it goes naturally
Chapter eleven: Starting Animagi lessons
It was 29th July. Raven, Rowan, Thabit and Draco were supposed to start their first Animagi lesson. Draco joined them because he thought that it would help Kyle and because he liked young lycanthrope. It proved Raven's theory that it was impossible to don't like Kyle.
"Ready? Sirius will join us later, he and Regulus has to do something for the Order, so this two will help us later. First I want you to drink that potion, it will help you to purify your Animagi form" said Mirzam taking four goblets and handed it to them.
"It smells like my socks which lay two years under my bed," said Thabit when he sniffed the potion.
"Eww" the others reacted.
"What? It's truth," said Thabit.
"I don't have anti-vomiting potion here and Sirius cleared that rug yesterday" said Mirzam giggling.
"Okay, okay, I will stop now," said Thabit.
The kids nodded and drunk their potions.
"Now concentrate on your personality, your pros and cons. Do you have it?" she asked.
Kids nodded.
"Drown in this, let it envelope you" they heard Mirzam's voice from far away.
"Now say the incantation Fera Ego," said Mirzam.
"Fera Ego" the kids echoed.
"Once again"
"Fera Ego"
"Once again"
"Fera Ego"
"Okay I want you to practise this when you have free time. You should know that it's very hard to master Animagi, you have to be in a peace with yourself" said Mirzam.
"You mean with each other aunt Mirzam?" asked Thabit.
"Nope, you have to be calm and let your personality talk, let it lead you. If you can do this, mastering Animagi would take you something around month," said Mirzam.
"What you think about that? What animals we could be?" asked Thabit.
"I read somewhere that everything depends from our personality, what kind of people we are, our inner animal is reflection of our character," said Rowan.
"Please let it don't be a ferret" Draco mumbled.
"Better ferret than pig Draco" said Raven.
"Right Raven, but still I don't want to become a ferret," said Draco.
"What's it with that ferret you are talking about?" asked Thabit.
Rowan and Raven laughed. Draco shifted uncomfortable. Raven explained it to Thabit.
"That was one from few embarrassing things in my life," said Draco.
They practiced Animagi together. Around lunch they decided that they are tired and hungry so they get down. Narcissa and Mirzam where making salad and Sirius and Regulus were setting the table. Remus, Dora, Andromeda and Ted weren't there.
"When the name of house on the map is glowing green what it means?" asked Kyle who spend whole day with the adults.
Mirzam dropped the bowl with salad, Sirius dropped the fork, Regulus dropped the plate, Narcissa, which hasn't anything in, her hands sat down on the floor.
"Which house?" asked Sirius.
"The Longbottoms" answered Kyle.
"Fuck. Cissy stay here, you two with me" said Sirius and grabbed his cloak.
"Be careful" Narcissa yelled after them.
"What had happened?" asked Raven.
"Death Eaters attacked Longbottoms house," answered Narcissa weakly "Oh God, everything is starting again" she mumbled.
Rowan helped her stand up and showed boys to the table. They eat the meat with mashed potatoes. After the lunch they cleaned everything, Rowan with Narcissa started baking raspberry pies. Narcissa said that it always calmed her nerves. Raven together with Draco, Thabit and Kyle started sorting the cook books in the kitchen.
After an hour they heard that front doors opened and someone went upstairs. Then suddenly…
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fucking fuckety fuck" Sirius yelled and smacked the library doors.
Narcissa shrugged and said quietly "They arrived too late"
Raven felt like someone poisoned his lunch. Neville and his grandmother. He saw that his father entered the kitchen.
"And?" Narcissa asked him impatiently.
"Mary, Algy and Enid had died. Neville survived. We arrived too late. Too fucking late"
"Sirius, kids are here," Narcissa hissed at him.
"Sorry. It is just like during first war, too late, everything too late" Sirius said and sat down at the table and put his face in his hands.
"Lunch?" Narcissa asked.
"I'm not hungry. Go help Mirzam, you were a healer after all Cissy" said Sirius his face still in his hands.
"Okay" Narcissa nodded, took off her apron and left the kitchen.
After a minute Sirius said "I'm going to meet Dumbledore and Amy Bones. Stay here or help your aunts and mothers" then he left.
Raven, Rowan, Draco, Thabit and Kyle went upstairs to check on Neville.
"How is he?" asked Raven.
"Bad, he was hit by two Cruciatus curses and they cut his veins, he lost much blood and I think he will be unconscious for at last next few hours" said Narcissa "Mirzam go and take care with your cut" she added.
"I'm alright. It's just a scratch," said Mirzam.
"Regulus, take care of her" Narcissa said.
Regulus moved from Neville side and went to Mirzam. He took her face into his hand at tapped the scratch on her face with his wand.
"Ouch" she said.
"It should stop ache after fifteen minutes. Go down and eat lunch," he said lowering his hand.
"I'm not hungry. Where is Sirius?" she asked kids.
"He went to Dumbledore and madam Bones" Draco replied.
Raven glanced at Neville. 'It was my fault' he thought.
"It wasn't" he heard his mother voice in his head.
"It was. Harry Potter is dead so Voldemort concentrated at another boy of the prophecy," Raven answered in his head.
She didn't replied.
"Mirzam were you good from Legilimency?" asked Regulus.
"Yes" she answered.
"I tried to enter his mind but I have problems" said Regulus and motioned towards Neville.
Mirzam looked at Neville then she concentrated, like she wanted to see something what others didn't saw. Raven saw that she suddenly started to shake.
"Oh God" she moaned, fall on the ground and started crying.
Regulus and Raven were immediately on her side.
"What had happened?" Raven asked.
Mirzam buried her head in Regulus shoulder and sobbed "Oh God, oh God"
It took more than fifteen minutes to calm her down.
"What happened?" asked Regulus.
"I will show you" said Mirzam and put her hand on Regulus forehead.
Regulus expression changed during next two minutes. From total disbelief, through anger and hurt to tears "Oh God. No one deserves this, no one, even a murderer" he mumbled and wiped his tears.
"Not a two years old boy. No wonder that they placed memory charms on him" said Mirzam still shaking.
Raven stared at his mother in shock.
"Mirzam as I remember you were good in memory charms" started Narcissa.
"You think about modifying part of his memory?" asked Mirzam.
Narcissa nodded and said, "You were remarkable in memory charms. That person who modified his memory earlier caused devastation in his mind"
"I will try Cissy but I'm not promising miracles" said Mirzam.
"I think we done everything we could done to heal his body, we left healing his mind to you Mirz. Kids. We have to make a laundry," said Regulus.
"We have done this four days ago uncle Reg" Draco protested.
"You have done with bed covers, you still has to do laundry with your clothes" said Regulus and showed them from the room.
"They think that we are four years old or something" Draco huffed.
"Maybe. Sooner we start with the laundry sooner we will end," said Rowan when they marched towards washroom.
"I wouldn't be so sure about this Rowan, they would fiend another job for us" said Raven.
"Pessimist" Thabit commented.
"Realist" Raven corrected his cousin.
It turned that Raven was right. When they ended with the laundry, Regulus showed them into hanging fresh curtains, when they had done with curtains Narcissa showed up and told them to clean bathrooms on second floor without magic to be sure about this she took Raven's, Rowan's and Draco's wands.
"Even house-elves are not working that hard like us" Draco commented.
"You opened Pandora's box" Raven hissed to him.
He was right. Rowan spent next hour trying to explain them that house-elves are working to hard. Draco started quarrelling with her that they like it. Raven took Thabit and Kyle to another bathroom to clean this in peace.
"They are not" they heard Draco's voice.
"They are" Rowan was still explaining her point.
"They like it"
"Because they don't know other life"
"Let's help Narcissa in the kitchen," said Raven whose Rowan's and Draco's quarrel started nerving.
"You ended with bathrooms on second floor?" asked Narcissa.
"Yes aunt Cissy" said Thabit.
"Where are Rowan and Draco?" she asked.
"Quarrelling about the house-elves on second floor" Raven answered.
"Here. It's still warm" said Narcissa and handed them raspberry pie.
"Aunt Cissy, it's delicious" Thabit mumbled with his mouth still full from pie.
"Andromeda taught me how to make this. Speaking about where are they?" Narcissa asked.
"No idea" said Raven and took another piece of pie.
"We are here Sissy-Cissy. We went shopping, we has to bought weeding stuff" said Andromeda from the kitchen doors.
"Good that you are here. There was another attack. No Ted, Sirius, Mirzam and Regulus took care about that. Four victims Remus, three dead, one survived. Longbottoms. Neville is upstairs with Mirzam and Regulus. No Dora, Sirius went to Dumbledore, he hasn't came back yet but I think that he should be here in any minute" Narcissa tried to explain everything to everyone.
After five minutes everything calmed down. Remus with Andromeda went upstairs to help Regulus and Mirzam. Ted and Dora flooed to Hogwart to check on Sirius. Narcissa showed kids (Draco and Rowan arrived into the kitchen still quarrelling – but they shut up after Narcissa give them raspberry pie) to put books in library in alphabetical order. After they ended with A, B, C, D and E Kyle stated that he is tired and he is going to the bed. So after he left the rest continued their Animagi lessons from earlier.
"Not a ferret. Please let it be not a ferret," Draco muttered.
Suddenly Thabit started giggling, he poked Draco into his ribs and then Rowan. They stared at Raven and started laughing maniacally.
"What it's so funny?" he asked.
"Nothing" Rowan chocked.
"It's just…" Thabit chocked but couldn't end the sentence "Draco, you show him"
"He, he, he, sorry Raven but it's so funny" Draco managed to say.
"What?"
"Come here" said Draco and hauled Raven to big mirror (from the ceiling to the floor) and turned him that way that Raven has the mirror on his left "See?" Draco pointed at Raven's black, fury tail.
"Oh God" Raven moaned and glanced at his tail and it wagged.
That brought other three into new fit of giggle.
"What had happened here?" asked Sirius who entered the library.
"I think that Raven has a problem here, uncle Sirius" said Draco and turned Raven that his father saw his tail.
Sirius giggled. Once. Twice. Thrice. Then he laughed openly.
"It's not funny dad. I have a bloody tail" Raven huffed.
"Happens to everyone" Sirius chocked.
Raven stared at him.
"As I remember I walked with my own tail for two days before it reduced itself" said Sirius after he clamed down and ruffled his son hairs.
"You mean that I have to walk around with tail, daddy?" Raven asked.
Sirius nodded.
"Great. This is all I ever wanted. A tail" Raven groaned.
The library erupted with laugh.
Regulus: :::snorts::: He, he, he. PLEASE LEAVE REVIEW - it makes her happy.