Writer: Azure K Mello
Title: A Bond Never Dies
Part: 32?
Words: 343
Warnings: Angst. Non-canon
"How di' they know they was gonna have me?" asked the little boy, "You saids they knew and tha's why they gots married."
"It was. . . " Remus hesitated, "magic," he finished reluctantly. The muggles had fucked him up but good. He was so scared that he instantly coward away from him. They had scared him so badly that he had suppressed his powers and had yet to exhibit any magical prowess. Remus sighed and said, "Magic isn't bad, Harry. Come here." He walked into the kitchen with the little boy behind him and he open the cupboard. "What in here do you not like to eat?" he asked.
Harry was scared. Sometimes when he was bad the Durleys made him eat icky things. Maybe he'd upset Remus and now the nice guy was gonna punish him. If he had really upset Remus Harry could understand why he was being punished. Remus was nice and if he punished Harry then he must have deserved it. Resignedly he pointed to a tin of sardines.
"Good," Remus got them out, closed the cupboard, and put them on the table, "now what food do you really like more than anything?"
After thinking for a moment the boy said, "I like mashmellos. Fer my birfday I got six! But then Dudley ate five of 'em."
"Alright," said Remus, "now watch what I do." He pulled his wand out of his pocket and placed the tip to the sardine tin. The little boy gasped but tried to keep watching as he was scared not to. Remus concentrated and where there had been a tin of slimy fish there was now a puffy bag of marshmallows. "See?" said Remus as he ripped them open, "Magic's a good thing."
A half hour later Sirius and James found them playing exploding snap with the half eaten bag between them.