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Author Notes: Snape did hex Sirius and what not when that was happening…it said so. It said he got plenty of curses from that too…so, Snape did curse Sirius while he confessed his love…just had to point that out…and um…Sirius is not pregnant…and as to some of the other questions…I can't tell you. I know, evil me! I don't know how old Regulus really is, so he is going to be three years younger then Sirius, so he is going to be fourteen, fourth year, in this story.
Please forgive me for taking so long to type. You see, the PIE (Pudding Industries of England) found me and they threatened to make tapioca pudding (which is very nasty…full of fish eyes and eggs…shudders) out of me and feed me to GAG (Gluttony American Games) if I didn't do what they told me to do, which is top secret and…gets dirty looks…okay, the truth is I am just lazy…please forgive me anyways…pouts with puppy dog eyes
Time Slip
Chapter Seventeen
On the Train to Hogwarts
On the right side sat Sirius by the window, James next to him and Peter next to the door. On the other side were Harry by the window and Remus next to him. Most of the group started talking all at once and about thirty minutes and fifty topics later someone knocked on the door. "Who is it?" James asked the talking coming to a halt.
Alice opened the door with a smile, with Lily and Frank standing behind her. "Hullo lovelies."
Everyone in the cart smiled, though some more then others. "Hey there Alice, Frank and Lily." Was the general reply from the group.
"Hi." Frank said.
Lily smiled. "We just came by to say hi and to see how everyone's doing."
The cart occupants looked at each other then back at her. "We're fine." James replied for the group.
She nodded. "That's good."
"Yes very good!" Alice said very happily. She looked at Sirius then and her eyes went wide. "Have I ever seen you in loose clothes before?"
All eyes turned to Sirius who smiled. "Why, yes, of course. I don't always wear such tight, revealing clothes…I can be modest you know."
"I wasn't accusing you on any such thing." Alice replied. "Well we better go to our cart before some smart arse fifth year takes it. Bye!" She said with a smile and a wave.
"Bye!" –Peter.
"Toodles!" –Harry.
"See you later!" –Frank.
"Probably soon!" -Lily
"Adiós mi amigos!" –James.
"Au revoir mes amis!" –Remus.
"Goed tot ziens!" –Sirius.
Everyone looked at Sirius in silence, who smiled innocently. "What the bloody hell did you just say?" James asked.
Sirius shrugged. "I said good bye in Dutch."
Most eyes went wide, though Remus' eyebrow went up. "And where did you learn Dutch?"
"My great-grandmother, Tryne, is Dutch. She is from my father side." Sirius replied.
'I wonder if that is the great-grandmother who gave him the teddy bear.' Harry thought to himself.
"And she was very set in her ways of talking Dutch, though most of my family didn't bother learning it because they didn't like her to much. I thought she was funny…especially since they had no idea what we were discussing about them." Sirius laughed evilly.
"I didn't know that…" Alice said.
"I didn't even know that!" James shouted, leaping from his seat and point a finger at his chest.
Sirius laughed, this time not so evilly. "It's alright Jamesikin. You know most else."
James looked at him and sat down. "You sure? Nothing else important like that? You know, like your great uncle twice removed is an alien and that you know that language?"
Sirius smiled. "Θέλω μια τηγανισμένη κάλτσα."
Once again, everyone looked at him. "Should I ask what you just said?" James questioned.
"I said 'I want a fried sock' in Greek." He replied happily. He got very weird looks. "YOU SHOULD NEVER LET ME BE BORED!" He shouted.
"I will be taking that to heart now." James replied.
"Why? He's learning." Remus said. "We should let him be bored more often."
Sirius glared at him. "You do know that that was a one in a life time bored induced amusement and that it probably won't ever happen again. I usually take my boredom out on you guys or unsuspecting youngsters."
"And for a moment there I thought he actually enjoyed learning." Remus said dryly.
"I do enjoy learning…just not the learning you are thinking of." He replied.
Lily and Alice got disgusted looks on their faces. "I am leaving before the scar tissue out weighs my brain." Alice said, turned and disappeared with Frank and Lily right behind her.
The cart was silent when they left. They all looked at each other and burst out laughing. "That was fun!" Harry said through his laughter.
"Of course, never a dull moment with us around." Peter replied.
Finally they all calmed down. "You are quite the interesting fellow you know." Harry said with a smile.
Sirius smiled softly back and looked at the window. "So I've been told."
So they all went back to talking and laughing and what not till the candy cart came and the smiling old lady asked if her favorite customers would like any candy. Since Harry's candy from his birthday was all eaten, they had to buy more then one of everything. They gave her a galleon and told her to keep the change, which wasn't much anyways. They placed the candy in the middle on a table Remus conjured up. As soon as it was set up, most started to dig in though it took awhile for them to realize Sirius was still looking out the window.
"Hey Sirius, why aren't you eating anything?" James asked with a mouth full of chocolate frog, with its bottom half wiggling in his hand.
"I'm not hungry." He replied.
Quiet incased the cart till…"WHAT!" James shouted jumping up. "THAT IS SACRILEGE! DO YOU HEAR ME! SACRILIEGE!"
Sirius glared at him. "No, I don't think I heard…after the 'what' I think I went deaf."
James glared right back at him. He shoved the last bit of chocolate frog in his mouth and picked up another. He unwrap it and held it out in front of Sirius' face. He then swallowed his own chocolate frog and said, "Eat it."
Sirius raised his eyebrow. "No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes you great prat."
"No you stupid prick."
James' eyes narrowed dangerously and he leapt at the other boy. Sirius didn't think he would do it, so he didn't have time to move. The two manage to fall onto the floor with an audible 'thump', knocking over the table and it contents. They rolled around a bit until James managed to get on top. "Now Mr. Padfoot, I think I said that it is sacrilege not to eat this candy…do you really want to commit that?" Sirius just glared at him, which made James sigh dramatically. "Since I am such a loving friend, I am not going to let you commit such a felony. Now open wide my darling before I have to force feed it to you." He slowly started to lower the wiggling chocolate frog to his friend's mouth, which was most definitely not opened. When the frogs head was about an inch away, Sirius' head shot up and he closed his teeth around his best friend's wrist. James' eyes went wide and he jumped back with a yelp and the frog jumped away. Everyone stared at Sirius, who got up into a sitting position. James looked at him and said in a quiet voice, "You bit me." He sounded really hurt.
Sirius crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm sorry, but I really didn't have any choice did I?"
"You bit me."
"You really didn't give him any other choice James." Remus said.
James turned to him and held out his arm. "He bit me Moony…" He was pouting with puppy dog eyes.
Remus sighed and patted him on the head. "There, there James. Let me see." James turned his arm and showed the red and purple mark that was forming on his wrist. "Prongs, you have gotten worse before and it didn't even break the skin…so I don't think you will catch his rabies." He said, trying to get his friend to smile.
James got up and sat in-between Harry and Remus. He crossed his arms, slouched and pouted. "He bit me…" he muttered under his breath. Sirius got up from the floor and went back to his seat.
Harry looked at Sirius, who wasn't looking at him. 'I wonder what's wrong with him…I'll have to ask later…' Harry thought. He turned to his dad, either was a really good actor or really hurt because he had tears in his eyes. "Hey Dad." Harry said, which made James look at him. "Do you want me to kiss it and make it better?" James nodded pitifully and gave Harry his arm. Harry kissed the bruising bite mark. "There, now isn't that better?"
James smiled beautifully and stood up. "Yes, it feels MUCH better!" Harry decided that he was a good actor. "Thank you my son. I know I am loved, though not by that mangy mutt over there." He said with a dirty look in the general direction of Sirius.
Sirius rolled his eyes. "You know I love you, you stupid stag."
James nodded while giving him a dirty look. He probably took offense to the 'stupid stag' remark. "You have a funny way of showing it."
"Would you like me to prove it to you?" he asked mischievously.
James shook his head. "No, that's quite alright…I'll take your word for it." He sat down. Peter, Remus and Harry looked at each other and shrugged. They had no idea what was going on.
So Remus waved his arm and the table and candy righted itself. After a brief tense silence, they started to talk again about school and what everyone was taking. They all were taking basically the same classes, except for a few differences. Like Remus had two more classes then the rest and was the only one taking Teaching 101 with Harry. Sirius comment to this was, "I don't want to be a teacher 'cause I don't think I could hold my temper with those snotty, smelly, rude little brats who are only good for sinking up a place and making the teacher batty."
Which made Remus comment, "I should hope you are only talking about when you are little, because you were little once and that means you are talking about yourself. And I can't see you working with little children."
Which made Sirius roll his eyes and reply, "No, I wasn't talking about little kids…I was talking about the Slytherin's, because if I ever wanted to be a teacher, which is highly unlikely seeing as I think education is boring, I'd want to be the Transfiguration teacher." He then snorted. "Yeah, I could just see the look on McGonagalls face if I ever took her spot."
"I didn't know you liked Transfiguration." Harry said, surprised.
Sirius sighed. "Yes, I know it's shocking."
James then leaned over and whispered into his sons ear, "He isn't the best Transfiguration wizard in the world, but he rather do that then ever admit that he's good at Potions…he'd be a good teacher, but he thinks it's to Slytherinish for him."
These lead on to other conversation till Remus pointed out that they would be arriving at school shortly and should get ready, which they did.
When the train stopped, they all gathered their things and headed off the train. Harry could see Hagrid gathering up all the first years. He smiled, happy to know that some things didn't change. He glanced at the thestrals, and saw that both Sirius and Peter glanced at them. When they all piled into the carriage and they started to pull away, Harry asked, "I know this might be considered rude, but I was wondering who could see the thestrals?" The group looked at each other and then at him.
"You can see them?" Peter asked.
"Yes…I could see them since fifth year." He replied. "How about you? Since when have you been able to see them?"
Peter sighed. "I've been able to see them since fourth year…I saw my grandpa die."
"Sorry to hear that." Harry said in a quiet voice. He turned to Sirius. "How about you? I noticed that you glanced at them."
Sirius was still looking out the window and didn't answer for a moment, which made him think that he wasn't going to answer. "I've been able to see them since first year." He said quietly. Harry's eyes went wide and before he could ask, Sirius continued. "I saw my little sister die."
"I'm sorry." Harry said. He didn't realize that Sirius had had a little sister.
"Thanks…" Sirius said. "She was four when I was ten and Regulus was seven. We were playing and she fell and I was the only one around…I didn't know what to do and she died…her name was Niamh Aster Black, which meant bright star."
Harry looked at him and his heart ached. He didn't know what he could say, but he knew he wanted to make Sirius smiled again. Just then, Sirius turned and looked at him. "Don't worry Harry. Now, I should be asking you how you can see those creatures."
"It was fourth year and we were hosting the Tri-Wizard Tournament. I wasn't old enough but a death eater disguised as one of my teacher snuck my name in and I got to the end, which was a maze. Me and this other boy, who was a Hufflepuff names Cedric, got to the end and I said that we both should grab the cup at the same time, which we did. What we didn't know was that it was a portkey that took us to a grave yard with Voldemort and his followers who killed him." Harry recollected the tale in a short version. Once again the cart was silent.
Harry felt someone pat him on the shoulder and turned to see that James was patting him. "I'm so sorry."
"Yeah me too." Sirius said.
"I'm sorry too." Remus quietly said.
Peter looked sympathetic. "We're all sorry."
Harry smiled faintly. "Thanks…it's alright. We're here."
The cart stopped and the door opened. They all walked out of the cart and up the stairs into the Great Hall and sat at their table, which Alice, Frank, and Lily sat next to them. When everyone was settled, the first years walked in and Dumbledore stood up. "Welcome to Hogwarts!"
Basically I don't want to write the speech or the students sorting and what not, so please forgive me if you were looking forward to that…I think if I wrote it, it would be boring beyond belief, so be thankful. Why don't we just get on to dessert! DESSERT AHOY!
After they all finished dessert, James got up and said, "Sorry to leave you all at such a short notice, but I have Head Boy duties to do."
Lily looked at him. "No way…you can't be Head Boy."
James looked at her. "Of course I am Head Boy, I have the badge and everything." He looked down at his chest. "Hmm, where did that thing go…"
Remus sighed and handed it to him. "I was wondering when you were going to notice that it wasn't there."
James smiled at him. "What would I do without you my good fellow?"
"Loose your head and probably articles of clothing that I would prefer to be on your body." He replied.
"Very true." James said and he held his hand out to Lily, with a bow. "Will you take my hand fair maiden and I shall escort you to the little first years?"
Lily blushed and shook her head. "No, that's quite alright…I am perfectly find escorting myself." With that said she got up and stalked to where the first years.
James smiled and winked slyly at his friends. "I will win her heart yet."
"Of course you will." Alice replied. James smiled and followed Lily.
The others looked at each other and decided that they would head upstairs with the rest of the Gryffindors because they all had to be up early for the first day of school. They walked together in a group up to the Gryffindor Tower and said the password, which was thestrals. They walked into the Common Room, and Harry smiled. It looked exactly the same in his time and it was comforting. "Well, good night." Alice said and she kissed Frank on the cheek. "See you in the morning." With that said she walked up her stairs and disappeared.
All the boys looked at each other and grinned. "Time to go to bed I suppose." Frank said as they all headed up the stairs and down to their room. "Though I highly doubt we will be getting much sleep this year."
"Do we ever?" Sirius replied and they all got ready for bed and by that time James had gotten back. They were all in bed…
"Night." –James.
"Good night." –Remus.
"Sleep tight." –Harry.
"Don't let the bed bugs bite." –Peter.
"What are those?" –Sirius.
"It's a muggle thing." –Frank.
Author Notes: And THAT'S the end of this chapter…once again, I apologize for taking so long. I hope this chapter makes you all forgive me…