Can I Call You Dad?

Chapter 3

Remus hated the mandatory registry of all Werewolves in Britain; he had no clue why the Ministry demanded that the Werewolves travel to London in order to give them the most up to date information from the past five years, there weren't more than fifty on the registry anyway. Greyback's faction had long since shunned the ministry all together; in so doing, making the rest of the Werewolves who refused to be part of any faction total hell!

"Harry, it'll be all right," Remus said.

"Sure, but I'm not the Werewolf here," Harry replied with a straight face. Truth be told he was just as nervous as Remus.

"Er – right," was all Remus could say.

"All you have to do is fill out some papers right? What else will happen?" Harry asked.

"I don't know, these things can be unpredictable," Remus shrugged.

The rest of the trip was made in silence and when the finally got to the Magical Creatures department – Harry was quite surprised. It was quiet, very quiet, and he could here someone snoring.

"Damn it!" someone yelled and Harry was just barley pulled out of the way of a runaway desk by Remus. It was then that a witch, no older then twenty, came running past them.

"BEWITHYOUINASEC!" she yelled at them. Not that Harry knew what she was saying.

"Do you know her?" Harry asked.

"Maris Starr," Remus replied; "She's always wanted to help dark creatures since she was young, once she got out of Hogwarts she came here and has been over seeing the registry ever since then," Remus explained as Maris ran back up to them.

"Hello Remus! How are you?" she asked.

"I am fine, and you?"

"It's been busy! We've had twice as many Werewolves come and register," she beamed.

"Really?"

"Oh yes…and who is this?" Maris asked taking notice of Harry.

"This is my Nephew, Harry Potter-Black," Remus introduced. Maris shook Harry's hand generously.

"Wow! I always thought Remus would make a great Daddy!" she said. Remus was almost red.

"Yeah, he's great," Harry agreed.

"I'm only his Uncle, Sirius and I adopted Harry," Remus explained.

"Sirius Black! Oh what a hottie!" Maris giggled.

"You knew Sirius?" Harry asked.

"Oh no! he was in Gryffindor! I myself was in HufflePuff, but every girl LOVED him! Oh, please come and sit down, I'll get you some tea and sweets to have while you fill out these forms!" Maris said. Harry and Remus took seats in the small waiting room.

The room was a bright yellow with lime green chairs; "Looks like an American(1) decorated," Harry muttered.

"I'm so glad I only have to do this every five years," Remus sighed as he got down to work. Maris came back and set a tea trey on the table in front of them before disappearing once again. Remus knew the exact time to come when the waiting room wouldn't be so crowded and so he and with a bit of Harry's help, got the papers done in record time.

He handed them to Maris; "Well, that was fast! Oh my!"

"What is it?" Remus asked.

"Er – it's all right, I can find the paper work; Did Mr. Black appoint you temporary guardian?" Maris asked.

"Yes, he did," Harry said.

"Brilliant! Have a very good day! Remus, owl me!" she smiled.

On their way through the ministry, Harry gave Remus a weird look.

"What is it?" Remus asked.

"She likes you," Harry said.

"What? No she does not!"

"Oh. Yes. She. Does!" Harry smirked.

"Oh! You're just as bad as James!" Remus huffed.

"Sometimes I can't help it! It's like I'm channeling my Dad or something," Harry joked.

"Sometimes I thought that Sirius and James had switched personalities on me or something," Remus replied. They entered the elevator that would take them back to the lobby of the Ministry.

"Sirius seems to be very cool; I don't know him well, but I hope to," Harry said.

"Indeed, he was the girl magnet in school while James only went after Lily,"

"And I'm sure you had your fan club," Harry said casually, making Remus blush.

"Well, yes actually," Remus said, this made Harry perk up.

"You had a fan club? What did they do to you?"

"Nothing, just sent me weird letters," Remus blushed some more.

"What did these letters say?" Harry asked, he succeeded in making Remus as red as a Weasley's hair color. Remus herded Harry out of the elevator.

"Those letters are no more," Remus muttered.

"And here I was hoping I could read them! I know! I'll ask Sirius! He'd know what they said!" Harry snickered.

"Harry James Potter-Black! Don't you dare!"

"Don't worry, I'll ask nicely!" and with that Harry took off towards the entrance with Remus hot on his tail. Those that watched the two just laughed at the father and son. They were deffinantly the perfect family!


The next stop of the day was Diagon Alley – both Remus and Harry made a visit to their perspective vaults before they spent the rest of the day having fun. Their second stop was Madam Malkin's Robes for Every Occasion. Remus had strict orders from Sirius to get all three of them new wardrobes.

Harry had strict orders to make sure that Remus did in fact buy himself new clothes. Harry decided that they take care of Sirius first. They had to buy from scratch. They got Boxers, socks, trouser, shoes, shirts, and everyday robes in colors that Remus knew looked great on Sirius.

Second they got Remus three new suites with matching robes to go over them, everyday trousers, shirts and robes. Harry even made the man buy a new pair of shoes. Then it was Harry's turn. Harry also had to start from scratch when it came to clothes, but he got more than both Remus and Sirius put together!

Besides the new school robes; Remus got Harry many every day robes in shades of black, brown, dark green, dark red, and a nice deep gold. On these robes Remus had the new family crest embroidered on the left crest of the robes. He did the same on the three dress robes as well. Besides the robes, Harry got trousers, shirts, socks, pajamas, shoes, and ties.

Once their order's were in, they had two hours to kill before they returned – Remus took Harry to the Quidditch Supplies store where they spent a while adoring the new broom, but Harry still thought that his Firebolt was the best broom out there! Harry bought a couple of Quidditch posters and then they went to Fortescue's ice cream parlor.


"HEY! Look at that?" Sirius Black glued his face to the front of the Quality Quidditch store. The new Clean Sweep 5000 was gleaming in the summer light and almost everyone who loved Quidditch were looking at it.

"Wow! Wouldn't it be cool to have brooms like that for the team? We might even be able to beat Slytherin this term," James lamented over the loss Gryffindor had just the month before.

"Yeah, that would be so cool!" Sirius agreed.

"They played you guy's good, you didn't even know they were cheating till after they caught the Snitch, how they got it passed Madam Hooch, we'll never know," Remus said.

"Have you been thinking a lot about it?" Peter asked.

"It makes sense! Just think about it! They lost points for being out of bounds at the Quidditch pitch; they smirked at us all that month, and they almost got James and the team disqualified from the game entirely! They were cheating! If only I could find out!" Remus muttered. As Prefect, it was his job to stop such nonsense!

"We'll get them good!" Sirius grinned; "I've also been thinking! We can give those smarmy git's a truth potion! We'll sneak it into their drinks before breakfast! Then we'll make sure that a howler gets delivered to them. The howler will only have the one question we want them to answer, and then they will all answer to the best of their knowledge! If they were cheating, they will say so," Sirius explained.

"Brilliant! I just came across a mildly effective potion in this years potion book," Remus said.

"I'll charm the house elves this time," James grinned.

"But isn't giving a truth potion illegal?" Peter asked.

"We're also unregistered animagus, but you don't see us regretting it!" Sirius rolled his eyes.

"We'll be able to get the ingredients today! Maybe get enough for a few times, or for other truth potions, we don't know if the first time will work," Remus said.

"Will it work in Pumpkin juice?" James asked.

"Yes, the only way you can tell is if it's been put in water, in which the water will turn green,"

"Brilliant! We'll have to make sure it's the juice then," Sirius rubbed his hands together evilly! This was going to be fun!


"You guy's actually gave the Slytherins a truth potion?" Harry raised an eyebrow.

"It was brilliant! One of my favorites," Remus grinned.

"Did the Professor's find out?" Harry asked.

"No, see, no one knew that we were the Marauder's; all they knew was that a group of student's pranked Hogwarts badly and no one could figure out why or how," Remus smirked at his own memories.

"That is so cool!"

"But don't you say anything, as a Marauder I really shouldn't be telling you this,"

"Since when did you follow the rules?" Harry asked.

"Since I was born," Remus replied.

They spent the rest of the afternoon exploring Diagon Alley before picking up their purchases from Madam Malkin and then flooing home. It was one of the most enjoyable outings Harry had had in a long time.


1– My family used to own this terrible dark lime green and cream color fridge – that where I got the colors for the Waiting room of the Magical Creature's department. The joke here is that an American decorated the room because I don't think anyone British would do so in these colors! LOL!

2 -- Maris means 'Star of the Ocean'.

A/N – Well there is the third chapter; I hope you all liked it. I had planned on Harry meeting another Werewolf; but I decided that it would be much better if he and Remus didn't. Remus is the only Werewolf that I feel up to writing; I'm not sure how one of my original characters as a Werewolf would come into the situation. So, I tried my hardest with Maris.

Maris was in HufflePuff and attended Hogwarts for her first year when the Marauder's were in their fifth. I don't think she'd have much to do with the Marauder's when she went to school; being in HufflePuff and all, but I figured that Sirius and Remus are total hotties when they went to school. Maris also changes the subject very quickly. One minute she'd be talking about Quidditch and the next it could be tea and what sweets she likes. Sorry if she's a bit off!

I also realized that I hadn't put in a flashback for the last three chapters! I just had to put one in here even if it didn't make much sense.

Well, I think that's all!

Ta,

Poppy