I have another challenge, this one called the Hell's Phoenix Betrayal Challenge! Here are the conditions: -Four ficlets
-Any SHIPs
-First person
-Either: -James' final moments at Godric's Hollow, Sirius in Azkaban, Peter after he's framed Sirius, and the morning after Remus' first full moon after loosing Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs.
-Or: -James after the "Whomping Willow Incident", Sirius when he tells Snape about Remus, Remus after the "Whomping Willow Incident", and Peter when he finds out what Sirius said to Snape.
-You should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to write each ficlet.
Please tell me in a review if you wish to accept this challenge!
- Moonshadow
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Miss Moony would like to dedicate this chapter to girlknight for being the first reviewer.
Miss Moony would also like to thank HandsOff, pandas rule the world, Yzliose, Hermione'sgirl, Siri Kat, leeleigh, Phoenix and Spyder, DarkKestralSilkeQueen, artgirl150, Shrimp5319, GatomonandKariFan, MuShU gIrL, Beth5572, Shrimp5319, mionedracoshipper, ScrewyLouie12, Jersey Princess, Serindipity9, Xandria Nirvana, obsessed-reader and Queen o' th' Marauders for reviewing.
To HandsOff: Aaww, I'm touched… really.
To Yzliose: Where did you get the idea that Harry was the heir of Gryffindor? I dunno, though; I wasn't planning anything like that, but the plot with this story just flows with my mood. Nothing's really decided yet, but I'll definitely consider it.
To Serindipity9: The main point I was trying to make is that Harry and Dumbledore can fight on equal grounds when they're both putting their all into the fight. Does that explain things?
To Siri Kat: Sorry, but once I've started calling someone something, I don't like changing that halfway through the fic. I don't think I'll ever attempt to call her Mia again, though, merely because it seems to annoy too many people.
To GatomonandKariFan: Merry Christmas to you, too!
For curiosity's sake, here's a list of pairings for this fic:
-Lily/James (obviously)
-Some very mild Sirius/Remus, but just as a background thing
-Mentions of Frank/Alice
-Harry/Luna
-Neville/Ginny
-Ron/Hermione
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Chapter 9
Harry had long since decided that Luna and Ginny, when they put their minds to it, could be the scariest people he'd ever met (though not so much in a Voldemort-scary way as in a aah-you're-mad way). This belief was only further solidified by the occurrence during their first class, which he'd agreed to help with, as the Dark Creatures being studied were dementors, and his own dementor-boggart was quite useful in such situations.
It was a third-year class: Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Registration went relatively smoothly – that is, until Ginny came across the last name on the register, William Weasley, and began cackling in typical Muggle-Halloween-witch fashion (all she needed to complete the image was green hair and a long, crooked, warty nose), when she matched the name to the uninterested face at the back of the classroom.
And with good reason. Thirteen-year-old Bill Weasley was short-haired, squinty-eyed (Harry suspected that he had used a vision-correcting potion at some point before he became a curse-breaker, as glasses would be most inappropriate for the work, although he clearly hadn't deemed to splash out on a pair yet), and clearly didn't like having the new Professor laugh at him, if the scowl that graced his face could be used as an indicator of his temperament.
'My name is Professor Cox,' Luna began in her usual dreamy manner, unfazed by the scene that her fellow fifth-year was causing, 'and these two are Professor West and Professor Patterson. Professor Patterson will not be joining us in all our lessons, but he has agreed to help out today because we will be covering dementors, which are one of his specialities. First of all, though, do you have any general questions for us?'
Harry could hardly hear her from his position in the corner of the room (the still-laughing Ginny was positioned directly between the two of them), but it seemed that most of the students had understood, as several hands were raised – Bill's, of course, was one of the few that refused to defy gravity and stayed firmly in his lap: Harry assumed that he was too busy scowling at Ginny to have even heard Luna's question.
Amongst the barrage of questions that Luna somehow managed to decipher, Harry heard a small, blonde-haired Ravenclaw girl ask why Ginny was laughing.
'She was attacked by nargles last Christmas, Miss Turpin. The effects lasted rather longer than we expected, though they rarely trouble her much any more.'
Ginny sobered immediately, scowling at her now-colleague, and the student, Lucinda Turpin (he vaguely recalled there being a Lisa Turpin in Ravenclaw, and wondered if they were in any way related) frowned. Also understandably – the existence of nargles was something that a few people who weren't Luna were dubious about, and most were downright disbelieving.
Luna smiled at Ginny seriously, and began explaining about dementors the theory behind the Patronus charm. Harry thought that this might be one of the many things that all Ravenclaws were taught in the private study sessions which Luna claimed they all had with Professor Flitwick and the older students in the house, as the entire Ravenclaw side of the classroom was a sea of heads bobbing up and down in agreement to every word she said.
Finally, she asked the students to stand back and she gestured for Ginny to open the trunk holding the boggart, and for Harry to stand forward and prepare for an assault of memories.
He stepped forward, wand in hand, and entered the ready position they'd all been taught in their Magecraft classes with Dumbledore.
Ginny opened the chest and the boggart tumbled out, but the expected wash of memories never came…
Instead, lying on the classroom in a pool of blood was Sirius Black, just as he'd been in the Great Hall last night, but dead.
Harry paled, titters and gasps filled the classroom, and then the world faded to black.