Chapter 18: The Revelation for Snivellus
"Well, well, well, Snivellus, greasy now aren't we? You have to slime your greasy head and big nose into everything." Sirius said slowly. "If you are so interested in finding out my friend Remus' secret, then come to the Whomping Willow tonight at midnight. Use a stick to prod a knot on the tree. Then climb your greasy self down the hole that you will see." Sirius removed his foot from Snape's head. "See you tonight, Snivellus. I can't wait for our little date." Sirius spat at Snivellus and walked quickly down the hall.
Snape smiled. This was easier than he had thought. But was Black to be trusted?
"What do you mean you and Dom are over?" Daisy asked confused later that night. Britney was walking in and out of the washroom, brushing her hair. Lily was reading her book and when Britney announced that her and Dom had broken up for good. Tess was still applying her nighttime face mask.
"For good?" Tess asked feigning interest.
"Uh, I think so," Britney said beaming. Lily looked at Britney hesitantly. Lily knew Britney enough to know when something was up.
"Is this because you spent your Valentines Day with Sirius Black?" Tess asked evening out her face mask cream on her face. Lily quickly looked at Britney.
"What?" Lily asked loudly.
Britney ignored her. "How did you know?" Britney snapped.
"Oh please Britney. You are so naive." Tess rolled her eyes. "If you didn't want anyone to see you, spending your afternoon in the corridors and then heading up to his dormitory, is not descreet."
Lily's eyes widened at the last information. "His dormitory?" Lily asked. Britney hesitated.
"Who told you?" she asked slowly.
"Madison," Tess answered simply. She turned away from the mirror and faced the three confused looking faces.
"Who?" Daisy asked.
Tess gave an aggravated sigh. "Honestly," she grumbled. "Madison told me in the girls washroom on the second floor. Madison heard it from Alexandra, who heard it from Willow, who heard it from Yvone, who saw Sirius and you in the corridors. But Yvone told Willow, who told Alexandra, who told Madison, who told me, that Yvone heard it from Quinn who said she saw you two heading up to the boys dormitory giggling and holding hands!" Tess said quickly, and with a satisfied smile, turned back to the mirror.
"I don't know any of those girls that you just mentioned." Britney said glaring at the Tess through the mirror.
Tess shrugged. "It doesn't matter. What does matter is that everyone knows and are going to keep it under wraps until it's official that you and Dom broke it off. Then Dom will find out about your little rendez-vous!" Tess let out a shrill laugh.
"You had sex with Sirius!" Daisy yelled and then let out a squeal.
"Uhh, no!" Britney snapped. Tess scoffed.
"Ok, wait let me get this straight," Lily started. "You spent your Valentines day with Sirius, why? You were with Dom last time I knew of!" Lily said very confused.
"It's a long story," Britney muttered. "But in the end I broke it off with Dom this afternoon. I told him it's for good too." Britney said.
"So what now? Your just going to go to Sirius?" Lily asked. Britney looked thoughtful.
"I don't know," she said, the smile that was on her face earlier had gone away, as if what just happened during the course of the last week and a half seemed to settle in.
"All the time you said you were spending with Dom has been with Sirius?" Lily asked curiously.
"Yes," Britney said in a small voice. She walked over to Lily's bed and fell back onto the bed, a look of regret on her face.
"Britney, Sirius is just going to break your heart. I know Sirius has this, like, infatuation with you, but, it's only temporary before he gets bored." Lily said quietly.
"Who cares? Sirius Black is totally sexy!" Tess said lying on her bed and placing the cucumbers over her eyes.
Britney whimpered. She put her hands over her face and let out an unsteady breath. She was silent for a while, when she finally said. "I'm going to date Sirius." Lily sighed, defeated.
"Hey! Prongs! Guess what I just did?" Sirius said with a grin plastered on his face, just before midnight. James was pulling on his cloak, just as Sirius walked into the Common Room.
"Get ready Padfoot. What did you do?" James said not really paying attention to what Sirius was saying.
"I just invited Snivellus to our little party tonight!" Sirius said. "He should be arriving in about 10 minutes."
"We're late Padfoot, get your cloak on!" James snapped. He grabbed his invisibility cloak off of his bed and took the Marauders map out of Peter's hands. That is when James stopped. He turned slowly at Sirius who was pulling on his cloak smiling, very proud of himself.
"Did you get that Prongs?" Sirius asked.
"Huh?" James said slowly. "Please, Sirius, tell me, you weren't joking. Please tell me you have enough common sense to realize what you -" James stopped waiting for Sirius's response.
"I'm not joking," Sirius said looking at James seriously, before cracking a grin. James whipped towards Sirius who was laughing hard and opening up the boys dormitory door.
James rushed ahead and shut the door before Sirius could leave. "ARE YOU INSANE?" James yelled at Sirius.
"Whoa, James, what are you saying?" Sirius said frowning at James.
"YOU SENT SNAPE OFF TO A WEREWOLF?" James was glaring full on at Sirius. He wanted Sirius to answer.
"Yes," Sirius said. "But -" He didn't get a chance to explain because James dropped the map and invisibility cloak and rushed outside the dormitory. He ran down the dormitory stairs and into the common room, which was nearly empty. "JAMES!" Sirius yelled running down the stairs after James. But James was already outside of the common room.
He rushed down the 7 floors, taking every secret passage and short cut he knew down to the Entrance hall. Filch was wandering up the dungeon stairs when he saw James race in front of him and opening the Entrance Hall doors.
"POTTER!" was all James heard in the distance as he ran as fast and hard as he could to the Whomping Willow. When he finally reached the Whomping Willow, he noticed it was frozen. James ran towards the hole that led to the Shrieking Shack just as the Whomping Willow unfroze.
James slid down and raced down the tunnel. "SNAPE!" James yelled down the tunnel. He finally reached the trap door, which was slung open. James jumped up and pulled himself out of the hole when he noticed a Moony was growling viciously at James. James' heart sank. He was a goner. He heard whimpering to his left and he slowly turned his head to see Snape cowering in the corner. James pulled out his wand. He knew it was a stupid move, but he couldn't just change into his animagus form with Snape in the same room. But, he also couldn't just die.
James slowly got up, the werewolf circling around James. James walked backwards to where Snape was. The werewolf jumped towards them James holding his wand out, about to scream a spell when a large black dog Jumped up at that exact moment and collided with the werewolf. The dog wrestled the werewolf to the ground. James dragged Snape to his feet, but when Snape was showing no sign of moving his feet James picked him up, wincing at his weight, and threw him over his shoulders. Moony kicked Padfoot, who let out a yelp as he hit the wall. James jumped down the trap door, pulling it closed on his way.
A large thud was heard against the trap door, James ran as fast he could with Snape on his shoulders when James was kicked in the stomach by Snape, James collapsed to the ground. Snape quickly got up, James got up just as fast, but Snape pushed him over again and ran up the tunnel to the opening. A loud crash was heard and James saw Moony racing towards him. James pulled out his wand and tried to stun Moony. But Moony was only frozen for a moment. James turned into his stage form, and used his antlers to try and stop Moony from going any further. Moony was clawing at Prongs and not letting any force getting in his way. James threw made a huge push with his antlers getting Moony away.
Moony got up and squeezed past Prongs, and ran up the tunnel all over again. Prongs turned around, which was hard in the narrow tunnel, and galloped up the tunnel as well. When he got up he saw Moony Pouncing on Snape who seemed to be on the ground with a badly injured leg, due to the Whomping Willow's thrashing branches. The Whomping Willow's branches trashed and hit Moony throwing him another twenty feet away from Snape. Prongs Jumped up and stood in front of Snape. Moony ran towards them again when Padfoot emerged again and started wresting Moony again. The Whomping Willow hitting all of them along the way.
Prongs turned towards Snape who seemed to pass out. Prongs turned back into James, and he picked up Snape and threw him over his shoulder again, and he raced back up to the castle.
Remus woke up groggily, and found himself naked on the shrieking shack cold floor. He quickly pulled a blanket that was way over to his left and pulled it over him. His clothes weren't here. But that would mean James and Sirius didn't come last night. Remus frowned, he sat up but winced when he felt his muscles were sore. He saw many scratches all over his body. Remus didn't remember having this many scratches after the full moon since he was small.
He wrapped the blanket more tightly before standing up and looking around. He saw the trap door wasn't there anymore. And it was just a hole in the ground. He looked down the hole and say the wood of the trap door broken into little bits on the ground.
Remus tried to remember what happened last night, scared of what he might have done.
"Look, Prongs," Sirius said quietly to James who was ignoring them. They were both in the hospital, and waiting for Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore to come back from talking to Snape. Madame Pomfrey had them in their beds with all their cuts on the mend. "I'm sorry."
James was glaring at the plain white hospital wing wall across from him. He was seething, that was how mad he was at Sirius. He never knew he could be this mad at his best friend, his brother.
James had cuts all over his face and chest and back, Sirius had it worse though. He was bleeding still, and even had a severe cut on his back, that Madam Pomfrey said wouldn't go away, and was permanent. It stretch diagonally across his back from his shoulder to the small of his back. Sirius was currently lying on his stomach while Madam Pomfrey was tending to the deep cut.
Madame Pomfrey rushed over and put some thing on Sirius's back that made him make a loud noise of pain.
"Oh Mr. Black, it's your own fault. You two are in so much trouble!" She said shaking her head and tending to Sirius's cut.
James wasn't even thinking about how much trouble he would be in. He was just so angry with Sirius, that it was taking up any other thought he should have.
When James heard the Hospital wing door open he snapped out of his thoughts. Professor McGonagall ripped open the curtains, revealing the two boys. She pointed a shaky finger at Sirius.
"As soon as you're treated too Black, you are going home!" She screeched. Professor Dumbledore came up behind her, the twinkle in his eye, far from his eyes.
Sirius wasn't looking at the Professors. "I am so disgusted in the two of you! You didn't even think about how stupid you two were being. I am so angry!" She yelled.
"I have sent letters to both your parents." Professor Dumbledore said, his voice wasn't warm, but angry. "Two in your case Mr. Black, one for your parents and one for the Potters. Either you go to your parents or the Potters you will be suspended for two weeks, and when you come back you will have detention every night for the rest of the year. Mr. Potter, you will have detention starting next week, every night for the rest of the year." Professor Dumbledore said as calmly as possible.
"Two hundred points taken away from Gryffindor!" She yelled. James and Sirius winced.
"I have sent Mr. Pettigrew to retrieve Mr. Lupin," Professor Dumbledore said, giving a piercing glare to the two teenage boys. "Mr. Black, you will be out of the castle by noon today, is that clear?" Professor Dumbledore asked Sirius.
"Yes," Sirius said.
"Good," Professor Dumbledore finished and led Professor McGonagall out of the Hospital Wing.
A/N: I'm not sure when i'll update next...hopefully soon...thank you for all the reviews.
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