Chapter 23

The Patronus

Once Snape was out of our hair, Sirius had some time alone to spend with me and Harry.

"So you're our godfather?" Harry asked Sirius, keeping an arm around me at all times.

Sirius nodded "Yes, I am. You two look a lot like your parents. Harry, you look a lot like James, except the eyes…you have Lily's eyes."

Harry nodded and smiled, unable to say anything.

"And Hannah, you're most like Lily. You look like her…minus the hair colour and the eyes. You have James' hair colour and colour, and you don't have the Potter eyes."

I looked down at my trainers and blushed, biting my lip.

"How're those Muggles treating you?" Sirius asked, turning to me.

I kept silent and turned to Harry.

"They're horrible." Harry said simply "They make us cook and clean and Vernon beats Han every chance he gets."

I nodded, too ashamed to say anything.

"That won't do." Sirius said coldly, looking off into the distance. "Tell you two what…when this whole Azkaban thing clears up…how would the two of you like to live with me?"

I looked up and at my godfather. "Really?" I said with Harry "You'd do that?"

Sirius nodded "If you want."

I started nodding so often that Harry had to hold my head to get me to stop.

"Sis…" Harry said, rolling his eyes "I know you want to get out of Privite Drive as much as possible, but don't be too enthusiastic."

The I heard Ivy yell "LUPIN NO!" ruining the family moment.

Harry, Sirius and I spun around and saw that that night was a full moon…and Lupin didn't take the Wolfs bane potion Snape would give him.

He was turning!

Sirius ran to him and tried to calm Lupin down. But Lupin tried to slash him.

Ivy pushed Sirius out of the way and Lupin slashed her instead.

"IVY!" I screamed.

The werewolf-Lupin turned to me and snarled as Ivy fell. He started to charge when Snape grabbed a hold of Harry. The wolf growled once more and Snape jumped in front of me before Lupin could pounce on me.

Sirius turned into a black dog and charged at Lupin to defend everyone. After a few minutes of fighting, another animal jumped into the scrap. A cat with red fur and odd glasses-like markings around its eyes.

It was She-Cat.

"She-Cat!" I shouted in relief.

She-Cat didn't get to do much, as Lupin knocked her into a bush and she disappeared.

Sirius lead Lupin away from where Snape, Harry and I were. Harry decided to be an idiot and try to break away from Snape.

"Harry Potter, don't you dare!" I shouted, grabbing Harry's sweater.

"Han, I have a plan. We gotta save Sirius. You throw some rocks at Lupin and I'll save Sirius…deal?" Harry explained, holding out his hand.

I hugged him "Deal." I said, smiling "Now go save our godfather before you get your ass killed!"

Harry nodded and ran to stop the fight. I picked up a few rocks as I ran and threw them at Lupin to get him off Sirius.

Big mistake. Lupin did pull off of Sirius…but only to go after me!

Talk about a stupid move on my part.

Lupin was about a meter away when there was a howling from the Forest. Lupin took one last look at me and crawled to the direction of the sound.

I looked around for Sirius and couldn't find him…so I went to the edge of the lake to see if him and Harry went down there.

Sirius had changed back to normal and passed out…from what I thought was exhaustion. Then the air had gotten colder.

"Harry?" I called out, looking around for my brother when they showed up.

Dementors…by the dozen were suddenly swarming around the lake and Sirius. Then I remembered what Lupin had told Harry and I about what was under a Dementor's hood.

Dementors only lowered their hood to use one last torture on a victim…The Dementor's Kiss…the act of sucking someone's soul out through their mouth.

I gasped and pulled out my wand, ready to defend my godfather and myself.

"Expecto Patronum!" I shouted, waving my wand in the air.

Nothing.

"Crap…oh crap! Crap on a stick!" I shouted, looking frantically around for my brother "HARRY!"

Harry ran out from the bushes, Hermione hot on his tail.

"Mione, go!" I shouted, turning to my Gryffindor friend "FOR THE LOVE OF SKINNER GO!" I shouted again after Hermione refused to listen.

Hermione nodded and ran back into the bushes as Harry pulled out his wand himself.

"Expecto Patronum!" Harry shouted, glaring at the dozen of Dementors swarming Sirius.

Nothing.

"SHIT!" Harry shouted, glaring down at his wand "Why am I not getting anything?"

I turned to Harry "I didn't get anything either…maybe…if we combined our power we'd get something?" I suggested.

"Well…" Harry said, glancing over to Sirius, who was getting closer and closer to getting the Kiss "I don't have any better ideas…let's do it!"

Harry and I clasped hands and ran over to the Dementors.

"Ready, sis?" Harry asked, turning to me.

I nodded "Ready, bro." I echoed, pulling my wand back out.

We took one last look at each other before turning to the Dementors.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Harry and I shouted together.

Harry and I both thought of the same thing…the chance to live with Sirius…away from the Dursleys and the Muggle arses forever. The very thought sent a flash of warmth through me.

We both got a powerful mist from our wands that chased away the Dementors.

But something went wrong…one Dementor didn't seem to be effected by our Patronuses, either that, or our Patronuses weren't strong enough.

The Dementor advanced on the two of us and I felt both of us fall.

The last thing I saw was a stag and a fawn before the world went black.