Another Shortie. This is the last chapter of their 5th year and then we're into 6th. Fair warning, year 6 is not complete yet. The delay between chapters may span more than the usual month, to make it up though of the 31 chapters so far, only about 5 are a page or less in length. As usual, all right belong to whom they belong.
Idiots
June 10th, 1994
Fifth year
It was the last week of the school year and the grounds were buzzing with the news, Professor Lupin was a werewolf. A werewolf had been teaching the students. What if he'd lost control? What if he'd bitten somebody? How could Dumbledore have allowed it? But he was the best Defense teacher they'd ever had, so what if he had a disease that had been foisted upon him? He'd taken steps to ensure the safety of his students and he was being kicked out because one teacher held a childhood grudge. How was that fair?
Malfoy was furious over Buckbeak's escape, Snape was furious over Sirius Black's escape. There was a ripple of concern over that last-after all, he was a deranged murderer, wasn't he?
Though the girls didn't know it, Sirius and Buckbeak were in hiding together and Harry now had one more piece of his father to carry around with him, not only was his patronus a stag but his father's best friend had now become one of his. The girls also didn't know that Sirius was innocent, or that Peter Pettigrew had been responsible for the death of Harry's parents. They had their suspicions that something had gone sideways, but they couldn't prove anything. "Why didn't they just check Black's wand for last spell cast?" Jo asked
"I don't know. Maybe they assumed he could used a different wand? I mean they had a street full of people swearing up and down that he did it, and they had Pettigrew's finger as evidence, I guess they didn't think they needed much more than that," Leili shrugged.
"That's dumb."
"Wizards, for all their magic, for all their brilliance, can be idiots."