Chapter 6: Shadow and Misty.

4th, August, 1998.

After lunch everyone went outside for some fresh air.

"Hey Gin?" Harry asked his girlfriend once everyone had sat down in a circle on conjured chairs.

"Yes Harry?" she replied.

"You know when Death made us Lycans what did you feel? I felt as though there was fire running through my veins then it turned to ice then fire again before going back to normal." he explained.

"Hmm… I got similar, I got fire then ice but I never had fire again." she said.

"Hmm, must be the change to your bodies." Hermione commented, they nodded thinking she was probably right.

"Why don't you try out your form's and see what it feel's like to change." Minerva commented. "If it's supposed to be like the animagius transformation just concentrate on changing into your form."

They did and within a minuite two beautiful wolves were standing where Harry and Ginny were.

"Oh my." Andy said as those who hadn't seen them in wolf form before looked shocked.

"You two are even bigger than Moony is." Sirius said, making James nod and Remus glare at him.

The black wolf, Harry, made an odd noise that would equal to a snort he then looked at the dark red wolf that was Ginny and nudged her with his shoulder.

Ginny huffed and nudged him back. Most of the people around the circle looked amused. Harry then took a few unsteady steps forward and fell landing on his side, giving out a startled yelp of surprise.

"You'll get used to it trust me." said Sirius going over to Harry and ruffling his ears. Harry nodded and took a few more unsteady steps forwards and fell again.

This time it was Ginny who made a sound suspiciously like a snort.

Harry changed back, "You try walking on four legs then." he said moodily. Ginny did and only stumbled once before she got more confident and walked a bit more steadily. Harry went back to wolf form and tried again, this time he didn't fall, but he still stumbled a few times.

"It can be a little tricky on four legs I remember when Padfoot did his change the first time I think it took him almost two days to stop falling over every seccond step." Remus chuckled, Sirius glared at him.

"He's right Paddy, but remember it took me a week to be steady on four legs because of the hooves." James reminded his friend.

Sirius sighed and nodded dejectedly, "I know but it was tricky, especialy on the wooden floor in the dorm, it was slippy." he said.

"If it helps I was like that for a few hours after I completed the tranformation." Minerva said. "It took me a while to get used to being a cat." she admitted just as the two wolves got their footing and started running around the circle making everyone smile, "Looks like they've got it then."

The two wolves stopped suddenly and looked at each other then changed back.

"Ginny did I just hear your voice inside my head?" Harry asked.

"I think so, I think I heard you too." she replied. "Hold on." she frowned. Can you hear me? she thought towards Harry. Harry jumped and nodded.

"Yes I can hear you Gin, must be part of the virus." Harry mused.

"It might be something to do with the soul bond Death mentioned." Hermione pointed out. "I'll look it up later for you." they nodded.

At that point Teddy woke up full of energy from his morning nap, and said, "Unca Har?" making Harry go over to him.

"What is it Teddy?" he asked.

"Wet." his Godson announced.

"Do you want me to change you or Gramma?" he asked the little boy.

Teddy pointed at Harry so he picked him up and got the changing bag from Andy.

"I'll be back in a minuite." Harry told the others heading towards the house.

"See Sirius your Godson isn't afraid to change his Godson's nappies." Remus said snickering. "You were terrified to change Harry's when he was a baby." this made Sirius go red as everyone laughed.

"I'd forgotten that. He used to hide under the bed as Padfoot or pass him off to one of us." James added smirking at a very red Sirius.

Sirius mumbled something in-audiable.

"What was that Sirius?" Lily asked curiously.

"I said I don't know how to change nappies and I didn't want to hurt him." Sirius said, his face still bright red with embarrasment.

"You should have said something you idiot I would have shown you how to do it." Lily said frowning.

"I didn't want you to think I was stupid," he admitted.

"I wouldn't think you were stupid Sirius, after all I had to show James how to do it as well." her last

comment made James nod.

"Yeah Paddy, I didn't know how to do anything really when Harry was first born, dont you remember what I said when Lily was eight months pregnant and we went to Diagon Alley, in disguise, for baby stuff?" James said. "I said I didn't have a clue how to take care of babies."

"Oh yeah, now I feel like an idiot." he replied making everyone chuckle again.

"I don't know what your laughing at you lot," Lily said to the Weasley boys, who had kept snickering, "It was Molly who showed me how to do it in the first place." that shut the boys up, except Bill, Charlie and Percy who were old enough to remember, they just laughed harder.

"At least with the twin's and Ron you mean?" Bill asked.

"Yes. Ginny hadn't been born at the time." Molly smiled.

Harry returned with Teddy, who had a stuffed wolf in his hands and was making it growl at Harry.

"All done." Harry said conjuring a blanket and stitting Teddy down on it where the little boy started playing with his wolf, he also brought out some other toys and put them on the blanket. "He should be happy for now." he added to Remus and Dora who smiled back at him.

"We definatly made the right coice when we picked you for Godfather, Harry." Dora said while Remus nodded. Harry smiled at them.

"Hey Harry, Ginny?" Ron asked from his seat.

"Yeah?" they replied together.

"Why dont you two pick names for your wolf froms? It will get boring just saying 'wolf form' all the time." he suggested they nodded and fell silent in thought.

"Hmm, I like 'Shadow', what about you guys?" Harry said after a minute.

"It definatly suits you." Charlie commented.

"Yeah. Definatly." the twins said together while the rest of the Weasley's nodded as did the Lupin's, Malfoy's and Black's.

"Wow. That was quicker than we were it took us a week to decide to call Sirius 'Padfoot' and two weeks to call James 'Prongs'." Remus commented, "I got 'Moony' two days after the others found out about…" he trailed off.

"… Your 'Furry Little Problem'." James finished.

"Yes. That."

"You know I had always wondered where that came from, the rumour was that you had a badly behaved rabbit at home." Cissy said with sudden understanding in her eyes.

"I knew it was probably one of you who had come up with that," Minerva muttered to everyones surprise, "even the staff heard that one," she chuckled, "It confused some of them to no end." the Marauders snickered at this.

"I thought all the staff knew about me?" Remus asked.

"No. It was only Albus, Poppy, Fillius, Pomona, Horace and myself who knew." Minerva admitted, "And the DADA teacher's that could be trusted."

"Like Andrew's?" James suggested. Minerva nodded.

"I never knew that. Surley some of them guessed?" Remus asked.

"I think they came to their own conclusions but they never voiced them." Minerva shrugged.

"I think I'll call my form 'Misty'." Ginny finally said after a short silence.

"That's a good one Gin." Harry told her giving her a one armed hug as everyone else nodded thier agreements.

"Right, now that's settled, shall we get back to the memories then?" Harry asked and everyone nodded and vanished thier chairs before heading inside, Remus picking up his son and Harry getting the toys before vanishing the blanket and going inside.