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Chapter 3- Sirius
Sirius POV
"We did it! Finally!" I exclaimed, once I returned to my human form. James, Peter and I finally did it, we're animagi. James is a Stag, Pete a rat and I'm a big black dog.
We will finally be able to help Remus during the full moon. After 2 years of research and failed attempts. With a month left till the beginning of our 5th year at Hogwarts, the four of us are going to be staying at James' house, planning our start of term prank, and other mischievous marauder fun, as well as the full moon. Remus and Peter had gone home for a few weeks before returning to stay the rest of the summer.
I now live with James, having been disowned and almost murdered by my parents earlier in the summer. James and I spend our days in the forest behind James house exploring in our Animagus forms, learning everything there is to know about them.
As we are traveling the unseen trails through the trees we come across a scent neither of us recognized, we knew it was some kind of animal only we couldn't identify it. Curious we follow it, it must be big, the trail we found was pretty fresh, but it was quarter of an hour before we made any progress and caught up with whatever made the trail. We slow, listening, moving quietly through the trees, circling around so that we are downwind so as to not alert the creature to our presence. I move in closer, while James stays back, he's too noticeable. I slip under some close nit brush crawling on my stomach to get a good look, it's big and grey, and I finally get a good view, and see that it's a horse. She is in a small meadow, and looking right at me, I realize that she had heard me, she's beautiful even startled, and standing stock still.
Our eyes are locked for a full minute, and then suddenly she blows a huge gust of air out her nose in a loud snort, making me jump. I crawl completely out of the brush, with extreme slowness, she doesn't move just watches me, trying to determine if I'm a threat, standing her ground she isn't going to run. I can't tell if she will come after me but, with great care I become human, hoping she doesn't run or attack. I'm mesmerized and want to get closer, but know she wouldn't let me as a dog. As I stand I look up and see her back a few steps, tense, and ready to run, I wait, she stands completely still, appraising me, she stretches her neck out smelling the air. Snorting she brings her head up but she loses some of the tension in her body, she takes a few steps toward me, and stops. She is unsure, I can tell by the look in her eyes, she wants to run but she is curious too.
"That's a good girl; I'm not going to hurt you." I say softly, taking small steps forward reaching out to touch her nose. When I'm a foot away, she picks her head up in alarm, looking intently behind me, where a stick had snapped in the trees; I'd forgotten about James. As I turned to tell Prongs to come out, she snorted and ran off.
"Good job James, you scared her." I say exasperated.
"Sorry, I was getting tired of standing still. Why'd you want to get so close to her anyway?" he asked.
"I don't know… it was like there was something pulling me to her, there was just something about her." I was confused; I had never felt like that before. It was as though my soul was calling out to her, which was strange because she's a horse. Unless of course she wasn't just a horse, but I'll probably never find her to find out. To take my mind off it I change and start back to the house following the trail we made.
"Hey, where ar- Sirius wait up!" called James, before he changed and was trotting to catch up. He followed me all the way back; I could tell he was staring holes into the back of my head, wondering at my change in mood.