-1Melodies of Us

Author: AzureLuna

Summary: The story of our favorite puppies, and their harsh journey through life as expressed in the form of song. Music from Broadway plays and musicals.

Authors Note: My advice to you reading this would be to try and find these songs and listen to them as you're reading. It's not necessary and some are a huge pain to locate, but it makes things in the story both sweeter and sadder.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Otherwise that little epilogue would've been a tad different. Mwhaha, and I DO NOT own any of the songs or the musicals which the songs are from! Credits go to Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge, Jekyll and Hyde, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables.

Act III

'My Favorite Things'

Both Remus and Sirius sing this in times of angst, skips from 6th year to Azkaban.

It was 6th year for our young Marauders but two in particular were feeling very distraught one was in the Astronomy Tower cursing himself for his idiocy the other was in the infirmary trying his best to piece things together and makes sense of what happened. These two boys were Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Sirius had just told Snape how to enter the Shrieking Shack, and he was regretting it deeply and had been since the second he let it slip. Remus was confused and really didn't know what to make of this, he was sad more then anything, he went to a nearby window and let the early sunshine touch his soft face.

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things"

Sirius was sitting on the top of the Tower looking at the sunrise knowing he should apologize, and confess, he didn't know how. 'Besides,' he told himself, 'he probably hates you anyway.'

"Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things"

Remus continued looking into the sunrise and he didn't care if anyone heard him now, it was making him feel much better to just hear himself.

"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things"

Sirius looked down at the courtyard.

"When the dog bites"

Remus looked toward the gardens
"When the bee stings"

They both looked toward the Whomping Willow and sang in unison.
"When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad"

Unknown to them that just in 3 years they'd both being in a similar situation. This time there were no Marauders. Supposedly two were dead, one locked up and the other struggling to survive. Remus the only one that wasn't dead one way or another was at the flat he and Sirius had rented after graduation, he wandered all over their flat and seeing his things still scattered it was hard to believe. The man he loved was a murderer and was locked up. But it all happened so fast, in the past 24 hours his life had changed forever. He sat on the couch and begin feel a little de-ja-vu he smiled bitterly at the memory and tried to push it away, but some seeped through the well worn barriers

"When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad"

Meanwhile Sirius was locked up in his cell like the guilty murderer everyone thought he was. He was trying to see through the window, but it was too high. He missed Remus already, and he knew he should apologize, but he didn't know how. He also remembered three years ago and whispered to himself.

"When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad"

It lifted his mood a little, then a Dementor came by his cell and he was forced to remember Remus' sad and confused face as they dragged him away, begging Sirius to say they were lying, that he was innocent.

Such pain, Sirius cried out in anguish.