Draco yawned as he reached for a biscuit at breakfast. Prosper was staring at his reflection in the bronze goblet, intent on catching it, apparently. His tail twitched and his eyes narrowed before he – POUNCED!
Draco rolled his eyes and sighed as Prosper splashed around in his pumpkin juice. "I thought you were supposed to REMEMBER who you were. Or are you just happy at the chance to act un-mature?"
Prosper shot him a look which clearly stated, 'What do you think?'
Draco was about to respon when suddenly they heard, "NO, YOU IDIOT DOG, GET BACK HERE!"
Draco raised a slender pale eyebrow as a tiny black puppy, barking joyously, dashed into the hall. It bounded onto a bench then onto the Slytherin table, where it made a beeline for Harry and Draco. It barked something and Prosper looked like he would laugh – or as close as a kitten could get to laugh.
Suddenly, the emerald eyes got very wide. With a huge leap, Prosper jumped onto Draco's head just as Sirius skidded in the butter and crashed into the crystal gallon of pumpkin juice, which consequentially spilled all over the table.
The poor little puppy just sat there for a minute, looking confused. Draco wondered for a split second whether the impact had knocked him out. However, the puppy was on his feet again and barking happily in a flash. It sampled some of the pumpkin juice and ate some bacon.
"Sirius…I will kill you," panted Remus, coming to a skidding halt beside Draco. He sat down on the bench, breathing heavily. "Right after I remember how to breathe."
Draco chuckled and looked back down the puppy, which was gently licking Remus's hand. Maybe it hadn't been unconscious, but it may have suffered brain-damage…
Remus groaned and sank down into the armchair by the fire in his quarters. He didn't know where Sirius-the-puppy was, and, at this point, he didn't really care. All he knew was that he was rid of the puppy – or that he was being quiet. Shit. It was too quiet.
Damn, it sounded like some Muggle horror movie.
Remus chuckled at this thought and decided to find the puppy, who was being to quiet for his (or anyone else's) own good. He cursed colorfully and inventively as he saw the door to the rest of the castle wide open.
Why!
Gah.
He hurried out of the door and to the Gryffindor portrait hole, where, luckily, he met up with Ron.
"Ron!" he panted. The redhead cast him a look. "Need…map…please…"
"O…kay…I'll be right back, then," said the youngest Weasley boy, entering the portrait hole. Remus leaned up against a wall and fought to catch his breath. He just had it back under control when Ron came back out.
"Here," he said, handing it to him. "What d'you need it for, Professor?"
"Sirius is missing."
Ron laughed. "Good luck," he called before going back to the common room.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Remus chanted mechanically. The map opened for him and a wave of painful memories hit him. He swept these aside and gazed down at the yellowed parchment. He searched for a dot labeled Sirius…
Oh…this was not good.
Sirius was in Snape's Potions supply cupboard.
Remus once again made use of his wide, colorful variety of curses.
"So…explain this to me one more time," said Draco.
"I used the Marauder's Map, made by me and a few friends, to track down puppy-Sirius.I saw him in Snape's store cupboard. Snape has a lesson going no right now and I need to get Sirius out without being seen. Poof goes my job if I am. So I'm asking you and Harry to create a distraction."
"You," Draco said, pointing at Remus, "are asking me and him," he continued, pointing at himself and Harry, "to directly sabotage my godfather's class?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"…Okay?"
"That's what I said. What, don't want me to do it anymore?"
"Well, aren't we the little turncoat…"
"Professor, I'm a Slytherin. We look after ourselves first. And I can feel Prosper threatening to sink his claws so deep into my skull he can slice and dice my brain if I don't agree, so…"
"Wait, you can hear him? Telepathically?"
"Not actual words. Just kinda…emotions, pictures."
"Ah. So instead of completely wiping it out, the potion wiped out word usage…which means that Harry would have studied some form of telepathy. I'll have to remember to ask him about that…"
"Um, hello? My cousin is stuck in a closet…and I need to interrupt Sev's lesson."
"Okay. You know what you're going to do?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. Three…two…one…GO!"
Draco knocked on the classroom door as Remus threw Harry's stolen Invisibility Cloak over himself. Snape opened the door.
"…Yes?"
"Listen…Sev…I know that this might be a bad time, but…erm…I have a rather…embarrassing question and I need to ask someone I can trust, and…"
"Oh, flaming dragon balls…" Snape muttered, running a hand over his face. He turned back to the dungeon, now full of muttering students. Before he could say anything, Prosper leaped into the room and tipped over three cauldrons and dashed around and around. Snape stumbled after him in blind fury.
Draco, meanwhile, pulled a small sack holding about fifteen Galleons out of his pocket along with a few Filibuster Fireworks. He sidled up to a table where two smart, brass-looking first year Slytherins and a small, timid-looking, adorable Gryffindor sat. He showed it to them.
"I'll give you fifteen Galleons if you light these fireworks and chuck them into the cauldron on the far side of the room…"
The two Slytherins were petrified. The book-wormy, nerdy kinda looking girl with the big innocent face sighed impatiently, threw down her spoon, seized the fireworks, prodded them with her wand, and chucked them in a high, flawless arc across the room, where the landed perfectly on target in the aforementioned cauldron. She then smartly sat down, picked up her book, and began to simultaneously read and stir her potion. Draco and the two stunned Slytherins blinked at her. She looked up at them and smirked before going back to her book.
BOOM went the cauldron, SPLOOSH went the potion, "EEK!" went the student, and the Potions Master tore his hair out.
LadyDragonWolfKnight: A-yup...he just had to do something...
athenakitty: Hehehe...
where-my-heart-resides: thanks for the compliment!
Lady FoxFire: It shall be as you command! ...except for the Fudge part. I mean, poor Siri!
Baroque Isabella: Yeah, they are THE BEST and MOST CUTEST (cutest, WHATEVER...)
SesshyGirlFluffy: Yup! Poor, poor Hogwarts...yes, Harry the Horny Kitten...hmm...has a ring to it...oh, you'll see...nice to know you like it!
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SAXandCLARINETgrl: Yep, he HAD to do it...it's like Awww...
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naTsUkO-ChAn: Nope, Sirius is Malfoy's cousin - second cousin, because Narcissa and he are first cousins...somehow...it was on one of the many HP sites out there dedicated solely to Siri...anyway, Sirius changed himself, not Remus, and I suppose Dumbledore wrote a note or something...hmm...yeah, Harry's adorable!
Dezra: to keep Prosper company, of course!
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