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Hogwarts Second Years
Chapter Six – In Which Things Are Explained
Albus Dumbledore sat in his office, an open book in front of him. He would never admit it but he was terribly worried about his second year students. To start with there was the problem of Sirius Black's blindness. It had been a powerful potion that his mother had given him, possibly in orange juice, and though Andromeda had tried to fix it, her short lived spell had done nothing really except delay the real out come. During his time in the hospital wing, Sirius had been given a various amount of different potions, each hoping to fix him. It was a test of his patience that Sirius allowed them to do anything to him. Surprisingly, it was two third year Gryffindor girls who had found the correct potion. Dumbledore was rather surprised that the girls had prepared the remarkably hard potion. He awarded each girl 100 points. He did not tell Sirius who had made the cure for him. But later that month he was pleased to see Hestia Jones and Lucy Peaches sitting and talking to the four boys.
Dumbledore did not fail to notice that something was wrong with Melody Applewhite either. One afternoon, after a particularly fight involving the Moron twins, professor Dumbledore invited Melody to his office. The two had talked for a long time and Dumbledore finally worked out what was wrong with the once sweet natured girl. He encouraged Melody to talk to her sister. He did not count on her fighting with Myra or Alice getting mad at her. It saddened him to see this kind hearted girl wasting away to nothing. But there was nothing more he could do. He was glad to see that Arabella Figg struck up a friendship with the lost little girl. Still he thought that everyone had a right to know what was troubling the girl. But for now he would respect her wishes and let her have her little secret. He knew that Melody would go and talk to Flynn Moody, the Hufflepuff prefect. Flynn would then talk to Dumbledore. Sometimes Flynn would come to him in tears. But she had an on going relationship with Professor Dumbledore, being her father's friend. Though he wanted to help and to ease Flynn's mind, there was nothing he could do.
"I'm afraid of what will happen," Melody had said, "People are going to get hurt and I don't want that to happen!"
Dumbledore often wondered what she had meant by that. He was beginning to wonder if she had any Seer blood in her. But for now he would just leave it.
Then there was poor little Remus. At least he had friends who seemed to be very loyal to him of which Dumbledore was very glad. Everyone needs friends. And friends must be loyal. He often found himself wondering about those Gryffindor second year boys. There was Sirius Black who seemed to be constantly fighting with his family. Hardly ever showing when he was hurt but when something went wrong he could throw the biggest tantrums Dumbledore had seen. He remembered early in Sirius' first year, not long after the sorting. Mrs Black had come to the school and insisted on getting Sirius resorted. Dumbledore had allowed that to happen, but when the hat called Gryffindor once more Mrs Black had got rather angry and yelled at her son. Sirius being the kind of boy who rebelled against those in power had only yelled back and when Mrs Black threatened to remove him from Hogwarts, Sirius had thrown a huge tantrum, screaming and yelling and throwing anything he could get his hands on. Finally Dumbledore had intervened and asked Mrs Black if it wouldn't be wiser for Sirius to stay at Hogwarts.
Sirius and James came from two very different families yet both were rather good friends. James Potter was the only child of Maggie and Charles Potter. He was rather doted upon and this tended to make him rather sure of himself. After the third week of their first year, after James and Sirius had managed to get themselves in trouble for both picking on a Hufflepuff boy, they became the best of friends and were practically inseparable. Then there was little Peter Pettigrew. He was a rather shy little boy but also brave in his own special way. He tended to be rather good at Healing and Herbology.
As Dumbledore let his thoughts wonder, he failed to notice two second year boys sneaking in and then out of his office. Perhaps if the Headmaster had been paying proper attention to his surroundings he would not have drunk his tea. Then again, how could someone break into his office? Maybe this is the reason that Professor Albus Dumbledore found himself growing a tail and little pig ears at the dinner table. Sirius Black and James Potter could barely contain their giggles.