"I had an owl once." Remus said as he admired Harry's Hedwig.
"What happened to
it?"
"I gave it a letter one day, and it never came back."
Chipped claws plunked heavily on the moldy floorboards beneath muddy paws. A deep growl resonated from the black dog's throat as an ancient owl came hopping after him, following him into the shrieking shack. Snorting at the bird the dog finally began to change form.
"Okay you malting menace! Out with it." Sirius Black snatched the well worn letter from the elderly bird's beak. His fingers trembled when he saw the writing.
"Moony" he whispered longingly as he traced his faded name before resuming dog form.
Padding across the bedroom he took temporary residence in, he lifted his front half to rest on a dust covered chair. He dropped the parchment onto the desk. Golden light from the sunrise flooded through the broken windows casting down onto the Animagus and his surroundings. The light bounced onto a antique vase holding long dried flowers.
A petal from the vase flickered past a photo of two canines onto the unopened letter. These memories would stay sealed away. Long passed words should remain silent.