Classes had begun and me and Ryan were making our way to the great hall with Mike, Lee and the twins who we just had defence against the dark arts with. As we entered the hall we saw Zac talking to a couple of 4th years. Zac was in the year below us so he was taking his OWLs (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) this year. We went to join him as a 4th year with bushy brown hair left. We sat down next to Zac with the other two forth years one I knew as Harry Potter of course everyone knows him the other one a red headed boy with freckles whom i believed to be related to the twins. Speaking of which, they had just started a conversation about Moody.
"Moody" Fred started "How cool is he?"
"Beyond cool" said George
"Supercool" Lee chimed in.
"We had him this afternoon with the Hufflepuffs" explained Mike "By the way Harry Ron these are Tay West and Ryan Black"
Harry's eyes widened at Ryan's last name
"Are you related to Sirius Black?" He asked
"Yes he's my dad and he's innocent before you say he's a murderer!" Ryan Snapped
"Chillax Ry he was only asking" I scolded "oh wait it's your time of month isn't it?"
"Alright sorry Harry and noooo that's next week" and he stuck his tongue out at me
"It's fine I know he's innocent he's my godfather" Harry told Ryan
"Da- I mean Padfoot never told me that"
"Didn't tell me about you either so what was Moody like?" Harry asked excitedly
"I had him this morning it was the best lesson of the day" Zac chipped in
"Never had a lesson like it" Fred agreed
"He knows dude!" said Mike
"Knows what?" Ron asked eagerly
"What it's like to be out there doing it" George told him
"Doing what?" asked Harry impatiently
"Fighting the dark arts" I answered him
"He's seen it all" Ryan added
"'Mazing" Lee said
"Slytherins don't like him heard them muttering about Moody at lunch" Zac told us
"Yeah he turned Malfoy into a ferret oh we haven't got Moody till Thursday Harry!" Ron whined
"Hold up!" I said
"What?" asked Fred
"He turned Malfoy into a ferret?"
"Yeah" answered Harry smiling
"Okay I want the whole story from the beginning and no skipping"
"What's wrong with skipping" asked Cameron swinging his legs over the bench and slotting into place next to Zac
"Hey Cam this is Harry, Ron, Lee, Fred and George. Your just in time for the gossip!" Zac told him putting on a fake girly voice for the last bit.
Harry and Ron told us about their encounter with Malfoy and how Moody stepped in and transfigured Malfoy into a ferret and then Minnie stepping in and ruining it all by telling him transfiguration was not a punishment and he should give detentions in future. We were all laughing I looked at Malfoy over at the Slytherin table huh I always thought he looked like a ferret. Me and Ryan finished our dinner and left for the Hufflepuff common room as we did I accidently bumped into Malfoy yippee.
"Watch it Mudblood" He sneered
"And proud" I told him "You watch it ferret face speaking of which isn't that Professor Moody over there?"
That made him scamper off and me and Ryan entered our common room and sat down in our usual seats and started on homework first was divination why we carried on with that subject I'll never know as we made up predictions that usually ended in one of us dying or getting seriously injured. One of Ryan's even included drowning in marshmallows.
"Well you two aren't in for a good month are you?" said Cedric sitting down by us
"At least we know it's coming" Ryan retorted
"Yeah I can see why you dropped Divination Ced" I added "Not nice knowing you're going to die fifty times in a month"
"I see you both haven't learnt cheaters never prosper. You made them all up again?" He asked shaking his head
"Yep" Answered Ryan popping the 'p'
Cedric pulled out his homework and started on that.
"By the way Tay your drowning twice" he said smugly
"Ah I'll change it to being sent to Azkaban" I told them
Then someone came in the common room calling Ryan's name. Ryan waved them over.
"Hey Ryan Harry Potters asking for you" A fourth year by the name of Ernie Macmillan told him
"Do you think it's about Padfoot?" Ryan asked me
"Only one way to find out" I answered getting out of my seat and heading out the common room to find Harry standing outside with Ron and that bushy haired girl clutching a piece of parchment in his hand.
"What's up Harry?" Ryan asked
"It's your dad its coming back I wrote to him telling him my scar was bothering me and I need your help to assure him I'm fine and to stay where he is" Harry said in a rush
"What? No! He can't he'll get caught again and you know you could have gone to Warren my brother he's in Gryffindor"
"How many God siblings do I have?!"
"Three but Evie's a nutter. Joined the death eaters. She's in Azkaban now with our deranged second cousin Bellatrix"
"Save the family history can you just write to Sirius?"
"Yeah of course Warrens in 7th year by the way he used to know Percy Ron"
Then the bushy haired girl stepped forward
"Hello I don't think we've met I'm Hermione Granger" She introduced her self
"Ryan Black and Tay West at your service Granger" I said saluting her making her laugh
We went back in the common room and found Cedric checking our homework correcting our spelling mistakes not going anywhere near our false predictions. Ryan grabbed a spare piece of parchment and started writing to Sirius.
"So what did Harry want?" Asked Cedric as he handed us back our homework which he had checked over and corrected all the spelling mistakes.
"To talk to me about Uncle Lupin apparently his dad was friends with him and my dad when they were at school" Ryan half lied the second part was true.
"Oh well I'll see you when you've finished your homework Ryan and you in the morning at breakfast Tay"
"See ya Ced" I called out to him as Ryan finished his letter.
"Hope he gets it before he arrives" Ryan said attaching his letter to his owl Buckbeak yep after the hippogriff. Sirius gave Ryan the owl after Hippogriff Buckbeak ate his old one so Ryan named it after him as if to say it's your fault I had to get a new owl. Owl Buckbeak flew off.
"Hey I think we've made up enough predictions let's get to bed see you in the morning Paws " I said as I went up the girls dormitory stairs to my dorm.