Fallen
Chapter 2
Miah woke up confused in the hospital ward. After a few moments, she remembers, that she is back in 1977. Her heart leaping with joy, she could save them all. She can save Sirius, James, Remus, Lily, and even Dumbledore. Yes, she is mad at Dumbledore but he is still a great man, one who became confused and just needs to be led back to the right path.
As she lies there, she is organizing her mind to what she will tell them all today. She doesn't want to get them overly excited or angry with Dumbledore. While some anger is needed, a cool and calm head is needed even more.
While collecting her thoughts the Marauders come tumbling into the room. They tell her to go and get dressed as they are taking her to breakfast. She asks, "What happened with Peter? Did they find the Dark Mark on him? Did they take him away to Azkaban? If they didn't will they let me take care of him? I have dreamed of ways to torture that traitorous rat for years." "The Aurors came and questioned him last night, and yes, they found the Dark Mark. They took him away you bloodthirsty little thing, so no you may not torture him," James laughingly told her. "Now come on get dressed we are taking you down to breakfast."
"Okay, if you boys will excuse me a moment, I will get ready for breakfast as soon as Madam Pomfrey releases me." Sirius looks worried that Madam Pomfrey will hold onto this delicious little witch and not give him a chance to get to know her. There is something about the girl that has gotten under his skin, burrowed its way in the direction of his walled away heart. Something that is like a sledgehammer knocking away at that wall, Sirius shivers, afraid of the walls tumbling down and even more afraid that they wouldn't.
Madam Pomfrey gives her permission to leave but admonishes her not to do anything strenuous lest she ends up back in the hospital ward. Miah asks her for her beaded purse. She reaches in feeling around with her arm up to her shoulder. "Undetectable extension charm," Asks Remus? "Yes, and feather light charm as well," she replied. Getting frustrated at not finding what her clothes, she upends the purse on the bed. The boys are agog at all that comes flowing out; tent, portrait (it landed upside down so Sirius did not see that it came from his parents home), almost a whole library of books, potions, clothes and not just her clothes but boys clothes as well, loose Galleons, and three broomsticks.
James and Sirius' eyes light up at the sight of the broomsticks. Miah can see that they are contemplating riding something that must be far superior as it comes from the future. She tells them, "As soon as I am done with my tale I will let you have a go on these broomsticks." The anticipation coming off thick from the boys, "How much longer is your story, Miah," asks James bouncing up and down on his feet. "Oh, about a week more," she replies.
Quickly replacing the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black and all the books before Sirius realizes that they all come from his parents home, Miah tosses aside all the boys clothes, with the exception of the Quidditch uniform tops, gathers what change of clothing she needs and repacks everything else back into the trusty little purse. She tells the boys to go and head on down, as she must first take a shower then she'll be down in 30 minutes and shoos them away. They all turn to leave and after she closes the bathroom door behind her, Sirius tells them to go without him; he will wait to walk her down.
Approximately 20 minutes later Miah comes strolling out of the bathroom singing a muggle song. "Is that Pink Floyd you're singing Miah?" asks Sirius. "They are one of my favorite bands. You know that they are Wizards don't you?"
"What? Really?" gasps Miah. "I didn't know that. How many more muggle bands are really Wizards?"
"Quite a few, such as Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Alice Cooper and David Bowie just to name a few."
"Wow, the few you named are some of my absolute favorite bands. You will need to get me a list of every band or artist that is a Wizard. I absolutely love hard rock, none of this pop crap. I also am not much of a fan of punk. Some of it is good but I can live without it. I also like country music. Ah, hell I just like about most music, very eclectic tastes. I like to fall asleep to classical as it relaxes me, but during the day, I prefer my rock. Don't get between me and Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin."
"No, tell me it isn't so. My favorite is the Sex Pistols about as punk as you can get," said Sirius. "Ugh, while I don't mind their music, I think that Sid Vicious' voice is horrible. Give me Jim Morrison any day. Acid Rock is my all time favorite."
"So they are still playing that type of music 20 years from now, huh?"
"Not really, it is more Grunge, or as I like to call it, shite."
"Well, we better get going if we want to make breakfast." Pants Sirius.
Miah knows from her correspondence with him in the future that he reads Shakespeare decides to quote some, "Okay, Lay on Macduff, and damned be him who first cries 'Hold Enough.'"
"Um, Miah, you have the wrong Marauder to quote Shakespeare too," he is praying she doesn't know this secret.
"Oh, I don't think so seeing that you knew that was Shakespeare. I would say that you have absorbed some of Remus' knowledge, through osmosis perhaps?"
Barking out a laugh, Sirius pleads, "Don't let anyone know that I read Shakespeare, the guys would never let me hear the end of that." Smirking and eyes sparkling mischievously, Miah asks, "And what is in it for me to keep quiet?"
"Ah, blackmail is it," cries Sirius, "well, we will just have to come up with the payment won't we Kitten."
As they near the Great Hall, Sirius turns toward Miah and caresses her face. Stepping closer as she backs away eyes wide, he backs her against a wall. "Maybe this can be a down payment to keeping my secrets," he whispers to her as he lowers his lips to hers.
A shiver runs through her as his lips softly caress hers, his tongue running along the seam of her lips begging for entry. As she parts her lips, they hear behind them a light cough. Pulling away from her, Sirius turns around to see James and Remus glaring at him. "Breakfast is almost over, you two better get in there before it is gone," Remus says quietly as he and James turn around and go back into the Great Hall laughing.
Miah, feeling dazed and confused, blushes and quickly walks toward the Great Hall. Sirius catches up with her, gently takes her arm, and guides her over to where the rest of the Marauders are sitting.
Confused about her feelings for Sirius Black, Miah sits there silently listening to the banter of the boy's laughter and merriment ringing in the air. She notices how alive Sirius' eyes are and how healthy he looked. His raven black hair with its blue undertones so silky smooth, just waiting for her fingers to run through it, hanging down to his shoulders in beautiful waves. This is not the broken man that she met in 3rd year, the man whose eyes were crazed and darting about searching for Peter. That man was so emaciated, that even though when she first met him she was afraid, she was also broken hearted to see a man brought down so low. Nor the man so filthy that it looked like if you bathed him he would fall over without the crusty filth that is holding him upright.
Sirius sees Miah watching him with tear filled eyes and a full on blush rising to the tips of her ears, wipes away a lone tear rolling down her cheek with the pad of his thumb. She leans into that caress and momentarily closes her eyes, sadness overcoming her. When she opens them back up there is a look of fierce determination shining from those chocolate brown eyes. She will save him, and everybody else. There will a little heartache as possible.
Sirius tells her that next weekend is a Hogsmeade weekend, and asks her if she would go with him. "Yes," she replies with her heart leaping for joy.
A radiant smile lights up his face with that one little word. All is right in his world and he has a date with Miah.
Professor McGonagall walks over and tells the Marauders and Lily that they are to report to the Room of Requirement at 1 pm. After she leaves to inform Severus and Regulus to be there as well, the others at the table ask what is going on. "I'm sorry Frank, we are not allowed to tell you at this time," says James, "But as soon as we get the go ahead, we will fill you in."
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"Hey guys, it is almost 1 pm, time to go upstairs for our meeting," says Lily. "Okay, we're coming," replies James.
Grabbing Lily's hand James pulls her along towards the 7th-Floor corridor. Remus, Sirius and Miah follow. Once again everyone invited have congregated in the hallway.
This time Professor Dumbledore led them into the room, and again there was a buffet table full of refreshments. The Firewhiskey tucked away for later.
With no preamble, Miah starts right in on the story. "Okay, 2nd-year. Harry, having been sent back to the Dursley's, found himself finally in a bedroom. Dudley's second bedroom, more like a storage/junk room then a bedroom, but it was still better than the boot cupboard. On Harry's birthday, the Dursley's are having a dinner party for an important client of Vernon's. Harry told to stay in his room and to not make a sound not even his owl.
After cooking the dinner for them, Harry goes to his room and finds a strange being there, it was a house elf named Dobby." Both Severus and Regulus look startled and start to question whose elf that was when Miah gave them a little shake of the head.
"This excitable elf tells the great Harry Potter that he will be in danger if he goes back to Hogwarts. Harry of course tells him that it is his home that he will be going back, so Dobby, in an attempt to keep Harry safe, displays magic in front of the Dursley's guest, and Harry receives a warning letter from the Ministry. The Dursley's not knowing that Harry is not allowed to perform magic is the only thing that gave him a relatively quit summer."
"Now because Vernon is the arsehole he is and not believing or caring that Harry didn't do that 'freakish' magic, placed bars on Harry's window and seven locks (on the outside) of Harry's door, putting in a cat flap at the bottom of the door for the passage of food."
"WHAT?" screams Lily, "AS SOON AS THE HOLS COME I AM GOING TO KILL THAT PRICK."
"It's okay Lily, Harry didn't mind. This way he is actually getting more food than he used to get. There were days if he was lucky he would get food at all, even when cooking. It also kept Dudley from playing his favorite game of Harry Hunting.
"Getting worried that they hadn't heard from Harry, the Ron Weasley and his twin brothers, you Marauders would love those twins, they worship you guys and the gift you left for them with Filch," when Professor McGonagall's lips go super thin it is time to run, "'take' Arthur's flying car and go to Privet Drive. Finding Harry's window covered with bars they pry the bars off and I believe Fred picked the locks on the door and rescued Harry's trunk from his old bedroom, the boot cupboard. Barely escaping as Vernon came roaring in to stop Harry from leaving; they fly off into the night." Harry spends the rest of his summer at The Burrow. Only the second place he feels is home."
"Mid August, we all go to Diagon Alley for our school supplies. This is the first time that Harry has ever used the floo network so of course he misses Diagon Alley and winds up in Knockturn Alley. Thankfully, he meets Hagrid who guides him out of the Alley and back to Molly."
"As usual, the curse of DADA had hit and we had another new teacher. This one was even worse than Quirrellmort, Gilderoy Lockhart. The man is as phony as a wooden Sickle and I am ashamed to say that I, like many other of the girls at school, had a slight crush on him."
The Marauders break up laughing, Sirius gasping out, "That ponce was a few years ahead of us, and he couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, how did he become DADA teacher?"
"Well, from what I understand, no one else would take the job as they were afraid of the curse."
"Oh, that reminds me, Headmaster why don't you just change the name of the class and its location. That should break the 'curse'." The Headmaster looks at Miah gobsmacked, wondering why no one had thought of that solution before.
"Anyhow, while waiting in line to buy our defense books, which happen to be all the books he wrote, he spots Harry and pulls him to the front for a photo op. He also gives Harry all his books free of charge. Now Harry hates the limelight and tries to go out of his way to stay out of it. He takes the books and gives them to Ginny, the youngest Weasley, and says he will buy his own."
"About this time, Draco Malfoy comes over to insult everyone, and then Lucius shows up. He and Arthur Weasley get into an altercation and Hagrid comes in and breaks it up." "Way to go Arthur," shouts Sirius.
"On 1 September everyone goes through the barrier at Platform 9 ¾, but Harry and Ron. When they try to go through, they find that it has been blocked. Instead of waiting for Arthur and Molly or any other parent to come back through the barrier, the boys decide to fly Arthur's car to Hogwarts. Following the Express, the car finally runs low on magic by the time they arrive at Hogwarts and crashes into the Whomping Willow, breaking Ron's wand. Ejecting the boys and their luggage, the car drives away into the Forbidden Forest to where it still is in my time."
"As they are collecting their belongings and trying to sneak into the castle Professor Snape catches them and gives them detention Friday night, three days later. That Friday is the first time I heard the slur 'mudblood.' Malfoy had called me that and Ron tried to hex him. Unfortunately, his wand, wrapped in spell-o-tape, backfired causing him to spew slugs instead of Malfoy. Later that night Ron had to polish all the trophies, by hand, many times, as he would still spew a few slugs now and then, while Harry was forced to help Lockhart sign photographs. That night was the first time that Harry heard the voice 'Come to me…Let me rip you…Let me tear you...' he heard it at other times saying kill Harry was the only one that could hear the voice, and being a boy refused to tell any teacher."
"Our days went on without further major incident. Nearly Headless Nick invited Harry, Ron and myself to his 500th deathday party on Halloween night, and after leaving the party to try and get some real food, we found near the 2nd floor girls bathroom Filch's cat Mrs. Norris petrified and hung by her tail and the words written in blood 'The chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware.' Harry and Ron believe that Malfoy is behind the opening of the chamber where others believe that it is Harry. I get a signed slip from Lockhart to go into the restricted section of the Library so that I may get a copy of 'Most Potente Potions.' Using the 2nd floor girls bathroom and I am sorry in advance Severus, I steal from Professor Snape's personal store Boomslang Skin to make Polyjuice Potion, well I stole that a after the potion was half-way done."
"Are you trying to tell us that as a 2nd year student you brewed Polyjuice Potion?" Severus asked incredulously.
"Yes, and I was quite successful at that. The only thing that went wrong was I got a hold of a cat hair for my portion of the potion and as you know Polyjuice is not to be used for animals." I tell them blushing, they all laugh. Professor McGonagall looks at me proudly; even though she doesn't know me at this time, she knows that I am a Gryffindor.
"The first Saturday of November is the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin. In his second year as seeker for Gryffindor, Harry can't wait to go against Slytherin's new seeker, who had to buy his way onto the team, Malfoy. During the game, a bludger went rogue and wouldn't leave Harry alone. Fred and George, beaters, kept it away from Harry as much as possible. In the end, Harry caught the snitch and the bludger broke his arm. Instead of waiting for Madam Pomfrey to heal his arm, Lockhart took it upon himself to try and ended up vanishing all of Harry's bones in his arm. Headmaster that man is an idiot; please make sure you don't hire him."
"While in Hospital, Harry gets another visit from Dobby and learns that Dobby charmed the bludger as well as caused the platform barrier to be shut. While talking to Dobby, the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall bring in the body of a petrified boy, Colin Creevy. He is a muggle born who has hero worship of Harry and was trying to sneak up to take his picture. He is the first human victim of the monster of the Chamber. The rest of November is quite."
"A few days before winter break, Lockhart decides to hold a dueling club. Idiot Lockhart, this is when my infatuation ended, had Professor Snape pair up with him to show how it was done. Of course, Snape immediately humiliated the man who was too clueless to realize it. Next, they pair us off and wouldn't you know it Harry and Malfoy end up paired together. Evenly matched, Snape whispered a spell into Malfoy ear and next thing he was flinging a snake at Harry. The snake starts toward one of the spectators, Justin Finch-Fletchley, a muggle born, and Harry tells the snake to go away. Unbeknownst to Harry he was a Parselmouth. After that, almost the entire student body started calling Harry the Heir of Slytherin."
This startles the Potter's as no one in their families, Potters or Black's, have the ability to speak to snake. Mr. Potter decides that he is going to have to have young Miss Evans to take a heritage test. No muggle born has ever been known to speak parseltongue.
"The next day, Justin along with Nearly Headless Nick is found petrified, again outside of the 2nd floor girl's bathroom. This really sets the students off; Justin had confronted Harry the day before and excused him of setting the snake on him.
"See when Harry speaks to snakes it sounds like English to him, but to everyone else it sounds like hisses. He never realized that he could speak to snakes even when he accidently set a snake free at the zoo."
"Harry, the Weasley's and myself stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, and on Christmas Day the Polyjuice potion is ready. Harry and Ron potioned to look like Malfoy's bookend enforcers, Crabbe and Goyle, head down to Slytherin's House. They get in and start to question Malfoy, who admits he doesn't know who the heir is."
This is when I was turned into a human cat with fur and a tail, which is why I wasn't with them." I glare at the boys daring them to laugh, but I could see the snickers. I see a few of the adults hide their laughter as well.
"Well, now I know why I call you Kitten, Kitten," wisecracked Sirius.
"You do that because you are just an old horn dog Sirius Black, or should I call you Padfoot," I whisper in his ear while giving it a little flick with my tongue, his eyes darkening with lust. "Now that is just mean Kitten," he whispers and licks back.
"Now I ended up staying in the Hospital for the rest of hols and until the beginning of February, this was not my best academic year. It is only going to go to shite from here on down to the end of the year. On Valentine's Day, Lockhart took it upon himself to hire dwarves to dress as cupids and deliver cards and gifts to anyone who wanted to give them. Even though most students thought he was the Heir of Slytherin, Harry was besieged with cards. He even had one eager witch send him a singing card. The poor dwarf was mortified but persistent at singing to Harry. Later as Harry was trying to hide out in the 2nd-floor girl's bathroom, knowing that it is always out of order, he found a diary that someone had tried to flush down a toilet. The diary was marked on the cover as belonging to someone named TM Riddle. He keeps the diary in his book bag trying to figure out what its meaning is. One day he accidently spills red ink on the open diary and the ink disappears. Deciding to try to write in the diary he writes 'My name is Harry Potter' and then watches it disappear. The diary answers back 'Hello, Harry Potter. My name is Tom Riddle. How did you come by my diary?' This should have been a big clue right then. They begin to write back and forth and find that their stories are similar. Tom was an orphaned boy who grew up in a harsh orphanage not knowing that the things he does is magic, that he is a Wizard. Once he starts at Hogwarts, he feels that he has found his home. Riddle writes that he was awarded a special trophy for turning over the person who opened up the Chamber of Secrets about 50 years ago, 30 years at this time. Tom invites Harry to watch his memories, the diary acted similar to a pensieve. Of course being reckless Harry does watch."
"Immediately sucked into the diary's memory, he sees Tom speaking with the Headmaster, Dippet I believe, asking to stay at Hogwarts for the summer; he like Harry really does not want to go home to the orphanage, just as Harry has asked to stay to not have to go to the Dursley's. When he is told that he can't because of a death of a student after the Chamber had been open he goes back to the dungeons, waiting in a hallway, he confronts a young Hagrid and accuses him of opening the Chamber of Secrets, and goes on to show that Hagrid is raising an Acromantula in the castle. Hagrid is expelled his wand snapped and Tom is given a special award."
"Eventually, the diary is stolen from Harry's book bag."
"Life goes on fairly quietly until May. I have been researching what type of animal can petrify people and a ghost. I finally figure it out. As I was leaving the library to go tell Harry, a 6th year Ravenclaw prefect and I leave the library with me looking around corners with a compact mirror. We are petrified. Harry was playing a Quidditch match against Hufflepuff when we were found and the match was cancelled. In addition, Lucius Malfoy, who is on the Board of Governors, comes and has Headmaster Dumbledore removed, and the Minister of Magic has Hagrid sent to Azkaban. Before leaving the Headmaster made sure that Harry knew that 'Help would always come to those who ask, here at Hogwarts,' and as Hagrid was being taking away he said to follow the spiders."
"A few weeks later Harry and Ron realize that spiders are scurrying out of the castle and they decide to follow them. They are headed into the forbidden forest. Heading into the forbidden forest with Hagrid's hound Fang, our two intrepid boys go and find that the Acromantula that Hagrid raised years before was there and was sentient with human speech. Aragog tells them what spiders fear, Basilisks. Then Aragog's offspring try to eat them but the car that has been in the forest since school started, even though it had gone feral, seemed to remember them and rescued them. They come, visit my petrified body in the hospital, and find in my hand a page torn out of a book with the words 'pipes 'written in the margin."
"These boys have corrupted you my Dear," exclaims Professor McGonagall. "It only gets worse," Miah informs her.
"They run to the staff rooms to tell Professor McGonagall what they have learned, when they overhear that a student was been taken into the Chamber 'Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.' It is Ron's little sister Ginny, and they are going to close the school."
"Harry realizes that the ghost of Moaning Myrtle, who occupies the 2nd-floor girl's bathroom, was the victim of the monster of the Chamber. He realizes that the opening to the Chamber must be somewhere in the bathroom."
"They talk to Moaning Myrtle and find where the door to the chamber is, run to get help from Lockhart, as he is closest. They find him packing to flee the castle and force him to help."
"Opening the secret hatch they slide down and head towards another set of doors. Ron stumbling drops his wand, Lockhart retrieves it and proceeds to tell them that yes, he is a fraud but he is great with memory charms. He tries to oblivate them but with Ron's broken wand and it backfires, wiping his entire memory, and causes a cave-in."
"Harry is now trapped next to the door of the Chamber decides to push on while Ron tries to clear a passageway out."
"Hissing at the next door, Harry goes in and sees Ginny laying there looking dead. He runs to her, finds that she is barely alive, and then hears someone talking to him."
"He turns and finds Tom Riddle, almost fully solid. Tom proceeds to tell Harry how Ginny has been pouring soul into the diary, at how she is in love with The -boy-who-lived, Harry Potter, and how she has been killing roosters all year and letting out the monster."
"Tom tells Harry how he Tom is the Heir to Slytherin. Harry tells him he hasn't succeeded, as the monster has not killed any 'mudbloods'. Tom tells him that he lost interest in doing so. What he wanted to know was how Harry as a small baby with no extraordinary power defeated the most powerful wizard Voldemort. Harry asks what he cares for, as Moldy wasn't around when he was in school. Tom, who had picked up Harry's wand after he had dropped it, wrote in the air his full name 'Tom Marvolo Riddle' then waved the wand rearranging the letters to read 'I am Lord Voldemort,' claiming to be the most powerful wizard ever. Harry tells him no, that would be Professor Dumbledore." Everyone gasps when I reveal that the scariest Dark Lord, who hates anyone not of pureblood, is a half-blood.
"Tom releases the basilisk on Harry, when out of nowhere Fawkes appears carrying the sorting hat. He drops it by Harry's feet and Tom derides him that all Dumbledore can send him is a songbird and a dirty old hat. Fawkes proceeds to peck out the basilisk's eyes and Harry sees that the hat materializes a sword, grabbing the sword he runs away from Ginny's body, and the basilisk follows. After a while, Harry gets lucky, stabs the basilisk through the mouth, and kills it. Unfortunately, a fang goes into Harry's arm. Fawkes flies over and cries onto the wound, the only thing that can save you from basilisk venom are the tears of a phoenix."
"Tom torments Harry telling him it is too late that he has taken over Ginny's soul. Taking the fang from his arm Harry proceeds to stab the diary. It bleeds out lots of ink. As it does so, Tom fades away and Ginny starts to come back to life."
"Taking Ginny, the hat and the sword they head out of the Chamber. Arriving at the cave-in they find that Ron has cleared enough of a space for them to crawl through. Fawkes then flies them all back to the bathroom."
"Taken to the Headmaster's office they find Professor Dumbledore is back. Harry explains what happened and hands him the diary, sorting hat and sword, which turns out was Godric Gryffindor's. Lucius comes in and snidely snipes at the Headmaster. With Malfoy is a familiar figure to Harry, Dobby."
"Realizing that Dobby was his elf and had tried to help him, as Lucius leaves he asks the Headmaster for the diary. Pulling off his sock, he places it inside the diary and follows Lucius Malfoy out of the office. Handing him the diary he tells Malfoy that he believes this is his. When Lucius sees the diary he hands it over to Dobby, and Harry pantomimes that he should open the book. After Dobby does so and finds the sock, he says to Malfoy, "You gave Dobby clothes, Dobby is free.' Blaming Harry for losing his servant, he pulls his wand and starts to yell 'Avada Ka..." Dobby using his elf magic stuns him yelling, "You will not hurt the great Harry Potter. This was also the day that they had un-petrified all the victims."
"That is pretty much 2nd year. Now Sirius and Remus are either going to love or hate 3rd year, I just can't tell which." I tell them, hinting at what is to come. "Oh, does this mean that Harry is going to have a good fun year with us," asks Sirius, his face all aglow. "That depends on what you call fun, Sirius. "
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Miah had been talking almost four hours straight so she called for a meal break. She needed this break. The Headmaster calls for the elves to set up dinner for everyone.
Everyone is milling around discussing what they have been told, when Moody comes over to Miah and asks her if they diary was a Horcrux. "Yes Alastor, it was one of many." When he realizes that the Dark Wanker had made more than one he was both shocked and disgusted. He only knows that Horcruxes are very dark magic not how they are made, but he does know is that it rips the soul asunder. He wanders away to speak with the Headmaster about this evil as he feels this little girl has seen enough.
Lily and James come over wanting more information about their son, so Miah tells them more about Harry. She asks James to call his parents, Sirius and Remus over so that they can learn about Harry as well. While waiting for everyone to come over Miah digs around in her bag, finally remember to use the Accio spell to pull out her photo album instead of dumping everything out. She felt like an idiot this morning forgetting such a spell, she taught it to Harry in 4th Year.
Once they are assembled, Miah tells everyone how sweet Harry is. Yes, he is a little moody at times, but then he is a teenager as well. He does have an explosive temper, but it only lasts for minutes and then it is gone. How he has a need to help those who seem to be in trouble even those who are sworn enemies, like how he saved Malfoy and Goyle in the Room of Requirement during the final battle, even after Crabbe tried to kill him with Fiendfyre. He was unable to save Crabbe, but he did try.
She tells them that he will be blaming himself for not saving Crabbe, even though it is not his fault and she dreads thinking about what he is feeling about losing her. He is probably tearing up what is left of the castle looking for her. Through the whole time they were on the run, he would introduce her as his sister when they met people. How he hated bullies and was extremely upset when he saw Snape's memory of his Father hanging Snape upside down. When her parents died at the end of her 6th-year he told her that as she was his sister he would take care of her. All Harry has ever wanted was a family to love him and allow him to love. Miah pulled out her photo album of all the school years and passed it around. Nobody needed to ask which one was Harry. He looked just like James and Charlus, but with Lily's eyes. She showed them at his first Quidditch match in first year. Where Quirrell was bewitching his broom and Snape was trying to save him. Miah made a mental note to apologize for setting Severus on fire. They saw how brilliantly he rode a broom. They saw all the good times and some of the bad times.
She explained those bad times briefly, as they would part of stories later on. She had pulled the photos of Sirius, as she did not want him to see them until after hearing their third year. They were not pretty; they showed him so emaciated and filthy.
Professor McGonagall calls everyone over as the elves have brought dinner. Making up a plate for herself Miah finds her way back to the table. Sirius sits on her left hand side while Remus sits on her right. Turning to Remus, she apologizes that she is going to have to out him as a werewolf towards the end of the year, but she wanted him to have warning.
Sirius continually tries to place his hand on her thigh and she lightly pushes off. Sometimes as soon as he places it there and other times, she waits to see how far up the hand will travel.
Wanting to know how far Sirius will go to protect his reputation she quotes Shakespeare to him. Trying to get him to reenact the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, she paraphrases Shakespeare, "Oh Sirius, oh Sirius, wherefore art thou Sirius? Deny thy Mother and refuse thy name; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I'll no longer be a Granger."
Giving her the stink eye, Sirius waggles his finger at her and tells her, "Now Kitten, none of that, I have made partial payment on that score."
"But I am an impatient woman and want full payment soon or more might fall from these lips," she teases.
"Ooh, I'll get you for that," he tells her as he stalks her. Miah runs away laughing while Sirius starts to chase her.
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After everyone has eaten Miah calls them all back to the table to tell the story of the 3rd-year. "From here on out I will require a written oath that nothing said here will be repeated to anyone not expressly permitted by myself, Professor Dumbledore or Alastor Moody. I know I should have had you sign these yesterday, but I forgot, sorry."
After everyone had signed the oaths she started their 3rd-Year.
"Harry's summer is as crappy as ever, and when he asks his Uncle to sign his Hogsmeade permission slip he is told that he has to be pleasant to Vernon's sister. This woman is just as, if not more so, vile than Vernon. She breeds Bulldogs and her personal pet she has trained to attack Harry. Right before 'Aunt Marge' arrives he sees a news report of a prison escapee, for everyone to be on the lookout for Sirius Black."
"Hey wait a minute, I was in prison? What for, and how do I escape?" whines Sirius.
"I'll go over that a little later, don't worry, and besides I will not allow that to happen." Miah gives him a saucy wink.
"Anyway, a few nights into her two week stay Aunt Marge starts in on after telling him that she hopes they are caning him at the school that Vernon told her he was going to 'St. Brutus for Incurably Criminal Boys. Then she starts in on Lily and James, calling them worthless, shiftless drunks. Harry finally having enough yells at her to stop and then accidently blows her up like a balloon."
"That's my boy," James says proudly while Lily elbows him a tiny smile flitting across her face.
"After his letter last year from the Ministry, Harry decides to run away. Gathering his trunk and any school supplies in his room, he leaves. Figuring that maybe he can get to Gringotts and get some money and then go into hiding he drags his trunk down to the corner playground."
"While he is trying to figure out what he should do he hears a noise behind him turns and sees a very big and very scary looking black dog."
"Finally, I make an appearance. Two years and Harry has never said a word about me since that night. Harrumph!" Pouts Sirius.
"Startled Harry falls off the curb accidently holding his wand up. He hears a bang and sees a purple bus. 'Welcoming to the Knight Bus. My name is Stan Shunpike and this 'ere is Ernie. Harry pays the fare and goes to the Leaky Cauldron. When he arrives, the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge meets him."
"Oh good grief, who in their right mind made Fudge the Minister? He is a boot-licking lackey who would sell his soul to the highest bidder," asked Mr. Potter.
"And the highest bidder would be Lucius Malfoy, unfortunately," Miah tells him.
"The Minister told him that he was not in any trouble and that Aunt Marge had been deflated and oblivated. He asked that Harry not roam around London just stick to Diagon Alley, which was fine by Harry. He spent the rest of the summer exploring Diagon Alley, getting his school supplies and doing his homework at Florean Fortescue's with Florean giving free sundaes and helping him with his History of Magic essay."
"On the last day before heading back to Hogwarts, Ron and I meet back up with Harry. I ended up buying my familiar a cat/kneazle, Crookshanks. Ron tells Harry that he is sorry he hadn't written but his dad had won 800 Galleons from the Daily Prophet then took the entire family to see his oldest brother Bill in Egypt. Then he showed him the clipping from the paper. I told him that my parents had taken us to France for the summer and I didn't have access to an owl. Don't ask me why my brain wasn't functioning, I could have sent him mail the muggle way, but just didn't think about it."
"Harry and Ron then overhear Molly and Arthur talking about the escaped murder, Sirius Black that he was looking for Harry for revenge of his master Old Moldy."
"The Ministry sent us cars to take us to Kings Cross the next day and before Harry got on the train, Mr. Weasley pulled Harry aside and asked him not to go look for Sirius. Harry didn't understand at that time why anyone would think he would but was told condescendingly later by Malfoy that Sirius had betrayed his parents. NOT TRUE!"
"There is no way in all 9 circles of hell I would betray James and Lily," declared Sirius, his eyes as hard as granite defying anyone to say different.
"We all head onto the train looking for a cabin but can't find an empty one; therefore, we set up in a car with only one other person. This person was curled up sound asleep in a corner."
"The boys wondered who he was when I told them Professor R.J. Lupin."
"Moony, I always told you, you would be a teacher someday," cried James, while Remus was looking confused and proud at the same time.
"Ron asked me how I knew and I smugly pointed out the name on the luggage. The boys wondered what class he taught, and I said it must be for DADA as it is the only open position."
"All I can say is thank God that Remus was on that train that day. Half way to Hogwarts, the train came to a stop and everything got cold and dreary. The door of the cabin slowly opened and there in the doorway was a Dementor."
"Initially I wasn't going to inform you but I believe that you have the right to know James and Lily.
"Now because of Harry being witness to his mother's murder, relives it when around Dementors. He can hear first his father calling to Lily to take Harry and run and then his mother begging for his life."
Professor McGonagall, Mrs. Potter and Lily are sobbing so they take a break and Sirius quickly pours and passes around shots of Firewhiskey. James holds Lily and murmurs in her ear that they are changing this history. Their son will grow up with parents and all the family he could ever want.
After a couple of shots and fixing plates of comfort food, the ladies calm back down. The men all looked like they wanted to beat someone/anyone to a pulp.
"Remus quickly sent a patronus after the Dementor and after giving everyone a chunk of chocolate went to check with the conductor. Oh by the way Remus, thank you from all of the students on the train that day for giving us the last of your chocolate, I know how you are about chocolate. If you could marry it you would," everyone laughed at that sentiment.
"Remus and chocolate sitting in a tree K.I.S...,"
"Don't you dare finish that Prongs and Padfoot, not if you want to keep your bits," huffed Miah. Remus gives her a big smile; she turns and winks at Sirius and James to show she is not too upset.
"Now being the SWOT that I am, I have elected to take every single class. In order to do so Professor McGonagall got permission to give me a time-turner."
"First day of classes, we have Divination, which is a bunch of twaddle, and according to Professor Trelawney, Harry is going to die. We later find out that she predicts someone's gruesome death each year. Later that day we have Care for Magical Creatures. Our new professor for that class is none other than Hagrid. Therefore, our first lesson, as 3rd-years, was Hippogriffs. He has Harry go up the hippogriff, bow and wait to be acknowledged by Buckbeak. Then he places him on his back and has him fly around the castle. After Harry lands, exhilarated, Malfoy, who hadn't paid attention, arrogantly saunters over saying this was a piece of cake. Of course, Buckbeak was annoyed and barely scratched the ponce. However, being a cry-baby who is always threatening his father on people, acts like he almost lost his arm and uses that excuse to get Hagrid and Buckbeak in trouble."
"Can someone please deal with this little piece of sh…?" "Sirius!" cries Mrs. Potter. "Sorry Mum," Sirius hangs his head in mock shame.
"Malfoy uses this excuse to get out of classes for a week and when he returns it is for Double Potions. Malfoy whines to Professor Snape that he needs help with cutting up his ingredients so Snape makes others do his work for him, snarky arsehole." Severus glares at Miah, who in turns glares back sticking her tongue out at him. The Marauders are snickering, plotting a prank against him.
"As we are leaving the class Malfoy tells Harry how he would want revenge against the man who got his parents killed. This was the first time Harry has heard this and it angers him to no end."
"We head up to Defense class and our first lesson is a Boggart. Professor Lupin has Neville Longbottom go first and finds out that what Neville fears most is Professor Snape, which really is sad. No Professor should engender such fear in their students."
"Professor Lupin tells Neville to dress Boggart Snape as his Grandmother, long green dress oversized hat with a stuffed vulture. When he does, everyone is laughing so hard and Neville was successful in driving back the boggart. Finally, I take my turn to find that my boggart was Professor McGonagall telling me I failed every single class."
"When Harry goes to take his turn, Professor Lupin jumps in front of him, thinking that it would turn into Moldy, and confronts his boggart, the moon. Telling Harry why he did that Harry told him he thought that at first but then realized that it would be a Dementor. He asks the professor to teach him the patronus charm."
"The first two months go by fairly quietly and then the curse of Halloween hits. It is a Hogsmeade weekend, and of course, Harry can't go, as he was not able to get permission. Later during the feast, someone attacked the Fat Lady's portrait. Found nearby hiding in another portrait she tells of Sirius Black attacking her when she refused to let him in. That night everyone sleeps in the great hall, with Harry overhearing Professor Dumbledore and Lupin talking about Sirius."
"That Friday after Halloween, when we arrive at DADA class Professor Snape is substituting for Professor Lupin who is ill. Snape comes stalking into class with his robes billowing out like a bat out of hell telling us to turn to page 394. Lavender Brown tries to tell him that we haven't gotten up to werewolves yet when her snarls at her 'are you teaching this class or am I.' He proceeds to assign us a two foot essay on werewolves."
"The next day is the first Quidditch match of the year, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. It was supposed to be against Slytherin, but because the weather was especially foul, Malfoy played on his fake injury to get that match rescheduled. During the game a few Dementors, which were not supposed to enter school grounds, attacked Harry causing him to pass out and fall 150 meters. Thankfully, Professor Dumbledore was able to slow his fall and keep him from a bad injury or death. Waking up in the hospital ward we have to tell him that his beloved broom, a Nimbus 2000, was blown into the Whomping Willow and destroyed."
"The last Hogsmeade weekend before Christmas hols, Harry is contemplating using the present received in first year to sneak down there. However, Ron's older brothers, the prankster twins," the marauders sit a little taller as their eyes light up, "corner Harry and tell them the secret of their success. It is an old piece of parchment they nicked from Filch's office back in first year. It is a map that shows everyone in the castle and where they are."
When they hear this, the boys try to melt into their seats, hoping that no one will question them, not realizing their actions make them look guilty. "Harry used the map to find a secret passageway to Hogsmeade."
"Where is this passageway and where in Hogsmeade does it lead," demanded Professor Dumbledore.
Having become a good liar in her year on the run Miah tells him she does not know. She always stopped Harry from telling her so that she wouldn't have to inform on him. She had a hard time back then breaking the rules but she learned quickly how to pull the stick out of her arse, otherwise they may die."
"As everyone else was leaving for hols, Hagrid gets a letter informing him Buckbeak is to be put down. The next day I start using the time-turner to help in Buckbeaks defense. Christmas day Harry receives an anonymous gift. It is the top of the line broom, a Firebolt. Being the smart girl and an idiot I tell Harry he needs to report it to Professor McGonagall as it could come from the 'murderer' Sirius Black. Remember back in his first year his first Quidditch game was won on a bewitched broom."
"That reminds me I need to apologize to you Severus, for setting you on fire. It was just a small one but…" Severus looked a little put out over that fact.
"Of course, Harry refused to tell the Professor so I took it upon myself to do so." All the men look a little outraged at that statement. "Hey, I told you that I had a stick up my arse. Give me a break, I was 14 and thought I knew everything and I really hated flying at that time. Now I love to fly, I tell you why in another story."
"After the start of the new term Remus starts to teach Harry the Patronus charm. It takes Harry a while but he does learn to cast a corporeal Patronus at the age of 13. Finally, in early February Harry gets his Firebolt back, just in time for the match against the Ravenclaws. I think it only took that long to test it because Professor McGonagall wanted to test it out."
"Malfoy and his bookends decide to dress up as Dementors for the game hoping to throw Harry off, but as he has been learning the Patronus charm he casts his first corporeal patronus, it wasn't super strong but enough to get the job done. It is a huge stag."
"My sons patronus is me?" sobs James. Lily gives James a big hug, murmuring in his ear.
"Unknown to Sirius, Ron's pet rat Scabbers had disappeared and Ron accused Crookshanks of eating him. Sirius had found Neville's list of all the passwords, the Knight Sir Cadagan who had replaced the Fat Lady for a while had given the rest of the years passwords to Neville as he was a little scatterbrained."
"He must take after his mother Alice then. She is the same way," proclaims Lily. Everyone who knows Alice, laughs declaring that is so true.
"Sirius gets into the 3rd-year boys dorm and tears apart Ron's bed. Everyone thought he just got the wrong bed.
"Later after a Hogsmeade weekend, Snape catches Harry out after curfew with the map and confiscates it. However, Remus overhears the map is insulting Snape and takes over claiming that if it is part of some dark magic it is his job to exam it carefully. After Snape goes back to the dungeons, Harry tells Professor Lupin, who knew exactly what it was, that the map was broken as it kept showing someone who Harry knew to be dead, Peter Pettigrew."
"Everything stays pretty much normal until the end of term exams. The last day of exams is the day that has been scheduled for Buckbeak execution. After our last exam, we head down to console Hagrid, when we find Scabbers. After McNair and Fudge show up to execute Buckbeak we head back to the castle but a giant black dog grabs Ron and pulls him in toward the Whomping Willow. Crookshanks runs up and touches a knot on the tree stopping it and allowing a tunnel to open. We follow trying to save Ron, but when we got inside Ron informed us that he is an animagus. Turning around we see Sirius Black." At this point Miah passes around photos of an escaped Sirius Black, filthy and with crazy, haunted eyes. Shocked at this Mrs. Potter gets up and hugs Sirius as if she will never let him go. This is her son even if she didn't give birth to him; no mother wants to see such evil befall her children.
"Shortly after we enter the shack Professor Lupin arrives, and instead of capturing Sirius, he gives him a big hug asking where he is. Where is Peter? Thinking he has betrayed us, I scream to Harry don't trust him, I am sorry for this Remus, he is a werewolf."
"Remus asked when I figured it out and I told him when Snape assigned the essay. Sirius then explains that he and Peter switched as secret keepers and that Peter betrayed James and Lily not he."
"Remus forces Peter back into human form where Peter immediately begins to beg for his life. Sirius is begging Remus to allow him to kill Peter but Harry tells him no don't kill him. We will use him to get your name cleared so Harry can come live with him as his Godson."
"What Harry did not know was that night he created the situation where Peter owed him a life debt. This will be most important in what should have been our 7th-year."
"Right about this time Snape sneaks in, impeccable timing as usual Severus, not seeing Peter, he disarms Remus and so Harry stuns Snape."
"Leaving the shack with everyone and levitating Snape and Ron behind, we arrive outside just in time for moonrise. Remus, in his rush to capture Peter and help Sirius, forgot to take his potion."
"Oh yeah Remus, sometime in a few years Damocles Belby will create a potion for werewolves that allow you to keep you human mind when you transform. It won't be a cure but it does help." Hearing this Remus softly starts to cry overwhelmed with joy."
"Well, Remus transforms and Padfoot saves us. By this time, Snape has revived and grabbed us; he has not seen the transformation until he hears the growling. After he pushes us behind him, he realizes that Padfoot is fighting Moony thus giving us a chance to flee. While they are fighting, Harry runs off to see if he can help, I told you he has a saving people thing. Moony knocks Padfoot aside and starts to head our way when there comes a howl from a different direction. It distracts Moony for a moment and then another howl comes and he runs off towards it. Harry and Sirius are surrounded by over 100 Dementors about to be kissed, when an extremely powerful patronus shows up and scatters them. Then Snape captures Sirius. We get back to the castle and are in the hospital ward with Ron when we tell Professor Dumbledore that Sirius is innocent. He tells me that three turns ought to be able to save more than one life tonight."
"I tell Harry about the time-turner and we go back about 12 hours and we watch as I break Malfoy's nose when he derides about Hagrid and Buckbeak."
"Way to go Miah," crows Sirius giving Miah a big grin.
"We get Buckbeak away before McNair can kill him, I howl to distract Moony then go back to the other side of the lake where Harry and Sirius are and Harry realizes that he sent the patronus and sends out a huge shield and Stag. Getting Buckbeak we fly up to where they are holding Sirius for a Kiss, free him and send him on his way with Buckbeak." Sobbing by this time, Miah calls for a short break.
She runs off to the bathroom but Sirius catches her and hugs her. He murmurs in her hair that it is not her fault and thanks her for saving him. She tells him that she is crying because he should never have lost those 12 years that he was in Azkaban. He should have been living his life and raising a family. He tells her no, not true, I had to wait for you. If I hadn't then I would have never met you. Looking up at him, she gives him a smile so radiant he blinks thinking it will blind him. Leaning down he gently kisses her. She leans into the kiss and opens for him when she feels his tongue swipe the seam of her lips. Moaning as her tongue fights for dominance as he drinks from her mouth fully tasting her.
Merlin, he thinks, she tastes like chocolate and Firewhiskey. He feels that he could drink from her mouth for the rest of his life.
They only break their kiss to gasp for air and when they start to hear wolf whistles from the boys. Looking over they see everyone watching and Lily with a pretty pink blush on her cheeks, they both blush. Miah's blush starts at the top her ears creeping all the way down her chest and torso. She is looking like she hopes that the ground will just swallow her up. Meanwhile, Sirius looks like the cat that at the canary. Mr. Potter is looking slightly proud and Mrs. Potter looks like she is planning the wedding in her head.
Gaining her composure, Miah walks back over to the table and asks if there are any questions. If not she is emotionally drained and exhausted and she would like to go to bed. She asks that they assemble early tomorrow as 4th-year is an important mile point in her story and she wants to get through 5th-year as well. Setting the time for 11 am, she asks that the Headmaster make the arrangements for food and refreshment.
Before leaving Remus rushes over to apologize, Miah stops him and tells him that there is no reason to apologize. It was not his fault. She blames this on Peter as well. If he hadn't betrayed his friends, then Remus would not have been put in this position. She knows how careful he has always been during the full moon and the one time that he is not, nothing happened. No one got hurt. Remus tried to say that he was a monster.
That was the wrong thing to say to Miah. She will defend Remus to the death even from himself. She started screaming "DON'T YOU EVER CALL YOURSELF A MONSTER. I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT YOUR WIFE AND CHILD WILL NOT THINK OF YOU AS A MONSTER, AND NO, YOU CANNOT PASS ON LYCANTHROPY TO A CHILD. IF I EVER HEAR YOU DEGRADE YOURSELF, I WILL HEX YOU INTO THE NEXT CENTRUY. YOU ARE A BETTER MAN AND WIZARD THEN MOST AND I WILL NOT SIT IDLY BY WHILE YOU ARE MADE TO FEEL LOW. WHETHER IT BE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE WHO MAKES YOU FEEL THAT WAY," she stomps out of the room with all eyes upon her.
"Well I guess she told you, huh Moony," says James.
"Yeah, isn't she great," sighed Remus. "I think she is going to be my new best friend."
- ooOoo -
Sirius walks Miah back to the hospital ward, as she still has not been sorted, and because of that scene with Remus, he was not sure she wouldn't hex someone. The Headmaster will have her sorted tomorrow and she will stay in her new house then.
Grabbing her hand Sirius pulls her into a deserted classroom. Pulling her into his arms his lips crash down on hers. This kiss is nothing like the previous ones, which were soft and delicious; this one is demanding, possessive, wanting to devour all she can give him. Breaking away, he asks her what she has done to him. How has she enchanted him?
"All I did was fall out of the sky into your arms." Miah replies. "I am just glad they were your arms. Just think, I could have fallen into Snape's arms," she shudders at that thought.
"He really is a good guy, just misunderstood. He is so angry at a world that has given him a shitty home life. Did you know that his father beats him and his mother? Then he comes to school and you guys bully him. I know that you are not mean spirited most of the time, but you do go too far when all your pranks are aimed only at one person or house. Because he was so angry at losing his only real friend Lily, he was vulnerable to the glib tongues of those selling Moldy's shite. By the time he figures that out, it is too late to save Lily and James. Lily, because she was his friend and James as he owes him a life debt from that stupid stunt you pulled on him. I am only going to lecture on that stunt as I have already had it out with you in the future on this subject. You could have gotten Remus killed with that stunt and that scares the hell out of me. He is my best adult friend. Why did you not stop to think that the Ministry would either put him to death or throw him in Azkaban for the rest of his life? I know that you really regret that action, from what you tell me in the future, and that is what makes you different from death eaters, your conscience. You really need to apologize to Severus and mean it, help steer him on the right path."
"The same can be said about your brother. He is just a misguided young man. It will either be on or near his birthday or this summer when your parents do to him what they tried to do to you, force you take the dark mark. He is not as strong as you are at rebelling against your parents. Your mother has a mouth on her that a fishmonger's wife would envy. I've met her portrait and that is not a pleasant experience. I don't know much about your father as you never spoke much about him."
"Wow, you are passionate about this aren't you?" says Sirius.
"Yes, I have lived this and watched it eat you alive and watch all those who died needlessly, and I will do anything to make sure it doesn't happen again. You come back in our 4th-year, well you'll find out why tomorrow, and you and I start corresponding. Harry is not good at writing either his feelings or passing on information needed to help him. Even after the year is done, we continue to correspond. You were trapped in Grimmauld Place and I could sense you were lonely so I kept up the letters."
"So we were pen-pals, I guess. Thank you again for being Harry's friend and then my friend. Thank you for helping this broken down old dog."
"Don't think anything of it. It was my pleasure. As much as I love Harry and Ron, they are intellectual idiots and you and I would have our arguments that stimulated my brain. If I would say that the sky was blue, you would argue with me that it was really magenta and make me believe it. Is was fun, so really I should be thanking you." Miah looks at him with misty eyes, hoping she hasn't scared him away. She had started falling in love with the tormented man while corresponding and was devastated when he fell into the veil. Thankfully, she was able to get away from everyone for the summer as she was inconsolable. She was changed when she came back to 6th-year. She no longer cared about the rules, didn't care if she ripped them asunder. Before his death she would bend the rules but made sure that they snapped back into shape, now she will do whatever needs to be done, even an unforgivable.
"Sounds like we make it work," Sirius tells her. "Yeah, in a weird sort of way, I guess we do." Miah sighed.
"So, how does this time-travel work? When you have changed everything, do you go back or do you stay here?"
"I don't know. I hope to stay here. I won't fit in there anymore will I. Everything will be different. Who knows if I will even know Harry anymore or if I will every meet you? No, I want to stay here."
Leaving Miah at hospital ward, Sirius heads back towards the Gryffindor common room. As he is wandering back, he meets Regulus. Thinking about what Miah has said he asks if he can meet with him sometime tomorrow morning and just talk. Regulus timidly tells him yes, how about 8 am in the kitchens. Lighter of heart Sirius runs back to the common room. Maybe he can help save his baby brother who he misses very much. They were best friends when they were younger.