"Well if it isn't Sirius Black."
Chapter 5Dear Ki,
I found Sirius Black in my room tonight. It was…odd to say the least. So here's how the conversation went:
"Sirius, I'm not going to sell you out to the Ministry. Hell I've been selling the Brits out to the American's since I started Hogwarts last year." I watched as Sirius turned back to his human form from his animagi.
"Adrian Potter? An Anti-Brit?" he wondered as if not believing that a Potter could go bad."Yes. But it's more of Adrian Danvers, American Reporter," I joked. "I report what is going on with the Ministry of Magic, what they're trying to cover up, their lies, and the things they are trying to hide from their people. Any sensible witch or wizard in America reads my columns like idiot Brits read Rita Skeeter's.""One, your twelve, and you have a job, why? And two, 'idiot Brits'?" Sirius quizzed me.
"So what if I'm twelve, I'm probably smarter than you anyways. You should try reading some time, it might help that including if it's one of my articles. And I was raised an American. Old habits of looking down on the mother country really have not died. And Rita proves to be the reason why," I told him slowly, teasing him.
"Well Evelyn told me you'd be able to disguise me so I can get close to Harry?" He asked.
So now, I get to Transfigure Sirius into a Pit Bull and he will pose as my dog in Hogwarts. Hades would have, but as of resent, he is road kill. It was sad, I cried, I got over it, and I have a replacement getting trained over the school year. And I have tonight to train Sirius to be the perfect imposer of a sort of defense/disability-help dog. Great.
Got to go train my brother's godfather on the how to's of being my dog.
In your memory,
Adrian N. Danvers
~At the Train Station~
"Adrian!" Shawn yelled, stretching out my name and screaming it loudly as she ran at me like a mad woman.
"Shawn," I greeted, hugging her tightly as she flung herself at me. "Dude, what did I tell you about working out more? Your going to be the death of me some day, girly."
"I'm sorry Nico," Shawn apologies nonsincierly, using her personal nickname for me. Want to know how I know she's not sincere? Because she nearly made me a morning person by waking me up in the morning last year so I could work out with her (not that she gave me a choice). "But my parents are here and they really want to meet you, and…oh, who's this?"
"This is…Ares my new DDH dog," I introduced her to my D.O.G.—er Sirius.
"Come on!" she yelled, grabbing me and pulling me with her to her parents. "Mom, Dad, this is Adrian!"
"It's nice to meet you, Miss Danvers," her father said, shaking my hand.
"Oh we've heard so much about you from Chantal and Sebastian both." I was taken aback by her mother's statement. Apparently, my face showed that fact. "All good thinks, I promise."
"Well it's nice to meet you as well. It was great to be introduced, but the train is leaving soon, and I still have to get my trunk from Gorman, so I must be off," I apologized. I shook both of their hands once more before leaving to find my family's caretaker.
On the train, Shawn, Seb, and I were our usual selves. I slept most of the ride while Shawn looked through a fashion magazine for new clothing, Seb read a medical journal, and Sirius watched us intently as if waiting for us to spontaneously combust.
I slept through the train stopping but woke to the sound of screaming. It wasn't the screaming Harry would later recall but a scream that I had knowledge of the origin. Shawn. She'd herd the news about Harry and had screamed. Great.
"Shut the granny-panties up, Shawn!" I yelled, irritated. I don't like when people wake me up.
"She's been at it for five minutes," Seb told me. I wanted it to stop. Now. And I mean right now. But apparently, Shawn didn't see it my way. So I pulled out my iPod and cast a spell on it so it'd play aloud.
Of oures, Take It Off by Ke$ha, the last song I'd been listening to came on.
There's a place downtown,
Where the freaks all come around.
It's a hole in the wall.
It's a dirty free for all.
When the dark
Of the night comes around.
That's the time,
That the animal comes alive.
Looking for
Something wild.
And now we lookin' like pimps
In my gold Trans-Am.
Got a water bottle full of whiskey
In my handbag.
Got my drunk text on
I'll regret it in the mornin'
But tonight
I don't give a
I don't give a
I don't give a
There's a place downtown,
Where the freaks all come around.
It's a hole in the wall.
It's a dirty free for all.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
There's a place I know
If you're looking for a show.
Where they go hardcore
And there's glitter on the floor.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
Lose your mind.
Lose it now.
Lose your clothes
In the crowd.
We're delirious.
Tear it down
'Til the sun comes back around.
N-now we're getting so smashed.
Knocking over trash cans.
Eurbody breakin' bottles
It's a filthy hot mess.
Gonna get faded
I'm not the designated
Driver so
I don't give a
I don't give a
I don't give a
There's a place downtown,
Where the freaks all come around.
It's a hole in the wall.
It's a dirty free for all.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
There's a place I know
If you're looking for a show.
Where they go hardcore
And there's glitter on the floor.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
Oh, oh, oh!
EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF!
Oh, Oh, Oh!
EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF!
Right now! TAKE IT OFF!
Right now! TAKE IT OFF!
Right now! TAKE IT OFF!
Oooh.
Right now! TAKE IT OFF!
Right now! TAKE IT OFF!
EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF!
There's a place downtown,
Where the freaks all come around.
It's a hole in the wall.
It's a dirty free for all.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
There's a place I know
If you're looking for a show.
Where they go hardcore
And there's glitter on the floor.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
Seb and I had had a spaz dance as the music drowned out Shawn's screams. And half way through the song, she'd joined us in our dancing. And by the end of it, Sirius was jumping around with us and we laughed our ribs into breaking. Not seriously though. That would hurt.
"Aright, what's next?" Seb asked as we sat, panting for air, the spell already removed from my iPod
Shawn and I shared a look before turning back to him with wide grins on our faces. "I never!"
"Rules?" he asked as Shawn pulled shot glasses out of who know where and who knows why.
"You chose your liquor," his sister told him pulling out her surprising stash.
"Firewhisky," Seb called.
"Vodka," Shawn called.
"I have my choice in my bag," I told them pulling out a Sprite from my book bag. "I don't drink…yet."
"And Shawn refers to you as the fun one, why…" Seb said being an ass as usual.
"I'm sorry I want to get my first detention of the year sober. Sorry!" I shouted at him.
"I have never skinny dipped," Shawn started, cutting our impending argument. I pored some soda pop into my shot glass and drank. "Okay, I want details on this!"
"I was playing Either, Or with Pogue, Reid, Tyler, and Caleb over the summer and it was either lose my virginity at 12 or skinny dip. Reid's a dick sometimes but anyways you see which one I chose," I informed her. "I have never kisses a sibling.
"I hate you," Seb told me as he and Shawn drank their shots down. That was a fun dare. Funny stuff… I thought giggling. " I have never…attended Muggle school."
"That's a sucky statement," I told him, drinking. He stuck his tong out at me.
"I have never had a boyfriend." I drank.
"I have never lost a game of poker." The twins drank.
"I have never played strip poker." Shawn and I drank, giggling. We Gryffindors have lots of fun with seventh years behind our brothers back.
"I have never damaged clothing." Seb and I drank, laughing at Shawn.
"I have never pissed in the dorm showers." Seb drank glaring at me.
"I've never pissed on some one." I drank laughing as Seb glared at me for the time I peed my pants on his lap once.
"I have never peed in a boat." Now Seb's glares where directed at his twin as he drank another shot.
Our game went on and on until Shawn was piss/puking drunk, and I learned just how well Seb could hold his liquor. I had to hide Shawn out in an empty class room until I got the password and I could take her up to our dorm and watch her pass out.
She would wake up in the morning to see a cup of coffee and two Advil on her bed side table, and her breakfast on my bed with a note.
S-I'm telling everyone you caught a cold last night. Sleep in.
-A
P.S. I hope the hang over isn't to bad
Dear Ki,
Dementor's are at Hogwarts. How great is that? Sucky, I know. I learned somethings on the train.
I'm a heavy sleeper
Shawn can't handle lots of vodka
Seb can
Life is fun
I don't enjoy missing a meal
My dorm mates have not improved in personality or social traits over the summer.
This school year will suck.
Love you lots,
Adrian N. Danvers
Dear Ki,
Professor Lupin's is affected by the full moon as well, or so I hear from Shawn since I was sick the whole week. Shawn, Seb, and I have grown closer. Shawn's the mediator, Seb's the one who believes he has to protect both of us from every guy in the universe, and I'm the joker, the comedian. Or as Seb like's to call me, the con artist with the way I get people to do as I want. We switch tables constantly. Sometimes we'll be at the Gryffindor table, and other time's we'll be with the Slytherins, actually enjoying our meals with our nastier—funnier—peers.
Harry and I talk. It's a start but…he doesn't know me like Shawn and Seb or even the Weasly twins who I prank with now. Ginny and I are closer than we were last year which doesn't mean much. At least we don't argue as much anymore. I study with Hermione sometimes when we'll be in the library together. She's cool. Smart too.
Oh, and we'll have to fake my dad's death soon.
There's so much on my mind right now and I have so much to do.
I bid you farewell,
Adrian N. Danvers