A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or any character thereof.

Chapter 46

Harry was walking in a slight daze to Transfiguration after his Divination class. The perfumes and incense clogged his mind rather than cleared it. He kept thinking about what Trelawney had said about the grim - and how the dog on Privet Drive had looked just like the picture in his book.

Before he realized it, he was seated next to Ron and Hermione in Transfiguration.

Harry looked up just in time to see McGonagall turn into her animagus form.

He suddenly had a flash back to his first year, to when he was in the back of the library and groaned with mortification.

It was the same cat.

Harry then realized that Hermione was talking.

"I'm sorry Professor. We just came from Divination."

McGonagall pursed her lips. "I see. And just who is going to die this year?"

The entire class looked startled.

"I am," mumbled Harry.

McGonagall pursed her lips into a very thin line. "Well, let me assure you Mr. Potter that if you die, you need not turn in your homework."

The entire room laughed.

"Headmaster, a boggart appears to have moved into the closet in the staff room. I was wondering if I could use it for my third years tomorrow?"

Albus smiled. "Certainly Remus. I'll inform the rest of the staff to leave it alone."

Just then Hagrid came flying into the Headmaster's office.

"Headmaster, it was an accident. Malfoy insulted it even after I explained that they were proud creatures! He's a good hippogriff - honest!"

"Hagrid, calm down."

Hagrid most certainly wasn't calming down. He was still pacing around the room, obviously very agitated.

"Hagrid!"

"What?" He looked up, slightly startled.

"Sit down and start from the beginning."

Hagrid sat down and explained about how he had introduced Buckbeak to his third year's and why Malfoy was now in the hospital wing.

"It's the first day back and we already have enough homework for an entire week!" complained Ron to Harry and Hermione as they entered the Gryffindor common room.

Harry grimaced. They had just finished with dinner and grabbed some chairs and a table and threw their book bags on it and began removing their things to get started on some of their assignments.

Just then Oliver Wood came over. "Practice Friday after dinner. I'll hand out our schedule then."

"He didn't look too thrilled with you," commented Ron, very much surprised after Oliver had walked away.

"My schedule isn't conducive for any earlier training sessions," growled Harry as he mimicked Wood's voice. He had been ambushed by Wood while leaving the loo during one of the breaks.

Ron laughed. That certainly sounded like something Oliver would say.

Everyone was howling with laughter when the boggart Snape appeared dressed in a dress with a vulture hat.

That certainly made Harry feel better. He had just had a horrible Herbology class in which a venomous tentacula thought it'd be cute and hit him in the back of the head.

Hard.

While everyone lined up to have a go at the boggart Harry thought about what scared him the most. Voldemort was the first thing that popped into his mind, but then he remembered the Dementor.

An imaginary chill gripped him.

Harry looked up in time to see Ron make his boggart spider start tap dancing.

Eventually it was Harry's turn. While it was still forming, Lupin jumped in front of him which made it take the shape of a full moon.

"Riddikulus," he said lazily. "Forward Neville, finish it off!"

Everyone watched as Boggart Snape appeared in a dress again and laughter from the class did indeed make it explode in a flurry of tiny pieces.

Harry walked dazed from the class. Lupin had purposefully not let him face the boggart. Did he think him so weak that he'd pass out again?

Harry had just finished up his Ancient Runes homework when he saw Crookshanks (Hermione's cat) chase Scabbers through the common room.

"Catch that cat!" yelled Ron.

Five or six people dived for it but they all missed.

"Hermione keep that thing away from Scabbers. He's ill. He needs rest and relaxation."

"Oh c'mon Ron. He's just doing what all cats do."

"Scabbers was here first. Just keep that fur ball away."

Hermione huffed, picked up Crookshanks, and went up to the girls dormitory. Ron grabbed Scabbers out from under a bookshelf and headed up to the boys dormitory.

Harry just sighed and proceeded to bang his head on the books in front of him, which caused Neville and Dean to snicker.

"What are you up to Harry?" asked Lupin.

Harry was currently coming in from Quidditch practice - drenched to the bone.

"I think Oliver wants to make sure we know how to breathe in water while flying and live to tell about it."

Remus chuckled. "It's almost curfew. You better hurry up to your dorm."

Harry nodded. "G'nite Professor."

"G'nite Harry."

"Come now Severus, I didn't realize that his greatest fear would be you." The story of Neville's boggart was still going around, nearly two weeks after the incident.

"I'm not upset that his greatest fear was me, I'm upset that you had him dress me in Augusta Longbottoms' outfit."

Albus snickered in a corner which got a glare sent his way.

"If I hear one word of this again, I'm liable to murder you Lupin." That said, Severus stormed from the staff room.

Lupin just groaned. "He's never going to forgive me is he?"

Albus smiled. "Just give him time Remus."

Remus looked skeptical but nodded and resume his grading - which Severus had interrupted.

A scream went up in the night time air.

"It's him Jim! Call that number that was on the TV!"

Sirius sighed and ran into some neighboring woods. Once there he transformed into a dog and continued his journey north.

He would try for food again at the next town.

"Gralkin, I'm still detecting an alarm in the old will vault."

"It was the Apperly will. I thought I disabled it when I was down there last week."

"This is a different one. The alarm has been going off now for over 3 months according to my paperwork and it seems that whoever wrote it added their own spells. It's interfering with my ability to see the will owner's name."

Gralkin sighed. "I'll get it next time I'm down there. Whatever it is can surely wait a little while longer. I'm up to my eyes in current wills."

Grimstein nodded and headed back to his office after telling the goblin to get to it sooner rather than later.

A/N: Sorry about the delay. I've written at least 140 hand written pages over the past few days. Actually, I'm nearly done w/ book 4. Book 3 starts heading into more of an alternate universe ... but sticks to the same basic premise of the original story. You'll see what I mean ... soon ... like in a chapter or two. I don't remember which one it is. *get's a shady look*

Anyway, I'll be posting another chapter tomorrow or the next day. =)

A/N: This story will stick mostly to canon of the Prisoner of Azkaban book, and some quotes are from the book directly. However, every once in a while, a scene or two from the movie may sneak in. (All that of course aside from the fact that a lot of scenes from my own mind are sneaking in as well - evil cackle!)