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Chapter 7:
As they walked to King's Cross Station, Aria asked for the millionth time where Remus was. "I'm sorry, sweetie, but he was too sick to come. But he has a surprised prepared for the three of you tonight." Chloe said hiding her smile.
"How can he have a surprise for us tonight?"
"Don't you worry about that. You just worry about getting sorted, alright?"
"Yeah, you better not end up in Slytherin, Aria." One of the twins said.
"Don't worry, I'll be a Gryffindor."
"I don't know, you are pretty good at manipulating people." Mia smirked.
"So are you and Addie, but the two of you ended up in Gryffindor." Aria protested.
"Don't worry about it, Aria, the hat almost put us into Slytherin but it changed its' mind at the last minute." Addie said trying to comfort her sister.
"Really?"
"Yeah, and if you really want to be in a certain house, if you ask it, it takes that into consideration."
"I'll try it." Aria said with a smile. The three of them hugged their mother and their Uncle Kingsley who showed up just to see them off before getting on the train.
Mia turned to her friends and asked them to find a compartment while she helped her Aria find a seat with some first years. "You didn't have to leave your friends, Mia."
"I wanted to help you, Aria, you're my baby sister, it's my job to help you." Mia said with a smile.
They found a compartment with a few first years. Before Mia left, she hugged Aria and said, "If I don't see you before the ceremony, good luck."
"Thanks, Mia. I'll see you in the Common Room."
"I better."
Mia walked down the rows of compartments until she found the one where her friends were along with a sleeping figure. When Mia opened the door, she was shocked to see who the sleeping figure was. "Uncle Remus?"
"Wait, Professor Lupin is your uncle Remus?" Harry asked.
"Yeah. This must be the surprise my mom was talking about. He must be taking over one of the teaching positions which is great. He always has a tough time keeping a job."
"How come?" Hermione inquired.
"He's … umm... sick a lot. Good of Dumbledore to consider him though. He'll be an amazing teacher. Trust me, he is wonderful at breaking things down so they could be understood. When we were in primary school, he was the one who helped us with our homework."
"He seems a bit bookish to me." Ron muttered.
"He is, but don't worry, he caused his fair share of mischief when he was in school."
"Wicked, we'll be able to get away with anything with him here."
"No we won't, Ronald. We will not take advantage of the fact that he is Mia's uncle." Hermione said.
"Fine. But if he gives us a pass I'm not saying no."
"Mia, is he really asleep?" Harry asked.
"He looks to be, why?"
"I have to tell you guys something."
So Harry told them all about what Mr. Weasley told him before they got on the train about Sirius Black.
"How thick would Harry have to be, to go looking for a nutter who wants to kill him?" said Ron. "No one knows how he got out of Azkaban. No one's ever done it before. And he was top security prisoner too."
"I think my mom went to school with him. I think they were friends."
"How do you know that?" Ron asked.
"When we were really little, Addie and I went through our mom's stuff and found pictures of our mom. One of them I remember her being thrown into the lake by two boys. One of them was my Uncle Remus. The other sorta looked like a younger, less crazy version of Black. When mom got the news about Sirius, she got really quiet and started looking at those albums again. And ..."
"And, she sorta disappeared for a week before she started looking through all of these albums. I don't know where she went."
"You think your mum went to look for him?" Harry asked.
"I don't know. She may have gone to look for him or capture him, I just don't know. All I know is, something happened in that week because when she came back, she wasn't the same. I just want him gone so my mom can be happy again."
"But they'll catch him, won't they?" Hermione asked. "I mean, they've got all the Muggles looking out for him too..."
"What's that noise?" Ron cut Hermione off. A faint, tiny sort of whistle was coming form somewhere. They looked all around the compartment.
"It's coming from your trunk, Harry," Mia said. Harry got up and opened his trunk to pull out his pocket sneakoscope. It was glowing and spinning wildly.
"Oh, it's the sneakoscope I sent you. Cheap thing. It was acting this way when I sent it to you."
"Were you doing anything untrustworthy when you sent it."
"Well... I wasn't supposed to be using Errol. You know he's not really up to long journeys... but how else was I supposed to get Harry's present to him?"
"I'll put it back in my trunk so it doesn't wake your uncle." Harry said.
"We can get it checked in Hogsmeade in Dervish and Banges, they sell magical instruments and stuff."
"Do you know much about Hogsmeade?" Hermione asked.
Ron and Mia began to tell them about Hogsmeade. "It just sucks that I won't be able to see any of it."
"What do you mean?" Ron asked Mia.
"My mom didn't sign mine or Addie's slips this year. She's worried about Black coming to the grounds and she's scared that he might do something, especially since Addie and I look so much like our mom."
"She thinks he'll hurt one of you?"
"Yeah."
"Don't worry, Mia. I can't go either. My uncle didn't sign my slip either."
"Why don't you two ask McGonagall or we can ask Fred and George, they know every secret passage out of the castle-"
"Ron!" said Hermione. "I don't think Harry should be sneaking out of school with Black on the loose-"
"Yeah, I expect that's what McGonagall will say when I ask for permission." Harry replied.
"But if we're with him, Black wouldn't dare." Ron said.
"Oh, Ron, don't talk rubbish. Black's already murdered a whole bunch of people in the middle of a crowded street. Do you really think he's going to worry about attacking Harry just because we're there?" Hermione snapped.
Then the two of them began fighting about Crookshanks again.
Some time later, Malfoy and his goons sulked into the compartment and would have tried something if Professor Lupin wasn't there causing them to leave.
"I'm not taking any crap from Malfoy this year. I mean it. If he makes one more crack about my family, I'm going to get hold of his head and-" Ron said angrily.
They all shushed him, but Lupin still remained asleep.
They talked amongst themselves when Ron said, "We must be nearly there," said Ron, leaning forward to look past Professor Lupin at the now completely black window. The words had hardly left him when the train started to slow down. "Great, I'm starving. I want to get to the feast ..."
"We can't be there yet?" Hermione said looking at her watch.
"So why did we stop?" Mia asked.
The train got slower and slower until it got to a full stop and only the rain hitting the windows was heard.
Harry got up and look outside the compartment, he noticed that everyone was doing the same. The train then jolted causing Harry to fall back into the compartment on top of Mia. The two of them were panting and were looking deep into each other's eyes but they didn't know why they were confused about what they felt. They both blushed before getting up.
All of the lamps went out and they were plunged into total darkness. "What's going on?" Ron asked.
"Ouch! Ron that was my foot!" Hermione gasped.
"D'you think we've broken down?" Harry asked.
"Dunno..." Ron then wiped a bit of the window and peered out. "There's something out there. I think people are coming aboard."
Just then Neville and Ginny stumbled in and asked them what was going on. "I don't know, but why don't you stay with us until we find out." Harry offered.
"Quiet!" said a hoarse voice suddenly.
"Uncle Remus."
"Quiet, Amelia." Mia knew to be silent then, her family only ever used her proper name when she was in trouble, they wanted her to listen, or they were upset with her.
There was a soft, crackling noise, and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames. They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary. "Stay where you are," he said in the same hoarse voice, and he got slowly to his feet with his handful of fire held out in front of him.
But the door slid slowly open before Lupin could reach it. Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin's hand, was two cloaked figures that towered to the ceiling. Their faces were completely hidden beneath their hoods. It was dementors. Before Lupin could even react, one dementor attacked Harry and the other attacked Mia. While Harry heard his mother's screams, Mia heard a man's screams of pain and someone repeating the word 'Crucio'.
When Mia woke up she saw her uncle kneeling next to her and Harry surrounded by Hermione and Ron. Neville and Ginny were no where to be seen. They must have gone back to their own compartment she thought to herself.
"Mia, are you alright?" Hermione asked coming over and hugging her.
"I don't know." Mia tried to get up but her legs were wobbly and she fell back down.
"No don't try to stand yet."
"That was a dementor, wasn't it?"
"Yes, it was." Remus said.
"There was someone screaming."
"You heard a woman screaming too?" Harry asked.
"No. Not a woman, but a man."
"Wait, how could the two of you hear two different people screaming?" Ron asked.
They were interrupted by a loud snap. They looked over and Remus had split a large slab of chocolate into several pieces and gave each of them one. "Eat, it will help." Remus got up and said, "I need to have a word with the driver and check on your sisters, Mia. Good thing I taught Addie the patronous charm. I'll be back soon." He told her.
"I still don't understand how we both heard two different people screaming." Mia said.
"Me either."
"It must have something to do with how the dementors affected you." Hermione said. "I mean aside from the obvious, the rest of us were not as affected as the two of you were. There has to be a connection between that and the screams that you heard."
"I guess you're right. I'll ask my uncle about it."
With Addie: Addie was sitting with Katie and the other girls from her year when, Fred, George, and Lee came in. "Ladies, how are we doing this gloomy September morning." Fred said charmingly.
George was somewhat quiet but he smiled all the same. "We're fine. Do you guys need a compartment?" Katie asked.
"Only if you're offering."
"Will we all fit?" Lee asked.
"Sure, as long as someone sits in somebody else's lap." Eloise said.
"I vote Addie and George." Fred said quickly.
"I second that." Katie replied.
Before they knew what hit them, Addie was sitting in George's lap with her back to the window. It was a bit uncomfortable at first. But Addie got over that pretty quickly.
As they were talking, the train abruptly stopped and the jerked. If George didn't have a firm grip on Addie, she would have fallen on her face. The compartment door opened and Malfoy and his cronies came in cowering. Before anyone could say anything, a hooded figure followed in behind them. It surveyed all of them for a moment before going towards Addie.
Addie acted quickly and sent the patronous charm at the figure. Everyone stared at her in shock when the train started working again.
Before anyone could ask about what she just did, the door opened to reveal a man no one had ever seen before. But Addie got up and hugged him. "Hi, Uncle Remus."
"Addie, are you and you're friends alright?"
"We're fine uncle."
"Yeah thanks to Addie. She got rid of that thing." Leanne said.
"What was it?" Lee asked.
"That was a dementor."
"That was a dementor?" George asked. "Now I know what people mean when they talk about them. I never thought I would be happy again."
Remus took another bar of chocolate out of his pocket and gave it to them. "Eat this, it will help to get rid of that chill that all of you are feeling. I'm going to talk with the conductor."
"What about Mia and Aria, have you seen them?"
"They are both fine. Aria and Mia were both affected by the dementors but it is not a big deal, they are both fine now. I will see all of you at school."
"Wait, what do you mean?"
"You'll know when we get there." Remus said with a smile before leaving them alone.
They were all silent for a few moments before Fred spoke up. "Alright, I'll be the one to do it. How did you know how to get rid of that dementor?"
"My Uncle Remus and Uncle Kingsley taught me."
"Well then maybe he coming to Hogwarts to be a new teacher, that's why he is here." Eloise offered.
"Maybe. It's a good theory. We won't know until tonight." George said.
"Yeah, we'll know tonight." Addie agreed.
Turns out Eloise was right, and Remus was the new Defense professor. Another happy event was the fact the Aria was sorted into Gryffindor. As soon as the feast started, Addie felt a napkin float over to her. She opened it to see a note from George asking her to meet in the Astronomy tower. She sent a simple reply of yes. After the feast, she got ready and went to meet George. They had a lot to talk about.