Top Secret

by Shealtiel

Rated: T for sexual references, adult themes, violence and mild coarse language

Summary: "Oak, fourteen inches, unpliant and resilient, excellent for Transfiguration with a knack for Charms. Veela hair core."

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Sunday, May 25th, 1975

12:17pm

Great Hall

I am so tired. I may fall asleep in my pumpkin soup at any moment.

So I don't remember catching the Snitch yesterday. Or anything after that. Or really anything after I got hit in the head with that Bludger. (And I'm still not convinced that Sirius didn't hit that at me, however accidentally it might have been.) I woke up at 9 this morning (after falling asleep at about 6am, Sirius tells me) with a splitting headache and no memory of the last eighteen hours.

I went back and read my diary entries from yesterday, but I don't even remember writing any of it. That was kinda scary. But Sirius told me that, once Madam Pomfrey got me to the Hospital Wing (via a brawny Sixth Year Ravenclaw boy who Sirius says wouldn't stop talking about how well I played in the Quidditch game while he carried me), she cast some sort of healing spell on me. But then, later during the night, I hadn't been moving at all in my sleep, and it had her worried that I was still concussed.

So then of course I asked him how he'd ended up by my bedside at 3 in the morning. Apparently he got caught out of bed after curfew (how surprising...) and his 'detention' was to sit by my bedside and keep me awake until Madam Pomfrey said otherwise. He says she came back at about 6 and gave me some kind of potion and let Sirius go.

He just said, "I was planning on getting a few hours sleep today, but Lily pounced on me the second I climbed through the Portrait Hole and wouldn't stop asking me questions about you." Now he's just rambling and whining about how tired he is. He does look exhausted. I don't really know how he's still awake. I'll be honest, I'm struggling to keep my eyes open, and I've had 100% more sleep than him. Although, I'm not sure the Maths works out like that. I'm too tired/concussed to figure it out.

I just told him thanks for looking after me, and he just said, "Mmhmm," without raising his head off the table. "I'm passing on the buck to Peter. Lily and Remus have their Study Group with the First Years today and Madam Pomfrey asked me to keep an eye on you. Since both of mine are involuntarily closing, however, and James didn't exactly volunteer for the job, Peter it is. Plenty of other guys certainly did volunteer, but I don't know or trust any of them and I figured you'd be much more comfortable with Peter."

I laughed and patted him on the head. "Thanks Sirius. Go back to your dorm and get some sleep before you pass out." He kind of just shuffled off like a zombie.

Peter's just laughing and shaking his head. He just said, "So Madam Pomfrey wants you to eat something and then try and keep fairly busy till tonight, so you're not tempted to nap. She wants you to try and stay awake at least until about 8, and then go see her before you go to bed so she can check up on you."

"Oh," I said. "Well, I need to study, so do you mind following me to the library?" He just smiled. He has such a cute smile.

"Yeah, you know, I should probably be studying anyway. Maybe with you around I'll actually be motivated to get some things done," he just said.

So now I've gotta eat lunch and then we're off to the library.

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5:45pm

The Black Lake

We got kicked out of the library. Madam Pince got kinda pissed and kicked us out because we were being too loud.

I tried to study. Really, I did! But Peter kept tapping me and doing these hilarious silent impressions of Madam Pince! I couldn't stop laughing!

Then he was telling me this story about when he was growing up, and telling me about his parents. I'll try and remember how he told it.

He said, "So when I was a kid, my parents used to fight all the time about the stupidest stuff. See, my parents weren't married when my mum got pregnant, but when my dad found out, he wanted to do the right thing, however late that was, and marry her. So then, after they got married she finally told him she was a Witch, and he absolutely flipped out. He was so upset she hadn't told him before then.

"So when I was growing up at home, he was still learning about magic and everything. So this one day, when I was about four, my dad was at work, and my mum wanted to surprise him with this huge home-cooked dinner, but the thing is, my mum's the worst cook you'll ever meet. And my dad knew this.

"So by the time he gets home, the entire house is filled with smoke and the smoke alarms are blaring and he assumed, naturally, that she's been trying to cook in 'that damn Muggle machine' again. So he comes in and calmly switches off the smoke alarms and wonders into the kitchen, and instead of seeing burned food and a ruined dinner, he sees my mum just covered from head to toe in every cooking ingredient you can think of, chasing me around the kitchen trying to get her wand off me.

"The number of times my parents had argued over how magic was dangerous for me, even up to this point in my life, you'd never believe. My dad was so mad at her, he completely forgot to punish me. That suited me just fine of course. I was having the time of my life. What four-year-old doesn't love being chased around, never mind setting things on fire and blowing stuff up at the same time?!"

Anyway, so I was laughing at that and Madam Pince came over and hissed at us like a snake.

"If the two of you don't quiet down, I'm going to have to ask you to leave the library." Of course, it was just my luck that she was standing behind Peter and couldn't see his face, so he's making all these funny faces imitating her, and I'm trying really hard not to completely lose it.

So then I said, while trying not to burst into tears of laughter, "Yes, Madam Pince. Sorry. We'll be quieter from now on."

So then of course Peter starts trying to make me laugh. He's like, "She's like a snake!" and then he pauses and out of the blue comes out with, "So if Sirius were an animal, what do you think he would be? I think he would be a really fat, ugly sloth. Because, let's be honest, he's lucky he was born naturally good looking or he'd be seriously grotesque due to neglect." So of course I started laughing! I couldn't help it. He didn't stop there though. Oh no. Next, he starts talking about James. "I think James would be an ass. That seems pretty clear, to everyone I think. Remus would probably be a squirrel. You know, kind of shy, but cute and furry too. I like to think I'd be an eagle. A really majestic, giant golden eagle." I lost it then. He looked all mock offended. "What, you don't think I could be an eagle?"

Anyway, that's when Madam Pince kicked us out. She stomped over and said, "Miss Lonsdale, you're going to have to vacate the library. You are disrupting the other students!" So Peter helped me get all my stuff and we left, still holding in our laughter on the way out.

So we came down here for a "study break". I pointed out that we weren't really doing much study in the first place, but Peter's protesting.

He just said, "You need to rest your Bludger-addled brain. I'm just trying to look after you like Sirius told me to!"

So, on another note, I'm totally in loooooooove with Peter! He's the bestest person ever and no one will ever be as awesome as him!

Hahaha... yeah, uh, Peter wrote that. About himself. What is it with people stealing my diary and writing in it?!

Peter says it's because I'm lame and just write it in all the time instead of talking to real people...

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