Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

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Almost Perfect Chapter 10:

 

Remus took a deep breath and realized that he was shaking from his nervousness. He looked at James and sighed letting the deep breath he had just taken out, “ Can we go somewhere else and talk?” he asked not wanting to explain himself in a hall full of school children.

 

James stared at him for a minute he still looked angry but not as much as he was when Sirius had shown up that and he knew it was close to the full moon, so he wouldn't hit his friend. He had learned to keep track of it when he was in school with Remus and hadn't stopped even when he lost his memories.

 

James finally nodded and the five of them walked out of the great all and into a classroom that wasn't being used. “ Why Remus?” asked James wondering why his friend had kidnapped his son, “ why did you kidnap Harry?”

 

Harry however had something to say and wasn't nervous like Remus was so he spoke up almost immediately, “ he didn't kidnap me because I wanted to go.” Said Harry stubbornly, and everyone else in the room was reminded instantly of James.

 

Though now that Harry had said that it had gotten very quiet again and Remus finally had to start from the beginning.

 

“ Arabella wrote to me a few days after you escaped from Azkaban Sirius,” he said nodding towards his friend. “ She said she was worried about Harry and though that he needed more protection and she was also worried that the Dursley's weren't taking care of him properly.” Said Remus taking a breath and watching the look on James' face.

 

“Were they Remus?” asked James wondering if maybe that was the reason his friend had taken his son who had apparently went with him by choice.

 

Remus sighed and looked at James, “ not really,” said Remus and realizing that no one was going to except that as the answer, “ No James they weren't.” he said not wanting to explain how because if both Sirius and James were as hot headed as they were years ago then he knew that they would be making a trip to Lily's sisters house sometime soon and it wouldn't be pretty.

 

James swore under his breath, Harry heard it and giggled.

 

Sirius was the next to speak and it shocked Remus because he thought that he would at least have some problems after being with the dementors for so long, “ do you want to explain how they weren't taking good care of Harry, Remus?” he asked and Remus could tell he was thinking the exact same thing that Remus thought he would be.

“ Well,” said Remus wondering if it was really as bad as he thought it was at first and then continued, “ they left Harry at Arabella's for extended periods of time and if not there outside in the yard with the house locked and he would get in trouble if he went outside of the yard.” Explained Remus listing the only things that he knew off that they had done but that was good enough for him to want to take him, but he wondered if it was a good enough explanation to James.

 

Apparently it was because both James and Sirius looked pissed while Dumbledore looked disappointed.

 

“ Well,” said James voicing what Sirius was thinking and what Remus thought would happen, “ I think we're going to be paying a visit to them soon.” Said James earning a smile from Sirius and a frown from Dumbledore.

 

“ You mean we're as in you and Sirius, right?” asked Remus worried that somehow he was going to get dragged into this one.

 

“ No,” said Sirius grinning answering for James, “ he means you and me and him.”

 

Remus just moaned and shook his head knowing that if even if he said anything it wouldn't work he wasn't going to get out of this.

 

So for the better part of two hours Remus explained what he and Harry had been doing ever since He had taken him from the Dursley's. James was shocked when he learned what Harry had named his puppy and at the mention of Lily, Harry asked if he could keep her, which James said yes to because Harry's face was pitiful when he asked, that and he wasn't going to take his son's pet away from him.

 

The next day Remus was rudely awakened by Sirius and James cackling like madmen because both of them had just emptied two buckets of extremely cold water on him.

 

He rolled over and glared at the pair of them, “ aren't you two ever going to grow up,” he snapped at his friends aggravated because he had been woken up and he was still tired and he had a headache from hell.

 

“ Sometime before I die, I promise I'll act my age for one whole day,” said Sirius grinning, “ but for now I'm, content to act like an immature fifteen year old.”

 

James laughed and shook his head at Sirius, “ Well at least one part of our work of dragging Moony back into society is done for us.” He said remembering his and Sirius' plan to drag their friend back into society.

 

At the sound of his old nickname, Remus became wide-awake and quit grumbling over the water. “ Why did you wake me up?” he asked taking his wand of his bedside table and trying himself and the bed.

 

“ Because,” said Sirius, he and James both had the I'm up to something and you can't stop me look on their face and Remus had already guessed what they were up to, “ we're going to have a nice chat with Lily's sister and her husband today.” Said Sirius pulling Remus up off of the bed and shoving clothes into his arms.

 

 

Remus looked down at the clothes that were just shoved at him and realized that they were his but he didn't know how Sirius had gotten them. “ Sirius where did you get my clothes?” he asked waving his wand to magically change his clothes because right now he didn't think he would be able to do it manually with out falling over into something because his body was still half asleep even if his mind was wide-awake.

 

“James and I went to get Lily and brought you and Harry some clothes back with us.” Explained Sirius, “now hurry up and get ready we've been waiting on you to get up for two hours.” He said whining a little.

 

“ Let me guess,” said Remus dryly, “ you got tired of waiting.” He said referring to his rude awakening.

 

“ Yep,” said Sirius smiling.

 

“ Why are you in such a hurry?” asked Remus going to brush his teeth and comb his hair.

 

“ Because,” answered James, “ we're going to look for someplace for us to live afterwards seeing as our old home got blown to bits.”

 

“ We would be you, Sirius and Harry, I'm guessing said Remus stepping out of the restroom five minutes later.

 

“ Yep now come on before Padfoot pees himself with excitement.” Joked James; though Sirius didn't seem to think it was very funny.

 

“ James!” yelled Sirius throwing something at the back of his friend's head.

 

Ten minutes later the group of three friends were inside the Dursley's house. Petunia had been cooking at the time and stood completely shocked letting the food she was cooking burn Dudley wasn't paying attention he was playing with a new computer game he had just gotten and Vernon was turning three or four different colors at the same time and he ended up white as a sheet, thinking that these people were here to do him and his family in.

 

James was the first to speak and it was addressed solely to Petunia. “ Would you like to explain the poor care that was given to my son at your hands?” he asked with anger evident in his voice meanwhile Petunia just stood shaking her head.

 

`It's not possible,' she thought, ` he's dead he can't be here I'm dreaming or I'm sick from all of the cleaning I've been doing and I'm hallucinating.' She thought to herself trying to explain to herself why she was seeing her dead sisters dead husband.

 

 

James saw that he probably wasn't going to get an answer so he and Sirius dragged her off to a separate part of the room a few seconds later Vernon went over to stop whoever these people were but Remus stopped him from interfering.

 

Five minutes later they left leaving behind a very shaken woman who had been told that simply that she was lucky and James told her that if he learned of anything else that had happened to his son that he didn't already know he would be back and she “ would not like it.”

 

Remus was shaking his head at Sirius' impersonations of Petunia, which were quite funny, but he thought that they didn't have to be as unpleasant as they were, but both James and Sirius disagreed with him as always.

 

“ James,” Remus said after a while, “who's watching Harry today?” he asked as they arrived at their destination and were about to start looking for houses.

 

“ We talked Minerva into watching him for us.” He said grinning it was Saturday after all she wouldn't mind too much.

 

Remus just looked at James as if he were crazy, “ I don't think I want to know how you accomplished that.” Said Remus teasing his friend.

 

“ Well,” said Sirius, “ we just told her how good a teacher she was and it was really the fact that she was such a good teacher that we became Animagi.”

 

“ Flattery than.” Said Remus, ` I should have known,' he thought to himself he wondered how Harry was doing with the Transfiguration Teacher.

 

 

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Harry in fact wasn't having a very good day he wasn't allowed to do anything that he considered to be fun and all he wanted to do was explore but this woman wouldn't let him.

 

Now though he was walking through the halls aimlessly because he had managed to get away from her but he knew she would find him soon and every now and then he would take off running for a few corridors to keep her from finding him for a few more minutes.

 

Unfortunately he wasn't watching well enough and ran into one of the grumpiest people at Hogwarts, Severus Snape.

“ Child what on earth are you doing.” He demanded after Harry had run headfirst into him.

 

Harry however didn't know anything about the man so he was quite friendly with the man. “ Running away.” He answered looking over his shoulder he heard the woman he was running from coming behind him and quickly hid himself behind Severus' cloak.

 

“ Oh Severus good have you seen Harry?” she asked striding up to him out of breath from chasing Harry though the castle for the last half hour.

 

Severus glanced quickly down at Harry who was behind him and then back at Minerva, “ no Minerva I haven't but I will tell you if I do.”

 

“ Thank you Severus,” she said sighing and walked off quickly in another direction looking for Harry.

 

Harry came out from behind Severus' cloak and was getting ready to thank him when the man said something. “ Now you can tell me why you are running away from Minerva and then I can go get her so she'll stop worrying.” Said the man with a sneer the only reason he had lied to Minerva was because he wanted to know what the boy was doing.

 

“ That's not fair,” complained Harry but decided to explain anyway, “ I was running away from her because she's boring and she won't let me do anything and I want to explore the Castle.” Said Harry pouting.

 

That earned an eyebrow raise from Severus, “ Why are you with her instead of your father?” asked Severus not that he cared about James Potter he was just wondering why he left his son in the care of Minerva.

 

“ Because Dad, and Uncle Remus and Sirius went to look for a house and they'll be gone almost all day or at least that's what dad said,” explained Harry trying to figure out if there was a way to get away from this man so he would have to go back with the `boring lady.'

 

Severus actually smiled at this news they were looking for a house that meant that it wouldn't be long until he would be able to walk around the castle without running into James Potter.

 

Harry though was now curious about who this man was so he started asking him all kinds of questions. “ Who are you? Do teach here? Are you friends with my dad.” And he was stopped right after that question.

 

“ I am defiantly NOT one of your fathers friends nor will I ever be.” Said Severus appalled that anyone could even think such a thing even if the person who thought it was a child.

 

“ Oh,” said Harry, “ well do you work here?” asked Harry still curious about the man.

 

“ Yes I work here and my name is Severus.” He said coldly wanting to get back to his potions lab.

 

“ Oh well can I call you Uncle Severus?” he asked the man not knowing him and therefore not knowing how he would react to the question.

 

Severus just stared at the boy like he had something wrong with him, “ no you may not call me `Uncle'.” He said glaring at Harry.

 

Harry however was unfazed by the glaring and continued asking the man questions, “ well what do you teach?” he asked him.

 

“ Potions.” Said Severus stiffly giving up on getting the child back to Minerva and he decided to walk back down to his classroom ever though he knew Harry was going to follow him.

 

“ Potions like deadly potions?” asked Harry curious however his question made Severus stop dead in the corridor.

 

“ Yes.” He said staring at Harry before continuing walking.

 

“ Because my cousin Dudley said he could make deadly potions and he scared everyone at school but it really just toilet water with pop mixed in with it.” Said Harry.

 

Severus wanted to laugh out loud but he didn't `stupid muggles.' he thought `you can't make Potions out of Toilet water.'

 

So Harry followed behind Severus and asked him several questions to which Severus answered two hours later Minerva came down to ask for Severus' help in looking for Harry and she found him asleep on one of the desks' in his room. Harry had fallen asleep in the middle of his one- thousandth question or at least that's what it felt like to Severus, and he gladly returned to boy to Minerva.

 

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After the twentieth house everyone in the trio of friends were ready to quit for the day they hadn't found anything remotely close to what they were looking for.

 

They just about gave in when Remus pointed out that there was only one more house on the list and they could go ahead and check that one out and go look for more in a few days.

 

They arrived at the house and Remus immediately recognized the area it was less than twenty minutes from his own house. Both James and Sirius were ecstatic when he told them that.

 

They were even more so when they saw the inside it was big enough for three people and it even had a kid's room and a really large backyard and they all agreed that the house was perfect.

 

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A week later they were almost ready to leave Hogwarts actually they were leaving today except James was holding them up. “ Come on James what's taking so long?” asked Sirius whining he wanted to leave and get as far away from Snape as he possibility could.

 

“ I'm writing a letter Sirius hold on.” Snapped James because aggravated he knew he wasn't taking that long Sirius was just in a hurry to get out of Hogwarts.

 

“ A letter?” said Sirius confused, “ to who?” he asked wondering why the letter couldn't have waited until later.

 

“ To Arabella I'm thanking her for keep and eye on Harry.” He explained to Sirius signing the letter but before he could tie the letter to the owl that was already waiting leg Sirius took it and unraveled it and signed his name too.

 

“What?” asked Sirius innocently. “ Your signature looked lonely and you know I might be really famous for something good one day and she might want my signature.” Said Sirius goofing around.

 

James shook his head they had already taken most of their stuff to the house they had bought and Remus had brought Harry's stuff over a couple of days after the full moon, it was the first full moon he hadn't spent alone in years and he rather enjoyed it.

 

James turned around and picked up Harry, “ come on we're going home Harry.” He said Grinning and walking out of Hogwarts.

 

“ I get to come back right?” Harry asked referring to Hogwarts. Yeah in two years Harry.” Said James before apparating both him and Harry to His, Harry and Sirius' new home.

 

 

 

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Well I was wrong you didn't have to wait till Saturday and as for the homework from Hades I forgot half of it in my locker because I'm smart like that so I had to do it as soon as I got to school. So only the epilogue left and then I can take a break for about two or three weeks before I start writing my new story. Then I have to write a story for Mole day and I have no clue what that is only that it's something like pi day………. So hope you enjoyed. Oh and don't ask about the part with Snape I just thought it would be funny it's kind of weird though…