Harry Potter and The Secrets he Kept

Chapter 5

Revenge on Moony

Author: DiamondFang

Remus blinked, groaning as he sat up in bed, what he thought was his bed anyway. Looking around, he noticed strings surrounding him. Lots of them.

Sitting on the other side of the lounge, which incidently, was not his bedroom, was a grinning Sirius, Harry and Nymphadora Tonks. He glared at them, narrowing his eyes at the strings which surrounded him.

"Your pick Moony!" Sirius called gleefully "Not even you can get through that without breaking at least one string"

"And what, pray tell, do the strings do when broken or touched?"

"Shoot something at you" Harry said bluntly. Remus groaned again, choosing the strings carefully, he chose the pink one first, pushing through it, he caught his ankle on the yellow string, tripping onto the orange, green, blue and red ones.

Eyes widening in disbelief, he felt a shiver run down his spine, what felt like egg yolk broke over his head, followed by mild pokes as the other spells washed over him. he looked up at the three doubled over people watching him, Tonks hair was cycling through different colours quickly, Sirius was thumping his legs, whilst Harry was holding Sirius for support, he looked into a mirror which had 'coincidently' appeared in front of him. he was now multicoloured, his hair was orange, and arranged in a mowhawk, his clothes had changed to what would suit a clown, except the shoes which looked like they could have belonged to Peter Pan, he stared at his reflection, then turned to Sirius, who had grinned maniacly at him, before breaking the last string, the white one, which released a blue coloured spell which caused him to collapse laughing.

"What - did - you - do?" he gasped out through uncontrolable laughter "Take - off - now - Pad-foot"

"Well, the pink one was a tripping jinx, there was a compulsion charm on and the rest I'm sure you can guess" Tonks grinned "I'd like to thank Harry for the invite by the way, brilliant idea."

Shaking his head in disbelief, he glared at Sirius one more time, before the tickling charm was lifted.

"Of course, I had no idea you were ticklish" she grinned. Remus groaned, Sirius and Harry were DEAD for this one...

Remus had enjoyed his prank, but now it was time to get some serious shopping done.

"There is no way in Merlin's most favorite swimming hole am I going to own nothing but gray robes!" Sirius yelled at the shop assistant.

"But...they're different shades of gray," the woman said. "And they match your beautiful eyes."

Sirius' eyes widened. For the first time since entering the shop, he realized that the assistant was in fact a beautiful young woman around the age of twenty-five.

Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail, and her long bangs were falling into her silvery-blue eyes. She had a clear complexion of creamy skin and rosy cheeks, and a small mouth with naturally very pink lips.

His jaw hit the floor. "I...um...I'll take the gray silk dress robes, the dark gray outer cloak, and the silver shirt, but the rest of my clothes I want in various shades of blue, red, brown, and even some in black, and white. No more gray though."

She smiled, as the gray clothes he had picked were the ones she liked the best. "Alright," she said.

"What's your name by the way? I didn't catch it earlier," Sirius asked.

"Casey," she replied, "Casey Meyers."

"How about I take you out to dinner in Muggle London tomorrow night," Sirius asked, grinning hopefully.