Remirius Lupin

Chapter 2: The big black dog

I can feel the winds rushing through my fur as I run alongside my father, the werewolf. Barking and howling at the moon. I feel this rush of excitement come when I see the edge of the cliff. Taking in the beauty of the moon. Slowly drifting off to sleep.

I wake up still in my animagus form turning over. I see my father looking at me. I can tell that every bone in his body hurts. Feeling bad for him I de-transform and help him up and I walk him back to our little cabin outside the woods where we keep an extra bed and some healing supplies. After he's all bandaged up he apparates us back to our flat. I take a deep breath in. ah, the beautiful smell of home.

"Father, I'm going outside," I call up the stairs after reading for a few hours.

"Ok, just make sure you change so nobody recognizes you!" he says as I walk towards the door. Before I open the door to leave I scrunch up my face and focus, Blonde hair, green eyes, skinny lips, big nose, tanned skin. I open my eyes and look into the mirror. I expect to see some wonky-looking face but instead, I see this girl with tan skin, green-gray eyes, medium-sized lips, a big nose, and blonde hair with a strip of black. Wow, I did it, I-I did it, I Did It!!! I start to jump up and down and then realize I had opened the door in the process and the neighbours are staring. I give them a small smile and a half-wave. I walk out and start walking down the street. I was walking for around thirty minutes and I noticed a big black dog had been following me. I get this tingling feeling and my stomach jolts. I quickly grab my spare mirror from my purse and look at myself. Oh no. I look like my normal self again. Did anyone see me? The dog looks at me and starts to run at me. I feel scared, but when our eyes meet he looks more scared than me. So I lean down slowly and let him sniff my hand.

"Where's your collar buddy?" I say searching around the dog's neck. There was no collar. "Why don't you come home with me for the night then I can get you a real home."

I walk the dog back to my flat and we walk inside. "Father, I'm back and I found a stray dog," I yelled into the house. I heard glass shatter from inside the kitchen and went to investigate what happened. I walked in to see my father using his wand to clean up the now back to a normal vase he must have dropped.

He looked up at me and said "did you say a stray d-" he saw the big black dog half the size of me standing at my side. The dog barked and went to go lick my father's face off but my father pushed him far away and started yelling "YOU GET AWAY FROM THAT BLOODY DOG NOW!!"

"But h-" I started.

"NOW!" He interrupted me with tears running down his face now. I was being stubborn so he pulled me behind him and held his wand high. "Get out Padfoot. NOW!" The dog ran out the door with his tail between his legs.

"What was that all about? Who's Padfoot? The dog was a stray! You're a very cruel person!" I asked.
"Go to your room, and NEVER go near that dog again," he replies firmly. I sigh and slump up the stairs to my room. Why can't he just tell me what's going on? Going to sit on my bed I remember that tonight is the night I get the answer to all my questions. Tonight I read the Daily Prophet.

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It's 1:00 in the morning and I hear my father finally go into his room after getting ready for bed. This is my chance! I practically ran out of the room, careful not to make too much noise. I walk down into the dining room and go towards the cupboard drawer carefully. I opened it. Nothing grabs me. I put my hand in. still nothing. I pull out the daily prophet and start to read.

It says that Sirius Black has somehow escaped from Azkaban. This can't be right. He can't have escaped. Could he have? But how? Why? What's He after. Is he coming for me? Did that Big Black Dog have something to do with it? I need to talk with my father about this. He must feel really scared. I was taken out of my thoughts when I heard My father yell my name. I could hear the fear in his voice. Does he think that someone took me? "REMIRIUS!" he calls again. I really don't want him to know I snuck into the forbidden drawer. I run into the kitchen as quietly as I can and grab a cookie from the cookie jar. Placing the cookie in my mouth and reaching for the milk and glass.

"Yua Daa" I call knowing that he'll think I couldn't respond before because I have a cookie in my mouth.
"Remirius? Oh, there you are. I went to check if you were asleep and you weren't there. I thought Sir-someone had taken you." he says grabbing his chest in relief. I quickly open the knife drawer behind me to put the daily prophet in. That was a big mistake. In seconds around twenty knives pinned me to the wall. I just got pranked by myself. I'm such a loser. "Iri, what's in your hand?" my father says his eyebrow rising. I look at my hand and notice that the knives had also pinned the piece of parchment on the wall. "Nothing!" I reply unconvincingly. "Accio!" the parchment flies out of my hands and into his. He opens it and his face turns the shade of red that I accidentally changed my hair to.

Oh no.

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Hiiiiii! Omg it's getting exciting can't wait to write the next chapter ❤️ so sorry this is taking so long. I'm really bad at keeping up with my writing.