Chapter 4

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The screen opened up to show Gabe's Camaro tearing through the stormy night, wind howling in the background as the camera zoomed in to show a frazzled looking Sally Jackson, who stared straight ahead at the screen before it moved to show a frozen Persephone gripping onto the door with everything she had. 

"Maybe, now we'll finally learn something," James muttered as he send a glare towards Remus who just stared impassively at the irritated boy, "Maybe you will, maybe you won't but if you could have a bit of patience we might be able to find out," h...

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"Maybe, now we'll finally learn something," James muttered as he send a glare towards Remus who just stared impassively at the irritated boy, "Maybe you will, maybe you won't but if you could have a bit of patience we might be able to find out," he snapped back.

Suddenly lightning struck around them making the camera swivel to show a pair of goat feet before it moved up to show a very nervous looking Grover who kept chewing on his cap. 

"Oh great," Sirius said looking a bit green, "I didn't imagine the fact that Grover had donkey feet," Remus sighed at his friend, he could honestly understand their reactions, "It's goat," he mumbled out.

 I looked at Grover sitting next to me in the backseat and I wondered if I'd gone insane, or if he was wearing some kind of shag-carpet pants. But, no, the smell was one I remembered from kindergarten field trips to the petting zoo- lanolin, like from wool. The smell of a wet barnyard animal. 

"So, you and my mom....know each other," Percy asked looking intently at Grover who turned his head to look at her, "Not exactly," he muttered before saying more loudly, "I mean, we've never met in person. But she knew I was watching you." 

"Okay," Marlene scoffed, "That isn't creepy or anything."

Confusion was etched across the young girl's face as she stared at her friend, "Watching me?" Grover nodded, "Keeping tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn't faking being your friend, I am your friend," he added hastily in a reassuring tone.

"How does that make the whole watching her thing less creepy," Alice shuddered as the rest of their friends nodded in agreement all except for Remus who glared at the screen frustrated, he was sick of his friends calling Grover a creep when the satyr had been one of his best friends since he could remember, "Hey, Grover is a very good friend," he snapped louder than he meant to, making the entire hall turn to him inquisitively, "What exactly do you mean by that Mr. Lupin," Dumbledore questioned softly, his blue eyes twinkling making Remus gulp nervously, because sure he knew that they would eventually find out about his secrets but he wanted to drag out the inevitable, "A-a lucky guess," he stammered out.

 Persephone nodded though her eyes kept drifting downwards,  "Urm ... what are you, exactly?" Grover waved her question off dismissively as he stared nervously through the window, "That doesn't matter right now."

"It doesn't matter?" Sirius said loudly with widened eyes taking away all the attention from his shier friend making him send him a grateful look.

"It doesn't matter? From the waist down, my best friend is a donkey-" Persephone cried out incredulously only to be stopped a sharp, throaty, "Blaa-ha-ha!" from Grover. 

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