As the HOGWARTS EXPRESS BLEATS ITS HORN, we CRANE OVER the milling horde of students. Parents hurry their children onboard, tiny siblings wave goodbyes... and Mrs. Weasley dashes through the throng and up to an open train window.
Mrs Weasley: Ron!
She hands Scabbers through the open window to him.
Mrs Weasley: Oh, for goodness sake, don't you loose him!
The aisle teems with students. Athena, Ron and Hermione work their way down the aisle, looking for an empty compartment.
Athena: I didn't mean to blow her up. I just...(troubled by the memory) ... lost control.
"It was still really funny" chorused the 3 out of the 4 marauders.
Ron: Brilliant!
Hermione: Honestly, Ron, it's not funny. Athena's lucky she wasn't expelled.
Athena: I think I was lucky not to be arrested with the way I spoke towards him
Ron: I still think it was brilliant, not only that you were telling the truth
SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! A copy of the The Monster Book of Monsters SCUTTLES CRAB-LIKE down the aisle, pursued by Neville Longbottom. Hermione sends a simple binding spell it the book, making it stop.
Neville: Hi, Athena. Ron. Hermione.
Athena/Ron/Hermione: Hi Neville
Athena: Come sit with us Neville
Hermione nods her head at a compartment. As they slip inside, they find a MAN in SHABBY ROBES (PROFESSOR LUPIN) slumped against the window, asleep. He looks ill, exhausted. The quartet eye him warily. WHISPER.
"Is that Moony?!" Screamed James and Sirius, they get shushed at by other students.
Ron: Who d'you reckon he is?
Hermione: Professor R.J. Lupin.
Ron: You know everything. How is it she knows everything?
Hermione: It's on his case.
She points. Stamped in peeling letters on a BATTERED CASE is "Professor R.J. Lupin."
"HOLY SHIT YOUR A PROFESSOR" "PROFESSOR MOONY" James and Sirius jumped onto their friend, sending them onto the floor. "Wait isn't that the suit case we gave you on your birthday" "I think it is Prongs" "Can you two fat shits get off of me" "Sorry Moony" "Yeah...sorry Moony"
Athena: Is he really asleep?
Hermione: Seems to be. Why? What is it, Athena?
Athena: Close the door.
Hermione, Neville and Ron exchange a curious glance, then Ron rises, slides the door shut, OVER CAMERA, and we -- Storm clouds, like dark ghosts, toss SHEETS of RAIN onto the scarlet engine as it heads north.
"It's like a horror movie" whimpered a 1st year Hufflepuff.
Ron, Neville and Hermione stare at Athena, faces stricken in the lantern light that now glows in the compartment. Crookshanks slumbers in his CAGE.
Neville: Let me get this straight. Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban to come after you?
Athena: Yes.
Hermione: But they'll catch Black, won't they? I mean... eventually?
Ron: Sure -- Of course, no one's ever broken out of Azkaban before and he's a raving, murderous lunatic...
"Sorry Sirius" Ron looks at said man, "it's okay little ginger" Athena whacks Sirius' shoulder laughing at him.
Just then, the COMPARTMENT RATTLES. Lanterns flicker. The train LURCHES, begins to SLOW. Neville bumps into Hermione causing her to slide down the seat, pinning Ron against the window. They exchange an awkward glance, then Hermione carefully slides to the other end of the seat and glances at her WATCH. Frowns.
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Athena Potter 🎞
FanfictionIn which the marauders generation watch Athena Potters life and see the dangers of which awaits them. Where friends becomes enemies and enemies become allies. What happens when they realise they've been lied too? Will they be able to prevent the dan...
