river lupin thought she was ready. ready to begin her sixth year at hogwarts with her twin brother remus. ready to start a new life. after her brother had been bitten by Fenrir greyback at the merge age of five, it was decided that she would be goin...
it was probably almost two in the morning, and sirius black was awake. he was lying on a mattress in the corner of james potter's bedroom. he spent most of the summer with his best friend, james. sirius black wasn't exactly welcome in the black household. the potters were kind enough to allow him to stay over the summer, the rest of the year he spent at hogwarts with his friends. next year would mark the start of seventh year and sirius was itching to get it over with and find his own place, to stop bothering people for a place to stay. but tomorrow he would start sixth year, and he was looking forward to it. over the course of the holidays he and james had conjured up the best pranks, most likely to be finalized on the train the next day. pranks were the perfect way of annoying the slytherins.
with the excitement for the coming year, he forced himself to sleep. he was awoken the next morning by the smell of bacon and sausages wafting through james' slightly open door. he shot up, starving. before he hurried downstairs for food, he remembered his best friend still snoring in the bed. slowly he picked his pillow off of his mattress and crept towards james' bed. with a few steps, he leapt onto his bed and hit him repeatedly with the pillow. " padfoot! " james yelped as he struggled to push sirius off of him. sirius just laughed.
" breakfast is ready dear boy! " he yelled as he stopped his friend and rolled off the bed. james grunted half-amusedly and reached around for his glasses. as soon as james scooted out of bed sirius grabbed him and pulled them both out of the room and down the little wooden staircase. they piled their plates with sausages, bacon, fried eegs and toast. then there was a frenzy of finding clothes and hunting the room for textbooks, some of which were already ruined in sirius' less than marvelous schemes. james managed to scavenge a half-burnt potions textbook and sirius found his herbology book covered in ink.
finally the last thing james picked up was his broomstick. he took one last look at the room, before sirius decided he was dawdling for too long - " prongs, if you don't hurry up now i suppose you'll be staring at those walls for the rest of the year. "
they made their way to king's cross station chattering excitedly about their new plans for the year.
" i reckon we should give them a little more veritaserum just to spice it up. "
" maybe, but if we add too much the professors will latch on eventually, i don't want to be in a month detention again with mcgonagall... "
" i hope you two aren't getting yourselves in trouble! " james' dad called over his shoulder.
" we aren't! " said james and sirius in perfect unison. his parents just laughed while sirius and james made uncertain eye-contact.
" well here we are boys! get ready for another great year, we can't wave you off today i hope you don't mind too much, important call at the ministry you see... " started james' mum.
" mum, it's okay. " reassured james, letting her kiss him on the cheek. sirius just smiled. she walked forward and gave sirius a hug, not an awkward hug, but a proper motherly hug.
" now you two, have a great year. hope you have a good year of quidditch, james. and we'll see you next summer sirius. " james' dad said smiling. sirius couldn't be more grateful. james' parents were the closest he had to parents, his actual mother not being close at all. they said their good-bye's and pushed their trollies to platform 9 and 3/4.
once they arrived the platform was bustling with hogwarts students, eager to start the new year. they pushed their trollies around hunting for the rest of their group. peter usually gets the compartment, he always arrives early so they get the same on every year. " remus! " james called, narrowly avoiding a group of third year girls.
" moony! moony, come here boy! " sirius yelled playfully. a few people were staring now but he didn't care.
" you know, he may be as well be saying ' here boy ' to you. " said james, scanning the platform.
" james! sirius! " they both spun around to be faced with a tall boy, with golden brown hair and a scar stretching from his head to his nose.
" moony! " sirius said, running up to him and engulfing him with a hug. that was until he noticed the girl trailing behind him carrying a case and a cage with remus' owl in it.
" re, are you actually going to carry this cage. it's really heavy. " she said dropping the cage at her feet.
" re? moony, who is this? did you have a holiday love affair and brought them to hogwarts? " asked sirius, perplexed. he looked from the girl, and then remus, switching back and forth. he didn't understand. he squinted at remus' anxious face. what was he hiding?
" n, um sirius meet river. this is my twin. " said remus smiling weakly. twin? remus had a twin? why has this twin just suddenly appeared? not that they don't look like each-other, they looked completely alike but in different genders. she had a shoulder length blondish-golden hair with wide hazel eyes. like remus, her skin was very pale and she had long dainty fingers. the rest of her was lanky, with long legs and arms, though she wasn't quite as tall as sirius.
" so you must be the infamous monsieur black. " she said, adding emphasis on the ' in '. her voice was slightly deep, but it matched her sarcastic tone. sirius raised his eyebrows at remus.
" don't worry, soon it will be just famous monsieur black. i'm 97 % sure at some point my face will be everywhere. " he said, extending his hand for her to shake. unexpectedly she took it firmly and stare him in the eye confidently.
" river, but i'll be quite satisfied with ' your majesty ' or ' supreme overlord '. " she said. there was suddenly a loud meow and a tabby cat appeared from behind river's legs.
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" ah, leo. " she said, picking the cat up with her now free hand. it took one look at sirius before it hissed and snarled, squirming in river's arms probably ready to pounce at him. " leo calm down, he's not a dog. "
sirius, and remus made quick eye-contact, trying not to burst into laughter.
