The one with the sisters - Year Five [COMPLETED]

Chapter 7 - The one with the found secrets

Iris laughed as she and Remus ran down a corridor. A passage they had managed to find. Apparently, it lead from behind the armor of the Charms' classroom corridor to... Well... They hadn't exactly figured out that part just yet.

"So... How many of these have you and the boys managed to find?" Iris asked, as she kept running, backwards now to face him as he jogged after her.

"Hum... Seven, that I'm aware of." He responded, after a second of silence to, apparently, count.

"Seven?" Iris gasped.

"Yeah. This Castle is full of surprises." Remus smirked a bit.

"But how did you manage to find so many of them?"

"The same way we're doing it right now." He shrugged. "Looking twice at every corner, seeing if there's something like a door, or anything. Of course, it might be weird for people who are walking past us, to see like, four boys crouching down behind statues and underneath tapestries, but well... They were never ones to care about other people's opinion."

Iris nodded with a smile, before turning forward and stopping her run. Remus stopped beside her. There was light a few feet away from them, but it was blurred, as if something translucent was blocking it.

"I think that's the end of the passage." She whispered.

"I guess so." Remus nodded, speaking in the same tone as her. "But why are you whispering?"

"Well, I don't know... Who knows what might be out there!" She said, and Remus chuckled. "What if there's like... A giant dog. Or a Cyclops?"

"You do have quite a fertile imagination, don't you, Iris?" He asked, taking a step forward.

Iris shrugged, but followed the boy nonetheless. When they reached what seemed to be the end of the passage, there was, in front of them, what seemed to be a wall of pure soil.

"Dead end?" Remus asked.

"I don't think so." Iris shook her head, pointing to a particular source of what seemed to be the sun outside. "There are some plants covering the view, but maybe if you moved them a little bit..."

She was in the tip of her toes, trying to reach the hole, that was just a tad bit tall for her. Remus chuckled yet again and barely moving, he pushed the plants aside. Not expecting the amount of daylight that got through the hole, she flinched and looked away.

"Next time you better warn me." She mumbled and Remus laughed.

"Sorry... But if you were just a bit taller, you could've..."

"If you finish this sentence..." Iris glared at him, causing the boy to stop talking. "I'm going to hex you until you shrink to be smaller than me."

Remus raised an eyebrow at her, but nodded either way. Iris huffed annoyed, before turning from Remus to the hole.

"It's not a passage yet. But we can make it be." She said, analyzing her surroundings. Remus looked at her and he could almost hear the gears in her head moving, working, creating one of her brilliant ideas. "Yeah, it shouldn't be that hard... Tell me... What do you see outside?"

Remus moved his eyes from the girl in front of him and through the hole in the exact height of his head.

"The Black Lake." He answered, after a second of adjusting his eyes to the light. "But it's not the tree we usually seat by. Nor the one you seat with your friends."

"So it's not the part closer to the Castle." She noted.

"No." He shook his head. "But I can't really tell which part of the Lake it is. To be quite honest... The whole thing always seemed the same to me."

"There's nothing standing out for you?"

"Not particularly, no." He responded. "Unless you count your sister and Snape. That's standing out to me."

"Lily and Snape?" Iris asked. "They're around?"

"Yes. They're laying underneath a tree. Laughing apparently. Why?"

"Then I know what part of the Lake it is." Iris said and Remus turned to look at her. Her figure almost not forming for the sudden lack of illumination in the passage compared to the outside. "It's the South part of the Lake. The one closer to the Giant Squid and farther from the Castle. The part no one goes. No one except for Lily and Snape. They don't like being watched or something..."

"So we shouldn't be watching."

"I guess not." Iris mumbled.

Remus frowned. The usually so cheerful girl was suddenly closed up. Her arms crossed in front of her chest and she tried to cover her face with her hair, looking down and attempting to look as small as possible in case the walls she suddenly put up around her failed in hiding her discomfort. But Remus saw through all her acts. He himself was quite used to walls. He put them up very often as well.

"You really don't like the idea of your sister dating him, do you?" He asked.

"You blame me?" She bit back, annoyed, even if not to him. "Think about someone you care very, very deeply." She continued, now in a softer tone. Remus said nothing, just kept staring at her, thanking the little light in the ambient so Iris couldn't notice his rosy cheeks flash against his white, faded scars. "Now think about them walking around with people like Mulciber or Avery... Bad Slytherins like Severus."

Again, he said nothing. But apparently that was exactly what he was supposed to be doing, because Iris barely blinked before starting talking once more.

"Would you tell them to stop? I mean... I said once that I could be picking my own friendships and the same goes to her, but I just don't trust Severus... And if he hurt her... I don't even know what I'm capable of doing."

Remus sighed, before looking outside again, just in time to see Lily sitting up and looking down at Severus, still lying, with her eyes sparkling and a smile on her lips.

"She seems happy, though." He said.

"Well, she is." Iris shrugged. "And as long as he keeps making her happy, I'll be quiet."

Remus placed the plants back to where they were before and turned to Iris.

"You're a good sister." He said. She scoffed.

"I don't believe in you."

"But you are." He protested, as he started walking back in the passage toward the Castle. Iris ran a bit to catch up and then, started walking by his side, her hand almost begging her to grip his, just as his was, but none of them did anything. So they kept walking, staring ahead to avoid looking at each other. "Come on... Let's tell the rest of the boys what we've found."