Disclaimer: Nope, it's still not mine, I'm still working on it.
Chapter 09: Vacation Part 2 - Meeting
It was a few hours later, and around one hundred chocolate bars later for Remus, that they reached the island where they would spend their one-month vacation. Nym and Harry were perfectly normal after the trip having been in planes a few times before. Sirius wanted to get back on and hope to catch some interference, as it felt wickedly brilliant, almost as if they were flying on a broom. Bill kissed the ground upon leaving the plane (where he spent most of the time in the bathroom) and Remus reached a new previously unknown level of chocoholism by eating chocolate nearly without stop from the point the plane left the ground until it stopped once more.
"We are leaving via portkey!" Exclaimed the nauseous Bill as they waited for their luggage and continued speaking, "That thing is a death trap, we almost died up there!"
"Come on Bill! Where is your sense of adventure? That was WICKED! I have not had so much fun since the Nimbus 2000 came out 3 months ago. Er..." Sirius stopped speaking as he saw Moony looking strangely at the newest chocolate bar of which he was about to devour the final piece.
"Moony, you ok?" he asked his long time friend with concern in his voice.
When Moony looked up, his four companions could not help but notice the sadness in the werewolf's eyes and the tears threatening to fall. Remus opened his mouth and spoke in a voice so sad it was reminiscent of someone who's best friend had died a few minutes before. "I'm o…I'm not ok."
"What's wrong Moony?" Harry asked in concern of his honorary uncle and long time friend.
"It's just…well…this is my last piece of chocolate. I have no more on me." Remus answered in a chocked voice holding back tears. "I've never been without chocolate before." He continued pitifully, with an expression that would not have been out of place in a small-lost child. Finally seeing the problem Sirius moved forward, pulling his best friend into a hug, and spoke in what he hoped was a reassuring voice.
"It's ok Moony; I'll buy you some chocolate. All the chocolate you want." At this words Remus looked up at his friend and asked in a very childish voice, "You pwomish?" seeing the hopeful look in his friends saddened eyes Sirius immediately nodded his head and spoke, "Yes, Moony I promise, let's go right now, these three can take care of the luggage, let's go get you all the chocolate you want." Immediately Remus eyes lighted up in happiness as Sirius led him away after seeing Nym nod at him to take Remus to get some chocolate.
"I've never seen Moony like that." Nym spoke bringing her two companions out of their shock.
"Yeah, but we've never seen Moony without chocolate. Padfoot told me that Madam Pomphrey was the one who got him addicted to chocolate before his first semester at Hogwarts was finished. He always managed to end up in the Hospital Wing at least once every week or so and she gave him so much chocolate that he got addicted to it. Since then he has always had an assortment of bars in his pockets, Sirius told me that this has only happened once before during their seventh year when Hogsmead visits were suspended because of Voldemort, therefore Moony couldn't buy chocolate and ran out." Harry spoke while still looking in the direction the two older men had left.
"Um guys, do you remember what we did with our luggage, because I haven't seen it come out of this thing." Bill spoke uncertainly to his two friends. As he finished speaking, a light seemed to turn on in Nym's eyes and then she blushed.
"Er…we shrunk our luggage and had it in our pockets." She spoke to the embarrassment of her two friends and after a few minutes of smiling at each other in embarrassment they all caught on as to where they were and set off running after their two 'guardians'
Three days later while still trying to come up with a way to contact the Grangers, the groups thought processes were interrupted by the slight 'pop' of someone apparating into their common room.
"Watcher Cypher!" Spoke Harry and Nym without looking up from where they were thinking. A round of greeting followed theirs from the other three occupants of the room; after they looked up confirming who it was.
"Lo, kids," he spoke, and then continued, "I have some new and interesting news on the Granger kid. First off, the two Unspeakables that went to heck on her at her birth were Frank and Alice Longbottom, both of who were still in training at the time of the birth and carrying their own child, so therefore they could not have been the ones to check up. Second, the file pertaining to the child was not submitted until November 1st, 1981, the day after you defeated Voldemort, and two years and one month and a half after her birth."
"What? At most, they should have submitted it a week after checking the spike. Moreover, I am worried over the fact that I did not feel it. I felt my own birth, it woke me up on the night of July 31, 1980, not to mention I felt it building up for the 9 months before it. It's a good thing only other Sorcerers can feel the birth of one, if not I'm not sure what dear old Dumble would have done. But it still concerns me that I did not feel hers when I should have." Harry said and Nym agreed with him on not feeling the muggleborn's birth but having felt Harry's.
"Something weird is going on here. I'm going to go inform the Big Head, and he'll get a couple of our best people on this type of reconnaissance job." With those words, Cypher disapparated without so much as a good bye.
The next day tired of trying to think up ways to meet the girl, Harry dragged his family and friend to the nearest bookstore to see what kind of books they had, as he had not read a good science fiction or fantasy muggle book in a while.
Once in the bookstore Bill, Nym and Sirius started complaining about being in a bookstore during vacation while Harry and Remus started looking around the books.
"Shadowfang! Moony! Hurry up, I don't want to spend the whole vacation here, I want to go see what these muggles have done on this island." Sirius wailed drawing a lot of attention from the other patrons.
While Harry ignored his Godfather knowing he did it only to embarrass him, Moony decided to answer him. "Really Padfoot, is this really necessary, you are the oldest one here. I mean you are a whole four days older than me and everything."
Hearing this Sirius face twisted into a look that displayed offence and insult before imitating a young boy voice he whined, "Moony! I'm only thirty one, I am not old!"
At this Harry muttered a bit louder than he intended while shacking his head from side to side and smiling slightly, "Honestly, and he's supposed to be my guardian."
A snort issued from besides him brought his attention to a young girl with chocolate brown bushy hair, deep brown eyes with flecks of emerald green in them. The girl had a pretty face with pink lips, her eyes showed amusement at his comment, and with a shock he recognized that it was the muggleborn who'd he'd been trying to find a way to contact for some time. He let a sheepish grin cover his face and extended his hand and spoke in an imitation of a medieval knight, "Harry James Orion Slytherin Gryffindor-Ravenclaw Potter-Black, at your service my lady" He finished with a flourish bow towards the young girl.
Smiling in spite of herself at the boys manner, the girl answered the young boy and extended her hand, "I'm Hermione Jane Granger" To the girl's surprise instead of shacking her hand Harry instead kissed it as an eighteenth century man might have.
"A pleasure, Lady Hermione." He answered with a smile and continued speaking, "Ignore my godfather, he's just trying to embarrass me as he delights in it."
At those words, Hermione giggled and blushed a bit, which surprised her a great deal, as she was not one to act in that way. Before she could answer both Nym and Bill came to see whom Harry was talking too and upon seeing the face of the girl they were supposed to watch over, they looked at Harry to see what he would do.
"Hermione, these two are my best friends, this young lady here with the pink hair and violet eyes is non other than Nymphadora Andromeda Tonks, who you should call by her last name only unless you wish for a particularly painful death. In fact she hates her name so much that her first word was 'don't' spoken whenever someone called her by her first name. And this fine young red-haired, freckled kid is Billius Arthur Weasley, who also hates his first name so much he pretends to be called William Wilson Weasley, but just call him Bill, or Billius if he annoys you." Spoke Harry in a mock-snobbish tone.
"Oi! Who are you calling a red-haired freckled kid?" Asked Bill in indignation and continued, "How about a little more respect here and how about being more serious." Upon the last words, Harry's golden eyes lit up in mischievousness.
"Now Bill, I know you feel that you look a bit on the young side, but it's no fault of mine how you look. Moreover, you very well know that my name is Harry, though my Godfather, fun man that he is, is called Sirius. Sweet irony." Harry spoke the first part in a mock scolding tone, and finished in a teasing tone more commonly associated with his Godfather.
As they spoke for a while more, they got to know each other better and 'discovered' that they were staying in the same hotel and made plans to meet up as they got along finely. After over twenty minutes of talking both Moony and Padfoot came over too see what was keeping them.
"Oi! Shadowfang, Wingclaw, Firefur what's keeping you?" Sirius practically shouted from besides them.
"Mr. Shadowfang would like to state, that he would be very displeased should Mr. Padfoot cause the loss of his hearing."
"Mr. Firefur agrees with Mr. Shadowfang, and will declare a prank war against Mr. Padfoot should events be repeated."
"Ms. Wingclaw would like to assure Mr. Padfoot that he will not sleep for a very long time if he repeats his actions once more."
"Mr. Padfoot most humbly begs forgiveness and asks Mr. Moony for help."
"Mr. Moony fears he must decline to help Mr. Padfoot as he does not wish to get in the bad side of Messers' Shadowfang, Wingclaw, and Firefur as he still remembers the last time they had a prank war. Mr. Moony would also like to ask who the young lady next to Ms. Wingclaw is."
"Hehe, now stop speaking like that, you're scaring poor Hermione here, or at least she thinks we're all crazy…er, aside from you cuz, you are crazy." Nym spoke seeing Hermione's confused but amused face.
"Oi! I'm not crazy, I'm Sirius." Padfoot spoke in indignation but also teasingly at using his cheap Sirius jokes that he knew they had all learned to dread. Needless to say, he was quite satisfied at the painful groan from the four people that knew him.
"Anyway, the git that spoke is none other than one of my guardians and Godfather, Sirius Orion Black; please ignore his Sirius/serious jokes for they are quite horrible. Next to him is another of my guardians, my Uncle Remus Jamie Lupin, don't let him know I told you his second name, he thinks it's girly and if he discovers that you know it, throw him some chocolate and he'll be as tame as a cub." Harry said while pointing at the two men respectively. "And this young lady in front of me is none other than Hermione Jane Granger, whom even if she doesn't realize it, is standing in front of four fellow wizards and one witch." With his last words, he saw Hermione's eyes open up wide in surprise, but he also saw to his confusion a sense of having confirmed something.
AN: Please review as us authors live of the energy they give off. I'm sorry for taking so long but I have been very busy with university work and actual work. Review responses for both previous chapters will be up in the yahoo group sometime this weekend.