Train Post

Krestena's POV

The next morning we were released from the hospital wing. Third years and up were enjoying Hogsmeade. While the first and second years enjoyed the lake. Harry, Ron, Hermione and I decide to do the same thing. We sit by the lake and I place my feet in the water. When I'm pulled in by Cedric. I surfaced and splashed him while laughing. We got out as Hagrid appeared, looking very happy.

"Know I shouldn' feel happy, after wha' happened las' night," he said. "I mean, Black escapin' again, an, everythin' — but guess what?" he tells us.

"What?" we all asks while Cedric dried our clothes with a spell.

"Beaky! He escaped! He's free! Bin celebratin' all night!" Hagrid exclaims.

"That's wonderful" Hermione and I tell him.

"Yeah... can't've tied him up properly. I was worried this mornin', mind... thought he mighta met Professor Lupin on the grounds, but Lupin says he never ate anythin' las' night..." he explains.

"What?" Harry and I ask him shocked.

"Blimey, haven' yeh heard? Er — Snape told all the Slytherins this mornin'.... Thought everyone'd know by now... Professor Lupin's a werewolf, see. An' he was loose on the grounds las' night.... He's packin' now, o' course" Hagrid explains.

"My uncle is perfectly safe" I tell him annoyed.

"He's packing? Why?" Harry asks.

"Leavin', isn' he? Resigned firs' thing this mornin'. Says he can't risk it happenin again" Hagrid states. Harry gets up and I turn to Cedric.

"I'm sorry, I promise to hang out on the train. But I have to go talk to my uncle" I tell him.

"Of course, I understand go now" he tells me smiling. I peck his cheek before running after Harry to  Lupin's office. His office door was open. It looks like he'd already packed most of his things. The Grindylow's empty tank stood next to his battered old suitcase, which was open and nearly full. Uncle Remus was bending over something on his desk and looked up only when Harry knocked on the door.

"I saw you both coming" he states looking up at us. I notice the open Marauders map on his desk. Harry explained how we just saw Hagrid and ask if he really resigned. "I'm afraid it is" he tells us.

"Why?" Harry asks him confused.

"The ministry don't believe you were helping dad right?" I ask.

"No. Professor Dumbledore managed to convince Fudge that I was trying to save your lives" he assures me. "That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. So he accidentally let slip that I am a werewolf this morning at breakfast" he explains.

"You're not leaving just because of that!" Harry exclaims.

"This time tomorrow, the owls will start arriving from parents.... They will not want a werewolf teaching their children, Harry. And after last night, I see their point. I could have bitten any of you.... That must never happen again" he tells us.

"You're the best DADA Professor we ever had though" I say pouting.

"Don't go" Harry pleads. At first Uncle Remus doesn't answer only continues to unpack.

"From what the headmaster told me this morning, you saved a lot of lives last night, Harry. If I'm proud of anything I've done this year, it's how much you've learned.... Tell me about your Patronus" Uncle Remus tells him.

"How did you know about that?" Harry asks him.

"What else could of sent the Dementors away Harry?" I ask rhetorically. Harry told us about what had happened last night. When he'd finished, Uncle Remus was smiling again.

"Yes, your father was always a stag when he transformed. You guessed right... that's why we called him Prongs" he tells Harry.

"For his antlers?" I ask and he nods his head.

"Here — I brought this from the Shrieking Shack last night" he says handing Harry his invisibility cloak. "And...I am no longer your teacher, so I don't feel guilty about giving you back this as well. It's no use to me, and I daresay you both, Ron, and Hermione will find uses for it" he states handing me the map. "Besides it is rightfully yours Stormy" he adds.

"Thank you Uncle" I say smiling. "See you at the station" I tell him. Harry said goodbye and my uncle left Hogwarts. That night us Gryffindor won the house cup for the third year in a row.

(Hogwarts Express next day)

I was resting with my head in Cedric's lap with him and his friends. When I see a small grey owl in the window. It looked like it was trying to get in. So I sit up and open the window. I catch it and bring it inside to see it has a letter. "Who's the letter from?" Justin asks me.

"No idea, it's addressed to Harry and I" I state. Of course, I  recognize my dad's hand writing. "I'm going to go and read with Harry" I tell Cedric kissing him gently before leaving. I enter Harry's compartment followed by the small tweeting owl. When we entered Ron grabbed the small owl and I read the letter out loud with Harry.

"Dear Harry and Krestena,

I hope this finds you both before you reach Kings Cross Station. Buckbeak and I are in hiding. I won't tell you where, in case this owl falls into the wrong hands. I have some doubt about his reliability, but he is the best I could find, and he did seem eager for the job.

I believe the Dementors are still searching for me, but they haven't a hope of finding me here. I am planning to allow some Muggles to glimpse me soon, a long way from Hogwarts. So that the security on the castle will be lifted.


There is something I never got around to telling you during our brief meeting. It was I who sent you both a Firebolt each. Crookshanks took the order to the Owl Office for me. I used your names but told them to take the gold from my own Gringotts vault. Please consider it as thirteen birthdays' worth of presents from your godfather/father.

I would also like to apologize for the fright I think I gave Harry that night last year when you left your uncle's house. I had only hoped to get a glimpse of you before starting my journey north, but I think the sight of me alarmed you. I am enclosing something else for you, which I think will make your next year at Hogwarts more enjoyable.

If ever either of you need me, send word. Your owl will find me.

I'll write again soon.

Sirius/dad" Harry took out another piece of parchment and it was a signed Hogsmeade permission form. By my dad for him. That'd be good enough for Dumbledore. There was also a post note saying that Ron could keep the owl as it was Dad's fault he no longer had a pet. Ron showed the owl to Crookshanks who purred. So Ron decided to keep him. I then returned to my compartment and lean against Cedric as he talked about the Quidditch World cup with his friends.

"Hey Krestena, my dad has an extra ticket as my mum doesn't want to go. Would you like to go with me to the Quidditch World cup this summer?" he asks me.

"Sure, sounds like fun" I tell him smiling. I then joined the conversation about the Quidditch world cup. About who would win.

The End

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Picture above of Ron, Harry and Hermione's cabin. Picture on the external link of the owl.

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