Round 3 Canon Submissions Options

[evlpez]

This round, the Mission is the same for both Canon Fodder and Wizarding Wheezes submissions. Good Luck and happy writing!

[zymurgy]

The Werewolf and the Death Eater

Harry: You see, Hermione? It’s not a figment of my imagination. There really is a big black dog dodging my path.
Hermione: Don’t be a prat Harry, it’s just a dog. It’s not a death omen.
Ron: And if it’s a grim, it’s an extraordinarily cheery grim- grims don’t normally run about with purple flowers….
Hermione: That’s not just any flower, Ron, it’s wolfsbane.
Harry: Stop bickering… we have a problem here!
Hermione: And that is…?
Harry: a) We are about to be discovered by either Trelawney or Hagrid, both of which will give us all detention for being outside after dark. B) We are faced with a mysterious rather big black dog that seems to be flabbergasted at hearing voices from apparently empty space. c) Every time I see said dog, I have a near death experience, which means that Sirius Black could probably be in the offing.
Ron: Hagga’s Sassafras Teabag, Harry, we are in trouble!
Dog: Woof! Sniff… sniff…
(The dog comes closer to the trio, sniffing around the edge of the cloak, trying to figure out what’s up with the whole disembodied voice thing)
Hermione: For heavens sake all of you, keep still and shut up!
Dog: Woof? Harry… Redhead and Bushyhair… and PETER! BARK!
(the dog lauches at the trio and successfully deprives them of their invisibility cloak)
Harry: Nooo! Get OFF me your mangy death omen!
Dog: BARK! Peter! NOW! BARK!
Peter/Scabbers: EEP! Squeek! I’m just a wittle rat, and I’ve done noooothing wrong! SQUEEK!
(Peter runs for dear life, chased by the “black” Dog.)
Ron: Scabbers! Some here!
(Crookshanks dives out from behind Hagrid’s hut, and joins the dog in the chase)
Harry: Ron! Please! Quiet, before we’re all caught!
Hermione: Crookshanks! NOO! Leave the rat alone, cat!
(Hermione and Ron run after their pets, leaving Harry sitting on the ground with his cloak)
Harry: At last, I know why I don’t have any quadrupeds…(Staggers to his feet, and goes after his friends. The dog takes to his heals, hearing someone coming from the castle. Lupin arrives and frowns at the trio)
Lupin: Hermione! Ron! Harry! You should NOT be out of doors at this time of night! What got into you? You know very well that Sirius Black could be in the area, and is not to be trifled with. Are you mad? Harry, out on the grounds, after all I’ve told you. Have you no respect for the sacrifice of your parents? And you two- letting him, and fighting, raising such a ruckus! I would have thought, Hermione, that even if you have no regard for your very LIVES you would at least have regard for your house points. And Ron, you are wizard born, you know more than Harry and Hermione just how dangerous Black can be.
Harry: Professor, we’re really, really sorry about this. We- we wanted to see Hagrid, about Buckbeak and his holiday plans and all, and we did have the cloak…
Hermione: But then this big black dog dived on us and-
Lupin: DOG!? A big black DOG!? Harry! Hermione! Ron! In the castle! NOW!
Ron: Er… it wasn’t a grim, right?
Lupin: No, defiantly not. But it was… (shakes head) Never mind, we have to get you inside- now!
(Lupin practically drags them into the castle, and leads them up to their common room)
Lupin: I understand that you wanted to talk to Hagrid, but it could have waited till morning, right? And there were dementors about, Harry. Dementors…although in the service of the ministry, are dark creatures, and cannot really be trusted. You should NOT have been on the grounds… I can just thank any lucky stars I may have that nothing happened… that he didn’t-
Hermione: Sir? If you don’t mind my asking… what are you doing for Christmas? You see- Harry, Ron and I are staying here… I was wondering if you… had plans?
Lupin: (smiles) Actually, yes, I am staying here. Partly because my home is a bit far off, and I haven’t any family to speak of, and partly because I’ll need Professor Snape for… in short, yes, I’ll be here. If only to be sure that you three scallywags don’t get yourselves murdered while my back is turned. Harry, I want you to swear to me, that you won’t do something like this again. Hermione, Ron, you too.
Harry: I’m sorry. And… I promise. It won’t happen again.
Hermione: I promise to. We’ll stay with Harry.
Ron: I’m in, I promise.
Lupin: Good. Now, I’ll be getting back to bed. I will forget this incident and take no points… but if somebody finds out you’ve been out, remember that I wasn’t here and know nothing about your excursion…
(Lupin nods, and leaves them)
Hermione: Harry, can I borrow the cloak?
Harry: Hermione! You just promised!
Hermione: Yes… I promised not to go onto the grounds… but I’ve forgotten some… ah… charm homework, and I need to go to the library…
Harry: Yeah, sure. Here.
(Harry gives her the cloak, and she disappears under it and hurries after Lupin)
Ron: Trust her to need the library at midnight…
Harry: I’m just surprised that she admitted to having forgotten homework, not surprising, with that impossible workload she’s got. C’mon, let’s go to bed.
(Harry and Ron enter the common room)

(Hermione follows Lupin as closely and as quietly has she can, he doesn’t realize her presence. He goes down to the dungeons, and knocks on Snape’s door)
Snape: (answering the door, and letting Lupin- and Hermione- into his room) Lupin. What is it?
Lupin: I just stopped by to drop of the wormood I promised you… (hands over a bundle he has hidden in his robe pocket)
Snape: Thank you, Lupin, but seeing as it’s not your generosity coming into play, but your need for my potions that causes this so called gift, not that your in a position to be generous anyway, I don’t think thanks is really warranted. As it is, I have several things to do tonight, so don’t bother to stick around.
Lupin: (sighs) For the hundredth time, I’m sorry, Snape. I- I wasn’t involved in that… incident.
Snape: Incident? A nice way to put it, Lupin. I would call it attempted murder…
Lupin: Again, Snape, I’m sorry. I know we made your school days horrid, but… you reciprocated amply. Snape… life isn’t all sitting under shady sycamines with a bowl of mossberries.
Snape: Spoken like a true dark creature.
Lupin: Severus… please. I- I know what you think of me. And I know you’ll never forgive me for what happened. But… I still say that I’m sorry for all we did do to you back then. For all that I was wrapped up in, anyway. I can’t speak for Potter, or for Black, or even Peter… but- (sighs) I can speak for myself. And I am truly sorry.
Snape: Go back to bed, Lupin. And don’t tell me you don’t still stick together with the last member of your little gang. You and Black. How else would he have gotten by all of the security? (smiles) It all points to inside help… and you’re the only friend of his left.
Lupin: Snape, for the thousandth time, I am not helping Black, and I have no idea how he escaped, or how he came into Hogwarts… If… if I knew anything, I would tell you, and the rest of the staff. I care for the safety of the students as much as any of you, even though you may not think that, considering what I am.
Snape: Lupin, you’re a fool. What is the only thing that would have helped Black out of Azkaban? Dark magic. What could have passed the security and wards on Hogwarts? Dark magic. Who is the only dark one among us? You.
Lupin: You aren’t entirely light yourself Severus. You were a Death Eater, and probably helped Black in all his spying. He was passing information to your lot for years! Don’t tell me you didn’t know…
Snape: (livid) For the last time, werewolf, I was a spy for the order, and none of us knew the identity of the spy. The Dark Lord was careful not to reveal his identity for just that reason- he knew that sooner or later one of us would betray him if we could. But when I found out who it had been, I won’t say I was at all surprised. Good night, Lupin.
Lupin: Good night.
(Lupin turns on his heal, and leaves, quickly followed by Hermione)
Hermione: (to herself) And so the enigma of Lupin and Snape has been revealed…