and if Sirius was taking any of what was written about them to heart, it was no wonder he
looked a mess.
"I'm worried about you, is all. Why don't you come back to the cottage? You've
already lost all the weight you put on last summer, and I promised Mia that I would take
care of you."
Sirius scoffed, a dark look coming over his expression. "Yeah, well, I promised her
I'd take care of you, too, and we promised her that we'd trust one another, but we both
fucked that one up royally, didn't we?"
Remus sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. Yes, we most certainly fucked that one
up.
"Sorry." Sirius frowned and looked down at the stack of papers leaning up against
the wall of the cave. "I'm still not exactly... I haven't been sleeping well. I've been trying
to get into Hogwarts, at least near the Forbidden Forest, but with the Beauxbatons and
Durmstrang students constantly running around the grounds... I was only able to get in
once before two French girls starting screaming, 'Get eet away! Filzy mongrel!'" he said in
a mocking French accent.
"I could go back into the village and get you some food," Remus suggested,
knowing that Sirius would continue to fight him on leaving Hogsmeade altogether.
"Don't waste your Knuts on me, Moony. Harry came to see me a few days ago, and
he's been having the elves send me food," Sirius assured him, looking miserable over the
fact that his godson, the boy he was supposed to be taking care of was, in fact, taking care
of him instead.
"Just Harry?" Remus asked, leaning down to pick up a copy of Witch Weekly. The
page had been marked, and he smiled at the sight of Hermione dancing on the arm of the
Bulgarian Seeker, Viktor Krum—at least that's what the caption read. The article had not
said a decent thing about her, slandering her character completely.
HARRY POTTER'S SECRET HEARTACHE
by Rita Skeeter
A boy like no other, perhaps—yet a boy suffering all the usual
pangs of adolescence. Deprived of love since the tragic demise of his parents,
fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found solace in his steady
girlfriend at Hogwarts, Muggle-born Hermione Granger. Little did he know