Chapter 2: - Sirius Black
The last few days slipped by quickly, the group were sat outside of a café run by wizards, Yugi and Yami were duelling each other while Joey and Seto yelled at each other in Japanese. Kari, Ombre and Mokuba were watching both fights. Ron and Hermione made their way down from the ice cream parlour, to the café, having heard the two boys seven doors down.
"CUT IT OUT!" Kari yelled in Japanese, finally putting herself between her boyfriend and her boss. "If you two don't cut it out, you," She snapped at Joey, "Won't be getting any for the next year, and you," She snapped at Kaiba, still in Japanese, so Harry, Ron and Hermione couldn't understand, "Won't get that spell work done on your new batch of cards for distribution at Hogwarts."
"What did she say?" Harry asked as the two boys stopped fighting and it sounded like Joey apologised to Kari quickly.
"She threatened them, with…" Ombre said, "Uhhh, things, to make them stop fighting." Kari turned away from both boys and smiled at Ron and Hermione.
"Hi guys." She said smiling; Ombre stared at her, what was with the mood swing?
"How'd you…?" Hermione asked Kari, well aware that normally it would take nothing less then Shadow Magic to separate the two boys.
"You just have to know where to hit them." Kari smirked evilly. Joey gulped and Kaiba paled. "Ombre, come on." She said, dragging her yami off into the crowd, her voice trailing into the distance. "I want some ice cream."
"Scary." Yami said, wishing she'd watched what she'd said around his hikari, though some of the language Joey and Kaiba had been spouting had been worse. "Yugi… it's still your move."
"I… I…" Yugi was still slightly stunned from Kari's outburst. "Uhhh, yeah. Sure. I play Silent Swordsman in attack mode and a card face down, it's your move."
Yami and Yugi were off again as they talked about their Summer, Yami was distracted again by Ron waving a piece of newspaper under his nose. Yami snatched it and read it, his face becoming unreadable. He didn't finish the duel but just snatched up his deck and walked away from the table, Yugi caught the piece of news and looked it over. "Oh…" Yugi said, his face pale, then chased after his dark half.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"Egypt..." Joey sighed. "Yami been fighting with himself all summer. Both he and Ombre really need to go there, all the clues to their past lead there but..."
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"Yami?" Yugi called, losing the Pharaoh in the crowd, 'Yami?' Yami ignored him, pushing his way though the crowds of people. 'Yami, please, wait up.' Yugi desperately called, "Excuse me!" Yugi said as he squeezed his way through the crowd losing Yami as he did so. He saw a fuzzball bouncing along the rooftops.
"Boh! Where's Yami?"
Three shops ahead. I'll distract him.
"Thanks, Boh."
Yugi saw the fuzzball jump off the roof, and land on someone's head. "Getoffofme!" Yugi heard Yami shout. 'Yugi, tell your fuzzball to get off of me!' Yami growled over the link.
"Boh, get off of Yami." "Thanks partner." Yugi said, as he reached Yami's side, the Kuriboh jumped off and into Yugi's arms. "Yami… we need to talk."
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They didn't join the others until it was time for dinner, when the seven exchange students, the seven Weasleys, Harry and Hermione sat together, taking up 6 tables, and ate their way through a five course meal.
"Question," Joey said as he started on his sixth course, "Since the monsters scared the taxi drivers so badly last time, how are we getting to the train station?"
"Uhhh." Yugi looked at Kaiba who shrugged, it didn't bother him, he could rent any car he wanted.
"Don't worry," Mr Weasley said, "The ministry are providing enough cars for all of us." Everyone looked at him.
"Why?" Yugi asked curiously.
"It's because of Percy," George said seriously, but loudly enough for the entire tavern to hear, "There'll be little flags on the bonnets, with HB on them…"
"For humongous bighead!" Fred said. Some people snorted into their deserts while others burst out laughing.
"Seriously," Yami said, amused at the sight of his hikari dissolving into fits of giggles. "Why are the ministry providing cars?"
"Well, us Weasleys haven't got one, your cars, if you have them, are back in Japan, and since I work there, they're doing me a favour."
'He's lying.' Yami told Yugi.
"I know, I sense it too. There's another reason that the ministry are providing cars." Mrs Weasley sent Ron up to pack properly, and the others made their way up to their rooms, mostly one by one. Yugi and Yami's bedroom doors were open so the loud argument a few doors down was easily heard.
"It was here, on the bedside table!" Percy shouted, "I took it off for polishing!"
"I haven't touched it, all right?" Ron roared back.
"Should we go spilt it up?"
'No way, let them fight it out, any way…' Yami paused to listen, 'Harry beat you to it.'
"My Head Boy badge has gone." Percy said, rounding on Harry.
"So's Scabber's Rat Tonic!" Ron complained, throwing everything out of his trunk to look, "I think I must have left it at the bar…"
"You're not going anywhere till you've found my badge!" Percy yelled. Yugi dashed into the room to prevent any further argument.
"We'll get it, right Harry?" Harry nodded to Yugi, "We're packed." The two went downstairs. They were halfway along the passageway to the bar, which was now very dark, when they heard another pair of angry voices coming from the bar.
"It's Mr and Mrs Weasley." Yugi whispered, he didn't see Harry nod in agreement. The sound of Harry's name made the two boys get closer to the door to listen.
"…makes no sense not to tell him," Mr Weasley was saying heatedly, " Harry's got a right to know! I've tried to tell Fudge but he insists on treating the entire group like children. Harry is thirteen years old…"
"Arthur, the truth would terrify him! He's still a child, he's not of age like the transfer students, he'd be happier not knowing!"
"I don't want to frighten him, I want to put him on his guard!" Retorted Mr Weasley, "You know what the group as a whole are like! Between them they've ended up in the Forbidden Forest twice! But Harry can't do that this year! When I think about what could've happened when he ran away from home! If the Knight Bus hadn't picked him up, I'm prepared to bet he would have been dead before the Ministry found him!"
"But he's not dead, he's fine, and the transfer students are now here, and they wouldn't let anything happen to him. So what's the point of…"
"Molly, they say Sirius Black is mad, and maybe he is, but he was clever enough to escape from Azkaban, and that's supposed to be impossible. He murdered a street full of Muggles and… and the transfers will have enough trouble this year as it is, Bakura Malfoy supposedly has a grudge against Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba, so they'll have that to deal with, and don't give me the they'll-be-perfectly-safe-at-Hogwarts speech, if Black can break out of Azkaban, he can break into Hogwarts and he won't have so many guardians this year, cause his friends will have divided loyalties. Can you honestly see Yami Muto protecting Harry before protecting his twin brother?"
"But no one's sure that Black's after Harry."
There was a thud on wood and Yugi was pretty sure that Mr Weasley had hit something wooden. "Molly, how many times do I have to tell you? They didn't report it but Black's been talking in his sleep for a while now, always the same words too. 'He's at Hogwarts… he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead…" Mr Weasley continued, adding something about Azkaban guards being posted at Hogwarts. Yugi and Harry hid as Mr and Mrs Weasley walked up the passage to the stairs and didn't emerge until they were sure they'd gone. Harry grabbed the bottle and Yugi paused before they walked back up the stairs.
"Harry. If you don't want me to, I won't tell anyone what they were talking about."
Harry turned to his friend and smiled weakly, "No, you should tell Yami about Bakura, and try to warn Kaiba if he'll listen to you. I'll tell them about Black…" Yugi nodded and headed up the stairs first, vanishing into Yami's bedroom as Fred and George collapsed into heaps on the landing, laughing so hard they were crying as they listened to the sounds of Percy dismantling his and Ron's room in the search for the badge.
"We've got it." Fred whispered to Harry, "We've been improving it." The badge now read, 'Bighead Boy'. Harry forced a laugh, gave Ron back the tonic and shut his door, just in time to hear the start of Yami's reaction to Yugi's news.
Escaped murderers, prison guards that scared everyone out of their minds and Bakura wanting revenge on members of their group, why did this sound on par with their previous years at Hogwarts? One thing was certain though, "I'm not going to be murdered!" Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear." His mirror replied.
"CUT IT OUT!" Kari yelled in Japanese, finally putting herself between her boyfriend and her boss. "If you two don't cut it out, you," She snapped at Joey, "Won't be getting any for the next year, and you," She snapped at Kaiba, still in Japanese, so Harry, Ron and Hermione couldn't understand, "Won't get that spell work done on your new batch of cards for distribution at Hogwarts."
"What did she say?" Harry asked as the two boys stopped fighting and it sounded like Joey apologised to Kari quickly.
"She threatened them, with…" Ombre said, "Uhhh, things, to make them stop fighting." Kari turned away from both boys and smiled at Ron and Hermione.
"Hi guys." She said smiling; Ombre stared at her, what was with the mood swing?
"How'd you…?" Hermione asked Kari, well aware that normally it would take nothing less then Shadow Magic to separate the two boys.
"You just have to know where to hit them." Kari smirked evilly. Joey gulped and Kaiba paled. "Ombre, come on." She said, dragging her yami off into the crowd, her voice trailing into the distance. "I want some ice cream."
"Scary." Yami said, wishing she'd watched what she'd said around his hikari, though some of the language Joey and Kaiba had been spouting had been worse. "Yugi… it's still your move."
"I… I…" Yugi was still slightly stunned from Kari's outburst. "Uhhh, yeah. Sure. I play Silent Swordsman in attack mode and a card face down, it's your move."
Yami and Yugi were off again as they talked about their Summer, Yami was distracted again by Ron waving a piece of newspaper under his nose. Yami snatched it and read it, his face becoming unreadable. He didn't finish the duel but just snatched up his deck and walked away from the table, Yugi caught the piece of news and looked it over. "Oh…" Yugi said, his face pale, then chased after his dark half.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"Egypt..." Joey sighed. "Yami been fighting with himself all summer. Both he and Ombre really need to go there, all the clues to their past lead there but..."
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"Yami?" Yugi called, losing the Pharaoh in the crowd, 'Yami?' Yami ignored him, pushing his way though the crowds of people. 'Yami, please, wait up.' Yugi desperately called, "Excuse me!" Yugi said as he squeezed his way through the crowd losing Yami as he did so. He saw a fuzzball bouncing along the rooftops.
"Boh! Where's Yami?"
Three shops ahead. I'll distract him.
"Thanks, Boh."
Yugi saw the fuzzball jump off the roof, and land on someone's head. "Getoffofme!" Yugi heard Yami shout. 'Yugi, tell your fuzzball to get off of me!' Yami growled over the link.
"Boh, get off of Yami." "Thanks partner." Yugi said, as he reached Yami's side, the Kuriboh jumped off and into Yugi's arms. "Yami… we need to talk."
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They didn't join the others until it was time for dinner, when the seven exchange students, the seven Weasleys, Harry and Hermione sat together, taking up 6 tables, and ate their way through a five course meal.
"Question," Joey said as he started on his sixth course, "Since the monsters scared the taxi drivers so badly last time, how are we getting to the train station?"
"Uhhh." Yugi looked at Kaiba who shrugged, it didn't bother him, he could rent any car he wanted.
"Don't worry," Mr Weasley said, "The ministry are providing enough cars for all of us." Everyone looked at him.
"Why?" Yugi asked curiously.
"It's because of Percy," George said seriously, but loudly enough for the entire tavern to hear, "There'll be little flags on the bonnets, with HB on them…"
"For humongous bighead!" Fred said. Some people snorted into their deserts while others burst out laughing.
"Seriously," Yami said, amused at the sight of his hikari dissolving into fits of giggles. "Why are the ministry providing cars?"
"Well, us Weasleys haven't got one, your cars, if you have them, are back in Japan, and since I work there, they're doing me a favour."
'He's lying.' Yami told Yugi.
"I know, I sense it too. There's another reason that the ministry are providing cars." Mrs Weasley sent Ron up to pack properly, and the others made their way up to their rooms, mostly one by one. Yugi and Yami's bedroom doors were open so the loud argument a few doors down was easily heard.
"It was here, on the bedside table!" Percy shouted, "I took it off for polishing!"
"I haven't touched it, all right?" Ron roared back.
"Should we go spilt it up?"
'No way, let them fight it out, any way…' Yami paused to listen, 'Harry beat you to it.'
"My Head Boy badge has gone." Percy said, rounding on Harry.
"So's Scabber's Rat Tonic!" Ron complained, throwing everything out of his trunk to look, "I think I must have left it at the bar…"
"You're not going anywhere till you've found my badge!" Percy yelled. Yugi dashed into the room to prevent any further argument.
"We'll get it, right Harry?" Harry nodded to Yugi, "We're packed." The two went downstairs. They were halfway along the passageway to the bar, which was now very dark, when they heard another pair of angry voices coming from the bar.
"It's Mr and Mrs Weasley." Yugi whispered, he didn't see Harry nod in agreement. The sound of Harry's name made the two boys get closer to the door to listen.
"…makes no sense not to tell him," Mr Weasley was saying heatedly, " Harry's got a right to know! I've tried to tell Fudge but he insists on treating the entire group like children. Harry is thirteen years old…"
"Arthur, the truth would terrify him! He's still a child, he's not of age like the transfer students, he'd be happier not knowing!"
"I don't want to frighten him, I want to put him on his guard!" Retorted Mr Weasley, "You know what the group as a whole are like! Between them they've ended up in the Forbidden Forest twice! But Harry can't do that this year! When I think about what could've happened when he ran away from home! If the Knight Bus hadn't picked him up, I'm prepared to bet he would have been dead before the Ministry found him!"
"But he's not dead, he's fine, and the transfer students are now here, and they wouldn't let anything happen to him. So what's the point of…"
"Molly, they say Sirius Black is mad, and maybe he is, but he was clever enough to escape from Azkaban, and that's supposed to be impossible. He murdered a street full of Muggles and… and the transfers will have enough trouble this year as it is, Bakura Malfoy supposedly has a grudge against Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba, so they'll have that to deal with, and don't give me the they'll-be-perfectly-safe-at-Hogwarts speech, if Black can break out of Azkaban, he can break into Hogwarts and he won't have so many guardians this year, cause his friends will have divided loyalties. Can you honestly see Yami Muto protecting Harry before protecting his twin brother?"
"But no one's sure that Black's after Harry."
There was a thud on wood and Yugi was pretty sure that Mr Weasley had hit something wooden. "Molly, how many times do I have to tell you? They didn't report it but Black's been talking in his sleep for a while now, always the same words too. 'He's at Hogwarts… he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead…" Mr Weasley continued, adding something about Azkaban guards being posted at Hogwarts. Yugi and Harry hid as Mr and Mrs Weasley walked up the passage to the stairs and didn't emerge until they were sure they'd gone. Harry grabbed the bottle and Yugi paused before they walked back up the stairs.
"Harry. If you don't want me to, I won't tell anyone what they were talking about."
Harry turned to his friend and smiled weakly, "No, you should tell Yami about Bakura, and try to warn Kaiba if he'll listen to you. I'll tell them about Black…" Yugi nodded and headed up the stairs first, vanishing into Yami's bedroom as Fred and George collapsed into heaps on the landing, laughing so hard they were crying as they listened to the sounds of Percy dismantling his and Ron's room in the search for the badge.
"We've got it." Fred whispered to Harry, "We've been improving it." The badge now read, 'Bighead Boy'. Harry forced a laugh, gave Ron back the tonic and shut his door, just in time to hear the start of Yami's reaction to Yugi's news.
Escaped murderers, prison guards that scared everyone out of their minds and Bakura wanting revenge on members of their group, why did this sound on par with their previous years at Hogwarts? One thing was certain though, "I'm not going to be murdered!" Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear." His mirror replied.