Little Moony

Act 1 - Time is relative

Nova opened her stiff eyes to someone shaking her and calling her name urgently. Her mind wanted to desperately escape the torment it had just endured but she could feel that what had been brought to the surface was not going to leave

"Nova please get up" Harry called to her carefully his voice desperate

"I'm fine I think" she tried to sit up but her head was pounding and the world seemed dimmer, it was as though someone had sucked all the colour from the world, yet Harry looked as bright as the first time she'd seen him "I don't suppose you have any chocolate on you"

Harry shook his head hugging her tightly "your such a reckless idiot" he laughed darkly

Nova smirked at her friends each sat around her bed, Ron was on the bed next to her. They all looked terrible from there shared scratches from the whomping willow to the trauma they had just faced

"Where's my dad, Sirius or Remus" Nova asked looking around for the father she had been trying to protect

"Listen, Nova. They've captured Sirius. Any minute the Dementors are going to perform the Kiss" Hermione said gently her face was dark and she could tell she was trying not to cry

"No they can't" Nova stood up to quickly and the room around her spun, Harry put a steadying hand on her arm helping to keep her from falling

"What's the Kiss?" Harry asked confused

"It's what Dementors do to those they want to destroy. They clamp their jaws over the victim's mouth and... suck out his soul" Hermione looked to Nova who shivered uncomfortably

"You witness all the worst memories of your life as they strip you of your essence" Nova looked at the white room thinking of what Sirius would see, she had barely been able to handle what they had done to her and Sirius had been through far worse

"You mean, they're going to kill Sirius?" He asked, he had gone as pale as her and Nova realised that he was Harry's family too and he was depending on Sirius as much as she was

"No. It's worse. Much worse. You go on living. But you have no memory. No sense of self. You're just a shell. An empty shell" Hermione explained with no pleasure, she looked to Nova with a sympathetic look.  The door opened and Dumbledore entered.

"Headmaster! You've got to stop them!" Nova shouted it only made her head spin more  "They've got the wrong man!"

"It's true, sir. Sirius is innocent" Harry slipped his arm around her waist as she swayed slightly, under the watchful eye of Dumbledore and her friends she felt herself blush

"It's Scabbers who did it!" Ron confirmed adamantly 

Dumbledore looked at him carefully, there was a glint in his eyes that Nova didn't like "Scabbers...?"

"My rat, sir. Only he's not really Well, he was a rat. See, he used to be my brother Percy's" Ron seemed to stumble over his words and Nova had to wonder if he had hit his head in the process of there long night

"The point is... we know the truth. Please, sir, you must believe us" Hermione said desperately

"It was Peter Pettigrew who committed the massacre and ruined so many lives in the form of an unregistered Animagus" Nova said calmly studying Dumbledore "but you already know that don't you sir, you know everything that happens at this school"

"I do, Miss Black. But I'm sorry to say the word of four thirteen year-old wizards will convince few others. A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who have forgotten how to listen" As Dumbledore turned to the window, a shooting star plummeted silently through the sky, like an omen for better times that should have been