The Memoirs of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs

Moony speaks of Padfoot:

Sirius Black, the gray-blue eyed, black haired, rebellious teenager otherwise known as Padfoot is a regular attention seeking pain in the arse.

Okay, well maybe that was a bit harsh, but right now it's proving to be especially true.

You would think, that after changing into a dog over 500 times you would get sick of it.

Apparently not.

Well, not for someone like Sirius anyway. Prongs, Wormtail, Padfoot and I just came back from dinner, and it is my duty to try and tell you about Sirius, but Sirius, being Sirius, is changing into a dog every five seconds causing me to get distracted every five seconds, and hence me not writing anything at all. Don't laugh, you'd get distracted too if you saw an almost full grown person transform into a dog. I can't work out whether he likes doing it or if he just does it to annoy us. The latter would be the more likely option. (Oh and if you're wondering why Sirius can turn into a dog anyway, it's because he's an Animagus - long story) Sirius loves annoying people - something that is in his second nature. Sometimes he's like a little kid, doing things just to spite others. He also has these days, which are surprisingly becoming more frequent, where I think that he is actually starting to act more like a mature adult. And then, well, then he just acts the complete opposite, causing anyone around him to think he is a complete maniac.

Which he is, of course.

Unfortunately I've known Sirius for around seven years. (Just joking). And as much as this might inflate his ego, I'm exceedingly glad of his friendship. In the second year when Sirius, James and Peter found out that I was a werewolf they did not, like I thought they would, desert me. Instead, they did the very thing only true friends would have done. They became Animagi to make my transformations more bearable, so they could be with me when I became a wolf. They couldn't be with me as humans so they wanted to be with me in another form. In the form of an animal.

Sirius' Animagus form is a dog (as stated before). It reflects his character extremely well; he has a very playful nature, he's friendly, (when he wants to be), he's very loyal and devoted to those whom he loves, he's protective (of his friends), he has an excellent sense of smell (which is very useful sometimes), and he likes to randomly lick things.

"I do not randomly lick things Moony!" Padfoot said abruptly, reading over my description, finally getting bored of turning into a dog because our attention had turned to more important and interesting things.

I just laughed; it is quite funny when Sirius gets indignant about things. Anyway, back to my description of Sirius. As I said he's extremely loyal and protective. For example when someone says something like 'Stupid half-breeds,' he hexes them right into next week. That, to me, is what a true friendship is all about. And I'm extremely grateful for it.

As much as I hate to admit it, Sirius is also a regular good-looking guy, well, that's the general consensus of the girl population at Hogwarts. He has the classic aristocratic 'Black' good looks. It's nauseating to see clusters of dreamy-eyed girls eyeing off Padfoot everywhere he goes, (and I wouldn't doubt if certain males eyed him off also!). He doesn't seem to mind though; in fact he enjoys all the attention. He loves being in the limelight.

That's not to say that he's the male gigolo of Hogwarts. Far from it, when he finds someone that he wants, he stays loyal to them, but if he's single he enjoys the attention.

There is a deep dark mysterious factor about Sirius that attracts the whole female population of Hogwarts to him, that and the fact that he's a 'bad boy' and they think he's 'hot' *scoff*. I wonder what sort of charm he had to put on them all to think that.

Seriously, all he has to do is flash someone his trademark grin and they fall desperately in love with him. I wish I had that sort of effect with people, but no such luck.

Another trademark of Sirius' is the infamous 'puppy-dog-look', whenever he wants something or tries to get away with something he gives people the puppy-dog-eyes look, I swear, he just looks at you in this way and you start to feel sorry for him and before you know it he's got you wrapped around his little finger. I admit that I have, on occasion, done something for him because of that look. And it's so easy for him to do it as well because his Animagus form is a dog. He's got the whole thing down pat.

Sirius is capable of getting away with anything, he turns up late for class, doesn't hand his homework in until its been overdue for two months (maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea), he hardly ever studies, and yet he still gets top marks in nearly all subjects. How he does this is completely beyond me. He's pretty smart and he hardly ever studies for anything! Maybe he has some kind of hidden power or something. Or maybe he had to seduce all the teachers... Eww

If you're wondering where Sirius' name comes from, well he's named after a star, the one in the Canis Major constellation. He unfortunately doesn't have a middle name. Which came as a disappointment to James and I, because if his middle name had been Orion, well just imagine how many times we could have teased him about it. S.O.B. Or if his middle name had been Lee, it would have been Sirius Lee Black. But no, it's just Sirius.

Apparently the star Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, a fact Sirius has been only too kind to remind us of five thousand times a day ever since he found out in Astronomy one day in our second year. No matter how many times I told him that's it's the brightest star in the sky only second to the sun he still keeps on telling us over again, apparently his parents failed to tell him that the brightest star in the sky was named Sirius.

Which doesn't come as a big surprise, as Sirius' parents are well... extremely unpleasant, to say the least, I've only seen them a couple of times at the start of the year on Platform 9 ¾, but that was enough for me. They'd scare the pants off anyone whom received their notorious 'I'm-going-to-kill-you-glare' (that's what Sirius calls it anyway), on one such occasion at the start of the year his mother gave me the I'm-going-to-kill-you-glare just because I said 'hi' to Sirius, no doubt she didn't want Sirius hanging around with 'riff-raff' like me. Apparently they are all a 'bunch of pure-blood idiots that don't have any idea about anything' to quote Sirius' exact words.

According to Sirius the only decent one in their family is his cousin Andromeda. She ran away from home a few years ago to get married to a muggle-born named Ted Tonks; she has a little girl named Nymphadora who should be about 2 years old now.

It's no wonder Sirius ran away from his home when he was sixteen,his parents threatened to send him to Durmstrang (a school in Europe that emphasizes heavily on the Dark Arts) because he was hanging out with 'half bloods' and 'blood traitors', I think that was the last straw for him, he couldn't take it anymore so he got out. His parents were already pretty peeved (to say the least) that Sirius was sorted in Gryffindor and not Slytherin in the first year, and they became even more pissed off when he started to hang out with us, otherwise known as 'half-bloods' 'blood traitors' or 'dirty half breeds'. That's the thing with Sirius' family, they are all descended from pure-blood lineage, they are all completely untainted pure-bloods, and they are extremely proud of it. So when Sirius practically went against everything that they believed in they were very pissed off.

So now Sirius has his own place, which he got not long ago in the last holidays, when his uncle died and left him a decent bit of money. Sirius bought a flat in London, it's pretty cool, James, Peter and I stayed there last holidays, it's so good to be free like that, and not have anyone telling us what to do all the time. Sirius absolutely loves living on his own. He loves the freedom of it all. That's the thing about Sirius, he's very much his own person, he's very independent and doesn't rely on other people for anything if he can help it, nor does he expect people to help him. The only thing that he doesn't like about where he lives is that it's in a muggle neighbourhood, not that that's a bad thing, except that he has to be extra careful when he's doing magic. Which is a bit of a worry because if you haven't noticed the words 'Sirius' and 'careful' don't exactly fit together, Sirius is known for being reckless at times.

Sirius is the daredevil of the group, the reckless, rebel one that doesn't think twice about things. Padfoot doesn't know the meaning of the saying 'look before you leap,' he doesn't think things through, instead, a lot of time he acts on impulse.

For example there was this one incident in the fifth year when Sirius told Snape how to get into the Whomping Willow and see where I went all the time, knowing full well what kind of danger this put Snape in. Luckily Snape only glimpsed me at the end of the tunnel before James pulled him back. I'll never forget that incident. The fact that I could have nearly killed someone scares the hell out of me, and it was all due to Sirius' recklessness. I can't help blaming myself for it in some way or another though.

We've never really gotten over that incident, though we never talk about it now, (we try not to mention it, it'd just bring up bad feelings). I didn't talk to Sirius for ages and when I did it took a while to get our friendship back on track. Of course Sirius kept apologizing and trying to do everything he could to make things up, but how can you become friends again with someone who has violated your trust so severely? I felt absolutely betrayed and violated. I mean, as much as I respect Sirius now, it was a very hard thing to forgive.

Sirius may be rebellious, erratic, impulsive, and not make the best of decisions at the best of times but he is also a very faithful and trustworthy friend. To me he's like the brother I never had and I love him dearly.

I respect and love all my friends. Ever since that day in the second year when they found out that I was a werewolf and never deserted me, that was a turning point in our friendship. I feel like the luckiest person in the world just because I have people at the end of the day who can understand a small part of what I'm going through, who I can turn to when things get tough, and who I can count on for anything when I need it. I know that if I asked them to they'd risk everything for me, just the same as I would do for them. And that is more then I can say for some.

"So Sirius, what do you want to be when you get older?" I asked in my attempt at describing his personality.

"Well, an Auror wouldn't be too bad, I guess that's really the only thing that I would want to do, with Voldemort gaining power, and everything," he explained, looking up from his homework eagerly, no doubt he wanted something else to do. Yes, Sirius actually does homework, on occasions, only because James was doing it and he couldn't find anything else to do though.

"What are your nicknames?" I asked.

"You know them already Moony," Sirius said.

"Just answer the question."

"Padfoot, Paddy, Pad, Black."

"And the other one?" I asked smirking.

"I don't have another one," Sirius said with a warning look in his eye.

"What, so you mean Siri isn't your nickname?" I asked teasingly.

"You know it's not, Moon-Man, and if you call me that again I might just have to hurt you, which I really don't want to." I laughed, Sirius hated when we called him Siri, apparently it wasn't masculine enough to qualify as a nickname. Secretly though, I don't think he minds, just as long as no one else hears us calling him it.

"Oh, I think it's quite cute," James teased, now paying more attention to our conversation than his homework, "don't you think Wormtail?" James asked Peter, who was sitting on the floor.

Peter nodded from his position on the floor.

"Yeah, and I think Jamsie, Reemie and Petie are just adorable too," Sirius said.

Sirius is also known for being very sarcastic and cynical, that's just the type of person he is. There are so many different traits to one person it's hard to describe them all, especially with Sirius, he's so erratic.

"What the hell does erratic mean?" Sirius asked, now watching over my shoulder.

"Changeable, inconsistent, variable, capricious, impulsive, spontaneous-"

"Okay okay, that's enough. I get the point Moony, can't you put something good about me in there? I mean, what happens when my kids or something read it, it'll set a bad example," Sirius said.

James snorted, "Padfoot, when have you ever worried about setting bad examples?"

"What, I always worry about it, can't you tell? I'd absolutely smashingly hate it if my future children got the wrong idea about me and took my bad examples as some kind of indication that they could follow them," Sirius mocked.

"Yeah sure," James laughed.

"No, seriously Moony, how many sentences in there say good things about me? Two?"

"Padfoot, I'm utterly shocked that you could think such a thing about me! Why the very thought of me writing bad things about you! I'm speechless! It's like you think I don't like you or something!" I replied sardonically.

"Moony, seriously, what'd you write?" Sirius asked again.

"Uh, Sirius, in case you haven't noticed, the whole five pages are written about you, and they're good," I said.

"I bet they aren't."

"Read it then," I shoved the book into Sirius' hands.

He began to read it. I watched him as he read, flicking through the pages, I couldn't quite read his expression, it seemed almost as if there was a hint of gratitude that became more pronounced as he read down the page, his expression changed from a grin to a frown and back again as he read what I had written. Once he had finished, he silently handed the book back to me, although he didn't say anything the expression of gratitude and friendship in his eyes said a thousand words.

And for that moment as he looked me in the eye, it seemed like there was a genuine understanding between us, and a strong bond that not even the deadliest individual could break.

Sirius Black was my brother.