Bast shook his head and smiled with an edge of shyness, raking a hand through hair that hung down to his midback now instead of neatly trimmed as it had been then. Instead of its former shade, the strands were terror white now, most likely a side-effect from being in Azkaban. Dementors for fourteen years was enough to turn anyone's hair that colour.
"I don't remember much of it really, just that it was a surprise. Aurors have bad tempers."
His eyes finally did meet Harry's then, tears dried up and gone. The cloudiness was there again unfortunately, whatever intelligence there had been swept back under the madness of the man's strange mind. Had Sirius stayed a few more years, would he have ended up the same?
"You need to be careful tonight, Harry Potter. I haven't seen the monsters, but everyone else has. Maybe they don't like to try to eat me or I'm too small. If no one else will, I can show you some of Landel's during the nighttime. I'm in room M41. Everyone I know is gone, so I should be there if you get lost or ... something."
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"I don't remember much of it really, just that it was a surprise. Aurors have bad tempers."
His eyes finally did meet Harry's then, tears dried up and gone. The cloudiness was there again unfortunately, whatever intelligence there had been swept back under the madness of the man's strange mind. Had Sirius stayed a few more years, would he have ended up the same?
"You need to be careful tonight, Harry Potter. I haven't seen the monsters, but everyone else has. Maybe they don't like to try to eat me or I'm too small. If no one else will, I can show you some of Landel's during the nighttime. I'm in room M41. Everyone I know is gone, so I should be there if you get lost or ... something."