A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or anything that is related to Harry Potter. This is simply a hobby to pass time. We all know J.K. Rowling owns it and one would be quite full of themselves to even think they were to amount to the genius of J.K. Thank you. Please read and review!

Story

A/N: Sirius is not dead and is engaged to a woman named Ophelia, whom he met during, the trial in which made him a free man. All charges of murder were dropped and he no longer is in hiding, he is still however an unregistered animagi.

Prologue:

James Potter had a cousin named Emila. Emila is a squib and is four years older than James. Emila had gone to a normal muggle school while James had gone to Hogwarts. Although they were four years apart they were all the children in the family and whenever there were family gatherings, James and Emila only had each other to be amused by. Once Emila had started her new school at the age of 13, she and James had begun to grow apart. Emila had made new friends and gained boyfriends, she no longer had time for her 9 year old cousin. Now James had many friends while at his own school but he had always enjoyed the way Emila had treated him like a little brother, she had been very protective of him.

The two of them continued to keep in touch and the families had always met on occasions such as Christmas and Easter and Thanksgiving, you know the normal family holidays. Emila and James had introduced new friends to the families. James had introduced Sirius to his family at Christmas during their first year at Hogwarts. The two were inseperable. Sirius was almost instantly part of the family. James, Emila and him had all become close and written to each other quite frequently.

Emila had married, just one year after leaving school to her long time sweetheart Anthony. The two had moved to Ireland when a job promotion was offered to Anthony. Emila and Anthony had two children of their own; a boy named Corbet and a girl named Arylla. Emila had never thought that either of her children would be a witch or a wizard however, on Arylla's 11th birthday she had received the ever famous letter written in emerald green writing;

Ms. A. Denks

Breakfast Table

148 Churring Street

Brighton

Emila and Anthony were not sure what to do as Corbet was already in school and both had such great jobs. Since Emila had moved to Ireland, she and Sirius had lost touch. The last she heard from him was when James and Lily had Harry. Next she knew she was reading of the terror which struck. She of course had not believed a word about Sirius. Emila had decided not to inform her daughter of her famous relative for her own sake. So, Arylla had gone to Hogwarts and neither her nor Harry were aware of their relationship to one another. Arylla was sorted into Ravenclaw as she quickly became the next smartest witch, next to Hermione of course, but she was never a threat to Hermione and neither did she care to try to beat her, she was content with her marks and who she was.

It is now 6th year and Emila has been informed of Voldemort's return and fears for her daughter's life. She remembers that Sirius is now out of jail and is under Dumbledore's protection (Arylla has of course kept her family up to date on everything that has happened in the wizarding world). She contacts Sirius and inquires about her daughter moving in with him during her stay at Hogwarts. Sirius is apprehensive at first but his fiancée Ophelia (A/N: I know it is a little off from the story line but I promised my friend who is completely obsessed with Sirius and has written her own FanFics that she would be a part of my story so just go with it!) insists that she live with them at Grimmauld Place.

It is the end of 5th year and when Arylla comes home she is informed of her moving and all about her mother's cousin's best mate, whom Emila had considered to be her cousin and that, was the way she described Sirius to Arylla. Now Arylla knows all about Harry being her third cousin. She is very excited to actually meet him and live with him and Sirius.

Harry had his usual stay at the Dursley's which was considerably shorter than any other year (which Harry was very grateful for). Harry was to leave the Dursley's exactly 2 weeks before his birthday and the day could not have come any sooner. Ophelia was given the job of picking Harry up and was accompanied by Mad-Eye and Tonks. When they had gotten there they had told Harry that Sirius had an early birthday present to give him when they arrived at Grimmauld Place.

So Harry, Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Ophelia started on their journey home (all of the visitors that frequently stayed at Grimmauld Place had begun to call it home). They had to leave very early as Mad-Eye had decided that it best they travel the muggle way as to not attract any attention. None of the Dursley's was awake, not that it made any difference to Harry. So the four of them boarded the train and watched as the sunrise. Meanwhile....