The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
By: PhantomTzipora
A/n I changed very little, just a few mistakes here and there, otherwize it's the same. don't forget to reveiw! constructive criticism is very much appreciated.
Summary: Sirius Orion Black is a miserable child with a pureblood family who expects him to choose the same dark path that they have walked on before him. Unhappily he heads off to Hogwarts where his life changes drastically. A new take on the marauder's first year.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters you recognize from the books, seeing as I'm not J.K. Rowling. Besides, If I was J.K. Rowling, what in the world would I be doing writing this lovely fanfic when I could be writing the 6th book?
Chapter 1: Good, (or is it bad) news on the doorstep?
"Sirius Orion Black, get down here this instant!" His mother barked.
"Whatever it is I didn't do it!" he yelled back
"Guilty conscience," she cooed evilly. "What makes you think you're in trouble?"
"I don't know, maybe the fact that I'm always in trouble," he thought to himself.
Grumpily he got off his bed and trudged down the stairs.
"Wipe that pout off your face you lazy bag of scum, can't you smile for once in your life" His mother growled.
"Why bother smiling, what's the point, my life is rotten, every waking minute is controlled by my freak mother."
He grinned a stupid grin "Happy now?" he asked
"I've had enough of this ignorance, why can't you be more like Regulus" she said beaming fondly at Sirius's younger brother who pretended to be flattered until his mother's back was turned.
"You have mail, although I was sure that there was no hope for you, since you've shown no sign of any magical ability, what a disgrace that would have been" His mother said her tone icy once more.
"Joy," Sirius said sarcastically. He knew his mother was talking about his acceptance to Hogwarts. Much as going to Hogwarts and learning new spells and being with other wizards, instead of living in this hidden house among muggles that he couldn't even talk to, sounded fun, he would much rather be a disowned squib. At Hogwarts he would be expected to be in Slytherin with his cousin Narcissa, and torture innocent muggle borns, and blood traitors.
"Take the letter you scum bag" His mother screeched. Sirius realized that he had been standing dumbstruck for the past 5 minutes just staring at the letter. Regulus snickered, his mother ignored him.
Sirius snatched the letter from his mother's cold un-friendly hand and carefully opened it.
"It says I'm a squib, I guess you have to disown me now," he said sarcastically.
"You liar! There will be no dinner for you tonight, I don't like liars."
"You don't like me period" He muttered softly so that his mother couldn't hear.
"Tomorrow we will go to Diagon ally to buy your supplies, I want you down here bright and early so that we can beat all the muggle crowds!" His mother barked.
"It's diagon ally, no muggles can find it!" Sirius said. He wished he could learn to pick his fights more carefully,.
"As far as I'm concerned those filthy mudbloods are just as bad as muggles themselves!"
"May I come along too?" Regulus asked sweetly.
"Sure honey," she said her tone suddenly soft and gentle.
Sirius wished he could whack Regulus across the face, but that would result in instant grounding, which meant no more flying, Sirius's only relief from the torture he endured when he wasn't at school. The torture he got at school was a whole other problem
"What are you doing still standing here boy, get moving!" she yelled.
Sirius trudged back up to his room, with Regulus scampering at his heels.
"What do you want pest!" He hissed at his brother.
"I wouldn't do anything if I was you, or I'll tell mommy, actually I might tell her anyway, even if it is all lies" he said laughing evilly.
Sirius slammed the door in his brothers face, for someone only two years younger than him, Regulus was a real pest.
He flopped back onto his bed. He wished he was a squib, he hated his life, he was bullied at school, and even though he always won fights, he managed to land himself in more detentions than the entire student body combined, literally.
Coming home wasn't even a relief from the misery at school, his mother hated him, his father was barely home, and Regulus got him in trouble every chance he could.
His life wasn't always like this though, he remembered vaguely a time when his mother loved him equally as much as Regulus, this all changed when he started pre. Wizarding school at 6 and was instantly the little devil that all his teachers hated. With every bad report sent home his mother hated him more, so by day 3 he was confined to his room so his mother wouldn't be embarrassed by his presence.
Sighing he changed into Pajamas and fell asleep.
"Wake up you lazy pile of bones!" his mother roared, "I thought I told you to wake up early!"
Sirius rolled over and pretended to be asleep.
"I want you dressed and ready in 5min." she said and walked out slamming the door behind her.
Sirius put on a pair of robes longing to change into his muggle clothing, but his mother would have his head, and he was too tired to argue.
He checked himself over in the mirror. A short tan boy with chin length black hair pulled into a low ponytail, stared back at him.
"Sirius Orion Black I wanted you down here 10 min. ago!"
"Actually you want me down there in 2 min. to be exact, but think whatever you want,"
"I'm one step away from not sending you to Hogwarts!"
"I know very well that you would never to that, it would bring more shame to our family name."
The three of them flooed to diagon ally,
"We should have been here earlier! This is going to mean punishment for you "
"What a surprise" Sirius replied.
"Take this money and your list and go get your supplies, I promised Regulus that I'd take him wherever he wanted today. "
Sirius couldn't believe his luck; he was rid of his family for the entire morning.
He looked at the list in his hand and then at the stores. He stood there for a moment before walking into Ollivanders.
"Hello, who do we have here? Hogwarts first year?"
"My name is Sirius Black"
"Ohhh, another Black, I've been serving you for years.
He took out some bewitched tape measures and began pulling boxes off the shelves.
"Try this one, willow with a phoenix feather, 10 and ½ inches."
Sirius took the wand and waved it, nothing happened.
"Pine with an owl feather, 9 ¾ inches"
Sirius waved the wand causing a flower pot to shatter.
"No, no, no definitely not. Try this one, mahogany with a unicorn hair, 11 ½ inches."
Sirius took the wand which glowed gold in his hand, he waved it causing scarlet sparks to come out.
"Peculiar, all the other Blacks have made green sparks come out."
"Thank you Mr. Ollivander sir." Sirius said, he paid for his wand and left, without paying any attention to Olivander's comment.
He then went to Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions.
"Be with you in a moment honey," a young stout witch called.
Sirius notices a boy with messy black hair paying for a set of robes. The boy then went over to what must have been his father seeing as they were almost identical. The man greeted his son warmly.
Sirius felt a brief pang of longing tugging at him. The boy turned around and smiled at him warmly, Sirius attempted a nervous smile before the boy turned away.
"Hogwarts dearie?" The woman asked.
"Yes," Was everybody here a Hogwarts student? He wondered.
"Come, let's go to the back room, I need to take your measurements for your robes."
Sirius followed her to the back room. He gasped, there stood his cousin Narcissa, he prayed she wouldn't notice him. Unfortunately Sirius was never lucky.
"Hello cuz," she said icily.
"Hi" He grunted.
"That's no way to greet your cousin, especially your older cousin." She said, her voice dripping with venom.
"You're not even a year older than me Narcissa,"
"So, I'm still older aren't I, You better not be an embarrassment when we get to Hogwarts, I have a reputation to uphold,"
"As what, big fat B" he muttered, just loud enough for Narcissa to make out the word.
"Your gunna pay for that one, Black" she said spatting out his name like it was poisen.
"You're a Black too, or is you're memory more short-termed than the last time I saw you?"
"Your mother will be hearing about this, mark my word"
"You can go now Miss. Black," The plump lady said sweetly.
"Now who do we have here?"
"Sirius Black," Sirius said glumly.
His mother met up with him at noon.
"Narcissa just told me about your little encounter, you're such a disgrace to the family. I want you to order your dinner to go, and go back home immediately. The rest of us are eating out. We'll be back home late, don't stay up."
This really was Sirius's luck day, He bought himself a nice dinner to make up for the fact that he hadn't eaten since lunch yesterday.
After arriving at home and finishing his lunch, he grabbed his Cleansweep 7 and went out to practice.
He often wondered why his mother had bought him the latest, fastest racing broom ever made, only to realize that it was probably because she didn't want to be embarrassed by having something other than the best.
Up in the air his troubles all melted away, and all his attention was focused on new incredible stunts. He could fly for hours, and it would feel like merely 5 min.
This was exactly the case today. In no time he was forced to dismount and go inside, because his mother would kill him if she came home and found him flying instead of fast asleep.
About an hour later Regulus jumped on top of Sirius's bed.
"I know you're not asleep bro, don't even try to fake it" Regulus snarled
"Hello, what brings you into my room at this hour of the night"
"I've decided that I deserve to go to Hogwarts more than you, you're an unappreciative loser, and I'm the perfect child. Since I can't go to Hogwarts, I'm gunna make sure you can't go either. You can hardly do spells without a wand"
"Mom would kill you if you took it,"
"Not if it looks like you lost it"
"You wouldn't dare"
"Guess again"
Regulus grabbed Sirius's wand from his bedside table. Within seconds Sirius was out of bed and on top of Regulus. Regulus threw the wand and it landed neatly in one of his bags.
"Curse his good aim" muttered Sirius.
"Mommy!" Regulus cried. "Mommy, Mommy, come fast!"
Sirius tried to get up, but Regulus gripped his wrist so that he couldn't get up without hurting it. For a 9 year old, Regulus had a strong grip. Besides, if his mom didn't witness him on top of Regulus, Regulus could invent a worse lie that would get him in more trouble.
Seconds later Sirius was being pried off of Regulus.
"My poor baby, are you all right, does anything hurt?"
"My wrist hurts a bit,"
"I'll look at it in a minute" she said sympathetically.
"Sirius Orion Black, what were you doing on top of you're brother!"
"He came into my room and took my wand!" He complained.
"That's not true, your wand is still in the bag! I came in to say good night to you and you jumped on me and threatened to kill me if I didn't leave you alone" Regulus said in a sad voice as he smirked at Sirius behind his mother's back.
"Sirius Orion Black, how dare you hurt your brother for being kind and sensitive? I want you to stay in your room the entire tomorrow, no flying!!"
"But I'm relling the truth!"
"If you're wand is missing then I'll belive you, if it's in the bag you'll be grounded until September 1st!"
Due to Regulus' good aim, the wan' was in the bag, so Sirius was gounded.
Thank goodness there was only one week to go before September 1st! He thought to himself.
A/n:Review, or flame I don't care, but if you do have the indecency to flame, make sure you check back at chapter 2 for my response, I warn you now, don't take a lesson out of Sirius's book, pick your fights wisely.