Harry Potter and the daughters of the prisoner
Chapter one
The wolf's lair
Harry Potter was, for the first time in almost a month, happy. Two days ago, after finally having enough, he had run away after blowing up his nasty Aunt Marge. He had left The Dursleys' house after having to live with her for almost a week, and though he was disappointed about not being able to visit Hogsmeade, he was glad he had left.
Right now he was at Diagon Alley, mostly just losing his time, he had finished almost all his summer homework and was just walking endlessly when he saw a familiar face near the Quiditch Supplies store; a boy that, though he looked younger, was in Harry's year and house: Leon Lupin was, like Ron Weasley Harry's best friend-he had met both of them in the train before their first year- and after almost more than a month without seeing him Harry ran up to him, as he was getting nearer he considered calling him but decided to give him a scare and so he screamed his name when he was right behind him, he was amused when he saw Leon jump almost a mile in the air.
"Bloody Hell Harry, you almost gave me a heart attack" Leon exclaimed after having calmed down
"Sorry, the temptation was too big Leo" Harry laughed, Leon shook his head chuckling a little.
Leon, Harry noticed, had changed little over the summer, he still looked scrawny even compared to Harry, his sandy-brown hair had grown a little and was a mess, though he still looked better groomed than Harry, he had grown taller, so he was now a couple of inches bigger than Harry, he looked as sickly as ever though- his eyes, that were the brightest amber color Harry had ever seen (not that he had seen many amber eyes) however were twinkling in amusement and that alone seemed to take the attention off how sickly he looked.
"What are you doing here anyway? Didn't you say you were coming the last week of summer or something, like Ron and Hermione?" Leon asked, tilting his head to the side
"Well, yeah, but…well…something happened" Harry said avoiding Leon's curious gaze
"Well, you can tell me later, I have to go home now actually" Leon said looking at the sky almost annoyed, and then he seemed to get an idea and smiled at Harry "why don't you come? I'm sure my uncle will love having you over, you can stay the rest of the summer too!"
"I wouldn't want to be a bother" Harry said quickly, Leon laughed and shook his head "well if you don't mind, my things are at the Leaky Cauldron though"
"No problem, let's go before it gets late"
They went to get Harry's things and after a small talk with Tom, who seemed to like Leon, they went over to Leon's home, they talked about a lot of things on the way, Harry told him the story of how his Aunt Marge had insulted his parents all week, Leon looked really upset at that and when Harry told him how he blew her up he laughed hard told him how brilliant that was; Harry knew that Leon would understand how he felt about his Aunt Marge's insults, Leon had explained last year that his own mother had died after giving birth to him, and Harry didn't know anything about his father but when he asked Leon just shrugged and refused to say more, so Harry assumed that he had died too, and so he had gone to live with his uncle and his "cousins" Adhara and Zania, who were both pranksters and best friends with the Weasley Twins and because of that he had known Ron even before entering Hogwarts, though they didn't like each other much back then.
After 15 minutes they finally arrived to Leon's House, the house was somewhat like the Burrow, but it looked less crooked and a lot as if it had been burned a lot of times, the garden was gigantic, colorful, and beautiful, 'the twins work' thought Harry; behind the house there was more garden and very close by a forest, with enormous trees.
"welcome to the wolf's lair" Leon said smiling at Harry confused face "it's a pun, Lupin comes from lupus, meaning wolf in Latin" Harry nodded amused and Leon went to the front door and smiling he opened it letting Harry come in, the inside looked a lot bigger than the outside. On Harry's left side there was a small corridor that lead to the kitchen, there were two doors, one of them-Leon explained- is a cupboard where they kept all the useless stuff, the other led to the basement, also known as the Twins' bedroom
"Why do they sleep on the basement?" Harry asked, surprised
"well, they used to sleep on the second floor, on the new guest room, but after…well, an explosion they caused, my uncle as a punishment made them clean the basement, when they finished, they decided they liked it and stayed there" Harry laughed when Leon finished explaining, that indeed seemed like something Zania and Adhara would do "I'll show you their room later, first let me show you were you'll stay yes?"
He guided Harry through the stairs and unto the second floor; there were a lot of doors, each with a different color ("the twins' fault, they were trying a painting charm, in the end they wouldn't let my uncle change them back")
"this is my room, the red one, the green door to the right is yours, the blue one at the end of the corridor is my uncle's, the bathroom is the pink door to the left" Leon explained, Harry asked about the other 3 doors-2 on the left side and 1 on the right side-"well, this grey one besides your room is another guest room, the purple one next to the bathroom is a study of sorts, we make our homework and we used to have classes there, before we came to Hogwarts of course"
"You had classes here? Why didn't you go to school?" Harry asked surprised while looking at some papers, some of them looked like a research of sorts, or maybe and essay
"I get sick a lot, and the teachers got frustrated, that and my Uncle loves teaching, so it was a win-win situation" Leon smiled and then pointed to the last door that was a bright orange "now this one is my favorite, it's our very own library"
He opened the door and Harry was surprised by how many books there were, the walls were covered till the top, a table in the middle of the room, between other two bookcases, had a lot of books on it
"So I take it your family likes to read" Harry joked, Leon laughed and nodded, they got out of the library and went downstairs again
"Come, I'll show you the twin's room, I have to go down there so we can start on dinner" Leon said while they walked
"Start on dinner? I didn't know you cooked" Harry said
"Well, I'm not very good, but it doesn't really matter, since we all help make it" Leon shrugged, they got to the twin's bedroom, he opened the door-that Harry now noticed was both green and red, both color swirling around each other-and they both went down the set of stairs.
The room was not what Harry had expected, there were two beds, one with a red blanket and another with a green one, there were two small bookcases on either side of the room and two desks, one on each side of the room, on one side of the room were the twins, looking at them.
Adhara and Zania Black looked identical, though their personalities were polar opposites, and they enjoyed using that to their advantage confusing everyone around them, just like the Weasley twins; last year their black hair had been long, almost reaching their waist but now they had both cut it so that it hardly reached their shoulders, they both had blue eyes that twinkled with mischief. Both of them were looking at their guests, Adhara grinning at them while her sister Zania gave them both a small smirk
"HARRY! How nice to see you! I didn't know you were coming" Adhara said, coming over to give him a hug.
"Yeah well, I didn't know either" Harry laughed, hugging her back, Zania came over and messed his hair laughing at his comment, Harry mocked glared at her while Adhara released him chuckling "so what were you doing?"
"Nothing, really, we've been really bored without our partners in crime, that might change now that you are here though, nothing is ever boring around the great Harry Potter" Zania said pointing at him smirking "but it might be better if we talked upstairs don't you think?"
They climbed up the stairs and went to the living room, the twins sitting on a love seat, Harry on a single couch and Leon on a chair nearby, leaving a full couch alone, between the couches there was a coffee table with the newest number of the Daily Prophet, the tittle of this one was pretty much the same it had been for the past weeks 'Black still at large' the picture of Sirius Black, the first person to ever escape Azkaban seemed to look at them with his shadowed eyes.
"Harry?" Adhara asked after a couple of seconds of Harry looking at the Prophet "something wrong?"
"oh, not really, but…well, I was wondering what you know about Black" Harry said, the twins both looked at him the moment he said the name "I mean, you always know a lot about what's going on with everything so I thought you ought to know about this too"
"We don't know anything" Zania said, her voice cold "and honestly the only thing I want to know about him, is that he is back where he belongs"
"What do you know about Black Harry?" Adhara said, her voice, though kinder than her sister's was shaky
"Not much actually, I only know that he was a big supporter of Voldemort, and that he killed twelve muggles and one wizard with one curse" Harry said and then quickly added "and that he is the first to ever escape Azkaban of course"
"you're well informed, that's good then" Adhara smiled sadly then, with a sigh, she stood up "I think we better get started on dinner yes?"
"Yeah, I'll go with you, you two stay here, dad will be here soon" said Zania, before standing up and following her sister
"did I say something wrong?" said Harry after they both left, Leon sighed and shook his head
"you didn't, don't worry, but…well, let's just say that Black is a touchy subject around here" Leon said looking at Harry from the chair
"why? I mean, I get that he's dangerous and all that but why should it be a 'touchy subject'"
"well let me put it this way, Black is not a common surname in the wizarding world" said Leon looking at Harry
"so, does that mean the twins and Black are related?" asked Harry confused
"close, they are not only related, Black is…well" Leon paused, thinking of a way to say it "Black is….err…the twins' father"
Harry looked blankly at Leon for a second, half expecting him to laugh and tell him he was kidding, after seeing this was not the case he nodded
"well, I can see why it's a touchy subject then" said Harry softly, Leon nodded, they were about to go to the kitchen and help the twins when they heard the door open
A man entered the house, he was dressed in muggle clothes, he looked quite young even thought his light brown hair was flecked with gray, he had a few scars in his face that Harry assumed were product of the last war; he had his blue eyes fixed in Harry, for a second he seemed confused before he smiled and looked kindly at Harry
"well hello, I didn't know we had a guest" the man said smiling "Remus Lupin, a pleasure to see you Harry"
"nice to meet you too sir" Harry said smiling back, not bothering to ask how the man knew his name "I'm sorry for intruding but Leon…"
Lupin laughed and waved away Harry's apology "don't worry about it, I'm used to having unexpected guest, no one in this house seems to care about my opinion in that matter"
"it's not that, we care really, but we know that you will say yes anyway, so we don't bother asking" said Leon grinning, Lupin chuckled and shook his head "the twins are making dinner by the way, we were just about to go and help"
"very well" said Lupin already walking to the kitchen "let's go see if we can help"
"hi dad, how was your day" said Adhara when he saw them at the kitchen door, she was cutting some vegetables in the table
"you're late by the way" Zania said smiling and hugging Lupin
"Well, sorry, I had to stay a little late to…fix a little problem" he said hugging Zania and kissing her on the cheek, the went over to Adhara and kissed her on the forehead
"A student giving you trouble?" asked Leon, looking at the meat that was on the stove, Harry remembered Leon mentioning something about his uncle being a professor on a muggle school, which would explain his clothing
"Ah, not...quite…hmm what is that you're making girls? Smells pretty good"
"oh, it's just meat, some vegetables with butter and mashed potatoes" Adhara shrugged but Zania looked suspicious at Lupin
"do you need any help?" said the man, smiling kindly at Adhara, she grinned back but shook her head
"no that's alright, we're almost done but you three can help Zania with the table though"
While they were putting everything in the table Harry was amazed about the mechanic of things at Leon's home, it was nothing like the Dursley's but it wasn't like The Burrow either. The Burrow was always full of life, everyone was nice and Harry loved it, but here…it was different, a good kind of different but different nonetheless. Lupin was asking Leon and Zania about their day and they joked around; Lupin listened to them and never did he stopped smiling
"Harry, lad, are you okay?" Lupin asked looking concerned
"Ah, yes, sorry, I tend to space out a lot" Harry said blushing, Leon nodded
"well, why don't you take a seat, all of you actually, I'll bring the food" said Lupin once again smiling
They all sat down, and once Leon's uncle came back they all began to eat
"so, what have you done all day? besides the obvious" Lupin asked
"well, we finished our homework today, we read that new book you brought the other day" Zania said cutting her meat "you know, the one about Eastern Magic and its History"
"that's great, is it good?"
"it's interesting, it's a shame we have Binns as our history professor, it would be nice to study that instead of the gobbling rebellions again" Adhara said laughing
"ah, Binns, the one thing I don't miss about Hogwarts" Lupin sighed, everyone laughed at that, including Harry "he could make something as interesting as the war against Grindewald sound boring"
"yeah, besides that we didn't do much, well, we went swimming for a little but it got boring" Zania finished
"what about you? Harry, Leon?" asked Lupin, now looking at Harry and Leon
"well, I went down to Diagon Ally, to see the new broom these two have been talking about, I found Harry there" Leon said glaring mockingly at Harry "and when he told me that he was staying at the Leaky Cauldron I thought it would be best if he stayed with us"
"really? Why were you staying at the Leaky Cauldron?" Lupin asked curiously
"err…well, there were some problems with my relatives and in the end it was decided that I should stay in the Leaky Cauldron" said Harry looking at his plate, he could feel Lupin's eyes on him
"what kind of problems Harry?" Lupin asked softly looking at Harry
"my Uncle's sister was in town and she's staying with my relatives and….well, they were going with her on a trip and they…well…they didn't know if they would be back in time for me to come back to school" lied Harry, he didn't want Lupin or anyone to know what really had happen, he had been lucky and got away with blowing his aunt and he saw no need to push such luck
"well, next time something happens with your relatives, you are more than welcome to stay here, you will always be welcome" Lupin said kindly, Harry looked at him and saw him smiling gently, giving Harry the feeling that he knew that Harry was lying
"thank you" Harry muttered looking away
"what about you uncle? You said there was a problem at school" Leon said taking the attention away from Harry, he mouthed a 'thanks' at him and Leon winked at him
"oh that was nothing, don't worry, and anyway, summer school is officially over so I will be here all day now" said Lupin finishing his vegetables
The rest of the meal went by without problem, they made some small talk and made jokes, the twins told Lupin about some of their old pranks and to Harry's surprise he laughed at them, and on some he just shook his head fondly, but he didn't tell them off or punished them, he just told them to be careful, when they were done they all helped cleaning up and even though Lupin told Harry to just sit he insisted in helping, finally Lupin just chuckled and let him help. Once they were done they went to the living room, the twins played chess while Leon read and Harry used that time to finish his last essay, Lupin was also reading a book and every once in a while he would look up and observe everyone
After a couple of minutes the twins finished their game and kissing their dad in the cheeks bid them goodnight, Harry finished his essay and Leon watching him put everything away put his book on the table and stood up
"come on, let's go to sleep yeah?" said Leon "good night Uncle"
"good night boys, see you in the morning" said Lupin pleasantly
"well, what do you think, about…well, my home" Leon asked once they were out of sight
"I love it" answered Harry smiling at Leon, his smile getting wider when Leon beamed at him
Disclaimer: I own nothing, except Adhara, Zania and Leon