AN: Hi Guys!
You will have to completely disregard most of the epilogue and the fact that Sirius "DIED" in order to appreciate this story. If you can't do that then don't leave a mean nasty review about how I don't know the facts, because I actually do, I just had this story pop into my head and I decided it needed to be written. I hope you enjoy it, so please review!!!
Disclaimer: I would be rather delusional if I thought I owned Harry Potter, however I maintain that I own Sirius Black!
Chapter One - In The Beginning
In the beginning I was innocent, well at least that is what I thought. If your father is Sirius Black you are never innocent, you are unfortunately not even born innocent. Then he had to go get a laugh out of naming me because my poor mother was too high on drugs to know what day of the week it was. So my insubordinate father disobeyed my mother and signed all the papers before she was sane enough to make sure he didn't name me something horrendous. No, he didn't name me Gertrude or even Bertha, he decided in all his wisdom to call me Ivory. That's a pretty name is what you are thinking but with the surname black I don't think anyone needed the memo, and to top it off he gave me the middle name of Ebony. I know a song I tell you I was named after Ebony and fricking Ivory my life was over just as quickly as it had began.
My Uncle Ron was in love with my name, and every time mother dearest invited him, his pug nosed wife and their snot nosed brats around for dinner he would burst out with the tune to the song. It drove me insane, and Rose his eldest daughter would go red with embarrassment. It wasn't until I started school that I began to appreciate Rose, from here we formed a close bond and were generally inseparable. Her mother was mortified when she made Gryffindor with me in the first year but hey she was mortified that someone as rich as my mother would insist on working so you know its neither here nor there. Rose's cousin Molly had also joined our little group of friends as she aged with us. Her father was Percy, he is the most prudish and uppity person I have ever met in my entire life. I swear the man thinks the sun shines out of his arse! Last but not least to finish off our quartet was Saioa Chang-Wai, her mother was a former Ravenclaw and father was a mere muggle. She spoke fluent English and Chinese and would annoy the shit out of me when she got passionate about something and started rambling in Chinese.
Then there was the "Marauders", in my personal opinion it was a half rate effort at my fathers group of friends but they thought they were special. They had the makings of the group to a tee, a Potter who thought he was the bees knees, a pureblood who defied all odds and was placed in Gryffindor over Slytherin, a freak of knowledge (although this one wasn't a werewolf) and the last one didn't fit the mould but was close enough he was a Weasley that was all that mattered. Albus Severus Potter was quite alright when he wasn't trying to impress Saioa he was madly in love with the raven haired Asian of our group but she would never reciprocate the feelings. Scorpios Malfoy, was in many ways the biggest prat of them all, unlike my fathers parents his did not disown him for making Gryffindor but he was sent a howler by his grandfather. Matthew Longbottom was thankfully nothing like his father and was rather quite the book of knowledge he knew the answer to everything and that was just the beginning of his complex mind. Fred Weasley, what can I say except his sense of humor often got him in more trouble than a fish on a hook.
Today was our last day at Hogwarts in a few moments time I would stand before the crowd and make a speech that I had written and then head home for the last time on the train. From there I would get my acceptance letter for an internship or university program and start my working life or at least the training for it within the week. I was ready to start life, well to a degree I had almost convinced my parents to let me move out and live in Diagon Alley with my girls but dad was still on the "I am going to lock you up forever" speal. I looked out over the audience and gave the girls a thumbs up as they beamed up at me from their seats.
"Today ladies and gentlemen we have a speech from Miss Ivory Black on behalf of the seventh year students. Please make her welcome!" Old Snivelly said and gave me a glare as I walked forward.
"Ladies and gentlemen, students past, present and future." I paused and took a deep breath.
"My name is Ivory Black and I am an alcoholic." There were a few gasps and disapproving glances at my parents. My mother gave me a typical "Granger Glare" as my father called them. "Just kidding," I said pausing as the laughter of the other students died down.
"Gone are the days of Chudley Cannon jocks for the boys and pygmy puffs as pets for the girls,"
"Gone are the days where the boys had cooties and the girls just had germs."
"Gone are the days when Filchy would scream "DON'T RUN IN THE HALLS" and we would scream back "YOU CAN'T CATCH US!""
"Gone are the days when Professor Snape would deduct points from Gryffindor because he hated my father, and reward them to Slytherin because they suck at Qudditch." I paused as the Slytherins laughed at their own suckiness.
"Gone are the times when you would lie on your divination paper because Professor Patil would say you were lying if you didn't," I paused again earning a laugh from the diviniation students.
"Where the boys tried and failed ever so miserably to get into the girls dorms."
"And the girls ever so triumphantly got into the boys dorms," I paused as a few shocked parents gasped.
"Of course it was only to short sheet the beds!" I said earning sighs of relief from the shocked parents.
"So here are a few memories from the year we just had because it was by far the best." I paused again taking a breath.
"Mr Potter in History of Magic whilst learning about the fountain of youth, "We have enough youth how about a fountain of smart?" to which Professor Binns replied quick wittedly "You would need to drown in it before it helped you Mr Potter."" I paused allowing the laughter to die down whilst Albus went cherry red in the cheeks.
"Miss Chang-Wai when asked about amorntentia, the most powerful sleeping potion known to wizard kind, "Death is hereditary, I don't see why we need a potion which is like it! We're all going to get there!"" Again the crowd laughed.
"Mr Malfoy on DADA "Defence Against the Dark Arts is so much more fun when we throw out the textbook and do it our way." to which Professor Potter replied "I'm sure that's a much better idea everyone throw your books out!" "Really?" questioned Mr Malfoy "No" Potter replied hastily before assigning a two foot essay on the Patronus Charm and its defensive uses." I paused and saw Scorpios grinning sheepishly and the rest of the DADA students giving him a glare.
"The Ravenclaw prefects on Poker. "We once stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards," to which the other finished "I got a full house and four people died."" I paused earning a laugh from the Ravenclaws.
"Miss Weasley on her sanity in Herbology "Insanity runs in the family, it practically gallops!"" This earnt a laugh from the Herbology students.
"And Mr Brooks on Mr Creevey's photography "I'm going to smile, even if it kills me." Unfortunately we weren't so lucky and Brooks is still very much alive." I paused as the Slytherins laughed at their housemate.
"And last but definitely not least, Professor Potter on her own son "That boy is by no means a fine specimen." To which Miss Rose Weasley replied "Don't look at me you gave birth to him."" I paused and took another breath.
"So now you have had some insight into our year you are probably wondering if you paid to have your children educated or turned into comedians."
"The good news is, you are all the proud parents of fully legal witches and wizards, the bad news is sorry mum and dad I'm a comedian."
"To confirm we are all in fact very different I will leave you with one more quote in which Professor Snape asserted his difference to my father "He and I alike? As in we breathe particles of oxygen which are in close proximity?"" I paused one last time.
"So there you have it from one comedian to an entire generation. NO MORE SCHOOL!" I finished with a yell and everyone started to applaud scream and wolf whistle.
"Thank you for that rather insightful speech Miss Black." Professor Snape said before continuing in a boring fashion for another five minutes before announcing graduation over. I made my way towards my friends who were all laughing at something Fred had said.
"So whats the plan now?" Scorpios asked as I reached them.
"Sky diving." I answered randomly earning a laugh from everyone.
"Why on earth would you go sky diving?" a new voice interrupted.
"Because James it would be something different." I exclaimed. My relationship with James had always been great, until we started at Hogwarts. It had gone progressively downhill since then and we were now left at snide remarks.
"Kinda like your name." He snickered as I gave him a glare.
"Right that's it!" I yelled launching myself at him knocking him to the ground. I drew my fist back and punched him. There was a crack as my fist collided with his nose.
"Oh you bitch!" James cursed as my dad pulled me off of him.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" He questioned in a "Tell me or I will kill you" tone.
"He started it." I said quickly.
"Real mature Ivy!" James spluttered.
"I am more mature than you will ever be." I said cringing at the use of the nickname only James ever used.
"Yeah in your dreams!" James scoffed.
"Enough! James act your age. Ivory apologize." Dad said giving us both a stern glare. I smirked coyly at James and stood on my tippy toes and whispered in his ear.
"Sorry," I paused momentarily "I didn't hit you harder."
"Uh huh." He replied dazedly.
"Al I think your bro needs medical attention." Scorpios whispered loudly to Albus.
"Why?" Al asked.
"Apart from the obvious broken nose, he's doing the eyes." Scorpios said.
"So? When have oogling hot chicks been a problem?" Al said still a little behind the eight ball.
"Since he was doing them at Ivory Black!" Scorpios yelled.
"Oh god!" Al said rushing towards James to be held back by Saioa.
"I want to see what happens." she said looking at him. James looked into my eyes before leaning down and brushing his lips gently over mine. I was just about to kiss him back when dad tore us apart.
"Kiss her again and I will break your nose for her!" Dad said with a protective growl.
"Ah good old sexual tension." Professor Ginny Potter laughed walking towards the group.
"Can we be expecting you for dinner tomorrow night?" My mum asked as she patted my father reassuringly on the back.
"Oh yes Hermione, I'm sure everyone will be eager to see what they are going to be doing with themselves for the rest of their lives." Ginny said excitedly, our offers were due out tomorrow and it was going to be the beginning of our forever.
"Excellent, Saioa don't forget to invite your parents." Mum said to Sai who was standing with Albus.
"No worries Mrs Black." Saioa said with a laugh.
"Right well you kids best get to the Platform I don't think the train will be far off leaving." Professor Potter said with a grin.
"See you at the other end." I smiled at my parents before heading towards the carriages with everyone else.
The train ride was reasonably uneventful. We talked about which offers we were most keen on receiving. Us girls wanted to be accepted to my fathers department as part of the new task force and the boys all wanted to be aurors. Dad was the head of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic and the Task Force was a new initiative set up the previous year to have staff trained to deal specifically with rogue creatures or dangerous meetings. I E meetings between species that weren't known for their agreeability. There was only four people selected every twelve months and for us girls we were hoping we would get lucky. My father didn't handle the applications that was left up to the Ministry Auror Department as they were involved in a majority of our training.
That evening my parents collected me from the platform and we drove home in silence. I headed upstairs and went to bed not waking until two o'clock the next afternoon.
"IVORY!" My mother called from the kitchen where I presumed she was slaving away over the stove in preparation for that nights meeting of familes. I knew we would have Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny, with Al and Lily, Uncle Ron and Pug nose Aunt Pansy, Rosie, Petal, Blossom and Hydrangea (Poor girl horrid name most of the time we called her Heidi) Uncle Percy and Aunt Audrey with Molly and Lucy plus Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur, Mr and Mrs Chang-Wai and Mr and Mrs Malfoy with Scorpios and Saioa.
"Yeah." I said groggily as I padded down the stairs smelling the sweet aroma of a varied menu.
"Letter is here." She said as I entered the kitchen. I rushed forward seizing the letter.
"Well how did you go?" My mother asked.
A/N : Oh a cliffie, nothing like a cliffie. Hope you liked it! Free tripple choc cookies to whomever reviews.
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PT