A/N: Thanks so much for all of you who have followed this series and stuck with it so far! I love all of you so much. I needed to get this up and started before I ended up not. Bear with me for this slightly long author note.
For those of you who didn't notice, this is the third instalment in my Siriusly Changing Things series. The first part is Siriusly Changing Things, and the second is Sirius Tasks. Read those two first or this one won't make a lot of sense.
I don't know how often this will be updated either, but I'll try and be fairly regular with this. Writers block will do that to you. I have some things planned out in my head, but I never seem to find the time to write them down. You would think that being on summer break would help me find time to write, but no, family and work get in the way of that. Oh well, I'll do what I can to update this often enough for you guys.
Comments and reviews are much appreciated, they help me expand on the story, get ideas, and encourage me to write! Seriously, the more reviews I get, the faster I will update.
Story warnings: male slash, and mentions of mpreg.
Basic summary for a refresher: Emma Lance, a girl who loves the Harry Potter series finds herself in the Harry Potter universe one day. Filled with a need to save those lives she cares most about in this world, she starts making friends and changing the course of history. First goals, save Sirius Black and get him free. Along the way she makes friends and becomes family with Sirius, Remus, and Harry.
Harry finds the presence of this young woman to only be a good thing and a positive change in his life. She brings chances that would have never happened before. Thanks to her his godfather is now a free man, and he's made some startling new friends. Harry actually gets along with Snape now and his potions grades have improved drastically. He's made a better friend in Neville than he would have ever thought. Ron's dwindling friendship might have hurt more and been an unexpected turn, but after fourth year, he wasn't that upset over it. He's even got a boyfriend now, a most unexpected Draco Malfoy. Luna Lovegood, Blaise Zabini, and the increased friendship with Fred and George are an added bonus. Harry knows none of this would have happened without Emma's influence.
Now with the upcoming start of Harry's fifth year, things are starting to look up for him. Plans are in motion to get rid of Voldemort with as little casualty as possible. He's finally got a home where he belongs. And Harry's hoping his secret boyfriend doesn't stay secret for very much longer. All he has to do is navigate the errors of the ministry, horrid teachers, and a meddling headmaster. Oh, and let's not forget dealing with an insane murderous psychopath. Easy, right?
P.S: Full moon! had to update today, you all know how I like to update on the full moon. Fun fact the June full moon is known in the states as the strawberry moon or the big leaf moon. Mmh, strawberry season.
Sirius Order chapter 1 Leaving for Good
"Are you really leaving? You're not coming back?"
Harry glanced over at his door as it opened from his spot on his bed as Dudley came in, a pensive look on his cousin's face. It was more thought than he had ever seen on the other boy.
"Glad to finally get rid of me Big D?" Harry asked using the nickname that Harry had heard Dudley's friends start to call him.
Dudley shrugged. "It's different. I know mum and dad are glad that you are leaving. But you've been here all my life. Can't really say that I'll miss you, but it will be different."
"Gee thanks Duds." Harry replied turning back on his back and rolling his eyes. Count on Dudley to act like he cares one second and then make such a blatant dismissal when talking to Harry all in one sentence.
Though, if Harry thought about it, it wasn't like they had ever gotten along before. Nor had that changed this summer. Dudley was still freaked out over what happened last summer and had glared at Harry as if daring him to do something to him before storming out of the house. The effect was kind of lost on multiple reasons, the main two being that Dudley had a hand covering his mouth and backside while he glared and the other reason being that Dudley, despite being put on numerous diets, did not seem to have lost much weight. The hands and his size, just made Dudley seem a bit comical while he glared and left the house.
For all Harry cared, he didn't see their relationship ever changing, even if he did stay and Dudley somehow managed to grow up. And now with less than a day left of his being here, Harry didn't see their relationship changing, and he really couldn't care. Not like Dudley's ever tried to be decent to Harry. No, Harry was just glad to get away from this house for good.
Soon enough Harry heard his door close again, he had barely noticed that Dudley was still there given how quiet the other boy had been. He sighed and looked towards the ceiling.
It had barely been two weeks since he had been back, but he couldn't wait to leave already. He had gotten a letter from Sirius and another from Amelia Bones saying that everything was filed and ready, all they needed was his Aunt and Uncle's signature and he was no longer their responsibility.
Then Harry could finally leave. He wouldn't have to see his horrid relatives ever again. Frankly as far as Harry was concerned it wasn't fast enough.
Sirius would be coming with Madame Bones with the papers in the morning. And then he was gone for good.
Harry was thankful to Madame Bones, she was being a big help in this whole situation, doing the paperwork right and promising to file it all away as soon as it was signed so the records were private. Very few people would know that Harry had even changed residents and guardians this summer. Hopefully this would be able to be kept quite from Dumbledore for quite a while and he wouldn't be able to interfere.
He sighed going back to thinking over Dudley's visit. It was odd for the other boy, normally by this time, Dudley had escaped the house and went to hang with his friends. Good for Harry, not so good for the other neighborhood kids.
Harry had come across Dudley and his gang the few times that he felt like stepping out of the house. Though he stayed inside for the most part keeping up an illusion that he was barely going outside this summer. Since Emma had said in one of her letters that Dumbledore would have a few of his people, whatever that meant, watching Harry to make sure he was safe, Harry hadn't wanted to set up a routine of him being outside and then for him to suddenly disappear.
He found it hilarious how his Aunt and Uncle refused to see what kind of person Dudley was becoming, if his cousin wasn't careful he could end up in serious trouble. Dudley and his friends were often out smoking and down by the roads and throwing rocks at passing cars. If they weren't doing that they was beating up some kid that managed to get on their wrong side.
He was glad he was leaving, he didn't know if Dudley would have tried something on him had he stayed. He still remembered the Harry hunting from when he was little. Harry did not want a repeat of that.
A little put out by this new train of thought he turns over in his bed and reaches under his pillow for the book he has stashed there. The one he had managed to hide before his uncle locked all his other things in the cupboard under the stairs.
Just because he was going to be gone in a few days does not apparently mean he gets to keep his stuff.
Fishing out a pen he opens his journal, the wonderful journal he treasures, because it is the paired journal that Draco got him for Christmas last year. Harry wonders if he had written anything new.
Harry smiles to see that there is a new message, Draco just checking in and saying hi for the morning. He grins and begins to write a response.
-Good morning. How are things going at your end?
Harry waits for a while just staring at the open pages, he can't exactly expect Draco to be waiting by the journal all morning.
He lay his head down while he waited thinking about how crazy the last year had been, not that he was complaining, there had been some decent outcomes to everything.
Emma and her crazy life, coming out of nowhere, completely changing his life in a way he could hardly expect. But he loved her for it, she had become like a sister to him, and helped Sirius get free last summer.
Now thanks to her, he had a family waiting for him, Sirius, Remus, and their twins. Plus, Emma herself and Snape were now included in his little makeshift family.
Heck, even though Harry didn't want to admit it, Emma had even helped him get together with Draco. If it wasn't for her getting Draco and his mother involved then he would have never made up with Draco. If ever, it would have probably been years later, and that was not something Harry wanted to think about. He liked what he had now with Draco.
With the way things had been headed between the two before Emma got involved, his and Draco's interactions probably would have just kept getting more and more violent.
It was thanks to her that he got closer with Draco, and in an extended way, that he had made so many new friends last year.
He doubted without her prompting that he would have gotten as close as he had with Neville, though the two certainly would have gotten close after Ron had abandoned him last year. But along with Draco came Blaise, and he was an interesting person to get to know and just fit in with the group surprisingly.
Luna had been a pleasant surprise and was like a little sister that he just wanted to protect.
Fred and George had also gotten closer over the last few months which had been great.
Harry grinned when he noticed words appearing in the journal.
-My father's friends are fucking arseholes. I swear Yaxley was fucking leering at me. The fucker is older than my father. The creep is careful not to look when my parents are watching, but I told my mother and she's livid. Why the hell can't he meet his creepy friends somewhere other than our house. I know some of them have nice enough manors.
-Well if I ever see him, I'll be sure to curse him for you. And let your mother know I love her, she is one of the most amazing witch's I've ever met, bar McGonagall.
-You are an amazing boyfriend. Yes, McGonagall is amazing, in a different way than my mother of course, but your head of house and godmother is respected for a reason. Even Slytherins don't want to get on her bad side. I swear, her and Severus are more respected in school than even Dumbledore.
Harry grinned at Draco's response. He wasn't exactly happy that some old friend of Draco's father was looking at his boyfriend, Harry was glad that so far Draco seemed okay. He was relieved that Narcissa was there watching out for him.
-So, other than your father's Death Eater friends visiting, how is everything with you?
-Boring, I miss the potions room. I've already finished my summer homework with how bored I've been. My father hasn't let me leave the manor either to visit Blaise or anyone. And the room I have hear to brew isn't nearly as good as the one Severus furnished for us at Hogwarts.
My mother has been giving father looks ever since I came home. She isn't happy with him at all. I heard them talking the other night how she doesn't want them in the manor, my father disagreed. I don't know how much more she is going to put up with this. She's planning something, but I think she's waiting to see how far it needs to get before we leave. She doesn't really want to leave father, they've grow comfortable over the years, but I know she won't endanger the two of us, so I guess we just have to wait and see.
-I don't like this Draco. If it gets too bad, don't wait, come to Grimmauld place as soon as you can.
-Thanks Harry. How about you tell me about you. What's the last day been like with your horrid relatives?
-Dudley stopped by, it was weird. Started commenting how I was leaving, didn't really seem that upset about it.
-Good riddance, the faster you get away from them the better. They've never done a single good thing for you from what little you've told me. I wish that you would have been able to go straight to Sirius after school and didn't have to go back there. Have you heard any news from the others? It wouldn't be a good idea for me to send letters to them, and I've only got one letter from Blaise, bragging how he was in Brazil being hit on by a bunch of young wizards and witches there. I think he enjoys teasing others with his flirting and staying just out of reach.
Harry frowned. He hoped for Blaise's sake that he didn't act like that with Neville. Whatever was going on between the two of them was their business, but they had been dancing around each other the past year. If he hurt Neville, then Blaise would have plenty of people to answer to, including Draco who was starting to get along with Neville in the last few months.
-Just a few small letters from the others during the first few days, sorry forgot to tell you about them. Luna wrote and told me that she was going to be out of the country also for the summer with her father traveling to find some of their creatures.
-You mean the ones that may or may not exist?
-Yes those, she told me of one that they were searching for, but I honestly don't even want to try and spell it out or have any idea what they are supposed to be.
-Did she say where they were going?
-Nope, just said they would be around. Neville owl'd, said he was going to visit his parents within the next few days. Something he was looking forward to, especially after improving so much this year. He's got a ton to tell them.
The twins also wrote, said they were missing the potions room also. They promised though that what they would make they would send to Sev that way he could store them somewhere and their mum wouldn't get to them.
-I don't know why she doesn't support them. They may not have the traditional sense of the work in terms of their career outlook but at least they have one. And it's a decent one. I don't see them having any problem doing well in life. Molly Weasley may not be a traditional pureblood, but she raised her children like many of the traditional purebloods have, where the parents push them to get jobs in the ministry or in politics somehow. Even then, most parents at least take in their children's consideration for jobs, at least in this age. Weasley hasn't even done that, just expects that they go into the ministry, and gets into a stint when they don't.
Harry smiled at Draco's rant. It was good to see that he was getting along with and cared for the twins. They really needed all the confidence and support they could get with their joke shop. Mrs. Weasley's constant break down of their dreams was starting to wear on them. Harry was afraid one day they would snap.
Whenever Mrs. Weasley and the Twins got brought up in the same sentence, in conjunction with their shop, Draco could always be counted on to have some sort of rant about the issue.
-I'm sure they appreciate the sentiment Draco.
-They should, I don't give compliments out that easily to just anyone. Besides, I'm invested into this too now, of course I support this, I wouldn't if I didn't see promise in them.
-mmm, you deserve a good snog for that comment.
Harry raised a brow and laughed at the scribbles and ink streak that appeared on the page after his comment.
-Fuck you, Potter. You can't go around saying shit like that. Not when we can't just meet up. Now all I want to do is snog you.
Harry could practically hear the whine and pout in Draco's voice. He knew it was unfair to both of them to tease like that, when Draco was right, they were too far away from each other to do anything about it.
Harry was just glad they had the journals and were able to talk, complete radio silence would not have sat well with either Draco or Harry. It tended to make them both upset as they could see as having happened over the past year.
-Sorry
-No, you're not you arse. But you're right, you do owe me a snog later for being so amazing and praising our friends.
-I love that they are your friends now too.
-Sap, alright, now tell me about yourself, or do you have anything else to say about the others?
-Um, just Hermione, she wrote to me the first day back that her parents agreed to visit Krum in Bulgaria for the next month. They had already taken time off from their work and were planning to spend a month doing something since they didn't get to see her over Christmas. They had gone to France the summer before third year, and were thinking of going again, but agreed that Bulgaria would be an interesting change. They were excited to meet Krum to, apparently, Hermione had told them about him in a few letters over the past year.
-Yippy for Granger. She gets to spend the summer with her boyfriend.
-Hey, we at least go to school together. They won't see each other for who knows how long after this summer. I like Krum, I hope things work out for them.
-Yes, well I guess you're right. Better Krum than Weasley I suppose.
-I feel that it is in my best interest not to argue that at the moment.
-Good form, you're learning Harry.
Harry stared at his journal. He really knew how he wanted to respond to Draco, but he knew it wasn't the right time. For weeks now he's been wanting to tell Draco that he loves him, but he knew that it wouldn't go over well with Draco if this kind of declaration wasn't done in person.
While he was trying to figure out how he wanted to respond he noticed that Draco was writing something new.
-Sorry I have to go. Mother's come by and said I have to attend some early dinner tonight with her and father. I'm assuming that some of his associates are going to be here.
Harry frowned, they hadn't gotten to talk for very long.
-It's fine, go to your dinner. Miss you Dray.
-You too Harry. I…I'll talk to you later.
Harry sighed, tomorrow couldn't come fast enough.
"Boy when are they coming?"
Harry looked up at his Uncle who stood in the doorway to his room the next day. Finally it was the day that Sirius was coming to get him.
"They said they would be here by noon." Harry answered.
"Yes, you did mention that." Uncle Vernon said nodding his head looking a little excited to finally be rid of Harry.
Considering it was going on 11:30, Harry was really hoping his uncle would at least let him retrieve his things from under the stairs.
After breakfast this morning, his uncle had sent him to his room to make sure it was cleaned of all his things and put back into "Presentable Order" according to him. Which basically meant erasing all traces of Harry ever having been in the room.
Considering that this was the only room in the house, except for the cupboard under the stairs that held any traces of him. It really hadn't taken long for him to get everything in order in his room. The few clothes he had at the Dursley's and making sure that the loose floorboard was cleared out.
Now he was just waiting.
"Uncle Vernon, may I get my things from under the stairs?" Harry asked.
Vernon looked at him thinking. Finally to Harry's relief he nodded and moved down the stairs.
"You might as well. This godfather of yours, he planning on being on time, or is he going to be like those others that picked you up last year?" Uncle Vernon asked with a derisive sneer on his face as he opened the cupboard door under the stairs and stepping back so Harry could grab all his things.
"He'll be on time." Harry replied reaching in and grabbing his things. Not much, mainly his trunk and a few loose things. Harry was thankful for shrinking charms, having accumulated a few more things over the past year, all his things wouldn't have fit in his trunk otherwise. As it stands, he knew that he had quite a bit more waiting for him at Sirius' place. That new wardrobe he had gotten last summer was waiting for him in his room at Grimmauld place. And wasn't that a thought, a room all to himself. One that wasn't a cast off.
Dragging his trunk out, Harry placed it by the stairs and waited sitting down in the hallway. His uncle leaving for the sitting room where Aunt Petunia was waiting. Dudley wasn't even here this afternoon. Having learned his lesson from previous visits by random people coming for Harry, Dudley had chosen to stay out of the house for the day.
Not even a goodbye, seems like that small talk he got yesterday was all he was getting.
It was only a little while later that Harry heard a knock on the door. Looking at the clock on the wall he saw that it was exactly noon on the dot.
With a smile he jumped up ready to open the door. Aunt Petunia came into the hallway and shot him a look. Backing down he stepped aside and let her open the door.
"You're hear are you then?" She asked with a sour expression as she greeted Sirius, who Harry could briefly see from around her.
"Lovely to see you Tuny." Sirius greeted. Harry was glad to see that Sirius wasn't wearing any flashily robes, just jeans and a leather jacket.
"Who's this?" she asked noticing the other person accompanying Sirius.
"He's brought another one of them?" Vernon asked with a sneer of distaste entering the hallway.
"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, I am Amelia Bones, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement under the British Ministry of Magic." Madame Bones greeted stepping forward, she was in a modest suit that blended in just fine in the muggle neighborhood.
Harry watched as his aunt and uncle stepped back and allowed the two in with wary faces. They didn't want the strange wizards lingering on their doorstep.
"What's this about? Has the boy done something?" Uncle Vernon asked sounding too cheerful at the thought of Harry in trouble.
"No, this is just a formality. I've taken over the case of his reassignment in residence due to his high profile nature in the wizarding world. His movement is all hushed up and very private. Few know that the exchange is taking place." Madame Bones answered.
"High profile?" Uncle Vernon asked confused and unable to help himself.
"Yeah, I've been targeted by numerous persons trying to kill me over the last few years." Harry replied with a smile. "The most recent is the psychotic murder who killed my parents."
"I thought he died that night." Petunia said with a frown looking at Harry.
"So, did everyone else. Turns out he wasn't completely, just vanished. Came back a few weeks ago." Harry replied with a shrug.
"And you think he'll come after the boy here?" Vernon said with a frown.
"It's always possible. However his address here is a secured record. Very few people have access to the information. Thus my involvement, his new location is equally secured." Amelia Bones added before pulling out some papers. "Now, all we need you to do is sign here that you hand over guardianship of Harry Potter to Sirius Black, his godfather, and a few more signatures to finish the paperwork and we should be all finished."
"That's it, just sign our names and he's gone?" Vernon asked.
Amelia Bones nodded and produced a packet of papers from her suit and held them out.
"Just the basics, you'll be given a copy to do with as you want, and Lord Black here will also have a copy. The last copy will be filed in the ministry of magic's archives. Just sign the three copies here, here, and here." Amelia said pointing at each of the spots.
"Lord?" Petunia questioned raising a brow and looking pinched at Sirius.
"Oh yes, our community's foundation is quite old. We have families that go back hundreds of years. Over time they build up and the oldest have quite the fortunes amassed. We've established our own system of nobility I guess you could say, Lords and the like for the oldest of us." Sirius said with a shrug showing off some.
Harry caught him smirking. Harry had seen him watching his uncle and aunt waiting for them to finish signing before elaborating and showing off.
The remark seemed to have some impact as his aunt and uncle paled but made no comment. It wasn't like they could do anything or profit from this news. Not with the way they've treated Harry all these years.
"Well, looks like everything is all in order then." Amelia Bones announced handing each copy to the appropriate person and tucking her copy back into her suit. "We really must be going now, have everything Harry?"
"Yes ma'am." Harry replied jumping up and gesturing to his trunk. She and Sirius both frowned when they saw how little Harry had.
Sirius shot a glare towards the bottom of the stairs, no doubt thinking of the cupboard. Harry shook his head, begging his godfather not to make an issue of it. It was past and all Harry wanted to do was leave, leave this part of his life behind him. Seeing this Sirius nodding reluctantly and pull out his wand.
Ignoring the sudden shriek of Petunia and Vernon, he pointed it at Harry's things and shrunk his trunk, before picking up Hedwig's cage and doing the same to it, his owl was out hunting and Harry had told her to look for him at Grimmauld place.
"All right, let's get going, I don't need to be here longer than I have to." Sirius replied haughtily and turning to make out the door.
Amelia Bones tsk'd and followed holding the door open for Harry.
"Well, bye then." Harry said with a cheery wave to his aunt and uncle's surprise as he dashed out the door.
He was finally leaving for good.
