Walburga Black sipped her tea as she watched her good for nothing blood traitor of a son fidget on the sofa. A whimper drew her eyes to the toddler asleep on her son's lap. "So that is the Potter boy?" She asked as the silence stretched longer than was appropriate.
Sirius cleared his throat and shifted slightly trying not to wake up the sleeping boy. "Yes mother." He answered automatically then winced. "Harry James Potter to be exact."
"And his mother is a mudblood correct?" Walburga took another sip of her cooling tea.
"His mother was muggleborn yes." Sirius refused to be baited by her use of the vile label. "Smartest witch in our year." He tightened his arms around Harry as the grief threatened to overwhelm him.
Walburga snorted and waved Kreature off when he appeared to warm her tea. "I highly doubt that but you always did have a soft spot for the mutts and riff-raff that dare call themselves magical." She studied the child for a moment. "I blasted you from the family tree long ago Sirius why are you here?" The conversation was quickly becoming tiresome.
Sirius frowned slightly. "I have nowhere else to go." He admitted after a long pause. "James and Lily named me Harry's Godfather and with them gone…." He trailed off. "I haven't the means to care for him properly. I make decent enough wage but I can't continue to work not with a baby to look after." It was hard, swallowing his pride, but it had to be done; for Harry's sake. "I want to come home." He averted his eyes and focused on his godson's mop of black hair.
"Come home?" Walburga asked coldly. "You honestly think I'll help you care for that….abomination?"
"He's family now!" Sirius gritted out trying to rein in his temper. "He's, for all intents and purposes, my son. You're grandson. And with Reggie gone….Harry will inherit the title through me. Do you honestly want to miss out on his life when he'll someday be Lord Black?" It was low but he knew his mother was proud of the Black name.
Walburga sat her tea cup down slowly. "You intend to adopt him then?" That wouldn't be so bad. If Sirius did a blood adoption it would purge the boy of all his tainted blood making him essentially a Black. "If you clean his blood then I will consider helping you raise him properly." And that was the end of the conversation.