Hey! This is my first fan-fiction! I'm so excited! =D =D =D This should end
up being a pretty long fic, or at least that's my intention. Anyway, five
points to whoever can guess the origin of my name! =P Plz R+R, just like
every other writer, hehehe.
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"SIRIUS!!! GET UP NOW!!!"
Sirius stirred from his light slumber. Slowly, realization dawned on him. It was September first. IFinally! Yes!!!/I He thought as he excitedly jumped out of bed. He had been anticipating this day for a long time. For this was the day he could finally take his leave of the monsters that were his family.
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After half an hour of getting dressed and double-checking packed trunks, they were finally on their way. Sirius's mother got the Floo Powder off the mantle on the fireplace and threw it into the fire. Promptly, without hesitation, Sirius walked right into the fireplace and said, "King's Cross!" and vanished from sight.
Soon thereafter, his mother followed him and they proceeded into the crowded train station. "Now, then, remember, you must uphold the family reputation while at school, Sirius."
"Yes, mother," Sirius replied, without thinking. It had become second nature to him.
"Write home as soon as you've been sorted, won't you?"
"Yes, mother."
"Though it's perfectly obvious that you'll be in Slytherin like the rest of us. It's in your blood you know."
"Yes mother."
This was an often repeated conversation in the Black household. IThis is getting quite old.../I Sirius thought. IJust go with it./I He didn't want to be in Slytherin, though he had said so many a time while talking to his parents. It was what was expected of him. In his head, he knew that he was supposed to want to be in Slytherin like his parents, but somewhere, deep down in the core of his soul, he knew that he really didn't want to be like his parents at all. He hadn't felt comfortable with his parents and their pureblood talk since he was about eight years old...
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((Sirius POV))
I had been playing at the park down the road while my parents were out. Suddenly, a boy about my age came up to me and asked if I would mind playing with him for a while, because he had just moved here and hadn't made any friends yet. I was stunned - I'd never been approached like this before - all children were warned early on that I had an odd family. By the time I got over the shock of it all, the boy was starting to look at me funny, wondering why I hadn't yet responded. Regaining my composure, I told the boy that I would love to play with him. After a while, I learned that his name was Matt and that his mother was also a witch, but his father was a Muggle. This meant nothing to me then and I didn't care. But I was soon to learn that it meant a great deal.
We played for about three hours when my parents came looking for me. When they came around to the park, I introduced them to Matt and told them about his family, thinking they'd be happy that I had found someone to play with. However, they said their quick hello's and good-bye's and swiftly dragged me home and told me to meet them in father's office later on that evening.
About an hour later, very confused, I walked into the office. It was a very professional-looking room. It's furniture was all dark-cherry wood and there were book-shelves lining the walls, mostly filled with books about potions and spells that were not normally used by the general wizarding community.
There, I was given an extremely long talking-to about the importance of a wizard's family background - whether they were "purebloods" (like us, the Malfoys, and the Snapes), or "mudbloods". I wasn't quite sure what that word meant the first few times they used that word, and when my parents saw my obvious confusion, they explained that it meant "half-bloods" or Muggle- borns.
"Do you understand what we're trying to say to you, Sirius?" my mother said in a not often-used kind voice.
"Not really, mother..." I had replied. Apparently, it wasn't a good move.
Her eyes flashed with anger, but she quickly calmed back down and said, "I'll make it simple for you, Sirius. We don't want you interacting with people like Matt anymore. They aren't good for people like us purebloods to be talking to. They'll ruin our reputation. Understood?"
"Yes, mother." Even at that age I was well trained. Though, in my heart, I knew they were wrong, that "people like Matt", as she put it, weren't bad people and it wasn't their fault that they weren't born into "pureblood families". After that day, my family and I had many arguments over that particular issue, and, little by little, I began hating my parents. My brother, Regulus, however, went along with the insanity, and slowly, we began to drift apart as well.
((End Sirius POV))
***END FLASHBACK***/I
"Sirius? Let's go!" Sirius's mother said, jerking him out of his daydream. Sirius casually pushed his cart through the barrier, feeling as if it were the gateway to freedom. "Hey, look! There's Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy with your cousins over there! Why don't you go sit with them, Sirius?" his mother asked.
IBecause I don't want to.I Sirius thought.
"Remember, Sirius, if you tell the Sorting Hat that you want to be in Slytherin, it has a greater chance of putting you there." she told him, smiling. I I'll keep that in mind.... /I With that, Sirius watched his mother go back through the barrier, leaving him alone with the rather large crowd milling about on Platform 9 3/4. IFinally.../I he thought, for the second time that day, and went off to make some friends.
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Fifteen minutes later, he was on the train, walking up and down the train compartments, trying to find some promising first years to hang out with on the way to school. In the last compartment, he found three boys - a boy with messy, dark black hair, a rather tired-looking boy with light brown hair and hazel eyes, and another, small, quite nervous-looking boy with a round face and light brown eyes. Immediately, Sirius took a liking to them and asked if he could sit with them.
"Why, of course!" said the boy with dark, messy hair with a grin. "We were just about to begin introductions! My name's James Potter."
"Mine's Remus Lupin," the light-brown haired replied.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew," said the last boy. "And you are?"
"My name's Sirius." Sirius said vaguely. He suddenly realized that he did not want them to know his last name - everyone knew the Black's family reputation, and he didn't want it.
"That's an awesome name! Sirius what?" James said with his aforementioned grin still in place.
"Black..." Sirius replied softly. James' grin faltered slightly.
"Are you really?" Remus asked.
"Yeah..." Sirius said miserably. "I guess I'll leave..."
"No, no, no, wait! Sorry. I didn't mean to offend you or anything. It just surprised me that a Black would be in a compartment having a conversation with people like us." Remus explained.
"I'm not like my family." Sirius said defensively.
"Oh. Sorry..."
"No, I shouldn't have snapped. It's just that I hate my family and really don't like being compared to them."
"Well, then... Why do you hate them?" James asked with curiosity.
"Because of their belief that we're so much better than everyone else and that anyone not like us doesn't deserve to be able to be graced with our presence."
There was and akward silence. "Well, that's good, I suppose. Now we have another person to be friends with." James, his grin now solidly back in place. "Anyone for Exploding Snap?"
With this, they played the game for about an hour, when the snack cart finally came along. They then discovered another thing they all had in common - their taste in sweets. With their combined, quite large, amount of money, they bought a large quantity of candy, including Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Ice Mice, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Licorice Wands, and Cauldron Cakes.
Quite full and quite happy with his three new friends, Sirius exited the train and promptly heard the cry of, "Firs' years!" from a very large man Sirius could have sworn had some kind of giant lineage. The giant-man led them over to a flock of boats. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all hopped in the boat just as they began to be pulled across the lake. When the castle came into view, Sirius couldn't repress a gasp. Mother and father told me how big this place was, but I never imagined it could be THIS big....
Finally, when they got in the Great Hall, it was time for them to be sorted. Sirius was getting quite nervous. IWhat do I do?? Do I ask to be sorted into Slytherin even though I don't want to....? I don't think I will... If I'm meant to be there, I'll be put there without having to ask./I
Through all of his nervousness, Sirius had missed the Sorting Hat's song and Professor.... IMcGonagall, was it?/I was already to the Bs on the list. IOh, no... Here it comes...../I.
"Berns, David!" was placed in Ravenclaw just as Sirius was pulled from his thoughts.
"Bentley, Kara!" was then placed in Hufflepuff, followed closely by her cousin, Olga.
Before his liking, Professor McGonagall was calling, "Black, Sirius!" With a reassuring looks from his friends, Sirius hesitantly walked up to the stool and slipped the too-large hat on his head. Making him jump, a voice in his head spoke to him.
IHmmm..... Another Black.... I guess, the obvious way to go would be to put you straight in Slytherin..../I Sirius' heart dropped like a rock.IAh, just as I thought. Like your cousin, you don't really want to be in Slytherin do you?/I Hesitantly, Sirius ever-so-slightly shook his head. IAlright, then./I If hats could smile, Sirius was sure this one would be. I suppose you belong in.... Sirius heard the hat shout for the whole hall to hear, "GRYFFINDOR!!!"
With mixed feelings of relief and dread of what his mother would say, Sirius took off the hat, grinned at his friends and practically skipped over to the Gryffindor table, trying to ignore the metaphoric daggers being shot at him by his cousins and would-be friends at the Slytherin table.
Eagerly anticipating the food to later be served, Sirius watched the rest of the sorting in which Remus, Peter, and finally James were all sorted into his house, along with five girls, including a very pretty, red-haired girl named Lily Potter, a snotty-looking Elizabeth Kwan, a happy Mari McKinnon, a brown-haired, brown-eyed Victoria Park, and an extremely short, reddish-black haired girl named Alison Thompson.
"With that all over with, and bearing in mind that the Forbidden Forest is out-of-bounds, follow the rules, etc., etc., let's eat!" said an aging man Sirius could only assume was Professor Dumbledore.
After helping to himself to some steak, potatoes and some brown, fizzy stuff that tasted remarkably like Muggle Dr. Pepper, Sirius found himself engaged in conversation with his new-found friends. Quidditch was apparently very important to James and talked non-stop about he planned on showing up for Chaser tryouts, though he knew full well that first years weren't supposed to be allowed on house teams.
As he reached over to get some more hashed browns from the plate almost too far away, Sirius accidently knocked arms with Alison as she stretched to reach the same thing. Smiling nervously, Sirius helped Alison get her food and then helped himself. She's cute.... he thought.
After dessert (which was compiled of mint chocolate chip ice cream and deliciously moist chocolate cake with very little frosting), they were led up to Gryffindor Tower by the Prefect, who told them the new password, "fairy dust". He was thoroughly surprised by the magnificent room before him and immediately fell in love with it. Lucy, I'm home.... Sirius said, giggling, remembering an old Muggle TV show that Matt had told him about before his parents forbid him to play with him anymore.
"Everyone up to your rooms and lights out in half an hour!" the prefect shouted to them. Sirius and his friends spent the half hour allowed to themselves wisely... They played Exploding Snap for a while and then went off to get acquainted with their new housemates. Sirius immediately went off to find Alison Thompson and was having a lovely conversation with her when, looking across the Common Room, saw that James was doing a similar thing with one Lily Potter. IThis is going to be an interesting school year./I he thought to himself, while still carrying on his conversation with Alison Thompson about what their interests were.
All too soon, it was time to go to bed and Sirius lay in bed very full and completely happy to be in Gryffindor Tower, eagerly awaiting the beginning of classes the next morning.
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Again, plz R+R and I will love you. =) Anywho, see ya next update! If I can figure out how..
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"SIRIUS!!! GET UP NOW!!!"
Sirius stirred from his light slumber. Slowly, realization dawned on him. It was September first. IFinally! Yes!!!/I He thought as he excitedly jumped out of bed. He had been anticipating this day for a long time. For this was the day he could finally take his leave of the monsters that were his family.
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After half an hour of getting dressed and double-checking packed trunks, they were finally on their way. Sirius's mother got the Floo Powder off the mantle on the fireplace and threw it into the fire. Promptly, without hesitation, Sirius walked right into the fireplace and said, "King's Cross!" and vanished from sight.
Soon thereafter, his mother followed him and they proceeded into the crowded train station. "Now, then, remember, you must uphold the family reputation while at school, Sirius."
"Yes, mother," Sirius replied, without thinking. It had become second nature to him.
"Write home as soon as you've been sorted, won't you?"
"Yes, mother."
"Though it's perfectly obvious that you'll be in Slytherin like the rest of us. It's in your blood you know."
"Yes mother."
This was an often repeated conversation in the Black household. IThis is getting quite old.../I Sirius thought. IJust go with it./I He didn't want to be in Slytherin, though he had said so many a time while talking to his parents. It was what was expected of him. In his head, he knew that he was supposed to want to be in Slytherin like his parents, but somewhere, deep down in the core of his soul, he knew that he really didn't want to be like his parents at all. He hadn't felt comfortable with his parents and their pureblood talk since he was about eight years old...
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((Sirius POV))
I had been playing at the park down the road while my parents were out. Suddenly, a boy about my age came up to me and asked if I would mind playing with him for a while, because he had just moved here and hadn't made any friends yet. I was stunned - I'd never been approached like this before - all children were warned early on that I had an odd family. By the time I got over the shock of it all, the boy was starting to look at me funny, wondering why I hadn't yet responded. Regaining my composure, I told the boy that I would love to play with him. After a while, I learned that his name was Matt and that his mother was also a witch, but his father was a Muggle. This meant nothing to me then and I didn't care. But I was soon to learn that it meant a great deal.
We played for about three hours when my parents came looking for me. When they came around to the park, I introduced them to Matt and told them about his family, thinking they'd be happy that I had found someone to play with. However, they said their quick hello's and good-bye's and swiftly dragged me home and told me to meet them in father's office later on that evening.
About an hour later, very confused, I walked into the office. It was a very professional-looking room. It's furniture was all dark-cherry wood and there were book-shelves lining the walls, mostly filled with books about potions and spells that were not normally used by the general wizarding community.
There, I was given an extremely long talking-to about the importance of a wizard's family background - whether they were "purebloods" (like us, the Malfoys, and the Snapes), or "mudbloods". I wasn't quite sure what that word meant the first few times they used that word, and when my parents saw my obvious confusion, they explained that it meant "half-bloods" or Muggle- borns.
"Do you understand what we're trying to say to you, Sirius?" my mother said in a not often-used kind voice.
"Not really, mother..." I had replied. Apparently, it wasn't a good move.
Her eyes flashed with anger, but she quickly calmed back down and said, "I'll make it simple for you, Sirius. We don't want you interacting with people like Matt anymore. They aren't good for people like us purebloods to be talking to. They'll ruin our reputation. Understood?"
"Yes, mother." Even at that age I was well trained. Though, in my heart, I knew they were wrong, that "people like Matt", as she put it, weren't bad people and it wasn't their fault that they weren't born into "pureblood families". After that day, my family and I had many arguments over that particular issue, and, little by little, I began hating my parents. My brother, Regulus, however, went along with the insanity, and slowly, we began to drift apart as well.
((End Sirius POV))
***END FLASHBACK***/I
"Sirius? Let's go!" Sirius's mother said, jerking him out of his daydream. Sirius casually pushed his cart through the barrier, feeling as if it were the gateway to freedom. "Hey, look! There's Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy with your cousins over there! Why don't you go sit with them, Sirius?" his mother asked.
IBecause I don't want to.I Sirius thought.
"Remember, Sirius, if you tell the Sorting Hat that you want to be in Slytherin, it has a greater chance of putting you there." she told him, smiling. I I'll keep that in mind.... /I With that, Sirius watched his mother go back through the barrier, leaving him alone with the rather large crowd milling about on Platform 9 3/4. IFinally.../I he thought, for the second time that day, and went off to make some friends.
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Fifteen minutes later, he was on the train, walking up and down the train compartments, trying to find some promising first years to hang out with on the way to school. In the last compartment, he found three boys - a boy with messy, dark black hair, a rather tired-looking boy with light brown hair and hazel eyes, and another, small, quite nervous-looking boy with a round face and light brown eyes. Immediately, Sirius took a liking to them and asked if he could sit with them.
"Why, of course!" said the boy with dark, messy hair with a grin. "We were just about to begin introductions! My name's James Potter."
"Mine's Remus Lupin," the light-brown haired replied.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew," said the last boy. "And you are?"
"My name's Sirius." Sirius said vaguely. He suddenly realized that he did not want them to know his last name - everyone knew the Black's family reputation, and he didn't want it.
"That's an awesome name! Sirius what?" James said with his aforementioned grin still in place.
"Black..." Sirius replied softly. James' grin faltered slightly.
"Are you really?" Remus asked.
"Yeah..." Sirius said miserably. "I guess I'll leave..."
"No, no, no, wait! Sorry. I didn't mean to offend you or anything. It just surprised me that a Black would be in a compartment having a conversation with people like us." Remus explained.
"I'm not like my family." Sirius said defensively.
"Oh. Sorry..."
"No, I shouldn't have snapped. It's just that I hate my family and really don't like being compared to them."
"Well, then... Why do you hate them?" James asked with curiosity.
"Because of their belief that we're so much better than everyone else and that anyone not like us doesn't deserve to be able to be graced with our presence."
There was and akward silence. "Well, that's good, I suppose. Now we have another person to be friends with." James, his grin now solidly back in place. "Anyone for Exploding Snap?"
With this, they played the game for about an hour, when the snack cart finally came along. They then discovered another thing they all had in common - their taste in sweets. With their combined, quite large, amount of money, they bought a large quantity of candy, including Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Ice Mice, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Licorice Wands, and Cauldron Cakes.
Quite full and quite happy with his three new friends, Sirius exited the train and promptly heard the cry of, "Firs' years!" from a very large man Sirius could have sworn had some kind of giant lineage. The giant-man led them over to a flock of boats. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all hopped in the boat just as they began to be pulled across the lake. When the castle came into view, Sirius couldn't repress a gasp. Mother and father told me how big this place was, but I never imagined it could be THIS big....
Finally, when they got in the Great Hall, it was time for them to be sorted. Sirius was getting quite nervous. IWhat do I do?? Do I ask to be sorted into Slytherin even though I don't want to....? I don't think I will... If I'm meant to be there, I'll be put there without having to ask./I
Through all of his nervousness, Sirius had missed the Sorting Hat's song and Professor.... IMcGonagall, was it?/I was already to the Bs on the list. IOh, no... Here it comes...../I.
"Berns, David!" was placed in Ravenclaw just as Sirius was pulled from his thoughts.
"Bentley, Kara!" was then placed in Hufflepuff, followed closely by her cousin, Olga.
Before his liking, Professor McGonagall was calling, "Black, Sirius!" With a reassuring looks from his friends, Sirius hesitantly walked up to the stool and slipped the too-large hat on his head. Making him jump, a voice in his head spoke to him.
IHmmm..... Another Black.... I guess, the obvious way to go would be to put you straight in Slytherin..../I Sirius' heart dropped like a rock.IAh, just as I thought. Like your cousin, you don't really want to be in Slytherin do you?/I Hesitantly, Sirius ever-so-slightly shook his head. IAlright, then./I If hats could smile, Sirius was sure this one would be. I suppose you belong in.... Sirius heard the hat shout for the whole hall to hear, "GRYFFINDOR!!!"
With mixed feelings of relief and dread of what his mother would say, Sirius took off the hat, grinned at his friends and practically skipped over to the Gryffindor table, trying to ignore the metaphoric daggers being shot at him by his cousins and would-be friends at the Slytherin table.
Eagerly anticipating the food to later be served, Sirius watched the rest of the sorting in which Remus, Peter, and finally James were all sorted into his house, along with five girls, including a very pretty, red-haired girl named Lily Potter, a snotty-looking Elizabeth Kwan, a happy Mari McKinnon, a brown-haired, brown-eyed Victoria Park, and an extremely short, reddish-black haired girl named Alison Thompson.
"With that all over with, and bearing in mind that the Forbidden Forest is out-of-bounds, follow the rules, etc., etc., let's eat!" said an aging man Sirius could only assume was Professor Dumbledore.
After helping to himself to some steak, potatoes and some brown, fizzy stuff that tasted remarkably like Muggle Dr. Pepper, Sirius found himself engaged in conversation with his new-found friends. Quidditch was apparently very important to James and talked non-stop about he planned on showing up for Chaser tryouts, though he knew full well that first years weren't supposed to be allowed on house teams.
As he reached over to get some more hashed browns from the plate almost too far away, Sirius accidently knocked arms with Alison as she stretched to reach the same thing. Smiling nervously, Sirius helped Alison get her food and then helped himself. She's cute.... he thought.
After dessert (which was compiled of mint chocolate chip ice cream and deliciously moist chocolate cake with very little frosting), they were led up to Gryffindor Tower by the Prefect, who told them the new password, "fairy dust". He was thoroughly surprised by the magnificent room before him and immediately fell in love with it. Lucy, I'm home.... Sirius said, giggling, remembering an old Muggle TV show that Matt had told him about before his parents forbid him to play with him anymore.
"Everyone up to your rooms and lights out in half an hour!" the prefect shouted to them. Sirius and his friends spent the half hour allowed to themselves wisely... They played Exploding Snap for a while and then went off to get acquainted with their new housemates. Sirius immediately went off to find Alison Thompson and was having a lovely conversation with her when, looking across the Common Room, saw that James was doing a similar thing with one Lily Potter. IThis is going to be an interesting school year./I he thought to himself, while still carrying on his conversation with Alison Thompson about what their interests were.
All too soon, it was time to go to bed and Sirius lay in bed very full and completely happy to be in Gryffindor Tower, eagerly awaiting the beginning of classes the next morning.
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Again, plz R+R and I will love you. =) Anywho, see ya next update! If I can figure out how..