AN-Another plot bunny that is running around in my head that I must get out! Please note, I do not have a beta nor am I the fabulous J.K Rowling therefore I own nothing but the plot and perhaps a few OC. Reviews are amazing and I can't wait to see what you guys think. Remember this is AU so the characters will be different. Just a warning in advance. ENJOY!
The air in the Professor McGonagall's office was tense to say the least. It was 10 days since the now infamous battle at the department of mysteries. 10 days since absolutely everything had changed. Neither Dumbledore or Voldemort survived the battle, Kingsley Shacklebolt is now the Minister of Magic and a Pandora's Box of epic proportions had been opened.
Professor McGonagall seemed to be the calmest in the room with Remus Lupin leaning against a back wall coming in close second. The newly pardoned Sirius Black is pacing at a frantic pace behind the three teenagers. Words in this case are not easy to come by. Truths have been half revealed leaving most incredibly confused, and the rest with everything they ever knew turned upside down. For once, Harry was actually not the main source of the drama. Granted, he was in a close second but the two sitting next to him were both in a state of utter shock.
"Hermione Dorea Potter" are the first words whispered from the shaking teenage girl seated in the middle staring at the birth certificate. Harry squeezes her hand tightly in an attempt to comfort her.
"Even your name was meant to spit in the face of pureblood culture." Remus says from behind the group. "Shakespearian for your Mother and Dorea as a promise to your grandmother before she passed. They both knew your very existence would turn the world on their feet, and of course they weren't wrong. No one except our innermost of inner circles knew that she was pregnant when they went into hiding, and of course they were thrilled. I got to hold you before I left for my last mission and they named me Godfather. "
The tension in the air is thicker than most thought possible. Sirius is still pacing. His fingers itching for the cigarette he was craving were instead running through his hair. His breath is shaky his eyes closed as the pacing stops. "What…what I want to know is why he felt it necessary to meddle with absolutely everything!" Visibly trembling, Sirius has a hard time catching his breath. Everyone in the room knew the signs of a panic attack and they all knew it was inevitably coming. They also knew it was well deserved. "My Godson got thrown with his vile Aunt and Uncle. He got thrown there alone, while my newborn Goddaughter got given to complete strangers. He separated the last remaining Potters and wiped Hermione's existence from everyone's memory."
The trembling in Sirius's body growing worse with each statement as an unopened pack of Marlboros gets thrown to him by McGonagall. "He took my son, our son. The product of a mate bond. Born of my body, he took him, yet again wiped another memory before giving him to the family I was so desperate to escape!"
Tears slowly fall down the silent teenagers face. Hermione looks over at him, her free hand reaching over and clasping his. "Draconis Regulus Black" Is but a whisper from his lips as he stares down at his own birth certificate. His now jet black hair falling into his eyes covering the emptiness that seems to have settled in his very soul.
The meeting was more than enough for the three teens. Remus thinking rationally had thought that they needed a safe space, somewhere to decompress after all of this and sent the three back to Grimmauld Place. Once they were safely through the floo Sirius and Remus both collapse into the chairs in front of Minerva. No words are spoken as she pulls out a tankard of fire whiskey from the drawer. "I am thinking we are all going to be needing this." And with that she drains an entire goblet before pouring herself a second.
"I have been the calm one here. I am the one that got pinned as the traitor. I am the one who missed my mate's entire pregnancy for the cause. The one who taught his own son without knowing who he was! I do not want to hear how this is for the greater fucking good Minerva!" Remus screams throwing his goblet against the wall watching it smash into tiny fragments and fall to the floor.
"Mr. Lupin" Minerva sighs "I cannot begin to fathom the feelings you have right now, nor would I ever dream of wanting to. The journals and the paperwork all scream to the fact that what he truly wanted was control and the ultimate glory for the light. He was in the end as twisted in beliefs as those he so staunchly opposed. He knew Mr. Pettigrew was a traitor, just like he knew that Mr. Lupin wasn't. He ensured that Mr. Black would not receive a trial making everything nice and easy for him. The charm was set on all three of them. Once it was set, it removed memory of the existence of young Draco and Hermione. He had Hagrid take Draco to Wiltshire with the Malfoys and Hermione to the muggle police station in London. All that was left was the memory charm." Minerva hands the paperwork over to Remus and Sirius their eyes widening at the implications of this.
"He completed the memory charm and then gained control of the house Potter by naming himself the guardian and the House Black through Harry once Sirius was in Azkaban. It would have been permanent once Hermione reached her 17th birthday, and was only removed due to Dumbledore's demise." Remus says his eyes widening as he reads the parchment out loud.
"I would have given him the entire estate, he wouldn't have had to force my hand. He didn't need to destroy my family." And with that statement Sirius himself escapes through the floo