Sirius wanted to go after Peter. Peter Pettigrew had been the secret keeper for Lily and James. The only way Voldemort could have found the Potter family was if Peter had given away the location to the dark wizard. The snivelling coward had betrayed his friends. Elizabeth wouldn't let Sirius leave her and Harry.

"We need you" was repeated many times throughout the following week. Remus Lupin, known as Moony to his friends, came to Peverell Place the day after the Halloween intending to stay only until the funeral of two of his best friends a week later. When Elizabeth and Sirius invited him to move into the enormous manor and help them to raise Harry, Remus was quick to except their invitation. He'd had enough of the nomadic lifestyle for a bit.

So the years passed slowly by and Harry grew with them. Sirius had given Harry a broomstick for his 1st birthday and his uncles soon noticed that he was a natural on the thing. He'd be a shoo in for his house quidditch team when he went to Hogwarts.

Harry was mostly kept away from other wizards when he was growing. News of him surviving Voldemort's killing curse, causing the spell to backfire upon its caster, had spread across the Wizarding World and Harry's aunt didn't want fame to get to the young wizards head. Most of Harry's friends were muggles from the local muggle primary school he attended. He did have one friend in the wizarding community though, a rather anxious boy named Neville Longbottom, whose parents were in a permanent ward at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies, and who was raised by his rather severe grandmother.

Elizabeth was often called down to Harry's school due to odd incidents, which usually were caused by Harry's accidental use of magic. One time Harry had been found on the roof after the school bullies chased him around the playground and he tried to jump onto the bins behind the kitchen to escape. Harry was eight when Elizabeth arrived at the school, having been asked to come in again, to find she was not the only guardian to have been called. The other woman seemed familiar but Elizabeth could not put her finger on it.

The headmistress explained that Harry and Dudley, the other woman's son, had gotten into a fight and both boys were now sporting black eyes. As Harry had often complained to his aunt about this Dudley boy bullying him, Elizabeth found she had little sympathy for the child. His mother was fussing about 'her ickle duddykins' while he looked vaguely embarrassed. Elizabeth had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing.

"Elizabeth Black (she and Sirius had married when Harry was three years old) this is Petunia Dursley." The headmistress, Mrs Green, introduced the two women. Petunia Dursley, thought Elizabeth, wasn't that Lily's sister's name?

"Your boy needs to apologise. Look what he's done to my son!" Petunia Dursley exclaimed. Elizabeth stared at her.

"My nephew will do no such thing. Your son gave worse than he got and has been bullying Harry since they both started at this school. Perhaps I ought to send him to a different one." Elizabeth ended musingly. The head teacher looked alarmed. Elizabeth Black was rich in her own right and her husband was also extremely wealthy. Mrs Green didn't want to lose her generous donations. Before she could express her concern, Elizabeth spoke again to Mrs Dursley.

"Wait, I thought I knew your name from somewhere. You're Lily's sister." Petunia Dursley immediately lost all trace of colour from her face. Grabbing her son's hand the rude woman swept out of the office. Elizabeth smiled to herself then took her nephew home. That was the last time Harry had any trouble from Dudley Dursley.