Chapter 2
Before I get on with the story I have come to realise I have made a huge mistake ,,, Sirius lives at no.12 Grimmauld Place not no.10 , but I will say that as I was writing it I did think it was wrong and I can honestly say I cannot remember where from but am sure I read it was no.10 from somewhere .
Oh well on with the story, please let me know what you think: D: D: D
Secrets and train rides
I stood there with a wand pointed at my face and smirked at him and simply said
"Hi dad!"
The wand shook slightly and a look of recognition came across his face
"Buffy?" he questioned quietly
"Yea, it's me dad"
"What are you doing here? Where's your mother? How did you find the house? Who did you come with? Does anyone know where you are? Have you told anyone that I am here?"
"wow, that's a lot of questions, ill see if I can answer them in order, I'm here to see you and to find out the truth, moms at home in Sunnydale in America and she was the one who told me how to find this house and she gave me the address on a piece of paper. I came by myself, but I start at Hogwarts in a few days so I just told my friends that school started a few days earlier than it actually does. And the last answer would be no I haven't told anyone how to find you or even that this was the place that I thought you would be."
"Oh ok, thank you for not telling people I'll be here, I cannot be put into that horrible place."
"It's ok; I never thought you would have been guilty anyway. I never thought you would be the one to betray Aunty Lily and Uncle James, but they had no-one else to blame."
"It wasn't me it was Peter Pettigrew; I changed with him for the secret keeper as I thought that I was a too obvious choice. I didn't know Peter was a Death Eater before it was too late."
"Is that why you went after him, Mom showed me the newspaper clippings before I came here, they said you killed him and 12 muggles before the wizard authorities got to you?"
"I didn't do that either, Peter did that too, I know that the papers said I burnt him that much that only his forefinger was left unscratched. And I thought that he has sacrificed himself and left his finger as a kind of trophy."
"That sounds gross but what do you mean thought? And why don't you think that anymore? What changed your mind?"
"No I don't think that anymore, while I was in Azkaban they let us read the newspaper every now and again, and in one there was a picture of the Weasleys, I recognised Molly and Arthur, and with them was a rat with a digit missing in the same place that Peters finger was."
"I don't understand."
"Peter is an Animagi that means he is a sort of shape shifter, he can magically change into a rat whenever he wants to."
"If he could change into any animal he wants why would he choose to be a rat?"
"You don't get to choose what animal you want to be, you change into the animal most suited to your personality."
"Is he the only one who can transform into an animal?"
"No, but let's go somewhere more comfortable then the door way to my bedroom to carry on this conversation."
Once he had said that he moved into his bedroom, I looked around and was surprised by the cleanliness of the place, I thought it was going to be as dusty as the rest of the house.
He moved over to two comfy looking sofas near the far window.
The sofas were made of what looked to be soft leather and could seat about four people on just the one of them.
Once we were nice and comfortable on both the sofas Sirius used his want to make up two cups of tea (I am defiantly in the land of Giles) and a couple of muffins, we started up the conversation right back to where we left it.
"Right so where was I?" Sirius asked
"You were about to tell me who else can do this Anomangie thingy"
"It's called Animagi, and there was four of us that could do it, well, three of us who did it willingly and your Uncle Remus was bitten by a very dangerous Werewolf called Fenrir Greyback when he was little and had no choice with his transformation."
"I'm going to guess and say that you and Uncle James were the other two could do it then?"
"Yes I can transform into a big black dog, James could transform into a stag, Remus is a wolf and Peter was the rat."
"Wow, is it hard to do? I want to be able to do it, what do you think I would be?"
"I think you would be something very beautiful like a phoenix, they are very magical birds. Albus Dumbledore has one."
"When will I be able to change into one? How old do you have to be?"
"That was only my guess, you could be any type of animal, you could even be a dog like me" he stated smiling cheekily "but u do have to be a certain age to be able to do it as you need to have a certain amount of knowledge about magic, we all did it illegally to keep Remus company during the few nights a month that he was in wolf form."
"Oh, that's not fair" I stated grumpily, how come I couldn't be an animagus before I was legally able to but my dad could, talk about being a hypocrite. Just as I had finished that thought I let out the biggest and loudest yawn ever.
"We will finish this in the morning, let's get you to bed now
With that Sirius stood up from the sofa and moved towards his bed
"You can take the bed and I'll go into Regulus's room and sleep in there. It will only need a little dusting spell and it will be ok to sleep in for a few nights while you're here."
"Ok thank you, I'll see you in the morning."
Once Sirius had left the room I quickly got changed in some sleep shorts and t-shirt, I then got into the massive bed and fell straight into an exhausted sleep.
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I woke up the next morning to the feeling of being watched, I opened my eyes to see a little gremlin type thing standing next to me on the bed and I screamed.
Sirius came running in wands a-blazing and pointed it straight at the gremlin.
"Kreacher get away from her or else I'll give you a sock!"
A sock? What's that going to do to him I sat and thought.
"Kreacher only wanted to see the mistress, Kreacher only wanted to show his loyalty, kreacher good like that."
"Ok who is the little gremlin and why did he call me his mistress?"
"His name is Kreacher and he is the Black family House-Elf, he has served this family for many generations and is extremely loyal to my mother, even though she is dead. Her portrait is out in the hallway just as you come into the house. I'm starting to wonder why she didn't start shouting as soon as you walked in , she did with me"
"Mistress Black is very powerful, very powerful indeed. Mistress is not a blood traitor like some, no, Mistress Black very powerful indeed, Kreacher listen to whatever Mistress Black says."
And with that Kreacher the House-Elf disappeared into nothingness
"How did he do that?" I asked slightly freaked out.
"He is a House- Elf Buffy he can go wherever he wants and came just pop in and out of a room carrying whatever is needed, they can be very helpful if they like you."
"Oh ok, but why does he like me I don't know anything about magic?"
"yes but you are a full blooded witch which means that although you don't know much magic you are still better than a half breed."
"How come he doesn't like you then, surely you're a full blooded wizard then since I am?"
"I am but I betrayed the Black name by not pledging my alliance to the Dark Lord."
"But I wouldn't do that either!"
"True, but you haven't been asked yet, that's the difference"
Just as I was about to comment on that my stomach made a very loud rumbling sound.
"I think we should be getting you something to eat. Come on let's go downstairs and see if we can scrounge up something."
We walked out of his bedroom before I realised I was only in my sleep shorts and t-shirt. I then just shrugged it off thinking that it's only me and Sirius here so it doesn't matter what I'm wearing.
Just as we reached the bottom of the stairs a very load voice was coming from behind a pair of curtains. The curtains opened by themselves to show a portrait of an elder looking lady.
"FILTHY MUGGLE LOVERS IN MY HOUSE ! GET OUT!"
"OH SHUT UP YOU OLD HAG!" my father shouted back at the moving portrait!
"Err dad, why is the picture moving and talking?" I curiously ask as I move towards the picture carefully.
"All photos and portraits move in the magic world, it would be weird if they didn't."
"Oh, that's just another thing I have to get used to while I'm here then isn't it."
"It all becomes easier in time don't you worry, pretty soon everything will become just second nature to you."
"Well hopefully that comes soon."
While we had been talking we had slowly moved our way into the kitchen where we then searched for any type of eatable foods.
We ended up putting together some beans on toast since there was not a lot of stuff in the kitchen since Sirius couldn't really go out shopping.
During the rest of my stay with my father I learnt a lot more about him and some about how he met and fell in love with my mom.
I had also rang home while I was out shopping for some food since Sirius couldn't and I didn't really want him to starve to death while I was at Hogwarts.
The first person I rang was my mom and I told her I had gone to the house but dad wasn't there and I had booked into a room at the Leaky Cauldron and was just going to stay there until the time came that I had to go to school.
I then rang Giles and spoke to him briefly about the fact that Hogwarts is built upon a hell mouth (why can't wizard folks know stuff like this and just decide not to build stuff there?) I guess I won't be retiring my slaying while I'm at school, oh well at least I will have magic to give me an advantage against anything hanging around there. I will miss my Scooby's though.
Since I had rang during the school time I got to have a quick conversation with Willow about her new boyfriend Oz and I talked to Xander about how much he has missed me being around and how I have to send him a lot of sweets and that I had to come home for Christmas, which I promised I would do.
On the day I had to go to Hogwarts my father gave me a few things. One was a little key which he said opens the family vault at Gringotts and I could use that whenever I wanted since there was too much in there for him to ever be able to use in his lifetime so it was mine to use however I wanted to.
Another thing he gave me was apparently the newest model of FLYING BROOM STICKS! He said that since I was his daughter I should have the best of everything.
The last thing he gave me was in a very old and fancy jewellery case. I opened it to see the most gorgeous piece of jewellery every. I was a delegate chocker necklace made up of tiny black beads with the centre bit going into a flower around the Black family crest (check out my profile for a picture) .
"Wow dad, these are amazing gifts thank you so much."
"It's ok , I just want you to enjoy your first time at Hogwarts."
With that as our parting words I made my way out of the house with my entire luggage to wait for my taxi which should be arriving in a few minutes.
The taxi arrived five minutes later to take me to Kings Cross Station. When I got to the station the taxi driver got out to help me put my entire luggage onto a trolley, then he got back into his car and drove away.
I started to walk towards platform 9 & 10 since the one that I needed was platform 9 & 3/4 , I got there and realised this must be another magical thing (I was starting to get fed up of them).
I decided I would just hang around between the two platforms and was going to wait until I saw someone who had and owl or something that looked even slightly magical. And then I would follow them and see what they do.
Just as I was about to give up on my idea I saw a family of four, one of them looked about my age and was carrying a broom stick, another was slightly younger (if I had to guess I would say he was starting his first year at school) and the other two were the parents
I took note of the two owls and the older boy carrying his broom stick, also noting all the luggage on the trolley and decided to follow them.
They got to the brick pillar that was roughly about half way between the two platforms, and then suddenly the father ran towards the brick wall and disappeared into it.
"Wait! Please ! How did he do that?" I asked before the younger of the two boys went to do what his father did
"Oh hello dear, are you going to Hogwarts? You look a little old to only just be starting your first year." said the elder lady
"yes I will be starting as a fifth year, but this is my first year at Hogwarts I'm just transferring from America as I have come to live with my father."
"Oh ok, are you wondering how to get through the platform?"
"Yes if you could just show me the way that would be brilliant"
"Well Digger is going through now and you can follow straight after him if you want to"
After his mom had finished talking Digger took his trolley and just went straight through it.
"Wow" I'm truly amazed
"If you want you can walk through with Oliver, it might make it less scary that way."
I looked up at Oliver and was about to reply when I recognised his beautiful brown eyes . After a few minutes of staring I finally stuttered out
"Its ... you again"
"Oh, I knew I recognised you, you're the one the bowled me over right outside the Leaky Cauldron then you ran off"
Omg he remembers me! And he has the sexiest accent ever, its more profound than his mothers, and so was so much sexier.
"Yea that was me sorry, I was just so embarrassed I didn't know what to say"
"Will you two just go through the wall already or else the train will be gone by the time you have finished" his mother said cutting us off from talking.
Oliver looked over at me, put his broom on my trolley and took it off me with one hand, and grabbed mine with his other one.
"Come on then _, what was your name again sorry?"
"I didn't tell you already? Oh sorry, my names Buffy bla . . . . Evans"
"Buffy BlaEvans?"
"Just Evans, so how are we going to do this then?"
"Well you just walk with me. I won't let go of your hand until we are through the barrier."
"Can we take it at a run?" I'm slightly scared we won't go through but as long as he keeps on holding my hand I don't really care what happens.
"Yea sure, it's probably better to take it at a run anyway."
With that he pulled my hand and took off at a run to the barrier. Just as I thought we were going to hit the barrier I heard the sound of a train whistle. I opened my eyes to see hundreds of people standing around a platform.
"Look up" said Oliver
I looked up and saw the sign 'platform 9 & ¾'
"Wow we made it, now what have we got to do?"
"Well I'm going to run and check up on Digger then we can share a carriage if you want" said Oliver looking at me hopefully
"Yea ok, do you want me to find an empty carriage while you're gone?"
"Yea ok , and I'll come and find you once I've checked up on Digger and said goodbye to my mom and dad"
Off I went towards the train, for some strange reason everyone kept on looking at me. I looked down at myself taking in the black denim mini skirt, the sparkling purple halter top and my black 'fuck me' heels. And then I looked at everyone else in jeans and jumpers and realise why everyone was looking at me.
I quickly rush into the train and find the first empty compartment near the back that I could. I put all of my luggage on the top shelves along with Oliver broom stick since that was still on my trolley.
I got myself comfortable while I was going to wait for Oliver. About ten minutes later the door to the compartment opened and a boy with striking blond hair opened the door and I spoke the first thing that came to my head
"Spike?"
"Who are you talking about? Name is Draco Malfoy! And you are?" the boy sneered at me
"My name is Buffy Evens and if you'll excuse me I'm actually waiting for someone so if you don't mind leaving that would be great!" I said just as snarky as he spoke to me, if he can be horrible to me then I can be just the same to him.
"Fine I was only looking for Potter, Weasley and the Mudblood anyway." And with that he swept out the room and slammed my door shut.
Five minutes later Oliver walked through the door followed by three girls and 2 identical boys.
"Hi Buffy I would like to introduce you to Angela Johnson, Katie Bell, Alicia Spinner, Fred and George Weasley. I met them as I was looking for you and they didn't have anywhere to sit. You don't mind them sitting with us do you?"
"Oh no not at all, you all seem a lot nicer then the last person who walked through here anyway."
"Who did you have walk in here?" Oliver asked
"Well he said his name was Draco Malfoy, he was very rude, and maybe I should introduce him to my dad."
Everyone in the compartment made a face when I said his name.
"I'm guessing he isn't very well liked then?"
"Nah, he is al little slimy bastard" Angela said still pulling a face
"Guessing no love is lost between all of you and him" I stated
"Nah he is the worst of all the Slytherins, all of them are bad though, he is just the worst of them." Said Fred or George. (I can't tell which is which)
"Ok, so I don't want to be Slytherin then , but what team are all you in then?"
"We are Gryffindor, and we are the best, we have won the house trophy for the last 3 years running." Said Katie proudly
Just as I was about to reply a bushy haired girl opened the door and started looking around the compartment.
"Have any of you seen a frog in here by any chance have you?" she said
"Has Neville lost _ again Herminie?" George? Said
"Yea me, Harry, Ron and Neville are all looking for him"
Hole on a minute I know that voice, she is the pile of books from Flourish and Blotts, you
"I know you, you're the girl from Flourish and Blotts, and you ran into me!" I said to her
"You didn't seem to be having a very good day that day did you, first you bowled me over and now Herminie" Oliver said trying not to laugh too much.
"Yea, yea, laugh it up, you came out of nowhere and Herminie here was a walking talking pile of books. So none of the times I ended up on my bum that day was my fault."
"Yea, yea, say what you want but you span around bumping into me that day" chuckled Oliver
"If I was all you lot I'd be putting on my uniform by now, we are nearly there" said Herminie butting into our conversation.
It wasn't until then that I noticed that she was the only one of us actually ready for school.
"Ok, I and the boys will wait outside while you all get ready and then you can do the same for us while we get dressed" Oliver said , thinking quickly
So he and the twins walked out of the compartment and me and the three girls got dressed while we carried on talking
"So what do you think of Oliver, Buffy?" said Katie starting of the conversation
"He is pretty much a hottie, I don't know why anyone that cute would still be single, he is single inst he?" I ash suddenly thinking that I was getting the signals wrong and he wasn't lightly flirting with me but was just being friendly.
"Yea he is and the way he keeps on glancing at you makes me think that maybe he is interested in you" replied Angela
We then changed places with the boys so that they could get changed. Once they were ready me and the three girls went back in and got comfortable on our seats again. Oliver soon pointed out the window
"See that castle up there Buffy? That Hogwarts, we should be there in about 5 – 10 minutes" he said.
I looked out the window at the most amazing sight ever. There were lots of green mountains surrounding a castle with a large forest of to the side of that. That must be where the Hell mouth is then, I'm getting bad vibes from there.
"Wow, what a lovely sight" "why didn't I think of coming here sooner, this is a lot better than my old school in America."
Everyone laughed at me then, and we spent the last 10 minutes of the train journey talking about anything and everything that we could think of.
When the train came to a stop at Hogwarts everyone got up and started to leave leaving all their luggage where it was.
"What happens to my suitcases?" I asked slightly worried about all my weapons hidden away under all my clothes.
"The house elves take them to your room when they know which house and year you are going to be put in" said Oliver.
So with that we all got off the train and onto horse drawn carriages with one small detail missing, there were no horses.
Once we got to the castle everything passes by me in a blur of tall doors, moving ceiling, long tables and glaring teachers. The only thing that really caught my attention was the singing and talking hat and that was only because it yelled my name out and everyone went that quiet that you could hear a pin drop and that's saying something because of the amount of people that were in the great hall.
Your probably wondering why everyone would stop by that hat yelling out Buffy Evans well the probably wouldn't but you see it didn't shout out that it shouted out
"BUFFY BLACK"