Ted Tonks was a sensible man so when his wife informed him that they were going to move into Potter manor with one Petunia Dursley, soon to be Evens again, her son and nephew who's parents were murdered not too long ago, he shook his head but didn't bother arguing with his wife as he knew he wouldn't win.
The two families were soon unpacking at the very spacious manor as soon as the children were corraled in the nursery, which was located in the north and the Potter's personal, wing, which Petunia claimed for her and the boys.
The Tonks settled on the east wing, where Ted had already unpacked his and Andromeda's things and was helping Nymphadora her things, now that she had chosen her room, while Andromeda helped Petunia.
Once they were finished unpacking, Petunia and Andromeda plopped down in chairs that were in the Potter wing sitting room. "What do you want to do now that you're moved into your new home?" Andromeda asked.
"I'll be heading for Gringotts to take care of business there then find out who had betrayed Lily, James and Harry to this so called dark lord and make them pay." Petunia responded.
"It was Sirius Black he has been proven to be a DeathEater and will be thrown into Azkaban." Andromeda's words caused Petunia to jerk up and a scowl settled onto her face.
"How do you know he's a DeathEater? Has anyone even bother to look at his arm for the mark of his followers or did everyone just assume to be one and decide his fate to rot in your wizard prison!" She ranted. "I know Sirius and he is no DeathEater! Far from it in fact, I've seen both his arms and they are mark free!
Was he even given a trial for what everyone claimed he has done, better yet has anyone even bothered to take a closer look at that rat, Pettigrew. He never uncovered his arms after James and Lily's wedding, even when we went swimming and he was invited!"
Andromeda silently watched and listened to Petunia as she ranted. "You're telling me that Black's arm didn't bear the mark of Voldemort and that you think Pettigrew's did. This changes everything, I'll go to the Minstry while you're at Gringotts and get things straightened out before Sirius is sent to Azkaban, or if he's already there, to have him freed. If he is given a triel then I'll insist of having his arms uncovered as proof that he's no DeathEater."
"Thank you Andi, this means a lot. Sirius was there for me everytime Vernon got violent after we were married and has healed me the best he could whenever I ran to him after a beating. When he's proven to be innocent of what he's being accused of I would like to have him, and Remus Lupin, to move in with us. Remus will have his own cabin out on the grounds for full moon nights of course.
Yes, I do know that he's a werewolf but I don't care as long as he stays away from us on full moon nights I won't kick him out and Sirius will be sharing the north wing with the boys and I since he is Harry's Godfather."
"Very well, I shall drop you off at Gringotts then make my way to the Minstry." Andromeda stated as she stood and held an arm out for Petunia to take, which she did, and soon found herelf standing on the steps leading up to the bank. "I'll return for you in a few hours so if I'm not here when you're finished, go ahead and wander the shops of Diagon alley."
Petunia nodded once and Andromeda left to go to the Minstry. After she was gone, Petunia turned a strolled into the bank and up to the nearest empty desk, except for the goblin of course. "I'm here to see the one in charge of my sister's, Lily Potter, will and, if possible, withdraw some money from the Potter vault, I have the key, as well as hire a goblin or two to ward Potter manor, as I, my son, my nephew and another family has taken refuge in."
She placed the key on the counter for the goblin to inspect then took it back when he handed it to her. He shouted for another goblin to take her to the Potter's account manager before he turned to the next person in line. Petunia nodded to him as she followed the other goblin further into the bank.
Petunia stepped out of the bank, glad to have taken care of what she needed to, with a copy of James and Lily's wills and a Gringotts bank card as well as a few other items. While she was there she listed Sirius and the Tonks as Harry and Dudley's magical guardians and herself as their non-magical guardian so they would have some one to look after them if something were to happen to any of them.
She glanced around at the different stores as she walked along Diagon alley, making note on which ones to enter as she did. The first one she entered was the owl emporyiam to get herself, Andromeda/Ted and Nymphadora an owl so they could keep in contact with those they chose to as well as a few owls for Potter manor for anyone to use.
After she sent the owls to the manor, she went into the wizard pet store to buy Dudley and Harry both a pet, even though she knew she would be the one caring for them until both boys were old enough to understand how to care for their pets themselves.
She came back out with a puppy for each boy as well as a snake for Harry and a kitten for Dudley, intent on spoiling both boys at this time. Andromeda found her just as she neared the broom store. "Here, let me take those cages home for you Petunia." She said and Petunia gratefully handed each cage to her then entered the store to get two children's brooms for the boys.
Done there she went to Florish and Blotts to pick up books on wizarding customs along with some books to teach Dudley and Harry once they were old enough followed by a stop to the robe shop get herself some robes for when she had to come to the wizarding world so she would fit in better even though she is a non-magical.
As she waited for her order to be done at the robe shop she went to pick out three trunks, the best they had to offer then to the camping goods store to get a tent, one that was the size of a small manor, for when the boys felt like camping. Her last stop was the displaced house elf office to try and find the missing Potter elves and send them back to the manor.
"May I help you Miss?" The wizard in charge asked Petunia the minute she stepped into the building.
"Yes, I'm looking for the Potter house elves so I may return to where they belong."
"I see, their names."
Mimsy, Flobby, Flippy, Runt, Glimmer, Hunny and Vlam."
"Wait here and I shall go retrieve them for you miss." He walked into the back of the building and returned after several minutes with the elves listed.
"Mistress Pet! You have come for us!" All of them chorused, happy to see Petunia, and swarmed around her.
"It's good to see you all as well but I need you to return to Potter manoor and get the unused parts ready to use once more as we will be having others move in with us." She instructed and the elves nodded before they popped away.
Once the elves were gone Petunia went to pick up her robes, where Andromeda waited for her and the two of them returned to the manor to find it already warded and the elves at work. Mimsy greeted them at the front door, offering to take the things and informing Petunia of Sirius arrivel.
She shot a surprised but pleased look at Andromeda who simply shrugged with a grin. "I may have stormed into the Minstry and demanded a trial for my cousin and his release when they couldn't find the dark mark anywhere on him. Good thing I got there when I did, they were about to snap his wand and send him to Azkaban without a trial.
I swear old Crouch has lost it and has become no better then the deatheaters he throws into prison, attempting to send a pureblood, and last living male BLack to Azkaban, that's a crime of itself. I'd like to see how Crouch fares at Azkaban for what he just tried." Andromeda ranted.
Petunia let her rant as the two of them headed up the stairs to track down Sirius, who they found playing with Harry, Dudley and Nymphadora. Both women smiled at the sight and silently watched him play with the children. "You know he would make a good father one day." Andromeda finally annoucened their prescense to the four of them, making all four stop their play.
Sirius stood up and strolled over to the women "Thanks for getting me out of being sent to Azkaban, cousin." He said as he lightly kissed her hand, like he had been taught.
"It wasn't just me Petunia was the one who mentioned to me the truth when she found out what had happened. You should be thanking her as well." Andromeda answered and smiled at Sirius, who had turned his attention towards her.
"Glad to see you finally decided to leave that monster, he didn't deserve such a beautiful woman." He told her as he kissed her hand as well. "Thank you for telling Andi the truth."
"I'll leave you two alone, come on Dora help me take Harry and Dudley to our wing to play." Andromeda remarked as she herded the three children out of the Potter wing.
As soon as she was sure they were gone, Petunia turned back to Sirius, a slight frown o nher face. "We need to talk." She intoned blandly to which Sirius winched, sure he was in trouble for losing his temper and going after Peter. "I would like to invite Remus live with us, I'm having a small cabin constructed for him on full moon nights and would also like to make him Dudley's Godfather, since you are already Harry's."
"I'll send him an owl right now to invite him over for dinner tonight so you can ask him." He exclaimed as he ran from the Potter wing for the owly, excited to see Remus again. Petunia chuckled as she watched him leave before she headed to take a long, relaxing bath.
Remus had just arrived home from his job to find an unknown owl waiting for him. After he checked the letter it had for him for any dark spells or jinxes and, finding none, opened it to nearly drop it in surprise.
He had heard from Dumbledore that Sirius was innocent of all charges against him, to Remus relief, and sent a reply back, stating that he would love to join Sirius for dinner, not suspecting the other surprise he would get upon arriving at the address which came with the letter.
