Siriusly Hooked Up

By Mae Silverpaws

Chapter 10

This That and the Other

Sirius was surprised at how quickly Malfoy reacted to his wife being disowned. He must be desperate for money, Sirius decided.

A quick conference with Remus had the steward heading to Gringotts to check the books for Obsidian Industries and the Black Family. Six hours into investigating the books Remus sat up straight and rotated his head on his shoulders. "I sure wish the magical world understood the joy of a good cappuccino" he said out loud to no one in particular especially since he had been the only one in the room for hours. Just then there was a knock on the door and a goblin came in pushing a tea trolley.
"Coffee, sir?" inquired the goblin, "I know that looking over the lines in a budget book can be even more tiring then physical exercise. I have also brought you sandwiches and fruit. If your eyes are starting to bother you my spouse says it helps to occasionally look up close your eyes count to 10 and then get back to the ledger. He says that it keeps the lines from jumping all over the page."

"Thank you", said Remus "I was just wishing for a coffee or cappuccino you are a mind reader." Remus smiled at the goblin as he was handed a cup of steaming liquid caffeine.

It took Remus and two very astute and crafty goblin bookkeepers 2 weeks to make it through years of Obsidian Ind. books. They did find one small company that has been pulling money from the main company for years with some hard investigating it was discovered that this company was owned by a parent company that was owned by none other than Lucius Malfoy. Remus grinned a grin that made even the goblins sit back and take notice. At that moment Remus J Lupin was looking very wolf like.

Remus Lupin charged in the back door of #12 Grimmauld Place and with a whoop yelled for Sirius, "Sirius! Sirius Orion Black! Where are you? We got him! We got him, we got him, we got him!"

"Got who, Moony?" asked Sirius poking his head into the kitchen.
"Lucius Malfoy, we found one of his small companies siphoning money from Obsidian Ind. He's been bleeding Obsidian for years, Gringotts and Obsidian have their lawyers on it all we have to do is sit back and watch the fun."

Remus and Sirius grinned at each other, grins that would have made Prof McGonagall shiver even on the warmest day of the year.

The next morning Sirius found an email waiting in his inbox. It was the company he had ordered Hermione's bedroom décor from.
Dear Sir,

We are refunding your purchase. Unfortunately we were unable to confirm the delivery address for your purchase. Please contact us with an updated delivery address.

Sincerely,

The Bedding Company

Sirius just sat at his desk and shook his head. He had totally forgotten about the fidelious charm on the house. There was no way anything could be delivered directly there. "Kreacher?"

"Yes Master." The little elf said as he entered the library carrying a carafe of tea and biscuits, "You need something so you called Kreacher?"
"Well, yes," said Sirius shaking his head. "I need a place to have something delivered to and then sent here."
"So when you ordered Miss Lady's bedroom décor you tried to have it sent here?"
"Uh yeah where else would it be sent?" said Sirius looking a bit crest fallen.

"Oh silly Master Mutt, you have it sent to Obsidian's headquarters and they will send it here with magic. Don't you listen to anything your mother has said?"
Sirius stuck his tongue out at Kreacher, "obviously not, so what's the address?"

Kreacher wrote down the address and walked out of the room muttering.

Sirius contacted The Bedding Company with the other address and was told it would all be there in less then 36 hours since it was still boxed up. "Thank you Sir for your purchase and I hope your daughter enjoys her new room" wrote the company.

Sirius spent the rest of the day prepping Hermione's room including painting the walls a light yellow and all of the furniture a bright shiny white.

The following afternoon a deep bell rang throughout the house and suddenly there were boxes upon boxes in the front entry way. "WOW Did I order all that?" Wondered Sirius and he noticed that every box had the company logo on it. With a swish of his wand Sirius had the boxes up in the hall in front of Hermione and Harry's rooms. Two days later Sirius was happy with the end results. He knew that Hermione would be very happy when she finally gets to see it.

Remus was sitting at his desk in the library. Tomorrow was full moon and it will be his third month working for Obsidian. The Wolf Bane's potion made the change almost bearable. Just to be safe Remus had insisted that Kreacher reconfigured an old storage room in the basement and reinforced the door. After taking his potion Remus would head downstairs and wait it out in his other room. Last month Sirius had joined him and the two had dozed the night away a huge change from running all over Hogwarts and the surrounding area.

The Easter hols were coming and both Sirius and Remus and even Kreacher were getting excited about Harry coming home and Hermione dropping in also. Hermione had written and said that she could spend the first night and the last night at Grimmauld Place the rest would be with her parents. Sirius and Kreacher spent most of the week before the kids came home cleaning and prepping for their return.

The ride from Hogwarts to London was quiet only Harry, Hermione and Neville were going home. The rest were staying at the castle. Before they left Dumbledore tried again to convince Harry and Hermione that there had been a mistake and they should shift their guardianship back to him and that Harry really needed to spend a week at his aunt and uncle's house. Harry just shook his head while Hermione took him by the hand and lead him out of the castle. The two didn't even answer their headmaster they just walked out the door.

Remus met the three at Platform 9 ¾ since Neville's grandmother was not there yet the three waited with him. Fifteen minutes later Lady Longbottom's signature hat could be seen coming through the crowd. "There she is" said Neville suddenly looking uncomfortable.

"Good day Remus." She said as she approached the group

"Hello Augusta" said Remus giving her a smile and a small nod. "Augusta these are my charges Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Harry, Hermione this is Lady Augusta Longbottom."

Augusta Longbottom glanced at the children "Hello Harry I am sure you do not remember coming to my house as a toddler but you and Neville use to play there together quite often. Granger? Are your parents Dr and Dr Granger the dentists, dear?" she inquired looking at Hermione

"Yes ma'am they are." said Hermione slightly surprised that someone from the magical world knew her parents.

"I see them twice a year," she said smiling and showing very well kept teeth. "They are wonderful people and very professional. Come Neville we have errands to run before we head home. Nice meeting you both, good day Remus." Augusta Longbottom ushered Neville ahead of her as they navigated the crowd.

"Ready you two?" asked Remus. Harry and Hermione both nodded.

Ten minutes later the three were entering the back door of Grimmauld Place. Kreacher had snacks set out for them and Sirius was sitting at the table with a cuppa tea.

"Sit down you two," called Sirius from the table "tell us all about your semester so far.

Harry told them again all about Dumbledore and how he kept trying to gain control of both Harry and Hermione while Hermione told them about classes and the study schedule she had set up for them for end of term exams.

"OK you two Kreacher had your trunks picked up from the train platform and he put them in your rooms. Hermione I'm not sure if you want to leave yours here or take it home with you if you want to take it home just let Kreacher know and he will pop it downstairs for you. Remus and I have stuff to do in the library for the next couple hours. So be good and don't get into too much trouble."

Harry and Hermione headed up to Harry's room so he could unpack and get settled for the holiday.

Suddenly Sirius and Remus heard squeals coming from the third floor bedroom area.
"Sounds like Hermione saw her room" commented Remus
"I think she likes it." added Sirius "But then again I was never very fluent in girl." He laughed.

"Should we go make sure she hasn't just seen a mouse or something?" asked Remus glancing up at the ceiling as more squeals came down from above.

Before the two men could even make it out of the library it sounded like a herd of elephants were stampeding down the stairs.

Hermione launched herself first at Sirius then at Remus.
" I love it, I love it, I love it!" she said giving them each another hug. "I tried to talk Mum into this exact set for my room at home but she said no. How did you know? Oh thank you it's perfect!" Hermione gave them each another hug and launched herself back up the stairs to her room.

"I do believe, Padfoot old man, you did good." said Remus grinning at his friend.

"I do believe I still have the touch Moony old man. Now if I could only get a reaction like that from a witch my own age I'd be set.'
Both men laughed as they stepped back into the library and went back to work.