Disclaimer - I own none of the Harry Potter characters they all belong to J. K Rowling, Story title is borrowed from Metallica and Chapter title is taken from the Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil. Please review, add as a favourite or follow if you like it.

Previously-

"Take a closer look Amy, take off a few kilos, make the hair even dirtier and put him in some prison robes." Carissa explained.

Amy studied the man for a few seconds and then looked at Carissa in horror "Oh my god, I ran over Sirius Black!"

Chapter 2 - Sympathy for the Devil

"Yeah you did, now go and call Ainsley. We need the aurors here now," Carissa confirmed.

"Fantastic, how do you explain to your boyfriend that you somehow ran over Sirius Black?" Amy mumbled.

"Wait, please just let me explain! I'm innocent, it was all a set up," Sirius begged before Amy had the chance to leave. He knew that if he couldn't convince these women of his innocence soon, he was a dead man and no one would be able to save Harry. Carissa snorted, then said "That's what they all say, why should we believe you? You're meant to be Voldemorts right hand man after all."

"I would never have betrayed Lily and James, if I could of died instead of them I would have. I never had a trial to prove I didn't do it and I don't even have the dark mark on me. All Death Eaters have the mark branded on them, everyone knows that." Sirius was getting desperate now and he was trying to think of something else that might help him get out of this situation "Did you both go to Hogwarts?" he asked and Amy and Carissa both nodded their heads "Dumbledore knows the truth about everything and so does Harry, so if you send a message to Dumbledore he will confirm I'm not lying. Just please don't inform the Ministry yet." Sirius silently prayed that would be enough to convince them to let him go. He could try and do wandless magic to escape but he was exhausted and didn't think he would be able to take on two adult witches with it.

Amy in the meantime had been studying Sirius and his aura around his body. This was a skill that she had taught herself, where she was able to see colours around peoples bodies to read their emotions if she thought they were lying. It wasn't a special skill, in fact anyone could teach themselves to read auras but most people never took the time to study or practice it. Amy's magic just helped make the colours more defined compared to a Muggle who could read them.

"Carissa, I think he may be telling the truth. I mean we know that the Ministry can be corrupt and I haven't trusted them since the last war when they wanted to cover up Dad's death. Plus his aura isn't showing any signs of deception, it's not a rainbow like most peoples and I'm mainly seeing black which means hatred and being unable to forgive but I'm also seeing a tinge of soft blue and a light pink which mean truth and love." Amy spoke up.

"Amy I know your spidey sense is usually spot on but what if you are wrong and we let him go? He will kill us before we can get help," Carissa argued.

"What about if he shows us his arms, so we know that he doesn't have the dark mark and we get him to tell the full story about why he is here? I'm just reluctant to involve the Ministry if he isn't lying," Amy suggested.

Carissa sighed then spoke to Sirius "Alright you will show us your arms and then explain from the beginning how you were set up, but if you try anything stupid I will send for the aurors."

Sirius nodded and pulled up both his sleeves to show the women that both of his arms were free of the dark mark. He then started to tell them his story "During the last war my best friends James and Lily Potter became targets of Voldemort. I know why they were targeted but I can't tell you the reason, Harry hasn't even be told. James and Lily ended up going into hiding under the Fidelius charm which meant their secret location was hidden within a persons soul and no one was able to find them unless the secret keeper told them. I was originally going to be their secret keeper because I had been best friends with James since Hogwarts and he was pretty much a brother to me, we had even told Dumbledore that's what we were doing. However at the last minute I asked James to change secret keepers to another one of our close friends Peter Pettigrew. We didn't tell anyone that we had switched as I was going to be a decoy. We knew Voldemort would come after me first knowing that James and I were so close but he would never think that Pettigrew was the real secret keeper, so even if I died the others would have been safe."

Amy noticed Sirius aura go completely black and saw the pain etched on his face at the mention of this Pettigrew and it was in that moment that she was completely convinced she that was right and they had done the right thing by at least waiting to hear his story.

"One night I went to check on Peter at his house. He didn't seem to be handling the war to well and I wanted to make sure he was ok. However, when I arrived at his place, he was missing. I couldn't see any signs of a struggle or his body lying anywhere but he had told me that he was going to be home, so of course I started to worry that maybe something had gone wrong. I rushed over to James and Lily's house and when I got there, I found half their house destroyed. I ran inside hoping they had got away somehow but as I entered the door, I saw James lying on the floor. I went over to him hoping that I wasn't too late but I was. At first I was confused, I didn't know how the Death Eaters could of known that Pettigrew was the secret keeper, since I believed he would never betray us. I just sat there hugging James, begging him to wake up and stop fooling around but he wouldn't, I burst into tears once it sunk in James was really dead and I couldn't save him. It was not long after that when I heard crying from upstairs, so I ran up there as fast as could into the nursery. I saw Lily lying slumped in front of Harry's cot, the bastard had killed her too. I looked inside the cot and found Harry sitting there crying, I realised that he was okay and had survived somehow besides a scar that was on his head. I picked Harry up to take him back to my flat, since I was meant to look after him if anything ever happened to James and Lily, but on the way out of the house I ran into Hagrid. Hagrid said, he had orders from Dumbledore to take Harry to stay at his Aunts place. I tried to argue with him about it because I knew his Aunt had been a complete cow towards Lily and hated anything to do with magic. You can't exactly argue with a half giant though, so I ended up giving Harry to Hagrid and lent him my motorbike to take with him. I told Hagrid I would find him later after I found Pettigrew, I had finally realised that it was Pettigrew who had betrayed everyone. He hadn't been tortured or anything, he just sent James and Lily to their deaths willingly. My anger got the better of me at this point, unfortunately. As most people know the Black family are not only cold and calculating at times, but also have a extremely bad temper. When the ones they love are betrayed and they usually end up doing something cruel and drastic to get revenge. My cousin Andy, is the most decent one out of us all but she will still make your life hell if you mess with her or her family and as much as I hated my family and their beliefs, I still inherited most of those bad traits from them. I decided to hunt Pettigrew down, he had to pay for what he did and it wasn't going to be a nice end for him. I knew how to trace magical signatures so I was able to track Pettigrew down fairly easy and cornered him in the middle of a Muggle street but he was already prepared for me. He shouted out, asking how could I betray Lily and James and pretended to be upset. Before I could react he sent out a spell blasting the entire street, cut off one of his fingers, changed into his animagus form which was a rat and disappeared down a drain. I couldn't help it, I just started laughing because he had fooled us all and we were all going to pay the price for it. The aurors and hit wizards showed up not long after that and arrested me on the spot. They threw me into Azkaban without a trial, this was after hours of torture under the orders of Barty Crouch Snr to try and get me to confess to the murders, but I refused to. I stayed in that hellhole for twelve years until one day Minister Fudge came to visit and left a paper for me to read. It was then I saw a picture of the rat, he was staying with another wizarding family whose kids were going to Hogwarts with Harry. I knew then I had to escape, because Harry would always be in danger while that rat was around Hogwarts. I changed into my dog form and slipped past the dementors, since they couldn't tell where I was when I was in that form. No one had known that James, Pettigrew and I had all become animagus while we at school, so no one thought to ward the cells to stop me from changing. I managed to find Harry at Hogwarts and tell him the truth about everything. I found Pettigrew as well but he escaped again and I haven't been able to find him since. I've been keeping in contact with Harry ever since by sending letters when I can and visiting every so often without getting caught," Sirius finished.

"Bloody hell that's crazy, I don't think you could write that shit or make it up,"exclaimed Carissa. "But if you are supposed to be hiding out what are you doing here now?"

"What do you know of Voldemorts return? "Sirius asked.

"My boyfriend works at the Ministry so only what he tells me, which is pretty much that Voldemort hasn't returned. However, I also know from experience that the Ministry will cover up stuff and is corrupt in certain areas. I've never really asked him much about it, since I never had any intention of returning to the wizarding world. I do vaguely remember him saying something about a Hogwarts student dying in some tournament not that long ago though," Amy said.

"Well sorry to tell you this but Voldemort is back, you boyfriend is wrong and it won't take long till we are at war again. Harry saw him be resurrected by his followers and watched him kill that student, just before the summer break," Sirius confirmed.

"Shit, I didn't think it was that bad" Carissa commented.

"Yes it is, so now you can understand why I am more worried about Harry, especially after I got his last letter. He didn't sound good and I am afraid he is going crack after everything that's happened," Sirius answered.

"You wouldn't happen to have that letter on you, would you ? Just so we can see if it backs up your story," Amy asked.

"Yes, I do," Sirius said as he reached in his pocket and pulled it out for her to read.

Amy took it off him and started to read it out loud.

Dear Snuffles,

I don't want you getting into trouble or caught because of me but I don't know what else to do or who else to turn to. I haven't heard from Ron or Hermione all summer and have no idea what's going on after Voldemort's return. I keep having nightmares about Cedric blaming me for what happened and they seem so real. The Dursley's have threatened to kick me out if I keep disturbing their sleep with my screams plus Dudley won't leave me alone about Cedric dying. My scar has also been giving me unbearable pain lately and I've started having these visions of Voldemort but I don't know what they mean. I know you can't do much but maybe you can get Dumbledore to come and visit or give me some advice on what to do.

Please help, from Harry.

The girls took a minute to process what they had just read and then Amy spoke "So you're telling me this boy watched someone die at the hands of a mass murderer and he blames himself for it but no one thought maybe he might need some counselling and his friends to help him come to terms with it all," Amy said, while shaking her head in disbelief, "Then they send him off to a family who have no idea how to help him or simply just don't care."

"I asked Dumbledore to get Harry out of there and to let him stay somewhere where he has people that actually care for him, but he refused to do anything for another two weeks. I don't think Harry will be able to hold on for that long . He is not a boy that likes to ask for help normally, he will try and handle things himself first so he must have been desperate to write that letter. Imagine if the Dursleys kicked him out, the Death Eeaters could get to him before anyone would even know he was missing. That's why I had to come here, I needed to save him before he cracks under the pressure of everything he has been through," Sirius said.

"Shit Carissa, what do we do? I do believe his story and I can't bring Ainsley here now, because you know the Ministry will act first and ask questions later. Pus, Ainsley certainly won't risk his job to help us save a wanted criminal. We can't leave Harry with his relatives either, he is just a kid and needs help to deal with seeing Death like that, without being criticised about it," Amy said, as she handed the letter back to Sirius who placed it back in his pocket.

" I still don't completely trust Black, but we can't send a possibly innocent man back to the dementors. I think you are right about Harry too, so that leaves us with only one other choice now." Carissa replied.

"What?" Amy questioned, even through she already knew the answer.

Carissa grinned at Amy, "We are going with Sirius Black to rescue the Boy who Lived."