Chapter three

A few days later Harry and Sirius, both wearing invisibility cloaks were standing at the graves of Lily and James Potter. Sirius kept his arm around his godson as they stared down at the names.

'I don't like that saying that's on their headstone.'

'I have no idea who did it, but I know it's not something James or Lily would have put.'

'Could I have it changed?'

'Yes, you are there son, so legally you can have another headstone made.'

'I might do that, not yet though, these next few weeks are going to be busy. I have an appointment with Ted Tonks, the Weasley's and Hermione will be arriving soon, and I still haven't heard from them. I asked Fred and George in my last letter, they have no idea why Ron hasn't written. They said if they find out they will let me know.'

'Maybe it's just the fact they've been busy and they know they will see you soon. I still don't like it, not after what you went through. If James or Remus had gone through what you did I would be with them, if I couldn't then I would be writing every day.'

'Yeah,' Harry sighed but he never took his eyes from his parent's grave. The two stood there for over an hour before Harry knelt down, kissed each of his parent's named, then they walked off.

'When do you think I will hear from Dumbledore?'

'I would say in a week or so, no longer.'

'Then we better have everything ready. I'm sure everyone is curious about why Skeeter has stopped writing lies, and why Witch Weekly is writing the truth. I'm sure the ministry is trying to stop them but I still haven't heard anything from others, just you.'

'Yeah, but as I'm your godfather I am compelled to be loyal to you, over anyone else, I want to as well. Albus might have believed that none of us can reveal anything about what's spoken at order meetings, but he must have forgotten about the binding ceremony done by godparent's.'

'Or he think's the oath he made you take would override that.'

'There,' Sirius pointed to the house as they got closer, 'It looks worse than I remember.'

'Most of the roof is gone,' Harry whispered.

'Are you sure you want to go in Harry?'

'Yes, I have those couple of tiny photo's of my parents, I only own the cloak, I want a few things of theirs. I'll be okay Sirius, it's just a shock to see it after all the stories I've heard about that night.'

'Okay, if you're sure.'

Sirius wasn't keen on going inside, to see the place James and Lily died, but he would never allow Harry to face this alone. His godson wanted to see the home he lived in, the place where he was loved and looked after. As Harry told him, he had only recently felt loved, like by a family and that was because of Sirius. They were like father and son, so even if they weren't blood, they both felt like they had family.

Harry had his meeting with Ted Tonks, one thing he was pleased about, Ted Tonks had spoken with his daughter, told her that she could not mention to anyone that Harry was now his client. Tonks liked Harry, she did not believe he should have been sent to live with muggles after what took place in the graveyard. She thought Harry should have been with Sirius.

Harry snuck back into the house and straight into his office where he put the folder that Ted had given him. Now that he had his own lawyer, Harry wanted Ted to check out a few other things apart from what he was already going to do. Sue the authors of those books and make sure the Daily Prophet knew that if they slander his client by using the news papers then they would end up being sued as well. His client, Harry Potter had proof, where they did not have any proof that Harry was lying. Harry thought things were looking up.

'So how did it go?'

'Great, as my lawyer he can unseal my parent's wills, but he asked a question that had me curious. Okay, I was known as the-boy-who-lived, I saw the way people reacted when they saw me when Hagrid took me shopping. I explained how the Dursley's kept destroying my Hogwarts letters, Ted asked if they always did that with the mail I received. I explained to him that until then I never once received any mail. Now I don't remember if I did get any when I was young, so maybe the Dursley's did destroy anything that was sent to me. But from the age of five, I think I was five, I was always made to get the mail, there was never anything for me.'

'As the-boy-who-lived you should have received letters, people thanking you, now since you were a baby, they might have sent things like bright colourful cards, maybe even something like a stuffed unicorn or dragon. Okay, either the Dursley's made sure anything that came for you was destroyed or someone made sure you didn't receive any. You did live with muggles, yet they knew about magic, but you did live in a muggle neighbourhood. Maybe whoever did this realised that hundred's of owls couldn't be seen going into a house. It's like what I told you about children and accidental magic, it doesn't get picked up, but you lived with muggles, you could have done magic in front of visitors or when you were out shopping. It's like someone made sure nothing about our world was seen. I always thought it was stupid to put you with muggles, it's dangerous to our world. I get why, she is your aunt, your blood relative, but she's a muggle. I don't know pup, something doesn't add up.'

'Well, Ted is going to be questioning the Dursley's, he plans to use the muggle approved version of veritaserum to get the truth. He plans to take them to court as well, for the way they treated me. I said I would like them to pay, but for now I want all this about Voldemort worked out. People need to realise me and Dumbledore are telling the truth about Voldemort, they need to get Fudge out of office, and they need to get more aurors.'

'Yep, all that needs to be done, Ted will get this done then hopefully things will begin to move in the right way.'

'Yeah, but Ted had an idea and he even checked the Hogwarts laws and rules in case I wanted to do it.'

'Do what?'

'Okay, with the things that's happened at Hogwarts, how I almost died, not just during the tournament either, but how Quirrell tried to kill me, and Voldemort. He also mentioned how I was taken from Hogwarts by a portkey, which could happen again. Anyway, he suggested that I hire a body guard, I could legally have someone with me at all times inside Hogwarts. That includes classes and detentions. Imagine if an adult saw the way Snape behaved or how the teachers don't investigate when complaints are made against a student who tried to curse them. Right now Voldemort is back, people like Malfoy is following his orders, his son could be ordered to curse me or my friends, like Hermione since she's a muggleborn.'

'Not a bad idea, I didn't know you could, not inside Hogwarts, but it would keep you safe, or at least safer than you have been.'

'Yeah, it will so we spoke about who, I explain my problem with adults and trust, so he knows for this to work I would need to trust my body guard.'

'So did he have any idea on who you could hire?'

'He did, he left me alone in his office for a few minutes, when he came back, his daughter was with him. Now she likes being an auror, but she does not like the way the ministry is run, she wanted to quit, it was just money until she could find another job. Well, I hired Tonks to be my body guard.'

'That works out perfectly, since she works for you then anything she finds out at order meetings can't be kept from you if you ask her. Albus worked that in the oath for people like Kingsley and Tonks. They can't repeat anything unless asked specifically by their boss what they was told at an order of the phoenix meeting. But Albus told us he wanted all of us to keep the order secret.'

'Smart bastard,' Harry grinned at Sirius's bark like laugh.

'So how does it work at Hogwarts, she's female and you're male?'

'The castle can make other rooms as long as the space is originally there. Now you know as well as I do that there is a lot of the castle that is closed off or just hidden. Ted said he knew information about Hogwarts that isn't in any of the books printed now. It was an old book that belonged to his wife, it was passed through the family for centuries. Anyway, every dorm room has another room, it was for parents. I'm not talking about our parent's living there with us, but when a student ends up a parent. The room is connected to the boys or girls dorm rooms, back when these were used the mother and child would live in the room with the father. If the father refused to have anything to do with the child then the mother would take the room off the girl's dorm. Sometimes there were more than one lot of couples with kids, so they would use both lots of rooms, but the castle could open up another if they were needed. Hearing all this made me curious though.'

'Why no student is seen with children?'

'That and wouldn't you think we would notice when students just left. Now is different, Voldemort is back so many might leave, but before.'

'You're right, maybe it's just that now we have those contraceptive charms that there isn't any accidental pregnancies. Add that to the fact of danger, the war from when you were born. I think people are just more cautious, who would really want to bring children into the world when Voldemort was out there killing and torturing anyone that got in his way.'

'Then why did my mother fall pregnant with me?'

'They really wanted you Harry, so they talked and if it became more dangerous then Lily decided she would leave with you and hoped James would go with her. James was going to, take his family overseas. I have no idea what made them change their mind, but I know that Lily wasn't happy.'

Harry realised that he was hearing things about his parent's, but even Sirius didn't know everything. Harry wanted to know what made his parent's change their minds, if they didn't then they would still be alive.