Chapter 8:

Back in Hampshire Manor, the Duke was in his study looking at some photos of the Marauders, he removed Peter from all of them, He distinctly loved the one he was holding the most, It was of him, James and Remus, He and James made foolish faces at the camera while Remus simply smiled at them. He had missed them both so much, James was gone, He'll never come back but Remus, where was he? He sank in his thoughts only to be brought back to reality when his wife entered the room.

"Sirius, we have a visitor!" Hestia beamed at him as she said that

"Really, who?" Sirius asked her his eyes focused at a piece of parchment he randomly picked up.

"Come on in Remus" Hestia said laughing.

Sirius head snapped up to see his best friend entering the room, his scars were no longer as visible as they were, He looked younger, happier.

"Hello Your Highness!" Remus said mockingly as He bowed in front of Sirius who was now standing before him.

Sirius rolled his eyes and pulled Remus into a brotherly hug.

Hestia: "I'll leave you two catch up!" and she left before Sirius could say a word.

Sirius ushered his best friend into an armchair and went back to sit behind his mahogany desk.

"So, Sirius, It's been a while!" Remus said sheepishly

"A while Moony! It's been YEARS! Where were you all these years? Why didn't contact me?" Sirius exclaimed.

"Well Padfoot I was in Romania, I started an association that helps werewolves with a fellow werewolf who's on the light's side. In this association we help newly-bitten werewolves to settle and we provide wolfsbane potion and treatment for scars and wounds the full moon may cause for all the members of the association. It is a secret association so I forbid myself to leave Romania for a while or contact anyone, we don't want the Dark side to figure out what we're doing, I was also on a mission for the order, I was a spy, I've been pulling out information from Fenrir Greyback's own army of werewolves about Voldemort. But I'm back you see, Dumbledore reckons that It's now more dangerous for me to stay there, Greyback might figure out who I am."

"Wow! I've missed a lot haven't I?" Sirius exclaimed.

"I am the one who missed out a lot! You got married! To Hestia! I for one thought that she was one of the few girls who didn't fall for you back in Hogwarts, but now she's your wife! And you have a son too! And to top it off You're a Duke now? How did that happen?" Remus asked eagerly.

"Well Hestia indeed fell for me in the end, I was head over heels for her too, we were secretly married a while before James and Lily got married themselves. We had Orion a year after that. About my sudden Dukedom, well, The Blacks turned out to be a forgotten Royal Family, to sum it up, since I'm Paterfamilias I also inherited the title of Duke of Hampshire." Sirius explained.

"I see your life turned out great after all, I see your mother lives here with you too, How are you getting along? You hated each other before!" Remus asked again.

"Well our relationship still has its ups and downs but she is now fond of me again since I married a pure-blood witch and since I am the only remaining male Black, she wouldn't have wanted the Black family line to end after all these years, She is also very fond of Orion and spoils him too, I think that makes up for our past." Sirius said "Orion first had James as godfather, but, you know, James is…gone, so would you care to take his place? It would mean the world to me Remus."

Remus grinned at that last sentence and replied happily: "I'd be honored Sirius, but I would also like to actually meet my godson!"

"Well, he's now at Hogwarts, first year, I shall get him to spend the weekend here at the Manor so You can meet him." Sirius said.

"That would be great, what's his house, you surely didn't force him to go to Gryffindor have you?" Remus asked.

"No, he ended up there on his own!" laughed Sirius.

"Well, He's your son after all !" added Remus while laughing. "Do you happen to have a picture of him here?"

"Of course I do" Sirius replied as he opened one of his desk drawers and pulled out a photo of Orion and gave it to Remus.

"Merlin! Sirius he looks just like you! Except for his eyes well they're green?" asked Remus

"That comes from Hestia's side of the family." replied Sirius hastily. He hated lying to Remus but He wanted to inform Orion first about telling Remus the truth since It concerned him.

"Well, I can't wait to meet him!" Remus said.

"He'll be glad to meet you too Moony!" Sirius added as he grinned at his friend.

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Back at Hogwarts, the Gryffindors along with the Hufflepuffs were walking down to the dungeons for their very first potions lesson, they entered the obscure potions classroom and took their seats as a their teacher entered. He was dressed in Black robes and his hair was as greasy as the potions ingredients they were going to use further during this year.

"I am Professor Snape, I will be teaching you the noble art of Potion Brewing as you can see, many of you may not think that this is magic because it doesn't include wand usage, but I assure to those who have this opinion that they're utter fools. I expect complete discipline from each and every one of you or the conquences will be most severe." Announced the potions professor coldly "I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.…Black! Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Orion answered: "Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, Sir."

Snape asked again: "Where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar, Black?"

Orion replied again: "The stomach of a goat, Sir."

Snape looked at him for a few seconds then asked: "What is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?"

Orion answered: "They're the same plant, It's also called Aconite."

Snape was indeed surprised by this, He then offered Gryffindor 5 points but didn't praise Orion at all. He simply asked the students to copy everything that has been said down. The rest of the lesson passed by and the students left the dungeons to go to their next class.