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The Brotherhood
A/N - To anyone who skipped to this chapter from their story alerts: You should know that this story has been rewritten, and so if you start reading here without having read the previous chapters that are new, you'll be completely lost.
To those who are reading from the beginning: Enjoy the new chapter.
~~~ Chapter Ten ~~~
"Where are we, Sirius?" Harry asked, sounding annoyed. Sirius had been tightlipped about where they were heading to next, and Harry was obviously annoyed with it.
The three of them were standing in the middle of the street, staring at the houses on one side. Ginny noticed that the houses jumped from number eleven to number thirteen.
"Where's number twelve?" Ginny asked.
Harry turned from looking at Sirius to study the houses.
"It's under a fidelius charm," Sirius announced.
"So that's where we're going?" Harry asked.
Sirius still didn't answer.
"He probably can't answer, because he's not the secret keeper," Ginny explained to Harry, knowing how the spell worked.
Sirius nodded slightly. "I think I'm going to have to apparate you two in," he murmured.
Turning to Ginny, he said, "Stay here, I'll be right back," then grabbed Harry's arm and disappeared with a pop.
Harry and Sirius appeared in the entrance room of number twelve Grimmauld Place. "Is this where you used to live?" Harry asked.
"Yea," Sirius grimaced at the darkened room. He waved the borrowed wand and the room lightened. Harry almost preferred the dark when he saw the dust covered floor, the gruesome trolls leg umbrella stand by the door, and the house elf heads that lined the stairs.
"Lovely house," he commented.
Sirius grunted. "Don't wander or touch anything," he said, then popped away.
Harry didn't go far, just further into the room. Suddenly a portrait asked, "Who are you?" Harry turned to see a woman, staring at him suspiciously.
"Harry," Harry replied, deciding it best that he didn't reveal his last name.
"What are you doing here, boy?" the portrait asked.
Harry frowned. "Sirius brought me here," he told her.
"Sirius? The bloodtraitor? I thought he was in Azkaban!" she shrieked.
"He escaped," Harry informed her.
The woman didn't seem to hear him, as she started to mutter under her breath. She got louder and louder, and was soon screaming about 'mudbloods' and 'bloodtraitors'.
Harry could only stare at her in alarm.
"Harry?" Sirius' voice rang out. A moment later, Sirius appeared by his side.
The woman in the portrait instantly fell silent.
"Hello mother," Sirius greeted.
"Mother?" Harry repeated.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, glaring at Sirius.
"Hiding," Sirius told her, then conjured up a curtain and pulled it shut, covering the portrait.
"That was your mother?" Ginny asked. She had been very alarmed when she appeared in the house to hear a woman shrieking at the top of her lungs.
"Yea," Sirius muttered. He glanced around the room and then went down a staircase. Harry and Ginny followed, silently.
~~~TB~~~
Harry and Ginny, both under glamour charms, strode side by side down Diagon Alley, Padfoot, in dog form, between them. Ginny had received her Hogwarts' letter the day before and they had decided to buy her supplies today.
She had protested going at all, but Sirius had insisted, saying that she needed an education, and informing Harry that he would be home schooling him during the year as well. Of course, this meant that Harry now needed a wand.
Before, Harry having a wand really wasn't needed, since he was under The Trace anyway. At Grimmald Place, however, the fidelius charm made it so that no magic could be detected there.
Money wasn't a problem, since Harry had sent an owl to Gringotts, requesting money be withdrawn from the Potter vault and sent to him. Upon being sent to Azkaban, the vault he had been withdrawing all the money from during his Hogwarts years had been locked, so he couldn't access it. However, Sirius had informed him that his wasn't the only vault. There was also the Potter Family Vault, which Harry had access to, as the ministry hadn't locked it since Harry hadn't known about it. Sirius had also told him that the Goblins weren't concerned with wizard problems and therefore wouldn't care if a convict asked for money out of their vault.
They had just about finished their shopping, the only thing left was to get Harry's wand.
"Is it just me, or is that man staring at us?" Ginny suddenly asked.
Harry looked over and quickly spotted the man that was watching them. Actually, he wasn't watching them; he was watching Padfoot.
Padfoot noticed this too. He stared at the man for a moment longer before walking toward him, determinedly.
Harry and Ginny exchanged a look before following. Ginny wondered who the man was, but Harry had a faint idea. He had seen the man before, except he was many times younger looking. This man was Remus Lupin.
~~~TB~~~
Remus sat at a table at the ice cream shop, waiting for Tonks. She was scheduled to meet him here in five minutes, and he had arrived early to do some shopping. Gazing around at the shoppers, his eyes fell on two teenagers ambling along casually. They were talking, about what, Remus didn't know, but they looked fairly amused about whatever it was.
His eyes flickered down to a dog that was walking in between the pair, the boy's hand resting on its back. His eyes widened as he recognized the dog; his old friend, Padfoot.
He stared at the trio, but they didn't see him. Until, the girl looked up and met his gaze squarely. They stared at each other for a moment, before she murmured something to the boy. Both the boy and Padfoot looked over at him and then headed in his direction.
Not sure what to do, Remus looked around. The street was full of people, so Remus hoped that this didn't come to a confrontation. Then again, Sirius had attacked a street full of people once before.
Padfoot and the two teenagers, which Remus suspected were Harry and the Weasley girl, were getting ever closer and Remus decided he had better not risk it. Whatever the trio was doing here in Diagon Alley, he didn't want to be involved.
Remus stood and headed through the crowds, hoping to loose Padfoot. When he arrived at The Leaky Cauldron, he found that Padfoot was still following him. Sighing, he turned on the spot and apparated to Hogsmeade, where he could inform Dumbledore of what had happened.