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Chapter 12

Ebony P.O.V

The grounds were fairly large. No where near as large as the Hogwarts grounds though. I wandered around for a while, before finding a nice secluded spot amongst some trees.

I sat down and sighed, closing my eyes. Allot had changed this year. If I had had my way, my other powers never would have been found out. I hated it when people stared at me and whispered. They couldn't keep their damn noses out of other people's business, could they? Well, at least I knew how Harry felt all of the time.

I also should have known that I was related to dad by blood somehow. For crying out loud, I was the younger female version of him! I smiled. I actually had someone who was biologically related to me who cared about me.

Upon hearing a whine, my eyes snapped open and my gaze landed on a dog. It was huge! It had shaggy black fur, and blue eyes. It also looked very thin, like it was under fed.

"Whose mutt are you then?" I asked. "Or are you a stray?"

The dog lay down on its stomach and put its head on its front paws, making puppy eyes at me.

"Shoo. I'm more of a cat person. Go away." I said, motioning with my hands.

The dog cocked its head to one side, as if to say, "Strange, that normally works."

I pinched the bridge of my nose, a habit I'd picked up from Harry. "Look mutt, if you don't scram, I'm going to bring out my claws, and you won't like that. I don't even mean the adamantium ones either."

The dog looked puzzled.

"You want to see?"

The dog nodded. I held up my hand, and grew out the claws I shared with dad, the non-adamantium ones, and the ones I shared with Logan.

The dog walked over cautiously, and licked one of the adamantium claws. It then laid its head on my stomach and looked up at me, curiosity in its eyes.

"Humans don't tend to like what's different." I said, absentmindedly patting the dogs head, stroking the dirty fur. "And it looks as if humans haven't been good to you either boy, huh?"

The dog whined. There was something almost… human, about the dog. That was when I remembered Professor McGonagall.

Animagus. The word breathed through my mind. It wouldn't be a mutant power. I would have sensed it, but magical…

I reached out with my mind, to see the dogs. No, not a dog… a wizard. I delved into his mind. This was Sirius Black! He'd followed me, in an attempt to get me to learn the truth, as a close friend of Harry's.

He was in fact an innocent man. He'd been framed by Pettigrew, who was hiding out as Scabbers!

"Shit! He's in the same dorm as Harry!" I exclaimed.

Sirius shot back, startled.

"A Death Eater could get to him at any time!" I cried. "Why didn't you try to approach anyone before?"

There was a pop and Sirius Black was standing in front of me in human form. "I wanted to get Peter. They'd let the Dementors kiss me before they listened to me."

"How did you get over here?" I asked. I hadn't checked that detail, and was curious.

"I stole this." Sirius held up a wand. "I apparated."

"Look, I'll see what I can do, but didn't you get a trial?"

"I was thrown straight in Azkaban. No questioning, no trial. People never suspected that we may have switched secret keepers to Peter." Sirius said. "I don't want my name cleared. I just want to get Peter. To protect Harry!"

"If we can prove your innocence, then we can swap Pettigrew for you for the kiss! If you want to protect Harry, then you need to clear your name. He needs a proper family, can't you see that?"

"But what about-?"

"The Dursleys treat him like a house elf! He needs to know that he doesn't need to go back to that all the time!" I said. "Especially now."

"What do you mean?"

"If the Dursleys reacted badly to having a wizard in their house, how do you think they'll feel when he turns out to be a mutant? And a Feral at that, with a healing factor!" I said. "They'll have a field day! There's no telling what they'd do, except probably hand him over to some medical facility!"

Calm down, I told myself, not all humans are like Stryker. But I bet the Dursleys would get on great with him. Oh yeah, they'd hand Harry over to Stryker alright.

"Is that what happened to you?" Sirius asked.

"I wasn't handed over. I ran away from my mother when I was three, got picked up. After a load of experiments, I escaped. Dad found me not long after."

"A hard life then?"

"S' not so bad I suppose, after I started living with dad I mean. But that's off the subject, we have to get your name cleared. And I know just the person to help." I grinned.

"Professor?" I reached out with my mind.

"Yes, Ebony?" He replied.

"I just found out that a supposed mass murderer was wrongly committed, without a trial. He's here now."

"Bring him to my office. Try and prevent others seeing him where you can."

"Right Professor."

I looked at Sirius. "The Professor agreed to see you. Turn back into a dog, that way students won't figure out who you are."

There was a pop, and once again, a big black dog was standing in front of me.

"Good." I nodded. "Now, come on."

I started to walk back to the school, and away from the trees, when I felt a prick to the back of my neck. I stopped, and reached to feel the back of my neck. There was something there. I pulled it out, and saw a dart. My vision swam and something hit me over the back of my head. Darkness over took me.


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