It was 20 minutes after midnight and Sirius was fast asleep. This gave Harry the perfect opportunity. Harry carefully crept down the staircase and into the basement. On the wall was a painting of an old piece of parchment that only had one thing written on it: 'Password?' As softly as he could, he whispered, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." With that the painting opened. 'Sirius should really come up with new passwords,' he thought to himself as he looked into the compartment that the painting was hiding. In it was exactly what Harry was looking for: Sirius' Auror-issued invisibility cloak. He knew that the invisibility cloaks used by the Aurors were probably some of the best quality invisibility cloaks out there. Well there was also his Dad's cloak, but he had no idea where that was.

Harry grabbed the cloak, quietly shut the painting, and went back upstairs to his room. As he got into bed Harry smiled. 'Tomorrow's Sirius' day off,' he thought. 'He won't be looking for the cloak. This prank is going to go swimmingly.'

It was a particularly warm May day and Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were waiting in the school cafeteria for Harry to show up. It was odd that he wasn't there. His knapsack was in his usual spot at the table but he himself was nowhere in sight. "I don't get it," Ron said. "Where is he?"

"He's probably using the loo, Ron," Hermione said.

"What for ten minutes?" he countered

"Well can you think of any other explanation?"

"Will you two please stop arguing?" Ginny asked rubbing her temples. "I'm sure that Harry will be here soon."

Two minutes later with Harry still nowhere in sight, Dudley waddled to where the three were sitting with a wicked grin on his fat face. "Well well well. The weirdo squad without their fearless leader."

"Shove off Dursley," Ron said glaring at Dudley.

"So where is Potter, eh? Finally grew a brain and decided to leave you three?"

"Leave us alone!" Hermione demanded.

"Aw what's the matter Granger? Upset that your boyfriend's gone?"

"Maybe you didn't hear my friend or brother," Ginny said almost calmly but still stared daggers at Dudley. Then she nearly shouted "Leave us the bloody hell alone!" Lucky for her, the lunch monitors couldn't hear her say this due to the general volume of the room.

"Tsk tsk. I didn't realize that freaks used that kind of language." Dudley laughed to himself until all of the sudden, he fell to the ground as if an invisible force pushed him. He looked around to see who pushed him, but no one was close enough to actually do the deed. He tried to get up but he felt one of his arms being pushed causing him to fall to the floor again. He finally managed to get back up and looked at the three. Hermione looked like she was trying to hold in her laughter. Ron and Ginny made no such attempt. "You three are doing this, aren't you?"

I have no idea what you're talking about," Hermione said with a giggle. Dudley started to walk away before slipping and once again ended up on the floor. The three could not stop laughing at Dudley's humiliation.

Ron looked down during his laughter and saw a face. He stopped laughing. It was Harry. He shook his head over to Hermione and Ginny indicating Ron to get their attention. "Uh, Gin, Hermione, you might want to look down for a second."

Still laughing the girls looked under the table where their laughter ended and their jaws dropped. "Harry?" they both said in shock.

Harry just smiled and whispered, "I'll explain later."

Minerva McGonagall was not looking forward to her present task. She saw the fiasco that happened in the school cafeteria. She saw Harry reveal himself under the table (thankfully she was the only one to see it). She understood more than anyone else that kids need to be kids and playing pranks is part of it (she had to deal with the Marauders for seven years), but what Harry did could have exposed the Wizarding World to muggles. Accidental magic she could understand, but this was just reckless.

Minerva walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A few moments later, a rather sleepy-looking Sirius Black opened door. "Minerva. To what do I owe this unexpected visit?" He said trying to hold in a yawn.

"My apologies if I interrupted you during a nap Sirius, but I must speak to you about something."

"Of course 'Mrs. Smith'."

Minerva raised an eyebrow. "So you figured it out."

Sirius let out a small chuckle. "It wasn't hard."

"Well I'm afraid that is why I am here. It's about your godson."

Sirius' eyes went wide. "There's not something wrong with him is there?"

"Perhaps we should go inside."

As Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were walking home, Harry explained to them what his plan was and all the steps he took to accomplish it. Ron and Ginny thought it was the greatest thing ever. Hermione, however, was shaking her head disapprovingly. "Why would you do that? What if you got caught? Isn't there a law saying that you aren't allowed to use magic around muggles? Besides, what would Sirius say?"

"Hermione relax," Ron said. "No one saw Harry in the cloak. That's the point of an invisibility cloak. By the way Harry, you are so lucky that Sirius is an Auror."

Harry smiled at this. "Besides, Sirius loves a good prank. So if he finds out, no big deal, right?"

As he said that, he looked over at his house and saw that Sirius and Mrs. Smith were standing by the mailbox. "Harry!" he hollered with a scowl on his face. "Could we get a word with you? Alone?"

The sternness of Sirius' voice made Harry a bit nervous. The fact that Mrs. Smith was there too wasn't helping the matter either. "Uh, I guess I'll see you guys later."

"Good luck Harry," Ginny said sensing things were going to get ugly. "By the looks of things, you're going to need as much of it as possible." With that, the three walked away leaving Harry to meet his fate.

Harry walked to Sirius and Mrs. Smith who led him inside the house. When Sirius closed the door, he turned to Harry and shouted, "What the bloody hell were you thinking?!"

"I just pulled a simple prank, that's all," he defended himself.

"No Harry. If it was a simple prank, I wouldn't be this mad if mad at all. Not only did you steal my cloak, you nearly exposed the wizarding world to muggles!"

"I'm sorry alri- hang on. Why are we talking about this in front of Mrs. Smith?"

"Because Mrs. Smith isn't really a muggle. This is Professor Minerva McGonagall from Hogwarts. She was supposed to watch over you kids for this year and make sure you're alright, but it seems that she also needs to make sure you don't do anything stupid."

"Why are you so mad now? You weren't mad when I gave Dudley a tail."

"Because I knew that was an accident. This time you knowingly and purposely used magical means to harass a muggle! As your guardian, the Ministry would see me responsible and I could possibly be contained for reckless parenting! Do you want that?!"

Harry hung his head in shame. "No."

"I didn't think so. Now I want you to go to your room and really think about what you did." Harry nodded and started for his room until Sirius added, "Also, as punishment, no flying for two weeks."

Harry was flabbergasted. "But-"

"No buts," Sirius interrupted. "Maybe this'll make you think the next time you do something so foolish. I'm not doing this because I like punishing you. I'm doing this to teach you a le-"

Sirius was interrupted by the fire turning green and Mr. Weasley's head appearing in it. He looked rather panicked and out of breath. "Sirius, are you there?!"

Sirius looked at the fireplace and then back to Harry. "We'll talk more about this later. Please go to your room." Harry nodded and walked to his room with his head hung low. Sirius knelt by the fireplace. "Arthur, what's wrong?"

"It the Lovegood house! There was an explosion and the entire house is in flames!"

Sirius was in shock but forced himself to recover quickly. "I'm on my way!" he said as he got up and ran out of the house. He turned around to face McGonagall and said, "Can you please watch Harry while I'm gone?" When he saw her nod her head, he disapparated to appear in front of the Lovegood house to find it engulfed in a blazing inferno.

He pointed his wand to the door and shouted 'AGUAMENTI' producing a strong jet of water. The water hit the door with such intensity that not only did the fire on it go out, but the door was pushed off its hinges giving Sirius entrance to the house. He shot water wherever he deemed necessary in order to find any of the Lovegoods.

After two minutes of searching, Sirius heard what sounded like the coughing of a little girl. He followed the sound to what seemed to be a lab of sorts that had cauldron shrapnel everywhere. Inside the lab contained a young blond-haired girl kneeling over a body. The body of Europa Lovegood. The little girl, Luna if Sirius' memory served right, was crying and coughing as she tried to wake her mother up. Sirius ran to Luna and yelled loud enough so she could hear him, "We need to get out of here! Follow me!"

"What about Mummy?!" she said looking at Sirius with tear stained eyes. Sirius took Europa, threw her over his shoulder and started for the room's exit with Luna in tow until the exit collapsed on itself.

"Bloody hell!" Sirius swore in between coughs. Then he had an idea. If he couldn't go out the regular exit, he'll just have to make one instead. 'I just hope the house will hold up long enough,' he thought. He pointed his wand at a wall with a small window on it and shouted, 'REDUCTO!' A huge chunk of the wall was blasted into nothing and Sirius and Luna ran out of the burning house.

Sirius gently placed Europa down onto the ground and put two fingers against her neck. Nothing. She was dead. He turned to Luna, who was breathing heavily, and solemnly said, "I'm so sorry Luna. She's gone." Luna stayed silent. She walked over to her mother's body, knelt down, and hugged her as she cried. She cried harder than she had ever cried before. All Sirius could do as an Auror was give her a shoulder to cry on.

A funeral was a foreign concept for Harry. Yes his parents were dead but he couldn't remember their deaths that clearly. This girl saw her mother die just a couple days ago. Harry was never close to the Lovegood family, but the Weasleys were, especially Ginny. When neither Harry nor Ron was available to play, Ginny would often go over to the Lovegood house to play with Luna.

As Luna's Father Xenophilius, who was away on business at the time of the explosion, read the eulogy, Harry looked at Luna who was sitting next to an upset Ginny. She was staring into space emotionless. Her eyes were void of any feeling. When someone would try to talk to her, she wouldn't respond or even pay any attention to the person. The only signs that she was still alive were that she was breathing and conscious.

As Harry looked at Luna, he felt a pang of grief in his heart, a feeling that he has never truly experience for. It was grief for his own parents. At least Luna knew her mother and still has her father. All Harry will ever have are stories told by people who knew them before he was born. It became too much for Harry to handle and he began to cry. He cried for Luna who saw the death of her mother. He cried for his parents whom he will never know. He cried for what he recklessly did to Dudley out of arrogance.

During the reception, Harry went up to Sirius and hugged him. "I'm so sorry Sirius!" He said in between sobs. "I really am!"

Sirius embraced his godchild and whispered, "I know you are Pup. I know you are."

A/N: I am so sorry this took so long. Hopefully the next chapter will be out sooner. The next chapter will have the Hogwarts letters, finally.