CHAPTER 14
With a start Sirius came back to the reality and saw that their car was entering a very huge gate. The car had stopped just before the gate and Sirius and Remus felt a wave of magic wash over them.
"Since each person's magic is unique, the wards around this place are taking an imprint of your magic, so that you can easily come and go as you want, but when you are coming here for the first time you have to be with a family member" Richard said.
Everywhere Sirius and Remus looked them only saw wild forest before them and a small clearing for a vehicle to move between them. They started following the path, and slowly the wild look of forest started to change and they saw some evidence of human cultivation. After travelling for another ten minutes, they stopped outside another door which was very huge, even bigger than the first gate, the gate was made up of some material they had never seen before, so they couldn't identify it.. on both side of the door were big statues of Griffin and the door was fixed into a big wall made up of some kind of stones like which they had never seen before and the wall was continuing on both sides like forming a barrier between whatever was there on the other side of the door and the outside world.
As the car stopped in front of the door, Richard got out from the car and went to the statue of Griffin on the right side and pressed the left eye of the Griffin and slowly the door started to open. Richard came and sat back in the car as the driver started the car and slowly moved towards the door. As they entered the door Remus and Sirius once again felt the wave of Magic washing over them.
As they entered the door, both of them saw a big well maintained garden, rows and rows of fruit trees and some workers working among them. They can see far away a very huge Castle which was sparkling in the fading sun. From far away they were unable to get exact idea of how big was the Castle. But as they neared it they saw that it was at least few storey big in front. They can also hear birds and animals voices around them. As Richard was about to knock on the door, it was opened by Emma. She came forward and engulfed both Sirius and Remus in hug and started crying silently, seeing then after such a long time.
"Come on Emma, don't cry!" Sirius said feeling uncomfortable still taking sanctuary in her arms. After some time she stopped crying and wiped her eyes. Then she turned to Richard and hugged him and kissed him on his cheek and led all of them into the house. As they entered the house Richard said "Well-come to the House of Chiranjeevis".
"What's that?" Sirius asked, "I never heard anything like that before"
"I don't know" Remus said.
Both of them looked towards Richard for further explanation, but they didn't get it.
"So what it means?" Remus asked.
"If you can find it out, you will get the answer for how Emma and I survived" Richard said, with that he led them to the Living Room.
"How is Harry Emma?" Richard asked.
Hearing Harry's name Remus and Sirius instantly became alert and Remus asked "Harry is here?"
"But I saw Hagrid leave with him after…after the incident" Sirius said sadly.
"Sirius do you honestly thought that I will let anyone take our Grandson away from us?" Richard asked.
"Well I didn't know that you were alive" Sirius replied.
At that moment Flunky appeared and said "Mistress, Young Harry is awake"
"Excuse me please, I will go and get Harry" Emma said getting up and left the room.
"So how come you acquired Harry without the Knowledge of Dumbledore?" asked Sirius.
"Oh that was easy, I just sent Emma to Private Drive to get Harry from them" Richard said.
"And they just let him go?" asked Remus.
"That's the beauty of it you see and also Dumbledore's greatest mistake, he never made sure that Harry had reached the Dursley's place or not, he just left him on their door step" Richard said. "He interfered where he shouldn't have and because of that he had made a greatest enemy, for putting Harry's life in more danger."
In that instant the fireplace lightened up and a person came out from it, he didn't notice the people present in the Living Room, but they saw him especially Remus and Sirius was watching him as if they have seen a ghost….
"James! You are alive"