Chapter 47 -
"Well this is nice." Delphi said as the family ate lunch, Shadow obviously included.
"What is Del?" Sirius asked.
"Just...this...you know? The family sitting together and eating." She answered.
"It is quite nice." Bellatrix smiled.
"Yeah, it is." Harry agreed. "So Sirius, do you want to ruin the mood now or later?"
"What are you talking about?" Sirius asked a bit nervously while Bellatrix and Delphi looked at him.
"What do you mean?" Delphi asked Harry.
"Isn't it obvious?" Harry asked.
"Not really." Bellatrix replied.
"Ah, understandable really, in my line of work I analyse everything to detect advantages and disadvantages in a fight. Sirius is eating slower than he usually does, he also randomly scratches himself which he only does when he is in his dog form or when he's nervous. His eyes have also been glancing between me and Bellatrix so whatever he has done is likely to have been something that has affected the two of us in some way. Also I've noticed that his legs have constantly moved in a way that leads me to believe he is worried about what his Sirius junior would look like at the end of the night."
"Impressive." Bella nodded to Harry before turning to Sirius and raising an eyebrow at him. "Well?" She said.
"Okay...just...don't hate me." Sirius shifted in his seat. "Also promise not to hurt me."
"I can't make that promise." Bella replied instantly.
"Fine but promise not to sick Harry on me then." Sirius said with a begging tone, he wasn't worried about his godson killing him but he wasn't looking forward to seeing what would happen if the boy ever felt like he wanted to hurt him.
"Fine." Bellatrix sighed. "Harry won't hurt you."
"Not tonight anyway." Harry said under his breath.
"Well...it's just a while ago I was talking to Remus..." Sirius started.
"Oh Merlin." Bellatrix and Harry groaned at the same time.
"...Anyway," Sirius continued. "me and him are still in contact because I know that we disagree on a lot of thing but we're still friend. I talked to him and we both got drunk, the next thing I know is I agreed to tell him the address of the house and invite him over."
"Goddamn it" Bellatrix said while Delphi face palmed just as Harry slammed his forehead on the dinner table.
"Uh...sorry." Sirius squirmed.
"Wait, how did you tell him?" Delphi asked. "I thought mum was the secret keeper."
"She is but remember that you and me were out when she and Harry had done the charm." Sirius began explaining as it gave him an opportunity to avoid looking at the glares he was getting from Harry and Bellatrix. "When we came back she had wrote the location on a piece of paper and had Kreatcher give it to us, you read it first then I took it and then I forgot to rip it open and then when I got drunk with Remus I had mentioned it and showed it to him. I didn't give it to him though if that's any consolation."
"I bet you're really regretting that I can't hurt him now." Harry said to Bellatrix who nodded in agreement.
"Well when is he going to come?" Delphi asked.
"Um...tonight..." Sirius confessed.
"So instead of telling us you decided to spend the whole night trying to think of a way out of it?" Bellatrix half-asked, half-stated.
"Um...yep"
"I'm going to kill you know." Bellatrix removed her wand, fortunately for Sirius Kreatcher popped in and informed them that they had a guest. "I'm going to sleep." Bellatrix said as he got up and went upstairs, not really wanting to see Lupin.
"Me too." Delphi said as she went upstairs along with her.
"I'm going to go hunting." Harry said as he got up and walked over to Sirius, he gave the man a dope slap on the back of the head before going upstairs to get ready.
"Invite him in Kreatcher." Sirius said to the elf while he rubbed the back of his head, the boy slapped just like his mother.
"Padfoot?" Remus said when he was escorted into the room by Kreatcher, he ignored the elf as he left mumbling about 'bad werewolves'. "How are you?"
"I'm fine Moony." Sirius nodded to him as he gestured him to take a seat. "How about you?"
"I'm doing okay." Remus said as he sat down. "Um...where are the others?"
"Uh...well Bellatrix was a bit tired and went to sleep early."
"Right," Remus nodded, easily knowing that Sirius lied but decided not to call him out on it. "what about Delphi and Harry?"
"Well Delphi went up with her mother, as for Harry...he has decided to go out for the night."
"Out for the night?" Remus raised an eyebrow before realisation hit him. "He's planning to go out and hunt death eaters?!" He hissed.
"Alright Padfoot," Harry said as he entered the room, wearing the exact same things he wore when he fought in the department of mysteries and holding his mask in his right hand while Shadow was perched on his left shoulder. "oh, hi monster." Harry said to Remus.
"Harry," Sirius frowned.
"What?" Harry shrugged. "He insists on being treated like a monster, what do you want me to do about it?"
"Harry, please tell me that you're not planning to go off and kill death eaters." Remus said with a pleading expression and voice.
"Okay I won't." Harry replied.
"Are you going to?"
"You just said you didn't want me to tell you, what do you want from me?"
"Harry, you can't be serious. No Padfoot!" The last part was said by both of them when they saw Sirius prepare to make a 'Sirius-serious' joke. "Harry you can't just go around and kill whoever you want."
"Legally I can." Harry responded. "Do you want to join me?" Harry offered.
"What?!" Remus blurted out.
"Come on it'd be great, just a pair of monsters hanging out, decapitating heads. It's be a blast."
"I am not going out to kill with you!" Remus scowled.
"Your loss." Harry said.
"Harry, listen to me," Remus said as he stood up and stood in front of Harry. "there are other options."
"Of course there are other options," Harry said just as Shadow flew to Sirius's shoulder. "I don't decapitate everyone. Most of the time I just cut their throats or pierce their bodies."
"Harry! You can't do this! What would your parents think?!"
"Well seeing as they were already friends with one monster I think they'd be fine with having another for a child." Harry replied. "Besides, the difference between you and me Lupin, is that I don't give a shit what everyone thinks about me. What my family and friends think is important but I'm not about to change who I am because of the opinion of people I don't know or care about."
"But Harry, you're talking about killing people, yes they are bad people but..."
"Wow, Dumbledore's really got you trained, hasn't he?" Harry interrupted Remus with an amused voice. "That sounds exactly like the crap that the old goat would preach. But if it didn't work for him then I don't understand why you think it would work for you."
"You're parent didn't die just so you could..."
"My dad died because he wanted me and my mum to live," Harry interrupted and glared at Remus. "my mum died because she wanted me to live. She died thinking that either you or Sirius would look after me. Sirius's excuse was a four wall cell with a small window and dementors for company, your excuse was what?" Remus remained silent. "Let me guess, 'I turn into a monster one night in a month and am emotional the day before and tired the day after so I basically can't look after you for the rest of the month'. Maybe you want to use the legal excuse, you couldn't because the ministry wouldn't let you, I don't think they were actively stopping you from trying to visit.
My parents may be disappointed in me but let's not pretend that they'll think you are perfect."
"So this is why you're out killing?!" Remus demanded. "Because I wasn't there for you?!"
"No, because I like it." Harry smirked.
"You like it?!" Remus shouted with disbelief. "How on Earth could you like it?! The blood, the needless loss of life!"
"What exactly do you think Libra did to me?!" Harry demanded as he raised his voice against the werewolf. "Do you think they just put me in a few hours of martial arts class and an hour or two of magic before sending me to bed?! Huh?! They fucked up my mind! They trained me, they conditioned me to like it! The first time I ever killed a person they gave me more food than everybody else! If I wasn't training then I was sleeping! When Bellatrix first tried to hug me I thought she was trying to attack me and I burnt her!
Yet she still tried her best with me! When she failed she didn't make excuses! One time she burnt dinner and instead of making excuses she apologised for ten minutes straight and made it from scratch!"
"This isn't about Bellatrix!" Remus said, not wanting to hear more about his ex.
"No, you're right, this is about one prick who thinks that just because he suffers he is better than everybody else."
"I do not think I am better than everybody else."
"You see, I think you do." Harry disagreed. "Without the wolf, you're nothing...just a plain and boring little nerd. You complain and whine about the wolf but you do it because it's easy to do so, to blame all of your life problems on the wolf. But you see, I don't think all of your problem can be blamed on him. A lot of your problems wouldn't be problems if you listened to the wolf more. For example, if you listened to the animal part of you and killed death eaters when they attack you and your pack instead of letting them go so they can do it again or perhaps if you'd actually stay loyal to your pack. Though I suppose you have in a way, you consider Dumbledore to be the Alpha so the wolf has no choice but to consider him to be the Alpha.
But I digress, you think that you're special, because of the wolf. Without it you'd have no excuse for your idiocy, without it you're just plain and old boring Remus Lupin."
"Guy's, please..." Sirius said, pleading for them to stop but found himself ignored.
"Stop talking like you have any idea what it's like to be a werewolf!" Remus snarled, losing his patience with Harry.
"Stop acting like you're the only one who has suffered!" Harry said, not backing down. "You keep acting like you turn into some big and evil monster that rampage villages but I bet you've never even bitten anyone, have you? Huh? Have you?" Remus remained silent, but still kept glaring at Harry. "You're silence is telling, I know what dangerous werewolves look like, how do you think I got these?!" Harry demanded as he pointed to the claw marks on his face.
"You...you were attacked by a werewolf?" Remus asked, no longer glaring at Harry, instead he was looking at him with a face full of shock and surprise.
"Yep," Harry nodded though he was still glaring at Remus. "I got three claw marks permanently on my face because of one werewolf, yet that isn't why I don't like you. I don't care that you're a werewolf, if you had told me that you didn't raise me because you didn't want to do so then I could have accepted that, I don't like you because you make excuses. When I go out tonight and hunt those death eaters, it is partially because of Libra but I am man enough to admit that I'm doing it because I want to."
"H...Harry, I..."
"If you want to stay friends with Sirius, then I won't stop either of you. But do us a favour and leave the rest of us alone. Come on Shadow." Harry said and Shadow flew to his shoulder, the two then walked out of the room, leaving a shocked Remus and a tired Sirius.
"Aaargh!" The man's screams were suddenly cut off by a killing curse that hit him in the chest.
Harry walked over the body, he walked calmly with his wand raised in front of him in his right hand while his left hand was ready to put up a wind shield, it wouldn't be likely to stop the unforgivables but it could stop pretty much any other spell. He turned the corner and was met with two death eaters in a hallway, he quickly shot a cutting curse at both their legs, dropping them down to the floor where they were finished by two killing curses.
He walked past them and down the hallway, a door in front of him opened and one death eater began walking out but didn't get too far as Harry blasted the door and he found himself trapped in-between the door and door frame as the door smashed against him, he didn't get too much time with his pain because Harry followed through with two cutting cures at his throat. Some would say 'overkill', Harry would say 'making sure'.
He continued walking, when the next door opened two death eaters jumped out the door, one had jumped out into the hallway while the other was using the open door as cover. The two fired a cutting curse each, Harry formed a wind shield to block the spell, he then fired a spell at the door handle which caused it to explode. The shrapnel from the exploded handle struck the death eater in the hallway while simultaneously sending the door back so it crashed into the one hiding behind the door.
Harry followed up with two piercing curses to the death eater who was on the floor after being struck with shrapnel, he then turned to the one who was stuck between the door and doorframe and fired a cutting curse at his neck after firing a piercing cure at his chest. He then moved on, he saw three more death eaters coming from the opposite end. He ducked under the three spells they sent then sent a spell at the ceiling above them, broken bits of the ceiling fell on top of them, crushing them underneath.
Harry sent three killing curses at them as he walked past them and turned right to find a stair case going up.
"We can't apparate!" One voice shouted form above.
"The portkeys aren't working! He put up wards!" Another shouted.
If Harry wasn't focused on killing them then he would be tempted to point out that it's nothing that they didn't do to other people, after all death eaters were known for putting up wards and attacking people. He looked up and saw two death eaters leaning on the railing with their wands aimed at him, he blocked the spells they shot at him before firing a cutting curse at one, hitting him in the shoulder, he then sent out a rope that wrapped around the other one's neck.
He pulled the rope and the death eater was pulled over the railing and screamed as he plummeted don before landing right in front of Harry, he tried lifting his head but Harry sent a blasting spell at his head causing his head to smash against the floor at a high speed and causing serious damage to his skull. Harry stomped on his head two more times and sent the same spell once more to be sure, Harry walked past him and up the stairs where the other death eater was leaning against the rail as his shoulder was bleeding.
He tried to fire a spell at Harry but found his wand flying out of his, he tried to lunge at Harry but Harry side stepped and kicked him in the chest. He went backwards and rolled down the stairs, would that be enough? No it wasn't enough. That's why Harry shot three piercing curses at him as he rolled down the stairs. Feeling satisfied that he wasn't going to get up, Harry turned and continued walking. He found himself in another hallway.
This time a group of ten death eaters came toward him, Harry decided he could duel them properly or he could just burn them all. Naturally he went with the second option and sent a burst of fiendfyre at them, the death eaters panicked and shot a spell each. In their panic they all shot a spell each, one of them managed to accidentally shoot one of his own. They shot their spells into the burning fires, Harry had fortunately managed to put up a wind shield to block any spells and got low jut in case any spells that he couldn't block with his wind shield was sent at him.
The screams of death eaters and smell of burnt flesh and clothes filled the air, Harry walked through the flames, unaffected by it. He waited for a few more seconds before he got rid of the flames, he didn't think it was necessary but decided to use some piercing and cutting curses to make sure. He walked towards the end of the hallway and opened the door, he entered, wand ready and that was very good as it allowed him to block the two spells that came from the two death eaters in the room.
"Hi boys." Harry said, not lowering his wand for a second.
"Back off Potter!" A death eater with brown hair said, his wand and voice shaking.
"S...stay away!" A death eater with black hair added.
"I'm sorry boys but your boss should've listened to me when I told him that I wanted to stay out of this." Harry said with a small shrug. "I gave you time to surrender but if you didn't take me up on my offer then that's not my problem."
"You..." The brown haired death eater started, only to be interrupted by a screeching sound. Shadow flew in and snatched his wand out of his hand, Harry took advantage of the distraction and sent cutting curse at the black haired death eater, he managed to block that by didn't manage to avoid the organ liquifying curse that hit him after, nor the body bind spell. Seeing that that one was going to die Harry turned his attention back to the brown haired death eater who was now on his knee.
"Wait! Please!" He begged. "I...I don't want to die!"
"We don't always get what we want." Harry said as he aimed his glowing wand at him.
"Wait! I...I'll do anything!"
"Anything?" Harry repeated.
"Yes!" He nodded quickly. "Anything! You want money?! Girls?! I'll give you anything!"
"You're going to wear a magical vow to me now that says tomorrow you will go to the ministry and hand yourself in while confessing all of your crimes and giving up all the knowledge you have on Voldemort and his death eaters."
"But...but..." The brown haired death eater paled. "...they...they'll kill me...they'll kill me and..." He was cut off when Harry struck him in the leg with a cutting curse then hit him with a torture cure to the chest.
"What do you think I'm going to do?" Harry growled as he walked towards him.
"W...wait!" The death eater shouted when Harry was a few steps away from him. "I'll do it...I'll...I'll do!"
"Good, I don't care if you death eaters are dead or in Azkaban, anything else makes you my problem. Now get to making that oath."