Here's the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Please read and review love Hermione xxx
Molly awoke with a start forgetting for a moment where she was. She glanced at her bedside locker and saw the clock there which read eleven thirty am. She hadn't felt this well rested in ages. She was for the first time not hounded to wake up early or needed by anyone. It would seem that she had truly needed some me time and it was good for her. By the sounds coming from next door and the water turning on Petunia had gone for a shower. She began thinking about her life and her brothers who were now dead with sadness. Her childhood had never been the same after she had turned nine. For some reason which still terrified her today she had known someone had erased her memories but not who had done it. She had been so scared she never told her parents. She was never the same afterwards. She spent her whole childhood and teenage years crying and feeling like she had missed out on something great she couldn't tell anyone about.
Molly had always had a natural problem with potions of contraception in that they rarely ever affected her properly. It was genetic. The reason she even had seven children was because that potion had never worked. The charm had not been around in her day having been a very recent development. She didn't regret it of course she loved all of her children dearly. She would have freaked out if she had known who had erased her memories but had no idea she was literally about to find out who it was that very morning. Petunia went downstairs and was heard to be talking to a man when Molly entered the kitchen smiling at the woman before looking at the man and gasping tears freely leaking out of her eyes. There stood a man with long ginger hair, a beautiful beard and the same blue eyes as her son Charlie. He was the image of him minus the dragon fang earring of course. For a moment she even thought it might be him but reasoned it couldn't be as he wasn't this old.
"Oh hello Molly didn't see you there. Molly this is Mike your long lost brother. I have told him everything!" Petunia said as Mike rounded on her crying form with an angry face.
"Where the hell were you huh? Petunia here said you looked for me but I can see no evidence of that!" he snapped as Molly cried further.
"Mike please calm down. I didn't even know about you. I don't know why but I was heartbroken to find out about you. I spent all of my childhood and teenage years crying because I felt like something or someone was missing. I had remembered my mind being erased but I was so terrified of it that I never told my parents about it because I was scared I'd frighten them and whoever did it to me might come after them!" she said seriously as he looked shocked his jaw hanging open.
"Well that is certainly not how things were for me. Did you know I was not a baby when I was thrown out of the family? I was three years old and utterly traumatised. I understand they might have told people I was a baby when it happened but that's a lie. I was kept that long because they thought I might be a late developer. I was even left a vault at Gringotts to use when I was older. I have rarely used it to be honest because I didn't feel right doing it. I remember that night like it was yesterday. Your parents erased your memories. I do remember that although for some reason I had always thought it had been about something else. They had told me it was and I guess I just believed them. I am sorry for that" he said calming down as he too shed tears now.
"Oh Mike! I am so sorry sweetheart. If I could resurrect and kill my parents again I would for all the heartache they caused me. Did you know they looked at me each and every day knowing I was suffering and did nothing about it? They hated that I felt like that. I overheard them once when mum was crying and dad said to her should we tell Molly the truth? Mum said no and that I would need to adjust on my own. I had no idea what it was about but I do now. Oh my god I have always wanted a younger sibling. Oh Mike you have no idea how happy this has made me. You look the image of my oldest son Charles!" she said as he looked at her in awe.
"I have a nephew! Whoa! Petunia didn't tell me that at all. I am so sorry that this happened to you at all Molly. I had such a hard life myself. The people who took me in were always so good to me but I always knew my real parents were missing from my life. I mourned them each and every day. I never forgot them or the fact that they said I would need to live like this for my own safety and because I would never be like them. They said they could always try and love me but me being a reminder of what I didn't have would always ruin it for them" he said as he cried and looked unsure before grabbing Molly in a hug and crying deeply.
"Oh Mike! I am so sorry you had to feel like that ever. Actually um potions don't really work on me as it's a genetic trait well some of them anyway not healing ones and such obviously but ugh contraceptive ones and the like are useless on me. I have six sons and one daughter for that reason. The contraceptive charm was not around in my day and I had to rely on the potion which never worked. Lily said I should say that there was nothing on the Television and that this is why I have so many kids. She said you'd find it funny" she said shocked as he burst out laughing until his eyes were watering.
"Yes that is indeed funny. I am a legit uncle. This is awesome! Can I please see your children at some point? Petunia here has told me my twins are to be magical and I am very proud of it. I want to do something for you if I may!" he said leaving the room momentarily and returning again.
"What is this Mike?" she asked looking at the envelope in her hands.
"Well I have been a rather shit uncle and I have missed however many birthdays so I am making up for it now. It is the least I can do!" he said as she glanced inside the envelope and found seven cheques for ten thousand galleons each. She almost fainted but didn't.
"Mike I can't…"
"Molly please don't break my heart further by saying no to this. I have just gotten my family back and I'd like to make a good impression on them if I may!" he said as she hugged him so close.
"Ok then I will. Thank you so much. This will change their lives for sure. Petunia if I might be so bold as to ask where did you get your bed? That's the best nights sleep I've ever had?" she asked as Petunia who was sipping on a hot chocolate looked at her in awe.
"Well we got it in a local shop just near here. If you like because you have been so kind to me last night more then I ever expected to get from anyone new in my life you can take the bed home with you. I don't mind it really. Anyway that room is going to have to be for the twins and I will need to get rid of it anyway so you would truly be helping me by taking it with you" she responded as Molly smiled.
"Thank you so much Petunia. I'd be delighted to do that and of course for bringing my baby brother back to me. You are like the sister I never had!" she said as she managed to get about and make breakfast telling both Petunia and Mike that she was used to it and to just relax and enjoy themselves. Mike was delighted to have his family back. His heart finally felt whole again and Molly finally knew who had erased her memories. It truly was amazing how like Charlie he was.
Elsewhere Lily entered Saint Mungos with a plan of action which made her very nervous. From now on there were to be no more lies in her life and so she would be having her memories unblocked today. She entered the appropriate room and told the mediwitch there what she needed her to do.
"Mrs Potter I am not allowed to do that as Mr James Potter has forbidden it" she said as Lily looked shocked.
"Me and Mr Potter are now divorced. I am now Ms Evans and I authorise it!" she said as the mediwitch left to check out her claim before returning again.
"I am sorry ma'am you are right. I will cast the spell now and give you a calming draft. I am forbidden from being in the room when you experience this so I will come back in ten minutes!" she called out setting down the potion and calling out the spell before leaving. The fog lifted from Lily's mind and she gasped.
She could see Peter had been the one to erase her mind and the mind of James. He was their true secret keeper. Sirius was innocent. It was then that she remembered something she had seen at school and smirked an evil looking smirk. She took the calming draft and assured the mediwitch she was fine before returning to school. Percy was doing the rounds as a prefect when he was called into her office.
"Professor Evans you asked to see me is everything alright?" he asked as she frowned deeply at him.
"Percy Weasley you have broken the school rules and it must be rectified at once. Please bring me your pet rat. You are not allowed to have a pet rat in school. I will not be telling anyone else about this either. If you do this you can keep your position as a prefect and avoid punishment!" she said as he blanched.
"The pet is not with me but my younger brother Ron. I will get it and I will come back in a moment!" he said. He left and got the rat from a protesting Ron ten minutes later. He handed it to her shocked as she knocked it out.
"This is not a rat but an animagus. I know this because I know who he is and I know what he looks like. Thank you Percy you have just saved an innocent mans life. Twenty points to Gryffindor for well done prefects duties!" she said as he gasped.
"Thank you so much Professor for saving me. I am so sorry I broke the rules. I won't ever do it again I swear!" he promised leaving as she reached into her drawer and pulled out some truth serum which she fed into the mouth of the rat. She didn't know how much to give him so settled on ten drops to make her conscious an easy one.
She arrived in the Ministry and headed for the auror department passing an angry James as she went. "Scrimgeor I have evidence that Sirius Black is innocent and I need to present it right now. He didn't kill Peter Pettigrew because he is here. Pettigrew erased my memories so I wouldn't remember it but I had them reversed!" she called out reversing the animagus transformation as James himself who had come up to shout at her gasped as there stood an unconscious Peter Pettigrew. He couldn't believe Sirius had been innocent. Peter was revived and thanks to her truth serum earlier had sung like a canary. James was more then pissed off. He'd mourned Peter so much. He hated him so much for it. Sirius was shocked when he was released and was horrified to hear it had not been James who had done it but Lily. He felt so betrayed. Even when he learned what happened to them both he punched James clear in the face.
"How could you forbid her from having her memories revealed!? Where the fuck is Harry my godson? I have done nothing but think of him all these years. It was him that kept me going!"
"I mourned Peter so much how could I not. I was scared of the memories that's why I forbid Lily from uncovering them. As for Harry he does indeed have magic now but he will never be my son. He is now a Black and Lord Black at that. You will be surprised to hear. How could you betray me like that? Making him Lord Black!" he snapped as he healed his now bleeding nose.
"I thought I might die so I did what I had to do. I was worried things would go south and I'd die so I made him Lord Black in case that should happen to me. I am most ashamed and disgusted with you. I don't know what happened to you James but you changed and not for the better either!" he snapped as James rounded on him looking furious.
"My sweet mother and fucking father forced me to marry Evans did you know that? Said they'd kick me out of the family if I did not. I had no choice but to marry the mudblood. I wasn't about to let the line die out. Anyway I no longer have control of it since magic herself deemed Jim to be the better person and so he is now Lord Potter!" he said as a stunned Lily gasped. This would definitely be that life change Harry had mentioned earlier. Sirius left with Lily and headed back with her to her rooms in Hogwarts so he could process everything.
"James had an affair and has had a daughter and son with his pureblood whore Violet Brown. It violated our marriage contract and we are now divorced. I am now dating Severus Snape whom I love very much. I will not have a word said against him. I don't care what you think of him Sirius. Also you should know that Harry is responsible for the death of Bellatrix no name as he kicked her out of the Black family and purged his house of all dark artefacts in it. He told me this before!" she said as Sirius looked up at her in such shock that he couldn't even speak.
"Well given what James did you deserve some happiness and as long as Severus accepts my apology and treats you well I am ok with that. I am not now nor will I ever again be able to be the friend of James over everything he did. I love you like a sister Lily I always have. Can I please see Harry?" he asked as she smiled at him.
"Yes but first you will take a shower and put on some clean clothes. Then you will visit Madam Pomfrey for a check up. Once you are done then you may see him. You my brother look like shit!" she said laughing as he tried to look offended but couldn't. He went and took a long shower and had a shave and a much needed haircut so his hair was now by his shoulder blades instead of his arse. He had used a flee shampoo as he had known snuffles would have flees for sure. He immediately felt better. When he went to Poppy she diagnosed him with extreme malnutrition and a few broken bones which he hadn't even noticed himself because he'd been so out of it. Had he seen Harry in his current condition he'd surely have scared the boy senseless.
He'd be in the hospital wing for a full two weeks getting treatment until he was better. He got a few broths the first few days to be sure he could keep them down and soon enough solids and richer foods were introduced. With the power of magic by the end of the two weeks he looked a hell of a lot better then he had at the start. It would take until the end of the year about four months total for him to be at maximum health but for now he was good. Remus had been informed of what had happened and had guiltily agreed to come with Sirius to meet Harry again. After a long time spent crying and making up Harry was called to the office of his mother and strode in. He had already heard that Sirius was innocent and now free and was delighted to meet him and Remus.
He walked in and looked at them both before looking at Remus and frowning.
"Sir what is wrong with you? I mean you look like you've been to hell and back and what is with the clothes? I mean surely you realise you could dress better don't you?" he asked as Remus blushed.
"Hello Harry I'm Remus Lupin an old school friend of your parents particularly your mother here. I look like this because I have a certain condition which makes me dangerous!" he said shocked as Harry raised his wand.
"Think carefully about how you answer my question Mr Lupin but are you a death eater?" he asked as Lupin looked shocked to the core.
"What? No I am definitely not a death eater. I'm a werewolf!" he said as Harry looked at him angrily.
"The next time you tell me you are dangerous Mr Lupin it had better be for a legit reason. You had scared me and for no good reason. Everyone with even the smallest brain cell knows that a werewolf is only a problem once a month and fine otherwise. Also being a werewolf doesn't excuse your ridiculous appearance. Do you feel that low about it that you feel you should go around looking terrible? You should not say you are dangerous unless it is true. You don't pose even the mildest of threats. If you were a death eater who by the way is quite dangerous indeed I would agree that you were dangerous. Anyone out there who says otherwise will answer to me. Now as for you Mr Black would you like to be Lord Black again now that you are free?" he said addressing Sirius who looked very shocked.
"Harry please call me Sirius. I am your godfather. Mr Black was my father. No you are the Lord Black and I made you that for a reason. I wish to still spoil you and make up for missing out on all of your birthdays though. I hope you will allow me that pleasure please" he said as Harry cried and ran at Sirius hugging him tightly. It felt good to have some more family now.
"Harry how could you tell something was wrong with me?" Remus asked seriously.
"Well asides from the awful clothes which need to be rectified soon you look like you've been to hell and back so I knew something was off with you. Besides which you were friends with James Potter before and I don't trust anyone who is his friend or even was. It's not good enough! I mean you being a werewolf does explain the cuts and bruises for sure but it doesn't explain or excuse the awful clothes. I am assuming considering James Potter who clearly thought he was better then everyone else was your friend that you could have dressed better!" he said as Remus looked hurt.
"I will work on the clothes. When I thought what Sirius was in jail for was true I fell into myself and did give up you're right. There were times when I didn't even want to be alive anymore because he'd done such awful things we now know of course wasn't true. I mean Peter was always so shy and stupid that it truly was hard to think he could do anything wrong but I and everyone else was fooled by him. I imagine he did it because we overshadowed him always in school. James, Sirius here and Peter became animaguses to be with me on full moon nights. James is a stag, Peter was a rat and Sirius is a dog!" he said as Harry looked at him thoughtfully.
"I see. Well I can understand the stag actually. I mean they are very proud animals and I daresay if he could have been a fucking peacock he probably would have. There is no love lost between me and him and Jim and I are making things work between us slowly but surely. Let's just say since magic granted him the ability to be the new and improved Lord Potter he has been seriously thinking about what he says or does now before doing it. I have noted that he has also laid of Severus because he now has that option. I am pleased with his progress!" he said as they all sat down to dinner in the rooms of Lily Evans for the night to catch up. It would be a long night for sure.