As they left the building from the back, Harry couldn't help to feel guilty about what had just happened. A man had been left in a coma and all because of him. Then he costed Andi her job.

Andi, who was walking besides him, noticed that Harry seemed to be walking with a hunch and sad face.

"Everything alright, Harry?"

"Yes" he answered dejected "I'm sorry you lost your job for me"

"Oh, don't worry about that" she said as she ruffled his hair "The truth is that they've been trying to get me out of there for quite a while now. They just hadn't found a reason yet"

"But why?"

"Because of my last name. I'm Andromeda Black, Ezekiel's aunt. The only reason why I got that job in the first place was because Ted knew the head of admissions, otherwise they would have thrown away my application form as soon as they saw my name. It was after I got in that I had a chance to prove myself, and even then they didn't quite like me. It was only after they found out I got disowned that some of them became friendly with me"

"But why?" He asked again. He couldn't understand why would somebody would hate people with such a passion just because of their last name.

"Because my family is Dark, Harry. We're one of the oldest and most prestigious families that have ever existed, and we are Dark. We have caused or profited from the worst times of mankind, we gained both money and power. People remember that."

"But... You're not like that." Replied an unsure Harry.

"Of course not" Andi scoffed "But it's difficult to prove that to others. Ted helped me when we were in Hogwarts. He was the only one who saw beyond my family's name and I didn't make it any easy, I gotta say."

"It's more about the last name that anything else" quipped Dora" I'm Ezekiel's cousin and people don't mind it because my last name is Tonks."

"Which reminds me" Andi said while looking at Ezekiel, who was walking in front of them "No retaliation in my name! Am I clear?" Seeing that he hadn't responded she yelled at him "EZEKIEL!"

"Yeah, yeah. Come on, we need to get a cab if we want to get to the Cauldron"

"Cauldron?

"The Leaky Cauldron, we use it to enter the Diagon Alley."

"What's the Diagin Al-"

"You'll see it when we get there." Cut him off an angry Ezekiel " That's only if there isn't another arsehole trying to fuck up this day even more."

"Oi! " Shouted Dora " Calm down, we had no idea this was gonna happen."

"That seems to be the theme of the fucking day, ain't it? Now all we have to do is wait for the next thing that we didn't thought of to come around and fuck us all over again!"

"Ezekiel, that is enough! "Said Dora" Getting angry won't help. We made a mistake, is that what you wanted to hear? Fine! But right now we need to make sure that Harry is fine, until then losing control is a luxury that we can't afford."

Ezekiel walked with a heavy step, annoyed at the situation. They had taken a turn on one of the alleys on the sides of the hospital and they needed to take another to get to the street, yet for some reason Ezekiel could swear that for every step they took, the distance towards it kept growing. He stopped walking, which made the others stop as well, and started looking around. Everything seemed fine and that was always a bad sign. At least for him.

"Ezekiel?" He heard Harry ask. "I'm sorry, I didn't meant to have Andi fired I'm so-"

"Shut up"

"Ezekiel, I get that you're angry but don't be rude to Harr-" Andi exclaimed annoyed but was cut off when Dora covered her mouth and took her and Harry behind her.

"Zeke?"

Ezekiel kept looking at the alley without answering for a moment, before seeing a group of at least fifteen wizards coming towards him. He quickly turned around and moved them all around the corner again. He took out his wand and started waving it on the floor, just on the ground that they had walked. Harry noticed that some of the lines gave a faint light before disappearing, the biggest one that he recognized was shaped like a walked back to the hospital's back entrance but found it to be closed.

"You can't hide from us Black!" It seemed that the group was getting closer to the corner. "The boy belongs to the Light!"

Ezekiel and Dora had little doubt to who was those people's Light.

"I didn't bring mine to work. Please tell me you brought your gun?" Ezekiel asked hopefully to Dora.

"Err...no, I left it at home."

"Brilliant, give me a hand would'ya?" He said as he created a small water sphere with his wand. Dora and him proceeded to cast incantations on it as quickly as possibly as he used a hand to hold it in the air. Once they heard that the group was getting closer Ezekiel trowed it into the ground, where it covered the entire floor before them with a thin watery coat. The group of wizards appeared around the corner, many of them angry, a few serious ones and a couple of them were smiling. Ezekiel made a mental note about those two.

A wizard with a square jaw and thick straw-colored hair lead the group, he gave the impression that his head was thatched. He walked in front of the group with a confident face and stopped before them.

"Ezekiel Black, you've taken the child of light under false pretenses and attacked those who wanted to help him. We won't allow you to corrupt him, give him to us." The man demanded.

"Riiiight." Ezekiel nodded. "And you are?..."

"My name is not of your business, I'm here on behalf of the Light"

"Fer fuck's sake" said Dora "It's Dumbledore, just say it." As she stood shielding her mother and Harry.

"Dumbledore is the Light's leader. He is the one better suited to take care of him."

Perfect, both cousins thought. A zealot.

"Regardless of what the law thinks or even Harry's own parents?" Ezekiel asked.

"They too followed the Light, they too would have agreed to this."

"I think the fact that they agreed to leave Harry under the care of Sirius Black during the war says otherwise" Ezekiel countered. He didn't think that they could speak their way out of this, he never did but one could hope. Right?

The group was starting to round them, so Ezekiel decided to put them all in place before a real fight started. He would win it, that was certain, but just because he could it didn't mean he should. Besides the paperwork would be a royal pain in the arse. Literally.

"People, if you can be called that, why are you doing this? You know you can't win." He said matter-of-factly, with a relaxed smile. "Regardless of what you try here, there's only one outcome: me and my family, of which Harry Potter is a part of, are walking out of here. The only difference is whatever we do it on a path which you'll be kind (and smart) enough to open for us or we walk over you. Personally I'm fine with either." He took off the glasses and looked at the man in front of the group, who couldn't meet his gaze and then the rest of them. That put them on their place, even the two who were smiling before. "Your choice."

The group started speaking among themselves before two of them, a stocky little woman with sloping-shouldered hair and a hunched, he had a pallid, doughy face and tiny eyes that looked like a pig spoke up. Ezekiel noted that they were the two that had smiled at the beginning. They didn't seem to fit with the rest of the group. Ezekiel also noted that the Black family magic seemed to be reacting towards them with disdain towards them. Unimpressed even.

"What are you doing, idiots!" The woman screamed. "We're more than him!"

"You know he can't just use his magic" Said the man, whose voice was filling with anger "He's bluffing, if he was that powerful he'd have wiped us all the moment he saw us. Kill the Dark one and take the child!"

For some reason the group was invigorated by them. It always surprised Ezekiel the difference between an individual and a mob. The individual was smart, rational but the mob was completely opposed to it. It ran wild from ecstasy to rage and fear faster than a thought could be even formed. Astonishingly, really. The group took out their wands and pointed at them. Ezekiel noted that the man that had lead the group until now had tried, albeit briefly, to stop things from escalating. Dora took out hers and casted a Protego, while Ezekiel stoop in front of them with his back towards his cousins and aunt.

"Allright" He said while he held his right hand in the air, his middle finger and thumb together." Last chance. Does anybody wants to leave?"

Before he could hear a response however, Ezekiel hear the beginning of the spells that would normally be casted in a fight. Normally. Before the group could finish their spells the path that Ezekiel had marked with his wand lighted up and the group's voice faltered. The symbols that he had drawn before lighted before it went haywire, with lightning coming out of it and shocking each and every one of them. The fall all together like a puppet whose strings had been cut. Ezekiel looked at them and sighted before walking towards each and every one and taking their wands. He also pressed his ring against their faces and each time a small hissing sound was heard and a scar with the shaped of his family shield was left on their faces.

"Andi, could you put this one your bag?" Ezekiel asked while holding the wands to his aunt, who had left her daughters protection once the noise ended.

"What are you going to do with them?"

"Don't know, either sell them or break them, I suppose."

"And what about them?"

"I've branded them, once I make the report to Madam Bones I can just start the curse and have them turn themselves in. Either that or they better get a new brain because the headache is going to be epic."

"You beat them." Harry said.

"Uh?"

"You beat them" He repeated, pointing at the group on the floor.

"Hey, I helped!" Said Dora.

"Not really" Countered Ezekiel. "You were supposed to lessen the effect, what did you do?" He asked at Dora, who simply nodded towards the group that was starting to get covered in a blue ice.

"Cursed Ice? That's just nasty."

"Hey! They pointed their wands to mum! And Harry!"

"...And me!" Ezekiel pointed out.

"Yeah, but people do that all the time"

"That's magic?" Harry continued.

"Well, yes. I used some sigils that I came up with when I got tired of getting ganged up in school." He pointed towards the lightning path that had vanished" We covered the floor with some water that we enchanted to make sure it'd hit everyone and that's it. They were done for the moment they thought they could attack us."

"People used to hit you?"

"Yes, but I came up with a way to use their magic against them."

"So if they hurt you, you can hurt them back?" Harry asked.

Ezekiel didn't like were the conversation was heading so he decided to get things clear quickly.

"I defended myself and my family against those who wanted to hurt us." He pointed out. "I didn't came looking for a fight and frankly, neither did that guy" he pointed at the man that had lead the group in the beginning. "This whole time went out of hand because of those two over there, and speaking of which" he went towards the man and woman on the ground and took their wallets. He looked at their ID's and frowned.

"What is it?" Andi asked.

"Their last name, it's the same: Carrow. Weird."

"Those two are married? Go figure" said Dora

"Yeah, anyway. I'll have them processed once they turn themselves in." Ezekiel couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong with those two. They were Dark, as the family magic reacted the same way it had when he meted other dark wizards. But why would they be here? Another thing to look out for.

"Well, as fun as it was" Andi said "Harry still has to get checked. We need to get to Gringotts now, I suppose"

Seeing that the group wasn't going to get up any time soon, Ezekiel and Dora took a look around before agreeing that it was safe to proceed. They walked towards the street when Dora slung her arm around Ezekiel's neck.

"Hey, you know I'd kick the shit out of them for going after you, right?"

"And I'd raze the land if they go after you"

"Exactly" she said as she hugged him "I got you back, you have mine"

"I'll have both of your backs when this is over, you hear me?" Said an angry Andi. "Don't think that I didn't hear you two talking about guns!"

With pained groans, both cousins took them towards the street and called a cab.

Ezekiel had planned this differently, he wanted to take Harry to the Alley once he was sure that nothing was wrong with him but it seemed like plans were to be trashed.

Still, though, what else could happen?

I don't own Harry Potter, all characters except OC belong to J. K. Rowling.