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Chapter 2.
Remus Lupin was drinking coffee.
It had been six months ever since he moved into Grimmauld Place with Sirius and Hermione, and he was feeling at ease. At first he thought that living with Sirius and with a four year old girl was going to be chaotic but it wasn't, in fact it was amusing in its own way.
Hermione was amazing and polite, she liked to read more than anything else and he couldn't help but wonder why anyone would leave a child like her in an orphanage, it didn't make sense. According to what she told him she couldn't remember her parents at all, the old lady at the orphanage had told her that she was left there when she was nothing but a baby.
He didn't touch the subject after that, there was no point, besides he could tell she was happy with her new life. After the adoption at Gringotts she "inherited" a few things from Sirius, the first thing that changed was her hair, just as Sirius said, her hair which at first was brown and bushy now fell in messy waves down her back and it was black. She expressed how grateful she was for that, apparently she didn't like her hair before.
Sirius also said that he could see how her nose changed a little but she didn't agree, Remus couldn't actually tell so he held back his comments.
"Dad." Hermione said taking him by surprise.
"What is it?" He asked while putting down his coffee mug.
She smiled at him.
"You were staring blankly at the wall" she said "I was just wondering if you were okay."
He nodded.
"I was just distracted." He said.
"You should be distracted because of my beauty and my beauty only." Sirius said stepping into the dining room.
Remus rolled his eyes.
After moving with them Hermione didn't hesitate in calling both of them "dad" and while he wasn't bothered by it he wasn't used to it yet. Not to mention that while he and Sirius were a couple now they hadn't talked too much about their relationship.
Sirius insisted that it wasn't necessary.
Apparently, the Black heir, considered that sharing a bed and having a daughter gave them all the stability and seriousness of a married couple.
Remus didn't object to that.
"What were you thinking about?" Sirius asked while taking a seat next to him and pouring coffee for himself.
"Nothing important" Remus lied "and what are you doing here? Aren't you late for work?"
Sirius shrugged.
"They can wait for me for an hour or so" he said "besides, since these are peaceful times there's nothing to do out there for the Aurors, except for the patrolling and I don't like to patrol, thanks ever so."
It was then when Kreacher appeared next to Sirius.
Remus couldn't help but notice how Hermione frowned at the sight of him, they never got along quite well. The elf handed the newspaper to Sirius and left the room without a second glance at the little girl.
Sirius opened it and spit the coffee he was drinking all over the table.
"Dad!" Hermione gasped while Remus frowned at him.
"Please Sirius" he said while waving his wand and cleaning the mess "what's the matter with you?"
Sirius didn't answer him, instead he kept reading the newspaper with widened eyes.
"Is everything okay?" Hermione asked.
"Well" Sirius said finally after a few seconds "this isn't exactly bad news but you might want to read it first."
Hermione frowned and grabbed the newspaper, with careful hands she spread it on the table so Remus could also read it. He frowned at the title.
War hero gets into the most dangerous battlefield:
Parenthood.
Yes, you read that right. Apparently, war hero and former bachelor Sirius Black has a daughter. Two of our reporters catch a glimpse of Lord Black at Diagon Alley and he wasn't alone, a little girl, who cannot be older than five years old, was with him.
This came as a huge surprise because while the child was adorable we couldn't help but wonder, is she really Sirius Black's daughter? And if that's the case, who's the mother? Or could it be that she's adopted? Where, in Merlin's name, did she come from?
Unfortunately we couldn't approach him to ask all of these questions but after seeing him buying books and clothes for the little girl we were left with no doubts.
Sirius Black has gotten himself an heiress.
As you can see in the picture they look like real father and daughter, we can tell that he's going to spoil her a lot.
What a lucky girl!
She might need a stepmother so keep an eye open, single ladies!
Remus observed the picture that was next to the article. Sirius and Hermione were laughing as she was pointing to one of the stores around Diagon Alley, it was a nice picture.
"Why is our picture on the front page?!" Hermione asked surprised.
"Well, I already explained" Sirius said while casually pouring himself another cup of coffee "after the war we sort of became famous, well Prongs was already famous."
"You were too" Remus said "because of your last name and all."
Hermione gulped.
"Well, everyone will probably forget about this in one week or so, right?" She asked.
Sirius raised an eyebrow at her.
"I'm guessing that you don't like to be on the spotlight." He said.
Hermione shrugged.
"Well, I don't like to call anyone's unnecessary attention and besides, what if some women start to look for you? They might take the stepmother comment quite seriously."
Remus found amusing how worried she looked at that.
"Hey" Sirius said "there's no woman out there that can compare to your mother."
"My mother?" Hermione asked clearly confused.
"Yes" Sirius said and then pointed at Remus "I'm already in love with her."
Hermione chuckled and Remus frowned at Sirius.
"You're lucky I actually like you." Remus said and Sirius winked at him.
Fudge wasn't a happy Minister of magic. Months ago he plotted along with other people at the Ministry to get full control of the Black vaults and he was about to achieve it, unfortunately Sirius Black was set free some time later. Fudge didn't think that was a problem, quite the contrary, with Sirius Black having to fix his life before touching his money, getting his gold was going to be a piece of cake. He gave the pureblood two bloody options knowing he would never adopt a freaking child but after he saw the picture on the prophet of Sirius Black shopping with his new "daughter" he swore he was getting mad.
That was the reason why he was here now, in front of the Potter's residence, the Black house was under the fidelius charm after all, and he knew Sirius Black was in here most of the time.
He knocked three times the door.
"Dad! The guy you called a bloody arsehole yesterday is at the front door!"
A bloody what?! Fudge looked up only to find a little boy with spectacles smirking at him from a window on the second floor. Harry Potter, the boy who lived.
"Harry don't! Lily I swear I didn't use those words in front of the kids!" Fudge heard James Potter yelling from inside the house.
"He did mum! Hermione heard him too!"
Hermione.
That was the name of the little girl that Sirius Black adopted.
"I'll forbid you to grab the broom again!" James Potter yelled at his son.
Lily Potter opened the door.
"Can I help you, Minister?" She asked.
"Yes Miss Potter, my apologies I do not wish to intrude but I'm looking for Sirius Black."
"And what makes you think he might be here?"
Fudge wasn't expecting hostility from the beautiful redhead in front of him but apparently this wasn't his day.
"Miss Potter I need to talk about something really important with Lord Black."
Lily frowned and Fudge could see anger flashing through her gorgeous green eyes. She took a step outside and closed the door behind her, for a second Fudge thought that coming without a bodyguard was a mistake, after all, Lily Potter was known to be a force to be reckoned with.
"Let's be clear Minister, you're not welcome in my house and I don't think Sirius wants to talk with you, so anything you want to tell him, I'll let him know."
Fudge took a deep breath. He knew he made a huge mistake trying to control Black, but now even the Potters were against him. Two ancient and important houses, this wasn't acceptable.
"Is it true that Sirius Black has a daughter?" He asked suddenly, he just wanted to know after all.
"You read and control "The Prophet" Minister we both know you already know the answer."
"Miss Lily please, I need to see the child."
"You won't see that child Minister, as far as I know the Ministry has not saying in the decisions that wizards or witches take concerning their families."
She was right, the Ministry couldn't interfere in purebloods family business.
"Minister, if you ever try to do anything against that kid you'll regret it. My family is living in a muggle neighborhood thanks to all the press talking about how my baby defeated the pureblood maniac and the Ministry didn't do anything to protect him, I won't let you go near any of these two kids."
"Are you threating me Miss Potter?"
"Take it as you want Minister, have a nice day."
"I still cannot believe Sirius Black has a daughter." A redhead woman was saying while cooking.
"I saw it on The Prophet, the women at the Ministry couldn't stop talking about the picture." Arthur Weasley said "apparently it's been quite some time he adopted her."
"Who would think that Sirius was going to be a father?" Molly Weasley said smiling "but it's charming, he bought her lots of books and clothes, he looked really happy."
A little redhead girl frowned.
"Why would he buy lots of new things to a girl that isn't his daughter?"
"Ginny she's his daughter, he adopted her" Molly said calmly "we'll probably meet her at the next Order meeting."
She frowned deeper, she didn't understand.
"Wait" Another little boy said "Sirius Black? Isn't he related to Harry Potter?"
"No Ron, he isn't, although he's the best friend of Harry's dad."
"Oh, I see." Ron said.
"Wait" Ginny said. "So that girl gets to spend time with Harry Potter?"
Molly nodded distracted.
"Yes, I think so."
Ginny frowned, she didn't like how that sounded.
"You look tense." Harry said to Hermione.
They were in her room waiting for the Order meeting to start. Children weren't allowed to be present but they still had to greet everyone, it was Hermione's first meeting and she was feeling a little anxious.
Ever since they met each other they became inseparable, they were also going together to a muggle school because Harry's mom thought that it would be good for them before going to Hogwarts, so they were spending most of their days together, Hermione couldn't imagine a better friend that Harry. Harry used to tell her how the feeling was mutual quite often.
She shrugged.
"It's just, what if they don't like me?" she asked "you said that some kids were coming and I already told you that I'm not that good at making friends."
"You're worrying over nothing" Harry told her "you're not at the orphanage anymore and besides, Neville is coming and he is really nice, mum is his godmother."
Hermione nodded.
Harry used to mention Neville quite often.
"Who else is coming?" She asked.
"The Weasleys." He said "although I don't know them either."
Hermione sighed, she heard a little bit about the Weasleys but the fact that they had a little girl about her age made her anxious, she didn't get along well with girls.
Harry took her hand.
"Come on" he said "we should eat something before the other arrive and once I introduce you to Neville you'll feel better."
She nodded and squeezed his hand before running downstairs with him.
"That bloody arsehole" Sirius muttered after Lily ended up telling them about the Minister's visit.
"You both need to stop talking like that" Lily said seriously to James and Sirius "Harry literally called Fudge that."
Sirius smirked.
"Please tell me that our useless Minister heard him." He said.
"He did." James said proudly and Sirius and Remus chuckled.
"I love the pup with all my heart." Sirius said while putting his hand over his heart dramatically.
That's when both kids came downstairs.
Lily smiled at the sight of Harry holding Hermione's hand.
At first she thought that Sirius had taken a bad decision concerning the adoption but as time moved forward she couldn't help but get attached to the little girl, she was charming and smart. The fact that she and Harry got along so well in so little time made everything better and she could tell that James agreed with her.
Ever since Harry and Hermione became best friends both kids kept going from the Potter's house to Grimmauld place quite often, Hermione had her own room back at the Potter's house because sometimes it was impossible to make her and Harry to stop playing so they decided that it was for the best.
"Pup" a smirking Sirius said to Harry "is it true that you insulted the Minister of Magic?"
Harry gulped and looked at Hermione who was looking at him questioningly.
"Well, yeah." Harry said after a few seconds.
"Come here pup, you deserve a cookie." Sirius said while walking towards the kitchen and ignoring Lily's frown.
Both kids followed him smiling.
Just as Harry predicted Hermione's worries faded away when the meeting started, everyone was nice and she felt at ease. Alice Longbottom and Molly Weasley complimented her over her dress and her cute face. The only children who showed were Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom, Hermione liked them both almost instantly, she didn't say it but the fact that no other girl showed up made her relax a little, her experiences with girls back at the orphanage were still fresh on her mind.
"If you ever feel like getting out of Grimmauld place send me a letter dear." Molly Weasley said "I want you to meet The Burrow."
Hermione was blushing madly.
"Thanks Ma'am."
After the introductions were over she excused herself and went to her room along with the boys.
"You have a nice room." Ron said once she saw it "Ginny would've loved it."
"Thanks" she said smiling "Who's Ginny?"
"My little sister, she decided to stay at home today with my other brothers."
Later she learned that Ron had quite a big family, while Neville just like Harry was an only son. Ron taught them how to play exploding snap and they shared lots of chocolate frogs. Hermione was glad that she had new friends.
The Order meeting started the moment Dumbledore took a seat at the table.
"Well, it seems that everyone is here." Dumbledore said with a fond smile on his face.
Frank and Alice Longbottom, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Lily and James Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Molly and Arthur Weasley were present. Severus Snape wouldn't be in the meeting, he had to attend some "personal matters" according to Dumbledore.
"I'm glad to see you all, it makes me truly happy to see how well you have recovered after the war."
Frank and Alice were holding hands under the table, they smiled at each other.
"I'm impressed" Minerva McGonagall said amused. "I still remember each one of you running around the Hogwarts Grounds and now you have families." She looked at Sirius after she said this.
He moved uneasily on his seat.
"Tell me Mr. Black, what possessed you to adopt a child?" She asked with a wry grin.
Everyone turned to look with curious eyes at Sirius while Lily gave him a warning look. It wasn't that they couldn't trust the Order, but the less the people knew the better for Hermione.
"Well" he said smiling "the moment I saw her I knew that she was going to be my daughter."
"Really? Why?" Molly asked smiling brightly.
"Well I don't really know how to explain." Sirius said and it wasn't a lie basically, he didn't know how to explain that the Ministry was blackmailing him and that taking care of a child was the only way to get his life back, besides it was wrong, he really loved Hermione. It took him a while to get used to her at first but she was his daughter after all.
"I would call it paternal instinct" James chimed in "he just sat on a bench next to her and they started to talk right away, like daughter and father. It was quite a view."
Sirius gave a thankful smile to James.
"That's so sweet." Molly said.
Remus wanted to groan, McGonagall wasn't going to believe them. They were great liars, the only problem was that McGonagall knew them too well and judging by her frown he was right, she doubted their story completely.
"How is she copping the magical world?" Dumbledore asked.
"What do you mean?" Sirius asked genuinely confused.
"Well she's muggle." Arthur said.
"No" Sirius said shaking his head "she's magical."
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows, surprised.
"She's wonderful Sirius" Alice said sincerely "and really pretty, I can already see the tons of wizards that are going to be after her at Hogwarts when she's older."
Sirius looked like if he just bit something really bitter and Frank couldn't help but laugh along with James and Remus.
"You know, I thought that you would start inviting boys to your bedroom until you were older." Sirius said with a smile.
Hermione looked up from her book blushing. She was with Remus and Sirius in the living room, enjoying the warmth of the fireplace, she loved snow but she hated to feel so cold. The meeting ended two hours ago and they were the only ones left inside the house.
"We just talked." She sad pouting.
"So, did you like them?" Remus asked with a smile, considering how their circle of friends wasn't so extensive Hermione didn't know a lot of children of her age. Remus was worried about how her friends were all male, sure they were good kids, but he thought that it would be healthy for Hermione to get along with girls too, still she was too young so he pushed that worry at the back of his head.
"Yeah, I guess." She said and went back to her book.
Remus exchanged a look with Sirius.
"What are you reading?" Sirius asked "wait, isn't that…? You should be reading "The tales of Beedle the bard" not that!"
She smirked and ran upstairs before Sirius could take the book out of her hands, it wasn't her fault that the best books were slightly dark, the Black library was awesome after all.
"Cissa dear" An important looking man said "why are you frowning at the newspaper?"
"Lucius" Narcissa Malfoy said "I'm awfully curious, can you believe that there's a new member in the House of Black?"
Lucius Malfoy couldn't help the surprise so he grabbed the newspaper his wife was offering.
"I see, how is it possible?"
"I'm not sure" Narcissa Malfoy answered with a smile "but I think that it's time for me to visit my dear cousin Sirius."
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