Okay, this is right after the funeral. It explains a possible reason why Voldemort might be after Sirius and later Harry. Like I said before this is my story and I can make any prophecies I want. Thank you. I hate doing these disclaimers. I own no one expect all my characters. Addi and Evil Grandpa Black. I plan to have him get whacked on the head several times and see if that knocks any sense into him. But I doubt it. Thank you every much. Reviews are welcome, flames are not. I'll try not to let Remus eat anymore sugar but It's hard . He is addicted.
Chapter 14: the prophecy
But later that night he was back. I was supposed to be asleep. But I heard him come in and decided to stay and listen. I shook Addi awake gently. She stretched " What?"
"Shh. Listen."
"Both children should be in my home. They are my grandchildren."
"Orion wanted them to be with their own kind." Dumbledore was speaking quietly but his voice carried up the stairs as if he were shouting.
'Their own kind? Sirius is the freak. Addi is perfectly normal. She isn't one of you."
"Whether or not she has the ability to perform spells has nothing to do with the fact that she has magic in her blood."
"I never liked that little witch. She poisoned his mind and their kids blood."
"He loved her. And she him. Sirius and Adhara were blessed with wonderful parents."
" And then the boy got both of them killed." Addi glanced at me. I wouldn't look at her.
" They are my grand children. I should take care of them."
"I'm sorry but that is want Orion wanted. I have to respect his last request."
"This is all the boy's fault. You shouldn't be sticking up for him. He got your daughter killed!" There was silence. Dumbledore didn't say anything. I didn't know Dumbledore had a daughter. And I most certainly hadn't got her killed. I didn't even know her.
"That's right! If he had never been born both of them would be alive."
"Sirius was born to great parents. They died to protect him and in making sure he stays alive they may have saved us all." Okay now I was confused. So was my grandfather.
"What do you mean?"
' Sirius has great power. He and James are some of the most powerful wizards to come to Hogwarts in a hundred years. It was seen at his birth. Why else would Voldemort go after such a young child unless he thought the child would pose a threat. Plus the hat saw it in him." So that's what the hat meant.
There was more silence.
"Fine then. I want nothing more to do with the brat." I heard the door slam. That was the last I have ever heard from him. We stayed with the Potters for the rest of the break . Mrs. Potter told me to call her Mere. And Mr. Potter told me to call him Harry.
Our last night Addi and I had a heart to heart
"Addi?"
"Hmm?"
"You were there weren't you? When dad was killed."
'Yes."
"What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
" I need to know, please."
"Alright. We were just sitting down after dinner. I was writing a letter for you. And there was a knock on the door. Dad went to get it and he opened the door. I heard him ask in this really shaky voice ' What do you want?' and this voice answered. It was not like anything I'd ever heard before. It was high pitched, but it was a guy's voice. And when he spoke it was like a blast of cold air shooting down my neck. " She shivered. I crawled over to the bed and sat down next to her. I wrapped my blanket around her shoulders. She pulled it tight and resumed talking
" It said something like ' Where is the boy?' and Dad said ' you can't touch him. He isn't here.' And the voice said ' I don't believe you' and there was this bang and Dad came rushing back in. He grabbed me and threw me in the closet. The one behind the kitchen. And he said, " don't come out. No matter what you hear. Tell your brother I love you both and it's not his fault'" A tear ran down my cheek. He had known I would feel guilty. " But there was this little hole. You know the one you made when James accidentally locked you in and your wand backfired."
I nodded. " Well, I looked through it and Dad was running back toward the door and this figure steeped into the kitchen. It was dark and I felt scared, like I've never been scared before. And the figure raised his wand and pointed at Dad. He said. ' Tell me where the boy is or die.' And Dad just stood there and said ' you will never hurt him. Never." And the guy said some words and this green flash came out of his wand and it hit Dad and he fell. The guy laughed in this cruel laugh and left."
" So what did you do?"
" I crawled out and went over to Dad. There was no mark on him. Nothing. He looked fine, expect for he was dead."
"The unforgivalbes."
" What?"
" The unforgivables. They are three curses, If you use them it is unforgivable, hence the name. Imperius, Cruciatus, and Avada Kedavra. You use them on another human and get you self your own private cell in Azkaban."
"What's that?"
"Wizard prison. It's guarded by dementors. They can suck the happiness right out of you." I shuddered. " I don't like thinking about them. They brought one to the school one time. Some big ministry guys were there and they wanted extra protection. Half the students collapsed."
" Did you?"
" Yes. Fell right off my broom. Lucky I was only a few feet off the ground or I would have been dead. Brought them to a match. How do you think the players are gonna react? They affect you worse if you've had something bad happen to you."
We were quiet for a minute.
" So then what happened?"
"Within minutes ministry of magic people showed up and I told them what happened. They took me to Grandfathers and told him what happened. I spent the night there and the next day was the funeral and you showed up." Neither one of our eyes were dry. I thought about what would have happened if I had been there. He probably would have killed us all.
"Sirius, Why was Dad killed?"
"Adhara please. Don't do this you don't want to know."
" Yes I do. Tell me Siri."
" No. You'll hate me."
" Never. You are my twin, my brother. I will never hate you. Never. No matter what you do."
" Can I have that in writing?" She laughed and smacked me with her pillow.
"Ow!"
" Now tell me or get hit again."
" No, please not again! Please don't hurt me, oh great and powerful one."
" Haha. Now tell."
" Okay." I bit my lip. How would I tell her? I didn't know a lot of it myself. But, I told myself; you have to tell her what you do know. She has a right to know. " Right after we were born, a dark wizard came to our house. He was there to kill a baby. Dad got in his way so he cursed him. So was Mum. She wouldn't move and she was more of a threat to him, because she was a witch. So he killed her. I was that baby."
"You?"
"Yes. The wizard's name is Voldemort and he's bad news. He is after me. I don't know why. All I know is neither Mum or Dad would let him near me so he killed them both. It's my fault. If I had never been born they would both be alive. It's all my fault." I broke down sobbing. Addi put her arms around me and I leaned into her shoulder.
"Shh, It's alright. It was never your fault. They loved you enough to die for you. I do too. Don't cry. It'll all be alright." I cried myself to sleep in her arms.
Dumbledore came to take me back to school. The Potters were my legal guardians now. I would be staying with them for my breaks. James really was my brother now.
I entered the great hall. I pretended not to notice the whispers and stares that followed me to the table. I sat down in my regular seat. My friends were in the middle of a conversation when I sat down. They stopped as soon as I sat down. They stared as I helped my self to the food. James was the first to speak.
"Sirius! Where have you been?"
I shrugged.
"Tell us. You've been gone for two weeks." Remus asked
"I was at home." Which was true. The Potters were my home now.
"Why?" Lily smiled.
"I really don't want to talk about it guys."
"Alright. Whenever you're ready, Sirius, We'll listen." Erin reached out and squeezed my hand. She smiled
"Thanks."
"Hey Black, What's this I hear about your dad?" Great just the last person I wanted to see. Snape.
"Shut up Snape. I am really not in the mood."
"Oh you're just moody because you got your father killed too." I don't know really what happened next. I just snapped. I jumped up and started to hit him. He fought back. And soon we were rolling on the ground. James and Remus knew better than to try and stop me from their own experiences.
Dumbledore pulled us apart.
"Boys. My office now."
"Now," he said when we were alone. " What is going on?"
" Sir, I just asked where he was all this time and he jumped me."
"No you didn't you said I got my father…"
"There is no need to continue this conversation. Mr. Snape there is no reason for you to taunt Sirius especially now. Therefore you will receive one detention. Please report to Professor Tralawney at eight. Sirius, I am taking five points off of Gryffindor. I don't want to see this happen again is that clear?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. Now go to class."
I walked to Professor McGonagall's class slowly. When I got there class had already started. Professor McGonagall looked up from her desk and came over to me. At first I thought she was going to be mad at me for being late. But she took me aside.
"Sirius, are you alright?"
"Yes mam."
"Good, now go join your friends and please blow something up today. I can't stand to see you and your friends so depressed. It worries me."
I smiled. I joined James, Remus, Peter, Lily, and Erin.
"Padfoot, you are gonna tell me right now what is going on or I will tell every one about that time at practice where you."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you."
I took a deep breath. It hurt just saying it. I felt like if I said it, it was final. " My dad was killed on Christmas."
They stared.
"Oh gosh Sirius, I'm sorry." Lily said.
"It's okay." I said. " Look can we talk about this later? There's something I really need to tell you but not here. It's too dangerous."
"Dangerous?" Erin asked her eyes wide.
"Yes.
"Come on Padfoot, give us a hint. You're going to kill James with waiting."
"Haha Moony."
"Alright. It has to do with Voldemort."
"VOLDEMORT!" They all yelled. The whole class turned to stare at us. Professor McGonagall only shook her head and turned back to the boy she had been helping.
" Keep it down."
Five "Sorry."s were whispered back.
"Yes him. I'll tell you later. Now can someone tell me what we are supposed to be doing?"
"Turning a porcupine into a pin cushion." Remus told me.
"Okay. Oh and Prongs you'll never guess what McGonagall asked me to do."
"What?"
"She told me we need to blow up something. The silence bugs her." He grinned
"I know just the thing."
In seconds Professor McGonagall's desk was transformed into a small pig. It ran around the room squealing. We laughed so hard. McGonagall just sighed. " Class dismissed." As we walked out she winked at me. I smiled back.
Back in our common room I told my friends what had happened and what I had over heard.
"Sirius, What if he tries to get to you at school?" Lily asked.
"I don't know. I mean Dumbledore's here. He wouldn't try anything while here's here." James said.
"Yeah, He's the one who drove him away after mum." I said.
Then the bell rang. We all stood up. The others turned to go out the portrait hole when Erin grabbed my arm.
"Sirius, I'm really sorry."
"Thanks."
"And I never got to give you your Christmas present." With that she kissed me. When she pulled back we stood there stood there staring at each other. We smiled.
"And I never got to give you mine." And I kissed her right back. We pulled apart when we heard clapping. We spun around to see our friends standing there.
"Come on you lovebirds. Either get a room or let's go to class."
We walked out into the hall.
"James if you say one more thing I will tell the whole school what you say in your sleep about Lily."
"What does he say about me?"
James turned beet red and pulled us back. The girls smiled and walked on ahead.
"I need to talk to you guys about something."
"What?" Remus asked.
"James we need to get to class." Peter said.
"Don't worry. Dumbledore told all the teachers about Sirius. He told them not to worry if he comes in late or something. We can just say we were talking to him."
'But we have potions. Beaker will never believe us."
"Who cares? This is important."
"What is it?"
" Well don't you think it's weird that Voldemort is wasting his time, trying to kill Sirius? I mean there doesn't seem to be a reason."
"It is weird. Tomorrow is the full moon. But this weekend I think we should investigate this." Remus said.
"But we have a game this weekend."
"On Sunday you don't. We'll check out any old prophecies and stuff like that."
"You sure you'll be up to it?" I asked him
"Yes, it gives me two days. Don't worry."
We stood for a second.
"You know, I really don't feel up to facing Snape and Beaker today." I sighed.
"I wish he would just shut up about stuff he doesn't know anything about." James agreed.
"I wish he'd just shut up." Remus answered. We laughed and made our way down to the dungeons.
"Well, look who decided to grace us with their presence?" Professor Beaker sneered when we entered. "Since you boys are late I will take ten points off for Gryffindor."
"Please Professor, Sirius didn't feel very well. We were helping him. We didn't mean to be late." James told him.
"Fine, but don't let it happen again." He grumbled.
"See I told you he wouldn't go against Dumbledore." James whispered. The rest of the lesson was one of the worst I had ever been in. Snape kept making quiet evil remarks about my parents. James had to physically hold me back from killing him right then and there.
It wasn't till that night when we were getting ready for bed anyone thought to ask me one obvious question.
"Hey, Padfoot. Where are you going to be staying?" Remus asked
"Oh my gosh, I forgot. Prongs guess who my dad named our guardians?"
"Who?"
"Your parents."
"What?"
"Yeah."
Oh this is awesome. We're really brothers now."
"I know."
We got into bed. I closed my eyes. I was asleep in a second.
I woke up later. I could see it was still night. It was so dark. The darkness seemed to be smothering me. I wanted my dad. Then I remembered. My dad was dead. Dead. I think for the past couple of days I had been in shock. It hadn't really hit me yet. But it did then in that endless darkness. I would never see him again. He was gone just like my mum. I couldn't stay here. I got up. I went down the stairs. The fire still burned in the common room, but no one was there. But I didn't stop. I climbed right out the hole. I didn't know where I was going. I just had to get out. I must have walked all over Hogwarts that night. I walked just to keep moving. I doubt I could have stopped even if I wanted to. I almost wished someone would catch me and stop me. But no one did. Even Peeves flew right by me. It was like I was invisible. Then I turned a corner and standing there with a candle in his hand was Professor Dumbledore. I looked at him for a few minutes. Those eyes seemed so familiar to me. I just couldn't place them.
"What are you doing up, Sirius?" He said, like meeting him in a dark hallway in the middle of the night was the most normal thing.
'I couldn't sleep, sir"
"Well, why don't you try and go back to sleep now?"
I nodded and turned to go. I somehow found my way to the portrait hole and climbed in. I didn't want to go back to that smothering darkness in my room so I curled up in one of the huge arms chairs. Before I knew what had happened I was asleep.
That weekend we headed straight for the library. We looked through old books and parchments. We didn't have much to go on though. Until…
" Hey guys check this out." James called softly.
" What is it?"
" I found an old prophecy. It may not be what we're looking for, but it's really weird." We crowed around him.
" It has been foretold by Godric Gryffindor Himself, that in the future,"
" Which could be anytime, since he lived like a thousand years ago." Remus said.
"Yes, now let me finish. In the future a great evil will rise. More powerful than anything ever before. This power will be indestructible."
" Well, that's reassuring."
" Shut up Padfoot, now listen. Only two will be given the power to stop this evil. The warriors. Alone they will face him and drive him away. He will leave his mark on both of them so they may be recognized. But only together, when they combine their powers shall the evil be vanquished. They shall be called, the dog and the son of the stag." Dog?
" Dog? " Peter's words echoed my thoughts.
"That's what it says."
" But how could he know, a thousand years ago what my animagi form would be?"
" I'm not saying this is you. But it's the closest we got. And it is kinda weird. I mean, dog, Sirius, the dog star."
" Wait." Remus leaned over James's shoulder to read more closely. " It says, Alone they will face him and drive him away. That means if it is you Sirius, you're gonna face this indestructible evil." He looked paler than usual.
" Oh, come on guys. You really think I am some foretold hero?"
" His mark." Remus muttered. " I wonder what he means by that."
" I don't know. Maybe a scar or something." James said.
" Maybe. Sirius, do you have any weird scars or anything? One that looks like this? " He pointed to the picture. It was a strange shape. Like lightning. I didn't answer. I was thinking about the scar over my heart. The one Voldemort's curse had given me. Very slowly I nodded.
" I have one over my heart. "
The others didn't say anything. I turned. They were looking at me. I couldn't believe it. They actually thought that this prophecy thing was true and I was the coming hero. The truth was so did I. And I didn't like it.
" Look guys, can we forget this? It's stupid." I slammed the book down and stomped from the room, earning an evil stare from Madam Pince.
When I talked to the guys that night, they didn't mention it. In fact they never did again.