" I'm so sorry, Lissa. I really am….'
He hugged her. He told her he'd meet her at the house, and he and Hermione disapparated.
She apparated home, to her room. She heard voices from Harry's room. She snuck up and eaves dropped on them for the econd time that day.
'I didn't know she wasn't happy. I didn't know……' This time it was Hermione's turn to hold him. She felt weird, seeing her dad so vulnerable looking…She hadn't ment to make him unhappy!
She walked in.
He stood up.
"Get your stuff together…We can leave tonight, if you fancy.'
'sure!' She ran out of the room, gathered all of her stuff, packed it in her Hogwarts trunk, and came out to the living room. Her dad came out a few minutes later.
"Hermione went on, we're apparating to the house. I want to surprise Sirius, though."
He was gone after that. She knew what the house was called, he'd talked of it often.
" Apparatas Potter's Paradise'(A/N thanx, Morwen Parkinson!) and she came back up at the house, standing by her dad.
'shhhh…..' he put his finger up to his lips, smiling misceviously.
'I want us to sneak up, and knock on the door. When he answers, just jump out and shout 'BOO!'..ya know…so ordinary fo scaring…..'
'm'k!' oooooo..this would be fun!
They snuck up to the door. Harry rang the bell. It played the camptown races song.
'WHAT THE censured?????' Sirius came to the door and looked out. He was wearing a bathrobe…
'BOO!" Lissa and Harry jumped out at him.
" OH censored again !!!!!!!!" he jujmped and slammed the door. He re-appeared about 30 sec. Later. " HARRY! My god! He grabbed Harry in a huge hug. "This is great! How are you? And Alissa! I haven't seen you since you were..lets see……1? 1 ½ ? woa. You look so much like Lily……" Sirius trailed off.
"anyway, Sirius, what the heck are you doing playing CAMPTOWN RACES? That's way American. I figured you didn't even know what the Camptown races were……'
"well, I actually don't. I just liked it, so I enchanted it to play that.' Harry smiled.
"sounds like you. Anyway, we need help. '
'Help? What kind of help? Mental? Medical? Danger?????'
'Well, kind of. We have a cult after 'Lissa. We need you to find someone to be secret keeper…or you, If you'd like'
'Hmmm…Not me. No offense, but last time I got involved in that, I ended up sharing company with Dementors. Lovely guests for tea, really….. Never mind. Anyway…come on inside, I'll make some tea.'
As Sirius ran to the kitchen, Harry showed Alissa to her room. It'd been hers when they lived there before.
"woa. Big. And how the heck did you guys know that when I was older I'd want white walls, purple bedcovers, purple curtains, and a whole bunch of retro junk?'
'Easy. You were always a carbon copy of Lily, like we've told you millions of times. We figured that if you wanted it changed, we could change it.'
'huh. Interesting. I'm suddenly finding out a lot about my grandma. Anything else, er, as scandalous and me being born in the family?' He dad looked amused.
'huh. Scandal. Thanks for making me feel nice!' She swatted at him, and he ran off down the hall. She chased after him.. and ran right into Sirius.
'Woa! If I knew we were playing hide-and-seek, I would've joined in! There was me thinking you wanted to be serious….( no pun intended) and figure out your little problem!'
She laughed.
'Why would I want to be you????? Just kidding, just kidding!' she laughed again as he swatted at her.
'HEY! No one hits my kid!' Harry came skidding in. 'Now..lets all go to the living room, and have a nice chat about a secret keeper." They followed him in.
" now, Sirius, any suggestions?'
Well…yeah. You might not like it, but I know this one person who is really trustworthy..I'd trust him with my life. "
"who?"
"er….Draco Malfoy.
A/N.hehe. I juust have to put Draco in here.I'll have the next chapter up very soon! Yeah! Soo….TTFN!
Disclaimer: same as 'em all. I own Alissa Potter. If you don't like that name, please be a dear and tell me. I was about to write, and it just kinda came out…. I don't own any of the HP crew. I don't own Camptown Races. And I don't own Virginia. I just live there.
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