[Okay,
Question to self: Do I realize that I have a thing with Harry fainting? I
mean... I left a cliffy *here* and a cliffy on The Summer After
with Harry fainting… WEIRD.]
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on The
Summer After but I can't write anything for my ACK! story. So here ya go…
Juliana
walked over to Dumbledore and wrapped him in a big hug. "Hullo Grandfather,"
She said to him.
Dumbledore's
eyes were twinkling as he saw the look of confusion on Harry's face. "Sirius,
you didn't tell the boy?" he inquired.
"Er-
Well no…" Sirius awkwardly lifted his arm and scratched at the nape of his
neck. He gave a Harry a quick look. "We'll talk about it later, Harry."
Missie
glanced around the room quickly. "Where's Daddy?" she frowned at Sirius. Sirius
smiled. "He's outside. Backyard." Missie nodded. She figured she wasn't exactly
welcome with this whole thing. She scampered out back to find her father
sitting on the back steps.
"Sirius,
let me have a look at that journal will you?" Dumbledore said to Sirius. Sirius
nodded and quickly handed it over.
After
ten minutes of a tense silence, Dumbledore finally spoke again. It was a spell,
"Revalarious!" he said lightly, and a letter popped out of the diary. After the
Headmaster had read the parchment, he slightly closed his eyes. "Harry. I do
believe… I believe that you may just be able to bring your mother back…" he
said looking up at the shocked boy.
*~*~*~*~*
(The
next day)
Harry
was poring over the letter, which was much longer than it had actually
looked. So far, it seemed as though he would need to find a person adept in
muggle magic, something called Wicca… or something of that sort. He also needed
to find someone who knew a great deal about Dark Arts. And both people had to
have an affinity with the certain person that they were raising. Dumbledore and
himself were the only two who knew about these things, he hadn't told Sirius
yet. Albus had suggested Severus Snape be the expert on the Dark Arts, but
Harry wasn't so sure. Snape hated Harry, and wasn't very sure that his Potions
Professor would have any kind of affinity with his mother. Harry
was going to need to learn the charm, but this was a charm that he couldn't
exactly, practice.
Harry walked down the stairs and found Sirius
talking to a crying Missie. Harry suddenly got worried.
" What's going on? What in Merlin's
name is wrong?"
"MISTER SPANKY DOODLE DIED!" Missie
wailed and buried her head in Sirius's shoulder. When Harry looked even more
confused, Sirius mouthed, "Her cat." And Harry nodded. Harry felt absolutely
terrible that Missie was so upset and sad. He walked over to her and gave her a
large hug. Her eyes widened.
"Harry!" she sniffled. "He… He...
Spanky was my favorite kitten…" Then suddenly, out of nowhere, she suddenly
said, "I need ice cream and Oreos." And walked into the kitchen. Harry looked
to Sirius and he shrugged. "Harry, it's how girls deal with sadness…"
"Erm. Sirius, here, you might want
to take a look at this letter." As Sirius read it over, Harry asked him if he
knew anyone that they might be able to use for the Muggle Witch that knew Lily
well. Sirius got a very large grin at that.
"Well, actually Harry, both Missie
and Juliana can do Muggle magic, but Juliana actually has an affinity with
Lily. Lily was Juliana's Aunt.
Now Harry was very confused. "Huh?"
was all that his mouth could manage to say.
"Harry, James had a sister named
Samantha. We, well, we were married, and she ended up dying when Juliana was
born. Jewlz is your cousin."
Harry was trying to take in all this
new information. All of his thoughts were swimming around in his head, not
knowing where to go to, or what to do about them. "Then… then that means that
you're my Uncle?" Harry said eyes wide. Sirius nodded sheepishly. "Now, don't
get mad Harry, Dumbledore didn't want you to know. Really." Right about now
Harry just wanted to punch Sirius' face in for not telling him that he had real
family besides the Dursleys, but just stood there, not moving an inch.
Then something came to him. "The cat
was Spanky Doodle?" Harry had to stifle a small laugh. "Isn't that what the
Floo Name is?" Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, when Moony was setting it up,
he was just about to say the name that we had originally planned to use,
X42-71, so as no one would be able to get here unless they knew what it was.
Just randomly picked numbers and letters. But just as he was a bout to say it,
Missie was three at the time, she suddenly shrieked from her chair in the
kitchen, 'Spanky Doodle's House of Fun' and it was stuck. Remus couldn't get it
changed." This time Harry actually did laugh.
"Professor Dumbledore had said that
Snape would be perfect for the expert in Dark Arts, I don't understand it… Why
would he have anything to do with my Mum?
Harry noticed Sirius look very upset
and very cross. "Harry, you really want to know this? I'm warning you…
this isn't the very best thing that you would want to hear…"
Millions of possibilities went
coursing through his head, and he shook his head. "Never mind Sirius… I don't
think I could handle it if I did find out…" and he shivered involuntarily.
Dumbledore walked in. "Harry, after
some extensive research, I erm, seem to have discovered something. Harry, we
won't be able to bring James back. Only Lily." Dumbledore hung his head a bit. "I'm
sorry Harry."
For the first time in a while, Harry
started crying over his parents.
[Okeez… Erm… Long-ish chapter… I'm pretty happy with it… lemme know if there are any probyz and I WANT REVIEWS!!! It sounds childish, but I want to have at least 10 more reviews before I start typing more… k? TANKIEZ… and next time I might put up a list, or I might just wait till the story'z over and like, have a chap dedicated to my reviewerz….