Everyone came into the room, and screamed making Ron and Harry wake up.
They heard a pop, and then Mr. Weasely was gone. In no time, they heard
about a million pops, and then people from the Ministry were there, and had
Voldemort in their hands, like he was struggling.
"He's dead. We made sure." Hermione said, as the people started cursing him.
"Yea. we put Crucio on him like a million times. then I finished him off." Harry said quietly, but loud enough for the people to stare.
"You. kids killed this man? This wizard is more powerful than the Minister of Magic. Kids, this is no laughing matter!" one of them said.
"Will you stop calling us kids?? We just almost killed ourselves for the world! I'll show you my scar I got two days ago, would you like to see? Hmm? Well, here you go!" Hermione screamed, pulling up some of her hair, hiding the scar. Harry did the same. Everyone gasped.
"This is how we killed him! Two strong wizards, me and Harry! Ron of course helped with it, but with Crucio being one of our specialties, and the tie between me and Harry and Voldemort, we managed! No one asks how he died, but just goes on like they killed him their selves!" Hermione went on.
Harry shut her up by putting spell-o-tape on her mouth. She broke down crying, and Harry held her in his arms while the people holding Voldemort Apperated away. "Mr. Weasely, can you get Dumbledore?" Harry asked, and Mr. Weasely nodded and Apperated away.
"Ron, will you help me carry Hermione upstairs?" Harry asked as the rest of the family went their separate ways, dumbstruck. When Harry and Ron just got Hermione to her bed, they heard a plop downstairs, then Harry yelled, "We're up here!", then another plop, and another plop and Professor Dumbledore stood there in front of them.
He told them, "Mr. Weasely has gone back to work, and he told me what you three did. Harry, your parents would be so proud of you. Harry, would you tell me exactly what happened?"
At this point of seeing Hermione crying so much, Harry had started to cry a little too. "J-Just get me. Sirius. Then I will tell you, okay?" Harry said, still holding Hermione with Ron silently beside him, patting Hermione's back and with tears silently escaping his eyes.
"Okay, but stay right there, okay?" Dumbledore said, popping out of sight. About a minute passed, then they saw Sirius and Dumbledore there. Sirius saw the three crying, then scooped Harry and Hermione and Ron up in a huge hug.
Hermione had to go to the bathroom, so Sirius sat between Harry and Ron on the bed. Both the boy's head on were on Sirius shoulder, crying silently.
Dumbledore sat on a chair nearby waiting for Hermione.
"Sirius. we.killed him. in our dream. no more Voldemort. I'm scared." Harry said, hugging Sirius.
Ron was next to talk. "We're acting like babies! We shouldn't be crying. We should be holding it in."
"No, no. Ron, its okay. Let it all out. All three should be crying. letting out all the emotion" Dumbledore said, sitting by Ron.
"You have a very good reason to." Sirius said, hugging both boys.
"Should we get the rest of the family?" Dumbledore asked.
Ron nodded "yes", and Dumbledore exited, only for Hermione to come back in with Ginny, Fred, and George.
"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed, sitting beside Harry, with her head in his lap crying.
"What are ye crying for? You killed the Dark Lord!" George said, looking at the three kids. Fred, George and Ginny looked a little surprised to see Sirius there, but said nothing about it.
Dumbledore came in a minute later with Mrs. Weasely trailing behind him; she was crying her eyes out.
Harry scooted a little bit closer to Sirius, afraid that Mrs. Weasely would take him away from Sirius, but she only took Ron up in her arms and hugged him. Harry only cried silently, hugging Sirius with one arm, stroking Hermione's hair with the other.
"Now that everyone's here, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, would you like to tell us what happened?" Dumbledore asked softly, which helped Harry. At least he's not yelling, or being mean.
Harry told most of the story, still hugging Sirius the whole time, and Sirius hugged Harry tighter during the parts when he told about the Dementors or Voldemort trying to kill him.
Hermione and Ron added the parts about when he was flying across the room, and when Harry was blacked out.
When Harry was done, Sirius had tears of pride in his eyes, and so did everyone else. Harry had stopped crying, and he noticed Hermione had, too. She had passed out in his arms, and Ron was silently sleeping in his mother's arms.
Dumbledore had listened the whole time, and hadn't spoken. Sirius looked down at Harry, and smiled.
"You father would've done the same thing. Sticking up for his friends.girlfriends." he said. Harry looked up at Sirius. He hadn't thought he knew. Harry looked down at Hermione, and blushed. This made Sirius smile even more.
"You two look like Lily and James. yes. good couple." Dumbledore said, smiling. "Did you tell Harry the great news?" Dumbledore asked.
"No! Did I forget? Oh wow!" Sirius said. Harry looked at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Albus, Hermione, and Ron, thank you," Sirius said, not noticing Hermione and Ron were silently sleeping "My name is cleared and I have a house! Harry, you can come and live with me! You still want to?" Sirius said it like it was the simplest thing in the world.
Harry had tears in his eyes, and he hugged Sirius so hard Sirius couldn't breathe. "Yes! Away from the Dursely's finally! No more Dudley!" Harry was screaming. He was ecstatic. He was going away from the Dursely's, to live with his godfather.
"Harry Potter, would you like to become Harry Potter Black? Want me to adopt you so you're completely away from those Muggles and I'm your legal guardian?" Sirius asked.
Harry was happier than he had ever been. "Become Harry Potter Black? Are you crazy?" Harry asked. Sirius' face fell. "You don't have to ask! I'd become Harry Potter Black in a heartbeat!" Harry exclaimed.
They both hugged, and Hermione and Ron woke up. "Ron, Hermione, I'm going to live with Sirius! Isn't that wonderful? No Voldemort, no Dursely's!" Harry said, everyone in the room was smiling, Harry, Sirius, Hermione and Ron were crying for joy.
Sirius had to go to start the adoption papers and give a little visit to the Dursely's, and Dumbledore had to go work on something and get some sleep, so they left. The Weasely's, Hermione and Harry went to sleep.
They had a peaceful sleep and woke up in peace. No worries about Voldemort. It was a great end of the summer, and before they knew it, it was time to go back to Hogwarts.
When they got on the train, (Sirius was there, but he went to get some Cauldron Cakes for them) they got a visit from Malfoy, Goyal and Crabbe.
"So, Potter, you and Mudblood and Weasel must feel proud of your selves, eh? Killing the Dark Lord and all? Bet you feel just so great. Hmm. ever thought of dumping the kiddies here," He looked at Hermione and Ron, "and step up to the shark tank?"
"Not really Malfoy. Have you ever met Sirius? He's the new and permanent Defense against the Dark Arts professor. He's my new father, you know!" Harry responded, looking behind Malfoy.
"No, Potter, and I don't want to! Me? Wanting to meet anyone related to you? Honestly! Must be a fool! Adopting you, and all! Must be a slime ball! Must-" Malfoy was cut off by someone clearing their throat behind him.
"Nice to meet you too, Malfoy. Heard you make a great ferret and nice food for Hippogriffs. I hear skrewts like you too." Malfoy turned around slowly to find Sirius there with Cauldron Cakes and some other candies and some drinks.
"Uh. hello. Mr. uh..?" Malfoy stuttered. He knew not to pick a fight under a teacher's nose. Malfoy backed up into Harry's compartment.
"Black. Professor Black to you, Malfoy. Now get, before you become a ferret! Tell your friends to leave Harry and his friends alone this year, too!" Sirius said, glaring at Malfoy. Malfoy walked away.
"Thanks, Sirius! I was just about to give Malfoy Jelly Legs." Hermione said.
"Aww. I wanted to stun him." Ron said.
"Oh... I thought he'd make a great ferret. Hedwig would love Malfoy as lunch." Harry said, looking at Hedwig who was asleep.
"Anytime you need him to go away, tell him I know how to make him a permanent ferret if he doesn't leave you alone, k?" Sirius said, smiling and handing over the Cauldron Cakes.
Harry took one, thanked Sirius and spoke next. "When will he learn my name? I'm not Potter anymore! He should call me Black. Only teachers can call me Potter now!" Harry got up, and walked out.
"Where you going, Harry?" Hermione asked, with concern in her eyes. Sirius saw this, but didn't say anything.
"Yea. Don't go and get into trouble!" Sirius said.
"Oh. I won't." Harry said, "Malfoy needs to learn my name, not to call my best friends Mudblood or Weasel, and I'm going to talk with Fred and George."
"Chess?" Ron asked Sirius as Katrina came in.
"Katrina! We need to talk! Come in!" Hermione said, pulling Katrina's arm.
"Well, okay." She said.
"We're twins, do you know that?" Hermione asked. She told Katrina the whole story. Sirius listened, but didn't let them know this.
"You're winning!" Ron said earning a beating from Sirius' knight.
Katrina looked very shocked at Hermione, then hugged her "Oh, Hermione, if Draco knew, he'd kill me! That girl from Ollivander's must be my step sister, then I guess. good!" Katrina said, pulling back from the hug.
"Who's he?" Katrina said, looking at Sirius.
"Harry's new dad, Professor Black." Hermione said.
"Sirius, please. Harry's friends can call me Sirius. Pleased to meet you!" He said, smiling shaking Katrina's hand.
"Same here, very nice boy you have. Killing You-Know-Who! Hermione, didn't you help?" Katrina said.
"Yep. Me, Hermione and Harry. Please. another subject?" Ron said, watching his bishop crumble.
Then they heard screams, saw flashes of light come through the door, some feathers and fur flew into the compartment, and heard angry voices.
"HARRY!!" Sirius yelled, and Harry's head popped in the door 10 seconds later.
"Yes?" Harry asked.
"What'd you do?" Sirius asked.
"Um. well. Fred and George made me tell me what Malfoy was running for, so I told them, then we went to Malfoy's compartment and we talked, then we fought, then we cursed each other." Harry said, and then he walked in so Sirius could see what happened to him.
Harry had his own head, but looked like a stag, he now had a brown horse body.
Sirius sighed, muttered something like "James." Then turned Harry right.
Harry led him out so he could help Fred, George, Malfoy, Goyal, Crabbe and anyone else in this predicament.
When that was settled, Malfoy learned Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, George, and Sirius' names VERY well. He clearly didn't like being part beetle, part Draco Malfoy. Neither did Crabbe and Goyal like being joined together by the bottoms with spell-o-tape.
When they got back to their own compartments, (Katrina left to go talk with Draco) Sirius started laughing.
Harry, who had Hermione's head in his lap again, asked, "What's so funny?"
"Oh, Your father and us lot did this stuff to people all the time, particularly Snape. Snape didn't like it at all! Malfoy reminds me of Snape so much! Slime ball! Snape didn't use curses, just his potions! We learned to watch our food carefully, from then on." Sirius yawned, and went into a deep sleep, because he was very tired.
Harry and Hermione went on talking, and Ron went to talk to Fred and George. When they got to their stop, Sirius, Ron, Hermione and Harry all got into one carriage, with, to their disgust, Draco.
"Do you remember our names?" Harry asked Draco. Ron and Hermione stifled laughs. Sirius sat beside Ron and Hermione, and Harry sat be Draco, across from Ron and them.
"Yes, I do, Black. Hello Granger, Weasely," Draco spat, "Hello Professor Black, how do you do?" He asked, after a nudge by Harry.
"Very well, Draco, how are you?" Sirius, getting in on the joke.
Malfoy looked up at him. "Fine, thank you" He said.
They got to the castle without any fights, and it was rather enjoyable. Sirius played Malfoy in Exploding Snap, let him win once, but beat him the other. They went to the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table, closest to the Staff Table, where Sirius sat.
Everyone had hushed as Ron, Hermione, Harry and Sirius came in.
Draco went his own way. Hagrid, Katrina (Who had gone with the first years for the lake boat thing), and the 1st years came in a little later. They went to the front of the Great Hall to be sorted into their respected houses.
Dumbledore spoke, making everyone shut up, "Welcome back to Hogwarts, and welcome, new ones. As you would know, we have no reason to fear Lord Voldemort, as our own Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasely have taken care of that for us," He smiled at each as he said their names, "I say thank you for this, and hope they rest peacefully now. First years, the forests surrounding the school are out of bounds to all students. We have a new teacher this year, hopefully to stay, Professor Black. He is here to teach Defense against the Dark Arts." Everyone clapped at this, Harry Hermione and Ron clapped the hardest.
"He's dead. We made sure." Hermione said, as the people started cursing him.
"Yea. we put Crucio on him like a million times. then I finished him off." Harry said quietly, but loud enough for the people to stare.
"You. kids killed this man? This wizard is more powerful than the Minister of Magic. Kids, this is no laughing matter!" one of them said.
"Will you stop calling us kids?? We just almost killed ourselves for the world! I'll show you my scar I got two days ago, would you like to see? Hmm? Well, here you go!" Hermione screamed, pulling up some of her hair, hiding the scar. Harry did the same. Everyone gasped.
"This is how we killed him! Two strong wizards, me and Harry! Ron of course helped with it, but with Crucio being one of our specialties, and the tie between me and Harry and Voldemort, we managed! No one asks how he died, but just goes on like they killed him their selves!" Hermione went on.
Harry shut her up by putting spell-o-tape on her mouth. She broke down crying, and Harry held her in his arms while the people holding Voldemort Apperated away. "Mr. Weasely, can you get Dumbledore?" Harry asked, and Mr. Weasely nodded and Apperated away.
"Ron, will you help me carry Hermione upstairs?" Harry asked as the rest of the family went their separate ways, dumbstruck. When Harry and Ron just got Hermione to her bed, they heard a plop downstairs, then Harry yelled, "We're up here!", then another plop, and another plop and Professor Dumbledore stood there in front of them.
He told them, "Mr. Weasely has gone back to work, and he told me what you three did. Harry, your parents would be so proud of you. Harry, would you tell me exactly what happened?"
At this point of seeing Hermione crying so much, Harry had started to cry a little too. "J-Just get me. Sirius. Then I will tell you, okay?" Harry said, still holding Hermione with Ron silently beside him, patting Hermione's back and with tears silently escaping his eyes.
"Okay, but stay right there, okay?" Dumbledore said, popping out of sight. About a minute passed, then they saw Sirius and Dumbledore there. Sirius saw the three crying, then scooped Harry and Hermione and Ron up in a huge hug.
Hermione had to go to the bathroom, so Sirius sat between Harry and Ron on the bed. Both the boy's head on were on Sirius shoulder, crying silently.
Dumbledore sat on a chair nearby waiting for Hermione.
"Sirius. we.killed him. in our dream. no more Voldemort. I'm scared." Harry said, hugging Sirius.
Ron was next to talk. "We're acting like babies! We shouldn't be crying. We should be holding it in."
"No, no. Ron, its okay. Let it all out. All three should be crying. letting out all the emotion" Dumbledore said, sitting by Ron.
"You have a very good reason to." Sirius said, hugging both boys.
"Should we get the rest of the family?" Dumbledore asked.
Ron nodded "yes", and Dumbledore exited, only for Hermione to come back in with Ginny, Fred, and George.
"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed, sitting beside Harry, with her head in his lap crying.
"What are ye crying for? You killed the Dark Lord!" George said, looking at the three kids. Fred, George and Ginny looked a little surprised to see Sirius there, but said nothing about it.
Dumbledore came in a minute later with Mrs. Weasely trailing behind him; she was crying her eyes out.
Harry scooted a little bit closer to Sirius, afraid that Mrs. Weasely would take him away from Sirius, but she only took Ron up in her arms and hugged him. Harry only cried silently, hugging Sirius with one arm, stroking Hermione's hair with the other.
"Now that everyone's here, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, would you like to tell us what happened?" Dumbledore asked softly, which helped Harry. At least he's not yelling, or being mean.
Harry told most of the story, still hugging Sirius the whole time, and Sirius hugged Harry tighter during the parts when he told about the Dementors or Voldemort trying to kill him.
Hermione and Ron added the parts about when he was flying across the room, and when Harry was blacked out.
When Harry was done, Sirius had tears of pride in his eyes, and so did everyone else. Harry had stopped crying, and he noticed Hermione had, too. She had passed out in his arms, and Ron was silently sleeping in his mother's arms.
Dumbledore had listened the whole time, and hadn't spoken. Sirius looked down at Harry, and smiled.
"You father would've done the same thing. Sticking up for his friends.girlfriends." he said. Harry looked up at Sirius. He hadn't thought he knew. Harry looked down at Hermione, and blushed. This made Sirius smile even more.
"You two look like Lily and James. yes. good couple." Dumbledore said, smiling. "Did you tell Harry the great news?" Dumbledore asked.
"No! Did I forget? Oh wow!" Sirius said. Harry looked at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Albus, Hermione, and Ron, thank you," Sirius said, not noticing Hermione and Ron were silently sleeping "My name is cleared and I have a house! Harry, you can come and live with me! You still want to?" Sirius said it like it was the simplest thing in the world.
Harry had tears in his eyes, and he hugged Sirius so hard Sirius couldn't breathe. "Yes! Away from the Dursely's finally! No more Dudley!" Harry was screaming. He was ecstatic. He was going away from the Dursely's, to live with his godfather.
"Harry Potter, would you like to become Harry Potter Black? Want me to adopt you so you're completely away from those Muggles and I'm your legal guardian?" Sirius asked.
Harry was happier than he had ever been. "Become Harry Potter Black? Are you crazy?" Harry asked. Sirius' face fell. "You don't have to ask! I'd become Harry Potter Black in a heartbeat!" Harry exclaimed.
They both hugged, and Hermione and Ron woke up. "Ron, Hermione, I'm going to live with Sirius! Isn't that wonderful? No Voldemort, no Dursely's!" Harry said, everyone in the room was smiling, Harry, Sirius, Hermione and Ron were crying for joy.
Sirius had to go to start the adoption papers and give a little visit to the Dursely's, and Dumbledore had to go work on something and get some sleep, so they left. The Weasely's, Hermione and Harry went to sleep.
They had a peaceful sleep and woke up in peace. No worries about Voldemort. It was a great end of the summer, and before they knew it, it was time to go back to Hogwarts.
When they got on the train, (Sirius was there, but he went to get some Cauldron Cakes for them) they got a visit from Malfoy, Goyal and Crabbe.
"So, Potter, you and Mudblood and Weasel must feel proud of your selves, eh? Killing the Dark Lord and all? Bet you feel just so great. Hmm. ever thought of dumping the kiddies here," He looked at Hermione and Ron, "and step up to the shark tank?"
"Not really Malfoy. Have you ever met Sirius? He's the new and permanent Defense against the Dark Arts professor. He's my new father, you know!" Harry responded, looking behind Malfoy.
"No, Potter, and I don't want to! Me? Wanting to meet anyone related to you? Honestly! Must be a fool! Adopting you, and all! Must be a slime ball! Must-" Malfoy was cut off by someone clearing their throat behind him.
"Nice to meet you too, Malfoy. Heard you make a great ferret and nice food for Hippogriffs. I hear skrewts like you too." Malfoy turned around slowly to find Sirius there with Cauldron Cakes and some other candies and some drinks.
"Uh. hello. Mr. uh..?" Malfoy stuttered. He knew not to pick a fight under a teacher's nose. Malfoy backed up into Harry's compartment.
"Black. Professor Black to you, Malfoy. Now get, before you become a ferret! Tell your friends to leave Harry and his friends alone this year, too!" Sirius said, glaring at Malfoy. Malfoy walked away.
"Thanks, Sirius! I was just about to give Malfoy Jelly Legs." Hermione said.
"Aww. I wanted to stun him." Ron said.
"Oh... I thought he'd make a great ferret. Hedwig would love Malfoy as lunch." Harry said, looking at Hedwig who was asleep.
"Anytime you need him to go away, tell him I know how to make him a permanent ferret if he doesn't leave you alone, k?" Sirius said, smiling and handing over the Cauldron Cakes.
Harry took one, thanked Sirius and spoke next. "When will he learn my name? I'm not Potter anymore! He should call me Black. Only teachers can call me Potter now!" Harry got up, and walked out.
"Where you going, Harry?" Hermione asked, with concern in her eyes. Sirius saw this, but didn't say anything.
"Yea. Don't go and get into trouble!" Sirius said.
"Oh. I won't." Harry said, "Malfoy needs to learn my name, not to call my best friends Mudblood or Weasel, and I'm going to talk with Fred and George."
"Chess?" Ron asked Sirius as Katrina came in.
"Katrina! We need to talk! Come in!" Hermione said, pulling Katrina's arm.
"Well, okay." She said.
"We're twins, do you know that?" Hermione asked. She told Katrina the whole story. Sirius listened, but didn't let them know this.
"You're winning!" Ron said earning a beating from Sirius' knight.
Katrina looked very shocked at Hermione, then hugged her "Oh, Hermione, if Draco knew, he'd kill me! That girl from Ollivander's must be my step sister, then I guess. good!" Katrina said, pulling back from the hug.
"Who's he?" Katrina said, looking at Sirius.
"Harry's new dad, Professor Black." Hermione said.
"Sirius, please. Harry's friends can call me Sirius. Pleased to meet you!" He said, smiling shaking Katrina's hand.
"Same here, very nice boy you have. Killing You-Know-Who! Hermione, didn't you help?" Katrina said.
"Yep. Me, Hermione and Harry. Please. another subject?" Ron said, watching his bishop crumble.
Then they heard screams, saw flashes of light come through the door, some feathers and fur flew into the compartment, and heard angry voices.
"HARRY!!" Sirius yelled, and Harry's head popped in the door 10 seconds later.
"Yes?" Harry asked.
"What'd you do?" Sirius asked.
"Um. well. Fred and George made me tell me what Malfoy was running for, so I told them, then we went to Malfoy's compartment and we talked, then we fought, then we cursed each other." Harry said, and then he walked in so Sirius could see what happened to him.
Harry had his own head, but looked like a stag, he now had a brown horse body.
Sirius sighed, muttered something like "James." Then turned Harry right.
Harry led him out so he could help Fred, George, Malfoy, Goyal, Crabbe and anyone else in this predicament.
When that was settled, Malfoy learned Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, George, and Sirius' names VERY well. He clearly didn't like being part beetle, part Draco Malfoy. Neither did Crabbe and Goyal like being joined together by the bottoms with spell-o-tape.
When they got back to their own compartments, (Katrina left to go talk with Draco) Sirius started laughing.
Harry, who had Hermione's head in his lap again, asked, "What's so funny?"
"Oh, Your father and us lot did this stuff to people all the time, particularly Snape. Snape didn't like it at all! Malfoy reminds me of Snape so much! Slime ball! Snape didn't use curses, just his potions! We learned to watch our food carefully, from then on." Sirius yawned, and went into a deep sleep, because he was very tired.
Harry and Hermione went on talking, and Ron went to talk to Fred and George. When they got to their stop, Sirius, Ron, Hermione and Harry all got into one carriage, with, to their disgust, Draco.
"Do you remember our names?" Harry asked Draco. Ron and Hermione stifled laughs. Sirius sat beside Ron and Hermione, and Harry sat be Draco, across from Ron and them.
"Yes, I do, Black. Hello Granger, Weasely," Draco spat, "Hello Professor Black, how do you do?" He asked, after a nudge by Harry.
"Very well, Draco, how are you?" Sirius, getting in on the joke.
Malfoy looked up at him. "Fine, thank you" He said.
They got to the castle without any fights, and it was rather enjoyable. Sirius played Malfoy in Exploding Snap, let him win once, but beat him the other. They went to the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table, closest to the Staff Table, where Sirius sat.
Everyone had hushed as Ron, Hermione, Harry and Sirius came in.
Draco went his own way. Hagrid, Katrina (Who had gone with the first years for the lake boat thing), and the 1st years came in a little later. They went to the front of the Great Hall to be sorted into their respected houses.
Dumbledore spoke, making everyone shut up, "Welcome back to Hogwarts, and welcome, new ones. As you would know, we have no reason to fear Lord Voldemort, as our own Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasely have taken care of that for us," He smiled at each as he said their names, "I say thank you for this, and hope they rest peacefully now. First years, the forests surrounding the school are out of bounds to all students. We have a new teacher this year, hopefully to stay, Professor Black. He is here to teach Defense against the Dark Arts." Everyone clapped at this, Harry Hermione and Ron clapped the hardest.