~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~

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"Ahh, well Professor you see," Harry started until Sirius started laughing. Everyone in the room looked from Harry to Sirius and Harry relaxed suddenly loving his Godfather more than ever.

"Harry, your just like your father, hopeless at making up excuses" Sirius said his eyes sparkling with mirth as memories of James and the marauders filled his head. He grinned at his godson before being interrupted.

"I don't remember yours being any better," Professor McGonagall said matter- of-factly as she looked at him side on.

Sirius laughed, "I can't believe that you were my teacher for seven years and you never realized that I always *wanted* to get caught!"

"What" Professor McGonagall said darkly glancing at him over her spectacles. "You what?"

He shook his head "It doesn't matter anymore but back then we were all trying to break the 'most detentions' records, it was like one big race to see who could break it first, that was until James started going out with Lily, then for quite a while we began to see the detention room *too* often and we decided against that..."

Dumbledore chuckled softly at Sirius's comment his eyes sparkling with delight while McGonagall was scolding Sirius for something that he'd done about 17 years ago. "That's enough Minerva, boys will be boys after all" He said smiling at the deputy headmistress.

Harry had perked up at soon as Sirius had mentioned his mother, he always welcomed anything about her because even though he was currently reading her diary, he still felt like he knew so little about the woman that had saved his life.

"I didn't know there was a detention's record" Ron said suddenly understanding his twin brothers love of detentions.

Sirius laughed "It's not the most well known part of Hogwarts History, but the last people to break it I believe were your brothers Ron, they beat James and mine by forty detentions in seven years, though from my calculations that would mean that they would have had a detention about every day..." Sirius said shrugging.

McGonagall closed her eyes and nodded "They did have detentions, nearly every day" She said cringing at the memories of the Weasley twins. Sirius raised an eyebrow, and Ron hung his head sheepishly.

Dumbledore sighed impatiently, "As amusing as the conversation has been I believe we are no closer to finding out where Harry, Ron and Hermione appeared from"

Harry scolded himself as the attention was turned back to him, he should of spent that time thinking up an excuse that didn't include any sort of Diary in it, now he was stuck. McGonagall cleared her throat impatiently, when silence followed the Headmaster's comments, he had made a valid point, the question had been evaded and almost forgotten about, almost.

"Err-w-well-I, I, we appartated" Harry said, Hermione slapped herself in the head at the comment, even Sirius was looking at Harry as if to say 'That's the best you can do' and he shook his head.

"You can't.." McGonagall started but by something Harry really couldn't explain he disappeared.

Harry's mouth dropped open as he found himself on the floor of Dumbledore's Office. Fawkes was looking at him strangely, but you couldn't blame him, never did anyone just appear in front of him while he was in Hogwarts, that just didn't happen. Something to do with the fact that you *can't* apparate in Hogwarts!

"Okay, I think I might just go back now" Harry said to himself, "err please" He muttered when nothing happened and he suddenly appeared in front of a stuttering Snape.

"Right..." Harry said stunned then he looked at Ron and Hermione who looked about as thunderstruck as he felt.

"Err.. I only found out I could do it about a week ago when I well was avoiding Sn- er- Professor Snape and somehow ended up on the Quidditch pitch, since then I've been trying it, I'm still not very good at controlling it... but I can get from the bottom of astronomy tower to the top without having to climb it, that took a while though a lot of the time I wound up on the roof." Harry lied, deciding that the lie escaped a little too easily,

Dumbledore looked shocked, "this is interesting, I wonder..." he thought out loud

"He shouldn't be able to do that, should he" McGonagall asked

"He shouldn't even be able to apparate yet," Snape snarled

"James could do that," Sirius said thoughtfully "Not when we were kids, but when we were older he could apparate around Hogwarts. Its because of his blood" He explained

"What are you on about?" growled Snape impatiently

"You see as soon as he said he could, Aliandra, Lily and Remus looked it up, James was directly related to Gryffindor, and all the Hogwarts founders had the ability to apparate around Hogwarts"

"Which presents a problem," Dumbledore said gravely

"That means Voldermort can too!" Harry realized causing Ron to cringe at the use of Vol- you know who's name.

Sirius shook his head, "No, he can't"

"How could you possibly know that?" Professor McGonagall asked

"Ali and Lily spent ages looking it up, they thought if he could it may present a problem, but whatever they found out wasn't something that they wanted to know, they refused to tell us everything except that he couldn't. I remember Ali having nightmares about what they'd found out, I know cause she'd scream in her sleep." Sirius explained

"Ali who?" Hermione asked innocently

"The Ali that Harry, Ron and you asked me about" Sirius said carefully looking at Harry in particular.

The three teachers looked at the students, "How do you know about Aliandra" Snape croaked

"We, well you see, I, we, well" Hermione stuttered slowly trying to explain she looked at Harry. "She was in the photo," Harry said a little too quickly,

"What photo?" Sirius asked suspiciously

"The one that I have of my parents wedding, your in it too" Harry said, hoping that Aliandra was in the photo, there was nothing to say she wasn't though, I mean she was his Mum's best friend.

"Oh," Sirius said eyeing Harry carefully.

"Sirius, you can get in touch with Aliandra can't you" Dumbledore said calmly looking at the young man who was still trying to work out how much truth was held in his godson's words.

Sirius turned sharply to face Dumbledore "What!" He cried in surprise, "How do you-err-well I can, b-but I'm not really sure if I should-I-I'm not sure if I'm welcome to..."

"Why leave your wife on bad terms" Snape asked slowly looking at Sirius with a softer glare than earlier that made Hermione, Ron and Harry share a glance of confusion.

"Well the last time I saw her was when I was being dragged off to Azkaban" Sirius said

"Wife???????" Ron, Harry and Hermione cried as what Snape had said clicked.

"I-I-well-I I'm not sure, she was" Sirius stuttered

"Why didn't you tell...?" Harry stopped and thought about what he was saying, he didn't need to ask that question he knew the answer there hadn't been enough time.

"I'm actually kind of, well scared of her I guess. I've been avoiding her, although I really don't think its doing much good-Errr" Sirius said slowly as he thought about her silently. His eyes darted around the room refusing to settle looking into anyone's eyes.

"Why are you scared of her?" Professor McGonagall asked gently

"Well if she knows I wasn't the secret keeper she'll kick my ass for not killing peter, if she thinks I was the secret keeper she kill me on the spot." Sirius said, again his eyes darted around the room.

Dumbledore was silent as he stood pondering what he'd been told. "Your going to have to see her at one time or another, but would it be too much to ask you to do this now? I believe it might be helpful if we knew what she knows..." He asked catching Sirius's eye.

"Let me add another option to the list before. If she doesn't kick my ass for any of the above, she kill me for even saying that she looked up the whole thing, it was a big secret thing, her and lily did it at work, which is not allowed unless your doing it for work, because they were all confidential files" Sirius said avoiding the question

"Confidential files? But why would there be anything confidential?" Hermione asked

"There's a lot of stuff in the history of magic that is not let out for one reason or another. When I worked as senator we were dealing with heaps of magical cover-ups a lot of what Voldermort has done is added to those files, you see whenever a dark spell is used against another it has to be traced and filed so that a counter curse can be found. Sometimes counter curses or blocking spells for specific curses can't be found and they are kept huge secrets, only a select few are able to know they exist and these select few are usually hidden in the muggle world and live in disguises."

"Why?" Ron asked

"Isn't it obvious" Hermione said "If a dark wizard got hold of one of those select few we'd be in big trouble"

"So how do you know all this Sirius, I thought all minds were wiped of this sort of information if the person is proved untrustworthy." Snape spat

"That was a big problem, there was weeks of debate about that, people were always coming into Azkaban to discuss things over with me, it wasn't too long till they found out that I knew too much, and if they did erase my mind they'd have to lock away so much that Azkaban probably wouldn't have any effect on me, so Crouch made a decision to leave my mind in tact, a decision that Fudge knows about, probably the reason why he's so quick to accuse me for my crimes." Sirius explained

"Why weren't debates weren't made public?" Professor McGonagall asked

"Because it would mean revealing everything that goes on in the departments, and that there are confidential files, it would also let dark wizards know that there are people out there who have the same knowledge as I do, and they would become immediate targets."

"Does Ali know the stuff to the same extent as you do" Dumbledore asked looking as if he was in deep thought.

"I'd say so, I think she's head boss at the moment, she won't like that she always loved shadow work," Sirius said then stopped abruptly.

"Who do you shadow?" Snape asked breaking the silence that had followed the comment.

"I could get in big trouble for saying this stuff but then again I suppose it doesn't matter I'm already a convicted murderer" Sirus said shrugging. "It was mainly people who are suspected of being a death eater, but I think there's more to it now."

"Death Eaters Shadow" Snape said shuddering, "Or at least they used too"

Sirius nodded silently "I know" He said darkly but the conversation was dropped as Dumbledore interrupted

"Harry, Ron and Hermione, return to your dormitory's and get some sleep, Sirius can you please get in contact with Aliandra and Snape can you please accompany him. Minerva, you and I both have work to do" Dumbledore said his tone of voice saying bluntly 'This conversation is now over'

* * *

"Where'd you hide the diary Hermione?" Harry asked carefully as they walked into the common room.

"Its under the desk we were looking at it on, one of us are going to have to get up early tomorrow" Hermione said looking at the two boys.

"NOT ME" Harry and Ron said in unison and then grinned at Hermione, who sighed

"fine, goodnight" she said rolling her eyes at her two friends before walking into the girls dormitory.

"Night" Harry and Ron chorused before continuing up the stairs. "A lot to learn in one night, hey Harry" Ron said after a moments silence

"You're telling me" Harry said, he was still getting over the fact that he was able to apparate around Hogwarts, not to mention everything he learnt about his godfather and Aliandra. There were times in his life where he would just get way to much information at once, and this was one of them.

"Hey Harry, how come you never told me about apparating" Ron asked, he looked slightly hurt, but then there was an understanding in his eyes that wasn't usually there, something that told Harry that his best friend had grown up and was willing to accept the fact that Harry hadn't told him about something.

"Ron, I didn't know I could do it till tonight" Harry said honestly, while he respected the fact that his friend understood. This was one piece of information, that had he known, he would have told Ron before anyone.

"What" Ron exclaimed gaping at Harry,

"I was going to say it only happens now and then, but it ahh, worked" Harry said honestly "And I didn't really even try I sort of just said it, and it er- happened?"

"Wait till I tell that to Hermione" Ron said grinning as they walked into the boys dormitories.

Harry laughed, "Good Night Ron"

"Night Harry"