~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~

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History of Magic was as boring as ever, Professor Binns dull voice continued to echo around the classroom as he talked about Merlin and his ancestors.

Harry and Ron whom were both occupants of this room were trying as hard as they could to stay awake. "What time was it when we actually got to bed last night?" Ron asked Harry as he yawned for the fifth time in a matter of three minutes. Harry shrugged as he continued to stare at his watch which he hadn't taken his eye's off of since the start of class.

"You know a watched kettle will never boil" Hermione whispered to Harry as she noticed the way he stared at his watch. Harry sighed

"Did you have to remind me?" He asked while Ron looked at the two like they were speaking another language.

"What?" He asked gaping and Hermione smiled.

"Just a muggle cliché" She muttered and Ron looked even more confused than he did in the first place.

"Just forget it" Harry suggested and Ron nodded silently agreeing that that was probably best.

"Merlin's book of spells would be invaluable to the historians of the magical world" Binns was saying before he was interrupted.

"But wouldn't it be dangerous, I mean that book contains all types of things that could fall into the wrong hands" said Neville timidly. Even the professor looked awed, whenever Neville interrupted it was always to get the professor to repeat something that he'd missed.

"Well- ah- yes it would be dangerous, thus why we don't have it" Binns said slowly, quite caught of guard by Neville's interruption.

"I thought it was lost, permanently" Malfoy said as he was carving something about Binns and Dumbledore on the desk.

"Well as far as we know, but its always possible..."

"But sir, there's no remaining relatives to Merlin what if the book was needed" Seamus asked.

"What would it be needed for?" Harry whispered to Hermione who for the first time just shrugged in response to the question.

"Well there is one" Binns said slowly and Harry watched as the Slytherins suddenly all started to pay attention. "But from what I know about him, he doesn't know where the book is either." Binns said. "Now, we have to finish this topic by the end of class so no more interruptions.

* * *

"Wasn't that strange" Hermione said as they walked out into the hall.

"He certainly didn't want to talk about Merlin's living relative did he." Ron said to Harry who nodded.

"It was a tad strange, even for Binns" Harry noted, "But what I want to know is what Seamus meant."

"You mean you don't know" Said Malfoy incredulously, "You, the famous Harry Potter doesn't know why Merlin's Book would be needed"

"Are you going to spill it Malfoy or are you just going to stand their and make an utter fool out of yourself" Harry said, Malfoy's taunting was getting really old. The surrounding people laughed and Malfoy turned sharply and stalked off. "He's being a prat, he probably doesn't know himself, come on lets go find Sirius and ask him about it." Harry said to Ron and Hermione who nodded at him.

* * *

"Professor have you seen Snuffles?" Harry asked Snape casually, while Ron and Hermione stood behind him silently. A disgusted expression crossed Snape's face as if he thought the idea of him actually knowing where Sirius was horrifying. "I'll take that as a no" Harry sighed rolling his eyes, he turned to leave when Snape cleared his throat.

"I believe he is still in a meeting with Dumbledore." He said shortly a snarl on his face then he turned on his heel and stalked off.

"You think at least try to be nice" Hermione said, "I mean, he doesn't have to be so rude all the time"

"He's still getting over the fact that Harry saved his life" Ron said "Merlin he must hate you Harry, I mean first your father, then you and Sirius."

Harry laughed at the comment. "He told us after that he would have rather died than have us save him and Sirius told him that next time we will let him, he shut up pretty quick."

Hermione rolled her eyes and they walked up to the gargoyle that sat at the entrance to Dumbledore's office. "Tim Tams" Harry said shortly and the gargoyle jumped out of the way.

"Tim what?" Ron asked staring at Harry confused.

"Tim Tams, apparently they're these chocolate biscuits from Australia that he's really fond of" Harry explained.

"Australia.... When did he go to Australia?" Ron asked

"The holiday's I guess" Harry said shrugging and he slowly opened the door and they walked into Dumbledore's office. They all looked amazed at the scene that was in front of them. Sitting in the room was Sirius, Remus, Arabella Figg, Mundugus Fletcher, Aliandra and Dumbledore all fast asleep.

Sirius had collapsed on the table using rolls of parchment for a pillow, Remus was sitting cross armed in his chair moving every now and again in his sleep. Mundugus was snoring loudly as he slept in his seat his feat propped up on the table. Arabella was sprawled out on the floor looking as if she'd fallen of the seat and Aliandra was leaning on the table one hand holding her head up. Dumbledore sat back in his seat snoozing lightly.

Hermione shook her head and stared quite obviously awed, they all looked like a bunch of teenagers that had fallen asleep while studying for their OWLs or NEWTs.

"I think they're getting too old for all nighters" Harry noted quietly

"I agree" said a voice that caused Harry, Ron and Hermione to jump. To their surprise Aliandra was awake. She smiled at them and yawned. "Good Morning" She said tiredly

"Morning," Harry whispered not particularly wanting to wake anyone else in the room.

"Hi" Ron and Hermione said in unison.

"What can I do for you?" Aliandra asked stretching.

"Er- well we wanted to talk to Sirius, but er-" Harry said looking at Sirius who slept on silently. Aliandra followed Harry's gaze to her husband and sighed.

"You really don't want to wake him up" Aliandra advised quietly, "He's not good when he hasn't had enough sleep" She said then forced a smile before looking back at him sadness haunting her bright blue eyes. "Can it wait?" She asked looking back at the three students.

Harry shared a glance with Ron and Hermione and they all shrugged. "It'd just be handy to know I guess" Ron said slowly "But then it's not super important"

"It's not like anyone's going to die or anything" Hermione noted,

Harry bit his lip as he looked at his godfather. "Well maybe you could help us" He said looking back at Aliandra.

She laughed "Oh Merlin here we go. What's the problem?"

"Well you see in History of Magic we were learning about Merlin right, and Seamus, er- one of our friends, er- classmates said something about how Merlin's book of spells might be needed or something." Ron said weakly.

Aliandra looked pensive. "It would probably have something to do with the spells in the book. A lot of them are mass protection spells. They we're used in the first war against Voldermort to protect place's like Diagon Alley and Hogsmede from attack, mind you that wasn't until the book was rediscovered..." She faltered as though she'd given a little too much information away.

"Rediscovered... Binns said that they didn't know where the book was" Hermione said.

"Well it's gone again, the, well Merlin's relative's have looked after it for years making sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands..." She said slowly as she sorted out the information that ran through her head.

"Does the last remaining relative know where the book is?" Ron asked taking a seat next to the snoring Mundugus.

"What?" Aliandra choked. "How do you know about....Shit"

"Er- Professor Binn's said that the relative person said he didn't know where the book was" Hermione explained and Aliandra relaxed slightly.

"I don't know much about the relative only that er- he, doesn't want to be found, and for good reason's too"

"James NO!" Sirius cried in his sleep causing all four of them to jump.

"Oh crap" Aliandra swore and the chair screeched along the floor as she got up. Sirius was sweating and tossing in turning in his sleep.

"Is he all right?" Hermione asked looking at Aliandra.

"It's just a nightmare..." Aliandra whispered. "Sirius, Sirius wake up" She kneeling next to his chair. An ink bottle went flying of the table as Sirius moved his hand out to push Aliandra away. He was still fast asleep and the ink spilt all over her side. It didn't seem to bother her as much as the hand that slapped her across the face absently. "SIRIUS YOU PRAT! WAKE UP!" She screamed causing everyone in the room to wake up so suddenly that they either fell out of their seats of jumped about a mile into the air.

Hermione, Harry and Ron all shook with laughter that they didn't dare let escape. Sirius's face had to be the highlight of the whole scene. He looked at Aliandra who was covered with black ink and had a pink hand mark on her face with an shocked expression. "Why are you covered in ink?" Was the first thing he asked and Harry and Ron fell to the ground laughing. That was too much. Even Hermione had doubled over holding her stomach laughing.

Aliandra stood up rolling her eyes. "Er- sorry about that" she said looking at the annoyed expressions of everyone else in the room.

Sirius still looked confused as she walked out of the room shaking her head. "What the hell?" He asked and Harry laughed harder.

"Y-You- you- were having- a-a nightmare" Harry said in amongst uncontrollable laughter "A-An-And she-she went to wake you-you-and- you knocked the-i-ink which spilt- on-her- a-and-you slapped her- and then she screamed at you" Harry couldn't breath enough to get the words out anymore.

"Then you woke up and said that!" Ron cried in one breath before clutching his stomach as he tried to get up off the floor.

While Mundugus and Arabella joined in laughing, Sirius and Remus shared a glance while Dumbledore looked at Sirius sympathetically although the three students missed the glance and attempted to control their laughter. After the group managed to stop laughing Harry, Ron and Hermione excused themselves but not before advising them to get more sleep.

"That made my day" Ron said sighing as they collapsed in their seats at the Gryffindor table. "Oh great roast beef!" he grinned as he looked at the dinner that was laid out in front of them.

* * *

"Harry you stepped on my toe" Hermione said as the three walked towards Flitwick's classroom under the invisibility cloak.

"Sorry" Harry whispered and then looked towards the classroom. The door was slightly ajar and the light was on.

"Your kidding" Ron whispered and they crept up to the door and peeked in. Aliandra stood just inside the room Sirius was with her sitting on one of the desks

"I don't know, I seriously don't know Ali" Sirius said slowly then he looked up at her from the where he was sitting in and sighed. "Ali," He said slowly as she stared out the window, he stood up and walked to her. "I'm sorry" he said and she looked down at the ground.

Harry, Hermione and Ron watched as she lifted her head to look into his eyes. A single tear rolled down her cheek. "What for Sirius?" She said shaking her head before slowly turning away and leaving nearly running into the three of them as she did so.

Sirius fell back into a seat, and covered his face with his hands.

Harry, Hermione and Ron shared a glance. "Er- what do we do?" Ron asked in a whisper. "Find another classroom" Hermione ordered deciding it was probably best to leave Sirius alone for a while.

There was another empty classroom just a bit further down the hall, they closed the door gently behind them as they appeared from under the invisibility cloak. "How much pain has he caused her?" Hermione blurted out and Harry bit his lip shrugging.

"I doubt that any of it was really his fault though, I mean even the stuff this morning couldn't be blamed on him... I guess that's sorta what she meant... or half what she meant" Harry said slowly.

Hermione nodded slowly "Hmmm"

"I wish we hadn't heard that" Ron said "I'm not going to be able to look at either of them without thinking about that"

Harry shrugged, "I feel awful, I mean you saw Sirius right, he looked so depressed..."

"Did you see her face?" Hermione asked in barely more than a whisper "When she walked out of the room, her eye's just sparkled with tears, she just looked so sad."

"Can we change the topic" Ron asked, "I mean what went on in there really was none of our business"

Hermione and Harry nodded and Hermione put the diary she had been holding onto the table. "Shall we?" She asked and the other two nodded. Hermione flicked through the pages to where they'd ended before.

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Dear Diary.

Ali, the idea is that I wake up and your still here, and don't even think about erasing that sentence, well you can, but I already know about it so if you leave it there I'm going to tease you about it, if you take it away, I'm going to tease you about it, either way.

Yeah, I think Peters snoring woke me up to, I wish he'd shut up. Oh hello she's back

Oh crap, you woke up.

Hello Ali, its nice to see you too, Sirius is cute hey?

No, listen I just got out of a coma or whatever you call the state I've been in, there's something wrong with my head at the moment, that's the only explanation... Actually I can't believe you just said that, I've been out of it for how long? And the first thing you say to me is "Hello Ali, its nice to see you too, Sirius is cute hey?" where's the hugs and I miss you's!!

Sorry Ali, your right. I have missed you hun!! But I think you may have noticed that in my other entries.

It did kind of stand out... *sighs* well I suppose I had better get the teasing over and done with...

Er- If you say so... Do you really expect me to believe any of that crap?! I can hear wedding bells Ali!

Lily Evans!! That is seriously not funny.... and anyway I do remember that at the start of this diary you said that if I ever married Sirius you would attempt to make peace with James.

Your Evil Aliandra Lights *glares*

Oh I know. Mwahahahahahahahaaha..... *sigh* look I don't know why I wrote that okay, but you do have to give me the fact that I only just woke up from a coma...

True. Sirius is awake

So I noticed.

We should probably hide the diary before he figures out what were doing

Hmm, I see your point Lily, but we will have to show our faithful readers what goes on in the next entry...

Good Idea!

Love always, Lily and Ali.

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"Shall we go?" Ron asked

"Might as well" Harry said "Unless you guy's want to go to sleep or something..." Hermione shook her head and Ron shrugged. They all reached in and touched the crystal.