Ok, thank you for reviewing:). Sorry I couldn't update sooner, but I was gone for a while. A. Dee, well yeah it's at least 990513 pages lol but it's a magical book so I figured that's ok lol. Lelegurl9 thanks a lot, and I'm trying my best. :). Lil Lupin thanks too and well I hope you like this chapter too. Darksymphonia thanks, I'm glad you like it and I'm really trying to hurry. Jen, thank you and I know! I'm totally obsessed with Sirius stories since HP5 too. AJ, I'll have Sirius alive ASAP, don't worry, but nothing good happens easily so don't expect everything to be fixed with no problems. Just warning you lol. I love angst-y stuff so bear with me. Ok, well on to the story (finally), thank you to everyone for reviewing again and I hope you like this chappy too.
Hermione and Ron haven't minded that Harry was sometimes distant with them. Of course they thought he was still grieving over the loss of his godfather and they left him alone. Really, Harry had been planning to get Sirius back. Apparently, there was only one way to get someone out from under the Veil. But it involved so many things Harry couldn't control, mainly that the person would have to willingly go back into the living world instead of leaving to the peaceful place on the other side. Harry knew that if Sirius chose to go the opposite way, he'd lose his godfather forever, but he had to take the chance. The spell was pretty simple; it opened up the portals on either side of the Veil, and let the person inside decide where they want to go. But first, Harry would have to get into the Ministry and that same room again, and that was the tricky part.
They were returning to Hogwarts the next day, Monday, and Harry couldn't find any time to visit the Ministry before that. And of course he couldn't leave Hogwarts. That was against the rules.
He was going on Wednesday.
Sirius sighed and lay back against the wall. If that was even a wall. Nothing was definite here and it was hard to tell if anything was anything. Though deep down he knew it was no use, he had tried to talk to the other beings stuck with him. They couldn't hear him, of course. He knew they never would.
Sirius knew he couldn't escape the Veil from the inside. And he had little hope that someone from the living side would get to letting him out. Besides, he was starting to think that if he were given the choice, he'd go to James's side. He doubted Harry needed him. He would never be able to help anyway. Much of his life on that side was spent locked up and he really didn't feel like being protected so much that he had no time to look over Harry. Maybe it was just his time to go finally. His godson was growing up so much and he had so many people caring for him and protecting him… He really didn't need Sirius that much.
With these thoughts, Sirius started to drift off into sleep. He'd stopped the pointless attempts at escaping for today and finally relaxed. It's been a while since he'd really slept.
"Ron! Harry! Hermione! Wake up, you have to get ready!" Mrs. Weasley yelled to the three occupants of one of the rooms upstairs before moving on to wake the others.
Hermione took a few seconds to take in the meaning of that and then jumped up off her bed.
"We're going to Hogwarts today!" She squealed excitedly.
Still in his bed, Ron mumbled something and rolled his eyes at her before turning over and trying to go back to sleep. Harry, however, was up just as quick as Hermione. He, too rolled his eyes at her comment but more good naturally than Ron did. Harry couldn't help but get more anxious every second, waiting for Wednesday to arrive.
"Hermione, don't worry, we know." Harry said, sounding amused and exasperated at his friend's behavior at the same time. He pointed to the calendar on the wall where Hermione had been crossing out the days left until school. "Go on." He smiled at her, gesturing for her to erase the last day left in the August month.
"Oh yeah!" She took her marker and crossed out the last day. No sooner that she did this did the calendar disappear and more or less quiet fireworks exploded all across the small room, making it even more messy than before and making Ron jolt up from his sleep, his eyes wide, at the unexpected noises in the room. Seeing that the cause of the noise was Hermione, Ron lay back down, throwing one of his pillows at her and burying his face in the other. Hermione scoffed and stared at Ron, who couldn't control his laughter. She threw the pillow back at him. "Get up! We'll be late." As she turned her back to him, he mimicked her, making Harry burst out laughing in spite of himself.
In a while, the three friends finally got down, walking slowly and chatting animatedly between each other.
"Well, about time" Mrs. Weasley commented as they came down the stairs towards the kitchen. "Hurry up now or you'll be late!"
They ate and finished packing and in a matter of a few hours, left to the train station. Fred and George had come along to accompany them, providing them with quite a few things from their shop when Mrs. Weasley wasn't looking. Ginny went through the wall first, and then went Harry, Ron and finally Hermione. Molly Weasley made them all promise to write as soon as possible and hugged them all a few times before they left.
"Hey, Hermy, do you think you can fix this mirror for me?" Harry asked Hermione, calling her by her nickname for Hagrid's brother. They were now in their Hogwarts Express compartment, the three of them.
"Don't call me Hermy." She warned. "Did you try Reparo yet?" Harry nodded his head, "Hmm ok what about this, Remontilora" She said, tapping her wand on the shattered pieces of the mirror. They flew back to their place quickly. "There." She sighed, satisfied with her work.
"Thanks." Harry smiled at her.
"Oh no problem. I wonder why Reparo didn't work though." Hermione wondered out loud.
"I really don't know. Ron, are you going to stay on the Quidditch team this year?" Harry changed the subject quickly.
"Yeah, I will. You're going back to being the Seeker right?" And the three discussed Quidditch right until the end of the journey.
Harry strolled into the Gryffindor common room with Ron and Hermione. It was now their sixth year at Hogwarts. Six long, long years that couldn't have went by faster. With Voldemort set on returning to life, the three friends were always more focused on saving the world than spending time doing things normal friends do. Oh, how he hoped that would change soon, even if he almost knew that it never would.
It was now Tuesday evening and they had just come back from the dinner feast. Every second, Harry got more and more nervous about what he was planning to do. He would escape this morning, after all. Before anyone woke up…
"Harry, are you ok?" Hermione turned to him, concern obvious in all her features.
"Yeah of course, why?" He sounded truly oblivious.
"Well you've been having a shorter attention span than usual today and you have barely eaten, and you seem to stare off into space a lot…" Ron answered for Hermione.
"It's nothing, just overwhelmed from being back here and everything." Harry lied. Neither of his friends looked convinced but they nodded and dropped the subject anyway. Harry felt horrible for not telling them the truth but it was for their own good. That excuse was starting to wear thin and the boy was thankful it would be all over pretty soon.
Harry lay wide awake in his bed, staring at the clock beside him, silently pleading for it to move faster, for his time to come. Finally, after what seemed like a decade, the clock read 2:31 AM and Harry got up, making absolutely no noise. He was already dressed, so he grabbed his Invisibility Cloak, the Marauder's Map, a few pages that he had torn out of his new books, his wand and broomstick and headed off towards the fireplace of the common room.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He said in a barely audible whisper and smiled at the thought of the Marauders. The map revealed itself and Harry checked that the coast was clear. He couldn't just walk out of Hogwarts without anyone spotting him and fly over to the Ministry, of course. Floo powder wouldn't work either. The part of the Ministry that Harry needed to get to wasn't connected to their network. There was only one option left, Apparation. Of course, that was impossible because no one could Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts property, not to mention it was illegal at Harry's age. You would think there was no way to get out for him, but Harry had found out that there was an emergency gateway leading straight into the Ministry from a hidden room in Hogwarts. That was what he was going to use to get to Sirius.
Harry whispered a spell, tapping his wand on the wall beside the portrait hole, and a door opened for him. He didn't want to wake up the Gryffindor portrait so he'd found a spell to make a temporary exit door. Once he was in the hall, Invisibility Cloak on and all, Harry made sure the door was gone and headed toward the Room of Requirement. To the left of that room was the hidden passageway. Hidden as in impossible to get in. Well, for everyone but Dumbledore… and the Marauders. Chuckling at their intelligence and sneakiness, Harry cast a few spells and sprayed the hidden door with sparkle dust he had gotten the day before. Finally, the door appeared and Harry stepped inside.
When he stepped out, he was in the phone booth that led to the Ministry and the door back in Hogwarts had vanished with no evidence that it had ever existed in the first place, let alone been opened recently.
"Welcome to—" The pleasant female voice started but was interrupted by Harry's urgent speaking.
"Harry Potter. I'm here to rescue my godfather from behind the Veil, I've just come from Hogwarts and would like to return before they send out search parties." He rushed the words out impatiently. A badge saying 'Harry Potter: UUHM (Urgent Useless Hero Mission)' popped out at him. He frowned at the second U but nevertheless pinned the badge on and descended into the ground floor of the Ministry.
I'm gonna stop here because it's late and I really can't write any more right now. Sorry it took me so long to update but I've been so caught up in other people's stories… You people are BRILLIANT I tell you. Well, the next chapter will be up ASAP and I mean that. It'll be finally focused on Sirius :D I'm sure that's good news. Well please review and I hope you liked it. I'm sorry that the dialog seems kinda forced and there's so little of it… My writing is still a work in progress and I can't say I'm so good but hey I try my best. Well *sighs hopefully * please review nicely!