Chapter Thirty-Four
Reborn
Snape, Seri and Harry just stared at one another, not daring to speak.
There was a knock on the door. "Seri, Harry, Professor." Ron said, poking his head in. "We are waiting on you."
"Sorry Ron," Seri said, whipping her eyes. "Come on Harry." Seri strung her arm over his shoulders and led him to the door.
"Seri, I'm sorry," Harry said under his breath.
Seri nodded and hugged him to her.
And Harry grinned slightly. Even if he didn't have his whole family and even his things could have been better, nothing in his life was better than this.
"Rolls James?" Sirius asked, mash potatoes dripping from his mouth. Harry smiled and took some, giving Sirius a wide grin.
"Yo, Prongs." Sirius said, leaning over to Harry, "I think Angelica and Author Weasley have something going on." Sirius said.
"Who?" Harry said.
Sirius grinned and grabbed his thumb at Charlie and Seri. "But that's Charl.. Oh. yeah." It didn't really accrue to Harry that one of the Weasley Brothers had to be in Sirius's mind Author. And Bill was so "odd" that Charlie was the closeted.
"What happened to Molly though?" Sirius said under his breath.
Harry could but laugh when he saw Ron's face fall. "Molly who?" Harry asked.
"His wife dummy! They have three kids!" Sirius said a little louder Hermione and Ron where now face first on the table, shaking.
"Oh, well."
"Sirius?" Mark said, pulling on Sirius's sleeve.
"See, look its little Billy!" Sirius said scooping Mark up on his lap. He started bouncing his leg and Mark grinned. "You to big to be seven cowboy." Sirius said.
"I'm eleven." Mark said, showing a missing tooth smile.
"Oh are you now partner." Sirius stopped bouncing his leg and set Mark back down. "You know, I'd like to have a kid of my own, Prongs." Sirius said, getting in Harry's ear.
Harry's face dropped and he looked at Seri. She was laughing. All the hurt she had been through was nothing.
"Hem, hem!" Remus said, standing up. "A toast!"
"Why a toast Moony?" Sirius said.
Remus grinned, it seemed he missed his nick name, or rather missed that person shouting it. "To everyone going back to school!"
Sirius put his drink back down. "Who's going back to school?"
Everyone laughed and drank.
"Come on everyone! We are going to be late." Molly Weasley yelled through the house. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Miley, Ginny and Mark were all rushing around the house picking up lost quills and forgotten books.
When Harry entered the kitchen, Seri and Sirius were at the end of the table.
"Where are you going James?" Sirius asked.
"Err.um.Hogwarts." Harry said, messing with his hair.
"You're a teacher!" Sirius screamed. "James Dean Potter, a teacher! I thought I would never see the day!"
Harry chuckled, grabbing a piece of toast from Kreacher.
"We gave those teachers hell didn't we Prongs. Remember when McGonagall used to be nice, that changed didn't it." Sirius laughed. "I haven't seen that old bat without that fricken tight bun since we were 12!"
Seri giggled, covering her mouth with her hand. "Come on Har.James we better be going."
"Are you going too?" Sirius said, grabbing her hands.
Seri looked at him in shock. "Of course, I have to. Dumbledore has me on a mission." Seri said. "I have to be at Hogwarts."
"Well then." Sirius said, "Let me go with you."
"No!" Remus said from the other end of the kitchen.
"Untwist your panties Moony." Sirius splat. "Just to see them off, the Professors won't get the honor to see me again."
Harry shook his head and let Seri drag him out of the room, Sirius talking behind him.
"Are we all ready to go?" Molly asked, "Okay, Charlie you drop them off at the station and. Sirius, what are you doing?"
"Going to see Angelica and James off. Who are you?"
"Um. Author's mother."
"You are too pretty to be a mother of such a bag of bones!" Sirius joked.
Mr. Weasley turned red and went up stairs, kissing Ginny on the cheek.
"Come on," Charlie said, grinning.
Seri, Snape, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Miley, Ginny, Sirius and Mark all walked out of the door, carrying bags (it was useless to bring their whole trunk.)
"Angelica," Krum grunted when they turned the corner.
"What Victor?" Seri said, not turning to meet his gleaming eyes in the shadows.
Krum grabbed her wrist and spun her around. "Don't go." He said.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Seri said ripping her hand from his grip.
Harry stopped and watched them. He didn't care what Miley said, he didn't trust Victor any farther than he could throw him.
"I don't' vant to see you get hurt." He said.
"How touching." Seri sneered. "I'll see you later."
"Angelica." Victor pushed spinning her around again.
"What Victor?" She groaned.
"Don't' go vith him."
"Him who?"
"Veasley.. Black. Potter. don't go. stay here with me."
"No! Charlie and Harry and Sirius are my life!"
"There used to be a time when I was your life!" Victor said harshly.
"Times change."
"So I'm just out of the picture?"
Seri ran her hand through her hair, "You have always been a part of my life it's just. you are a part of my life that I'm trying to forget right now."
"Just because you vant to forget vhat happened doesn't mean you can that you can forget everyone. I was there for you vhen life hated you, and right vhen life decides to like you again, I'm out of the picture."
"No, it's not like that.."
"Seri, I loved you, I alvays had and I alvays will." Victor said softly. "Please don't let me go."
"I need your help." Seri said softly.
"Then I'll help." Victor leaned down and kissed her cheek.
"I have to go." She pulled away and rushed down the alley, nearly running over Harry. "Oh my God Harry!" She said touching her throat.
Harry just stared at her.
"You heard all that didn't you?"
Harry nodded.
"It's not what you think it's just."
"I don't care, just don't hurt Charlie." Harry said tonelessly. He turned and continued to the car where Ron and Hermione were waiting. Seri came a little later and sat down next to Charlie.
Harry kept rolling thoughts over in his head. What was Seri hiding? What was Krum talking about? Why did Seri need Krum's help? What was everyone hiding from him!?! Ron and Hermione looked at him questionably, but Harry ignored them.
Seri stared straight ahead.
"So, James, teaching hun?" Sirius started, hanging off the back of the front seat. "What you teaching?"
"Err. Defense Against the Dark Art." Harry said, as a first impause.
"They need a new one again? Shoot we got a new one every year. 6 Dark Arts teachers. man." Sirius shook his head with a grin, "Good times."
"If you got a new one every year, why only 6 teachers?" Mark piped.
"Because we had the same one first and second year. After the he- who- must-not-be-named fellow started up, they started to disappear. remember James."
Harry nodded.
"That's the year Bill was born. 1970." Charlie said, as though analyzing.
"Guess so." Sirius said, shrugging.
"Do you think he'll meet a down fall?" Charlie asked.
"Of course he will! James and Angel are all Gryffindor must kill Slytherin deal." Sirius chuckled "They don't know the worse of it." Sirius's eyes got big and they landed on Harry.
"What worse?"
"Look James, it's nothing really. I found out when we were like fourteen and asked her about it. It's not even by blood. Just forget I said anything." Sirius said quickly.
"Who?" Ron asked.
"Drop it," Seri commanded.
"Anyway, do you think he'll meet a downfall?" Hermione repeated thriving for the information.
"Like I said, of course he will. but it won't be as easy."
"Why not?"
"The big to-dos of '72." Sirius said edgily. He looked at their bewildered faces. "You know what that is?"
"No," They said in unison.
Sirius sighed and looked at them as though they were completely dumb. "In 1972, the Dementors and the death Eaters all came to Voldemort. he's army really began then. no on really took him seriously till then. he wasn't flying solo anymore. I think that's when Dumbledore opened the Order of the Phoenix. but no other country would."
"There are other Order of the Phoenix's?" Hermione asked.
"No stupid!" Sirius cried, "Other Orders. Each big country has its own Order type group, the form when something like this happens. They each have a different 'magical' animal and such. they've been around for centuries." Sirius said matter-of-factly.
"Oh..."
"Sirius, have all the Orders every been up at the same time and together?" Miley asked, in very good English.
"I don't' think so."
"What would happened if they did."
"Well.
"Oh, look we're here!" Seri said, cutting Sirius off.
"All right, King Cross!" Sirius said. "I'll get the trolleys." He sang.
"NO!" Seri cried, leaning over him and jerking the door closed again. "Err. they all brought bags, no need for a trolley."
"Oh. right. then..." Sirius picked up her hand and opened the door.
Harry tumbled out behind Ginny.
"Ohhh!"
And Harry found out just what "oh" was.
"Sirius Black!"
"But Malfoy said he was dead."
"I thought he was gone?"
"Sirius Black back!"
"I'm so popular Prongs." Sirius said slyly, walking down King Cross with the ease Harry once remembered.
Seri grinned in the side of her mouth and nodded.
The crowd parted for them, everyone awed at the should-be-dead-man that was walking before them. Sirius grinned muttering, "It's about time I get respect." As a few girls giggled.
"Harry!" A boy shouted, trying to fight the crowd. "Harry, it's crazy what they're saying. They said Sirius. whoa!"
Neville was standing in front of them. His eyes big and his mouth open.
"Neville, Neville, were did you go? Oh there you are. Hello Harry dear."
"His Mrs. Longbottom."
"My word!" Her hand came to her mouth. "Sirius. is that really you."
"Yes mama." Sirius said brightly. "And where might Frank and Alice be?"
Seri clung tight to Charlie fore arm, burying her face in his chest. Neville's mouth dropped even lower.
"Why Sirius. they. they died." The old lady said sadly.
Neville whipped his face.
Sirius got that glaced look he got and he started falling. Harry caught him under the arms.
"It's okay Sirius. just take your time." Harry said calmly. He had gotten used to this, Sirius blacking out and having to talk to him. Since the first time, they got worse and took longer for him to recover from.
"What in the?" Mrs. Longbottom cried.
"Charlie, take them to the train." Seri order, helping Harry gently guide Sirius to the ground.
A crowd was forming around them.
"What happened?" Mrs. Longbottom asked fanning Sirius with her large red purse.
"Sirius is in a kind of a comma where he can't remember past certain points in his life. When ever we say something or he sees something he knows he must remember he tries to find out from where. And he remembers a little bit more." Seri said quickly.
"Mum and dad?" Neville breathed.
"Yeah," Harry sighed.
"Where. where am I?" Sirius said, his eyes fluttering open slowly again.
"At King Cross Station." Seri said softly.
"Oh." He said, "Oh!" he said loudly, raising up fast.
"What?" Mrs. Longbottom asked excitedly.
"I'm here to see Angelica off." Sirius said, climbing to his feet and dusting off.
"What?" Neville asked, looking at Seri.
"Oh." Seri said sadly. "Sirius, her train already left."
"She left? She left and didn't say goodbye?" He sighed sadly and it was the saddest sight Harry had ever seen. Defeat. Sorrow. Grief. "Will I ever see her again?"
"I don't know." Seri said eternally regrettable.
Charlie slowly came up behind her and touched her shoulder.
Seri whipped a tear out of her eye. "Charlie, take Sirius home, he needs to lay down."
"Alright," Charlie said softly. "Come on Sirius." He led Sirius through the crowd by his shoulder. Sirius kept looking back over his shoulder at the closest platform, his eyes hopeful and his neck straining. It was almost as though he was excepting someone to jump off the next train and come running at him.
Harry's gut trenched. he would never see her again.
Reborn
Snape, Seri and Harry just stared at one another, not daring to speak.
There was a knock on the door. "Seri, Harry, Professor." Ron said, poking his head in. "We are waiting on you."
"Sorry Ron," Seri said, whipping her eyes. "Come on Harry." Seri strung her arm over his shoulders and led him to the door.
"Seri, I'm sorry," Harry said under his breath.
Seri nodded and hugged him to her.
And Harry grinned slightly. Even if he didn't have his whole family and even his things could have been better, nothing in his life was better than this.
"Rolls James?" Sirius asked, mash potatoes dripping from his mouth. Harry smiled and took some, giving Sirius a wide grin.
"Yo, Prongs." Sirius said, leaning over to Harry, "I think Angelica and Author Weasley have something going on." Sirius said.
"Who?" Harry said.
Sirius grinned and grabbed his thumb at Charlie and Seri. "But that's Charl.. Oh. yeah." It didn't really accrue to Harry that one of the Weasley Brothers had to be in Sirius's mind Author. And Bill was so "odd" that Charlie was the closeted.
"What happened to Molly though?" Sirius said under his breath.
Harry could but laugh when he saw Ron's face fall. "Molly who?" Harry asked.
"His wife dummy! They have three kids!" Sirius said a little louder Hermione and Ron where now face first on the table, shaking.
"Oh, well."
"Sirius?" Mark said, pulling on Sirius's sleeve.
"See, look its little Billy!" Sirius said scooping Mark up on his lap. He started bouncing his leg and Mark grinned. "You to big to be seven cowboy." Sirius said.
"I'm eleven." Mark said, showing a missing tooth smile.
"Oh are you now partner." Sirius stopped bouncing his leg and set Mark back down. "You know, I'd like to have a kid of my own, Prongs." Sirius said, getting in Harry's ear.
Harry's face dropped and he looked at Seri. She was laughing. All the hurt she had been through was nothing.
"Hem, hem!" Remus said, standing up. "A toast!"
"Why a toast Moony?" Sirius said.
Remus grinned, it seemed he missed his nick name, or rather missed that person shouting it. "To everyone going back to school!"
Sirius put his drink back down. "Who's going back to school?"
Everyone laughed and drank.
"Come on everyone! We are going to be late." Molly Weasley yelled through the house. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Miley, Ginny and Mark were all rushing around the house picking up lost quills and forgotten books.
When Harry entered the kitchen, Seri and Sirius were at the end of the table.
"Where are you going James?" Sirius asked.
"Err.um.Hogwarts." Harry said, messing with his hair.
"You're a teacher!" Sirius screamed. "James Dean Potter, a teacher! I thought I would never see the day!"
Harry chuckled, grabbing a piece of toast from Kreacher.
"We gave those teachers hell didn't we Prongs. Remember when McGonagall used to be nice, that changed didn't it." Sirius laughed. "I haven't seen that old bat without that fricken tight bun since we were 12!"
Seri giggled, covering her mouth with her hand. "Come on Har.James we better be going."
"Are you going too?" Sirius said, grabbing her hands.
Seri looked at him in shock. "Of course, I have to. Dumbledore has me on a mission." Seri said. "I have to be at Hogwarts."
"Well then." Sirius said, "Let me go with you."
"No!" Remus said from the other end of the kitchen.
"Untwist your panties Moony." Sirius splat. "Just to see them off, the Professors won't get the honor to see me again."
Harry shook his head and let Seri drag him out of the room, Sirius talking behind him.
"Are we all ready to go?" Molly asked, "Okay, Charlie you drop them off at the station and. Sirius, what are you doing?"
"Going to see Angelica and James off. Who are you?"
"Um. Author's mother."
"You are too pretty to be a mother of such a bag of bones!" Sirius joked.
Mr. Weasley turned red and went up stairs, kissing Ginny on the cheek.
"Come on," Charlie said, grinning.
Seri, Snape, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Miley, Ginny, Sirius and Mark all walked out of the door, carrying bags (it was useless to bring their whole trunk.)
"Angelica," Krum grunted when they turned the corner.
"What Victor?" Seri said, not turning to meet his gleaming eyes in the shadows.
Krum grabbed her wrist and spun her around. "Don't go." He said.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Seri said ripping her hand from his grip.
Harry stopped and watched them. He didn't care what Miley said, he didn't trust Victor any farther than he could throw him.
"I don't' vant to see you get hurt." He said.
"How touching." Seri sneered. "I'll see you later."
"Angelica." Victor pushed spinning her around again.
"What Victor?" She groaned.
"Don't' go vith him."
"Him who?"
"Veasley.. Black. Potter. don't go. stay here with me."
"No! Charlie and Harry and Sirius are my life!"
"There used to be a time when I was your life!" Victor said harshly.
"Times change."
"So I'm just out of the picture?"
Seri ran her hand through her hair, "You have always been a part of my life it's just. you are a part of my life that I'm trying to forget right now."
"Just because you vant to forget vhat happened doesn't mean you can that you can forget everyone. I was there for you vhen life hated you, and right vhen life decides to like you again, I'm out of the picture."
"No, it's not like that.."
"Seri, I loved you, I alvays had and I alvays will." Victor said softly. "Please don't let me go."
"I need your help." Seri said softly.
"Then I'll help." Victor leaned down and kissed her cheek.
"I have to go." She pulled away and rushed down the alley, nearly running over Harry. "Oh my God Harry!" She said touching her throat.
Harry just stared at her.
"You heard all that didn't you?"
Harry nodded.
"It's not what you think it's just."
"I don't care, just don't hurt Charlie." Harry said tonelessly. He turned and continued to the car where Ron and Hermione were waiting. Seri came a little later and sat down next to Charlie.
Harry kept rolling thoughts over in his head. What was Seri hiding? What was Krum talking about? Why did Seri need Krum's help? What was everyone hiding from him!?! Ron and Hermione looked at him questionably, but Harry ignored them.
Seri stared straight ahead.
"So, James, teaching hun?" Sirius started, hanging off the back of the front seat. "What you teaching?"
"Err. Defense Against the Dark Art." Harry said, as a first impause.
"They need a new one again? Shoot we got a new one every year. 6 Dark Arts teachers. man." Sirius shook his head with a grin, "Good times."
"If you got a new one every year, why only 6 teachers?" Mark piped.
"Because we had the same one first and second year. After the he- who- must-not-be-named fellow started up, they started to disappear. remember James."
Harry nodded.
"That's the year Bill was born. 1970." Charlie said, as though analyzing.
"Guess so." Sirius said, shrugging.
"Do you think he'll meet a down fall?" Charlie asked.
"Of course he will! James and Angel are all Gryffindor must kill Slytherin deal." Sirius chuckled "They don't know the worse of it." Sirius's eyes got big and they landed on Harry.
"What worse?"
"Look James, it's nothing really. I found out when we were like fourteen and asked her about it. It's not even by blood. Just forget I said anything." Sirius said quickly.
"Who?" Ron asked.
"Drop it," Seri commanded.
"Anyway, do you think he'll meet a downfall?" Hermione repeated thriving for the information.
"Like I said, of course he will. but it won't be as easy."
"Why not?"
"The big to-dos of '72." Sirius said edgily. He looked at their bewildered faces. "You know what that is?"
"No," They said in unison.
Sirius sighed and looked at them as though they were completely dumb. "In 1972, the Dementors and the death Eaters all came to Voldemort. he's army really began then. no on really took him seriously till then. he wasn't flying solo anymore. I think that's when Dumbledore opened the Order of the Phoenix. but no other country would."
"There are other Order of the Phoenix's?" Hermione asked.
"No stupid!" Sirius cried, "Other Orders. Each big country has its own Order type group, the form when something like this happens. They each have a different 'magical' animal and such. they've been around for centuries." Sirius said matter-of-factly.
"Oh..."
"Sirius, have all the Orders every been up at the same time and together?" Miley asked, in very good English.
"I don't' think so."
"What would happened if they did."
"Well.
"Oh, look we're here!" Seri said, cutting Sirius off.
"All right, King Cross!" Sirius said. "I'll get the trolleys." He sang.
"NO!" Seri cried, leaning over him and jerking the door closed again. "Err. they all brought bags, no need for a trolley."
"Oh. right. then..." Sirius picked up her hand and opened the door.
Harry tumbled out behind Ginny.
"Ohhh!"
And Harry found out just what "oh" was.
"Sirius Black!"
"But Malfoy said he was dead."
"I thought he was gone?"
"Sirius Black back!"
"I'm so popular Prongs." Sirius said slyly, walking down King Cross with the ease Harry once remembered.
Seri grinned in the side of her mouth and nodded.
The crowd parted for them, everyone awed at the should-be-dead-man that was walking before them. Sirius grinned muttering, "It's about time I get respect." As a few girls giggled.
"Harry!" A boy shouted, trying to fight the crowd. "Harry, it's crazy what they're saying. They said Sirius. whoa!"
Neville was standing in front of them. His eyes big and his mouth open.
"Neville, Neville, were did you go? Oh there you are. Hello Harry dear."
"His Mrs. Longbottom."
"My word!" Her hand came to her mouth. "Sirius. is that really you."
"Yes mama." Sirius said brightly. "And where might Frank and Alice be?"
Seri clung tight to Charlie fore arm, burying her face in his chest. Neville's mouth dropped even lower.
"Why Sirius. they. they died." The old lady said sadly.
Neville whipped his face.
Sirius got that glaced look he got and he started falling. Harry caught him under the arms.
"It's okay Sirius. just take your time." Harry said calmly. He had gotten used to this, Sirius blacking out and having to talk to him. Since the first time, they got worse and took longer for him to recover from.
"What in the?" Mrs. Longbottom cried.
"Charlie, take them to the train." Seri order, helping Harry gently guide Sirius to the ground.
A crowd was forming around them.
"What happened?" Mrs. Longbottom asked fanning Sirius with her large red purse.
"Sirius is in a kind of a comma where he can't remember past certain points in his life. When ever we say something or he sees something he knows he must remember he tries to find out from where. And he remembers a little bit more." Seri said quickly.
"Mum and dad?" Neville breathed.
"Yeah," Harry sighed.
"Where. where am I?" Sirius said, his eyes fluttering open slowly again.
"At King Cross Station." Seri said softly.
"Oh." He said, "Oh!" he said loudly, raising up fast.
"What?" Mrs. Longbottom asked excitedly.
"I'm here to see Angelica off." Sirius said, climbing to his feet and dusting off.
"What?" Neville asked, looking at Seri.
"Oh." Seri said sadly. "Sirius, her train already left."
"She left? She left and didn't say goodbye?" He sighed sadly and it was the saddest sight Harry had ever seen. Defeat. Sorrow. Grief. "Will I ever see her again?"
"I don't know." Seri said eternally regrettable.
Charlie slowly came up behind her and touched her shoulder.
Seri whipped a tear out of her eye. "Charlie, take Sirius home, he needs to lay down."
"Alright," Charlie said softly. "Come on Sirius." He led Sirius through the crowd by his shoulder. Sirius kept looking back over his shoulder at the closest platform, his eyes hopeful and his neck straining. It was almost as though he was excepting someone to jump off the next train and come running at him.
Harry's gut trenched. he would never see her again.