Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Most of them belong to J.K. Rowling. I do own any characters that never appeared in the Harry Potter series.
Words in italic are thoughts
Chapter 13
"Yes we know that." Someone is speaking from the parcel. "Now can you get me out of this thing? I can't see!"
Harry stared at the parcel. "That voice… It can't be…"
"Yes I know. Stop complaining." Remus sighed and tore off the wrapping, revealing a big portrait with a very familiar face in it.
"Sirius?"
"No I'm not Sirius, I'm Lord Voldiemon himself. My slave had finally bought me here to kill you."
Remus threw the portrait at the wall.
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"And after that, guess what he did? He lurched at us only to ram right smack into the invisible wall!"
Harry laughed. Sirius, whose portrait was now hanging on the opposite wall, was talking to Harry about the times when he, Remus and James had pranked Snape. The current prank was when James trapped Snape in a invisible wall. Harry laughed with Sirius. He had never been so happy ever since that day in the Ministry of Magic.
The initial surprise of seeing Sirius again had worn off. Sirius had explained to him that his great-great-great-great-great-grand-father had cursed the entire Black family that they would be portrait-fied when they died. This, according to Sirius, was the only good thing that his family did, although Harry seriously doubted that Sirius would say that if he wasn't here all alone. Dumbledore had kindly finished off the briefing – Occlumency - would be taught on every Tuesday and Friday, and let him off training for the day.
The few hours spent in conversation with Sirius over topics like how he died – Sirius just said he fell asleep and woke up in a painting and had to shout for 2 days before Remus had heard him – and his life in paintings – he had pranked the whole Black family portraits by making their background in Gryffindor colors. The conversation however, was stopped when Cho dropped in again in the evening to have dinner with Harry.
"Hi Harry. Professor Dumbledore told me to tell you that…"
Harry never heard what of Professor Dumbledore's message Cho was about to say. and as he turned around to face Cho, he saw that her eyes are focused on something behind him.
"Sirius Black!" Cho screamed, her expression turned to a look of horror.
"Cho, it's alright." Harry laughed. "He's not a murderer."
Cho's facial expression changed to shock at the sight of a laughing Harry. Harry thought that the look of shock was based on what he said, but Cho soon proved him otherwise.
"Oh no Harry! Don't tell me you are confounded!" Cho screamed again, and tears are starting to form in her eyes. Harry was about to open his mouth to explain himself again when Cho suddenly threw herself on him.
"Please Mr Black. I beg you. Please don't take Harry." Cho sobbed into Harry's chest. "I don't want to lose anyone anymore. Take me instead!"
Harry was shocked, never in his life has he imagined that Cho would treat him as someone that dear to herself, and he found himself tongue-tied. The scene was all too much for Sirius and he broke into laughter.
"Don't worry Miss, I won't take him away from you, neither will I claim your life."
"You won't?" Cho sobbed.
"Of course he won't." Harry finally reclaimed use of his tongue and explained. "He's my god father."
"He's your what?"
"I'm his son." Sirius quipped, unable to restraint himself from teasing the poor girl.
"He's my godfather." Harry explained again. "And he's not a murderer also."
"He's not?" Cho reconfirmed with a meek voice. "And you're not confounded?"
"He's not confounded, but I'm a murderer." Sirius quipped again, laughing. "I had shattered many hearts in my time…"
"The answers are no." Harry stated firmly, looking into Cho's eyes. "Do I look confounded to you?"
Cho gazed up into those emerald-colored eyes… once again losing herself in those eyes…
"She believes you're not confounded Harry." Sirius said, peering at Cho over Harry's shoulder. "She also believes that she is in love with you."
Cho was jerked back into reality by that comment and pulled away blushing. On seeing her red face Harry also blushed.
"Now that we are all introduced properly…"
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The rest of the afternoon was spent with Cho and Sirius talking. Cho seemed to have taken the fact that Sirius is not a murderer nicely and was now joining in the conversations, laughing at Sirius's jokes. It lasted till dinner, where Harry went downstairs to collect the dinner that Aunt Petunia cooked and got into a problem where she didn't cook for Cho. Aunt Petunia gave up pretty fast, giving up her share of food and stalking off to cook again, most possibly of the 'talk' that Dumbledore gave her. Harry and Cho was halfway through the dinner (Sirius was remorsefully looking at the food) when Dudley, on hearing that Cho was upstairs, came up to talk to her, only to immediately turn and blot downstairs when he saw Sirius grinning evilly at him from a portrait. Then they spent the time after that discussing over whether Dudley blotted away because of Sirius's evil grin, or was it because that someone in the portrait is moving. Sirius was still maintaining that it's because of his grin that he blotted when a purple-faced Uncle Veron came up to his room and started shouting about having unnatural things in his house. He however, soon blotted also, with a warning that no neighbors should see this unnaturalness, when Sirius took out his wand and waved it around. The topic then changed to how disgusting Cho found Dudley. Harry tried half-heartily to defend Dudley, but stopped she said she would ignore him if he went on.
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That night, as Harry laid down in his bed – Cho had apparated home and Sirius mentioned something about going to Hogwarts for dinner – he thought back on this day, and how it was the happiest day he ever spent in number four, Privet Drive, and the days that he's looking forward to…
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Hahaa… Hi guyz... I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm BACK~~~~ missed me?
Sorry for not posting for… 1 month? 2 months? I was busy in school… Serious!!! And I'm still busy… although it's supposed to be my holidays now. Sheez… no words can describe the hatred I have for my dumb school.
Anyway hope you guys liked this chapter, the shortest I wrote so far but it's more of a fun and crappy chapter… I'm training to write humor… because of the up and coming J/L fic that I'm going to start… so tell me… humorous enough? I'll still continue this fic… I just wanna try my hand on other topics… so expect up to 4 new fics from me!!! And yeahz, I'm going to attempt and do all the ideas that I stated in the last chapter… I must stress the words ATTEMPT.
Review Review!!! and btw… can someone who stays in England tell me the holidays/breaks that you have during term? I need their dates and the name of the holiday~ drop me a review ok?
n here r the replys…
ancient-lovers : not this fic… the Cho/OC fic I'm going to start will be rated R though… but not H/C pairing…
rebecca89 : err… thx 4 the review… I read your fic chapter 1… it's not bad… but I don't read Draco fics… so pardon me for not dropping a review in.
LogicalRaven : thx 4 the comments… I hope your patience had not worn thin… ^_^
Chibi-Bex : here's more of your dearie Sirius~
Cho-writer : here's your chapter~~ betta late than never~
PhoenixPadfoot89 : Dada… more of your padfoot
toxiclove1 : thx for the review~~~ u seem bent on H/C pairing uh? if I'm to do another H/C pairing story it would mostly be the fourth story… you'll just have to wait. ^_^
slate07 : yeah man… actually air is not an element… but wind is… I forgot where I got the data though… your reviews are all over the place man… kidda hard to keep track… lolx ^_^ anyway as to why Harry is a 6th year Head Boy… it will be revealed in the later chapters… not a cliffy but just a small explanation which I put in the later chapters… btw there is only 1 Head Boy (Harry)
Keyblademaster44 : sorry for the late post man… will try posting weekly again…
mjk306 : haha… it's like I said… better late than never~
shdurrani : yupz… Harry's in 6th year… Cho is in 7th…
JKReviewer : Thanks for the review… I ran outta names… so I juz put om Rowling's… as for why I call her a joker… it's because of all the inconsistencies that the 5 books have… and the fact that I feel the series is leading to a Harry/Ginny finishing… _ I'm juz obsessed with Cho… lolx
PeZ-yUaN : Thx 4 the review~~~
dweem-angel : thx 4 the review~~~ I see your fic is now doing better… forgive me from not reviewing… the SSL thing ff.net implemented is driving me nuts… the un-secure ads… _
Lord Master Omega , Limp Bizkit rox , Lovely_dragon , MORE NOW!!!!!!!! , Wuzup13579 : thx for the review
btw… Most votes are for the H/C fic… so I'll do that fic no matter what… it just I find it pointless to have 2 H/C fics together… so I may delay writing it till this fic is reaching the end… or at least the middle…