Ch. 2 Revelations

Disclaimer: If you Recognize it its Rowlings if you don't its mine (except for the song)

Elessar: To read is to obey, I'm thinking about it if not here then maybe later I left out line in the song before, I fixed it if your interested. (this will be done mainly from Anne's POV)

The horses on the cobbled stones go by

Think I'll get one one fine day

And ride into country side

And very far away

But now as the daylight disappears

I best find a place to sleep

Think I'll slip into the bell tower

In the church just down the street

Remus took several deep breaths before continuing, "Do you know what your mother's name was?"

Her face seemed to close up. "Uh-uh. Not telling you until I know a bit more about where I am and why I had to be dragged in here.", she said defiantly.

The girl certainly has plenty of spunk, could she be… The other members of the order had agreed to let him handle her. They had said that he would have the best chance at earning her trust. He doubted that but he had been out voted. Choosing his words carefully Remus said, "All I can tell you is that this place is supposed to hidden and we need to find out how you managed t see it."

"Why do you care who me mum was?"

"Sometimes blood-relations can breach even the best set wards unless they've been specifically warded against."

She thought about this for a moment and said, "Katherine Black, I don't know what her middle name was."
"How old are you?", everything else fits…

"How old are you?"

"Forty-one.", He replied raising an eyebrow at her unperturbed by her rudeness.

"Sixteen."

~"You can't tell anyone Remus, especially not Sirius."

"But Katherine, he'd-"

"He'd be thrilled yes, but he would also smother me. Maybe when things have calmed down a bit."~ Katherine Black has disappeared a month later. Only Remus Lupin had known she was pregnant. A little over a year later her body turned up in a back-street in London two days after Sirius's arrest. Only then did it become public knowledge that Katherine Black had had a little girl. Five years ago the girl had vanished from her orphanage without a trace.

"Why are you living on the streets?", he finally asked as he shook himself out of old memories forcing himself not to look at Sirius.

She eyed him warily and said, "I got sick of the orphanage, I just got tired of being treated like a dangerous freak."

Mrs. Weasley looked horrified, "But why didn't you go to Hogwarts? Surely you got a letter."

"I got a letter all right, just had one small problem; I had no money. The 'helpful' people at the orphanage weren't about to pay for 'Anne the Freak' to learn how to be an even bigger freak. My only living relations wanted nothing to do with me and the ministry wasn't about to pay for a murders daughter to learn magic.", she said this last as if she had been storing it up for ages and finally had someone to rant to.

"How have you managed to practice magic with out the Ministry finding out about it? I can only assume you had a spell in mind earlier.", Snape interjected.

She answered his unspoken question, "I planned to stun you, you would have only been out long enough for me to get out of reach."

"My question still stands, how did you escape the notice of the Ministry?"

"Easy I didn't."

The adults shared a look. Then Mr. Weasley got a look on his face that suggested recent intimate contact with a two by four. "You're the girl the department improper magic use department has been looking for for five years!"

She looked mildly surprised and murmured, "It has been that long hasn't it?," Looking sharply at Mr. Weasley she said in a normal voice, "If I was I certainly wouldn't tell you now would I?"

"No you wouldn't," Remus said bringing the conversation back to its original topic, "you said something about being a murders daughter?"

"Yeah, my dear sweet daddy.", she spit the last word as if it were a curse.

"Did they tell you who he was?", Remus asked sure he knew the answer but…

She cocked her head and looked him dead in the eye as she said, "But you know that, don't you Remus? You know and yet you still ask, fine, my father is Sirius Black.," She gave a wry laugh, "Whatever hole he's huddling in now that's who he is. Doesn't even know I exist."

"That explains how you were able to breach the wards, your grandfather set those wards before he died. You've come home Anne.", Remus replied.

"Home?! Ha! I don't have one.", did Remus detect a hint of dejection in her defiant tone? She continued, "What are you going to tell me next? That my dad didn't really kill all those people and is just waiting to find sufficient evidence to clear his name and is going to walk in at any minute to come and make me part of his family?! Don't tell me about home mister there is none for me."

Remus shook his head in amusement, "Your half right, Sirius is innocent, however he happens to be sitting beside you."

Anne mimicked the action, "No way, he-"

"I am though Anne," Sirius interjected, "and I-I hope you'll let me try and make up for all these years."

Anne just shook her head, "Great, just great."

"We have a few things we need to discuss Anne. Molly why don't you show her where she'll be sleeping?", Remus said.

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