Title: The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

Author: PhantomTzipora
Rating: PG
Summary: Sirius Orion Black is a miserable child with a pureblood family who expects him to choose the same dark path that they have walked on before him. Unhappily he heads off to Hogwarts where his life changes drastically. Whether or not it's for the better is up to you to decide.

THE NOBLE AND MOST ANCIENT HOUSE OF BLACK
Chapter 6: Private Quiddich session

Sirius sped towards the hoops; his side had been awarded possession of the quaffle thanks to Lily's knack with charms. Flitwick Sirius aimed the quaffle and threw it toward the left hoop, praying that it would go in. The broomstick swung to block it, but missed hitting it by an inch.

"Yes!" Lily shouted.

Sirius looked across the pitch and saw Melina give them 10 points, a scowl on her face. He sped toward the falling quaffle; it was heading right for Peter. Peter screamed a high pitched girly shriek, as he was unable to change the direction of his broom,

So much for James's seeker though Sirius as he sped past Peter reaching out to grab the quaffle. James beat him to it.

He raced across the pitch toward Sirius's goals. Sirius having had much practice flying, he managed to swooped down below James, shoot up in front of him and steal the quaffle. Once again the red ball soared into the hoop. His side was up 20 points. He grabbed the quaffle, wondering why James wasn't there to catch it.

"Mister Black!" he heard a stern voice call.

This can't be good Sirius thought to himself. Slowly he dropped toward the ground and hovered in front of Professor McGonagall.

"I cannot believe the four of you! Playing Quiddich at 6 in the morning with no supervision, plus you know that brooms and balls are off limits to first years. Twenty five points will be taken from each of you, and the four of you will have detention tonight! Pack this up and get back inside!

Just then a gold ball flew right in front of Lily's face; she reached up and grabbed it.

"Game over, we win" she said smiling.

"YES!!!" shouted Sirius as James cried in agony and Peter looked around bewildered.

"What were you saying Professor?" Lily asked placing the snitch in the box.

"Detention tonight. Be in front of my office at 6 this evening."

"I have detention already, this is bad" Lily moaned

"I'm sorry Lils" Sirius said shamefully.

"It's ok, I'm not a big headed git, I believe in forgiveness" she said patting Sirius's shoulder reassuringly while glaring at James.

"Although, I should have known that this would lead to trouble, I was playing against James Potter, he seems to be my bad luck charm of the year, as well as yours"

"Don't be too hard on yourself, we got off pretty lightly, between the four of us we lost only 100 points, and detention is only for 1 night, we could have been suspended or expelled, we broke an awful lot of rules" Sirius insisted brightly.

"You're certainly optimistic" Lily commented.

"Why not be, we won; we sure put James in his place"

"It's 6 in the morning, that's why not, where did you get your energy" she moaned as they arrived at the portrait hole.

"One last thing, don't call me Lils"

Sirius went up the spiral staircase, flopped onto his bed and closed the canopy to block the light. A few minutes later he heard James and Peter walk in.

"Well, that ended well" Peter said.

"No that ended horribly, we lost to Sirius, and we have detention, and we lost 100 points for our house, and we lost to Sirius"

"I meant I survived with only a minor head injury"

"Oh, that, yes then it did end well, for you, but who cares about you, focus on me and my troubles, he is never going to let me live it down!"

"You could force him to" Peter said thoughtfully.

"How?"

"I dunno, shout boo in his face and scare him and tell him not to tell McGonagall"

"Wow Peter that was the dumbest idea I ever heard, congratulations. For a moment there I thought that you were actually smart, haha, I'm having an off morning, excuse me"

Peter scowled but remained quiet.

"I could blackmail him into it, actually it's not necessarily black mail, more like a prank fest, I'll play the best pranks ever to be played at Hogwarts, by the time I'm done he'll promise not to tell" James turned to leave the room.

"Oh, Peter, don't tell Sirius about the plan, I want it to be a surprise"

"Sure Jamesie, not a word I like surprises!"

"Now off to find young Miss Evans and convince her to change sides so that Sirius has no intelligent moral support."

Jamesie, never heard that one before, sounds like I can have a bit of fun with this whole prank fest too.

Sirius rolled over and fell asleep.

He was awoken a few hours later by shouts coming from the grounds. He sat up, rubbed his eyes and ran over to his window. Lily and James were screaming at each other and throwing hexes left and right. Without stopping to think of the consequences of getting involved in the fight he raced out to join them.

"What's going on here?" He asked Remus who was watching what was going on from a safe distance.

"James, being arrogant as usual, James wants to prank you for all eternity, or at least until you agree that he is superior no matter how pure blooded you bloody family is, his words not mine, and he tried to get me and Lily to side with him. We of course refused, but he wanted to try out his first prank to make sure it worked, and he tried it out on Severus because he was the nearest Slytherin. Now Lily is defending Snape, because she prefers him to James, James is angry that she's offending him in public when she should be snogging him in public, and Lily is one step away from murdering him.

Now that you've caught up, enjoy the show, it's only a matter of time before Professor McGonagall comes to break it up." Remus said in one breath. Sirius admired his liungs, he didn't know many people who should say a paragraph like that in one breath. Actually he was surprised e understood it seeing as Remus mashed all the words together.

"FINE! YOU KNOW WHAT, I BET YOURE DEFENDING THAT SLYTHERING BECAUSE YOURE JEALOUS THAT YOU'D NEVER HAVE THE GUTS TO EVEN HURT A FLY, YOU WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT YOU MIGHT GET SUSPENDED FOR DOING!" James roared

"THAT IS SO NOT TRUE YOU ARROGANT EGOTISTICAL HOT SHOT! I WOULD SO DO SOMETHING DANGEROUS, I'M DEFENDING THAT SLYTHERIN BECAUSE I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR, LOOK AT HIM SNIVELLING OVER THERE BECAUSE OF A HEX YOU PUT ON HIM," Lily shot back.

"If you'd do something dangerous then prove it! I dare you to!"

"I don't have to listen to anything you say"

"Chicken" James taunted

"Name your dare, as long as you do it too" Lily said instantly, James smiled.

"Fine, I bet you're to scared to freeze the Womping Willow"

Sirius felt Remus go tense that this.

"Don't do it Lily, it's not worth it. That thing could beat you to a bloody pulp in three seconds flat."

"Who made you the expert, keep quiet over there or you can do it as well" James commanded.

"You have no authority over him or me or Lily or anybody at this school, LOSER" Sirius said joining the conversation.

"You'll be sorry you ever beat me" James said to Sirius

"Bring on you worst" he replied

"Oh, don't worry, I will, but first I have to take care of my bet with Lily over here, Ladies first."

"Why, are you scared to go first?" Lily taunted

"No"

"Be my guest, first person to freeze it and get the fewest marks wins"

James approached the tree and ducked under the rope blocking it. The tree began to swing it's branches, James hopped over it like it was nothing more than a jump rope, but was struck by one if the smaller branches. He ducked under another branch, rolled over and hit the knot. He walked arrogantly out from under the tree.

"Not much harm done, your turn."

"I unlike you have been practicing my charms instead of walking around the school like I own it, I'm up to OWL level in charms. Professor Flitwick says I have a knack.

ACCIO stick." A large thin branch shot at Lily, she caught it neatly. She aimed at the knot on the trunk and banished it. It hit the knot and the tree froze.

"You cheated"

"No I didn't, you never specified how, and if you were smart enough you would have done it too. Now undo the curse you put on Snape, the sniveling is driving me crazy"

"Hey, that's a good name, get up Snivellus"

"JAMES HAROLD POTTER! HOW MANY DETENTIONS DO YOU NEED IN ONE DAY TO MAKE YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON, I SPACIFICALLY SAID THAT NOBODY IS TO GO NEAR THE WILLOW, YOU ARE LUCKY THAT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE!"

"Sorry Professor, won't happen again"

"Oh you can be sure it won't, 50 points from Gryffindor and an extra two weeks of detention for you."

"What about Lily? She did it too"

"I saw what Ms. Evans did, she did nothing that is against school rules at the moment, but I will see that it gets included. Meanwhile that was a nice bit of wand work she did, I award Gryffindor 25 points on her behalf. Now I suggest you go to the hospital wing amd get fixed up."

Lily smirked at James. He scowled back.

"Nice going Lily" Sirius said approaching her, "I'm impressed."

"James is going to be really mad"

"He should be, it's not every day a muggle-born out spells a pureblood, Nothing against muggle-borns, but purebloods have been growing up accustomed to magic, Lily has natural talent"

"Thanks Sirius" she said kissing him on the cheek. Sirius blushed, as did Lily,

"Lets go to the Library, we have work to do" Remus said breaking the awkward moment.

"What work?" James is now pissed at you and Lily, his pranks fest is not going to be something to be treated lightly, we have to be prepared.

"What about the book that Lily gave me?"

"Good idea, but I still think we should learn a few basic mostly harmless hexes," Remus added.

"Good idea" Lily said, "Come on troops this is war!!"

They didn't get very far before Bellatrix cornered them.

"Run away while you can, I'll take care of this" Sirius whispered hastily to Remus and Lily.

"No, we're staying" Remus replied.

"We're going to get him in more trouble if we stay, we won't be far Sirius" Lily said pulling Remus away. Both gave him sympathetic looks.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Bellatrix taunted.

"A little Gryffindor blood traitor with nobody to stand up for him, that's who" Narcissa added coming up from behind him.

"Aww, too bad how sad, there's nobody to come to you rescue, everybody hates you" Rodolphus piped in.

"No, I have friends, meanwhile if I was to kill everybody who hates you lot, it wouldn't be murder it would be genocide."

"You have nobody to defend you though, you have nothing."

"Well I surely can't say you have nothing because at least you have stupidity and inferiority." Sirius replied.

"That wasn't funny freak" Narcissa spat.

"Takes a freak to know a freak, and I'm having trouble deciding which one of you is the biggest freak."

"Punch him Rod" Bellatrix commanded.

"We heard what you did to Severus, and you will pay."

"It wasn't me, but for falsely accusing me, you will pay instead."

"How?" Rodolphus challenged.

"Tarantallegra!" Lily shouted

"Nice one Lily" Remus said coming out from behind her.

"Thank you, now we better modify their memories so that they don't know who actually cursed them." Lily said waving her wand. "Now off to the library, keep marching"

Coming Next Chapter (Hopefully):

The prank fest really begins, Sirius and his cousins have another confrontation, the detention from the Quiddich match is served, and James and Sirius wreak havoc and get in more trouble…and other fun stuff

Thank you to all my reviewers, KicksomeassSYM803, Celebrean, ih8uppl & brenngt14thanks for being patient and I hope you like this chapter.

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