Back to the Veil

Madam Pomfrey insisted that they waited until the weekend to take Faith to see Sirius. Neither Harry, Ron nor Hermione had had the guts to tell Faith the truth about Sirius. Faith still had not told them her secret so that was Hermione's cue to spend all her free time in the library researching her. She seemed very reluctant to keep Harry and Ron updated though.

When Saturday dawned on Hogwarts Harry, Ron and Hermione hurried down to breakfast in the great hall which was empty. They ate quickly and walked into the entrance hall where they had been instructed to wait for the arrival of Faith and Dumbledore.

They were to escort Faith along with Dumbledore, Tonks and Lupin to the department of mysteries. Harry still didn't know how he was going to tell Faith.

Faith came stumbling down the stairs closely followed by Dumbledore. They walked in the autumn breeze down into the village of Hogsmeade. They waited outside the Hogs Head whilst Dumbledore nipped in there for a quick chat with whose name he did not mention. When he came back outside Harry turned to get ready to walk when he nearly walked into the knight bus.

Laughing he got on and mumbled a quick hello to the excited Stan. He spotted Lupin and Tonks at the Back of the Bus waving them over. He was about to say hello to these to when Faith let out a shriek of excitement, 'Uncle Remus!' To Harry's surprise he nodded and smiled widely. After they had embraced Lupin answered Harry's quizzing look, 'I'm her Godfather but she's always referred to me as uncle.'

The Journey seemed to take too short a time. Harry was desperately trying to come up with a way to tell Faith. He was just going to have to tell her what had happened in June.

When they reached the visitors entrance, Harry started his story. Every now and then Hermione and Ron helped took over from him whilst he turned away to hold back his tears. He didn't want Faith to see them. She still didn't know that Sirius was dead.

'When Dumbledore arrived Sirius and Bellatrix Lestrange were still battling,' Harry explained. They had now entered into the death room, 'Bellatrix stunned him and fell down there and went through that veil.' He pointed at the ancient archway.

'That's great…er…why are you telling me this? What's the stories point? I thought you were bringing me to see my dad, can I see him now please,' asked Faith sounding impatient.

When Harry didn't reply Hermione took over, 'Faith, he didn't come back, he can't come back…because he's…he's…' She trailed off it seemed she now was now on the verge of tears. A short silence followed, Lupin ended it by saying, 'I'm so sorry Faith, but your father is dead.'

Faith didn't seem to hear what Lupin had said. She just stood staring at the veil expecting her father to walk through it. Her eyes quickly shut. Then a dawning look appeared across her face as if she was remembering something…a long lost memory. When she reopened her eyes she glared angrily at the veil for a moment. Then suddenly…

'Faith! No!' Harry shouted.

She had started to run down towards the dais. When she didn't stop Harry started after her. He caught just as she reached the dais. It seemed she had wanted to go through the veil herself, to join Sirius.

Pulling on Harry she shouted, 'DAD!' When there was no reply she turned to Harry and started hitting him with all her might, screaming at the top of her lungs, 'It's all your fault…you had to play the hero…all your…'

She stopped hitting him and dropped her head onto his shoulder weakly. She was too overcome with tears to attack him any more. Harry put his arms around her. She sniffed, 'I just wanted to see him…I can't remembering him at all…I just wanted to see him…'

Thanks y'all for reviewing my first two chapters hope I'm keeping you interested and yes Faith really is Sirius' daughter. I hope you like this chapter because it made me cry first time I wrote it/ If you have the soundtrack to HP3 then listen to no.7 an act out the bit from were Harry first speaks to faith in this chapter then you will see what I mean. I'll update as soon as I can so keep a look out.