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CHAPTER 2:

"Welcome, Harry, Remus," Dumbledore said graciously as the two stepped in.

"What is he doing here?" Harry exclaimed, unable to help himself upon seeing Snape. Then he spotted Narcissa. "And her! What exactly is going on?" Neither of them made any sort of replies to his outburst.

"I have to say I'm a bit curious as well," Remus admitted, eyeing Narcissa mistrustfully. After all, she was the reputed wife of a well-known death eater.

"It's simple, and quite brilliant if I do say so myself," Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling madly. "You've all just lost Sirius, so I thought it would be good if you all spent the summer together. You and Harry could learn more about him, Remus. And Severus and Narcissa are most interested in hearing about your experiences with him."

"Why?" Harry said, glaring at Dumbledore. "And if you expect me to spend the summer with them, you're out of your mind!" Narcissa laughed a little.

"I can see why he liked you, you've got a lot of spunk kid, not afraid to speak your mind," she commented. "It's really a shame you and Draco never got around to being friends, but it couldn't be helped."

"Perhaps over the summer they might be able to know each other a bit better," Severus suggested, a smile playing on his lips. Harry stared, Snape was smiling?

"Um," Harry tried to say something, but nothing would come to his mind.

"Maybe I should explain myself," Dumbledore said, grinning almost sheepishly. "Severus is Sirius's twin, Narcissa is their younger sister."

"What?" Harry and Remus exclaimed together.

"But- but, you-you," Harry stammered. "You can't stand each other!" Snape blushed! Good God he blushed!

"We did get a little carried away with the whole sibling rivalry once we got into Hogwarts," he admitted. "But we never hated each other and in the end it was really just acting for everyone who needed to think I was a death eater."

"You don't have the same last name!" Harry protested.

"Technically, yes we do," Severus corrected. "We just go by different parts of it."

"Different parts?" Remus said, curious.

"Then what's your whole name?" Harry had to know.

"Snape-Black-Malfoy," Severus said hesitantly.

"Malfoy?" Harry exclaimed, turning to look at Narcissa. "Then you married your, what is Mr. Malfoy, your cousin or something?"

"No," Narcissa said. "He's more like your uncle. No blood relative of mind since he was born a Potter after all."

There was only one problem that Sirius could find with his current situation, and that was he had absolutely no idea of how to get out of it. Which then caused a whole lot of other problems and could inevitably cause the end of the world. He mentally sighed, still unable to actually open his mouth.

"Padfoot," said the voice again. This time someone else echoed it.

"Sirius." Now he was getting a little ticked off, the voices sounded so familiar, yet…

"Don't let us down now, Padfoot," said the first voice, sounding vaguely amused. "You don't really expect us to believe you've forgotten us." That was it.

James, Lily! He tried to call out. Although he made no noise they still seemed to hear him.

"Turn around, Sirius," Lily said in a commanding tone. And shockingly he turned around to face the pure whiteness in which his best friend and his wife stood, watching him seriously (no pun intended).

"Now Padfoot, why aren't you thinking?" James asked, clicking his tongue in a disapproving manner.

You sound like my mother, Sirius thought with a little chuckle. James scowled at him.

"Very funny," James said. "Now Padfoot, listen closely. You're in between life and death. Right now you can go either way, but you know that if you come this way and you die that the rest of the world will soon follow, staring with your family. So think hard Padfoot. There's only one way to go back to the realm of life and that's…"

"Hey Draco!" Blaise said cheerfully before he got a good look at his best friend. When he did his own spirits drooped. "What happened mate?"

"My dad," Draco whispered hoarsely. "He came to save me and mom from Voldemort but he got caught."

"Oh, I'm so sorry man," Blaise said sympathetically. He knew everyone in the Malfoy family was close to one another and Lucius had been a nice guy. But no one was captured by the dark lord and left alive after directly disobeying orders.

"Yeah," Draco sighed. "But you know what really gets me mad?"

"What?" Blaise said, wondering what could be worse.

"Mom and Uncle Severus are upstairs having a secret meeting with Dumbledore and they sent me down here," a gleam came into Draco's eyes that Blaise had gotten to know well.

"'Course, they want both of us to eavesdrop," he said casually. "It wouldn't be any fun it you had to repeat it to me afterwards." Draco grinned mischievously.

"Exactly. So what are we still doing here? To the vents!" The vents are a complex system of pipes that are used to heat the castle only when the first set dies and the fireplaces can no longer be lit. So they don't get a lot of use and Draco and Blaise had managed to map them all out, using them to get from one place in the castle to another quickly. And wasn't it convenient for them that the headmaster's office was directly two flights up? They would be there in less than four minutes.

"Well, Lucius," Voldemort said. "It's time for you to go home."

Bows head in shame I'm so sorry it's so short, but I promise to work harder next time! And you were so nice and you reviewed to! I feel awful, well, almost. See my dad took me shopping yesterday (since I've got no money of my own) and I go Marmalade Boy 5, Kodocha: Sana's Sage 2, Dragon Knights 3, Girl Got Game 2 (all manga books which I'm shamefully addicted to) and The True Meaning of Cleavage, The Wish List, Out of Time and I'm just very happy (though I was an idiot and read all the manga and The Wish List all since yesterday afternoon, now I'm down to the two other books sigh). Anyway, when I get all these books I get kinda spazy with my wacko happiness and tend to write worse (in my opinion) so I hope this isn't too bad, PLEASE REVIEW! Remo