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CHAPTER 3:

"What do you mean he was a Potter?" Harry asked, a wee bit confused and angry about it.

"What do you know about you family?" Severus answered in reply.

"Ah, well, I," Harry thought hard and realized that no one, ever, had told him anything about his family beyond his mother and father. He didn't even know if his grandparents were alive! Although he had a suspicion that they weren't, otherwise it would have been pointless to have sent him to the Dursleys.

"Nothing, right?" Severus prompted. Harry nodded shamefully, dropping his gaze to the floor. "Well, I don't really want to be the one to tell you, but they weren't very nice people, Harry. I'm sure you know how a lot of purebloods think any muggle born are scum. Well, the Potters were very, very against this. So against this, in fact, that when Lucius was sorted into Slytherin they disowned him."

"What?" Harry gasped, looking quickly up at Snape. "They disowned him for getting into Slytherin? That's, that's awful!"

"Yes, but it was their philosophy that being among the 'worst' kind of witches and wizards would 'contaminate' their son, and they didn't want it to spread to the rest of their bloody family," Severus snorted.

"What happened to him, then?" Remus asked, interested. He hadn't known this and James had been one of his best friends.

"Our family took him in," Narcissa replied. "We're cousins to the Potters, but we had no contact whatsoever. He was sort of adopted into the family and when we married he took my name, though he had already been using it for the past seven years, he wanted to make it official."

"I have a question," Harry said, looking hard at the wall now. "Not to be rude or anything, but isn't Lucius a loyal death eater?" Narcissa and Severus laughed a little at this.

"Did you really think I was Dumbledore's only spy?" Severus asked when he had finished. "Not a very secure way of gathering information, really. What if I had been caught?"

"I hadn't thought of that," Harry said, blushing slightly.

"All right, Harry, enough talking here," Dumbledore said brightly. "Time to go to Snape Manor!"

"What?!" Everyone in the office turned around in time to see Draco and Blaise fall from somewhere in the ceiling down to the floor.

"Ow, ow, ow," they both said, getting up slowly.

"Potter's staying with us?" Draco demanded. "Why?"

"Because he's your cousin," Narcissa said in a scolding manner.

"So," Draco said, glaring at his mother. "He's a stuck of little-"

"I'd stop now," Narcissa said. "Before you say something you'll really regret."

"Fine," Draco said sulkily. "But Blaise is still coming, right? You don't expect me to spend the whole summer with St. Potter with no company do you?" Harry snorted at Draco's comments, much like Severus had earlier.

"St. Potter?" he said. "Stuck up? Where do you get this?"

"Save it," Severus said. "Both of you. Let's go and then you can argue all you little hearts desire while not in my hearing range."

"Yes, Uncle Sev," Draco said while Harry said, "Fine Professor Snape."

"Just call me Severus," he said to Harry. "Since we're going to be seeing a lot more of each other."

"All right, line up all of you," Narcissa directed. "And take a handful of this. You know what to do." Harry grimaced as he realized they were using floo powder. He hated floo powder, absolutely hated it.

"…to want to go back more than anything," James finished. Sirius looked at him.

I do want to go back more than anything, he thought. But I'm still here. There's obviously something wrong with that idea.

"No, Padfoot," James said. "You're going about it wrong. You have to think about the reasons you want to go back until you feel really, really inspired by one. It's a bit like needing a happy thought to conjure a Patronus."

"Start with the little things first," Lily instructed. "And then build up to the biggest reason of all. If done correctly you should be back in no time."

All right then, Sirius thought determinedly. What do I want to go back for? Food, sleeping, Quidditch, my comic book collection, the Order, my parents, Draco, Narcissa, Severus, Remus, and Harry. Then it happened, a seemed like a big flash of light consumed Sirius and then tossed him back into the darkness. He had to shut his eyes, it was so, so bright.

When he opened them again he was in the Ministry, the Department of Mysteries to be exact. Right in front of the worm, fluttering veil.

Quivers in terror Sorry its so short! Don't hurt me! I promise, promise to do better next time! Really, I mean it! I had lost the reason I was writing this story for a moment but I've got it back, promise! So PLEASE REVIEW and I'll post up the next chapter soon!

Please say this chapter was better than the last, God I hated it! I might go back and redo it sometime, shakes her head er, maybe not. I'm a bit lazy. Remo