Ch.3
"You!!!" I heard a yell from behind. I turned around and saw the portrait of Sirius mother. She was giving me the most scowling look possible.
"What are you doing in my house! How dare you step one foot in the House of bBack!" yelled my so called "grandmother.'
"I thought I blasted you when I was ten," I said calmly to the portrait.
"Why you little insignificant little pest! I can't believe you have the nerve to come into my home once more! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" she yelled again.
"Well, there goes the surprise that I wanted to give!" Charlie said, coming out of the kitchen with his mom and baby sister.
"Hey! I haven't been in this house for seven years! You can not expect me to remember where everything is!" I yelled over the rising voice of my "grandmother."
She was insulting me at a speed not normal to any human. By the time that she had gotten her second breath, all the Weasley family (except for Mr. Weasley, Bill, and Percy.), Tonks, Alastor "Mad Eye" Moody, a girl with bushy brown hair, and Remus.
Remus and Tonks went to close the curtains around my "grandmother" but I told them not to.
"You little ignorant, worthless, ungrateful bastard!" she yelled once more. I already had my wand out and pointed it at the portrait.
"I'm going to tell you the exact same thing that I told you when I was ten. You're a meanie and I do not like you. I want you to go to hell and SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I said. Then there was a shot of purple and all was silent.
"How did you get her to finally shut up?" Fred said coming down the stairs.
"If you are a true Black and you have a wand that was hand selected for you, then you can get that Banshee to shut her mouth," I said while putting my wand behind my ear.
"But your adopted," George said while jumping from the fifth step to the ground. "At least, that's what you told us."
"I don't know why the Banshee stopped when I said it. The same thing happened when I was ten. Except I didn't have a wand at the time. I guess this stupid house finally accepted me as a Black," I finished while heading into the kitchen.
I stood in the middle of the room and began to count. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1."
"SPEAR!" I heard a young girl yell. I saw a flash of red hair and felt the wind knocked out of me.
"It's nice to see you to Ginny! But you didn't have to almost tackle me down!" I said to Ginny, who was still hugging me. "You have changed so much since the last time I saw you!"
Mrs. Weasley came in along with Charlie, Mad Eye, and Remus. I gave Mrs. Weasley a kiss on the cheek and a hug, Mad Eye a firm handshake, and Remus a rib crushing hug. I whispered in his ear before I let go, "You know that you are now the closes thing to a father that I have, right?"
We both separated when he whispered back, "I know."
"So, where's Harry?" I finally asked. At the same time, I felt searing pain going through my back but I made sure I didn't flinch from the pain.
"Bill and Arthur went to pick him up at those muggles home. We sent them another phony note saying that they wont the local... the local... the local gardeners award or something like that," Mrs. Weasley said going to the stove.
"Gardeners award?" I said as I sat down on the nearest seat. "Who in their right mind would fall for that again?"
"Those muggles," Ginny said as she sat down next to me. I just shook my head and smiled.
"Hey Ginny, you want to do me a favor?" Charlie asked his baby sister.
"What?" she asked.
"Get the hell out of here!" Charlie said while pointing at the door.
"Charlie!" Mrs. Weasley said from the stove.
"Sorry mum," Charlie responded back. I just gave a small giggle.
"No! I haven't seen Spear in seven years! I deserve the right to spend as much time with her a possible!" Ginny said, staying glued at my side.
"Gin, it will be really quick, it's has something to do with the Order and that sort of thing. It will be really quick, ok?" I said to her. Ginny looked at me and then at Charlie.
"Fine," she replied. She then got up and went back to the main hall.
"Hey can you tell Tonks to come in here as well? She needs to hear about this too," I said to Ginny. A second later, Tonks came in. I saw that her hair was spiked up and purple this time.
"I love that color on you!" I said as Tonks gave me a quick hug.
"Thanks!" she replied smiling. Everyone was silent for a while. I guess they were trying to figure out what to say.
"Alastor, why do you want me to do exactly? I mean, I know that Harry must be extremely depressed about what has happened. Hell, I'm having a hard time just trying not to cry in the middle of this kitchen," I said while looking at Mad Eye, who was dunking that creepy eye of his in a glass of water. "But what is it that you want me to do exactly?" I asked again, covering my head with my hands. I was already getting tired.
"We want you to help Harry with what has happened in his life. From his parents dying to now. Since you have been involved with everything somehow, you would be the best choice for it," Mad Eye said, putting his eyeball back in its socket.
I had taken off my glasses so I could rub my eyes. I was getting exhausted and I was only in this house for less then an hour.
"And the ministry? Remember, Fudge didn't want me back until Harry was 18. How are we going to get around that?" I asked as I set my glasses down on the table.
"Well, Dumbledore already spoke with Fudge about that... he said it was perfectly fine as long as I put a spell on you to make sure you don't reveal anything about Harry's past," Tonks said while taking out her wand. I started to laugh a little.
"Are you actually going to put a spell on me?" I asked Tonks.
"No," she responded. She pointed the wand at herself and a spark of lighting came out of it. She then said, "This spell won't have any affect on me because the only thing that I know of Harry is what everybody else knows. So that wont be a problem with you telling Harry about his past!"
I smiled at her again. It is amazing how much Tonks would help me until the bitter end.
"Thanks Tonks," I murmured, rubbing my eyes again.
"No prob.!" she responded as she left the kitchen.
"So how is everybody else on the situation? I mean, who is actually happy about me being here?" I questioned.
I heard Mrs. Weasley mumbled something under her breath when she heard me say that.
"Excuse me?" I said.
"Nothing Spear, nothing," she said with a smile. I just gave her a questioning look and then looked at Remus.
"There are many people in the Order who are pleased that you have back but..." Remus began.
"But," I said
He sighed. "But there are people who think that you shouldn't have come back. They're the ones who know of... well, you know," Remus said.
I looked at him and smiled. "I understand why they would think that." Charlie and his mom just gave me and Remus a confused look while Moody took a drink from his hip flask and muttered something about "constant vigilance."
I heard screaming again from my "grandmothers" portrait. I sighed as Moody and Charlie went back to the hall close the velvet curtains that surrounded it. I guess they could see that I was tired and that I probably wouldn't have wanted to make her be quite. I did though.
I left the kitchen and had taken my wand from behind my ear. I entered the main hall and pointed my wand at the portrait. I said " shut up" and there was silence again. I saw Charlie close the curtains around the portrait as I looked the three people who had just entered the house.
From the three people from the group, I knew only two of them. The balding red headed man was Mr. Weasley, a man that I always amused with the little muggle things that I had. The other red headed man was Bill, one Weasley that I having been trying to avoid for about a year. Actually, all of my attention at that moment was at a raven-haired boy. I was looking straight at his eyes
'His eyes!' I thought as I moved closer to him. 'His eyes are just like Aunt Lily's!'
"Um... hi Harry," I said when I was less then two inches from him. 'He looks exactly like Uncle James!' I thought to myself. "He's almost his height!'
"Um, hi," he responded back looking at me with a strange look in his eye. Later I would find out that that look was him remembering something from his past.
I had my hand over my mouth, trying to keep down the sob that was trying to come out. I swallowed, took my hand out of my mouth and smiled at him for the first time in 16 years.
"Where are my manners?" I said as I ran my fingers through my hair. I stuck out my right hand. "My name is Spear."
"Nice to meet you," he said taking my hand.
I felt a shock go through my entire body. It felt like I was being electrocuted. I let go of his hand and felt myself falling back. 'Not now! Please not now!' I screamed in my mind.
I felt two strong arms catch me before I hit the ground. I remember only hearing a few things. I heard Charlie telling Harry something like I was a friend of Sirius and also heard Mr. Weasley calling Mrs. Weasley for a cold compress or something like that.
But the arms never let go of me. I already knew who it was with out opening my eyes. He used to hold me like this in Hogwarts. I felt myself losing consciousness so I opened my eyes a little. I saw him wearing the earring that I gave him in his last year at Hogwarts.
"Bill," I said with the little strength that I had left.
"You'll be ok," he told me. That was the last thing I heard before everything went black.