Disclaimer: This is not mine, most of these characters are property of JK Rowling, but come on ya'll! If you see a character that isn't in her story it's mine. My precioussssssss…
The Color of Black
Chapter 5: Sirius Black
Daphne was headed towards the Ministry, when she looked down and saw that on the dog, on his lower belly was a tattoo. It was a tattoo of a…flower? On a dog? She looked up at the road again, just in time to feel her small car give a jump.
She pulled over, her hands gripping the steering wheel so tight that her tendons stood out like ropes. Smoke billowed out from the radio 'what the hell?'
'That son of a mother- friggin' bitch!' she kicked the door open, the dog looking at her with dark, stormy eyes. She stomped out of the car, looking at the messed up bender on her red car.
"Excuse me! I'm ever so sorry!" A man was climbing out of a nice, smooth looking red car. "Harry Potter?" Daphne asked, 'Great! I get rear-ended by the all-holy-savior-of-the-world' she rolled her eyes and scowled. 'Now I can't chew his sorry ass out'.
"Daphne…Black?" Harry Potter stood before her, his eyes encircled in dark circles, and the eyes themselves glittering with an interest. "Do you know a man named Sirius? He was friends with my dad, went to Hogwarts-"
"No," she said, automatically taking a defensive stance. "It's Meadows!"
Woof! Suddenly the dog was out of that car and running towards Harry as though this was a scene in Homeward Bound. The dog rolled on its back, legs in the air, and his tongue lolled out.
"Sirius?" Harry asked the dog, as he scratched thehis belly. The dog did something that was almost a purr. 'I cannNOT believe this' she rolled her eyes, obviously the boy charmed everyone, she thought contemptiously.
"Sirius?" Daphne asked, wondering what the hell was happening, 'I thought he was a man?' "Is that your dog?"
"Uh…no…he just looked like a dog that walked around my childhood home." Harry said, standing up quickly.
"Well, I'm awfully sorry about the car, and I'll pay for the damage I've caused, It's just I'm so ruffled from that final battle and…"
"That's alright, I needed a new car anyway! It's nothing a little magic can't fix!" Daphne felt an unquenchible urge to take the handsome man into her arms and comfort him.
"Thanks." He grinned at her.
"Would you like to get a drink?" he asked, walking back to her car, watching as she shooed the dog in.
"Um…that's ok…I have to go work." Daphne said, climbing in.
"Well, how about dinner?"
"Sure, why not."
"Okay," he ginned wider, "I'll pick you up at your house at seven then!"
"Um…I live at 498 Willow Widge, then." Daphne smiled at him, before heading away, the dog's head hanging out the window.
"Sirius?" she murmured to herself. Why was that name so important? Harry had mentioned it to her twice…and the bogus about that dog looking like an old dog on his old street…HA! She happened to have heard the stories of his 'poor childhood' and that neighborhood wouldn't be the sort for strays.
She drove the car towards the largest library she knew of, one that held any information from how to clip your dead skin to biographies of the most unknown people.
"Excuse me!" Daphne grabbed the nearest librarian by the arm. She happened to be a severe lady with a severe disposition. She had an oval face that lacked wrinkles and shiny blonde hair. Her brown eyes looked at Daphne up and down. Her clothes were impeccably clean and Daphne knew that she looked unusually grungy from the smoke from the crash.
"Um, yes," the lady said, glaring at Daphne, before picking Daphne's hands off her arm.
"I'm so sorry, I'm doing a research paper and I need to find information on a man named Sirius." She lied, knowing that for some reason Sirius was an odd man.
"What's the last name?"
"Uh…the professor didn't tell us…he said it would be more fun if we figured it out with the clues he gave us."
She looked at Daphne disbelievingly. "Well, I'll see what I can do, but don't expect much." She sniffed disapprovingly. Daphne just sighed at the sad and boring prospect of looking through names that began even in B.C.
Daphne flipped through another description of a Sirius. 'Not him'. She beat her head in frustration, putting down wonderful Wizzs. She picked up one of the last books the librarian had set in front of her, Killers, Plunderers, and Murderers: A look at criminals throught he ages.
She flipped it open to the s's, searching for Sirius. She randomly looked at pictures, they all looked like old pictures, pictures of happy, good men. She found that odd in a book telling of their crimes.
'Ah! Found one!' she grinned tiredly, before frowing at the picture. She saw her own eyes staring back at her. The picture was a headshot of a handsome man who kept looking off to the side of the camera, he had dark hair and eyes, with oddly pale skin. She looked over at the brief description
Sirius Black-Born March 8, 1956 in St. Mungo's hospital. Attended Hogwarts school of witchcraft and Wizardry, and earned 15 O.W.L's and 8 N.E.W.T.'s. Sent to Azkaban wizarding prison on November 2, 1981 for the murder of 12 muggles and 1 wizard, Peter pettigrew. Has been at large for 5 years.
'Sirius Black?' she looked back at the inch by inch picture of the man who kept shooting looks over his shoulder and grinning. 'Is he the missing answer to my questions?'
She got up slowly, her head reeling with the information she had just found. 'Oh my insatable curiousity!' she reprimanded herself ' Could I really be the illegitamite child of a murderer?' she shuddered at the thought of being related to such a man.
'Maybe I need to talk to mum about a certain missing man now. I think I waited too long, anyways.' She frowned, shaking her hair back out of her face.
'Yes, this information is long over due.'
(A/N:) Yes, I know that this has taken F-O-R-E-V-E-R!! but you can thank my wonderful new reviewer Blacktoxy(or did you change your name to Glaze?) for making me feel guilty when she updated and I didn't ! ;P
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