Thanks to phoenixtear19 for reviewing! YOU ROCK! Anyway, here's Sirius! I haven't written Lily yet, but I will very soon. I wanted to read Half-Blood Prince! So, anyway, here is Sirius's point of view!
Sirius Black shifted around uneasily in his chair. He checked the clock. Twenty-five to eight. He was meeting James at eight o'clock. He had to convince him to change Secret-Keepers. He had been threatened more than once by Death Eaters, them saying that if he didn't tell them where the Potters were, then they'd get Voldemort around and force it out of him. Sirius wasn't sure whether to believe that or not. What if they were telling the truth, and it slipped? The Potters would die because he's made a little mistake. Because he'd been a stupid git. No, he couldn't let that happen to his friends. He couldn't let that happen. He'd have to convince them to change.
He checked the clock
again. Twenty to eight. That's it, he thought, I can't wait
any longer. He pulled his coat on, and made his way towards the
Potter's house.
He reached the Potter's house after a few minutes
of walking.
Ding-Dong went their doorbell.
"Hello Sirius! Come in, it's freezing outside!" James said, answering the door. Sirius stepped inside, taking his coat off.
"Hi. Listen, I have something important to tell you. You should probably get Lily," Sirius said.
"Okay. LILY! SIRIUS IS HERE, AND HE WANTS YOU!" James shouted.
"You couldn't have just walked into the kitchen and said that normally, could you?" Lily asked, looking annoyed.
"Nope. So, why exactly are you here, Sirius?"
"Well, you see...I...I think...I was thinking that maybe...ugh, I can't say it. Right," he said, taking a deep breath. It was so hard to just make the words come out. "I was thinking that maybe it would be wise if you changed Secret-Keepers. I keep being asked where you are, and I'm afraid that I might crack one day, stupidly, and, well, I couldn't let that happen. I know that I'm usually trustworthy, and that I really shouldn't tell, but I don't mean it in a way that I'll get scared and tell to save myself, no, I'd never do that. I'm afraid that I'll get tricked. What if they had Veritiserum? I think I'd be able to tell then...I don't know I wasn't paying attention when you explained it." Sirius said, looking at his feet.
"Oh. Well, who do we trust more than you? Who do you have in mind?" Lily asked.
"I was thinking. How about Peter? He's low-profile, he doesn't know any Death Eaters, he's not an obvious choice, whereas I think the Death Eaters suspected you were under the Fidelius Charm, and your best friend is the kind of obvious one to know. Do you get what I'm saying?" he said. He wasn't sure if they actually liked the idea or not.
"Yes. It makes perfect sense," James said.
"And do you think it's a good idea?"
"Actually, yes. Nobody would suspect Peter."
"Right. So should we remove the charm?"
"Yeah, OK. Fundormus!" he said, waving his arm around. A burst of blue light came out of Sirius, kind of tickling him, and made its way into James' wand.
"OK. I'm going to find Peter. Be back soon," James said, going out the door.
"So, Sirius, how are you?" Lily asked when James had left.
"I'm OK. You?"
"Fine. Harry's not too much trouble. Would you like to see him?"
"Of course! A godfather should see his godson!" he said, following Lily to where Harry was napping.
"He's lovely. So peaceful!" Sirius said, looking down at his godson. His tiny glasses were in a case at his feet, over his blanket. He looked so angelic, so innocent.
"Yeah. I love to look at him when he's sleeping. He's so lovely," Lily said.
"OK, I think I should go now. I'm kind of tired. See you soon, Lily! Tell James I said goodbye!"
"OK, bye Sirius!" Lily said.
Sirius stepped outside, and quickly went back to his house. It was very cold, and his jacket wasn't a very heavy one. He stepped back inside his house, got himself a butterbeer from his fridge, and sat down with a book James had let him borrow. He was halfway through it, and by the time he went to sleep, he'd finished it. I must bring it back to James tomorrow he thought, changing into his pyjamas. Before he knew it, he was asleep.
He woke up the next morning quite late, like he usually did. He decided to just sit down and watch some videos. He had a Muggle television, to fit in with the Muggles that lived there. After watching two different videos, he remembered that he was supposed to bring that book back to James. He looked for it, and found it underneath the table. He didn't remember leaving it there, but that didn't matter. He put on his coat and set off for the Potter's house. He passed many children in Halloween costumes, and smiled. Muggle Halloween was so cute.
He got to where the house was. Or rather, where the house used to be. It was in ruins. Few things were left standing, there was rubble everywhere. There was a giant man standing there, big fat tears rolling down his face onto his beard. He was clutching something in his arms.
Harry
Sirius recognised the man as Rubeus Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts.
"Hagrid!" he cried at the man. "What happened?"
"Sirius! It was terrible! I wasn't here ter see it happen, but I heard it was awful!"
"What exactly happened?" asked Sirius, although he had a fair idea.
"Him!"
"Who? Vo-"
"Don' say tha' name! Yes, it was him, but don' say the name!"
"No...no, it couldn't...Peter...he...I told them..." Sirius said. Peter had told. He'd convinced them to change Secret-Keepers yesterday...he may as well have hilled them. It was his fault! The guilty feeling that was inside him was too powerful to bear. He thought he was going to collapse, but he didn't.
"So, James, Lily and Harry are...dead?" he could barely say that last word.
"Ah, tha's where you're wrong. See, Harry 'ere, don't ask me how, I haven' got an idea, Harry survived," Hagrid said, almost grinning, but not quite.
"What? He survived? A mere baby survived an attack by Vo- You-Know-Who?"
Sirius asked in disbelief. Pinch me, he thought, Tell me I'm having an absurd dream.
This can't be real. Peter would never tell, James and Lily can't be dead, and a baby can not survive an attack by Voldemort. It's not real. It's not. I'm dreaming, pinch me.
"Yup. Don' know how, bu' he did. Here he is," he said, showing him to Sirius. Sure enough, that was Harry, and he was breathing. There was something new about him. There was a red mark on his forehead, a scar, in the shape of a lightning bolt. He must have been given that by Voldemort.
"Wow," Sirius said. He couldn't think of any other word to describe this phenomenon. It was amazing. He pinched himself, and felt a small surge of pain. It was real. James and Lily were dead. His best friends, dead. And Peter. Peter had betrayed them. Harry had survived the attack, and here he was standing in the ruins of the Potter's house talking to a very large man that was holding the live Harry.
"Oh, by the way, Dumbledore sent me out here to get Harry, and I, er, don' know how to get back. Would you be able to help in any way?" Hagrid asked.
"Wait here. I have a motorcycle," Sirius said.
"Tha's not goin' ter help, Sirius! A one-year-old can' ride on a motorcycle! And what're people goin' ter think, eh? They'll see a giant man and a baby ridin' along the road on a motorcycle!"
"Hagrid! No, it flies. Nobody will see you."
"Oh. Well, carry on, then," Hagrid said.
Sirius went back to get his motorcycle. It was parked in his garage. He rode it back normally, as he didn't want to fly into the air in case any Muggles saw him. He rode on and on, thinking about what had just happened. They were dead. They were dead, and it was his fault. He was so stupid! Now he'd never see his best friends again and it was ALL HIS FAULT! He could have punched himself, beaten himself up, but it wouldn't have helped. Nothing would justify what he'd done. But then again, he thought, it wasn't really my fault. It was that lying, filthy traitor Peter's fault! Suddenly all his anger and hatred exploded. He wanted to shout, rage, scream 'HE'S A TRAITOR!' for the world to hear, but he managed to control himself, otherwise he would have looked like a madman.
He came to the Potter's ruins, and saw Hagrid standing patiently with Harry in his arms.
"Great. I'll bring
Harry home on this, thanks Sirius." Then he paused. "How
could he? Of all the wizards and witches in the world, it had ter be
James an' Lily tha' he killed."
Sirius felt a tear springing
into his eye.
"I know. But nothing will bring them back now."
"I know," Hagrid sobbed, "But they were great people. And I'm sure that this little fellow," he said, showing him the bundle of blankets that was Harry, "will grow up to be jus' as great as they were."
"Me too," Sirius said, smiling down at Harry. "Anyway, here's the motorcycle," Sirius said, giving him the motorcycle.
"Thanks. Listen, I'll see you again sometime, eh?" he said, sitting on the motorcycle.
"Maybe. Bye."
"Bye," Hagrid
said, taking off after making sure there were no Muggles
around.
Sirius watched him going off, wishing that Harry would be
safe in his new home, and that wherever he was, he'd like it. And he
wished that he'd meet him again, so that maybe, just maybe, he'd talk
to a Potter again.
