The room fell silent.

'You remember Natasha Avalon don't you?'

Realization fell on Sirius face.

'Well, I've traced him down…mind you it wasn't hard'

'How come?'

'Well, lets not get into that now, but I think he'd be better off with you then in an orphanage, a muggle orphanage'

'Okay-'

Before he could continue Dumbledor motioned with his hand and a young boy with thigh length hair, that was darker than the piercing night itself, his eyes were a deep yellow-gold, and his pupils were like a hawks, but pointed downwards. His nails were razor sharp and a few inches long. The outsides of his ears were the same color as his hair and perched on top of his head, and shaped like a dog's, and for some weird reason he had a sword in his kimono waist belt. (Incase I didn't tell you, he looks exactly like Inuyasha, just with black hair, and Jack's a lot nicer)

'Hello, My name's Jack'

Jack said.

'Hi'

'Hello'

'Yo'

'Well, I must get back to the school'

With a swish of his cloak, he was gone. Just then Harry came down the stairs, holding a rolled up piece of parchment. When he saw Jack he stepped backwards, towards the stairs.

'Come on, Harry, this is Jack, he'll be your half brother from now on'

Sirius walked over to Harry and steered him to Jack.

'My names Harry'

'Yes, I know all about you, Harry, you are in the Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts'

'I am?'

'Why yes, you are, in fact I know a lot about you'

He smiled, his eyes sparkling like embers.

'Remus, I don't get these words'

He walked over to Remus and unrolled the sheet.

'This is Magic, and this is potion'

He sounded them out for Harry and he repeated. Once he understood them he went back upstairs for a few moments before coming back down and said.

'Done'

He held it out for Sirius to mark it.

'Harry, have you ever played exploding snap?'

Jack asked.

'Emploding sn-n-amp?'

'Exploding snap'

Jack corrected him while laughing slightly. He reached into his robe pocket and pulled out a deck of cards. He opened the package and dumped the cards into his hand.

'Now, how the game works is this, I deal you cards, and if you get doubles, you take them and put them in a pile with my doubles, and then you take another card-'

'Oh, sort of like Crazy 8s?' didn't know how to spell the word 8, and if I did I'd be to lazy to type it:P

'Yes'

'Harry, how do you know about Crazy 8s?'

I heard uncle Vernon, aunt Petunia, Dudley and Aunt Marge playing it once, but I was never allowed to play'

'Well, there is a difference, in this game, the deck of doubles could explode at any moment, hence the name 'Exploding Snap' so shall we play?'

'Yes'

Harry said eagerly.

'Can Sirius and Remus play two? And Mrs. Weasley?'

'Of course, that is if they want two?'

Jack looked at them. The nodded and walked over to them. Sirius rolled up Harry's work and stated he'd mark the rest later. They all sat in a square on the floor. Jack dealt out the cards and then set the stack, face down on the carpet. They played for a while, and it took Harry a while to stop jumping when the doubles exploded. But after a couple of games they all burst out laughing when the deck exploded, spreading the cards everywhere.

'Wow, I should really get going'

Mrs. Weasley said, checking her watch.

'Do you have to go, Mrs. Weasley?'

'Yes, I'm sorry dear, I'll come over soon, and next time I'll bring Ron'

Harry's eyes went from those big pleading eyes too bright with excitement.

'Okay'

They all walked over to the fire with her and waved to her before she left.