The Will

I have to kill him off! It works good with what I have coming up. Anyways I've just read the first eight or nine chapters of the new Harry Potter book (got it July 16th) and I've realized that I have a lot of conclusions now. A) Snape is not to be trusted. B) I need to get Fudge fired in this story. C) I need to bring up Sirius' will. D) Need to mention Bill and Fleur's relationship. THEIR GETTING MARRIED! Lol…that was a shock but I laughed so hard when I read that part.

Leah was sitting by herself, alternating between homework and writing songs, by the lake. It was the day before Halloween and Dumbledore, trying to keep things light and happy at the school, had organized a Halloween costume dance and Leah was supposed to sing. By now, almost half of the school knew about her second life, which didn't count as her second life anymore but now as her whole life. Leah didn't bother hiding that she was Sierra anymore. Luckily, the students didn't freak as much as Leah thought they would. At first she could barely get five minutes alone, now, thanks to the teachers, Leah was able to be alone a lot.

Since she had that period off Leah, glad for that alone time, spent it working on homework for her other classes, writing songs for performances, and thinking about quidditch practices. She had gotten Outstanding on most of her classes except for potions and History of Magic. She got Exceeds Expectations in those classes. She wasn't surprised by either, considering the fact that she left half way through the exam with Harry last year.

"Leah! What you doing out of class?" Leah looked up and covered her eyes so that she could see Hagrid better.

"Spare." She said. "What better way to spend it then to be outside?"

"Suppose your right." Hagrid said. "You mind having company?"

"If it's you? Nope." Leah said, smiling and shaking her head. She hadn't had time to Hagrid since…she couldn't remember. Hagrid sat down. "How's Buckbeak?"

"Good. He's real happy to be back here." Hagrid said. (AN: Grabbing some stuff from the book. Sorry, I said I wasn't gonna use the book but there are some things that work.)

"I can imagine that." Leah said, looking at the papers on her lap. "So…what's up?"

"Not much really." Hagrid said. "Got some new creatures for you lot to study up on."

"Fun." Leah said. "Hey…what do you think of this song?" She handed Hagrid one of the papers. She watched him read it.

"Fast or slow?" Hagrid asked.

"Slow." Leah said.

"It's good." Hagrid said, handing it back. "Should be heading to the great hall now for lunch."

"Yeah I guess." Leah said. She put all her stuff into different folders and all those folders into her bag. She stood up with Hagrid and went inside with him just as everyone in the greenhouses were coming out.

Harry and Ron, who had spent their spare period in the common room, met up with Hermione and went into the great hall, only to stop dead in their tracks when they, not only saw Leah there first, but actually eating.

"Approach with caution." Ron said. He was partially joking so the three of them slowly walked over to Leah and sat around her. She looked up at them. "You're actually eating something." She nodded. "Are you feeling ok?"

"You know…I really don't know." Leah said. "I just felt like it. Nothing better to do. I did all my homework that I wanted to do for today during my spare period so I figured I'd give this eating thing a shot." Harry put a hand to her forehead and Leah smacked it away.

"Ok…she's herself." Harry said. "Starting to think you were a Death Eater or being controlled by one."

"Yeah fucking right." Leah said. "None of them can manage it. Remember in fourth year when Crouch being Moody tried to get me to do something. The curse didn't even get to me. I was trying to figure out if he had actually attacked me or not."

"Is that why you just stood there looking confused?" Hermione asked. Leah nodded. "That would explain it."

"Miss Black." McGonagall said, coming towards them. Leah looked up at her. "The headmaster wishes to speak with you."

"Umm…ok." Leah said. She picked up her bag and left after making sure that Dumbledore wasn't at the teachers table. She stopped in front of Dumbledore's office and stared at the gargoyle. "Oh…damn. Umm…think Leah think!" She thought of the previous passwords. "Uhh…acid pops?" The gargoyle sprang open. "Ha! Loving this." Leah walked into the staircase and let it bring her up to the office. She thought about what Dumbledore would want and came to the conclusion that it had something to do with her singing tomorrow.

"Ahh Miss Black. I am glad to see you well." Dumbledore said, when Leah opened the door. "Please…sit."

"Ok." Leah said, crossing the room and sitting down. "Is this about tomorrow?"

"No…actually…this is about your father." Dumbledore said.

"Oh." Leah said. That was all she could think to say, seeing as how she was thinking of a completely different reason. "What about him?"

"We have, the Order, been thinking that there could be a possibility that, since Sirius is dead…" Dumbledore said. Leah nodded. "That maybe the house might not go to you. We have spent a few weeks figuring out what to do in case Bellatrix, as the eldest remaining Black, was to show up."

"And…" Leah said, wondering what this had to do with her.

"We need to test that you are, indeed, the new owner of the house." Dumbledore said. "Molly has sent me word that, for some reason, there is no way of removing your mother from that house, let alone that room."

"So you want me to go to the house and…do what?" Leah asked.

"Go and see if Kreature will obey you. If he doesn't…then we have a very big problem." Dumbledore said. "You will be back in time for the dance, do not fret."

"Ok. Good thing practically everyone knows who I am now because I can't stand all the questions as to why I'm away all the time." Leah said. "So how do I get there?" Dumbledore stared over Leah's shoulder. She looked over to see Dumbledore's gaze on the fireplace. "Oh no…no, no, no! Please Professor…I hate floo powder. Can't you just do a portkey again?"

"Floo powder is much more convenient. Come now Leah." Dumbledore said. Leah groaned but stood up and went to the fireplace.

She fell out of the fireplace at Headquarters in the kitchen. She stood up and dusted the ash off of herself.

"I hate that stuff so much!" Leah said.

"Leah? What are you doing here?" Remus asked, rushing forward. "Is something wrong?"

"No. Dumbledore told me how it was like impossible to get mom out of here so he told me to come here to see if Kreature will listen to me." Leah said. "Where is the little maggot?"

"Probably out there." Remus said, nodding at the door to the rest of the house. Leah went through it and, sure enough, there was Kreature by the portrait of Grandma Black. She sighed then walked over to him.

"Kreature come here now." Leah said, stopping about half way through the room. Kreature jumped then turned around before slowly approaching Leah. "Let's see…that worked."

"No…Kreature won't! Kreature wants Bellatrix!" Kreature started shouting.

"Shut up!" Leah said. Kreature instantly stopped shouting, but not before he had drawn the attention of Molly, Moody and Remus into the room. "Ok…looks like I am in control of this place. But I do not want him anywhere near my mother so…" Leah took a minute to think of what she was going to do. Apart from telling Kreature to kill himself, she could only think of one other idea. "Kreature."

"Yes…mistress?" Kreature grumbled.

"I want you to go work with the other house-elves at Hogwarts. But…" Leah said. "I want you to not say a word to anyone unless I say otherwise. Which means keep that big mouth of yours shut. No talking to ANYONE!" Kreature frowned but nodded and disappeared.

"Well…at least now we don't have to worry." Molly said. "Are you going to stay for dinner Leah?" Her mood had obviously changed since Leah left a month ago.

"Umm…yeah." Leah said. "Dumbledore's not really expecting me back at school until tomorrow by the dance. I don't know why. Maybe he's expecting me to find something or…whatever."

"Remus had the idea that Sirius might have had a will." Moody said. "There's always the chance that you could find that."

"My dad? Having a will?" Leah asked. She looked at Remus. "Since when have you known my dad to plan ahead?"

"He may have been a jokester but he wasn't stupid." Remus said. "Go see your mom. Maybe somehow you can find an answer there."

"Yeah ok sure." Leah said, nodding. She went upstairs and into her parents' room. Leah sat on the bed and looked at Sabrina before looking around the room. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Leah looked at the bed and saw something sticking out from under the pillow. She frowned slightly before grabbing it to see that it was an envelope with the word Will written on it in Sirius' handwriting.

"Ok then…points for Remus for being right." Leah said. She turned the envelope around and opened it. She pulled out two pieces of paper. She choice the one that didn't have her name on it and unfolded it. Yep, Sirius definitely wrote this one. Leah looked at it and saw the date. It was dated about a month before Sirius died.

Dear whoever reads this.

I don't know how these things go so I'm just gonna, jump to the chase (quoting my darling daughter). My daughter and wife, who I hope forgive me for my absence in their lives for so long, will get pretty much everything I own. Half the money in my vault will go to Harry. The house goes into Leah's care (sorry for sticking you with Kreature). Anything within the house that can be used for educational purposes go to Hogwarts to be used there, I doubt they are of any use here.

Anything else to be decided, I leave in the hands of Remus Lupin and my daughter and wife to decide. That's it. I have no idea how to end this thing. If it wasn't for Sabrina telling me to do this, then I wouldn't have done this. If this does get read, then I'm obviously…not around (didn't want to rhyme). I hope everyone stays save and that Voldemort get defeated with no injuries or deaths to those I care about.

Sirius Black

Leah read the will about two more times before putting it off to the side and looking at the other paper that was addressed to her. She unfolded it and a small thing fell out. Leah picked it up and opened it to see three photos in it.

The first one was Sirius with a fairly new born baby that Leah guessed was herself. He was lying on the couch, holding Leah above his head and occasionally bringing her down to him and making a crazy face.

The next photo seemed old and worn out. It was of Leah and, after looking carefully at the picture, it was taken after Leah had got accepted into Hogwarts…she was holding up her letter. After carefully looking, the smile she had was forced.

The third one was of Leah and Sirius as Snuffles, fast asleep in the basement of her house. Sirius was acting like a pillow for Leah. Occasional one of them would move. If Sirius moved then Leah would wake up slightly and move over to wherever Sirius went and put her head on him again before falling asleep once more.

"I'm guessing he kept looking at the second one a lot." Leah muttered. She then looked at the letter.

Dear Leah,

If you're reading this, then chances are I'm dead. In case you're wondering, those are my three favourite pictures of you (you aren't very photogenic). I don't want you to be sad. If I'm dead, then hopefully it was from fighting someone worthy.

"Not sure if fighting Bellatrix counts as fighting someone worthy." Leah said. She looked at Sabrina before looking back at the letter.

At least I know for a fact that you've gotten out of your room and…or then…maybe someone's brought this to you. Hopefully not because you and Sabrina would have been the only ones to notice this. I don't know if you know but, somehow, you are a lot more powerful then any of us knew. Well…your mother and I knew. We have known your whole life. But you never found out because I was the one who was supposed to tell you. Which would explain why you never found out, again I'm very sorry for never having enough time with you to tell you this.

"Oh god." Leah said. She was finally going to find out why Voldemort had it out to kill her whole family or at least get them out of the way. The only one that still, physically, stood in his way was her grandfather.

Your mother and I found out what you were to become and how powerful you were about two months after she got pregnant with you. This is a pretty long story, that's why I could never have told you because we never had that much time to be alone. Hopefully, however, someone has told you about the power thing between Sabrina and myself…if not, then get someone to tell you because that's really hard to explain. Anyways you were…well…conceived on, what we all know as, the day of heightening. It's a day that only happens once every one hundred years. It is the only day where good is stronger then evil by, well, a lot. So…you were conceived on that day, of all days surprisingly enough…and two months later Sabrina and I were given the chance to see who and what you were to become. Of course we took it. What we saw was a beautiful young woman, not any older then her twenties…if that. There's not much I can tell you about that vision except that she gave off the sense of rightness and power.

"Ok…rightness and power…I don't feel either of those." Leah said. "Wonder if I'll life to see a day of heightening." She looked back at the letter.

We also were able to see that we, your mother and I, weren't there. So we've pretty much known from the beginning that neither of us would be around to help you. So really, writing you this letter, just like being sent to Azkaban, was not as great a shock as it should have been. Sure it was a surprise, I never expected to let my anger get the better of me so much that I wouldn't care if I got caught. I never stopped wondering though, what your life would have been like, had I not been thrown in Azkaban. You and Harry probably would be better friends then you are now.

"If only you knew dad…if only you knew." Leah muttered.

The point is, that since you were conceived on the day of heightening, Sabrina and mine's joined power was stronger then a lot of other peoples' powers. If you go to the ministry, there is a room in the department of mysteries that holds little glass balls called prophecies. There is one there for you…I know there is. You just have to look.

"But we never…" Leah muttered, her voice trailing off. "There was only Harry…" She finished reading the letter.

I highly recommend you bring Dumbledore with you though…protection you know. I doubt Voldemort knows the full capacity of your powers, but he does know. That's why he had your grandmother killed earlier in this year. He wants to get rid of your family to make it easier to get to you. Keep yourself safe honey. Don't forget to tell Harry about the money and show Dumbledore my will. And never, ever, EVER forget that I love you more then anything in this world and being away from you hurts me more then you'll ever know.

I'll be seeing you,
Daddy

Leah had not realized that she had been crying by this time. It wasn't just the fact that he told her that he loved her and that not being around her hurt him as well…but it was the fact that he didn't sign with his name…he signed with daddy.

"Leah dinner's…Leah?" Leah looked up to see Molly in the doorway. "Leah dear. What's wrong?" Leah waved the note slightly but handed Molly the will. Molly took it looking confused.

"I found my dad's will." Leah said. "And he left a note for me…explaining a lot."

"Well…I think that note is for your eyes only." Molly said, looking at the will. "Well…Bill has shown up with an announcement but he wants you to be there to hear it."

"Oh?" Leah asked, wiping the tears off her face. "Wonder why."

"Let's go down there and see." Molly said. Leah nodded. She put the letter and photos in her pocket and followed Molly downstairs. Molly handed the will over to Remus then looked at Bill. Leah looked at him too and could tell he was really happy. "Well honey…what's your announcement?"

"Promise me you won't scream." Bill said.

"Alright I promise." Molly said.

"Fleur and I have decided to get married." Bill said. There was a pause.

"Oh my god!" Leah said, smiling. She jumped then hugged Bill. "Congratulations! When did you figure this out?"

"About a week ago." Bill said.

"That is amazing." Leah said. She looked at Molly. "Unless you're going to say something good…don't say anything at all."

"Leah…can I talk to you?" Remus asked, looking up from the will.

"Uh...yeah sure." Leah said, looking confused. She followed Remus out of the kitchen.

"Was anything else with this?" Remus asked.

"Yeah…why?" Leah asked, pulling out the photos and the letter.

"Thought so. Can I?" Remus asked. Leah handed over the photos. Remus looked at them. She handed him the letter and he took a while at reading it. "You do know about that power thing between them right?"

"Yeah…grandpa told me." Leah said. She suddenly had a bad feeling. "Do you think we should tell Grandpa to like…be careful…and not go places alone? Dad said…he said that Voldemort is trying to knock off my family…wouldn't grandpa be next?"

"He's a strong wizard. But we'll give him the message." Remus said. He handed the things back and Leah put them in her pocket again. "I'll give Sirius this…he sure knows how to keep secrets from his friends." Leah smiled slightly. "And by the looks of things…you do to. Although…the last letter from Harry said that you were the singer." Leah nodded. "You never told anyone."

"Not true." Leah said. "Mom, dad, and all the teachers knew. And…" She stopped.

"And?" Remus asked. Leah didn't look at him. "Leah."

"Draco Malfoy knew." Leah said. "I don't know how but somehow, at the yule ball, he managed to figure out who I was. But he hasn't told anyone."

"Well he really can't use that as blackmail so he missed his chance there." Remus said, smiling. "Malfoy? I don't know…be careful of him anyways Leah. His father may be in jail but that doesn't mean things are safe."

"Yeah I know." Leah said. "I'm keeping my eyes on him." She did join the others for dinner but didn't eat all that much. Molly was just happy that Leah was eating so she didn't push her to eat too much.

Leah spent the night there then, grudgingly, used floo powder to get back to the school in the morning. She showed up in Dumbledore's fireplace and he looked as if he was expecting her. Leah handed over the will, waited until Dumbledore finished reading it, then handed him the letter. He took longer to read the letter then looked at Leah.

"Can we go? Today?" Leah asked.

"Certainly." Dumbledore said. "I would like to see this myself. We will go after lunch I believe. You have only Herbology in the afternoon and Professor Sprout will let you go, that is certain." Leah smiled and nodded. "I will wait for you by the forest at noon time. We shall take the Thestrals I believe, since you have already done so once."

"Fine by me…so long as we get there." Leah said. She headed off to her morning classes without even thinking about them. She put the wrong ingredient into her potion and it created a huge cloud of smoke that blinded the whole class for most of the period. Turns out she made a different kind of potion instead and, grudgingly, Snape gave Gryffindor twenty points when he discovered that Leah had made a healing potion.

When no one was looking, she uncorked a fewbottles and put the potion into them, knowing that it would come in handy eventually.

There you go. You found out about Leah…somewhat. And you got Sirius' will. I'm gonna try to not read the book so much so that I can actually write this section of the story without wanting to throw in some stuff from the book. I've done that already. And there might be a new Minister of Magic when Leah gets to the Ministry.