Choices

Choice thirty three: Sirius

Blacks don't need jobs, that's what father always told me. Why should we bother breaking our back when there are other people who are willing to do the work for us? I always knew he meant that the poor people should work to make money and the rich should sit back and watch.

But then I'm not your typical Black am I. I wanted to work, I've always liked the idea of having a job because it'll keep me busy during the day and of course as Remus keeps telling me it will keep me out of trouble.

So when I left Hogwarts I started to think about my career, I knew I needed one because hello disowned so not getting any of the Black fortune. Anyway I had decided on two careers that I wanted to do.

I could be an Auror because then I'd get to fight against all the evil that my family stood for plus it's an adventurous job. I can just see me running around in the middle of a fight throwing hexes to stop the bad guys think of the fun I'd have. Oh and the girls! Girls love a dangerous man, and I'll be in danger and when I get injured, nothing serious of course, all the medi-witches will be over me because I'll be the wounded hero.

I like that idea so much but there was always another career that I had planned for and that was as a Healer. Okay so it's not as adventurous as the Auror position but it's still a good job. Think about it the injured women come in and I'm the hero who saves their lives, I'd so get a date that way. Oh and over seventy-five percent of Healers are witches, so think of all the lovely women that would be around me.

Okay so maybe they aren't the best of reasons to take a job but the more I thought about it the more I knew I wanted to help people. I really considered becoming an Auror but I have too many ties to the dark side. I know that should be a reason to join but then those in authority could say that I'm passing information over to them if we are going through a bad patch.

That left a Healer and that idea actually had me excited. I know that people see me as a mess around but I can be serious and very hard working and a Healer will help in this war because we have a lot of injuries.

My first day was brilliant we had an introduction class and there are twelve of us in this year group and they're not all my age and they're not all from Hogwarts. I walked in and Nancy Bottlebee was sat there. She was in Ravenclaw my year group and her face when she saw me was hysterical I thought she was going to chock and fall off her chair.

The only other person there that I knew was Lily and she just laughed at the way I staggered in as if I owned the place. Clearwater who is like the main man in the Healer circles was going to teach us and he was laughing at me. I sort of moved over took Lily's hand and screamed we're going to be Healers and started dancing around.

There's no other male in my class, there are five girls from Beauxbaton and two American witches and then the last two witches are three years older. It's quite fun being the only guy in the class and I'm glad that I made the choice to be a Healer because its more fun than any other job I can think of.