Again, one character is in italics until the names are used

Chapter 2 ---------------------------------------------

"Ok," came the voice of the grey haired figure, "it's down." Two more people came down the stairs towards him.
He had fallen on his front, his face on the carpet, so he didn't see the three of them approaching. The grey haired figure stood next to him, while the other two covered the figure with their wands. Putting its foot under the stupefied body, it rolled him over roughly.
"Who the heck are you, coming in here?" came a very gruff voice from the grey haired figure, as it tore the hood from his cloak.

The gasps from all three were followed by a crash as one apparently fainted, One of the other figures rushed to tend to them, while the grey haired one lifted the stunner with a call of "Ennervate!"
"Sirius?" came the voice, less gruff this time, "how... I mean, is this really you?"
The grey haired figure blinked, and found himself staring at a giant black dog. A smile crept onto his face, lifting those tired eyes (that looked like they had been doing a lot of crying), and waited for the dog to change back.

Helping Sirius to his feet, he felt more moisture welling in his eyes, but blinked it away. "Remus, thanks Merlin you're here," whispered Sirius, "I wondered what was going on when I saw the new decor."

A noise behind them, indicated that the figure who had fainted was awake once more, and Sirius turned to see who it was. "Harry Ron and Hermione have been here for the last year or so," explained Remus, "they chose the decor for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, in Cedric Diggory's memory."
Sirius smiled at Ron, who was helping a heavily pregnant Hermione to her feet. "It is Ron's child," whispered Remus, in reply to Sirius' quizzical glance.
"You'd better sit down, Hermione," said Remus, as Ron helped her into the front room. Putting his arm over Sirius's shoulder, Remus led Sirius into the room, where Harry was dozing on the couch.
As they entered the room, Harry woke up, looking around him frantically. "Who? What? Why?... Sirius?" he yelled, but was instantly quiet when he saw the glare Hermione was giving him.

Once they were all seated, Remus cleared his throat. "So, Sirius, what happened to you?"
Sirius looked at them all. "I really can't explain it fully. Why don't you let me know what's been going on here, then my last few years may make more sense."

Harry looked up, "Dumbledore worked out that all that stood between Voldemort and death were his 7 horcruxes. We knew one in the diary had gone, and Dumbledore had destroyed one himself. After we found the fake horcrux, I guessed there was another here. Regulus had already found it, and replaced it with the fake horcrux we had found, before hiding the original here."
Harry paused, for Sirius to take that in. Sirius looked at Harry more closely, and was shocked to see that the boy was carrying several injuries. Harry noticed Sirius was looking, and rolled up his trouser leg and sleeve, "courtesy of Voldemort and Snape," he explained, as Sirius saw the withered stumps that used to be an arm and leg.
"Snape killed Dumbledore that night," Harry continued, "and when we came back here for Bill and Fleur's wedding, I destroyed the locket containing the third horcrux. Eventually we managed to find and destroy the other horcruxes... along with Voldemort, Wormtail and Snape.
Ron and Hermione took care of Bellatrix about 8 months ago. I guess you could say that what you see know, is a result of their celebrations".
Ron blushed, his ears turning a violent shade of red, which clashed with his hair.

Remus looked over at Ron, and decided to prevent any further embarrassment.
"You were cleared by the Ministry last year, when they realised that Voldemort had returned. I moved in with Tonks after Dumbledore died, as we could no longer use this house once the Secret Keeper for the Order had been killed."

Remus paused, then continued, "Tonks wanted me, in more than one way I assume, but I moved out when Harry defeated Voldemort a few months ago, and he invited us all to come here. Harry needed someone here to help, as there was nothing that St. Mungo's could do for his injuries, but our invitation was on the condition that we cheered the place up a bit. It's a memory of Dumbledore, Cedric, and well... you."

Author's Notes:
I did warn you of a hint of Remus/Tonks, but that was just to try and explain that section of the books...

Hopefully putting Remus' actions in italics has helped you understand that first part - it was hard to write action without mentioning any character names!