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"Well we'd all know about the reporting's of the Daily Prophet about a rising of a evil Dark Lord, they are already calling you-know-who"

Douglas groaned, "I hope that's not what this is all about, because its rubbish, I'd know about it if there was another Dark Lord around. They're just trying to sell new books on the market about protecting oneself and your family"

"Well they are actually telling parts of the truth; there has been an increase of muggle attacks" Harrietta started.

"We know about them" Millicent replied, "but that is always happening, you're always going to have wizards who hate muggles"

"Not that that's an excuse" Douglas said looking particularly carefully at Sirius and then James. James and Sirius nodded their agreement.

"Add to that; meetings of several 'influential' pure-blooded families and increasing support for Trefucus Malfoy as the next Minister of Magic"

Douglas and Millicent groaned. Sirius refusing to look at anyone, Andromeda was looking directly at Harrietta, engrossed in what she was saying. James however was confused as to what has happening.

"What does that mean?" James asked.

Millicent replied to him quite sternly, "Nevermind…"

Douglas interrupted his wife, "Trefucus Malfoy has policies that would lead to the discovery of the magical world by muggles"

"Which means that we'd end up going to war with them; resulting in the destruction of the muggles" James carried on.

Millicent frowned at her son, and then looked accusingly at Harrietta, Douglas simply smiled a little.

"Exactly" Douglas replied, looking quite proud of his son.

"What we believe is that there is some one who is encouraging all pure-bloods to vote for him, there's been quite a campaign" Harrietta continued.

Alistair chose this time to speak, "There has been a rather large ad campaign in favour for him in the Quibbler"

Andromeda sighed, "Its just not as reliable anymore, the Quibbler used to always tell the true stories, now its getting as bad as the Daily Prophet"

"The stories are telling us how terrible muggles are and how they are adversely effecting out world" said Harrietta.

"That's well and good" Millicent said sharply, "But that doesn't mean that there's going to be another rising of a Dark Lord"

"Not singly" Harrietta replied, "No it doesn't. Well nothing is definite, but it does give a real good picture of what's happening. But I'll admit, with only that information, we've really nothing concrete. But; add in what happened to Sirius and what he knows and there's a definite pattern, and we all know where it leads"

"So what's this got to do with Sirius?" Douglas asked.

"I'll leave that for Sirius to tell?" Harrietta said, looking kindly at Sirius, "I think what happened to you, might have something to do with the overall plan"

"So you don't know?" Millicent asked Harrietta, "So this might not actually be happening?"

Harrietta sighed, "Yes it's happening, I just want Sirius to tell us"

Millicent continued her questions, "How do you know what Sirius knows?"

Harrietta went to speak, but Sirius interrupted, "She used legilimency"

"She what?" James, Douglas and Millicent asked at once. Harrietta simply looked at Sirius in surprise.

"She used legilimency, to see what had happened to me" Sirius said looking up at Douglas and then at Harrietta.

"How did you know that?" Harrietta asked, laughing.

Sirius looked away from Harrietta's gaze, Andromeda was the one who spoke up for him, "It's part of the training of a Black, legilimency and occlumency studies, it starts at the age of 8"

"So Sirius knew that I was doing it?" Harrietta asked.

"Yes" Sirius replied, "From the first moment you looked at me"

"I didn't notice you doing it" said James surprised, he'd thought that he'd noticed everything that had happened that night.

Sirius continued in a monotone of disinterest, "Advanced legilimency doesn't need eye contact"

"So do you feel up to telling us what happened?" Douglas asked kindly.

Sirius shook his head. Andromeda patted Sirius kindly on the back, and whispered something in his ear.

"There was a meeting at my home" Sirius started, James noticed that Sirius wouldn't look anyone in the eye, instead preferring to look around the room. "My brother and I were to serve them food and drinks"

"Must have been a pretty important meeting if they wouldn't let house elves serve them" Andromeda commented, Alistair nodded his agreement.

"So who were there?" Alistair asked.

Sirius rattled off several names that James didn't recognise, but it was clear that Douglas, Millicent and Alistair all did, as their faces grew more and more worried with every name.

"That's not good" Douglas said gravely.

"So many of them in the one place, that doesn't happen often" Millicent admitted.

"Actually it does" Sirius interrupted, "There have been several meetings lately."

"With all of those people? Asked Alistair.

"Not all of them, but at least 3 of them at once"

"It was a pretty important meeting" Harrietta concluded, "That's obvious"

"So something pretty important is going to happen" said Douglas looking more and more worried.

James was sure that at this point his mother and father were convinced of what Harrietta was saying. James still didn't know all of the facts, but he too was growing ever so worried. As young as James was, he'd still read a bit about the fall of Grindelwald, he wasn't even half way through his new book and he was already remembering parts of a History of Magic lesson.

"They were planning some attack on a pure-blooded family" Sirius continued, "They were trying to make it look like muggles had done it"

Douglas scoffed, "And how were they planning to do that?" Both Douglas and Alistair were looking sceptical. James turned back to his friend, and he continued.

"I'm not sure" Sirius replied, "They didn't get to that section"

James couldn't help but notice how mature his friend was being, James didn't know how he would have reacted in similar circumstances. Yet again, James started to be incredibly thankful for his parents.

"Why not?" Alistair asked. Suddenly James' mind went back to what the topic was about. James looked back at his friend, who was looking more and more uncomfortable. In fact, faced with the new question, Sirius was very upset; he couldn't speak, and just looked down at his hands on the table.

Harrietta looked at Sirius carefully, "Would you like me to tell them?"

Sirius nodded, but didn't look up.

"They were planning an attack on us"

Douglas and Millicent seemed to stop breathing. Things started to go a little purple for James, but then he realised that he wasn't breathing.

"So when you say us, do you mean you, me, Milli and James?" Douglas gasped after what seemed like hours of silence, "An attack on us?"

Harrietta looked at her brother grimly, "Mostly you and I" she replied, "As we're from an old pure-blooded family"

"So I'm not pure-blooded enough" said Millicent quite obviously offended, "I'll have you know that my family go back to the times of Merlin!"

James could see his aunt stifle a giggle, and his father roll his eyes, "I hardly think that them thinking you're not pure-blooded enough is a bad thing my dear; they are after all, thinking of killing us". James also grinned. His mother was constantly talking about how old her family were, and how terrible it was that they were recognised as an old pure-blooded wizarding family, purely because there had been 2 cases of sqwibs in their family.

"Yes" said Millicent, realising what exactly she'd said, "I suppose you're right"

"So what happened?" James asked, no one else seemed to know how to react to what Harrietta had said, but James was curious as to what else his friend had heard.

Harrietta looked at Sirius, to see whether he would answer, once she was quite sure he wasn't going to, she spoke instead. "To make a long horrible story short, they discovered that Sirius had overheard them, and started cursing and hexing him. They caught him, and tied him up, and then he escaped, and came here". James looked at Sirius as his aunt spoke, it was clear to him that what she had said was only a small part of what had happened. Sirius was sitting closer and closer to Andromeda, snuggling and looking for comfort.

"And you're quite sure that this is all true Harrietta?" Alistair asked, "The Black's have been known too…."

"It's the truth" interrupted Sirius looking up, and sitting up in his chair again. This Sirius was one that James had only seen on occasion, usually when faced with an angry Minerva McGonnagall. It was a serious faced Sirius. Though James could always tell the difference between a sincere Sirius serious face, and an insincere Sirius serious face, and there wasn't a doubt in James' fine, that Sirius was quite serious about what he was saying. All of a sudden a shiver ran up James' spine, also a quiet groan came from his mouth, as he remembered Sirius' pun about always being 'Serious' (Sirius).

"And not all Black's are the same" added Andromeda lightly patting Sirius on the shoulder.

Alistair looked suitably abashed, and looked away from both Harrietta and Andromeda, it appeared he was satisfied with the story.

Everyone at the dining table were silent, James noticed that Harrietta was looked quite closely at her brother. He was unsure whether she was using legilimency on Douglas, or whether she was simply staring at him. Either way, it was Douglas that broke the silence. "Then you must stay here Sirius"

Suddenly Sirius' face lit up. "Here," he said hurriedly, "With you ?"

"Yes" Douglas replied, "It seems we owe you a few favours"

"You don't have to take him Douglas" said Andromeda, "We'd gladly take him"

"But Andy you're so busy lately with little Nymphadora" said Harrietta, "Besides, you having Sirius would put all of you at risk, it seems we're already at risk, so why not add a little more" she replied quite cheerfully. Millicent looked shocked at the thought of them all being at risk, but said nothing.

"We'll even feed and cloth you Sirius" Harrietta said brightly, winking at him, "I've plenty of pink robes you can have"

James scoffed at the thought of Sirius in a pink robe; he then laughed out loud at the thought of Harrietta owning a pink robe.

"James has plenty of clothes" Douglas said warmly, "What you don't have, we can buy you"

"You don't have to do that" Andromeda said, "I'll pay for any expenses"

"Nonsense Andromeda" Harrietta said sharply, "It was through us Sirius got into this mess, and we'll pay for any expenses he may have, besides, as already mentioned you've already a lot on your plate"

"We'll unofficially adopt you Sirius" Millicent said with what James saw as false cheerfulness, "I always wanted another son" she then smiled what appeared to be a true smile. James smiled to himself, he knew what that smile meant. It meant that Millicent was going to fuss over Sirius as she fussed over James. James was comforted in the thought that Sirius would need it after what his family had put him through.

"This way we get to spend the rest of the holiday planning things for next year" said James with a large cheeky grin on his face, "For our business as such" he added quieter.

"A business?" asked Douglas with a raised eyebrow "I don't think I want to hear about this"

Harrietta laughed, "No I don't think I want to either"

"I think that we should discuss some other things" Alistair said dramatically. It appeared that all of the adults knew what he meant, and Millicent stood up from her chair.

"James why don't you show Sirius around the house, and find him some clothes, we'll order him some new clothes tomorrow, so it'll just be for today and tomorrow"

James' face dropped a bit, but he looked at his friend, who looked exceedingly uncomfortable, and suddenly James started to think what Sirius had been through. So he stood, and motioned for his friend to follow him out the door.

Once out the door, James turned back to his friend, "I'm going to do you a favour, and not mention this again, but I want to say something first"

"Go ahead Prongs" sighed Sirius, looking down at his feet just waiting for something major to be said.

"Thank you" said James quite simply. Sirius looked up at his friend and smiled grimly.

"That's alright"

"Now let's go and find you some clothes, and start planning" said James cheerfully.