A/N:- Sorry I'd uploaded the wrong chapter... This is the real "Owls Arrive"... Sorry about that...

James left Sirius to have a shower, and went back downstairs.

He found his Aunt sitting by herself in the lounge room. Thinking that she obviously needed some cheering up, James told her what had happened to Sirius.

As James was explaining the look on Sirius' face as the door had started to hit him over the head, Harrietta started to laugh.

"I guess I should take that off when I leave" Harrietta said, still chuckling at the thought of Sirius being hit over the head.

'What do you mean?" James asked worried, "You can't leave now!"

Harrietta looked at her nephew sadly, "I'm afraid James, that I must leave in the next few days"

"But things are too dangerous!" James exclaimed, "There are people looking to kill you!"

Harrietta laughed an uneasy laugh, "There are always people trying to kill me, I'm an auror, and a Potter"

"But its that last point that is going to get you killed!" James continued, "You know what it is that Sirius heard, the Black's want to kill the Potter's!"

"James I am still need out there by other people!" Harrietta explained, "I'm doing no one any good hiding away in here"

"But you'll be killed!" James said close to tears.

"James let me tell you something your Grandfather once told me, it's better to die standing, than to live life on your knees, do you understand?"

"In other words, you'd rather die, than live in hiding" James answered.

"Not so much, hiding isn't such a bad thing, I'll sort of be doing that, but I'll still be trying to do as much as I can, to work against this new dark force"

"Why can't you do that from here?" James whined.

"That would put you and your mother in too much danger" Harrietta explained.

James looked up at her carefully; and thought about what she'd said.

"What's to happen with Sirius?" James said quietly, hoping that Sirius wasn't to enter the room too soon.

"He's to stay here."

"Won't his family come looking for him?"

Harrietta bit her lip as she was accustomed to do when deep in thought.

"I doubt they will for a while"

James looked at her confused.

"They'll be too busy looking for me"

"So Sirius isn't to leave the house?" James asked.

"He probably shouldn't" Harrietta said carefully, "But I'll work on something for that" she smiled a little at James' confusion, but instead of saying anything, she simply went up to her room.

It was later that same day that Harrietta left the house. No one spoke of Harrietta or of what Sirius had gone through; it appeared they had all decided that it was too uncomfortable to talk about.

Instead things seemed to go back to normal; which in itself confused James. Sirius fitted into the family as if he was a Potter. He and James spent most days reading books from Douglas' library. They had both decided that they wanted to be Aurors like Harrietta. They assumed that they would get enough OWLS to do the appropriate subjects, and they were just preparing for their NEWTS.

They were studing varied subjects, from the downfall of every Dark Lord they had been in History, to the History of Magic itself. They were learning as many spells as they could; preparing for their return to Hogwarts.

James didn't even think of his OWLS results, until two official looking letters arrived by Owl for James and Sirius.

They were sitting in the study, reading when the letters dropped into their laps.

"Oi" Sirius said shaken a little, he'd been deep in thought.

"OWLS" James said looking at the letter carefully.

"Our results" Sirius said calmly, yet appearing to be afraid to open the letter he was holding in his hand.

"Should we open them?" James asked.

"I don't know"

"I think we should"

"I don't know if I want to" Sirius replied standing. He started to pace backwards and forwards around the room.

"They'll be good results though" James said hopfully.

"They'd better be"

"You don't have to worry about your family anymore Sirius" James said carefully; not wanting to upset his friend.

"I know"

"Then why are you worried about it?"

"Because I want good enough results to be an Auror"

"I'm sure Dumbledore would let us take the subjects we need regardless"

"I'm not sure McGonagall would" Sirius said sadly.

James grinned. "Sure she would, isn't she always saying we should take things more seriously, we'd take this seriously"

"I don't think she'd believe us" Sirius smiled.

"We'll make her"

Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Since when can either of us two convince McGonagall of anything?"

James just smiled again. "We can't." he paused, "We'll just get Remus to do it for us"

"He's always able to con McGonagall, I really think that's something I should learn"

"We'll try to do that this year" James agreed, "It's something we'd need as the Ministry's top Aurors"

"Why's that?"

"So we can get to the top of the ministry, you'd cause us to get into too much trouble, and we need to be able to talk our way out of it"

"Me!" Sirius asked "I get us into trouble?"

"Yes" James replied.

"I think you're mistaken mate, I'm pretty sure it's you that gets us into trouble all of the time"

"No Padfoot old friend, you're the one mistaken"

Sirius and James looked at each other and laughed.

James was the one to speak first, "How about we just say its all Peter's fault?"

"OK"

"Now how about we open these letter's" James said carefully, lifting up his again. He didn't want to open it, he knew that if the results weren't good enough, he wouldn't be getting the new broomstick his mother had promised. As much as James wanted to be an auror, he still wanted to play Quidditch as well, he wouldn't be able to impress Lily being an auror. James was sure it would be far too dangerous a job in Lily's opinion.

"I'll open mine after you Prongs"

"No, you go first, I insist"

"How about we open them at the same time" Sirius conceded.

"I think I can do that"

"One the count of 3?" Sirius asked.

"How about the count of 5?" James replied.

"Ok"

James and Sirius started to count together; "1… 2… 3… 4… 5…"