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Chapter 23

Dumbledore watched young Harri take Sirius away with her, and he had to wonder how the girl knew of Sirius. Having Sirius in the picture could complicate everything, he would no longer have custody of the girl. It is a shame that he couldn't get into the trial, everything had happened so fast, and he was at Hogwarts when he was informed that a trial was going on. Usually, it would take a couple of days before a trial was arranged. If he had been there, he was sure that he could have a least had Sirius be put into a permanent ward in Saint Mungo's for a while just enough time to get young Harri to rely on him. Dumbledore thought he would need to find another way to guide her towards the Light and shape her into the hero that they needed.

Dumbledore turned to look at Severus when Harri was out of sight, and he noticed that Severus looked trouble and was staring into the nothing. He had to find out what the girl has said to him that had him so shook. He walked over to Severus and saw that he had put on a mask.

"Severus, my boy, what did young Harri say to you?"

"Nothing, Headmaster" Snape curtly replied.

"Now Severus, I have to know what she said, it is of the upmost importance that I know the girl so that I can better guide her." Snape whipped his head over to Dumbledore.

"You cannot control the girl, Headmaster." Snape warned him.

"She is nothing like her damned father and Lily." Snape realized.

"Now, Severus…" Dumbledore started again,

"No! She is unpredictable, we don't know what motivates her!" Snape rambled. "You think she would act one way, but then she goes and does the opposite!"

"What do you mean Severus?" Dumbledore asked, getting a gut feeling that he was not going to like what he is about to hear.

"The girl, I thought she was going to be like Potter because of her prank on the train, but then she goes out of her way to help the other students in class. Then when I think she is like Lily, she goes and humiliates Parkinson in front of the entire house." No one told him what happened exactly, all he knows was that Potter had put her in her place.

"We don't know what her goal is Headmaster. All she said was that she wanted to go into politics and have an easy lifestyle. She isn't interested in fighting for what is right. She will only fight for what matters to her. She doesn't care about public opinion, and she doesn't care about anything that doesn't benefit her."

Dumbledore gave him a long look. Severus must be wrong about the girl. He had seen her make friends with a Muggleborn, and with the Weasley Twins. She has also been friendly with the Gryffindors and had even joked with them.

"Severus, you must be mistaken about her." Snape managed not to roll his eyes at him.

"You saw her this morning; she was ready to kill Pettigrew. She feels no remorse for having injured him. Don't say I didn't warn you; she is in my house after all." And with that Snape went to Hogwarts to nurse his wounded pride with a glass of whiskey and to think about his childhood.

Dumbledore sighed and went to look for the girl.

After Sirius had showered, to the urging of Harri, and had put on his prisoner garbs that Harri had transfigured into thin dress robes for him to his amazement, he sat down on his bed and watched Harri look at the Inn's Menu.

"I'll order us some food Sirius" Harri said, looking through the paper menu on the small couch of the room she had rented.

"I'll get us some soup and crackers, something light for your stomach" Harri continued when Sirius hadn't replied. Harri turned towards the bed when Sirius still hadn't responded, and she noticed that Sirius was just staring at her.

"Harri, you've gotten so big" Sirius replied sadly.

Harri nodded and put in her order using her wand and inserting the sickles into the menu.

"I'm 11 now." Sirius nodded wanting to say more.

Sirius finally broke and blurted out, "I'm sorry that I followed Pettigrew! I should have just stayed with you!" Harri shook her head.

"I would have done the same, don't blame yourself for not knowing what would have happened when you went after Pettigrew."

"But Ha-" Sirius protested.

"No Sirius, look at this" Harri pointed towards her bloodied attire,

"this isn't my blood. Today in the Great Hall. I…I snapped, and I fought back, and I almost killed him. I wanted to finish him right there. I almost did… and I regret not killing him then and there." Sirius stayed silent.

"I understand the need of yours to go and kill him… so don't blame yourself."

"I'm still sorry Harri." Harri sighed.

"You are forgiven, I don't hold that against you." Harri spoke evenly.

"…so…"

"Yes?" Harri asked. A little alarmed that he was hesitant to ask her a question.

"…Do you have episodes often?" Harri wanted to laugh but was aware that he was serious and wouldn't take her laughter as a good sign.

"No… it only happened because of my fight or flight instinct. But I don't regret it, I only regret not killing the pig right then and there" But Harri didn't regret it because that had helped Sirius get out.

"But if I had killed him, you would still be in Azkaban. …So, I don't regret not killing him." Sirius nodded, agreeing with her assessment.

The food came, and they both ate their food in silence. Sirius ate as much as he could before not being able to take another bite. Harri finished hers and his and then wiped her mouth with a napkin.

"Sirius, where will you be staying?" Harri finally asked him.

Sirius shrugged, "I haven't thought that far ahead…"

Harri nodded at him. "Don't you have a family house you could go to in the meanwhile?" Harri asked bluntly.

Sirius cringed and sighed, "I'd rather not go there." Harri nodded.

"I'll go with you." Sirius eyes widened at that.

"But Harri! You have school and your family" Harri snorted.

"Those pigs want me dead, and I'll go back to school once you have settled down and once your healthier." Sirius still shook his head.

"You have to go back to school Harri." Harri shook her head.

"I can go back anytime. I'm at the top of my class easily."

"Not for long if you miss school" Sirius argued. Harri sighed and took out her wand.

"Expecto Patronum!" Harri spoke certainly, the spell coming out naturally. Prongs came out of her wand tall and mighty and prancing around the room looking for danger. Prongs noticed Sirius and trotted to him and buttheaded him with his hooves making Harri laugh. Sirius stare in awe at her Patronus.

"Prongs…" He got a misty look in his eyes, and he rubbed his eyes and then said. "Since when?"

Harri avoided his answer. "I'm at the top of my class easily, let me stay with you Sirius, I'll go back once you're settled."

"Fine, but just for a couple of days" Harri nodded happily at him and was glad that she would have more time with him.

"Yes Sir!" Harri saluted him. Sirius smiled at her fondly.

"I do have an ancestral home, but its retched." Harri shrugged.

"Can't be any worse than living with Petunia." It took Sirius a second to locate where he had heard that name before.

"You were living with Lily's sister?!" Sirius bellowed.

Harri nodded at him, "not anymore though, I threatened them before I left Hogwarts, and the professors promised me I won't go back to them." Harri smiled at him, to happy to be with him then let something like the Dursley's bother her.

"Why did you threaten them?" Sirius asked, he was used to living in a dark household to be surprised about threatening family members. Instead on telling him why, Harri took off her cloak and lifted her camisole and showed him her scarred back where the belts had met her flesh. Sirius gasped and when she turned around to see his reaction, she saw the anger in his eyes and the murderess rage behind them.

"I'LL KILL THEM!" Sirius roared. Harri shrugged and replied,

"If you do kill them, don't do it with magic. I just got you back Sirius" and then Sirius remembered how he got taken away from his goddaughter the first time and he felt awful.

"I'm sorry Harri, you probably don't want a godfather that jumps headfirst into everything." Harri smiled warmly at him and shook her head.

"I don't mind that Sirius, I wouldn't even mind if you do kill them, I just don't want you to get caught doing it." And then Sirius noticed that his goddaughter didn't mind murder, she just minded the getting caught part. Sirius gave her a funny look and Harri laughed.

"Don't look at me like that Sirius, you're the one that said it." Harri huffed.

"Yeah, but you agreed with me!" Sirius replied back.

"Well yeah, I almost killed a man today. I thought we would be on the same page on this."

"But he deserved it!" Sirius retorted.

"And so do the Dursley's. Not their son, but they both do. They put a hot iron on my back when I was 5, Sirius." Harri explained. Sirius face went pale at that and as his magic started to flare out Harri calmed him down.

"Everyone would know it was us if we went after them, give it a couple of years and we can make it look like a freak accident." Harri smirked at that. It would be a freak accident indeed if it involved her. They were always so fond of calling her freak, they would get exactly that as death.

Sirius calmed down and nodded at that.

"Just don't get caught, or I will break into Azkaban and break you out to start new lives in Mexico" Sirius finally gave her a strained smile and he nodded at that.

"Why Mexico?" He asked to keep himself distracted.

"Because of the branches of magic that still exist there. I want to see the old Nahuatl scrolls and translate them. They also have a ritual on the Day of the Dead that lets you speak to the dead" Harri mentioned casually. Sirius gave her another long look.

"Isn't that too dark, Harri?" Sirius gave her a skeptical look.

"What? The Mexicans muggles do it as well!" Harri defended herself and further elaborated.

"The muggles set up altars of their ancestors with their favorite foods to honor and invite them to a feast every November 1st and lasts through November 2nd. Only that the wizards and witches can actually communicate with their ancestors compared to the muggles, it just requires an altar, candles, personal item, and their food as a sacrifice, and it doesn't hurt the souls, Sirius."

Sirius still looked unsure, and then Harri continued. "It's not considered dark magic, they have been doing it since the Aztecs, Sirius. It doesn't hurt anyone, and it only requires food and a personal item like a picture, or anything else as a sacrifice." Sirius slowly nodded his head and slowly asked,

"No soul magics?" Harri nodded her head and responded,

"No soul magics, and we could even talk to my parents, they will tell you that they are not in pain or anything. I just need to get the ritual process and the spell to activate it." Sirius nodded at that.

"That sounds safe enough" Harri nodded enthusiastically, already seeing that she was convincing him.

"The worst that can happen in this ritual is getting no response from my parents." Sirius gave her a pitying look at that. He hoped for her case that the ritual worked.

"We could go someday; I'll take you there." Sirius nodded at her, already making plans to take her.

"I will take your word for it" Harri smiled at him. Happy that he was trying to make an effort and please her. Sirius smiled back at her.

"Going back to the topic of your ancestral home, we can live there and in the meanwhile we can look into buying a new home" Harri continued, not taking into account that Sirius hadn't asked her to move in with him yet.

"You would want to live with me?" Harri stood up straighter and decided to just go with the truth.

"If you would have me, I don't want to impose myself on you Sirius." Harri gave him a pitiful-lonely-orphan-looking-for-parents look that she used when she got into trouble at primary school.

"Of course not, Prongslet!" Harri smirked at his nickname.

"I was just scared to ask you if you wanted to live with me." Sirius felt uncomfortable to admit. But to his surprise, Harri was surprisingly being open so he felt that he could open up to her easily as well.

"The house isn't much, but we use it as we like, and we will find somewhere else to live after all of my estates are clear and everything else is settled." Harri nodded at him happily. Sirius was about to say something, but he yawned and Harri felt bad that she didn't think that he might be tired after everything that he has been through today.

"Let's get some rest, and we can talk more tomorrow" Harri said when she noticed that Sirius was starting to look drowsy. Sirius didn't protest that, and he got in bed and Harri tucked him in.

"Goodnight Sirius, I'll see you tomorrow." Harri whispered and pressed a small kiss on his forehead. Harri went to take a shower and afterwards took the bath towels and transfigured it into a sleeping robe before going to her own bed and turning the lights off with her wand.