A/N: Hello all and happy holidays! Hope everyone is doing well. Here is the next chapter to Raising Harry!

There are some rather interesting developments in this chapter...I'm sure some of you will be very upset with me for it, but I feel that it's only appropriate: Sirius, Remus, and Severus are really young, and it never made sense to me that the kids should figure out everything and the adults know nothing. You'll see what I'm getting at!

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Sirius stood in front of what seemed to be a regular London townhouse for several long seconds before taking a deep breath and raising his hand to knock on the door. To his surprise, it immediately swung open. "Er...hello?" he called in.

"You're cousin Sirius?" A bright pink head peeked around the edge of the door, making him jump. A young girl, around nine or so, grinned up at him. "I'm Nymphadora. But everyone just calls me Tonks."

"No, they don't, Dora, now stop telling people to call you that." Andromeda entered the hall, an apron wrapped around her waist. "Good morning, Sirius."

"Morning, Andy." Looking from mother to daughter, Sirius grinned. "I see you've mellowed over the years. You really let your kid dye her hair?"

The woman shook her head in exasperation. "I didn't. Dora is a metamorphamagus."

"Ah. Well, congratulations to you, then," he told the girl, who grinned again. "Can we talk?"

"Of course. That's why you came." Andromeda guided him into the living room before shooing Tonks upstairs. "Go do some of that work I assigned you. I don't want you going into Hogwarts knowing absolutely nothing."

"Yes Mum."

Sirius watched her go upstairs, an odd expression on his face. "There hasn't been a metamorph in the Black family for nearly a century."

"I know." She sighed and shook her head. "I spoke to a Healer when she was born. He felt that because of the centuries of inbreeding within the family, the metamorph ability was never able to appear. Bringing new, Muggle blood into the mix reactivated it."

"I see." Sitting down on the sofa across from her, Sirius leaned forward to rest his elbows on his knees. "So."

"Your letter was rather light on details. What did you want to discuss with me?" Andromeda met his gaze. "You haven't spoken to me since your father removed me from the family. Why now?"

He shook his head. "I'm sorry. I just...The explanation for all of this, why I'm here, why I'm not talking to you...it's all the same."

Her dark eyes hardened. "Go on."

"It starts with Dumbledore." Over the next half hour, he carefully explained everything he, Severus, and Remus had put together about the man. Andromeda listened just as

carefully, occasionally asking questions about how they had reached certain conclusions.

"I can't say I'm surprised," Andromeda finally said.

Sirius's eyebrows jumped to his hairline. "Really?"

"Yes. As Severus said, Dumbledore favored Gryffindor the most." She crossed her arms, continuing, "I also suspected that there must be something going on when you didn't contact me after leaving home. I knew you would have and I was waiting for you to reach out to Ted and I before offering you somewhere to live. Seeing as you didn't, I felt that you either joined the family hatred of me, or there was something wrong."

"So...you mean, we might not be the only ones who know there's something up?"

"Of course not. Did you three think that you were the only ones smart enough to see what was going on?" Giving him a slight grin, one that he recognized from when they were children, she continued, "There aren't many people who realized that there was something wrong, but there are enough."

He leaned forward. "Who else?"

"I can't say. What I've said is already too much. I'll speak to some of them, discuss what you've told me. We've never had any proof of what Dumbledore has been doing." She ran her hands through her hair, brushing it out of her face. "You did do a good job, I'll give you that much. Would you like anything to drink?"

"Er...yes, thanks. Shouldn't you have asked that earlier?"

Andromeda rolled her eyes. "Yes, because you are the paragon of Pureblood manners. Go upstairs and get Dora, she's been eager to meet you."

"You told her I was coming?" Sirius asked. The news that there were more people who knew what was going on had thrown him a bit.

"She saw your letter. That child gets into everything." She tutted and stood up. "I swear, I'd think you were secretly corrupting her."

Sirius laughed and headed up the stairs.

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"Stay right there, Harry. Don't go running around." Remus set the toddler on a couch against the wall of the parlor, sending up clouds of dust. Harry sneezed loudly then looked

up, an expression of surprise on his face. "That's a sneeze. You know what a sneeze is."

Leaving the child on the couch, he stood in the center of the room and carefully surveyed it. "Wilma?" he called, feeling rather foolish talking to the air.

The house elf popped into the room, a dirty rag clenched in her tiny fist. "Master Wolf called?"

"Ah." He didn't know how to react to his new name. Severus had warned him that he'd told the house elves to consider both Sirius and Remus as their masters, but he didn't realize that he would be given a new title. "Yes. How are the repairs going?"

"We has done all the bedrooms and kitchens. We gets to the parlor and ballroom next." She shook the rag in her hand meaningfully. "Does Master Wolf and Little Master wants to go look?"

"Yes, I suppose so. Only to see what the rooms look like to plan how to redecorate, not because I don't trust your cleaning," he hastened to add, seeing her face fall. "Will you show us?"

"Yes!" The house elf took off across the room, forcing Remus to scoop up Harry and practically run to catch up with her.

They paused at the top of the landing. "The left wing bes the family suites and the right wing bes the guest rooms. Wilma and Barney cleaned all rooms."

"Thank you, you didn't have to. Is there a nursery, or something similar, where we can set up Harry's room?" Remus set Harry on the light gray marble floor and held his hand.

"Master Eric did not believe in nurseries. He say to put babies in rooms." Wilma's ears drooped. "But Wilma can make a nursery!"

"No, no, that's okay." He held out his free hand in an attempt to comfort her. "I just wanted to know if there was one. I'll go check out the rooms now. You can get back to

whatever you were doing."

"Thank you, Master Wolf." With a crack! the house elf disappeared.

Remus shook his head and started down the hall to the first room. Upon opening the door, he saw that it was decorated in white and cream, leaving it ready for personalization.

He presumed the rest of the rooms were the same, and after inspecting each of them, he found that his assumption was correct. "Which room do you want, Prongslet?"

Harry looked up at his adopted uncle and then at the row of doors. Stifling a chuckle, Remus watched as the toddler carefully checked each room before silently pointing to the

one in the center. "Dere," he said quietly.

"That sounds good. Should we make it the same as your old room, with your Mum and Dad?" The werewolf lifted him in his arms, settling him against his hip. Harry rubbed his

head against Remus's shoulder, signaling his approval. "Great. Let's get some measurements and the we can buy paint and other things to decorate. How does that sound?"

"'Kay."

"Great." Remus held back a sigh. He was really going to need to arrange for Harry to go to a Mindhealer or someone of the sort. But right now, he had a manor to decorate and make livable for three men and a toddler, unless he wanted them all squashed into his flat.

Today was going to be a fun day.


A/N: Bit of a lame ending, I know, but I don't want to continue the chapter here. Now...What should Harry's room look like? Any suggestions? I'm personally thinking maybe a galaxy, or sky-themed. Originally I was going to go woodland, but I kind of feel like that is wildly overdone...

Thanks again for reading!