Part 7- Bring back Black

Phoebe had decided to learn more about Potions in Snape's class one afternoon. Snape had left instructions of how to construct the lesson's potion on the blackboard while he and Phoebe patrolled the room. As Phoebe brushed past Draco she was thrust into a premmintion.

The room was in shadows and there were many strange, sinister appearing objects placed in it. It was part of someone's house. Two figures were standing amongst the objects talking. One Phoebe knew as Draco Malfoy, the other was taller and much older, Draco's father. He spoke to his son about himself and other death eaters being free from Azkaban and it was time for Draco to join them. But first the son had to prove himself by helping the death eaters, giving his blood. Only then would he be accepted into the league.

Phoebe gasped as her glimpse of the past ended. She could always tell wether a premmintion was past or future. It had to be at least a few days old now. This meant that the Daily prophet was banned from reporting the escape. Or worse…no one knew about it.

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The group sat in the common room with gloomy looks on their faces. It had been a few hours since Phoebe's premmintion and a lot had happened. They just sat in the room not talking very much. If anyone wondered in they would have thought they were either incredibly bored (something not possible at Hogwarts) or that someone had died.

Phoebe had immediately whispered to Snape what she had seen. Dumbledore had told the Americans about the Order of the Phoenix, which they were honorary members of, so Phoebe had known Snape was a member. She could trust him that he would do something with the information rather than panic like some of the other professors may have.

Snape had acted just as fast as Phoebe had. The class only had a few minutes remaining so once Snape collected all the potions he swiftly left the room leaving Phoebe to clean up. The behavior was a little suspicious to Harry and Hermoine, but Malfoy and the rest of the class didn't seem to notice it.

After class Phoebe proceeded to tell the rest of those in the prophecy what she had seen. The message passed quickly in between them and surprisingly any eavesdropping students did not catch them out. After telling Buffy and Paige who were in the D.A.D.A classroom, Phoebe headed to Dumbledore's office to find out what was happening. She assumed that Snape headed straight there to tell Dumbledore what Phoebe had seen.

Phoebe's assumptions were correct as Dumbledore was expecting her. He had presumed that Malfoy would be willing to give his blood, as his father was a very controlling man. Dumbledore explained that even if Malfoy didn't agree his father would take it from him anyway. The fact that Lucius Malfoy was out of Azkaban was no shock for the Hogwarts Headmaster. He knew the ministry would not act fast enough to replace guards at the prison, so the escape was inevitable. Dumbledore told Phoebe he had been expecting this from the day Voldemorts death eaters had been thrown into Azkaban. He assured her that the Order had already begun to devise a plan and Fawkes was currently informing the ministry. Phoebe's premmintion had simply confirmed what Dumbledore himself had predicted.

There was nothing else they could do at the time. This was why the group sat in the common room depressed. Phoebe had told the group at the meeting before dinner that the Order was on it. They just had to be prepared on Halloween the Death Eaters would enter Hogwarts to collect the blood. The group was still unsure of how the death eaters planned to get in because the perimeters were carefully watched, but with some of Voldemorts most cunning death eaters free they were sure that they would find a way to get into the castle.

It was some time after dinner and the group had again gathered in the common room. Hermoine was the only one in the group doing anything. She was determined to get through the questions she had been set for Ancient Runes that night. Giles was researching something in one of the watcher diaries, searching for clues of slayers coming in contact with the wizard world, but he wasn't really concentrating.

The escape was just the start of it and they knew it.

That night as he while he was asleep Harry endured another nightmare. It was one that had been occurring for some time. Sirius's death played in Harry's mind just as Cedric's did over and over. The only difference was that the nightmares of Cedric had slowly faded away once Harry was with his friends again. The Sirius nightmares had remained with Harry since his godfather's death. They haunted him constantly.

When Harry awoke the next morning he found himself at the other end of the bed. It wasn't unusual for this to occur as during the nightmare Harry moved around a lot. His dorm mates had worried about him in beginning but it turned out there was really nothing they could do, except express their empathy for Harry. Ron explained that Harry did not want to talk about it and it was never spoken of again around Harry.

Harry was sick of these nightmares. He was sick of grieving for Sirius. It was time for him to do something about it. Harry quickly got out of bed and quickly got dressed. He then headed to the American's common room with only one thing on his mind.

"I want to know how to bring Sirius back" Harry stated once he entered the common room from the portrait it could be found behind.

Everyone except Dawn, who was still asleep, was in the common room by the unlit fire. Piper was brushing Wyatt's hair while Leo (who had been gone all Friday) was keeping him entertained by rolling a ball back and forwards. Buffy, Willow, Paige, Phoebe and Xander were all on the various couches eating the toast someone had gotten from the breakfast table. Giles sat at one of four desks in the room correcting half of the sixth year's herbology essays. Professor Sprout was marking the rest.

Buffy opened her mouth to speak, but it was Giles who interrupted.

"You can't. Not with our magic's. People come back wrong." Giles noticed Harry was about to say something so he continued before Harry could get a word out. "Buffy is fine now, but she was taken from Heaven. It wasn't a pleasant experience for her. It took a lot of time for Buffy to adjust to the world again. There are also greater consequences when you disrupt the natural order. Brining Buffy back was the reason the First was given and opportunity to eliminate the entire line of Slayers. You're godfather seems like a man who would be in the place Buffy was, I don't think you'd want him to be put through that or allow him to be the cause of something horrific"

Harry did not the sound of that answer at all. He didn't care if Sirius was in heaven. He didn't care if it somehow created another near apocalypse. Harry just wanted him back.

"But Sirius doesn't want to be in heaven. He doesn't want to be dead" Harry stated with forced calmness in his voice.

"I didn't want to die either Harry, but once I was gone I didn't really want to come back" Buffy explained.

"But you did. You're friends brought you back because they needed you. I need Sirius so why won't they do the same for me?" Harry argued.

Hearing Harry's voice Dawn had made her way down the stairs to the common room. She looked at Harry knowing exactly how he felt. She had been through the exact same thing with her mother. Dawn had even insisted that Spike help her bring her mother back. Dawn would have done anything to have her mother alive again, even now. But she knew that wasn't possible.

"I know how you feel Harry. But-"

"You don't. You don't know anything about me. I've known you for only a few months" Harry had stopped trying to be calm. His anger was rising. "You didn't see the only thing you've had that acted like a parent and brother towards you die. YOU DIDN'T CAUSE SIRIUS TO DIE, I DID!"

"Don't talk to her like that" Buffy snapped at the young boy.

Dumbledore may have been the type to allow Harry to yell at him, but Buffy was not going to allow Harry to speak to her sister in that way.

Harry ignored Buffy's comments and looked to Piper who was now standing next to Buffy listening and watching Harry's outburst. She knew he was now looking at her for answers.

"I can't do anything Harry. The Elders, Leo's bosses, control this sort of thing. They won't let you to bring Sirius back. You have to accept that Sirius is gone. Once Death takes a person that's it." Piper answered, calmly and rationally.

She surprised that she could talk about it so easily since she had experienced a similar feeling when Prue died.

"They won't allow me to bring him back?" Harry questioned furiously. "What I have to have some stupid permission slip or something? Because the only person who would sign my permission slip is the person who died! Don't tell me you can't bring Sirius back. You're the Charmed Ones! You're meant to be the most powerful witches of your magic and you can't bring beck someone who fought on the good side?"

"We can't" Phoebe repeated what everyone else had been telling Harry. "Death isn't like monopoly. There's no get out of jail free card"

"LIAR" Harry spat. His rage had reached its highest level. "You can find a way. Turn back time or something. JUST BRING SIRIUS BACK!"

"We can't. You know this Harry." This time it was Willow who pleaded with Harry to understand.

Harry knew he was defeated. He knew they weren't going to bring Sirius back. He believed he hated them for it. Just like he thought he hated Dumbledore a few months ago. In Harry's unconscious mind he knew that Sirius couldn't come back. He knew that he was just clinging to anything he could. He knew that if the Americans could help him they would. But Harry's mind had blocked that out. It had blocked all reasoning.

With nothing more to say Harry left the room, smashing a vase on a small table as he left. There was nothing really in smashing the vase, he just felt like getting some revenge.

"I'm going to go find him" Paige said getting up from the couch. "I have a feeling I'll be able to help"

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It didn't very long for Paige to find Harry. With her whitelighter senses and the fact that Paige and Harry shared a connection according to the prophecy, Paige could easily predict where he'd be. She found him sitting on some rocks, which overlooked the large lake.

Paige sat down next to Harry, and like him just stared ahead. The lake looked dark and dangerous, yet beautiful with all its mystery about what was in it. Quickly Paige came out of the trance and spoke to the young wizard.

"Did you know that a year ago Phoebe lost her baby?" Paige asked, but she didn't wait for answer. "Well the baby was kind of evil since its father was the source of all evil, but after the Seer stole Phoebe's baby and we vanquished her, Phoebe was left to grieve for her unborn baby. That's when Piper told me something very important"

Paige paused for a moment turning to face Harry now. He broke his stare and also turned to her. His face was stained with a few tears.

"Evil exists for one reason Harry. To spread loss. Your may have lost Sirius, but be careful not to loss you're friends."

"I just…" Harry began slowly. "..Don't know what I'm meant to be doing. I know I'm meant to be attending school and doing normal 16 year old stuff but…"

"Every other sixth year student in Hogwarts has someone they can call their parent were as you have no one anymore." Paige finished the sentence. "Believe me I know the drill. I was still at high school when I lost my foster parents. It was tough, but I pulled through and even ended up as a social worker. I also didn't get to meet my sister Prue before she died. While I was still dealing with becoming a witch I did begin to cry unfair, but I dealt with it."

"You have a lot of death in your life don't you?" Harry questioned feeling pity towards the youngest charmed one.

She reminded him of his conversation with Luna as she searched for her things before the feast. That conversation had lifted him a little and this one was having the same effect.

"Part of being a Charmed one." She answered, shrugging it off a little. "You have to learn not to bury yourself in grief"

There was silence for some time as they both stared into the horizon until Harry announced he wanted to go back to the castle. Paige happily agreed and escorted him back.