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He walked around like a ghost hesitant and unsure of himself. He was silent when he moved, barely spoke but Sirius truthfully felt like he was getting closer to him, at least closer then when he had first arrived. He was no longer scared of Sirius but he was still hesitant. There was so much that Sirius didn't know about his son's life, about what he had been through. With what little he did know, he did not blame the child for being scared.

Just thinking about everything that could have happened to his baby boy terrified him, his son was so young but it was very clear that he was not treated well before. He had missed so much of his baby boy's life that it hurt. Already he was turning eleven. He had only had his son a month and the quickly approaching birthday was a continuous reminder of what was to come, like a cloud hanging overhead.

Sirius couldn't put it off any longer so he got Harry to sit down at the table. There was so much that needed to be discussed, so much that they needed to plan through. He was glad he had support for this talk. Both Severus and Remus were there for him and his son. It wasn't often that they were around but it was on often enough that Harry was use to him and for this, Sirius really needed them there.

Harry came in more hesitant then normal, it was clear that this was no normal meeting. He glanced up through his bangs, meekly as he took the seat that his dad asked him to. "Harry, we need to talk because you soon are going to start school," that actually seemed to pain Sirius to say. "We need to talk about some things before you go."

"Alright" he whispered glancing up at them, he barely met their eyes before glancing back down at his hands.

Sirius wished that his son was not afraid to look him in the eyes but accepted what he got. "Okay Hyderen, you are supposed to start at Hogwarts in September. We have some problems with that and we all need to decide how to deal with it."

"Because I'm a necromancer," Harry stated, he had heard that word a lot since coming here. It was not a word he had ever heard before that but he had quickly learnt that it was not something that he should want to be. It was something that worried everyone there.

Sirius looked at him seriously, "yeah, harry, necromancy is a dark art. I've never even heard of someone under 17 being a practicing necromancer. It is considered the darkest of dark arts and is barely legal. There is nothing wrong with you doing it, you were just a young boy when you were trained in necromancy."

They kept saying that, trained in necromancy but Harry was never trained, he was never taught necromancy, it was just something that was always there, he had not even known a name for it. "Wasn't trained," he whispered.

Even with their senses strengthened by their animagus transformation and in Remus's case his lycanthropy, they just barely heard the boy's words. "What do you mean by that," Sirius asked confused wondering if he had heard right.

Harry shrugged his thin shoulders playing with his finger nails looking into his lap, "I've just always been able to do it. No one ever taught me how to do it."

The three adults shared a look before Sirius returned to the matter at hand. They would have to deal with that later, preferably out of the boy's earshot. "Alright, so you're unique," Sirius decided since there was not another word for the ten year olds ability. He did not think his son was lying which meant that he was likely more powerful than any of them had originally thought. "The thing is Harry, the headmaster at Hogwarts is very...light focused. He is obsessed with it really and so are a lot of students so no one can find out what you can do for your safety because I don't know what they would do about it."

"I'll hide it," Harry stated quietly though they all heard.

If only it would be that easy but they knew that it wouldn't be. "Harry, your dark not just a bit dark but extremely dark. Your magical orientation doesn't matter to us but it matters to a lot of people and Dumbledore's one of them. The wizarding world thinks of you as almost a hero because you survived the killing curse...which if you were not trained in necromancy may be the reason for you surviving," Sirius added as a second thought. Necromancy was death magic in the strictest sense, it could explain so much if he was a natural necromancer. "No one can be given a chance to read your magic as is dark as it is."

Harry understood his reasoning's. Sirius had made it very clear that he did not hate Harry for what he could do, as did the others but he knew it scared them. Maybe they weren't scared of him but they were definitely scared about what it would mean for him.

Severus spoke up deseeding to give all the background Harry would need to understand the situation, he doubted that the boy would have heard much of Hogwarts raised as he was. "There are four Hogwarts houses, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Gryffindor for the brave and the bold, both your fathers were Gryffindors. Slytherin for the ambitious and cunning, I am the head of Slytherin. Hufflepuff for the honest and loyal and last but not least, Ravenclaw for the brilliant and studious. Frankly, you could fit into each of the houses in some way. Houses tend to follow in families but it is not necessary. If there is a house you really want to end up in, the hat will take your opinion into account. It's one of the big secrets behind the sorting."

There was a reason for this being said but Harry did not understand. "What would that mean for me?"

"Each house has its positives and negatives, Slytherin is considered the house where most dark wizards end up. A slight darkness to your magic would be accepted there however you do have two Gryffindor parents so you may not be accepted as openly as if you were born from a Slytherin family. You will be going to Hogwarts as Hyderen Black, not Harry Potter," Sirius felt like he should repeat that fact just to make sure his son would know. "We will be saying myself and another pureblood are your fathers, we won't name James. Our intention is for no one to place you as Harry Potter which gives us some leeway," Sirius stated, it was just a complicated mess and he wasn't sure if he was saying what he needed to. "We can work with you ending up in any house to pull attention away from you but we want you to fully understand before going."

Harry nodded, he liked that they wanted to explain things to him, no one else had ever done that for him before. "What's everything I need to know?"

"Gryffindors usually reserved for light wizards, no one will think you will be dark but you will be watched and expected to act a certain way," Severus Stated, "Slytherin is the house where dark wizards end up so it will be assumed you are dark. Hufflepuff is the house for the loyal, truth be told people don't think much of Hufflepuffs but they are a house where everyone sticks together. They accept those who are not accepted elsewhere. Ravenclaw, bluntly put is for bookworms. People tend to overlook them. The students with dark magic will be called to you. You have power but no matter where you are we can play it to your strengths."

Harry nodded, "Severus is the head of Slytherine but he will look out for you no matter where you end up," Remus stated. "We just have to find some way to mask your magic because honestly it is staggering how powerful you are."

"Alright," Harry whispered. "But how do you mask magic?"

The three looked at a loss when the floo flared up and they let in the three Weasley's, they were surprised when they were then followed by a set of thirteen year old twins. "Sorry we are late," Arthur said.

"Just in time actually," Remus stated. "We were discussing the magic thing," He tried to be slightly vague near the twins.

Arthur nodded, "Fred and George can help and I have what you needed."

Sirius looked unsure of it, he did not want to trust his son's safety to a set of 13 year olds, "Arthur I respect your sons but..."

Arthur cut him off. "They are mirror twins," Arthur stated, the twins glared slightly at that being brought up. "Even as their father, I don't know which is which. They can help protect your son Sirius."

After a moment of watching Arthur, seeing his confidence in the statement, Sirius nodded his agreement. He knew that if Arthur did not really think that they could help then he would not have brought them. "How," Sirius asked, "how could they help my son?"

"They haven't been told anything," Arthur stated wanting to assure Sirius that he had not broke the mans confidence, "they don't know anything beyond the fact that your sons magic is slightly dark. They are good at hiding their own magic, so much so that their own brother, sister and mother does not know ones dark."

Fred and George decided to ignore everyone else and went to where the boy was standing since he had rose when the floo went off. He was slightly in the corner, away from everyone else. Standing silently off to the side just watching through his bangs. "I'm Fred, this is George, are you aware your magic is black?"

He looked at their offered hands hesitantly but shook them not saying a word. George spoke up next, "I bet you do. You are going to have some problems at Hogwarts with magic that impressively dark. But I believe that is why we are here."

"Not that you should hide such beautiful magic, if only everyone could see the beauty in the darkness, the world would be a better place" Fred added finding the boys magic intoxicating, "what's your name?"

"Hyderen," he whispered glancing up at them.

George shifted his hair so that he could see the boy's eyes. "You have very bright eyes love, you shouldn't hide such beautiful eyes Hyderen."

Sirius couldn't help but gape at the group of them. "Are you flirting with my eleven year old son," Sirius demanded.

The twins looked up at him meeting his eyes for just a second before focusing back on Hyderen. "So green eyes, you are eleven, you begin Hogwarts this September and wish to hide your dark magic orientation. If you trust us, we can help."

Harry couldn't seem to wrap his mind around the fact that these two complete strangers were willing to help him. "Why?"

The twins shared a glance before shrugging, "we get what it's like to want to be judged for who you are not which way your magic turns," Fred stated. "Dark wizards dislike light wizards, light wizards dislike dark. It's stupid since it is just magic. Both magic has the potential for great harm or great good. It depends entirely on your choice and you should be allowed to make the choice not be pushed into it."

"Dark wizards are put down as monsters early on, your dark, your bad, and you're evil. Well if they were given a chance maybe they would not have chosen to go down the bad or evil paths. Magic is magic, it is what you choose to do with it that defines whether it's good or evil. You use the killing curse to slaughter an animal for food. It is painless but it's dark and evil. You use a cutting curse, a light cutting curse and the animal dies slow, painfully but its light and good."

Harry bit his lower lip glancing down, when he looked back up his hair was once again covering his eyes. "So you are going to help me because you understand. Why else?"

He was not stupid, there had to be another reason. "Dad respects this Sirius bloke and is his friend, he asked nicely. If we knew you were such a cutie we may have helped quicker," Fred teased though he was glancing up at Sirius when he said it. The man was glaring down at the redhead but the thirteen year old was not phased. "Relax, relax, we are 13 and has 11...we will at least wait till he's 13."

Bill and Charlie looked at the twins like they lost their minds since that point did not make Sirius feel any better about the situation what so ever but they just grinned amused by the man's reaction. "Guess you got an over protective daddy," George teased but there was no malice in his voice. "All the more fun."

"Boys," Arthur warned knowing their sense of humor would not help this situation.

The twins winked at their father, Harry had a small ghost of a smile on his face. Sirius froze seeing it, Harry didn't smile so it was a shock to him. The twins smirked since they had managed what they intended by putting him at ease. "All work and no play," the twins said together.

"But on track we go," Fred said alone. "You want to hide, we are your go to people. Just having us watching your back will help. Weasley's are light and only light so we would never associate with dark wizards."

"Stupid but family reputations focus judgement. Now, you are absolutely adorable. You're going to have all the girls cooing over you," George stated as the twins walked around him reminding Sirius all too much of the hounds of hell. "We will help protect you on that, it does work in your favor though. You're too adorable to be evil."

"The best way to hide is being noticed or being one of many," Fred suggested, "we do both, we are some of the most well-known students at Hogwarts, we are out there and make ourselves known."

"But there's two of us and while we are known we are not noticed, no one can tell us apart. No one thinks of Fred or George it is Fred and George. While one of us is dark, to us it doesn't matter since people see us as a single entity."

"Notice, practice and magic. You can't appear dark or be noticed as dark. Be one of a crowd or noticed in the right way, we got your back on that. Practice, you can't be seen practicing dark magic, but at the same time you can't not practice. A dark wizard...the light magic used at Hogwarts can drive you insane. Slytherins are free to practice in there common but there are many hideouts in the school that we will show you. Places where no one will notice you using dark spells."

"Magic is last. Bill has that solution."

They got together and spoke as one. "There, business is handled, now time for fun little green eyes."

"As much as they are going to get there arses kicked they are right," Sirius stated annoyed at them but they brought up very good points, "House is a problem too however."

The twins seemed to have a silent conversation. "We can help with that as well, see there's a trick to the house system. First the hat lets you choose, second the choice itself, real simple. Choose any house."

"Now if you didn't follow that, any house he gets into he will be fine so relax a little. Slytherin you got Snape here...hello professor."

"Gryffindor you got us and we are completely awesome."

"Hufflepuff, well you got your crowd to hide in because you very rarely only have one Hufflepuff anywhere and most Hufflepuff are unapproachable, we are good because we got friends in the puffs so it won't be too strange for us to watch your back."

"Ravenclaws are always curious, that house would probably be your last choice but still workable. Bookworms, they look down upon it but accept that some dark magic practice is necessary based on the mere fact that it is knowledge. They value knowledge and dark magic is still magical knowledge."

"Settled," the twins said bluntly. "Let the hat decide because it in itself will play to your strength, simply say, which house will help me survive Hogwarts without being found out or ostracized. He's pretty cool about it."

Sirius pinched the bridge of his nose, "and now you know how I feel," Severus sneered seeing the pranksters annoyance, he found it extremely amusing, "having to put up with them both."

"I sympathize," Sirius stated knowing how wrong it sounded but it was his son. "They would be brilliant if they weren't flirting with my baby boy and now playing with his hair, really?"

The twins grinned from where they were playing with strands of Harry's hair. Arthur looked to his sons warning them before looking to Sirius. "I thought you may have liked to have a student at Hogwarts looking out for them. The twins are...well my sons and extremely loyal and were willing."

"Thank you," Sirius said since he was grateful for the thought even if he found himself having issues with them for other reasons.

Arthur nodded as Bill brought out a medallion. "This is also why we came, both Fred and George wear one. It blocks there magic from being read and also their minds from legimency attacks. It is sort of like a dampening field around them."

"Thank you," Sirius said taking it. "Harry do you mind wearing this at Hogwarts?"

He shook his head quickly as his dad handed it to him. The twins let go of his hair as he put it on. "Thank you."

"Your welcome harry," Bill said giving him a smile but the boy just continued looking down at his feet.

The adults began discussing other important aspects of the powerful child's entrance to Hogwarts but the twins seemed to focus more on his unease. "We will look after you Harry, I don't know why so I cannot give the reason. There is something about you that screams for us to take care of you so we will," Fred said to him quietly.

"Please accept our help, even if you can't we will do it, we would really like to get to know you better," George added whispering in his ear. "Would you care to be our friend?"

He glanced up at them, "you don't know me," he whispered unsure of himself.

The twins shrugged, "but we will," they answered together.

Harry bit his lip before glancing to his dad. "Dad," he said, his voice still quiet and hesitant but it did seem to echo through the room. Sirius turned sharply hearing his son calling for him. "I'm going to go show Fred and George to my room so we can play a game. Is that okay?"

Sirius wanted to say no not trusting the twins but was just amazed that his son was taking so well to another person his age. He put away his own unease at the situation and nodded, "door open though, I don't trust those two."

The twins pouted dramatically, "That hurts," they said together though they were very pleased at Harry's decision to invite them upstairs. To them, he had seemed to make his choice. He accepted them both.

Harry slipped up the steps not making a sound though Fred and George followed, telling him all about Hogwarts both the good and the bad.

Severus looked to Sirius finding far too much amusement in the situation and the Gryffindors unease. "Karma," Severus stated causing Remus to bite back a laugh.

"What was that," Sirius demanded.

"Karma for your time at Hogwarts," Severus stated. "Your son's first friends are exactly like you and James Potter. It is Karma."

Sirius sputtered, "we were not…we…no."

"You were worse," Severus returned without hesitation. "It is Karma."

Sirius muttered something derogatory about Slytherins but Severus just smirked.