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HARRY POTTER & THE MARAUDER'S FIGHT

Chapter 3 : 'Serious Sirius'

Harry had absolutely no idea how he had passed a whole month in the Dursley household . They were unusully silent (not that he minded) and ignored him most of the time . ' Must be afraid that my lot would come barging in any moment ' Harry thought gloomily . Just then Pig flew inside through the window and crashed on to Harry's bed . Harry ran his fingers through his hair annoyed . Why couldn't they just leave him alone ? He had told others clearly – that nobody was to contact him unless he tells them to . Yeah…the boy-who-lived isn't even entitled some lone time . Harry snatched the letter from Pig , who , immediately was on it's way back . The letter was teared into pieces and thrown in the dustbin uncerenimously . Harry might have thought that his actions were harsh but didn't have time to regret as there was a knock at his door.

'Come in.'

Dudley came in looking very nervous . ' Umm…you have some visiters ' he said .

' Who ! ' Harry asked surprised .

'Dunno…but w-whatever t-they are you better send them away before mum and dad come back from the Polkisses' ! ' Dudley stuttered , ' and t-tell them to s-stay away from my room ! '

' But wha- ' Harry started to say but Dudley had gone . He sighed and took his wand out just in case and started his way downstairs . He crept into the sitting room silently . ' You can never be too careful ' Harry thought ' Great ! Now I am turning into Moody ! '

' Good evening , Mr.Potter ' a deep voice said from over the sofa.

Harry was startled . His eyes went wide as he looked at the source . Goblins !

' We know you will be surpised to see us here , Mr.Potter ' said the goblin , ' Quite expected of course . Dumbledore told us you were not to leave the house and neither have any visiters…with the dark times surrounding our world.' he gave Harry a pointed look. ' My name is Gobbleguck – incharge of the wizard inheritance branch at Gringotts . ' Harry just nodded listening to the old goblin curiously .

' In the light of recent events- ' the goblin said shuffling some parchments on his lap , ' -that is, the untimely demise of Mr. Black- ' Harry gave a jerk with a mixed expression of shock and sadness on his face .

'Look-you must have been mis-'

' We know , Mr. Potter ' Gobbleguck cut him off , ' This- ' he said showing Harry an old yellowing parchment , ' is the Black family will , which now states , that all the gold in the family vault as well as in Mr. Sirius Black's vault belongs to HARRY JAMES POTTER godson to the last of the Blacks along with the Grimmauld Place house as wished by your godfather himself . ' He passed harry the magical contract . 'Mr. Black had requested us to duly inform you of your inheritance personally in case he passes away . So we took special permission from Dumbledore to visit you.'

Harry gulped this information painfully as he was reminded of sirius .

'But the ministry- '

' - is not entitled to interfere the in buisness of Gringotts . It does not have any authority over any of the vaults and hence will not know anything of the vualts and house which , now , is yours . The magical pact between Wizards and Goblins states so and it cannot be broken by either of them . '

Harry was relieved as well as unhappy because sirius was still widely considered as a deatheater.

'Mr. Potter- ' the goblin continued seriously , ' -if you will not reveal it to anybody . I have an off the record message from Mr. Black to you . He wants you not to regret anything that has happened and accept whatever he has left for you . ' The goblin got up and handed Harry the keys to the vaults.

' Thank you very much for telling me all this . ' said Harry quietly.

'Don't be greatful Mr. Potter – it is an obligation to our customers . Good night and Good luck . We hope that victory be yours , though the goblins will be nuetral throughout . '

The goblin vanished with those words.

Harry blinked . How could he possibly know ? I thought only me and Dumbledore knew . . .

He slowly examined the long golden keys . One had numbers imprinted on it but on the other some fading words were engraved . Harry couldn't read it . He sighed dissapointedly . As far as he knew Gringotts did not engrave anything apart from numbers on their keys .

' Sirius… I miss you a lot . ' Harry turned back to go up to his room and just as he did that the words on the shined brightly that Harry was blinded for a moment .

' Marauders forever … ' Harry whispered the words .

Remus stared out of the window absently with unshed tears . I wonder how Harry must be doing when even I cannot forget him . But harry is strong – he will live through the roughest.

' The dead do not truly leave us , Remus . Sirius will always be with us . ' Remus recalled the wise headmasters' words. Where are you then , Sirius ? Remus sighed . Have you abandoned us forever ? Tell me that it isn't so …

Remus was suddenly blinded with a bright light enlightening the room . He had a vision of Harry holding a key with the words ' Marauders forever ' engraved on it .

' Of course ! ' Remus whipered excitedly , ' Sirius loved saying that ! You are really here Sirius ! I will never forget you , mate . '

But why was Harry holding that key ? And why it been engraved with those words . . .

' Ron ! Move aside ! ' Hermione shrieked , ' You are blocking the doorway ! '

'Calm down , 'Mione ! ' Ron said moving aside . He had been ecstasic when he heard that she would be spending the summer holidays with them . But now he was beginning to think that it was a bad idea . She got irritated at small things and lectured a lot too . They both had been bickering all day whether they should tell Harry about the book or not ( ' Ron ! Be reasonable - we can't put it in the letter - it can be intercepted ' Hermione had argued .)

CRACK!

' Fred ! George ! Must you always apparate like that ! You scared the living daylights out of me ! ' Hermione shouted at them . Fred and George merely smiled .

' That's us – the scarecrows . ' Fred said with pride .

' Anyway . . . what are you two love birds bickering about ? ' George asked . Ron turned beet red . Hermione , however , ingored them and stomped out of the room .

' So….. ' Fred started to say .

' What are you not telling Harry ? ' George asked conversationally .

' That's not my idea ! ' Ron said earnestly , ' Hermione wants to keep it a secret! I- '

' RON ! ' Hermione barged into the room , ' You idiot ! Your room is a mess ! Mrs. Weasley asked you to clean it up ages ago ! Come on – I'll help you . ' She dragged him out of the room leaving two curious twins behind . When they were safely away from Fred and George , Hermione rounded on him .

' Well … do you have anything to say ? ' she said dangerously .

Ron was confused . ' I don't understand ! I just did my room yesterday ! '

' Not that ! ' Hermione exasperated , ' You were about to tell the twins our secret ! '

' Oh ! ' Ron's eyes widened , ' I didn' realise – I am sorry . '

' Sorry ! ' Hermione was furious, ' YOU ARE SORRY ? Did you- '

' Anyways- ' Ron cut her off getting irritated , ' I wasn't the one who irresponsibly went down to knockturn alley to spy on death eaters . How brave of you. I am really impressed but . . . what will others say if they knew that a prefect an the only sensible of us three did something that careless ? ' Ron stepped into the kitchen whistling innocently .

Hermione was so angry that she didn't see two pairs of 'ears' fly back to their owners .

' Well that- '

' -was interesting . ' George completed his brother smirking .

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