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He got an even worse feeling when he heard great-grandfather Pollux gleefully informing the family that he was going to fetch a batch of Veritaserum, and telling Arcturus to take him into the cellar for an interrogation. He would be joining them shortly!

Thankfully for him Sirius, Remus, Regulus and Rabastan had been against Arcturus and Cassiopea's first idea of taking the intruder into the dungeons still in existence in twelve Grimmauld Place for a more throught interrogation.

-end of chapter four-

Padfoot was brought into number thirteen and straight into the cellar. Thankfully nobody seemed interested in knocking him around and he did not even touch the walls once.

He was secured onto a very sturdy chair and immediatly immobilized. He couldn't have moved to save his live, which as he reckoned, may well be the case here and now.

Rabastan and Regulus placed themselves guarding the door, the only scape route. Remus leaned against one of the walls and Sirius stood not far away from him. Cassiopea, Druella and Arcturus were the closer to him. No one said a word , they just remained there waiting for the Veritaserum to arrive and closely observating the intruder. There was no need to waste time with questions before being sure that the prisoner was providing them with the right answer.

Arcturus and Druella were extremely interested in his right hand, and he noticed that they were carefully observating his seal ring, the Black family seal ring, the same one Arcturus was wearing himself as Head of the House.

"My name is Sirius Orion Black, I am the son of Orion Arcturus Black and Walburga Black."

He carefully watched their reactions, Arcturus, Cassiopea and Druella were obviously puzzled, but not showing any reaction. The only thing they were doing was meaningfully look at each other. Sirius and Remus were baffled and also looking at each other, Rabastan and Regulus appeared to be as baffled as them and looking between him and this Sirius.

"You can't be Sirius Orion Black, Sirius is my brother and I would know him anywhere, besides, you are too old to be Sirius"

" Reg, I agree with you that he can't be Sirius but… look at him, really look at his face. You can't say that he doesn't remind you of your older brother and even more of your own father. He's most definitively a Black" said Rabastan.

" Father is dead" said Sirius who was looking at Padfoot and obviously comparing his facial features with his own, Regulus and Arcturus.

Padfoot knew that he really looked a lot like his own father and his grandfather on his father's side, Arcturus Black. He had never been more relieved about anything in his life.

"He smells like you Sirius and he can transform into Padfoot" was the only comment from Remus.

"Of course – commented Cassiopea" the werewolf would recognize his scent.

"Precisely" answered Remus.

Padfoot was quite confused, his family knew that Remus was a werewolf but this did not seem to matter!

"There is no way of reproducing an animagus form. I am the only wizard able to become Padfoot. Other wizards may become a dog animagus, they may even transform into a black dog but they would never be Padfoot" -said Sirius who was obviously the most puzzled of those present- "and he was most definitively Padfoot when we found him".

"Exactly" –answered Cassiopea and Remus almost at the same time-

Pollux came down with a flask. Veritaserum was a truth serum, Padfoot was sure that not many magical households had a ready batch of it. But he also knew that if there was a household where the bloody thing was stocked, you know, for a just in case kind of situation, that was the one in 12th Grimmauld Place, the ancestral home of the House of Black where in this universe either Pollux or Arcturus Black actually resided. One never knew when it may become handy during a family dinner.

"Well, I've poured into him more than the usual dose to make more than sure that he can't avoid telling us the truth. What is your name intruder?"

"Sirius Orion Black"

"When and where were you born?"

"1956 in 12th Grimmauld Place, London"

It was obvious that they didn't know what to do with such an impossible testimony.

"What were you doing today here in Grimmauld Place?" Padfoot had the feeling that they were unsure about what to ask after the first two answers. The impossibility of it all catching up with them.

"I was spying on the family"

Padfoot cringed, this should have been better worded, dratted truth serum. Such an statement in the middle of a bunch of paranoid hex-happy Blacks was definitively the last he would have said without Veritaserum as their thunderous expressions showed.

"How you dare?"

"The impudent whelp!"

"I never heard such a…"

"QUIET – bellowed Sirius, surprising his elders- Why were you spying on my family? " asked Sirius with suppressed anger, he was definitively not going to waste his time in unnecessary rants, he was going for the jugular with this one. It was after all his family this idiot had been spying on, his wife, his children, his nephews. All these who really mattered to him.

" I needed to make sure that this was not my reality, my universe."

" You would have noticed almost at first sight whether this was your universe or not. You appear to be more than a decade older than our Sirius. Why did you keep watching the family? " Remus as usual asked the most difficult questions going directly to the central point of any on-going discussion.

" I was curious. And … I was envious"

"Envious of what precisely?" asked Regulus, it was obvious that at least for Regulus this was a very intriguing situation, more than a dangerous one.

" Of this family. Of this Grimmauld Place. Of the kids being so happy and carefree."

" Well, -said Pollux-, this is all very upsetting and beyond believable but we need to make sure that he is telling the truth"

" You gave already gave me Veritaserum "

" And we will now be drawing your blood to do a Patia Potestatis, -said Cassiopea-. Pollux please go fetch some of the prepared vellum parchment in the library at home. It's still kept on the same place as usual."

"I don't really know what I find more upsetting, that you have Veritaserum on hand, that you have prepared vellum parchment in your library or that you are able to do a Patia Potestatis as if it was an expelliarmus " commented Remus sounding as someone who was actually very used to this kind of thing after having been on close contact with this family for a long time.

" What the hell is a Patria Potestatis? How do you intend to draw my blood? " Padfoot couldn't avoid to be very, very wary of this lot, specially of Cassiopea and Pollux working together-

" That's a very good question "said Regulus whilst Rabastan and Sirius nodded in agreement with him-

" What are they teaching them nowadays in that school? - said Arcturus -the Patia Potestatis will allow us to ascertain your affiliation to a determinate family. Once we drop some of your blood on the prepared vellum parchment and do the enchantment we will be able to see your ancestors for the last three generations. "

" It is a very difficult enchantment and I doubt that more than a handful of wizards would be able to do it out of their heads and without previous consultation of a book–mentioned Remus- on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the handful were present here today."

Once the blood had been drawn Cassiopea, Druella and Pollux chanted the words together and became…

N.A (to see the Black Family tree which appeared on the parchment you can go to the harry potter lexicon () and search for the black family tree) I tried to upload it here but it' regretfully not possible.

The Patia Potestatis showed exactly what Padfoot knew it would show, the family three from his reality, and if he hadn't been in such a dire situation he would have had a real good time enjoying the utterly astonished faces of his "elders and betters" as grandmother Druella used to say.

Those present in the cellar kept looking at each other, contemplating the family three shown in the parchment and mulling over the whole unbelievable situation.

At last, Sirius pointed his wand towards Padfoot and freed him.

" Well, the chap is a Black, he comes from another universe, or reality or whatever the hell that is, and he happens to be an older version of myself. Peachy, really peachy –Said Sirius dripping irony with each word-. So what about moving this charming conversation to a more comfortable place if possible with something strong to drink. We also need to include my wife in any further conversation, by the by, as well as grandmothers Irma and Melania, if not we may be sleeping on a coach for the next century or so. And let's face it, neither grandfathers' nor grandpa's back are up to it. "

" As much as it pains me to say it, you are right Black –said Rabastan- I need something to drink before I'll be able to wrap my mind around this one. "

They quietly moved upstairs reaching the entry hall and moving into a very comfortable sitting room. Where they found the three ladies of the house. The young brunette was introduced as Alexandra Black, nee Gamp, Sirius' wife and Alphard and Archies mother. The other two were well known to Padfoot being their own great grand mothers Melania and Irma.

" Violetta Bulstrode took the Greengrass girl with her own when she left. I'm happy it was her present and neither of the other mothers', she's a good friend and a very sensible one. Narcissa took Teddy, Alphard and Archie with her to Malfoy Manor until we contact her and tell her to bring them back. She obviously expects a pensieve memory of whatever happens and especially of whatever happened in the cellar. Andromeda went home and will deliver Ernie and Vincent to the Macmillans and Crabbes. I don't need to mention that she will be in touch and expect to be made privy to the same memory as Narcissa. Aunt Callidora and Lucrecia took Harry and Draco with them to spend the night at Longbottom mansion with Neville. " said Alexandra Black who obviously was a most practical kind of person.

" Marius and Clytemnestra drove home, just in case. We can call them at any time if we need them." Mentioned Irma.

Padfoot used the explanation to take a good look at Alexandra Black –nee Gamp- . The Gamp family was an old pureblood one an it was already extinct in his world , therefore this Gamp woman was quite unfamiliar for him. She wasn't too tall or too short, neither was she too thin or too plump, she was definitively curvy in all right places, good-looking andbrunette with intelligent blue eyes and a no-nonsense air about her. She wasn't what her mother would have labeled as "a chocolate-box-beauty" but she was definitively quite attractive in her own way.

" Marius wanted to remain here –said grandmother Irma- but considering that the intruder was obviously a wizard I thought it best if they were safely out of the way. "

He also took a detailed look around. The room was very big and well furnished but also extremely comfortable and obviously it was the sitting room of a family with small kids. He noticed many pictures of Harry, Alphard and Archie all around the place.

There seemed to be some sort of L-shaped sofa in one of the ends of the room facing some kind of black box which he couldn't identify at all but which seemed to be something Lily had explained to him ages ago called "telly" or "kelly" or something of the sort. That was obviously the favorite place of the sprogs as shown by the many toys and brightly colored containers nearby the sofa.

Once again he thought about the oddities of this world where his counterpart was so obviously Black but had no problems about anything muggle. Something that as he had seen during the party, separated him from the rest of the family, especially the older rest of it who seemed to consider anything muggle with the same sympathy he was used to from his own universe.

They were now seated at the other end of the room in more conservative armchairs. Arcturus and Pollux took place in a couple of wing chairs. As soon as they were seated the chairs seemed to have for them a footstool or footrest kind of thingy ready, which came out of the blue, also a mixture of muggle and wizard. Weird!

The rest of them just seated themselves around, Sirius with his wife, Remus in a nearby armchair between Cassiopea and Druella and Regulus and Rabastan together and closer than he would have thought respectable. Hum! That was really a most interesting development, thought Padfoot when he saw Rabastan confortable seat himself on the sofa with an arm around Regulus.

Arcturus as head of the House started explaining everything and the parchment with the Family tree was passed around. It was obvious that this was a development none of them would had thought possible, not even in their wildest dreams.

The questions about the enchantments used, the Veritaserum being up to date and other security questions were typical Black. No one would describe the family as naïve and trusting.

" How are we supposed to call him? –asked grand mother Melania- We can't call both of them Sirius, it would be confusing. "

" We could call him idiot for getting himself thrown in the middle of such a situation. As Head of his House he should have been more careful." said grandfather Arcturus with a show of his usual empathy-

Oh Home sweet home –thought Padfoot-

-End of chapter five -