THROUGH IT YET AGAIN

DISCLAIMER: If you read Harry Potter, you would know the characters and some of the places came from that book.

Warning: If you find someone or things who does not seem to belong to J.K. Rowling, then that would be my fault since I'm only using her work to create my own version of Harry Potter.

The muse strikes again as she hits the author with a hammer. The author dodges from every attack making the muse angry than ever.

Author: What did I do now?

Muse: Continue the story.

Author: After what you said to me? No, I refuse to continue.

The muse hit her with the hammer and this time she almost succeeded.

Muse: I told you it will jog your brain.

Author: But, but I'm already losing it plus I don't know what is happening to my computer plus my family is bugging me. I could not concentrate.

Muse: Find a place to work.

The author snatches the hammer from the muse and hit her fully on the head. The muse struggled to get up at the initial impact. She felt dizzy obviously.

Author: I don't have any place to go, idiot.

Chapter 3

Inside the tiny room

Sirius Black stood behind the locked door of the tiny room, his eyes at the boy sitting on a chair at the far side center of the room. He has been standing there for about an hour now wondering what was taking Moony so long. There weren't anything for entertainment in the place. The only furniture you could see was an old wooden chair, a table and another wooden chair directly in front of the other chair. The whole place was painted in a dull color of yellow. It was illuminated by a group of bubbles of whitelight that hung from above the ceiling. Sirius shifted on his feet, he was not sure why he preferred himself to stand up to now. He studied the boy which didn't seem to mind at all just sitting. In fact, he looked quite comfortable in his seat. Every so often, the boy would glance at him when he thought he was not looking. Sirius really felt strange around him. Somehow there was a connection between them but told himself that may be it was the image since the boy looked like James.

"Why won't you sit down?" the boy offered him.

It was the first words that came out of the lad since they went inside the room. He felt bad that they had to detain him there just because he had used wandless magic and the fact that he had driven out, no, obliterated a huge amount of Dementors all by himself at his age. It was not impossible that one can used wandless magic but it was rare and even the adults find this hard to perform because it required an ample amount of magic energy. It was really unbelievable that someone as small and a bit slim built like the boy could do it.

He suddenly remembered the offered seat. He forgot to reply and now the lad was looking at him obviously waiting for an answer.

Sirius fidgeted from where he was standing. He didn't realize how stiff he felt from his position and decided to sit. It shouldn't have bothered him that the boy offered it to him. The seat was not his to offer anyway but he did. Somehow they had a silent battle on who could stay longer in their places. He shrugged the thought aside telling himself he was being childish.

"How old are you?" he began to ask.

"Sixteen."

Sirius leaned forward to take a good look at him. "You don't look sixteen to me, you look fourteen."

The boy pouted that surprised him. He thought the boy was a snubbed and too serious for his age.

"I think I'm still at the stage of growing." The boy answered with an unconcealed annoyance.

Sirius laughed at the defense. "Of course. Of course."

The boy lit up with the same smile again the way Sirius saw when Remus offered to take him with them. He didn't know why he liked that smile. He figured it wasn't a gesture that the boy would give to anyone. It seemed his face has a permanent sadness in him that would never go away.

"So what are you doing in the hospital? Do you have an illness? You don't look sick to me. May be you had an accident. But you don't seem in an accident to me." Sirius ranted him with questions which he also answered.

"I'm perfectly fine. I'm not sick, I just found myself here when I woke up. I think I have an idea how I got here."

Sirius found himself enjoying their conversation and waited for the boy to tell him what was his idea but he didn't say.

"Well?" he asked

"Well what?" the boy raised a brow innocently.

"Aren't you going to tell me? "

"Tell you what?"

He understood. "I take it you don't wanna tell me."

The boy grinned. "Its a long story."

Sirius only sighed. He got curious but he knew the boy won't tell him anything.

"So you really can do wandless magic that powerful, huh." He started again.

"I didn't do it to show off. I didn't have my wand and did not feel the need to just stand there doing nothing."

Sirius nodded. He had a feeling it wasn't the first time the boy had performed the said patronus. "You don't seem bothered about your wand."

"I figured the hospital has it since I am wearing their gown." The boy shrugged.

He went back to studying the person in front of him. The boy had a messy black hair and green eyes which looked exactly like Lily. His thoughts wandered in the past about the baby of his two friends who died. Up to now he could feel a surge of sorrow for losing a godson as sweet and as loving as that child.

He shook his head and concentrated on the boy he was with. He noticed the lightning scar on his forehead which was almost not recognizable because of the messy hair.

"Where did you get that?" he asked pointing his head on the forehead.

The boy reached up and touched his scar. His face contorted with sadness.

"I'm sorry, did I say something wrong?" Sirius muttered guiltily. He must have brought up bad memories.

"No need to say sorry," answered the boy. "It's a long story how I got this."

The two fell silent until the door opened magically and Remus Lupin entered the room. He looked at the boy first then to Sirius who was now leaning back. He stood at once and walked towards him.

"What took you so long?"

"I signed a tremendous paper for release." Remus answered in a tired voice. The door closed behind him. He went passed Sirius to the boy who was still sitting.

"Sirius, go and ask Professor Dumbledore if we could bring him to our headquarters." He said looking at the boy who gasped at the mention of the name. He narrowed his eyes.

"Why? What's wrong Remus?"

"The parchment just arrived on who owns the wand."

Sirius waited for Remus to elaborate but he was struggling on how to continue.

"What did you find out?" demanded Sirius.

"It is registered to Harry Potter."

Sirius looked horror-stricken. It couldn't be his godson. He was there when they buried the baby James and Lily had. He couldn't be alive.

"You said your name is Mikel Enrin." Remus stated. "Who are you really." He put out his wand forgetting about the charm placed in the room.

"Remus, your magic does not work here. You know that. This place is intended for therapy and interrogation." Sirius said from behind him.

Remus put back his wand under his robe, feeling stupid at his action. He slammed his hand on the table at the growing ire he was feeling. "How in the world did you manage to pass up as Harry Potter. What games are you playing at."

The boy stood up and the two men went on alert. He just remained standing. His face serious again.

"You talked about Professor Dumbledore a while ago. I need to speak to him."

"Why? What do you want from him? Do you know him?" Lupin asked dangerously.

"I will tell you when I meet him." The boy said holding his ground.

Remus knotted his brows, the friendly eyes lost for good. "What if we hand you over to the ministry now."

"You just talked about bringing me to him."

"I changed my mind. We are an auror after all. What do you say about that? Are you going to tell us who you really are or you want to remain silent and be dragged to the ministry right away. Take your pick."

By now Sirius had recovered from the news and he moved in between them beside the table. No matter how Moony said, he won't let the boy be taken to the ministry. He developed a strong feeling for the kid at the little time he had spent with him.

The boy didn't even flinch at the words instead he met Remus eye to eye. "Then I feel sorry for you."

"Remus, Remus." Sirius called thinking what to say. "I think he should see Professor Dumbledore. I'll go and ask him now."

Moony was struggling to protest but from the looked of the boy, he knew he wouldn't get anything even if he force him.

"I really do think it is worth your life." Remus said finally and Sirius took it as an agreement and sped out of the room quickly.

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Third posted: Yipee.

Thank you for the review and the suggestion about the Beta. I had encountered the term before but I did not feel the need to search about it. Lets just say I'm a total idiot.