It comes out
It only took a little persuasion to get Harry into Lorraine's school, Rachel braiding her hair for the first day of school.
The rest of the summer was chaotic for Sirius. He had to work, buy Harry school supplies and clothes, and he also had an appointment with Cornelius Fudge, who wanted to make sure that Harry was well and healthy before going to school.
During all of these things meant that Sirius had no chance to talk to Rachel about Lupin. Every time he tried, Harry would ask him a question.
Sirius ceased the opportunity while Harry was in the living room, drawing a picture. Rachel was cleaning the kitchen.
Sirius came into the kitchen and casually leaned against the counter, as he watched Rachel wash the kitchen. She saw him standing there through the crystal clear window.
"You need something," she asked, but Sirius shook his head. "You know I don't like people in the room while I'm cleaning."
Sirius took a deep breath. "Rachel. . ."
Sirius broke off when he heard Harry coming down the hall.
"Sirius, why is the earth round?"
"Why don't you go get ready for bed? I'll tell you a story about the earth."
"I have to go to bed now," groaned Harry. "But it's only nine o' clock."
"You start school next week," Rachel explained. "You need to develop a healthy sleep routine so you won't get tired during school."
"Alright."
Harry was ready for bed in fifteen minutes. He only had to wait another fifteen minutes before Sirius came in. He was carrying a box that seemed to be rattling.
Sirius sat on the bed and set the rattling box on the floor. Harry eyed it for a while, and then looked back up at Sirius, waiting for his story.
"You wanted to know why the earth is round," said Sirius. "A long time ago, the time of our ancestors, there was a curious boy, his named was Ry Black. He wanted to know why the earth was not round, but flat. Everyone laughed at him. One day Ry had a bunch off people follow him around the world. Eventually people began to fall off the surface of the earth. Ry said to the people: 'This would not have happened if the world was round.' From then on, the earth was always round."
"Is this true?"
"No, just a made up story, by yours truly. " Sirius replied. "You wanna see what's inside the box?"
Harry nodded his head excitedly. Sirius placed the box on his lap and pulled out a white snowy owl. Harry stared at it.
"Nice, isn't it."
"It's so cute."
"She's all yours," said Sirius, holding out the owl for Harry to hold.
Harry hesitated before grabbing the owl. The owl hooted softly as Harry stroked her head.
"Wow," Harry said quietly, "For me," he looked up at Sirius. "Thanks."
"No problem, pal." Sirius said standing up. "Good night."
Sirius turned off the light and left, closing the door behind him.
A full week had gone by with only one eventful thing happening. Harry setting Fudge's pants on fire accidentally, or so he said.
Harry had decided to name his owl Hedwig, Rachel had bought all of Harry's clothes and school supplies, and Sirius had not talked to Rachel. He decided to grab the opportunity while Rachel attempted to make Harry's hair lay straight.
"You're fighting a losing battle." Sirius said from the doorway."
"I guess you're right," said Rachel in a defeated voice. "He still looks nice though."
Harry was wearing a pair of name brand jeans and a brand name pair of shoes and shirt. In fact, everything he was wearing had just come out.
"Harry, why don't you go feed Hedwig and let her outside."
"Okay," he said, and he left out of the room.
"Rachel, I need to talk to you."
"I know. The coconut oil was too much."
"No. . .what?" Sirius looked down at the floor and saw a lot of hair products that he had seen Rachel use in her own hair. He decided to worry about that later. He had more important thing to talk about. "I tried to talk to you about this earlier, but I couldn't bring myself to talk."
"What's wrong?"
"I guess this problem started when Harry was one. There's this man, who used to be one of my best friends, and I blamed him for James and Lily's deaths, when it was really my other friend Peter." Sirius paused. "I need to apologize. I need my friend back. Harry needs his uncle."
Rachel didn't respond immediately. She started to pack up her hair products, careful not to look at Sirius's eyes.
"What does that have to do with me helping you?"
"I need to find him," Sirius said quietly. "I need about a week, but I'd need to have the week out, and I would need someone to look after Harry. That's where you come in."
"Alright," she said, remembering how he welcomed her into his home. "What do I tell Harry?"
Before Sirius could answer, Harry came into the living room wearing his jacket and holding his book bag in his hand.
"Is it time to go?"
Sirius looked at his watch. It was five fifty. "Yeah, we'll leave from the daycare at eight thirty."
"And I'm going to be doing harder math and reading and that thing when you write the word in the right way." Harry was telling Ginny during breakfast.
"Wow," she said. "I can't wait to go to big school too."
"Harry can you come here for a minute?" Sirius called from inside the kitchen.
Harry went into the kitchen, where Sirius was eating a bowl of cereal. Sirius looked towards the door.
"Is it time to go to school?"
"Almost," he answered. "I need to talk to you about something. I won't be around this week, so Rachel's going to look after you."
"Where're you going?" Harry asked curiously.
Sirius chose not to answer that question, but instead he continued to eat his cereal.
"Okay," Harry said slowly. "I'm going to show Ginny all of my new school supplies."
And he hurried off. Sirius pretended that he didn't hear that. He had to eventually talk to Harry about girls. James had his first girlfriend when he was only five years old, and Harry didn't need one at such a young age.
Yay. I updated. I just saw the teaser trailer to the OOP and it is awesome. I can't wait for the movie to come out. I hope you all have a great thanksgiving. And don't eat too much. If you want to talk about my fanfic, Harry Potter in general, or if you just feel like talking, visit my forum. You can find it on my profile page.