Chapter 5: Our Solemn Hour

A voice in my head said You are on the right track Hermione. You just need to get Kreacher and to do that you need to find Winky. She is the only one who can talk to you as Dumbledore thinks that she is nothing but a alcoholic house-elf.

'Who are you?' I asked

'I am the Unicorn standing in front of you.' the voice replied. 'Dumbledore did this to me. You probably remember me better as the dog Prongs'

'SIRIUS!!!' I all but screamed at him. 'But how could Dumbledore do this to you?'

'This time it was because of Lilly.' Sirius replied. 'You see Dumbledore thought that he could use her to bring down Tom Riddle who I might add was made to become evil by Dumbledore when he became the headmaster of Hogwarts. He wanted to make Lilly the first female Minister for Magic, but when Dumbledore found out that Lilly was falling in love with Severus he couldnt let this happen so he gave her a strong love potion. This worked for a while and with James under the imperious he forced them to marry. The only problem with this was that one night while James was on a mission with Dumbledore the potion stopped working.

'Lilly found herself in the arms of Severus. This one night was enough. Lilly was pregnant and it wasn't James' child. Dumbledore realized what had happened and therefore needed to get rid of both of them. The only problem was Dumbledore refused to have them killed. He did to them what he has done to me. After they had supposedly died and it all came out that they had had a secret keeper Dumbledore concoted the plan to have me sent to Azkaban. I wasn't to find out till a while later that Wormtail was in fact working for Dumbledore. Actually it wasn't until I caught up with you and Harry in your third year that I realized what was going on. I hate to say this but I think that he has also managed to get Ron's allegiance. I am only telling you this so that you can try to bring him down. I know the whereabouts of James. Lilly and Tom but because Dumbledore has someone pretty much watching us all the time I knew it would be hard to get them to come with me. So I left them behind with the promise that I would come back to them once I had told you my story. Also I need to tell you that Dumbledore is up to something. I am not sure what at this point in time but it is something big.'

'You have to go dont you.' I said with a tear running down my face. 'Can I show the others what I have seen?'

'I would be careful who you share this information with.' Sirius replied. 'I am pretty sure that young Ginny Weasley can be trusted and I know that your brother and Harry can be as well but just be careful for me please. I don't know what I would do with myself if anything happened to you. Just remember what I said and find Winky.'

With that Sirius left. I went back inside as while I had been out talking to Sirius it had started to get cold and my feet were now frozen. I knew that when the others awoke as I wouldn't be able to sleep they would be just as shocked as I was with what I had heard from Sirius. I also decided that it probably would not be a good idea to tell Harry that Snape was his father as at that moment in time it would hurt him to much. I had a lot that I need to work out and the first thing was how to turn Sirius and the others back. I need Winky but getting her away from Dumbledore was not going to be and easy task.

Once the others had woken I told them about what had happened last night. I showed them as much as I could I just left out the part about Snape and Lilly. I aslo told them that we needed to find away to turn them back. It was decided that I would go and talk to the house-elves. I just wasnt sure how I could get them to help with out telling them to much. It seemed when I did speak to them that they where more than willing to help. The only problem was none of them had any idea how to get Winky out of Hogwarts. It seemed that someone had cast a spell over the school that made sure that none of the students could get a house-elf to come to them if school wasn't in session.

I knew that the only way I was going to be able to talk to Winky was when I was back at school. So I waited. I knew my time would come and in the mean time I would just have to try and work on a potion to help Sirius and the others.

It was on the day before they were all to get on the train back to Hogwarts when I was called to Hogwarts it seemed that there was going to be a new student at the school who was in their final year. This in its self seemed odd. As far as I could remember Hogwarts didn't take students from other schools. If the student moved to another country then they would continue going to their origianl school.

I got father to take me to the school as I knew I would need someone to talk to and something made me think that I would have to do some traveling of some sort. When I walked into Dumbledore's office I got the shock of my life. I couldn't believe what my eyes where seeing. There sitting in a chair was none other that Sirius Black. Only there was something not quite right. It looked like Sirius only he was younger.

I sat down and Dumbledore told me that Sirius had come to us from the past. It seemed like there had been some sort of potions accident in Sirius' time and as a result the potion had sent him in to the future. Twenty years to be exact. Dumbledore had called me to see if I would help with a cover story for Sirius. We needed to come up with a plausable story for him while he was here. As Dumbledore was supposedly working on a way to send him back to his own time.

It was decided that Sirius would become Alexander Malfoy. He was to be a long lost cousin who had become an orphan when his parents had died in a muggle car accident. The story was that they had been heading to muggle police station as they had supposedly witnessed a murder take place and needed to give a statement. When his parents had died he was sent to live with his only living relative Lucius. And seeing as Lucius already had two children at Hogwarts he had decided that he would send Alex there as well.

I knew that Alex would need clothes and things like that so I offered to take him with me so that we could get him all set for the beginning of term. Father was happy to help as he knew that mother would be over the moon at seeing Sirius again. She had been so sad when she found out that he had died (I knew the truth).

We took Sirius home with us and got him everything he needed along the way. When we got back to the manor I took Sirius upstairs. I knew that both Harry and Ginny where still here and that seeing as I had gone out to see Dumbledore they would be with Draco. I was right. They where sitting in the family room playing chess. It looked like Draco was beating Ginny which I have to say would not be and easy thing in the best of times but oh well. I walked through the door and the look on Harry's face alone was just priceless.

'James did that potion get you as well?' Sirius asked. 'Hang on you cant be James cause you have Lilly's eyes. Wait don't tell me that they finaly get together and have a son.'

'Oops sorry should have mentioned that before we got back oh well.' I said. 'To late know. Sirius this is Harry, Ginny and my brother Draco. Guys this is Sirius or should I say Alexander Malfoy.'

'Hang on Mia.' Draco said. 'What's going on here. Is this the thing that you know who was getting at about Dumbledore being up to something?'

'Must be.' I replied. 'I just can't see why he would bring him here unless he wants to send him back to do a job and needs the young Sirius to know about the future.'

'Um guys I am standing right here.' Alex said with a laguh.

'Sorry.' I said. 'It's just that we had an interesting night a few weeks ago and as a result think that you may have something to do with a warning we were given.'

I knew that we would have to catch Alex up on what had happened but I wasnt sure how much to tell him. I didnt want to cause any problems with the time line so I only told Alex stuff that was relevent to him being able to fit in at school with us the following day. It took us most of the day to catch him up on everything that he needed to know and by the time we all went to bed that night we were all exausted. Tomorrow as going to be a big day.