AN: Happy Update, I hope this finds you well, or at least brightens your day. Just as with the last chapter, this is actually a month late for when I wanted to post it, but I'm getting better at updates, at least!
Chapter BR and BN: This story is not Beta'd, let me know if you find any errors, and when I update again I' edit them, since I can't figure out how to edit without re uploading right now.
Disclaimer: Siriusly? FANfiction. Duh.
Chapter Notes: Chapter Update Day: July 7, 2017
Previously: Voldemort appeared and Harry prepared to run. This can be be considered a kind of squeal to the last chapter.
Blood of the Enemy and Blood Wards: Voldemort Wins
It was late, as Hedwig came soaring into Grimmauld Place, and began making as much noise as she could. Sirius was awake, not able to sleep well in his childhood home, and came running.
"Hedwig! What's wrong? Here, let me have your letter." He reached for her as she settled on the table. Sirius read the letter and paled. Then he rushed to the Fireplace to Floo call the Headmaster.
"Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office," he called out. "Albus!" he yelled, and kept yelling, making as much of a racket as he could. Finally after a few minutes the Headmaster appeared.
"My goodness, Sirius what is the matter? It's the middle of the night, what has happened?" Albus was ting a dressing gown on, it was lime green with gold stars everywhere.
Sirius didn't even blink at Albus' outfit, too busy being concerned with his godson's safety. "I just got a letter from Harry, he says there are Death Eaters on his lawn!" Sirius nearly screamed, his godson was in trouble, oh god, he'd failed him, again. He couldn't breath.
As Sirius began to panic and hyperventilate, Albus paled, this was some of the worst kind of news. Just then an owl cam flying into the Headmaster's office with a notice from the Ministry. Albus read it and paled further. A Killing Curse had been cast, as well as quite a few other spells, and Harry was to be expelled and sent to Azkaban as soon as the Aurors could reach him. Albus conjured a messenger patronus and sent it to Moody and Shacklebolt with the instruction to meet him at Harry's home for defense and retrieval. Then he turned to the fireplace and grabbed some Floo powder from the jar on it's mantle.
"Move aside Sirius, I'm coming through. We need to get to Harry as quickly as possible." Albus tied his robe tighter, and rushed through the Green flames with a bit more Floo powder and a cry of "Twelve Grimmauld Place!"
It took maybe twenty minutes from when Sirius first got the note to when Dumbledore, Moody, Sirius, Remus, and Shacklebolt apparated to in the yard of Mrs. Figg's just a few streets over, and they could already see the dark mark in the sky and smoke and the light of flames. They rushed toward Privet Drive, but it was too late.
Number 4 was destroyed, with the remains of the three Dursleys on the lawn. The rest of Privet Drive was a burning inferno. Sirius made a chocked sobbing sound, and Remus gasped. "Search the area, he may have gotten away," Albus told the men.
They did not find Harry, although they did find the ruins of his invisibility cloak, broom, and photo album, as well as the body of an owl near the back corner of the yard. "Likely the Ministry owl went strait to him, and gave him away." Moody said gruffly. Remus stood looking at the remains as though in shock, and Sirius began frantically searching the ruins of the house, looking for any proof of his godson at all. Finally the Muggle Fire department arrived, and Shacklebolt and Moody had to forcibly drag Sirius away while Albus lead Remus away. Sirius was crying so brokenly that he had to be silenced as well as disillusioned to keep hidden from the muggles.
Shacklebolt went to the Ministry to report that the Aurors would likely have to control the fire, and Moody checked every so often that Remus was still breathing, he was so still. Albus left to see if he could find any other trace of Harry, but Sirius, Remus, and Moody stayed until all the fires were put out, well after sunrise.
Sirius and Remus were completely shutdown the next day, and slept, wept, and sat in solitude, no other company then each other. No one had told the rest of the Order. Mundungus Fletcher was missing. Albus and Moody both suspected that he was the one the Killing Curse hit, but neither mentioned it to anyone else yet.
The day after the News was filled with articles of "Boy Who Lived gone Dark" No mention of the Dark Mark was made, but the articles seemed to think Harry had been the one to kill is family and destroy his home and neighborhood.
When people began to frequent Diagon Alley the day after the articles, Harry Potter's dead body had been left on a pedestal, tied and hanging on a post, the words "Boy who DIES!" carved into every side. Under that was line "Bow to the Dark Lord."