A/N: Hi everybody! I know, you want to murder me, because I haven't updated in awhile. Or forever actually.

To Doni,

And, I'm quite annoyed with this actually. An anonymous reviewer called Doni: One thing to say to you, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. In fact, I think I'd prefer if you simply stopped reading altogether.

Thanks!

Okay, I can handle concrit, in fact, I welcome it with open arms, but just insulting the story? No thank you.

Ahem, anyway, read ahead, darlings!

Sirius Black was finishing tidying up the kitchen when little Harry stumbled in, his hands fisted in his eyes, rubbing away sleep.

'Morning,' Sirius greeted him as Harry clambered on to a bench chair. Sirius went to the pantry and poured them some cereal, placing the patterned bowls down in front of Harry and one in front of him.

'Good morning,' Harry said, picking up his spoon and beginning to eat quickly.

'There are some people coming over today,' Sirius told him. 'They want to meet you.'

'Oh,' Harry said, his mouth full of Rice Bubbles.

'But then we're going to have a grown up talk and you can play in the living room with your train set, okay?'

'Okay,' Harry said. He didn't really want to listen to grown up talk anyway.

Sirius smiled down at him. 'Shall we get some toys down from you room and put them in the living room, so you're closer and I can hear you?'

'Okay,' Harry agreed, finally waking up properly. He skipped up the stairs up ahead of Sirius. 'I want my dragon book, the one with all the pictures, and the paper so I can draw, and my train set, and those little dragon toys that move,' he listed excitedly.

'Okay,' Sirius laughed. 'Though you know you'll have to clean them up afterwards.'

'I know,' Harry yelled back. He had now disappeared from sight, and there was banging coming from his room.

The doorbell clanged loudly, and Harry sounded okay, so Sirius yelled, 'I'll just go get the door.'

He didn't answer, so Sirius figured he was fine.

He opened the door, and there stood Sapphire Rose. 'Hi,' She exclaimed.

'Hi,' Sirius greeted her, feeling slightly disgruntled. It wasn't that he didn't like Sapphire Rose, that wasn't the problem at all. She was just always … there.

She flew in the open door and embraced him, her smell pervaded the doorway and Sirius closed his eyes sniffing the apples and freesia remembering …He shook his head, patted her awkwardly on the back and stepped away. Far away.

Sapphire Rose grinned. 'Aw, sweet.' She walked into the hallway calling out, 'Harry! It's Sapphire Rose!'

There was a thundering and Harry appeared, jumping off the step, his arms full of toys.

'Wow!' Sapphire Rose exclaimed. 'That's a lot of toys.'

'Sirius got them for me,' Harry said proudly. 'I take good care of them and always clean them up when I'm done.'

Sapphire Rose smiled. The doorbell clanged again and she waved Sirius away to answer it, who smiled as he departed, hearing their conversation and sure Harry was in safe hands.

'This is my dragon toy,' Harry was saying to her.

'Wow,' She said, acting impressed. 'It's a Chinese Fireball, isn't it?'

'I think so…'

Sirius pulled open the door, a smile on his face. There stood Dumbledore. 'Hello,' Sirius said, perfectly friendly.

Dumbledore simply nodded and walked further in to the house, following the path Sapphire Rose had taken, into the living with Harry.

'Hi,' Sapphire Rose exclaimed. Sirius rounded the corner to see Sapphire embracing Dumbledore caringly.

'You hug people a lot,' Harry observed.

Sapphire jokingly embraced him, 'Yeah I do, don't I?'

The doorbell rang again and Sirius went off to answer it. Many people poured in to say hello to Harry and then they all disappeared into the kitchen.

A red haired woman ran in quickly, gasping. 'Hello,' She said breathlessly. 'Harry Potter, yes? Where's the meeting, honey?'

Harry pointed wordlessly. Later, as the voices in the kitchen grew louder, and less formal, Sapphire slipped out. 'Come on, Harry,' she greeted. 'Come into the kitchen. Sirius said you could.'

Harry grinned and followed her in. 'How old are you?' he asked as they walked toward Sirius.

Sirius, about to reprimand Harry, missed his chance as Sapphire laughed and answered, 'I'm twenty six, same age as Sirius over there.'

'Huh,' Harry said.

Sirius grinned. 'She looks a lot younger.' He patted his hair vainly. 'She aged better than me.'

'Ha, ha,' Sapphire said, and then people started to come up to Harry, introducing themselves.

'I'm Minerva McGonagall,' a stern woman with a large bun on top of her head said. 'I hope to see you at Hogwarts some day.'

'Okay,' Harry smiled slightly.

'Sirius,' the woman said sternly, with a slight glint in her eye.

'Professor,' he said, looking a bit like a scolded schoolboy.

Sapphire moved through the crowd then, a plate of food in her hands. 'Hi, Professor!' She greeted loudly. She looked around at everyone, and with her mouth full, said, 'get over there and get some grub. Molly made it.'

Harry saw the flustered red haired woman from before spoon out some sort of casserole generously on to everyone's plate.

'Sapphire,' Minerva inclined her head. She turned to Harry and confided, 'along with your father, these two are the most mischievous students I ever taught. Ever.'

Harry grinned, stowing that away in the back of his mind for future reference. 'Oh.' He said.

Sapphire laughed and protested. 'We weren't that bad!'

Minerva turned to Harry. 'I once opened the door to a cupboard outside the classroom, finding them kissing!'

Sirius shrugged slightly, as if to say, what can you do? 'I remember that,' he reminisced. 'We had to clean out every broom closet in the castle.'

'Oh, yeah!' Sapphire remembered. 'And we had that bottle of Lemon Fresh cleaning stuff, and we had that water fight?'

'Yeah, that was the one,' Sirius said. He leant down to Harry's level. 'Professor McGonagall was the strictest of them all. She never let you use your wand in detention.'

'I wasn't that bad,' Minerva protested. 'Oh, alright,' she conceded. 'But it wasn't like you ever listened to me anyway.'

'Ha, ha,' Sirius said. 'How come I was so amazing in Transfiguration then?'

'Natural talent,' Minerva said grudgingly as she moved to say hello to someone else. Before she did, she leant down and said to Harry, 'come visit Hogwarts with Sirius sometime, okay?'

'Okay,' Harry agreed amiably.

Sirius patted him on the back. 'Should we go get some food?' he asked genially.

'Alright then,' Harry said. They moved past a group of Order members towards Molly, who held out her ladle with a smile on her face. She was warm and matronly, with red hair and pink cheeks, looking very at home wearing an apron with oven mitts on her hand. 'Hi Harry,' she greeted him. 'I'm Molly Weasley. Thanks so much for your help before!'

'That's okay,' Harry said shyly, clinging to Sirius' pants leg.

'What?' Sirius asked.

Molly blushed slightly. 'I was running late, Ron, who's Harry's age, didn't want me to go and then I couldn't find my way in your huge house!' She laughed at herself.

Sirius grinned and Molly spooned some casserole on to their plates as she said, "I'm sure Ron wouldn't mind having a play date with you, Harry,' she said kindly. 'He and Ginny get a bit lonely as they can't keep up with my other children.'

'Okay,' Harry nodded politely.

'Its settled then,' Sirius rubbed his hands together and made noises of delight as he took the casserole from her and set it down at the table for Harry.

Sirius bent down. 'Will you be okay here?' he asked. 'I just want to talk to some people.'

'Okay,' Harry said again, tucking into his casserole with vigour. Sirius smiled gently and headed off to another group of people.

All of a sudden, Sapphire was sitting next to him, as was Dumbledore. 'Hi,' Harry said cheerfully. At least he knew these people. Sort of.

'Hey baby,' Sapphire said, so excitable, just like a little puppy, almost bouncing in her chair.

Dumbledore simply nodded.

Harry squinted his eyes and put his head on the side, like a dog listening for something. 'Did you and Sirius really use to kiss?' He asked confidingly.

'All the time,' Sapphire winked as Dumbledore erupted into chuckles.

'Eugh,' Harry shuddered.

'It wasn't at the time,' Sapphire laughed. 'Trust me!'

Harry shrugged and began eating again. Grown ups were strange.

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