Lorena Valdéz Black

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters. They are the property of JK rowling. I only own the new OC's which appear in the following chapters.

Harry woke up the next morning covered in a blanket and feeling someones hand on his head. As he opened his eyes, he realised he was in Sirius' room. After he fell asleep Sirius must have covered him in his blanket and Harry felt a rush of affection for his Godfather. He turned his head slightly to see Sirius asleep right behind him with his right hand resting on Harry's head, as if he fell asleep rubbing his hair. As Harry moved Sirius stirred.

'I hope to God no one finds out about this,' Harry muttered as he realised just how sick this looked.

'Harry, I'm your guardian, if we had been doing this since you were like five you wouldn't find this unusual now.' Harry attempted to raise himself, but Sirius kept a firm grip on his hair, 'No, you're staying. If you move you'll take all the warmth out of the bed with you and I'm not planning to get up for another hour or so.'

'Sirius?' There came a swift knock on the door immediately after his name was called out, 'You in there? Mrs Weasley wants me to call you for breakfast. Its all laid out, nice and yummy on the table. Mmmm.'

Harry recognised the voice as Lorena's and he turned to Sirius, who look back at him, but not making a sound.

'I know you're in there… With Harry. He's the only other person not down at the table… And the longer you stay silent the more weird this gets.'

'Enter.' Sirius yelled.

Lorena opened the door and stepped in, 'Thanks for such a formal entrance… Do you even want breakfast? I don't really.'

'I do, I'm starving.' Sirius said, throwing off the bedclothes and putting on his shoes.

'Nice.' Lorena said, 'You're wearing the clothes you slept in to breakfast.'

'Hey, I was hardly going to take off my clothes last night and sleep in the nip or whatever. I had a guest… Bad dreams.' He smiled, ruffled Harry's hair and walked out the door. Lorena looked at Harry for a few moments, arms folded.

'Not hungry either?'

'Nope.' Harry just lay back down, he wasn't exactly in the mood to get up right now, and decided he would stay a while longer in Sirius' extremely comfortable bed.

'We didn't really get a proper chance to talk yet… Hermione has been keeping me so busy with arithmancy and ancient runes.'

'Yea, she tends to talk about them a good bit.' Lorena took this eagerness to start a conversation as an invitation to join him in the bed. She took off her shoes and lay down in the spot where Sirius just vacated. 'I heard we used to be…erm, friends.'

'Ah yea, Sirius was telling you. He showed me some pictures the night I got here. Pretty cute, he has them over there.' Lorena lifted herself again and jumped, quite cutely Harry thought, off the bed over to a press in the far corner. She returned after much rummaging with a large brown photo album, and Harry's heart raced as he thought he might get the chance to see some more pictures of his parents. 'Basically all of his pictures are in here, so you'll see practically everything, like weddings and stuff from school too. They obviously weren't big on taking pictures…'

Lorena situated herself closely to Harry, propped up by a pillow at her back, he did the same and she proceeded in opening the first page. Harry's heart pounded in his chest. The very first picture was his parents, it looked as if Lily was holding the camera above their heads, she had her only free hand around James' neck. They were still wearing their Hogwarts uniforms, Harry guessed they were about seventeen.

'Your mum was very pretty…' Lorena muttered quietly, 'I always wanted red hair.'

There were numerous pictures, on many occasions of people that Harry didn't know.

'See this, this is my parents wedding. Everyone that was there can be seen.' Harry noticed a young woman who looked very much like Lorena to be standing in the centre. She had an incredibly long and fussy dress, which gave the immediate impression that this was a rich woman. Her hair was also long and blonde, which seemed so unusual for someone of the Black family.

'Your mum was Sirius' sister right?' Harry asked, Lorena nodded in agreement, still gazing at the picture, 'So, why was her hair blonde?'

'It's pretty common that the first born daughters to pure blood families have blonde hair… You see it sometimes with guys and sometimes it has nothing to do with the order of being born. It can also carry on if a pureblood marries a muggleborn or halfblood… Though it's not as strong. Like the Malfoys for instance, loads of their family has pretty much white blonde hair.'

Harry spotted his parents a little way back, James with his arm around his wives shoulder. Sirius was there, with a huge fake grin plastered on his face. Very little people in that picture he actually knew. Though, he did notice a very young Bellatrix Lestrange, then known as Black with her blonde sister, Narcissa. Tonks' mum Andromeda was situated beside Sirius, obviously not wanted by Bellatrix and Narcissa. Lorena continued to turn the pages. After telling Harry a few of the people in the pictures, they finally came to a picture Harry instantly recognised. It was him, just about a year old. He was a pretty chubby baby, and his eyes were clearly sad in the picture. Beside him was a smaller baby, just about seven months old, with a few blonde spikes sticking up on the top of her head. Harry was astounded by the picture, it was hard to believe that there they were… Right in that picture, but it was just as if they only met for the first time.

'Weird, huh?' Lorena said, as if reading Harry's mind. 'Just imagine what it would be like now if things went different… Would we hate each other?' She looked up at Harry and grinned, 'Or would be going out or something? …I knew Ron and Ginny as well, Ron turned out to be a bit of a dick though. Whether I'm death eater or not, does he really think he'd be the only one who could spot it?'

When Harry looked at this picture, he didn't feel as happy as he thought he would. Seeing the little blonde girl beside him, with her uncle who clearly loved her, and as soon as it all went bad for Harry it went bad for her too. She went back to Spain, to her father. Harry remembered what Sirius said. He reckoned that Lorenas whole family were dark. It was just so unusual seeing their baby figures sitting together, then being apart for years and finally reunited. It just seemed unusual to Harry that their parents had once connected them, and then suddenly, they were oblivious to the fact of each other, living separate lives.

'What happened….after Sirius was sent to Azkaban?'

Lorena shrugged and made a kind of a noise which was meant to be a laugh, but Harry knew this stuff actually pained her, She smiled up at him, 'Couldn't come back to England. My mum kind of lost her drive when Sirius was taken away. A life sentence in Azkaban is just like death. We only went to England during the Summer, and we stayed here. But… I mean, I could have went to Hogwarts,' Lorena looked up at Harry with huge brown eyes, tears brimming in them, 'I don't fit in, in Spain or Durmstrang-'

'You went to Durmstrang?!'

'Yea, when I was ten I started there. My mum was gone so basically, Papi could do with me as he wished. There wouldn't be any opposition to it…I even got my Hogwarts letter you know. I was going into second year in Durmstrang. I wouldn't have even minded doing the whole year again…' Lorena paused here looking away, Harry didn't know what to say to her, her youth was just as bad as his, 'But, whatever happens, happens. And it always happens for a reason.' She turned back to Harry and smiled, her eyes still red but with no more tears. 'Finally going to Hogwarts, whoo!!' She raised her arms in the air in mock celebration. Harry smiled weakly at her.

'So who are these people?' Harry asked pointing to a new picture. Another wedding picture of Lorenas parents, but with two more people in it.

'They're my grandparents.' Lorena grimaced at them as they stared out haughtily at her, 'They hate me. If you thought Sirius' mum downstairs was bad, you don't want to meet them.'

'Do they really support Voldemort?'

'My grandparents? No idea. I suppose they're too old. But I have some aunts and uncles who are death eaters. But, they're never usually in England much unless he summons them… I have to pretend I like them Harry,' Lorena added, seeing his face. He was shocked at her talking like it was an everyday occurrence, 'This is a war Harry. I could be killed. This is no time for stupid teenage rebellion. With my Dad its okay, he's hardly going to turn me into my uncles.'

'How do you know that your father…?

'I just do.' Lorena said shortly.

'What about your brother and sister? What years are they going into?'

'Carlos is in fourth…. I think. Honestly I don't really know about him. But Taina is going into first year. I don't know if her getting to start in Hogwarts is a good or bad thing actually..'

'What do you mean? You wanted to start in Hogwarts.'

'Yea, but. They teach you differently here than in Durmstrang. It's way more relaxed here, and I can't help but wonder if that's kind of pointless seeing as we're on the verge of war-'

'If you taught everyone to do the killing curse, I think the whole world would be a lot worse off.'

Lorena chuckled, 'I suppose, I never thought about it like that… Hey tell me, what are the houses at Hogwarts again?' Harry told her and explained all the different characteristics of each house.

'Where is Ron?'

'Gryffindor.'

'Then I'll be in any of the others.'

'I don't know. Sirius was in Gryffindor, you might be too.'

'So was my mother.' Lorena said vaguely, obviously thinking about something else, 'I'm going to be privately sorted. I don't want to have to hang out with loads of eleven year olds all day.'

'When'll that be happening?'

'After our lists come, which should be sometime this week sometime. And I think we'll get to go to Diagon Alley. Though that hasn't been decided yet because of your need for so much special protection.'

'Speaking of bodyguards.' Harry began, finally getting the chance to talk about the newspaper he had seen the first night he came here, 'Are you famous or something?'

Lorena grinned, 'Yea, not here though… Musician.'

'Really?'

'Yea, in a band. Pretty famous in Spain, and then America. But were never really able to get to Europe.'

'You're pretty young…'

'Yea… Everyone else is much older than me. They're all seventeen. I'm bored of it anyway. They'd never move here, so…'

'Missed breakfast.' Came Sirius' voice from the landing, he was leaning up again the door frame, 'Oh you were looking at that thing again. Molly is going mad, Harry, you might want to go down before she sends out a search party for you.'

'I'm honestly not really hungry,' Harry said looking back at the closed photo album in Lorenas arms just for something to do.

'Hmm, I'm sure you're not.'

'I'm off, my guitar calls.' Lorena threw the album to the end of the bed and left Sirius' room without a glance behind her.

'I'm going too,'

'Really? Already? Ron's been looking for you. Said the last time he saw you, you said you'd be back in a second. You might as well go look for him.'

But Harry didn't want to go see Ron. He was interested in the fact that Lorena had said her guitar had been calling. He was very interested in hearing her playing, if he could find out which room she was in. 'Sirius?' Harry turned around as he was leaving, 'Which room is Lorenas do you know?'

Sirius grinned, 'I'm pretty sure it's three, on the second floor… Remember what I said last night…'