When Sirius and Lupin came out of the fire in the kitchen they noticed Harry sitting at the table waiting.
"Well I'm sure tonight was a very interesting and confusing, especially for you, huh, Sirius?" Harry asked with a lifeless laugh.
"Yeah, you could say that," Sirius answered him and Lupin sitting on either side of Harry.
The three sat there in silence for a while debating how to start the conversation.
"So I guess I should start," Harry stated sounding tired. Sirius and Lupin sat there quietly waiting for him to start. "Okay, well the thing with Dumbledore first."
Sirius and Lupin sat up straighter eager to hear this. Harry sighed, "Last year he was giving him private lessons that would help me defeat Voldemort."
"What like advance dueling?" Sirius asked, sharing a uneasy look with Remus.
"No, he showed me all the memories he had and memories he got from other people that were important about Voldemort earlier life," Harry said.
"Um…ok," Sirius said at a loss as to how that would be important.
"He wanted to show you that so you'd have better understanding of Voldemort?" Remus asked, after thinking for awhile.
Harry smiled and nodded his head, "Yeah and so I know what kind of things were important to him. One of the memory's we looked at I had to get, Wait this makes sense just wait a sec," Harry added seeing both adults going to interrupt.
Sirius and Lupin waited, reluctantly seeing as they had no idea how that was going to work.
"The memory I did end up getting and…" Harry trailed off.
Both Marauders were waiting for Harry to continue, scared of what that particular memory held.
"Horcruxes. That's what the memory was. It explained what they were," Harry explained in a whisper.
"What are they?" Lupin asked.
"Horcruxes can be anything, you chose what they are but you need a lot of Dark Magic to make it a Horcruxes," Harry paused collecting himself to say the next part. They adults in the room seeing this got more nervous.
"There's a spell that you can do that tears your soul apart. Horcruxes are the things you use to put the pieces of your soul into, to protect it," Harry finished and then paused because Lupin gasped.
"Voldemort did that, didn't he? That's why he didn't die when you were baby because he still had another part of his soul out there?" Lupin questioned, eyes wide with horror.
At Harry's nod both Marauders went deathly pale.
"That's why its important to know what he considers important," Harry said finally putting everything important.
"But that doesn't help. I mean this memory you pulled how do you know if we can trust it? And how do you know these are things Voldemort conceded important?" Sirius said frantic to disprove this theory.
Harry watched his godfather get more frantic through out his questions and also Lupin nod in agreement. Both Marauders were looking at Harry after Sirius finished and almost started yelling when he shook his head. But a hand stopped them.
"Its true. The person I got the memory from was the same person that told Voldemort. In fact that very memory was the one where he was explaining it to Voldemort. And we know it's things he values because we've already destroyed a couple," Harry explained, pleading them to believe him.
At the end of Harry's explanation both knew it was true, The way Harry said it, how you could tell he wished he was lying., the plead for them to understand. And it shook them very much. It wasn't until minutes later what Harry had said sunk it.
"What do you mean, you've already destroyed some?" How many are there?" Sirius asked, voice shaky. He looked to Moony to see him white and also shaken.
"He split his soul into seven parts, I'm sure you know why," Sirius and Remus paled even more, yes they knew, because seven the most powerful number.
"One part was destroyed that night when I was a baby, another when I destroyed the diary in the Chamber of Secrets, and Dumbledore destroyed on last year," Harry explained, sounding even more tried.
"So that's four left, one of which is in him and the other three who knows," Sirius concluded, exasperated.
"Actually one of the three is a necklace and the other two are probably Gryffindor and Ravenclaw's, things that belonged to each of them."
"How do you know that?" Lupin asked, shocked.
Harry then told them how he and Dumbledore had talked about it and come to that conclusion. He also explained what happened that night, Dumbledore died. How they went after a Horcruxe and after everything it had already been taken. After that everyone sat in silence. Moony and Padfoot letting everything sink in and Harry giving them the time to do so.
"So, then I take it you know about the prophecy?" Sirius asked already knowing the answer. Harry just nodded.
"I can't believe him!" Sirius yelled, making the other two jump in surprise. "It's not fair for him to do this to you."
"Sirius," Harry interrupted what he knew was gong to be a long rant. "I don't like it either but we can't change it. We just have to deal. Besides the sooner this is all over with the sooner I don't have to worry about him," Harry stated, telling Sirius he didn't want to about it and he'd just have to accept it.
"I still don't like it," Sirius muttered. And Harry and Lupin smiled at Padfoot's need to get in the last word. They say there a little longer letting it all settle until Lupin looked up suddenly and stared at Harry.
"What?" Harry asked, not liking the staring.
"If you're gong to do this, don't you think school would be really good?" Remus said remembering the school situation.
"I'm not going back because I've already graduated. Dumbledore knew that after I learned all this, I wouldn't want to go back. So he told me along with everything else I could also take extra lesson that would teach me everything I'd learn this year. Sort of like summer school but during the school year," When he finished he thought he would burst out laughing at Sirius and Lupin's expressions. They were astonished that he could do such a thing.
"So that's why you were studying so much," Remus decided. A look of understanding when Harry smiled.
"Sort of. Yeah, I was doing that but I was also ordering books left and right about Defense, Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Herbs and the Dark Arts. Because lets face it Hogwarts doesn't exactly train you for something like this," Harry smiled.
The two sat there in shocked silence as those words and there full meaning hit them.
"So not only did you get down your sixth year curriculum down, but also your seventh year, and studied all that other stuff," Sirius asked disbelief on his face.
"Yeah," Harry said amusement on his eyes but their looks.
Then before he knew both got up and had in a hug.
"We're very proud of you," Lupin said.
"Yes, we are. There's no way we could put into words just how proud we are," Sirius said.
"Thank you," Harry said hugging back, feeling happy.
After a couple seconds all three let go, of felling a little embarrassed.
"So…uh," Harry tried unsuccessfully to get to the end of the embarrassment,
"Why don't you like Molly anymore?" Sirius asked and seeing the questioning looks explained further. "I just noticed you seemed rather distant from her tonight both physically and socially. Plus whenever she talked to you or you talked to her, you'd get all tense like you wished she'd just be quiet," Sirius finished, still to be looked at questioningly. "What?" He then asked annoyed a couple moments later.
"Nothing, I'm just shocked you had the insight to realize that," Lupin answered, a smile at his lips.
"Hey, I'm very insightful," Sirius replied indignantly.
"First, I've noticed," Harry teased, and him and Lupin laughed at Sirius' glare.
"But what really happened?" Sirius asked after the laughter had died down.
"Well she jus got annoying, you know?" When Sirius shocked his head, he continued. "At first when you died, she tried taking your place. You know telling me what to do and saying I couldn't hear anything about what the Order was doing because I was so young. That really annoyed me because if anyone was going to take your place as my guardian, I thought it should be Moony-"
"Yeah, it should have!" Sirius yelled annoyed already.
"-But she felt differently. Saying Moony wouldn't be able to handle it and how she was more able to." Here Harry snorted along with Sirius and Lupin looked like he was trying not to show any displeasure at Molly for that certain remark. "But what really got me was when, after I told her Moony was the one I considered my guardian now and to stop acting like she was, she said it couldn't be him. She'd never allow it because not only was he like you but he was physically not able to be there all the time. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out what she was talking about," Harry growled out. Sirius was also growling and Remus looked like he could murder someone.
"And then-"
"There's more!?" Sirius yelled, but was ignored.
"She said it wasn't as bad as being a convicted murderer and while Moony didn't act like he was still a kid, less then you did anyways. It was still bad enough and she wasn't going to put me in that situation. She also said she couldn't believe she let me accept you as my guardian, not that she had a choice."
By the time Harry was done he was breathing hard to control himself from blowing anything up.
"I can't believe she said that! The next time I see her.." Sirius ranted and cursed for the next ten minutes until turning to Lupin. "And you're still nice to her?"
"The reason I suggested we go over there for dinner was because of Ron and Hermione and the other kids. Believe me when I say that when I say I no longer go anywhere near Molly Weasley unless need be." Lupin argued back. This clamed Sirius down somewhat bit he still refused to stop pacing, in which he didn't even notice he starting doing.
Harry feeling the need to break the tension spoke up, "So guys we're going somewhere tomorrow."
"What?" Sirius yelled still angry.
"Going somewhere tomorrow. But it's a surprise, so I'm not going to tell you," Harry said smiling as he saw Moony realize where he was talking about.
"Yeah, I think that'd be fun," Lupin said smiling too.
"Wait. How do you know? I want to know," Sirius whined, anger completely forgotten.
"Well I'm going to bed now," Harry said standing up.
"Yeah, me too," Remus agreed.
"Wait, I want to know. Come on tell me please?" Sirius begged.
"Nope. You'll just have to wait," Remus said.
"If you don't tell me, you'll regret it!" Sirius replied a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Fine, I'll tell you," Harry smiled. "It's a dog park."
Sirius froze and looked at his godson like he was staring at a giant spider, "That better be a joke!"
"Maybe." Lupin reasoned, laughing with Harry.
They then turned to go upstairs to sleep ignoring Sirius' threats if that was true, and his whining to know where they were going.