Chapter ten

Harry had begun to read the books that Susan owned about noble and ancient houses, like the Potters. He finally realised how dangerous it was for him to be uniformed. Now he was slowly learning what it would mean when he took the title of Lord Potter.

Susan and Harry's feeling were growing stronger, no one at Hogwarts saw one without the other and they were always holding hands or had their arms around each other. It wasn't unusual to come across the young couple snogging in some corner of the castle.

The first task had arrived, all the Hufflepuff's wished Cedric good luck. They decked themselves out in their house colours before making it to the arena where the three champions would face their dragon.

One thing had Harry worried, the defence teacher. Mad-eye Moody seemed to stare at him a lot, more than Dumbledore. But the looks he gave Harry were creepy and he was beginning to get a weird feeling about the ex-auror. The entire time the first task was going on, he never took his eyes off Harry, who couldn't help glancing at him from time to time.

One by one the champions faced their dragons, all ended up with some type of injury, but nothing bad considering they were facing a fire breathing dragon. The Hufflepuff's cheered the loudest when Cedric ended up in first place with the highest score. Now they had to wait until after the new year before the second task.

Susan received another letter from her aunt, the trial for Sirius Black which was being kept under wraps to limit who would know, it will take place the following week. With Dumbledore being occupied with the triwizard tournament, he had not been dropping into the ministry like he usually does.

Harry hoped everything went okay then Sirius would finally be free right before Christmas. Amelia wrote that when he was acquitted then she would explain how James and Lily wanted her as Harry's guardian. She would make sure Sirius got to spend time with his godson. She wrote that Ron, Hermione and Remus had been summoned to madam Bones's office. She had taken their memories of what happened in the shrieking shack then placed them under a secrecy spell to make sure they could not communicate about what was going on.

Professor Sprout had taken Harry to Diagon Alley, they saw the oculist who informed them of a new potion that would help people with low to medium bad eyesight. Harry was in that range. So even though the potion cost more than all his Hogwarts equipment, he knew it would be worth it.

Susan had kissed Harry the moment he arrived back and said now his glasses didn't get in the way when they snogged. That made Harry, Hannah and Neville laugh.

'Harry, you need to calm down.'

'It's so hard knowing what is happening right this minute. I just can't help thinking that something will go wrong, it always does for me.'

'We haven't gone wrong, your home life is now better than it was, you don't have to put up with those people anymore. I believe your luck has finally turned around.'

'Hey, maybe you're my good luck charm Miss Bones,' Harry smirked making Susan roll her eyes. Harry tackled her onto her back, he was leaning over her staring down into her beautiful eyes, 'I want to have a long life with you, have a dozen kids and live happily ever after.'

'That sounds like the perfect life Mr Potter, now kiss me.'

'Yes, ma'am,' Harry grinned then slowly lowered his head until he captured Susan's lips. They pulled apart when they heard a cough, both sat up, 'Yes Professor.'

'I wish to inform you that you will be staying at the Weasley's for the full holidays at the end of the year.'

'No, I won't professor, I have plans already.'

'Harry, you know the blood wards are what keeps you safe. Since I am your legal guardian in the magical world you will have to do what I say.'

Harry smirked, Susan chuckled, 'Well, you just proved that you're a liar Professor. You are not my guardian, I am living with my guardian now, well not now I'm at Hogwarts, but legally I live there now. You were not named by my parent's but my godmother was. So you see, she has plans for the holidays and it's got nothing to do with you or the Weasley's, thank merlin.'

'I am your legal guardian Harry, you will find out the hard way.'

'No you're not Headmaster. That is all you are to me, the headmaster of the school I attend. I have been thinking of going overseas to finish my education since the standard of teaching in this school has dropped dramatically. Now if you intend to interfere with my life then you will just find out exactly what will happen, or what I plan to do,' Harry turned away, 'Let's go somewhere private, this place is ruined for me now babe. At least my guardian was able to cancel that illegal marriage contract with that…witch,' Harry shuddered, 'I have the girl I plan to marry right here.'

'Damn straight you do mister, let's go find Neville and Hannah.'

Harry and Susan joined hands then walked around the furious Albus Dumbledore who couldn't seem to find his voice.

Later that day Harry couldn't eat, he just kept pushing the food around his plate. Susan, Hannah and Neville had given up trying to get him to eat. They knew Harry wouldn't or couldn't, not until he heard about his godfather.

Just as dinner was finished, the doors of the great hall opened. Amelia, two aurors and Sirius walked in, all were smiling. Harry got up and raced to his godfather, throwing his arms around him, shocking the entire school.

'I have an announcement to make,' Amelia called, 'Sirius Black has been cleared of all charges, he was found not guilty by the entire Wizengamot less than an hour ago. Peter Pettigrew who is alive, has now a warrant for his arrest for the murders of twelve muggles and for betraying James and Lily Potter to Voldemort.'

Harry let go of Sirius then hugged Amelia, 'Thank you, so much Amelia.'

'You are very welcome Harry. Now Sirius has a port key so he can leave, but for now, why don't you spend some time with your godfather. Oh, I have invited him to spend Christmas with us.'

'Okay, thanks,' Harry grabbed Susan's hand, 'Neville, Hannah, come with us.'

'I'll write Aunty,' Susan hugged her aunt then left the great hall with Harry, Sirius, Hannah and Neville.

'It's so hard to believe I'm free, after all this time. And it all came down to my fourteen year old godson, his girlfriend and her aunt.' Sirius surprised Susan by hugging her then kissed her forehead, 'Thank you.'

'You're welcome,' Susan blushed, 'But it was really Harry, all he did was ask my advice.'

'So you got a very pretty girl that is also smart, so like your dad. He liked them beautiful, smart and with red hair.'

'Don't go embarrassing me Padfoot, but you better be talking about mum.'

'Of course I'm talking about Lily pup.'

'Pup?' Hannah and Neville raised their eyebrows.

'Sirius is an animagus, he turns into a dog, I'm his pup,' Harry shrugged.

'Oh, Amelia is arresting Albus right now as well.'

'What!,' Hannah and Neville blurted out, Harry and Susan just nodded, it was time for more explanations.

'Let's sit,' Sirius cast a few charms then conjured a blanket, 'Yes, first he cast the fidelius charm on the Potter cottage. Which means he knew exactly who the secret keeper was and he never came forward with that information and I got stuck in Azkaban for twelve years. Second, he witnessed James and Lily's wills which stated that Amelia and I are Harry's godparent's and one of us were to be Harry's guardian. Amelia first, me next if anything happened to Amelia. He went against a legal document, he had Hagrid take Harry from the house which constitutes kidnapping. Third, he cast blood wards around the Dursley's home, that can only be done by an unspeakable and it is never allowed on a muggle home. Fourth, as Harry will be Lord Potter when he becomes of age then he was supposed to have those boring and stuffy lessons on his duty and the laws so he would be ready to take the Wizengamot seats. Albus has illegally been voting on Harry's behalf when he had no right. Amelia now holds those seats for Harry, that's how she was able to keep him from finding out about my trial. Fifth, he signed a marriage contract for Harry when he was not Harry's legal guardian. So you see, he broke a lot of laws, so even if none of them intended to physically hurt anyone, which means he may not go to Azkaban. If he is found guilty he will lose his job as Chief Warlock, he will also lose his job as Head Mugwump. If Amelia can put forth a good argument about his interference in Harry's life, then he may lose his job as Headmaster.'

'Blimey, why did he do it?' Neville asked.

'We don't know, but we believe he has plans for Harry, we just don't know what they are. It must involve the Weasley's in some way, which ones we're not sure of. Amelia plans to speak with Arthur, just to see if he knows something. He is head of the Weasley family, if he knew that others in his family were involved in something illegal than Arthur could go to Azkaban.'

'I don't think Mr Weasley or the twins know anything. I always got this weird feeling from Mrs Weasley and she tried to act like my mother, tried to tell me what to do. I will follow the rules that they set up at the Burrow, but it's like she was trying to turn me into one of kids. The twins are the only two Gryffindor's that still talk to me, apart from Neville. But Sirius, Susan told me about the family rings and the protection some have. Do the Potters have one?'

'Yes, it should be in your trust vault as the magic around the vaults would know you couldn't touch the Potter family vaults until your seventeen. I know the ring will stop a lot of spells, it's got the protection against poisons or potions. It also has an anti-port key and anti-apparition charms on them, but we could activate a port key using the rings. James and I were hit wizards Harry, before he decided to work on investing the family money. We knew there could have been a situation where a criminal tried to slap a port key on us, we made sure we were protected. I think your grandfather had other types of charms on the ring, but I never asked him about them.'

'So you knew my grandparent's?'

'I lived with them when I ran away from home. Your grandparent's welcomed me into their home and treated me like a son. They were killed a year before your parent's, again, due to Voldemort. We never found out which death eaters were involved, only that it was ordered. Your grandfather was an unspeakable, he was also known to be against the dark forces. We believe Voldemort felt he was too big a threat, yet we never did find out why.'

Susan, Neville and Hannah watched Harry, he was hearing about his family, finally. It might not be good information but he was still being informed and by his godfather who he only recently found out about.