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Chapter 6: Back to Hogwarts
There were only two days left before they started their work. Sirius tried to take his courage in both hands to talk about taking Harry back. After all nothing opposed to this, all the horcruxes had been destroyed including Nagini and having the little boy near him would be one of the best ways to find out how to dissociate him from the soul of Voldemort. He did not want to know that raised by this shrew and her husband, still less since Hermione had confessed to him that in his world he had not been happy during his childhood because of the Dursleys. He then approached the witch, placing his torso against her back and wrapping her arms around him, indicating his presence more marked by a kiss in the neck, which snatched a smile from the witch.
"What do you want to ask of me, my dear Mr. Black? I see no other reason for a sudden tenderness on your part!"
"Does not a man have the right to be gentle with his companion? Well I admit I would like to ask you something but be careful not to believe that I am as well as in this kind of situation Mione!"
"So tell me what you want, you are starting to make me panic Sirius!" She looked at him anxiously.
"You see, I do not want to force things between you and me but a choice that I've been in my head for some time also involves you, I would not do anything without your agreement Mione. I ... I would like to get Harry back and we will raise him together, you will tell me we can't with our roles but I have already found a house elf specializing in children and when you have finished your classes and I my day, we will be there for him!"
"Sirius, if Dumbledore has removed him from our world, it's to make him grow up without the fuss of his name around him! That I am here and that we have changed the future does not change the fact that he is Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived!"
"I know I know ... But I do not want to see him unhappy! You already know his character, you know him better than anyone else! And I can only raise him with a mother for him!" He had watched her with his beaten dog look that usually made her crack.
"Stop with this look it's not a game! I admit that it is tempting, and your plan with the elf is well found, it would make an elf less mistreated in this world."
Sirius jumped into Hermione's arms understanding through the end of her sentence the agreement of the latter to recover his godson. He went to see Albus and explained to him in detail, his desire not to know his godson away from him and in such a family, the fact that he wanted it with him and Hermione, the idea of the elf who would occupy during there absence. He even added that they could take a house in Hogsmeade so that Harry could see things outside this castle by staying close to Hermione's post.
The director of Hogwarts listened to all Sirius' tirade without interrupting him, once the latter had finished, he put a condition to this adoption: that Harry learns all the truth about his family when he is 10-years-old so he knows what to expect when he returns to Hogwarts but that before he remains with a childish mind and nothing more. It was too much for Sirius who jumped into the arms of the old man thanking him a thousand times.
So the next day, Hermione and Sirius went to the Dursleys, who of course were more than delighted to be able to get rid of such a burden. Hermione took Harry in her arms, which immediately ceased to cry, and his companion took the little matter of the little boy about ten months and went to the Leaky Cauldron to take a chimney leading to Grimmauld Place.
The night went well, Hermione had to join Hogwarts like all the other teachers on the eve of the school year so that their schedules would be given to them. Sirius, Hermione and Harry made the trip together and arranged their room so that everything was ready. The manager had worked miracles, indeed their room was split in two leaving a certain intimacy to the couple despite the present child, and it had its own bewitching bathroom to evolve at Harry's age.
Everyone was delighted with the new life that was coming, so Hermione let Sirius and Harry walk around the park as she attended her teachers' meeting. Once the latter ended, they walked hand in hand with Harry in their arms, taking advantage of the last moments of calm that Hogwarts could offer before at least the next vacation. In the evening they lay down, glued to each other, Hermione still as stressed for the next day.
"I hope everything will be fine tomorrow. Everything is so perfect, I have you and Harry. I'm afraid that the joy turns ..."
"Hey, do not say that, I do not know a witch more ready than you for this post, even McGonagall had not had to prepare so much for her first day I'm sure! You'll be perfect, as always Mione!"
Always anxious, Hermione did not touch to her breakfast and barely ate her dinner waiting in her room for the arrival of the elf who would take care of Harry. Her name was Holy, she had been sent by Albus Dumbledore in person. She was a free elf and Hermione was delighted, she who defended their cause. She would be paid and would have all her weekend of free. They watched the new nanny look after Harry and found that she knew her role very well, she had even learned stories to tell him before he slept.
Obviously she was immediately hired and would start the next day, Sirius leaving early on a mission and Hermione running. The evening was approaching and Hermione was preparing to return to the Great Hall to join her teacher's table when Sirius called her to steal a last kiss before slipping away with Harry to spend the evening between men with Remus. She entered and went to the right of the place reserved for her colleague Professor of Transfiguration. The students from the 2nd to the 7th years entered and settled at the table in their house and then entered the first years that followed McGonagall.
Once the sorting had finished, Dumbledore made his usual speech about the forbidden forest, etc. It was then that he introduced the new teacher who will take care of the Defence against the Dark Arts: Professor Hermione Wilkins. Hermione stood up so that everyone could observe her and sat back down to let the headmaster finish his words and let the students eat. Many of them were surprised by the youth of the new teacher, many 7th years even found her very attractive. They all agreed on one point: the curiosity to see what this young woman had for them.
When the meal was over, the students went back to their dormitories and the teachers to their rooms, so that when Sirius returned from his evening. He found a Hermione totally asleep on their bed, having barely taken time to undress. He laid Harry down and took care of his companion before going to bed himself, a hard day awaited them both tomorrow. It was the cries of a hungry Harry who woke Hermione the next day, Sirius had already left. She took care of her old best friend, trying not to imagine the head that he would have done by seeing her giving small pots to a child version of him.
Holy arrived and took over for the witch to get ready. She was the only teacher who had been perfect at this post in her time: Remus Lupin, she was going to do everything to be as appreciated by the students and to make classes attractive to all. It was without counting on a few Slytherins, faithful to their old Master, determined to make her pay the mere fact of having a Mudblood as a Professor. The latter having noticed the end of the scar on the arm of the young woman...
