Chapter 11
The truth part 3
Ravenna woke in the early hours of the morning and clambered off the drawing room sofa and looked over to check on the forms of Ron, Hermione and Harry. She smiled when she spied Ron and Hermione's hands, they must have fallen asleep holding each other. She then looked for Harry and couldn't find him, beginning to worry she made her way through the house on tiptoe in search of him.
She found him upstairs in Sirius' room the gold and red banners of Gryffindor still blazing on his walls bit covered now with a thin sheet of dust. Harry was sat on the bed amongst piles of old motorcycle magazines including many muggle ones given to him by Lily. Ravenna smiled. "Harry?" She whispered and he looked up at her, wiping his face as he did so. He was holding a moving photograph. She moved from the doorway and sat besid him, the bed sinking as she sat down.
"I found this." He showed her the photograph of him flying around on his broom that first Christmas. Ravenna smiled, putting her arm around him.
"You almost decapitated us all on that thing. Why are you up here?" She asked with a small smile.
"I couldn't sleep." Harry said quietly as Ravenna picked up an album off the floor which lay open. She showed Harry photograph after photograph of him growing up. There was even a photograph of the four Marauders, Lily, Ravenna on her father's knee and baby Harry all together round a bed at St Mungos, which a healer must have taken.
"We all love you, Harry. Always will. Don't ever doubt that." Ravenna said and sighed as she put the album behind her and called for the pensieve. "Shall we finish our story until today?" Harry nodded and the pair plunged into the murky depths as a memory swam into focus.
They were in Grimmauld Place again, apparently it was still Harry's fifth year and Ravenna came rushing down the stairs. A mad panic on her face.
"PAPA! UNCLE REMUS! He's got Harry!" She said breathlessly as her father and godfather emerged with Mad Eye, Tonks and the rest of the order, from the study which was now being used as the meeting room.
"Who has?" Molly asked, panic evident in her voice.
"HIM. He's tricked Harry. We must go to him." Ravenna urged, looking at her father and not Molly.
"How do you know?" Remus asked.
"I have the same feeling I have always had when ever his has come for Harry." Ravenna explained. "Come on let's go."
"Ravenna's right. Come on. Molly stay here." Mad Eye said sternly and he, Sirius, Arthur Weasley, Charlie, Ravenna, Remus and Tonks left number 12 quickly. They apparated to the department of mysteries moments later, Sirius holding his daughters hand.
"I love you, Ravenna." He said protectively.
"I love you too." She said and hugged him before they all went their own ways to find Harry and his friends. Ravenna saw him first and made her way to him firing spells at the death esters as she went. She tackled Harry back into the shadows.
"Hello, Harry. Get down." She said and pushed him to the ground as Bellatrix fired a curse at him.
"Oh, look its the little birdy. The angel of death." Bellatrix teased and Ravenna smiled.
"Hello, auntie Bella. Crucio!" She screamed the curse and Bellatrix shielded herself. Harry and Ravenna ducked as Mad Eye started on Bellatrix. They moved away and then stopped when Sirius put himself between them and the death eater who went for Ravenna.
"Don't you dare." Sirius growled.
"Like you care." A woman's voice said, her accent revealing her to be Scottish.
"Actually I do. She's my daughter." Sirius growled and sent a curse at the woman. Ravenna turned and saw the dark curls of her mother- Alexina, daughter of Tom, the barman at the Leaky Cauldron.
"Hello little sister." Came another voice of a dark haired man, who looked a lot like Ravenna and Sirius.
"Fionnlagh." She said and pushed Harry behind her as Remus appeared to join the fight and protect Harry. Ravenna and her brother began shooting spells at one another, including a curse, Ravenna never thought she'd cast. "Avada Kedavra!" She screamed out loud at her immobilised brother, stuck by a petrificus totalus spell. Fionnlagh's eyes paled and then he combusted all together. "Goodbye brother."
Alexina screamed and Ravenna shot several spells at her too and together she and Sirius killed her mother. "Snape want be happy." Sirius added.
"Screw Snivellus. Harry needs us." She turned from him and the pair went to Harry who was fighting with Lucius. What happened next was too quick to counter. Sirius was hit with a spell and he stumbled backwards and through a veiled arch. "PAPA!" Ravenna screamed, Arthur grabbed hold of her tightly as Charlie was otherwise engaged in combat. Lupin grabbed Harry when he realised what had happened. Both cried and screamed and refused to let up their struggles to be free of the arms that held them. Ravenna and Harry only moved and were let free when Bellatrix started laughing.
"I killed Sirius Black! I killed Sirius Black." She sang, Harry saw the image turn red with Anger before it disappeared.
Another appeared and Harry was surprised to see himself and Ravenna within Grimmauld Place with Arthur, Molly, Charlie, Tonks and Lupin. Lupin had Ravenna in his arms and was cuddling her and whispering soothing things in her ears. The speech was muted a symbol of quiet avoidance. Harry looked at present day Ravenna beside him.
"You stayed with us for a few days before you returned to school after everyone else had already gone back. We needed time to grieve." Ravenna explained before the moved the memory on to the end of July that summer, before Harry's sixth year began.
Another wedding was going on before them only this time of was Ravenna's wedding to Charlie. They were at the burrow, outside in a marquee similar to Bill's. Ravenna was walking down the aisle of Remus' arm (in place of the loss of her father, her godfather had stepped in) and Harry was watching from the front row where family would sit. Hermione was with him and Ron. Ravenna wore address which was similar in style to Lily's with a bateau neckline and was floor length with long sleeves of a pale ivory silk. Ravenna was breathtaking, even present day Harry could tell that and he told her as much when she smiled at him. She hadn't had a maid of honour or minded bridesmaids because she had been unconventional and had had a best man- Harry.
The image vanished and was replaced by a Vision of the great hall in Harry's sixth year. It was the welcoming feast and Harry could see himself having his nose mopped up by Ginny at the Gryffindor table. He looked and saw Ravenna sat beside Dumbledore at the teachers table.
Dumbledore rose and stood before his lecture stand. "Welcome back to old faces and hello to news ones. This year, before the feast begins. We have a few notices to announce. Ex-student and now Auror Mrs Ravenna Black Weasley," there was a hushed silence throughout the hall. "Will be returning to Gryffindor House as part of the extra security detail stationed at the school after events at the Ministry for Magic last year. She will act as a Gryffindor Mentor. So please, Gryffindor welcome her back with open arms and kind hearts." The Gryffindor table erupted into cheers and clapped with glee. Dumbledore raised his hands and the room fell silent once more. "We are also pleased to welcome Professor Slughorn back to Hogwarts where he will reprise his role of Potions Master."
Even now Harry and Ravenna grimaced. Out of everyone they had realise deli had taken on the role of Defence against the Dark Arts teacher- Snape.
Tht image disappeared and was replaced by the one of Bill's wedding. Charlie, Ravenna and their son Artair were there, Ravenna heavily pregnant with her second child.
"Hello, Charlie." Harry had said when he had come over to speak to them.
"Wotcha Harry, have you met my wife, Ravenna?"
"No, hi."
"Hello." Ravenna shook hands with Harry and the present Harry who looked on could see tears were welling in his eyes. It was obvious he had no clue as to their past. "This is our son, Artair." Ravenna had said , her hands on her son's arm when Charlie picked him up off the ground.
"He's lovely." Harry said.
"Thanks you Harry." Ravenna said and the present day pair were pulled from the memories quickly and seconds later they reappeared in the messy bedroom of Sirius Black.
"That's the end, until now, anyway." Ravenna said looking down at her engagement and wedding rings.
"You truly have been there for me, my whole life." Harry said simply.
"I have and I intend to be here for you for many years to come." Ravenna said. "If you'll let me?"
"Of course, I will. We're family." Harry said and hugged her. Both let the tears they'd been holding back spill over in the room of her father and his godfather. They were a Family reunited at last.