AN: Not JK Rowling.
Sirius POV
Harry came into the room a moment later and stopped abruptly when he saw me hugging Jean. He looked at us surprised and I sent a huge smile at him. I pulled out of the hug and turned to face Harry.
"Would you be my best man?" I asked after a moment.
"What – they – Hermione – you asked for permission and they said yes?" He asked shocked. I nodded laughing and wrapped my arm around Herman's shoulder.
"Congratulations Sirius!" He said coming up to me and giving me a fierce hug.
"Thanks Harry." I said pulling away from him. Harry and I talked to Hermione's parents. They asked me a lot of questions trying to get to know me better. I relaxed after awhile they seemed to working from a mental list.
"Did you have a job before your imprisonment?" Herman asked. We had pulled the muggle cards back out and were now playing a game.
"Yes I was an Auror." I laid down a card.
"What's that?" Jean asked laying down her own card.
"It's like a police officer only they go after dark wizards." Harry said leaning back in his chair looking at his cards and laid two down.
"Was it hard?" Herman asked after a small pause.
"Very. When I was an Auror it was difficult to know who was on our side or theirs and the ones we did know of were very hard to catch. For example Bellatrix was big back then but it was hard to get her because she's so hard to catch. She had a cell close to mine in Azkaban she came there shortly after me."
"Why was she imprisoned?" Jean asked trying to sound nonchalant and failing.
"Its another sad story." I said softly pulling the pile of cards towards me.
"Morbid curiosity." Herman said shrugging.
"Do you remember that boy Neville you saw in here yesterday?" I asked running my fingers through my hair.
"Yes," Jean said in a hushed voice.
"Bellatrix, her husband Rodolphus, her brother-in-law Rabastan and Barty Crouch Jr tortured his parents into insanity for information on the whereabouts of Voldemort." There was a stunned silence and I waited for someone to break it.
"How could someone in their right mind do that?" Herman asked his face pale.
"That's just it with the whole pureblood mentality you only have so many people you can choose from so there's a lot of inbreeding, in other words they're all crazy." Jean looked like she was going to be sick.
"I thought your a pureblood?" Herman asked after a moment.
"Oh I am I just never stuck to any of their ideals or -"
"No I mean you just called yourself crazy." Jean said slowly. Harry was snickering next to me. I thought back to what I said and I smirked.
"I guess I did didn't I." Herman laughed heartily and Jean was trying not to smile but her lips kept twitching at the corners.
"So what about you two what's your story?" I asked leaning back in the chair so the front two legs were off the ground.
"Well I was working as a dental assistant when I first met Herman." Jean said stretching. "And I was afraid he wouldn't look at me twice since he is nine years older than me." I almost fell back in my chair but steadied myself in time. Harry's mouth was open in shock and his eyes kept flicking from one to the other.
"So that's why you two are okay with the age." I said with a soft voice.
"The age was never really a problem to be honest. I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn't leave her." Herman said looking at me.
"I don't think you understand Herman I wouldn't be able to even if I tried."
"Why?" Harry asked confusion evident on his face. Herman and Jean had their brows furrowed trying to understand.
"Because when you get married you become literally connected. Your magic intertwines with the other person's so its almost impossible to break it. In the beginning of marriage you can feel your spouse's emotions, it quiets the longer you are married till its only a quiet hum in the background. Getting a divorce would not end well for either parties, you could lose your magic from the shock." Harry's mouth was slightly open and he had a dazed look on his face.
"Your that serious about Hermione?" Herman asked swallowing loudly.
"Yes." I said nodding.
"It really is a different world." Jean said in a hushed voice.
"Just different from what you know." I said trying to comfort them.
We talked of lighter things after that. We continued playing card games late into the night. Remus brought us some sandwiches and we ate them hungrily. Herman and Jean went to bed somewhere around eleven in a bed that I extended on the other side of the room. Remus and I stayed up explaining different things to Harry that were different from the muggle world. We also gave him some girl advice and the contraceptive charm. He blushed brightly when we told him but he took everything in stride. We eventually changed topics and pulled out a chess board.
"So have you thought about how you'll propose Pads?" Remus asked moving his knight forward.
"I think I'd like to get the ring first." I muttered as my queen attacked Remus' rook.
"Isn't there a lot of jewelry in your vault?" Remus asked moving his bishop.
"I'm not giving any of that jewelry to her it probably has dark curses on it or something for blood purity." I shook my head and sighed when Remus said checkmate.
"Well at least you can get it yourself now that your free." Harry said shrugging.
"Speaking of being free I wanted to ask you something." I said turning to Harry. "Would you like to come live with me now that my name has been cleared?" He smiled brightly but it faded almost just as fast. Oh Merlin, would he rather stay with his uncle?
"I would love to Sirius but I don't think I can." He muttered glaring at the bed sheets.
I frowned thinking then sighed. "This has something to do with that meeting you had with Dumbledore yesterday doesn't it?" He nodded slowly.
"And he said you can't tell us what he said right?" He nodded again and I tapped my foot thinking.
"Well you'll just have to come over later in the summer that's all." I desperately wanted to know what Dumbledore had told him but I knew he wouldn't say.
"Sirius?" A strained voice asked. My head snapped up and my mouth opened in shock. Hermione was awake.
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