Chapter 3 – Sirius Black and The Vanishing Glass.
As the words lit up the screen, we zoomed towards a castle that everyone in the know knew. Hogwarts looked like menacing, brooding darkness by the lightning that flashed overhead. In there, someone was walking resolutely and like they owned the place towards on place in its school where he had been many times while growing up throughout these walls.
*You are cute when you're angry. * Hadriana smirked mentally at the man, Sirius had to laugh because looking at his younger self he could see the calculating look hidden by the grin. *I think, my younger self already is beginning to doubt the headmaster. * At this, she hummed because of everyone in these rooms, it had to be her lover's younger self that would question everything that was happening.
The man was no other than Sirius Black. He was furious over what happened with his best friend, for God's sake, if it had not been for that good-for-nothing headmaster they would have been within the wards of Potter Manor, instead of a house that had wards that had aged less than 50 years.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!" Flamount Potter yelled what everyone was thinking, how could somebody be so stupid to do something like that!
The headmaster only shrugged shocked, but on the inside, he was sheeting over how all his plans were going to hell.
"I don't know what my future self was thinking!" Dumbledore said jovially and concentrated back on the screen.
"Where is my goddaughter!" Sirius demanded pissed as he barged into the headmaster's office, with a mad glint in his eyes. All he could concentrate on was that the godfather bond and the soulmate bond are stretched too thin to be comfortable for the young girl – he could bear it, but he worried about how it was for little Hadriana.
"She's safe, with her only relatives."
"Only relatives my ass"
"Language!" Euphemia and other mothers yelled.
"I am her godfather, shouldn't you go looking for that rat, that ratted them out?" Sirius told him with a blank look in his eyes showing everyone that knew him how pissed off he was with the headmaster.
"That's good why don't you do it?" asked Dumbledore with a furious glint in his eyes, because all his plans were somehow being ruined by the boy coming here instead of doing what he had thought he would do.
"What did they think Sirius would do?" The Marauders and Lily asked curious, as was everyone else, but Dumbledore because he was suddenly unable to do anything while the future looked at him with smirks on their faces.
However, they knew that people here wouldn't know about it before younger Hadriana got the wind of everything.
The scenery swirled around like time was passing by a bright white light, and it swirled around the screen until it changed to a sleeping ten-year-old Hadriana.
Everyone in the future knows the things that happened to her so, she wasn't exactly worried, but it was irritating to see people awed, with a dash of wonderment because it wasn't.
It showed a small cramped little room, where she could be seen sleeping. "Up! Get Up! Now!" A tall woman could be seen screeching while knocking furiously on the door to the cupboard, then unlocking it from the outside.
This had been a normal routine for her in the ten years of her life she had been with them, nothing out of the ordinary here.
The whole hall was stunned to silence, no one talked or even joked – not that it was a joking matter.
Teddy held his mum tightly at hearing what had happened to her, even if it had been the past for them.
"They… They made you…" Lily was too shocked to even finish saying something, she was disgusted. How could her sister behave like this? James was about to blow it; his face grew red from anger. "They made you sleep in a cupboard!" Lily had never seen him that angry before, and before he went completely made, she laid a comforting hand on his arm, reminding him that she was hers too.
There were many pureblood families that were also shocked and disgusted over how someone could behave like that.
"Up! Get up!" Petunia yelled furiously, not that she really had anything to be furious about. As she did, she was seen knocking on her closet door repeatedly and locking up the door from the outside.
*Wake Up, dear. * The usual pained voice in her head told her, she has had that voice in her head if she could remember, together with another voice that wasn't as talkative as the voice of her quite unknown godfather. However, she knew that there was more to the voice and why she could hear it.
They had told her everything they could about what would happen when she got the age of eleven.
"How is this possible?" Asked everyone confused over what they heard, even the future people around them were a little bit confused overhearing that they had contacted one another throughout the years.
"Your soul mates, aren't you?" Euphemia Potter asked in wonderment to everyone around, though Orion looked at them with curiousness over his young sons' need to be with the Potter boy.
"We are!" They told them together and looked at one another fondly over everything that people would get to know about them.
*Don't strain yourself talking to me, * Hadriana said worriedly, because she had always had a feeling that it takes a lot out of them both to just talk to her, especially the other boy as she only got feelings from him. *When have you thought about escaping? *
*When I get a clue over where Pettigrew is, we can take it to the right people for me to get a trial. * This was the last thing he said before it went quiet.
While they had been talking, we could see a very large boy coming running down the stairs, Hadriana had always thought him to have resembled a mini whale. As he ran up the stairs again and jumped up and down. It was quite irritating, but what could she do about it when the boy was as stupid as a brick
Irritating because she always got sawdust in her eyes irritating them more, "Wake up, cousin! We're going to the Zoo."
"Oh, here comes the birthday boy!" Aunt Petunia said, at once Dudley came into the kitchen she only looked briefly at the girl. A girl who wore clothes three times the size of her. Hadriana rubbed her hair as she was uttered to do breakfast, "why don't you just cook breakfast, and try not to burn the bacon." Petunia said with a scowl, irritated like always that they had to take care of her.
"Yes, Aunt Petunia," Hadriana said trying not to show how she was rolling her eyes.
"Wait, have the two of you always been able to talk to each other?" Hermione asked curiously trying to see how she hadn't been able to see it. "They are treating you like A HOUSE ELF/LIKE A SLAVE!" Orion and Fleamont yelled at the same time.
"Yeah, Hermione but it did take a lot out of us because of the distance," Sirius told them, and there were a lot of other things that made it harder also.
"I want everything to be special for my Dudley's special day." Petunia told them, literally squeezing the life out of her son. Dudley only stared at the whole lot of presents that littered the kitchen.
"Hurry up! Bring my coffee girl." Vernon barked, Hadriana just nodded "Yes, Uncle Vernon."
Everyone in the past looked appalled at how the people around her were treating her, however, if you looked closer you could see that Dumbledore didn't think any of it.
"aren't they wonderful, darling," Petunia sighed dreamily to her son who looked outraged over it all.
"How many are there?" he asked with a scrunched-up face that looked like it had seen better days.
"Thirty-six, counted them myself," Vernon told his son and smiled proudly.
"Thirty-six, but last year. Last year I had thirty-seven." Dudley whined.
All the purebloods looked shocked, even though they weren't that spoiled and shuddered at the thought of what their parents would have said if they had done something like this. They couldn't quite imagine what would have happened if they had demanded something like this.
Everyone who was a parent shook their heads, "This is no way to raise a child." Molly and Andromeda said, giving one another a small acknowledgement.
"Yes, but some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year," Vernon said chuckling nervously over his son's mood.
"I don't care how big they are!" screamed Dudley, and Petunia immediately ran over to him trying to soothe him.
"Now. Now, now, this is what we are going to do, is that when we go out, we're going to buy you two new presents. How's that pumpkin?"
It was quite irritating to hear and see everyone's shock over how the boy behaved, and it was tiresome to even do anything about it.
After that the scene changed to the four of them walking out of the house, "It should be a lovely day at the zoo. I am looking forward to it." was all that Petunia said before Vernon roughly grabbed her and dragged her to the side.
James clenched his hand on the edge of the table, he could accept his future daughter being together with his best friend because he knew that he would treat her like a princess – and she deserved it. But, seeing his only future daughter being treated like a slave made him pissed off and he couldn't do anything other than try to change it.
"I am warning you now, girl. Any funny business, any at all, and you won't have any meals for a week. Now get in!" Vernon warned her and pointed at the car door.
Hadriana had never been out of the house, other than going to school. Now the four of them walked through the zoo, and then into the reptile house. They were watching the snakes and a large snake that was laying down and not doing much other than just being bored.
"Make it move!" Dudley all but demanded of his father who complied with his son's demand, almost instantly yelled, "Move!" banging on the glass, repeatedly.
Hadriana rolled her eyes in expiration, "he's asleep!" she told them, her family only glared at her, when Dudley said, "he's boring." Before walking away, Vernon and Petunia followed after leaving her alone for the time being. Hadriana stared at the snake with a sorrowful glance, "sorry about them, they don't understand what it's like laying there day after day, watching people pressing their ugly faces on you."
When she said this, she had a small inkling that she wasn't quite talking English but chalked it up to something weirdly her, especially when the snake lifted its head and winked at her.
It shocked her, and she tensed up before getting over it, and relaxed, "can you hear me?" she asked shocked, eyes widening as the snake nodded.
The whole great hall looked at her in shock, besides the travellers – they looked at her in pure shock especially the purebloods, as they found themselves respecting her a little bit more.
James and young Sirius only stared at her in adoration.
"You're a parselmouth?" Fleamont questioned in confusion, "I don't understand that no one in the potter bloodline, could ever speak Parseltoung!" he said, and looked at Orion Black, and the other purebloods here.
*Should I give them a hint? * Hadriana thought towards her husband, with a smirk. *You decide! * Was all that he said, so, she decided to do something with it knowing that this would change some things in the future for every muggleborns out there like it did in ours when the information came forth after the war.
"Lily?" Hadriana said and sat up still leaning into Sirius on the couch so that she could look into the green eyes of her mother.
"Yes, dear," Lily said, and everyone held their breath for what was to come.
"Have you ever taken an inheritance test at Gringotts?"
"No, I haven't. I didn't even know that it was necessary." Lily said shocked, but in thought like everyone else whereas they were thinking why it was even necessary.
"You do know where squibs go when they are thrown out of their own families, and it may take a few centuries before the magic is strong enough…" Hadriana said and left them to really think about what she had said.
Orion and Fleamont were thinking about this with a startled look of wonder. The other muggleborns were also thinking about it, but it was Dumbledore that drew everyone's attention. Dumbledore looked at them, and you could feel the furiousness of the glint in his eyes – it made those that were in the war tense up and make them understand that the headmaster had always known this small fact.
Hadriana could feel the castle ready to step in if there came to blows, and they all knew that you couldn't do any magic before every movie had been seen.
"it's just that I've never talked to a snake before. Do you – do you talk to people often? You're from Burma, aren't you? Was it nice there? Do you miss your family?" The questions poured out of her.
The snake only jerked his head down to the sign who said, 'Bred in captivity.'
"I see. That's me as well. I have never known my own parents either." Hadriana told the snake with a sad smile.
"Mummy, Dad, come here! You won't believe what the snake is doing!" Dudley yelled as he ran over to where she was standing, shoving her to the ground before pressing himself against the glass, staring at the snake in awe.
Hadriana only glared at him from the ground, and suddenly the glass where Dudley leaned up against vanished, making him fall into the tank. "Woah! Woah! Ah!" he screamed over and over as he fell.
The whole hall fell into laughter at the whale, and many thought that it was strong accidental magic for an almost eleven-year-old.
The snake slithered out of the tank, and turned his head around to face Hadriana, its tongue darting out, "Thanksss, amigo." It hissed politely.
There was laughter at her shocked look, but she was proud of how she handled it.
"Anytime!" Hadriana said with wide eyes, as she watched the snake leave – people screamed as it left the zoo on the road to freedom.
Petunia and Vernon searched for Dudley, they walked back only to find him inside of the tank fanatically banging on the glass, which suddenly reappeared.
"Mum! Mummy! Help! Help! Get me out of here!" Dudley screamed; Petunia screamed in fear pressing her face up against the glass.
The hall continued to laugh, and Hadriana laughed with them because everything was a lot funnier now than it was back then.
"My Darlin boy! How did you get in there? Who did this? How did you get in there? Is there a snake? Is there a snake?"
Hadriana tried to keep her laugh inside of herself because she knew that if they saw her openly laughing that things would get harder for her, she was still laying on the ground, a smile around her mouth when she noticed her uncle suddenly turn around. Vernon gave her a vicious glare – all Hadriana could think was 'shit!' a fearful look replacing her happy one.
The scene changes quickly from the zoo to the hallway of the Dursley's residence, Vernon slammed the door shut quickly like anyone would care to see what they were doing. Hadriana was terrified over what was about to happen, Petunia like always went away as she held Dudley together with different coloured blankets – while shooting him, "It's alright, sweetheart. We'll get you out of these terrible clothes." She said comforting, leaving her sister's child at the mercy of her husband.
Once it was just them, Vernon grabbed a fistful of her hair and slammed her into the wall. "Ahh," Hadriana screamed as Vernon slammed her into the wall.
At that, there was an outrage in the great hall, especially from Lily and James. This time around no one would touch their daughter like this, and they would survive somehow to raise her to the best of their ability.
"What happened!" Demanded Vernon screaming in her face.
"I swear, I don't know!" yelled Hadriana, only to be roughly shoved into the wall once again.
"One minute the glass was there, and then it was gone. It was like magic!" she said to Vernon's ire. Vernon grabbed her by the hair once again and threw her into the cupboard and locked it. "There is no such thing as magic!" he finished, then slammed again the air filter, leaving her in total darkness.
However, what they didn't know was that she knew that it was magic that did it.
As the last scene finished playing everyone sat in complete silence, too shocked to say anything of value.
James was practically seething along with his parents, and friends, his girlfriend on the other hand didn't know what to say. Lily was heartbroken over seeing her sister treat her daughter so despicable.
Hadriana just hugged her son and husband tighter, just because she knew that it had been magic that had done it, didn't mean that she wasn't hurt over how her family treated her back then.