"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Parseltongue"

Writing/Reading

"YELLING"

Harry started with what happened in his First Year, explaining how the Philosopher's Stone was taken out of a vault at Gringotts by Hagrid on Dumbledore's orders and transferred to Hogwarts. How Harry met the Weasleys, and then Draco Malfoy for their rivalries to start. Harry moved on to talk of how the Sorting Hat put him into Gryffindor House, to how Ron and Hermione didn't start off on the right foot. How Harry, along with Ron, Hermione, and Neville were ticked by Malfoy into a midnight duel in which he instead told Filch and accidentally got in the Third Floor Corridor and came face to face with Fluffy the Cerberus, to the night of the troll during the Halloween Feast, and how Harry and Ron went to rescue Hermione from the troll and became the best of friends after that.

Harry went on to talk of his first Quidditch match and suspecting Snape being the one to jinx his broomstick and going after the Stone. He then talked about the obstacles that Dumbledore had the teachers set up to protect the Stone only for a trio of First Years to beat, to him finding out that it had been Professor Quirrel all along that was after the Philosopher's Stone, all so that Voldemort (which elicited sever shudders from the assorted dinner guests), who was on the back of the stuttering professor's head, could restore his body and full power. Harry then told them about how he had managed to stop Quirrelmort, simply by touching the man's skin and somehow burning the body by his touch, which Dumbledore later explained had to do with the protection given to Harry by his mother when she sacrificed herself to protect him from Voldemort as a baby. When Harry finished his tale of his First Year, everyone at the table looked at him in shock and horror, as they couldn't believe that this had been allowed to happen at Hogwarts. Growing up, they had all come to believe that there was nowhere safer than Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, but after hearing of Harry's First Year, they wondered if that was true anymore.

"Good Merlin, you mean to tell me that Dumbledore allowed all of that to happen," Elizabeth looked at her godson, fear and concern for him on her face. "And did nothing to stop it?"

"I figured the old man was daft at the Opening Feast," Blaise said, a contemplative look on his face. "But after hearing what you had to go through, I'm convinced that he is mad."

Harry looked at the dark-skinned wizard and tilted his head just slightly.

"If you had said that to me a year ago, I would've told you that you were wrong." He said, looking into the boy's onyx-colored eyes. "But now, I'm starting to think differently."

The group thought heavily on Harry's words to Blaise, as Daphne reached across the table to take hold of one of Harry's hands. Elizabeth and Cyrus smiled at the gesture, wishing that James and Lily could be here to see this gesture between their children. Cyrus then turned to look at the son of his childhood friend.

"Tell us about your second year Harry, please." He asked, concerned at what they would learn.

Nodding his head, Harry then moved on to talk about his Second Year and the Chamber of Secrets, of how he had been visited by a House Elf named Dobby who was imploring him to not go to Hogwarts due to impending danger, and how said House Elf had gotten Harry in trouble by performing Magic to drop a pudding on the wife of a business guest of his uncle's; which prompted an owl carrying a letter from the Ministry to inform Harry of a violation to the use of magic outside of school. This, in turn, made Vernon Dursley lock Harry in his room, with bars placed on his windows, and a cat flap being put on his door for meals until Ron and his brothers Fred and George came to rescue him from the Dursley's and spent the rest of the summer at the Burrow. How Harry went to Diagon Alley via Floo Powder only to not do a very good job and ended up in Borgin and Burke's in Knockturn Alley instead, where he saw Lucius Malfoy give some Dark artifacts away to avoid trouble with the Ministry. Harry then told of how he was found by Hagrid and taken to Flourish and Blotts where he met up with Hermione and the Weasleys, only to be pulled into a photo-taking with Lockhart and seeing Mr. Weasley and Mr. Malfoy get into a fistfight after Mr. Malfoy provoked Mr. Weasley into it.

Harry talked about how Mr. Malfoy shoved Ginny Weasley's second-hand books back into her cauldron after the fight when he was finished inspecting them, which would lead to the events at Hogwarts. Harry spoke of how the barrier to Platform 9 and 3/4 was closed off to him and Ron (which confused everyone at the table), which led to the two boys to take Mr. Weasley's flying car and driving it all the way to Hogwarts, only to crash into the Whomping Willow, and got detention for it. Harry spoke of how he started hearing voices in the walls, and finding Mrs. Norris the cat petrified with the message of the Chamber of Secrets being opened, and how he would eventually be blamed for the petrifications when it was learned that he could speak parseltongue, and thus labeled as the Heir of Slytherin. Harry talked about how he had his arm broken by a bewitched Bludger courtesy of Dobby, who revealed that the Chamber had been opened fifty years prior, which led to Harry, Ron, and Hermione trying to use Polyjuice Potion to spy on Malfoy to find out of he was the Heir of Slytherin, only to find out he wasn't; but did lead to the trio learning that a Muggleborn had been killed by the Monster of Slytherin.

Harry then went on to explain how he found the Diary of Tom Riddle, and how it showed a memory of Riddle capturing Hagrid with a spider that was blamed as the monster of Slytherin, but when Harry and Ron went to speak with Hagrid before he was taken to Azkaban by Fudge for his connection fifty years ago, they would follow spiders into the Forbidden Forrest and would later learn from Aragog, the very Acromantula spider that was blamed for the girl's death, that Hagrid was never the one who opened the Chamber. Harry then talked of how he and Ron discovered that Hermione figured out that the monster was a Basilisk, which could kill if anyone looked directly into its yellow eyes, but were petrified if they looked into them indirectly, which all of the victims had done so far, and then proceeded to try and tell Professor Lockhart when he was chosen to rescue Ginny when it was learned that she had been taken down to the Chamber, but instead found out that he was a fraud, and went to speak with Moaning Myrtle, who was the Muggleborn student that was killed by the Basilisk. Harry told of how he learned the sink in Myrtle's bathroom was the entrance to the Chamber, and when he and Ron, along with Lockhart, found a long snakeskin that belonged to the Basilisk, and Lockhart trying to use Ron's broken wand to erase their memories, but instead erased his own memory, and caused a cave-in that separated Harry from Ron, and proceeded to fight the Monster of Slytherin alone. He then talked of how he spoke with a memory of sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle, of how Riddle revealed that he was not only the Heir of Slytherin but also Lord Voldemort by using his wand to write his full name, rearranged it to say I AM LORD VOLDEMORT, revealing that he was in actuality a Halfblood (which shocked the assorted Slytherins, since it revealed that the leader of the bigot Purebloods was the opposite of what they saw as a true leader of magic).

Harry told of how Riddle released the Basilisk on Harry but fortunately had its eyes pecked out by Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes who also brought the Sorting Hat, from where Harry drew the Sword of Godric Gryffindor and slew the Basilisk by piercing the inside of its mouth, while also getting a fang stuck into his arm, allowing the creature's venom into his body. Harry then talked of how he used the fang to destroy Tom Riddle's diary after Fawkes cried on his wound to heal him and stop the venom in his blood, which destroyed the memory of Tom Riddle, who was trying to steal Ginny's magic and life-force. Harry then finished the story of how he talked with Dumbledore about the fact that Harry had managed to pull Gryffindor's sword proving that he was a true Gryffindor. Harry then finished the story with how he used the diary, and a sock, to trick Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby (which earned a laugh from Tracey, Blaise, and Astoria as they imagined how Draco's father could've looked after being humiliated).

If the other table guests were surprised at what happened in Harry's First Year, then they were certainly shocked by what he described for his Second Year. For Harry's fellow students, they were awed at the fact that Harry had managed to slay the monster of their House Founder, with a relic of another Hogwarts Founder. Admittedly none of them believed that Harry could've been the Heir of Slytherin, especially since he was best friends with a Muggleborn, but they never said anything against the rumors because Malfoy was enjoying the trouble that Harry was going through on account of the rumors. As for the parents, they were shocked and surprised at the revelations that they were learning. They had heard about the petrifications that were going on at Hogwarts, but the revelation that they were being caused by a BASILISK of all creatures, was frightening.

They were also appalled at the fact that the school was being allowed to operate when such a creature was slithering loose in the castle. That essentially put ALL of the students in danger, not just the Muggleborns. Even if Dumbledore was unaware of the creature in his school, he should've taken precautions and ordered the school to be shut down, to investigate what was going on. Cyrus leaned back into his chair, wondering what Dumbledore was up to. He worked as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic, and was close friends to Amelia Bones; clearly, this was a situation he would have to look into with her when he had a chance. He then looked up at the boy his eldest daughter was betrothed to, remembering that he had one more year to go through, and was greatly concerned to learn what he went through.

"What about your Third Year, Harry?" He asked concern etched into his tone.

Harry looked at his future father-in-law and felt glad that someone was concerned for him, and thus felt compelled to talk about his Third Year. He was a bit hesitant to talk about Sirius and how he helped him escape, especially when he was talking in a room of current and former Slytherins, but something inside in him told him that it was okay to talk about Sirius. Besides, if Elizabeth was close friends with his mother, and Sirius was his father's, then perhaps there was a way she and her husband could help in clearing Sirius' name. So he went ahead and began the story of his Third Year at Hogwarts.

He started by telling them of how his uncle Vernon's sister Marge Dursley stayed at Number Four for the duration of July, and made his time miserable, all the way to the final night of her stay. He elaborated on how Marge, in her drunken stupor, was insulting the memories of his parents, and how it was her insults against his mother that really upset him (and as it appeared, it also upset his godmother, and everyone else at the table to hear how the memories of their friends were openly insulted). Harry then went on to talk of how he lost his anger, and his magic caused Marge to inflate into a human balloon, and then left the house before his uncle could take his anger out on Harry, and avoid trouble with the Ministry. He went on about how he dragged his chest for a certain distance until he reached a playground, where he saw a Grimm (which freaked out Daphne and his godmother) and reacted by bringing his wand up, only to inadvertently summon the Knight Bus.

Harry then explained how he learned from the Knight Bus conductor about how Sirius Black supposedly was a follower of Lord Voldemort and was the first prisoner of Azkaban to escape from said prison. Harry then told of how he arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, where he met with Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge (which everyone at the table snorted in contempt) and was told that he was in no trouble for what happened to Marge and that he was to stay in the Leaky Cauldron until it was time to leave for school. He then told of how when the Weasley's arrived, he had later overheard Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arguing behind a closed door of how the Minister forbade Mr. Weasley from telling him the true reason of Sirius' escape being Harry, and when later the Dementors attacked the train, and Harry remembered the night that his mother was killed by Voldemort (which caused Daphne to grip his hand, and Elizabeth to get up and walk to Harry's seat, and embrace him in a comforting hug, to which Harry surprisingly didn't flinch from like usual). Harry spoke of how he had chosen Divination and Care of Magical Creatures as his electives, in which he preferred CoMC, instead of Divination, on account of Trelawney predicting his death.

Harry spoke of how Hagrid specifically instructed the class to NOT insult a Hippogriff, and Draco Malfoy instead turned around and did exactly that, only to pretend that his arm was broken, and his father to petition for Buckbeak the Hippogriff to be destroyed. Harry then went on of Remus Lupin teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts about Bogart, and his Bogart being a Dementor (which impressed the dinner guests, and for the Slytherin students to back up how Lupin was a tremendous teacher), to which when Sirius tried to break into Gryffindor Tower two times, to when Snape taught the DADA lessons on werewolves, to Harry played Quidditch against Hufflepuff, and the Dementors attacked him at the Quidditch field when they weren't supposed to, and fell off his broom which then flew into the Whomping Willow. Harry talked of how he got a hold of the Marauders Map, which was a map charmed to show where everyone was in Hogwarts (which impressed the adults and students alike, though Cyrus looked amused and reminiscent), courtesy of the Weasley twins, and used both it and his invisibility cloak to sneak into Hogsmeade, threw snowballs at and humiliated Malfoy, and later overheard McGonagall, Fudge, Hagrid, and Madam Rosmerta talk of how Sirius Black was close friends with his father, and was made his godfather, as well as serving as the secret keeper only to betray his parents to Voldemort, and killed twelve Muggles and Peter Pettigrew with only a finger left of him. Harry spoke of how he would later receive a Firebolt as a Christmas gift, from whom no one at the time knew who sent it, and Hermione telling McGonagall which led the professor to confiscate the broomstick to make sure it wasn't charmed to be a danger to Harry; which caused Harry and Ron to shun and ignore Hermione for a couple of weeks (which earned him a disappointed look from Elizabeth, as well as a glare from Blaise, making him wonder what Blaise thought of Hermione), only to eventually get the broomstick back, and apologizing to Hermione for his behavior.

Harry talked of how one night he saw Peter Pettigrew's name on the Marauder's Map, which he admitted confused him since he was supposed to be dead, and went to investigate it, only to be caught by Snape and Lupin, and had his Map confiscated by Lupin; who he had told about Pettigrew being on the Map. Harry then talked of how Ron's pet rat Scabbers disappeared and framed Hermione's cat Crookshanks for the rat's supposed death, which caused the youngest Weasley boy to shun Hermione again, and how Harry got Lupin to teach him the Patronus charm (which impressed the adults). How he would go to Hagrid's hut with Ron and Hermione to help him with Buckbeak's execution, to Hagrid giving Ron Scabbers back, and the trio having to sneak back out before Dumbledore, Fudge, and the executioner Macnair arrived, to Scabbers biting Ron's hand and ran to the Whomping Willow only for the Grimm to grab Ron's leg, and dragged both him and Scabbers into a hole between the roots of the Whomping Willow, which Harry and Hermione discovered was the opening to a secret tunnel that led to the Shrieking Shack, after they managed to get past the Whomping Willow. Harry explained in great detail, how it was there that he and his friends learned that Sirius Black was an Animagus who could turn into a big shaggy dog that looked like a Grimm, discovered that Hermione figured out that Remus Lupin was actually a werewolf because of Snape's assignment of the creature, and found out the truth from both Sirius and Remus (after Harry had to knock Professor Snape, which thankfully only earned him a shrug from his fellow Slytherin students), that Sirius wasn't actually the secret keeper, or kill Pettigrew, but instead revealed that Sirius had secretly switched places with Pettigrew, who was apparently a secret spy of Voldemort's and told the Dark Lord of where he and his parents were hiding in Godric's Hollow.

Harry told them of how after Voldemort killed his parents, Sirius went after Pettigrew to find out what happened, only to find out that he was the one who betrayed his parents to Voldemort and tried to get him, but instead, Pettigrew managed to get the drop on him by blowing up the street, which killed the twelve Muggles, cut off his own finger, and turn into a rat, which was his Animagus form, faked his own death, and lived with the Weasley Family as a rat for twelve years. After that, Sirius was sent straight to Azkaban without a trial and spent twelve years in prison for a crime he never committed, and with Lupin's help he was going to actually kill Pettigrew, but Harry stopped them, convincing them that Pettigrew deserved to be sent to Azkaban and be submitted to the Dementors for his crimes. Harry shared how Sirius offered to give him a home after his name was cleared, and get him away from the Dursleys, but unfortunately was unable to do so, because the night apparently fell on a night with a full moon, and Remus hadn't taken his wolfsbane potion that night, and as he transformed, Pettigrew used the distraction to transform and escape. Harry then explained how Snape came out and tried to shield them from werewolf Lupin, of how Sirius transformed into his dog form and managed to chase Lupin away, only for Harry to chase after them, and after Lupin was called away by a wolf howl, he then followed after an injured Sirius, only to be cornered by over a hundred Dementors that tried to suck out both Sirius soul, and his.

Harry told them of how he saw a corporeal Patronus in the shape of a stag, chase away the Dementors, and made him believe that it was his father who saved him, only to lose consciousness, and wakes up again in the Hospital Wing and learns that Sirius was captured, and planned to be exposed to the Dementor's Kiss. Harry explained how he and his friends tried to explain the truth to Fudge, but were ultimately ignored by the man, and were told that they didn't understand anything about the reality of things yet. Harry revealed that Snape was going along with the Minister's plan to have Sirius given to the Dementors, instead of backing up Harry and his friend's claims of Sirius' innocence, and of how Dumbledore subtly told Hermione to use her time turner to go back in time with Harry to free Buckbeak, and save Sirius. Harry revealed how he was the one who made the stag Patronus that banished the Dementors, and with Hermione on Buckbeak's back, freed Sirius from Professor Flitwick's office, and made it back to the Hospital Wing for Fudge to come in and bemoan of how bad he'd look for Sirius' escape.

At this point, the others were horrified and upset at the level of sensibility that Hogwarts had come to under Dumbledore's supervision. Being a Ministry worker, Cyrus had been made aware of the Minister's plan to have the Dementors guard Hogwarts, and took his objections straight to Fudge, only to have the man dismiss his concerns. He then went to Dumbledore, hoping that the man would see that having Dementors at Hogwarts was a terrible idea, as it meant exposing the students to the negative influence of the dark creatures, but to Cyrus' shock and horror, he sided with Fudge, allowing the Dementors to be at Hogwarts. Dumbledore has assured him that the creatures would only be kept to the outskirts of the school grounds, but that meant little to Cyrus if it meant that Daphne and Astoria were going to be near those things. Afterward, whatever little respect Cyrus had for his former headmaster, was gone, and he had tried to convince Elizabeth to pull the girls out of Hogwarts for that year, and home school them, but she wouldn't hear of it, saying that it was wrong to deny them the privilege of being with their friends.

Relenting, Cyrus instructed both of his girls to be careful around the Dementors and to stay away from them as best as they could, and report any incidents involving the creatures, something that the two did explicitly. Cyrus tried to petition in the Wizengamot for the removal of the Dementors from Hogwarts with the incidents on the train and the Quidditch Pitch and replace them with capable Aurors instead; a petition that was supported by nearly every single parent in the Wizengamot, but was ultimately overruled and ignored by Fudge and his supporters. But learning that an innocent man had been sent to Azkaban without a trial for twelve years and that the Minister was unwilling to hear what his side of the story was and immediately subject him to a fate worse than death? Unacceptable!

Elizabeth couldn't believe what her godson had to go through for his first three years at Hogwarts, and was even more resolved to get him under his custody. As for Sirius, she had admittedly had her doubts about the man's guilt in regards to what happened to James and Lily, but now learning of what happened to him from Harry's recounting of his Third Year, she was determined to help prove his innocence. Plus, it would give her the chance to knock him upside the head for going after Pettigrew instead of taking care of Harry. If he had done so, then Harry wouldn't have gone to the Dursleys, or be away from her, and the rest of his extended family for as long as he did, and be stuck underneath Dumbledore's thumb. Something that she was determined to undo, as she refused to allow the old man to manipulate and control her godson any further.

"I can't believe, that Dumbledore could allow all of that to happen!" Astoria said, more or less to herself than to the rest of the table, but said it out loud for the others to hear.

Blaise snorted at Astoria's statement and looked at her chidingly.

"I could, considering that he's proven to be a manipulative arse that's clearly trying to prepare Potter for something." He said to her, looking at Astoria with a condescending stare that made her squirm. "I mean, BLOODY HELL ASTORIA! The old man put a powerful magical artifact to lure You-Know-Who into a school full of children, allowed students to be petrified by a creature that he probably didn't know was a Basilisk but had to suspect something nonetheless, and allowed a bunch of soul-sucking Dementors to roam around Hogwarts in the proximity of students, just so that Potter could stop them, and be under his thumb! Do you think he really cares about what happens to the rest of us, as long as Potter is under his manipulative control?"

"BLAISE ALEXANDER ZABINI, WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE YOUNG YOUNG MAN!" Lady Zabini yelled, appalled at her son's behavior. "We are guests of Cyrus and Elizabeth, and I didn't raise you to insult their youngest for trying to understand the manipulations of an old man who seeks to control what goes on in our world."

Blaise couldn't help but feel himself shrink in his chair, as he found himself on the receiving end of his mother's tirade, but also found himself on the receiving end of a glare from Harry. Blaise honestly found himself to be more intrigued by the glare and looked at the Gryffindor Golden Boy.

"While I do have respect for your mother, let me make it clear to you Zabini," Harry said to Blaise. "I will not allow any insults to be thrown at my godsister, not one, on that I swear!"

Blaise shuddered at the intensity of Potter's vow, and understood where he was coming from. Blaise truly cared for Astoria as a friend, but it was clear to him that Potter had come to care about her as a little sister, despite the short amount of time he had already with the Greengrass family. This earned a sense of respect for Potter, Harry, from Blaise, as he nodded at Harry's vow to defend Astoria. Fortunately for Blaise, Lady Greengrass stepped in and saved him.

"Harry, I just need to know for sure," She started, looking at Harry. "Are you certain, for sure, that Sirius is innocent?"

Everyone looked at the Potter Heir, waiting to hear his answer. Harry stared at his godmother intently, conveying all of his sincerity to the max that he had.

"Yes, Aunt Elizabeth, I am certain." He replied, his conviction heavy in his voice. "Sirius is innocent, and the Ministry won't do anything to give him the trial he properly deserves. Dumbledore said he would try to do something to convince the Ministry, but considering everything that I've come to realize about him now, I honestly doubt that he's actually going to do anything."

Elizabeth nodded at her godson's answer, and sat back, wondering how she could help Sirius, while also wanting to get her hands on the rat Peter Pettigrew and make him pay for betraying James and Lily to You-Know-Who. Even when she was a student at Hogwarts, she never liked the cowardly Gryffindor, and often pleaded with Cyrus to convince James to not be around him after she and Cyrus started dating; she even tried to convince Lily after school, to get James to cut off all ties to Pettigrew, but both of them often refused, since they each respectively took pity on him. Cyrus too, contemplated on how he could help his old friend, while also developing a similar sense of wanting to get back at Pettigrew as his wife, and mentally wished he had listened to Elizabeth back in Hogwarts. He couldn't help but wonder if James and Lily would still be alive, had he listened to Elizabeth about Peter in the first place. He then had an idea pop into his head on how to help Sirius and looked up at Harry.

"As a Ministry worker myself," Cyrus said, earning a look from his honorary nephew. "I take mild offense to that comment about the Ministry, but I admit that it is a deserved comment. In any case, tell me, did your parent's Will say anything about Sirius in it?"

The responding look from Harry threw Cyrus off and gave him cause for concern. Did the Goblins not mention James and Lily's will when Harry went to Gringotts at eleven? Because the will would've been a valuable piece of information for Harry to know. Cyrus also wondered if something happened to the will after James and Lily's death, to ensure whatever was in it wouldn't happen.

"My parent's Will?" Harry asked, confirming Cyrus' suspicion. "I was never told of any will from my parents."

"YOU'RE KIDDING!?" Tracey yelled out, shocked that an heir of an important House such as Harry's, to be in the dark of an important document from his parents. "You should've been told about your parent's Will when you turned eleven and went to the Goblins to have it read. It's important that the will be read to you, to know what you may have had left to you by your parents."

Harry looked at the brunette Slytherin with a look of incredulity until he thought of something.

"Wait, when I turned eleven?" He asked, looking at Tracey to be sure, and received a nod from her. "Because when I went to Gringotts when I was eleven, I was with Hagrid, who took me there, on orders and instructions from Dumbledore."

Everyone considered the words that Harry just said, and wondered carefully if that had been done carefully by Dumbledore. It was a well-known fact that Hagrid, while extremely friendly to others, was exceedingly loyal to Dumbledore. So it wasn't hard to imagine that Dumbledore could've told Hagrid to take Harry to Gringotts to get what he needed for his school supplies, but to make sure that he didn't get a chance to hear about his parent's Will, and have it read to him.

"Hmm, it seems that we'll have to make a trip to Gringotts at some point before you go to the Weasleys," Cyrus muttered loud enough for everyone to hear, before looking back to Harry. "I will get in contact with the Goblins and request an audience with the Potter Family Account Manager. When our request is granted, Elizabeth will go with you, and request on your behalf to have your parent's Will read if you agree to it, Harry."

Harry looked at his godmother, who nodded at him, and then looked back at Cyrus. He nodded his head, indicating that he agreed to Cyrus' plan, and would go along with it. Cyrus nodded back, internally pleased that Harry was going along with the plan.

"Good, now then, let's take our minds off of the depressing stories, and enjoy the dinner." He said, smiling at everyone at the table, who smiled back.

Harry turned his mind to hearing the stories of everyone else, often sharing his thoughts on certain topics such as the treatment of Muggleborns in the general Magic community, to the unfair treatment of werewolves like Remus Lupin. Harry would learn of how it was a woman in the Ministry named Dolores Umbridge, who was also the senior undersecretary to Minister Fudge, who was responsible for the campaigns to demonize and limit the rights of werewolves and making their lives difficult, which only served to make people like Remus unable get by in life. Harry made a vow to himself, that if he somehow managed to get in a position to do so, he would help Remus, and try to put a stop to the Ministry's campaign against people like Remus. With families like the Greengrasses, Davis, and Zabinis, he was sure that he would be able to do so.

(Author's Note: I believe I remembered the general events of the first three books, but if I somehow forgot something and left it out, please let me know, and I'll edit this chapter to include it. Also, I don't know if Blaise Zabini has a middle name, so I just gave him one, and I gotta admit, Blaise Alexander Zabini has a nice ring to it.)