p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Sorry for the delay! Life happened. I am going to try to update once a week in the future./span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Content Warning: Child Abuse/span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Chapter 7 : The Third Awakening/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Tomorrow, children," the portly and not overly nice orphanage director, Mr Lucidanius said, "We are taking certain members of you to the seaside. The identities of the lucky people will be determined by your behaviour in the past few months. The postings will go up in a few minutes."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"This news was greeted with excitement. The children almost never left the orphanage./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When the postings were up, Lily and Nicole both looked eagerly, but neither of their names were on the list./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I wish we could go," Nicole said, "But at least one of us isn`t going without the other."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When tomorrow arrived, competing airs of joy from the lucky few and gloom from those not chosen filled the orphanage./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As the rented bus prepared to drive off, Mrs. Bumbleridge rushed up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Nicole, Mrs. Lerelia has asked for you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Nicole hurried off./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Come, Lily," Mrs. Bumbleridge said. "A last minute revision to the list has qualified you for the trip."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily was suspicious. She knew that Mrs. Bumbleridge had a special enmity for her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hurry," Mrs. Bumbleridge said, "Or we will miss the bus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Eventually, Lily`s longing to go on the trip beat out her suspicions of Mrs. Bumbleridge./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She followed her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"But it was too late. The bus was driving away./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They climbed into Mrs. Bumbleridge`s car and followed the bus./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As they got out into the countryside, they took a different turn from the bus./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Now," Mrs. Bumbleridge said as they pulled to a stop on a bridge, "You`re mine."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emSeveral months earlier.../em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The day after the events that caused Sirius and Mary Black`s children to die horribly, The parents of said children lay miserably in bed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It had not taken long for what had occurred to be made public./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The day after, when Sirius lay in St Mungo`s, an article was published in the Daily Prophet./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He stared in amazement and anger at the bold heading, which read:/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emspan style="font-weight: bold;"Terror at Potter Manor/span/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emBy Custard Allegro/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emCitizens of the wizarding world, a strange and terrible event occurred yesterday at the Potter Manor. Many charred skeletons were found in the burning house, which strangely left several corpses intact, as well as the near to death Lords Sirius Black and James Potter, and Lady Mary Black. The aforesaid nobility had been tortured within an inch of their lives. The heir to House Black and his twin were both lying dead on the floor, murdered with similar tortures with bodies unburnt. They were only six years old. Besides them, our very own Boy-Who-Lived was found in great magical exhaustion, although he exhibited no signs of torture./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emWhat on earth could have occurred? The Potters were known for having unusually strong wards, yet these strange torturers were able to break in with relative ease. There also arises the question of what will happen to the House of Black. Mary Black, formerly Mary McDonald, had a very difficult time in labor. Will Sirius Black remarry?/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"At that, Sirius smashed the newspaper to the floor. No! He would not remarry! He would either adopt an heir, or he would let the house of Black die./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He looked over at Mary. She had been treated worse than him. He could not believe those bastards had raped her! He would like to tear them limb from limb span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration-line: underline;"after/span he castrated them./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He fell asleep./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emOne week later.../em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Are you sure we have to go see a mind healer, Mary?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yes, Sirius. It won`t be that bad."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The Blacks had been recommended to go see a certain man who specialized in some muggle mind healing thing known as therapy. He also was known for his research regarding compulsion magic and mind wipes. The officials at St Mungo`s said that he would be able to help them with the trauma of seeing their children murdered in front of their eyes./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As if anything could ever help with that./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they entered his office, Sirius was pleasantly surprised./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"At the end of the visit, he was reluctantly impressed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Did you know," the healer called as they were on their way out, "That you have multiple Obliviates and compulsion magics placed on your brain?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Sirius spun around./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What did you say?!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It turned out that there were. The healer was unable to do anything about them./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I am sorry," he said apologetically, "But they have been placed by someone higher up in the mind arts tier than I am, and thus i can do nothing about them."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they left, Sirius was mad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Very mad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Who did this to me? Very few people are higher up on the mind arts tier than that mind healer."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He was pretty sure the Black library had some books on this very subject./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When he found out who did this.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They would pay./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Just so you know, child," Mrs. Bumbleridge said, "You are not leaving here alive. No one will ever know what happened to you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She seized Lily`s shirt and pulled it off./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""For all anyone knows, you have merely run off because you didn`t get to go on the beach trip."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She pulled off Lily`s pants./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""And before I kill you, as my masters have instructed, I can do what ever I want with you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She pulled off Lily`s underwear./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hmmm. What shall I do first?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily kicked and screamed with all her might, but she wasn`t able to do anything./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hmmm."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Sirius and Mary searched the Black Library exhaustively./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"There were many books about mind arts - the Blacks had been among the first practitioners./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"But it took a long time to find what they were looking for./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""At last!" Sirius cried. "The solution awaits!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It took three days and a painful and incredibly tiring ritual, but Sirius was able to awake with the erased memories in his mind and the compulsions destroyed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As they flooded his mind, one word above all else burst from his lips in great anger./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Dumbledore!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What is it, dear?" Mary asked as she came into the room./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Dumbledore has hidden away my goddaughter! And he made me forget about her! She is in a muggle orphanage!" Sirius roared./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Blood poured from the cuts all over Lily's body. Mrs. Bumbleridge pulled out a strange stick./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Don't try to run away, child. I'm just getting started."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily groaned./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emNo more!/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Are you sure this is the best idea, dear?" Mary asked Sirius./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"" Yes. James deserves to know, even if he refuses to acknowledge or accept what we say."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""And if it fails, we can always try to find Lily's magical signature."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""We will do that anyway."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they met James, he was terse and dismissive./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You are incorrect."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""They are where they should be."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"All these things he said, and more that was ruder./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they arrived home, they had managed to retrieve Lily's magical signature with a special, highly expensive device./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They then put it onto a special kind of (very expensive) magical rock that would bond with the signature./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They then put the rock in another very expensive device that would locate where Lily was currently./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Good thing the Black family Vault has so much money in it," Sirius laughed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The machine broke./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""She must be behind wards that prevent the detection of magical signatures."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Another, even more expensive device that would not break if it encountered wards and would notify them if the magical signature went beyond the wards was purchased./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What now?" Mary asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""We wait," Sirius said grimly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily was not doing well./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I have lots of things left to try, child, so don't die on me yet."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Mrs Bumbleridge cackled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She heard a sound becoming louder./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A semi - truck roared into view./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You have exceeded your mandate, Bee!" The man who was driving cried./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The semi crashed into the car, sending it flying off the bridge, into the river./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emThe day of the beach trip/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I have detected her signature, Sirius! She's left the wards!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Let's track her down."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They apparated to the general area, but realized she was moving./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They ran after her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily floundered in the river. Her lungs started to fill with water./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The two men got out of the vehicle and stood calmly, watching her struggle./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Any second," one said./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She went under again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Suddenly, inside her, something strange happened./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She could breathe!/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She shot out of the water./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A wave of water erupted from the river, pulling the men in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Did it obey her thoughts?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She saw two people come running up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they helped her out of the water and wrapped her in a cloak, she wondered./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"What was going on?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Thanks for reading the longest chapter in this story yet! I hope you enjoyed it! Yes, the Blacks are going to take care of Lily./span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Please review!/span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Content Warning: Child Abuse/span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Chapter 7 : The Third Awakening/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Tomorrow, children," the portly and not overly nice orphanage director, Mr Lucidanius said, "We are taking certain members of you to the seaside. The identities of the lucky people will be determined by your behaviour in the past few months. The postings will go up in a few minutes."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"This news was greeted with excitement. The children almost never left the orphanage./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When the postings were up, Lily and Nicole both looked eagerly, but neither of their names were on the list./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I wish we could go," Nicole said, "But at least one of us isn`t going without the other."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When tomorrow arrived, competing airs of joy from the lucky few and gloom from those not chosen filled the orphanage./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As the rented bus prepared to drive off, Mrs. Bumbleridge rushed up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Nicole, Mrs. Lerelia has asked for you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Nicole hurried off./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Come, Lily," Mrs. Bumbleridge said. "A last minute revision to the list has qualified you for the trip."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily was suspicious. She knew that Mrs. Bumbleridge had a special enmity for her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hurry," Mrs. Bumbleridge said, "Or we will miss the bus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Eventually, Lily`s longing to go on the trip beat out her suspicions of Mrs. Bumbleridge./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She followed her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"But it was too late. The bus was driving away./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They climbed into Mrs. Bumbleridge`s car and followed the bus./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As they got out into the countryside, they took a different turn from the bus./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Now," Mrs. Bumbleridge said as they pulled to a stop on a bridge, "You`re mine."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emSeveral months earlier.../em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The day after the events that caused Sirius and Mary Black`s children to die horribly, The parents of said children lay miserably in bed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It had not taken long for what had occurred to be made public./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The day after, when Sirius lay in St Mungo`s, an article was published in the Daily Prophet./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He stared in amazement and anger at the bold heading, which read:/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emspan style="font-weight: bold;"Terror at Potter Manor/span/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emBy Custard Allegro/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emCitizens of the wizarding world, a strange and terrible event occurred yesterday at the Potter Manor. Many charred skeletons were found in the burning house, which strangely left several corpses intact, as well as the near to death Lords Sirius Black and James Potter, and Lady Mary Black. The aforesaid nobility had been tortured within an inch of their lives. The heir to House Black and his twin were both lying dead on the floor, murdered with similar tortures with bodies unburnt. They were only six years old. Besides them, our very own Boy-Who-Lived was found in great magical exhaustion, although he exhibited no signs of torture./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"emWhat on earth could have occurred? The Potters were known for having unusually strong wards, yet these strange torturers were able to break in with relative ease. There also arises the question of what will happen to the House of Black. Mary Black, formerly Mary McDonald, had a very difficult time in labor. Will Sirius Black remarry?/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"At that, Sirius smashed the newspaper to the floor. No! He would not remarry! He would either adopt an heir, or he would let the house of Black die./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He looked over at Mary. She had been treated worse than him. He could not believe those bastards had raped her! He would like to tear them limb from limb span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration-line: underline;"after/span he castrated them./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He fell asleep./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emOne week later.../em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Are you sure we have to go see a mind healer, Mary?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yes, Sirius. It won`t be that bad."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The Blacks had been recommended to go see a certain man who specialized in some muggle mind healing thing known as therapy. He also was known for his research regarding compulsion magic and mind wipes. The officials at St Mungo`s said that he would be able to help them with the trauma of seeing their children murdered in front of their eyes./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As if anything could ever help with that./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they entered his office, Sirius was pleasantly surprised./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"At the end of the visit, he was reluctantly impressed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Did you know," the healer called as they were on their way out, "That you have multiple Obliviates and compulsion magics placed on your brain?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Sirius spun around./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What did you say?!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It turned out that there were. The healer was unable to do anything about them./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I am sorry," he said apologetically, "But they have been placed by someone higher up in the mind arts tier than I am, and thus i can do nothing about them."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they left, Sirius was mad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Very mad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Who did this to me? Very few people are higher up on the mind arts tier than that mind healer."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He was pretty sure the Black library had some books on this very subject./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When he found out who did this.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They would pay./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Just so you know, child," Mrs. Bumbleridge said, "You are not leaving here alive. No one will ever know what happened to you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She seized Lily`s shirt and pulled it off./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""For all anyone knows, you have merely run off because you didn`t get to go on the beach trip."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She pulled off Lily`s pants./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""And before I kill you, as my masters have instructed, I can do what ever I want with you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She pulled off Lily`s underwear./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hmmm. What shall I do first?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily kicked and screamed with all her might, but she wasn`t able to do anything./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hmmm."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Sirius and Mary searched the Black Library exhaustively./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"There were many books about mind arts - the Blacks had been among the first practitioners./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"But it took a long time to find what they were looking for./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""At last!" Sirius cried. "The solution awaits!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"It took three days and a painful and incredibly tiring ritual, but Sirius was able to awake with the erased memories in his mind and the compulsions destroyed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"As they flooded his mind, one word above all else burst from his lips in great anger./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Dumbledore!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What is it, dear?" Mary asked as she came into the room./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Dumbledore has hidden away my goddaughter! And he made me forget about her! She is in a muggle orphanage!" Sirius roared./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Blood poured from the cuts all over Lily's body. Mrs. Bumbleridge pulled out a strange stick./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Don't try to run away, child. I'm just getting started."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily groaned./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emNo more!/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Are you sure this is the best idea, dear?" Mary asked Sirius./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"" Yes. James deserves to know, even if he refuses to acknowledge or accept what we say."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""And if it fails, we can always try to find Lily's magical signature."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""We will do that anyway."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they met James, he was terse and dismissive./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You are incorrect."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""They are where they should be."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"All these things he said, and more that was ruder./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they arrived home, they had managed to retrieve Lily's magical signature with a special, highly expensive device./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They then put it onto a special kind of (very expensive) magical rock that would bond with the signature./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They then put the rock in another very expensive device that would locate where Lily was currently./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Good thing the Black family Vault has so much money in it," Sirius laughed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The machine broke./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""She must be behind wards that prevent the detection of magical signatures."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Another, even more expensive device that would not break if it encountered wards and would notify them if the magical signature went beyond the wards was purchased./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""What now?" Mary asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""We wait," Sirius said grimly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily was not doing well./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I have lots of things left to try, child, so don't die on me yet."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Mrs Bumbleridge cackled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She heard a sound becoming louder./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A semi - truck roared into view./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You have exceeded your mandate, Bee!" The man who was driving cried./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The semi crashed into the car, sending it flying off the bridge, into the river./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emThe day of the beach trip/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I have detected her signature, Sirius! She's left the wards!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Let's track her down."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They apparated to the general area, but realized she was moving./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"They ran after her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Lily floundered in the river. Her lungs started to fill with water./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The two men got out of the vehicle and stood calmly, watching her struggle./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Any second," one said./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She went under again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Suddenly, inside her, something strange happened./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She could breathe!/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She shot out of the water./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"A wave of water erupted from the river, pulling the men in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Did it obey her thoughts?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She saw two people come running up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"When they helped her out of the water and wrapped her in a cloak, she wondered./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"What was going on?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Thanks for reading the longest chapter in this story yet! I hope you enjoyed it! Yes, the Blacks are going to take care of Lily./span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Please review!/span/p