Incredibles

The event was ended and the stands began to empty.

"Don't think about it, Sev, it's something that's beyond your control," Sirius reassured him. "Don't stop being who you are or doing what you do because the old man has been able to read Hippolyta, in any case he already sees you in the Map too, you should give up being with her other than in the Room of Requirement or the bedrooms."

"Of course, I'm not going to give it any more thought, let him think or do what he wants. I'm not going to let myself be manipulated, now less than ever."

"Great, I like it that way. What are you doing now?"

"All of us Sly are going to wait for the team at the exit of the field, to start celebrating," Sev responded. "Do you want to come with us?"

"Okay, great."

"Do you have good concealment?"

"Yes, the Gryffs will go their own way, Remus was going to tell Peter that I was feeling unwell and had gone back to bed without coming to the game, I have sealed the curtains on my bed," Black responded.

"Great. Did the rat see you come into your bedroom this morning?"

"No, he and James had already gone down to breakfast, I haven't met them, and last night I also left them sealed."

"Brilliant. And have you come to the field alone?" the Sly asked.

"Yes, after them."

"Great, Sirius, everything was very well done. Let's wait then to get off the last ones so as not to meet them at the exit of the field."

"Yes, besides, we have things left to talk about," said the Gryff.

"Of course. Do you need the Time Turner tonight?"

"No, not that. Alice, Frank and Richard will attend without Time-Turner."

"Have you tried to see if Lily's chain works for all four of you?" Sev asked.

"Nor, but it works. On the day of the mess, four of them used it, the three of them with the old man."

"Brilliant. Have you thought that maybe James would like to come too?"

"Well no, we hadn't thought about that," Black responded.

"Then I'm going to leave you mine anyway."

"No, Sev, forget James, otherwise you won't be able to be with Lily."

"In any case I can't pay much attention to her. You know, Sirius, there will be too many people, like at training."

"How awful... I don't understand how you resist. Forget James, so you can at least chat for a while."

"Well, I don't think it matters if James sees us chatting for a while, I think he will be happy and will interpret it in the sense that the assignment I gave you is working."

"Of course, I think so. Very well thought out," Black approved.

Sev took out his Time-Turner. "Take the Time Turner and propose it to him then. Tonight you return it to me surreptitiously."

"Okay."

"Don't lose it, huh?"

"No, no, calm down."

Sirius put it in the inside pocket of his jacket, from which he took out a wallet.

"I like it that way, safely."

"I also have something for you," opening the wallet.

"What?"

"The Muggle money that we Gryffs have managed to raise," said Black. "It's not much, but it's something, so we also contribute."

"It wasn't necessary, Sirius, we have a lot of money, there's enough for everyone. I put in a lot that I had."

"Ugh, Sev, you shouldn't have put anything in."

"Yes, I had to put it because it wasn't mine, they had lent it to me before Easter to make purchases and I had a lot of money left over that I kept in case I had an emergency, which is no longer going to happen."

"You might need it in summer."

"I have an excellent way of life in the summer, which I will tell you about one day with more time, perhaps tonight," the Sly explained. "Don't worry about that, I won't miss anything."

"Well…"

"And not only that, the eagles also contributed a lot, because they barely go out to Hogsmeade, they stay to study, so they put in almost all the magical money they brought at Easter and some since Christmas."

"Oh…"

"So if you needed that money to return home, return it to whoever gave it to you."

"They didn't need it, Sev, I already made sure of that. Those who contributed the most were Remus, Alice and Frank. Remus always carries enough Muggle money with him to take advantage of every occasion he passes through London to buy books or go to the cinema. He usually goes to the cinema as soon as he gets off the Express and then goes to the Cauldron to return home via Floo."

"Oh... he had never told me that."

"And Alice and Frank the same, they stay in London for a while to have a drink or even dinner, as an intimate couple, they can Apparate now. In addition, Alice and Frank are also pure-bloods, from wealthy families."

"Yes, I knew it, because of their last names," said Sev. "And what do they do with their trunks?"

"They leave them at the station locker and return the next day, Alice and Frank themselves and Remus with his father. They go back to platform nine and three quarters and Apparate to their houses from there."

"Sure…"

"Here, come on." Sirius gave him a good wad of pounds, Sev took them and put them in the pocket where he had carried the Time-Turner.

"If you have anything left over, you keep it."

"Okay, Sirius."

"If not for you, for Hippolyta, for her doctor."

"Okay."

The stands had emptied.

"We are going out?"

"Let's go."

They continued chatting down the stairs, across the field and arriving at the entrance without haste.

"We have to research Transfiguration to learn the spell to lengthen the chain of a Time-Turner," Sev suggested. "I have seen the old man perform it on two occasions already, but of course, he does it non-verbally, I haven't learned anything."

"I can take care of it, you know Transfiguration is my specialty," said Sirius.

"Great, although I suspect that in Diagon you won't find anything. You know, Time Turners, Ministry business, information must be very restricted."

"I'll look anyway."

"Okay, do it," Sev encouraged him. "In the Restricted Section there are also books about Transfiguration, maybe it will appear in one of them. I'll leave it until September if you don't find anything."

"Do you have access to the Restricted Section?" surprised.

"Of course," sarcastic. "How do you think I learned curses, Legilimency and Occlumency?"

"Of course, of course... I seem stupid..." Sirius realized, laughing.

"Since first year, boy, I spied on Pince."

"Wow…" admired.

"That thing that appeared in The Prophet about me that said, 'He knew more curses in first grade than the seventh graders', did you read it?" the Sly asked.

"Yes, of course I read it."

"It is totally true," very satisfied.

"Wow... and you're very proud of it..." Black admired.

"Of course. You have to know the enemy."

"I agree with you."

"I'll teach you how to throw them, you'll see how much fun we had," Sev proposed.

"Great. I think there may be problems with the Restricted Section."

"Say, Sirius."

"When did you last release a book?"

"At the beginning of March."

"And does the old man know?" asked the Gryff.

"He does."

"The protective spell may have changed."

"It's true, it hadn't occurred to me. You're a great thinking mind too, huh, Sirius? You will be a squad commander, you deserve it more than James. I think maybe he didn't do it, he already found out in December that I took out another one and he didn't change it. He hasn't changed it since I stole the first book in first year, he finds out every time one is missing and I have a few on Dark Magic, even more dangerous than the Mental Arts ones. The old man is clever but also very stupid. He's very strange, there's no way to catch him."

"There is a Muggle saying. The devil knows more thanks to being old than to being a devil, I think that's what it is. He is cunning from years of experience, not naturally, like you."

"Or like you."

"So we're ahead of him," Black said.

"Of course, and not only because of that, but because he is alone and we are many thinking heads collaborating. It is we who are going to win the war, not him."

"Of course, and I think that after your practical Defense exam on Thursday you are going to acquire much more prominence in the Wizarding World than him. You are going to be the true leader, and not him."

"I think so too. Won by the hand," said Sev.

"In the Gryff House we don't talk about anything else."

"I killed two birds with one stone, I secured the Chair and made it as difficult as possible to become a double agent in the future, it would not be credible."

"Indeed. But you will run even more risk on the street," the Gryff warned.

"Well yes, the price I have to pay. Luckily I live in a Muggle city, Voldemort will never look for me there, and the rest of the time I will be at Hogwarts or in the Muggle world. I will only set foot in Diagon for essentials, and in the future Knockturn, when I go with Hippolyta to have a Death Eater snack."

They laughed.

"I'm in," Black said.

"Well, well... we'll see. We are the dumbbell, three is a crowd."

"Do you know who I would have the pleasure of killing personally?" vehement.

"Let me guess. Your cousin, the slut," Sev assumed.

"Spot on," even more so.

"Well, you better than anyone, Sirius," he too. "You know where she lives, as soon as you have the weapons, go after her. I'll go with you, I also have something personal against her."

"Can you tell me?" in confidence.

"No, not yet. Furthermore, we have one topic left to talk about."

"True, the sponsorship of the Chair," said Gryff.

"That is, nothing to do at the moment. You can't make the donation until you are of legal age."

"Then at Christmas."

"Yeah. In any case there wouldn't have been time to get it up and running for next year, the paperwork is very long," the Sly explained. "But from Christmas to September there will be time. And between now and Christmas, the exact amount needed for the donation will be known, so that you don't have to give a single extra galleon and it will be taken by the Ministry or the old man."

"Perfect."

"And not only that, between now and Christmas there is also time for my name to be cleared and the Ministry not to get into trouble for demanding that I be the holder."

"Great, then everything will have turned out perfectly," Black was happy.

"That is. Did you tell James?"

"Of course."

"And what did he think?" Sev asked.

"Wonderful, both for you and for me. He has known since first year how much my last name weighs on me. In fact, he proposed that he alone be the one to make the summer donations."

"Oh, man... and you didn't want to invite him to the party…"

"Yeah."

"Take good care of James, he is very alone, he only has you and Remus," said Sev.

"Sure. Although he also has a very good relationship with his parents."

"But they are old now, aren't they?"

"They are," Sirius responded.

"Well, he won't be able to have much confidence in them, there will be many things that they don't understand."

"Of course, but they make up for it by being very good people."

"How is it going with Mary?" Sev asked.

"He begins to pay attention to her. She's going to ask him for his address one of these days."

"Great. And how is the gossiper taking it?"

"Bethany? Ugh... fought with her, before they always hung out together and now she doesn't talk to her anymore," Black responded.

"Another bad person. I don't understand how she and Pettigrew could fall in Gryff. They should also be put together, they are one for another. Maybe then, being she a Muggle-born, he would desist from becoming a Death Eater."

"Don't be surprised that they are in Gryff, being a good or bad person has nothing to do with it. The only real good ones are the Huffles, not a single dark wizard has come out of that House in history, and remember that you had to lynch two Gryffs because they had tried to kill you."

"You're right. By the way, where does James live?" the Sly asked.

"In Godric's Hollow."

"He is Hippolyta's neighbor."

"What are you saying?" Sirius was surprised, excited.

"What you are hearing. But I'm not going to give you her address if I get it, you'll steal her from me, and I want her just for myself."

"I would never do it, Sev. You saw that I asked your permission to have something with Lily."

"Yeah, I know, I was joking. If she wanted, of course you could be with her. Maybe we can all see each other there in the summer. She usually escapes from home alone to walk through the woods, we could accompany her."

"Wow… she's the bomb."

"She would get along well with James, they have Quidditch in common," said Sev. "Do you know what she says about him?"

"What?"

"That he is a package."

They laughed. "She'd have a blast making fun of him, and so would we," the Sly added.

"Then we will do it if it can be."

"Of course, this way we'll also take care of James a little more. Tonight we'll introduce them if he comes."

"Great," Black agreed.

They arrived at the exit of the field, the more than forty Slys were waiting.

Sev asked, "Haven't they come out yet?"

"They haven't," they answered.

"They take it easy, huh?"

"They must be celebrating in the locker room, man, making fun of the eagles."

"Sure, later they tell us." He turned to Sirius. "Well, nothing, Sirius, you've already heard it, let's wait. We stay here, so she sees us first."

"Did Hippolyta know that I was going to watch the game with you?"

"Of course, before meeting you in person, she heard Valerie say it. Didn't you talk about it the day you came to train?"

"We didn't."

"How odd."

"She's only interested in me as a spy, Sev. The rest of the time she only talked to me about you."

"Oh really? Tell me, tell me."

"She told me in confidence, Sev."

"Ugh... I want to know..." pleadingly.

"Ask her."

"I have told you things about Lily without her permission... Come on, tell me…"

Sirius laughed. "You're going to convince me, you ask for things like Lily."

Sev laughed too. "Of course, I have learned from her. She always convinced me of everything she wanted, she had me dominated."

"Woman's weapons."

"Indeed. That's why we also have to collude. Don't change the subject, tell, tell."

"Okay, but without details, huh?" Sirius agreed.

"Okay, whatever you want."

"That you would have been a better Seeker than her."

"Oh…"

"She wouldn't mind giving you her place on the team if she didn't have time to continue with Quidditch, because she's going to be very busy with studies and training until she gets her OWLs," continued Black. "She would take it up again in the sixth year, when you will graduate."

"Oh... But I'm going to be even busier than her."

"Of course, that's what I told her."

"And I don't want her to leave Quidditch for two years," Sev objected. "It will be her livelihood when the war ends, or maybe since she graduates, her family is humble."

"Sure... Then we'll help her too until then."

"Do you see how important it was for you to tell me, Sirius?"

"Yes you're right."

"What else did she tell you?"

"I'm going to tell you in as much detail as I remember," Black said.

"Okay."

"That you were very brave for having kicked the malefics out of school like you did without knowing that they were going to leave, thinking that maybe you should continue sharing your bedroom with them and they could have killed you while you were sleeping."

"Wow…"

"If they had stayed, she would have secretly talked to you to sneak into your bedroom at night and keep an eye on you so they wouldn't attack you," the Gryff continued.

"How awful…"

"That was the real reason why she wanted to train that morning with the Army, so she could be alone with you for a while and talk about it."

And maybe that's also why she insisted so much on learning curses, because seeing me with an escort she suspected that there could be malefics at school, she wanted to do it to protect me, Sev thought. Booff…

"If you hadn't agreed, she would have done it secretly anyway," Sirius continued. "I was shocked. She was willing to kill and die for you without yet knowing how to kill. In third year and before meeting you in person. She loves you deeply, Sev, just for what you did that day."

She did know how to kill, she would have been able to cast an Avada, she already knew the intention and the spell, Sev thought. With books she would have learned everything herself, like I did.That's why she told me that we were worth the same.

"Have you recovered?" Sirius asked. "Shall I continue?"

Sev continued to think as they talked. And she wouldn't have realized that if she used an Unforgivable, which were the only curses she knew, she would have ended up in Azkaban.She was willing to use curses if she was attacked in the forest alone. "Go on, go on, I was thinking. She did know how to kill. She has already read all the Defense theory up to the seventh year. She knows the Unforgivables, which is a fourth grade syllabus, she would have been able to cast an Avada."

"You make it worse for me. In that case, she was willing to go to Azkaban for you, maybe for life, which is even worse than dying."

"Ugh… Sirius. How come you didn't tell me all this as soon as you saw me?"

"Because I was so alarmed that she made me promise not to tell you, but I would have told you anyway, at another time, I didn't want to ruin today for you."

"Did she tell you anything else before you got alarmed?"

"Yeah. I hid it and coaxed her out so that she told me as much as possible," the Gryff responded. "Part of what I've already told you, she told me because I coaxed it out of her."

"Then tell me."

"That she wanted to be part of your escort in the summer, she would run away from home to accompany you everywhere because she didn't trust that anyone would be willing to protect you like she is, or even if they were, they would be capable enough to do so."

"Ugh... what a danger..." Sev was alarmed. He thought as they continued talking, And all this was after I had already warned her that she should not use curses to protect herself, and knowing that I can become invisible.Of course, she doesn't know the Red Magic shield, she thinks that if they attack me we will have a duel.I'm going to have to explain things subtly.

"I know, Sev, I realize I should have told you. I tried to dissuade her, of course."

"And you convinced her?"

"I don't believe it."

"Ugh, Sirius... You've failed me, huh?"

"I know, Sev, I'm very sorry. I didn't want to give you a worry exactly today."

"I'm going to have to talk to her this afternoon and read her on that aspect as well."

"Sure."

"Did she tell you anything else?" the Sly asked.

"She didn't, we didn't have time anymore. That's precisely why I don't think I was able to dissuade her, I preferred to get as much information as possible from her. I planned to tell you another time, because Lily told me last night that today was the day you took off."

"Well, sorry for having reproached you. You did great, she would have told any of this to nobody at home, and even less so to me, so at least we are warned. I have a lot of troubles with her."

Sirius hugged him. "Come on, try to forget for a while and enjoy, they must be about to come out, don't make each other bitter a moment as beautiful as this. You'll fix it in the afternoon."

"You're right, Sirius, you were right when you thought about telling me another time. When would you have done it?"

"Tomorrow, on the way to or from flight training."

"Of course, I was stupid. I had to respect that you didn't say anything to me today. It doesn't matter, I'll try to get it out of my head. Your hug helps me a lot."

"Do what I did last night, you should have seen how I got when I found out about Peter, and even worse when they told me that you and Remus were going to learn to Obliviate by practicing with each other," Black explained. "And not long after, it became the best night of my life."

"True, there is a certain person who always tells me that you have to know how to enjoy the good moments to be prepared for the bad ones. Someone with whom you would also make a perfect couple."

"Oh really?" interested.

"Of course you would, you are one for another," said Sev.

"Tell me tell me…"

"Guess."

"The other spy," answered the Gryff.

Sev laughed and broke away from Sirius to look at him, holding his arms. He was smiling openly at him.

"How clever you are, Sirius!"

"Good! Your disgust has already passed…"

"Of course."

"You are incredible, Sev."

"No more than you."