Aaaah! I don't know about you but I'm still reeling from all the feels. Yay! Sirius and Harry are finally going to be happy and I will NOT be changing this. I still haven't forgiven JK for killing off Sirius, nope, never going to!

Anyway...

Happy new year!

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Chapter Thirty-Three

By Rosa241

Harry POV:

"An Alchemist?" Ron's words surprise me. Honestly since I found out Sirius wanted to visit I'd been far too surprised to even begin thinking about anything else. The problem of Nicholas Flammel had been thrown to the back of my mind. But now…

"Yeah. Apparently he invented something called the Philosophers Stone whatever that is." Philosophers Stone…

"Well that's got to be what's under that trap door. It has to be." Suddenly the prospect of getting back to Hogwarts seems to be more important than ever. "But what is it?"

"I don't know. I didn't really want to ask Percy again he was suspicious enough as it was." Okay so we definitely didn't want him finding out but we need to know what we're dealing with. Maybe we could find a way to get him to talk about it, maybe if I asked him. Apparently Ron senses my thoughts and immediately shakes his head. "Don't even think about it mate. Percy's wicked smart. I mean he's a total genius." There's a hint of pride in Ron's voice as he talks about his brother.

"But surely we could just tell him we were curious about the stone. I mean he's the one that mentioned it." Surely we could do it.

"You don't get it mate. Percy's not just smart, he's really good at knowing when people are lying. He always knows when Fred and George are up to something and the more we start involving him the more he's going to find out. He already reckons were up to no good." Well damn. We'd have to wait until we got back to Hogwarts to find out about the Philosophers Stone. Not that it would take Hermione long to – Hermione!

"Ron we've got to write to Hermione and tell her." It was only right. She's part of this too. Evidentially this is the first time it occurs to him and he quickly concurs. No doubt she'd never forgive us if she found out we knew and said nothing. Grabbing a spare bit of parchment Ron quickly begins scribbling down a message. Looking over his shoulder I read the words carefully.

Hi Hermione,

Great news. We figured out who Nicolas Flammel is. Turns out he's an alchemist who invented something called the Philosophers Stone. We still don't know what that is but we're working on it. We'll probably have to wait until we get back to school to find that out though. We can't go asking too many more questions, people will get suspicious.

"Ask her how her Christmas is going?" Ron tilts his head before blushing slightly. Clearly he wasn't thinking of that. Those two were friends now but they were still learning how to move around one another. Both of them could be a bit blind to the other. Nodding his head he hands the quil over to me and lets me write the rest of the message. Probably a good idea.

How's your Christmas going? I hope you are having fun at home with your parents.

Oh by the way I finally met my godfather. It was awesome! I'll tell you all about it when we get back to school.

See you soon,

Harry and Ron.

"Let's ask mum if we can send it now. The sooner she gets this the less likely she is to go mad when she realises she wasn't the first one to figure it out." Rolling my eyes at his words we head downstairs and into the kitchen where Mrs Weasley is cooking something that smells delicious.

"Mum, can we use Errol to send this to Hermione?" I'd use Hedwig but she's only just come back from returning a letter to Seamus this morning. Poor things exhausted.

"It'll have to wait a little. He's just running an errand for Bill at the moment." Damn. Now what?

"You can use Hermes if you want." Percy's voice has both of us jumping. When did he get here?

"Are you sure?" Ron's surprise echoes my own. Percy was rather protective over his owl.

"Yeah no problem. In fact you'd be doing me a favour. He could do with the exercise, starting to get a bit chubby." The words make an image of an overweight owl pop into my mind and I can't help smiling.

"Oh honestly Percy it isn't good for an Owl to be overweight." Mrs Weasley chastises as she steps away from the cooker.

"Well don't go blaming me. It's Oliver and Ginny you want to be having words with. Oliver feeds him every chance he gets and I know Ginny's been slipping him food whenever she gets chance. I swear between those two…"

Their conversation drifts off as we dart out to the barn to quickly send the letter before Percy changes his mind. Hermes looks at us suspiciously when we hand him the letter and he actually hesitates before finally grabbing it in his beak and taking off.

Sirius POV:

The smile on my face is threatening to split my head in two but I couldn't care less. I've finally met my godson. He's finally part of my life again. I've spent years wishing, praying for anything. A bit of news, a glance…just a glance. And now?

Now I have more than I could have dreamed of.

When I got his first letter I'd been wondering whether or not he even knew I existed. Did he know that I was his godfather? Apparently someone had the thought to tell him, quite who it was I don't know but I'm eternally grateful. It became obvious from his first letter that he was timid. When he said he didn't know much about his parents I could feel my anger almost ready to explode from within me. James and Lily would be spinning in their graves if they knew that their own son barely knew who they were.

Meeting him was more than I ever thought I'd get.

Me, Harry and Remus together in that kitchen gave me the best feeling ever. For the first time in years I felt like I had my family back together again. Talking to him, getting to know my godson, I could feel the guilt in my heart seeping away with every smile and giggle he let loose. I'd always blame myself for what happened. I thought making that…that coward…their secret keeper would be for the best. I really did. My idea, my stupid idea, is what got them killed. That's on me and no one else. I never thought I'd get the chance to repay them for that. Never thought I'd be able to make it up to them. But now I can. I can take care of Harry for them and give him the family they would have loved him to have.

"Well it's definitely good to see you truly happy again my friend." Remus says as he sips his tea. I know he's happy as well. I may be Harry's god father but he's his uncle as well. At least he would have been had it not been for that coward. "Now I have to admit I've been thinking about a few things since that young woman from the ministry came round."

"I'd almost forgotten about that." It's true. Once I knew that I would be visiting Harry nothing else mattered. Even that.

"I know. I didn't want to bring this up before since you were so happy but I'm afraid it needs dealing with." What does? "She came round here asking for a reason. There is something going on that we don't know about."

"I know. The child protection department doesn't get involved without reason. Someone's said something." Sitting down at the table I glance over at my friend and see his mind working a mile a minute. He's been thinking about this for a while. "Mooney?"

"He didn't go home for Christmas to see his aunt and uncle. That doesn't spell good relations. An eleven year old boy whose spent months away from home in a school with limited communication with them doesn't want to go back to his aunt and uncle. In fact he would rather go and spend the holidays with a wizarding family he barely knows. Seems strange don't you think?" I can see what he's getting at and internally chastise myself for not thinking of it before.

"Whatever the reason it can't be good. I never wanted to go back to my family, I'd rather of stayed at Hogwarts on my own than go home." And clearly Harry feels the same. "In fact he barely even mentions his aunt and uncle. Never says a word about them in the letters and didn't mention them at all yesterday."

Although in fairness to Harry we spent most of yesterday talking about his parents and their years at Hogwarts. It didn't occur to me to ask about his aunt and uncle. It would have been the perfect opportunity to find out more about what was going on.

"It would have done you no good to ask him and I'm glad you didn't. Yesterday was not about his aunt and uncle." As always my friend reads my mind and puts my fears to rest. How does he always do that?

"What was it that ministry woman said?" Racking my brain over her words it takes a moment before it comes back to me.

"We've had a few people come forward with their…shall we say concerns about Harry. I'm just investigating those."

Concerns?

They must be some pretty big concerns for the ministry to get involved. But what kinds of concerns? What could possibly be so wrong that they would investigate? Voicing my question to Remus has his face falling.

"I'm not entirely sure I would like to think about that." Damn right. What have those people done to my godson? "Of course we could find out."

Watching Remus I can see the old marauder mischief in his eyes. That's the thing about him people just didn't get. James and I never had to coerce him into anything. Sure he could be hesitant at times about some of our more ingenious pranks but he never had to be coerced. He was as much of a trouble maker as the rest of us.

"Exactly what are you thinking?" Feeling a little of my old self coming back I can't help grinning.

"Well Sirius we are wizards are we not? I should imagine we can think up something."

Molly POV:

"You know dear I think this is the best idea you've ever had." Smiling at my husband as he seals the envelope in front of him I feel myself blush.

"Oh you. Now have we got everyone." Holding up four envelopes Arthur quickly checks the addresses on them.

It had come to me earlier when Harry and Ron had been asking about sending their letter to their friend. Hermione. She was a good friend of Ron's and I didn't even know what she looked like. We wouldn't get to spend too much time with our children before they went back so we didn't have much time to put this together.

"Right there's one for the Grangers. I hope they're used to owl post by now." Knowing Hermione was muggle born meant that we had to be careful with her. We had no idea how her parents would be around wizards.

"And one for Augusta. Really we should have had Frank and Alice's boy over years ago. They were our friends of course." What happened to them still sends pain through my heart. They didn't deserve that.

"This one's for little Luna." She and Ginny were the same age and would be starting Hogwarts together next year. Ginny didn't know many people so it would be good for her to at least have one friendly face. They'd met a few times before and had gotten along well which was good. "And last but not least, Oliver."

Our third borns best friend had visited a few times over the years and was more than welcome. He was good for Percy. He helped to bring him out of his shell. It was nice knowing that Percy had someone like that to look out for him. He was more fragile than others thought.

Sending the letters off one by one I can't help grinning to myself. It'll be a good day.

And there we go. So just what is Molly planning?

Stay tuned to find out.

Until next time,

Bye x