Sirius's Pov
After a short meeting with Gringotts bank to sort out accounts and to have a quick overview of the upcoming trial, I flooed to Grimmauld Place. As soon as I stepped through the flames into Grimmauld Place, Kreacher popped in to greet me
"Master Black, has returned." The house elf said, bowing, I sighed
"Hello Kreacher, would you take my trunk to my room please?" the elf stood to his full height and nodded. I pulled my trunk from my pocket and re-enlarged it, Kreacher snapped his fingers and my trunk disappeared
"Master Black is on his own? No Mr Wolfie and Pup? No Mater Hadrian?" shook my head
"No, Remus and Teddy have remained in America."
"And Master Hadrian?"
"He's dead Kreacher." The house Elf's eyes hardened
"You Lie Master Sirius, he is on the Black Tapestry, he has not faded, he be a creature fo the night but has not faded." I sighed
"Kreacher, Hadrian is dead to England, Ronald Weasley tried to kill him, the only way for him t escape the headmaster was for him to fake his own dead, he is a citizen of America now, like Remus and I, but we have duel citizen ships." The Elf looked angry
"Weasley boy tried to hurt Master Hadrian?!" I nodded
"Yes Kreacher, but you can't tell anyone that Hadrian is alive or that he is living in America as a vampire… America's citizenships are confidential, so he cannot be found in America that way."
"I keep Master Hadrian secret; I keep the Black Family Secrets." I nod with a small smile
"Thank you Kreacher, now has anything been delivered here while I was away?" Kreacher nodded its head
"Oh yes Master Sirius, there was letters from Goblins, letters from Ms Tonks and a large box delivered for Master Hadrian, from Black potions master." I frowned
"Why would Snape send a parcel for Hadrian here?"
"Does Black Potions master know about Master Hadrian?" I nodded
"He does, Snape is the one that helped Hadrian escape, was there anything else?"
"Master Sirius received a letter from cousin."
"Narcissa?" Kreacher shook his head, his ear flapped as he did so
"Master Draco." I frowned
"Where did you put everything?"
"In the study Master, would you like a beverage or Snack?" I nodded
"Some tea would be great Kreacher, thank you, I'll take it in my study." He bowed and then popped away. I made my way up the first set of stairs to my study, I entered the room and removed my cloak, I laid it over one of the chairs, intending to put it away later. I saw a large box on my desk and sighed, wondering what Snape could possibly have sent. I then sat down in the chair behind my desk, only to realise that I couldn't see over the box when I was sat, I huffed and stood back up only to catch sight of two envelopes attached to the box, I pulled them off the box and looked at he names on the frown of the envelopes. One addressed to Hadrian and the other addressed to me, I set Hadrian's letter down and opened mine
Dear Black,
I don't know when this will reach you as I sent it Grimmauld Place, and I'm not sure if or when you will be returning to this place.
In the box are Hadrian's possessions, his trunk unfortunately was damaged beyond repair along with a lot of his clothes, thankfully Longbottom thought to Keep Hadrian's possessions safe when Weasley showed signs of distrust, so his father's cloak, Photo album, and the scrap of parchment he was so fond of is in there too.
But now, I'm sure you're wondering why on earth would I send a huge box for those small items, well, it seems that his peers and loyal friends wanted to each give him something, no, they don't know that he is actually alive, except perhaps Longbottom and Lovegood, not that they voiced it, but they had knowing looks on their faces.
Anyway, is the box are items, photos, mementos of Hadrian's time at Hogwarts, the students believe that Hadrian should have a piece of all of them buried with him or placed around him, to watch over him as he passed through onto the afterlife, or something of that nonsense.
I've also place an envelope inside this box, it contains Hadrian's Hogwarts records, for if he wanted to his N.E.W.T.S. See you at the trail Black.
Sincerely
Professor
Severus Snape, Potions Master
I chuckled as I put the opened the letter down on my desk, I then pulled out my wand and shrunk the box down so it was small enough to fit into my pocket, until I got to my trunk, I also moved Hadrian's letter to a corner of my desk, so I would remember to pick it up and put it in my trunk later.
I sat down to begin reading over some of the letters, when Kreacher popped in with a tray and floated a cup of tea over to me, he set it down in front of me and I nodded at him
"Thank you Kreacher, that will be all." He nodded
"Of course, Master, would master like me to make some lunch for him?" I glanced at the clock to see lunch a couple of hours away
"Not right now Kreacher, I'll call you if I get hungry." He nodded with a bow and popped away. I continued to read through some paperwork, when Kreacher popped into the study again "Yes Kreacher?"
"Black Potions Master in the fireplace for you master." Kreacher said, I frowned
"Did he say what he wanted?" Kreacher shook his head
"Just to speak to master." I sighed and stood from my seat
"The Floo in the receiving room?" the elf shook his head again
"In the front room." I nodded and headed out of my study and down to the front lounge, I spotted Snape's head hovering in the fireplace, I walked over and knelt down in front of the fireplace
"Black, good your back, though a little early." Snape said, I shrugged
"Might as well, play the grieving godfather and all." Snape frowned
"Did something happen between you and Lupin?" I sighed and shook my head
"Nothing I want to get into over an open line, what's wrong?" Snape sighed
"Can I step through? This needs to be an in-person conversation." I nodded
"Of course, the password is Family." He nodded and cut the connection, I stood up and stepped away from the fireplace. I sat down on the sofa, seconds later, the Floo came to life again and Snape stepped through, brushing ash off his clothes, I looked up at him from my place on the sofa as he approached me
"Dumbledore suspects Hadrian to be alive." I look at him shocked
"What do you mean?"
"Dumbledore placed a spell on him, that keeps an eye on his health, this spell only gets removed once the person the spell was placed on, is dead."
"Then shouldn't it have been removed when he turned?" Snape shook his head
"Dumbledore placed this spell on Hadrian a few months ago, after Hadrian had been turned, the spell is still tracking his health, Dumbledore is going to try and use this to throw out the trial against Ronald Weasley." I groaned and got to my feet
"What can we do?" Snape sighed
"Without revealing that Hadrian is actually alive as a vampire and living in America, there isn't much we can do."
"So, Hadrian needs to reveal himself as a vampire? And drop the charges from murder to attempted murder?" Snape looked thoughtful for a moment
"That could work, the bubble head charm would block out some of the poisonous gas he was exposed to, and only let enough through to put him in a death like state."
"So, we could claim that he woke up from this said coma after the charges had already been put against Weasley, there's still time to change the charges and get Hadrian here to reveal himself alive." Snape nodded "Looks like I'm making another trip to the goblins."
"We should go now and get things cleared up." Snape said, I nodded and headed for the Floo