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FULL SUMMARY: AU, On the 31st October 1981 something happened that changed the course of the world forever. Two extremely powerful wizards clashed though one didn't know it and fates were changed, destiny's ruined by the events that transpired on that fateful night. A child, no a baby affected the lives of the entire Wizarding World. But he disappeared, taken by Sirius Black, who everyone thought betrayed the boy's parents, and Remus Lupin, thought to of been persuaded by Black to turn against everyone he knew, yet everyone can be wrong. This is a story of Love, Power, Betrayal, and Redemption. This is a tale about Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, the potential saviour of the Wizarding World but feared lost and corrupted, its funny how wrong everyone can be!

AN: Hi, this is my first story! I hope you enjoy the summary above, don't worry this story won't be as serious (no pun intended) as the summary makes it out to be. I decided to write this story, as there are very few of these types of stories and most are either never finished, very short or updated about once a year. A big mention must go to WolfMoon whose "After the Dawn" story (still ongoing) is brilliant and I can only hope my story can be as good as hers, if you like these types of stories go read hers, (after mine that is) lol.

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Yet Hope Still Remains

Chapter One: Live to Fight Another Day

October 31st 1981

Halloween, the scariest night of the year, and Sirius Black felt something was dreadfully wrong. He was sitting in a Muggle Pub in Cardiff, The Welsh Rabbit chatting to his date, the 86th one this year lucky enough to be with him yet all he could think of was "James, Lily and Harry". Oh how he loved all three of them; they were the family he never had. Oh he had family if you can call Pureblood fanatic, Muggle hating, people family. Family who despised everything about him and were not afraid to tell him so as they had many a time. No, James, Lily, Harry, Remus, even Peter to an extent were his family, though Sirius at times hated the whining little rat who at times just tagged along.

Then it came again that feeling like someone has just thrown ice cold water over you, Sirius visibly shuddered, and suddenly gasped, he suddenly figured it out, and the realisation hit him like a bludger at full speed.

"Peter!" He gasped out loud, and immediately using his 21-year-old auror training reflexes was on his feet to leave the warm local inn, hoping something was not wrong with his friend.

"Sirius, where are you going, what's wrong" His cute date, a pretty 23 year old local girl, who had no idea about the world of magic and was just enjoy the handsome young mans company.

"Gotta go, call you later" Sirius shouted on his way out and with that he was gone, gone to see whether his mind was just playing tricks on him and everything is fine, Peter is safe, James, Lily and Harry are safe and he can lay his mind at ease.

Sirius pulled a miniature object out of his pocket, which on closer inspection turned out to be a model bike and with a quick flick of his wand and a muttered "Engorgio" a gleaming black motorcycle was standing in front of Sirius. He had no time today to stop and admire his pride and joy, quickly jumped on, said a few choice words and stepped on the accelerator then the motorbike was away, invisible and flying through the night sky, towards its nearby destination, Peter Pettigrew's flat.

It only took Sirius 5 minutes to get there and as soon as he did, he banged on the door and his sense of foreboding increased a notch bringing the tension around him to unseen levels. Seeing no ones home, everything clicked into place and Sirius nearly broke down then but " Griffindors don't cry" Sirius muttered to himself and he hopped on his bike and sped off towards Godric's Hollow. He was hoping to get there in time, praying that dirty, lying rat and more importantly Voldemort hadn't gotten to them first. Sirius would of apparated but remembered that he could only apparate a mile away from the cottage so he thought that he could fly quicker as Peter, no Wormtail's flat was only 6 or 7 miles away from Godric's Hollow.

As Sirius got near to the cottage and got his first glimpse of the place that was a second home to him he nearly fell off his bike right then at the shock of it. It looked like one of those nuclear things the muggles were always threatening each other with had hit the cottage. The whole thing was destroyed and as Sirius got closer and saw the carnage first hand he landed and had to swallow the bile rising in his throat as he saw the dead body of his best friend, hell his unofficial brother lying there all pale. He looked frozen in time with a look of sadness on his face. Sirius nearly collapsed but stood his ground as the overwhelming stench of burning and the vile taste of death wafted through the air. "Lily, Harry" Sirius desperately thought as he willed his legs with all his might to move through the wreckage to find his other beloved friend and godson. It was then Sirius in his world of his own nearly slipped on something, James's wand lay 20 foot away from his body in what use to be the sitting room. " Fat lot of good it did you Prongs old buddy" was Sirius's first thought but he still picked it up and pocketed it, just wanting to hold on to something of James's forever.

It was then as he moved through the slightly burning wreckage looking for the other two bodies as that is all they can be as no one has ever survived duelling with Voldemort except Albus Dumbledore, that Sirius nearly died of a heart attack, he heard a baby crying.

"HARRY" Sirius screamed out loud as with renewed vigour ploughed through the wreckage; all magic forgotten in his search for his Godson, praying to whomever was listening that he through some miracle is alive and well.

It suddenly went all quiet as if Harry realised that help was on its way and as Sirius stepped in to the room that was obviously once Harry's, which was now situated on the ground floor. Sirius then saw a sight that made his blood run cold for the second time that hour. There lay Lily Potter beautiful as ever, lying in exactly the same position her husband is, the same look in her eye which tells Sirius that there were at least two successful "Avada Kedavra" curses were fired that night. Sirius then looked past Lily to about 10 feet behind her where he saw Harry James Potter wrapped in his baby blanket, his green eyes shining, slightly chubby face pulled in a big grin when he saw Sirius. What Sirius failed to notice in his rush to greet his Godson was a pile of black robes in the corner of the room with a pile of ash on top. This was all that remained of the self-proclaimed Lord Voldemort who had suffered the biggest setback imaginable that day.

"PAHFOT!" Harry shrieked in delight at seeing his Godfather, and deciding it was worth the effort to try and walk over to him. Sirius though had already closed the gap between the two of them and picked his Godson up and clung to him like his life depended on it.

"There, there Harry, it going to be just fine. " whispered Sirius to the 15-month old baby he held who had no idea that his parents had just been killed by the most evil wizard in centuries. Sirius also had no idea that he was holding what was going to be the most talked about wizard ever.

It was then as Harry shouted "PAHFOT" again using one of the few words he knew in his expanding vocabulary, that Sirius finally got a proper look at his Godson. To his horror found in the centre of his forehead was a lightning bolt scar that was dripping with blood. " How in the name of Merlin did he get that" was all that Sirius could think as he wiped away the blood off Harry's head.

Just as he was about to leave the once cottage, Sirius heard three soft pops meaning that three people had just apparated close by. Peeking his head out from behind a half standing wall he saw three men dressed in all black robes and wearing white masks signifying one thing, Death Eaters. Sirius quickly cast a muttered silencing spell on Harry and laid him doing in his crib which somehow survived the blast. He was going to die before any of these cretins touched Harry. Taking another look out from behind his hiding place Sirius quickly saw that the three men were talking very heatedly in whispers about something. One of them blatantly the leader, a slim tall man was issuing the other two, two big wide muscular looking men with instruction witch Sirius could just about make out. They were along the lines of "See all of the filth are dead and see if you can see our lord anywhere". Sirius quickly changed into his animagus form, a big black grim like dog and crept silently out towards the three wizards. He'd have to catch them by surprise or no matter how good Moody tells him he can be after beating him every time in Auror training, three on one was too high an odds to mess around with especially with Harry still in the building. Using the darkness Sirius crept to within 15 foot to the side of one of the two goons and instantly changing into his human form murmured

"Stupefy, Stupefy" in quick succession changing the aim of his wand slightly once he had said the first incantation as Lump one and Lump two fell to the floor with sound thuds. The other man whirled around quickly and Sirius quickly sent off another stunner, which the man just let hit him in the chest took two steps backwards and shook his head a bit as the stunner had no effect on him.

"Black" the man snarled and removed his mask; "Remember Me" Lucius Malfoy said with a smirk on his well-defined aristocratic face.

"Malfoy" Sirius sneered matching Malfoy's hatred " Let me guess who your two goons are then, Crabbe and Goyle, can they actually use a wand or do they just pick their nose with it"

"Black I could kill you where I stood right now and you couldn't do nothing about it you sorry excuse for a pureblood" Malfoy taunted with venom in his voice but Sirius was not affected.

" Oh Lucius, Lucius, Lucius do you ever come up with any original sayings, no actually I don't think you do, he is one for you, never mess with Sirius Orion DOLEO EXCRUCIO". Sirius ended screaming out the pain curse that would normally send the opposing wizard into convulsions within seconds when hit but Lucius shock evident on his face dropped to the ground just in time rolled to the side and shouted

"Seco" Sirius had barely time to put up a shield before the severing curse came hurling into his wand arm. "This needs to end now thought" Sirius, "I need to beat Lucius, get Harry and when someone else arrives tell them what really happened". Sirius had an idea. He could send a harmless curse at Lucius who would easily wave it aside but if he sent two curses after that in quick succession without Lucius hearing them he'd be sure to win. As if there was anything to criticise about Lucius Malfoy was that the man was the most arrogant man he'd ever met and that's saying something Sirius snorted too himself as he remained a certain greasy haired git he had known for a long while. There was only one flaw in the plan though, the lower volume you spoke the curse, the more power and concentration it required and few wizards could speak a curse lower than human hearing range when the other person was only 20 foot away. As Sirius was in the middle of a duel and was in the process of one of the longest days in his life, he didn't know whether he'd be able to do it but one thought about Harry and his safety and Sirius resolved himself, he'd attempt it for Harry.

"Fernunculus" shouted Sirius in a determined voice and then seconds after drawing on all his power hoping that this time the stunner would work mumbled almost silently "Stupefy, Petrificus Totalus" hoping and praying with all his might as his vision shook and black spots surrounded it that this would work.

"Well Black, using 3rd year charms are we now, I always thought you were a useless excuse for a Black, how you came from the same family as such great people I will never know, oh well, I don't care as you won't be around much longer. When My Lord is ruling the world you and your mudblood and mudblood loving friends will be the first to go well second after you ADAVA KED…."

Malfoy then slumped to the ground in a state of semi-unconsciousness as the curse was not at full power and as Malfoy was a powerful wizard and then a second later he went as rigid as a board falling to the floor as the full-body bind took effect. Sirius who by now had made it 10 foot nearer to the house making unsteady steps on his woozy legs as his body was magically exhausted. "Malfoy would only be knocked out for about 15 minutes," Sirius thought to himself, so He was going to get Harry and get away from here, he would tell his story to Dumbeldore and the Ministry tomorrow.

When Sirius entered the house he saw Harry who was sitting by his Mothers body pulling on her hair in an attempt to wake her up. He was obviously trying to say something but as Sirius still had him under the silencing spell all he was doing was opening and closing his mouth. Sirius quickly undone the spell and was met with Harry saying

"MUM" over and over again trying to awaken his now dead mum. That nearly broke Sirius heart right then and a tear rolled down the handsome mans cheeks. "God", Sirius thought to himself, he hadn't even cried when his mum had kicked him out of the Black Manner aged 16 and he was left him to fend for himself. He walked over to his Godson who had just realised Sirius was back in the room and picked the boy up into his muscular arms.

"It's all right Harry, it's going to be alright" Sirius whispered again in a whisper as the reality had finally sunk in. "Prongs, Lily" Sirius managed to choke out in a heartfelt murmur. Then he remembered where he was and who were lurking around and Sirius taking one last look at Lily and James and his second home, then holding Harry tight to him walked across the grounds to where his bike stood. Sirius now barely coherent and struggling to stay on his feet with the added weight of Harry. With one last effort Sirius got on his bike and Holding Harry in his arms while the bike raised up in the air and started to take them home to Sirius's flat. Sirius at that moment had only two thoughts on his mind "Harry and I'm glad I charmed the bike to take me home automatically on command"

Meanwhile Hagrid hurriedly portkeyed to Godric's Hollow to check on the Potters on Professor Dumbledore's utmost urgency as Dumbledore like most other powerful wizards felt the huge torrent of raw magical energy released that night and he had a feeling it was to do with Lily and James Potter. But Hagrid had not in his wildest dreams expected this. It looked like a whole population of rampaging Hippograffs had been through the place where Godric's Hollow once stood. Hagrid cautiously made his way to the once cottage, pink umbrella clasped tightly in his hand. Hagrid almost fainted of shock when he saw James Potters body and when he saw Lily's beautiful figure portraying the same look, the look every light wizard in this age feared coming home to. Hagrid hurried through the rest of the cottage, tears running down his bushy face as he searched for the third member of the Potter family. He was hoping with all his might that little Harry, who Hagrid came to see just last month was alive, although deep down he knew these hopes were futile. When he couldn't find Harry all Hagrid could think of was "If those Death Eaters kidnapped Harry I'll hunt every last one of them down and kill them one by one with my bare hands."

It was then on his way out of the grounds back to where his Portkey lay, an old Muggle boot that he saw a person on a flying motorcycle fly off the grounds with a little bundle in his arms. "Sirius" Hagrid thought, as the boy was the only person Hagrid has ever known who rides a flying motorcycle. "Harry must have been the bundle," Hagrid thought joyfully as he picked up the Portkey and as he was pulled at the navel and the familiarity of Portkey travel overtook him he was not looking forward to reporting to Professor Dumbeldore his findings.

A/N

How did you like it? Please RandR and tell me if this idea is worth continuing? Also give me ideas, only the basic plot is done. The average chapter lengths should be between 3,000 and 8,000 and each chapter should hopefully get longer.

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Halstead