Feeling less like the Minister of Magic and overpowered, Fudge just nodded.

"What?" James questioned, in mock confusion and lack of knowledge of what Fudge just did.

"I'll have the Daily Prophet know about this." Fudge muttered.

"And what is this that you're talking about?" James said, smirking.

"Peter Pettigrew is guilty, the Potters are back, and Sirius Black is completely innocent." Fudge said heavily. James nodded in mock understanding.

Suddenly, Fudge's face brightened and perked up. "You all have papers to sign...including Mr. Black. But seeing as he's not here.....I don't think-"

There was another swift swish of cloth. "Don't worry your puny little mind, Fudge, I'm here." Sirius said casually, walking up to them.

Fudge nearly screamed and called for security, but he caught himself before he did. "M-Mr. Black! I-I-I see that you're here." Fudge stuttered nervously.

"Sure you do. Well what do I sign?" Sirius asked seriously.

"W-well," Fudge opened his desk drawers and took out a manilla portfolio and took out a stack of papers. "There, there, here, oh- and there, and here." he said, pointing to various places.

Sirius signed his signature on the places he had to sign and backed up a little to let everyone else sign. Harry looked at Sirius. It would be the last time he saw Sirius as a (supposed) convict. Sirius would actually be free! Sirius walked over to Harry.

"You okay, Harry?" he asked kindly.

Harry just nodded. "Everyone missed you." he said quietly.

Sirius smiled a little. "It's good to hear that."

"Ron and Hermione missed you a lot. Ron wouldn't even eat-" Sirius laughed his bark-like laugh at that, "-and Hermione, she was in tears almost all the time and nobody except just a few knew why. She made Ron eat, too."

Sirius smiled. "Good girl." then his smile faltered. "But- but I didn't know people would be in tears over me. I didn't really expect anyone to be like that over my death... only when I broke it off with a girl, had I ever been cried over."

"Well of course they would- we all love you." Harry said quietly, looking up at Sirius. Sirius smiled at Harry, but before he could say anything else, Fudge called Harry over to sign some papers.

"Okay, Harry-"

"Call me Mr. Potter." Harry said shortly.

Fudge looked a bit flustered, and James whispered, "That's my boy." and that resulted to Lily hitting him over the head.

"Mr. Potter- Well, you have to sign pages two, three, six, eight, and ten." Fudge said.

Harry did that in silence and dropped the quill on Fudge's desk, letting ink droplets smudge his desk from the quill carelessly. Harry stepped back and sat in his chair.

"Alright, that's done now." Fudge said quickly.

Dumbledore smiled. "Don't you have to announce it to witnesses after the signing is done- to finalize it?" he said lightly.

"Oh, why, yes- of course." Fudge said as though he forgot all about it.

Harry inwardly rolled his eyes at Fudge's helpless stupidity.

"Well, then. With the signing of Lily Evans Potter, James Henry Potter, Sirius Orion Black, Harry James Potter, and Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, I hereby declare Sirius Orion Black- Inno-" Fudge announced, but was cut off.

"Wormtail." Sirius said in a soft voice. Although it wasn't loud, it was deadly calm. But even the stupidest person, meaning Fudge, could hear the rage, anger, and danger in his voice as clear as crystal.

Everyone but Fudge turned to look at where Sirius was looking. Indeed, there was a rat crawling across the floor towards the crack in the wall behind Fudge's desk, but Harry didn't think that rat could even fit into it.

"Heavens, boy, it's just a little rodent!" Fudge yelled as Sirius lunged for the rat.

"Get out of my way!" Sirius growled dangerously. Fudge looked at Sirius like he was crazy, but moved nonetheless.

Sirius dropped down to the floor to try to catch the fat rat. Moments later, Sirius slowly got up, his breath quite calm, with little gray hairs clutched tightly in his hand. His knuckles were white and the hand with the gray hairs was shaking slightly.

"We'll get him soon Padfoot, don't worry." James said reassuringly. Sirius nodded numbly and sat back down in his seat, the little gray hairs still clenched tightly in his hand.

"Well, shall we get on with it?" Dumbledore asked quickly.

"Of course-" Fudge glanced at his watch. Then he jumped. "I'm terribly sorry, but I've got to get to a meeting with the Bulgarian Minister now- excuse me-" he said quickly.

Harry jumped from his seat and said angrily, "that's not fair! We've got to finish this!"

"Well I'm afraid the Bulgarian Minister is more important than this." Fudge said indifferently.

"No it isn't! So what if you're late to one meeting? You'll still get there!" Harry said hotly.

"If you must know- this is about- about... You-Know-Who." Fudge almost whispered the last word.

"Oh for Merlin's sake, it's Voldemort!" Lily said, rolling her eyes, "so what, it's just a name of some mad killer, get over it." her eyes immediately grew wide and she clapped her hands to her mouth. She had just contradicted the bloody Minister of Magic!

James and Sirius looked sideways at her and grinned. James carefully pried her hands from her mouth and held her hands in his and rubbing his thumb over her pulse point.

"Well- I must say I'm horribly sorry, but this is completely unavoidable. Please find your way out." Fudge said, then disapparated with a loud pop.

They all sat or stood in silence for a moment before Harry spoke.

"I thought you couldn't apparate or disapparate in the Ministry." Harry stated questioningly.

"Only the Minister's office and very few other areas in the Ministry can be apparated or disapparated in. Actually, this office can only be disapparated from." Lily said, almost exactly like Hermione, like reading it from a book.

"But what if Death Eaters or enemies come? Can't they just kill of everyone, and the Minister, and Disapparate before all the Aurors get here?" Harry asked curiously.

"Well, the Minister would have Ministry officials warn him so he can Disapparate quickly." Lily said.

"We should get going now that the Minister's gone. I'm so sorry Sirius, that we could not get you freed. We will have to try tomorrow or some other time when he isn't busy." Dumbledore said apologetically to Sirius.

Sirius shook his head. "That's alright. What's one more day? Or fifty? I can wait." he said emotionlessly. Dumbledore paused, as if to say something, but just turned and picked up the cloak.

"Arthur Weasley is in his office currently, and Kingsley Shacklebolt is at the Auror offices, so I can have Kingsley come to Arthur's office and we can speak there. Kingsley can call off the chase for Sirius." Dumbledore said.

"Can I not go in the cloak? It's a bit stuffy in there with three grown people." Sirius said. "I can transform into Padfoot. Please??" he whined.

Dumbledore smiled gently. "You may, as long as no one recognizes you." he said.

Siirus grinned like a kid and transformed into Padfoot. Dumbledore opened the door for all of them and Lily and James started to discuss things with him while Harry walked next to Padfoot.

'God.. When will I ever be free?' a voice echoed inside Harry's head from the direction of Padfoot.

Surprised, Harry turned to Padfoot. "Padfoot...did you just say something?" Harry asked slowly.

The black shaggy dog turned to Harry with huge blue surprised eyes. The dog cocked his head.

'Did I say that out loud?' another thought echoed into Harry's head. Harry's eyes widened.

"N-no... you're a dog... you can't say that out loud- you thought it! I can hear you!" Harry exclaimed quietly to Padfoot.

Padfoot stopped in his tracks and looked wide eyed at Harry. They reached the elevator and got inside. Abruptly, Padfoot turned towards the adults and barked loudly. He then transformed back into Sirius.

"What's wrong Padfoot?" James asked. He took the cloak off of both Lily and James. Professor Dumbledore also turned his attention to Sirius.

"H-harry!" Sirius exclaimed. Everyone looked at Harry, and Harry lowered his head from the attention.

"What about Harry?" Lily asked, confused.

"He can- he can read my mind!" Sirius exclaimed.

James and Lily gasped. "How is that possible?" James asked.

Dumbledore seemed to be thinking quickly. "I do not know yet, but I shall remember to look up on it when I get the chance." he said.

Harry shook his head mentally. How was that possible? He groaned. Great, now he needed was more attention and care.

Right, well that's it for chapter 5. How'd you like it? I just crumbled it up together. I've got a lot of ideas for other stories, but I'm trying not to start them until I finish at least one story in case I start them and never finish. Like I said, I'm putting my other story on hold. Unless I randomly want to type that story. Well I'm off, don't forget to R&R!!