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Summary: AU. What if Mrs Weasley didn't killed Bellatrix but stuned her? How this one thing could affect Harry's new life? Being an Auror and bringing up his little godson puts Harry through a lot of changes and gives him a chance to properly deal with his beloved godfather's death. Harry will learn how much of Sirius is in him. A shameless H/Hr with study of character (don't worry I won't make them jump each other in the first chapter - it will take some time to get there).
Author's note: This story had been lying somewhere on my computer for some time and I spent a lot of time at thinking what I was supposed to do with this one. Feeling that JKR didn't let Harry deal with Sirius's death properly (and this story does it) I decided to post it. As for H/Hr - sorry to all people who don't like it but I write this story here and even Imperius won't make me turn it into H/G and R/Hr - go find some other story to amuse you (and falmes for the pairing would be used for toasts).
So read, enjoy and review (because I love to read your criticism and as long as you are logged in or I have your email I'm answering to your questions).
Turning Over a New Leaf
Chapter one: Godfather and Godson.
Harry sighed contently as he leaned against the back of his chair. His own chair, at his own desk, in his own cubicle. It was hard to believe that just a week ago, finally, after nine months of training he became an Auror.
After the end of the war he considered going to Hogwarts for his seventh year but when Ministry of Magic announced that everybody who wanted to take N.E.W.T.S could sit them – if they got good marks they didn't had to come back to Hogwarts and if they didn't they were allowed to come back to Hogwarts and take N.E.W.T.S with the students who were starting their seventh year in September. Hermione decided to take the exams, Ron followed her and Harry did too telling himself that if he failed he at least will know where he was falling behind.
With three Outstandings from Defence, Transfiguration and Charms and two Exceed Expectations from Herbology and Potions he was accepted into Auror training before he even managed to get over from first shock. Hermione passed all her exams with Outstandings. As for Ron, Harry didn't knew what had happened to him during exams but Ron failed Potions with Poor and got Acceptable from Transfiguration, with these marks he couldn't be accepted into Auror training and he refused to accept any other job. That's how Ron came back to Hogwarts with Ginny for seventh year when Harry and Hermione did not.
Hermione seemed troubled upon hearing Ron's decision but nevertheless she beamed at him saying that he should try if he was given another chance to make his dreams come true. Harry contemplated leaving Auror training but after short talk with Hermione, to whom he confessed his doubts he had been put straight on that idea.
Mrs Weasley of course offered him a room at the Burrow but Harry politely denied her and told her that he wanted to live on his own at 12 Grimmauld Place. He just needed to be on his own for some time besides he wanted to make the old house look more liveable than it was before and now he knew how he should start doing it. When she heard his decision, Mrs Weasley offered her help but once again Harry denied her request and told her that he and Kreacher would manage just fine.
Week after week he and Kreacher, and occasionally Hermione – when she had time off completely refurnished, repainted and repaired old house of the Black family. By the middle of December they decided that the house looked presentable enough to show it to Andromeda and ask her what she was thinking about it.
Harry gave Andromeda grand tour around the house and had to comfort poor woman three times before they even reached the kitchen. First time she burst in tears was when Harry showed her Black family tree, completely fixed with Sirius's and Andromeda's names and with Dora's marriage and Teddy's birth clearly visible on it. Second time she burst in tears when Harry showed her Teddy's bedroom, completely furnished, painted lavender with white details. The third time she burst in tears was when he told her, while they were going downstairs to the kitchen, that she and Teddy were always welcomed at Grimmauld Place.
Andromeda's reaction to Harry's general invitation to visit him whenever she wanted made him invite her and Teddy for Christmas which reduced Andromeda to tears for fourth time in a span of one hour. After he and Hermione managed to calm her down Andromeda agreed to spent Christmas and New Year at Grimmauld Place. When Andromeda and Teddy came back to her house that evening Hermione quickly reminded him that he should ask the Weasleys to join him at Grimmauld. Next morning when he ran into Mrs Weasley at Diagon Alley he asked her about it and he quickly added that Andromeda was coming too. Mrs Weasley upon hearing that Andromeda was going to spend Christmas with Harry at Grimmauld Place told Harry that she and Mr Weasley were supposed to spend Christmas with Charlie in Romania, where he moved back quickly after the war had ended, George and Percy were going with them and Ron and Ginny already wrote to Harry and Hermione that they decided to stay at Hogwarts just to have more time to study for N.E.W.T.s.
Hermione upon reading about Ron's decision decided to spent the Christmas with her parents in Australia. She was a bit worried about Harry spending Christmas with Andromeda, Teddy and Kreacher for a company but after he told her that he will be fine and that there was no need to worry about him she left for Australia.
Harry was very surprised to learn that Mrs Weasley lied to him about spending Christmas in Romania when Fleur and Bill showed up at Boxing Day with little knick-knack gifts for Harry, Andromeda and Teddy. However Harry had more important things on his head than worrying about Mrs Weasley's lie because he learned during Christmas break that Teddy unfortunately was a werewolf. It took Harry three days and a lot of nerves to persuade Andromeda into letting him at least taking care of providing Wolfsbane potion for Teddy. His final argument was that he was Teddy's godfather and whatever Andromeda liked it or not he could at least made sure that Teddy had Wolfsbane for the full moon.
Andromeda showed him how to apply Wolfsbane to Teddy and how he should ward the room for Teddy's transformation. Watching Teddy's transformation made him feel guilty, up until last few days he paid little attention to his godson and for last few days he kept kicking himself mentally for the lack of interest in Teddy's well-being. He felt like he betrayed the trust Tonks and Lupin put in him by not caring about Teddy.
When he confessed it to Andromeda next morning, when she was showing him how to heal Teddy's cuts and bruises, she told him that no harm was done because Teddy still had her and that Harry had more important things on his mind than taking care of Teddy.
Harry felt comfortable with having both Andromeda and Teddy around. Andromeda in a matter of few days became some sort of Aunt he always wanted to have. She didn't patronized him, didn't glared at him suspiciously and never had a problem with telling Harry anything about Sirius. As for Teddy, Teddy was well ... Teddy. Harry loved having the boy around and Teddy loved being around Harry.
They had great time together and all too soon Andromeda and Teddy were supposed to come back to her home. Harry realised that Andromeda felt very uncomfortable about coming back to her home and he quickly told her that if she felt better at Grimmauld she and Teddy could spend more time with him, after all the house was big enough to accommodate them and Kreacher was eager to have more people than Harry under his wing.
With the beginning of January Harry came back to his Auror training with lighter heart knowing that Teddy and Andromeda would spend at least next few weeks with him. He kept pushing himself up to his limits and paid little attention to things and people which wasn't either connected to his training or Andromeda and Teddy. This way he managed to get away from three Sunday dinners at the Burrow, forgot to write to Ginny and Ron and managed to get hit by Hermione whom he didn't recognized when he happened to run into her when he was doing the shopping at Diagon Alley.
January had gone and February had started when Hermione made him realise that he denied Mrs Weasley's invitation to come to the Burrow three times in a row. He was really surprised when she told him that because he thought that he denied Mrs Weasley's invitation only once thus he accompanied Hermione to the Burrow.
Whole visit was dull and Harry who never had problem with spending times with the Weasleys got a bit irritated by Mrs Weasley who, after being asked by Harry straightforwardly about her earlier lie told him that she wouldn't feel comfortable with spending Christmas with complete stranger. Harry barely managed to stop himself from saying that she never had the same problem with him or Sirius. Without Ginny or Ron around being at the Burrow was boring and shortly after supper he excused himself from spending more time by saying that he had to get up early in the morning.
February passed quickly and March was about to start by the time Harry and Andromeda realised that she and Teddy should be finally coming back to her home but once again Harry managed to persuade Andromeda into staying at Grimmauld if she didn't felt good at her old home. They came into silent understanding and by Teddy's birthday – spent together with Hermione, Andromeda and Teddy were completely moved into Grimmauld for good and Andromeda's old home had been put for sale.
Kreacher was very happy when Harry told him that Andromeda and Teddy were staying that out of pure gratefulness he spent a week at cooking Harry's favourite food and every time he looked at Harry pure adoration could be seen in elf's eyes.
Harry was happy that the occupants of Grimmauld Place were happy, Andromeda because she had someone to talk to, Teddy simply because he wasn't hungry and had his diapper changed and Kreacher because he had more people than Harry to take care of. However as soon as he told at the lunch with the Weasleys that Andromeda moved into his house for good the invitations to spent time with the Weasleys had been less frequent. Thankfully Hermione hadn't a problem with Andromeda and with passing time Harry realised that Hermione was spending more time at Grimmauld than at her own flat.
By the end of May Harry had finished Auror training and had been given two parties respectively, one from overjoyed Mrs Weasley, and one from thrilled Andromeda who couldn't decide if she should be smiling or crying and settled for a weird mixture of both which made Harry feel worried about her, thankfully Hermione knew what to do and after Andromeda had been feed with a glass of calming potion the party went on quite good.
The week had passed since then and just yesterday Ron and Ginny sent him and Hermione brief summary about their N.E.W.T.s, this letter had been addressed to Hermione and Harry together, of course there were other two letters too, one from Ginny to Harry and one from Ron to Hermione but these letters were meant only for one recipient eyes.
Ginny's letter took him by surprise and made him realise something which he constantly pushed to the back of his mind. While he mentioned to Ginny that Andromeda and Teddy were staying over at Grimmauld and that he was with them he never told Ginny that Andromeda's and Teddy's stay was supposed to be permanent. Of course Ginny wrote to him that it was so noble of him to spent time with Andromeda and Teddy at Grimmauld and in her last letter she was asking him, playfully, but still asking if he was hunting for a flat.
Now sitting in his cubicle, with five minutes spare to the beginning of his shift he realised that he didn't wrote Ginny back, he simply didn't had time to do it. Last few weeks he spent with his nose in the books since he wanted to pass his exams with flying colours and if he wasn't buried under the books he had been playing with Teddy who, to Andromeda's and Hermione's utmost horror, just discovered flying on a broom. Teddy's first flying lesson taught Harry one thing, hell had less fury than Andromeda and Hermione at their worst combined. After chasing Harry, who had been chasing Teddy through the whole house they made him swore that he won't let Teddy anywhere near flying broomstick till the boy turned at least four years.
Of course he had to tell Ginny that he intended to live at Grimmauld Place, he didn't furnished the house to his taste just to move out, besides the house was big enough to accommodate Andromeda, Teddy and Harry with Ginny and future Potters. Andromeda moving out was out of questions too, at least for few years, besides the house had been accommodated for a werewolf kid too and Harry felt better knowing that Teddy was in place where everybody was safe when the boy transformed.
He knew that he was supposed to at least warn Ginny about his decisions, quickly, in worst case by the end of the week and he solemnly promised himself spending the evening at writing long and detailed letter about his future plans.
He didn't knew that his letter wasn't meant to be send ... at all.
He spent last five hours at writing painfully detailed report from the hearing of Steven Spencer, American Muggle-born wizard who just this morning under Confundus tried to rob Apothecary. By the time he finished the there was the time for lunch and he decided to drag Hermione out from her beloved Magical Office of Law in Department of International Magical Cooperation for lunch at Diagon Alley.
He ran into Hermione on his way to her office. She was carrying big and heavy looking bag.
"Actually I was on my way out," she said when he asked her if she wanted to join him. "Andromeda asked me to spent afternoon with Teddy, she wanted to go shopping, a birthday gift for an old friend from Hogwarts, said witch comes from Republic of South Africa only for two days to London and Andromeda really wanted to meet with her."
"She should have told me," Harry mumbled.
"She could," Hermione nodded. "But Harry I work since November and you just started a week ago and my afternoon off doesn't looks like yours afternoon off in the eyes of our principals. Besides it's just paperwork, doesn't matter if I get through it in my office or at Grimmauld," she waved at her back.
"But if you need help ..." Harry started.
"I know, I know," Hermione pushed the button which opened the grille to the lift and she walked inside it before she added, "If I need help I will wait for Dromeda. See you at supper Harry!" and the lift's door closed in front of him.
"See you," he mumbled to the closed grille.
"Back from lunch?" he heard from behind his back Kingsley's voice.
"Actually I was on my way to," Harry said as he turned to face older Auror.
"Good, we can talk it over in that small snack bar on the corner," said Kingsley and he pushed the button of the lift.
Fifteen minutes later after two sandwiches for both of them with a take away cup of coffee Kingsley and Harry settled themselves better at the small table in the corner.
"So what's up?" Harry asked curiously.
"Problem," Kingsley muttered. "And quite big one on that. In the wee hours of the morning, specifically seven minutes after four o'clock in the morning one of the guards who was guarding prisoners reported that Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rastaban Lestrange were found missing from their cells," he said gravely.
"What?!" Harry breathed out nearly chocking on his coffee.
"Keep your voice down!" Kingsley hissed at him. "Aside from special Aurors assigned to the task of finding them no one is supposed to know, don't look at me like that, it wasn't my decision," Kingsley said quickly upon seeing Harry's scowl. "We don't want to rise panic or any kind of attention to that matter since we know after whom they are."
"Is that person safe?" Harry asked quickly.
"I saw her leaving the Ministry," said Kingsley in a whisper. "Listen I'm telling you only because you know her better than I do and ..." Kingsley's voice was just barely audible whisper.
"Hermione," Harry breathed out as quietly as he could.
"In Bellatrix's cell we found her name scribbled on the wall, in blood. We don't know why exactly she is after her but as long as the Lestranges are at large she is supposed to remain under the watchful eye of an Auror," Kingsley said quickly. "You know her better than anyone else, you can turn into her shadow and make sure that she is safe, if you have to, keep her under house arrest. The thing is that as long as it is possible she isn't supposed to know that the Lestranges are after her," Kingsley's voice once again was barely audible whisper.
"You are turning her into a bait," Harry muttered.
"I know that it isn't pleasant but if we play that game wisely no one is going to get hurt and this three birds will come back to their cage," Kingsley said quickly.
"To escape again," Harry snorted into his coffee. "By the way how they escaped this time?"
"My assumption, and I will repeat that word again, assumption, is Mrs Malfoy or Mr Malfoy. If I'm right Lucius is going to spend the rest of his life in Azkaban and Narcissa is going to get grey hair there," Kingsley muttered.
"So you want me to be Hermione's bodyguard?" Harry asked. "Does it includes moving her into Headquarter?"
"Certainly. Because as we speak two Aurors are ruining the plumbing in her block. Her parents just left for a month worth vacation in New Zealand, won in a contest of I don't have a bloody idea what is it, under Confundus but it's for their own safety too, their house is getting general make over and at best it will be ready in a month. As for the Weasleys ... save Ron and Ginny the rest is suffering from very contagious Dragon Pox Flu ... amazing things you can get from a vial ... There is no way in hell that she will slip through the net," Kingsley explained.
"Actually there is," Harry sighed. "It's Hermione we are talking about Kingsley. She is going to realise that something is wrong if I start following her around, add it to everything you just told me and she will be so pissed off that I will get pecked by the birds before I even manage to say Quidditch," Harry explained.
"Birds?" Kingsley asked in surprise.
"Tell you later," Harry sighed. "So how I'm supposed to follow her around without her suspecting anything?"
"What marks you got from Concealment and Disguise?" Kingsley asked sarcastically.
"Out ... Sorry five hours with Spencer," Harry mumbled.
Kingsley sighed and he pulled something from his pocket and set in on the table. It was small rectangular wooden box. Harry opened it and saw five corked vials of potions.
"Hair re-grower," Kingsley pointed at pink potion. "Eye colourer, the colour of the potion is the same as the eyes after drinking it," he pointed at silver potion. "Hair colourer, works like eye colourer," he pointed at auburn potion. "Voice changer, I advise one drop if you take more she may start thinking that you aren't equip in your Quidditch gear, other Quidditch gear," Kingsley pointed at the smallest vial full of green shimmering potion. "I advise you starting with eyes, the re-grower and colourer of hair, in that order, voice at the end."
"What about ...?" Harry started.
"You work for Canadian Ministry of Magic, DMLE, they sent you to study the law here, most of things you already know, thing you would need to know you will get delivered today, straight to home somewhere between ten o'clock and midnight. Keep your bedroom window open. You start day after tomorrow ... Your new name is Felix Ignatius Morganstern, you are twenty-five and home schooled. You live in Little Whining, 4 Privet Drive, someone is going to make the area more liveable while you are at work so if she asks you to ask her inside you don't need to worry," Kingsley explained quickly.
"What about changing back to normal?" Harry asked.
"This one, one gulp, tastes disgusting so chose wisely the moments you drink it," Kingsley pointed at violet potion. "If you have to resolve to wooing her then do it, for her own safety is better to not know that the Lestranges are after her, oh and by the way, tomorrow you are going to receive your invisibility cloak."
"I have my invisibility cloak," Harry mumbled shocked by what Kingsley just said.
"You have your invisibility cloak but every Auror receive their personal invisibility cloak. Any questions?" Kingsley asked.
"What if I run out of one potion?" Harry asked stupidly.
"Then you will come to me and ask me if I wanted to join you in a trip to graveyard to visit the Lupins. Blunt as it is it's the only not too suspicious way," sighed Kingsley. "Anything else?"
"Yeah," Harry mumbled and glanced down at his watch. "Lunch time is over."
He spent rest of the afternoon at writing even more detailed report from Spencer's hearing, Kingsley turned the previous one down thus giving Harry good reason to spend the rest of his shift at rewriting his first report and thinking what he was supposed to do in near future. The wooden box had been hidden safely in his bag, draped in his robe just in case. The more he thought about the task ahead the more nervous he became an idea of trying to woo Hermione if everything failed seemed rather painful future, hence Hermione, if she ever found out, or Ron for the matter Harry could forget for good about his, how Kingsley put it ... Quidditch equipment. Somehow even Voldemort didn't seem to be as frightening as the task which lied ahead of him.
His shift was supposed to end at seven o'clock at the evening but he decided to leave earlier. He barely stepped outside is cubicle when the alarm went off and his name together with name Ernie McMillan's and Melvin Prewett's.
"Shit," Harry mumbled as he rushed together with Ernie whose cubicle was next to his to the lift.
"So what we know?" Ernie asked Melvin.
Melvin was red haired man in mid fifties and blue eyes. For as long as Harry knew him he looked like death warmed up. In his job he was as passionless as a call girl after a hard night's day with her latest client, the phrase Harry had picked from Philip Delano, his trainer from Auror training.
"A murder," said Melvin passionlessly. "We will find out the rest when we reach the place. Treen, Cornwall. Small inn at the end of town, 13 Rose Street. We apparate straight to the garden behind the inn. Keep eyes open wide. Change into muggle outfits"
Harry landed in the garden in one piece, Ernie followed him, but Melvin nearly knocked both of them flat into rose-beds. He dusted himself off and quickly went ahead.
"Once a git, always a git," Harry caught Ernie mumbling when Melvin's back disappeared in the doorway.
For once Harry couldn't agree more with Ernie. Only a half of hour away from time off...
Small, white-haired woman lead them to the room at the attic and opened the door to the 'policemen' letting them into the room where the murder was committed.
"It was two women, one brown-haired, the other black-haired. Brown-haired didn't looked good and black-haired told me that her sister needed rest after a long journey. She told me that she will probably spent whole day sleeping ... I didn't wanted to interrupt but my girl brought the towels. Brown-haired was stone cold and black-haired was nowhere to be seen," the woman was mumbling.
Harry mentally was cursing Melvin to the hell and back. Just the description was enough for him to run upstairs and check whose body it was. Black-haired meant only one person; Bellatrix and the other could be either Hermione, who was supposed to be at Grimmauld or Andromeda who actually was supposed to be out for the evening. If only that stupid git could be quicker...
"What name they gave when they booked the room?" asked Melvin calmly.
"Belladona, Belladona and Andrea Black, sisters," whispered old woman.
Harry felt like he had been hit with beater bat into stomach. Andromeda ... to the hell with secrecy and not raising unwanted attention ... Not caring that Ernie and Melvin were calling after him Harry ran into the room and upon seeing Andromeda's body nearly fainted.
He knew all too well how the grimace of someone who died from suffering under Cruciatus Curse, and from Andromeda's face it was clear that Bellatrix used Cruciatus at least thirty times ... if not more. On her forehead was etched big, bloody M. Suddenly the world swayed around Harry and before he knew what had happened the world went black.
How much time had passed between he fainted and woke up he didn't knew but at worst it was five eventually ten minutes but next thing he knew was that he was propped against the window frame, the window was open. Ernie and Melvin were at his side, Ernie looked worried and Melvin disgusted, the old woman was nowhere to be seen.
"You let your feelings overcome you Potter. If you want to be a good Auror you need to keep your private feelings away from the case or perhaps change the job," Melvin muttered.
"Won't happen again," Harry mumbled as he stood up weakly.
"I hope so," muttered Melvin. "Boy who lived or not I won't stand another insubordination. She was already dead and five minutes more wouldn't hurt her at all."
It took all Harry's power to not strangle Melvin right then. Only the thought about Teddy stopped him from going after Melvin's throat.
"Potter you will take the body to Boot for examination, stay with him and made the report of what you found, McMillan you will help me here," Melvin ordered. "I want the report on my desk in worst case at seven o'clock in the morning, did I made myself clear Potter?
"Crystal clear," Harry muttered.
Ten minutes later he portkeyed himself and Andromeda's body into St. Mungo's Hospital of Magical Maladies and Injuries. From all floors in the hospital only one floor was situated underground, Examination Room. Harry visited it once during his training and promised himself then if he could manage he would never come back there again. Life however was a bitch so there he was, walking through corridor after corridor to the Examination Room, Andromeda's dead body levitated in front of him. Finally after turning sixth corridor he saw the door to Examiner's room, he knocked on the door with his free hand.
"Just a second," called the voice. "I will come back later honey!"
Second later the door opened and Harry saw Terry Boot.
"What's up today?" Terry asked.
"Murder, shitty weather if you meant what's up there," Harry sighed.
"Bring the body into Examination Room," Terry waved at the only door in the room. "I'll be back in a second," he turned on his heel and marched to the enormous dresser and pulled clean robes from it.
In the meantime Harry levitated Andromeda's body to the examination table in the other room before he asked, "Can I use your Floo for a moment? I need to pass short message and it's not a matter for any owl."
"Sure be my guest, shall I wait for you or would you like me to start without you?" Terry asked as he walked into Examination Room. "You look a bit pale so it won't be a problem."
"No, it will take me a minute, two at worst," Harry shook his head and walked into Examiner's Room.
He immediately went to fireplace grabbed a handful of Floo powder and threw it into the flames. As soon as they turned green he fell to his knees and called, "Number twelve, Grimmauld Place."
He saw the kitchen, painted in olive and called, "Kreacher!"
"Master called Kreacher?" the elf was immediately in front of the fireplace.
"Kreacher is Hermione and Teddy inside the house, inside Grimmauld?" Harry asked quickly.
"Ms Granger and pup are in pup's bedroom Miss is reading him bedtime story," Kreacher said quickly.
"Good," Harry let out a breath he didn't knew he was holding. "Listen Kreacher under no circumstances Teddy or Hermione would leave the house, if you will have to bind or stun Hermione then do it but she can't leave the house until I say that she can. Also I want you to make sure that no one save me won't enter the house. I don't know when I will come back. Kreacher I trust you with their safety. I have to go now, if I can I will call when I may come back," he said quickly and pulled his head out of the flames.
He whipped the ash from his knees and sleeves before he grabbed a piece of clear parchment and pulled out quick quoting quill which Andromeda gave him for Christmas.
"Shall we proceed?" Terry asked quietly.
Harry nodded and started, "Case of Andromeda Cassiopeia Tonks, age forty-six, widow, daughter and son-in-law killed during final battle at Hogwarts grounds. Examiner Terry Brian Boot, witnessing Auror Harry James Potter. Mr Boot please proceed."
The quill started writing down what he said.
Andromeda's examination had been finished by ten o'clock and next two hours Harry spent at copying what his quill wrote down, Melvin's report was supposed to be at his desk at seven o'clock in the morning and Harry's shift was starting at seven o'clock, in the evening.
Mudblood and Mongrel will be next Potter ... The body had been put under multiple Cruciatus Curse, judging by state of nerves number of curse was thirty-six eventually thirty-seven. Multiple broken bones, the stroke, heart attack ...
The words had been swimming in front of his eyes. He was the last person to leave the Ministry of Magic and even quarter past midnight he didn't felt like coming home, at all. He chose to come back on his feet because it delayed passing information about Andromeda's death and in some way passing information that Andromeda was dead made it more real.
It didn't mattered that the rain was pouring from the sky and he started shivering from cold. Was it how Sirius was feeling after he realised that his friends were gone?
"Sirius," he whispered into falling rain as he suddenly stopped walking and just stood in the falling rain.
It had been three years, he realised, three years since Sirius had gone, since Sirius fell through the veil. And it was his own stupidity which lead into Sirius's death, if he realised that it could be a trap Sirius would be alive ...
Hot-headed, short tempered, rash, diving head first into the battle, not afraid of dying for people they loved dearly ...
What had happened, he didn't knew, he only knew that something inside him clicked, like a puzzle falling into place making perfect picture and for the first time since Sirius had died Harry didn't felt that Sirius was dead, like the hole where Sirius had vanished when he died filled again ...
"You think that the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?" he remembered the words Dumbledore told him five years ago, when he and Hermione saved Sirius and when he found his father in himself.
Sirius broke out from Azkaban because he thought that Harry was in danger and for the same reason he spent a year at hiding in the cave in Hogsmead and dive into battle headfirst, a battle which cost him his life. Sirius did everything he could to protect his godson and Harry knew that he would do the same for Teddy. If Bellatrix wanted Teddy then she had to get through Harry first and he wasn't going to be merciful this time around.
With a newfound resolve he resumed walking in the direction of 12 Grimmauld Place after all he had his little godson to take care of, not to mention probably furious Hermione who will hex him into next week if he won't come with reasonable explanation for his actions from the evening.
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