Padfoot's Rose | Sirius Black love Story

5. lover boy

Over the course of the following week a lot happened. Harry got used to being around myself and Remus, settling into his new found freedom. Despite this he still hasn't open up to us about his life with the dursleys, not fully.

So I may have done something a little sneaky, but I wasn't a snake first nothing. Two weeks into Harry's stsy with us, I cast a diagnostics sell commonly used by heaters to obtain patients health history. Lily had thought it to me during the war so I could help her heal.order members after missions.

Harry's health history told me enough to confirm my suspicion about how he was treated in my sisters care. He was underweight and malnourished for his age. He'd numerous healed breaks and fractured on his bones that weren't typical to childhood injuries. They were a clear sign of mistreatment and neglect at best physical abuse at worse and it broke my heart. This by was so loved and these breaks dated back as far as him being just two years old. I knew my sister hated magic but I never thought shed allow an inocent child to be physically harmed magic or not. 

Truly the woman my eldest sister became disgusts me. Our parents would be disgusted.

After a few weeks of mental preparation we finally set out for my old apartment.

"So you know the plan?" I asked harry for the fifteenth time that morning. As I quickly combed through my messy curls with the tips.if my fingers.

"Yeah, while you and remus check the old flate, Im gonna meet up with my friends and pick up school supplies. We'll meet back at fhs leaky no later than three o'clock" he repeated my instructions word for word.

"Just making sure the plan stuck in, at your age I couldn't remember to bring a jacket with mebwhenbibleft the house half the time" I laughed turning to face him.

Harry was standing by the fire a oversized hoodie pulled river hisnheaf with illfitted jeans and runners. His hair was tossed and untambale just like James's used to be. For a moment all I could see was James, leaning against the fireplace with his signature smirk glancing back at me.

"Rose?"

Shaking my head I turn to see Remus looking at me with concern. "You all set?"

I just nodded, shaking off the illusion, reminding myself that James was dead and that the boy in front of me was my godson not his father. The resemblance was uncanny and slightly unsettling for me while i try and readjust to my new found freedom.

Watching harry step into the fireplace i just smiled kindly at him "be good and don't do anything I would do" I stated just before he called out for diagon alley.

I'll never get used to having time be responsible for another human being. How did lily cope, insure he was more work as an infant. These past weeks has given me a new found respect for my big sister.

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We decided disapperation was probably the best mode of transport given we didn't know what state my old home was truly in. Remus was quite certain he and James had set string anti burglary wards and other precautions when ingirstbwent missing but twelves years later there was no certainly that they remained in place.

After leaving behind remus' humble cottage, we appeared in outside a humble redbrick five story Victorian building located om Newman Street, Fitzrovia, in muggle London. A quiet street near all the key locations the city had to offer. On the top floor held my sanctuary. The place I once called home. The building my hidden from muggles with layers of intricate warding and oresented itself as abandoned and under construction but to me and Remus, to wizards it showed its full glory. During the war it was home to many from the wizarding world who sought time be close.Tom their smuggle.counter parts, it was half the appeal.for the place for Sirius at the time of purchase.