Forgotten Secrets

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"Those weasels never told me about any Marauder's Map!" Ron whined

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"Those weasels never told me about any Marauder's Map!" Ron whined.

"I know, right?! We need new siblings."

"Oh no, last time I decided to get a new sibling, she turned out to be worse than all my other ones," Ron joked, laughing alongside Harry, while I gave him a playful punch on the shoulder.

"He won't keep it. He'll turn it over to Professor McGonagall. Won't you, Harry?" Hermione said, bringing the conversation back to the map.

"Sure. Along with his Invisibility Cloak," Ron commented sarcastically.

"I've got to disagree with you on this one, Mione. We should keep it."

"O! How could you say such a thing? It's not right, and you know it." I rolled my eyes at her and saw something that could change the subject.

"Look who it is," I pointed at a woman by a bar.

"Madam Rosmerta?" Hermione said.

"Ron fancies her," I teased. He went redder than his hair.

"That's not true!"

"Professor McGonagall! Cornelius!" Rosmerta greeted the two wizards who arrived at her pub.

"Rosmerta, my dear. I hope business is good," the minister said.

"It'd be a lot better if the Ministry wasn't sending dementors into my pub every other night!" She scowled at him.

"We have— We have a killer on the loose," he said, sounding petrified.

"Sirius Black in Hogsmeade?! And what would bring him here?" Rosmerta asked.

I tensed hearing the dreaded name, but nobody seemed to notice.

The minister whispered something to her that we couldn't hear. But thankfully for us, Madam Rosmerta repeated it loud enough for us to hear.

"Harry Potter?" McGonagall quickly shushed her, leading her inside the pub.

"Come."

When we looked at each other, we noticed one of our key members had disappeared.

"Harry!"

"Harry, come back!" I trailed after him anxiously.

What if McGonagall talked about how Sirius Black was my father?! It's supposed to be a secret even from the minister himself, but what if they decided it was time for the ministry to know that Sirius Black's daughter had, in fact, survived? What if Harry finds out?!

"No underage wizards allowed in today! Shut the damn door!"

In my panic, I went to pull out my wand to hex the living daylights out of the hanging head at the pub's door. But before I could, Ron grabbed my hand, keeping me from doing something I'd regret.

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