Lady Black (Sirius Black's Daughter)

A mad man at Halloween

Disclaimer : all characters and places belong to J.K. Rowling except for Jane Black.

The first two months of school were finally over and we could celebrate Halloween tonight. Well everybody else could. I, of course, had to go to the ministry. Those idiots know how to ruin my evening.

I had taken a shower, put on a long black dress and some family heirlooms. I was just going to go wish my friends a happy Halloween when I saw him.

With him, I mean a dog. A dog I recognized as my father in his animagus form.
What the hell is he doing here? I called out to him. I needed to know what he was upto.

"Padfoot! Here Padfoot!"

He turned his head and looked at me, I beckoned him to follow me and led him to my dorm. When he was in, he looked at me. I can't believe him. Doesn't he recognize his own bloody daughter?

"Look I know Azkaban is horrible and all but I'm a bit offended that you don't recognize me. I'll help you. My name is Jane Lily Rema Andromeda Black. Do you recognize me now?" I said, anger evident in my voice.

He looked up at me once more before changing to his human form.
"Jane... I"
"Save it." I interrupted. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."
"Wait a minute, are you trying to say you haven't killed Pettigrew? Then you really are an idiot. Merlin, you left your family, me and Harry, to hunt down that traitor and you fail to kill him. You left me alone for 12 years and you didn't even kill the guy. I really hate you right now."
"You believe me? You believe I'm innocent?"
"Yeah duh! I know you would never harm someone unless they deserve it so I already figured wormtail to have killed the muggles but I thought you would have succeeded to kill him in the battle."
"I don't know what to say. But what did you mean with me leaving you alone, you had Remus to take care of you, right?"

I looked at him and his face became contorted with emotions. Hurt, betrayel, guilt, anger, sadness...
" Jane, I didn't know, I'm so sorry. I should have"
I cut him of again.
"It doesn't matter anymore. Where is Pettigrew?"

He told me how Peter had shifted in his animagus form after cutting of his finger. Then he proceeded with telling me how he had seen him on the shoulder of a boy in the newspaper. He pulled the picture out and showed it to me. I gasped. Peter Pettigrew was Ron's rat scabbers.

"I'll get that rat, in the mean time you should stay low. People think you're here to kill Harry."
He nodded. A pained look in his eyes when he thought about Harry.
I told him to hide in the shrieking shack and that I would bring him food as soon as possible. Then I left to the ministry. What a happy Halloween.