Written In the Stars ⭒ Sirius Black

Chapter Forty: Christmas '76

With Killian teaching at Hogwarts for the year Celestine wanted the family back home for the Christmas holidays, they had also invited Remus and Peter to stay at the manor, but they weren't arriving until Christmas eve.

"Look what I've found." James said, holding a box filled with stuff, Opal and Sirius looked over at him as he sat down placing it on the table.

"What is it?" Opal asked.

"Aunt Celestine said I could look through it, it's got so much stuff from when we were younger." he said, pulling stuff out. "Like an old sock... and a few trophies from when Uncle Killian used to play for the cannons."

"Not like he's got plenty." Opal said, peaking into the box she saw a frame and went to pick it up. "Ooh look this picture is from when we were- Ow!"

She lifted up her hand, a gash appeared on her palm.

"You alright?" Sirius asked, they watched as it magically healed.

"Fine, lucky I've got the 'phoenix powers'" she said, touching where the cut was before, she didn't think she would ever get over the fact that she heals much quicker now.

"What did you cut yourself on?" James asked, looking into the box, he took out two shards of glass. "It's a mirror."

"How's my hair?" Sirius asked, taking one of them. "Oh I can only see you, Prongs."

Opal looked into the mirror James was holding and saw Sirius looking at them.

"Ew, I don't want to see you."

"I'm your boyfriend."

"Yikes."

"Blaze!"

"I'm kidding, I love you." she laughed.

"That was disgusting, never do that in front of me again." James said, pretending to barf.

"Shut up, Prongs."

"I think it's a two way mirror." Sirius said. "Which is pretty cool."

"We could use these in detention. Any spares?" James asked.

"Nah, just these two."

"Oh good, you three are looking at that, you can go up to the attic and see if there's any other bits you'd like." Celestine said, walking into the drawing room. "You can try and find other stuff."

The three made their way upstairs into the attic, it hadn't been tidied in a few years, and was cluttered with old books and paintings, a few of Killian's old brooms from his prime days, in the corner by the window Opal saw a pensive that had boxes on top of it.

"Oh look, it's our pet lion Godric." James said, looking into a box and pulling out a stuffed toy.

"What is this?" Sirius asked, pulling out a white dress. "Aww, Blaze, did you used to pretend you were getting married."

"Yup! Yup it was definitely hers." James said quickly before Opal could say it was actually his, she saw a box with her mothers name on it.

"Ooh." Opal said, trying to open it but it was magically sealed with a spell. "I can't open it."

Sirius took his wand out of his pocket. "Guess who can use magic outside of Hogwarts now." he said, using a charm to open it.

She was disappointed with the contents within the box. "It's just bits of paper." she said, she was about to put the lid back on when a few words caught her eyes.

Classified Information:

Name: Celestine Wings

Status: Supreme Secret Auror