Night sky

Dogfather ?

Dumbledore followed by Filch arrived to examine the tattered portrait.

"Mr. Flich gather the ghosts, let them search every painting in the castle to find the fat lady."

"There will be no need for ghosts the fat lady is there."

All the students who were still staring at the painting looked as one man pointed in the direction indicated by Gazza.

"My dear lady, what happened to you?" asked Dumbledore.

"Eyes like the devil and a soul as black as his name, he is here the one everyone talks about hidden in the castle, Sirius Black."The fat lady hidden in an african painting only to hide behind a zebra.

"Into the great hall now!" Dumbledore shouted and the students quickly headed into the great hall, all except Althea and the rest of the family, they headed towards the room of requirement, illusory copies created by Luna made to record conversations took their places.

In the room of requirement it transformed into a sitting room with two dormitories attached, the 8 users (daphne held the two way mirror in her hand in line with Lord Greengrass at Luna's insistence, being an elder to the pendragon family and member of the wizengamot he had access to confidential documents of the ministry, Xanxus was on speakerphone on Althea's cell phone) they began to argue.

Althea "ok, we have a murderer in the castle, except my instincts are hitting me with a hammer and saying something is wrong, you guys grew up in the magical community what can you tell me about his trial?"

Lord Greengrass "I don't know how to tell you this Lady Potter, but there was never a trial."

Everyone looked at Lord Greengrass as if he had two heads.

Xanxus "are you telling me, every single fucking death eater has had a fucking trial except my sister's cheating godfather?"

This had confused all those who had grown up in the wizarding world, no one paid any attention to the language anymore.

Blaise "oh, oh, wait a minute Sirius Black is Althea's Godfather?"

Althea "was written in the heritage test done by the goblins" she confirmed, confused.

George "it's not possible, Althea is heir to multiple families, the godfather and godmother in that case are bound by magic if they betray their vow..."

Fred "...Would lose all magical power and die..."

Both "...which means that Black, never betrayed the Potters!"

Cedric "wait a minute everyone knew that Black was the Potter's secret keeper, they were under the fidelius charm, no one else could have betrayed them."

Neville "unless he was bait." everyone turned to stare at him "think about it, he was the first one they would have looked for and if someone else had been the secret keeper..."

Luna "even if they had captured and tortured him they wouldn't have known anything."

Althea "he wasn't the one who betrayed my parents." She was shocked and for some reason relieved.

Xanxus "So who is the piece of shit that sold them?"

Time continued to pass and the first outing to hogsmeade had passed without much fuss, although Althea was rather annoyed that they hadn't allowed her to go even though she had a signed permit (thanks to Xanxus and team mist).

But now Althea had ended up in the infirmary and was tempted to say out loud every single curse she heard from Xanxus.

The day had been horrible, it had rained cats and dogs and instead of facing the Slytherins on the Quidditch pitch they had faced the Hufflepuffs (Malfoy had faked an injury to avoid playing in bad weather).