The Secret Life of Regulus Black

18

I walked towards the hill and admired the house. The Weasleys lived there, I sort of despised them for it. I want our hill back.

we never did find a new designated hideout.

i decided to head back to the hotel room so with a deep breath i turned and walked back.

I spent the next months exploring. Sure I was also trying to figure out about more horcruxes but that didn't mean I couldn't enjoy myself.

Currently I am in a hotel in Freiburg im breisgau, a city in germany. Yea. germany.

I had spent a week here and had picked up a little bit but didn't bother to learn much as i wouldnt be here for long.

I'd just sat down to read a book on dark magic when my ring started burning.

"What the hell are you getting up to now?" It was almost the end of the school year and I couldn't think of why they would need him.

I began packing my stuff and cleaning the room up a little.

I walked up to the front desk and waved to the man on the counter.

I ran over the words in my head for a moment before speaking. "Hallo, ich muss früher auschecken."

The man nodded and typed smoothing into the computer, took the keys from me and waved me off.

I found an empty secluded alleyway and apparated away.

It would take multiple stops as large distance apparition could be lethal but after a few moments I had arrived in hogsmeade.

What was shocking was the fact that the place was almost deserted. I looked around and the sky was dark and if I looked hard enough the quidditch pitch was VERY different.

I decided the best thing to do was to be crookshanks. With that in mind I looked around and turned into the fluffy orange car.

I made my way towards the gates of the castle and saw hermione waiting, looking around nervously.

I walked up behind her and meowed. She looked down and sighed, "I thought it didn't work, follow me. Sirius is with Harry right now but I figured you would want to be filled in before going to him so..." her voice trailed off as we walked the grounds. There was a heavy weight in the air and the grounds were scarce. The few people there had a look of shock and fear on their face.

We walked into an empty classroom and she cast a few spells before I finally transformed back.

"Ok, Hermione, what happened?"

She took a nervous breath before speaking.

"This year they brought the triwizard tournament back. The rules were that no one under the age of 17 could participate. But someone slipped Harry's name into the goblet and spelled it. Hogwarts got two competitors, one was harry, one was cedric digory. Because of the tournament rules he had no choice but to participate. He made it through the first two challenges alright but today was the third. He had to go into a labyrinth and make it to the cup. Well, he did but cedric did as well so they went together. The cup was a portkey that led to a graveyard." She took a moment and thought about how to word it but I already had an idea of how it was going to end.

"In the graveyard Pettigrew showed up, he killed Cedric and used Harry's bloods to bring Voldemort back. After that Harry didn't give many details but he managed to get away."

I sighed, "alright, let's go to sirius."

She nodded and I turned into a cat then followed her out.

She led me to the hospital wing and opened the door. Inside, Sirius stood next to Harry and Molly Weasley who were yelling to get him away. Dumbledor stepped in and I walked forward. Sirius saw me and looked confused but brushed it off.

After a while Dumbledore made everyone leave the room and said Sirius could stay with Harry just in dog form.

"Hey, what are you doing here? How'd you know to come?"

"Well considering voldemort is back i figured you guys might need help. I knew because the mark was burning." it wasn't a complete lie. He had noticed it was stinging sometimes but he had thought it was because a horcrux had been destroyed.

"Oh." There was a short silence. "We'll explain you being alive to Dumbledore tomorrow."

"No."

"What? Why?"

"I don't want anyone to know, Hermione knows and that's it. And even then I didn't intend on telling, she caught me leaving through a window."

"Why don't you want anyone to know? Voldemort won't, it's just dumbledore and the order. Of course we have not reopened it but I'm sure we will."

"It's not Voldemort that I'm worried about finding out. I can deal with him. Just, drop it ok."

"Fine."

The next morning Sirius and lupin went to dumbledore's office with molly and arthur weasley and mcgonagall.

Hermione and Ron sat with Harry in the hospital wing.

"Hey, Hermione, where'd crookshanks come from?" Ron asked, looking at me curiously.

"Well you see ron, when two cats love each other very much-" herry started.

"Oh shuv off harry." he said with a laugh. "No but seriously, I haven't seen him all year. I had assumed you just left him at home but now he's here."

"What do you mean? He's been here all year. Just wandering the grounds."

Ahh, gaslighting. My favourite.

"He has not! I've never seen him this year."

Harry was nodding along with Ron but rather hesitant.

"You both are mad, he's been here the whole time. God, what great friends you are, you can't even believe me?"

If I were in human form I would be grinning. Guilt Tripping to?

"No! Hermione! That's not-" she just shook her head and stood up.

"Come on crookshanks. They don't deserve us." with that I followed her out.