Harry Potter One Shots

Sirius' sisterXRemus Lupin

(3rd person P.O.V)

Christmas is the best time of the year. The halls of Hogwarts are lined with tinsel and lights, and trees are found in every corner. Despite the dark days, the halls seemed light with energy and spirit. Christmas was an escape from the Dark Days that were approaching.

Everyone was feeling the Christmas spirit and getting ready to head home. Expect one; while it wasn't unusual for students to stay at Hogwarts over Christmas, one stood out among the students: Y/n Black, Sirius Black's younger sister. Let me rewind briefly and tell you about Y/n's story.

Y/n started at Hogwarts while her brother was in his sixth year, and she, too was sorted into Gryffindor. She followed her older brother and his friends everywhere. When Sirius was kicked out and moved in with the Potter's Y/n followed suit. When Sirius got his own place, she would go there for holidays she never went back to the Black family house.

When Sirius was made godfather to James and Lily's son Harry, Y/n was made godmother, if anything happened to the couple the two siblings were to care for the boy.

Almost two months ago on October 31st, 1981, the worst thing imaginable happened, Lily and James Potter were killed by Voldemort and Sirius was the one blamed for their death.

Y/n being sixteen and still in school despite being Harry's godmother wasn't permitted to take Harry in until she herself came of age, by that time Harry would be almost three years old.

Until the time came that Y/n would be old enough to take in the boy he would stay with his mother's sister Petunia, her husband Vernon and son Dudley.

By now he had been staying there one month and twenty-two days. Y/n felt so lost, she had lost her brother, her friends and her home all in one night and then she was told she couldn't even take Harry, he and Remus was the last she had of the life she once had.

With Christmas rapidly approaching she was reminded how alone she was. Without her brother she had no home to go to. Celebrating Christmas felt useless.

---Time skip---

Two years have passed, and Y/n has finally graduated. She applied for a job right out of Hogwarts. Moving in with Remus who she had reached out to months after the death of the Potter's.

Y/n would spend one night a month with a school friend but otherwise she lived in the spare bedroom of Remus' two-bedroom rundown cottage in the middle of nowhere.

On the second Anniversary of her friend's death, she had applied for custody of her Godson. 

(Y/n's P.O.V)

Each day since sending in the custody form, I had waited by the window for the owl to arrive with the letter that would change my life forever.

I was glade for work because it kept me distracted, Remus helped to, we had grown closer over the last two years since my brother's arrest and our friends deaths.  Two months ago we started dating.

So when an official looking letter arrived from the Ministry we sat down together to open the letter it read:

'Dear Miss Black,

Unfortunately, your request for custody of your godson Three-year-old Harry James Potter has been denied. Due to your financial situation and your current living arrangement with Mr. Remus Lupin, known werewolf.

When these have been rectified you may again apply for custody of Harry, until then he will continue to reside with Petunia and Vernon Dursley.

Thanks,

Mafalda Hopkirk'

Tears streamed down my face as I buried my face in my hands. I felt Remus' arms wrapped around my torso as I sobbed. After a couple of hours I got up and went to my room burying myself in the blankets. I must have fallen asleep because I was woken when Remus knocked on the door bringing food in.

I rolled over facing the wall not really wanting to talk right now.

(3rd Person P.O.V)

Y/n's heart had broken reading that letter. She had worked so hard the last two years for nothing. In all of her emotions and feelings she hadn't noticed Remus reading the letter over her shoulder.

His face dropped as he read about her 'living arrangements with Mr. Remus Lupin known werewolf' he felt like the only reason Y/n couldn't have Harry was because of him.

When she got up and went to her room it felt to him that she blamed him to. When he brought food in to her and she turned away it felt like confirmation.

He returned to his room packing his things. By nightfall he was all packed. He poked his head into Y/n's room finding her once again asleep and the food he had taken in hours before sitting uneaten. He crept in leaving a note beside the plate of food. He kissed Y/n's forehead telling her sleeping form how much he loved her.

He left the room grabbing his stuff and leaving the house, looking back for only a second before he left intent on finding a new home, allowing Y/n to take Harry in.

Only Remus would live to regret this decision...