Infinite Magic (Male Reader x Harry Potter)

Sirius' Head is in Our Fireplace

The common room was deserted, and, judging by the fact that it smelled quite normal, Suguru had not needed to set off any Dungbombs to ensure that we got privacy.  Harry pulled off the Invisibility Cloak and threw himself into an armchair in front of the fire.  The room was in semidarkness, as the flames were the only source of light.  Nearby, on a table, the "Support Cedric Diggory" badges the Creeveys had been trying to improve were glinting in the firelight.  They now read "POTTER AND GOJO REALLY STINK".  We looked back into the flames, and jumped.  Sirius's head was sitting in the fire.  If we hadn't seen Mr Diggory do exactly this back in the Weasleys' kitchen, it would have scared the crap out of me.  Instead, our faces breaking into some of the first smiles we had worn for days, we scrambled out of our chairs and crouched down by the hearth.

YN: Hey Sirius.

Harry: How're you doing?

Sirius looked completely different from my memory of him.  When I'd last seen him, Sirius's face had been gaunt and sunken, surrounded by a quantity of long, black, matted hair.  But his hair was short and clean now, Sirius's face was fuller, and he looked younger.

Sirius: Never mind me, how are you?

We told him everything.  How no one believed we hadn't entered the tournament of our own free will, how Rita Skeeter had lied about Harry in the Daily Prophet, how we couldn't walk down a corridor without being sneered at... and about Ron.

YN: We've just gotten back from seeing Hagrid.  He showed us what's coming in the first task.

Harry: It's dragons, Sirius.  I'm a goner.

Sirius looked at him, eyes full of concern, eyes that had not yet lost the look that Azkaban had given them.  They were brighter than last year, but they still had a deadened, haunted look.  He had let us talk without interruption, but now he spoke.

Sirius: Dragons we can deal with, but we'll get to that in a minute.  I haven't got long here... I've broken into a Wizarding house to use the fire, but they could be back at any time.  There are things I need to warn you about.

Harry: What?

Sirius: Karkaroff.  Harry, he was a Death Eater.  You know what Death Eaters are, don't you?

Harry: Yes... he... what?

Sirius: He was caught, he was in Azkaban with me, but he got released.  I'd bet everything that's why Dumbledore wanted Ayako and Moody at Hogwarts this year, to keep an eye on him.  The two of them caught Karkaroff.  Put him into Azkaban in the first place.

YN: Why did they release him?

Sirius: He did a deal with the Ministry of Magic.  He said he'd seen the error of his ways, and then he named names... he put a load of other people into Azkaban in his place.  He's not very popular in there, I can tell you.  And since he got out, from what I can tell, he's been teaching the Dark Arts to every student who passes through that school of his.  So watch out for the Durmstrang champion as well.

YN: My friend, Suguru Geto, was at Durmstrang, but now he's in Gryffindor with us.  He said something similar, that they were taught the Unforgivable Curses there.

Sirius: There's a former Durmstrang student there with you?  Are you sure he's... safe?

YN: I'd trust him with my life.  And he hated Durmstrang, he only went there cause it was the only magic school nearby.

Sirius: Okay, if you're sure.

Harry: But... are you saying Karkaroff put my name in the goblet?  Because if he did, he's a really good actor.  He seemed furious about it.  He wanted to stop me from competing.