The Carnival ⌁ Draco Malfoy [1/4] ✔

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"Back again, the blood-traitor brats. Is it true their father's dying?"

"OUT!" a second voice bellowed.

Confused as ever, not to mention quite dizzy as she had never travelled by portkey before, Emma scrambled to her feet and looked up and around. It was dark, the only source of light being one candle, but she was still able to make out a basement kitchen. Was this The Burrow? Emma expected it to be more lopsided and woody, but it was the complete opposite.

Emma just caught sight of a house elf disappearing out of the room, and a man hurrying towards them all with an anxious look on his face. And he looked quite familiar...

"What's going on?" the unknown man said. "Phineas Nigellus said Arthur's been badly injured -"

"Ask Harry," said Fred, jerking his head toward Harry.

"Yeah, I want to hear this for myself," George said.

"I second that," Emma added, though she didn't have much of a clue as to what was going on or what happened to Arthur Weasley.

The familiar man with curly hair that reached his shoulders had to do a double take when he noticed Emma standing there, eyeing him curiously, trying her best to pinpoint where she'd seen him before. Despite how tired and anxious this man looked, he still managed to reach over and grab Emma's hand with a smile forming on his face.

"Emma, is it?" he asked, bemusement in his tone.

Surprised that he even knew her name to begin with, Emma nodded anyway. "Yes. And who are you?"

"You look so much like your mother," he said in awe, staring deeply into her eyes. 

Laughing it off and assuming this man knew her parents, she said, "actually, you'll find I look more like dad."

"Look - Sirius..." Harry began, but he seemed to have trouble wording what was going on in his head. Did Harry say Sirius? That wasn't a very common name..."It was - I had a - kind of a -"

"Wait did you say Sirius?" Emma asked, finally realising how she knew this man and why he was so familiar to her. "As in Sirius Black?"

And it was confirmed when the man appeared frightened of her reaction, and his eyes darted back and forth between Harry and the Weasley's. It was a 'you didn't tell her?' sort of look.

Emma screamed and ran behind the first person she turned around to see, which was Fred, and held her wand in her hand. She remembered reading all about Sirius Black in the newspaper, how he murdered all those innocent people...how he escaped from Azkaban...

"It's all right, Emma, he was framed," said Ginny. "It wasn't him. He's OK."

It took a while for Emma to calm down and take Ginny's word for it, and it was stated that Sirius Black was Harry's Godfather. She never thought she'd hear the words 'Sirius Black' and 'Godfather' in the same sentence. 

The lot of them sat around the table and listened to Harry explain that he had seen Mr. Weasley in a dream, and he seen a snake creep up on him and attack. He mentioned that he just knew it was real. It was silent for a couple minutes after Harry finished his story telling, and Fred, George and Ginny all stared at Harry for a while as Ron stared out into space, his face paler than ever.