RECKLESS FUN | Blaise Zabini | Au

15- FATHER AND DAUGHTER

( AN: hello, I hope that you've read the Prisoner of Azkaban book, because it's much easier to understand everything, because books are always better... well on my opinion anyway. 😂

Don't get me wrong, I adore the movies, though

So, the full moon is the day after the day when it's in the original story, so Snape still comes to Lupin's office to bring the potion, so we're good. )

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CROOKSHANKS LEADING THE WAY, Remus' right arm chained by a manacle to Pettigrew's left, Pettigrew's right arm chained to Ron's left, who had bandages spun up his broken leg so that he could walk, unconscious Snape, drifting creepily along in the air held up by Sirius with Snape's own wand and lastly Harry and Hermione, were all finally coming out of the tunnel leading to The Whomping Willow.

Harry's mind had been buzzing happily ever since Sirius had asked him to move in with him back in the tunnel. Then he realised, somehow, with the action filled moments they had spent in the Shrieking Shack, nobody's mind had crossed with a certain name –

The messy-haired boy froze still.

"Harry?" Hermione asked, raising her eyebrow questioningly.

Harry turned to look at his god-father, Sirius, who was staring at him curiously.

"Zoe..." he managed to say.

There was a ringing silence.

Sirius' facial expression didn't change like everyone else's. It was as if he had heard a word from another language. He turned to look at Remus, who was now speechless.

"Sirius, Zoe... she's here." Remus whispered slowly, looking thunderstruck he had forgotten the whole thing with everything that had happened in the Shack.

"Zoe..." Sirius repeated unsurely, almost as if he didn't understand what the word meant. He was still staring questioningly at Remus who nodded as in confirmation. Harry, Ron and Hermione were looking at each other in turns, they had no idea what was going on. "Zoe... my daughter... s-she's... alive?" the more Sirius spoke, the slower the words came out.

Remus nodded. Sirius seemed to fall to some kind of shock-trance.

"Why wouldn't Zoe be alive?" Ron wondered confusedly.

"Ooh!" Hermione yelled in realisation. "Harry, Ron, don't you remember when she told us? She and her mother were persecuted when she was younger-"

"-and there were different kind of rumors that she had died." Sirius finished darkly. "Like I told before: I heard things in Azkaban..." he took a shaking breath, "I heard people had gone after her... It made me be on the edge of turning mad... with the loss of James and her... the Dementors had some fun. I didn't understand how could someone want to hurt a baby. My baby. Then when I could transform into a dog in the cell, I somehow tried to erase every memory of her... It was too painful to remember. The Dementors could take your happy memories away."

His voice broke. He turned away.

"I will tell Zoe." Harry stated quickly. "What if Hermione and I go to find her when you go to Dumbledore's office and we'll explain everything to her? Maybe she even then might see you..." he turned to look at Sirius.

"She really is alive?" Sirius asked cautiously, as if trying not to wake up empty hope if it wasn't somehow real after all.

"Very much so." Remus answered with a small smile to him. He turned, "Harry, do you have any idea where she could be?" his voice had now a hint of amusement.