𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙂𝙃 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝘾𝙆 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉 | ⁽ᵈʳᵃᶜᵒ ᵐᵃˡᶠᵒʸ ˣ ᶠᵉᵐ!ʰᵃʳʳʸ ᵖᵒᵗᵗᵉʳ⁾

2. Doxies and St. Mungo's

Jamie walks out of her room in the following morning, it is already past 8 and the house was silent except for the creaks of the floorboards in every step she took. She had not seen the other house elves other than Kreacher, and yet even a glimpse of the house elf muttering in the hallway is nowhere to be seen.

...Narcissa... ...Bellatrix... ...Andromeda...

Jamie did not bother to look at each room. Each room represents female names, and it is the only doors that occupy this floor. Even though Sirius did give her the consent to look into, it crossed in her mind that the rooms with each name nailed in the door had looked so personal, and she doesn't want to cross the border of looking the rooms she doesn't own.

She had seen a few more doors down where the Dining area was located and one of them was locked tight. Jamie never asked why so, but she managed to find the Drawing room that smells of something out of spraying can.

Jamie found Sirius in the following morning, staring in the said room on the doorway with a bucket full of spray cans that looks familiar to what Aunt Petunia uses sometimes for the bugs in their house. He doesn't wear his usual heavy robes and his sleeves were pulled up to his elbows.

With curiosity, Jamie walked to where Sirius is standing and followed his gaze inside the room.

The expanse of the black floor was already polished and became dusty after the cleaning. Jamie saw the couch was fixed and rendered with small patches after so many years of being unused, the tables around the room are pushed aside for the cleaning, and she can see the dust evidently on some of the cabinets.

There's a fireplace resting in the interior right of the room that is large enough for a single person to stand into. It is very similar to Ron's family fireplace in the Burrow. But the only difference was, it was painted in solid black.

Jamie is ought to get used to the blackness of the Grimmauld place.

"Padfoot? What are you doing?" said Jamie and watched as Sirius shakes a can in his left hand.

"There are some Doxies left in the curtains and I already cleared most of them." Said Sirius grimly, Jamie doesn't even know what a Doxy is. "I don't know what did Kreacher do in 13 years of living in this filthy house, but I'm certain it is not cleaning."

Jamie pursed her lips, Kreacher looks like he's about to pass his age of hundred's and is forgetting the other duties of being a House-elf... Maybe the house elf was appointed with personal duties by his past master.

"I never liked that house-elf, He was very loyal to my brother and to my mother who I despised very much with the family's maniac views about the purity of having and being a pureblood." Sirius continued with a grimace.

"It is the reason why I left this house and the only family where I sleep is the Potter's, they took me in without hesitation." Sirius smiled at the memory before it slowly falters. "The only thing that Kreacher cleans is the gallery of my family's pictures or rather I say, only my mother's frame."

Some parts of the house are already cleaned, but not the entirety. Jamie knows cleaning can be done by a spell and magic in just seconds, She has seen it with Mrs. Weasley cleaning the dishes in the burrow when she was in her second year.

She had noticed that Sirius doesn't have any wand in his hands or anywhere Jamie thinks he can hide it, she wants to question Sirius about his lack of wand but it may seem very offending.

"May I help you at cleaning, then?" Jamie questioned. She always does a lot of cleaning at the Dursley's house, it always covers the entirety of her summer in the past years.