FAITH × GEORGE WEASLEY × (on hold)

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"DADDY'S BACK" Molly said smiling as we all sat in the kitchen, Arthur was attacked and he had made it out of the hospital just in time for Christmas,

"okay presents!" Molly said handing out
boxes to everyone.

"nice big box for Ron, and oh uh" she said handing george and fred a gift each, I tried not to laugh as they switched the packages.

"faith here you go" she said handing me a package of my own, I unwrapped to find a beanie almost identical to the one I frequently stole from George.

"Georgie look!" I said showing him and he smiled,

"now you won't steal mine" he teased as he wrapped the scarf he got around his neck,

"oh harry! here you go" Molly said giving harry a gift as well, I smiled at sirius who had just walked up to the kitchen door and he sent one back.

We all grabbed our cups and raised them,

"a toast, to Mr harry potter, without whom I would not be here" Arthur said looking at harry,

"harry" we all said and I sent him a smile.

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"I don't understand why you don't want to wear it Ronald" hermione teased as her, harry, ron and I walked down the stairs,

"because I look like a bloody idiot" he whined following her down the hall.

Harry and I wandered into a room and were met with kreacher,

"harry potter, the boy who stopped the dark lord. Friends of mud bloods and blood traiters alike. if my poor mistress-"

"kreacher! that's enough, away with you" sirius yelled from the stairs,

"of course master, kreacher lives to serve the noble house of black" he said muttering things under his breath as he walked out,

"sorry about that, he never was very pleasent, even when I was a boy. Not to me anyway" sirius said walking into the room,

"w-what you grew up here?" harry asked looking at the wall filled with names of the black family.

"this is my parents house, I offered it to dumbeldore as headquarters for the order" he said looking around.

"only useful thing I've been able to do" he sighed sadly.

"this is the black family tree, my deranged cousin" he said referring to bellatrix.

"I hated the lot of them. My parents with their pureblood mania" he paused and pointed at the spot that said "sirius"

"my mother did that after I ran away, charming woman. I was sixteen" he said dropping his arm to his side,

"where did you go?" I asked looking at him,

"switched between your mum's" he said looking at me before turning to harry, "and your dad's. I was always welcome at the Potter's and the Evergreen's"

"I see so much in the both of you, you lot are so much alike" he continued and I felt harry tense up,

"I'm not so sure-Sirius when I-when I saw Mr Weasley get attacked I wasn't just watching, I was the snake" he explained and I frowned, I put my hand on his arm as a sort of comfort.

"and afterwards in dumbeldore's office there was a moment where I-I wanted-to..." he paused taking a sharp breath.

"this connection between me and voldemort, what if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him. I-I just feel so angry all the time." he explained, the hurt in his voice made my heart ache.