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"Of course baby. Now I believe that we need to send out invitations!" Miabella sighed as she watched Harry run into his room to make a list. There was a lot to do, right now any worries had to be kept on the back burner.

Dumbledore was sitting in his office, frowning at the little black book. It was a simple leather diary with a pretty ingenious set of charms on it. He ran another check to see if he was missing something, the result was the same.

Minerva looked at Dumbledore, raising an eyebrow. "Albus it's just a normal diary with a hole in it. I just wanted to inform you that the candidate for the DADA teaching position will be arriving at five o'clock today. I will see you in August."

"I was so sure…" he mumbled to himself. "I still don't understand how this is connected to the chamber."

"Albus, we all know that Hogwarts is anything but safe." Albus looked up sharply at Minerva, ready to contradict her but she pressed on. "In a world where memory spells, potions and objects like this are so readily available, it's but natural that every once in a while an incident will take place."

She sighed and took a seat "don't you remember what happened six years ago? Laura Davis, pregnant at 16 with no recollection of how or when it had happened. Do you honestly think that she was the first or last person that something like that has happened to. We have 300 young adults living in the castle, not everyone has honorable intentions Albus."

Albus removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes, sighing he helped himself to a lemon drop, tossing the diary aside to look at another day. "Maybe you are right Minerva, try as we may, we cannot keep everyone safe at all times."

Miabella too was sitting in her study looking at a black leather diary. She looked at Harry's notes again.

Graveyard

Hogwarts

Snake

Diary

Locket

Slugs and horns

Azkaban

Rat

She crossed out diary and rat, but she couldn't make sense of the other items. Sighing again she plonked her head on the desk, giving up for the day.

The only silver lining had been her quick thinking, the diary that she'd 'let' Albus find was originally intended for Lucius, just in case Voldemort contacted him and asked for it. If nothing else it would buy Lucius some time. She had simply altered the charms used on the mirrors and applied it to the diary.

Harry was standing and admiring himself in the mirror, he'd had a slight growth spurt ever since summer had started. He looked at the little bit of baby fat that was still present and decided that he would start exercising every morning.

Miabella knocked on his door, she was wearing a black calf length bouffant dress, with red patent leather stilettos, her hair was pinned up in a loose bun.

"If you are done playing mirror mirror on the wall, I believe we have a party to get to!" Harry stuck out his tongue.

Miabella laughed and adjusted the green pocket square. He was wearing a dark grey three piece suit with an emerald green shirt.

"Can I have some hair spray? Do you think I need more cologne?"

"What do you want hairspray for?"

"I was thinking of doing something different with my hair…" he replied shyly.

Oh my, he has a crush on someone! She couldn't help but smile refraining herself from asking for details. She led him to her bathroom, "Hmm, it's too long for spikes, but we could gel it back? Sound good?" Harry nodded and watched Miabella do her magic. "You like it?" He beamed back at the mirror. "It's perfect, thanks!"

They reached Longbottom Manor to find Neville waiting anxiously, as their birthdays were just a day apart they'd decided to celebrate it together. Besides, Miabella didn't have enough place in her apartment to entertain all the guests.

Neville was wearing a light grey suit with a navy blue shirt. He said a quick hello to Miabella and quickly left with Harry.

"Mia, you are looking lovely as usual. Are you ready for tonight? I had to invite the old man as he's the Chief Warlock."

"Don't worry Ata, I just want the boys to enjoy themselves. Besides, I doubt he'll create a scene at such a public gathering."

Soon all the guests had arrived. She could see Harry laughing and talking to a group of kids, she recognized most of them from Hogwarts.

"Miss Ducce, I trust you've been well."

Miabella plastered on a smile, "Dumbledore, I'm so glad that you could make it. Hope you are enjoying the party."

"Yes, I wanted to talk to you about Harry. There are some things going on, I don't think he should be out, maybe it would be safer for him to spend time indoors, I could obviously put up several charms that would keep his residence protected."

"Locked away in isolation? Are you suggesting that he's not safe in Britain? Maybe I should take him and leave the country…"

"I wasn't informed about you becoming Harry's guardian…" he tried a different approach, his smile faltering when she suggested leaving Britain.

"Oh? How strange! The goblins assured me that his guardian had been informed, apparently they couldn't be present to care for him in person. I imagined that would have been you…oh well, I suppose that's a mystery for another day!"

"Miss Ducce…"

"Headmaster, please remember that the school is closed for the summer break. You can see Harry with your own eyes, he's happy and healthy. As for his safety, I'm perfectly capable of looking after him. I suggest you go ask the other parents to lock up their kids. Madam Bones, I believe we haven't been properly introduced." She left Dumbledore as Madam Marchbanks approached him.

Voldemort howled in fury as he threw another letter in the fire, "fools I'm surrounded by fools! This is taking too long!" He threw himself on the old dusty couch, Nagini slithered up his leg, resting her head on his left arm. "Don't worry, you can eat him soon!"

He stroked her head absentmindedly as he stared at the Cauldron bubbling away in the corner. It will all be ready soon!

Miabella threw the book in frustration, it landed with a thud on top of a tiny pile that seemed to be growing quickly. She grumbled under her breath as she read the spines of the discarded books.

Parenting done right

Teenagers, what to expect

Magical remedies for young adults

Control vs freedom! The do's and don'ts.

She heard the bell ring, indicating that someone had given the floo password and was awaiting access. Walking out she found Dobby dancing with glee as he welcomed their guest, Sirius!

"Did you run away?"

"Good to see you too!" He said with an exaggerated bow.

"I'm serious! I didn't expect to see you… well, for another two years at least!"

"No, I'm Sirius you are Miabella! Are you feeling alright, love?"

Merlin, he's going to drive me nuts! He took a seat on the couch as she walked around it to face him, she stood there with her hands on her hips, staring him down.

Eventually he gave in, "fine" sobering up he decided to come clean. "You remember when I told you about Isabel having a friend who'd suit me better?" Miabella nodded, not moving from her spot.

"Well, to be completely honest I did talk to Isabel, she told me that it would take me at least 5-10 years of therapy to be able to start living a normal life again. I couldn't waste another decade on myself, when the only person I love in this world is left to the wolves."

Miabella raised her eyebrow, "I don't mean you! You are a bitch... no I don't mean it like that" He quickly corrected himself, "you know… your animagus is a d-dog an-and you are a female…" he managed to stutter withering slightly under her gaze.

Deciding that he might be safer just sticking to the story and ignore passing comments he carried on. "So she found a mind healer in France, he has team of five people. He worked with Flamel to try this experiment, basically he created a time chamber…"

"So you were the guinea pig?" Sirius nodded. "Did it work?"

He smiled, "like a charm, I have spent a decade in treatment. Obviously he'll have to try it on more people before he can call it a success…" he stood up and took both her hands into his, "look, I'm not going to lie to you, I have lived horrors that have left their mark and in some ways even changed me. But no amount of treatment is going to fix that, it just makes me, me!"

Her gaze softened, she could see that he was being sincere, "Sirius, none of us are truly sane, we all have a bit of crazy in us. Life does that… you do look much better, but if you ever feel like you are drowning, know that I'm here!"

He gently squeezed her hands and smiled, "so where's Harry?"

"Justin Flynn Fletcher, a friend from school has invited a few of them over to his estate. He's a muggle born. But your timing is actually great, there is something that you will be helping me with!"

Harry popped into the kitchen with Dobby a little after eight. "BELL! BELL! Where are you? I need to talk…" Harry stopped talking as he ran into the drawing room and found Miabella in company, "err, hi…"

Sirius Black set eyes on Harry for the first time in over a decade, he did the first thing that occurred to him, standing up he took two long strides and pulled Harry into a hug.

Harry looked at Miabella not knowing how to react. "This is Sirius Black, your godfather."

He stood still for a couple of seconds processing the information then he hugged Sirius back, a little awkwardly.

"Morning, pup." Sirius stopped at Harry's bedroom door gawking at him. "MIABELLA! HARRY..."

CRASH!

A few seconds later, Miabella was standing next to Sirius slightly out of breath, "wha…" she looked at Harry quizzically, he was lying on the floor panting with his legs pushed back over his head.

"I'm stuck." He managed to wheeze out, his face was covered in sweat and pink blotches.

Sirius pushed his legs back, "What on earth were you doing?"

"Yoga" he replied still panting, "plow pose…"

"You scared the living daylights out of me!"

"I thought it was sort of funny, once I realized that he wasn't being possessed." Sirius answered, only to look up and find Miabella glaring at him. "Oh, you mean, me! Sorry…" he said looking a little embarrassed.

"Come on, Dobby's got breakfast ready."

The three sat down to eat, Miabella noticed that Harry had only helped himself to boiled eggs.

"What's going on baby?"

"What do you mean…"

"Harry…"

Harry blushed, "I just thought that I should start exercising and eating healthy."

Sirius raised an eyebrow at his godson with an amused smile, "she must be really cute."

Harry looked at his godfather with a scandalized expression.

"Do you know why I call you pup?" Harry shook his head, "because when you were a baby and you refused to eat or sleep, James would call me. I was the only one who could calm you down and make you eat or sleep when you were throwing your tantrum. Mostly you'd end up sleeping with me, you'd clutch onto my robe and wouldn't let go, they even ended up making the guest room my room."

Harry felt a sudden warmth in his chest, "could you tell me stories about them?"

Sirius barked out a laugh and started telling Harry the story of when he bought Harry his toy broom.

"SIRIUS BLACK! I SWEAR TO MERLIN I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU!"

Miabella walked into the living room to find both boys rolling on the floor in fits of laughter. It had been a week since Sirius had showed up, Harry had quickly warmed up to him. They had started exercising together every morning, Sirius would then spend the afternoon dueling with Harry and telling him about the Marauders and their adventures.

Miabella's long wavy hair was currently stiff and was standing on its ends, like she'd been electrocuted.

"You better fix this right now! I don't mind you playing pranks but my things and me are off limits! If you do it again I will buy a dog house and put it in the balcony making it your new residence." Sirius immediately stopped laughing and retrieved a potion from his pocket. Seeing Sirius wilt made Harry laugh even harder, earning him a mock glare from his godfather.

Dumbledore had been fretting this day, he walked down the steps and turned left to go down to the courtroom. Taking his seat as Chief Warlock, he banged his gavel to get everyone's attention.

"Order of the day, Lordship ceremony. House Nott."

A young boy around Harry's age claimed his Lordship, becoming Lord Theodore Nott.

"House Longbottom."

Augusta beamed with pride as Neville Longbottom walked down to the front and claimed his Lordship.

"House Bones."

Amelia smiled as her niece Susan Bones became Lady of house Bones.

"House…" Dumbledore paled slightly, "I'm sorry I believe there's been a misunderstanding. Harry Potter cannot claim Lordship in the absence of his magical guardian."

Miabella bristled at the old man's antics. "I am Harry Potter's guardian for both the magical and muggle world. I authorize his claim to what is rightfully his."

Dumbledore looked up and gave his grandfatherly smile, "I'm sorry ms Ducce, you have been given authority to look after mr Potter, but you cannot carry out magical ceremonies for him. Now, we'll all meet at the hall on the third floor to welcome our newest members."

"There is another matter that needs to be addressed." Everyone looked at Miabella, "Madam Bones, please erect the protective screen."

A translucent blue shield went up, creating a barrier. As soon as the shield came up, a huge black shaggy dog walked in, he looked around once and transformed.

Someone shrieked, several people gasped. "Aurors" someone called out. Instead of the British Aurors, however, ten men marched into the room. They were all wearing black dueling robes with silver gauntlets, calf protectors and vests. They formed two lines, with their backs to each other, their wands in one hand and swords in another.

A man dressed in similar form, but his armour was golden and he held a golden helmet with a red feather under his right arm, marched in. He walked through the protective formation that his men had formed and stood next to Sirius.

"My name is Sergei Rostov, General of the seventh Bulgarian battalion. I have evidence that clears Sirius Black of all charges."

Without further ado, he threw a rat on the ground and waved his wand over it. The rat transformed into a fat man with mousy brown hair. Another wave of his wand bound the man in chains, he then woke him up.

Peter Pettigrew suddenly opened his eyes and found himself in a courtroom, "HELP! I've been kidnapped! These Bulgarians have been torturing me…"

His mouth kept on moving but he had been silenced by Sergei. Everyone in the courtroom had started murmuring between themselves, the Daily Prophet photographer was having a field day.

Alastair Moody walked in, scowling at Amelia. She'd kept him in the dark till the very last minute, he did not appreciate that. He put the stone basin on the table, it was a pensive that the unspeakable's had been working on, when a person recounted a memory, the images would be projected in a holographic form.

He then turned around and poured three drops of Veritaserum into the pitiful man's mouth.

Amelia looked around the courtroom. "If anyone interferes during my questioning, they will be fined and escorted out." Her eyes lingered on Dumbledore.

"What is your name?"

"Peter Pettigrew". He replied with a glazed look.

"Were you a death eater?"

"Yes." Images of him accepting his mark flashed in the courtroom.

"Did you betray the Potter's?"

"Yes." Images of him telling Voldemort that he was the secret keeper for the Potter's flashed, they then changed to him standing in front of Godric's Hollow, right after the attack.

Several gasps were heard around the courtroom.

"Did you kill the 13 muggles when Sirius Black caught you?"

"Yes." Images of the scene came up, Peter pulling his wand out and creating an explosion before transforming into his rat form and escaping.

Amelia put down the paper that she'd been reading from, Miabella had handed it to her that morning.

Dumbledore had been cursing Merlin when the scene before him unfolded, he recognized that rat, it was Weasley's pet rat who'd escaped. He decided to make things work in his favor. "What have you been doing the past couple of years?"

Sergei's eyes widened, he had warned Miabella of the consequences. They were working on a way to get answers out of Pettigrew by figuring out a way to remove the silver hand.

Peter looked like he was choking as he tried to stop himself from talking, everything happened so fast that nobody could stop it.

Sergei saw Peter's silver hand move up, he cast another set of chains to bind him tighter. Not being able to move his arm, the hand ripped itself off Peters arm and flew directly towards his throat.

Sergei was slightly amused at the scene, Voldemort really had a flair for theatrics. The hand didn't need to strangle Pettigrew, the silver strings hanging off the hand had clearly made Pettigrew bleed out in seconds.

The entire room watched the horrific scene in complete silence.

"I believe we have two more ceremonies to carry out today." Miabella said breaking the silence, she quickly cast a wandless spell towards Sirius who she'd bound and silenced before Sergei walked in.

Sergei marched out with his men, Moody cleaned up the mess and walked out with the body floating in front of him.

Dumbledore watched in silence as both Sirius and Harry accepted their Lordships.

The Daily Prophet printed a special edition that afternoon, the entire paper was dedicated to Sirius Black now Lord Sirius Orion Black. Pictures of Pettigrews gruesome demise too made it on the front page.

Harry had come home after the meet and greet was done with, Augusta had allowed Neville to have dinner at the Ducce residence. Sirius had found an extremely guilty looking Remus Lupin waiting for him, he'd introduced Harry to Moony and left with Moony to grab a few drinks.

It was evening when Sirius came back to the apartment he'd managed to persuade Remus to have dinner with them, he was in an extremely good mood however he had planned on having a chat with Miabella. She'd caught him completely off guard, he didn't appreciate that.

Both men walked into the living room and froze in their tracks.

Harry and Neville were squirming in their seats, their faces were brick red both wore identical expressions of horror.

Miabella was desperately trying to get her point across without making it awkward, she was failing miserably.

Remus followed his friend silently, "What's going on?" Sirius asked looking at several charts lying on the table and the two dolls in Miabella's hand.

"Seeing how you still didn't do it, I thought I might as well give them the talk. These are muggle dolls, you see" She brandished the dolls in his face, "they are anatomically correct, I was just about to show the boys what goes where!"

Sirius couldn't help himself, all his irritation at Miabella went straight out the window. He howled in laughter, the boys scowled at him still looking utterly miserable.

Remus being the quieter one managed to stifle his own laugh and simply smiled at the scene in front of him.

Sirius had finally managed to stop laughing like a maniac, "go on love, show us what goes where!" He said slightly breathless.

It was Miabella's turn to blush. "I-I Ugh! I hate you" she turned back to the boys trying to ignore Sirius' amused expression. "Right, So now that you know what the reproductive organs look like," she said pointing at the charts which had drawings of the male and female reproductive organs. "Now we move onto foreplay, it is very important to stimulate each other before the act. See here, this spot!" She threw one of the dolls at Sirius hitting him right on his face.

He had gone into another hysterical fit of laughter. Taking the hint he managed to stop laughing and took over, relieving the boys from the awkward conversation fifteen minutes later.

"How did you cover everything with such precision and without making it awkward?"

"Just repeated the talk that Charlus gave James, who then passed on his wisdom to the rest of us."

She glared at him. "Why couldn't you do this before?"

Sirius gave her a crooked grin, "if I'd done that, then I would have missed out on the opportunity to witness such a great moment, this'll be my new Patronus memory! Besides, now we are even! Ow" Miabella had thrown the second doll at him.

Hundreds of miles away Voldemort removed the Crucio for the third time. His loyal servant writhed on the floor begging for his master's forgiveness.

"Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" He snarled.

"I-I'm so-sorry master. I saw hi-him getting cap-captured, I-I thought I'd finish our t-task before co-coming back!"

Voldemort restrained himself from giving the imbecile another taste of his anger, he needed him for the moment. Maybe I should have kept Quirrell around a little longer.

"Is it done?" He asked his servant in a deadly whisper, crumpling the paper in his hand.

"Nearly master, i-if I could use magic it-it would go faster."

"Do you want to get captured like the useless rat? I had warned him about not using magic, the brain dead idiot must have gone against my wishes. I want you to finish the job by the 1st of September."

The death eater was still experiencing spasms but he managed to quickly scramble back to his feet and left, thanking his stars for still being alive.