The idea for this story just came to me (Ideas have a way of doing that). I don't have the time to write long stories or oneshots now because my school work is OVERWHELMING (Yes, teachers have a way of torturing you like that ). So I said to myself 'Why not try this?'. I don't know how many chapters this story will contain but each of them will be about twenty things you never knew about your beloved Harry Potter Characters. As always, REVIEWS ARE ABSOLUTELY WELCOME! Please share with me your opinions. Your reviews are what keeps me going ) Always and forever, Loriannakim

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Outcast

Twenty things no one (yes, even James Potter) knew about Sirius Black.

20. Sirius had always loved his name. He never told anyone that because all of his friends expect him to hate it. His name was just not normal and ordinary like James, Peter or Michael. His name was just too….snobbish. But Sirius had always secretly loved it.

The reason why he loved his name was all the jokes everyone can make out of it. A delicious example of this was in the end of their seventh year when James asked Lily to marry him.

Lily had looked into his eyes and gasped 'Are you serious?'

And James replied. 'No, I'm James'

Sirius never forgot that joke. Ever.

19. He was the first of his family members to hold his brother, Regulus. When his younger brother was born, the baby was handed immediately to the witch-nurse, who bundled him up and took him away. His parents didn't even touch the little boy. Sirius was outside the room, looking in meekly like he was expected to. Then he and the Black sisters followed the nurse to the nursery where she bathed his brother, performed some charms and left him in the crib. Bella, Dromeda and Cissy left too. He just went in, picked his little brother up in his arms, and kissed his forehead.

Sirius put him back when he heard his father screaming for him.

18. Regulus never knew.

17. He always had a soft spot for Cissy. She was like his little sister. He remembered she liked to come bounding up to him with her huge grin whenever they see each other. He was her favourite cousin. On her seventh birthday, he gave her a butterfly hair pin as a present. She pecked him on the cheek and said, 'You are going to be my brother forever!'

He never told anyone. Nobody needs to know.

16. When Sirius was nine, he crashed his grandmother's vase. He didn't dare tell his mother. He hid himself in a little cabinet underneath the stairs with his bleeding hands until Cousin Andromeda found him. She performed a charm to stop the bleeding and she hugged him while he attempted to stop his tears. He didn't tell her, but that was the first hug he ever received.

15. When Sirius first met James, he thought that James was going to hate him.

The eleven years old messy hair boy stuck out his right hand, 'I'm James Potter'

Sirius shook the hand James offered, 'Sirius...Sirius Black'

James didn't even stumble at the sound of Sirius' last name. He just shrugged and grinned. 'Wanna find a compartment?'

Sirius never told James how grateful he was for that.

14. When he was twelve, he crept into his father's bedroom and tried on his father's black cloak. It was the kind of cloak that billows behind you when you walk, and when you pull up the hood, it covers your entire face. It was given to his father by the Malfoys, who the Blacks were very close friends with. Sirius took the cloak out from his father's drawers and stood infront of the mirror. He put it on. He just wanted to know what it felt like. He stared at his own reflection. He hated it. So he never told anyone what he had done.

13. While at Hogwarts, Sirius told his friends that he had never once received a letter from home. The truth was he had. The owl didn't come to deliver them at breakfast. Instead, it came at night to his window in the boys' dormitories. Maybe that was because his parents thought it would be shameful to send a Black owl screeching towards the Gryffindor table. In all these letters, his mother had written the same things over and over again 'Stay away from the Potter boy!', 'Watch out for your brother', 'Make friends with the pure bloods' At the end of each letter, she signed 'Take care of yourself, your mother'

Sirius hid them all under his bed because of those last few lines alone.

12. He asked the hat to put him in any house, except Slytherin. The hat asked him why.

He said, 'Just so I can make them see... that I am not theirs'

The hat had obliged. But for some twisted and unknown (even to himself) reasons, he never told anyone that he had asked.

11. Sirius was thirteen when Andromeda left behind her home and her family to marry a Muggle born. He never let anyone knew, but when he saw her walk away, he had never felt so abandon.

10. When he set eyes on Lily Evans for the first time in the train compartment on their first day to Hogwarts, he knew that this girl was for James. He just grinned to himself, kept his thoughts, and promised himself that he would never rest until he could get them together.

9. No one, especially Lily, knew that Sirius was the one who charmed her broom to fly towards James on their first flying lesson.

8. He was also secretly responsible for the slap Lily gave James when he tried to help her up.

7. When he left home at sixteen, what hurt him the most was that not one of them came after him. Not even Regulus. Not even Narcissa. They just let him walk away.

6. When Lily and James exchanged their 'I dos', he felt sad. And he never exactly knew why. Maybe, he thought to himself, I never had what they have.

5. Sometimes, in those quiet still moments before dawn, he thought that maybe he was destined to be alone. He never told anyone, but the night he cried the most in his life was when he heard that Regulus was killed.

4. When Sirius saw their cottage burned, the first face that came into his mind was Peter's. He had never hated anyone as much as he hated Peter then. He was scared, because when that hatred consumed him, he thought he saw himself in that long black billowing cloak of his father. He shut his eyes and opened them again when he heard Harry cry. That was when he promised himself he would never let James and Lily down.

3. While Sirius was in Azkabahn, he heard Bellatrix crying and shrieking a few cells away. At that moment, he didn't hate her. He pitied her. Then he went on to thinking of the time when they were children; the time when he could still call her Bella. And miraculously, the memories kept him sane for a while.

2. He never believed that he was a good godfather to Harry. He messed up too much. He didn't carry enough goodness inside of him. He looked at the boy and he felt Harry deserves better.

1. Somehow Harry knew, and he said 'I would never have anyone else as my godfather. And I think it is time you knew, that my parents would have been proud of you too'

Sirius never told anyone, but that was when he knew he was never destined to be an outcast as he once thought he was.

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AN I think the last few ones are not that good, but please REVIEW and tell me what you all think. )