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Harry’s POV
I stood on the bridge near Hogwarts. There was smoke still rising from the castle. I stared down where I had thrown the pieces that remain of the elder wand. It still hadn't quite registered,but it was finally over and Voldemort was dead.
The adrenaline was still coursing through my veins. I mentally berated myself for using a disarming charm. Remus had always told me how predictable it was. Voldemort was a very powerful dark wizard who had probably killed hundreds of people. Though, I shouldn't be too hard on myself considering it worked... somehow.
Two hands rested on my shoulders. I looked behind me and took a deep breath. Sirius and Remus both looked at me with concern but they were obviously relieved that the battle was over. Sirius's right shoulder looked burned and Remus had a deep gash in his left leg that was causing him to limp slightly. It could have been worse. Honestly, I was terrified they were killed in the battle.
“What do we do now?” i asked
“Well, you could try to become an auror, I’ll be finding work where I can and Sirius is probably going to drink and give you bad advice, after he gets his name cleared.” Remus replied
I snorted because...accurate.
“That's my job, to drink and give bad advice.” Sirius retorted
“That explains 6th and 7th year.”
I couldn't control my laughter at this point. Sirius an Remus arguing like an old married couple was fucking hilarious. Sirius and Remus began to laugh as well and we carried on like that for a while. Eventually we all calmed down and the three of us stood there. It was calming, knowing the Voldemort was gone and that I had Remus and Sirius still. I was about to say that we should return to the castle when there was a loud BANG! I was knocked to the ground and hit my head on the bridge, blacking out.
Remus’s POV
When I woke up my head was throbbing. I ignored the pain and looked around to see if Harry and Sirius were okay. Harry had just gotten his freedom back and I've been keeping Sirius alive since we were 11 , when I thought he was going to accidentally kill himself, so I'll be damned if I let anything happen to them, especially after he who must- I mean Voldemort.
I couldn't see anything, my vision was littered with black spots. I tried to stand up but ended up falling almost immediately. What the bloody hell had just happened?
“Rem?” I heard a soft voice say.
I turned and was met with the sight of fiery red hair and vibrant green eyes. My vision was still blurry but I knew who I was looking at. I couldn't believe it. Lily Potter rushed over to where I was and wrapped her arms around me.
“Merlin, Rem! Are you dead? What happened? “ She questioned. Her face was full of concern.
I was about to say that i didn't know anymore than she did when another voice spoke up.
“Lills? Love, where are you?” James Potter asked as he leaned up from where he had just awoken. His glasses were next to his son. Harry woke up mere seconds after his father and felt around for his own glasses. I saw Harry grab a pair and slip them on his face. He immediately scrunched up his eyes. Lilly let go of me and walked over to her son. I was surprised at how calm she was. I shouldn't have been. It had always been a gift of hers.
“Sweetheart, I believe those are your father’s.” She cooed as she removed her husband's lenses from Harry’s face.
“Darling.” She said as she handed the pair to James.
He slipped them on and grabbed the circular frames that were where his son's hand had been. He was obviously bewildered about where he was. He handed them to his only child. Harry’s body was stiff. He slowly slipped on his glasses and looked up at his mother.
“Mum? H-how? HOW?” Harry almost yelled, scratch that. He did yell.
“I don't know sweetheart.” Lilly replied, her expression held slight amusement, but she still looked concerned. None of them quite knew what had happened.
“Maybe some angels decided that because you defeated the biggest git of all time that you deserved your parents back.” Sirius interjected
James, Lily, Harry and I stared at Sirius as if he had sprouted two heads.
“Its just a thought.”
“Padfoot, mate. Shut the bloody hell up!” James said exasperatedly
“Rude. Fair but, rude”
James waited ten seconds for Sirius to stand up before launching himself onto him, knocking them both to the ground again.
“I MISSED YOU PADS!!!”
“OW That hurt you motherf-”
‘’’Language”
“Ca t’a du mal encule.”
“That's not what i meant and you know it”
“Yes but it's fu-
“I feel like someone needs to point out” I interjected “that James and Lily were dead and have been for the past 17 years but now by some miracle, they are here and they look very much alive!”
“How do you know were alive?” Lily asked, sass seeping into her tone.
“Because, this is where we were before you appeared and the castle is still smoking so…”
“Yes, the afterlife didn't look like this.” James said solemnly
“Like i said, some angels probably-” Sirius interjected again
“Enough with the angels!” I said, getting irritated
“You said so yourself, “By some miracle”. Miracle equals angels!”
“It wasn't an angel”
“How do you know it wasn't an angel?”
“Cause that doesn't make sense!”
“Fine. I'll stop with the angels.”
James stood up. He pulled his son to his feet before pulling him in a tight hug. Lilly joined them and hugged her son and husband. After a while the group decided to head back to Hogwarts to help with the aftermath.
3rd Person POV
Sirius was in the process of having his name cleared but until it was official he had to choose between living in 12 Grimmauld Place with an Auror or in Azkaban. James and Lilly were staying at the burrow because their old home had been blown up. Remus was staying with Sirius, for some reason. One day James came back to the burrow with a plan.
James, Lilly, and Harry would move in with Sirius so James could be with his BFFs 24/7 and Lilly would go back to training to become a healer, Tonks was going to be the Auror overseeing Sirius, and Harry would spend time with his dad his godfather, and his …Uncle? Father figure?
Remus could tell how much 12 Grimlaude place bugged him so Harry, James and himself convinced Sirius, with not much effort, to redecorate the house.
All the green was gone and replaced with blazing scarlet. The old antique furniture was transfigured into more modern looking stuff. Remus found a charm to remove the elf heads. Sirius got the pleasure of trashing his fathers office before he turned it into a room for storage. "an excellent disgrace to him memory" as Sirius put it. The only room that they didn't change was Regulus’s and the attic for some reason.
Harry’s POV
It was September already. When I wasn't at Auror training I was at home spending time with my family. Sometimes I would play seekers games with Dad. Part of me wanted to move out but when I suggested it to my mom she looked sad. I decided that I would stay until Auror training was over.
“There! Now, this ugly thing is covered.” Sirius said as he hung the last picture up,snapping me out of my thoughts. Sirius and I had spent the last couple hours hanging up pictures to cover the Black Family Tapestry.
“Except for that huge area over there.” I said pointing at an area to our left.
“I have a box of pictures that I will put there but they are in the attic, I'm going to do it later.” Sirius said. “In the meantime, i'm going to make dinner for everyone.” He turned and walked in the direction of the kitchen.
I thought about what Sirius had said about the pictures in the attic. I really wanted to see some more pictures of the marauders in Hogwarts. I'd never been in the attic before but the staircase was next to my room.
The stairs led up to the ceiling where there was a door. I pushed open the door. I was expecting a dirty room filled with old boxes and black family antiques. Instead it looked like someone's bedroom. There was a small wooden bed with a chest at the end of it. There was a desk and a dresser against the wall. On the desk were some scraps of parchment with doodles, mostly dogs and explosions, and a framed picture. It was two dogs. One was obviously Sirius in his animagus form and while the other one looked very similar it was smaller and its eyes were so wide it looked like it was going to bite the person taking the picture. Odd.
I walked over too the window and bumped into a box. I opened it and picked up the picture on top. It was Dad and Sirius in their dress robes. Dad had his arms around Mum who was wearing a dark green gown with her hair in a braid. She looked beautiful. Sirius was with a beautiful young woman. She had dirty blond hair and freckles across her cheekbones and nose. I tuned the photo over.
Lydia Marakov, Sirius Black, James Potter, Lily Potter was written on the back in my Dad's messy hand writing.
I continued to go through the pictures, most of them being of Lydia and Sirius. Graduation, in their first apartment together, Mum and Dad’s wedding, the two of them with me, and Sirius proposing. Then one picture caught my attention. It was a picture of Lydia holding an Ultrasound. The next few picture were of Lydia while she was pregnant and finally there was a picture of a very tired Lydia and Sirius in the hospital holding the baby. On the back of the picture was a name and date. Aries Fleamont Black, April 12th, 1980. After that there were dozens of pictures of baby Aries all up to Oct 31st. Under those were letters that were wrote to Sirius from Lydia while he was in Azkaban. The letters seemed to stop around 1986. Under the letters were pictures of Aries and Remus. Aries at his 7th birthday. Aries with a big fluffy brown cat. Had Remus raised Aries? Why had i never seen him at Hogwarts? At this point there were only a few things left in the box were pictures of Aries and Sirius together after Azkaban. He looked just like him. Jet black hair, grey eyes, pales skin, but, he had freckles and wavy hair, like that woman, Lydia. Just then Sirius called for dinner. I snuck out of the attic and went to the kitchen.
Remus was setting the table. Mum was fighting with Sirius over how to correctly cook steak and chips. Tonks was telling James about how Lucius Malfoy had made a deal with the ministry in exchange for safety. Remus finished so he asked everyone to sit down.
The dinner conversation consisted mainly of Sirius threatening to kill Lucius Malfoy and Mum talking about her work as a healer in training. I kept glancing at Sirius. I wanted to ask about Aries. I waited until dinner was almost done but is Aries even alive? What happened to his mum? Did he know about me?
“Who is Aries?” I asked finally.
Everyone stared at me.
“Who told you about him?” Sirius asked, finally
“I found a box of pictures in the attic. I know he is your son but who is he? Where is he?”
“He doesn't know about Aries? They were insuperable as babies!” James asked
"Prongs, there was a reason, Remus and I wan-"
"Wait, Remus you raised Aries at on point! Why did i never meet him?" I interupted.
"After Aries's mother died, I got custody but when he was around 10 the rules for werewolves raising kids changed again." Remus responded bitterly
"Changed?"
"If a werewolf is to raise a child, who isn't a werewolf, then the have to be married to a non-werewolf. So, he got put in the American foster system." Remus concluded and looked to Sirius.
"After Sirius escaped from Azkaban, He and I found him at Ilvermorny and convinced the Dean of the school to let Aries stay with me during the Summers. He was here while you were sometimes. We kept him a secret for his safety."
“We didn't want Aries involved in the war and now that it is over we just waiting for the right time.” Sirius said.
“The only people who knew about Aries were you two,” Remus pointed at Mum and Dad “myself and obviously,Sirius and Lydia.”
“What about Dumbledore?” I asked
“You were already involved in this war, Harry. Aries is intelligent, a skilled wizard, and an animagus on top of it. We knew that Dumbledore would see him as an asset instead of a child, just like how he saw you, and we didn't want him involved.”
“Dumbledore was a great man!”I interjected
“That may be, but he was desperate to end the war and used everyone, even children, to fight Voldemort. Sirius lost his friends, his fiancee and his brothers,"gesturing to James." to this war. He didn't need to lose his son too.” Remus was losing his temper
“Moony.” Sirius said quietly, placing his hand on Remus’s.
Remus and Sirius quickly exchanged looks. Remus nodded and took a deep breath.
“The point is that now, he is alive and safe. If you want to meet him you can.” Sirius said calmly. “And to answer your question. At the moment, he should be at Ilvermorny studying or blowing something up.”
“Ilvermorny?” I asked
“His mum was foreign exchange student from the US. After I was put in Azkaban she moved home and when she died Aries was, as you know, living with Remus and then was put in the system, so he ended up going to school at Ilvermorny instead of Hogwarts.”
“Ok, so let's go see him. I really want to meet him.”
“Alright. We can go next week. You can bring Ron and Hermione if you want.” Sirius said as he stood up.
“I cant wait to meet him. Im glad you guys did what you did and kept him out of the war.” I stated
“No, he was in the war. Apparently people over in the US also caught wind of his talents. There was a small group in the US that wanted to kill all muggleborns and half-bloods. Very similar to death eaters but they were very small and unorganized. Unfortunately they got support from Voldemort and got powerful, quickly. He and his friends are still dealing with it over there. He hasn't had free time to come here yet.” Remus replied, he turned to Sirius. “He is way too much like you sometimes.”
”Yeah, he is.” Sirius replied with a soft smile.
"And, Harry?"
"Yes."
"Sirius and I aren't going to hide anything from you anymore. including the fact that,"Remus looked to Sirius, as if wanting him to finish the sentence.
"Moons and I are together."
"Together!?!"
"Yes." Sirius said with a grin before capturing Remus's lips with his own. "Well, goodnight!" and ran to his room. Remus smirked before also saying goodnight and following his boyfriend.