12 C11 Chance Meeting

Paris | 23rd June 1984 |

Since they were going to the muggle world, the three - Sirius, Charlus and Harry, dressed appropriately. They saw the entirety of Paris that was worth seeing. Thanks to Sirius apparating them, they had practically no travel time. They, however, had to take a few minutes to help Harry settle down after he vomited a few times. Charlus, however, was strangely unaffected.

They visited the Eifel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris.

"Let's get on that circle!"

Charlus was very excited to get on the Ferris wheel, but he did not know what it was called.

"It's called a Ferris wheel," Sirius chuckled. "Sure, let's go."

They took 2 and a half tickets, and boarded a compartment. The compartments were quite large, so they were accompanied by a family of three.

The family consisted of a stout man, and a very beautiful lady, along with who Sirius presumed, their daughter. The similarities between the two women were quite striking. Sirius also felt an appeal towards both the females, but Sirius strengthened his occlumency barriers and shrugged it off.

The Ferris wheel ride was going to last 30 minutes, so Sirius thought it would be better to introduce himself to the couple in front of him. Once they boarded the compartment, Sirius started the conversation.

"Sirius, Sirius Black. Pleasure meeting you." Sirius extended his arm for a handshake to his fellow male companion. Charlus decided to imitate Sirius. "Sirius, Sirius Black." Charlus extended his arm to the girl. The girl was around the same age as Charlus.

The adults snickered. The couple introduced themselves.

"I am Gabriel Delacour. This is Apolline. Feel free to address us with our first names. And this is my daughter, Fleur. Nice to meet you too."

"Why, you can address me with my first name too. I hate being called Black, it reminds me of my Grandfather too much."

While they were chatting, Harry suddenly started crying. The compartment had started moving, and when they reached a certain height, a primary instinct kicked in in Harry. Like all babies, Harry had an innate fear of heights. Charlus immediately tried to hold Harry, but after he did, Harry vomited. This vomit was like a projectile, it flew towards Fleur. Fleur saw this projectile coming, and before anyone could comprehend, they saw the scene of a vomit projectile.

Gabriel's eyes narrowed. He understood the consequences of revealing magic in front of muggles. The Delacour couple forgot about the vomit projectile that was threatening to fall onto their daughter. They took out their wands. They aimed both of the wands at Sirius first.

Harry suddenly clapped his hands, "Magic! Wands!"

He started giggling. Sirius looked at the wands and understood his situation.

"Wait. I'm a wizard too."

This statement made the couple pause for a second. Sirius took this second to take out his wand to show them. This wand was not his real one - the real one was snapped by the ministry when he was sent to Azkaban - it was bought from Ollivanders after gaining permission from the ministry to possess another wand.

"We're from Britain. Hogwarts. That's where I attended."

Sirius stuttered a little while trying to answer. In this time, Charlus suddenly fainted. The projectile of vomit did not fall on Fleur, since it lost it's momentum, but simply fell on the ground. Sirius immediately pointed his wand towards the child.

"Ennervate. Scourgify."

Charlus opened his eyes slowly. He was still a bit weak. The three adults understood almost immediately why he fainted. They previously thought that the accidental magic was done by Fleur. That was why the Delacour couple immediately got ready to obliviate Sirius and the others. However, it seemed that the one who had performed the accidental magic was Charlus. Looking back, the entire scene went on for 2 minutes. To hold an object in the air for 2 minutes as an untrained child without a wand was unheard of. It would make sense if Sirius was the one who started obliviating them.

"I'm very sorry for all this mess," Sirius immediately started apologizing. It was all Harry's fault because he vomited, and as his guardian, Sirius took responsibility.

"It's alright. Quite a powerful child, he is. You and your wife must be very lucky." Apolline brushed off the incident.

"Oh. He isn't mine. I'm not even married. These are my godsons."

The gears started turning.

"You are Sirius Black! Now I remember. These are the Potter siblings that you were awarded custody with!" Gabriel realized who the people he was travelling with were. He had the post of Head of department of Foreign Relations. Therefore, he was very updated with the major happenings in the various wizarding communities.

Meanwhile, Charlus weakly apologized to Fleur. "Sorry about my brother. I will make sure it won't happen again."

"It's alright. Nothing happened to me anyway. That was very nice of you, using magic to stop the vomit. Are you attending Beauxbatons?"

Fleur was not aware of the limitations of ordinary accidental magic. However, she understood that what Charlus had done was difficult to replicate, hence she assumed that he was a student at Beauxbatons, since they started schooling when the child was 8 years old.

"No. I'm still 7 years old." Charlus giggled.

This broke the minds of the Delacours who were listening to the conversation between the boy and their daughter. They didn't expect that the boy would be just 7 years old.

The Ferris wheel slowly came to a halt. The couples parted ways. But before they went, Fleur asked Charlus his address. Once he told her, she said she would owl him, and that she expected a reply. Charlus didn't know what 'Owling' meant, so he decided that he would ask Sirius after the Delacours left.

Sirius explained that Owling was just sending each other letters, and decided that he would tell Remus to send an owl to them.

When bedtime approached, Charlus hugged Sirius and said, "Thanks Padfoot. Today was great."

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