Unraveling the Aftermath

That wasn't going to stop him from going with Harry, risk or not. There was no way he was letting the boy out of his sight again, not until the two men after him were taken care of. Even if he were found out and had to put up with all the sheep in the Wizarding World calling him a murderer and a cheat, well for his godson, he'd do it. Hopefully with his disguise, they'd think he was either a young Auror or a seventh year. Either way Harry wasn't going alone.

Not that he had been alone this time, and yeah Padfoot was going to have words with Moony.

Just as he was about to press the issue and show them how the mirror worked, the back door opened to let in a very mussed up werewolf. He had taken his time coming here. He nosed around the Alley and Hogsmeade to see if he could find anything, but it was a bust. Still he dallied as much as he could put it off. He was very glad to see the boy. Now, Sirius would curb his temper. Maybe.

"Harry! Thank Merlin, you're here," the man exclaimed, joining everyone in the living room.

"Yeah," Harry said, pocketing the mirror for now. He wanted to look at it. He was sure that he could make more, and that would be handy in case something like today happened again.

Sirius growled at his best mate, making the teens in the room to look back and forth between the adults. "I'm very mad at you, Moony. I still can't believe you let Harry go off by himself. There are two very powerful wizards looking for him. One to kill him, and the other to 'talk'. You should've known better. What the fuck was going through your brain?" he all but yelled as he stood to get in the other man's face.

"Look, I'm sorry about that," Remus said sincerely as he threw himself in a chair and ran a hand through his greying hair. He never wanted anything to happen to Harry, and he was more than thankful that the boy was alright.

Sirius seeing his target was out of range sat back down too. "Sorry, doesn't cut it," the glamored man snapped, giving his friend a hard look.

"He's almost an adult."

"He's still a minor," was the snarled comeback.

"Look, Padfoot, you can't wrap Harry in wool and protect him from the world. I don't think he'd let you for one," the werewolf tried to reason. It had been a long day, and he and Bones had gotten nowhere on the damn horcruxes. They had just settled down to go over candidates when Sirius had called.

"I can damn well try," the other man said, earning a glare and scoff from the teen in question.

"And it wouldn't work for another. I mean, Dumbledore and You-Know-Who would still come for him. They are far more powerful than you or I. Any protection we put up would be futile. Harry has his own magic that is better than ours. Look, Sirius, you need to back off. It was a mistake, and I won't repeat it. He's here now, so drop it."

"I'll drop it when you explain why you let this happen."

"Fudge is weak, magically. Everyone knows that. I didn't think that he'd be any match for Harry. You, yourself, said that no one is as powerful as he is. There shouldn't have been a way for that man to get the drop on your godson," Moony said, looking at the boy in question. "Want to tell us what happened?"

So, Harry told about his day from the moment he left Remus's side. Everyone was hanging on to his every word. The males of his little group all got mischievous looks in their eyes, like they were going to rib him for being taken down by a simple potion. They listened to what happened in the graveyard. Each speculating, in their thoughts, as to who the two were, and 'ahhing' in understanding when Harry reveal the hooded offender. The teens were expecting great feats of magic, or a huge showdown, where Harry would kill the Dark Lord, and the traitor. The boys were slightly disappointed when he simply ruined the potion. Though, Hermione nodded her head at the basic logic. When Harry got to the last part, telling them who the baby-like thing was, his godfather exploded.

"You let my godson get kidnapped and taken to You-Know-Who," growled Sirius, once again getting up from his chair.

"And he got away with just a thought," Moony said as evenly as he could with his heart beating fast at the realization that Harry had been in the hands of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. However, he needed Sirius to be calm and not do anything rash. The man just got free, and the last thing he wanted was for his best friend to go back to Azkaban.

"That's beside the point. Harry was near the person who everyone fears."

"No, that is the point, he got away unharmed. What I want to know is why he let Wormtail go?" he inquired, desperately grasping on to the first thing he could think of. Not that it was much better, but it took the attention off him.

"Well, this may sound morbid, but I'm pretty sure he's dying, and I wanted him to slowly bleed to death. I mean, it's not like a dead man can go to the hospital. No, he's going to die; very alone, and very scared," was vindictive reply from the content teen. "And when the body is found, I can truly say I had nothing to do with it," he bragged.

"Remus, can you send a Patronus to Bones telling…, or better yet, Harry write up what happened, and we'll have Winky take it," a calmer Sirius suggested as he pointed to the writing supplies. He was relishing that the man who had sent him to prison was more than likely bleeding to death in some shabby hideaway. Nothing would make him happier than to hear that that rat bastard traitor had died. "While you guys do that, I need to talk to Moony. You should get back to the castle. I'm sure the staff is wondering where you all are," he added taking up his friend's arm and dragging him from the room.

"Right," Harry said, not want to be in the house with yelling adults, no matter how entertaining it might be. So, the teen wrote up his experience, and handed the completed missive to the house elf. Then he and the gang chatted about what happened before he was kidnapped as they made their way to the school. They certainly didn't want to hang around two feuding friends. They were just in time for dinner, so they took their normal seats as if the day didn't happen, though the girls were a bit clingy.

The staff was none the wiser about Harry's latest adventure.

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