Chapter 298

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Today was saturday, and I was alone in the living room of my house relaxing, something I usually didn't do when I was at home, because either I would be with my family or I would be in my room busy with another one of my projects and plans.

I wasn't planning on doing anything stressful or tiring today, and that meant no studying or training, so I decided to act like any normal teenager on vacation, and that normal involved sitting in a comfy armchair while eating junk food and watching useless things for the mind, but interesting.

And while I was eating some snacks and drinking a Coke, the television was showing a reality show about incredible renovations in various strange places.

'How the hell did they make this jacuzzi fit on this balcony?' I asked myself confused and somewhat amazed.

But as I searched my mind for the answer, I heard the doorbell ring, causing me to leave that question for another time.

Standing up, I stretched my body and cracked my back before going to answer the door.

Arriving at the door and opening it, I saw Sirius and Harry, who was looking around curiously.

"Hello my dear friends and temporary family!" Sirius said with a cheerful smile, and I just looked at him with my head cocked.

"Sorry sir, but who are you?" I asked.

"Ugh, that broke my poor, fragile heart," Sirius said with his hand on his chest, and I snorted.

"Ethan dear, who's at the door?" my mom asked, coming to the door.

As soon as she got to the front door she saw Sirius, who was smiling and waving at her.

"Oh, hi Sirius, how are you?" she greeted him smiling.

"I'm fine Sarah" he replied.

"That's great" my mom nodded, and then she saw Harry, who was looking apprehensively at her, "And you must be Harry, Sirius has told us a lot about you" she said, smiling slightly reassuringly at him.

"Oh, well... Yes, I'm Harry, and it's nice to meet you Mrs. Night" Harry said with a nervous smile.

My mom noticed this too and smiled amusedly, before waving her hand towards the house, "Well, don't just stand in front of the door, come on, come in" she said.

"Of course" Sirius said, and as he walked past me he looked at me with a smug smile on his face, and I rolled my eyes..

'Let's see if that look will still be on your face when you wake up totally bald tonight' I thought.

"Where's Joshua?" unaware of the danger that awaited his beloved hair, Sirius asked, looking around for my father.

"He's in the garage playing with his car," my mom said with an exasperated eye roll.

"Really?!" Sirius said excitedly, having a small passion for tinkering with automobiles, "In that case, I'm sure he'd love some help."

And with that Sirius started towards the garage, with my mom rolling her eyes again, this time amused, before nodding again to Harry and heading towards the library.

Seeing this grown man acting like an excited child I shook my head, before turning to Harry, who was entering the house as well.

"Sorry about Sirius, it's just that he's a little…" he started to say, searching for the right word.

"Cheeky and childish?" I said, and Harry nodded, "Yes, we know that" I snorted.

And hearing this Harry looked at me confused until he understood, "Oh, that's right, I had forgotten that Sirius was living with you before he was cleared" he said.

"Yes, but let's stop talking about this big kid with a beard," I said, closing the door.

I then proceeded to lead Harry into the living room, and upon reaching the living room I threw myself back into my armchair, grabbing my snack.

Seeing Harry still standing, I pointed to the free armchair next to me.

"Have a seat, Sirius will probably take a while"

Harry stared between the armchair and me with a confused look, until he just sighed and sat down too.

"Snacks?" I asked, offering a packet of snacks to him.

And with nothing else to do, Harry grabbed some snacks, before turning back to the television.

"Err, what are we watching?" he asked.

"Hmm" I swallowed the snack I was munching, "It's a reality show about renovations, and in this episode they're going to turn a public toilet in a park into a game room"

"Serious?" Harry asked curiously, now paying full attention to the TV show.

"He's downstairs," I said unconsciously, and Harry looked at me dryly.

Seeing that I wasn't paying attention to him, he sighed, looking back at the TV.

And with that, Harry and I continued to watch the wonderful, weird and unbelievable renovations, wondering at times if the builders weren't using some kind of magic or spell to help with the renovations.

And if anyone was watching us, they'd be finding the scene of the Boy-Who-Lived and the Ravenclaw silver star student watching a TV show about renovations and construction while eating all kinds of snacks and drinking lots of soft drinks.

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-12 Grimmauld Place – A little later-

"Watch where you step" Sirius said, opening the door to the so gloomy Blacks' house.

Entering the house, the first thing I could notice was the lack of cleanliness of the place, which seriously bothered my senses, causing me to start to wrinkle my nose.

But beyond the musty and dusty smell, the place felt like an abandoned house, only darker.

Grimmauld Place 12 was the perfect house and a wet dream for any horror film director, as just looking at the place you could feel that there was great evil lurking.

Of course, that was just a way of speaking, as this evil could be either the Kreacher house-elf or the portrait of Sirius's mother.

And speaking of the portrait of Sirius's mother, as soon as we walked through the door the bell that was above the door rang, waking up the crazy and prejudiced woman.

"Who's breaking into my house?!" she screamed hysterically, realizing it was Sirius, "You again?! Get out, get out immediately you defective offspring! You are the disgrace of the family!"

And listening to his mother, Sirius sighed, before looking at me.

"Well, Ethan, meet my lovely mother," he said, gesturing to the portrait. He then turned to his mum who was still screaming, "Oh, and mum, meet Ethan. He's a muggleborn friend of mine" he said with a smirk.

His mother was still screaming, but as soon as she heard the word muggle she fell silent, looking at me with wide eyes.

"A mudblood!" she sighed in shock, "A inferior being is stepping into the honorable and holy home of the Blacks!"

And I, who heard this, looked dryly at Walburga, before looking around.

"Honored and holy? Really?" I asked no one in particular, sarcasm dripping from my voice.

And it seemed that my sarcastic comment only increased Walburga's anger and indignation, as her screams grew louder and her curses more creative.

"Wow, I've never seen my mum swear like that before" Sirius said impressed.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" I asked Sirius, who just smiled brightly at me.

"Yes" he said, happy that he had managed to piss off his already dead mother.

"..."

"..."

"I'm just going to ignore it because if I had a mother like her I'd do the same thing," I said, and Sirius snorted.

"Knowing you, if you had a mother like mine, I'm sure you would have figured out a way to ship her to Alaska on a freighter by now," he said, and I paused to think about that for a moment.

"Hmm, actually that's a great way to get rid of someone" I commented, before nodding to myself, "Next time someone pisses me off, I'm going to use that idea"

"Well, I'm glad I could help you with your next crime," Sirius said proudly, patting my shoulder.

"Interesting you say that, because that person could be you," I said, looking sideways at him with a sly, somewhat vengeful smile.

And that was enough to make Sirius stop, and looking at me and noticing my gaze, he was quick to remove his hand from my shoulder, chuckling nervously.

"Hehe, you're kidding, right?" he asked with a strained smile, but I remained quiet, "Right?"

And ignoring the dog-man beside me, I turned to look around, realizing the house was in worse shape than I'd expected.

'Well, looks like we're going to have a lot of work to do here' I thought, glad I'd watched several episodes of that reality show about renovations

End.

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(End AN: Hmm, I was wondering... Are you guys enjoying the development of Ethan's relationship with Luna?)