Trouble

The wizarding world was in turmoil. Everyone was shaken reading the news about Sirius being innocent.

Sirius in the beginning was speculating whether all this was a plan to lure him out and capture him, but when he saw Peter in the paper and how he confessed in front of everyone, so he was happy and sad at the same time. Happy that he was free and his name was cleared, but sad that he wasn't able to kill Peter with his own hands.

As he was contemplating all this and was laying beneath a tree in Forbidden Forest. At this time he heard some sound in a distance, seemed to be some people were discussing. As he focused on hearing them, he heard them.

"So, professor, what spell are we practicing today?"

"We'll talk about that later, Harry. First we need to do something here."

When Sirius heard the name Harry, he was elated. He immediately stood up on his paws and went towards the direction of the voice.

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When Max and Harry were walking in the forest, they saw a black dog come in front of them. Max looking at the dog said with a smile, "Oh, an Animagus in the Forbidden Forest. I'm quite surprised."

Even though he knew it was Sirius, he decided to act surprised. The black dog soon turned into a middle-aged man with ragged clothes and black charred color covering most of his body.

Sirius first looked at Harry and then looked at Max and kept his guard up. And before he could say anything, Max said, "Do the infamous Sirius Black is hiding in the Forbidden Forest, huh. Well, I don't think anyone will suspect this place."

Sirius hearing this looked at Max and focused a bit and recognised that he was the guy who caught Peter. So Sirius said, "You know who I am and you even helped me clear my name. So what do you want from me?"

Max just shrugged how shoulders and said, "Well, I'm suppose to teach Harry. You could say that I'm his private tutor. So you could say that I'm just helping my student."

Sirius looked at Max and shouted, "Just cut the crap. Nothing is free in the world. So what is it? Just out with it."

Max looked at him and said I'm a calm voice, "Okay. I think we should talk in private." Then he made a shadow clone and told him to take Harry back to school.

Sirius went to Harry and hugged him and said, "We'll talk after this. You just stay safe. I'll need to talk to your tutor first."

Harry was reluctant to go as he wanted to get to know Sirius, who probably might be the one of the few people who he could call family. But still he nodded, as he understood that Max and Sirius had important things to discuss.

After Harry went Max looked at Sirius and said seriously, "Okay, I'll get straight to the point. I'm planning to take out all the followers of Voldemort, but I don't know who they are and where they are. So I need your help to find them."

But Max was internally thinking about collecting all the knowledge from them about dark magic. Even though light magic is good, but dark magic is still stronger and the bane of all light magic users, that was the only reason wizards who practiced light magic chased them to the ends of the world.

Max was more inclined to dark magic and dark wizards as they are upfront that they are bad, unlike Dumbledore who preaches light and good but was willing to sacrifice Harry in the original plot in the name of greater good.

Sirius who heard Max looked at him in surprise and asked, "How should I believe that you're planning to kill them and but band together with them?"

Max said, "Oh, I already started my work. One of Voldemort's loyal follower is already dead. The next one with die tomorrow. And the ministry is already in my control, so what you need to do now is just find all their locations and tell me where they are. I'll take care of the rest."

Sirius thought about it and said, "I agree that they need to eliminated, but don't you think you're a bit too young?"

Max looked at him seriously and said, "Being young is not a reason for me to not do anything about something when I have the power to do it."

Sirius nodded and said, "Okay, I'll find them for you, but all that is after I meet with Harry and Dumbledore. And many of Voldemort's followers are in Azkaban. So if you can break in there and kill them, then I don't mind."

Max had already thought about infiltrating Azkaban after Peter was thrown in there. So he just nodded.

When Max was about to say something a crumpled paper was slowly materializing itself in front of him out of nothing.

Max was surprised by this, but he still caught the paper when it was fully materialized.

He opened it and was shocked to see its contents.

It read, #Max, it's me Rebecca. I have bad news for you.

The Original Witch has been reborn, and she's out to get your family, but we hid them from her. I don't know how long we can keep this up.

And some werewolfs from a Forks took her. They caught her when she was out of town and sent a letter to your house saying that if you want to meet her, you should go there.

Max, my aunt came and captured Klaus and Elijah and put them under some kind of spell and channeled their power. We're in desperate situation, Max, and we need your help. Come back ASAP.

I don't know if this letter manages to reach you, but if it does, then come back soon.#

After reading this letter, Max was shaking from head to toe. He knew that this letter was from Rebecca. But what he didn't expect was this turn of events.

He now decided to speed up his plans. He looked at Sirius and said, "I got some important things to take care of. You collect all you can and keep a note of it. I'll be leaving soon."