With barty crouch being investigated and an anonymous tip from someone. His son who was held captive in his house was found. Both men were given the dementors kiss due to breaking a person out of Azkaban and escaping from Azkaban. Quite a shocking situation.
Sirius now that he was free fled from the manor to escape my lovely Bella's training. That and get his willy wet. He had money of his own to buy his own place. Since I didn't just rob him of his families money and he received compensation from the ministry for being falsely imprisoned. Plus he was also a grown man and wanted his own place not to mooch off of his godson. He was pretty safe anyway it not like Voldemort was off hunting him since he was hiding out in Albania again.
Remus lupin has gotten back into contact with him. They made up and became friends again. Now they hunt women in bars and party a lot well Sirius does and drags lupin along. After buying the raggedy man a new wardrobe of course. Lupin has been hiding out in the muggle world where he can find jobs. He didn't know much about the changes in the wizarding world until recently.
Now usually I would ask why he hadn't contacted Harry in so many years and receive the whole werewolf line but this time he actually did try with letters and other things only to be blocked by the mail ward dumbledore set up. He tried to send letter each and every year but always got no reply.
When he found out what dumbledore had done he was furious. Robbing the Potters, kidnapping Harry, all sorts of nasty little things most people wouldn't believe of them kind grandfatherly old man image he portrayed.
Sirius let Remus move in with him and even had a safe room for the werewolf made in the basement. He could also provide wolfsbane potions. That way Sirius had an old friend he could talk with.
Other changes were made to the school like adding on new classes for third years. The additions were an auror training class, a hitwizard training class, and healer classes. Enchanting and Rituals was also available for third year students. However a couple of classes were locked until requirements were met in 5th year.
Alchemy needed knowledge of Potions, Runes, Rituals and Herbology and was classified as a NEWT level class. It was a tricky bit of magic that had high requirements. The first year that tried alchemy without rituals struggled massively so now he would be getting student who knew what they were doing. There was nothing that could be done about the ones who failed previously they just didn't have the knowledge needed.
The other fifth year classes were Cursebreaking and Warding. Both needed knowledge in runes and high level spell work and Cursebreaking needed good potions skills and defense against the dark arts grades.
Now back to hitwizards and auror training.
Basically these two were the same yet they weren't. If I had to describe them. It would be that aurors were like police officers and hit wizards were like the Swat teams of the wizard world. Aurors dealt with common criminals and hitwizards dealt with highly dangerous and powerful wizards or sitiuations. The special forces of the wizard world. Both were under control of Amelia.
Now these classes didn't come with owls but they came with a different benefit. If you passed either of these classes and had the designated owls needed you could walk right into the department of magical law enforcement and be almost guaranteed a job as your selected class. Depending on grades and recommendations from the teachers you may even receive promotions.
This was a stroke of brilliance on my part a lot of the time the aurors were sitting around doing fuck all. So I suggested this to Amelia who loved the idea. Another bonus of these classes were they could get you out of P.E class with the goblin trainer since you'd be doing academy style training and running courses and such.
As for the healer training I had spoken with the head of StMungos and convinced him with a donation and promise of new healers to let some of his mediwitches come and teach. I had paid for all the gear for these classes to go correctly and made sure the training and teaching regiments were up to scratch.
Kingsley Shacklebolt would be teaching the auror classes. And old mad eye would be teaching the hit wizard training I made doubly sure he wasn't an imposter before he was hired aswell the man was thrilled to be called out of retirement to train up and coming hit wizards. The hit wizard training would be multiple times harder than the auror training. This was to sort out those who could take it and were magically powerful enough to handle it.
A special job would be given to those who passed both classes with flying colors. This was however a secret and the task force was being set up as we speak. By the time we all graduated it would be up and running. This would be a special force with both rights and would be allowed to move on their own. Their pay would be a bit lower but in exchange they would be allowed to hunt down dark witches or wizards with high bounties, work on special tasks, and if the results were good they could earn raises based on performance.
The only girls who would be joining me in these classes were Susan and Tonks. These classes were much tougher than the other classes and most of the girls didn't have any interest in become hitwizards or anything like that.
However they were very eager for the reward when they passed third year. The animagus ritual. Each of them would get their animagus form.
Second year I didn't really have to give them much since they bought everything from the school store they wanted. But third year they had laid down their demands.