A DEEP BOND
Chapter 1 “A Duty”
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Sirius Black was sitting beside Buckbeak the hippogriff when all of a sudden, Severus Snape burst in through the door looking quite panic stricken.
“Snivelus how wonderful to see you, come to boast on how much you are doing for the Order and how little I can do?” said Sirius standing up and slipping his hand into the pocket of his robes to clutch the handle of his wand.
“Silence! Now is not the time to make jeering comments. Your godson just left Hogwarts to rescue you from the Ministry of Magic taking several other students with him.” said Snape with a sneer.
“Well I… Wait what? He went to the Ministry? Why would he do that.?” asked Sirius.
“Apparently your godson doesn’t have enough sense to know when a dream has been planted in his thick skull. He thinks the Dark Lord has taken you captive, is as much as I can figure.” sneered Snape.
“He had another dream? You were suppose to be helping him to stop those dreams!” exclaimed Sirius almost hysterically.
“Well your godson seemed to feel that he was above the occlumacy lessons.” said Snape.
“No he didn’t and you know it! You stupid prat! You’re holding a child hood grudge against a young boy who had nothing to do with the incident!” yelled Sirius. “And just because the poor boy let curiosity get the better of him you threw him out of your office and told him that you would never teach him occlumacy again!”
“He told you.” said snape.
“Of course he told me! What he saw upset him, because that was the same way he is treated by the prats he has to call family!” Sirius said. “Harry is more like Lily than you could possibly imagine, Snivilus. He may look like James but on the inside he is just like the Lily you knew before and during Hogwarts. You judged him just because he looks like his father and you torment him for that reason. You never even gave him a chance to show you his true personality. Its like judging a book by its cover, Snape!”
“I am truly sorry.” said Snape.
“Its not me who you should be apologizing to Snape! Tell Harry that! He never did understand why you hated him so much.” said Sirius.
For once Snape looked ashamed of himself. “I will take what you said into consideration, but right now, I need to get back to the Castle. I need you to tell Dumbledore what happened..”
“And sit here while my godson could be in mortal danger!? I think not!” said Sirius grabbing a cloak and sweeping out of the room and starting down the stairs.
“I have already informed plenty of Order members of the incident and they are currently getting directions from Dumbledore.” said Snape trying to keep up with the worried godfather.
“No. Its about damn time that I take over my role of godfather, which includes protecting him like I couldn’t do on that Halloween night fourteen years ago. KREACHER!” yelled Sirius.
“Master Black has called for Kreacher. Oh mistress would not like it if she knew that Kreacher was serving the blood traitor. Oh my poor mistress if she only knew.” said Kreacher under his breath.
“Enough Kreacher! What did you tell my godson!?” said Sirius pointing his wand threateningly at the house elf who was still muttering under his breath. “God damn it! Tell me!”
“Kreacher told the brat that master was out. It was all a plot formed by the Dark Lord.” said Kreacher but before Kreacher could continue , Sirius cut him off.
“Enough tell this to Dumbledore when he arrives. Kreacher tell him the truth and tell him I have gone to help get Harry. Don’t you dare leave any details out of your explanation and answer all his questions truthfully, do you understand me!?” said Sirius over his shoulder as he entered the kitchen.
“Black! I don’t think this is a good idea.” said Snape.
“He is my godson, Snape and nothing not even you will keep me from helping him.” said Sirius pointing his wand at Snape, with his chest heaving with anger. “You go back to Hogwarts and I am going to the ministry alright.”
“Alright on your own head be it!” said Snape and with a crack he was gone leaving Sirius to grab a hand full of Floo powder and go to the ministry in a whirl of emerald flames.
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When Sirius arrived he almost fell on top of a man with sandy colored hair.
“Sirius! What are you doing here! Your suppose to be telling Dumbledore what happened!” said the man.
“Remus. Harry is my godson for heavens sake. Lily and James gave me the role of godfather for a reason and that was to protect Harry. And that is exactly what I am going to do!”
“Alright I understand calm down.” said Remus placing his hand on Sirius’ shoulder.
“Have you had any sign of them?” said Sirius as he ran a hand through his long black hair.
“No but we’ll find them and hopefully if this was a plan formed by Voldemort we’ll capture some good for nothing death eaters.” said Remus. “We’ll find him Padfoot.”
“I hope so. I don’t think I have ever been so scared in my life.” said Sirius honestly.
Suddenly Mad-Eye Moody came up behind the two men. “Lets go the sooner we find them the better.” he growled then led the group of wizards in through the door of the department of mysteries.
Mad-Eye led them through the room of candles and into the brain room where they found Ron, Luna, Ginny, and an unconscious Hermione. Suddenly a voice rang out from the Death Room.
“Oh yeah and I really bet you’ll let us go unharmed . I trust you prats about as far as I can throw you!” said the voice.
“Harry!” yelled both of the Marauders in unison and they ran into the next room only to find Harry struggling to hold up a struggling Neville. Harry’s head whipped around towards the door so fast that Sirius was surprised he didn’t get whiplash, but Sirius couldn’t mistake the look of relief that passed over Harry’s face.
And so the duel began. Sirius stunned the death eater he was dueling before running over to Harry who was struggling to hold up Neville.
“Harry you need to get the others out of here its too dangerous!” said Sirius pushing Harry’s head down as a killing curse sailed past their heads.
“But what about you?” said Harry over top of the noise.
“I’ll be fine just go take Remus with you. GO!” yelled Sirius as he went to met Bellatrix in a duel as Tonks dropped to the floor unconscious.
Bellatrix’s spells repelled off of the defensive shield that Sirius had put around himself.
“Is that the best you can do?” laughed Sirius just then a jet of red light escaped Bellatrix’s wand and caught Sirius off guard and hit him square in the chest. He fell backwards into the veil, the laughter had not yet left his face.
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