Harry Potter and the Last of the Blacks

[Nobby]

you thought about becoming a teacher alice?

[Alice I]

you thought about becoming a teacher alice?

I never really thought about it. I do have some experience giving instruction but that was always work related.
Oh yeah I also taught a CPR class once. But outside of that *Shrugs*

[bellatrixblacklestrange]

You really scare me. Thought I'd share and I can asure you I took the criticsm well ... sort of ...
I actually do appreciate you telling me what you don't like hopefully I'll fix it better in future so thanks both of you for reading it and I hope you continue reading my fic.

For the record Harry won't wear the necklace it more like a sentimental piece. Lupin's face had the reaction not Harry's and I'm glad I inspired you to add Tonks's clumsiness.

[Alice I]

Dear bellatrixblacklestrange'
You wrote:

You really scare me. Thought I'd share and I can asure you I took the criticsm well ... sort of ...

I am sorry if I offended you. I personally find that sort of careful review extreamly helpful. One of the members here has been extreamly candid with me concerning the story I am writing and It has helped me to write a better story.

I will refrain from commenting in future.

Good luck
Alice I

[bellatrixblacklestrange]

It's alright, I don't really know how to write in Dumbledore's voice. So I took that one okay because I know I don't know how to do that and the grammar and the rambling was just me because I had only started it and just left it. I assure the rambling gets less and less every chapter.

[bellatrixblacklestrange]

I actually wanted to delete the entire chapter 2 because It doesn't do anything. And I realised you can actually read from 1 to 3 and it makes sense. Just my rambling again.

CHAPTER FIVE
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A New Line

Stunned silence greeted this.
Lyra Lupin swallowed hard, closed her eyes, turned slowly and faced the doorway. Standing there was a boy who looked around about Harry’s age. He had blond hair that fell into his pale eyes with a sort of casual elegance. He was standing in the doorway leaning against the frame looking haughty and bored but smiling. Harry looked from Lyra to the boy and back again watching her intently. She looked pale. Lupin was the first to speak.
‘Lyra you have a son?’
Lyra braced herself.
‘Yes’
She said this to the floor. Lupin was lost for words. He looked at the boy then at Lyra. At first he looked very angry but when he spoke his voice shook with emotion and he said very quietly not looking at his sister.
‘He looks like you’
Dumbledore his eyes twinkling inquired politely ‘What is his name Lysandra?’
‘Er … Axon’
Lyra beckoned her son forward to where she was standing in the middle of the circle of people.
‘Remus this is my son, your nephew, Axon’ ‘Axon, this is my brother, your Uncle, Remus’
‘Axon’ repeated Lupin ‘How old are you?’ he managed to choke at Lyra’s son, as tears had resurfaced.
Lyra’s son replied with ‘Fifteen ... um, Remus?’
‘Uncle Remus’ Lupin told him firmly with a slight tremor in his voice.
‘Uh … okay … ummm. … Uncle Remus’
Dumbledore chuckled slightly.
‘I guess we have to do the introductions again. Lysandra you may have got your wish we now may possibly talk all afternoon.’ said Dumbledore eyes twinkling and smiling down at Axon.
‘So Ly were you been all this time?’ inquired Mundungus.
‘I was trying to get away from you ‘Dung but I guess it didn’t work.’ replied Lyra smirking at him. Mundungus laughed slightly. Then he realised what she had said.
‘Ax this is Mundungus Fletcher, commonly known as ‘Dung’
‘Hey I finally get to meet you, my Mum talked about you a lot’ said Axon holding out his hand for Mundungus to shake. Mundungus shook it whilst saying.
‘I was an’ am … I think … a good friend of yeh mother’s’
Axon chuckled at this.
‘These three are Alastor Moody also called Mad-Eye, Rubeus Hagrid and Albus Dumbledore’
Axon shook hands with Moody.
‘I like your eye Mr Moody’ Moody smiled at him, making his eyes stare at Axon. This didn’t have the effect Moody seemed to hope. He didn’t look at all scared of Moody’s magical eye ‘You look like your mother boy, very much like her in fact’ Moody’s eye swiveled in its socket.
‘Oh … um … ok then’ Axon said avoiding his eye.
Axon then shook hands with Hagrid.
‘Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of the Keys an’ Grounds at Hogwarts’ he told Axon.
‘Really … wow … so … like … that’s how you know my Mum?’
‘Yeh, bu’ I knew ‘er after she lef’ school s’well’
‘Oh great so you tell me what kind of trouble she got in when she was at school then Mr Hagrid?’
‘Yeh I coul’ do ‘at’ he answered evasively.
Lyra’s son chuckled and said
‘It’d take to much time huh?’
At this, everybody laughed. Lyra looked severely at her son. Axon then held his hand out for Dumbledore to shake. Dumbledore shook his hand
‘How are you young Axon?’
‘Very well thank you Mr Dumbledore, sir’
Dumbledore laughed slightly. He then looked at Lyra.
‘Now that you are back in the country Lysandra are you planning on staying?’
‘I … uh … yes’ she said eventually after a quelling look from her brother and a piercing stare from Dumbledore ‘ … I do plan on staying in Britain as a matter of fact … well … for the time being, anyway’ she said eyeing Lupin and Dumbledore’s faces sharply.
‘Oh good, that means young Axon here will be going to Hogwarts when the new school year starts does it?’ asked Mr Weasley
‘I guess so. That is if he can Dumbledore?’
‘Oh I think we might be able to arrange it Lysandra. When I leave here we can go back to Hogwarts and I can sort him if you like’
Lyra looked imploringly at her son. He nodded.
‘Great now could you please carry on with the introductions I would really like some cake. Oh and Happy Birthday to you Axon’
Axon replied very sheepishly to Dumbledore with a ‘Thank you, sir’
Lyra laughed at him and introduced Axon to the Weasleys. Mr Weasley shook his hand and said ‘Nice to meet you’
‘Thanks … nice to meet you too Mr Weasley’ replied Axon.
Axon was then in turn introduced to the rest of the Weasleys. Then introduced to Dobby.
‘Hello Mr Axon sir, very pleased meet you. Dobby is most humbly yours since you will be coming to Hogwarts Sir’
‘Hello Dobby, I am pleased to meet you too’
‘You are most welcome, sir’
Dobby and Axon shook hands. Then Mira and Axon shook hands.
‘Mira Black’
‘Know you already Mira, you’re nuts’
Then it was Tonks’ turn.
‘My name is Tonks’ she said before Axon could say anything.
‘Hello Tonks’ he said shaking her hand ‘Axon Lupin, heard a lot about you from Mira who seems to think we’ve never met and your Mum. Your Mum is so cool’
When Tonks was finished Axon introduced his self to Hermione.
‘Axon Lupin’
‘Hermione Granger’ she replied shaking his hand,
‘Harry Potter’
‘I know who you are. Happy Birthday’
‘Oh thanks … and Happy Birthday to you too … I guess’
‘Thanks’ replied Axon
‘Cake!’ cried Dumbledore clapping his hands together.
‘Yes cake, Dumbledore’ said Mrs Weasley who went to get the cake.
Mrs Weasley came back in with a huge chocolate cake. Bill conjured up some candles. Mrs Weasley put them into the cake.
‘I guess we have to sing Happy Birthday to Axon as well as Harry?’ asked Ron smiling at Axon.
‘Nah, it‘s Harry’s cake I don’t want to take away his attention’
‘It’s alright you can share. I think you’ve already done that anyway and it is your birthday too’ said Harry convincingly to Axon.
‘I already had a birthday cake’
‘How about you both blow the candles out’ came Mrs Weasley’s suggestion.
Axon groaned and in an exasperated voice told Harry quietly in an undertone ‘This is why I hate birthdays, everyone’s attention is directly focused on you’
The candles were then lit and everyone sang Happy Birthday. Both Harry and Axon blew the candles out. ‘Did you make a wish?’ asked Tonks keenly.
‘Yeah’ replied Harry ‘Yes’ replied Axon who now seemed quite bored by the proceedings.
The cake was then cut into pieces and everyone had some cake. Fred, George, Ron and Ginny led the way upstairs, followed by Harry. Hermione and Axon brought up the rear. Hermione was filling Axon in about Hogwarts and all the subjects you could study there, also how it was OWL year for him.
‘OWL Year?’ asked Axon with a puzzled expression on his face.
‘Oh Exams the ones you take in fifth year’ explained Hermione ‘They had some other sort at your other school didn’t they? asked Hermione.
‘Um … yeah’ came Axon’s reply.
‘What were they called at your old school Axon?’ asked Ginny.
‘MICE and RATs’ answered Axon.
Harry laughed. So did everybody else except Hermione who no doubt had come across it in a book somewhere.
‘I actually knew that. What do the letters stand for Axon?’ inquired Hermione.
‘Oh um … MICE stand for Monstrous, Ingenious, Catastrophic Exams and RATs stand for Really Awful Tests’
Everyone laughed again. Then Ron told Axon that Hermione doesn’t actually think about anything other than school work. He laughed at this and said
‘My Mum always told me … um, uh. ... Uncle Remus was like that, you know’
‘I actually can imagine that, Lupin being like Hermione’ came George’s reply sniggering slightly.
Hermione looked daggers at him.

[bellatrixblacklestrange]

CHAPTER SIX
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Flight of the Wolf

Meanwhile back in the Weasley’s kitchen Lyra Lupin was about to be filled in on what had happened since she had left the country almost sixteen years ago.
‘Well how much do you know Lyra?’ asked Mr Weasley
‘We will be able to fill you in on what you don’t know’ said Charlie.
‘Ok, well Voldemort’ The Weasleys and Hagrid flinched at the sound of Voldemort’s name whilst Dobby held his hands over his ears muttering incoherently. Dumbledore, Moody, Mira and Tonks didn’t seem at all perturbed by it. Mundungus had already fallen asleep. Lyra smiled slightly and continued on ‘Killed James and Lily, then tried to kill Harry but it backfired on him and Harry survived. Harry was taken to his Aunt and Uncle’s house to live.
Voldemort tried to come back the year Harry started Hogwarts by trying to get the Philosopher’s Stone through Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Harry and his friends stopped him.
In Harry’s second year Lucius Malfoy gave Ginny a diary. The diary had Tom Riddle concealed inside of it. Voldemort almost came back. Harry stopped him again with the help of Fawkes and the old school sorting hat.
The next year Sirius broke out of Azkaban and went on the run after Peter Pettigrew. Remus was the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts that year. Harry uncovered the truth about what happened the night his parents died and how they were betrayed. Harry and Hermione helped Sirius escape with Buckbeak, Hagrid’s Hippogriff’s help, as Snape alerted the Ministry of Magic to Sirius’s presence.
At the Quidditch World Cup two summers ago Barty Crouch Jr sent the Dark Mark into the sky. Barty Crouch’s elf Winky was found with Harry’s wand and Crouch dismissed her. The Triwizard Tournament was played that year. Harry’s name was chosen by ‘The Goblet of Fire’. Harry competed in the tournament but it was all a ploy to get Harry to Voldemort so he could return.
Barty Crouch Jr took Polyjuice potion all year so he could pretend to be Mad-Eye so he could deliver Harry to Voldemort. When Cedric Diggory and Harry arrived at the graveyard where Voldemort returned, watched by Harry and his Death Eaters, Wormtail killed Diggory. Harry escaped and brought Diggory’s body back.
Cornelius Fudge didn’t believe a word of what Harry told him because Rita Skeeter had been publishing articles about Harry in The Daily Prophet all year round.
Two Dementors attacked Harry at the start of last summer. Sent by Delores Umbridge who hates Part-Humans. Harry was almost expelled by Fudge. Harry, Ron and Hermione started up ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ a group that learnt Defence Against the Dark Arts because they weren’t being taught any practical lessons. Fudge fearing Dumbledore was trying to overthrow him made sure they didn’t learn any practical Defence Against the Dark Arts. Dumbledore was removed from the school. Voldemort lured Harry to the Department of Mysteries by placing a false idea in Harry’s mind that Sirius was going to be killed. Harry went to the Ministry of Magic. He, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom battled with the Death Eaters until members of ‘The Order of the Phoenix’ arrived who were alerted by Snape. Sirius died. Bellatrix Lestrange, his own cousin killed him. Dumbledore arrived shortly after and battled with Voldemort. He escaped with Bellatrix but Fudge now knew that Voldemort was back.’
There was a slight pause.
‘That’s all I know’ Lyra finished with.
‘How did you find all that out?’ asked Bill stunned, his mouth slightly open.
‘Oh a number of people. Hagrid, Mundungus, Alastor, Andromeda, a woman by the name of Rory, my brother Aberforth and myself also’
It was not Lyra who answered but Dumbledore.
‘You’ve forgotten a couple of people, Professor’ Lyra said suddenly.
‘Yes I have. Sirius played some part in informing Lysandra of many events that had taken place’ responded Dumbledore.
‘And Snape informed me of many things too’ Lyra added.
Remus Lupin looked at his sister amazed then at Dumbledore, Mundungus, Moody, and Hagrid.
‘You’ve all kept this from me. For how long?’
‘I have been in correspondence with Lysandra since she left the country almost sixteen years ago’ answered Dumbledore.
‘Same’ said Mundungus groggily. Who by now had woken from slumber.
‘Since I wrote ter ‘er an’ asked ‘er fer photos of Lily an’ James fer ‘Arry’ replied Hagrid.
‘Sirius told her about He Who Must Not Be Named returning and Barty Crouch Jr keeping me prisoner. Lyra contacted me to see if I was okay’ responded Moody.
‘My mother has also been in touch with her since she left also’ put in Mira.
‘So what you couldn’t tell me that you were in communication with her? … Or that she was even alive? … Or even that she was okay?’
None of them answered him.
‘I asked them not to Remus’ Lyra finally spoke.
‘Why. I thought something had happened to you that you were … dead?’
‘I knew that if they had told you that they knew where I was. You would have tried everything possible to locate me Remus. When I didn’t want to be found!’
‘So are you going to tell me why you left in the first place?
She didn’t answer him.
’Lyra?’ Lupin fixed her with a piercing stare with a slight frown line on his forehead.
Lyra was about to answer her brother when the four Weasleys, Harry, Hermione and her son, had come from upstairs down into the kitchen.
‘Mum is it okay if we go and practice Quidditch in the paddock?’ asked Ginny
‘Yes dear’ replied Mrs Weasley.
‘Bill, Charlie, can Hermione and Axon borrow your brooms to practice with?’ Ron asked Charlie.
‘Yeah they’re out there’ replied Charlie pointing outside.
Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Harry and Axon went out into a small paddock the Weasley’s owned. Here they could practice Quidditch. They couldn’t use real balls so they threw apples to each other and as long as they didn’t fly to high into the sky they could practice. Axon was actually really good. It turned out he had been a Chaser at his old school.

*

Meanwhile still back in the Weasley’s kitchen Remus Lupin was waiting for his sister to answer him.
‘Lyra?’ She still didn’t answer him ‘Lysandra!’ he said more urgently.
‘I was pregnant, Remus. I really thought that would have been obvious to you. Considering that you just found out I had a fifteen-year-old son’ however she gave the distinct impression she was still hiding something from her brother.
‘You left because you were pregnant? … Lyra? … You went through a pregnancy all by yourself? … There must be a very good reason why you would want to go through that all by yourself? …. Lyra, you should’ve told me … I could’ve helped you … I would’ve helped you’
‘Remus you couldn’t have helped me, nobody could have. I needed to help myself and after that I had to worry about the child I was soon going to have’
‘Why did you feel that you couldn’t tell me about it then? About your son?’
‘I tried’ Lupin looked at her ‘I really did Remus. Every time I tried to tell you the words got lost on the way from my brain to my mouth and nothing ever came out, so I felt the best thing to do was leave’
Lyra stopped speaking. She looked as though she didn’t want to continue but she did
‘Lily knew. I told Lily. She was actually the only one that did know I was carrying my child. Then her and James were killed. Lily took my secret to the grave. Though I was still worried about you’
‘Me. Why me?’
‘The one who betrayed Lily and James and brought about their deaths was still at large’
‘Wormtail?’ asked Lupin frowning slightly at her.
‘Yes. Peter’
‘Lyra you knew who the traitor was before Lily and James died?’ asked Lupin
‘No Remus … I suspected he was the traitor though’
‘Why did you suspect that Pettigrew was the traitor and not Sirius?’ asked Mr Weasley
‘Well, Arthur is it ok I call you Arthur …’ Arthur Weasley nodded ‘… Arthur, Dumbledore as well as Remus and I knew that someone very close to James and Lily was feeding Voldemort information about the Potter’s. I wasn’t in the Order because Dumbledore felt that the spy could’ve been anyone. I was given the task of spying on the Order basically, because I can make myself not be seen so I could spy and not be detected.
Snape was a very great source for information, he knew how to get information, and I knew what we needed and where most of the spies were. We mislead many and bought James and Lily some time. Not much, but some.
I suspected Peter. He had become very strange a few months before Lily and James died. Snape didn’t seem to feel the same way, his mind jumped straight to Sirius every time. I just had an instinct and I followed it.
I knew it was not Remus who was the spy, so I knew it was either Sirius or Peter. Then I thought James and Sirius had been best friends since the start of Hogwarts they had been through so much together there was no reason in and by any circumstance Sirius would do that to James.
Contrary to what Snape believes. You can’t blame Snape. He does have his reasons after all. So by process of elimination I was left with Peter. Then Sirius escaped from Azkaban. I knew something was wrong. Then I just knew it was Peter. I knew he wasn’t after you, Remus or after Harry, so who was left? Peter.
So simple who would ever have thought it was Peter? Pettigrew’s attempt to disappear didn’t go unnoticed though. I had done a lot of spying. I knew something wasn’t right. I could smell a rat’
Remus chuckled. ‘A rat’ he said.
‘A rat?’ asked Charlie intrigued.
‘Pettigrew was an unregistered Animagus’ Lupin explained to Charlie.
‘I know see why all these years Dumbledore held you in such high regard, Lupin. He always said that you were a very valuable person to have on our side’ Moody told her
‘It has taken us twelve years to figure out Peter was the traitor. It took you Lysandra only few minutes’ Dumbledore said beaming.
‘My only wish was that you would’ve told someone then and not now’ Lupin added.
‘It’s doesn’t help Lily and James, telling you all know does it?’ She said shrugging. She stared at the Weasley’s clock.
‘I like your clock. It’s really very time saving if you want to know where everyone is isn’t it?’ she paused ‘But if you actually want to know the time it’s absolutely useless’
Mrs Weasley smiled. There was very long pause.
‘I have one more question?’ Lupin said to his sister
‘Yes?’
‘Lyra who’s the father of your child?’