Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

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Sorry this took so long but I pulled some ligaments in my wrist playing tennis, at least that's what the doctor said, and it hurt to move my wrist and I can't type all that well with one hand. Also thank you for the reviews. Sorry if there's any mistakes I'm sure there's a few as I didn't finish typing this until 1:52 A.M. so now I'm tired and I'm going to sleep Enjoy.

 

Chapter 2:

 

Sirius Black was in a very bad mood; in fact he had been in a bad mood for around seven years.

 

He was almost to the point where he would have loved bang his head off the wall if they wouldn't consider it a suicide attempt that and it would make his headache worse.

 

` Sometimes I wish I would have tricked Peter into going to the Whomping Willow instead of Snape,' thought Sirius it was one of the few times he could think seeing as the Minister and all kinds of Ministry workers were here for inspection and all the dementors had been taken out for the day, but that also meant that Azkaban had all kinds of Aurors in it. Sometimes Sirius thought that he preferred the Dementors because they didn't talk or shout insults and they definitely didn't spit at you.

 

Today however Sirius didn't care he was just trying his best to ignore them or act like he was asleep or daydreaming so they didn't bother him.

 

Later though he would be very thankful that the people from the ministry could talk because that's how he found out about Harry.

 

Two people who looked about as happy as Sirius felt were walking near Sirius' cell they doing everything but what they were supposed to be doing including talking about Quidditch and then the conversation switched to Harry.

 

What Sirius found out from the two ministry workers, who either didn't know they weren't supposed to talk about Harry around him or didn't care, was that Harry was living with Lily's sister and her husband.

 

Sirius knew from all of lily's insults and complaints directed towards her sister and her sister's opinions of her, that she was not someone who should be raising Lily and James' child. Mostly because Lily's sister opinion of her was not high at all and she hated and thought she was a freak and had treated her horribly ever since she found out she was a witch and Sirius was sure that she would treat her sisters son the same way she had treated her sister.

 

By the time the two ministry wizards had stopped talking and finally at least acted like they were doing what they were supposed to be doing Sirius was in an even worse mood than before. ` What on Earth was Dumbledore thinking?' certainly he would have more sense than that.

Sirius sighed as he looked out of the small window at the darkening sky, he made his decision he'd break out and make sure Harry was being properly cared for.

 

Later that night no one saw Sirius turn into a dog, slip through the bars and escape almost walking straight into the Minister of Magic however the Minister was either to tired to notice or he just wasn't paying attention so Sirius just kept going.

 

The next day the whole Ministry was stunned and the Minister was certain that whoever was covering Sirius Black's cell didn't do their job correctly he called in the two wizards that were supposed to have been inspecting his cell and determined that they didn't do their job, even though both of them was able to tell them that Sirius Black was there, in his cell, the day before.

 

The Minister of Magic was Shocked that it happened and Angry that it had happened right under his nose if he had been there during the day then he must have escaped at night and he was there yesterday evening until about two in the morning.

 

Among other things he also needed help and advice to on how to deal with the situation and so the first chance he got he flooed to Hogwarts to seek Dumbledore's advice.

 

Fudge was slightly red in the face when he saw that Dumbledore wasn't in his office. He decided to take a seat in one of the chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk and wait a bit to see if Dumbledore would show up before returning to the Ministry.

 

Dumbledore did indeed show up, he arrived in his office about five minutes after the Minister had arrived. He walked into his office while Fudge was whistling nervously to himself waiting on him to show up, Dumbledore had to clear his throat to get the man's attention.

 

“ Ah Dumbledore,” said Fudge jumping slightly not expecting Dumbledore to be there, “ such a pleasure to see you again, but I'm afraid, well,” he said trying to find the right way to say it, “ a, ah, situation at the Ministry and…” he cut off not wanting to admit to anyone else that he had let Sirius Black escape from Azkaban.

 

“ Ah well, I would ask you to have a seat Minister but it appears you have already taken one, lemon drop?” Asked Dumbledore with smile, taking a lemon drop for himself and then holding out the container so the Minister could take one.

 

“ No, No, not right now thanks,” said Fudge politely declining the offer he was offered one every time he came and every time he came to see Dumbledore and sometimes he thought he was going to continue being asked until he took one.

 

“ More for me then,” said Dumbledore smiling and putting his container of lemon drops into one of the pockets in his bright purple robes. “ Now you said something about a situation at the Ministry.” Said Dumbledore getting down to business and reminding Fudge of why he was here in the first place.

“ Yes,” said Fudge, “ I did mention it,” he said stalling, he sighed before continuing knowing that he couldn't delay saying it any longer, “it seems that someone has escaped from Azkaban.”

 

Dumbledore was quiet for a moment deciding what to say, “ Who was it Cornelius?” he asked in a tone very different from the one he had used to offer the Minister lemon drops.

 

The Minister paused a moment and looked uncomfortable before answering, “ Sirius Black.”

 

Dumbledore nodded taking it in and neither of them spoke for a while until the Minister decided to break the silence and ask, “ How do we catch him?”

 

Dumbledore looked at him and said, “ I don't think you will find him or catch him easily if you do at all Minister.” He said remembering how hard it was to catch him for a prank or sneaking out while he was at school and now that he was older he was sure he would be just as hard to catch. “ How are you handling it Minister?” he asked Fudge who had gone slightly paler after what Dumbledore had just said.

 

At this question, if possible, the minister turned even paler and grabbed something out of his pocket and began to twirl it around in his hands. “ We have, uh, made arrangements to have news of his escape put into the ` Daily Prophet' and send a couple of Auror's out to look for him, I don't want to send out too many people I can't afford to let what happened to poor Peter Pettigrew happen to the entire Auror squad.” Said Fudge in one breath, while talking very fast and still playing nervously with whatever he had in his hands.

 

Dumbledore inwardly sighed, ` well Cornelius,' he thought to himself, ` at least you have an excuse if anyone asks you why you are not doing more,' “ Yes Cornelius I understand your concern for peoples lives but when Sirius Black killed Peter Pettigrew he was young, had a wand and had not spend seven years locked up in a small cell with dementors.

 

“ Well,” said Fudge trying to think, “ he hasn't shown any signs of the dementors affecting him at all, at least he seems like he's perfectly sane.” He said shocking Dumbledore after all you didn't hear of someone spending seven years with dementors and being called “ perfectly sane”

 

“ He could also find a way to get a wand and he's not that old now only twenty-eight.” finished Fudge.

 

Dumbledore merely nodded he knew that unless something drastic happened the Minister would not be persuaded to do anything more. “ Well Cornelius I wish you luck in finding Sirius, but I think you would do well to have more people searching for him.” Said Dumbledore letting the minister Know what he thought and that their conversation was over.

Fudge just repeated what he said earlier and then asked if he could use some of Dumbledore's Floo Powder. As soon as he was gone Dumbledore sighed and put away things that he had been working on before he had left to have lunch and got out parchment and a muggle writing utensil called a pen. He found that he liked these better than quills when he was in a hurry to write something.

 

He wrote out one letter and made about a two dozen copy's and called a house elf up to deliver them all it was faster than the post and he figured that all of the remaining old order members would want to know about this before it came out in the paper the next morning.

 

He handed the house elf the stack of letters and a self-updating list and told her to deliver a letter to everyone on the list. After he watched her disappear he pulled out everything that he had been working on before his lunch and began working on it again. Within an hour of the house elf delivering the letters he had been interrupted several times by people wanting to know how and why Sirius was allowed to escape. He had received two letters one from Arabella Figg. He had been flooed three times and one person actually came to his office to see him.

 

Albus sighed he seemed to be doing a lot of that lately and read the other letter he had received and watched as two more landed on his desk one was from the minister and the other was from Kingsley Shacklebolt. After he was done reading those letters he got up and went to bed.

 

When he awoke he had a swarm of about fifty owls waiting for him it appeared that everyone had read the ` Daily Prophet ' he brought his hands up to his temples and began to massage them. He just knew that this was going to be a long week, a very long week and set about sorting through the letters he had gotten.

 

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Sirius Black was free for the first time in seven years, but he was also wet, dirty, hungry and tired, and for those reasons he decided to stop for the night.

 

The next day he woke up and started on his way, he heard about all kinds of things from the people he passed on the streets he tried to stop at an outdoor restaurant and steal some food but was chased away by a waiter brandishing a broom. ` That's why muggles shouldn't be allowed to have brooms,' thought Sirius sulkily.

 

From then on he tried to stay clear of restaurants and muggles with brooms. The only thing wrong with that was he needed food and he was sure he was going to collapse from hunger. However thirty minutes after his encounter with crazy muggle with the broom Sirius decided to take a short cut though a park and found some family having a picnic.

At first he thought he was just going to get the leftover or what ever they dropped on the ground, that was until they left the picnic basket laying out and went to play Frisbee. Sirius took off running towards the picnic basket, grabbed the handle with his mouth and ran for it.

 

Sirius ran for a long time before stopping when he did it was somewhere he could be himself and not padfoot. He ate almost everything in the picnic basket and dumped the rest out for the birds and the squirrels.

 

The rest of Sirius' day was not as good as it started to rain as soon as he had eaten. Eight hours later he was he found somewhere to sleep and did so almost immediately, because he was so worn out.

 

The next two weeks for Sirius weren't easy and were filled with crazy and grumpy muggles yelling at him, mostly because he had tried to take their food, but Sirius couldn't help it he was hungry and he needed to eat.

 

When Sirius finally reached his destination he was overjoyed, he would finally see if Harry was okay and he planned on taking him with him, the Blacks had all kinds of houses that were not being used, he could live in one of those with Harry until he was old enough to go to school and then he would go look for Peter because he knew the vermin was alive and he couldn't wait to find him.

 

He looked around and made sure that no one was looking and turned back into himself, and went and unlocked the Dursley's door wandlessly and wordlessly. He found a very shocked and scared looking woman, a child who looked like he weighed a lot more than he should for someone his age and a very livid looking man who looked like he was going to explode, as he was turning purple.

 

Finally Sirius spoke, “ where's Harry?” he asked not seeing him anywhere and while trying to stay as calm as he could.

 

The man who was going purple, who Sirius guessed was Petunia's husband, answered him “ you're too late someone's already taken him. Good riddance I say,” he said sounding as if a great pain had been relieved at last.

 

Sirius was tempted to strangle the ma, but instead settled for punching him. Sirius left in a hurry thinking that it had been Peter or some other death eater that had taken Harry.

 

He decided that he was going to find Peter but first he needed a wand since that Ministry had confiscated and probably snapped his. ` So,' he thought ` I'm going to be paying Mr. Ollivander a surprise visit.

 

Sirius was lucky enough to find a magical shop on his way to London about thirty minutes after he started out from the Dursley's. No one was in it but there was floo powder and a fire going and he was grateful as he took a pinch of floo powder and through it into the fire and said Ollivanders

 

Mr. Ollivander had just been about to lock up and go to bed when he heard a “ thud” somewhere in his shop whatever he though it was he was wrong and he never expected to see Sirius Black in his shop again, but there he was sprawled on the floor fresh from the fireplace.

 

He looked nothing like the eleven-year-old boy who had come and gotten his wand seventeen years ago. ` Well,' thought Ollivander, ` people change.' He thought it was a pity though he thought that he would actually be different from the rest of his family.

 

He watched as Sirius got up and looked around and then looked in front of human stared at Ollivander like a deer caught in headlights. He hadn't expected him to be standing there.

 

“Can I help you Mr. Black?” asked Ollivander decided it was best to be polite and stay calm and also to see what he wanted.

 

Sirius looked shocked at being spoken to civilly, “ Yeah,” he said his voice scratchy and hoarse from disuse, “ I need a wand.” He said hoping he wasn't going to have to threaten the old man to get one.

 

If Sirius was shocked then it was nothing compared to what Ollivander was. He was shocked to almost the point of fainting that Sirius Black seemed to be perfectly sane and was just simply asking for a wand instead of demanding one. “ Why do you need a wand, Mr. Black?” asked Ollivander knowing he probably wouldn't answer him or at least not with the truth and was even more shocked when he did.

 

“ I need one because I need to find Peter Pettigrew.” Explained Sirius and was cut short by Ollivander.

 

“ Peter Pettigrew is dead.” Said Ollivander now thinking that Sirius was indeed crazy and he just hid it well. “ You killed him or do you not remember?” asked Ollivander stalling and hoping someone would see him and call the Auror's

 

“ No he's not.” Said Sirius getting aggravated, “ he faked his death, anyway that's not the point, the point is I think he's….” Mr. Ollivander again cut off Sirius.

 

“ How did he fake his death?” he asked genuinely curious, he could see that Sirius was getting frustrated.

 

He's an Animagus he can turn into a rat, now will you please just give me a wand?” he asked almost begging Ollivander.

 

He didn't know why he did it but for some reason he did. Ollivander went around and searched through his wands and got one that he though would work well for Sirius and handed it to him. “ Now Mr. Black if you would please get out of my shop, I would like to go to bed.” He said that and he no longer felt that safe around an armed Sirius Black, true it was his fault but he could have picked a wand up off one of the shelves and used it anytime.

 

Sirius went to walk out of the shop as he didn't bring any floo powder with him and didn't wasn't to ask Mr. Ollivander for any. Before he opened the Door however he turned around to ask Mr. Ollivander how much the wand was.

 

Mr. Ollivander looked stunned and wondered how he was going to pay him when he probably didn't have any money on him and he couldn't exactly go marching into Gringotts asking for money, but he told him anyway. “ 10 galleons and 13 sickles.”

 

Sirius just nodded and pushed open the door and disappeared into the night.

 

Ollivander walked over to his window to see if he could see which direction he had gone but all he saw was a big black dog running down the street.

 

Ollivander sighed slightly it looked as though he wouldn't be going to sleep anytime soon. He walked over to his fireplace through in some floo powder and flooed to nearest place he could get to the Ministry.

 

Ten minutes later he found himself talking to the Minister's secretary. “ I'm sorry but you can't see him right now he's very busy, what with Sirius Black escaping and all.” She said.

 

“ Well tell him it's urgent and it's about Sirius Black.” Snapped Mr. Ollivander losing his patience with the woman.

 

He was hurriedly escorted into the Minister's office seconds later. The Minister looked up at his arrival and greeted him with a fake smile and cheery tone, “ good evening Mr. Ollivander. My secretary tells me that you have information about Sirius Black.”

 

“ Yes Minister I have.” Said Ollivander sighing, “ Sirius Black had acquired a wand Minister.” He said and watched as Fudge grew pale and started fidgeting around in his seat.

 

“ How did he get a wand?” asked the Minister. So Ollivander told him everything that he could remember and was yelled at by the Minister for it. “ So you just handed one of the most dangerous Wizards ever a wand?” he asked outraged that Ollivander had done something so stupid.

 

“ Minister, if Sirius Black came into your shop and asked you fro a wand would you not give him one?” asked Mr. Ollivander coolly getting up to leave without an answer from Fudge the last thing he saw was the Minister grabbing a handful of floo powder, throwing in into the fire and practically diving into the fireplace.

 

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Albus Dumbledore was right when he thought it was going to be a long week but he was also wrong instead of one long week he had two.

 

He had been pestered over the past two weeks non-stop by the Minister of Magic who had come to Hogwarts at least fifty times in the past two weeks and had sent over twenty owls.

 

He had also been asked several times by Rita Skeeter for an interview, as Sirius Black was an old Hogwarts student.

 

On top of that he had been bombarded with owls from the public fearing for their safety, from old order members wanting to help and from Auror's who wanted to help but couldn't because the Minister Wouldn't let them.

 

He had been reading through some of the mail he had gotten today when a letter from Arabella Figg was dropped on his desk. He sighed this was the fifth one she had sent and he supposed he would just be hearing more of her concerns and almost didn't open it.

 

So therefore he very shocked when he opened it and it was very short compared to her other letters and this one almost gave him a heart attack.

 

Albus,

 

I told you he needed more protection, he's been kidnapped Albus. Sirius Black did it I saw him leaving in a hurry away from the house and when I went to check on them I found out Harry was gone.

 

Dumbledore had to read it twice just to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

 

He was just getting ready to floo to the ministers office when the Minister himself came flying out of his fireplace.

 

“ Terrible news Albus, Terrible news.” Said the Minister who looked like he hadn't gotten a decent amount of rest or a decent meal either for a while.

 

“ Yes,” said Dumbledore, “ but whatever it is will have to wait Cornelius as I too have grave news.” Said Dumbledore sternly.

 

The minister stared at Dumbledore before blurting out, “ but Albus you don't understand Sirius Black has gotten a wand.” He said in a rush.

 

Dumbledore looked shocked for a moment and then said, “ minister you might want to sit down.” He said gesturing to a seat.

 

The minister looked as though he wanted to ask why but didn't and took the seat.

 

Albus Dumbledore looked regretful and the minister didn't like that at all and he wasn't sure if he wanted to hear Dumbledore's “grave news” if it was enough to make him look like that.

 

“ Harry Potter has been kidnapped Minister.” Said Dumbledore gravely, “ by Sirius Black.”

 

The Minister looked as though he might faint.