Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Disclaimer: if IT belonged to me then I would have already been mauled because I am the biggest procrastinator ever.

 

Almost Perfect Chapter 8:

 

Sirius and James had been looking around for news of Harry and Sirius had been sneaking around in his Animagus form looking for clues.

 

Unfortunately they hadn't found anything and both Sirius and James were getting frustrated Sirius had been cleared fourteen days ago and they still weren't any closer to finding James's son.

 

The Aurors had finally, reluctantly, agreed to go with the only plan that now made sense. It took awhile to narrow down the list that they had gotten from Snape and they were right quite a few names had disappeared off the list surprisingly the one name that both James and Sirius had thought would disappear had stayed and that's where they were at now, Malfoy Manor.

 

They were a mile out from the manor and Sirius was frustrated to no end, “ why don't we look closer to the house?” he asked for the fifth or sixth time in the past ten minutes. He wasn't really asking more like complaining, not that James could blame him.

 

“ Sirius,” said James sighing rather loudly, “ You know damn well why and I want to find Harry just as much as you if not more.” He said reminding his hotheaded friend that he wasn't the only one upset about the whole thing.

 

“ Yeah, yeah James I know that but…” he said trailing off, “ this is so stupid you can't really call this searching all we're doing is wasting time and we can barley see the manor from here.” He said snorting.

 

It was true though that basically the only thing they were doing was wasting time and watching something they could barley see.

 

“ Yeah I know that but maybe they do have Harry and sooner or later if we try to watch we might….” James trailed off he didn't believe anything that he was saying and he could tell Sirius didn't either.

 

Sirius could tell that he was just making up an excuse.

 

James and Sirius sat around talking for another thirty minutes planning pranks and so on to pass the time. Both of them were wishing they could do something more productive.

 

Sirius kept getting really aggravated and James had to calm him down more than once.

 

James blamed it on where they were at Sirius never liked Lucius or his cousin who was married to Lucius so James couldn't blame him for getting upset when he was so close to them. `Even if he can't see them.' Thought James.

 

Sirius had taken off closer to the house for a few minutes and came back smiling and refused to tell James what he had done but James was willing to bet it was some sort of prank.

 

Then Sirius finally just lost control of his temper and punched a tree and then went to kick a rock, but halfway through the kick his foot struck something metal and he swore.

 

James looked up startled when Sirius started swearing, he worried when saw his best friend hopping around clutching his foot in his hand.

 

“ Sirius what the hell did you do know?” asked James mad because even though they were a mile out from the house he was sure that even the property they were on now was protected by some sort of security spells and enchantments.

 

“ Fuck,” said Sirius letting out yet another swear word. “ I kicked something metal,” he said answering James question, “ or at least that's what it felt like.”

 

James stared at his best friend for a second before saying, “ you what?”

 

“ I kicked something metal like a door or something.” Said Sirius who was still clutching his foot.

 

“ Where did you kick?” asked James getting an idea.

 

Sirius glared at James and half walked and half limped over to where he had kicked the metal object that was still invisible or hidden whichever it was.

 

Two hours later Sirius foot was better and James had found out what the metal object was that Sirius had kicked. It was indeed a door that Sirius had kicked. It led down to something and it had taken James and Sirius two hours to break the charms that were cast around it to keep people out and whatever was in there in. All the times they broken into locked places in the castle during their school days had actually come in handy for once.

 

Sirius and James both went down through the doors together and both of them had their wands lit. James got to the bottom first and it was like a store room except what was stored down here was not everyday objects most of it was dark artifacts and what looked like very deadly potions and among other things death eater robes.

 

Sirius' mouth had dropped open the moment that he had entered the room and he was staring round the room shocked and speechless which was very similar to James' reaction excepts James was muttering under his breath about Azkaban.

 

Sirius was the first to actually say something out loud, “ I think we should go get someone and see what we can do about this stuff.” He said wanting to get out of this place and fast it gave him the creeps.

 

James just nodded and followed Sirius back up the stairs and waited until Sirius got back with four Auror's from the ministry.

 

The first thing they did was arrest Lucius Malfoy for possession of Dark objects and take him to his new home, a cell in Azkaban.

 

Unfortunately for Lucius he was stupid and confident enough that no one was going to find his little store room that he had kept journals or logs of death eater activities and it named quite a few people and so in addition to him going to Azkaban he dragged quite a few people with him including his wife.

Sirius was ecstatic, “ finally.” Was the only thing he had said at first and that had been after they had gotten back to the castle after four hours of cleaning out all the objects, books, potions, and journals that Malfoy had hidden away down in that room. There was still more things down there but they were instructed not to touch them.

 

They would have to go to a trial and explain how they had found the entrance in the first place but they didn't mind as long as it kept Malfoy, and everyone he had dragged with him in Azkaban.

 

Both James and Sirius were dead tired but they didn't care because even if they hadn't found Harry they had knocked a lot of people of the list of who they thought could have taken him.

 

“ Finally, what Padfoot?” asked James wondering what his friend meant by that.

 

“ Finally some justice in the world and it's his own damn fault he should have burned that stuff years ago.” Said Sirius

 

James shook his head at his friend's happiness. Then he wondered about something Lucius and Narcissa had a son what would happen to him now.

 

“ Hey Sirius what's going to happen to Malfoy's kid?” he asked surprised he hadn't thought of that before.

 

“ Huh, oh Andromeda is going to take him in.” said Sirius, “ seeing as Bellatrix is in Azkaban she was the only other person besides me that could or would take him.”

 

“ You mean you would have taken him in?” asked James teasing Sirius.

 

“ Yeah, well I wouldn't let the kid starve. I'd probably have a time of breaking him of being a spoiled little brat that gets everything he wants though, which is exactly why Andromeda is taking him.” Said Sirius referring to his short temper that was a bit shorter than what James remembered it to be.

 

“ So,” said James, “ now that we knocked almost all of the people on our list just today…” he trailed off wondering what Sirius was thinking

 

“ Well we know it wasn't anyone on there as of now anyway.” He said because after the Auror's went around arresting everyone they went back and searched through the houses and didn't find one sign of Harry.

 

“ Yeah but that just makes me wonder even more where he is.” Said James thinking about his son and hoping that he was okay.

 

“ Hey I wonder what Moony would have to say about all that's happened in the past few weeks?” said Sirius chuckling slightly at imagining his old friend scolding them for being idiots.

 

James apparently was thinking the same thing and voiced his opinion aloud, “ He'd probably just laugh at us and call us idiots Padfoot.”

 

“ Hey I wonder where he lives anyway, we're going to have to figure it out if we're going to drag him back into society.” Said Sirius.

 

“ Yeah that's a good point,” said James he hadn't even bothered to think about that, “ Dumbledore probably knows.” He said wondering if he did know.

 

“ Yeah it's probably out in the open somewhere in the woods like a little clearing of some sort so no one can find him or on a beach somewhere.” Said Sirius yawning he knew he was going to end up falling asleep on James' couch again.

 

James laughed at that and then started naming of all kinds of goofy places Remus could be living and this went on until neither of them could think of places anymore.

Suddenly right when Sirius was almost asleep he heard James start laughing quite loudly, “ Hey Sirius,” said James in between spurts of laughter.

 

“ What?” asked Sirius grumpily he was almost asleep and he didn't like to be woken up when he was almost asleep.

 

When James could breath again he was able to tell Sirius what had made him laugh so hard.” Maybe Moony kidnapped Harry.” And it was so far fetched that Sirius had to laugh along with James who had started laughing almost hysterically again.

 

“ That's a good one James and maybe Snape will actually learn to be the opposite of a total grump one day.” Said Sirius snorting at the thought of Snape being total gentleman.

 

“ Hey Sirius what did you do earlier today when you snuck closer to the mansion?” asked James still curious about that and it had been bugging him all day he had just pushed it to the back of his mind after they had found the door or rather after Sirius had kicked the door.

 

“ Oh, that,” said Sirius grinning, “ well I left a nice trap for the next person to walk through the garden though I doubt it's going to work now with both of the people I was hoping it would go off on are in Azkaban.” He finished yawning.

 

James shook his head his friend was a bit crazy sometimes, well almost all the time “ so I wonder if your prank is going to get anyone at all?”

 

“ Probably not.” Said Sirius tiredness mixing in with his voice. He was tired and he was trying to fall asleep before James could ask another question and he had almost succeeded until…

 

“ Hey wait a second,” said James a few minutes later again awakening Sirius when he had almost been completely asleep. “ You have your own room why do you keep taking over my couch?” he asked not fully realizing until then that Sirius was still in his room.

 

Sirius however didn't feel like answering him, so merely groaned and threw a pillow at James' head in an answer and rolled over and started to snore a few seconds later.

 

James just shook his head at Sirius, sighed and fell asleep. Though thanks to Sirius or at least that's whom he was blaming it on. He had a dream about pirates who kept trying to steal his couch and every time he thought he had won his couch back another pirate would come to steal it, then at the end of the dream when he was almost sure that he had his couch back Sirius came and jumped on the couch instead and told him to go find another couch that this one was his.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was really funny and I'm glad I waited to update this until I got home because I read through the bottom part because I was writing this at midnight when I was almost drooling on the keyboard … And all the mistakes were actually quite funny and there weren't as many as I thought there where so… there's probably a few that I didn't catch so sorry if there is you can yell at me for it and I promise I'll try to fix it.

 

 

Okay so there are only two more chapters after this and then the Epilogue dang I've been

writing a lot lately and I'll probably have a piece from the prologue or chapter one from the next story I'll be working on called Rewritten after the epilogue. Also I'm still thinking about making a forum for my stories in case anyone wants to discuss them or ask questions so if you think that's a good idea then say so and if you don't like that idea then tell me that too.