Harry Potter: A Different Sirius

"I've done that. I did mine at school and had everything shipshape except on the place were his soul left it's mark. At the start of December I started with that place. I felt for the least disturbing room to sort, I had a wake up gasping nightmare that night. Since then I've only worked on it when I've been here at home. He's sick insane. His real name isn't Voldemort it's Riddle. He likes Black magic, blood magic, sex magic mostly non consensual, and necromancy. He wants to cause a maximum of fear and pain from everyone around him in some sort of twisted revenge.

"When I sort the actual memories I can stay a little bit detached, but they're so horrible that when I go to sleep they give me nightmares. How am I going to do this Sirius? The burned out building is the biggest one in my mind scape and I've only managed eighteen rooms in a month. That's just a floors worth and the building is like the Empire State Building."

"Crap kiddo. Why didn't you tell me before? You shouldn't have to deal with this on your own."

"Yeah but everyone is so busy and the babies…"

"You are every bit as important to me as they are. I'm dismayed that you doubt that for even one second. Tell you what. I'm going to go back and get my wand to clean this up," he gestured to the mess on the floor, "You take a warm shower and clean yourself up. Then we'll talk okay."

"kay."

Sirius limped to his room to grab his wand. As he passed the potions room that doubled as Harry's darkroom he grabbed a dreamless sleep potion for Harry after they talked. He got back to Harry's room and grabbed a fresh set of p.j.s for Harry from the bureau drawer; before stepping back into the bathroom and waving his wand for the mess on the floor. Harry was drying off so Sirius stepped back into the bedroom and thought about what to tell Harry.

A few minutes later Harry stepped out. "Thanks for the p.j.s."

"How many nightmares Harry?" Sirius beckoned him back to his bed.

" A couple while I was gone. Almost every night since I got back from Italy, the dreamcatcher has helped a bit. But I've been trying to sort most nights too."

"How often have you been sick like this?"

"Twice."

"Harry I have never expected you to work through those memories alone. It's dangerous and a risk I don't want you taking by yourself. Promise you won't go it alone again?"

Harry gave him an uncertain look.

"I love you kiddo and I don't want anything to happen to you, 'sides what would James, Elizabeth, and Lila do without their big brother to show them the ropes."

"Alright I promise."

"So what has he done in the memories?"

"He grew up in an mundane orphanage in London. He hurts the other kids and scares them and the woman who runs the place, and the staff that helps there. Mostly petty stuff but he is cold, calculating, cruel and manipulative: for example he killed another boy's pet rabbit and stolen stuff from other kids. From the clothes people are wearing in his memories it's probably the late1930's or early 40's. He's been to Hogwarts it's his third year and he has started experimenting with the dark arts. He's killed a Hufflepuff girl's familiar for slighting him. He didn't kill it quick, he tortured it slowly using spells." Suddenly Harry bolted back to the bathroom where once more the sounds of retching were heard. It was over quickly. Harry didn't have much left to bring up Sirius listened as Harry brushed his teeth, washed his face and came back to the bedroom. "Sorry."

"Don't be, it speaks well of you that such things sicken you." Sirius knew it was the torture aspect that bothered Harry. Harry had shown a cast iron stomach while prepping potion ingredients including the ones that regularly caused Sirius' stomach to turn, and they had hunted for food while on a weekend camping trip in Montana. Harry had both killed and butchered animals before eating them afterward but that was different and Sirius knew it. He tucked Harry in again. "I'll get a notebook so we can keep track of the things you learn about him. late1930's would explain the use of dark arts at Hogwarts not being noticed. Armando Dippet was Headmaster then and he had been a protege of Phineas Nigellus Black my great great grandfather a true black Black. When Dumbledore took over he cut the dark arts and limited it to defense against dark arts."

"It's hard to defend against something you've never seen."

"Agreed. That's one reason I have you taking defense with the WIS trainers."

Sheba jumped up and draped herself across Harry's lap. Sirius smiled at the mostly grown kitten, "Your goofy cat woke me up." Her ears flatten and her eyes narrowed as she looked at him. Sirius could read the displeasure in her attitude. Back to why she brought him here. "Harry I can't tell you not to be sickened by the stuff you're seeing. It's got to be hellish to be seeing shit like that in your own mind. But you didn't do it Moldyshorts did, you may have the memories from a first person point of view but you aren't the one who did those things. Here's a dose of dreamless sleep. I think you need sleep, tomorrow we'll get George and talk about this set some guidelines so you aren't alone in this. I'm really sorry I didn't notice before it got this bad."

"Tidak apa-apa." Harry said after he drank the vial of dreamless sleep. [it's okay] He yawned and the green eyes drifted closed.

Beth was concerned when Harry was still asleep at noon the next day until Sirius told her what had happened. "What are we going to do? I feel guilty because you've been so busy helping me with the triplets, and he has too, and I didn't even notice."

"I know the feeling. I need to talk to George. I hope between the three of us we can work out how to handle things. I think at the very least we need to set strict limits on him doing it by himself. How am I going to do it Beth? How am I going to have him ready in a year and nine months?"

"What does he need to know and how can we teach him?"

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