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August 1994
Harry’s POV
After much convincing, Dumbledore allowed Harry to spend his last month of summer with Sirius at Grimmauld place. He had agreed to help Sirius and Remus clean the place up since no one had touched the place in what looked like decades.
He’d been really bored and Sirius really wanted to get out of there. And there wasn’t much to do, especially since every time he turned an corner he’d her some old portrait, screaming at him to get out. But it was better then being with the Dursley’s, though anything was really.
Harry entered the dining area to see Sirius and Remus sitting Across from each other from the middle of the dining table. I sat down next to Remus who was drinking a cup of coffee while listening to Sirius whine about how much he dislikes the place.
“Hey, ya think the wards still recognize me?” Sirius says while lifting his head off the hand it was resting on
“What do you mean? What wards?” I spoke curiously.
“You know the wards that keep anyone who’s not invited in out unless your a black”Sirius said then he spoke again “I haven’t actually tried it yet, I mean I wondered but I never tried it, figured the ward they placed to keep me in here would counteract the one that Allows me to leave.” He says as he gets up and starts walking towards the door.
“Sirius!” Remus says as he gets up to fallow Sirius, I get up as well “Sirius come back here”
“You know moony you can be a real buzz kill sometimes” he says as he turns his head a bit but doesn’t stop walking.
Sirius gets to the front door before he stops and takes a deep breath”Ok, here goes nothin” he opens the door
“Siri-“Remus got cut off when Sirius steps out side the door “oh, oh my god, it worked, it actually worked, I didn’t think it would, I mean I hoped it would but there was like a big chance they wouldn’t” Sirius said excitingly, he was finally free from the confines of the place he hated the most.
“Sirius Damnit” Remus spoke
“Let’s go boys, there’s something I need to show harry” Sirius said as he started walking back into the house.
“What? Where are you going? And show me what?” I say I as I start walking after Sirius
“Where going out back, I think there a port key out there somewhere, and I intend on finding it” Sirius said as he got to the back door.
“Ok? But where are you taking us?” I ask
“Well harry, your birthday was last month and since I wasn’t able to get you anything because I was trapped here, I’m going to take you somewhere that I think you need to see. After all it will be yours some day, and as far as I know, you no nothing about it.”
He says ominously
“Pads I don’t think this is a good idea, I mean what if the ministry sees you? You’ll be sent back to Azkaban” Remus chimes in
“It’ll be fine Moony they won’t know. Aha! Found it.” Sirius says as he places his Hand on a rubber ducky that was punctured through at the bottom and was stuck to one of the bars on the metal fence.
“Ok boys, grab on to me.” He says and I do and after a moment Remus agrees.
“Fine.” Remus said, Sirius smirked.
“All right, let’s get this show on the road” Sirius said as he called out the place wanted to go. I’m not quite sure if he said what I thought he said or not because as soon as he spoke we where gone.
We landed in and empty field there was nothin to see for miles
“Where the hell are we?” I asked
“It’s just up this way follow me” we start walking and after what felt like forever we made our way up to this really big house we walked around and there was these big black gate.
“What is this place?” I asked in awe
Sirius answered with”This is potter manor, where your dad grow up and where I moved to after I ran away from home” he looked up at the house with so much emotion I looked down a bit and saw he and Lupin where holding hands. Where they together? Honestly I don’t know how I didn’t notice, it makes so much since.
But I decided not to mention it. Instead I said” so this was my dads home…” I asked, but it was really a question.
“Yep, and your the only one who can get in. So hop to it kiddo” Sirius said making a shoeing motion with his free hand aiming it towards the gate
I walk up towards the gate and I place my hand in the middle. It takes a second before it starts to open.
I look back and I see Sirius Grip Remus’s hand tighter, I look and smile, Sirius looked down and let’s go of Remus’s had but I just turn and start walking through the gates.
After a moment I hear footsteps following me through. Once I get through I start looking around, there are still flowers in the gardens and fruits and vegetables. Large neatly trimmed bushes.
The manor is self is yellow on the exterior. It’s bright and beautiful, I can’t help but gawk at its beauty. I can’t believe that when I’m 18 this will be mine.
Once I made it to the front door I whisper and unlocking charm and the door creeks open. There’s a startled scream and then I hears some scurrying around.
“What? What the hell was that?!?!” I said as l started pointing my wand around.
“Calm down!” Sirius says as he pushes past me
“Girly, hey it’s me Sirius” he said
“Who’s girly?” I asked
“She’s one of the Potter’s house elves, there’s two girly and gully. But gully don’t occupy this wing of the manor, so chances are he probably didn’t hear you, plus he’s old” Remus said fondly
“They have house elves?” I asked
“Well yes, this is a manor after all, who else would take care of the place” Remus said
After a minute a house elf with a pink bow clipped to her ear approached out from behind a corner.
“Ma-master Sirius is that you?” She said weekly and a little scared.
“Yea it’s me, and I’ve brought Remus with me too” He said softly as to not scare her
“H-how did you get in?” She asked.
“Yes we’ll that’s the reason I’m here. This”he says as he makes he’s way over to Harry.” Is Harry Potter, James’s boy. I’m here to show him the place since he’ll be properly living hear soon. And so he can learn more about his parents.” Sirius said with a smile.
“Oh really?!” She says” welcome master Harry! Do you want something to eat? or-or perhaps drink? I can make you some tea”she says frantically
Sirius chimes in”can you make me and Moony here some tea? Let’s let Harry here explore a bit” Sirius says with a wink like he could tell Harry was uncomfortable.
“Y-yea r-right away master Sirius!” Girlly spoke as she ran of to the kitchen.
Harry made his way up the stairs taking note of every bump and scrape on the walls. The house was beautiful and quiet, he could tell that this place was never supposed to be quiet.
There where many rooms in the manor, but one inparticular stood out. It was a dark wood colored door, the very last door down that hall way, it had a Gryffindor quidditch poster stuck to it, and Harry new immediately that it was his father’s.
Harry slowly opened the door to the room, he peeked his head inside before opening it completely.
The room was different then what he thought it would be, though he really hadn’t thought about it, it was just different. There was a bed a wardrobe and a desk. There was Gryffindor Quidditch memorabilia hung on the walls, and other things James had used to show house pride, there was homework and other papers thrown about on the desk. The bed was made in dark red satin sheets with matching pillowcases. The wardrobe is open clothes hanging out. And in an open dresser drawer was a photo album similar to the one he had been given by Hagrid in his first year.
Inside he saw some pictures who he could only guess where the Marauders. There was James, Sirius, Remus, and Petter all standing in front of HoneyDukes. They looked young, Harry could only guess that this was there first Hogsmeade trip together.
He started flipping through the pages of the photo album, he couldn’t help but smile to himself, they looked so lively and happy. He didn’t start crying until he saw a photo of his mom and dad, it was a photo that was taken the day his father asked his mom out and she finally said yes well according to what the text off the side of the picture said, in the photo his dad had tears in his eyes and his mom was just smiling, she mouthed idiot and the people around them stared laughing. He was so caught up in the moment that he wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing, and when his foot it the desk, a cup of quills started to fall. Harry reached up to catch the cup, but when he did the album fell and the photo of his parents fell out and slid under the bed behind him.
He caught the cup and sat it down on the desk again before he whispered “shit” and lend over to pick it up.
At first he didn’t see it, so he flipped over on his stomach so he could see better. When he did he grab the photo with his one hand before he saw a colorful shoe box. “Huh?” He said as he grabbed the shoe box.
He flipped back around on his butt before he sat the photo on top of the photo album and sat the both of them on the bed. He sat back down on the floor before he opened the shoe box. On the top is a video camera, and Harry almost starts crying all over again. He opens up the view side and turns it on, clicking on the first video that pops up.
April 5 1976
The video starts of in the Hogwarts library. The camera is pointed at a man in a Slytherin uniform, who doesn’t seem to know he’s being filmed. The unknown man sits at a table in the back of the library. The video seems to be filmed from in between the books on the bookcase in front of the other boy.
“I fell you lurking.” The man says
“I don’t know what your talking about.” James says fondly.
“Are you filming me on that awful muggle contraption again?” The man say accusingly
“what? No, I would never betray your trust like that” James say with false offense in his tone.
“Jamesss” the other boy pouted.
“Fineeee” James says as he made his way from around the corner
“I knew it, You where filming me.” The boy said
“Yes I’m sorry but you deleted my last video of you and I just wanted to be able to look at you whenever I wanted” James said pout obvious in his tone.
“Yea I deleted it because what if one of your friends saw it? Then what?” He said slightly annoyed.
“They wouldn't, swear, they don’t even know I have one!” James said confidently
“What ever James” the Slytherin boy rolled his eyes.
“Oh come on Reggie don’t be like that” James pouts.
once again Harry feels confused as he watches the interaction between the two. Why did they act like that towards one another. They where like almost friends? Or something. It didn’t make sense but what really caught his attention was the next part of the conversation.
James holds the camera to the side of his person so that you could see a little bit of James expression but not very well.
"Don't call me that," the other boy mutters, though there's no real anger present. In the corner of the camera James smiles.
“Aww what about…?” He says as he taps his finger against his chin, like he was in deep thought, and then he said”Oh I got it, what about, Reggikins?”James says playfully”
“Oh god no” the other man says as he puts his face in his hands and runs them through his hair”that's even worse” he says as he looks back up at James with a small blush on his face.
“Why? Is it because Sirius calls you that” his dad said with a fond smile on his face.
Wait what? Harry thought, Sirius knows this guy? Maybe I can ask him about it later.
“Yes, that’s exactly why” the other male said with a half frown on his face.
James pics up the camera and whips it around to his left before he gets up really close and says.
“Come on Reg,”James coos” you don’t want me to call you by your name all the time do you” James says teasingly” it’s so long and impractical.
“No,”
“No what,”
“I don’t want you to use my full name all the time. Everyone uses my name, I want you to call me something special, something that’s only for us.” The Slytherin boy said Shyly.
“Something special huh?” James says as he once again taps his chin as though he was in deep thought”then If that’s the case I’ll never run out of names for you love,” James smirks, now getting really close to the other boy.
“Good,” the boy whispers
“Good,” James whispers seductively as he leans in and places his lips against the other boys, soft and delicate like.
“I look forward to hearing them all.” The boy said with with a grin.
“Tu en entendras autant que tu voudras ma belle” James says in almost perfect French but that seemed to be enough for he other boy to pull James back in for another kiss.
The video ends…..
Harry had a lot of questions, a lot of questions. His mind is reeling with this new information and he didn’t no whether to do sit there and pretend like it had never happened or to go downstairs and ask Sirius what the actual fuck he just witnessed.
He didn’t know what to do it’s not just the fact that he’s dad was getting it up with a dude in is Hogwarts days, but the fact Sirius knew who they guy was, and yet everyone has always talked about the “one in a million, destined to be, once in a lifetime” love that my mom and dad had.
And now he’s just confused, where did this guy fit? Who was he? And why hadn’t I heard of him before?
After a while I decided to grab the camera and make my way down the stairs.
Harry makes his way down the stairs hesitant at first not sure if he should do this or not. But his impending curiosity outweighed any of the possible consequences that could come from this next course of action.
As he made his way down the stairs he saw Sirius and Remus sitting together talking quietly while drinking tea.
Sirius had his hand resting on Remus’s upper thigh and was sitting as close to him as the the to barstool’s sitting across each other would allow them too.
Seriously how Harry hadn’t noticed the twos relationship before, was proof enough as to why he wasn’t in Ravenclaw.
Harry clears his throat softly, gaining the attention of the two older men. Immediately they move away from each other, turning their bodies away and looking around awkwardly. Harry internally huffs. Subtle, he thought.
“Sorry,” he starts, shifting slightly, “I didn’t mean to interrupt.” Sirius waves him off, and Remus just shakes his head”You aren’t interrupting anything. Come have a seat.” Sirius said pointing to the stole across from him and Remus” so uh kid ya want something to drink? Girly made tea.” Sirius stands to get him a cup, not really caring for an answer.
Remus looks at the camera in his hands as Harry sits, his eyebrows furrowing as he takes in the object. “Is that a video camera?” Remus asks, “Where did you get that?” Harry glances at the object in his hands and shrugs.
“It was my dads, I found it in an old shoe box under his bed” I said as I flipped the camera around in my hand rubbing my thumb over some scribbled words at the bottom of the camera.
“It can’t be, Prongs didn’t have a video camera. If he did he surely would have showed me.” Sirius said matter of factly.
“That’s probably why he didn’t. Knew you would probably nic it from him” Remus said With a smirk on his face.
“Shut up moony” Sirius retorts “Well this says he does” I say as I flip the bottom of the video camera around so I could show Remus and Sirius.
Etched into the bottom was Property of James potter
Sirius takes the camera out of Harry’s hand, and looks at it incredulously. ”But really though, why would he keep something like this from us?” Remus shrugs, gently taking the camera out of Sirius’ hands and turning it on.
“Well how about we find out” Remus says
“That’s kinda why I came down here,”I spoke”I watched the first video on there, it was of my dad and some guy I don’t know. I don’t recognize him from anywhere” Sirius and Remus just looked at each other suspiciously but seemed to know what each other was thinking about. I just rolled my eyes, tired of them doing that and me not understanding.
Remus clicks on the first video, the same one Harry was watching just a few minutes ago.
The sound filters through the room, progressively getting louder as Remus turns the volume up as high as it can go.
“I can feel you lurking”
“Merlin’s balls” Remus said shocked
“I don’t know what your talking about.”
“What the fuck?” Sirius barely croak’s out as he stares wide eyed at the small screen in front of him.
“Are you filming me on that awful muggle contraption again?”
“What? Do you too know who that is?” He asks, but the two older men hadn’t seemed to hear him, both frozen in shock.
“what? No, I would never betray your trust like that”
“Jamesss.”
“Holy shit, like what the fuck” Sirius said. He was screaming now and Harry was at a lost for words. He had never seen his godfather like that before, it was so out of character for him, and now Harry more then ever wants to know who the hell the other guy was.
“Fineeee,”
“I knew it, you were filming me,”
“Yes I’m sorry but you deleted my last video of you and I just wanted to be able to look at you whenever I wanted”
“So what? this is something James did regularly? Go around and take videos of my little brother?” Sirius says angrily.
And that’s when it hits him. Reggie, as in Regulus black, and now it makes since as to why Regulus didn’t want James to film them, and why he said that he didn’t wand James’s friends to see the videos.
“Your brother?” I shout
“Oh fuck” I mumble under my breath, but Sirius still heard it.
“What oh fuck?” He said
“Nothin, I just think that maybe me bringing the camera down here was a bad idea, it just bringing up bad memories, so I should probably just take it back upstairs.” I spoke Nervously as I tried to defuse the situation. I reached my arms out for the camera but Sirius just snatched it back.
“No, your trying to hide something, but I won’t let you.” He said as he went back watching the video, having Remus rewind a-bit after having been Sidetracked.
“I don’t want you to use my full name all the time. Everyone uses my name, I want you to call me something special, something that’s only for us.”
“Something special huh? then If that’s the case I’ll never run out of names for you love,”
“Good,”
“Good,”
Their about to kiss, Harry knows and he knows they know, the tension in the room was suffocating. And he could barely take the silence, and the only sound was coming from the camera
“I look forward to hearing them all.”
“Tu en entendras autant que tu voudras ma belle”
“Since when did James know French?” Remus said trying to lighten the mood, but it did little to help Sirius as his eyes were becoming glassy.
Sirius shook his head and cleared his throat”Well then, let’s see what else is on this thing.” He says as he starts mashing buttons trying to figure how to work it.
“Sirius…”Remus started, but Sirius wasn’t having it.
“No Moony it’s ok, just put on the next video would you?” Sirius asked
Harry started moving towards them as Remus took the camera from Sirius.
“I only watched the first video so I’m coming over here.” I sad as I moved my chair in between the two of them.
The next video…
It starts of in a forest, which Harry knows is the for bidden forest. James has the camera set up as he holds Regulus’s hand. Regulus is trying to balance on a large wooden log and James is helping him walk.
“Come Reg you can do, just a little further.” James says trying to encourage the other.
“Shut up James, I’m trying to concentrate.” He says as he walks on food in front of the other.
“Almost, almost al-“they get to the end but then Regulus stumbles and starts to fall.
“Shit”Regulus says. But James catches him and he lands in James arms
“Got you falling for me all over again.” James says with a smirk on his face
“Shut up.” Regulus turns his head to try and cover up his blush as he wiggles out of James’s grasp.
“Cute.” James whispers with a smile as he picks up the camera.
“Never knew he could do that.” Sirius said
“Do what? Walk across a log?” Harry said jokingly
“No,” Sirius said as he rolled his eyes.
“Never knew he could be human.” Sirius said like it was the most obvious statement in the world, and Harry decided he didn’t want to press that topic for much longer.
Next thing they see after having been talking and not paying attention, they see Regulus and James laying on a blanket in front of the camera.
“Tu es beau aujourd'hui” regulus said
“Tu es beau aujiuforhah” James said clearly struggling.
“No idiot it’s •Tu es beau aujourd'hui•” he said and then repeated
“Ok say it with me now” regulus said
“Tu a”
“Tu a” James mimics
“Boy”
“Boy”
“Jord”
“Jord”
“We”
“We”
“All together now tu es beau aujourd'hui“
“Tu es beau aujourd'hui” James says rudely but better then last time.
“You did it!” Regulus said looking up at him with a smile”
“Yeah I did, thank you” James says as he bends his head down in order to give Regulus a kiss on the forehead.
Regulus pushed his head into James chest trying to hide his face.
“I love you” James said
“Je t'aime à toi stupide idiot” Regulus said his face burning hot.
Video over
*Authors note, hi everyone, I just wanted to Say that this was originally supposed to be a Oneshot but I started losing motivation and I and if I don’t post this it’s gonna delete it’s self soon. But don’t worry I’m not abandoning this fic. I just didn’t like the pressure of having to have a deadline, so this with probably have only 2 chapters, 3 at the most, so that I don’t have to keep you waiting to long. So yeah byeee.* Oh p.s. sorry for any grammatical or punctuation errors, I tried asking Chatgpd to fix my grammar and punctuation errors, but it all it did was change Emmy story completely and it was pissing me off, so I just left it as is.