Sirius Black ♥

Then they go home, snuggle up on the couch and Remus knitts a tiny sweater for Harrys next baby while Sirius watches him with a glass of mulled wine.

In the beginning of their third year, Sirius and James were as usual out of bed roaming around looking for more secret passages under the invisibility cloak. They come across an empty room at the corner of the seventh floor corridor. They go inside and find an unusually huge mirror in the middle of the room. They get curious and walk towards it and James immediately gets out of the cloak and looks at himself and he suddenly grins widely as he looks at himself holding Lily in his arms, in his house with two tiny children looking remarkably like him and Lily, and his parents standing behind him. “What’re you smiling like that for you idiot?” says Sirius smacking his head. “Merlin, Sirius this…this isn’t a normal mirror. I think it shows the future…Look, I am holding Lily and she is at my house, my house Sirius!” he replies smiling with his cheeks turning red. “You’ve gone mad mate. What are you sayi…..” Sirius replies and freezes as he looks at himself in the mirror. There he is standing and his mother hugging him and brushing his hair as his father smiles at him and puts a loving hand on his shoulder. “Sirius..Sirius..” James taps him on his shoulder “Why is your face like that?” Sirius immediately gulps before starting to laugh in an effort to hide his cracking voice. “Yo.. *laughs*..you and Evans?? and at your place? I don’t see it happening mate. Sorry” he says laughing. “Piss of Sirius! Anyway, we should go, its late” he says pulling his invisibilty cloak on both of them. On their way back James keeps talking about the possible things that the mirror could be, but Sirius is in his own thoughts because he knows..he knows what the mirror does.. A few days later they are back in the room but this time they are hiding from Filch. James goes and sits in front of the mirror trying to examine it. Sirius just stands infront of it because it warms his heart. Just looking at his parents like that..he craved for their touch, their love and affection…but he just stood there staring and trying to control his urge to go touch the mirror. “Ahem.. ” comes a voice from behind. Both of them jump and immediately remove their wands from their pajama pocket.  They see a pair of blue eyes staring back at them which belonged to none other than their very own headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Both of them were too shocked, so they started apologizing and rambling about how they were sleep walking and ended up in the seventh floor corridor and how they came in here when they heard filch. “Boys..” he said waving a hand at them to make them stop. Both of them became quiet and waited for the obvious punishment that was coming their way. They were shocked however when they heard their headmaster say, “I see you boys have taken a liking to this mirror and you can save your breath I know this is not your first time coming here” They were too shocked to respond so they just stared at their head master not knowing what to say. “Do you know what this mirror does boys?” asked Dumbledore. James shook his head but Sirius  mumbled a soft ‘yes’ “What does it do Mr Black?” asked Dumbledore as James turned to Sirius looking confused. “It shows you what you really want..” he replied. “You are quiet correct Mr Black. It shows you nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of your hearts.” James looked shocked and turned a slight shade of red. “However..” continued Dumbledore “this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible. So I request you boys not to come looking for it again. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ” Both of them immediately mumbled sorry and thank you to their headmaster before leaving the room and putting on the cloak once they were out. On the way James asked Sirius how he knew what the mirror did. “ A hunch” replied Sirius. Once they got back to their dorm they told Peter and Remus about their adventure and all about the mirror and everything that Dumbledore had told them. Remus and Peter just patted them on their backs and said, “Well, at least you did not get detention” They all laughed and then returned to their respective beds and lay quietly for sometime. A few minutes later James broke the silence. “Hey padfoot, what did you see in the mirror?” he asked. Sirius paused for a moment and replied in an airy tone saying, “Oh nothing, just that I became the quidditch captain and that I became the most popular guy in school"  All four of them started laughing but Remus and James somehow felt that maybe Sirius was lying. ~~~~~~~~~~~ A few months later all the Marauders walked into their DADA class all excited because they were finally learning about Boggarts and how to tackle them. As they walked into the class they noticed there were no benches and their professor was standing in the center with a huge crate which was slightly shaking.  “Settle down everybody” called their professor. Everybody became quiet and stood in a semi-circle and waited for their professor to speak.  “Today we are going to learn what Boggarts are and how to deal with them. Does anybody know what a Boggart is?” asked the professor. Two hands shot up, one of them was Lily’s and the other was Remus’s. The professor asked Remus to answer him. “A Boggart is a shape-shifting creature that will assume the form of whatever most frightens the person who encounters it. ” said Remus. “Correct Mr Lupin. Five points to Gryffindor” replied the professor and continued “A Boggart sitting in the darkness within has not yet assumed a form. He does not yet know what will frighten the person. Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears. "Now I want you all to repeat after me and say, RIDDIKULUS” “RIDDIKULUS” chanted the whole class. “This is a spell used against a Boggart. Now, when you use this spell, I want all of you to think of something funny while saying it. Say for example, the Boggart turns into a huge snake, think of something like silly string and say ‘RIDDIKULUS’ understood?” called the professor. “Yes sir” they all chanted again. “Good. Now make a line and remember, think of something funny.” said the professor. Everybody stood in the line and the marauders were leading it with James standing in front of everybody. “Good luck Prongs” called out the other three marauders. “I don’t need luck. This is a piece of cake.” He said and gave a sly smile. As the professor opened the crate a floating dead body appeared in front of James. When he looked at it his eyes widened and he flinched and almost fell to the ground but Sirius held him up and whispered, “It is just Boggart mate. Trust me. Just do the spell. Its just a Boggart.” As if realising what was happening James snapped out of his trance and did the spell and immediately the body turned into a dancing joker. “It was Mrs Potter” whispered Sirius to a confused Peter before stepping up. As soon as Sirius stepped up, the joker turned into Mrs Black who was yelling curses at him. The whole class became quiet and all their eyes were directed towards Sirius who went pale. He slowly raised his wand and yelled 'Riddikulus’ and the boggart took the appearance of a mime artist walking on a slippery floor. For the rest of the class James and Sirus stood quietly at one corner, not saying a word. Remus and Peter joined in after their turn. “You guys alright?” asked Remus. “Yeah” mumbled both the boys. That was their last class for the day so after that all four of them went to the Great hall and had their dinner. After which they decided to play some quidditch to cheer up James who was still a little shocked. Sirius got back to his normal self after he got out of the class (At least he pretended to). They played quidditch for four hours and returned to their dorms at 10. They all changed into their pajamas and went straight to bed. Sirius couldn’t sleep. He kept thinking of the Boggart and then he suddenly remembered about the mirror of erised. “…What the..” he thought to himself. After a while he said “Guys..” in a very low voice. To his surprise all the three marauders replied saying “Yeah?” “Erm…wh..what if um someone’s boggart is the same thing they see in the mirror of erised…?” he almost whispered the last word. “Padfoot..that someone must be messed up..” said Peter as if trying to think how it was possible. “Mmm” replied Sirius. “Pads, are you hiding something from us?” said Remus with a tone of concern in his voice. “What?..oh no nothing. Let’s sleep.” replied Sirius. “Pads…” James said almost in a pleading tone looking up to Remus for help from his bed cause he knew something was wrong. “Good night” Sirius said stiffly and pulled his sheets over his head. Remus and James looked at each other not knowing what to do. Remus mouthed 'tomorrow’ to James and he nodded and both of them fell asleep. Sirius however didn’t. He whispered, “I am messed up.” to himself before falling asleep crying.

it would occur to him later to invite harry over for tea and snacks.