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Second Time Around	By : gypsysue Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 16157 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 13
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The Minister of Helpfulness

"Do you know what you are doing?" Sirius asked as he watched the Minister and the Head of the Auror department disappeared into the pensive. Sirius was still shaking from the memories of his beloved godsons life. And he knew, after watching those memories and realising that the Malfoy's and Severus had saved him, that he owned them everything.

"Yes, Cornelius has always been onside but he is a bit, shall we say.." Lucius was cut off by Severus' "he is a coward, Lucius just say it." Lucius smirked at his friend, before continuing.

"Well yes, that would be the word for it, and as you saw in the future, he was a hindrance to us all with his refusal to believe Voldermort was back," at the mention of the Dark Lord's name, no-one in the room shuddered or made a sound. They had been using that name for a long time now, since they had travelled back in time

"We need him to listen, shut up and do as we say. He will be easier to handle when the truth is laid out for him, besides, he has always wanted to get at Dumbledore, now he can." Lucius finished.

"We really have to do something about that Umbridge woman, too," Narcissa said, her face scrunched up in distaste, "If she lays one finger on Harry." Narcissa even startled herself with the venom in her voice, even as she clutched the child closer to her.

"We have a lot to make right when it comes to the child," Severus stated.

"The first thing we must do is start to find all the Horcrux', maybe if we can find them before the Tri Wizard Tournament, which we must not let Harry be entered into, we can stop Voldermort from being resurrected at all." Sirius said, as he ran a hand through Harry's hair. The boy had fallen back to sleep in Narcissa's arms.

"Dobby should be taking Master and putting him to bed, Master is being needing his rest, Miss." Dobby said as he took his Master Harry from the Miss. "Dobby be putting Master Harry in the nursery with Master Draco he will," and he disappeared with a pop before anyone could say anything.

"Well, I dare say that Harry is in very good hands," came a voice from off to the side. All four occupants of the room spun around and watched as Amelia helped keep Cornelius from collapsing on the floor, her own face ashen from what she had just viewed in the pensive.

Cornelius looked up at everybody, his face held a greenish tint, and as he went to open his mouth to speak, he vomited. And for once in his life, he did not care that he had done such an embarrassing thing in front of these people. What he had just witnessed, he couldn't even begin to explain how vile it was, how utterly disgraceful. To use a child in such a way, to almost seem to encourage such actions.

To say the Minister was sickened and absolutely livid was an understatement. He wanted heads on sticks, he wanted revenge for that poor child, he wanted to get his hands on all the people who had caused that child pain and he wanted to inflicted it twice as bad.

The occupants of the room were stunned as Cornelius, the man they all thought to be a coward and weak, stood tall and firm. He banished the mess he made, cleaned himself up and faced the room, his eyes hardening as the memories played in the background of his mind.

"What ever needs to be done, consider it done," he stated firmly. "And this time around, when you tell me that Voldermort," he shuddered slightly at the name, even out of his own mouth, "has risen, I will declare it so. When you have a clear plan and use of me, all you need to do is say, and I will make it so. I only wish I could go after Dumbledore, but he has so far done nothing wrong." He then turned to Amelia, "Miss Bones, get all the paperwork filed for Sirius Black to become the adopted father of Harry Potter, make sure his name is cleared of any charges Dumbledore would try to pin on him, make Harry untouchable to that man. Do what ever it takes. Amelia will be back shortly with all the documentation, it will be pushed through, fast."

Everyone in the room was overwhelmed with the power that the Minister was radiating. 'Yes,' Lucius thought, 'he will be a great asset.' "Now if you will excuse me, I have an Under Secretary to fire," Cornelius finished, and he lead Amelia to the fire place and Flooed back to the Ministry.

"Well," Sirius, said, "I guess that was a good move. But I have one more person to track down."

"Ah yes, the werewolf," Severus sneered, "do try to keep him from attacking me this time, I've already avoided it this time around." At Sirius blank stare, Severus filled him in on the other time line where Sirius had set it up for Lupin to attack Severus and only James Potter had saved Severus' life. "At least I don't owe the man a life debt in this time line," Severus mused out loud.

Severus had changed a lot of things in his past, including the Mudblood incident, and he had managed to escape a lot of the pranks the Marauders tried to pull on him. "I always wondered how you, all of a sudden started to avoid our pranks," Sirius said, chuckling to himself, "well done Severus, well done indeed."

Severus smirked at the man, he had, had a lot of fun beating the Marauders at their own game, it had certainly made up for some of the pains from his past life. And at least he and Lily had been friends when she had died this time around. He always had that to cling on to.

"We have been keeping track of Lupin, as we knew he would be needed, but we did not dare approach him, without you. We must wait, once the papers are all done, I will leak it to the Daily Prophet, and then we can seek out Lupin," Lucius said. "For now all we can do, is wait."

Sirius looked at the clock on the Mantle and sighed, it was four in the morning, and he knew Harry would be waking up soon. "I would like to go sit with Harry, if that's okay, and we can discuss the rest in the morning. There is already so much that needs to sink in."

"That would be fine, I think we should all get some rest." Lucius said. "Severus you are welcome to your usual room," at Severus' slight nod, Lucius called Pipsy.

"How can Pipsy be serving you Master," the elf said bowing low.

"Can you show Severus to his usual room and let me know the minute someone Floo calls." Lucius said.

"Yes Master Malfoy sir," the elf said and turned to Severus, "this way Misters Snape."

Lucius chuckled at Severus' disgruntled look, before calling for Dobby and hoping the little elf would answer.

"Mister be calling for Dobby?" the little elf asked, "what can Dobby be doing for the kind sirs that is helping to look after Dobby's Master."

Lucius smiled at this, and answered, "could you please take Sirius Black, soon to be adopted father of Harry Potter, to the nursery, make sure the sofa bed is set up in there, in case he needs to sleep, if you would."

"Yes, sirs, Dobby been glad to help Master Harry Potters family sirs," and with that he took hold of Sirius and popped him into the nursery. "Dobby just be putting Master back to sleep, after Master had a terrible nightmare, he did. Dobby is chasing away the bad dreams of the bad mans that tried to kill his Master," the elf said as he pulled the blankets more firmly around his Master and tucked him in, pushing his hair off of his forehead.

"Curse scar," Sirius said as he noticed the lightening bolt shaped scar on Harry's head, and cringed. There was no getting rid of a curse scar.

"Dobby be hearing sirs and ma'am says, a part of the bad mans was in the scar, sirs, but sirs Malfoy got it out with the souls stone." Dobby said matter of factly as he continued to watch over his Master. "Dobby would have gotten it out, if sirs Malfoy had not, by going to the Goblins, he would have."

Sirius listened to the elf talk all the while wondering how he had ever trusted Albus Dumbledore, when they man had not only let his god son be abused, but had made sure Sirius had gone to jail so he could do so, and also left a part of Voldermort himself inside Harry. He needed Remus, and soon, as much as he was trusting the Malfoy's and Snape, there was still a part of him that needed someone else who was close to James and Lily, someone he could morn with and share all the secrets of them to Harry with. Someone to help him raise Harry, along with the Malfoy's and Snape.

For if he was sure of anything, it was that those three were to be a permanent fixture in his life now, and he could not argue that, nor would he stop it, because if it wasn't for those three, he would not be here, watching over Harry. He was still having trouble with the thought that he had abandoned little Harry and gone after that rat instead. His own selfish actions had a hand in what Dumbledore had put his god son through.

And to make matters worse he was going to repeat that mistake again. If it hadn't been for Lucius grabbing him, he was sure he would have. Remus had always told him he needed to think before he acted. Always told him, it was time to grow up and take on responsibility, but he had not listened, he had just run off like the stupid Gryffindor he was. It was then and there he decided that Harry needed to be more than that, he needed to be smart and cunning. He needed to be a Ravenclaw or, and Sirius gulped as the thought ran through his head, a Slytherin.

But he would do anything to keep Harry's past from repeating itself. Even if that meant bringing out the boys Slytherin side. All he knew for sure was that he had to protect Harry from Albus.

Sirius must have drifted off, because the next thing he knew, an elf was shaking him awake, "Misters Black must be waking up sirs, Master needs you down stairs," the little elf squeaked.

"I'm up, I'm up." Sirius grumbled, "what time is it?"

"It's being nine in the morning sirs," the elf said, "you are to be having fresh clothes in the bathroom, sirs, for you to freshen up. Just be calling Numsy, when you is being finished sir and Numsy will be taking you to Master Malfoy, sirs." The elf was just about to pop away when Sirius said, "wait, where is Harry?"

"Misters Harry is being with Master Draco and Dobby, sirs," the elf replied and popped away before Sirius could ask anything else. Sirius proceeded to shower and change as quickly as possible and then called for the elf, and was lead down to the same room they were in the night before.

"Ah, Sirius, so glad you could join us," Lucius said, "would you care for some tea? How about some food?" he asked.

"Some tea would be wonderful," Sirius said, "and I wouldn't say no to something to eat," he added. "where is Harry?"

"Harry and Draco are in the playroom, Sirius. Dobby is watching over them like a hawk, no need to worry." Narcissa said and then smiled sadly, "Harry asked for his mama," she added, her eyes glistening.

"We will make sure he has a wonderful childhood, dear," Lucius said as he grabbed hold of his wife's hand and squeezed it reassuringly. She nodded to him, and turned back to Sirius.

"You should have heard them earlier, Sirius," Narcissa said her face lighting up with joy, "they were playing and laughing. Harry makes the cutest giggling sounds." Sirius smiled at the way his cousin was describing Harry. He remembered all too well that excited giggle he would make when he was enjoying himself. Sirius himself had often been the cause for that wonderful noise as he played with Harry as Padfoot.

He grinned at the thought of turning into Padfoot for Harry later, and listening to him giggle and try to pronounce his name only to say, 'Pafoo.' Sirius was brought out of his musing by the pop of the house elf, who delivered his tea and breakfast, and he tucked in while Lucius informed him of what was going on.

"We told Dobby to let you sleep, you looked exhausted, you still do," Lucius said, and continued on before Sirius could interrupt, "Cornelius Flooed us earlier, to let us know that Amelia was just finishing the last of the paperwork and would be by shortly to get your signature on a few documents, before they are officially filed. Apparently Dumbledore has been making a scene at the Ministry demanding your arrest and for Harry Potter to be given to his rightful relatives, the Dursleys." They all scowled at this information.

"Cornelius, much smarter than I gave him credit for that man," Lucius mused before getting to the point, "had the foresight to send a couple of Auror's to Number 4 and asked the Dursely's if they would want to raise Harry, to which they slammed the door in their faces after stating, "we don't want anything to do with that freak, or any of you freaks." Lucius said.

"Why would he need to do that, the Potter Will would be all that was needed," Lucius raised his hand to cut in.

"Yes, we know, but Cornelius wanted to cover every basis. Albus was trying to block the reading of the Will, it was one of the reasons he was anxious to see Cornelius last night. But the Will will be executed the minute all your paperwork goes through, to clear your name. Then it will be just a matter of hearing the Will and finalising the adoption paperwork. That is, if you still want to?"

"Of course I want to. Though I will still have to figure out where we will live, I don't think my mothers house will be fit, probably the best bet will be Potter Manor, or one of the other smaller houses..." Sirius stopped at the looks on the Malfoy's faces, "what?"

"Are you telling me, that Harry Potter, had money and property?" Lucius asked his voice scathing. At that moment Severus came through the Floo and started at the tension in the room.

"What's going on?" he asked, "are Harry and Draco alright?"

"Yes, but it seems that Harry Potter was more than just abused, he was cheated out of his inheritance." Lucius said, his face twisted in disgust.

"What inheritance?" Severus asked, "Albus said Harry only had the one vault that his parents left him, there was a fair amount of gold in there, enough to last him a while."

"What?" Sirius exclaimed, "are you telling me that I was so far gone, I never said anything about Harry's inheritance? I spoke to him about living with me, I saw it in the memories...ohhh I never said where, which means, what happened to the Will the last time, and all of Harry's possessions?"

"My guess would be Dumbledore," Severus said, "I always wondered where he got all the money to fund his activities, he was not a well off man. Now I guess not only did he leave Harry to rot, he used his money too."

"I will kill that bastard," Sirius said as he jumped up from his seat. Again he was cut off by the Floo flaring to life and Amelia stepping through.

"Amelia, welcome, would you like some tea, you look exhausted." Narcissa said as she offered the woman a chair.

"Yes please, I would kill for some tea," she said as she took a seat and then accepted a cup. She took a long sip and sighed as the warm liquid ran down her throat. "Bliss," she said. "Okay, Sirius, I just need you to sign these papers, where the X is." Amelia handed the papers over and continued to sip her tea, while Sirius read and signed the papers, once he was finished the papers disappeared with a small pop.

"That's that, you are now a free man, the Goblins would have been alerted as soon as the paperwork was filed and if I'm not mistaken, you should be hearing from them very soon about the reading of the Will. Cornelius himself went and had a private word with the head Goblin, to make sure it was done post hast." She smiled to herself, finally glad that the Minister was stepping up and doing his job.

"Excellent," Lucius said. "Now we can start fixing all the mistakes of the past."
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