Return pt.2
The next morning was tense, to say the least. Harry watched everyone in silence, while those who had already been around treated him as normal his parents would treat him like a glass doll. It began to get on Harry's nerves when they wouldn't look him in the eyes.
"Hey Harry, Nina's got the mail," Eva called as she turned to stove off.
"Sure thing," He nodded and grabbed some owl treats. Nina had been Eva's owl since she was 15, Sirius' last gift to her before the incident.
The owl had three letters in her beak. One from Molly, one from the Ministry, and one from Hogwarts.
"Molly, Ministry. and Hogwarts," He called to Eva. The adults watched their dynamic, it was almost like a married couple.
"What's up with them," James asked Remus.
"What do you mean?" Remus asked.
James raised an eyebrow. "It's like they're a married couple,"
Eva who heard laughed. "A married couple, oh James, that's funny,"
James had turned red, flushed with embarrassment. "Erm, it's just that.."
"It's nothing," Eva told him as she set a plate of eggs in front of him.
Remus turned to James once again. "Her boyfriend is... dead, died during the final battle, Harry's ex-girlfriend won't take him back,"
Eva scowled as she turned around. "Let's drop it,"
James shut up as Harry handed Eva the Hogwarts letter.
"It's McGonagall," Eva told them.
'Minnie is still kicking it?' James thought.
"She wants me to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts starting next semester," She told them.
Remus and Sirius jumped up and congratulated their daughter. "I'm so proud of you," Remus beamed.
"Isn't that the cursed position?" Lily thought aloud.
"Well, we aren't sure if it's still cursed since Voldy passed," Harry told his mother.
"Are you taking it?" Tonks asked.
"I'm going to think about it, I don't have to answer until Holiday which starts December 15th," Eva replied. "But I think I'm going to take it, Minnie has been teaching both classes,"
Their celebrations got interrupted by knocking. Once again Harry got the door as Eva opened the letter from the Ministry.
"Well, our Animaguses got approved," Eva smiled. She high-fived her parents as James looked them on with curiosity.
"You're an animagus?" Lily asked. She nodded and proceeded to turn into a dog just like her Dad. Everyone started cooing as Harry walked back in.
Harry turned to the dog on the floor. "Snapes back,"
Silence fell over the room. That man meant something to each person, they weren't good opinions either. Eva turned back and went into the hallway. They could hear her yell at Walburga and then they couldn't hear her at all. That was because Eva stared at Serverus for a good minute.
And then it was loud again as she yelled at him in Welsh. Everyone looked to Remus to translate.
"Something about his hair... terrible teacher.... headmaster... leave," Remus translated, though through the door it was hard to hear everything. "Oh now she's in French,"
Everyone turned to Sirius. "Abuser... Harry.... Hermione.... Fire, she's talking about the time that Hermione set Snape on fire,"
James looked surprised with a gleam of joy while Lily looked horrified. "Now she is in English,"
"Could Snape even understand her?" Harry asked.
"Abuser?" Lily exclaimed.
"Oh yeah, he was an emotional abuser to kids as a teacher and headmaster," Harry explained. "Also Snape learned multiple languages for his potion making, so yes he can understand her,"
Lily gaped at his words.
"Well I can't say I'm surprised," James deadpanned which caused Lily to scowl.
"Also we have lunch with the Weasleys," Harry told them holding up the last letter.
"How's Molly and Arthur?" Lily asked.
"Doing well, but they lost a son in the final battle, hoping to see him any day now," Remus told them.
Eva came back with Snape trailing her with his typical sneer.
Lily stood up and smacked his across the face. Everyone else stood up with that.
"Lily?"
"It's Mrs. Potter to you," She spat making James grin madly.
"I'm sorry,"
"And like I told Voldemort, I'd rather die," SHe said and sat away from him.
"Damn," Eva whispered and they high-fived.
Snape left after than, too embarrassed to say anything.
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Two days later happened to be Sirius' birthday. They decided to celebrate all the birthdays he missed that day.
Eva gave him a brand new leather jacket. "I burned to other one to make the rocket... since we didn't have a body,"
He raised his eyebrows.
"In my defense Pa let me and you were dead!" She exclaimed as she handed him another box.
He stared at the box for a moment but she had to stop him from shaking it. "It's my childhood memories,"
He started crying at that. Remembering he missed all the little moments of her being a little girl. "I'm sorry I wasn't there,"
"It's not your fault," She whispered. "It's Peter's,"
Everyone scowled at the name of that traitor.
She passed him one last thing. It was a card. 'Look behind you'
So he did and in the kitchen was a set of keys. "Whaaa?"
"Look out front," And out side was a brand new (Well new in 1998) Harley-Davidson motorbike.
"It's a muggle bike with a few magical touches," She said.
Remus had to stop him before he ran out. "Don't you want to see what else you got?"
He nodded and Harry handed him a box. Sirius tore it open to find a single memory. "I figured you wanted to see how Voldemort died,"
"It's combined memories, Eva, Draco and I put it together," Harry told him. "I wasn't exactly alive for the whole thing... so that's why I had Eva and Draco help out,"
"Thank you so much Har," Sirius smiled and hugged him tightly.
"Glad we could do it," Harry told him. "Heres another,"
It was a pack of eyeliner. "Er... we burned your eyeliner with your jacket,"
Sirius gaped at Harry. "Really?"
"No," Eva laughed. "I actually ended up using the rest up,"
Sirius smirked and tore open the paper. "Thank you once again,"
(Alright we're gonna skip the rest of the presents. Otherwise we'd be here all day.)
After the presents which Sirius adored they ate some cake and drank some firewhiskey. They told war stories, from the Chamber of Secrets to Umbitch Lily and James learned everything that they missed on. And so did Sirius, since he was killed after 5th year he got to learn about up until now.
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"Was this a good birthday?" Remus asked his lover later than evening.
"It was a magnificent birthday," He told Remus with a goofy smile in his face. "I remember my birthday in Azkaban, the first on,"
Remus listen carefully.
"I remembered that you had set up a date for us, thinking I didn't know, but I did, so I wondered what you did with the reservation in that little muggle restaurant," Sirius told him, a peaceful but sad look on his face. "Wondering if you still went, spending money we didn't have to begin with,"
"I hadn't," Remus told him. "Back then I mostly cried when Eva couldn't hear me, or stared at the stars,"
Eva had heard everyone. "I remember he used to yell at the sky,"
Both men turned to their daughter. "You would think a two or three year old wouldn't remember that sort of thing, but I remember it all,"
"He would tell me wonderful things about you to me," Eva continued. "But when he thought I wasn't paying attention he would yell at the stars, wondering why he deserved what happened,"
"But none of us deserved that," Sirius told his small family. "Eva, you should have never had to face Voldymort, or any of the Deatheaters, Bellatrix above all, for that I'm so sorry,"
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