Chapter 3

Bloodties

Chapter 3 of 14

Rhea Silvia

“I had this dream last night,” he says.

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“I had this dream last night,” he says. It’s hardly brilliant, as an opening gambit. But the thing is, it isn’t one. Sirius talks to everyone, except Snape, which is simply because Snape had never entered his room, and, frankly, Harry, and everyone else, agree(s) that it should be kept that way, but it’s a rare occasion to enter his room at 10:30 in the morning and find him already entertaining a visitor, especially when it’s two days after full moon and the visitor is Remus Lupin. A very drawn Remus Lupin, true, but one who had been laughing until the very moment Harry had opened the door. Then he had sat there, and Harry had stood there, and Sirius had rolled his painted grey eyes at their awkwardness till Remus mumbled a goodbye and left.

“What, precisely, was that all about?”

“Nothing.”

“Of course. And this nothing isn’t in any way connected to the fact that he walked in on you, would it?”

“It wasn’t anything like that.” It hadn’t been, really. Just that they’d been squabbling, him and Ron, and Hermione had tossed him a pillow and Ron had tried to grab it and they’d tussled, and by the time Remus had arrived, he’d been flat on his back, clutching the pillow, with Ron sitting on his legs and the girls grinning and throwing cushions and… well, it… “Just looked bad.”

“I’m sure it did.” He'd looked up, but Sirius had merely looked innocent. “Remus has a bit of a knack for this kind of thing.”

And then he’d heard himself saying, though he’d planned on actually talking to Sirius for at least a bit before introducing the topic, “I had this dream last night.”

Sirius smirks at him. “Shouldn’t you be telling Ron? Or Ginny? Or what’s her name, the girl with the strange ear-rings who came here last week and tried to tell me I was a manifestation of some strange mystic force? Or anyone who isn’t your dead godfather?”

“I notice you didn’t mention Hermione.” Sirius is having a good day. And, yes, despite being the painted representation of a dead man, Sirius does, in fact, manage to have good days and bad days and days when nobody wants to talk to him. It’s just one of the many apparently-impossible things Sirius does.

“Did you want me to?”

“No. Merlin, no.” He takes a deep breath, the Hermione who lives in his head very irate. “Besides, it’s not that kind of dream. Not mine at all, actually. I think,” the last deep breath has left his lungs, “it’s Voldemort’s.”

Sirius doesn’t do anything more than frown and ask, “What about?”

“Did Bellatrix ever have a child?”

“Yes, actually. She had a son.” Sirius’ face has darkened into what Harry used to think was due to Azkaban’s influence at work, and he has to learn someday how these portraits are painted because his dad’s had glared at him last month and… “The week she murdered Regulus, as a matter of fact.”

‘Sirius, I’m…”

“But why would Voldemort be dreaming about Bella having a child?”

“I don’t know. I… Sirius, do you know anything about it?”

“No. Nothing to know. Would have been seventeen.”

“Would?”

“Yes. Died soon after. Nobody saw it, Meda said. What exactly did you see?”

“The Malfoys and the Lestrange brothers. They came to tell him that the child was born, and he told them that it was an honour and…”

“That’s it?”

“Yes. And Voldemort himself, of course and… Why would he say it was an honour?”

“I don’t know, Harry.” But Sirius does, or thinks, or suspects, or something. It shows. “Circe knows the bastard’s conceited enough to think it’s an honour he was in their house when their baby was born.”

That is true, but it’s not the real reason. It isn’t and that nags at him after he leaves Sirius’ room, after he tells the others, despite the fact that Hermione bullies them into searching through the Daily Prophet’s issues for August and September 1980 and all they find is a birth announcement for Regis Lestrange, and, a few weeks later, an obituary for the child.

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genrou

hmmmm i wonder how things will progress from here.

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genrou

i dont know if its because i just ate so my processes are being directed to my stomach instead of my brain but im finding a number of things in this fic hard to follow. i feel as if i keep missing a number of things that are not being said directly and i assume im suppose to be able to follow. or it might be because of the pov.

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magenpie

Interesting that Voldemort knows that both Lucius and Narcissa recognize greater claims on their loyalty than service to him. Promising start I think!