James sighed and dragged his hand through his hair.
"Harry is…special" he said simply.
Sirius frowned and shot a look at the other boy and leaned in closer to James.
"What, Crabbe and Goyle special?" he asked with a whisper.
James shook his head and chuckled. "More like Dumbledore special" he replied seriously.
Sirius's eyebrows rose significantly at that revelation.
"Really?" he questioned and shook his head. "Why would you keep it from me, we don't have secrets" he sighed.
"I had to Padfoot, you know how family secret's are better than anyone" he pointed out.
Sirius conceded the point with a nod. Who only knew too well how secretive his own family was.
"I'm sorry Sirius" James said sincerely. "It's the only thing I've ever kept from you" he promised.
Sirius sighed and nodded.
"I understand" he returned with a sad smile. "But why now and where has he been?" he inquired. "Harry has been privately tutored abroad since he was eleven, we knew that Hogwarts wasn't right for him at the time, he needed extra attention" Dorea explained. "But with everything that's happening here, we wanted him home" she elaborated.
"So he really is special then?" Sirius asked with a frown.
"Very" Charlus intoned seriously as he entered the room. "I'm sure you will see it for yourself soon enough" he finished confidently.
Even James looked towards his father with wide eyes. He already knew that Harry was an exceptional wizard from the small amount of magic he had seen from him, but he didn't know the extent of his abilities.
"Does that mean he's coming to Hogwarts then?" Sirius asked excitedly.
"He is" Charlus confirmed. "That is why we were with Dumbledore" he added distastefully. Sirius looked between the two boys and frowned again.
"So you're twins?" he asked.
James nodded.
"He's younger" he explained.
"Even up close you look so damn similar, it's only the eyes that give it away really, and you look a bit bigger" he pointed out with a look to Harry. "Oh, I'm Sirius Black, by the way" he introduced himself, offering Harry his hand. "Harry Potter" Harry replied with a smile and shaking the offered hand.
Sirius suddenly burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
"What?" James asked with a frown.
Sirius shook his head as a triumphant grin formed on his face. "Snivellus and the snakes are going to lose it when they find out about him" he deadpanned.
James's eyes went wide with glee.
"I didn't think of that" he whispered. "This is going to be hilarious" he declared.
"And we get to prank Moony and Wormy with it too" Sirius pointed out ecstatically. "Wait here" he suddenly demanded and ran from the room without warning.
"He's gone to get his notebook" James explained and sighed. "I don't like lying to him" he admitted sadly.
Harry swallowed and nodded.
"Me either, maybe once everything settles down we can tell him, I know he's trustworthy but we can't tell him yet" Harry offered genuinely.
James smiled gratefully. "Yeah" he agreed. "He's been through a lot recently so we will wait for a while" he decided.
Harry remembered a conversation he had had with Sirius when he explained about running away from home to live with the Potter's when he was sixteen and understood what James was referring too.
"He will have a lot more questions when it sinks in" Harry observed.
"We will deal with it when it comes, we all have to get used to it" James sighed.
It was several hours later that Harry found himself in bed, thoroughly exhausted by the events of the day.
The trio had spent the rest of the day coming up with pranks they could play on their fellow students and getting to know each other a little better with Sirius asking lots of questions about Harry and what he had been doing with his life. It was clear that neither Harry nor James liked keeping everything a secret from the other boy but they had to for now until they themselves were comfortable with the situation they found themselves in.
Harry sighed and sunk himself into his bed and fell asleep soon after simply enjoying the fact that he finally had a family.
Even though everything was more than a little skewed, he had a family, the one thing he had always wanted above all else.
Harry awoke early the next morning having slept much more peacefully than he had the previous night, resulting in him being well rested and ready to face the day.
He dressed in his workout clothes, reveling in the fact that he was with his family, something he had not expected to happen so soon nor in the position that he found himself in. As everyone in the Potter household knew, the situation would take some getting used to for them all but Harry was very content with the way things had gone so far and only hoped that he would get the chance to know his family and remain a welcome member of it, no matter what else it was he had to deal with. With his family with him he was confident that there was nothing that he could not handle.
He made his way through the expansive house and exited through the front door, noting that the land that the home was situated on was more than sufficient for him to complete his morning run. He took a deep breath of the thick and refreshing air before setting off around the outskirts of the property simply enjoying the mild morning and the rising sun in the distance.
.
.
.
👓☕️Consider supporting me and enhance your reading experience with the ready-to-read PDFs I have on my Ko-fi.☕️👓
🎯https://ko-fi.com/bstories🎯