First Year Part 1
It was the beginning of July 1995 right before Harry's 15th birthday when the owl came with Harry’s and Dracos letters saying that their first ever semester at Hogwarts started on September 1st. The boys were trying to figure out how to convince Sirius and Narcissa to let them fly their new brooms that evening when the owl that carried the letters swooped into the living room dropping them on the coffee table nearest Sirius. Though neither Harry nor Draco quite understood how the owl had known that Draco would be at the Black manor such south of the Malfoy manor.
As the boys started to ask each other how they thought the owl knew to bring it here instead of to the Malfoy manor, Sirius just chuckled and looked at the boys while saying, “You should just open your letters instead of questioning the logistics of them knowing where Draco would be son.”
Harry laughed then looked at his dad and smiled, “sorry dad we got a little carried away.” Draco nodded his agreement and they both opened the letters when the floo chamber burst with life surprising the boys.
“Damnit Sirius can’t you fucking clean your floo chambers for once.” Lucius yelled out whilst coughing, clearly pissed at Sirius for not cleaning the chamber even every time Lucius used he told him he needed to.
“Darling, leave my cousin alone. You know that this manor is older than all of us combined and it is a pain to clean even with magic.” Narcissa stepped out of the chamber visibly less bothered by the uncleaned floo chamber and looked at the boys while saying, “Oh my dears have the letters arrived?”
”Yes they have mom here is the list of supplies they say we need.” Draco said whilst handing the letter to his mother after hugging her and then side hugged his father.
“Luc you are one stuck up bastard for bitching about my floo chamber every time you use it so why don’t you clean it then, since it bothers you that bad.” Sirius said whilst hugging Lucius.
Lucius grumbled a response that sounded like, damn it maybe I will do just that to make my life easier.
Sirius laughed loudly while hugging Narcissa before going over to harry. “Now my son let me go get your pops so he can owl your friends' families so we can have a dinner party celebrating that everyone got their letters.”
“My love, we are having a dinner party, for what?” Remus said as he grabbed Sirius’s hand before giving him a light kiss.
“Moony, the boys got their letters from Hogwarts today.” Sirius said leaning into his husband while staring at their son who was talking to Draco about all of the things they needed to buy or search around their houses for.
”Son, come here please, let me see the letter I need to make a list of the items you are going to need to get you. Narcissa would you like it if we all went to Diagon alley at the beginning of august together so it is more of a family event?” Remus said as he looked at Harry while taking the list of supplies they needed to get for his son and then to Narcissa and Lucius.
“Oh that would be perfect Remus what a wonderful suggestion.” Narcissa beamed at the idea knowing it would turn into the boys and their friends running amuck and the adults doing the actual work but none of them minded letting them be kids for a while longer.
Sirius started to say something but was quickly cut off but the floo chamber bursting to life once again. “Well guess we don’t need to owl the other families, they seem to all be on their way already.” Sirius sighed as Tom Riddle stepped inside with his son Mattheo Riddle who ran forward to Harry and Draco yelling about his letter. Tom Riddle was a single dad after Mattheo’s mother completely abandoned them right after she gave birth to Mattheo. So Tom got quite close with the blacks after Narcissa found out that Tom was a single dad struggling and he needed help raising his son right.
”Sirius sorry about not owling you before we came Mattheo was bouncing off-“ Tom was cut off as the floo chamber burst to life once again.
“Harry Black you better come hug me before I burst?!” Andromeda and her husband Ted walked into the living room as Harry shot towards his aunt, crushing her in a hug quickly.
“Aunt Andy, my letter came!” Harry beamed up at his aunt who nodded and then said “I figured when I got an owl at my window with a letter stating to get over here quickly.” Andromeda laughed and let Harry go back over to his friends.
Not even a full 5 minutes later the floo chamber went off a few times as Neville Longbottom and his grandparents appeared then, Blaise Zabini and his mother, Pansy Parkinson and her parents, and then finally Theodore Nott and his father appeared.
All of the kids headed straight for the others ignoring the adults as they were too excited to hold it in as they all talked about the letters.
All of the adults laughed loudly as the kids yelled excitedly as they showed their letters. “Well at least no one will be alone at the school.” Sirius stated looking at the children and then at all of the adults. “I would like to point out that I was about to owl everyone to invite everyone for dinner but it seems the children don’t care about manners right now.” Sirius said the last part louder to make sure the children heard it and they all turned around with shy expressions.
Neville was the first to speak, “Sorry uncle padfoot I just really wanted to see harry and talk about what houses we want to be in.” Then all the children start apologizing for just bursting into their home but in all reality Sirius loved that they felt so comfortable within his family's home that they dragged their parents there as soon as they physically could. Even if it was impolite.
Sirius had started letting all the children call him Padfoot and Remus moony. It reminds them both of their friends who had long since been gone but it helped keep their stories alive.
Sirius gave Remus a small sad smile which Remus returned. Sirius then had an idea so he gave Remus a sly grin which made Remus smirk he knew what story he was about to tell. “Oi tiny humans who aren’t so tiny come here, sit down and shut up!” Sirius yelled which caused all of the children to shut up instantly and run over to Sirius and sit in front of him on the floor as the rest of the adults go into the kitchen with Remus to start dinner.
“Okay, who wants to hear about how me and uncle Moony became friends with uncle prongs?” Sirius asked and all of the kids nodded their heads. “So when it was my first year at Hogwarts I was still living with my horrible parents but I got on that train and got my first taste of freedom I had ever had in my life but I am getting distracted. So anyway I get through the sorting, get sorted into gryffindor obviously and then I get up to my dorm room and who are my roommates?” Sirius asked, trying to see if the kids would guess correctly.
Blaise pipped up, “Was it uncle prongs and uncle moony?” Sirius smirked.
”Correct Blaise. I walked in and they were sitting there, both of them still young and quiet since it was the first night at a new place after uncle prongs didn’t get more extroverted until he was older. So when I walked in I introduced myself like the good little boy my mother raised and then the three of us started talking and then by the time Christmas came around and the three of us were thick as thieves and we were doing pranks and the whole nine yards. So before the rest of the adults come back I have a warning to you hellions. I swear to all of the old gods I will skin you all if I find out yall are trying to turn into animugi and there is no way in hell y’all are getting the marauders map until your older and prove to me and me alone that you wont abuse that power got it you little shits?” Sirius looked at all of them making sure that they knew he was serious.
“Daaaaad.” Harry looked at his father. “I already told them we don’t get the map until at least 3rd like me you and pops agreed the other night.” Harry rolled his eyes knowing his dad was just making sure they all knew that these were some of the very few rules he had for the children in front of him.
After dinner that night all of the kids fell asleep on the couch still holding on to their letters and the adults went to guest rooms since they knew they wouldn’t be able to leave without the kids through hissy fits about wanting to stay the night. So it was just one big sleepover.
August 5th
Sirius, Remus, and Harry were all waiting in the living room waiting for the rest of the group to get there. Harry was talking to Remus about what they actually needed to buy or what they could find around the manor when the Malfoy’s got in.
“Seriously Sirius you have magic for fucks sake why don’t you clean the damned floo chamber?” Lucius once again complained.
”Why don’t you do it if it seriously bothers you that much?” Narcissa cut him a glare as she spoke which quieted any further complaints from Lucius.
”Cissa we both know he is too much of a pompous prick to do it himself.” Sirius laughed with his cousin about her husband's antics.
Harry and Draco were talking to Remus about the lists when the rest of the parents got there.
“Okay everyone is here shall we go?” Remus said loud enough to get everyone's attention. Everyone nodded and they headed to diagon alley and the kids ran off to the candy store with Sirius trailing after them grumbling curse words about how he got stuck “babysitting the chaos gremlins.” Remus looked to the group and asked, “okay where to first everybody?”
”How about we all get the books first that will take the longest getting this many books?” Pansy’s mother said.
”Perfect.” Remus said as everyone else agreed.
As it started to get later in the day the kids were all back with the parents and everyone was getting ready to head back to their respective homes when Harry asked, “hey pops when do I get to try out for the quidditch team like you dad and my bio dad?”
Remus smiled knowing how badly Harry wanted to be like Sirius and his biological father, “Son in second year you should be able to try out but the rules may have changed so just be patient okay?”
Harry smiled and nodded, “got pops thank you.”
They all went home and Harry was constantly asking when he would get to go to hogwarts. He was so excited he couldn’t wait to go to hogwarts like his dads and biological parents.
August 28th
Harry barely got any sleep the night before so he was clearly facing the consequences of not sleeping well but he was still pinging off the walls on the way to the train station. As they got there he was amazed by the platform even though he grew up surrounded by magic it still amazed him when he saw big shows of magic.
All the kids were on the platform saying bye to their parents and before Harry walked away Sirius grabbed him. “Harry remember me and your pops are always going to be in your corner and if you need anything you only have to write in the journal i gave you or owl us okay?”
“Dad, I know I promise if I need anything I will let you know.” Harry said know his dads won't let this go until they both are dead and buried but he loved knowing they would always be worried about him and would always have his back no matter what.
The group sat down in a cart and they all were talking about how excited they were about hogwarts.
”I hope I get into Gryffindor like my dads but I'd be okay with slytherin.” Harry commented after he sat down.
”I am hoping for slytherin just cause i know that would make my dad happy.” Draco remarked.
“I think I want Gryffindor as well.” Neville said as he sat down next to Mattheo.
Then a red headed boy stepped into the chaos group's carriage with barely any space left and said, “Are you Harry Potter?”
Harry looked up as well as everyone else in the group, “um…. It’s Harry Black actually. What can I do to help you?” Harry has been dealing with people like this his whole life and was taught to deal with the press but this boy was clearly his age so he didn’t think that he was press.
“Uh… sorry for bothering you all but I just wanted to meet you and maybe get to know you?” The red headed boy looked around the cart nervously. Harry looked stunned but motioned for the boy to sit down.
“Sorry for being impolite but what is your name?” Harry asked as the boy sat down.
“Ron. Ron Weasley. Who are all these people?” Ron asked as he looked around the cart.
”Oh sorry these are some of my childhood friends Draco, Neville, Mattheo, Pansy, Theodore, and Blaise. We all grew up together.” Harry said as he pointed to everyone. “Do you not have anyone to sit with on the train ride to hogwarts?” Harry asked.
”I mean technically I do but I really don’t want to sit with my older brothers, Fred and George.” Ron said while grimacing.
“I get that I’m definitely not going to sit with my older sister.” Pansy remarked the entire group cringed at the mention of her older sister who was a bitch to pansy constantly.
”I'm glad someone understands siblings.” Ron said clearly grateful for pansy being able to understand why he didn’t sit with his older brothers.
”What house are you hoping for Ron?” Blaise asked.
”Oh gryffindor like the rest of my entire family. What about you guys?” Ron asked, looking at everyone.
“Slytherin.” Pansy said.
”Slytherin.” Blaise stated.
”Gryffindor as well.” Neville said.
“Slytherin here too.” Mattheo added.
”Slytherin.” Draco said.
Theo shrugged, “eh slytherin but i don't really care.”
”I am hoping for Gryffindor like my dads but I would be okay with slytherin.” Harry said after everyone else.
As the train went on Ron was still weary towards most of the group minus Neville and Harry but they still got along well.
They all kept talking until they realized that they were close to Hogwarts so everyone changed into their robes.
When they got to the station they saw this very tall burly man standing at the end saying that they needed to get to the boats which they did. As Harry got closer he started to recognize the tall burly man as Hagrid because of the stories Sirius and Remus had told him. So he waved to the burly man and got into a boat with his friends.
When they walked into the castle they led through two large doors and then led up to the front of the room which was clearly the dining hall.
When they had finished gathering at the front of the hall an older man with a very long beard started to talk, “welcome to the beginning of the new school year at Hogwarts. I am Headmaster Dumbledore and next to me here is Professor McGonagall. She will read off your name then you'll sit up here on a stool where this hat will sort you into your houses. Well professor, go ahead and start.” Dumbledore said and then he walked over to his seat.
Professor McGonagall started reading off names and Blaise was the first to get called up and he was sorted into Slytherin. Then Draco, also Slytherin. Harry was the next out the group to be called up. He sat down on the stool and the hat started talking to him, “Ah, the potter boy who no longer uses potter but instead uses black.”
“Well Sirius and Remus were the people to raise me.” Harry deadpanned, not really comfortable with the knowledge that this hat had.
”You're brave like Gryffindor but also cunning like Slytherin. Which to choose, hummmm.” The hat contemplated but it could also feel that Harry really wanted to be like his adoptive dads. The hat thought for a moment longer before yelling “GRYFFINDOR.”
Harry hopped off the seat and headed towards the red table but was missing the fact that he couldn’t sit with Draco and his friends but Ron and Neville were both sorted into Gryffindor so he wasn’t by himself. The three of them were the only ones out of the group sorted into Gryffindor but Harry didn’t mind he knew they would get split up since he was little. After dinner was done Harry followed who he was supposed to be and got to Gryffindor tower without incident and when he got to his dorm room he realized that Ron and Neville were his roommates. That night before bed, Harry wrote his dads a letter to make sure he kept them updated on a few things.
Dear dad and pops,
So on the train ride I met a new person, Ron Weasley. He seems nice enough but he acts a little weird around the group minus Neville. I am worried he won't warm up to the group just because most of them are Slytherins. Anyway, I got sorted into GRYFFINDOR!! I am so happy I am like you guys! I will send more letters soon. Love you both. Hope you guys don't miss me too much.
Love,
Your son Harry Black