Chapter One
August 12th, 1973
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He was dying. The more his parents attempted to control everything the more he wanted to run. James had offered that over Christmas break the previous year when he had chosen to stay at Hogwarts and keep the black-haired boy company. Everyone else had left, it was just them and some girl in Hufflepuff. Mary had offered to stay, as had Marlene and even Remus tried to join the pair.
Currently, he was locked up in his room, tending to the wounds his mother had inflicted on him during their latest "sparring" match. Nobody seemed to care in this household, even with all 7 of them there, locked up without any other say behind it.
Andromeda would sneak out nightly, seeing some Hufflepuff muggle-born that Lily had become friends with sometime last year. She seemed to do that a lot, make friends with all the muggle-borns at Hogwarts- as if they didn't have anyone else to be friends with. Speaking of which he was sure his sister was busy sneaking around with her friends as well- in his mind all of his family had a secret that would not be taken well with their parents- yet he was the only one that would ever get in trouble so constantly.
"I can be friends with whoever I want!" he heard his sister yell from downstairs, rushing out of his room he looked down the railing at the bottom floor where his sister and parents where arguing.
Walburga scoffed, "Yes, you can. Just not with her." she scowled in the directed of a redhead Sirius knew all too well, Lily. There was another girl there as well, blonde hair that went all the way down to her stomach, Victoria