Chapter 7
Sirius wished he could see his son smile again so he gently whispered ‘Harry, how about me and you go down to the Quidditch Pitch and have a fly around and a little one-on-one?’ Harry lifted his head from his dad’s shoulders and nodded before his dad stood up, he didn’t let go of his dad as they walked out of the Great Hall, he realised that everyone had watched what he had done but he realised that he didn’t care as this was his dad and he could be with him whenever he needed or wanted to be, as they walked down to the Quidditch pitch, his dad stopped them for a moment ‘I have a present for you’ Harry looked to his dad in confusion and watched as his dad held up his wand ‘Accio broomsticks’ Harry turned to see two broomsticks fly in to his dad’s hands, one he guessed was his dad’s and the other was wrapped up ‘here son, consider this 12 years’ worth of birthday presents’ Harry unwrapped the paper and stared at his present in shock; the Firebolt.
Harry looked to his dad in shock and he felt his mouth stretch in to a mighty grin, Sirius watched his son’s expressions before he could say anything else, his son had walked straight to him a hugged him around the middle tightly, Harry was hugging his dad tightly ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’ he heard his dad laugh and pulled back, Sirius held up his own broom, ‘why don’t we have a test flight?’ Harry nodded eagerly and mounted the Firebolt and it shot straight and fast in to the air, Sirius smiled in pride before he got on his own broom and joined his son up in the sky, with a quffle in his arms ‘ready, son?’ Harry turned to see his dad holding the quffle ‘I’m ready’ Sirius grinned and chucked the quffle to Harry who then zoomed towards the goal post with his dad hot on his tail and aimed for the hoop, but before he could a bludger came belting his way, Harry dived out of the way and turned to see his dad grinning and holding the bat in his hand, Harry smiled and swooped around his dad and towards the other goal post and scored with his dad smiling at him and for the first time Harry felt that he finally had someone who was proud of his Quidditch skills ‘hey dad?’ Sirius flew closer to his son ‘yes Harry’ Harry hovered with his dad ‘next time can we bring father and have a little game together, me and father being chasers and you being a beater?’ Sirius smiled just imagining the little family bonding moment for them ‘of course we can’ Harry smiled and zoomed past his dad laughing as he did finally happy to have the perfect family, and Sirius smiled gently as he finally heard his son laugh just like he wanted him to do.
James was constantly staring at the doors of the Great Hall, worried for his family, just as he contemplated going after them 'is everything alright James?' Andi asked her cousin-in-law asked in a worried tone, James looked to Andi 'I'm just worried about Harry and Sirius' Andi nodded in understanding 'well go after them' James looked to a grinning Andi before standing up and heading towards the doors of the Great Hall. As James looked around the castle for his two missing family members, he just passed the exit to the school grounds when he heard distant laughing, James went outside and looked towards the Quidditch Pitch to see his son and husband flying around and playing what looked like one-on-one Quidditch, James grinned widely and took out his wand 'accio broomstick' and his broomstick came flying in to his hand, he mounted and set off towards the Quiddtch pitch.
Harry was laughing loudly as he chased his dad around the Quidditch pitch, his dad was winning by two points ahead of Harry, ‘come on Harry’ he heard his dad shout out and watched as his dad chucked the quffle towards him, but just as Harry reached out to grab it another blurry figure flew in front and grabbed the quffle before chucking it back at his dad, Harry watched the mystery person turned to face him and he saw the grinning face of his father ‘father, that was my quffle’ James grinned at Harry’s whining ‘well son, maybe you should pay attention to your surroundings next time’ Harry grinned as his father ruffled his hair and then shot off towards his dad, he watched as his dad saw his father coming and then shot the bludger at him but his father dived down and then shot back up and flew round so he was hovering next to his dad and then he saw his dad shoot the quffle towards him and Harry quickly turned his broom, caught the quffle and headed towards the goal.
James and Sirius watched as Harry flew towards the goal with the quffle in his possession, ‘he’s natural’ commented Sirius to his husband ‘well obviously, he takes after both his parents’ James grinned at Sirius and together they flew towards Harry, Harry waited for his parents ‘we done for the night?’ asked his dad, his father nodded ‘yeah let’s head back’ and they flew towards the castle, James asked his son ‘you coming to our tower tonight?’ Harry turned to his father ‘no, I’ll head to Gryffindor tower but could I spend weekends at the tower?’ James and Sirius both nodded at their son as all three landed inside the castle and with a last hug from the three and Harry gave both his parents a kiss on the cheek, they went their separate ways; Harry towards the Gryffindor common room and unfortunately for James and Sirius they headed towards the Great Hall for the annual Faculty meeting where for the first time James and Sirius would be there as not only teaching staff but also as the Lords of Hogwarts.