He knew that was a bit selfish and greedy but he couldn't help it, the Tonks's were his family, he didn't want to share them, he finally had his family, they were his! Andromeda was his mother, Ted was his father and Tonks was his sister damn it! Besides, he didn't even know if the Tonks's were willing to take in another boy.
"I..." Harry paused as he looked at Roman, the kid looked desperate enough. Which was why Harry was now in a position that he hated, what was he supposed to do when he wanted to help the kid but at the same time didn't want to? "look, this is all well and good but do you understand what position I would be in if I let you become my vassal? I would have to protect you, that's alright while we're in Hogwarts but I can't protect you outside of Hogwarts. You live in an orphanage and I don't know how safe that is. It could be the most heavily protected thing in the world or the worst protected thing, it would be my responsibility to keep you safe while you live there and my options are limited since I can't just hire some warders to go over and make your room safe and I can't put wards around the whole property since it's a muggle property and I don't own it.
My only other option is to let you live with me, and I can't do that. I've only just got my family and I've only just spent a few summers with them, I'm not ready to share them. Do you understand me?"
"But...but you don't have to get me somewhere to live!" Roman quickly protested. "The orphanage is fine, they feed me enough, I get clean clothes and everything."
"Even if that's true, I would still have to find a way to keep you safe and go and see it myself to make sure it's fine." Harry said in a thoughtful voice. Maybe he could get Roman an emergency portkey, damn it, why did he after want to be nice? "After this year ends I want to go and look at your orphanage. I'm not saying I've decided that I want to let you be my vassal, but if I was then I'm going to do it properly. For the rest of the year I want you to focus on being as good as you can. You got it?"
"Um...yeah," Roman spoke after a few moments of silence. "I understand."
"Hey, look at me." Harry ordered. "I am not promising you anything, do not get your hopes up, okay?"
"Got it." Roman said in a quiet voice with a small nod.
"Good." Harry said before he took his wand out and cancelled the spell.
"Why must you humans have so much drama in your lives? Can't you just eat, poo and sleep like the rest of the animal kingdom?" Jet asked.
Later that night Harry was sitting in his bed while wearing black pyjama bottoms and a grey shirt. Blaise slept in his own bed, Jet was resting on Harry's lap while Harry was looking at the marauders map. It was truly an impressive piece of magic that really interested Harry. It was amazing to know that he could at any moment in time see where everyone was.
The Slytherin girls were all in bed, Harry could see himself and Blaise in his own room. Jet didn't show up, leading Harry to believe that animals didn't show up on the map. Apparently ghosts did not show up either as Harry couldn't see Nearly Headless Nick, the Bloody Baron or any of the other ghosts that always floated around the Hogwarts stairs. There were no portraits on the map either, something which made sense when you think about it. Those in the paintings can travel into other frames but the frames always stay where they were, plus there were hundreds of them around the school.
Harry couldn't help but notice that the chamber of secrets wasn't on the map, something which also made sense since they were never able or inclined to find it. If the chamber was on the map then the Weasley twins would have likely raided it and told everyone about it, providing they didn't get killed by the basilisk that lived in there first.
As Harry looked over the map he saw many names, Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore who was pacing in his office, Peter Pettigrew, Ronald...wait what the fuck?!
Harry's eyes snapped back to the area where he saw Peter Pettigrew's name, he knew who Peter was thanks to multiple sources, journals left from his parents and grandparents along with what he had been told from Andromeda along with the various people who had talked about how Sirius Black had killed Peter. Harry's saw that Peter Pettigrew's name was in the Gryffindor common room, right next to Ronald Weasley's name. Before Harry was even allowed five seconds to think on that he recognised another name that was heading toward the direction of the Gryffindor common room, the name Sirius Black.
"Fuck!" Harry said as he quickly got up. "Jet, we might need attack mode."
"Already on it." Jet said not even a second later as Harry picked him up and placed Jet on his shoulders.
"Blaise, wake up." Harry called as he rushed over and quickly shook Blaise's head.
"W...what do you want? Go'way." Blaise said in a sleepy voice.
"Don't have time for this." Harry said before he aimed his wand at Blaise and hit him with a short water blast.
"What the fuck?!" Blaise gasped as he sat up. "Harry, what the hell?!"
"Get your sister, get the Professor's, and tell them the words that 'Harry's about to fuck shit up at the Gryffindor common room'." Harry said before he put on his shoes and rushed out of his room and then the common room. Harry quickly made a small plastic bag with his wand and shoved the map inside the bag, he put the straps of the bag in his mouth before he transformed into a tiger. Jet wrapped himself tightly around Harry's neck, tight enough to hold on but not tight enough to strangle him.
Tiger-Harry ran, bag hanging from his teeth, he headed towards the Gryffindor common room. Once Harry got near the common room he turned back into his human form, he took the map out of the bag and once again checked the map and saw Sirius Black was in the Gryffindor common room and it looked like he was about to come out of the common room in a few seconds.
Harry crouched down and aimed his wand at the entrance, the portrait opened and a second later the infamous mass murderer Sirius Black stepped out. He had a gaunt and sunken face, waxy skin, yellow teeth, and long, matted hair. Harry thought he looked as a corpse might. Harry didn't waste any time and quickly fired a stunner at him, but Harry didn't stop at one. He remembered Tonks's advice, 'hit hard, hit fast, hit as much as you can and for the love of Merlin, don't trip over'. Harry had shot three stunners before shooting another three just in case he missed.
By the time Harry was done Sirius Black was unconscious on the floor, lying in front of Harry. Harry quickly tied him up with ropes before he dropped Jet on him.
"If he wakes and tries anything then kill him. Don't let anyone touch him until I get back." Harry ordered before he walked into the Gryffindor common room just as the majority of the Gryffindor's had come down.
"What are you doing here?" The twins quickly demanded just as other Gryffindor's began asking questions, Harry ignored them and walked past them, following the map until he was in the third year boy's room. When he entered he saw the four Gryffindor's boys in their beds, shivering with fear, he noticed that Weasley was holding a rat in his hands. Harry double checked the map, it told him that Peter Pettigrew was with Ron, it didn't take Harry long to join the dots. Harry quickly fired a stunner at the rat, which caused Ron to accidently drop him on the floor.
"Hey!" Ron shouted but before he could do anymore Harry had cast the animagus reveal spell on the rat, a second later it transformed into a man, none other than Peter Pettigrew. Pettigrew was an extremely short man, Harry was sure that he was taller than him. The man had grubby skin, small watery eyes, and a pointed nose, all of which were lingering attributes of his animagus rat form. He looked middle aged, he had brown hair with bald patches, he was fat and missing a finger.
"Well, it looks like Jet won't be hungry this week." Harry commented as he looked down at Peter.
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