The Meaning Of Family

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Harry Potter, or Harry Potter related or Harry Potter characters, if I did I probably would be living in my castle right about now, lol hope thats clear enough.



Thank you for your review Tina109, and the pairing is Harry/Sirius, but later on.


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Chapter 5

The New Land Again.



December 25th, 1981.

It was Christmas morning and Sirius was in the kitchen getting breakfast ready and waiting for Harry to wake up so they could go into the living room and open the presents, he was just about to set the table when he heard Harry waking up so without wanting to wait any longer he went to go get him.


"Merry Christmas Harry, lets get you dressed so we can go see what presents you got yeah?" Sirius said whilst smiling at Harry and holding his arms out to pick Harry up.


Harry nodded whilst looking up at Sirius with a big smile on his face, then reaching up to meet Sirius' arms.


After changing Harry, they made their way to the living room and over to the tree, even though it was just the two of them Harry still had quite a few presents, even if it was all from Sirius.


Harry was having a great time playing in the wrapping paper more than his presents, so Sirius thought it was time for breakfast, "come on Harry lets go eat I'm starving" Sirius said, as he picked Harry up and sat him in his high chair.


"Paddy?" Harry said after Sirius fed him his mash potato.


"Yes Harry?" Asked Sirius.


"Where's you pressies?" Harry asked with a cute little tilt of his head to the right and a look of concentration as though it was a deep mystery to him, which it probably was, not that he would know that of course.


"I'm too old for Santa now, so all the presents are for you" Sirius replied with a smile at Harry's expression.


Harry just looked at Sirius for a minute before saying with a big smile on his face "I will give you a pressy, Paddy."


Sirius couldn't help but laugh back at the adorable picture Harry made, he wanted to make this day special so he had a plan to build a snow man with Harry in the middle of the living room, after he cleaned all the mess Harry made with the wrapping paper.


After breakfast they went in the living room and whilst Sirius was cleaning with a wave of his wand Harry went into his room and when he came back into the room he looked around for something to wrap his present for Sirius in, so whilst Sirius was busy with the rest of the room Harry went and sat in a corner near the Christmas tree and done his best job of wrapping his gift to Sirius, in red paper with green Christmas trees.


Sirius was just finishing up with the mess and making a spot for their snowman when Harry came over to him with a present, which looked like Harry had tried to wrap with the wrapping paper from the floor and Sirius just had to laugh, 'and I thought I had cleaned it all up, trust Harry to find it without me noticing'. Sirius thought with a chuckle.


"Here you go Paddy, for you" Harry said with a big smile that lit up his face, Sirius sat down on the lounge with Harry in his lap and said with a warm smile "thank you Harry but you have to help me open it OK?"


Harry nodded and started to help Sirius open up his present, and when they were finished Sirius was rewarded with a picture that Harry drew of Sirius and Harry together holding hands, granted he wouldn't have known what it was if he hadn't seen Harry's drawings before, but it was still something special all the same that he would always cherish.


With a little chuckle he gave Harry a big hug and a kiss on his cheek, "thank you Harry that's a very special present you gave me, I think I will put this on the wall next to my bed what do you think?"


Harry nodded his head and said in the sweetest voice whilst looking up at Sirius "I fink that's a good idea."


Sirius gave another chuckle and got up whilst Harry was in his arms and started waving his wand and muttering a spell to make it snow some more ready for their snowman, when that was done he put Harry down and clapped his hands and said to Harry "right we are going to make a snowman right here in the middle of the room now Harry, so lets get started"


Harry started to laugh and throw snow around for a bit before he started to pile it in the middle of the room along with Sirius. It took them two Hours to get it finished mainly because they kept playing in the snow and throwing it at each other more so than make a snowman but Sirius wanted to get it finished so he could take some pictures of himself with Harry and the snowman before going to the beach before dinner because as far as Sirius was concerned they were going to have a winter Christmas as well as a summer Christmas, they had never been to the beach for Christmas so it was going to be something new.


After they finished the snowman and and took some pictures Sirius went into the kitchen and made a basket full of lunch before heading to the beach, they played in the sand and water for a few Hours and taking some more pictures before heading back home, when they got there Sirius gave Harry and himself a shower then made dinner, which was going to be a summer Christmas dinner this year so they had a potato salad, with roast chicken and gravy, and some punch, it wasn't much as it was mainly Sirius eating, but Harry enjoyed the potato salad and getting most of the gravy over his face, so Sirius had to wash him off before putting him to bed.


"Goodnight Harry, sleep well my little man" Sirius said whilst kissing him on the forehead.


"Nigh nigh Paddy, love you" Harry said with a yawn.


"Love you too, Harry" Sirius replied whilst tucking Harry in, and then turned the light off and closed the door a bit and went to bed himself.


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New years eve came and New years eve went without any problems and they ended up watching the fireworks on the muggle TV, Sirius new it was only a matter of time before Dumbledore would get closer to finding them he knew how determined he was to have Harry but he just didn't know why.


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July 31st, 1982.


It was now July and Harry's second birthday and Sirius new he was having it lucky that Dumbledore hadn't found them yet, but he had a strange feeling that wasn't going to last much longer, he also knew that if Dumbledore had some of Harry's blood then there was a blood ritual that he could do but could only do it on Harry's birthday, he knew it was dark magic and he wasn't stupid enough to think Dumbledore wouldn't know how to perform it, and with the way Dumbledore wanted Harry he also knew he would do it, so with those thoughts running through his head he decided to pack everything they have and be prepared for the worse, he also put a spell on Harry to alert him if or when someone attempted to use this ritual, he knew it was also a dark spell but it didn't harm Harry and he knew it would help them in the long run, what it did was link Harry and Sirius together and acted like a ward that would alert him of anything being done with Harry's blood, he learnt it
from a book back when he was a kid at Grimmauld Place. He had nothing against the so called dark arts he thought it best to know all sorts of magic not just one side of it.


They were sitting in the living room after just having lunch and Harry was playing with his new miniture broom that Sirius had got for his birthday, that goes just two feet into the air, Sirius knew that if Lily was alive she would have none of it, but he thought Harry was ready for it and big enough and it wasn't as if he would use it without Sirius around anyway. Well that's what Sirius kept telling himself and he really wanted to start Harry young on a broom.


Sirius had bought a plane ticket for America to leave later that night incase Dumbledore tried to find them, he knew it was wasting money if he didn't end up using it but he didn't care he would rather be safe than sorry, and wanted to be prepared for anything.


So it was with those thoughts in mind whilst helping Harry on his broom that he had a sudden warm feeling spread through him starting from his head to travel to his feet and he knew what it was straight away, Dumbledore had used the ritual like he had thought he would, he knew deep down the old bastard took some of Harry's blood but didn't know for sure but now he did. He picked Harry up and shrunk his broom and took out the suitcase that he had packed everything they owned in earlier after shrinking it and putting it in his pocket so that he had everything ready for this moment, he unshrunk it and put the broom inside before shrinking it again and returning it to his pocket, he knew it would take time for Dumbledore to get there, so even though he had time he still didn't want to linger, so with a last look at the place to make sure everything was in order he apparated to the safest place near the airport that he could get, the public toilet which luckily at the moment didn't have anyone in there.


He booked in then went and sat down with Harry in his arms to wait for their plane to America, he knew they may have to keep moving around the states when they got there incase Dumbledore tried again, but for the time being they would settle some place and take it each day at a time, for all he knew Dumbledore had used all the blood of Harry's that he took on this ritual alone and didn't have anymore, it all depended on how much of Harry's blood Dumbledore took in the first place he probably thought that no matter where Harry is or who he is with, though Sirius thought Dumbledore knew Harry was with him, he wouldn't need much because he would find Harry and 'rescue' him, Sirius knew that for this ritual to work he only needed a little drop, but he would worry about that if or when that happened, it's not like he wouldn't have warning again and if it came to it he would just buy a ticket every year on Harry's birthday ready for anything, and at least Dumbledore would not only have to wait another year till Harry's birthday again but also the last place Dumbledore would know they were was Australia, so he wouldn't find them anyway, and even he if he did find them where they will be going Dumbledore still would have trouble getting Harry, but if he could prevent him even knowing the area of where they will be, all the better.


Now it was time for them to get on their plane so once again they were in for a long journey, but at least they were getting away from Dumbledore once again, and with that thought and Harry asleep in his arms, he decided to get a bit of shut eye before moving into the Black mansion that he inherited when his mother died and lucky for them was heavily warded and unplottable and he would cast the Fidelius charm and be secret keeper, they will be safe there.


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