The Charles Becomes a Wizard

After they graduated, tensions in the wizarding world grew, and then, war broke out.

This war involved the entire British wizarding world. People died almost every moment, and everyone was blood-thirsty. The hatred between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters had reached the point where it could only be appeased with the blood of the other side.

As time went by, the Death Eaters' behavior became more and more crazy, and the heads of the major families died one after another almost at the same time...

The situation was complicated and difficult to understand. When everything was about to come to an end, Sirius, who had already been bloodthirsty, realized that every victory report he received in the Order of the Phoenix might be stained with the blood of his relatives.

Father, mother, uncle, aunt, cousin and...Regulus, his only brother whom he originally wanted to save.

In the end, he was the only one left in the thriving Black family!

Sirius suddenly remembered the last time he saw Regulus before graduation.

His usually taciturn brother refused his offer of help after being bullied in Slytherin.

"Now that you've left the Black family, don't bother with my business anymore!" Regulus waved his hand away excitedly.

When he heard me admonishing him to break away from the shackles of his family and stop being a puppet, he laughed out loud with a mocking look on his face.

"Brother, have you ever been to the detention room?"

"What it is?"

"There is a full-length portrait in my father's study. Behind the portrait is a small room used to punish children who are disobedient and fail to complete their training."

"Impossible!" Sirius retorted almost subconsciously. He never knew there was such a place in his home.

"There is no light in the room, and no sound can be heard." The boy, who was almost as tall as Sirius, looked at him quietly and said word by word: "After being locked in, you can't feel the passage of time at all."

He suddenly smiled again, his obsidian eyes making people feel uneasy for no reason: "Look, you know nothing."

"As someone like you, what qualifications do you have to talk about saving me?"

"Since you have chosen your path, and I have chosen mine, then don't bring up those ridiculous ideas anymore."

"Next time we meet, we'll probably be enemies, right? I won't show any mercy."

Those were the last words Regulus said to him.

At that time, Sirius was furious because of Regulus's ignorance and the inexplicable guilt he felt, and he did not realize that he was the culprit who forced Regulus to become a Death Eater early.

He may have noticed this later, but subconsciously ignored it.

Otherwise, what should he do?

Admit that it was his impulsiveness that pushed the Black family to the forefront? Admit that it was his escape that forced his brother to join the war early to express the Black family's loyalty to that madman? Admit that the demise of the Black family was probably driven by him?

No, he was not wrong, it was that old and corrupt family that was wrong...

At first, he didn't want to leave his family, he just wanted to have a little freedom in Hogwarts. They were the ones who gave up on him first!

He would prove to them that following that lunatic was a mistake!

Sirius stood among the members of the Order of the Phoenix, listening quietly to their cheers as they stepped on the corpses of their loved ones.

Sirius still wore his mask of cynicism, as if the demise of the Black family had not affected him in the slightest, except that James Potter noticed that his missions were taking longer than before, and that his actions were more ruthless.

As if to prove that his choice was right, Sirius, as the backbone of the Order of the Phoenix, planned actions against the Dark Lord again and again. He became a hero of the Order of the Phoenix, and everyone praised him, saying how different he was from those venomous snakes of the Black family.

And in one successful operation after another, the "elites" who took the lives of his relatives gradually became "consumables" in the war.

Of course he couldn't have done it on purpose; these people were simply necessary sacrifices for his victory.

By sacrificing them, more people can survive, and no one will blame him for making a wrong decision.

The frozen heart began to beat again because of Harry's birth.

When James placed the little baby in his arms, Sirius almost cried out in pain. He swore that he would protect him, raise him as his own child, help him open the closed Potter Manor, and teach him everything a noble should know.

Perhaps his betrayal of his family angered Merlin, and Merlin did not favor him.

A fatal rumor suddenly spread.

Unable to open Potter Manor, James' family had to hide in a small house in Godric's Hollow, and he had no choice but to become the only secret keeper.

He would definitely protect them, he thought.

James was not one who could stay still, so in order to prevent him from sneaking off to the battlefield, Sirius would visit them from time to time with the latest battle updates.

But he never stayed long -- and James' departure only added to the burden.

......

"Sirius, have you encountered more attacks recently?" The gray-haired old wizard, wearing a purple robe, looked at him with a penetrating gaze through his crooked half-moon glasses.

"Everyone knows you're James' best friend, and that's really dangerous."

Sirius leaned lazily on the back of the chair, was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Mr. Dumbledore, I will not let James and the others get into danger."

"Sirius, you are a good boy. Don't let hatred blind your eyes. Don't forget that you now have a godson."

The old man's words, which seemed to be exhortations but were actually warnings, made Sirius realize that his little actions had not escaped Dumbledore's eyes, but he had not said it out loud before.

Why?

Probably because he, a "hero", could bring more victories to the Order of the Phoenix than those people.

This is the "justice" he and James have chosen.

Sirius found it extremely ironic, but as things had developed to this point, there was no way back and he could only go down this path to the end.

After another attack by Death Eaters, Sirius was seriously injured and almost caught, so he decided to replace the secret keeper. He had to protect the safety of James' family.

Because Remus always has some "fluffy little problems" every month, Peter Pettigrew, who has a weak presence in the four robbers, became the best candidate for the new secret-keeper.

Sirius never thought that the cowardly Peter who had always followed them would betray their friendship.

Sirius was the first to arrive at the scene that night.

But he could not find a way to connect the dilapidated and messy ruins with the cottage that was always full of laughter.

Who is that dirty-looking corpse buried under the rubble?

James should go out and hug himself with a big smile instead of lying there in a mess...

Sirius found the despicable betrayer immediately.

Every nerve in his body was screaming for him to die! He wanted the betrayer to pay for James' death!

After madly bombing a street, Sirius waited for the Aurors to arrive.

A broken heart has long been overwhelmed by regret.

None of this would have happened if he hadn't changed the secret-keeper.

Hate? Of course I hate it.

But who should he hate?

Hate your family? Hate them for following the Dark Lord's footsteps without hesitation in order to maintain their so-called glory?

Hate the Dark Lord? Hate him for turning into a moody lunatic? Hate him for dragging the wizarding world into the hell of war?

Hate Dumbledore? Hate the Order of the Phoenix that he led and killed his family? Hate him for not protecting James as the leader of the Order of the Phoenix?

Hate Pettigrew for his weak will and inability to withstand torture?

Or maybe, the only person he hates is himself?

The Dark Lord disappeared just as predicted, and Pettigrew was also destroyed in the explosion. As for Dumbledore, whose reputation was now at its peak, he had no way to stop him...

Sirius looked at the sky, where Sirius could rarely be seen, and forced a smile uglier than crying.

He believed that Dumbledore would take good care of Harry, who was known as the savior, and that he would spend the rest of his life in Azkaban, using his most important freedom to atone for the mistakes he had made in the past...

Apart from atonement, he could no longer find any reason to continue living.

Dirty and dilapidated cells, disgusting food, cold "kiss" from Dementors, and a sister who was cursing madly in the cell opposite...

Sirius originally thought that this was all he had in his later life, but he never expected that his brother-in-law, Lucius Malfoy, who always looked down on others, would take him out of Azkaban regardless of his wishes...