Harry and his friends went to the library where Harry wrote a short letter to Sirius and went to the Owlery to send it. He reached it and spotting Hedwig, petted her a bit and tied his letter and told her to take it to Sirius and Remus and walked back to the library, grinning and smirking in anticipation of the fireworks that Hogwarts would witness the next day.
He spent the rest of the day talking with Hermione and a very sulky Draco Malfoy was had already written to his father about his muggle relations. While Draco did not mind Hermione, he became livid with anger and horror as he thought of Colin Creevy. And the worst thing was the fact that both of them were Gryffindors. Why could he not be related to someone in Ravenclaw or Harry, if it had to be someone from Gryffindor?
Draco was very jealous indeed as he sat there fuming about the dirty fates; Snape! Harry was related to Snape of all people. Snape was nice and all that, but he was not in the Malfoy family league; but then the Malfoy family league had taken quite a beating, when Colin Creevy was added to their family.
Hogwarts was raging that day with purebloods dismayed with the extra baggage they had collected, almost all of them, pretty unhappy with their lot. The Slytherins and Ravenclaws were in particular displeased to see the muggleborns who were in Hogwarts and even a few who still had no magical children and still lived in the muggle world as muggles, without knowing they belonged to the magical world once upon a time, added to their family. It was so insulting they felt.
The parents and the press turned out the next day. Owls had been sent to all the parents informing them about the potion and also inviting them to the school so that they could see the result of the potion for themselves. The press headed by Rita Skeeter came gushing and eager to know all details and try and find if they could poke any holes into the whole thing.
All the parents were ushered into the Great Hall and the teachers stood on either side of the Headmaster as parents, Ministry officials and reporters came eagerly and waited for Dumbledore to speak about the potion and the results. The Malfoys along with a lot of other pureblood families were there glaring at everyone and looking very displeased. Draco letter and its contents had reached Lucius, apparently. Two other people stormed in, looking furious as well. Sirius and Remus.
That morning had started well for Sirius. He had woken up early, thinking about the potion results and had like so many others been planning to go over to Hogwarts to see the results being announced that day. He was hoping Harry would be related to him; that would make Harry officially his family. He thought of Harry as his family already, as the child he never had and perhaps may never have either and if Lily was related to the Blacks it would be nothing short of magnificent, really.
'What do you think Remus?' he asked the quiet man, who was making breakfast for them.
'About what?'
'About Lily's family, what else?' Sirius asked impatiently. 'Today's the day, we'll know.' Wistfully he added, 'Harry would've known yesterday. I hope he's related to me, Remy.' Sirius finished softly, longing in his eyes.
Remus smiled, but did not say anything. Sirius was simply thinking out aloud. Remus though thought differently. If he knew Harry, Remus felt that he would have himself related to some spectacular person, no one would have thought of. But he did not say it and allowed Sirius to dream.
They ate in silence afterwards and Sirius was just finishing the cleaning up when Hedwig sailed in through the window and landed on the table, holding her leg out. Remus had gone out of the kitchen and Sirius suddenly sat down very nervous and excited. He knew it was from Harry and he was so excited that he could not think straight for a second. Then, his hands trembling, Sirius slowly removed the letter and opened it.
Dear Sirius and Remus,
I took my potion today and found out who Mum was related to. I am so happy Sirius that I am related to him, because he is so clever and intelligent. Yes, Sirius, you have got it right in one. It's Professor Snape.
And Sirius, you won't believe who is related to you. It's Hermione and she wants to say she's happy about it too.
See you guys in School tomorrow,
Harry
Sirius looked at the short note in disbelief; it was a prank, surely; Sirius sat still for a second and then feverishly, he took out his wand and started casting many spells to check the authenticity of the note. It was unfortunately for Sirius very authentic and there seemed no spell that could tell him it was a prank. Sirius was stunned; stunned at the betrayal he was feeling with Lily. Sirius banged his head on the table and swore aloud; of all people in the whole wide world, Lily had to go and to be related to Snape. Snape! It had to be the snivelling git she was related to; and that was just too bad and completely unacceptable. And Harry was thrilled and happy? What was wrong with that boy? Sirius crumpled the note and threw it on the table. He had not even noticed Hermione being related to him and at that moment he would not have cared,
He gnashed his teeth and in a rage took a plate from the table and threw it against the wall. It smashed with a very satisfying sound and Sirius grit his teeth again and threw a few more plates at the wall. Snape would be unbearable. One thing Lily had never spoken to James or anyone for that matter had been her friendship with Snape. He knew James had been very curious and terribly jealous about it; and he had fumed about Snape for hours. Even after they were going out, Lily never spoke about Snape, and the first time James and all of them had laughed about Snape the death eater; she had looked stormily at James and strode off. James had to literally beg his way into her good graces and from then on, Snape was a word never spoken in her presence.
Though that had not stopped them from hexing him whenever they met him, Sirius grinned in a feral manner as he remembered; James had been wounded and very envious that Lily would not hear them joking about a death eater, and a stinking git in Sirius's opinion. In seventh year, their fights with Snape had been very fierce, though they took care to see that Lily never knew that they even met Snape outside of classes, let alone fought with him.
Snape had also not spoken a word about Lily to anyone in the School as far as Sirius knew, after they had broken up the night their OWLS had ended, all because Snape had called Lily a mudblood. Sirius grinned as he remembered that night; he and the others were underneath James's invisibility cloak, seeing the friendship that had given James so many sleepless nights come to an end. It was Snape's fault, for calling Lily a name she had hated with such intensity and James had rejoiced.
She had been awfully quiet for the rest of that year and all of sixth; burying into her schoolwork and hardly talking to others and becoming completely withdrawn. In their seventh year, James and Lily had been made Head Boy and Head Girl and their duties had thrown them together. Slowly James had managed to thaw the girl whom he had been hopelessly in love with and it had been after Christmas that they had had their first date. Sirius was lost in nostalgia, as he remembered the panic James had indulged in for a week, before that day when he would finally take Lily out.
Somehow from then that romance had grown in leaps and bounds. James had been thrilled and had lived with his head in the clouds and his feet not touching the ground for the rest of their school year. Then he had proposed and Lily had accepted at once and then that was that. They had got married and then had Harry and then, Sirius's eyes darkened as he remembered what happened next.
'Sirius, are you ready? Hey! What happened here? And why are you standing like this, when we should be leaving for Hogwarts?' Remus had just come in and was shocked to see plates smashed and in pieces and Sirius standing with such a vengeful expression on his face.
'Just read this Remy.'
'Wha, oh!' Remus saw the letter and smoothed the badly crumpled letter and started reading and his eyes widened in disbelief as he finished the short note.
'How?' he stammered. 'How can this be? Lily was related to Snape of all people? How?'
Sirius glared at Remus and scowled. 'I don't know. But I'm sure Snivellus has had something to do with this. Come on. Let's go and find out and Remus, I'm assuring you, I am going to make his face as greasy as his hair and DON"T ask me how. You watch Remy. Just see how I'm going to do this. I'm going to kill him; that's the best thing. I'll kill him and go to Azkaban and you take care of Harry.' Sirius shouted, his rage overtaking him once more.
'Sirius, have you become insane. Stop this nonsense at once.' Remus shouted, shaking Sirius and shocking him out of his helpless rage.
'Huh! What the hell?' Sirius glared at Remus who was looking very worried.
'Sirius, CALM down. Were going to Hogwarts anyway and we'll see there, okay. Just don't get yourself into knots and hurt Harry, for heaven' sake. That'll do us no good. Harry says he likes Snape. Tread carefully old boy, and don't lose Harry because of your anger.' Remus told him, trying to put some sense into Sirius, who was looking wild and his eyes were furious as he heard Remus reason it out.