Sirius Black

Lord Sirius Orion Black was born in 1959 to Orion and Walburga Black, and 'gained his majority' following graduation from Hogwarts. He  is the current Lord Black and Hammer of the Light, and serves as the protagonist's godfather and as the man chiefly in charge of defense and security related matters in the government of Magical Britain, the Ministry of Magic and holds the position of Chief Auror in the Department of Law Enforcement. He has a seat at the Wizengamot and is a leading member of the Light faction. He has a daughter, godson and is very wealthy.

It is known that Sirius Black lived with his best friend James Potter, of the Potter family, and that the Blacks attempted to force Sirius Black to return to their family dwelling. The Wizengamot denied this move, due to undisclosed reasons, leaving Sirius Black as heir to the Family. His daughter, Alexandra, was born under odd circumstances. It is theorized that the mysterious *Jezebel* is involved, but no confirmation has been achieved.

Following graduation, it is known that Sirius Black became an Auror, proficient in battle magic and using the notorious Auror Shield. His skill and power has given him the title, 'Hammer of the Light', although that is not believed to be an actual title.

Above all, he is a nice guy to Harry Potter.

## Personality

Sirius Black is a man with many sources of guilt, responsibility and perhaps some shame. He is connected to Harry Potter's abandonment at the Dursleys by way of his closest friend, his daughter is recently somewhat alienated from him, her mother is not present in her life and Black has clearly had trouble fulfilling his parental obligations as father and 'mother'; he has also not done as his conscience wanted him in with regards to how the Potter's sons were treated. He is person compromised by his loyalties, each of which he takes seriously, including his job, on top of family and friends and above all best friend.

Sirius is however ordinarily a laid-back person who only happens to apply himself intensely to a few important things in life and worries about his daughter. He is a cheerful individual, rarely seen as depressed. Like Alex's mother (whom Sirius never talks about), he was a Gryffindor, and best friends with James Potter. He values his family over almost everything else, opposing respected figures in their defense. He did not desire his daughter to learn the official Lady traits, possibly due to bad memories of his own upbringing, but chose to not stop her learning from Lady Lily Potter.

It is known Sirius Black is utterly opposed to betrothal contracts, due to events involving the mysterious *Jezebel*.

As an individual, Sirius lets James Potter take the lead on political events, preferring to train as an auror. It is known that after Arthur Weasley informed Sirius about Voldemort's return, Sirius had enough authority or personality to ensure 'Mad-Eye' Moody returned to active duty.

## Abilities

Sirius Black, 'The Hammer of the Light' is a powerful magical duellist and is Chief Auror of the Department of Law Enforcement. Sirius Black became an Animagus at a very young age, a point of pride for his family. He is likely knowledgable in Legilimancy and knows Occlumency, is proficient in wand magic, in Apparition, in Duelling, and has basic knowledge of Ritual magic and the Dark Arts. His skill in magic is exemplary, blending aggressive action with defensive measures in almost perfect harmony. He is known to partner with aurors such as Kingsley Shacklebolt, and perform well.

He is titled, as Lord Black he wields at least one seat in the Wizengamot which grants him political power along with his high ranking position in the Ministry as well as his other powerful friends of the Light faction as well as the primary family of the Light, whose Lord, James Potter is his best friend. Sirius has subverted the traditional stances of his forefathers but has retained and potentially increased the prestigious reputation and status of the House of Black.

## Biography

### Prior timelines

In the first and second timelines Sirius watched his daughter become totally alienated from him. Harry had thought she was 'smart, driven, beautiful and deadly' from what gleaned of Voldemort's visions. She proceeded to join the Dark Lord, becoming a younger and saner Bellatrix Black, pitting herself against her father and his faction, the Light.

Sirius likely believed Harry to be Dark and untrustworthy since he was a Slytherin. He likely believed Harry to be responsible for the Basilisk during second year since Dumbledore and John ensure that Harry is framed. In the second timeline much of this happens again but faster until the Dark Lord's total victory. In this timeline Sirius is most likely killed by Voldemort's forces (of whom his daughter Alexandra Black is a member of) prior to ten year reign.

During the second timeline, Sirius Black donated his library to the Department of Mysteries. This action spurred his daughter, Alexandra Black, to join Lord Voldemort.

### Third time line - Early life

#### **Wand and gold acquiring arc**

Sirius is similarly disconnected to Alexandra as time goes on and she finds her identity and self in the traditions of her family, the Dark Arts and children of the Dark, however her proximity to Lord Slytherin and his proxies (Luna, Ginny, etc) allows her to remain away from the clutches of Lord Voldemort or the Dark faction.

Harry makes effort to get in contact with Alexandra, eventually slipping her an invitation to the Greengrass' party. Sirius seems to ingest Alexandra's sleeping potion, eating his biscuits - though there is a small possibility that he'd known about her plans and pretended to sleep as he later reveals he knows more about Alexandra's activities than he lets on.

#### **Political Gray faction arc**

Following Harry tried to establish a friendship with Alexandra Black, daughter of Sirius Black, but he failed with that task. There was contact between Harry and Lord Slytherin with Alex, but Alex did not trust Harry to train her and Harry couldn't train her as Lord Slytherin all the time, thus leaving a potential ally untrained. They came only to a book exchange agreement. As Lord Slytherin, Harry commands Alexandra's respect and attention whereas her attitude of only toleration and wariness towards Harry Potter inhibits her magical development. However Alexandra's relationships with Luna, Ginny and later others connected to Lord Slytherin allows her to grow her magical power safely, preparing her to cast spells beyond what most of her peers and other hogwarts students are capable of.

#### **Ginny Weasley arc**

Harry brings Ginny Weasley to the Gray. She drinks a hate potion keyed to John Potter and happened to attract his attention and suspicion. John finds out she had a very expensive gift from a mysterious person and takes it to Sirius who checked and confirmed it was clean. He warned John that according to the law, he'd stolen it, then also tells him that the passcode to unshrink the broomstick was 'Harry's Awesome Broomstick', invoking John's paranoia about his brother.

Eventually, Sirius's cousin Andromeda is brought in to help the Weasley family understand Ginny's sudden change in behaviour.

### Year one at Hogwarts

#### **Preparations and getting the stone arc**

Sirius is in his animagus form for the Winter festival and is chased by a many different attendees who hope to subdue him. Later Sirius encounters Neville Longbottom, Draco Malfoy, Zacharius Smith, Theodore Nott and John Potter in danger. They stand near the site of a necromantic ritual, wherein Alexandra Black had renanimated a dead tree some time ago recently . John Potter had cast at the site of the ritual making the magic go awry, and the reanimated tree attacks them leading to Sirius entering the scene and rescuing primarily John from his own over-confidence and ignorance of the danger at hand.

Sirius is informed about about an addition to the search list, consisting of 'Blue Mask and Black Mask' who are 'Wanted for questioning by the spirit division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in relation to the disappearance of one Edgar Hawthorn, a ghost⁠—twenty years dead'. Sirius examines the memories of the wizard with questionable moral character and finds the forms of the two women hauntingly familiar. He concludes that there was at least one rogue necromancer that was not working alone out there. Later he is given a document about about Muggle smugglers wherein the perpetrator was a man magically disguised as Lucius Malfoy - thus raising the chances of a wizard being involved with possible endagerment of the international statute of secrecy.

The night before the duelling tournament Harry Potter and his friends start to secure the room with the thousand mirrors with a fidelius charm. Dumbledore is alerted to the attempted break in and suspected Lord Voldemort. He was to go through more rooms since he didn't know about the shortcut. It was race to prove who was faster. Harry succeeded in disabling the current fidelius before Dumbledore arrived. Dumbledore instantly realized the fidelius went down, and so Sirius is reluctantly called for help by Dumbledore once he has closed off the whole school in an emergency castle lockdown. Eventually Harry Potter successfully casts his own fidelius charm and everybody including the aurors completely forgets about the Philosopher's stone except for Harry.

#### **Duelling tournament and repercussions arc**

Sirius Black visited Harry Potter in his cell, explaining he was shocked at how good he was at duelling. Additionally, he admitted to being Harry's godfather and invited Harry to spend some time with him, and especially his daughter, ironically reasoning, since it looked she was heading towards Slytherin, she'll need a good friend in Harry to keep her out of trouble. Harry agreed to it and also explained the reason behind the conjuring he does to stop going amok.

Albus' intention to Harry incarcerated make a lot of people, including Sirius Black suspicious of him. Since the Gray's prosecution is now intending to free Harry, more evidence is used during the trial and in the end Harry is proclaimed free of any guilt and set free.

#### **Philosopher's stone and Dark Lord arc**

During Lord Slytherin's party, Sirius Black is contacted by Lord James Potter in regards to Harry Potter. During the conversation, James Potter requests aid in returning Harry Potter's custody to the Potter family property. Sirius responds in a negative fashion, noting that his own situation created a precedent for family members escaping the control of their Family Head.

Sirius and James Potter race in their animagi forms to a clearing in the forest and duel. They talk about how Sirius had hunted the 'wizard-muggle drug smuggler', unknowingly hunting his godson Harry Potter who got away every time up until a month ago. Sirius correctly muses that the criminal is likely getting up to other kinds of mischief.

During the Holidays Harry is invited to live with his parents, James and Lily, and agrees to go with them at Alexandra's birthday party, with stipulations that his parents weren't allowed to ask about Lord Slytherin, which they now knew he had to have a connection with.He is also told that he could visit Alex every other day.

### *Who knew what about Harry Hogwarts year one*

By now everyone important knew now that Harry was strong and somehow connected to Lord Slytherin. However Sirius Black is not aware of Harry being Lord Slytherin nor his time travelling.

### *Who knew what about Harry Hogwarts year two*

By now everyone important knows that Harry is strong and somehow connected to Lord Slytherin. Sirius Black is not aware of Harry Potter being Lord Slytherin nor his time travelling.

Sirius Black is revealed to be knowledgeable in the Black Family magics, including rituals and spells. Some believe that he is truly Dark, after his daughter reacted over the Slytherin common-room.

## References

Book 1 - RiBSR - Ch. 10 - The Book of Names - 2/2,

Harry is named Harry James Potter Slytherin by the book of names.