Harry Potter: A Different Sirius

Charlie was happy the things he was being asked to teach and the expectations were realistic he wasn't being asked to turn the kid into an auror in eight weeks. "Okay follow me." He led the way to the storage room where the handbooks were for the trainees. He pulled three books out Compendium of Spell Identification by I.D. Hurst, Dark Creatures: Facts, Fiction and Fighting Them by W. R. Knight, Basic Magical First Aide for Aurors by Helena Purcell and handed them to Harry. I also recommend three books Dark Forces:A Guide to Self Protection by Quentin Trimble, Practical Defensive Magic and Its Use Against the Dark Arts and Self Defensive Spellwork between them I think you'll get a grounding in defense."

They spent the rest of the day with Charlie showing Sirius the classrooms he would be teaching in and discussing how the both came to be trainers versus active duty. Charlie had taken a Heavy Duty cutting curse to the spine at the waist. Healers had been able to give him back partial mobility and feeling enough he didn't embarrass himself but the nerves were damaged enough that he had to use crutches or on his bad days a wheelchair to get around. Sirius commiserated because between the withering curse on his leg which had atrophied his muscles and tendons and the cutting curse that had almost removed his leg at the knee meant he would always need a cane.

By the end of the day Charlie was impressed, reluctantly but still impressed. Black had spoken knowledgeably and comfortably about aurors and their training. Harry had demonstrated an awareness Charlie associated with being on alert to threats. He noticed that the two seemed to watch each others' back as a matter of habit.

He was even more impressed the next day when he sat in on Sirius' first lecture. Harry sat off to the back side of the room reading from his assigned books.

"Good morning everyone. Raise your hands to answer how many of you are purebloods like myself? Hafblood? Muggleborn? How many of you could go to the heart of Chicago and be completely comfortable if your assignment required it of you, versus how many of you might need at some point to obliviate someone?" Most all of the classes purebloods and about half the halfbloods shifted uncomfortably. "That's what I thought. Eight years ago that would have been my answer as well. My name is Sirius Black and I am here to teach you how to blend in with muggles. Why should you learn this you might ask? For two reasons one a little thing called the International Statute of Secrecy and the other is the results of a little known study that was done in Indonesia twelve years ago.

"The first is something that all witches and wizards are bound to uphold the last wizard to have knowingly broke it still sits in Nurmengard today Grindelwald. He broke it when he allied himself to Adolf Hitler in Germany and helped start the second World War that killed, depending on what books you look at, 68 to 78 million people. The statute of secrecy was created to protect wizarding kind in a time when muggles hunted and killed us from fear. Today world wide there are just under a million wizards and witches versus four point five billion muggles. Numbers alone dictate we must be cautious not to reveal ourselves if we don't want to be hunted from fear or ignorance, forced into slavery or killed for scientific study. In Indonesia the line between magical and non is much less defined despite the Statute of Secrecy and each year there, there are usually twenty deaths directly related to magicals versus non magicals real or suspected because of fear and ignorance. Mind you about a third of those were the deaths of a magical at the hand of a muggle. Muggles aren't as powerless as they may seem.

"The study I mentioned was conducted by a halfblood about the long term effect of obliviation on muggles. The results was interesting. For every hundred muggles that were obliviated sixty five percent experienced clinical depression or some other form of mental illness afterward. And a third of the sixty five percent tried to commit suicide and a half of the third did so successfully. So eleven people died due to some wizard or witch failing to observe the law. Can your conscience live with that? Mine has a hard time with it, I became an auror to save lives not take them. I'm not saying it's not necessary to obliviate people but that figure inspires me daily to blend in as much as possible.

"Eight years ago circumstance forced me to learn about muggles and that is what I'm here to pass on to you…"

Over the next week Charlie was pleased because Harry had been proven to be the quick study Sirius claimed him to be. He had quizzed him and Harry had answered the questions proving he had a solid grasp of light versus dark magic. He had observed that Harry had situational awareness even in "safe" situations, and unlike many of the incoming recruits Harry was physically fit. At Charlie's request, Harry had joined the incoming recruit class for the morning exercise and spar. Charlie and his friend, Dani Resse who ran the class, had laughed so hard they fell over when the slender boy two thirds to half their size had dumped the class of adults on their arses.

Harry had acquired the Stinging hex the Jelly legs jinx and was working on Petrificus Totalis when Sirius asked for him to participate in an exercise for the recruits. It was to show them why work on suppressing magical signature.

It was an exercise Charlie found fascinating. Sirius, Harry, and Rachel versus thirty students at a time only allowed to fire the spells Harry had managed to master on a course that resembled a darkened warehouse. The recruits were to find the "Bad guys" based on magic signature while the bad guys hunted them on the same criteria. All four classes of recruits raw beginners to advance about to graduate were beaten by the three. Sirius used the exercise to make a point that some tricks were worth knowing.

Seeing Harry's teamwork with Sirius and Rachel, Charlie came to the conclusion that Harry was being trained by multiple people. So he asked about it. "How come are you getting trained this way Harry?"

"When Sirius said I had enemies he wasn't lying. The first attempt on my life was when I was fifteen months old. It was followed almost immediately by someone trying to take control of me and putting me at my aunt's. Yes she's kin, but according to Sirius she's a magic phobic. Sirius "kidnapped" me to prevent that since he was supposed to get custody anyway. He is training me and getting others to train me in addition to himself so I will be strong enough and flexible enough to survive anything my enemies throw at me. Having multiple trainers gives me the advantage of multiple styles to make me more adaptable."

"Who all you working with?"

"Rachel and Sirius, I had an illness that interfered with my ability to access my core or do magic. It was mostly going to defend my body from possession by.. it doesn't matter now we got rid of it. My magic went a little crazy and I've spent the last several months getting my magic under conscious control. I took training in my core with Yiska Walker in Arizona, then we went to San Francisco to train with Rose Tyler for my Metamorphamagus talents. My magical control was still shaky so we went to a place in Montana to learn about magical plants and creatures so I could have more time to work on control. From there I went to Salem and trained with Inarra Serra she taught me theory of magic and made my wand. Then came New York I got a grounding in charms by Jack Harkness. When we go back to D.C., I'll go back to my school and train on the weekends with Sirius Rachel, and the rest of Beth's team Until next school break then we'll see what Sirius has in mind for me next."

The security for this leg was light since Harry and Sirius spent most of their time in an actual WIS facility. On the weekends they got a couple of the other teachers/trainers to act as additional escorts on their excursions. They went to the Brookfield Zoo, the Shedd Aquarium, the Navy pier, the Museum of Science and Industry, Six Flaggs Great America, and Adler Planetarium. At the planetarium Harry got interested in astronomy and was happy to hear that was a subject he would get to study at Hogwarts. They went to a Shakespearian play and to a baseball game at Wrigley Field. They went sailing on Lake Michigan in addition to catching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Ghost busters II, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

Sirius planned a magical outing on their last day in Chicago. Sirius took Harry to see his first Quidditch game. They left Chicago for home in D.C. with a lot of memories of the last twelve months and a list of new employees.

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