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Action Scene: Sirius Black at Hogwarts, wandering the halls toward Gryffindor Tower.


The destruction to the old castle was devastating but he still recognized the hallowed halls he'd roamed as a teen. Sirius ran his hand along the stone wall as he walked and thought about everything that had happened, everything that he'd heard.

After making his way to the Library and reading through the stacks of old Prophets, he'd been shocked to read his own obituary and the notice of his will. Oh, he knew of what was in the deed and where his last testaments were going but he'd never thought to actually see the parchment announcing it at large. Bloody hell, he was definitely a nothing now. Well, he'd finally lived up to his mother's screaming expectations.

He shook his head, trying to clear the morbid thoughts and wondered what he was going to do. He was alive once more and had no idea what to do with himself. He had no where to go and there was no evil to fight. Prongs and Lily were in the same boat and wouldn't need another confused person around; they had their own lives to find and live now. Moony had his new life with a babe and a wife; and how was that for irony. Now that Harry was almost grown; the little sprog he dotted on would be going off and starting his own life as well. Fuck it all, he was depressing now that he was alive again. He laughed out loud and it echoed off the walls a bark of sound that sounded nearly insane even to him.

Sirius stopped and looked around, finding himself outside of Gryffindor Tower. He snorted and shook his head, disbelieving he'd made it all the way up here and not noticed. He looked at the portrait and realized he didn't even know the passwords to get inside.

Shaking his head again, he sat down on the stone floor and laid his head down on his knees, surely Harry or someone would be coming in or out soon.