"Saya akan kembali lima hari lagi."
"Saya cinta kamu."
"I love you too. Goodbye." Sirius grinned and hung up. He looked at Amelia's confused expression, and chuckled. "Harry is multi-lingual. Sometimes when he's excited or ramped up on sugar like I expect he is at the moment, he forgets to speak in just one. He said good day, how are you? Yesterday we won the football match. Hadi is celebrating his birthday. Tomorrow we go to the other side of the island to play in the playoff tournament. Have you found my penpal yet? I answered. He said goodbye. I told him I'd be home in five days and he said I love you. When he was little it was worse because he got fluent in Indonesian and the local language so fast and I was still struggling to learn it and then he always mixed it up. Sometimes I swear he did it just to drive me nuts.
"How many languages?"
"He's fluent in four. He's also learning Latin and Japanese at school. He tried to convince me to bring him with me so he could practice his Japanese, until he realized it would mean missing the football tournament and Hadi's birthday."
"What else can you tell me about him?"
"He's horrible at art. He has the eye for composition but had no ability to produce it. That was right up until I gave him a camera a year ago. He loves music and plays cello and guitar but had to work very hard to learn to play, and stubborn doesn't begin to describe him. When he first started playing, he had trouble learning. Did he do what most kids do and give up, no he doubled his practice time. He's a blue belt in Judo, a three stripe yellow belt in silat we started those when he was three. He started learning eskrima two years ago and his teacher says he's a natural. Harry volunteers as an assistant to the teacher with the younger children in that now. He plays football, swims and surfs. He's a straight A, sorry O, student. Some of his classes that's easy, others he has to work for it. He is a boy scout and despite only having been one for a year he's already half done with his level's merit badges."
"You sound like you enjoy parenthood. Did you know I have custody of Edgar and Marie's daughter?"
"No. So how do you like parenthood?"
"I find it challenging, but rewarding."
"I hear you. I suspect if I didn't have Sri and Liana I wouldn't have survived that first two years."
"Who are they?"
"Sri is Harry's healer and my second, and much better, mother. Liana is her sister and a squib, but an absolute lifesaver for me. She taught me how to live as a muggle and she's our housekeeper /nanny all in one. She is like an old aunty who is good hearted and annoying at the same time. She has fourteen grandchildren about half of which are Harry's friends. She bosses all of us around, for our own good mind you. She and Sri are almost opposites, but I have been the happiest I have ever been in my life since they took Harry and I under their wings."
Amelia paused and reflected. The Sirius she met and worked with, had nothing in common with the man in front of her. He had been smart, sarcastic,and borderline cruel with little to no tolerance for other peoples foibles, the only people he had trusted had been his school friends, in summary he had been a boy. "You've changed."
"I'm not the opinionated monster I used to be. Six months as a fugitive, followed by having to learn to live like a muggle was a humbling experience. Learning that you are almost as helpless as a toddler in the muggle world tends to kick the stuffing out of your pride. And Sri is more than a specialist in healing dark magic; she's also a mind healer that has supplemented her magical training with muggle courses in medicine with a bit of a focus in psychology and psychiatry. She's respected throughout Indonesia. Anyway she forced me to realize that to be a good parent to Harry I needed to work through my own issues and then helped me to do it."
"You trust her."
"Completely. She is trustworthy. When I was younger I didn't really know that trust could be done in degrees. I trusted the Marauders completely,incorrectly it turns out. I distrusted everyone else, hold over from my parents and their methods. I've learned now that there are some people to trust completely, some not to trust at all but that most you can trust in varying degrees according to their interests."
"Why trust me?"
"You Amelia, are an exemplary Puff and you were Head girl in your year. You have always had a reputation of forthright honesty and despite having a seat on the Wizengamot and a job at the ministry you tend to dislike politics and politicians. I know from the goblins you refused to participate in that travesty of a trial I was given. And you didn't immediately kill me or even try to. How ever you should notice I'm not trusting you with everything. I don't trust you with Harry's location for example.
"Why talk to you? I need someone to know the truth to start searching out the proof. I'm tired of hiding and not being able to move about freely. I want to have leverage over Dumbledore before Harry leaves for Hogwarts, I have to protect him. I want to be able to be in Great Britain to see Harry during breaks and summer vacation. I want to be able to influence what happens at Hogwarts."
"If Great Britain is so dangerous for you and Harry, why Hogwarts? There are other schools."
"Hogwarts is his heritage. The school was founded by the founders, but what isn't commonly known is the Potter's own the land it was built on and provided the materials to build with. To this day the fund that maintains the castle, it's grounds, and the majority of the costs of the school is held by the Potter family. Technically Harry owns the school. Harry is also technically Godric's heir on his father's side because Godric's male lines died out and his granddaughter by his daughter married a Potter.
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