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Apparently a lot could go wrong with the family together.

Harry started yelling at Ron and Hermione within minutes of seeing them. While he was yelling, Remus and Sirius took Claire aside and tried to see if she knew anything else about the premonition she had the night before, especially since that was the first time something like that had happened to her. She could barely remember what she had even said because it had caused a new wave of brain fog, so they didn't push her too hard.

The next few weeks were mainly filled with cleaning the house and the adults trying to keep the teens out of Order meetings. Fred and George were still upset with Crookshanks, who had tried to eat one of their inventions that allowed them to hear into the meetings. Harry was the most upset about being left out as there had been a whole fight on the first night he got there about how much information he should know. Luckily, Sirius still told Claire basically everything so she told Harry all that she knew too.

She felt guilty when Sirius would give her small bits of information because she was hiding a big secret from him. She kept having dreams about his brother. She knew enough to know that Regulus had been a Death Eater, but something told her that that wasn't true until the end like they had previously thought. But the most concerning thing is that she kept seeing a vision of Regulus sitting at a kitchen table. She would be walking into the room and she could see the outline of two heads sitting with him, and she knew it was Remus and Sirius.

"You keep looking at Regulus' name," Sirius noted, bringing her out of her trance. They were all working together to clean a library that had a large family tree on the walls.

"You two just look a lot alike," Claire lied. Sirius and Harry came to stand next to her.

"You're not on here," Harry pointed out.

"That's me. They burned me off after I came to live with James," Sirius responded, pointing to a hole in the wall where it was obvious there used to be a face. Half of his name was still evident, and it made Claire shiver to see how fast his own parents could forget him and wipe him from history. "That's my cousin, Andromeda. She married a muggle-born man, Ted Tonks. That's why she's burnt off."

"Ew, you're related to the Malfoys," Harry said, a disgusted look on his face.

"I guess it's a good that Claire isn't blood related to me, isn't it?" Sirius joked. Claire blushed and elbowed his side.

"Would my dad be on here?" Harry asked suddenly. "He was a Pureblood, right?"

"Technically, he probably is on here somewhere," Sirius responded. "Any bloodtraitors got removed a while ago. The Weasley family should be here too, but Mother and Father didn't like anyone who didn't agree with their bloodstatus views. My brother was the perfect son, so he got to stay."

"Was he a follower of Voldemort?" Harry questioned.

"He was," Sirius confirmed.

"He wasn't at the end," Claire spat out. She had a bad habit of saying things that she had seen in visions before her brain could comprehend what she way saying. This was one of those times. Judging by the look on Sirius' face, he thought that his brother had been loyal until the end.

"How did he die?" Harry asked, not noticing Sirius' shocked face.

"We don't know," Sirius said.

"He drowned," Claire replied at the same time. Her eyebrows furrowed because she couldn't remember ever having seen that before.

"How did you...what?" Sirius finally said after a lengthy pause.

"I don't know," Claire responded truthfully.