Lily, James and Danny were having breakfast. There was eggs and bacon. Danny believed he had never eaten anything more delicious before. He could tell that he liked it. He was beaming.
Lily was happy too. She didn't want to admit it to herself, but she had missed a child to look after.
James was grumpy. Not because he didn't like Daniel being with them, no, he was quite simply a morning grouch.
"James! Eat sensibly and don't just poke around in your egg. Why can't you even be a role model?" Lily scolded him, but he just growled.
"Leave him, Lily. I don't need a role model," Danny smiled at her.
"When is Siri coming? You three wanted to do something with me today, right?"
Lily nodded. "He should come soon. We invited him for ten o'clock and now it's a quarter to."
A dull dong! Sounded. James had dropped his head next to the plate of egg and bacon. Danny giggled.
"You invited him so early. I have nothing to do with it."
"I know, honey. If it had been up to you, he wouldn't come until the afternoon, wouldn't he?"
Krone nodded. His head was still on the table, which looked a bit silly.
It rang.
"I'll open it," the Riddle hurried to say, dived from the kitchen chair and raced to the front door. Lily looked after him with a smile.
"Siri!" The little one called happily after opening the door. He jumped into the animagus' arms.
"Hey! Take it easy, Danny! Let me come in first, okay?" Said the man and put the boy back on his own feet.
"Where are Krone and Lily?"
"They're still eating," Danny replied, pulling Sirius into the kitchen with him.
Lily had just finished eating, but James was still lying with his head on the tabletop.
Paw started grinning when he saw his best friend. “Krone, you are stopping the other two.” He was visibly amused.
The addressee grumbled tiredly: "Not everyone can get up as early as you, paw."
Lily sighed and just shook her head at her husband. How could James survive school with this attitude?
"Come on, darling, sit up. You are the only one left to eat. If you want, you can beat yourself on the ear for an hour. Danny, Sirius and I play something in the meantime."
James nodded again and straightened up. Sullenly, he continued to eat.
Meanwhile, the three others made their way into the living room.
"Well, here we have Monopoly, don't worry, Koboldstein and magic chess," the young woman listed as she strode through the cozy room.
"What is man not angry?" Asked Daniel and Sirius in sync.
"A Muggle game," she explained as she opened the closet the games were in. She also briefly explained the rules of the game.After a quick exchange of looks between Danny and Siri, it was decided. They played human don't get angry.
The Riddle really wanted the green pawns and the Black was glad that the curly head of the house didn’t play along because he didn’t have to argue with him about the red pawns. Lily took the yellow one.
They played for almost an hour, made jokes and laughed a lot, although Paw felt a little grumpy when he saw that he was going to lose.
When Danny only had to bring one character into the house, James stepped into the living room. He was ready to leave.
He looked at the gamblers who were sitting on the floor.
Danny grinned, Lily smiled, and Paw pouted.
"Hey! Is anyone interested in me or is the game more interesting?" Asked Krone with a smile. He walked up to the three sitting on the floor and knelt next to Lily.
"Of course the game is more interesting than you," his wife giggled and gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "But I still take care of you."
Danny looked up from the board and looked at James questioningly.
"Can we go now? Are you ready, James?"
Addressed looked at the boy affectionately.
"Yes, we can go. We don't want Paw to fall into depression because he lost this game."
"I'll win!" Sirius growled at his friend, but he laughed. "Your characters are all out of the game." He looked Siri in the eye. "I take it you are red."
Sirius grumbled in agreement but didn't say a word.


When the four had left the house and Siri, thanks to Danny, was thawed again, they set off for the city.
On the way they met some people. Some were Muggles, other wizards and Danny could even see the pointed ears of the elves in a young man who came towards them.
All in all, the Riddle's suspicions from yesterday increased.
"So where do you want to go first?" Lily asked and Danny looked around. They had arrived downtown.
Actually, everything looked interesting to him. He had barely got out of the mansions where he had lived up to now.
"I don't know," said Danny.
"Actually, we thought we'd go shopping with you and then we'd like to have an ice cream."
James didn't fully agree with the idea of ​​going shopping, but Lily and Padfoot had overruled it.
"Yeah, OK!" Danny beamed and grabbed Sirius' hand. "But we can't buy anything for me anyway."
Sirius looked down at his arm in amazement. "Why not?" He asked.
Lily and James also looked confused at the boy.
"Because I'll be going home soon," answered Daniel and smiled a little wider.
"You can't go back," said the dog animagus, kneeling down next to him. He put his hands on his shoulders.
"You're dead, Daniel. Died. You can't go back to the living."Daniel's smile suddenly disappeared.
"Yes, I can!" He replied defiantly.
"Danny," Sirius said gently, but was interrupted.
"Of course the boy can go back. If my guess is correct." Siri looked over Danny and the couple also looked at the man who had spoken.
"Albus! What are you doing here?" Sirius asked in amazement.
"I went shopping!" Siri got in response and Danny shook his hands off his shoulders, turned around.
What he saw was a man about 25 years old who was holding up two plastic bags. However, he had put on a smile that could be that of an old man. The riddle was confused. He had been shown Albus Dumbledore's picture of his father and apparently this young man in front of him was supposed to be the old man in the photo. But that wasn't possible! Nobody could rejuvenate. Well, no one except for a few magical beings.
He was supposed to hate Dumbledore as much as his father did, but he couldn't. He didn't hate anyone.
The man noticed the boy's gaze and started to explain: "When we die, we can choose an age at which we want to stay. This does not apply to all beings who are under ten years old, however. They also grow up they're ten. Oh, and before you ask: it's only going back and not forward. "
"That explains why they look like that and why Sirius looks so good. Mama said that his stay in Azkaban left clear marks, but you can't see anything anymore.
But it doesn't explain why they believe I can go back. "concluded the little one.
Dumbledore smiled fatherly.
"You're Tom's son, aren't you?"
The Riddle nodded in confusion.
"Then you are a Horcrux child and of course you can go back."
The boy smiled fondly at Albus and said, "I say that all the time. I'm not a normal child. I can go back, but nobody believes me."
Sirius blinked inappropriately. "What kind of nonsense are you talking about? He can go back? And what please, by Merlin's name, is a Horcrux child?"
"I'll explain that to you, or better said to you, when we're undisturbed. Will you come to me, you four?" He asked and added in a friendly manner: "Does anyone want a lemon soda?"

Danny was on Sirius' arm when the five arrived at Albus' parents' house. Well, actually it was more of a house. It stood there, squeezed between two other houses, overgrown with ivy.
Flower boxes stood on the window sills and there was a porch swing on the tiny terrace in front of the house.
Danny's eyes widened with the admiration he felt for the architect of this house.
"That's beautiful, Professor!"
Albus smiled.
"Isn't that right, my boy? My mother picked it out and made it up."
He opened the garden gate and led the way towards the house.The couple and Sirius, the boy in their arms, followed him.
"I don't really want to leave here, but I have to, at the latest when Aberforth gets here. Five people in this little house are just too many," said Dumbledore.
The former professor took a key from one of the many cloak pockets and unlocked the door with it.
He entered and quickly put down the bags, because a small whirlwind rushed towards him and landed in his arms.
This whirlwind turned out to be a brown-haired girl. She was about twelve years old and apparently a very lively little person.
"Ariana, not so stormy! Let's come in first," laughed the older one and gently pushed the girl away.
"Us?" She asked, looking past her big brother. Ariana started to smile.
"Lily! Paw! Crown! You are here! How beautiful!", She exclaimed, then her eyes fell on Danny.
"Who is this?"
"I'm Danny," said Danny, then asked with wide eyes: "Are you Professor's sister?"
"Yes!"
During that brief conversation everyone had entered. Albus had picked up the bags again and Krone had closed the door.
“Can I carry you too, Danny?” Ariana looked at him innocently.
"Sure, of course!"
He held out his short arms to the girl and she took it from Sirius.
"Just don't drop it, little one," he told her.
She just smiled at him encouragingly and went into the small living room with the Riddle.
The adults looked after the children in amazement. Albus smiled slightly.
"Come into the kitchen with me. I'll explain what the Horcrux children are all about. Would you like a lemon tea?"

"So, what are these Horcrux children now?", Crown asked Albus seriously as all four of them sat at the kitchen table. There was a colorful cup of tea in front of each of them.
"My boy, a Horcrux child is the child of someone who has created one or more pieces of soul, that is, horcruxes.
As far as I know, Tom Riddle is the only one who made seven pieces. "
"Seven pieces? A total of seven? I think you're Senile, Albus. Seven! I don't even