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- 'You know what this means?' Sirius said abruptly to Harry, as they made their slow progress along the tunnel. 'Turning Pettigrew in?'
- 'You're free,' said Harry.
- 'Yes...' said Sirius. 'But I'm also - I don't know if anyone ever told you - I'm your godfather.'
- 'Yeah, I knew that,' said Harry.
- 'Well... your parents appointed me your guardian,' said Sirius stiffly. 'If anything happened to them...'
- Harry waited. did Sirius mean what he thought he meant?
- 'I'll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your aunt and uncle,' said Sirius. 'But... well... think about it. Once my name's cleared... if you wanted a.. a different home...'
- Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry's stomach.
- 'What - live with you?' he said, accidentally cracking his head on a bit of rock protruding from the ceiling. 'Leave the Dursleys?'
- 'Of course, I thought you wouldn't want to,' said Sirius quickly. 'I understand. I just thought I'd -'
- 'Are you mad?' said Harry, his voice easily as croaky as Sirius'. 'Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?'
- Sirius turned right around to look at him; Snape's head was scraping the ceiling but Sirius didn't seem to care.
- 'You want to?' he said. 'You mean it?'
- 'yeah, I mean it!' said Harry.
- Sirius' gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger was shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognisable as the man who had laughed at harry's parents' wedding.
- THE DEMENTOR'S KISS - Pg 402
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