Harry Potter: A Different Sirius

George had not really known what to expect when he took the job with Sirius. He thought he'd be basically doing the same stuff he'd been doing without the headaches that working for WIS under Chambers brought him. Instead he felt much more utilized and better paid to boot. He was very surprised to realize that Sirius for all his lackadaisical ways, was actually a very astute businessman that seemed to have a vision for what all his security hires would accomplish.

Six of the twelve hires had warding and curse breaking backgrounds and one of the first things he had them do was travel to all of the various businesses and holdings that belonged to him and examine the security already present and to make suggestions to improve both the security and the safety of all those properties. Those teams were still gone on their world tour. Alexis Cruz had gone with them with instructions to observe and report any inconsistencies he noticed. George felt those instructions were very vague but when Alexis said the was something odd at their second stop. Sirius sent a two more of the hires that had background in investigation together with a goblin that was an accountant and a week later there was proof of the manager of that company was skimming the off the company profits. Obviously Sirius had known what he was doing.

George found his work schedule amusing. Monday and Tuesday were his days off. Wednesday and Thursday he was busy doing interviews, paperwork and planning for the training program Sirius wanted to implement. Friday afternoon through Sunday he worked long days with Harry; occlumency work, fencing and kendo. The later two were interspersed between talking about the memories Harry was sorting. The workouts were serving as a very physical outlet for the anger the memories generated. Harry was angered that anyone could do some of the atrocious things that he was seeing in the memories. They would do the sorting when Harry first came home for the weekend then they would fence. Harry would have dinner with the family then George and Harry would talk about his feelings and do a clearing of the mind exercise before Harry went to bed. Depending on the memory they had examined sometimes, frequently, Harry had nightmares and sometimes, rarely, he didn't. Saturday morning they would again review the memory note any noteworthy information in the memory follow it with a kendo workout after which Harry usually moved on to one of his other magical subjects. Late afternoon they would talk again and after dinner they would repeat the occlumency mind clearing meditation. If Harry had a nightmare again they would talk again in the next morning as Harry would make breakfast for everyone. Harry typically spent Sunday with his family doing homework from Stuart-Cavanaugh and volunteer work at the food bank or women' shelter or spending the afternoon getting taught strategy, tactics and politics by his Granddad and Uncle Nic. If the nightmares were very bad he would talk with George again. If the nightmares were particularly bad on Saturday Harry would take a dreamless sleep potion with him to school for Sunday night.

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Rachel was getting more and more fed up with WIS. Chambers had instigated new reports that had to be filled in by security teams on a daily basis. Which didn't really make sense because Beth and Sirius had a pretty quiet lifestyle since mid-way through Beth's pregnancy. They went to the castle every other weekend and their days were very routine. Security at their house was actually tighter than at the Magic Castle so much so, that the crew went light at night. Rachel went to the State Department on weekday mornings. Sirius stayed home and worked from his office in the house and helped Sonia Barstow, the new nanny, with the babies. To Rachel there was nothing worse than having to fill out repetitive boring reports that no one read anyway. Even Roy hated the reports and didn't see the point. Rachel suspected a lot of the purebloods didn't bother with the reports, but as a muggleborn Rachel knew one missed report would be a blackmark in her jacket so she filled out the reports. Finally the day for her annual review came. She dressed carefully then went in to see Chambers.

"Ah yes, Miss Luttrell please come in." Chambers opened the folder in front of him. "You are security for the President's step daughter's family correct?"

"Yes sir."

"That means you take orders from Roy Mustang correct?"

"Yes sir."

"And does Mr. Mustang always follow procedure Miss Luttrell?"

"Sir?" Rachel had the nasty feeling that Chambers was hunting for something, something that would allow him to get rid of Roy. After all Roy was bucking to take over Chamber's job.

"It's a simple question does Mr. Mustang follow procedure?"

"Yes sir."

"Really? Then how do explain your being on a protection detail? You were in the arithmancy research department doing spell analysis."

"Roy pulled me to Miss O'Neill's detail because I am muggleborn and would be better able to fit in to the lifestyle which she leads."

"Yes, so I've heard. I've also heard that you have run some of his non-approved trainings. Hardly following procedure, Miss Luttrell."

"Sir isn't the ultimate goal of any WIS agent to be effective in negating threats to the wizarding population?"

"Yes,but I fail to see how that relates."

"More options to choose from sir."