Sirius Black has his own plan to protect the infant Harry Potter.

Acknowledgements: Buffyverse characters are the creation of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. Potterverse characters are the creation of J. K. Rowling.

This story started out as an entry in the Twisting the Hellmouth Fic for All.

I started this before JKR got around to publishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows so there are some discrepancies. For the purposes of this story assume that everything in DH happened pretty much the way JKR said it did, but different people died.

Also, elements of the scene in the bank in chapter 5 bear a strong resemblance to a scene in Harry Potter and the Exiled Slayer by M. Scott Eiland. I had this scene in my head before I read his version of a visit of a Slayer to Gringotts’. The resemblance is purely coincidental. (I do commend Scott’s story, and all the others he has written, to all readers.)