Just as Harry and Sirius embraced, a lilting melody of recorder and piano reached their ears.
Harry thought back over his experiences these past few years. Sometimes life was so unpredictable...
Sirius, meanwhile, remembered the moments of his life over the past twenty-odd years...
Lupin was the same, his expression blank...
Then Dobby suddenly dropped to his knees, stamped his feet, and burst into tears, instantly pulling them out of that mood.
Sirius was the first to come to his senses. He released Harry and turned to look at Douglas.
Douglas was holding a pocket radio, and the music was coming from it.
"Doug!"
Sirius's roar also roused Lupin and Harry from the music.
Harry recognized the radio in Douglas's hand. It looked exactly like the one that had recorded Parseltongue before.
He had previously asked Douglas about it, wanting to buy that Magic Radio as a gift for Hermione, but Douglas had said that Dumbledore had taken the radio and never returned it.
"Uncle, did the headmaster return the radio?"
Douglas said disgruntledly:
"No, I made this one again. Remember, if you have anything good in the future, never let Dumbledore get his hands on it. He's notorious for borrowing things and not giving them back."
Harry suddenly thought of his Invisibility Cloak. Dumbledore had borrowed it from his father and only returned it to Harry when he started school.
Lupin asked curiously:
"Douglas, what was that piece just now?"
Douglas said proudly:
"A Window to the Past (a piece from Prisoner of Azkaban, the music accompanying Sirius's meeting with Harry before his escape). I recorded it ages ago."
It was one of the few pieces of which he remembered fragments. For that purpose, he had specifically written a scene and a story, then asked his editor in the