After 4th year and being cleared by the Ministry -- and now he recognised Pettigrew’s convenient capture as the first step in a plan Marvolo was already forming -- Sirius had insisted Harry spend most of the summer with him. Sirius wasn’t exactly in a good place to be a parent, though, much better suited to be a brilliant sort-of uncle. Worse, Harry hadn’t been in the position to be parented, not after the trials of the Tri-Wizard Tournament and the strange congratulations letter he’d gotten from Marvolo once he tied for first with Cedric Diggory.