"I was shipped off to my only next of kin; my mother's estranged sister, and her family. They fell out when they were teenagers, and hadn't spoken to each other in almost a decade when child protective services tracked her down and showed up with me on the doorstep. Because Sirius and I aren't related, he had no rights to me whatsoever. They wouldn't even tell him where they put me. He never stopped looking for me, though. It took him seven years to find me, and then three more to get me out of their house." 