Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Harry Potter.

-LB-

Vesper Potter gasped in surprise as four strong, very familiar arms wrapped around her and lifted her off the ground. She laughs and wiggled between the two bodies of her best friends as they hugged her closer.

"OK boys you can put me down now." She laughed as they put her down. Vesper looked up now to the faces of her best friends, who where more like brothers to her. Their orange coloured hair was one thing the three of them had in common along with their mischief making. The twins had grown tall over the summer, now at least a head taller than her, baby fat had turned into muscle or had gone completely, the mischievous glint in their identical eyes twinkled brightly. The trio had only seen each other a few weeks ago before the twins had gone with their family to Egypt visiting one of their many brothers in the burning heat. The trio was to start there fifth year at Hogwarts this year and the three felt they were closer then ever knowing that there only had three full years to cause as much mayhem as possible. Although they had spent many years, even before they had started school, learning how to make each other laugh and cause as much mayhem as possible before they had to "grow up" which to the three of them sounded dreadfully boring.

"Well you certainly grown" muttered Fred Weasley pointing looking at her chest, a playful smirk on his face, mirrored by his twin George who added an eyebrow wiggle. Vesper too it seemed had a growth spurt while parted from the boys. Although she had grown maybe a an inch or two in height, the fact that her hips and breasts, which were before slowly growing and showed only a slight hint of what womanly figure she would have in her school uniform had indeed suffered the same boost of hormones the rest of her had. Her breast were now a good handful bigger and curved to a slim waist before filling out to hips and a backside that required a second look. Puberty had punched hard, clearly the years before it had bided it's time only hinting at the final blow.

"Oh shut up." She smiled lightly punching both twins' shoulders. She looked around the small dimly lite pub, know as the Leaky Cauldron. Vesper smiled and waved at Mr and Mrs Weasley, who were clearly playfully bickering around the one table in the room that wasn't pushed into shadows. The pair smiled and waved back happily, Mrs Weasley making it clear that Vesper and her godfather must stop by the Weasley home for dinner, tea and possibly supper. The Weasley home was Vespers one true home, she had basically grown up in that house with the Weasley's from the age of eight. As she grew older she spent more time there by choice then by necessary.

Her godfather was not a well man and Vesper became aware from a young age that every month he would need to go away for a few days, she had figured out why the summer before she started Hogwarts.

She had spent weeks pouring over her newer books, soaking up the information like a sponge in water, only sleeping when she couldn't physically stay awake much longer or as she suspected, when her godfather knocked her out with a flick of his wand. She remembers being too scared to confront him until the morning of September 1st before she was due at the Weasley to travel to London together. She had hugged him firmly around his waist after look at him with big blue eyes he had often said belonged to her father, before speaking half muffled into his stomach, knowing he would only reprimand her for muttering.

" I've worked out why you get sick."

"And whys that?" His tone was that of an amused parent. She didn't want to say it out loud for fear he would hate her and make her stay away forever and the fear that she was wrong.

" ...you have a furry little problem," she had felt his body stiffen against her, the hand that was stroking the wild orange tangles of hair stopped. " but I love you anyway..." He pulled back and knelt to her level to cup her jaw and look her in the eye. He looked just as scared as she did, and her godfather wasn't aloud to be scared, he scared away the monsters under the bed and in her nightmares and the spiders. She squirm unsure about how to handle everything that suddenly felt so heavy. " ...just, you know, don't be peeing on the furniture or, or chewing our slippers." She had shrugged like it was no big deal, her eyes flitting around the room but always going back to his face. She caught the twitch of his lips flicking upwards and an emotion in his eyes her was not familiar with before he bowed his head cheeks moving forming the smile she knew was on his face, before he leaned up and kissed her forehead, wrapping his arms around her in a hug that was similar to the one she had given him.

" you are more like your parents then you could ever know." He uttered before kissing her head again.

The trio of red heads heard an argument meaning the Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were near the rather nicely polished stairway. Vesper then saw on the stairs a messy,dark haired boy with glasses on, he looked unsurprised that his best friends were having a fight yet again, this time both clutching their pets. The boys name was Harry James Potter. He was her biological younger bother, although he lived with his Aunt and Uncle on their mothers side and they had only met when he had bored the train to Hogwarts two years ago. She had always known about him and had literally bounced around the train until she found him, knowing he was to start that year. Harry on the other hand knew hardly anything about having a sister, only getting a brief mention from their aunt when she had either had slightly too much sherry or when the business of magic had come about. Harry looked up, away from his friends and around the room before catching her eye and smiled at her, he squeezed past his friends and embraced her in a hug. Even though he was over a year younger then her, he was already nearly her hight.

"Hey Harry, how you been?" she ask, all ways interested in what he did. She wanted to make up those years of not knowing him, and let him know that he had family that adored him.

"Good, you know, how was your Summer?" he said shrugging it off, he was please that he had a big sister even if he didn't get to see her as often as he would like.

"Interesting." She chuckled, when she wasn't with the Weasley's she was with her godfather, mainly traveling, while he looked for work. In turn Vesper had traveled all over the UK and Ireland, and spent the majority of time exploring the culture and languages. This year however she was the one to get a summer job in a small town call Whitby, working in a muggle shop." Remus is teaching this year at school." She had told Harry about her Godfather, that he struggled to rase the girl child and relied on the Weasley for help in the matter when he wasn't feeling to well. He was the only family she had known because on that faithful night that the Potters were murdered, Professor Dumbledore had insisted that the siblings be split up as it would be more likely that any death-eaters that were going to look for revenge, would look for a brother and sister. So he had placed Harry with their Aunt to be away from magic and placed Vesper with her godfather, for safety. Remus had agreed whole heartedly to keep at least one of them if not both, before remembering about his illness. Dumbledore had then spent many hours trying to convince him to take the small girl, he wasn't Harry's guardian but he was hers. At least that was the official story but vesper knew it wasn't true.

Harry smiled at the thought of having someone how knew his parents and someone who brought up his dear sister, was good.

"What's the problem then?" he chuckled,

"Oh there's no problem, just that I'll have to be on my toes. Not so many pranks this year." She smiled, tapping her index finger against her chin as if thinking.

"Whaaa?" yelled the twins their eyes wide, as they hustled away from the shadow they had retreated to, to give the sibling a sense of privacy and to find a better angle to tease Ron over Hermione's shoulder, "no pranks?!"

"Well, some pranks" she smiled so slyly that the boys seriously thought she should be clothes in green and silver before she winked at the boys before sliding up to Tom at the bar and gave him a warm smile while ordering a cup of tea. The three teenagers she left behind staring after her.

Shortly after Hermione and Ron where telling Harry about there summer, Ron had gone to Egypt and was in the Daily Profit.

"You're not flashing that clipping about again, are you Ron?" Fred chuckled pulling it from his younger brother's hand.

" I haven't shown anyone!"Ron protested

" No, not a soul!" George continued beside his brother, an arm around Vesper's shoulder -after discovering she was just the right height. Vesper herself had both hands around a steaming mug of tea and looked very pleased with herself.

"Not unless you count Tom..." Fred signed

"The day maid..." George counted

"The night maid..."

" That bloke who fixed the toilet..."

"And that wizard from Belgium"

"Alright, alright." Ron's ears flushed red. The older trio chuckled and moved away, further into the darken corridors of the pub.

-LB-

The train shuddered to a stop as the darkness stretched out in to the nights sky, the air felt cold, making the hairs on your neck stand up. The compartment door to the golden trios cabin open and Fred's silhouette was seen, blackness against darkness.

"What's going onnn?!" he whispered before being pushed forward and he fell on to the floor followed shortly by two other figures. Harry, Ron and Hermione stared in the darkness at the now mass of darker darkness squirming and shifting on the floor.

"Ah, what was that?" came Vespers soft voice came out of the darkness.

"That was me." Said a twin, George.

"Oi, don't hold that bit!" she hissed

"What bit?" You could heard the smirk in his voice

"That bit! Honestly since you two came back from Egypt your nothing but perverts!"

"That wasn't perverted." Said one twin

"But this is" said the other. You could practically feel the grin on their faces.

The three heard Vesper muffle a squeaked in shock, then a "thunk" of someone hitting two people at once.

"Ouch!" hissed both twins.

Vesper giggled, still sandwiched in-between the twins, she had saddle ones legs as he sat up, one hand clasping her hip the other going over her should to his twin, who sat almost pressed up behind the girl both arms crossed over her stomach. Vesper herself had one hand gripping the shirt collar of the boy in front of her, having in close enough that she could feel his breath on her cheek and the other wrapped behind the other twins back, twisted as she held his shirt as well.

Coldness suddenly fill the cabin as a dark figure floated in its door way. Its human shape, over 9 foot tall, leering over everyone inside, its was wearing a dark hooded cloak revelling only its decaying grey hands. All the happy, playful feelings that a moment ago was there had gone from the small cabin.

Vesper hid behind George's shoulder, she didn't like this thing in front of her. She felt like crying, she felt all her deadening feelings, the feeling of hope has left her, she could almost feel her heart falling in her chest, no happiness, no joy only darkness. Light suddenly lite up the small compartment, and the creature was gone, escaping from the blinding whiteness.

Vesper looked around after getting over the spell of the creature, she saw everyone looking scared. She saw Remus standing, wand raised looking as tired as always, their eyes met and he smiled softly and held out a hand to help her up, which she took before she noticed that her hands was shaking with the rest of her, Remus hug her tightly.

"You alright?" he mumbled to her, the others just coming out of whatever spell the creature put them in. Vesper just nodded and looked across to Harry, she gasped as she saw that he had fainted. She scrambled over to him as Remus tended to the others. Vesper stroked his forehead lovingly, calling his name a few times before turning to her godfather.

"What was that thing?" she whispered her voice somehow sounded too loud for her ears in the deafening silence. Remus sat next to her as the others in the cabin look at him also wanting to know what the creature from hell was. The twins claimed part of the seat Ron and Hermione had sat on.

"That was a dementor, they are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You'll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life." he started, letting his kind eyes flit from his goddaughter to her friends.

"What? From Azkaban? What are there doing here?" crocked Ron a dangerous paler colour then usual for his fair skin.

"Yes, there here to search the train for Sirius black." Remus's eyes met Vespers again at the name. Remus had told her of his friends, and what there have done. Vesper turned away to Harry, still unconscious, she took a bit out of the chocolate and nibbled on it, like her godfather she had developed a taste for it.

Harry eventually woke up and asks the same questions, Remus then left to talk to the driver and after making sure Harry and everyone were alright, Vesper and the twins left to their own compartment to gather their belongings before ether train pulled into the station at Hogsmeade. They came upon a few third year Slytherins all looking terrified.

Fred, George and Vesper clambered and dodge around the river of students pouring out of the train onto Hogsmeade station. George noticed that Vespers shorter leg couldn't keep up within the crowds of older, taller children, so he held her wrist tightly and pulled her along behind him to the horseless carriages.

Once seated inside he curled an arm around her shoulders to protect against the slight chill, Vesper snuggled into him wishing she had her scarf on her instead of in her luggage. Fred sat opposite them with a small smile before turning to Lee Jordan and making bets on the quidditch matches this years.