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Headmistress McGonagall,
My name is Elizabeth Cunnings. I have heard about the legendary school of Hogwarts, which is underneath you guidance, and wish to ask you a few questions. I can assure, you I work for the light and would like to ask your permission about something. These questions should not be asked via owl because of the interception risk. I can meet you wherever and whenever is convenient for you.
Please consider it,
Miss Elizabeth CunningsDear Miss Cunnings,
This Saturday twelve-noon at my office in Hogwarts. The wards up around Hogwarts will prevent any people with evil intent from entering. Take this as a warning if you intend to be of any harm.
Minerva McGonagallHeadmistress.
That Saturday, Elizabeth Cunnings walked briskly through the snow covered grounds of Hogwarts. She carried nothing, and her eyes displayed an internal battle of determination and fear.
As she approached the Head's office, Her face grew steadily more nervous. The little emotion that trickled across her face was gone, replaced by an unreadable face. She knocked on the door exactly as the clock inside the office struck twelve.
"Come in," the headmistress replied as she sat behind an old desk in the center of the office. "Miss Cunnings, I presume."
"Yes, M'am." Elizabeth shook the older witch's hand. "Thank you for seeing me today."
"My time is limited, so I suggest you start."
"My, first question, is actually more of a request. I should like to join the Order of the Phoenix."
"How do you know of the Order?" McGonnagall responded tensely.
"My cousin, Mrs. Longbottom told me about it when I stayed at her house for a week. I don't believe her son or her mother knows that she and her husband were in the order. She told my mother and me. We were the only ones she could confide in."
"I will think about it," McGonagall replied still in shook.
"Thank you m'am."
"And lastly, do you happen to know where Sirius Black is?"
"I'm afraid he died almost a year and a half ago."
"Oh." Her face dropped, "I had no idea. I searched all the papers, there was nothing."
"His death was an accident. It wasn't supposed to leak out."
"I best be going. Thank you for your time," She tried to avoid the questioning gaze of the headmistress.
"Why would you want to know where he was?"
"I'm an old friend of his," She replied shortly.
"You did not attend Hogwarts, you were not in the order. How exactly did you know him?" McGonagall questioned, her suspicions passing each passing moment. Elizabeth turned and faced the door trying to hide the pain and shame displayed there.
"While he was in Azkaban, I had been held in the cell across the way. We became friends. It was I that also distracted the guards while he was escaping. "
The Headmistress was very edgy and holding her wand very tightly. "Not possible, no one can make friends with dementors around."
"I taught him occumacy. The dementors can not take away what they can not find."
"Am I correct in assuming you are a legimins too?"
"Yes, m'am."
"Why were you in Azkaban?"
Elizabeth summand a copy of The Daily Prophet. She handed it over. The top read July 15, 1978.
It read that Elizabeth Cunnings was given fifteen years in Azkaban because she murdered her father.
"Six death eaters attacked my house, and murdered my father. They gave me a choic; go with them and hid from the ministry, or face the consequences of murdering my father. So I chose… I chose… I-" Her voice started to shake, "Thanks again, good bye." And with a swish of her cloak she was gone.
McGonagall recounted the story to the order.
"A little peculiar, isn't it? She shows up not a week after we figure out Sirius can be removed from the veil." Lupin commented.
"Yes, but she was right about the newspapers," Tonks added, "There was nothing in any of the papers about Sirius."
"Severus, Hermione, are you two absolutely sure the potion will work to get Sirius back from the veil?" Lupin questioned.
"Yes," Hermione replied quickly and slightly annoyed.
"We have already been over this Lupin! It will work, what's your point?" Snape barked.
"Miss Cunnings seems attached to Sirius, the only reason she might want to get in to the Order is that she has a little plan for Sirius for You-know-who."
"No, if she worked for the dark then she would have know not to ask about Sirius." Mrs. Wesealy commented
"A trial mission," Tonks suggested, "To see if she is credible."
"We can't risk a mission on a new recruit. we should have her help out around here." Mrs. Wesealy stated.
"I agree with Molly, I'll contact her and have her come here immediately." McGonagall remarked before flooing back to Hogwarts.