A/N: I do not own any of the characters except for Anne. Everyone else belongs to J.K. Rowling.

"And that's all. Have a good night."

Everyone all got up and started moving out of the door.

"Oh. Servus and Anne, can I see the two of you for a second?

He looked at her. She was puzzled too. What could he possibly want? Does he know? Anne seemed to be thinking at along the same lines.

As they followed Dumbledore out of #12 Grimmold Place, he took both of their hands and apparated them right outside the Hogwart's ground.

"Come, I want to talk to the two of you privately in my office."

Anne looked at Severus. He slightly tilted his head to one side, meaning that he hasn't told Dumbledore. Anne nodded.

"Anne. If I remember correctly, you and Sirius and James were friends in Hogwarts."

"We were the best of friends, Professor."

"Ah. Yes. The number of times that the three of you came to my office."

Anne smiled reminiscently. "Yes. I remember them well."

"So were you and Servus enemies?"

"Um. Not really. We weren't friends but we weren't always trying to kill one another either."

"And how could that be?" Dumbledore's blue eyes sparked with curiosity.

"Well I was popular," Anne replied simply.

"Of course. How on earth could I forget? It's amazing what old age can do to you isn't it? I do so envy the young sometimes."

Anne smiled but said nothing.

Anne's Flashback

She was 11 and she was running to catch the Hogwart's Express. The train doors were beginning to close. No! She ran faster and made it. She hurriedly got on the train and dragged her luggage in, just as the train began to move.

"SHIT!!! YOU ARE GONNA MISS THAT FUCKING TRAIN!!" her aunt Bella had shouted this morning when she realized that Anne had school today.

Then her aunt had hurriedly disillusioned herself and apparated both of them to the train station. And before Anne had time to say goodbye, left.

Anne looked up and down at the corridor. Never having been around kids, she had no clue how she was suppose to behave. All she knew was that this train took her to a school where both her Father and her Aunt went to. She peered at the windows. The kids all seemed to be talking and all seemed to know one another and they were all so loud. She walked down the corridor until finally she reached a slightly empty one. They were all talking in a semi-awkward manner. She decided to go for it. Besides, her luggages were killing her. She pushed open the door. They looked up.

"Hi." She gave them a slight smile. "Is it okay if I sit here?" She tried to appear cool and not nervous.

"Sure," a very good looking black hair boy said to her. "Is that all your luggage?"

"Um. Yeah." Anne turned back to look at her 2 huge luggages. "And the rest of it were shipped a couple of days ago."

"The REST OF IT???" this other boy with sparkling hazel eyes said in shook. "What are planning to do? Start a clothing store."

"Um.." Anne did not know how to reply. What were they expecting her to do, live without all her beautiful clothing and actually wear those hideous black robes for the rest of the year.

"Here. Why don't I help you with that?" The last boy had evidently noticed her discomfort. Anne liked him from the start. There was something friendly and kind in those simple brown eyes of his.

"Thanks."

He lifted her luggage up. Or at least, he tried. The other two boys looked at the third boy's efforts in amusement and then finally decided to help them. All three of them were sweating so much when they finally got it up.

"Thanks," even though she had not really needed help. She could have easily made the luggage smaller and just put it in her pocket but it was a lot of fun to see the boys' struggle. "Now I can't wait to see you three getting it down for me."

All three laughed.

"I'm James. James Potter." The hazel eye boy said.

"Hi. I'm Anne. Anne Shirely."

"I'm Remus Lupin."

"And I'm Sirius Black."

"Seriously? You wouldn't by any chance to be related to the pureblood…"

"Black family. Yeah," the boy said in a semi-bored voice.

Anne raised her eyebrow. But he was so nice. Too nice to be in such a family.

"I know what you are thinking. And no, I'm not like the rest of those pureblood fanatics."

Anne suddenly remembered her Aunt's words. "There's this one boy who will also be starting with you. Absolute filth! Blood trader. Broke her poor mother's heart. Luckily her mother has another son, a better son."

She smiled. If this Sirius Black was the one that her Aunt was talking about then everything would be alright.

"Don't worry," James said to her. "It took me a minute to make sure too. But trust me, Sirius is totally cool."

"Okay," Legilimency convinced her that Sirius was telling the truth.

"So are you a pure blood too?"

"No. Half-Blood. My mother was a pure blood but my father's father was a muggle. What about you two?"

"Pure," replied James.

"Half," came the voice of Lupin.

After an awkward silence, talk turned to the four houses of Hogwarts and that inevitably led to Quitich. By the way that James talked, she could tell that he had been pampered and had never known abuse. But from using Legilimency, Anne knew that Sirius had a similar childhood to hers and it was that thought that made her feel for the first time in her life as if she was part of something.

After about 2 hours, the four of them decided to start practicing spells. Anne, of course knew all the spells but she was forbidden to reveal that fact. But James, Sirius and Remus knew nothing. They all tried to make my luggage fly but because it was so big, none of them achieved anything. Laughter after laughter echoed in the compartment as the three of them feverously waved their wand and shouted the incantation to make objects fly.

They finally decided to pair up together and shout the incantation at the same time. Miraculously they managed to get it off from the rack. In their happiness, they waved their wands carelessly and the luggage shot straight at me. I ducked but my luggage crashed into door, broke the glass and fell outside the compartment with my cloth flying everywhere.

Stunned silence followed until I burst out laughing. The three of them soon followed. I was laughing so hard that my stomach hurt so much. And the look on people's faces as they saw my cloth all over the corridor just made me laugh harder. A very cross girl looked at us and took out her wand and fixed the whole mess. She then put it back to the rack and walked past tsking. However we could not stop laughing until finally I ran out of breath and had to stop. But from on then, the four of us became the best of friends. There are some things that just unite people together and that was one of them.

End of Flashback