After that came enjoyable summer holidays. Lily tried to make friends out of Severus and me. At least we didn't tried to kill each other, but there ware an awkward silence. To tell the truth, he wasn't as annoying, as I thought he would be. Only problem was, there was nothing to talk about. He wasn't like other nobles, same as me. Our friendship with Lily spoke about it its' self. So we accepted each other. Also early that summer I realised, he felt for her more, than a simple friendship. Lily was the only one not to notice it. Even Petunia had. You could see it each time,when she was told, Lily is meting Severus.
The summer was just about to end, when our hogwards' letters arrived. Even with fathers' not to warm opinion on muggles, and after mum reminded him, she was also muggleborn, we ware to escort Evenses to Diagon Ally. Me, mum, Lily, her mum and Petunia. Without Sevi. Yes, in the end of summer I started to call him Sevi, as Lily always did and he started to call me Miry.
We took bus to the centre of London and than mum pointed us to the not really noticeable building with a sign "Leaky Cauldron". It took a moment till Petunia and Mrs Evens ware able tosee it, but than they did and we entered...
"Yuck! I would newer wonna eat hear and no one would get me to live hear." Petunias' voice mixed with typical sounds of this place. It was dark and not tidy, when you compare it to Evenses'.
"Oh,Petunia. Don't be rood." Mrs Evens warned her daughter and looked at my mum.
"Good morning, ladies. How can I help You?... Oh. Isn't that Bett Bust?" Tom, but younger, than you know him, came quickly and curtsied.
"Lestrange, so far as you should know, Tom. Wasn't it you, who supported me and Rupert with wedding dishes? And before I forget... Those are Ann Evens and her daughters Lily and Petuni. Lily and my Miraya are off to first year this September." mum smiled at Tom.
Tom exposed a wide smile full of tooth and looked up to Mrs Evens and her daughters. "Welcome to Leaky Cauldron."
"Good. Tom, if you are OK with it... We have to go to The Ollivanders' and other places. So we have to go now." mum excused us and we went out on the backyard.
"Funny man." Lily grinned at me. By that time Mrs Evens and Petunia ware totally confused. What ware we doing on a small strange backyard? mum took her wound and clapped on the brick. The passage tu Diagon Ally started to open.
"First we go to Gringott Bank." Mum sad and she rushed down the alley. Oh and what a sight it was to see all three Evenses inside. They look around. Lils and Mrs. Evens ware delighted at it. So I told them about dragons and other creatures and about spells down there, who hide treasures. And than we came in under the sign over the door.
When we looked around the hall, my eyes stopped at two boys. One was around our age and the second one in petunias'. They looked like brothers. Longer dark-brown little bit curly hair, older with grey, younger with blue eyes (I don't remember regulus' eyes colour. Sorry.).Fore a few moments I couldn't get my eyes from the older one. When he looked at me I quickly turned away. When I looked back at him, he was telling something to his younger brother and both run somewhere. All what was left after them was a married couple. Their parents. They reminded me my grandmother and grandfather from fathers' side. Lestranges. The pure bloods. So I decided that they are most probably also some pure blood wizards. Their dark green habits with silver borders spoked about it. After that they didn't bother me any more. It wasn't like they wonted anything to do with us and so did we.
"Pleas follow me." Gringott personal came for us. It scared me. I wasn't paying attention. All my thoughts till now ware with that pure blood family. All of us went to the trolley.
"Be care full. It's as a switch back." Mum started to laugh. It seemed that it was a pleasured change, that she had a muggles' company. I knew for a sometime than, that she missed it. After all it was a quiet long time since she lived in the wizards' world.
We got on the trolley and it pulled off. Steeply down, than left, right, up, down... more down... Even someone with experiences usually gets ill after this. Goblin went white and Petunia lean out and emptied her stomach. After few moments, the trolley stopped near our vault. We got off and the goblin asked mum for her key. As he opened the door, we heard a lot of crunches. And we went in.
There ware pecks of galeons, huddles of sikles and see of knuts. Mum came u and took what we needed. It looked as if non ware taken.
"Wou1 What a treasure." Lili was fascinated.
"It depends on how you look at it. But perhaps yes. Father works at Ministry."
From outside we heard a sudden petunias' cry and shouting from Mrs Evens. All of us ran out.
Petunia set in the trolley and in front of her set the older one of those boys we saw earlier. He waved his wand and the trolley ant them ware soon out of sight. On its' place was second empty one and near to it stood the younger one and laughed. Mrs Evens was pail, angry and shuting. "... Get them back this instant! Right now!"
I looked him up and came near him.
"I don't know, which bloody pure blood family you are from, young man, but this was too much." She came near him. "Accio trolley!" She shouted.
I looked at Lily. She was horrified. "Part of old wizards' familys thinks that blood is not something t be mixed with muggles and they objurgate wizards from muggles' and half-muggles' familys. Father is from one of hose pure blood familys, but he was disowned as he married my mum." I tried to explain to Lily, why was mum so angry. "Mum is as you. A muggle born. And they like to pick on her for it. But not all of wizards are that way."
The trolley came back with unconscious Petunia and the older boy. But the boy jumped out and before anybody did something, he and his brother ware away wit the second trolley. "Blacks' rascals." Goblin sad. "Better would be, if they ware just ignorants, as they parents are."
I frowned. Blacks.
Blacks' rascals, as the gnome called them, ran away and after some time and changing money for lilys' books,we came out of the bank and walked to the shops. First we got to Ollivanders'. "Oh! Bett Bust-Lestrange. Alder, twenty two centimetres, tail of a unicorn. Perfect wand for charms. Quiet flexible."
"Nice day Mr Ollivander." Mum smiled. "This is my daughter Miraya and her friend Lily. They go to Hogwards this year."
"Congratulation young ladies. You chosed the best shop and time to buy your wands. If you... I will just measure you..." He waved his wand and around me and Lily centimetres started to measure us.
"Try out this one. No, so... This one..." It looked tome, as if Lily had her in no time. But not me. Mr Ollivander was exited and laughing. "Hard to pleas this costumer." And he searched for the next one. "What if... But why not. It's different, but... Ebony, twenty eight centimetres, the hair of a fairy. Usually we don't use fairys' hair, but my grate-grandfather, Augustus Ollivander, made one. Till now there was no one, who would this wand chose. Try it."
Carefully I took that wand out of his hands. It looked ordinary tome, perhaps little longer, than usual. If I remember correctly, my parents had shorter wands. I took it in my hand. It was like if it got colder and from the top of it started tu jump out little around ten centimetres tall crystal owls and they flew around the room. "Wou." Even Petunia was excited.
Mr Ollivander smiled at me. "Excellent choice. Its' a nice one. And unique. As I told, there is a hair of a fairy inside. To tell the true, it's a plait or three. It's unique. One of the strong ones. With its' length I though that it will end in a hand of a man. We can await some interesting thinks from you Ms Lestrange."
Happily I waved it once again and this time a rainbow came out of it. It started to curve on everything in range. Then I waved once more and everyone in the shop petrified. Like a stone. "Nice!" I smiled and waved to release them. They didn't know bout this one.
Finally we left wand shop and headed to robes shop and that was when and where we found Petunia missing. Mum left me and Lily at Florians´and with Mrs. Evens they started to look for her.
"Mountains´ charm."
"And I would have Cherry heaven."
We ordered some ice-cream and set down.
"Where could she disappeared to? I just hoped she didn´t run into some dousabel"
"Dousabel? There aren´t only witches hear?"
"How to put it... There are lots of magical creatures. We are going to learn about thamat the school. For example pixies, unicorns, imps and banshis."
"Could someone of them kidnap her?" Lily asked alarmed.
"I dub it. More likely she just wonder of some ware, when she tried to get back to the muggle London."
Someone coughed behind us. We turned around. By the nearby table, older Black set. "what do you wonna Black?"
"Me? Nothing. Just Regulus sad something, like he saw her in the Knockturn Alley. And by the way... I´m not Black, but Sirius. My dear Lestrange."
"So the Knockturn Alley. Thanks Black. And for you to know. Grandmum would have killed you, if she heard you calling me that. She is one of you." I smirked at him and shoot tongue at him. "Come on Lils."
"But aren´t we seposed to wait... O.k." Lily quikly ate her ice-cream and I left mine. To my great surprise also Black stood up.
"You will need an escort. Alone with a muggle-born down there? That´s a suicide."
"Mind your own business and don´t be harsh to my friend, Black." My hand sidled down to my wand. "Otherwise I´ll hex you for next decade."
"easy, Lestrange. Not, that I am unarmed, but..."
"Get back to your parents. It´s the best place for you after all. Come on." I grabbed lilys´ hand and pushed Black aside. In a minute we ware in the corridor between Diagon and Knockturn Alley.
First, there was a smell of dragons´ excrement and of other, not really legal potion ingredients. The surrounding was darker that Diagon alley and I don´t mean colors. "Don´t look around. Try to look snobbish and self-assured." I told Lily. I heard parents speaking of recent people disappearing. Most of muggles, muggle-borns and blood-traitors. Andhear we ware. In a place full of Dark magic. I didn´t want to join them.
Lily grabbed my arm and tried to act, as I told her. She sucked at it. She locked horrifide as we crossed some inps´ path. At least I remembered,what father thought me about pure-blood society, when we ware about to visit grandparents.
Finally! We saw a few people around someone. One dousabel frightened "someone",and that "someone" ran into the wizard in black, who happened to have a black scull tattoo on his arm. I grasped. Deatheater and Pe...! There was no one other, than Petunia, in the middle of the circle.
"Wait hear." I told Lily and left her at the corner.
Behind me a familiar voice had spoken. "What do you intend to do? Still wonna no help?"
I turned around to face Sirius Black. "Let him help." I heard Lily.
Why is he doing this? I blinked. "I don´t know, what possessed you Black, but I guess I will need you. Come on." I turned and walked to Petunia. "Hey! Make a way! Don´t you hear me?" I put on the most self-assured face I could. "Evens! You bloody worthless muggle! How dear you! Where did you thing you ware going? Come! We are leaving!"
It was enough for most of them expect of the Deatheater. "First she gonna pay. Who do you think you are, girly?"
"Miraya Marion Lestrange! And you Mr.? And this is Sirius Black." I sad scornfully, as if him, being a Deatheater was nothing.
"Sirius Orion Black." Black added and I mentally smiled. Grandparents didn´t brag about a half-blood grandchild, but the names Lestrange and Black ware well known and together could silence him.
"I´m Drakon Augustus Malfoy. Take her and be more careful. Next time I see her hear..."
"No next time gonna be, Mr. Malfoy." I gave him ominous smile, as I saw petunias´ worried eyes. I waved at Malfoy and turned to Petunia. "Come!" I commanded her. Sirius garbed her ad pooled her up, not to caring and we headed back to Lily.
"They are both bad!" Petunia hissed as we got back. But Lily just looked at as thankfully. It was good for us, that Petunia was speechless till now and Lily saw thru our little theater.
"Quickly out of hear." Sirius urged us and we got back on our way to Florians´, where mums ware already waiting.
"We found her! And just thanks to Siri..." I turned to face Sirius.
"Sirius Orion Black! Where are you loafing? Andwhy the bloody hell are you near them?" I newer in my whole life head seen anyone more horrifying than her, Walburga Black!
"Nice day Wally. We haden´t seen each other for a long time." Mum interrupted her.
She smiled nasty. "Oh! Bettania Bust! What a surprise."
"Mother, we have to go. Regulus is waiting for us." Sirius tried to get her away.
"Just go Wally. It´s not like someone wants you and your sons hear." Mum gave her a same self-assured smile and cold behavior as they give to all non-pure-bloods.
I turned back to Sirius, to thanks him, but mums dragged us already one way and his mother him the other way. The rest of day was somehow gray.
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Auhors´ notes:
Some notes for you...
I decided some chars needs names and also I need to announce my chars.
First of all... To Lestranges...
I decided that Rabastans´ and Rodolphus´ parents name ware Robert L. and Iris L. nee Rosier and grandparents ware Richard L. and Ester L. nee Greengrass.
This leads to some of my OC. Rupert Lestrange aka brother of Robert L., next we have his muggle born wife Bett Bust and their kids.
Miraya aka major char of the story, in time becoming Miraya Black and/or Snape...
Her brothers - twins - Victor and Marcus. Not born till end of her 4th year at Hogwards.
Next change or guessing is done with jameses´ parents. Dumbledore sad something about James being a late child, so that makes Charlus Pottre and Dorea Potter nee Black his parents.
Next OCs are lilys parents. I call them Mike Evens and Ann Evens nee Summers.
And to the last ones and not really last...
Ryanna and Bettany Black. One is born in 78 and another in 82: (Harry is 80!)
I can tell by now, how it seams to me, some chars will be funny.
The whole picture of those family trees you can find on mi blog. Its´ link is in my profil.
To other OCs in Marauders´ Era. Names or parts of names, which I had to made are in (). If some more will come, you will find out.
Marlen McKinnon, Alica (Pewett), Frank Longbottom (2 years older), (Kara) Abbaton, Gideon a Fabiean Prewett (5 years older), Dorcas Meadowes, Evan Rosier, (Omnius) Wilkes,(Marcus) Avery, Barty Crouch Jn. (2 years younger), Bertha Jorkins (5 years older), Lucius Malfoy (6 years older), Narcissa Black (5 years older), (Billus) Mulciber, Sybill Patricia Trelawney,(Reya Malkolm) (lunas´mum), Amos Diggory (3 years older), (Helen Mayers) (cedriks´ mum), (Laverd) Brown (1 years older, levanders´ father).
Don´t ask me why there isn´t Bellatrix and others. They are old. They are already out of school!