Thanks for all the feedback and the critiques. Don't worry I'm not at all offended I take it as a compliment cause if the story just plain sucked you wouldn't have bothered. As for what happened to Buffy and what will happen to her, you'll have to keep reading to find out.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked as Harry tore through his trunk.
"This." He said holding out a leather bound photo album. "Hagrid gave it to me after my first year, it's pictures of my parents. She must be in here somewhere."
"Professor Lupin said to leave it alone." Hermione began.
"Looking at pictures isn't gonna hurt anyone." Ron cut her off rolling his eyes at the cautious brunet.
"That's her." Harry declared pointing out a small blonde between his father and Sirius.
"She's pretty." Hermione commented. "She looks familiar though."
"She looks a lot like Malfoy's mum." Harry said with almost disgusted look on his face.
"Well they are cousins." Hermione shrugged. "And Malfoy's Mum is pretty, you've admitted so yourself."
"But..but she's...she'd Malfoy's Mum." Ron declared dramatically.
"I didn't say she was a lovely woman." Hermione said rolling her eyes. "Really Ron, you don't hold it against Sirius that he's related to them, so why her?"
"Ugh I keep forgetting Sirius is related to that prat." Ron groaned.
"And you as well." Hermione said pointedly. "Which would stand to reason you and Draco are somehow related."
"You can't prove it." Ron glared.
"Well I suppose since we know her real name now, we could look her up in the library." Hermione said curiosity winning over her reluctance.
"I thought we were supposed to leave it alone." Harry said sharing a smirk with Ron.
"Yeah, we don't want to break the rules." Ron grinned.
"Since when?" Hermione asked annoyed. "Fine stay here, I'll just do it on my own." She said leaving the boys dorm in a huff.
"One of these days she'll learn to take a joke." Ron sighed hopping off his bed. "Right?"
"Let's just hope she's not too annoyed iwth us." Harry shrugged as they followed her.
"This is pointless." Ron sighed after an hour. All they'd managed to find was her name in the records as a student and that she'd been sorted into Gryffindor. Along with one article in the daily prophet that stated she'd vanished in a mysterious spell gone wrong.
"A student vanished and this is all they print." Harry said annoyed slamming another book closed.
"Well there was a lot of news going on." Hermione replied. "I mean look at all the obituaries, A mysterious death wasn't exactly news at that time."
"If we want to know more I suspect we'll have to ask Sirius." Ron replied.
"That's not a good idea." Hermione interjected. "Professor Lupin asked us to leave it alone."
"I don't suppose he'd really want to talk about it anyways, I mean you saw how he reacted when I asked about her." Harry replied.
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"Bellona Black." Professor McGonagall called as a small blonde stepped forward glaring at two older boys siting at a long table snickering. She took a seat on the stool as the old hat was placed on her head. After what seemed like forever it finally spoke.
"Gryffindor!" She jumped up smiling as she rushed over to the clapping table.
"See I knew you could do it." A dark hair boy grinned. "Didn't I tell you, you had nothing to worry about?"
"Yes Sirius." She said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, congrats Bellona." A boy in glasses teased.
"Shut up James." She glared shoving him playfully.
"It took you long enough though." James grinned.
"Well it had to read her mind and it must have taken a while to find it." Sirius teased throwing an arm around her.
"So now that Bellona is officially a Gryffindor." James began with a mischievous look in his eye.
"Don't call me that, Sirius make him stop!" She demanded
"It's your name." Sirius shrugged.
"I think you better stop, she looks mad." A sandy haired boy warned.
"Your afraid of a first year girl Remus?" the smallest boy of the group asked.
"You've never seen her angry mate." Sirius laughed.
"She wouldn't do anything to me, she loves me." James grinned. "Don't you Bellona?"
"Your such a prat James." She said rolling her eyes.
"That was weird." Buffy mumbled as she jolted awake. Ever since she'd cast the spell and found out about Dawn being the key she was having these strange dreams. At least this one wasn't as creepy as the one about this gross looking little thing called Kreature who was chasing her around. "That settles it. I need to spend way less time with Giles if I'm starting to dream about English people."
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"I spoke with Harry." Remus said walking into the dark room.
"Huh?" Sirius said startled. "Oh yes, that's good. Was it what we thought?"
"Yes." Remus nodded blinking as his eyes adjusted to the darkness.
"I relived that night a million times, wondering what if...if we'd only..." Sirius said giving his friend a sad smile as he moved to the window.
"I know." Remus sighed. "Trust me I know."
"The hardest thing I ever had to do was to turn Bellatrix down." Sirius admitted pulling aside the heavy curtain. "But I couldn't...I knew she wouldn't want me to do that, not for her. I kept thinking if she was here, she would have killed me." He said with a sad smile. "If only we'd listened to her the first time, you know?"
"You never know, she could be happy, she could be somewhere right now, away from this all, alive and well." Remus offered.
"I wish I believed that." Sirius sighed staring up at the star filled sky.
Remus moved to the door glancing back at his friend. Everyone assumed that haunted look in his eyes came from years in Azkban and it did, partly. But a lot had to do with that night, and the events that lead up to it.
"Do you really think he can bring her back." James asked hopefully.
"Does it matter?" Sirius replied. "I can't do what she asks."
"If we can save her it does." James insisted.
"Save her, we don't even know if there's anything left to bloody well save." Sirius spat. "She's gone, she died that night as far as I'm concerned and she's never coming back!" He said furiously storming out of the house.
"How can he say that?" James asked stunned.
"He might not be wrong." Remus replied reluctantly.
"I should go after him." James sighed.
"Leave him be." Lilly spoke up.
"But Lils." James began.
"You know how hard it was for him when we lost her." Lilly cut him off. "This is just cruel, what their doing to him. You know how guilty he feels, how guilty we all feel. He wont let himself believe there actually is a way to bring her back because then he isn't choosing not to. Besides if she could be brought back, we'd have been able to do it by now."
"She's right, perhaps it long past time we admitted the same." Remus sighed. "She's gone, and she's never coming back."
"I'll never believe that." James insisted.
"James." Lilly sighed.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to push him on this, but I still have hope." James smiled sadly. "We'll figure it out, I know it."
"James never gave up hope that we'd find her." Remus said softly remembering.
"Well James is gone too, so a lot of good that does us now." Sirius replied. "All we can do now is make sure everyone involved pays for what they did."
"Including us?" Remus asked.
"Maybe that's why things went so terribly wrong. Maybe these all these years we have been." Sirius replied.
"When you escaped." Remus began unsurely. "When the dementors looking for you walked onto the train...it wasn't getting bitten, it wasn't the pain if my transformations, or even the loss of James or Lily. It was her I saw, I guessing it was because I knew I was partly to blame for it...Sometimes I wonder." He smiled sadly. "Where would we be now, if she hadn't been taken from us?"
"Everything changed that night." Sirius agreed.
"Did..did you see it often?" Remus asked unsurely.
"While I was in Azkaban?" Sirius asked his gaze never leaving the night sky.
"Yes." Remus nodded.
"I spent years reliving that night in my mind, trying to figure out what went wrong, how I could fix it." Sirius began softly. "But when I was there, no, that isn't was I saw. It was what happened just before that." He admitted letting the curtain fall and plunging the room back into darkness.
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The cold air burned his lungs as he walked forward lost in the darkened maze. He knew he shouldn't be here. He knew it was wrong, that he should fight it but he couldn't. He had to know.
A light shone up ahead, he knew what it was, who was waiting. In that moment he decided and knew how angry they'd all be with him but, he didn't care.
"I knew you'd come to me." He smirked the candle in his hand bathing his distorted face in pale light.
"What do you want?" Harry demanded. "Why are you doing this?"
"So angry." he laughed. "I did you a favor that night."
"You had something to do with what happened to her." Harry accused.
"She was meant to die." He explained coldly. "I don't know how she got away, but when she comes back, I'll finish what I started."
"Back?" Harry asked confused. "How?"
"I have no control over that." He replied darkly. "If I did, she'd never return. You'll see soon enough. But I must warn you, she's not to be trusted, especially not by you."
"And I should believe anything you say why?" Harry demanded.
"Don't believe me." He smirked. "Just follow the trail, see with your own eyes."