Sorry, I was bad and forgot to disclaim chapter 2.

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"So far, so good," thought Erica as she crawled into bed after her first day of Hogwarts. Lily had apologized and said that she was there for her, Sirius and James had stopped asking about her father, and all of her classes had potential. Except for maybe History of Magic, but she had decided that History of Magic would be her "Snooze and Doodle Class". "So far, so good," she thought as she drifted off to sleep.

The next morning, she woke up to a shaking bed. "EARTHQUAKE!!!" she screamed, before she realized that Jessie was shaking her bed. "What in the world Jessie?"Erica asked.

"Get dressed into your nicest court clothes and come with me."

"Why?"

"Dad's sentencing date has been changed, and we need to go NOW!"

"Oh." Erica sat up, and yawned, even though she didn't feel tired anymore. She had been dreading her father's sentencing since he was arrested in May. The case had gone fast compared to most murder trials, due to the fact that they had not been able to afford a good lawyer. And to the fact that most of the evidence pointed towards him. Erica knew that her father was innocent. She just knew it.

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Sirius was worried. Erica and Jessie had just disappeared. They had been gone all day, and it was dinner time now. Whenever he had asked a teacher about Erica, they would just get a grim look on their face and say that they had no idea where she was. He, James, Remus Lupin, and tag-a-long Peter had checked the hospital wing, and had even tried to go into the girls' dormitories, but the stairs had turned to a slide and they had slipped down, falling on top of each other. So, they had sent Lily up and she said that there was no sign of them.

When Sirius was about to go to Dumbledore himself when the portrait had opened, and Jessie and Erica stepped through. They looked awful. They were grasping each other's hand, and sobbing. Jessie was sobbing silently, while Erica was full on wailing. Without a word, they walked up to the girls' dormitories and disappeared up the stairs.

"Oh dear." Said Lily, and she ran up the stairs after them, followed by Jessie's best friend, Tina. Sirius looked at his friends, who had silently gone back to their work.

The whole common room was quiet for ten minutes, and then Lily and Tina came back down.

"They won't talk," Said Lily. Tina nodded, and went back to her other friends, talking to them in hushed tones.

Lily came over to Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus. "Maybe you can talk to her, she's still kind of uncomfortable about this around me, and I think this whole thing is about her dad."

"The stairs." Said Remus.

"Oh. Just tap the front stair with each of your wands three times, it'll let you right in. But I wouldn't try that if you ever have ill intents, it'll launch you into next year."

The boys nodded and started for the stairs.

"Wait," said Remus, "Peter and I probably shouldn't go, we hardly know her, and she won't feel comfortable around us.'

"Yeah, she won't even talk about it to Lily." Said Sirius.

Peter and Remus walked back to their couch, and Sirius and James went over to the stairs, tapped the first stair with their wands, and continued up the stairs. They entered the first room, the first year girls' dorm. They looked in, and saw Erica laying in the bad farthest from the door, crying onto a pillow.

"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Sirius.

To their surprise, she nodded and sat up. "It was my dad's sentencing. He got 20 years in prison, it was awful. Me and Jessie sat there all day; listening to all these old men discuss my father. Finally, they came to their decision. Dad stood up, and we just sat there. It was all out of our hands. Their minds were already made up, and we had to watch dad being carted off to prison. Anne and Rick and Britta and Mum were all there. We all sat there, watching our lives being torn apart in front of us."

She began to cry again, and Sirius and James stood there, comforting her for another hour before she fell asleep, completely worn out from her emotional and confusing day. When they were sure she was asleep, they left the room, only to find that they were not safe anymore from the slide. They tumbled down the slide/stairs, and rejoined Lily, Remus, and Peter.

Okay, I'm sorry that this ended so emotional. Please read and review, so I have been lacking in the way of reviews. Remember, I'll never improve without criticism.