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It had been three days since they arrived at Hogwarts, Hermione had easily worked herself into a new routine like any other school year. Draco had already started making friends with the Slytherins and Kaira had been trying to keep her distance from the Marauders.
That was until her final period of the day, Defence Against the Dark Arts. Hermione had sat in the row closes to the door and third from the back of the class room and Lily quickly snatched up the seat beside her. Leaving Kaira to get the seat behind them and due to an unfortunate event in Charms only three Marauders where joining them.
Sirius nabbed the seat beside Kaira much to James annoyance it being the seat directly behind Lily. Kaira felt Remus' eyes on her as he took the seat behind her and a disgruntled James took the seat beside him.
Sirius turned towards Kaira about to ask her something when Professor Anderson walked in. Anderson was a men in his late fifties with snow white hair and looked very much the part of a Professor.
"Now Class" he addressed the class, "I want to start the lesson to day going over some things you would have learned in your 3rd year. So who can tell me some of the things you learned?"
Kaira watched as several hands shot up, not surprised at all when one of them was Hermione's.
"Mr Lupin" Professor Anderson waved his hand in Remus direction.
"Boggarts Sir" Remus replied easily.
"Very good Mr Lupin, 10 points to Gryffindor, now Miss Black can you tell me what a Boggart does?"
"They take the form of what you fear the most" Kaira answered.
"Very good Miss Black another 10 points to Gryffindor. Now who can tell me the spell to use against a Boggart?" Anderson choose a girl from Hufflepuff Kaira stopped playing attention. She began absentmindedly flicking through her defence book. Kaira felt a poke in her side looking towards Sirius, he pushed a small piece of paper towards her.
So what do you fear the most?
Kaira almost rolled her eyes.
Why would I tell that to someone who could use it against me?
Sirius quirked his eyebrow at that.
Who said I would use it against you?
Kaira almost laughed out loud at that, in this time it was all about secrets and what you could use against people.
Secrets are a valuable thing Sirius.
Sirius again quirked his eye brow at that, being from a pure blood family he always had access to people's dirty laundry. His mother had once told him that people's secrets could ruin them, and he knew that she always enjoyed social occasions if she had the right information.
In the back of Kaira's mind she knew that she could trust Sirius but it was his trust in Peter she couldn't trust. The less Sirius knew that less Peter would know. Seeing that Sirius had yet to write on the paper, Kaira snatched it quickly and shoved it into her pocket.
"Mr Black please pay attention" Anderson scolded Sirius before turning to the rest of the class, "Can anyone else tell me another creature you learned about in your 3rd year?"
The class was quiet for a fair while before a Slytherin hand rose from the seat beside Draco. Kaira heard Sirius mumble something that sounded like git under his breath.
"Yes Mr Snape" Anderson offered the Slytherin a smile as he gestured to him.
"Werewolves Sir" Severus looked directly at Remus as he spoke and Kaira wanted to deck him. She had known from her father and Remus talking about there time growing up that Snape knew Remus secret but she never knew he called him out in class on it.
"Every good Mr Snape 10 points to Slytherin. Who can tell me why werewolves are considered creatures" Anderson looked around the class room choosing a girl from Ravenclaw.
"Because when the person is transformed they don't remember the human side of them, they would attack their friends" She spoke so softly from her seat in front of Lily.
"Good Miss Grayson, 5 points to Ravenclaw. Anything else?" Kaira had become frozen after hearing the girls name. It was one thing she never prepared herself for, meeting the women who she never got to meet and she sat only two seats in front of her. Her mother, the women who gave her life and died because of it. Kaira was almost thrilled until she heard a voice come from the other side of the room.
"They should all be exterminated, Sir" it was very visible when Kaira tensed at the voice, it belonged to none other then Alecto Carrow. Alecto didn't look much different to her older self she was still a plump girl who looked as though she was trying to hard. Sirius looked at his cousin in questioned, what reason did she have to be tensed at that statement.
"And why would you say that Miss Carrow?" Anderson questioned her.
"Because they are to dangerous to live professor. They could kill so many people" Alecto answered, Sirius watched as his cousin's tenseness turned into anger at the statement. He watched as Kaira's face turned hard and her hands moved under the desk her hands clenching and unclenching in an attempt to calm down.
Hermione must have sensed his cousin struggling to keep herself in check because she turned in her seat. She scribbled something on the top of Kaira's paper which calmed the raven haired girl down almost instantly. He turned to look at his best friend who hadn't seemed to notice anything but Sirius found James talking softly to Remus who looked upset.
Sirius could remember back to when they had learned about werewolves in their third year. Remus had withdrew into himself for nearly a week before talking to them. The discussion about werewolves in class in third year had been horrible much coming from the pure blood Slytherin's.
There was a unified sigh of relief when Anderson dismissed the class. Kaira packed her things up quickly telling Hermione that she would catch up with her. Hermione smiled and walked with Lily back to the common room. Her and Lily set themselves up at the desk, going through some of their assessments. They spent an hour on it before Kaira practically danced into the room a huge smile spread across her face, which made even the Marauders look suspicious.
Kaira winked at Hermione before bouncing down in the arm chair close to the fire, tucking her legs up she had yet to loose her smile.
"You look a hell of a lot like Sirius when you look like that" James commented as she began pulling out her books and making notes of her reading chapters a smile still planted firmly on her face.
Kaira just laughed softly at James before going back to her notes. Hermione smiled as well, even though she knew that smile as being something that nothing good would come from she was happy to see the raven haired girl actually smile.
It was fairly quiet in the Gryffindor common room with the occasional out burst from a Marauder when they weren't understanding their homework which a obviously still upset Remus would try his best to help them understand.
Soon as they all finished their homework they set off to the Great Hall for dinner, Kaira's smile renewed as they entered, she took a seat so she was facing the Slytherin table. Hermione sat beside her knowing she wanted to see this. Lily sat on the other side of Hermione and nearly squealed when Alice Grant, who Kaira knew better as Alice Longbottom, sat down beside her preventing James from taking the spot.
The four Marauders lead by James sat themselves across from the four girls, James across from Lily, Peter across from Alice, Sirius across from Hermione and Remus across from Kaira. Kaira paid little attention to the conversation, she was watching the Slytherin table with an extremely excited aura around her. It was more then half way through dinner when Kaira jabbed her elbow into Hermione's side.
"What?" Hermione hissed out as she rubbed her ribs.
Kaira pointed towards Alecto Carrow at the Slytherin who had yet to realise what was happening. As she ate her food strands of hair where slowly falling from her head turning an off grey colour as they did so. Both Hermione and Kaira watched intently as the Slytherin girl subconsciously ran her hand through her hair a large clump of her shoulder length black hair coming with it.
Kaira put her hand over her mouth as she watched the girl examine the hair in confusion before running her other hand through her hair only to get the same result. She did it another time with both hands before letting out a shrill scream the echo'd throughout the hall. She got up from her seat and started yelling.
"WHO DID THIS?!" Her shrill voice echo'd and turned the entire hall silent all with their attention on her. Professor Slughorn when he had snapped out of his shock, quickly moved from the teachers table down towards the now furious girl.
"I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO DID THIS!" Alecto screeched when Professor Slughorn got to her. He was speaking softly to her, "NO I WONT LEAVE UNTIL I FIND OUT WHO DID THIS"
Professor Slughorn started pulling her towards her towards the entrance hall she was still screaming about finding out who did this and how she would get revenge. As she was finally out of the Great hall a large clump of her hair from the back of her head fell to the floor.
Small sniggers started to be heard through the out the hall, before a small group of Hufflepuffs started laughing out before the entire hall excluding most of the Slytherin table was laughing. Even Remus who had been glum after the events of DADA was now smiling and chuckling to himself.
It wasn't long before the laughter finally started to die down, Lily was now glaring at James and Sirius accusingly.
"What did you two do?" Lily hissed at both of them.
"I have no idea what your talking about Lily-flower" James told her.
"Yeah wasn't one of ours" Sirius explained to her.
Lily looked at them both suspiciously before turning towards Kaira, "Was it you?" She questioned.
"Don't know what your talking about Lily" Kaira answered innocently but her smile had yet to fade.
"It's why you told Hermione after class you would catch up to her" Lily accused.
"No I went and spoke with Draco" Kaira countered as she finished of her dinner, "Now if you'll excused me I'm going to the head up and finish my homework".
Kaira moved away from the table quickly, somewhat annoyed by Lily. Shouldn't she have been happy that Kaira was getting back at the nasty piece of work that was attacking one of her friends. Instead of going up to the common room she headed for the Astronomy Tower.
During the year leading up to the Battle of Hogwarts Kaira spent most of her time up there. It was a safe haven for her from the Carrow siblings, they every rarely went up to the Astronomy Tower and she was glad for that.
Kaira sat with her legs hanging over the edge of the landing that looked out towards the Quidditch pitch, her arms rested on the lower bar of the railing with her head resting on top of that.
She sat there well after the sun had set just looking out at the grounds, remembering where everything. Remembering the Hogwarts before the war was hard for most of them, it was a nearly permit scare on how they saw the school. She could see in the back of her mind where there was walls missing, and the burnt remains of the Quidditch pitch were still there.
Kaira was brought out of her thoughts by the clink of footsteps coming up the spiral metal stairs of the tower. The person came straight across the landing towards her, Kaira looked in the waning moons light. Remus moved over to her standing beside her leaning on the railing.
"Interesting spell wasn't it" Remus remarked. He moved to sit down next to her, copying her position.
"Hmm, defiantly an interesting one" Kaira muttered.
Remus shift closer to her, watching her intently. For the three days that he had known her, he had found that she didn't show much emotion and if she did they were more often then not faked. But when she had walked into the Common room earlier she had actually looked happy, it wasn't fake.
"Are you not happy here?" Remus questioned quietly.
Kaira looked at him, if anything she was ecstatic to be there. She couldn't imagine a place she would have rather been especially after everything she's be through, she was finally in a place that she was in control.
"No I'm quiet happy here" Kaira smiled at him. Thought today was the first day that Hogwarts had actually felt like home again.
"I'm glad but that spell what is it?" Remus questioned nudging her.
"Oh no, you think I did it too" Kaira smiles at him.
"It wasn't you? But you disappeared after Defence" Remus countered.
"Yeah to see Draco in the Slytherin common room where Alecto was as well, all quiet coincidental really" Kaira tried to stay serious but her smile broke through.
"Oh yes I'm sure, though she is a nasty piece of work" Remus joked at her. He looked at his watch, "It's getting late, I have to start my rounds and I would want to have to come up the stairs and take points off you"
As he warned her, he stood and moved down the stairs. Kaira smiled after him before heading down the stairs after him, she mad quick work back to the Gryffindor tower finding only the other Marauders still up. She offered them a smile before heading up the girls dorm and heading to bed.
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