Hello everyone sorry its been so long. I'm sure I'd feel like writing more of this rather involved story if more people reviewed, but alas that is life.

Also sorry its a bit short. Hard to get back into a story you haven't worked with for awhile.

Changing winds

Sirius was dead. Harry was alone.

His friends wrote little. The clock ticked seconds by.

No words from Remus to see how he was holding up.

No rescue from Dumbledore from the hell he was in.

He was alone with the nightmares.

Graveyard, Veil, Red eyes, The feeling was casting that curse on Sirius's murder.

The clock ticked by the days of summer.

Finally the headmaster came. When the headmaster came he took two favors.

Sirius's house and a teacher's employment.

He didn't question the first, but the second…

Using his frame. The very thought of doing that much less for something as meaningless as getting someone to work at a school.

The thought turned his stomach.

Safe at the burrow, alone in Fred and George's old room Harry could not sleep for the nightmares that would come.

Instead of sleeping he called the elf that lead to Sirius's murder once more that night.

Brock Groves lane

If Adriana didn't know that Stacy one never drank and two did fairly strange thing when she had little sleep, then she would have been worried finding Stacy spread out across the piano textbook in one hand, PBJ sandwich in the other.

It was 7 in the morning and Stacy had no doubt been up all night reading the textbook for the job she got the other day.

"You do know you can't do this at Hogwarts correct?"

"Hmm?" Stacy looked up at her upside down with her mouth full.

"Kept such odd hours when you have classes to teach. Please get off of the piano dear, think what Victoria would say if she saw a foot print on the piano."

Of course this caused Stacy to snort, causing her to choke, causing her to fall off of the piano.

"Why am I not surprised?" Drawled Victoria as she stepped neatly out of the fireplace.

Stacy appeared to choke all over again at Victoria's sudden appears, but her need to snark overcame her need to give in to the PBJ and die after falling from a piano.

"Oh Toria my love! Oh how I have missed your sweet ways so!" Toria gave her a look of deep disgust.

"Perhaps you would like to follow me into the sitting, while Stacy attempts to… calm her burning passion for you?" The innocent look on Andy's face was in no way belonged there.

"I will leave. I really will." But even though perfect Victoria's lips did form those words they also twitched upwards a bit as she said a phase that she had said many times through their school years and had not followed up on nearly as many times as she should have.

In the sitting room

"Excellent brewed tea, now Adriana what has caused you to strike out from the miserable world you forced yourself into?"

"Hey!" Stacy pouted, there was nothing wrong with the muggle world, they made the pizza! Enough said.

" My adorable baby brother has gotten into a mess again." She smiled with her friends at her humorous statement before her eyes harden and with regret delved into the heart of the matter.

" He has fail his Lord, and his Lord shall now punish him with the blood of his son. Draco is to undergo an impossible task. This year he must kill Albus is implied that he will not live if the task is not completed."

Stacy had already been told and so she kept silent all eyes were on Victoria now.

A perfectly manicured hand set her tea cup down with a ringing 'cling' on the table. She looked out the window and pursed her lips, her eyes showing no emotion. Finally she turned back to Andy.

"This is the new policy then? To blame a child for its father's stupidity?"

" I am unsure, but I assume the warning is enough to afford your silence on the matter if nothing else?"

Victoria gave a high false laugh.

"Darling surely our friendship in enough for my silence much as it is enough to merit a warning? Lying to your friends is unbecoming Adrianna you would have warned me of the danger to my son even if I was going to kill you. Your blackmail of the sorting hat to get it out of putting you in Hufflepuff is admirable."

" Bribery and it was Gryffindor actually. I offered to find a spell to prevent lice. Do you know how many infections in had had before it was placed on your head?"

Victoria gave a genital shudder and a dirty look to her who truly had horrid taste in joking. Especially when you could never be sure if she was joking.

Stacy of course roared with laughter

" What are your plans Adrianna?"

"Depends, are you in Toria?"

"I will regret this Andy I'm sure of it."

" Finally! Can I tell her now?"

" Tell me what?'

"Well…"

" Adrianna…"

" Stacy has a new job as do I. Stacy also has a new potion."

"I was saving it for the Potion Master convention, because this will blow there socks off! But well, we will need it more and it will be better people don't know about it, but really this is better because I can test it more and make it even better and it will be all the sweeter to wait awhile and then have something extra, extra wonderful for next year and"

"Stacy! Run on sentence! Too many 'betters'. Must I reteach you everything about normal humans again? Disgrace of a Ravenclaw! Now what is this 'wonderful' potion of yours bird brain?

Stacy grinned widely, bouncing in her sit as she prepared to wow and amaze her friend.

Hogwarts

Dumbledore announced the new staff members at the staff meeting to much confusion.

No Snape was not leaving. No he was not firing anyone. Yes he had hired three new teachers, two of which were potion masters. There were only two position's open and Snape really wasn't leaving.

" What was that I'm afraid I've gone temporarily deaf in that ear."

"Would anyone like a lemon drop?"

"I'm sure it will be an interesting year."

" Oh don't worry your head over it. You'll meet the new teachers soon the first is arriving this Monday."

"They'll stay in the teacher's quarters made for the class of course. No, no there won't be any new subjects. Really dear your becoming flustered. Sure you won't have a lemon drop?"

Popping a sweet in his mouth Dumbledore twinkled. It was times like this when it was really worth it to be the headmaster.