Once Chloe was out of the defence class room, Eve and Rhiannon greeted her. They still had 20 minutes until the next class so had decided to sit in the courtyard and talk about her talk with the professor. The girls weren't too surprised by the reaction their friend had gotten and they didn't really know what would be the next move with the information.

Chloe also didn't know. She had desperately wanted to ask the man about whom her father had really been. As his friend she expected him to give her something positive from finding out that she was adopted. But since she had found out all she has found was that it was a burden she had to keep a secret from the world. Her world had been turned upside down because of the news and what it meant. However, what Hagrid had confided to her head of house last year was still in her head.

– X – Flashback – X –

"I spoke to 'im professor, I spoke to 'I'm while I was in Azkaban, I'm telling ya he was in the cell across from me and he was asking about her, he told me what happened all those years ago" he continued.

"Please Hagrid I have no time for riddles, Miss Perth will be here soon for her session"

"But that's what I'm trying to explain Professor, I know Chloe ant a Perth, she's a Black, she's Sirius Black's child" Hagrid said bluntly. "He told while I was in Azkaban" he explained.

"I don't know what had compelled you to believe these lies of a mad man who had been locked up for the last twelve years" McGonagall said harshly. "But I can assure you that it is-" she was cut off.

"Professor please don't lie to me, I know what he said true, there was no lie in the man's eye, there was no deceit when I gave him the muggle bookmark picture of me, Harry and her-" Hagrid protested.

"You did WHAT!" the professor exclaimed. "You gave a convicted criminal, a murderer a picture of not only the son of the two people he had killed but Chloe as well, are you mad" she exclaimed.

"But professor he hadn't seen her since he gave her to her muggle parents, I thought it was something he deserved to know" Hagrid tried to explain.

"Hagrid I cannot believe you have just done such an idiotic thing, what were you thinking!" she exclaimed. "Now not only does he know what Harry looks like but you have also put young Miss Perth in danger as well!" she continued.

"But professor-"

"Do you now realise that if that man gets out of the hell he is in he now knows what the people he will come after look like, meaning it will be easier for him to find them" she explained. "He used you Hagrid and no doubt you told him all he needed to know about those two poor students" she said furiously.

"But professor he told me that it wasn't him responsible for the Potters, it was Peter Pettigrew" Hagrid tried to explain.

"Nonsense, now I won't hear any more of this and I would prefer if you would not tell either Harry or Chloe about any of this, it would only upset Harry and confuse poor Miss Perth" the professor said with emphasis of Chloe's surname.

– X – Flashback End – X –

The gentle giant seemed determined that her father hadn't been the one to kill. Hagrid had said it was someone different; Peter Pettigrew. However, that had also been one of her father's friends, as well as the man that Sirius Black was charged with murdering.

Something just didn't seem to fit into place and Chloe had been hoping to ask their new defence professor about the man, to try and but the pieces together. But it seemed like that would be a puzzle for another time, as the twins would deem.

"Perth!" one of them called from the walkway.

"Chloe!" the other yelled at the same time.

"Come on slow gnome" one twin called as they and Lee walked towards the three on their bench.

"Time for your first real transfiguration lesson" now they were behind the blond haired girl with glasses, while Lee stood in front, just in front of Rhiannon.

"You do realise I have done a transfiguration before right" Chloe said back with a roll of her eyes. Rhiannon and Eve gave small laughs at her reply. The twins grinned at this looking at each other.

"Yeah"

"But you haven't had one with us before"

"Oh, you mean I haven't had a lesson where you're trying to blame me for something in class?" Chloe counted with a raised eyebrow as she looked behind her at the twin in front of her, Fred she believed.

"But that's the fun part of the lesson" Fred told her with a smirk.

"Yeah, just ask Lee"

"Or Angelina"

"Or anyone else you've tried to blame but Professor McGonagall knows better?" Chloe teased back, an overly sweet smile on her face.

"Yes, she was the first to see the pattern"

"But now we have a new escape stone"

"Right" Chloe dragged out as she closed the book that had been in her lap as her, Eve and Rhiannon had been talking. The other two following suit. "I'll see you at lunch" she said as the three stood up.

"If you survive that long with those two" Eve commented under her breath with a smile.

"If I'm so lucky" Chloe teased back. She gave her friend's quick side hugs before walking off towards her next class, twins slightly behind either side, while Lee was just to her side. No one said anything memorable on the walk, just comments about what they thought the lesson would be on.

Once they entered the class room there was a seating plan on the board. McGonagall was not there but Chloe just went and look where she would be sat. Much to her surprise and the twins disapproval, it said that her seat for the next year would be in the middle row at the front, but she would be sat next to Adrian Pucey, a fifth year Slytherin.

Chloe didn't blink an eye at her pairing, just looked at the name and seat before moving to sit in her assigned seat. Sure it was unusual for the two houses to be sat together but it almost always happened in potions. Though sadly it was normal Seamus that was sat with a single Slytherin.

It was much against the boy's protest and the protest of Slytherin individual. Though Chloe couldn't fault them though, Seamus did have a knack for setting his potions on fire. It was a trait that he didn't seem to have grown out of in the last two years, much to the sadness of Snape's cauldrons.

As Chloe sat down, placing her book on the desk she looked up to see the twins scaring her along with Lee. She just looked at the puzzled with a shrug of her shoulders.

"What?" she asked them. "There's instructions on the board and a seating plan on that one" she said pointing to the boards respectively. "Why are you just standing there?" she asked pointedly.

"Chloe, you're seated next to you a fifth year Slytherin Boy" one of the twins, Fred said crossly.

"Why are you not more upset?!" George asked, though more yelled, with hands rose in the air as a dramatic gesture.

"Because it's a seat?" Chloe replied seriously, confused their actions. "I don't see the problem, Seamus is sat next to the Slytherin every year in potions" she explained.

"Yeah, but that's Seamus" Lee pointed out. Chloe gave them a confused look for another few seconds before rolling her eyes and turning back to her book, opening it up on the page that was indicated on the board.

"You're not going to ask to move?" Chloe didn't look up to see which twin had asked.

"There's no point, now just sit down and start the task, stop being big cubs" she replied calmly, as if a mother scolding/ignoring her child by not paying attention to their tantrum.

"But-"

"Now George" Chloe said firmly, unsure whether she had addressed the right twin or not. She must have done before the three just huffed childishly before Chloe heard them take their seats. She could hear muttering under their breaths but didn't pay attention.

She knew George was sat to the right where Angelina would join him when she got there. Fred was in the seat directly behind hers and Lee was in the one behind him. Professor McGonagall had made sure, they weren't sat next to each other. Though, Chloe wasn't sure that it would stop the Weasley twins.

In the next few minutes the rest of the class started to file in. first had been some of the Slytherins, one being Adrian. They too had looked at the board some letting out a laugh at the seats. Chloe heard the rustle of a shove but didn't look up from her task.

It was only when she heard/felt the chair next to her move that she looked up. There the fifth year was, his Slytherin crest standing out on his black and green robes. The boy didn't say anything as he sat down and like her, got out her book and parchment.

"Impressive with your move up" she caught him say, not loudly so that others would notice, but not whispering either. "Surprising that it was you to move up when you share the same year as Granger, aren't her scores higher than your Perth" he more stated than asked.

"Hermione's overall grades are better than mine, but some subjects we are better at than others" Chloe countered. "Plus, she gets a lot of distraction because of her friendships, whereas I've spent the last two years dong extra charm and Transfiguration sessions on weekends to get here in my third year" she quietly explained.

"Yes, her friendship with the boy who lives seems to have done that for her" Adrian seemed to tease. "So instead you, who have managed to progress with these subjects and still get on the Quidditch team so young, are joining the fifth years to sit your OWLs early" he stated.

"So it seems" Chloe replied.

"And while you're in this class you've been stuck next to me so I have to endure the glaring daggers of your boyfriend from behind us" he teased.

"Not my boyfriend" Chloe corrected. "More like protective big brothers" she explained. Adrian turned slightly to look behind them quickly before turning to look at the girl.

"Right, and I'm a Ravenclaw" he teased before turning to his parchment.

"I'm sure that's not too far from the truth for you" Chloe said, not looking up from her work. She knew that Adrian had got the wrong idea. There was no way Lee liked her like that and the Twins even less so. To them, she was just another girl that their mother had asked them to look out for. Adrian didn't get a chance to reply to her comment because the next person to come in was Angelina.

"What the hell is that snake doing sitting next to MY SISTER?!"

It was going to be a long class and a long year.


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