Wish Upon a Star

Disclaimer: Everything that is familiar in this story belongs to J.K. Rowling, sadly, if it had been up to me some of the people would've been still alive. Any other character is from my own mind, feel free to play with them if you want, but please let me know:)

Special thanks to: xfairyjadex, wolviegurl, The Yoshinator

While the whole school was speculating about how exactly Sirius Black had broken into Hogwarts, I was trying to keep my promise to Sirius, no Orion I reminded my self, which seemed to be more difficult then I had thought. After Sirius attempt to break into the Gryffindor Tower, the security had been tightened. I had already been caught by Professor Lupin, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick while I was trying to get out of the castle at night, telling them the same thing every time, that I just wanted to go out for a walk and clear my head before going back to my rooms, but none of them bought my excuse. So far I had managed to get outside three evenings, only staying long enough to give Orion his food before getting back to the castle since the Professors had included the school grounds in their evening rounds, and I knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to be caught outside, especially after being told several times already that I should be in my own rooms or in the Gryffindor Common Room.

After almost being caught on Friday night I decided that this wouldn't work any more. I couldn't keep on sneaking out for ever without being caught, but the weather didn't help either, it was November already and the temperature's dropped below freezing point at night. So when I went out once again to meet Orion on Saturday night I had decided that I would ask him if he wanted to stay in my rooms. It would definitely be more comfortable then the cave I imaged him to live in, barely anyone came in my rooms without my permission and I knew that the House-elves that cleaned were magically bound not to talk about the things that went on in students dormitory's, to protect their privacy.

Sitting down at the same spot as always, I stared at the Whomping Willow that was illuminated by the waning moon. I must have been sitting for only a couple of minutes when I heard someone approaching me from my left side. Looking up I saw the dark form of Orion walking to me, sitting down next to me as he licked my face. I giggled quietly before reaching into my pockets. I had taken some sausages again, but also a chicken leg, some carrots and some pasta. While slowly feeding Orion, I scratched his head and talked to him.

"You know, I really think that it isn't a good idea for you to live outside any more Orion."

Orion looked up from the piece of chicken he was eating while licking his mouth, looking at me curiously.

"It's getting colder, you know, and everyone says it is dangerous outside, some criminal has escaped from Azkaban and now is trying to kill one of the students. The teachers say that he is mental, that Sirius Black –"

At the mention of his real name, I felt Orion's muscle's tense underneath my hand, but I pretended I hadn't noticed while I kept talking, "But I don't know, he has been in Azkaban for 12 years, he's bound to be a bit strange after being in the presence of those horrible Dementors for so long, but I don't think he's mental at all. Can you imagine, 12 years without having contact with anyone at all. Oh, wait, you won't I guess since you are a dog."

I ruffled Orion's head as he finished the small lump of cheese.

"Anyway, I was wondering if you would want to live with me in the castle, it can be a bit lonely in my rooms, even with Noctum is around since he usually sleeps during the day. So, what do you say, do you want to come and live with me Orion?"

I looked in Orion's grey eyes for a moment before he moved forwards and licked me on my cheek, causing me to giggle while I pushed him back a little bit.

"I take that as a yes then", I giggled.

Orion let out a soft bark as I stood up, "Okay then, you ready to go to the castle then?"

Instead of replying, Orion started to walk towards the castle swiftly, while still being quite, as we walked towards the castle, the only sounds that I could here were my own footsteps and the rustling of the wind in the trees.

Once we were near the front doors I stopped and pulled my wand out of its holster while at the same time stopping Orion.

"I don't know who or what we will come across, but I need to you be quite okay?"

Orion wagged his tail slowly, while he waited for me to open the doors.

"I'm also going to place a charm on you so you won't be seen easily", I said before tapping my wand carefully on his head, placing a disillusionment charm on him. I looked at Orion while he started to merge with the background and sighed. The spell wasn't that good, as I could quite clearly see his tail waggle, but it had to be enough, it was dark inside after all. I pushed the front door open just enough so that Orion and I could get in and started to make my way to the Seventh Floor.

It seemed ages before we finally reached the Seventh Floor. Luckily we didn't run into anyone, although a couple of times I had seen Professor Snape or Filch walking around. I really should stop walking around after curfew Finally reaching the portrait of the Black Knight, or Sir Mordred as I had named him, I said the password "Amicitia" and led Orion into my rooms.

"As you can see, I live here on my own due to my 'special' circumstances", I said as I walked over to the window where Noctum sat of his perch, stroking his head I looked behind me and saw Orion sitting in front of the fire place.

"Ah, it seems like you have found my favourite spot here", I said.

Orion looked at the flames for a moment before he walked over to me, allowing me to scratch his head.

"Well, this is Noctum. Noctum, this is Orion", I said as Orion looked at Noctum, cocking his head slightly while Noctum did the same as if they weren't sure what to think of each other, "Orion will be living with us from now on, so be nice to him okay?"

Noctum squawked while flapping his wings for a second while he glared at Orion.

"Hey", I said, "What did I say about being nice?"

Noctum calmed down before flapping his wings again as he took of and soared through the open window into the dark night.

Shaking my head softly I watched him fly until he disappeared into the darkness before I looked back at Orion again.

"Never mind him, he'll be fine, he's probably a bit jealous that he won't be living here on his won anymore", I said as I walked towards the spiral stairs, "There's not much more here besides my room and the bathroom. Well, there is the room the Gryffindor Head Boy used to use, but I haven't been in there."

I opened the first door on the landing and stepped inside my room. Waving my wand once, hundreds of tiny of tiny lights floated across the ceiling, brightening the room so I could see adequately, the moon light that came trough the curtains and the light coming from the fireplace wasn't nearly enough to illuminate the room.

"This is my room, my bathroom is there", I pointed to the door on my left before turning around to look at Orion, "And that is it I think, do you like it?"

Orion barked once while his tail waggled fervently, making me smile at him.

"Good, now the only thing left is to decide where you will sleep, you can either sleep in here or down in the room, I don't mind any", I said, "But I suggest you will sleep in front of the fire, it can get a bit chilly here at night."

Immediately Orion walked towards the small fireplace in my room and lied down up on the rug in front of it.

"It seemed like you have found a bed, well then, I'm going to get changed so behave okay?"

Orion waggled his tail as he laid down his head on his paws and looked into the fire. Seeing that he wouldn't move for a while, I grabbed my pyjama's and made my way to the bathroom to have a quick shower.

When I emerged from the bathroom, Orion was still in the same spot, only his eyes were closed now, seeming like he was asleep. I quietly made my way over to the four-poster and banished the small orbs with a flick of my wand before pulling the duvet over me, looking for a moment at Orion's dark form in front of the fire place before closing my eyes.

Halfway Sunday morning Harry, Ron and Hermione joined me in my rooms. I had offered them, along with the other 3rd years and the twin, to use my rooms as an extra place to stay, study or have fun, provided that I was around at the time. There was no way I was going to let the twins stay in my rooms, without be being there. Orion had been the first one to notice them come in, since I had they keyed into the system they could come in when they wanted unless I activate a small privacy ward that would block their entrance. As soon as the three of them walked trough the portrait that separated the rooms from the Gryffindor Common Room, Orion was on his feet and ran over to them. Their reaction was fun to see, Ron immediately jumped behind Hermione and Harry froze on the spot.

"Hey guys", I greeted him, looking at the trio from the sofa.

"What- what – what is that doing here?", Ron stammered, looking pale as he peeked over Hermione's shoulder.

I chuckled softly, "Orion is a dog, and he is my familiar Ron."

Hermione was the first one to react as she bend down and reached with her hand towards Orion, her palm up, for him to sniff before scratching his head.

"He's a sweet boy", Hermione said without looking up, "But I thought you already had a familiar, Noctum?"

"What's wrong with two familiars Hermione, and Orion was actually in need of help, he was starving when I found him."

"You found him, where?", Harry asked, never letting his eyes leave the black dog in front of him.

"On the school grounds", I said, causing the three of them to snap their head towards me, "But before that I met him over the summer in London, I don't know how he showed up here at Hogwarts, but when he did I decided to take care of him."

Harry seemed to remember that he could move and slowly moved towards Orion, still looking at him, "He looks a lot like the dog I saw after I ran away from the Dursley's."

"Harry, I'm sure that there are a hundred dogs out there who look similar to Orion", I said, "But why are you guys here anyway?"

"We were looking for a place to work on our essays", Hermione said as she sat down on one of the sofa's, "And as usual the boys here haven't done their Potions essay yet."

"Come on Hermione", Ron said as he and Harry sat down on Hermione's side, "You know that the Greasy Bat doesn't care if it's good or not, he's give us an Acceptable if we're very lucky."

I sighed as they continued to bicker for another minute, looking while Orion walked to the sofa and laid his head on Harry's knees, causing Harry to once again stiffen up a bit.

"He won't bite you", I chuckled, "It seems he rather likes you."

Harry still didn't look very happy with Orion so close him, but relaxed a little bit as he pulled out his Potions essay and set to work on it. Both he and Ron seemed to have trouble with writing their essay, so I offered them to read trough mine, just to find some points they could write down. Releasing my wand from it's holster, I waved it and muttered "Accio Potions essay." It took a few seconds before the essay came zooming out of my room and landed on the table in front of me.

"Cool!", Ron said as the essay appeared, "What was that?"

"Summoning charm", I said as I replaced my wand into the arm holster, "Very useful too."

"Can you teach it to us?", Hermione asked, "And where did your wand go to?"

"Another time, maybe of the holidays when we have a bit more time okay?", Hermione nodded before I continued, "As for my wand, I keep it in an holster which is charmed to be invisible once it contains a wand and has anti-summoning placed on it, which I have strapped around my forearm."

I sighed when the three of them looked kind of blankly at me, clearly they had never heard, let alone seen a wand holster. I have a short flick with my hand and my wand fell out of its holster into my open hand before I rolled up my sleeve, now clearly showing the leather holster that was strapped to my arm.

"You see, it's just a simple wand holster, only visible now there is no wand placed into it."

"You wear that holster all the time?", Hermione asked while Ron said at the same moment, "How did your wand come out like that?"

"I do, once it's strapped to your arm, you won't feel it, and since it made of dragon skin, it shouldn't show signs of weariness, and you simply release the wand by flicking your wrist", I said as I replaced my wand once again in its holster, becoming invisible.

"Wicked", Ron said with a big grin, "Do you think we can get one of those too?"

I shrugged, "I don't know, they're for sale in Diagon Alley, but their prices vary quite a bit. I believe for just a basic holster you pay about 2 galleons, while the most expensive one I've seen was about 32 galleons. This one was about 14 galleons I believe."

All three of them looked quite interested and I could almost guess what they were thinking about. Ron probably thought about how cool it was, and how it would look if he could just make his wand appear out of nowhere, Harry thought how that could help him keeping his wand on him during his summers at the Dursley's. And Hermione, I would guess she was wondering why she never heard about a want holster before, and if she could find something about them in one of her books or in the library.

While Harry, Ron and Hermione where still thinking about the holster, I picked up the book I had been reading before they came in, Practical Occlumency and Legilimency, and opened it on the right page. Now I had my mind sort of ordered and cleared my mind almost every evening before sleeping, I needed to start working on building Occlumency walls in my mind so that if one would attempt performing Legilimency on me, they would not be able to find anything valuable. As I kept on reading, there was suddenly a ticking sound coming from the window. Looking up I saw a large brown owl flying in front of the window, carrying a thick letter, I quickly made my way over to the window and opened it to let the owl in. Once the owl was inside, he dropped the letter on the table before flying out again, quickly disappearing into the sky. I picked up the letter and noticed that it wore the Gringotts stamp on the back. Opening it, two pieces of parchment fell out, one smaller one, a short note, and one that was bigger. Picking up the note first I read it.

Miss Hanson,

Enclosed you will find a list of all the assets that are now in your possession as the heir of Slytherin. As you requested, we will transfer a small amount of money to the vault 197 at the end of every school year to cover your school expenses.

Sincerely,

Ragnok

Junior account manager

Now getting curious, I opened the second piece of parchment and was confronted with quite a long list. Skimming over it I noticed that there were several houses in possession of the Slytherin family, here in Britain, but also a few abroad, shares in a couple of Quidditch teams including the Vratsa Vultures, Montrose Magpies and Appleby Arrows, and the list went on with furniture, portraits, shares in other assets and patents. At the end it said the total amount of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts there were in the vault, not counting the value of all the other possessions. When I read the total amount I had to look at it several times to be sure I had seen it properly. According to Ragnok, I currently had 905881 galleons, 10 sickles and 5 Knuts in my vault, or just over 4.5 million British pounds.

"Fuck", I muttered once I understood it.

"Yvette, what's going on?", came Hermione's voice, seemed like she had heard me curse. Quickly pocketing both pieces of parchment, I couldn't have them laying around, I turned towards the trio,

"Nothing", I said, "Just a letter from Gringotts about something I asked them. Seemed like it wasn't possible."

"Oh", was the only reaction that came, "Well, can we go to the Great Hall for lunch then?", Ron asked, "I'm done with Potions and I'm starving."

At the mention of food, Orion looked up at me expectantly, and I cursed silently, I'd forgotten about getting food for him. Well, it seemed like I had to find the kitchens then and ask one of the house-elves if I could have food for him everyday.

"Sure", I said, "I need to do something before lunch, so I'll see you guys in the Great Hall?"

The trio nodded, packed up their books, quills and parchment and left trough the portrait leading to the Seventh Floor. As the Sir Mordred's portrait closed again, I quickly walked to my room and placed the letter and list from Gringotts in my trunk, before magically locking again. Maybe I should check out some of the houses over Eastern or the summer, to see in what kind of state they were, since they most likely haven't been used in the last few hundred years. Pulling on one of my robes, I walked downstairs again and told Orion I would get him his food, before quickly walking downstairs, looking for the fruit bowl painting in the basement of Hogwarts. Luckily it didn't take very long to find it since most portraits were of people or animals. As I tickles the pear, a green door know appeared and I carefully opened the door seeing an enormous, high-ceilinged room, as large as the Great Hall above it, with mounds of glittering brass pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, and a great brick fireplace at the other end. Stepping inside I was immediately surrounded by house-elves, some looking a bit happy, others slightly frightened.

"Miss, what is you doing here, is something wrong with the food?", one particularly old house-elf said as he made his way trough the other elves.

I shook my head, "No, nothing is wrong with the food, it is as delicious as always."

This made the elves flash big smiles at me.

"I am here because I have a small problem", I said as the elves pushed me to a small table in the corner, immediately placing a plate of sandwiches in front of me.

"Whats can we do for you miss?", the old elf said as he looked at me.

"Well, I have a pet dog since yesterday, and I forgot to take care of his food", I said as I took a small bit of one of the sandwiches, "So I was hoping that you could bring some leftovers every morning and afternoon to my rooms for him, if that isn't too much of a problem."

"Of course that's not a problem miss, we will gladly do that for yous!"

"Thank you so much", I said, getting up, "I felt like an idiot when I realized, you guys saved me!"

It took me a couple of more minutes to leave the kitchens, chewing on one of the muffins the elves forced me to take with me as I walked to the Great Hall and joined the other Gryffindors for lunch.