A/N: Hello! Sorry for the wait but good news! I am now on half term (only for a week) but that means… more updating! Yeah! Also, I got ONE DIRECTION tickets today! Ahh!

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DISCLAIMER: (Haven't done this in a while) Hey, sadly I do not own Harry Potter anything you might recognise from the books/film in this story. I only own Gracie and anything else you do not recognise. Thanks.

-CONVERSATION OF THE CHAPTER-

ME: HEY FAWKES! HOW YA DOIN'?

FAWKES: SQUARK!

ME: Well squark to you to.

FAWKES: SQUARK!

ME: Wow this is fun! SQUARK! SQUARK! SQUARK! SQUARK!

FAWKES: SQUARK! SQUARK! SQUAAAAAAAAAAAA-

ME: OH MY FAWKES ARE YOU OKAY? YOU JUST LIKE WENT ON FIRE OR SOMETHING! ARE YOU DEAD? MERLIN! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! I JUST KILLED A PHOENIX AND- IT CAME BACK TO LIFE?

FAWKES: SQUARKKKKK!

ME: AWESOME! CAN YOU LIKE TOTALLY TEACH ME TO DO THAT?

FAWKES: SQUARK!

ME: COOL! When do we start lessons?

FAWKES: SQUARK!

ME: Fine with me. See you then!

*Fawkes takes flight*

ME: Bye! See you soon for those lessons!

FAWKES: SQUARK!

ME: Bye! Cool Phoenix. Professor Dumbles is one lucky dude. I mean he has a really cool bird and a beard! I want a beard like Dumbledoreeeeeeee! ON WITH THE STORY!

11

'It's a long story.'

'I'm waiting.' Professor McGonagall tutted impatiently.

'James will explain.' Gracie said quickly, pointing her finger at him.

'Wh-?'

'No Miss Prewett. Both of you will explain.'

'We'll take it in turns?' James asked weakly.

'Alright. Once upon a time nearly 13 years ago on the 31st of October Grace Charlotte Prewett came out of-'

'Eww!' The 1st year Gryffindor's and Slytherin's cut her off.

It had turned out that they didn't have Transfiguration after lunch. The 1st years did. James had accidently read off tomorrow's after lunch lessons.

So they had burst into the lesson half way through expecting their fellow 2nd years faces staring back at them but had got 1st years instead and an angry Professor McGonagall.

'Mr Potter you start. The class and I are waiting.'

'Right last night we were talking to Professor Dumbledore about letting the snakes loose so-'

'You set them loose?' Some random Hufflepuff shouted.

'Yes,' it was not James that had answered. It had been Gracie. 'We didn't know the password so we weren't allowed in the common room and had to stay outside.'

'Sirius, who was with us along with Remus and Peter decided to play a game. After a little confusion Sirius suggested we play 'The first on to die loses.' Gracie pointed her wand at me.'

Everyone gasps.

'Grace!'

'Hey! I wasn't really going to kill him!' Gracie protested.

'Anyway she dropped her wand and forgot to pick it up. Stupid girl.'

'Hey! My foot was hurting!'

'Well you shouldn't have kicked the wall!'

'You kicked a wall?'

They ignored the Gryffindor that had spoken.

'The wall was asking for it!'

'Walks can't ask! They can't talk!'

'Hen, continue.' Professor McGonagall interrupted while the class watched amused behind her.

'Professor McGonagall over her,' Gracie nodded in Professor McGonagall's direction. 'Woke us up and kindly let us sleep until lunch.'

'Then at lunch Gracie discovered she left her wand so Sirius and I went with her to find it. There Snape-'

'Snivellus, Greasy git or Slytherin Slime is some other names you might know him by.' Gracie said innocently.

'Miss Prewett!' Professor McGonagall shouted. 'Don't-'

'Continuing on!' James said loudly.

'Story cut short, Gracie got her wand back, Snape got beat up, Professor Wonderstruck gave Snape detention and Gracie's toes got fixed.'

'Which is good, really good.' Gracie nodded to herself in satisfaction.

'We left as Gracie went to wash her wand to get Snape's germs off it. To see if it still worked she used the levitation spell on a sink and got too excited and hit Sirius in the head with it.'

More gasps.

'We took him to the hospital wing and came here.' James finished the tale.

'I am very disappointed in you. Detention. For 2 months.'

'2 months?'

'I can't believe you did that to Sirius!' Remus fumed.

'We heard.' Fabian cut in.

'Yeah, why didn't you kill him Gracie? Would've saved us a job later.' Gideon added.

'Wait what?' Gracie said with narrowed eyes.

'Well we're not letting our little sister go off and marrying a Black.'

'Excuse me?'

And James took this a cue to back away from Gracie.

'I think that staying single for the rest of your life is a wise decision to make.'

Gracie eyes flashed.

'You'll always have us.' They finished.

'Always have you both? What happens when you go off and get married and have kids or when you die? Am I meant to stay alone for the rest of my life? I am not a kid anymore! It's my decision if I get married and who to! You cannot stop me! Just because you're my older brothers and want to look out for me doesn't mean you can hate on Sirius just because he's a Black! You know he's not like them! You didn't hate on Arthur when Molly fancied him! So why hate on the boy I fancy? Sirius never did anything to you!'

Gracie slapped a hand over her mouth, realising what she had just said. What she had just admitted.

'So you defiantly fancy Sirius then?' James grinned.

'Uh- I- Dumbledore's phoenix!' she shouted and scarpered from the room.

'Maybe we were a little harsh…'

'Ya think?'

It had been 2 days since Gracie had told the, (though they all secretly knew it) who she fancied.

Sirius's head had suffered no lasting damage and had accepted James and Gracie's apology immediately. When asked why, Sirius replied 'I missed 2 days of lessons a detention. What's there to forgive?'

'What do you think the first DADA lesson will be like?' Remus asked conversationally.

'Should be alright.' Sirius shrugged.

'Gracie seemed to think he's cool.' James said.

Sirius mumbled something unhearable.

'What was that Sirius?'

'Nothing.' Sirius said.

'What do you think we'll learn?' Peter asked thoughtfully.

'Hopefully not the things we learnt last year.' Remus said.

'The things we learnt or the things everyone else who went to class learnt?' James smirked.

Remus paused.

'Both.'

Sirius sniggered.

'It would be bad if we learnt all the stuff we did last year this year.' Remus pointed out.

'Yeah but if it happens Professor Dumbledore said he gave us permission to leave again if we wanted to.'

'Oh yeah!' Sirius grinned.

'Yes but he might be alright though.' Remus protested.

'If he isn't?' Sirius gave Remus the puppy dog eyes.

'Fine.'

'Awesome!'

'Am I included this time in learning I mean if we ditch classes?' Peter asked hopefully.

'Urgh, I'm not sure.' James said awkwardly.

No one spoke.

Gracie happened to then skip happily by them with a small crate in her hands/

'What's in the crate?' Sirius questioned.

'Well hi to you to.' She said, not stopping her skipping to talk.

She stopped near the staff table and began speaking to Professor Dumbledore who eyes were sparkling more than normal and wore a wide smile.

'What do you have for me Gracie?'

'Hey,' James said suddenly remembering. 'I have to tell you something important.' He said just as Gracie announced happily to Professor Dumbledore that his Phoenix had come.

'What is it?' Sirius asked as they watched Gracie give Professor Dumbledore his new pet.

Gracie and Professor Dumbledore chattered quietly for a few more minutes several people watching curiously.

'When you were in the hospital wing Gracie admitted that she fancies you.'

'What?' Sirius stared at James. 'You're lying.'

'I'm not.' James shook his head.

'He's not lying.' Remus confirmed.

'But why would she like me? She deserves someone smart, good at behaving, someone with a proper family-'

'You are smart, Gracie doesn't like good behaving people and your part of my family now.'

'She likes you. Listen to them.' Fabian grumbled when he walked passed them.

'YES!'

Every eye in the hall turned to Sirius who lowered her hand that he had pumped in air.

'Hi.' He said embarrassed to the people staring at him.

'You might want to sit down mate.'

'Shut up.' Sirius sat down.

'I think I'll name him Fawkes.'

'Nice choice Professor.'

'What was all that on the hall Black? Professor Dumbledore was speaking it's rude to interru-'

'He discovered that Gracie admitted out loud that she fancied him.'

Lily snorted.

'A blind person could see that Black and Gracie fancy each other. Gracie told me herself she liked him.'

'She told you before us?' James asked.

'Actually Potter, I heard she told you by accident meaning she wasn't meant to tell you. This means she doesn't trust you. You just told Sirius as well that's the last person she'd want to know! She trusts me but…' Lily gave him a pointed look and walked back to Gracie, Alice, Marlene, Mary and Alice, starting up a conversation with then and the 5 began laughing.

While James had a sinking feeling in his stomach.

Did Gracie trust him?'

Them?

Had he just betrayed her trust by yelling Sirius?

Did she hate him?

'C'mon.' Sirius muttered.

How was he going to get her to trust him if he wanted to know what she was afraid off?

Could he actually keep secrets?

James sighed.

'Let's go.'

James walked up to bed with the feeling off the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Gracie Prewett was a confusing person.