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Meanwhile, Sarah had arrived at Grimmauld Place, much to the joy of the twins who were in the middle of trying to sneak zucchini bread from out from under their mother's nose. Sarah laughed as they were once more ushered out of the kitchen, as she slowly stepped out of the grate. As they were shoved out of the door, they mouthed out a plea for her to grab them some while their mother was busy yelling at them. She gave them a slight nod and hurried over to the counter closest to her, swiping up a loaf, before hurrying back making sure to make as little noise as possible, though that did not seem to be necessary as Mrs. Weasley's loud rant at the twins had caused the portrait of Mrs. Black, that she had head about, start its own loud tirade.

When things had finally quieted down and Mrs. Weasley had come back into the room from what Sarah believed, due to the silence that reigned throughout the house now, was her helping someone quiet the portrait. As she walked in Mrs. Weasley smiled at her, "Good morning dear. Can I get you anything to eat?"

"Good morning, Mrs. Weasley." Sarah shook her head, "I'm not that hungry, thanks." Molly nodded distractedly and went back to her baking after waving her wand and clearing up the streaks of fireplace soot off Sarah's face and clothes before transfiguring her pajamas into regular muggle clothes.

Sarah nodded her thanks and headed out into the hall where the twins immediately cornered her. "Did you get it?" She brought the bread out of her sleeve and the two young men gave a quiet cheer. "Come on," said Fred as he grabbed her hand and pulled her along, as they raced as quietly as possible up the stairs and into one of the rooms.

As they entered it, she looked around greeting Hermione, Ron and Ginny before she was introduced to Harry Potter, who had just arrived the night before. The twins began breaking the bread in pieces and handing them out to everyone in the room, when Hermione glared at them, "How did you get this? We could hear your mum yelling at you to keep your hands off of it."

"We did keep our hands off of it until just now," George said indignantly.

"Sarah nicked it for us," Fred said, grinning at Sarah who blushed slightly, as Ron and Ginny looked at her stunned that she had gotten away with it.

Hermione however glared at her, "You shouldn't be stealing from Mrs. Weasley, Sarah."

"Come off it, Hermione. As if you never stole anything," Ron groused, and Hermione seemed to blush in embarrassment. Sarah guessed that she was being reminded of something she had done similarly, before Ron turned back to Sarah, "Bloody brilliant is what it was! How'd you manage it?"

"Got over there while she was distracted and used the portrait's reaction to her yelling to cover up my movement. Then went back to the fireplace making sure I didn't leave a trail, so that she thought I had just arrived," Sarah shrugged as she explained. The twins grinned at each other, they were definitely going to have a fun time getting her to join them in their pranks this school year.

Hermione continued to glower at Sarah, before asking, "So when are you going to be sorted into your House?"

"They sorted me this morning," Sarah admitted, trying not to wriggle under everyone's attention.

"Where'd they place you?" Hermione asked, and Sarah looked up steeling herself from the sneers she was positive would be coming her way.

"Slytherin." Hermione's mouth formed a silent "o" before she muttered her half-hearted congratulations. Ron glared at her with contempt in his eyes, as did Ginny and Harry. She nervously looked over at Fred and George, worried on how they would react as she oddly cared quite a bit about their opinions of her.

Fred looked over at George, and then shrugged, "Well, no one's perfect." He turned back to Sarah and smiled at her, and Sarah smiled back at him. "Now, my lady, if you will come with us we have mayhem to concoct." He bowed and reached his arm out to her, Sarah giggled and followed them out of the room for a day of laughter and pranks.

Around dinner time the three of them found themselves sitting on top of the stairs with Remus and Tonks, leaning against each other, laughing as Sirius Black tried to figure out how to change his hair from neon orange back to its natural black color. They heard the door open and looked down to see Severus walking through as Black ran past him with a potion in his hand. Severus's head reared back, and he blinked several times as his head and eyes followed Sirius. He looked up and flicked his eyebrow up, as he saw the five people on the stairs gasping as they tried to stop laughing, "I believe if we were in school I would be rewarding 900 points to Gryffindor, 300 points to Hufflepuff, and 1000 points to Slytherin, if we were at school."

He stood at the base of the stairs smirking at the shocked expressions on their faces until a loud curse drifted toward them and out ran Sirius with hair rapidly running through the neon color spectrum. They all tried to straighten their faces out, but lost it when Severus snickered at Sirius, "I wasn't aware you were trying out for the circus, Black. If you need a reference I'll be glad to help you out."

As Sirius glared at Severus, Severus smirked and reached his hand out to Sarah, who spent four minutes trying to get off the step she was sitting on while trying to control her laughter. Finally, getting up she moved toward him and he draped his arm around her shoulder, kissing her head as they walked away. Sarah found it weird that he kept his head down until she felt his shoulders shaking and heard low chuckling as he worked on keeping his laughter quiet and under control.

He nodded stiffly as he finally raised his head and they walked into the kitchen. Finally, the other four came in as Severus told Sarah her scores, to which she whooped and he rolled his eyes before smirking at her. She accepted the congratulations from Mrs. Weasley, the twins, Lupin and Tonks before turning back to Severus when she heard a book drop on the table in his direction.

"These are the last three years of History of Magic books that you will need to read to catch up completely with where your fellow classmates will be. These are the last two years of Magical Creatures. If you need help you can ask Miss Granger for it, as she has memorized all the books anyway, which I would definitely suggest for that last one." Severus pointed at a fuzzy book belted shut with distaste.

"She hates me." Sarah remarked, "I'll ask Fred." She nodded to the twins, who were discussing the hair changing with Tonk and Lupin, while trying to keep their mother from hearing about it as she worked on the dinner.

Severus frowned, "If you were discussing Charms, Herbology, Transfiguration, or, and I can't believe I'm admitting this, Potions, I would say you were fine to discuss the topic with one of the Weasley twins. However, as this is History of Magic and Care of Magical Creatures you would do best to stick with Hermione or Draco." Sarah nodded and Severus pulled out her chair and then sat down next to her after she was seated to eat with them as they waited for the next Order meeting to start.

Throughout the meal, her and the twins silently waged war with their peas, until they heard a sharp clearing of a throat and looked in the direction it had come from. At the disapproving glare they all received, they turned their gazes back on their plates and finished eating, though they spent the time casting covert grins at each other, while Severus kept an eye on the three pranksters.