When Kaitlyn woke up the next morning she had somehow managed to get back to her old room. She sighed, still feeling like complete crap. Glancing around the room she saw that Kylie and Evangeline had both already woken up. Against her will, Kaitlyn got up and got dressed. It was not going to be an easy day and the last thing she wanted to do was worry about finding some place to live. Kaitlyn went downstairs to see that just about everyone was already eating breakfast. Remus was the only one not sitting at the kitchen table.

"Breakfast?" asked Mrs. Waters holding out an extra plate.

"No thanks I'm not very hungry," Kaitlyn replied, "I think I will just walk around if that's ok." And with that she left the kitchen with one goal in mind: find Remus and tell him everything. Of course, this was not going to be very easy. She had no idea where in the house he was, or if he was even in the house. Not to mention she hadn't had a flowing conversation with Remus in weeks.

"Where would I be if I were Remus Lupin?" Kaitlyn asked herself.

"Standing right behind you?" offered a voice she knew to belong to Remus. Kaitlyn spun around blushing slightly.

"Did I say that out loud?" she asked. Remus looked very amused and nodded.

"I was just coming back from breakfast," he told Kaitlyn.

"I was looking for you," Kaitlyn said bluntly.

"And now that you've found me what is it?" Remus asked warily sensing something was coming.

"What do you mean?" wondered Kaitlyn.

"Kaitlyn, I've known you for four years. I know when something is up."

"Ok but um, can we go somewhere that no one else can over hear us?" suggested Kaitlyn nervously. Remus remembered a certain conversation he had with this girl about a year ago that started pretty much the same way. He did not have a very good feeling about where this was going. Kaitlyn lead him upstairs to the room that she and Madison used to share.

"Ok so I'm going to get straight to the point," Kaitlyn told Remus closing the door to her old room. "You know how I have that, um, little secret. Well, you see, I think that this whole mess is all my fault."

"How could all of this be your fault just because your, er, you-know-who's daughter?" Remus whispered.

"Well, it happened like this…" Kaitlyn began. Soon the entire story was spilling out of her mouth; how they had gone back to the Waters's feeling very uneasy about home; how Damian Malfoy had told her that the murders of her old family were a warning; how she had this horrible dark future that she couldn't see any way of escaping.

"I didn't think I would ever say this but, your problem is probably as dangerous as mine. You have got to tell Dumbledore!" Remus exclaimed when her speech was finally over.

"He's coming to the funeral tomorrow," Kaitlyn explained, "I will fill him in then."

The next day when Kaitlyn woke up instead of rolling over and hitting the snooze button on her alarm as she usually would, Kaitlyn got dressed in all black. This was going to be one of the worst days of her life. The funeral was to be held at the local church that both Mr. and Mrs. Glade were proud members of. Mrs. Waters was going to pick up Kylie and Kaitlyn on her way there.
"This is going to be awful," Kylie stated as she put on a black pantsuit.

"We'll get through this," Kaitlyn told the younger girl as she slid her dress on.

"Funerals suck," Kylie pouted as she did her hair.

"I second that," Kaitlyn agreed twisting her hair back into a simple knot. The two girls piled into the back of Mr. Evangeline's car and they were off. The church was empty when they arrived but after fifteen minutes it was overflowing.

"I didn't know mum and dad knew all these people," Kylie whispered to Kaitlyn. Truth be told, probably only a third of the people were muggles and friends of the Glades. Kaitlyn could see one or two Hogwarts professors in the crowd. She knew all the families of her friends were here. Kylie spotted some third years from her house. Not to mention, all of the fourth year Gryffindors had shown up. Kaitlyn made her way over to Cameron, Devin, Lily, and Evangeline and gave them a big group hug.

"It's never going to be the same again," sobbed Lily easily the most emotional one in their group of friends.

"Don't worry it will be ok in the end," Devin told her with a reassuring smile towards Kaitlyn.

The funeral was long and painful. The muggle priest was a very boring man as well as a very boring preacher. Of course a separate prayer had to be said for each person. Not to mention all the people who wanted to say a little special something about one of the three deceased. Kaitlyn was very surprised when Dumbledore got up to talk about Madison. She could tell the muggles present were giving him strange looks. They would probably gossip about him later. However, the last part of Dumbledore's speech stuck in her mind like glue. Kaitlyn couldn't stop thinking about it because what he said was completely true yet shockingly unreal.

"This is only the beginning of the end."

After the formal ceremony Kaitlyn approached Dumbledore and told him everything she had told Remus the previous day.

"Mr. Malfoy is a very unkind man Miss Glade. It will do you well not to dwell on what he said. For all we know it is not true," Dumbledore told her. "As for where you and Kylie should live…I am sorry that I can not ask you to stay at the castle as that is completely against the rules of the school. However, there are several programs for foster homes that you and your sister can apply to."

"I don't want another foster home!" Kaitlyn protested. "I want a real home! A real home where I don't have to pretend all these random people are my family. A real home where I don't have to pretend that I'm someone else."

"Please Miss Glade calm down you are very emotional right now. Perhaps we should have this discussion at another time," Dumbledore instructed in his soft voice.

"No! There isn't any other time! Thanks to me Kylie doesn't have a family or a roof to live under anymore!" Kaitlyn almost shouted back at him.

"This isn't how you say, thanks to you Miss Glade. You did not kill anyone," Dumbledore told her rationally.

"I as good as did. Just because I lived with them and pretended they were my family these innocent people get killed!" Kaitlyn argued back. Dumbledore regarded the now fifteen year old girl behind his half moon spectacles.

"I am sorry that you have to suffer from such a large burden. You are an innocent fourth year who feels like three people have been killed because of your true parentage. Evidently despite what anyone tells you, this is not your fault. Now please, think like a civilized person. If you don't stay in a foster home where on earth will you stay?" asked Dumbledore.

"Somewhere far away where I won't put anymore people in danger," Kaitlyn said defiantly.

"And what about Kylie? She needs you now more than ever," Dumbledore reminded Kaitlyn.

"Fine I have no idea where we are going to live, happy?" confessed Kaitlyn angrily but now calm.

"Well, my husband and I were thinking that you girls could live with us." Kaitlyn spun around to see the kind face of Mrs. Waters smiling back at her.

"Mrs. Waters, you have been so kind. I would hate for my sister and I to intrude on your family like that," Kaitlyn spoke choosing her words carefully so that they did not reflect the previous argument she had just taken place in.

"Nonsense, you girls are like family to Evangeline and Sean. You live at Hogwarts most of the year anyways. Your parents left you enough money to get started with a life of your own once you are of age. It will be not trouble at all simply looking after you girls during the holidays and summer vacation." Mrs. Waters told her smiling. Her words were so kind, and yet very true. Kaitlyn turned to Dumbledore as if she were asking his permission. After all, he is the one who saved her from the terrible life she could have led.

"I should probably check with Kylie. But I'm sure she will be overjoyed. This whole ordeal has really taken a lot out of her. Thank you for everything Mrs. Waters," Kaitlyn said. As she was about to leave to find Kylie Mrs. Waters spoke.

"Call me Kate."

After a very long conversation between Kaitlyn and Kylie the girls had decided to take Mrs. Waters, or Kate, up on her offer of hospitality. It was probably one of the kindest things anyone had ever done for the two of them. Kaitlyn considered herself to be extremely lucky.

However, once Kaitlyn was back at school she considered herself the complete opposite. Everywhere she turned all she got were these sympathetic glances or the occasional "Im sorry" head bob. The head bob was quite popular among her professors. She would walk into class and address the professor with a lovely good morning, afternoon, whatever it may be hello and what did she get in return? The head bob. Or to be more specific: after the wonderful bright and shiny hello Kaitlyn would give the professor would turn to her, tilt their head to the side, close their eyes slightly and sigh a hello dear. Honestly! It was starting to get on her nerves.

Back at the Gryffindor common room wasn't much better. Just the other day Sirius had approached Kaitlyn looking rather, well, serious. He had told her…

"I've been meaning to tell you this for awhile but I never really got the chance. And now that she's gone. No wait don't interrupt me." Kaitlyn was about to interject and tell him off for bringing up Madison again. "She wouldn't let me tell you. But now that she's gone I can. Madison and I sort of had a thing." At this Kaitlyn had fallen off her chair out of pure shock. "I know, I know, it seems insane but it's true. We sort of used to, sneak off to Hogsmeade and stuff. And well now she's gone and Lyn, I miss her like crazy. You know I actually cried when I found out she died." At this Kaitlyn felt a surge of guilt pass over her. She herself hadn't been able to cry until the next day and she had seen Madison get killed right before her very eyes. "And every time I look at you I see her face."

"So what are you saying you want to stop being around me?" asked Kaitlyn confused and still on the floor.

"No no no, it's just. I felt like you deserved to know is all," Sirius told her getting up. And then Kaitlyn did something that she never ever thought she would ever do. In fact, four years ago if anyone told her she would do this Kaitlyn would have told them to go to St. Mungos and have their sanity checked. She got up and hugged Sirius Black.

"I am so so so unbelievably sorry," she said as she wrapped her arms around him.

"Why are you apologizing? It's not your fault," Sirius asked her rather confused. But Kaitlyn didn't answer him for she feared everything would just spill out if she said another word on the subject.

The next few weeks were extremely gloomy. Kaitlyn was consistently reminded of the absence of Madison due to the empty bed now residing in the fourth year Gryffindor's room. Eventually Lily took the liberty of casting a charm on the bed so it would disappear. The girls then rearranged all their furniture so there wouldn't be a big empty space.

"Honestly between you and Sirius I've never felt more depressed in my life," James told Kaitlyn one day when the three of them were alone in the common room.

"You're right," Sirius said jumping up suddenly. Kaitlyn looked up at him surprised. "What we need to do is get ourselves back into the swing of things. Mads wouldn't have wanted us to mope around. So you know what we're gonna do?" James and Kaitlyn exchanged surprised looks. Neither of them had been expecting this reaction. "We're going to prank the Slytherins." And just like that Kaitlyn was glad to know they had Sirius Black back.

Later that evening Sirius had called a fourth year Gryffindor meeting. Cameron, Devin, Evangeline, Lily, Kaitlyn, Sean, Felix, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were all sitting up in the fourth year boy's dormitory where they could be assured no one would interrupt their top secret meeting.

"Ladies and Gentlemen this is our second official mass Gryffindor prank against the Slytherins we need to begin brainstorming," Sirius instructed the group.

"Let's turn their hair pink!" Peter exclaimed.

"Pete didn't you suggest that last time?" asked Devin curiously.

"No!" protested Peter as he reddened.

"I have an idea," Sirius said suddenly grinning like a madman, "Let's release pigs in their common room.

"Sirius that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard," Lily said wrinkling her nose in dislike.

"No wait that could actually work," Evangeline muttered imagining the Slytherins chasing the pigs around trying to catch them.

"They could just magic the pigs away," Sean countered.

"Are they really that smart?" asked Felix.

"No no, they're right it won't work," Cameron sighed.

"Unless we make it so they can't magic the pigs away," James suggested.

"When you invent a spell that can prevent that let us know," Kaitlyn laughed.

"WAIT!" cried Sirius. Every head in the room turned to him in alarm. "I think Remus has got it." The glances then fell upon Remus who in turn, looked very deep in thought.

"Ok so here's what I've got," Remus began. "We go with the pig thing. Somehow we find two pigs or some animal like a pig. We then label one pig Number One and another pig Number Three. The Slytherins are such dolts they will probably spend the entire day looking for pig Number Two, except there won't be a pig number two."

"Remus my man, you are in fact, a genius."

A/N time…Ok so first of all I am very proud of myself for actually updating in what I think is a significant amount of time. It makes me happy. Ok secondly, my reviewers are the best people in the world!! Seriously reading reviews makes my day.

-R.A.B.: thanks so much!! Yeah and to be honest, for a second there, so did I!

-DlnSprFan101: sorry about all my typos. I usually am typing this at a very unreasonable hour in the night trying to get it all in. I am so happy you like the story!

-fairydustandcanofspam: Yeah, so the fact that she was Macnair's daughter sort of slipped my mind at the time. Madison was actually modeled out of one of my friend's rp characters so I just included that. To be honest I hadn't planned on killing her it was sort of a spur of the moment thing that came to me. I get my ideas for this story at very random times. And I am so happy that I am forgiven : D

Well, that was the first time I ever mentioned my reviewers in the actual chapter but I like doing that instead of replying to the review through so you guys can expect that from now on. Peace and Love! Katy Potter.

p.s. BOOK SEVEN LEFT A HUGE HARRY POTTER SHAPED HOLE IN MY HEART so I have put all my energy into reading as many happy ending fan fictions as possible.