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CHAPTER 26

The rest of the summer went quickly, and before she knew it, she was on the train to school.

"Can you guys believe that seven years ago today we met on this train?" Jenny said in awe while sitting down in the compartment.

"Nope." Oliver said. "It feels like ages ago!"

"We were cute little runts." Asia said, while looking through a photo album from their first year that she had brought with her on the train.

"Look at Percy's hair." Jenny sniggered, pointing to a photo.

"Oh shut it, Jennifer. You had that ridiculous streak in your hair." Percy retorted.

"But it looked better than your poofy mess." Jenny smiled.

"This was before Oliver hit puberty." Percy said, grinning and pointing at a young, small, and scrawny Oliver.

"Oi shut up Perce, nobody knows if you've even hit it yet." Oliver said, and then the four burst into fits of laughter.

The laughter however, died out when the train stopped.

"We can't be there yet…Can we?" Asia said, puzzled.

The lights went out.

"Why is it so c-c-c-cold?" Jenny said, her teeth chattering.

The door slowly slide open, and a hooded figure appeared.

It had been my first time ever encountering a dementor in person, I had been taught the Patronus charm years ago but I had never had to use it.

"Get the bloody hell out of here!" Asia hissed and a large, silvery white dog came charging out of her wand.

At that point in time, I still hadn't figured out why my patronus was Padfoot, the dog I was pretty sure we had when I was a child. Though my memories were distant and mixed.

Once the dementor had left, the patronus sat stationed at the door for a few more minutes, until the lights went back on and the train began to move once again.

"Bloody hell. That was awful." Oliver said, breaking a large piece of chocolate into pieces and splitting it with his friends.

"You know, they're going to be guarding the school." Percy said, biting his chocolate.

"THERE ARE MORE?" Oliver said, falling into his seat.

"Yes, they are the guards of Azkaban and they're looking for Sirius Black-" said Percy

Asia cringed at the mention of his name.

"Sorry." Percy said, giving her an apologetic look.

The weather that day seemed to foreshadow not only the rest of the year's weather but all of the awful things that were going to happen in years to come.

When the four got off of the train, they were immediately soaked by the torrential rain.

"Well, why did we even bother changing into our robes?" Jenny said, shaking out her wet head as the four boarded a carriage.

"Relax, Jennifer." Percy said "We can dry ourselves with a drying spell when we get inside."

"I know that, Perce!" Jenny hissed "But we're going to catch a cold."

"Since when do you care so much if we catch a cold?" Oliver asked.

"Never actually, I just needed a comeback." Jenny said as they arrived in the entrance hall with the other flocks of students.

While waiting to walk inside of the Great Hall, Asia noticed the back of a boy's head that bore a similar resemblence to Marcus Flint's. She pointed him out to Jenny.

"Look ahead."

"Ew, god, it looks like Marcus." Jenny gagged.

"It can't be him though," Oliver said from behind them. "The wanker was a seventh year last year, he couldn't possibly-"

At that moment, the boy in question turned slightly to the right revealing his profile.

"OH MY GOD." Asia and Jenny said together.

"Bloody hell!" Oliver whispered, and nudged Zach who had shown up a little while after they arrived in the Entrance Hall.

"No way!" Zach grinned, and stifled a laugh. "He must be so dumb he was held back!"

Alexi, Zach's girlfriend, elbowed him as Marcus began to walk over to their general area with three Slytherins following him.

Oliver had the first word.

"What's the matter Flint? Couldn't figure out how to shrink something and then failed?"

"I don't see how it's any of your business, Wood. But I do look forward to wiping you clean this season. It's Slytherin's year." Flint smirked, bearing his disgusting teeth.

Asia coughed the word "Bullshit."

"What was that, Poppet?" Flint hissed, but before he could get any close to Asia, Oliver stood in front of her.

"Get going, Flint." Oliver hissed, getting in his face.

Flint backed off and followed the rest of the crowd into the Great Hall.

Asia kissed Oliver on the cheek in thanks.

The first two months of term went by in what felt like a second, and the madness began on Halloween. It was the first time in two years that the Halloween feast wasn't a literally frightening affair. No trolls, no large snakes petrifying students. How wrong I was…

Asia and Oliver headed out of the Great Hall and up the stairs towards the common room. Once they reached the portrait, they noticed a large crowd outside of it.

"Why isn't anyone going in?" Oliver asked a small first year boy in front of him.

The boy looked up at Oliver with large frightened eyes.

"Relax," Asia smiled said to the boy. "He may look big but he's like a teddy bear. I promise."

He seemed to loosen up at bit at this and said "The Fat Lady is gone, someone slashed her portrait."

Percy and Jenny had arrived seconds later, but before Asia or Oliver could tell them what happened Percy went pushing through the crowd in an important manner.

"Let me through please! I'm Head Boy!" Percy yelled

"Boy, he's really taking his job seriously." Fred said, appearing behind them, puffing out his chest in an imitation of Percy.

George appeared seconds later, also puffing out his chest.

An eerie silence fell over the crowd, and Percy said in a slightly panicked voice.

"Somebody get Professor Dumbledore!"

At that very moment, Sirius Black was around the corridor, hidden in the shadows, he quickly transformed and bolted down a desserted hallway, through a passageway, and out of the castle.

When Padfoot had reached the middle of the Forbidden Forrest, he layed down up against a tree, panting.

"Damnit!" he thought to himself.

"God fucking damnit!" He growled.

He was so close to getting Peter. He had planned to scan the tower for him…secretly hoping to steal another glance at his daughter. He had seen her earlier that day, but he was still so entranced by her. It was very surreal to him, seeing his little girl had grown into a young woman while he wasted away in prison.

He watched her leave and return to school that day, assuming it was a Hogsmeade trip. She was with that boy again, he couldn't remember the name, Orson, Oro, Olaf…no, not Olaf… Oliver! That was it. Then again, he didn't even want to believe that his daughter had a boyfriend, so why would he have to remember his name?

They were making fun of Marcus Flint, he assumed is was Marcus Flint Jr. because Marcus Flint was two years ahead of him when he was at school, and he later became a Death Eater.

The boy had told Anastasia something along the lines of "I'll never let him hurt you again…" or something which made Sirius wonder how similar Marcus Jr. was to his father. However, he realized that wherever his daughter would be, Oliver was sure to be around, which meant that it would be very hard to get his daughter alone. One of his initial goals, to try to explain to his daughter what had happened. She was one of the only people who needed to believe him so he could be vindicated. He needed her to know the truth.