A/N: So you guys deserve an explanation at least, especially after promising those updates and not delivering. I didn't forget; instead my computer started throwing fits when I went to put up the next update, it completely stopped loading the internet like it didn't even exist. No matter what I do it wont do anything that needs the internet. Ugh. So I had to barrow my brother's dinosaur laptop again to continue this. Since I have seven updates (including today's) to do, I think I'm going to try and spread them out over this weekend also so it won't interfere with anything else I am supposed to be doing IRL. Okay? R&R

-52- Characteristically

Who was this woman?

In all of his two-decades-plus years, he had rarely met anyone like her outside of family. (No-one could truly compare to a Weasley or Potter woman, in his opinion.) She was quick and derisive; confident in her assertions; possessed a backbone shorn up with a strange power; and, apparently, afraid of the dark. Not to mention her allusion of association with people many would consider to be within a grey area if not altogether 'dark'. About which she clearly held an opposing opinion.

Was he finally glimpsing a piece of why they wanted her so desperately?