DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER SADLY BUT I DO OWN MY CHARACTERS AND THEIR STORYLINES.


The Easter holiday had ended way too fast for Evelyn's liking. She couldn't help but think that Don and she didn't spend that much time together and she hated having to wait until summer. She missed the times when she could go to the common room and she would find him there.

To her surprise, her godfather had proven to be the best part of the holiday. He had shown up in the house a couple of times and Evelyn had found him funny. He kept the atmosphere alive and she loved when he told stories of her mother and him in Hogwarts. It was odd hearing about that time as her mother never spoke about it, but Evelyn loved hearing stories of her mum being a kid just like she was.

"How was your Easter holiday?" Edrick asked her as they were entered a compartment alongside Diana, Christina and Gabriela.

"Good. I spent time with Don as much as I could. Also, my godfather was showed his face a few times." Evelyn responded to him and everyone frowned at her.

"Godfather?" Christina repeated. "You never mentioned having one."

"I didn't know I had one." She admitted shrugging a little. "My mum and he parted ways years ago because he was too afraid to help her with her situation-"

"What kind of situation?" Edrick cut her off by asking her.

Evelyn glanced at the auburn-haired boy. "Mum leaving her family with me. So he didn't help her but he came back from his travels and wanted to make amends with both of us. He showed up one day for dinner with Sirius-"

"What is Sirius doing with your godfather?" Diana asked what the rest of them had been thinking.

"My godfather is Sirius's uncle," Evelyn informed them and their eyebrows almost touched their hairlines.

"What a small world!" Gabriela beamed from her place. "How do your mum and Sirius's uncle know each other?"

"They were in the same year, the same house, played Quidditch together and they were close friends. Alphard said that he considered my mum his best friend." Evelyn responded as she plopped her feet on Edrick's lap. "You don't mind?"

The boy shook his head indicating that he didn't mind. "How about you three?"

"Mum is getting better. She is growing roses and all kinds of flowers in our garden. She says it helps." Gabriela responded to them and Diana squeezed her shoulder. Relief filled Evelyn at the news. They had thought of the worst a few months ago, but it was good to hear that her mother was feeling better.

"I went to South Korea." Christina started to talk with a monotone voice.

Edrick furrowed his eyebrows. "What were you doing there?"

"My dad's grandad was from there." She responded. "Lee is a Korean name, not Japanese one. How can you not know about this?"

"In his defence, you only mentioned it once." Evelyn pointed out and Edrick smiled. "And when you did you called it boring."

Christina sighed. "It was." She crossed her arms. "In my house in Japan, I'm allowed to fly, but my great grandmother doesn't let me fly. She says that I'll ruin her garden." She huffed. "So, it was a very boring holiday."

"Sorry, Chris. At least, summer is going to be excited." Diana's words made Christina smile. Evelyn knew that she wasn't going to shut up about in a few weeks. "Unlike Chris, I've got some good news. Lola, Reggie's wife is pregnant. She's going to have a daughter." Evelyn squealed and all of them congratulated her. "Can you believe I'm going to become an aunt again?"

Chris shuddered. "I'll curse the day I become an aunt. but also pity the woman who my brother marries." Her joke made everyone laugh. "I'm not kidding."

Evelyn shook her head and turned to Edrick. "How about you, Ed?"

"Went to my mother's side for Easter. I had the pleasure to attend the party with the Slytherin gang minus Snape of course." Edrick answered the question. "They tried to play all nice pretending to forget that they tried to hex me." The words came out of Edrick's mouth before he could stop it.

"What? When? Why didn't you tell us?" Edrick was bombarded by questions by all four of them and he sighed

"A few weeks before the holidays. Nothing happened as Rabastan came and told them to back off." Evelyn shared looks with her three friends who were just as shocked as her. "I think he did it for a reason." Evelyn's shoulder's tensed as she felt his eyes on her. Did Edrick know about her and Rabastan? "He did it to impress Baby Evie here, didn't he?"

Evelyn gaped at him as she stared at the smirking boy. "What are you talking about?"

"Come on, Baby Evie. I might not be the smartest in the group, but I'm far from dense."

"How do you even know?" Christina asked and Evelyn glared at her. She didn't feel comfortable knowing.

"He can't keep his eyes off her. It was obvious." He responded to her. "You glance at him too, but you're better than him. At least, you can contain yourself."

"Because Rabastan looks at her in classes while Evelyn only pays attention to the lessons or the person she is seated with." Gabriela pointed out making Evelyn narrow her eyes at her. "What?"

"Can we please not talk about whatever I have with Rabastan?" Evelyn requested. She needed to understand what they were first before she talked about him. "How do you even know he did it for me though?" She wondered and Edrick turned his attention on her. "Maybe he just wanted to save his friends from getting detention or maybe he just did it out of the goodness of his heart." She gulped down. "He's not like the other Slytherin boys in our year, after all, he doesn't partake on their hexes, curses or crude words."

"But he doesn't stop them either," Christina stated making Evelyn frown.

"But he asked for a second chance to prove that he can be better. Everyone deserves a second chance, right?" None of her friends responded to her making Evelyn bit her lip.

"Eve," Edrick began as he turned to look at her. "I have known the Rosiers, the Mulcibers, the Averys, the Blacks and the Lestranges all my life. Rabastan has always been reserved and kept more to himself than the others. Evan used to say that he thought he was better than anyone, but I think he is just like that." She pressed her lips together. "But when he says he wants another chance to prove himself, maybe you should give it to him."

"Weren't you raised in the same environment as them?" Diana wondered and he nodded. "Why are you different?"

"Dad's side isn't that keen on blood supremacy and they never forced me on long lessons about it. They hate Death Eaters more than anyone in the world and they don't mind muggles."

"What are Death Eaters?" Gabriela asked and Edrick noticed every confused face around him.

"Voldemort's followers," Evelyn responded to her. She knew that the Lestranges and Sinclairs were going to be called Death Eaters by many wizards and witches soon.

"When is going to become official that we are at the beginning of a war?" Christina wondered out loud but she didn't get the answer. The truth was that they didn't know when, they only knew they were hoping it would stop before it was made official.


The feast had been like it always was. Appetising, loud and long. Evelyn had retired early feeling like the train ride had tired her out. She headed upstairs to feed Sabrina and sleep. As she was walking on the first floor, someone tapped her shoulder. She was startled at first, but she calmed down when she saw it was Rabastan.

"Did you like the book?" He asked her immediately making her smile a little.

"Yes, I loved it. Huckleberry Finn is one interesting character. He is inventive and a smart fellow which makes him overcome his struggles." Evelyn said as her eyes shined. "With all that resourcefulness, he ought to be a Slytherin."

"Slytherin, huh? I always thought he was more of a Ravenclaw." He told her.

Evelyn shook her head. "He's intelligent and creative, I admit, but Huckleberry's best trait is resourcefulness which is a Slytherin trait as I remembered."

"So, is it your favourite book from now on?" He questioned her.

She frowned at him. "Why would it be? It's great and all, but nothing beats Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." He scoffed at her. "Why are you doing that? You haven't even read it?"

"I guess I thought we would have that in common, but I forgot that you have a lot of opinions." He answered to her.

"There's nothing as having too many opinions."

"Says the most opinionated person I know."

Evelyn rolled her eyes at his response and snorted. "Fine, I'll give you Alice in Wonderland books one of these days and prove you it's the better book." He scoffed and she smiled at him.

"That's fine by me." He muttered and gave her a small smile. "See you one of these days."

He was about to leave, but Evelyn asked him a question that had been bothering her for months. "That bracelet you got me, what does it mean?" He arched his eyebrow. "What does the sun mean?"

"What?"

"There were a few sun charms in it and I want to know why you picked that up." She explained to him. "So, why?"

Rabastam shrugged. "I guess you remind me of the sun."

Evelyn felt her cheek flush, but she didn't hide her blush away. "In what way?"

"Sun gives life to plants, right? That's why they all turn themselves to it." She stared at him as he spoke up to her, her heart starting to beat fast. "And I guess you give me life too." She couldn't help, but smile. "Whenever I see you or talk to you, I feel better. I feel alive."

Her smile widened, but she didn't say anything else. She let him continue.

"And just like plants, if you leave, I don't think I'll ever feel good or alive."

Evelyn's lips trembled and she bit her lip. "Rabastan..." She trailed off and moved closer to him. "Don't say something like that."

"Why not? Especially when it's true." He mumbled and she reached out to hold his hand. "You make my life better, Evelyn Sinclair King."

"You make my life better too, Rabastan Lestrange." She said softly as she squeezed his hand and he returned the gesture. "Thank you for being honest with me."

"Thank you for being you." Evelyn's heart skipped a beat at his words. "And I was only being honest after all, you are like the sun."

Evelyn giggled. "My mum calls me sunshine." She informed him. "She calls me that as long as I remember and she told me that she will never stop even when I grow up."

Rabastan chuckled. "I guess me and your mum agree on something already." He pointed out and she nodded. "Did you at least like the bracelet?"

"Yes, it was very beautiful."

"Then why don't you put it on?" He wondered.

Evelyn was about to answer him, but they heard the voices at the end of the corridor. Without even hesitating, Rabastan turned to the left and walked away from her. She gazed at him for a few seconds before she headed to her common room.

Soon, she was in her dorm. She prepared the food for Sabrina and turned her attention to the trunk. She looked through her things until she found her small jewellery box. She got the bracelet out of it and ended up staring at it. As she did, Evelyn decided to do something she hadn't done before.

She clasped it around her right wrists. It looked beautiful on her and she would hate for such a present to be wasted. The charms matched her eyes and according to Rabastan, the sun charms matched her personality. She smiled and shook her head. She knew that she was deeply invested in Rabastan and that wouldn't change anytime sooner.


"Can you tell me why are you wearing the bracelet Rabastan gave you?" Diana asked as they were making their way to Herbology. The two fo them were far away from their other friends who were messing around with their wands

"Last night, I ran into him and we talked." She answered trying to not smile.

"You talked? Or did you do more than talking?" Diana gave her a wink making Evelyn blush

"We just talked." She assured her. "Didn't I tell you that I don't plan to date him, right now?" Diana nodded. "But I might have held his hands a bit."

Diana squealed at her and linked their arms together. "What did you talk about?"

"We talked about the book he gave me and he said if it was my favourite which I told him no." She explained. "Nothing can beat Alice and the characters in that book." Diana shook her head. "He called me too opinionated and I told him that I'm going to give the books to read, so he could see that they are good. He was about to leave when I asked him what the suns meant in the bracelet."

"Finally, I was dying to know." Her friend groaned making Evelyn laugh.

"He said that he thought of me like the sun." She smiled and Diana gasped. "He said that I make him feel better, that I make him feel alive." She bit her lip as she thought of that conversation. "I'm surprised that I didn't melt or faint, he was being very sweet."

"You have amazing impulse control," Diana commented. "If the bloke I fancied said something like that, I would have kissed him so hard."

Evelyn hadn't even felt the need to kiss, she had been so enamoured by his words. She was glad that she didn't. If she had done, it would have complicated more things. "I guess I have."

"Did you ask him about the situation with Edrick?"

Evelyn had completely forgotten about it. It hadn't even crossed her mind once. "If he did it to impress me, I'm sure he would have told me." She said and Diana hummed.

"I guess you are right." She let out a deep breath. "You are so lucky having him say things to me like that. I wish some boy would like me like that."

Evelyn frowned. "Didn't Bertram Aubrey ask you on a date?"

"Yes, he did. But he's already dating Mira Royce, so that is now in the past." Diana responded and Evelyn chuckled. "What?"

"You don't just want some boy to ask you, you want a particular Gryffindor redhead to ask you." She teased her friend who bit her lip. "It's obvious that he likes you." Diana scowled at her. "He would be mad not to. You're the most beautiful girl in our year."

Diana nudged her. "Stop it!"

"No, you are." She insisted. "You and Lily are the most beautiful girls in our year and that is just it." Diana didn't say anything. "Why don't you ask him? What is the worst that could happen?"

"He will say no," Diana stated as if it was obvious.

"He will not."

"How do you know that?"

"Didn't you see each other at the game?" Evelyn questioned her. "You chatted all through it. It was as if it was only the two of you in the pitch."

Diana giggled. "It did feel like that a bit." Evelyn smiled in triumph. "But I'm still not sure." She admitted as they neared the greenhouses.

"When you are sure, don't hesitate, ask him." She advised her friends. "Sometimes, you need to be the Gryffindor in this relationship."

Her comment made Diana laugh as they entered the third greenhouse. The two of them took a seat and soon, other people joined. When Elena entered the greenhouse, Evelyn noticed that she looked worse than the last time she had seen her. She looked like she was going to vomit at any moment.

"Great news. I've found the subject for the next club meeting." Diana motioned for her to continue. "Eating disorders."

Diana raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"I thought we ought to talk about it." She gulped down. "Mum said that during her time in Hogwarts, many girls went in extreme diets, starved themselves or drank some kind of potions that made them vomit." Diana's nose scrunched up. "She said that it started with the girls from rich, pureblood families, but by her seventh year, it had spread with most girls."

"Do you think that someone in our year could do that?" Diana questioned her.

Evelyn shrugged, although, she was sure that her cousin was suffering from one. "I don't know, but better safe than sorry."

Diana sighed. "That's true." She muttered. "I hope it does something."

Evelyn nodded her head and looked away from her friend. She glanced towards Rabastan and his friends. He was talking to Avery, but his eyes kept glancing at the bracelet. She suppressed a smile and turned her attention to her essay.


She was sitting in the circle table of the club. They were waiting for Lucinda and Emma to show up. She looked around the table and spared the briefest glance towards Elena. Her cousin looked better than a few days ago, but she looked skinnier.

Elena needed help and even if she wasn't asking, it didn't mean she didn't need it. Since no one was seeing what Evelyn was, she felt like this responsibility fell on her.

Soon after, Emma and Lucinda showed up. Their faces flushed and they were barely taking deep breaths. All of the girls turned to look at them with raised eyebrows. "Sorry for being late. We couldn't help, but fly our brooms."

"Can't blame them, can you?" She heard Christina say under her breath.

After they sat down, Evelyn cleared her throat earning all of their attention. "Today, we will be discussing an important subject that is widely spread around us and that is eating disorders." Some girls raised their eyebrows, some frowned, two or three rolled their eyes while Elena winced. "For those who don't know, according to my very limited research, eating disorders are is a mental disorder defined by the abnormal eating habits that end negatively affecting the person's health," Evelyn explained. "While there isn't a defined number of the spread, may experts think that a lot of people suffer through them, most of them are women and a concerning number of those women are teenage girls. Why do you think that is?"

"Women are always pressured to be perfect," Dorcas began to speak and Evelyn shifted. "Whether it's from family, a partner, friends and mostly, society. We always have to have the perfect behaviour, the perfect attitude and the perfect body. Women, especially young girls are put to inhumane pressure to have the perfect bodies and that pressure leads to these kind of disorders."

"It's not bad wanting to be perfect or wanting to have that perfect body." It was the first time that Joanna Crabbe had bothered to talk to them. She always lifted her chin and only scoffed at their words.

"It's bad when they have to sacrifice their health," Lily spoke up. "I don't know much about eating disorders, but what I know is that they are no joke."

"Exactly," Evelyn stated. "They are no joke and should be taken seriously. Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of weight. As much as these people lose weight, they still try to lose more and more. Bulimia is an eating disorder that is characterized by binge eating followed by purging. Binge eating is when you eat a lot of food in a short time while purging is when you try to get rid of that amount of food, usually by vomiting. These disorders in their worst cases can lead to suicide."

What if her cousin had already reached that step? What if she was a worst-case of these disorders? Could she even help her at this point?

"To some people, it's an easy sacrifice to make." Ivy Grey spoke up. "It's normal for people to want to be skinny, especially when so many boys look for one type of girl." Evelyn frowned. She didn't want the conversation to turn into that. "And it's funny that you are talking about this when you are the type. Tall, skinny, blonde and blue-eyed." Evelyn pressed her lips together and looked down. "You are the poster what society supposedly says it's the most beautiful."

She didn't dare to say anything as everyone was staring at her. She knew that Ivy was right, she wasn't blind to that, but Evelyn hated that she felt like she couldn't talk anymore.

"Beauty is subjective." A voice on Evelyn's right spoke and she turned her head to see Gabriela talking. "The truth is that society treats women who look like Evelyn, the most beautiful, but that doesn't mean it's true for everyone. Yes, some boys might find Evelyn beautiful, but some might find you. People see beauty different from other people." Evelyn smiled, proud of shy Gabriela sharing her opinion. "Some people find greenhouses filled with flowers the most beautiful thing in the world, some find snow and Christmas lights beautiful. Some prefer sunset at the beach, while some prefer sunrise in the mountains. Beauty is different for every person and we need to understand that. Plus, at the end of the day, it's true when people say beauty is within. That's where the true beauty of the person is, not on our physical appearance."

Gabriela finished and everyone looked at her in awe. Evelyn shared a look with Diana and Chris who only shrugged at her.

"Sadly, people don't know that." Hestia continued to say after a few moments. "It's stuck in their head that they need to be perfect and at times, even their parents force them." Evelyn noticed from the corner of her eyes, Elena flinching. "I'm glad that you chose this subject, Eve. My parents who are both healers, always talk about girls coming to St. Mungo's because they take this potion making them vomit. I think it relates to these disorders."

Evelyn's eyebrows raised. "Yes, I've heard about this potion. Some people told me that a lot of girls use it to lose weight." She informed them. "Do you know the name of it?"

"How can they find that kind of potion?" Lily wondered. "I thought only healers or matrons are supposed to have them, you can't sell something like that to everyone."

Alice scoffed. "They sell it in every apothecary and it's easy to get." She informed them and Evelyn shook her head. "You're supposed to get it with only prescriptions, but most of them, give it without it."

"That's against the law," Evelyn stated. "To give someone or to possess a potion like that without a prescription, gives you a fine of many galleons."

"They can even fake prescriptions or pay the healers to write it up for them," Diana suggested. "This happens a lot with drugs with muggles."

"How about brewing it? Is that easy?" Marlene wondered.

Lily shook her head. "I don't think that potion is easy to brew and it's probably beyond NEWT levels. Only a Potioneer can pull something like that."

Evelyn bit her lip and straightened her back. "We need to do something."

"What?" Most girls questioned her.

"We need to get rid of this potion. It should be stopped being sold in apothecaries for starters." Evelyn stated and they were all looking at her as if she was crazy. "We need to be heard in the Ministry."

Joanna snorted. "Are you mad? Don't you think the Ministry has better things to do than listen to a bunch of girls?"

"We might be young, but this situation is serious." Evelyn corrected her. "And since many girls and young women use it, it should be a priority for them when we're talking about a half of our population."

"How do we do that?" Mona inquired.

"First, I think we need to get more girls in the club. More girls lead to us having a bigger voice and having that leads to us having some power to make a change. After that, we'll see how we can bring this to Wizengamot."

"The high court of law? You think they are going to listen to us?"

Evelyn narrowed her eyes at her. "You need to know something about me. When I want something, I do everything that I can to get it." She was talking to Joanna, but she hoped that every girl listened to her. "I don't care how difficult it will be, how many challenges I have to face or how many people are going to bring me down, I always fight on until the very end. Right now, I want that potion out of apothecaries to help many people and that is what I'm going to try doing. If we work together, our voice will be heard. We might be young, but as the name of our club says, we fight for what we think is right by uniting. Unity gives us strength and strength is what we need." She took a deep breath. "How many of you agree with this initiative?"

A lot of girls raised their hands, with the exception of Joanna, Mira, Felicia and Elena. She didn't expect her cousin to raise her hand or to be involved with this.

"I guess we have made a decision," Evelyn smiled at Joanna. "Next week, we will be talking about getting other people to join and how to bring this to the Wizengamot's attention. Meeting dismissed."

Everyone got up and started to leave the room. "Hey, are you coming to the library with us?" Diana asked.

Evelyn shook her head. "No, I'm going to the owlery to see Caterpillar at first. Maybe after that."

Diana gave her a knowing smile. "Sure, you are." Evelyn rolled her eyes as most of the girls left the room. Soon enough, she was alone in the room.

As she was gathering her things, all she could think about was how she was even going to do it. She had gotten a bit carried away and she didn't know if it was going to be possible.

What if they didn't get more girls in the club? What if she failed to bring this to Wizengamot's attention? What if she did and lost the opportunity to make a change? What if she became a laughing stock? What if she failed and this ruined her future career? What if didn't make any change even if they succeeded?

Her thoughts were interrupted by someone opening the door. She looked up to see her cousin. "Did you forget something?"

Elena opened her bag and put her hand in it. After a few seconds, she pulled out an empty bottle. "This is the potion you were talking about." Evelyn's eyes widened and she moved closer to her cousin. "My mother sends it to me every month since the beginning of the year." She noticed that there was no label on it. "I take a spoonful of it every day." Evelyn's lips parted.

"Elena, I-"

"She said that I was supposed to drink because I gained a few pounds in the summer and she was right, I did." Evelyn could see her lips tremble. "Since I was a little girl, my mother paid attention to my weight. She always said that beauty was the only weapon a woman possessed." Evelyn frowned at her. "When you were talking about anorexia, I realized that I-I have that one." She gulped down and looked at her shoes. "As much weight I lose, I'll still have too much."

"You're beautiful, Elena," Evelyn told her.

"You say so, but other people don't." Elena retorted. "My mother says that I won't get married to anyone if I'm fat." Evelyn cringed.

"That's not true."

Elena sighed. "Maybe not in your world, but in mine, when all I have is my looks, it's true." She could see that her cousin was close to tears. She wanted to comfort her or even hug her, but she was lost. She didn't know how to do it with Elena. "Especially when all that matters to me is who I'm going to marry."

"What? That-"

"Again, I have to say this, Evelyn." Elena's voice cracked. "You and I are very different and we live different lives. You need to understand that." All Evelyn did was nod. "But just promise me something."

"Promise you what?" Evelyn questioned her.

"Promise me that you will stop this potion from being sold." Tears fell down Elena's eyes as she spoke. The tears and her voice made Evelyn's heart ache. "I feel weaker and weaker every day because of this position. I can't focus on classes, my marks are dropping, I feel tired all the time and at nights, I can't sleep because I'm vomiting in the bathroom." She breathed out and sniffed. "I know this won't change how am I right now, but it will help. So, please, promise me, Evelyn."

Her shoulders tensed and her hands began to shake as she looked at Elena. "I promise." She whispered. "I promise that I will stop that potion from being sold." Elena whipped her tears. "I just want you to know that I'm here for you. I know you're supposed to ignore me and you hate me, but I want you to know that. I just don't want to get this potion out of apothecaries, I want to help you personally."

"I didn't know you were a healer." Elena scoffed.

"I'm not a healer, but people say I'm a good listener." Elena snorted as she whipped her tears. "So, remember that too?"

Elena nodded. "I'll keep that in my mind." Evelyn gave her a small smile. "You know, Evelyn," She began to say. "when you talked about getting what you want and fighting hard to do it, it made me wonder why you weren't sorted in Slytherin." Evelyn noticed her put the bottle in her bag.

"Well, the hat did think I'll make a good Slytherin, but I fitted more in Ravenclaw," Evelyn informed her.

Her cousin closed her bag. "The hat never makes mistakes, I'm sure of that." She said before turning her back on Evelyn and leaving the classroom.


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