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


During her life, Evelyn heard people describe her with different words. Some called her smart, some called her a know it all, some called her nice, some called her fake, some called her conceited and some called her talented. Bur rarely did Evelyn head people call her driven and if they did, Evelyn knew them personally and considered them the closest people in her life.

She didn't think it was hard to notice that she was driven. Most of her things about her were all because of her drive. Her drive was what pushed Evelyn most of the time which is quite funny to her. After all, it felt like when she was being particularly driven, her father was talking in her head, not her. While she had always been driven, she had never been this much in her life.

The past few days Evelyn's whole body, senses and emotions were focused on one thing and that was the potion. She was driven to stop people from selling that potion in apothecaries or any store possible. Only the club and a few friends of her knew about abut the plan, but she knew that soon everyone would find out. She had already told her parents about it in letters.

Her mother's letter said that she was proud of her and what she was doing, but kept reminding Evelyn that she had other priorities in her life and she was too young to handle this. She had been discouraged to go on thinking her mother didn't think she could do it. While her father's letter which had come way later had inspired Evelyn to continue to do it. He had told her that she could stop the selling of this potion and keep up her grades as well. In fact, he had told her she had no choice but to and he knew that she could do it.

Evelyn believed in herself and her abilities. She believed in her drive and she knew that if she worked hard, success would come to her and the whole club.

She entered the library and walked up to Madam Pince's desk. "Good afternoon." She greeted the woman who looked up at Evelyn with raised eyebrows. "Can you point me out to the books about the magical laws of the Ministry?"

Madam Pince pursued her lips. "You want books about the magical law? Aren't you in your third year?"

"Just thinking about my career," Evelyn responded. "Better to think sooner rather than later, right?"

This wasn't a lie at all, to be honest. The truth was Evelyn had thought of her career many times before and she knew that she wanted to work in the Ministry, in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. What she wanted more in the world was a seat in Wizengamot, the only place she could make a change.

"Alright." Madam Pince muttered. "Follow me."

Evelyn smiled and let the librarian lead her to them. She pulled her bag closer and soon, she found herself in a further corner of the library near the Restricted Section. She bit her lip as she looked at the section. It would be a lie if Evelyn said that she had never thought about going there because she had many times before.

"Here." She stopped in her tracks when Pince stopped. "Here is the section about magical law." Evelyn looked around and her mouth fell. There were too many books for her to read in just a few weeks. "These shelves," She pointed to three of them. "are all about our magical law, understood?"

"Yes," Evelyn responded. "Thank you." With that, the woman left leaving Evelyn to her own.

She looked through some books and picked each one of them. To her luck, there were a few books that regarded potions. She got those two and found the table nearest to her. Out of her bag, she pulled a big notebook that she had asked her mother to buy for her, her quill and the ink bottle.

Evelyn sat down, stretched her neck and took a deep breath. With the flip of the first page of the first book, Evelyn knew that she was going to stay there for hours.

Everything that she found related to her case, she wrote down. Every paragraph, every sentence, every word, every syllable and every letter. She didn't allow herself to miss a single thing and she constantly checked two or three times because of the fear that she did.

Soon, she found her neck's muscles aching, her hands cramping, her eyes burning and her stomach growling, but that didn't make her stop. She continued with her research in hopes that she would find anything.

"Miss Sinclair King," A voice spoke up and she looked up. At first, her vision was blurry and she had to blink a few times. "I'm closing the library in five minutes." She informed her and Evelyn frowned. Had she missed dinner? She knew the library closed after dinner was finished. "You need to leave."

She nodded her head and started to pack up her things. Two minutes later, she exited the library and headed to her common room. As she did, Evelyn felt her knees shaking, her stomach rumbling and her eyes wanting to close. She ignored them and continued to make her way.

When she entered the common room, she saw her friends there. "Here, she is!" Carter exclaimed when he caught sight of her. "We were about to report you as a missing person."

Evelyn rolled her eyes. "I was just in the library, doing some research."

"Do you know that you missed dinner?" Diana questioned her and Evelyn gave a curt nod. "Here." She handed Evelyn a cornish pastry and an apple. "Hopefully, this will keep you up until morning."

Evelyn smiled at her. "Thanks a lot, Dee." She gulped down. "I just lost track of time." She looked down at her hands. "They'll probably work until tomorrow. I have to go, guys. Good night."

"Have a good night's sleep," Edrick muttered.

Evelyn sighed as she didn't plan to sleep. She planned to stay a few more hours in her suitcase and read all the research she had done.


"You know we can have a meeting without you," Diana suggested to her as they were waiting for the other girls to come. "You look like you are in much need of sleep."

Evelyn shook her head as she looked down to her hands. They were shaking again. "I need to stay for this one." She mumbled. "But I'll go to sleep as soon as we are finished." She breathed out and shook her head."Why are my hands shaking?"

"Because you drank coffee," Christina said to her and she turned to her friend. "Coffee can make people's energy rise and that is why your hands are shaking. Why did you drink it? You always drink tea."

Evelyn bit her lip. "Just needed energy." She grumbled. She glanced at her hands again and tried to prevent the shaking by gripping her hands together.

Soon, more girls joined the club and Evelyn knew she needed to start speaking soon. She only had to wait for four other girls and the meeting would start. It didn't take long for Elena and her friends to show up. As Evelyn watched them as they sat down, she noticed someone was missing.

"Where is Joanna?" She wondered.

Elena turned her head to Mira. "She felt like the club was a waste of time, so she has decided to quit."

Evelyn furrowed her eyebrows and pressed her lips together. "Quit..." She repeated.

She knew that Joanna Crabbe didn't like the club or her, but she had hoped that she would change her mind. After all, she was one of the girls Evelyn wanted to help see the world differently. She wondered if many other people would follow Joanna behind. Was she failing already?

"Alright, it's her choice after all," Evelyn muttered.

Christina scoffed. "Good riddance if you ask me." While the other girls chuckled, Elena and her friends glared at Christina. Her friend didn't seem to be disturbed by the glares at all.

Evelyn straightened her back and breathed out. "First order of business for today, it's our initiative to stop the Kano Emeto potion from being sold in apothecaries." She started to say. "I have been researching about the potion and the magic law regarding potions for days. While I know that there will be some sort of meeting in Wizengamot for this, I don't know how to make this initiative of ours be discussed in it." She explained to the girls. "If there is an opposing side to us, someone who wants the potion to be sold, we will most likely be going to hearing."

"Trial?!" Mona exclaimed. "We are thirteen and fourteen at best."

Evelyn nodded her head. "I know, but there are ways that we can speak and represent the club in the meetings." She responded. "The truth is that the books I read on are messy and aren't that explanatory. They are not written to be understood, just to be memorized."

"From what I know, most of our laws are flawed and outdated." Regina Moore, a blonde Hufflepuff girl with ivory skin and brown eyes, spoke. "Of course, the books about it will be messy too."

"So, what are we going to do when we can't even understand the books about them?" Lily asked the big question and Evelyn stayed silent. She had been thinking about it since last night after reading her research. The truth was she had no idea.

She tried to make her brain say something to her, but all she could think about was sleep and rest. It had been too long since she had gotten some decent sleep.

Someone cleared their throat and Evelyn followed the noise. It was her cousin who had done so. "Maybe one of you has a parent or someone in their family who works in Law Enforcement? They probably know something."

Evelyn smiled at the idea. She hadn't even thought about that and she was glad that Elena was helping them. "That's a great idea." She commented. "So does anyone have a parent working there?"

Most of the girls shook their heads and Evelyn's stomach dropped. How was this possible? There were twenty girls in the room and none of them had someone in their family working. There had to be someone that could help them.

Her eyes widened when she remembered that there was. "Professor Gerard." She snapped her fingers making everyone look at her.

"What?" Marlene asked and everyone's face mirrored her.

"Professor Gerard," Evelyn repeated. "He's an Auror, remember? Auror learn the laws in their training."

Lily's eyes widened. "Yes, that's true!" She exclaimed. "He must know something about this and he can help us."

Felicia Nolan frowned. "Would he even help us?"

"Of course, he will." Marlene insisted. "He seems like a pretty decent bloke," She shot Evelyn a knowing look and she rolled her eyes. "and it would be rude to just tell his student no. Teachers are there to encourage us, not to discourage us."

Evelyn hummed. "Exactly." She answered. "So, tomorrow, I will be going to his office to talk to him about this and he will tell us what to do." She bit her lip as she remembered the other thing they needed to discuss. "Since I'm researching about the potions and talking to Professor Gerard, I would like for one of you to spread the pamphlets and stick the posters to get other girls to join the club." She informed them and some girls huffed. "If I'm finished with these things, I'll come and help you with that."

"I can do that," Diana claimed and Evelyn sighed in relief. "But I don't think I can do it on my own."

Lily raised her hand. "I can help you with that."

Evelyn gave the two girls wide smiled. "I guess that is decided. Chris," She pointed to her friend. "has already finished with them and she'll give it to Diana tomorrow. For these past few days, you'll be spreading those pamphlets and you'll be writing down every girl who wants to join the club." The two girls nodded and Evelyn felt her shoulders relax. It seemed like her drive and the girls' dedication was doing their work and she was relieved to see that.


From the corner of her eyes, Evelyn looked at her Defense Against The Dark Arts professor. He was eating his breakfast and talking to Hagrid. The tall man ended up snorting his drink at something professor Gerard said. Soon, she saw her professor get up and walk out of the Great Hall. She decided to go to his office after she finished her food.

When she got up and prepared herself to go, Evelyn was stopped by someone calling her name. She turned her head to see Marlene rushing towards her. "I have something important to tell you about." Evelyn frowned as Marlene linked their arms together. "And I think professor Gerard can wait a few extra minutes."

Evelyn shrugged. "I guess," she muttered. "So, what happened that is this important?"

"It's not only important, it's shocking enough for a jaw drop." Evelyn raised an eyebrow as they exited the hall. "Sirius apologized to me."

"Really?" Evelyn questioned her with her eyes wide.

"Isn't it shocking?" Marlene chuckled. "I almost thought he was taking the mickey, but he looked very serious."

Evelyn smiled. "How can he not? He's Sirius after all."

Her friend groaned. "You're just as bad as he is. do you know that?" Evelyn stuck her tongue out. "So, he asked me to go on a walk with him. At first, I told him to leave me alone, but he kept on insisting. I ended up saying yes and as we started to walk, in short words, he said that he was sorry for not treating me right and being a git for most of our relationship. He should have paid attention to me and should have given me his time instead of ignoring me."

"I'm impressed," Evelyn admitted. "What did you say to him?"

"I told him that I'm happy he's seen his mistakes and he should grow up. He complained about how everyone was telling him to that, including you, and I told him that there is a reason." Evelyn snorted. "I don't know if he's going to take my advice, but I hope his future girlfriends which we know are going to be a lot of them, get treated right."

"How do you know that he'll have a lot of problems?" She wondered out loud.

Marlene scoffed. "Oh, Eve, haven't you seen how Sirius looks? Or how he acts? A bloke like that will have more girlfriends than our toes and fingers combined." She rolled her eyes. "Why you don't think so?"

Evelyn shrugged. "I don't think we can speak on behalf of him." She pointed out. "And let's be honest, we don't know him that well, especially me."

"Yet he listened to you." She furrowed her eyebrows at Marlene's words. "Come on, I know you influenced him a bit that night when you went to look for Sabrina together. I'm not dumb." Evelyn chewed on her lips. "I don't know why he listened to you of all people."

"I was very brutally honest with him." Evelyn admitted."Plus, I can be a very convincing person, not even Sirius Black could ignore that."

Marlene giggled. "I'll give you that. You know how to say the right words at the right time." Evelyn gave her a cocky smile. "It's like you're wired to be like that."

"Wired isn't the appropriate word for it, more like I was given a few directions by my dad and I decided to follow them." She corrected her friend.

"You must be my only friend who listens to every word your parents say, especially with your dad." Marlene teased her.

She tensed. "My dad just knows best. He knows where my assets can be used and he told me. so I'll take his word for it." She explained. "Honestly, he hasn't been wrong once."

"And do you think his directions will help you convince professor Gerard?" Marlene wondered as they started to ascend the stairs.

Evelyn gulped down at the reminder. "I hope so." She breathed out. "I know what I'm going to say and I hope he really listens rather than see me just as a kid who has no idea."

"No one sees you as a kid, Eve," Marlene told her. "All we see is an adult stuck in a teenage girl's body." Evelyn scowled at her. "Not really, you remind me of my older sisters so much."

"Your older sisters who graduated Hogwarts a few years ago or the older sisters who have husbands, kids and jobs?"

"The ones with husbands, kids and jobs, Mrs Sinclair King." Evelyn groaned at her friend's joke. "Now, go talk to someone who is mentally your age."

"Your sisters are in their late twenties, professor Gerard is in his early thirties." She reminded her friends.

Marlene nodded. "Yes, but you remind me of someone who's thirty more than twenty." She gaped as they neared the professor's office. "Now, close your mouth and do your best."

Evelyn cocked her head. "I always do my best." She said as she came closer to the door.

"Of course, you'll say that." Marlene laughed and Evelyn smiled.

She turned her head to the door, took a deep breath, tried to ignore her rapid heartbeat and knocked on the door. "Come in." She heard professor Gerard's voice and opened the door. He looked up from his table at her and raised an eyebrow. "Yes, Miss Sinclair King?"

"I wanted to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." He pointed to the empty chair in front of his desk and Evelyn sat down. "It's not related to the class."

"What do you want to ask me?"

Evelyn gulped down. "You must have hard about the clubs that me and the girls in my year, made." He nodded. "The reason for the club is to support each other and to fight for what we find wrong in our society." A slight frown appeared in his face, but it didn't stay long. "There's an issue that has come to our attention."

"What kind of issue?" He asked leaning against his chair.

She felt her hands shake and her breathing started to turn shallow. Why was she so nervous? She had talked to professors before. "Well, in the club, we were talking about eating disorders and the pressure women, especially young girls have to have the perfect bodies." She breathed out before licking her lips. "We also discussed a potion, the Kano Emeto potion which makes people vomit and it's sold in the apothecaries. According to Hestia Jones whose parents work in 's, there have been many young girls admitted there for taking a lot of this potion and dealing with the side effects of it. Now, these young girls mostly attend Hogwarts and they are pressured by society and their own families to take this potion." She stopped to take another breath before continuing. "We have to decided to take an initiative to stop this potion being sold in apothecaries." He arched his eyebrows at her. "I have been researching about this potion and the laws regarding potions, but I don't know how to bring this in Wizengamot's attention. Since you are an Auror and know the law-"

"You decided to come to me." He finished for her and she nodded her head. "Well, first, you need to make a petition. Evelyn got her notebook and quill out immediately to write it down. "It's very complicated and I'll help you with it." Evelyn gave him a thankful smile. "You need 150 signatures in thirty days for Wizengamot to respond, but if you want it up for debate in the Wizengamot, you need about 500 signatures from wizards and witches of age."

She almost dropped her notebook. "Pardon me?" How was she even going to do that? She didn't there were even one hundred wizards and witches of age in the school, to begin with. Merlin, she didn't know if these people would sign. She didn't think many people cared about eating disorders and body pressure young people faced.

"Don't worry, I'll help you with it too." Professor Gerard's words made her snap out of it.

"You will?" He nodded his head and she sighed in relief. "Thank you a lot, professor."

He chuckled. "It's good to see young people wanting to change a few things." He told her. "I'm glad that your club has taken the initiative to do so."

Evelyn smiled. "Yeah, we think it's a good idea too, although, it's probably going to lead to some sort of a case in Wizengamot."

"If there is a party that opposes the debate, there will be some sort of a hearing to stop the selling of this potion." He explained to her and Evelyn listened to every single word that he spoke. "But we don't have to worry about that now, alright?" She hummed. "You need to focus on getting a few signatures from the students here and the faculty. By next week, I'll formulate the petition and give it to you. After you are finished collecting signatures here, you'll give it to me and I'll make people sign it too."

Evelyn could feel her shoulders relax and her breathing return to normal. "Thank you again for your help, it's very appreciated."

"Of course, I'm happy to help." He assured her. "You also need to do more research on the potion and get Miss Jones' parents to give you some sort of document that proves that many patients were admitted because of this potion in the hospital. We don't need that now, but we need it for later."

"I understand. Anything else?" He shook his head. "I guess this is my cue." She got up from her seat and put her notebook down. "You don't how helpful you have been to me today. I know I said it a few times, but thank you."

"Like I said before, I'm happy to help."

Evelyn nodded her head. "Good day, professor."

"See you in class, Miss Sinclair King."

She turned her back in him and walked out of the classroom with a grin on her face. When she walked out of the class, she was met with Marlene.

"So?" The blonde asked.

Evelyn squealed. "He told me everything!" She beamed. "And he offered to help with so many steps too."

The other girl squealed too and Evelyn chuckled. "Didn't I tell you that he will help?"

Evelyn glanced at the door once again and smiled even wider. "You sure did. Maybe I should listen to you more often."

"Oh, I don't think your dad will like it." She teased her making Evelyn chuckle.

"He definitely won't." She admitted as she let her shoulders relax and enjoy another small win of hers.


"Let me see," Evelyn said to Lily as the two of them were sitting on the Gryffindor common room. She had gone to meet up with Lily to see how many people had signed up for the club and to talk to Hestia about the document. Lily handed her the parchments and Evelyn's jaw dropped. "These are many girls." She stated and Lily hummed. "I didn't expect there to be so many girls that are willing to join us."

Lily hummed. "Diana and I were surprised as well," She confessed. "Especially since every house signed up. We thought we'd be ignored by Slytherins."

Evelyn shifted. "I know I realize that it was a bad idea to leave just the two of you." She admitted. "Did anyone say anything to you two?"

"No, some Slytherins just ignored her or scoffed before walking away," Lily answered. "Which isn't good, but still good compared to other times." She assured Evelyn who shook her head. She couldn't even expect common decency from blood supremacist. "Marlene told me that your talk with professor Gerard went well too."

"Yeah, it did." She admitted. "He's a good man. Makes me feel good having an Auror like him because mum says that some of them are insufferable."

"So did Alice. She thinks their jobs got in their heads or something like that." Lily told her. "But professor Gerard is amazing, it's sad that in a few weeks he'll be gone."

"I feel bad for the next one too. He has been the best professor of DADA that we have and that is hard to compete with."

Lily nodded. "I agree."

"Hey." The two girls turned their attention to Hestia who had come down with Mary and Dorcas. "Marlene told me hat you wanted to talk to me."

"Yes," Evelyn answered her. "I need you to ask your parents to give us a document showing the numbers of admitted patients because of the potion. Gerard said that we need it for later, but it's better to have it now."

"Of course." She sat down next to Lily and the two other girls followed. "So, this is really happening?"

"What's happening?" Gideon's voice spoke like him and Fabian moved to sit near them.

Evelyn faced them. "We're trying to get a potion from being sold in apothecaries." She explained to them and they both creased their eyebrows. "It's because many people, especially girls use it to lose weight by vomiting which takes a toll on them physically and mentally."

"And how are you going to do that?" Fabian inquired.

"First, we need to gather signatures for a petition." The two boys frowned. "It's a written formal request which is signed by people to appeal the Ministry in a particular place. If we get about 500 signatures, there will be a debate in Wizengamot and if there is an opposition to this petition, some sort of a hearing/debate will happen with both parties."

"This sounds like the begging of your plan for global domination." Fabian teased her and she rolled her eyes.

"Now, this is trying to help people and change the world for the better," Evelyn told him. "And yes, it's one of the first things I'll do."

Dorcas tilted her head. "What are the other things?"

"Fix some laws regarding muggleborns' rights, a few of witches' rights, change many laws regarding house-elves, goblins, werewolves-"

"Werewolves?" Mary repeated. "Why them?"

Evelyn turned to her. "Why not? They're awfully discriminated in our world and they need help."

"But they're monsters, Eve." Gideon reminded her. "They're classified beasts in our books."

"As much as I respect Newt Scamander, he shouldn't classify them as such." She argued back. "They aren't beasts and definitely not monsters, they're humans who have been cursed with lycanthropy. If anything, we should give them some sympathy. I can't imagine how hard that is."

"Are ye forgetting that many o' them hae murdered folk?" Mary snapped at her making Evelyn blink a few times. She noticed Dorcas squeeze Mary's shoulder and give it a rub. She realized that this argument was personal to Mary.

She breathed in and reminded herself to watch her mouth. "Of course, I know that." She muttered. "But we can't say that all werewolves are bad, can we?" Mary furrowed her eyebrows at her. "The werewolves who have hurt people have a place and that is Azkaban, but there is a big percentage of werewolves that are good people who are cursed. You can't base your opinion on people based on a few actions. It's like saying all wizards and witches are bad because of what Grindelwald and his acolytes did. Yes, we can't deny that they were all bad, but we don't want to be put in the same group with them, do we? Just like there are good and bad people, there are good and bad werewolves."

"Evelyn is right," Lily spoke before glancing behind Evelyn's back. "Werewolves have to suffer a lot just because of a curse that they didn't ask for."

"And that curse only happens one night in a month. Twelve times during the year and sometimes, thirteen." She explained. "They are just like us for 353 days of the year, only twelve nights, they are werewolves."

"Do you think you can be wrong with this?" Gideon wondered.

She shook her head. "Not with this. I'm not denying that they are bad ones out there, but you shouldn't deny that they are good ones too." Mary scoffed and shook her head.

Evelyn decided not to say anything else, it was obvious that some werewolves had hurt someone Mary knew. She crossed her arms and turned her attention to the girls who had joined the club.

"What else are you going to fix?" Dorcas changed the subject.

Evelyn shrugged. "I don't know, but I'll probably decide when I become a Wizengamot member." It was the first time she said out loud in front of people that weren't her mum, dad and Don.

"A Wizengamot member?" Hestia repeated. "Really?"

"If I want to make a change, that's the best place where I can be heard." She admitted. She had also felt shy admitting her dream, but the past few weeks had changed her mind. "It's going to be a difficult road, but it's one that I'm willing to take."

"We're not doubting you about it," Lily said and she turned to look at her. "You're one of the most driven people I know."

Evelyn smiled and tilted her head. "I guess I am." She lifted her chin and saw the time. "Oh, fuck!" She cursed under her breath. "I'm supposed to help Edrick in History of Magic in two minutes."

"You can become a History of Magic professor too," Gideon suggested. "You saved us and Marls last year."

She shook her head. "No way. Being a professor isn't the journey for me, some teenagers can be too much and I'm one of them." Everyone laughed with her words.

As she picked her bag and things, she felt a pair of eyes burning behind her back. She furrowed her eyebrows and turned her face. Close to the window, four Gryffindor boys were sitting in a table and looking at her. As soon as her eyes landed on them, the Marauders looked away and pretended that they were doing something.

Evelyn's face turned when she glanced at Remus who had buried his head in a book. She rubbed the bridge of her nose and turned away. She couldn't believe that they had talked about werewolves with him a few feet away from him. She was sure that he had heard all of their comments, but she hoped that he had paid more attention to her and Lily's rather than the others.

"See you at dinner, everyone." She waved at them and moved to get out of the common room.

Before the portrait opened, she spared a look at Remus again and noticed that he had a small smile on his face. That smile proved that he had paid more attention to her and she was glad of that too. She hoped that he had listened to how she was going to make a change to make his life better too.


Here is chapter thirty-three and I hope you all enjoy it! Thank you for the favouriting and following the story and let me know what you thought of this chapter (or the fic as a whole) in the reviews.

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