THE WEEK WENT PRETTY SMOOTHLY unless if you count having nightmares, being pranked and trying not to kill Evelyn Carrow but this was Hogwarts for Nat and by now she was used to it. By Friday she was already tired with the amount of homework and practicing for the quidditch tryouts which apparently for the Slytherin's were held next week. Nat really wanted to make it to the team because the Twins were already on the team along with Cedric . So she was hoping this year she'll get in. As she was on her way back to the common room she saw Harry and Ron along with the first years come out from the potions classroom, the Gryffindors who looked solemn and the Slyherins who were happy.
"Cheer up," Nat heard Ron say, "Snape's always taking points off Fred and George. Can I come and meet Hagrid with you?"
She walked upto her brothers and greeted "Hello Boys! Someone's had a bad day." she added looking at their solemn expressions.
"Snape is being so unfair Nat." Harry whined to his sister as he started telling what happened at potions about how he docked two points for Harry and that he was always supporting and glorifying the Slytherins especially Malfoy.
"Oh boy! He did the same to the twins on our first day as well." she told them remembering that incident very clearly. It was the day they had openly called her a snake and told her she had ditched them.
"What happened?" Harry asked curiously.
"Let's just say I told him to shut up but ended up escaping detention and earned 25 points." she told her brother with a smirk.
"WHAT? How!" Harry asked shocked with his mouth agape.
"Because she's a sna…. Slytherin." Ron told Harry changing the last word but Nat knew he called her a snake. That did hurt Nat still but atleast Ron's not giving her a cold shoulder like he used to do and actually talked to her civilly which according to Nat was great because atleast he is halfway to accepting the fact that she was a Slytherin.
"Oh yeah. I still can't believe that your in the house with that Malfoy." Harry mumbled under his breath.
"Hey! Not all Slytherin's are bad." Nat told her brother jokingly nudging him.
"Not everyone, just the blond first year who goes by the name Malfoy." Ron told her with a smile.
Nat and Harry laughed at Ron who then told her that Hagrid called Harry for tea and asked if she wanted to join them. Nat's heart warmed at that comment because maybe her brother was returning back to normal and she loved it.
"Really? I would love to." she told them.
The boys gave her huge grins and waved as they walked back to the Gryffindor tower as she took a turn to the Slytherin common room.

Apparently Nat had entered at a very bad but at the correct time to witness Athena march forward to Evelyn and slap her across the face , her face red in anger. Nat had never seen actually Athena losing her temper as she always seemed so calm and reserved and it was scary because it reminded her the flashback she had when she went down Aurora's memories during her first year. Athena looked just like her mother (younger version obviously) , her steel grey eyes cold and angry.
Evelyn froze in shock her face red from the slap she had received from Athena and at that moment she felt afraid. Afraid of what the girl might do.
The entire common room had gone silent watching Athena Lestrange slapping Evelyn Carrow and everyone was thinking the same thing as Nat.
It was Athena's words broke the silence in the Common Room. "Never, and I mean never ever say anything my family or talk carp about my cousin ever again because if you do then I'll make your life living hell. I've tolerated you for years but not anymore." she growled.
Nat felt her mouth down to the floor as she heard those words. She didn't know what to say at all as she watched Athena march up to their room. The common room was still quite until Cat yelled ''Show's over people. Get lost.''
Evelyn was still there trying to think about what had happened but then without another word she just walked out of the common room brushing past Nat and hitting her shoulder on the way.
"What just happened?" she asked her friends especially Cat who looked white as sheet as if someone dropped ice on her head but Cat ignored her question and went upstairs to their dorm possibly to talk to Athena.
"Rude much." she mumbled under her breath as she turned towards her friends with questioning eyes demanding an explanation.
"Carrow just came up with Athena and started saying crap about Cat and this time she went pretty offensive that Lestrange lost her temper and well …. you saw the rest." Adrian told her.
"What offensive stuff did that useless bi... human say?" she asked after receiving a warning glare from Rora about her language.
"This and that." Mikey told her avoiding her eyes.
"Mikey." she told him in a warning tone.
"Well... she talked about you as well." Terrance interrupted.
"What stuff guys!?" she asked her friends exasperated.
"Stuff about her parents, Dora and you." Rora told her.
"SPECIFICS!" She asked getting angrier at their vague answers.
"Do you really want to know?" Michael asked her.
"Yeah duh Mikey! Why the hell do you think I've been screaming for answers for the last five minutes?" she told him in a very irritated and obvious tone to which he raised his hands up in defense and said "Okay okay, I get it sorry. Sheesh. She said that her parents are blood-traitors which is usual. but she also called Cat's dad a ….. " he trailed "Called him what?" Nat asked him irritated for answers.
"A Mud... the filthy word for muggle-born. " he whispered quickly thinking that Nat wouldn't hear it but she did - Loud and clear.
Her heart stopped for a minute as she tried to process what Mikey had just told her.
She then felt it, her blood boiling with range and her green eyes filled with anger and resentment.
"How dare she." Nat said, seething with anger. He fists were shaking and her teeth clenched but couldn't loose her cool now, she needed answers so she took deep breathes and turned towards her friends again.
"What else did she say?"
"Nat, just drop it. Please. I know you are worried about Cat and Athena, but let them sort it out ok?" Adrian told her with pleading eyes but Nat wouldn't take it.
"What. Else. Did. She. Say.?" She asked them, emphasising each word.
"She also called your mom one ok?" Rora told her , blunt and disgusted.
Adrian and Mikey gave her glares . "What? She wont stop asking otherwise." Rora said defending herself. But Nat couldn't care less , her fist were shaking badly and her head was pounding in anger. She didn't know what happened next but she soon found herself fighting with Evelyn in the middle of the hallway fifteen minutes later.

Students were gathering around watching the two Slytherin third year girls full on fist fight hearing Natalie Potter scream "DON'T YOU EVER CALL MY MOM OR CAT'S DAD THAT FILTY WORD YOU BLODDY BITCH! at Eveleyn Carrow who looked scared to death and tried to defend herself from the angry redhead every way possible but Nat who literally grew up with 6 brothers was one tough girl. Nat couldn't care less about the fact that she was in the middle of corridor muggle-fighting a girl in her year, all she could think of the hell she had to go through because of Evelyn. It got worse when Evelyn took out her wand and started firing spells.
Spell after spell was fired at her but Nat wasn't hurt one bit because her shielding powers were growing. She took out her wand too and the both of them started duelling in the middle of corridor for a good ten minutes.
"EXPELLIARMUS" Evelyn yelled
"PROTEGO" Nat fired back
And so on they went . Percy tried to intervene but didn't do much because Evelyn curse had hit him which thankfully did no harm because Nat was not only shielding herself but the rest of the students enveloping them in a circle of protective enchantments.
"WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!" Nat heard someone yell and from their voice she knew she was in very deep trouble. Professor McGonagall marched in fuming along with Professor Snape and the other head's of the house. "MY OFFICE NOW MISS. POTTER AND MISS. CARROW!" She yelled at them furious.
Nat could feel dread and guilt crawl upto her. She picked a fight in the middle of a hallway, not only was she in trouble she probably would get expelled and she couldn't think of Papa's or The Weasley's faces. God! What was she thinking. She should have done better than pick fights. Even though Evelyn was such a bitch she was better than her. She shouldn't let Evelyn piss her off because that only means she is doing what Evelyn wants her to do. Evelyn wants to piss her off and she let her. She doesn't know what got into her and she was in deep trouble for that.
What is going to happen now!

Natalie was going through a roller-coaster of thoughts as she sat at Snape's office , who was droning about their behaviour or something. Nat zoned out long ago as her head was busy with others thoughts. First was anger. She was furious at both Evelyn and herself, Evelyn because of her stupid narcissistic behaviour and herself because she let her anger get better of her. Natalie also couldn't bear to see the faces of her friends and family, especially Papa and Harry. Nat was also felt bad because she promised Harry and Ron that she'll go with them to visit Hagrid. Looks like the only person she would visit is Dumbledore.

She didn't know how many minutes or hours had passed of Snape's and McGonagall's (who had joined halfway through) lectures, until she finally announced "So, hopefully you girls have understood the graveness of the situation and there wont be a warning next time. 50 points from Slytherin and Professor Snape will tell you about your punishment , Miss. Potter and Miss. Carrow."

"Punishment?" Evelyn asked her stupidly. 'Obviously, You thought there wont be consequences? How stupid is she?' Nat thought to herself but bit her tongue from saying it out loud because she didn't any more trouble.

"Yes Miss. Carrow. You think your actions won't face consequences? Detention for starters." McGonagall told her in a stern voice as she left the room leaving them under Snape's murderous glare.

"Miss. Potter, Miss. Carrow you will hearby have one month of detention for your foolish barrelling and duelling in the corridors. Your wands will also be confiscated after classes. Now off to class." Snape announced in a monotonous voice as he left the room.

'Great! One month detention and no magic.' Nat thought bitterly. But she knew it was her mistake to go after that stupid girl and now not only was she in trouble she couldn't prank Evelyn for revenge either... unless... Hang on! Snape just said her wand will be confiscated, he never said anything about not using magic, which means she can use Cat's wand or something and prank!

"This is all your fault you filthy blood-traitor." Evelyn exclaimed at her angrily. "Woah, I can manage one month detention but your lazy ass wouldn't survive a week bitch. Do u want me to punch your face again to extend the punishment?" Nat replied and upon hearing no response she added "Thought so." With that she left place to avoid any more trouble.

Upon walking into the common room, she was bombarded with a very pissed looking Aurora. "Nat, What were you thinking! You shouldn't have gone marching at Carrow and picked a fight with her! What punishment did you get? Are you getting expelled? Did McGonagall take you to Dumbledore's office? Should we talk to Leo?" she started blabbering and Nat's head was trying to absorb most of the questions managed to interupt the freting girl and say " RORA! Calm down. Let me atleast answer one question. Heck I don't even remember the first one. "

"Anyways." she started seeing that Rora could finally calm down and listen to her.

"I didn't get expelled in a nutshell. Got detention for a month and I'm surprised its only that much. Oh and also my wand will be taken." she finished knowing to expect a furious Rora.

"WHAT?Nat this why you shouldn't do things when your angry. Look how much trouble you got into!" Rora started blabbering but before she could say another word Nat stopped her and told "Rora. Chill. Lecture me later, First I want to check up on Cat and Athena" . With that she walked up to her dormitory to talk to her friends.

Natalie walked into two exhausted girls sleeping on Cat's bed and by the looks of it Nat knew that Athena was the girl with Cat. The cousins looked very comfortable despite the lack of space and Nat couldn't help but smile at the pair. She walked over to them and draped the blanket over them careful not to disturb them. By the time she was done, Rora walked in as well and saw the two girls all comfy. Smiling at each other Nat and Rora slowly walked out of their dorm to do homework.

Boy, has the week been more hectic for the girls. Homework, tests, projects, pop-quizzes were keeping them on their toes. Futhermore, the girls were one of the brightest ones in their year each exceeding in various subjects. With Cat acing transfiguration, Rora in Charms and Nat in potions they were able to help each other out. As for DADA (if your wondering) , all three of them did pretty well.

For Nat, She has to serve a month worth of detention for ... to put in plain words ... beautifully kicking Evelyn Carrow's ass in a fight which soon had turned to a duel (where she had the upper hand in that too) for saying some nasty things to her bestfriend.

But alot has changed since the fight. The girls welcomed Athena to their tight-knit group since she decided to ditch Evelyn for saying crap about Catherine. Since the two were cousins, the pair was very excited to know each other. After all family sticks for each other.

The day was almost done for the girls, but Nat knew the worst is yet to come. She has detention with Evelyn fricking Carrow and she dreaded it. Boy! At her time at Hogwarts, she hates only three people - Fred, George and Evelyn and to think of spending who knows how long with one of them is horrible but yet here she was walking towards her head of the house's office to face the next few hours of boredom.

Evelyn was already there by the time Nat reached, along with a few other students one of whom she immediately recognised as Hailey Turrner, a senior of Nat's. They are acquaintances so perhaps detention wouldn't be so bad.

She was paired with some random dude to clean out Snape's desk for her detention. Her mind was definitely not on the task before her , rather it was in various places all at once. The perks of being an overthinker.

She was there for about an hour and half and his office was really clean if Nat could say so herself. The guy she was paired up with finished his pat and left like five minutes ago and Nat only had a desk -drawer left to sort out but when she opened it she hesitated because it seemed rather personal. Very personal she thoughts because there, in a slightly messy condition were a stack of letters and photographs, an old ink bottle and dusty quills. She hesitated for a moment wondering whether she should clean it up or leave it so that Snape doesn't put her in more trouble for 'snooping' - cleaning the desk but curiosity got better of her. She pulled out an old photograph from the desk , it was a picture of three children - two girls, and a boy who looked around the age of nine to ten.

But what made her heart stop for a second was seeing who's picture it was. She could feel chills down her spine and her heart racing as she saw the girl who looked alot like her. She had the same green eyes and even then she could feel the love radiating from it, the same fiery red hair and the smile that would always cheer her up. She saw Lily Evans smiling and waving at the camera while having her hands around the other two kids, one who looked the younger version of Snape and the other of a girl with pale skin, dark hair and eyes. Nat couldn't believe her eyes looking at the photograph of her mother and well... Snape.

She flipped the photograph hoping that the name of the other girl would be written at the back, but she was disappointed. She kept wondering if she should keep looking or just shut the desk and get her detention done with, but if you find photos of your deceased parents, you would be curious too and finally it did get it curious. So she started "arranging" the drawer.

The next photograph looked like the three children during their time at Hogwarts . They looked about her age. She immediately recognised her mother , beautiful as ever in her Gryffindor robes , smiling brightly at the camera. The other two teenagers - a boy whom she guessed was Snape and the girl who was in the previous photo, she looked so familiar yet so distant like a buried memory . She was pretty as well, a short thin, pale woman with beautiful black eyes and thick black hair.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood tall as she realised that this woman looks so much like Cat. Like they had the same face and the same hair. Obviously her eyes and skin tone was a little different, but that's beside the point

Nat swore she'd seen the girl somewhere but couldn't place her finger as to where she'd seen her. She flipped this photo as well hoping to see names , but it was in vain.

Nat knew from these pictures that her mother and the mysterious girl were close friends along with Snape obviously but couldn't help but have a gut feeling that she knew this girl from somewhere. She was wondering if it was from her memories or from someone else's. Nonethless she flipped the photo hoping atleast this time there would be names written behind but all she saw was plain white.

Sighing to herself she decided to just dust the desk and not arrange anything just in case Snape doesn't want anyone to know he has photographs of her mother. She was physically exhausted from detention but her mind was swirling with all sorts of thoughts, Perhaps a good nights sleep will be the perfect solution.

"Ted! Look at her! Isn't she beautiful!" a young Andromeda told her husband Ted Tonks as they looked at their precious baby daughter. Nat didn't know if it was Dora or Cat, but she couldn't help but smile at their faces looking at their new-born daughter.

Soon a little girl with short yellow hair walked into the room. The little girl looked about five , and was holding a toy turtle in her hands. "Mummy, Is she asleep?" she asked her mother.

"Yes Dora dear and its your bedtime too."

"Okay Mummy, Give this to Andrea." Dora told her mother, handing her the toy turtle. With that the girls ran out of the room.

The two adults stood there smiling at the baby as Andromeda gently placed her daughter in her crib as Ted placed the toy next to the now sleeping baby.

Soon it was the middle of the night when a shadow appeared in the baby's room. It looked like a tall woman's figure as she crept towards the crib that held baby Andrea.

The woman took the baby in her arms gently and disappeared only to return within a few seconds without the baby. She then took out her wand and screamed "OBLIVIATE!".

A bright white light soon engulfed the whole room as the face of the woman who was the thief revealed. Those dark heavily lidded eyes with an evil glint gave the air an eerie vibe.

Nat woke up with a start. It was still dark and quiet. Luckily she hadn't screamed and woken up the others.

She laid back in bed and started thinking about her weird dream. Her dreams usually consist of her memories that too of the day her parents died. So its either only nightmares or no dreams at all.

But this dream seemed to be Cat's memories, but why was Andromeda calling her Andrea?

And above all why she in Andromeda's house? Her of all people! The worst of the death-eaters. What did she want with Catherine?