It's the end of the year, which means it's time to go home, well not home for me. I'm being shipped off to the Weasley's. I'm really not looking forward to staying with them.

Ron is already making little comments and giving me nasty looks. I thought he might have backed off a little since I'm Harry's cousin, but no. I guess I've just got to accept that he's never going to change his opinion about me.

We have just had a little memorial for Cedric in the Great Hall, all the Hufflepuff's were crying, but no one said anything, even the Slytherin were being quiet. No one knew what to say to each other, so we all just listened to Dumbledore talk has he told us that Cedric Diggory was killed by Voldemort.

But I know that's not true, because Harry told me, Ron and Hermione what really happened in the graveyard. Cedric was killed by someone called Peter Pettigrew. He's an Animagus and he can transform into a rat, which suits him if you ask me, because thanks to that arsehole, Harry's parents and my mom are dead.

He was the Potters secret keeper and he sold them out to Voldemort. He sold out his own friends, I mean, who the hell does that? Someone heartless, that's who. It's also thanks to Pettigrew that Voldemort is back now. He bought him back when they were in the graveyard.

I also found out from Harry that is was Moody who bewitched Krum, well, I say Moody. Turns out that that wasn't the real Moody after all. He was a Death Eater named Barty Crouch Junior who was taking Polyjuice Potion to look like him, whilst the real Moody was locked up in a trunk in his office.

I'm just in my room at the minute, just doing some last minute packing, whilst everyone else is in the common room. I haven't seen my dad since the 3rd task, so I can't even say good bye to him. I just hope whatever he's doing for Dumbledore isn't dangerous and that he's safe.

I look around and see that I've got everything. I wave my wand over my trunk and it shrinks down in size, I pick it up and put it in my bag. I walk over to the open and door it only to find Krum stood there getting ready to knock.

"How did you get up the stairs?" I ask.

"I just walked up them" he frowns.

Now it's my turn to frown. "They didn't turn into a slide?"

"No, I know a handy little spell that stops that from happening again."

"You and your handy spells" I smile, but it turns into a frown when Krum gently pushes me back into the room. He walks in and closes the door behind him.

He looks at me and takes my hands into his. "Thank you for making this year a special one" he goes to kiss me, but I stop him.

"Wait, I've got some -"

"It's ok" he sighs. "I know you don't like me in that way. I can tell from the way you kiss me."

"I'm sorry if I made you think different. I swear I didn't mean to lead you on."

"You haven't" he looks at me. "Deep down I always knew you only liked me as a friend, and I'm ok with that, but, I do want to kiss you one last time."

"I don't think that's a good idea, I mean I don't want to give you false hope or anything."

"You won't, I know where I stand with you. It will just be a kiss good bye, that's all."

"Ok, just one last kiss."

He smirks and pushes me up the wall, which makes me gasp in surprise. He cups my face and pushes his lips to mine. He's being a little rough for my liking but since this is our last kiss, I'm letting it happen. I yelp in slight pain when he tightly grabs my hips and pushes up against me.

Jeez, what the hell has gotten into him?

He pulls away from me and rest his head on my shoulder. "Sorry" he whispers breathlessly. "Was that too much?"

"N-no" I whisper. I flinch a little when I feel him kissing my neck. "Viktor" I say, trying to push him away, but he doesn't move and starts sucking on my neck like a leech.

I go to say something, but let out an involuntary moan instead. I feel him smirk and move away. He looks at me and winks, which makes me blush a little.

He looks at my neck with a smug look on his face.

"What?" I frown.

"You might want to look in the mirror."

I walk into the bathroom, look in the mirror and gasp when I see a reddish mark on my neck. It's big and very noticeable. "Oh my god" I whisper, running my finger over it. "My dad is gonna kill me if he sees this."

"Don't worry" Krum says, pulling out his wand. "I know a handy little spell that will cover it up" he points it at my neck and I feel a little tingle, when I look back in the mirror, it's gone.

He looks at his watch and sighs. "I've got to go before the ship leaves without me."

I look at him before pulling him into a hug. "I'm going to miss you" I whisper.

I feel him hug me tighter. "I will never forget you Ava Snape" he pulls away from me, wipes away my tears that I didn't even know were there, kisses my cheek, then walks out of the room.

Me, Draco, Blaise, Crabbe and Golye are sitting in a compartment at the minute. None of us haven't really said anything to each other.

They boys wanted to know why I'm staying with the Weasley's but I didn't know what to say to them because I promise that I wouldn't tell them about me and Harry. In the end, I just said that my dad told me I had to say there, but he didn't tell me why. They accept my answer and didn't say anything else on the matter.

I sigh when I see the train pulling into the station. We grab our things and leave the train. I said good bye to my boys and walked off to meet Mrs Weasley.

"Ava, how are you dear?" she asks, when she sees me walking over to her.

"I'm fine" she nods and doesn't say anything else. We stand there awkwardly and wait for the rest of her family to turn up.

Just then I see them walking over to us, the twins and Ginny looked at me confused when they saw me stood there with their mom, whilst Ron glared at me. Mrs Weasley quickly explained to them what was happening and they seemed fine with it.

We make it to their house, it was a small house with about 3 floors. We all walk in and I feel so out of place, this time yesterday, me and the boys were planning our sleep over at Draco.

We were writing down different truth and dares we could give each other. We were going to see who could stay up the longest. I was going to try and teach them how to cook, but now I'm standing in a house that I've never been in before, with people I don't know.

Ginny showed me to her bedroom, since I will be sharing with her. I can't work out if she likes me or not, since she hasn't really talked to me.

It's later in the day and all the Weasley are sitting in the living and I'm sitting outside. I jump when the door suddenly open.

"Oi snake, my mom said dinner is ready" I don't even need to look to know that's Ron.

"I'm not hungry" he doesn't say anything and shuts the door, leaving me sitting there.

I've been outside for about 2 hours, and no one had come to check on me, but I'm glad about that because I didn't want to see any of them, it's so relaxing sitting outside. I can hear all the long grass blowing in the wind, it's not cold either, it's warm air.

I jump when the door opens again. I look and see Mrs Weasley standing there. "Ava dear, it's time for bed."

I nod and walk into the house and head upstairs. I walk into Ginny's room, she was sitting on the bed, she looks at me, but doesn't say anything.

I head to the bedroom and get changed into my pyjamas, I walk over to my bed and get in. I just lie there looking at the celling, after a while, I end up falling asleep.

I groan when I hear the alarm go off, but I quickly dive up and turn it off when I realise why I set it so early. I look around and see that Ginny is still asleep in bed. It's pretty light outside to say that it's half 5 in the morning. I only set my alarm that early so I could have a few hours to myself before everyone else got up.

I get out of bed and grab a pair of legging, my Slytherin jumper and my toothbrush and toothpaste out of my trunk and quietly make my way across the room and into the bathroom. I quickly freshen up and brush my teeth. Once I've ready, I walk back into the room and grab my bag then head downstairs.

I walk into the living room and see that it's empty. I walk through the house and make my way to the back door. I open it and walk outside. I close the door behind me and sit down on the chair that's outside. I go into my bag and pull out the photo of me and dad at the Yule Ball.

I would give anything to be with him right now. I miss him, and the boys. I can't wait for school to start again so I get to see them. I put the photo back into my bag and pull out the photo of my mom. Seeing her beautiful face always makes me happy when I'm sad.

"I wish you were here" I whisper, as mom looks at the camera and smiles. If only I could see that in real life. I sigh and hug the photo of mom, it's the closest thing I'm going to get to a real hug.

"Ava" I jump at the sound of someone's voice. I look and see Mr Weasley popping his head around the door.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. Anyway, I've just come to tell you we are staying at 12 Grimmauld Place for the rest of the summer. It's Sirius's house, but he gave it to Dumbledore to use has Headquarters for the Order of the the Phoenix."

I smiled when he mentioned Sirius. It would be nice to see him again. Mr Weasley looks at me. "We leave later tonight, so why don't you go upstairs and start packing up your things."

I nod and stand up and Mr Weasley looks at the photo in my hand. "Is that your mother?"

"Yeah" I say showing him, then I point to the baby. "And that's baby me."

"It's a beautiful photo, Ava" he smiles.

"Thank you" I smile back. "It's my favourite photo of us together."

He smiles at me. "Anyway, I will let you go and pack, Ginny has already finished hers so you will have the bedroom to yourself."

I notice Ron look up when he said that. "Ok, I'll be back in a minute" I walk off upstairs and into Ginny's room. I close the door behind me and walk over to my trunk. I didn't really unpack it, so I've only got to put the clothes in that Mrs Weasley washed and I'm done.

I pick my trunk up and put it on the bed. I open it and put my folded clothes in and a few other little things that I forget were in the nightstand drawer, and I'm done. That was easy, if only my packing was that easy all the time.

I smile at my myself, but stop when the door opens and Ron walks in. He closes the door behind him, then looks at me, then my trunk, I quickly close it so that he don't see my underwear because that would be awkward as hell.

"Closing your trunk because you have something to hide?" he asks, walking over to me.

I move back and hit my back off the wall behind me. "No, I just didn't want you seeing something you shouldn't."

"Why? Got some of my things in there, have you?"

I frown. "Why would I have some of your things in my trunk?"

"Because you're a nasty little thief" he hissed. I stare at him. Why can't he just open his eyes and see me instead of my last name?

"I am not a thief."

"I wouldn't put it past you. Now, open your trunk."

"What? No! You're not looking through my things."

"Just open it, snake!"

"No! You have no rights to look through my things."

He tries to open my trunk, but little does he know that I've put a charm on it so once it's closed, it's closed, and only I can open it.

He glares at me. "Open it" he orders. I shake my head. He moves even closer to me and puts his hands on the wall next to my head, so that he's now towering over me.

If he's trying to scare me, then it's not going to work. Ok, maybe it's working a little bit, only because it's so unpredictable what he's going to do next.

"Open your trunk, before I make you" he growls quietly.

"You can't make me do anything."

"Open your trunk!" he shouts, which makes me jump. He smirks at me.

"Don't flatter yourself" I huff. "I didn't jump because I'm scared of you. I jumped because I didn't expect you to shout."

"I still made you jump though, didn't I?"

"And I'm sure you will be able to sleep better tonight because of it."

"Anyway, enough chit chat, open your trunk!"

"What makes you think I'm going to open it just because you asked me to?" He glares angrily at me.

"Ron" I gasp in shock when he tightly grabs the top of my arm. Who the hell does he think he is? What gives him the rights to put his hands on me like this?

I glare at him. "Get your hand off me!" I growl, at the same time the bedroom opens. I look and see the twins standing there. They look at Ron, then look at his hand around my arm, which makes him quickly let me go. I stand there rubbing my arm. He's a lot stronger than he looks.

"What's going on in there?" Fred asks, looking from me to Ron.

"Nothing" Ron mutters.

"What was he trying to do to you?" George asks me.

"What are you trying to say?" Ron snaps before I could even open my mouth.

"I'm not trying to say anything, and I was asking little Snape, not you."

The twins and Ron look at me. "He's angry because I won't show him what's in my trunk."

"And why do you want to look in her trunk?" Fred frowns at Ron.

"Because I wanted to make sure that she didn't rob anything."

"Ron, you idiot." George says, rolling his eyes. "Haven't we told you already that she's nothing like what you're making her out to be?"

"Why don't she prove it them?" Ron says, glaring at me.

"Because you're not looking through my thing. I promise you I haven't taken anything."

"Stop lying" he says, grabbing my arm again.

"Stop grabbing me!" I hiss, pulling my arm out of his grip. He glares at me and I glare back.

"It's time to leave Ron" Fred says.

"Not until -"

"Just go" Ron looks at him. "Now!" he shouts, which was weird to hear, because the twins are normally laid back.

He sighs and leaves the room. "Excuse me ladies, but I'm just going to have a quick word with him" George says, before he leaves the room and closes the door behind him.

Fred sits on the bed and taps it, telling me to sit down next to him. I walk over to the bed and sit down next to him. Fred looks at me. "Look, I'm sorry about Ron. He's an idiot and can't see you for you."

"It's fine, he can say what he likes about me, I don't really care, I mean I do, because he can say some hurtful things, but if he ever grabs me like that again, then I will break his fingers."

"Ahh yes, I've heard about what can happen when someone makes you angry."

I look at him confused. "What you mean?"

"I heard about you kicking the crap out of Ron in potions."

I feel myself blushing a little. "I wouldn't have done that if he didn't talk about my mom."

"I totally get it. I would have done the same if someone talked about my mother" he looks at me. "How come you didn't just show Ron what's in your trunk?"

"Because I have things in there that I don't want him to see."

"Things?" he frowns.

"Yeah, you know, girl things" he smirks at me. "Tut. Get your mind out of the gutter!"

He laughs, then looks at me. "Do you want to come and see what me and George have been working on for our shop?"

"Shop?" I frown.

"Yeah, we are opening a joke shop."

"Cool, you two will be amazing at running a joke shop."

"I know right" he smirks. "So, do you want to come and have a look?"

"Sure, just don't prank me though."

He laughs. "We won't. I promise."

I nod and we stand up. I grab my bag off my the bag and we walk out of Ginny's room and into the twins room.

We are all at 12 Grimmauld Place and it's a mess, which is understandable since no one has lived here in years. Mrs Weasley has given us a room each to clean. My room is on the second floor, 3rd room on the right. I open the door only to find a Hippogriff lying there. Holy crap! No one told me there was a Hippogriff in this room.

He looks at me and I quickly bow to him. I thought he wasn't going to bow back at first, but then he slowly bowed. I smile to myself and stand up straight. I walk over to him and stroke his head.

"You must be Buckbeak, I'm Ava" I look at him. "You really are beautiful, aren't you?" he makes a noise that almost like he's saying 'I know' I smile at him.

"You know, lately I've been wishing I could fly, it must be nice to be able to fly anywhere you wanted, whenever you wanted. If I could fly, I would fly home and see my dad, I miss him."

"You don't need to fly home to see him" I turn around and see dad stood there in the door way. He's in his traveling cloak so that must mean he's only just turned up.

I smile at him. "You have the best timing."

He smiles at me and opens his arms. I just run into them and hug him tight. "I've been so worried about you, dad. Where have you been?"

"I can't tell you where I've been, but just know that I'm safe and that everything is ok. Come on, everyone is down stairs, I'm staying for dinner, but then I will have to leave after I've finished."

"I don't want you to leave."

"I know sweetheart, I hate leaving you, but for now that's how it's got to be" I sigh. "Granger will be arriving tonight" dad adds.

"That doesn't make me feel any better, you know I'm not friends with her anymore."

"I know Ava, and I'm sorry. I hate leaving you in a place where you don't want to be, but we will be back at school soon." He pulls away from me. "Come on, lets have some dinner. You look like you haven't eaten in days."

"I have been eating, just not a lot."

"Ava, you don't need to worry about me, I'm fine, ok, but you need to start eating more before you become ill."

"Ok, I will start eating more from now on" he nods and we walk out the room and head down stairs.

We walk in the kitchen and everyone looks at us, then looks away, but Ron carries on glaring at me. He only stops when Fred smacks him across the back of his head, which makes me giggle a little. Fred looks at me and winks. Dad rises his eyebrow at him, but Fred just grins back.

Me and dad sit down at the far end of the table so that we can talk without everyone hearing us. "Has Mr Weasley been giving you any trouble?"

I look at him. "You mean Ron?" he nods. "Just nasty looks here and there."

"I know you're not telling the whole truth, Ava."

"It's nothing, all forgotten."

"Tell me."

"Ok, but just promise me that you won't go after Ron."

"I promise."

I sit there and tell him all about what happened in Ginny's bedroom. Dad glare at Ron, which makes Ron look at the table.

"I will be taking 15 points from Gryffindor the second I get back to school" dad says smirking.

"Dad, you promised you wouldn't go after him."

"But I'm not going after him, I'm going after his whole house" he looks at me. "I never promised I wouldn't take points."

I open my mouth, but close it again when I've got nothing to say to that. "Can I ask you something?" I ask, and he nods. "Why didn't you tell me about me and Harry?" I feel him tense up a little.

"I did it for your own safety."

"I know that, but I could have got to know him 3 years ago."

"I did it for your own safely and that's all you need to know."

"Who does Voldemort think my mom is?"

"Just some random woman who died giving birth to you, there's no one to check up on my story that way. Now stop asking question and eat your dinner" I nod and we carry on eating in silence.

It's later in the day and dad has just left to go god knows where, and to do god knows what. I wonder what Dumbledore is making him do? I mean what's so important that he can't do it himself? He better not be putting my dad in danger or me and him are going to have words.

Hermione turned up about an hour ago, she smiled at me and I smile back and that's it. I found out that me, her and Ginny are sharing a room, which I'm fine about I don't mind sharing with them, but it is a little awkward when we are in the same room together and no one is talking.

Sirius had just told us that Harry has just got attacked by Dementors and a few people from the Order will be collecting him from his, I mean our auntie and uncles and bring him to Headquarters later tonight, it's easier moving him when it's dark outside.

I still can't get my head around that me and Harry are cousins, I don't know how he's taking it, we haven't talked about it since we have found out. I might talk to him when he turns up later.

I'm just sitting around the table in the kitchen at the minute, everyone else is talking to each other and I'm just reading my book. I met Lupin and we walked for a little while.

He was shocked when he find out that me and Harry are cousins, I mean he knew all about me, but he thought I died the same night my mom did. Turns out he was friends with her and they would often help each other out when they needed help with schoolwork.

"Harry Potter" I hear Sirius says. I look up and see Harry ginning in the door way. He rushes over to Sirius and pulls him into a hug. Sirius whispers something into his ear which makes him nod. They pull apart and sit down at the table where Harry tells them all about what happened with the Dementor.

He needed to do magic in order to get rid of the Dementors, but because he's done magic outside of school (which isn't allowed because he's under 17) it's earned him a hearing in front of the Ministry of Magic.

I'm sure he will be fine though, I mean we are allowed to do magic if it's a life or death situation, and getting your soul sucked out by a Dementor is definitely a life or death situation so they have no reason to expel him.

Just then I see Moody throw the Daily Prophet to Harry. Rita Seeker has been writing some lovely things about Harry. NOT! That bitch has been writing about how Harry is lying about Voldemort being back just to get attention, and Fudge, who is the Minister himself, is backing her up.

He's burying his head in the sand and pretending that Voldemort isn't back and the wizarding world is safe. Like bollocks is it. He really needs to start facing up to facts or we will all be in trouble, even the Muggle world.

After everyone had finished talking, me and Harry had a little chat and it turns out that we both want to get to know each other better, which I'm happy about because I really do want to get to know his as a person.

It's the next day, and I'm in the room with Buckbeak in, it's my go to room when I want to get away from everyone. I'm just sitting here, resting on Buckbeak's stomach, reading my book when I hear them cheering and laughing downstairs I'm guessing Harry got the all clear for the Dementor attacked, which is fair, since he did nothing wrong.

I jump when someone knocks on the door, I don't say anything in hope that they will go away. "I'm not leaving until you open this door" Harry says from the other side of the door.

I sigh. "It's open."

He opens the door and walk in and quickly bows to Buckbeak, who bows back. He walks over to me and sits down. "I got off by the way. Got the all clear" he says smiling.

"Yeah I know, I heard you all cheering downstairs."

"Why don't you join us? Mrs Weasley is throwing a little party."

"I'm not in the mood for a party."

"At least come downstairs, you can sit around the table."

"Yeah, because that's going to be fun, isn't it? Having Ron giving me nasty looks whenever he looks at me. Why can't he just see me for me? Why can't he see that I'm not like my dad? Or Draco for that matter. I'm just so sick of it."

I wipe away from tears when I see Harry staring at me. "Ava" he says softly.

"Just leave me alone, Harry" I mutter, turning away from him. I hear him stand up and leave the room.

Harry P.O.V

I close the door and I can hear Ava crying. Right, it's time to have a word with Ron. I walk down stairs and into the kitchen and walk over to Ron. "What is wrong with you?" he frowns at me.

"Ava is upstairs crying because of you, because you keep calling her names. Haven't you realised by now that she's not what you're making her out to be, if she was anything like her father or Malfoy, then she would have been nasty to us a long time ago, but she hasn't. She hasn't even said one bad thing about us."

"She pranked us and made everyone laugh at us" Ron huffs.

"So, we have been pranked by the twins before that's ended up with people laughing at us, but that's never bothered you before, so why is she different?"

"Because she's Snape's daughter."

"And if she was anything like him, then she could have made that prank a lot worst. She changed our robes and our hair colour, that's all."

"She kicked and hit me" he hissed.

"Yeah, and you know what? I don't blame her. What you said to her in potions was so uncalled that even me and Hermione wanted to beat you up" he just looks at me.

"It's also thanks to you that she's lost Hermione, she ended her friendship with her because of you, because you couldn't keep your mouth shut in potions and said all these horrible thing to her" he doesn't say anything, so I carry on talking.

"You even accused her of being a thief, and you grabbed her for god sake. What was you going to be to her if the twins haven't of walked in?"

"Oh I bet she couldn't wait to tell you all about that, could she?" he growls. "I bet she wouldn't wait to make me out to look like the bad guy."

"For your information, Ron, it was Fred who told me about it."

"Oh" he looks at me. "But what do you want me to do about it?"

"Talk to her, make her feel welcome and I promise you, you will see that she's nothing like what you are calling her."

He sighs and mutters. "I can see."

"Then go upstairs and tell her that then" I say and he nods and walks off. I look around and see Sirius wink at me. I give him a little smile and look away. I didn't even realise that he was listening.

Ron P.O.V

I walk up stairs and walk over to Buckbeak's room, I was about to knock on the door when I hear Ava playing a lovely soft tune on her guitar. I slowly open the door and see her sitting in front of Buckbeak, she's got her back to me.

I was about to clear my throat to let her know that I'm here, but stop when she starts talking. "You know, if I could be anywhere right now, I would be at school. How sad is that? It's the summer holidays and I want to be at school, in all fairness though, I don't think they would notice that I've gone."

Buckbeak make a noise which makes her laughs. "Don't worry, Buckbeak, I'm not going to run away. As much as I want too, I won't, because one, my dad would kill me. Two, Mrs Weasley would bring me back to life, then kill me herself for being stupid." I smile to myself. My mother would really do that as well.

"And three, I don't actually want to leave, I want to stay here and see how things work out. I keep thinking, maybe, just maybe, Ron will see me differently, you know, finally realise that I'm nothing like what he thinks" she sighs.

"I realise" I say, making her jump.

"How long have you been there?" she asks, without looking at me.

"Since you started playing the guitar. You're really good."

"Thanks."

I walk over to her and quickly bow to Buckbeak, he bows back and I sit down next to Ava, which makes her move over a little.

"What made you finally realise?" she asks.

"I'm just been watching you whilst you have been here" she frowns at me. "Not in a creepy way, more of in a -"

"Keeping an eye on me way?" she cuts me off.

"Yeah" I sigh. "Anyway, I've just been watching you and the way you have been acting with everyone."

"And how have I been acting?"

"Like we are not there" I laugh. "Well, some days you do anyway, but other days, you're sitting there talking and laughing with Sirius and Lupin, or helping my mother with the cooking and cleaning."

"I don't mean to be here one day and gone the next, it's just that -"

"It's fine" I cut her off. "You don't need to explain, we all totally understand."

I look at her. "Plus, there was that day in McGonagall's office when we were apart of the 2nd task, you were so sweet with Gabrielle. The way you distracted her so your father could put her down the spell was clever."

"I have my moments" she mutters.

"What I'm trying to say is that I should have opened my eyes back then, way before then actually, but I didn't because, and this is going to sound so stupid, but once I started I couldn't stop. In the end it was just easier being nasty to you, rather than admitting I was wrong about you."

She looks at me. "But you must have known that your comments hurt. Didn't you stop to think how your words would affect me? Didn't you stop to think how it made me feel when you said all of the stuff you did? Or how upset I was after you said all of that horrible stuff in potions? Didn't you stop to think how much your comment would hurt when you talked about my mom? You had no right to bring her into it the way you did."

I look at her and I can see the tears in her eyes. She quickly wipes them away when she sees me looking.

I sigh. "I didn't stop to think about any of that because I thought you were what I was calling you, so I didn't think about the consequences. I didn't listen to what Harry, Hermione and the twins were trying to tell me because once something is in my head, it just takes over, and once it's there, no one can change my mind."

"So you're just stubborn?" she asks.

"Yeah, yeah I guess I am" I look at her. "But I really can see now that you're nothing like what I was calling you."

"Well, I'm glad you finally see me for me and not some horrible little snake."

"I'm sorry for anything I said to you Ava, and I will understand if you didn't for -"

"I forgive you" she cuts me off.

I look at her. "But why? I was so horrible to you."

"Because I can see that you actually mean your sorry. You're not just saying it because someone has made you come up here."

I look at her. How did she know that Harry sent me up here?

"I might not have known Harry for that long, but I know him well enough to know that he would have got involved sooner or later" she says.

"That's Harry for ya, always the peacemaker."

"I'm sorry too."

I frown at her. "Why are you sorry?"

"Because of the way I acted in potions that day, I'm not normally like that, but after what you said about my mom, I just saw red and my I couldn't stop myself."

"I understand why you reacted the way you did. I mean the amount of times I've wanted to hit Malfoy for talking about my family is unbelievable, so I can see where you're coming from."

Ava looked at her lap when I said Malfoy's name.

"Come on" I say standing up and holding out my hand. "There's a party going on downstairs and we are missing out."

She smile at me and takes my hand and I easily pull her to her feet. "God, you're so light."

"I'm not, you're just strong" I can feel myself blushing. "Are you blushing?" Ava teased.

"What? No!" I huff. She laughs.

"Come on, lets go downstairs before all the foods gone" she nods with a smile and then we leave the room.

Ava P.O.V

Well, that was differently unexpected. I didn't think Ron would come and say sorry for his actions, but I can see that he can actually admit when he's wrong, even if it does take him a few months, but at least it comes around in the end.

We walk into the kitchen and everyone looks at us and smiles. I see Harry nodding and smiling at Ron, he does it back and walks over to Fred and George.

I walk over to Harry. "Thanks."

"I don't know what you're talking about" he say smiling, I smile at him. I look around and see Hermione sitting there reading a book. "she misses you too."

I look at him. "I need to talk to her, don't I?" he nods. "Ok, wish me luck."

"Good luck" he says smiling, I smile at him and walk over to Hermione.

"Can we talk?" I ask.

She looks at me. "Yes, yes of course. Come on, we can go up stairs" I nod and we walk up stairs and into our room. Hermione closes the door and we sit on her bed.

I look at her. "I'm sorry about that day in potions, I overreacted and didn't even give you time to explain, but trust and promises mean a lot to me, and when I find out that you told Ron after you promise you wouldn't, I guess I just though that you only wanted to be my friend just do you could get something on me, then go and tell Ron and Harry all about it and have a good laugh about me, and I know that sounds stupid now, but that's how I felt at the time."

She looks at me. "I can understand why you would think that, and I'm sorry too. I wasn't thinking when I told Ron about your mother, he was saying some stuff and it was making me angry and I just snapped, but once I said it, I couldn't take it, but I swear I never meant to hurt you the way I did."

"It's ok, I'm still not happy that you broke a promise, but I forgive you, and I would really like to be your friend again. I've missed you and our trips to the library."

"I've missed you too, and yes, we can be friends again" she says smiling.

I look at her. "Me and Ron had a little heart to heart chat earlier, and he said he was sorry for the way he treated me and I forgave him."

"Good, I'm glad he finally came around."

"Me too" I say smiling.

"Come on, there's still a party going on" she says, standing up. I nod and stand up. "Oh, and word of warning, don't eat any of the popcorn."

"Why not?" I frown.

"Fred and George have hexed it so that it explodes in your mouth the second you bite it."

I gasp. "That sounds dangerous."

Hermione laughs. "It's only a little exploitation, but it does leave the taste of fish oil in your mouth for a few hours."

"That's gross and genius at the same time."

She nods, before we leave the room and head back downstairs.

It's the next day and I'm sitting in a room with Harry, Ron and the twins. We have become closer since me and Ron had our little chat yesterday and the difference in Ron's behaviour is shocking. I mean, he's gone from jerk to sweetheart overnight. I'm not complaining though.

Our Hogwarts letters have just arrived and for some reason, my letter feels heavier than normal. I open it and something falls out out the envelope and on to the floor, I bent down and pick it up and gasp when I see that it's a badge. No way! I've been made a Prefect.

"Little Snape" I hear Fred says. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah" I say, standing back up. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"What is this I see before me" George says, grabbing my badge out of my hand. He looks at it. "Oh look, little Snape has been made the Slytherin Prefect."

"Of course she would have, being daddy's little princess and all" Harry smirked.

"Daddy's little girl, not princess" I correct him. He smiles at me then looks at someone and gasps a little, which makes Fred and George look at him. They follow his eyes and I do the same and see that Ron is holding a Gryffindor Prefect badge.

"No way!" Fred says, grabbing his badge. "Little Ronnie has been made the Gryffindor Prefect."

"There must be a mistake" George says, taking the badge off Fred and holding it up to the light to make sure it's real.

"Way to be supportive guys" I say, as Ron grabs his badge back. He hands it to Harry just as Hermione walks into the room.

She looks at him and smiles. "I knew it, me too, Harry" she grins, holding up her Gryffindor badge.

"It's not mine" Harry says, making Hermione grin fall. "It's Ron's. He's the Prefect, not me" he says, handing Ron his badge.

"It's - what?" she asks shocked. She looks at Ron. "But are you are? I mean -"

"It's my name on the letter" Ron cuts off harshly.

"Well - well done Ron, that's really -"

"Unexpected" George smirks.

"No! Ron has done loads of things, he really has" she says, going red in the face.

It's later in the day and Mrs Weasley has put on a little party congratulating me, Ron and Hermione on being Prefects. I look around and see Sirius standing on his own, this is the perfect time to talk to him. I walk over to him and he smiles, but it quickly turns into a groan.

"What are you after?" he asks.

I frown at him. "How did you know I was after something?"

"The look on your face is the same as your mothers when she always needed something."

I smile at him. "I need your help to become an Animagus."

"But I don't have any of the potion ingredients, and what about the Mandrake leaf?"

"I can get the leaf from school, I know what I have to do with it. And I can send you the ingredients from school, but I will put a charm on them to make them look like cooking ingredients."

"Are you sure about this?" Sirius asks. "I mean what would your father say if he found out?"

"I won't tell him if you don't."

He groans. "Fine, I'll help you, but I'm not getting in trouble with your father if he finds out."

I laugh a little. "Don't worry, I will take full blame if he does" he nods with a smile.