Diagon Alley was just as she had remembered it. So many people, so many wizards…It was nothing like America. In America, you went into the normal muggle shops, then went through a barrier to a wizards store…it was very complicated…you had to remember…muggle grocery store, meant potion ingredients, book store for spell books, and so on…Catalina had forgotten the luxury of being able to walk from store to store without muggles looking at her.

It wasn't long before she began recognizing people. She soon was glad she had come back, and everyone she talked to seemed happy also. Almost everybody, that is.

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Severus Snape was in the potion ingredient store, stocking up for the new school year. Catalina had gone in there to visit the shopkeeper, and accidentally bumped into Snape.

"You should watch where you're going!" Snape said, as he turned around. "You could have-"

But then he saw who it was. 'Catalina Rain' he thought. 'she looks even more beautiful than she did.'

He snapped back to reality.

"Oh! I'm so sorry Severus! I-I didn't mean to bump into you! I-I guess I'll go now…" said Catalina as she hurried away, wishing she hadn't met him again in the way she just had.

'Great! Just great! Now, he has even more reason do despise me! He already thinks I'm trouble…but he KNOWS that wasn't my fault…ehh…I'm thinking about this too much…I shouldn't worry. There's nothing he can do!' She thought as she walked to the back of the shop.

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Catalina settled in to a room in the leaky cauldron. She soon received an owl from Sirius.

Catalina,

Can you get to Hogsmeade anytime soon? Write me back if you can, I want to see you. It's been to long.

Love,

Sirius

'Well yea, I could get there now. I *can* apparate. Oh well, I guess I'll just write back and ask him when he wants to see me…I wouldn't want to go there now, he may not be ready.'

She pulled out parchment and wrote a quick note back, then went  to sleep.

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"I'm so glad Dumbledore agreed to help me out…I haven't been this clean in a year…it feels nice," he said to himself.

'I hope she can get here!' he thought. Then it dawned on him. She could apparate. 'Duh!'  He thought. 'I could have just said, anytime is good…I'm as ready as I need to be and she would have been here fast! Now I just have to wait longer!'

Just then, an owl entered his cave. It was Catalina's owl, he'd seen it many times before.

He read the note quickly, then wrote back saying that whenever she could, that it would be ok. He couldn't wait to see her again.

(((Again, shortness of chapter. I'll get better about that, I promise…anywayz, I'll get the next one up soon…I'll start working on it now! Please tell me what you think!!!)))