NOTE: this chapter kind blows goats because I stopped at one point and lost
where I was.
Chapter 6-The Dinner
Christmas had been over for two day's now and Sirius sent a message to Ava that there dinner would be held that night while most of the guest's in Grimmuald Place were out and about.
'Tonks, I need help, I haven't a clue what to wear, Ava said flitting around her room, randomly drawers and doors looking for something, anything that would be suiting for that evening
'Your acting as if you've never been on a date before..you have been on a date.right?' Tonks said with a worried look shoving apple slices in her mouth.
'Of course I have been, but you don't understand, this one is with Sirius!'
'Yes, I know it's with Sirius! Ok, the first thing you must know when picking something out.is the dinner casual or not.' Tonks said looking through clothing that had been strewn though the bed and the floor.
'Um, I think that it's semi.wait I have just the thing.wait here I'll be back.' With that Tonks apparated out the room. Within seconds Tonks popped back in the room carrying a black dress.
'Here try this on, it doesn't fit me anyway, you're a petite it'll fit you perfectly. Here try it on.' Tonks handed the dress to Ava and shoved her in the dressing room. Ava came out and the dress fit her perfectly, it was a black boat neck with a crochet sleeve. It was an a-line with a light frill at the bottom of the dress.
'Ava that looks amazing on you! Sirius is going to jump out of his skin when he sees you in that!'
'Damn!' Ava yelled
'What? What's wrong? Tonks said checking the seams of the dress. The witch who sold it to me said she put an anti-seam ripping charm on it'
'No, no the dress is fine it's perfect actually.I just forgot to get something for Siris, did you see what he got me for Christmas?'
'Well there's still time you've got.what? Half an hour left?
'Right then, I'm off.' With that Ava apparated to Diagon Ally. Within seconds Ava was back. 'Right, I should change, it's terribly cold out' Ava grabbed her jacket and apparated back to Diagon Alley.
Ava was walking down Diagon Alley the bitter cold was blowing up her dress, and she kept slipping on the cobblestones that lined the street.
'Damn, what does Sirius like.probably something.manly...' she thought dumbly. 'Where the hell am I going to find something like that.and why the hell did I call it manly, damnit stop talking to yourself!'
Ava walked into "Magical Stitch" to see what they had there, when she walked into the store she was greeted by a posh looking witch with black hair tied tightly in a bun with a full length form fitted black dress. The skinny witch greeted Ava with a pinched smile, 'Can I help you, is there anything in particular that you are looking for?'
'No I'm just browsing thanks' Ava hated getting help from people who looked at her like she was fifteen years old.
Ava spotted a lovely black knit sweater in the corner of the room; it was perfect, simple yet not saying too much. She walked over to the sweater and the first one she picked up she got such a good feeling from it that she ignored the price tag. (50 gallons!)
'I'll take this. Ava said getting the attention of the sales clerk. She pulled out her red sachet of money, and she had the right amount. (Luckily)
'This sweater is very lovely, is it for your boyfriend? Last minute Christmas gift perhaps' the sales lady said smiling a surprisingly pretty smile.
'Oh no.um just a friend right now' Ava was surprised at her forthright answering the woman's question.
Ava walked out of the store and apparated back to her room at Grimmauld Place. The room was so warm and cozy as the fire that was lit was still crackling strongly. She went to look in the mirror that was attached to the large rose wood dresser. Her cheeks and nose were red from the cold and her hair was messed up but other than that her dress was still in good condition.
Five minutes later Ava was wrapping up the black sweater in lavender paper and doing last minute adjustments before going to join Sirius downstairs. She could hear the last remnant of the houseguest's leaving the house. As far as she knew the only people that were staying in was Harry, Hermonie and Ron, but they were lightly threatened by Mrs. Weasly not to go into the dinning room. Flutterby's were flitting around Ava's insides making her feel all-queasy. Ava apparated down to the dinning room to find that Sirius was already their making final little adjustments, by lighting candles and fixing the slanted picture frame. Sirius turned around and the sound of the 'pop' noise.
'Ava..you, look, uh, you look fantastic! Sirius said trying to be suave.
'Thank you, you look nice as well' Ava said blushing, never had all her time that Sirius had known her had he said that she looked fantastic. There was a moment of silent awkwardness between them before Ava noticed that she had his present for him in her hand.
'I got you this to make up for the crummy Christmas present, because what you got me was amazing and what I got you.well really, wasn't appropriate.' Ava had to catch her breath before she could continue.
'Non-sense I loved the book, and the chocolates were good.'
'You liked the book?! But it was all about the giant wars with the werewolves in 1098, and from what I remember, you didn't like Wizarding history.'
'That's true, but.um, it was an interesting perspective on the wars.' Sirius said making a fantastic save.
'Right.' Ava said nodding accepting the false but charming response.
Ava handed the lavender wrapped present to Sirius. Sirius took the present and laid it down on the table to unwrap it. Sirius opened the gift and held the black sweater in front of him smiling.
'Ava, I love it, it's wonderful, I haven't had a new sweater since.well.Azkaban.' He said smiling and then it grew into a frown at the memories of what it was like in Azkaban.
'You really like it? I mean your not just being polite..'
'No, I really like it' Sirius said smiling and walking over to Ava. In moments Sirius gave Ava a big bear hug. Anyone who walked in on this would have been astonished at the size difference. Sirius who was much larger than Ava looked as though he was crushing her but instead it was comfortable, and although she had grown since their day's in Hogwarts the same proportions applied. Sirius was still tall and strapping and Ava was still short and petit.
'Please sit down' Sirius said stepping back from Ava. Sirius walked over to the place settings and pulled out a seat for Ava.
Ava walked over to the seat that Sirius had pulled out for her, her knee's almost gave out on her walking to the place set for her, she almost fell down but she caught herself on the large table. 'Damn shoes' Ava muttered. Ava sat down in the chair, it seemed bigger tonight. When Sirius sat down he snapped his fingers and their goblets were filled with pumpkin juice, and their plates were filled with finely seasoned boneless chicken and a small course of vegetable soup. 'Everything is lovely Sirius, did you make everything yourself?'
Sirius smiled, 'well. not all by myself I had some help from Mrs. Weasley and Remus. Remus is surprisingly a good cook..'
'This sort of reminds me of the dinner's we had in Hogwarts.the food was always really good.I never had real meals when I was at home.' Ava said struggling not to let the conversation die.
'I always had very structured meals, we had to dress up for every meal of the day, Sirius said bitterly remembering the strict up bringing. But later when I moved in with James, it was much more lax, everything was great then.'
'My parents were always very busy with their work, they rarely ate with me, but when they did it was always special.'
'Your parents were Auour's right? Sirius asked.
'Yes they were. I mean they still are.'
'Right then that's who I saw at the meetings, you really look like your mum. Remus told me that you are an Auour, how did you get into teaching? Asked Sirius.
'I am, sort of, I didn't continue on with the actual career after the training because I wanted to try teaching school for magical studies. I've always wanted to do both, technically I can, if I teach defense against the dark arts.unfortunately I cant here Hogwarts, but I did at the other school I taught at.'
'Oh then how did you land the job teaching Divinations?'
'I'm sure that you know that Professor Twerlany was fired, well Professor Dumbeldore took me on, I guess he remembered about my dad and me..' Ava said blushing
'What about your dad and you?'
'What you..you don't know? I would have thought that you would have known.'
'Oh well both of us are seerers.' Ava said quietly. It's odd to talk about. I've always found divination to be useful, I don't know, I've always been able to use it effectively.'
'Yea, I remember you were really good at it, James and me used to think it was because you were just smart, Sirius said with a odd look on his face. Well of course you are smart.now I just know why.'
'I never used my ability for my studies.' Ava said defensively.
'No no I didn't mean that, I just meant why you were so good at divination class' Sirius said panicking.
'Oh. Well you and James always did well at your studies.' Ava said lightening up.
'Well we did alright, but divinations was just one of those classes where if you didn't know what you were doing you were screwed.'
'Well like I tell my students, it doesn't matter at first just as long as you understand how the process of it, then concentrate and hopefully it will come to you. I think that when the Ministry made the criteria for the divination class they should have focussed on like crystal gazing, not necessarily seeing something, but the actual process and idea behind it.'
'Well with what the Ministry is doing lately.don't count on it caring to much about anything as long as it's reputation is safe.' Sirius said with jaw clenched.
'So, I.I didn't know that you were an animagus.when did you know that you were one? Ava said trying to loosen the subject.
Sirius's face unclenched, 'Well I'm not naturally, it happened when we discovered that Remus.was a werewolf. It was Wormtail and me James, we all learned so that we could keep Remus company while he was.having a difficult situation, every couple of months.' Sirius smiled remembering the day's when he was allowed out of the house to be free and run around. He couldn't even do that in his dog form now that the Ministry found out about his animagus form.
Ava laughed, 'So all four of you are unidentified animaguses?!'
Sirius grinned sheepishly, 'Well yes I guess you could see it that way, but at the time we saw it as helping a friend in need'
After eating their dinner Sirius again snapped his fingers and two cheesecakes appeared in front of both of them.
'Oh Sirius this looks wonderful.'Ava started.
'I didn't make, you can thank Mrs. Weasley, I should mention that she should go into business making food, she really is wonderful.' Sirius said excitedly.
They soon finished their cakes and they talked idly about old times, as Sirius couldn't talk about much of what he had done because he was locked in Azkaban prison, but he did listen attentively to what Ava had done.
Upstairs Harry, Ron and Hermonie were getting restless at being confined the entire night in their rooms. 'What do you suppose we aren't allowed to hear or see other than what we already don't know?' Complained Ron.
'Ron, think your mum doesn't know that we know what is going on between Ava and Sirius.' Hermonie said smiling.
'Your right, but how much longer, I'm hungry, I wish that Fred or George were here, so they could apparate some food up here!'
'I wonder what is going on down there, it would be interesting to actually know what is happening.' Hermonie said with a look on her face that made Ron and Harry nervous.
'What are you thinking Hermonie, you have that look on your face, the scary one like you have a plan, Ron said nervously. Because if your thinking that we should leave the room your crazy, I really don't want to think about what mum would do if she found out.'
Harry walked over to the shelf were two long pieces of flesh colored string were lying down. He turned around, 'what about these? Harry asked a smirk growing on his face. Ron turned to Harry with a mix of intrigue and terror in his eyes. 'Harry no, if my mum finds out we disturbed them she'll kill me!'
Harry handed a long piece of the extendable ears to Hermonie. Hermonie looked at it for a moment before taking it as if deciding if Ron was right or not.
'It's ok Ron, Hermonie said putting a hand on Ron shoulder, sympathetically, we'll go on without you, Harry and I will tell you everything when we get back.' Hermonie brushed past Ron to go down the stairs with Harry.
'Ok, fine, I'll go.but we have to be careful!' Ron said catching up to Harry and Hermonie waiting for him on the top of the staircase.
'I knew that would work' Hermonie said grinning.
They had to be careful when walking down the stairs because of the creaking every second step. Once they got to the bottom of the stair they had to get past Sirius's mother without waking her up. Which was difficult because they couldn't use any light to guide them so one of the three would trip and then they would have to stop moving before they began their voyage to the kitchen. Once they got to the kitchen Harry went up to the door where the dinner date between Professor Sgath and Sirius was. Harry motioned for Hermonie and Ron to join him at the door. They put the extendable ears next to the door. Just as they were about to hear the conversation between Professor Sgath and Sirius a loud crack came from in the hall.
'Damn it's my mum she's back!' Ron said with fear in his eyes. As Ron began circling and scrambling to the door Professor Snape walked in. As Snape walked into the kitchen he stopped and smiled at the sight of Ron, Harry, and Hermonie.
'Sorry Mr. Weasley, I'm not your mother, said Snape peering Ron with a twisted smile on his face. No, I'm afraid that you will find that I am here on Order business, might you show me where Sirius is?'
All of the children were surprised that Snape was almost pleasant. This pleasantness worried Harry, Ron and Hermonie. Harry looked sternly at Professor Snape and pointed to the door leading to the dinning room.
Snape nodded at Harry and walked past them into the dinning room. When Snape walked into the dinning room he was faced with Sirius and his colleague, Professor Ava Sgath, dancing quite closely together.
'Ahem' Snape coughed not bothering to hide the falseness of his cough.
Ava looked up from Sirius and jumped back from Sirius's hold.
'Professor! I. we.I mean, we weren't expecting you.Ava started.
'What are you doing here, Serverus?' demanded Sirius.
Snape stepped back and smirked, 'Please forgive me, Sirius, I didn't realize that you had buiness that you were attending to. Snape said sarcastically. Unfortunately I'm here on Dumbledore's orders, I have something to discuss with you.and Harry Potter.' Snape said turning to acknowledge Harry in the doorway.
Sirius and Ava both move so that they were facing the door. Ava blushed at being noticed by her students and Sirius grunted and glared at Harry and the others.
Chapter 6-The Dinner
Christmas had been over for two day's now and Sirius sent a message to Ava that there dinner would be held that night while most of the guest's in Grimmuald Place were out and about.
'Tonks, I need help, I haven't a clue what to wear, Ava said flitting around her room, randomly drawers and doors looking for something, anything that would be suiting for that evening
'Your acting as if you've never been on a date before..you have been on a date.right?' Tonks said with a worried look shoving apple slices in her mouth.
'Of course I have been, but you don't understand, this one is with Sirius!'
'Yes, I know it's with Sirius! Ok, the first thing you must know when picking something out.is the dinner casual or not.' Tonks said looking through clothing that had been strewn though the bed and the floor.
'Um, I think that it's semi.wait I have just the thing.wait here I'll be back.' With that Tonks apparated out the room. Within seconds Tonks popped back in the room carrying a black dress.
'Here try this on, it doesn't fit me anyway, you're a petite it'll fit you perfectly. Here try it on.' Tonks handed the dress to Ava and shoved her in the dressing room. Ava came out and the dress fit her perfectly, it was a black boat neck with a crochet sleeve. It was an a-line with a light frill at the bottom of the dress.
'Ava that looks amazing on you! Sirius is going to jump out of his skin when he sees you in that!'
'Damn!' Ava yelled
'What? What's wrong? Tonks said checking the seams of the dress. The witch who sold it to me said she put an anti-seam ripping charm on it'
'No, no the dress is fine it's perfect actually.I just forgot to get something for Siris, did you see what he got me for Christmas?'
'Well there's still time you've got.what? Half an hour left?
'Right then, I'm off.' With that Ava apparated to Diagon Ally. Within seconds Ava was back. 'Right, I should change, it's terribly cold out' Ava grabbed her jacket and apparated back to Diagon Alley.
Ava was walking down Diagon Alley the bitter cold was blowing up her dress, and she kept slipping on the cobblestones that lined the street.
'Damn, what does Sirius like.probably something.manly...' she thought dumbly. 'Where the hell am I going to find something like that.and why the hell did I call it manly, damnit stop talking to yourself!'
Ava walked into "Magical Stitch" to see what they had there, when she walked into the store she was greeted by a posh looking witch with black hair tied tightly in a bun with a full length form fitted black dress. The skinny witch greeted Ava with a pinched smile, 'Can I help you, is there anything in particular that you are looking for?'
'No I'm just browsing thanks' Ava hated getting help from people who looked at her like she was fifteen years old.
Ava spotted a lovely black knit sweater in the corner of the room; it was perfect, simple yet not saying too much. She walked over to the sweater and the first one she picked up she got such a good feeling from it that she ignored the price tag. (50 gallons!)
'I'll take this. Ava said getting the attention of the sales clerk. She pulled out her red sachet of money, and she had the right amount. (Luckily)
'This sweater is very lovely, is it for your boyfriend? Last minute Christmas gift perhaps' the sales lady said smiling a surprisingly pretty smile.
'Oh no.um just a friend right now' Ava was surprised at her forthright answering the woman's question.
Ava walked out of the store and apparated back to her room at Grimmauld Place. The room was so warm and cozy as the fire that was lit was still crackling strongly. She went to look in the mirror that was attached to the large rose wood dresser. Her cheeks and nose were red from the cold and her hair was messed up but other than that her dress was still in good condition.
Five minutes later Ava was wrapping up the black sweater in lavender paper and doing last minute adjustments before going to join Sirius downstairs. She could hear the last remnant of the houseguest's leaving the house. As far as she knew the only people that were staying in was Harry, Hermonie and Ron, but they were lightly threatened by Mrs. Weasly not to go into the dinning room. Flutterby's were flitting around Ava's insides making her feel all-queasy. Ava apparated down to the dinning room to find that Sirius was already their making final little adjustments, by lighting candles and fixing the slanted picture frame. Sirius turned around and the sound of the 'pop' noise.
'Ava..you, look, uh, you look fantastic! Sirius said trying to be suave.
'Thank you, you look nice as well' Ava said blushing, never had all her time that Sirius had known her had he said that she looked fantastic. There was a moment of silent awkwardness between them before Ava noticed that she had his present for him in her hand.
'I got you this to make up for the crummy Christmas present, because what you got me was amazing and what I got you.well really, wasn't appropriate.' Ava had to catch her breath before she could continue.
'Non-sense I loved the book, and the chocolates were good.'
'You liked the book?! But it was all about the giant wars with the werewolves in 1098, and from what I remember, you didn't like Wizarding history.'
'That's true, but.um, it was an interesting perspective on the wars.' Sirius said making a fantastic save.
'Right.' Ava said nodding accepting the false but charming response.
Ava handed the lavender wrapped present to Sirius. Sirius took the present and laid it down on the table to unwrap it. Sirius opened the gift and held the black sweater in front of him smiling.
'Ava, I love it, it's wonderful, I haven't had a new sweater since.well.Azkaban.' He said smiling and then it grew into a frown at the memories of what it was like in Azkaban.
'You really like it? I mean your not just being polite..'
'No, I really like it' Sirius said smiling and walking over to Ava. In moments Sirius gave Ava a big bear hug. Anyone who walked in on this would have been astonished at the size difference. Sirius who was much larger than Ava looked as though he was crushing her but instead it was comfortable, and although she had grown since their day's in Hogwarts the same proportions applied. Sirius was still tall and strapping and Ava was still short and petit.
'Please sit down' Sirius said stepping back from Ava. Sirius walked over to the place settings and pulled out a seat for Ava.
Ava walked over to the seat that Sirius had pulled out for her, her knee's almost gave out on her walking to the place set for her, she almost fell down but she caught herself on the large table. 'Damn shoes' Ava muttered. Ava sat down in the chair, it seemed bigger tonight. When Sirius sat down he snapped his fingers and their goblets were filled with pumpkin juice, and their plates were filled with finely seasoned boneless chicken and a small course of vegetable soup. 'Everything is lovely Sirius, did you make everything yourself?'
Sirius smiled, 'well. not all by myself I had some help from Mrs. Weasley and Remus. Remus is surprisingly a good cook..'
'This sort of reminds me of the dinner's we had in Hogwarts.the food was always really good.I never had real meals when I was at home.' Ava said struggling not to let the conversation die.
'I always had very structured meals, we had to dress up for every meal of the day, Sirius said bitterly remembering the strict up bringing. But later when I moved in with James, it was much more lax, everything was great then.'
'My parents were always very busy with their work, they rarely ate with me, but when they did it was always special.'
'Your parents were Auour's right? Sirius asked.
'Yes they were. I mean they still are.'
'Right then that's who I saw at the meetings, you really look like your mum. Remus told me that you are an Auour, how did you get into teaching? Asked Sirius.
'I am, sort of, I didn't continue on with the actual career after the training because I wanted to try teaching school for magical studies. I've always wanted to do both, technically I can, if I teach defense against the dark arts.unfortunately I cant here Hogwarts, but I did at the other school I taught at.'
'Oh then how did you land the job teaching Divinations?'
'I'm sure that you know that Professor Twerlany was fired, well Professor Dumbeldore took me on, I guess he remembered about my dad and me..' Ava said blushing
'What about your dad and you?'
'What you..you don't know? I would have thought that you would have known.'
'Oh well both of us are seerers.' Ava said quietly. It's odd to talk about. I've always found divination to be useful, I don't know, I've always been able to use it effectively.'
'Yea, I remember you were really good at it, James and me used to think it was because you were just smart, Sirius said with a odd look on his face. Well of course you are smart.now I just know why.'
'I never used my ability for my studies.' Ava said defensively.
'No no I didn't mean that, I just meant why you were so good at divination class' Sirius said panicking.
'Oh. Well you and James always did well at your studies.' Ava said lightening up.
'Well we did alright, but divinations was just one of those classes where if you didn't know what you were doing you were screwed.'
'Well like I tell my students, it doesn't matter at first just as long as you understand how the process of it, then concentrate and hopefully it will come to you. I think that when the Ministry made the criteria for the divination class they should have focussed on like crystal gazing, not necessarily seeing something, but the actual process and idea behind it.'
'Well with what the Ministry is doing lately.don't count on it caring to much about anything as long as it's reputation is safe.' Sirius said with jaw clenched.
'So, I.I didn't know that you were an animagus.when did you know that you were one? Ava said trying to loosen the subject.
Sirius's face unclenched, 'Well I'm not naturally, it happened when we discovered that Remus.was a werewolf. It was Wormtail and me James, we all learned so that we could keep Remus company while he was.having a difficult situation, every couple of months.' Sirius smiled remembering the day's when he was allowed out of the house to be free and run around. He couldn't even do that in his dog form now that the Ministry found out about his animagus form.
Ava laughed, 'So all four of you are unidentified animaguses?!'
Sirius grinned sheepishly, 'Well yes I guess you could see it that way, but at the time we saw it as helping a friend in need'
After eating their dinner Sirius again snapped his fingers and two cheesecakes appeared in front of both of them.
'Oh Sirius this looks wonderful.'Ava started.
'I didn't make, you can thank Mrs. Weasley, I should mention that she should go into business making food, she really is wonderful.' Sirius said excitedly.
They soon finished their cakes and they talked idly about old times, as Sirius couldn't talk about much of what he had done because he was locked in Azkaban prison, but he did listen attentively to what Ava had done.
Upstairs Harry, Ron and Hermonie were getting restless at being confined the entire night in their rooms. 'What do you suppose we aren't allowed to hear or see other than what we already don't know?' Complained Ron.
'Ron, think your mum doesn't know that we know what is going on between Ava and Sirius.' Hermonie said smiling.
'Your right, but how much longer, I'm hungry, I wish that Fred or George were here, so they could apparate some food up here!'
'I wonder what is going on down there, it would be interesting to actually know what is happening.' Hermonie said with a look on her face that made Ron and Harry nervous.
'What are you thinking Hermonie, you have that look on your face, the scary one like you have a plan, Ron said nervously. Because if your thinking that we should leave the room your crazy, I really don't want to think about what mum would do if she found out.'
Harry walked over to the shelf were two long pieces of flesh colored string were lying down. He turned around, 'what about these? Harry asked a smirk growing on his face. Ron turned to Harry with a mix of intrigue and terror in his eyes. 'Harry no, if my mum finds out we disturbed them she'll kill me!'
Harry handed a long piece of the extendable ears to Hermonie. Hermonie looked at it for a moment before taking it as if deciding if Ron was right or not.
'It's ok Ron, Hermonie said putting a hand on Ron shoulder, sympathetically, we'll go on without you, Harry and I will tell you everything when we get back.' Hermonie brushed past Ron to go down the stairs with Harry.
'Ok, fine, I'll go.but we have to be careful!' Ron said catching up to Harry and Hermonie waiting for him on the top of the staircase.
'I knew that would work' Hermonie said grinning.
They had to be careful when walking down the stairs because of the creaking every second step. Once they got to the bottom of the stair they had to get past Sirius's mother without waking her up. Which was difficult because they couldn't use any light to guide them so one of the three would trip and then they would have to stop moving before they began their voyage to the kitchen. Once they got to the kitchen Harry went up to the door where the dinner date between Professor Sgath and Sirius was. Harry motioned for Hermonie and Ron to join him at the door. They put the extendable ears next to the door. Just as they were about to hear the conversation between Professor Sgath and Sirius a loud crack came from in the hall.
'Damn it's my mum she's back!' Ron said with fear in his eyes. As Ron began circling and scrambling to the door Professor Snape walked in. As Snape walked into the kitchen he stopped and smiled at the sight of Ron, Harry, and Hermonie.
'Sorry Mr. Weasley, I'm not your mother, said Snape peering Ron with a twisted smile on his face. No, I'm afraid that you will find that I am here on Order business, might you show me where Sirius is?'
All of the children were surprised that Snape was almost pleasant. This pleasantness worried Harry, Ron and Hermonie. Harry looked sternly at Professor Snape and pointed to the door leading to the dinning room.
Snape nodded at Harry and walked past them into the dinning room. When Snape walked into the dinning room he was faced with Sirius and his colleague, Professor Ava Sgath, dancing quite closely together.
'Ahem' Snape coughed not bothering to hide the falseness of his cough.
Ava looked up from Sirius and jumped back from Sirius's hold.
'Professor! I. we.I mean, we weren't expecting you.Ava started.
'What are you doing here, Serverus?' demanded Sirius.
Snape stepped back and smirked, 'Please forgive me, Sirius, I didn't realize that you had buiness that you were attending to. Snape said sarcastically. Unfortunately I'm here on Dumbledore's orders, I have something to discuss with you.and Harry Potter.' Snape said turning to acknowledge Harry in the doorway.
Sirius and Ava both move so that they were facing the door. Ava blushed at being noticed by her students and Sirius grunted and glared at Harry and the others.