-- Red and Green Glass --
Author's Notes: THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVEIWED! And a special thankyou to Courtney (Elven Warrior) who reviewed pretty much all of my fics!!! Thank you so much!!
Well heres the next chapter... I'm not that happy with it actually, I think the layout is a little dodgy, but all the same please let me know what you think.
This fic is not applicable to OotP as it was started before the book was released. I will try hard to stick by J.K.'s work but I just can't kill *him*. Also, I've updated the last chapter if you haven't noticed. I'm really good at getting off track and to even get this chapter started I had to change the last chapter.
~* Just so you don't get confused, the majority of this chapter is Sirius telling the story of Kiara along with a number of flashbacks :)*~
Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter
"I knew of Kiara for a very long time. She attended many of the parties that my mother and father used to hold to entertain their fellow 'purebloods', but like almost everyone that attended those 'get-togethers' I tended to stay away from the girl, as my values challenged those of the guests."
"Time didn't change my opinion of her, and she remained a complete mystery to me until my fifth year at Hogwarts. You see, unlike her brother, Kiara had not attended Hogwarts from first year but instead had gone to Durmstrung, so it was a nasty shock to see her at school that day..."
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*Flashback*
"Snivellus," James said darkly, "And who's this, your girlfriend?"
The dark haired girl that had been standing next to Severus looked at James with a complete look of disgust. "Who the hell are you?" She snapped her dark eyes looked over James as though she was sizing him up for a challenge.
"I think they make a perfect match" Peter said laughing, but stopped as soon as her gaze fell upon him. He looked frightened until he realised that James was next to him then he regained his composure, "They obviously have the same personality, though I have to wonder how such a beautiful girl could possibly like Snivellus"
"Oi Sirius!" James cried smirking, "Get your arse over here" He said
Sirius, who had been talking to a blonde haired ravenclaw glared at his best friend but reluctlantly said by to the girl and walked up to his best friend. "What the hell do you want.... Kiara?"
"Black" The girl said her voice steady.
"You know this girl?" James said suprised,
"Well yeah, thats Snapes sister" Sirius said "They're always invited over for dinner at home,"He said a scowl on his face, "But what the hell are you doing here?"
"I got expelled from Durmstrung" She said cooly as though it happened everyday
Sirius nodded, "Figures"
Kiara forced a sweet smile, "Yeah, well, now you know, you can do me the curtesy of leaving," she said, "And Black, take your little friends with you"
"Little!" James cried glaring at Kiara.
"James, shes not worth it, come on" Sirius said grabbing the back of James robes and dragging him away,
"Hey wait up!" Peter cried hurrying after them in fear of being left alone with the Slytherins.
*End Flashback*
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That was basically the first impression we all had of her" Sirius explained, "Just another Slytherin, dark, cunning, and someone to hex if we got the chance, but it took one day to change all of that... god I'll never forget that day in seventh year..."
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*Flashback*
"I'm telling you Prongs, she likes you, just for Merlin's sake ask her out will you!" Sirius cried, his best friend was being insufferable, like he always was when it came to Lily Evans, but lately he had been more so than usual.
"Oh god Padfoot, I think she heard you" Prongs said trying hard to disapear as Lily walked from the other end of the Gryffindor table.
"You are an idi..." Sirius started but stopped, "oh shit" the doors to the great hall had been thrown open, and there stood Kiara, she was covered from head to toe in dirt, dust and worst of all, blood, tears ran down her face and she looked exausted almost as though she'd run around the quidditch pitch more times than humanly possible.
Dumbledore, McGonagall and the Slythern Head of House, Verfeco, had rushed to her in what seemed like seconds and silence rang through the hall, not even a whisper could be heard in that moment. "What happened," Dumbledore said holding Kiara. Sirius watched her raise her dark eyes to his, they were full of pain, sadness and anger.
"He took me to Voldermort, I'm a death eater" She said letting the tears roll down her face, "He forced me to become a death eater"
"Who did" McGongall said darkly
The girls eyes flashed but she just looked down and suddenly broke into sobs, "I- I trusted him, I, How could he do this" Kiara cried putting her face in her hands, "I trusted him.."
*End Flashback*
*
"Who was it?" Harry asked carefully but silently he already knew the answer.
"Severus, his father forced him to trick her, to betray her, she never looked at her brother after that night, but she never betrayed him either, she kept his secret."
"How do you know then?"
"Severus told us in an Order meeting years ago, he was fighting with Lily about her. Lily was saying if Snape would just apologise for whatever he did... he screamed it at her, she never said a word about his and Kiara's falling out again"
"My poor mum" Harry muttered,
"Thats about it exactly, Lily was crying at the end of it. James punched Snape, it all would of been quite amusing were it not so serious." Sirius said as he made himself a coffee. He and Harry had settled in his quarters sitting happily in the front of the fire. "Do you want anything?"
"Huh, oh no, thats okay"
"Suit yourself" Sirius said as he finished making his coffee and sat down on the chair opposite Harry's.
"So how did my mum and Kiara become friends," Harry asked
"It was that night actually, I can't really tell how it happened because I dont know. All I know is that Lily was asked to stay and look after Kiara in the hospital wing. They seemed to gain a lot of respect for each other in that night."
"So how did Kiara escape?" Harry asked
"Escape what?"
"Well if she didn't want to be a death eater in the first place, Voldermort couldn't, no, wouldn't have just let her go" Harry said carefully.
Sirius sat back into his chair obviously thinking about this, "Your right" He said carefully, "But I'd never thought about it. If you want to risk it I'm sure Severus has the details." Sirius said, 'why did I overlook that... perhaps I did know... I wonder how many times I've had the memory charm placed on me'
"I think I'll spare myself the pleasure" Harry said and Sirius laughed, "So where do you come in,"
"I didn't really get to know Kiara until after school, she was always around your parents place, and she had Auror training with me, plus we were together during Order meetings and I had.." Sirius stopped frowning, 'I promised' Sirius thought scolding himself for nearly slipping up. Looking at his godson he could tell that Harry knew there was more to it than that, but he was going to drop it anyway.
"She was in the Order?" Harry asked,
"Yeah, right up there in the elite with your parents and I. It was the only time that Kiara would actually listen to Severus" Sirius said thinking, "She was very important to the Order, she was a top auror, but she didn't stay there. On a request from Dumbledore she made her way deep into the Ministry, she knew everything that went on there, and most importantly, where everyones loyalty lied. For someone that Voldermort hated with a passion, she did extremely well in keeping the fact that she was working against him quiet."
"Voldemort hated Kiara?"
"Well she did publicly humiliate him, to an extreme degree"
"How?" Harry asked trying to piece together all the missing pieces,
"Well it didn't stay quiet that she rejected becomming a death eater, it was all over the daily profit only days after it happened, I mean a seventeen year old girl rennouncing the dark lord is quite a story especially when there are many death eaters whom were much older that still served him."
"I thought Dumbledore would have kept it quiet" Harry said,
"On the contrary, it was wisest to let her go public, it showed that it *was* possible to renounce Voldermort. We had many death eaters come over in those few weeks after, all as spys for Dumbledore and the Ministry, although while most of them were not in the inner circle, one was"
"Severus" Harry whispered.
Sirius nodded, "Severus came over to Dumbledore, he refused to have anything to do with the ministry, even I will admit he was very clever about the way he went about becoming a spy."
"Did anyone else rennounce the darklord publicly"
"Quite a few, but most of them are dead now, or in St Mungo's" Sirius said darkly, "After the downfall of their master the death eaters got desperate and went after every person that ever defied their lord"
"How did Kiara survive?" Harry asked "She must of been one of the first they hunted out"
"She was protected in many ways..." Sirius said choosing his words carefully 'how do I explain that I am part of that protection...' he thought but shook it off . "And she's a very powerful witch,"
Harry nodded silently, "Sirius, do you think I'll ever meet her, I mean I don't know a lot about my mum and...."
Sirius looked at Harry sympathetically, "Only time will tell Harry,"
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Author's Notes: THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVEIWED! And a special thankyou to Courtney (Elven Warrior) who reviewed pretty much all of my fics!!! Thank you so much!!
Well heres the next chapter... I'm not that happy with it actually, I think the layout is a little dodgy, but all the same please let me know what you think.
This fic is not applicable to OotP as it was started before the book was released. I will try hard to stick by J.K.'s work but I just can't kill *him*. Also, I've updated the last chapter if you haven't noticed. I'm really good at getting off track and to even get this chapter started I had to change the last chapter.
~* Just so you don't get confused, the majority of this chapter is Sirius telling the story of Kiara along with a number of flashbacks :)*~
Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter
"I knew of Kiara for a very long time. She attended many of the parties that my mother and father used to hold to entertain their fellow 'purebloods', but like almost everyone that attended those 'get-togethers' I tended to stay away from the girl, as my values challenged those of the guests."
"Time didn't change my opinion of her, and she remained a complete mystery to me until my fifth year at Hogwarts. You see, unlike her brother, Kiara had not attended Hogwarts from first year but instead had gone to Durmstrung, so it was a nasty shock to see her at school that day..."
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*Flashback*
"Snivellus," James said darkly, "And who's this, your girlfriend?"
The dark haired girl that had been standing next to Severus looked at James with a complete look of disgust. "Who the hell are you?" She snapped her dark eyes looked over James as though she was sizing him up for a challenge.
"I think they make a perfect match" Peter said laughing, but stopped as soon as her gaze fell upon him. He looked frightened until he realised that James was next to him then he regained his composure, "They obviously have the same personality, though I have to wonder how such a beautiful girl could possibly like Snivellus"
"Oi Sirius!" James cried smirking, "Get your arse over here" He said
Sirius, who had been talking to a blonde haired ravenclaw glared at his best friend but reluctlantly said by to the girl and walked up to his best friend. "What the hell do you want.... Kiara?"
"Black" The girl said her voice steady.
"You know this girl?" James said suprised,
"Well yeah, thats Snapes sister" Sirius said "They're always invited over for dinner at home,"He said a scowl on his face, "But what the hell are you doing here?"
"I got expelled from Durmstrung" She said cooly as though it happened everyday
Sirius nodded, "Figures"
Kiara forced a sweet smile, "Yeah, well, now you know, you can do me the curtesy of leaving," she said, "And Black, take your little friends with you"
"Little!" James cried glaring at Kiara.
"James, shes not worth it, come on" Sirius said grabbing the back of James robes and dragging him away,
"Hey wait up!" Peter cried hurrying after them in fear of being left alone with the Slytherins.
*End Flashback*
*
That was basically the first impression we all had of her" Sirius explained, "Just another Slytherin, dark, cunning, and someone to hex if we got the chance, but it took one day to change all of that... god I'll never forget that day in seventh year..."
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*Flashback*
"I'm telling you Prongs, she likes you, just for Merlin's sake ask her out will you!" Sirius cried, his best friend was being insufferable, like he always was when it came to Lily Evans, but lately he had been more so than usual.
"Oh god Padfoot, I think she heard you" Prongs said trying hard to disapear as Lily walked from the other end of the Gryffindor table.
"You are an idi..." Sirius started but stopped, "oh shit" the doors to the great hall had been thrown open, and there stood Kiara, she was covered from head to toe in dirt, dust and worst of all, blood, tears ran down her face and she looked exausted almost as though she'd run around the quidditch pitch more times than humanly possible.
Dumbledore, McGonagall and the Slythern Head of House, Verfeco, had rushed to her in what seemed like seconds and silence rang through the hall, not even a whisper could be heard in that moment. "What happened," Dumbledore said holding Kiara. Sirius watched her raise her dark eyes to his, they were full of pain, sadness and anger.
"He took me to Voldermort, I'm a death eater" She said letting the tears roll down her face, "He forced me to become a death eater"
"Who did" McGongall said darkly
The girls eyes flashed but she just looked down and suddenly broke into sobs, "I- I trusted him, I, How could he do this" Kiara cried putting her face in her hands, "I trusted him.."
*End Flashback*
*
"Who was it?" Harry asked carefully but silently he already knew the answer.
"Severus, his father forced him to trick her, to betray her, she never looked at her brother after that night, but she never betrayed him either, she kept his secret."
"How do you know then?"
"Severus told us in an Order meeting years ago, he was fighting with Lily about her. Lily was saying if Snape would just apologise for whatever he did... he screamed it at her, she never said a word about his and Kiara's falling out again"
"My poor mum" Harry muttered,
"Thats about it exactly, Lily was crying at the end of it. James punched Snape, it all would of been quite amusing were it not so serious." Sirius said as he made himself a coffee. He and Harry had settled in his quarters sitting happily in the front of the fire. "Do you want anything?"
"Huh, oh no, thats okay"
"Suit yourself" Sirius said as he finished making his coffee and sat down on the chair opposite Harry's.
"So how did my mum and Kiara become friends," Harry asked
"It was that night actually, I can't really tell how it happened because I dont know. All I know is that Lily was asked to stay and look after Kiara in the hospital wing. They seemed to gain a lot of respect for each other in that night."
"So how did Kiara escape?" Harry asked
"Escape what?"
"Well if she didn't want to be a death eater in the first place, Voldermort couldn't, no, wouldn't have just let her go" Harry said carefully.
Sirius sat back into his chair obviously thinking about this, "Your right" He said carefully, "But I'd never thought about it. If you want to risk it I'm sure Severus has the details." Sirius said, 'why did I overlook that... perhaps I did know... I wonder how many times I've had the memory charm placed on me'
"I think I'll spare myself the pleasure" Harry said and Sirius laughed, "So where do you come in,"
"I didn't really get to know Kiara until after school, she was always around your parents place, and she had Auror training with me, plus we were together during Order meetings and I had.." Sirius stopped frowning, 'I promised' Sirius thought scolding himself for nearly slipping up. Looking at his godson he could tell that Harry knew there was more to it than that, but he was going to drop it anyway.
"She was in the Order?" Harry asked,
"Yeah, right up there in the elite with your parents and I. It was the only time that Kiara would actually listen to Severus" Sirius said thinking, "She was very important to the Order, she was a top auror, but she didn't stay there. On a request from Dumbledore she made her way deep into the Ministry, she knew everything that went on there, and most importantly, where everyones loyalty lied. For someone that Voldermort hated with a passion, she did extremely well in keeping the fact that she was working against him quiet."
"Voldemort hated Kiara?"
"Well she did publicly humiliate him, to an extreme degree"
"How?" Harry asked trying to piece together all the missing pieces,
"Well it didn't stay quiet that she rejected becomming a death eater, it was all over the daily profit only days after it happened, I mean a seventeen year old girl rennouncing the dark lord is quite a story especially when there are many death eaters whom were much older that still served him."
"I thought Dumbledore would have kept it quiet" Harry said,
"On the contrary, it was wisest to let her go public, it showed that it *was* possible to renounce Voldermort. We had many death eaters come over in those few weeks after, all as spys for Dumbledore and the Ministry, although while most of them were not in the inner circle, one was"
"Severus" Harry whispered.
Sirius nodded, "Severus came over to Dumbledore, he refused to have anything to do with the ministry, even I will admit he was very clever about the way he went about becoming a spy."
"Did anyone else rennounce the darklord publicly"
"Quite a few, but most of them are dead now, or in St Mungo's" Sirius said darkly, "After the downfall of their master the death eaters got desperate and went after every person that ever defied their lord"
"How did Kiara survive?" Harry asked "She must of been one of the first they hunted out"
"She was protected in many ways..." Sirius said choosing his words carefully 'how do I explain that I am part of that protection...' he thought but shook it off . "And she's a very powerful witch,"
Harry nodded silently, "Sirius, do you think I'll ever meet her, I mean I don't know a lot about my mum and...."
Sirius looked at Harry sympathetically, "Only time will tell Harry,"
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