A/N: Sorry I didn't post last night. I went to a screening of TTT at future
shop, which by the way was tons of fun. Thanks to all the people who have
reviewed so far, I really appreciate it!!!!
"Can what be?" Auria asked, scrunching up her face and tilting her head.
Auria knew perfectly well what Dumbledore was thinking, and pretended to act confused and innocent. Although she could not figure out why, she decided that now was not the right time to tell him her secret.
Dumbledore continued to stare at her, but finally the look of concentration was replaced by a friendly smile.
"It's impossible" he said tapping her on the shoulder, "you're too young."
Normally Auria would have objected to such a statement, but considering the circumstances she decided to just shrug and give the headmaster a small smile.
"I'll ask around to find out who's phoenix it was" he said to Auria and Pomfrey.
"You-you, don't think it could have been-" Pomfrey asked, her eyes widening in terror.
"No" Dumbledore said flatly. "Of course not."
Auria felt relieved to hear that, for she had been wondering too if the phoenix was from Voldemort.
"Don't be silly" she told herself, "phoenixes are good creatures, none of them would ever show loyalty towards him."
Now" Dumbledore said getting up. With a jolt Auria returned to reality. "I have to be getting back to work. It's good to see that you're better Auria." With that he gave them each one last look before heading out the door.
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Auria was just getting dressed when Sirius, followed by James and Remus, walked in.
"Look, all healed" Auria said, pulling down the back of her shirt to show them.
"How did you do that so fast?" Sirius asked.
Auria told them all about her encounter with the phoenix, and Dumbledore's suspicions.
"Well it's a good thing you didn't tell him today" James said mysteriously.
"Why?" Auria asked.
"Because tonight just happens to be a full moon" Sirius said with a grin.
Auria glanced at Remus and found that he looked rather pale and sickly.
"That's great, but-" she protested.
"Peter's had to go visit his mother" Remus said reading her thoughts. "Evidently she drank a spoiled potion and ended up in St. Mungo's."
"Oh, that's awful" Auria said with a look of concern on her face.
"Nah, Peter told us that she'll be fine" James said with a wave of his hand.
"Now, seeing that your healed, we'd better get going and start planning for tonight" Sirius said helping Auria off the bed.
After receiving permission from Madame Pomfrey to leave, Auria and the Marauders headed towards Gryffindor tower.
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"Everyone understand the plan?" James asked for the tenth time.
"Yes James" the others replied in unison, rolling their eyes.
It was 10 o'clock and they had just finished arranging their full moon adventure. They were huddled in the corner of the room, out of ear shot.
"Well I'd better get going" Remus said quickly as he glanced nervously out the window.
"Ok, see you in a few minutes" Auria replied as he headed out the portrait hole.
"Now what do we do?" Sirius asked, looking bored but still very handsome.
Auria and James shrugged. Sirius moved closer to Auria on the couch, and slipped his arm around her.
"I'll go get my cloak" James said, sensing that Sirius wanted to be alone with his girlfriend.
As soon as James disappeared up the stairs Sirius leaned over and kissed Auria. After about five minutes Auria broke the kiss and gently pushed him back.
"We can't always spend our free time like this" she said skeptically.
"Why not?" Sirius asked with a look of mock seduction.
"Because, I don't know, we just can't" she protested.
"Well then what did you have in mind?" Sirius said, tickling her stomach.
Auria giggled and tried to push his hands away.
"I didn't know you were so ticklish" he laughed as she squirmed around on the couch.
"Sirius stop it" she replied.
He knew she wasn't serious and so tickled her more.
Auria began to struggle so much that she fell off the couch. She began to scream and squeal so loud that everyone in the common room turned to look at them.
"What's going on?" James asked, slightly out of breath, a look of fear on his face.
"He's-he's tick- Stop it Sirius" Auria said between fits of laughter.
Sirius turned around to look at James and immediately stopped tickling Auria.
"You should have seen the look on your face mate, it was great" Sirius said laughing at the look of terror on his friend' face.
"Well I heard screaming all the way upstairs and thought something was wrong" he retorted. "Oh shut it."
Sirius grinning and helped Auria back onto the couch. She was flushed and very out of breath.
"Ok, never mind, making out is a perfectly fine way to pass our time" she said to Sirius' delight.
Sirius smiled and kissed her.
"Let's go" James said beginning to get uncomfortable.
Sirius and Auria nodded and followed him towards the portrait hole. They had just reached it when the door opened.
"Alexia!" Auria exclaimed as her friend and a curly brown haired boy walked into the common room.
"Hey, aren't you in Ravenclaw? How did you know the password?" James asked blocking the way.
"I told Alexia, so that she could come and visit me while I was hurt" Auria said, gently laying her hand on James' arm.
James relaxed a little and moved aside.
"Who's that?" he asked staring at the boy.
"This is my boyfriend Justin, I brought him along so that you could meet him Auria" Alexia replied proudly. "So where were you three going at this hour?"
"None of your business" James said grumpily.
Alexia shrugged.
"Well come in, sit down" Auria said, showing them to some couches in the corner.
"Your common room is nice" Justin said gazing around.
"I'm sorry I didn't come and visit you" Alexia said.
She sat down on the couch perpendicular to Auria's. Leaning in she whispered in Auria's ear, "Justin hasn't been feeling well lately so I had to stay with him."
Auria nodded and pulled Sirius down beside her.
Auria and Alexia spent the next fifteen minutes talking, with Sirius and James adding something in every once in a while. Justin remained silent the entire time. Slowly, Auria began to notice that he was staring at her. She looked at him and smiled. He quickly looked away and pretended to be very interested in the carpet. A moment later he looked up and continued to stare at her again.
"Can I help you?" Auria snapped at Justin. He was beginning to make her feel very uncomfortable.
"What? Oh, no, sorry" he stuttered.
"Well please stop staring at me" she said.
Justin nodded silently and stared at the fireplace.
Auria and Alexia continued talking for some minutes when Justin finally jumped in.
"You're better now right?" he asked suddenly.
"Yup" Auria replied happily.
"But I thought you were healing slowly, people said it would be another week before you were all better" he continued.
"Well-you see I um-"
"Well what happened was that during the night a-" Sirius began, but before he could get another word out Auria elbowed him hard in the arm.
"Yes?" Justin said eagerly leaning forwards.
"A potion was discovered by Madame Pomfrey that could heal it" James said.
Sirius and Auria both turned to look at him.
"Oh, that's great" Justin replied. "What was it called?"
"I don't know" Auria said "she just gave it to me in a glass and said drink."
"What color was it?" he interrogated, an oddly excited look in his hazel eyes.
"I don't know" Auria spat frustrated, "it was dark."
Everyone could tell that it was the end of the conversation.
"I think you should go now" Sirius said to Alexia and Justin.
"Yeah, I don't want you to get caught sneaking around the school" Auria said kindly to a slightly hurt looking Alexia.
They said their goodbyes and Auria showed them to the exit.
"ahhhh" Auria sighed, sitting down on Sirius' lap as the portrait swung shut. "Thanks you two" she said smiling gratefully at Sirius and James.
"No problem" Sirius replied, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Besides, he was creepy" James added.
"Tell me about it" Auria said. "He seemed far too interested in how I got better."
Sirius nodded. "We could tell that you didn't want to tell him how you were really healed."
"If I did he might have figured out about me being a-" but Auria didn't need to finish the sentence.
"Speaking of-" James said with a grin. "We're very late."
Without waiting a moment longer Auria, Sirius and James headed out the portrait hole and towards the whomping willow.
"Can what be?" Auria asked, scrunching up her face and tilting her head.
Auria knew perfectly well what Dumbledore was thinking, and pretended to act confused and innocent. Although she could not figure out why, she decided that now was not the right time to tell him her secret.
Dumbledore continued to stare at her, but finally the look of concentration was replaced by a friendly smile.
"It's impossible" he said tapping her on the shoulder, "you're too young."
Normally Auria would have objected to such a statement, but considering the circumstances she decided to just shrug and give the headmaster a small smile.
"I'll ask around to find out who's phoenix it was" he said to Auria and Pomfrey.
"You-you, don't think it could have been-" Pomfrey asked, her eyes widening in terror.
"No" Dumbledore said flatly. "Of course not."
Auria felt relieved to hear that, for she had been wondering too if the phoenix was from Voldemort.
"Don't be silly" she told herself, "phoenixes are good creatures, none of them would ever show loyalty towards him."
Now" Dumbledore said getting up. With a jolt Auria returned to reality. "I have to be getting back to work. It's good to see that you're better Auria." With that he gave them each one last look before heading out the door.
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Auria was just getting dressed when Sirius, followed by James and Remus, walked in.
"Look, all healed" Auria said, pulling down the back of her shirt to show them.
"How did you do that so fast?" Sirius asked.
Auria told them all about her encounter with the phoenix, and Dumbledore's suspicions.
"Well it's a good thing you didn't tell him today" James said mysteriously.
"Why?" Auria asked.
"Because tonight just happens to be a full moon" Sirius said with a grin.
Auria glanced at Remus and found that he looked rather pale and sickly.
"That's great, but-" she protested.
"Peter's had to go visit his mother" Remus said reading her thoughts. "Evidently she drank a spoiled potion and ended up in St. Mungo's."
"Oh, that's awful" Auria said with a look of concern on her face.
"Nah, Peter told us that she'll be fine" James said with a wave of his hand.
"Now, seeing that your healed, we'd better get going and start planning for tonight" Sirius said helping Auria off the bed.
After receiving permission from Madame Pomfrey to leave, Auria and the Marauders headed towards Gryffindor tower.
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"Everyone understand the plan?" James asked for the tenth time.
"Yes James" the others replied in unison, rolling their eyes.
It was 10 o'clock and they had just finished arranging their full moon adventure. They were huddled in the corner of the room, out of ear shot.
"Well I'd better get going" Remus said quickly as he glanced nervously out the window.
"Ok, see you in a few minutes" Auria replied as he headed out the portrait hole.
"Now what do we do?" Sirius asked, looking bored but still very handsome.
Auria and James shrugged. Sirius moved closer to Auria on the couch, and slipped his arm around her.
"I'll go get my cloak" James said, sensing that Sirius wanted to be alone with his girlfriend.
As soon as James disappeared up the stairs Sirius leaned over and kissed Auria. After about five minutes Auria broke the kiss and gently pushed him back.
"We can't always spend our free time like this" she said skeptically.
"Why not?" Sirius asked with a look of mock seduction.
"Because, I don't know, we just can't" she protested.
"Well then what did you have in mind?" Sirius said, tickling her stomach.
Auria giggled and tried to push his hands away.
"I didn't know you were so ticklish" he laughed as she squirmed around on the couch.
"Sirius stop it" she replied.
He knew she wasn't serious and so tickled her more.
Auria began to struggle so much that she fell off the couch. She began to scream and squeal so loud that everyone in the common room turned to look at them.
"What's going on?" James asked, slightly out of breath, a look of fear on his face.
"He's-he's tick- Stop it Sirius" Auria said between fits of laughter.
Sirius turned around to look at James and immediately stopped tickling Auria.
"You should have seen the look on your face mate, it was great" Sirius said laughing at the look of terror on his friend' face.
"Well I heard screaming all the way upstairs and thought something was wrong" he retorted. "Oh shut it."
Sirius grinning and helped Auria back onto the couch. She was flushed and very out of breath.
"Ok, never mind, making out is a perfectly fine way to pass our time" she said to Sirius' delight.
Sirius smiled and kissed her.
"Let's go" James said beginning to get uncomfortable.
Sirius and Auria nodded and followed him towards the portrait hole. They had just reached it when the door opened.
"Alexia!" Auria exclaimed as her friend and a curly brown haired boy walked into the common room.
"Hey, aren't you in Ravenclaw? How did you know the password?" James asked blocking the way.
"I told Alexia, so that she could come and visit me while I was hurt" Auria said, gently laying her hand on James' arm.
James relaxed a little and moved aside.
"Who's that?" he asked staring at the boy.
"This is my boyfriend Justin, I brought him along so that you could meet him Auria" Alexia replied proudly. "So where were you three going at this hour?"
"None of your business" James said grumpily.
Alexia shrugged.
"Well come in, sit down" Auria said, showing them to some couches in the corner.
"Your common room is nice" Justin said gazing around.
"I'm sorry I didn't come and visit you" Alexia said.
She sat down on the couch perpendicular to Auria's. Leaning in she whispered in Auria's ear, "Justin hasn't been feeling well lately so I had to stay with him."
Auria nodded and pulled Sirius down beside her.
Auria and Alexia spent the next fifteen minutes talking, with Sirius and James adding something in every once in a while. Justin remained silent the entire time. Slowly, Auria began to notice that he was staring at her. She looked at him and smiled. He quickly looked away and pretended to be very interested in the carpet. A moment later he looked up and continued to stare at her again.
"Can I help you?" Auria snapped at Justin. He was beginning to make her feel very uncomfortable.
"What? Oh, no, sorry" he stuttered.
"Well please stop staring at me" she said.
Justin nodded silently and stared at the fireplace.
Auria and Alexia continued talking for some minutes when Justin finally jumped in.
"You're better now right?" he asked suddenly.
"Yup" Auria replied happily.
"But I thought you were healing slowly, people said it would be another week before you were all better" he continued.
"Well-you see I um-"
"Well what happened was that during the night a-" Sirius began, but before he could get another word out Auria elbowed him hard in the arm.
"Yes?" Justin said eagerly leaning forwards.
"A potion was discovered by Madame Pomfrey that could heal it" James said.
Sirius and Auria both turned to look at him.
"Oh, that's great" Justin replied. "What was it called?"
"I don't know" Auria said "she just gave it to me in a glass and said drink."
"What color was it?" he interrogated, an oddly excited look in his hazel eyes.
"I don't know" Auria spat frustrated, "it was dark."
Everyone could tell that it was the end of the conversation.
"I think you should go now" Sirius said to Alexia and Justin.
"Yeah, I don't want you to get caught sneaking around the school" Auria said kindly to a slightly hurt looking Alexia.
They said their goodbyes and Auria showed them to the exit.
"ahhhh" Auria sighed, sitting down on Sirius' lap as the portrait swung shut. "Thanks you two" she said smiling gratefully at Sirius and James.
"No problem" Sirius replied, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Besides, he was creepy" James added.
"Tell me about it" Auria said. "He seemed far too interested in how I got better."
Sirius nodded. "We could tell that you didn't want to tell him how you were really healed."
"If I did he might have figured out about me being a-" but Auria didn't need to finish the sentence.
"Speaking of-" James said with a grin. "We're very late."
Without waiting a moment longer Auria, Sirius and James headed out the portrait hole and towards the whomping willow.