Hey Everyone! I'd like to thank my reviewers All . . . THREE . . . . so far. Anyways, I have no idea how long this chapter will be as of this moment (It's Wednesday and I have relatives coming tomorrow and then Sunday I leave for Honduras) but I'll probably post it before Sunday. If not, I'll delete that sentence so you'll never know, hehe . . . . unless I forget . . .

Now, On to the Story

OH! And if you HAVEN'T read OotP and are reading my fic, then tell me in a review if you don't want me to spoil anything, or I WILL begin to add things that spoil it. It IS inevitable, I kind of need to spoil a little of it, but I'll cut it down if you object.

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The next morning when James woke up, he discovered that Sirius never came back to the dorm . . . .

He looked over at Sirius's bed as he sat up in his and saw that it was untouched. Now there was a SLIGHT possibility that he had come and gone, making his bed before leaving, but as we are talking about Sirius, it is safe to bet that he had never come in the night before. James quickly went downstairs to see if he was on a couch in the Common room. There was no one there. He then went back upstairs and woke Peter, who had run back to Hogwarts as soon as he has sensed trouble, long before Dasani had come. He also, after thinking on it, woke Remus, who had fallen asleep not long ago.

"What's wrong James?" Remus asked groggily. "You don't usually wake me up after a full moon."

"Do . . .Do you remember anything about last night?" James asked.

"No." Remus replied. "But I did have a really weird dream . . ." He trailed off.

James was about to tell Remus of last night, but then one of the other boys woke up and he decided it would have to wait until later.

"What was it about?" Peter asked.

Remus's stomach rumbled, "How about I tell you at breakfast? I'm rather hungry."

James was about to tell Remus of last night, but then one of the other boys woke up and he decided it would have to wait until later.

The boys agreed and dressed for the day. They had just gotten downstairs when the girls, Lily, Allison, and a forlorn looking Dasani came down the other staircase. When she saw James, Dasani perked up. She ran over and asked, "Is Sirius still up there?"

James hung his head and did not reply.

Remus, who could only yet see the unwounded side of Dasani's face tilted his head to the side and said, "Where IS Sirius, if he's not in the dorm?"

"He's not in the dorm?" Dasani turned her face and Remus caught sight of the scratch-wound that Madame Pomfrey had been unable to heal completely.

"Dasani . . . What happened? It's almost as if . . . ." His face paled as he said this. "In- In my dream I scratched someone who was in front of me."

They all looked at him silently.

"It wasn't a dream was it?"

"No." James said.

"I . . . understand if you don't want to be my friends anymore. I'm such a monster. Now I've scratched . . . . DASANI!!!" Remus looked around at the others who were filtering out into the Common Room and lowered his voice. "You were scratched by a werewolf."

Dasani said nothing.

Remus's eyes watered with unshed tears. "It's all my fault, I never should have come here." He hung his head in defeat, "Everyone is right to fear and despise werewolves."

Remus felt a pair of arms encircle his skinny body. "It's not your fault Remus. It never will be." Dasani said. "I'm not human. It may not affect me. In any case . . . . Sirius . . ."

"Sirius decided it would be a good idea to tell Snape how he could find out where you disappeared every month." James said.

"Snape knows!?" Remus exclaimed.

Dasani nodded into Remus's shoulder. "He never came back last night . . . . after you flung him into the rock . . ."

Remus suddenly remembered everything that had happened, from him smelling Snape and James, to him fleeing from the ball of green fire. "He never came back?"

The others shook their heads. They all went down to breakfast, secretly hoping that he would be down there, smiling as always. He wasn't, but Anthony was, as soon as he saw there faces (Especially Dasani's) he knew something was wrong.

"What happened? What's wrong? And where's Sirius?" Anthony asked. Although he knew about what happened last night, he was unaware that Sirius was missing.

Dasani immediately buried her head in Remus's shoulder, looked rather uncomfortable too, because she was taller.

"Sirius never came back last night." James said.

"I'm sure he's alright and he'll come back soon." Anthony said.

After breakfast, those who were taking final exams went to class and those who were not began to look for Sirius, who was exempt from his exams as well. They split into groups, Dasani with James and Lily with Anthony. Lily and Anthony made their way outside, they would check the grounds while the other two looked inside the castle. Lily was very worried and had decided that she would kill Sirius if they found him alive. The redhead's fiery temper was getting in the way of their search.

"Lily, it might help if you stopped ranting at me and we actually LOOKED for Sirius." Anthony said. He was beginning to get a headache from the outbursts of the short girl.

"What if I don't want to find him?"

"You know you really do."

Lily sighed. "I know, I'm just so mad at him. Snape didn't deserve that, and neither did any of us, especially Dasani."

"Do you think the elf in her will keep her from being a werewolf?" Anthony asked.

"No. Her father wasn't an elf, so she is still partially human. It will still affect her." Lily said. It pained her to think of this, but it was true.

They lapsed into silence and continued to search for Sirius. Inside, they were having just as much luck, without the conversation. Dasani had said little since breakfast. She seemed to have drawn in upon herself and James had caught her mood. When they all met back together for lunch, there was still no sign of him. The group ate in near-silence, only speaking if someone asked one of them a direct question.

"Hey Dasani." One of the older students said, jokingly. "Where's Sirius? Have you two had a lover's spat?"

Dasani looked up at the seventh-year, his name was Jon, who had only meant it as an affectionate joke, most of the Gryffindors had chosen Sirius and Dasani as their favorite couple (And Lily and James as their favorite near- couple) and they liked to tease the two. She stood up from her almost untouched plate and walked out of the great hall. As she left, James noticed an occupant of the Gryffindor table watching her more intently than the rest. He poked Lily in the ribs to get her attention (GAH! DON'T POKE ME!) and pointed to the figure at the end of the table. Lily glared and almost began to growl. It was true that she was extremely nice to most everyone, but unfortunately, that niceness got worn thin with her close friends and she often loosed her temper on them. They alerted the others to Sirius's presence (A/N: I know you all were expecting something terrible to happen to Sirius . . . but he's SIRIUS! I couldn't do that to him ) and decided their course of action.

While the rest of her friends were cornering Sirius, Dasani was walking back to Gryffindor Tower with her eyes on the ground and her mind far away when, once again, she bumped into someone. She looked up, startled, and found herself looking at a peeved Snape.

"Do you get some sort of sick pleasure by running me over?" Snape asked icily. "Isn't it enough that your boyfriend nearly got me killed?"

Dasani turned her head in such a way that Snape saw the scratch on her face and said, "There's nothing I can say that you will accept."

Inside Snape's head, he began to ask himself a few questions.

'Was SHE the one that stood between Potter and myself and the werewolf? No, it couldn't have been HER. She is a GRYFFINDOR, she would never think to protect a Slytherin. And in any case, if it was her she was only thinking of Potter and that Black wouldn't become a killer.'

His conscience then decided that his train of thought warranted some intrusion.

'Now you're starting to talk like the people you hate most. There are others who think that about Gryffindors.'

'Lucius.'

'Exactly. What has she done to you for you to think so badly of her? DO you even know anything about her? You hate it when people judge you, then you judge them back.'

' . . .'

'Think on that Severus.' His conscience returned to the back of his mind.

Dasani took his silence for an answer and continued walking towards the quiet of an empty Gryffindor Tower. She left Snape wondering. When she reached Gryffindor Tower she entered the dorm she shared with Lily and four other Gryffindor Fifth-Years and made her way through one of the windows and onto a small balcony that Lily had discovered earlier that year. She sat down and looked out into the Forbidden Forest.

Somewhere, a group of beings sat, a group of beings that few dwellers of this Earth have ever laid eyes on. The leader of this group stood up and began to talk. She, if you could call it a she, was fair, though short, with hair as black as what lies behind the veil in the Ministry of Magic in Londen. Her ears were slightly pointed and she looked upon her companions with eyes the color of a storm that rages over a restless sea.

"Now, we are going to take some time to talk about the situation at hand. Dasani is the daughter of an elf and a wizard who has been scratched by a werewolf (A/N: If you are a person who believes that in order to become a werewolf you must be bitten, then I humbly ask you to pretend that she was bitten, scratched, infected and now will be a werewolf as well) even though she is part elf, she will still become a werewolf. Also, elves are raised to school their emotions and usually do not show great sorrow, happiness, or anger. In the case of Dasani, she was raised in a human world and therefore shows more emotion than is typical of the Elven race.

Dasani, Lily and their friends are at a turning point in their lives, what happens from 6th to 7th years will be what shapes their future and how they deal with the war. During their fifth year, Voldemort gained support and pooled his power. Until now, Peter Pettigrew was only a harmless annoyance. Until now, the attacks had been minor, some tormenting and disturbance, but no widespread chaos. Until now, Voldemort was not ready to strike. Until now, people have believed this to be a story about Dasani, about elves, having little or nothing to do with the wizarding world. Well my friends, that is all about to change. The two young women are about to find out just what one man can do to bring a world tumbling down. This is no longer a story about Dasani, this is a story about two races fighting a common evil that threatens two ways of life, this is a story about how one group of close-knit friends and the choices they make can influence the ending of a war. However it ends, for good or for evil, the choices they make will impact the path they take, which will decide the ending of a world. We must decide what our course of action is, whether we choose to help the young ones choose the correct paths, or we choose to stay silent. The realm of the silent has seldom chosen the former, but it is in our discretion. What say you?"

Outside of the school of Hogwarts, a storm that, for once, had nothing to do with the mood of one of it's occupants began. Lightning that had no beauty to it flashed, and thunder that seemed to not be thunder at all, but cruel laughter, chorused through the castle. There was no rain, but large hailstones struck the windows and outer walls of the castle mercilessly, forcing Dasani to retreat back inside. From the first time the lightning struck, all the students in the school found themselves looking out a window, from the students in the Great Hall, and to those in other parts of the castle; each time lighting lit the sky, or thunder rumbled through the silent halls, every student and teacher felt in the pit of their stomach that everything was about to change. Most felt scared; a few, such as Lucius Malfoy, or Peter Pettigrew, found themselves smiling inwardly; but the group of friends, who had made it back to Gryffindor Tower before the storm hit, all felt terrible. They felt as if they were being pulled into the center of a raging tornado and were being pulled every direction against their will. James Potter found himself gripping the hand of Lily Evans, who grabbed his upper arm with her other hand. Allison Miller buried her head in the shoulder of Remus Lupin. Jade Mura grabbed the shoulder of her friend Crystal Makino. Henry Wong took a step closer to the two friends. Anthony Valentino stared out into the storm and felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back to see Rone Yokkaichi, the silent, steadfast one of the group, give him a reassuring look that was probably for his benefit as much as it was for Anthony's. Sirius Black found himself slowly ascending the staircase to the girls' dormitories and entering the Fifth years dorm. He walked over to Dasani Bradford, who was staring out the window and, as was her best friends Lily downstairs, flinching slightly as if being hit, every time a bolt of lightning tore through the night sky. The tall young man put his arms around his girlfriend and rested his chin against the top of her head as she leaned back into the comfort of his presence.. So it was that they passed the night, lending support to each other, waiting for the storm to abate, all silently thinking, knowing, that this was not the real storm.

Wow . . . . . That was pretty intense . . . . . even for me . . . . . in any case I wasn't planning on any of that, but perhaps, there is a group of beings somewhere influencing the path I choose, and even perhaps influencing the path you choose.

Please review, I would really appreciate and enjoy it if you told me what you think about my new PLOT! My story now has some semblance of a plot, how's that Dragix??????