Year 1:- Chapter 8
Sirius was the first Gryffindor to get up, he pulled James to his feet and dragged him out the door, they were soon followed by Alice and Peter. They stood in silence until they had been joined by the rest (excluding Amanda) and headed up to charms.
They entered the room and sat as the professor called the register starting with the Ravenclaws, once he had called Jessie Williams he moved onto the Gryffindors.
"Amanda Dixon"
The man looked around the room for her and Lily raised her hand.
"Yes Miss Evans"
"The potions professor has kept her behind, she should be up soon."
"Kept her behind, I wonder why."
"Because Malfoy is an evil woman who loves to torture her students!"
"Mr Black please we do not accuse people in my lessons"
The lesson started and to their amazement they started straight away floating feathers. Sirius spent the lesson looking at the door wondering how long Amanda would be.
Raising his hand he waited for the Professor to address him
"Yes Mr Black?"
"May I go down to potions and drag Amanda up here; I don't think she knows the way."
He watched the tiny professor sigh before allowing him to leave the room. Sirius ran all the way to the potions lab. He knocked on the door and found that there was another class in there.
He saw Lucius Malfoy smiling smugly at the front as the Professor turned to look at him
"Can I help you Mr Black?"
"Sorry, I left something behind; I've come back for it."
"What's that?"
"Amanda!"
"Oh well you'll have a long wait, she's in the office. She'll be in your next lesson don't worry."
"Professor Flitwick wants her in his lesson NOW!"
Sirius looked at the woman, she was a few inches taller than he was, but she didn't scare him, he knew how she worked, he wasn't leaving until he got Amanda.
"Do not raise your voice with me. Detention tomorrow night at seven, now back to your lesson."
"You wait, you'll pay for this."
Sirius turned around and sat outside the door refusing to leave until he had found his friend.
He waited for what seemed like hours finally the classroom door opened and Amanda stepped out. She was red in the face as she turned to shut the door. As soon as it closed laughter exploded from the other side.
Sirius could see tears in the girl's eyes and without waiting grabbed her to him. He heard a muffled scream and then a sigh as she realised who had hold of her. He waited a few moments before speaking
"What happened Mand?"
She pulled away and smiled slightly.
"Would you believe that she didn't know how to handle me, so she made me sit in front of her fire. Guess whose head appeared and gave me a lecture about disrupting class."
"She called your father!"
"Yep one lesson in and she's already relying on big brother to get her out of scraps. He yelled at me for messing around in Aunt Victoria's lesson and said that I was a disappointment to all Dixon's, and that I should have been a Slytherin not Gryffindor."
"How did he know?"
"Oh Aunt Victoria told him last night all about it, she said that as she too was a Dixon by blood she felt it a great disappointment to the family. She also told him about you, so I bet you get a Howler soon, mine was sent this morning it'll be here tomorrow."
The two smiled at each other as the classroom door opened, another lesson was over and it was now time for lunch. The two smiled as the raced up the stairs both ready for their first meal of the day.