A/N: Thank you too slyswn28 for being my very first review. I hope I do justice to this kind of story, cause just like you these are my faves! Well on with the story.

As our students were preparing for their departures to the Hogwarts Express on Platform 9 ¾ there was a lot of activity already happening up at the school. Dumbledore and Professor's McGonagall and Snape were all gathered in Dumbledore's beautiful office. They were all standing up and McGonagall and Snape looked rather furious.

"Dumbledore what are you thinking! Girls and boys sharing rooms. That's a..." Professor McGonagall had been cut off by Professor Snape who was now clenching his hands so tightly into fists they were turning white. "You can not seriously put MY students into the same bedroom as HERS!"

Dumbledore stood there a smile still upon his aged face. He watched the two heads of houses and simply ran a wrinkled hand through his pure white beard. "I think this is a splendid idea. It will give the students a chance to set aside their differences. For we do not want them to end up as enemies when they graduate and start their own lives away from school." His blue eyes landed on Snape and twinkled behind his half moon spectacles.

Both Severus and Minerva of course knew what Albus had meant by that. And Severus hung his head slightly while Minerva wiped at her eyes lightly. "Now that we have that understood I do believe I could use your assistance at pairing up these students." He placed an arm around both Professors and led them from his office.

"Oh Harry darling do you think you could bring me my wand I do believe I left it lying on the kitchen table." Mrs. Weasley called from the living room. Harry who had been packing the remainder of his robes called back and informed her he would be right there. He looked over at Ron and shrugged his shoulders not understanding why she would have him get her wand and not one of her own children. A thought sparked in his mind that she and Mr. Weasley wanted to speak to him privately.

Harry stuffed the last robe into his trunk and closed the lid. He hurried out of Ron's room and took the steps two at a time reaching the kitchen in record time. He looked around the small yet cluttered kitchen and spotted Mrs. Weasley wand right where she had said it would be; On the corner of the kitchen table. He grabbed the wand and headed towards the living room.

He was distracted however by a pretty red head that had just emerged from within her own bedroom. Ginny smiled at Harry and he quickly closed his mouth. He still could not grasp the fact Ginny had matured over these past few years. It was far too much for him to handle. He shook his head quickly. "Hello Gin."

Ginny laughed lightly and patted Harry on the back as she walked past him and into the kitchen. "Get use to it Harry."

He couldn't believe himself. He was seriously starting to understand why all the boys at school near the end of last year were falling head over heels for Ginny Weasley. He smacked himself in the head and walked the three feet to the living room where to his surprise he saw not only the Weasley's but also sitting on the couch was Tonks, Remus Lupin, and Alastor Moody.

The three Professors were now standing outside the portrait of a bride and groom who were to busy feeding each other cake to realize that they were being watched. Dumbledore cleared his throat and the groom dropped the cake that was intended to go into his bride's mouth but was now on her dress. "Perfection," said Dumbledore clearly amused. The portrait swung open and the bride was muttering something about how the stain would never come out of her beautiful white gown.

Inside the portrait whole was a large room. There were a number of red and gold couches placed in a half circle around a large fire place. Upon these couches were pillows of a green and silver fabric. There were a number of tables around the room with silver and gold cushions. Also on the far side of the room there were 3 stair cases. On the far left there were 2 rooms coming off of the stairs. In the middle there were four rooms and the one the farthest up had the names Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger engraved on it. And on the far right there were another two rooms. The remaining 7 rooms had no names placed upon them yet.

"Now we shall start with our seventh years. I have already taken the liberty of placing the Head Boy and Girl together." Dumbledore smiled and clapped both Heads on the shoulders. "You agree with my decision, right?" Both McGonagall and Snape merely nodded.

"Well who are the seventh year prefects?" Minerva finally asked after a moment of silence. "I know for my house we have Misters Potter and Weasley and Misses Patil." She nodded and the three names appeared on separate doors.

Snape looked taken back at first but quickly regained his composure. "Well we have Misses Parkinson and Bullstrode and Mister Zambini." The three names appeared along side each of the Gryffindors. Pansy's name was beside Harry's, Millicent's name appeared beside Ron's, and Blaise's was placed beside that of Parvati's.

Harry looked between each of the adults with a grim expression on his face. He hadn't realized it but he was shaking slightly. He nearly had dropped Mrs. Weasley's wand while he stood there being watched. Finally, it was Lupin who broke the monotonous silence. "How are you Harry?"

Harry swallowed and gave a half smile. "I'm fine professor, but...well why is everyone here?" He looked at Mrs. Weasley and then down at the wand he had in his hand and slowly extended it towards her. "Oh and here's your wand ma'am." Mrs. Weasley took the wand with a small smile. Harry continued to watch everyone waiting for an answer.

"Well, umm...we just wanted to come and congratulate everyone on being a prefect and in Hermione's case Head Girl." Lupin was avoiding making eye contact with Harry. And that alone in Harry's mind meant something was wrong. Or something was going to be wrong soon.

"Will you all just cut the crap and tell me what's going on?" Everyone looked at Harry with surprise apparent on their faces. They had not been expecting an outburst like that from him and they all sat still for a few moments wondering the best way to tell him what was going on.

Tonks looked between each of her colleagues and stood up placing her arm on Harry's shoulder. "Well Potter, after a lot of research on the matter of that veil in the Department of Mysteries..." She was cut off though by Moody coughing. "I mean go back upstairs and finish your packing." Harry looked at them all disbelievingly and stomped off and back up the stairs to Ron's room.

"Now for the sixth years, in Gryffindor we have Mister Creevy," Colin's full name appeared on the first door of the right stair case. "And we have Misses Weasley," Ginny's name appeared on the opposite door of Colin's.

"Which leaves us with Miss Listrando paired with Creevy and Mister Billent with Weasley." Snape sneered. He watched as the names of his student's were scribbled in beside the Gryffindors. It was obvious that he did not like how this was occurring in the least bit. "And my fifth years are Bethany Astron and Anthony Calinsto." As he announced the names the doors on the left had a name placed upon them."

Professor McGonagall nodded and announced in a clear voice that her fifth years were, "Miss Louski and Mister Dartal." She clapped. "Now that we have finished that Dumbledore I need to go and help the ghosts to detain Peeves." With that she spun on her heels and marched out of the room her robes billowing behind her.

Following suit Professor Snape turned and left the Common Room leaving Dumbledore to his own accords. The old man walked quickly across the room and made his way up the staircase to the Head Boy and Girl's room. He opened the door and smiled to himself. On the far side of the room was a book shelf for Hermione and on the other side was a sketching table for Draco. In his genius mind he had placed something special for each of the prefects in their personal rooms.

"You were gone far too long mate for you to have jus given mum her wand. What's going on?" Ron was now sitting on his bed staring intently at his best friend. "Come on Harry what's up? You look like you've seen a ghost or something, not that, that's not normal but still. Spill."

Harry was sitting on his trunk with his head in his hands. He was sure Tonks was going to tell him something about Sirius. He did want to know what she was saying, but at the same time he was dreading hearing it. Since that night he had carried some hope that maybe Sirius would come back...Maybe his parent's would come back. But he knew Tonks was going to tell him there was no way for anything like that to happen. And he didn't want to know that.

"Come on Harry, or I'll get Ginny in here to get it out of you." And just at that moment both Ginny and Hermione had walked into the room. Their gazes quickly went to Harry and their eyes seemed to fill with sadness for him.

"What am I suppose to get out of him?" Ginny asked as she sat down beside Harry on his trunk and placed a comforting arm around his shoulders. Hermione sat down beside Ron and shrugged her shoulders. "Is it about what Tonks was saying?" An evil smile passed over her face as Harry lifted his head to look at her. She pulled an Extendable Ear out from behind her back. "They really come in handy."

Harry gasped and his eyes roamed all around the room quickly. "Did they say anymore once I left." All Ginny did was nod and smiled at him. He couldn't take his eyes off her smile. Even though this was an important matter he was to mesmorized by her beauty. "Are you going to tell me?" He finally asked her.

"Sirius is coming back."

So how'd you like it? I know it's shorter then the first chapter but I don't want to give anymore away just yet. I'll keep writing if I get more reviews.