Author's Note: Hello Again. After the last chapter I had a breakthrough on this story and I think I might put up, like, four chapters. So, yay! That is good news for you . Okay, I will leave you alone now.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harry Potter. Or Remus -sniff, or Sirius, or James, and I don't really care about Peter. I do own Sadira, Christian, and Mandara though! Yay!

Child of the Stars

Chapter Six: Old Friends And New Ones Too

Lily and Sadira had been patrolling the corridors for an hour now, Lily introducing Sadira to everyone they came across.

"Lil, can we please find a place to sit? We can start again later if you want, but right now I really want to sit down."

"Okay," she said with a bright smile. "I'm getting a little tired myself. Where do you want to sit?"

"If you don't mind, I'd like to find my brother."

"Alright. We haven't seen him yet, so he must be down on this end of the train."

She turned Sadira around and they started walking, looking for Severus. As they passed one of the compartments, Sadira noticed a boy looking at her. He had ocean blue eyes and short, dark brown hair. He smiled warmly at her and she smiled back, which made Lily giggle.

"That's Christian, Ravenclaw prefect. Isn't he gorgeous?"

"Well, I don't know about gorgeous, but he is really cute. Hey, aren't you a prefect? Why didn't you go to the meeting?"

"Because you're my duty."

"Oh, I feel so appreciated."

"You know what I mean."

They laughed as someone shouted somewhere down the train.

"Wonder what that was..." Lily mumbled. "Oh no... Potter," she spat.

"What?"

She pointed out a group of people in the corridor, some of them cheering.

"Potter and his gang are stirring up trouble again."

"Oh, does he do that often?"

"Constantly. Come on, we'd better see what this is about."

They jogged down to the crowd and immediately spotted the Marauders, who were ganging up on Severus.

"Stop it!" Sadira yelled, but nobody seemed to hear her. She tried again, but still, nobody paid any attention.

"Fine, the hard way it is." She waved her arms as if you were parting something and the group of people suddenly moved to the side as if pushed by an invisible wall.

A few of them yelled, trying to break free, but they could not move. Remus was nowhere to be seen, most likely still with the prefects, but Peter was in the corner looking very nervous.

Sadira looked over at Lily, who looked absolutely flabbergasted.

'I guess he didn't tell anybody about me,' Sadira thought, looking at James and Sirius pointing their wands at Severus.

She yanked held out her hand and their wands flew towards her. She caught them and put them in her pocket before walking into the compartment.

James and Sirius were looking around in anger and confusion.

"Who did that?" Sirius asked.

"I didn't hear a charm, Padfoot," James muttered as he ran a hand through his hair and looked around.

"That's because I don't need them," Sadira said in a deadly quiet voice as she stepped up behind them.

"Sadira? What are you doing here?" Sirius asked.

"Stopping you."

"From what?"

"Getting me mad."

James smirked at her. "No, we wouldn't want that," he said sarcastically.

With a wave of her arm he was confined to the seat and couldn't talk.

Sirius' eyes grew as large as sickles. "What did you do to him?" he asked hoarsely.

"Nothing that will harm him." She turned to James, pulling their wands out of her pocket and levitating them about her hand.

"Now, if you want these back, you might try behaving." Sirius made a grab at the wands, but he quickly recoiled his hand.

"What, you thought I didn't put a charm on this? Tsk tsk, that would not be very smart, now would it?" She re-pocketed the wands and walked over to Severus. He leaned on her for support as she led him out of the compartment.

"Hey! What about our wands?"

"What about them?" she called back as they walked away with Lily. "Oh, right." She waved her hand to let James up. "Now, what did you do this time Severus?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing, eh? Then why were they attacking you like that?"

"They needed a reason?" Lily asked with disgust.

Sadira sighed as they entered an empty compartment. She and Lily sat across from Severus, preparing to interrogate him.

"What?" he asked, clearly irritated.

"I didn't say anything."

"You don't need to." He put his face in his hands. "Did you tell them?"

"No, and they haven't figure it out either."

"Tell them what?" interjected Lily.

"Well, we don't want it known that we're related. For now, at least."

"Why not?"

They both looked at her. "What?"

"Well, people would be suspicious for one thing. They would ridicule us both, and then there's the simple fact that nobody even knew I had a sister."

"Oh, right." She was about to ask something else when the door slammed open, revealing a very livid Sirius and James.

"Why, hello again. How are you? I hope I didn't hurt you when I locked you to that seat."

Lily snorted.

"Give us our wands," James demanded.

Sadira looked thoughtful for a minute. "No... No I don't think I will."

"Now."

"No."

"Lily, please try to talk some sense into her. First she takes our wands and helps a Slytherin, and now she won't give them back!"

"I actually think she is being quite sensible, Potter."

James opened and closed his mouth a few times, at a loss for words.

"Hello, is everything alright in here? What happened to you two?" Remus asked as he sidled into the compartments and sat in between Lily and Sadira.

"That girl stole our wands! And she helped Severus!"

Sadira put on an innocent face as Remus looked at her, amusement clearly visible in his eyes.

"She stole your wands?" he asked incredulously as he turned back to James and Sirius, who nodded fervently.

He nodded and bit his lip. Sadira could tell he was trying not to smile, but he wasn't doing a very good job of it. Just then another person came, this time a girl with long, chocolate brown hair and deep, olive green eyes.

"Hello Mandara," Remus said, a slight blush covering his cheeks.

"Remus! Hi!" the girl ran over to him and hugged him tightly. He chuckled as he hugged her back. Lily nudged Sadira and winked, but Sadira had already seen it. Remus liked her.

"Hello, I'm Sadira."

"Oh, hello," she said as she released Remus. "I'm Mandara Seda."

"You have a beautiful name."

"Thank you. Mandara is Hindu for 'Mythical Tree' and Seda is Armenian for 'Forest Voices'."

Sadira looked at her quizzically and Mandara blushed slightly. "I looked it up once. Do you know what your name means?"

"Yes. It's Arabic for 'Star'."

"Oh, that's pretty."

"Thank you."

James coughed impatiently, causing everyone to look at him. "I believe you still have our wands."

"Wands? You stole their wands?" Mandara asked her.

"Yes, I did."

"Congratulations." She shook her hand and sat down next to Remus, greeting Lily with a smile.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Give them back."

"We've been through this."

"I remember."

"Well then why do you need reminding of the answer?"

"Agh!" He threw his hands in the air and started to walk away.

"We'll get you back for this," James hissed as he followed Sirius.

There was silence in the small room until Mandara posed a question. "So when are you going to give them their wands back?"

"I already have. When they weren't looking I levitated them back into their pockets. Now it's just wondering when they will find that out."

Remus couldn't take it anymore. He started to chuckle, which became louder until he was full out laughing. Lily and Mandara started to giggle with him, until they, too, were laughing. Sadira smiled at them and cast a glance at Severus, who had a particularly sour look on his face which could only mean one thing. He, too, thought it was funny.