Can you believe that Busted got the record of the year over mcfly??? I mean really, Busted suck. Anyway back to the point, I'm still here, I've got another chapter for anyone who is still reading this lol. Here it is )

Ok I can't get get line separators on here so there are no sections this time.

12 Grimmauld Place

There was a soft knock on the front door of 12 Grimmauld Place. It was about 8.30 in the evening and the street outside was dark and cold. There was a soft clatter of hooves on the gravel. Mrs Weasley had gone to open the door and the Weasley children, Harry and Hermione had crept to the top of the stairs to see who it was. They saw a tall hooded figure enter as the door was opened. They couldn't hear the exchange between the two figures.

Mrs Weasley went quietly to answer the door of the house, once the door was opened she glanced past the visitor at the large shape behind them before turning to talk to them.

"You must be Eriador. Come in dear, come in. Sirius told us you would be arriving tonight." She whispered.

"Thank you Mrs Weasley. Can I bring Shadow through to the garden?" Raid replied quietly.

Mrs Weasley eyed the dark shape behind Raid as if doubting its ability to be quiet, but conceded, sighing.

"As long as you make sure he's quiet."

Raid grinned.

"I hear Mrs Black has been a bit of a handful." She said.

She led her horse in to the large hallway. He seemed slightly nervous about being inside, but stayed quiet. Via the concealment spell his horn was not visible but most of the house knew of the girl with the unicorn who was causing trouble at Hogwart's from Harry.

Raid threw back her hood to reveal her vivid purple hair. She left her cloak on and she and Mrs Weasley turned to go in to the kitchen. Suddenly, they heard a shout and heard feet thundering down the stairs.

"Raid!"

Something large hit Raid from the side. Shadow shied away violently. Turning as two arms squashed her in to a hug Raid looked in to the face of a man with long black hair.

"Sirius!" She shrieked and hugged him back just as tightly.

Mrs Black's portrait was now screaming and shouting as loudly as she could.

"Sirius!" Mrs Weasley scolded. "Look what you've done, couldn't you have waited until we were in the kitchen?"

"I'll see to her." Raid shouted over the din as she broke from the hug.

She ran up the stairs past the people who were trying to silence the other portraits and found Mrs Black in the centre of the hall wall.

"Good Evening Mrs Black!" She shouted.

The portrait went suddenly and very unusually, silent. It studied Raid for a moment.

"My Goodness." It whispered. "It's dear Bellatrix's daughter."

"It is." Raid answered.

The portraits face suddenly clouded with anger and madness.

"YOU'RE HERE TO HELP THEM AREN'T YOU! HELP THE FILTHY HALFBREEDS AND MUDBLOODS. YOU TREACHEROUS GIRL!" She shrieked.

Quickly Raid forced the curtains shut and the painting fell silent. She turned, grinning, to her audience.

"Hi guys." She said.

She hugged Hermione and Ginny and grinned at the twins. Then ignoring Harry and Ron who were still staring at her open mouthed as if she had just sprouted arms out of her head, she ran downstairs to calm her horse.

Shadow, was having fits of terror in the hallway. Mrs Weasley and Sirius couldn't get near him. Raid walked slowly up to the horse, hands outstretched and he recognised her and began to calm down. He stood still but was shaking and drenched in sweat. Gently Raid took his reins and Mrs Weasley quickly led her through the kitchen and out in to the gloomy garden that was to be Shadows home for the next few weeks. Once outside Shadow visibly relaxed. Once Raid had rid him of his saddle and bridle she gave him a final reassuring pat and headed back inside.

Once inside again, she heard a loud argument from a room next to the kitchen. It appeared to be between Harry and Sirius.

"…she doing here?" Was the accusing voice of Harry.

"She's my cousin Harry, well, kind of, but we are related." Sirius said pleadingly.

"But she'll betray the Order! She's going to be a dark witch! How do we know that she isn't working for Voldemort right now?" Harry shouted.

"Because she's been passing us information about that she's picked up from her foster parents about Voldemort's followers for a year! And because I trust her Harry, and so do the rest of the Order! You have no proof at all in those accusations!" Sirius snapped.

Raid rolled her eyes. She genuinely hoped that Harry would come round eventually. It wouldn't be a fun holiday if Harry was just being horrible to her the whole time. Helping herself to the thick casserole that was being kept warm for her on the stove, she accepted a warm bread roll from Mrs Weasley and sat down at the long table.

"Just ignore Harry, dear." she said uncomfortably. "I'm sure he doesn't mean what he's saying."

"Oh, he does." Raid sighed. "Never mind though, we'll work something out."

Harry came storming through the kitchen, he glared at Raid and slammed the door as he left. Sirius came out scowling as well, but he gave Raid a small smile as he sat down at the table with her.

"He'll come round Raid, he's gone on about how you're working for Voldemort since he's been here. I'm sure that know you're here he'll see that you're not." He said reassuringly.

Raid shrugged as she continued eating.

"Anyway." Sirius continued. "How was you're trip? You're a bit late, it's Christmas in four days."

"It was wet and cold." Raid laughed. "I had trouble hitching a lift through the Lake District. Delayed me a little."

"Well you're here now and everything's ready for Christmas." Sirius said happily.

"Yes about that. On Christmas Eve, I've been invited, umm… out. I would be back for Christmas day though." Raid said quickly, looking hard at her nearly empty plate.

"Out? Where?" Sirius asked.

"The Malfoy Manor. Draco invited me to the Christmas Ball." Raid said quietly.

Sirius exploded.

"WHAT?" He screamed. "Why, has Draco Malfoy invited, you, of all people to the Malfoy Christmas Ball?" He said dangerously.

"Because, umm, well, because he's kind of, well, he's my boyfriend." Raid stuttered.

The look in Sirius' eyes was very dangerous.

"You do realise that the whole place will be full of Death Eaters. And you do realise that your 'boyfriend' will probably become a Death Eater very soon." He shouted.

At that Raid snapped. She looked directly at Sirius.

"Yes Sirius I do realise that. And I do not wish to discuss Draco with you. But I will be expected to go now that he has invited me. And my foster parents are also going and they expect me to be there as well." She snapped, her voice raising as well.

"Well you can't go! I won't allow it. I will not have you consorting with Death Eaters!" Sirius bellowed.

"You can't tell me what to do Sirius! You aren't my dad for Merlin's sake!" Raid yelled standing up.

"Well I am telling you what to do. You're not going." Sirius yelled back as he too stood up.

Sirius was about four inches taller than Raid and glowered down at her, she didn't flinch from his glare.

"I am going to the ball Sirius" Raid said smoothly.

And with that she turned and stormed out of the back door, out in to the gloomy garden. The door slammed behind her and Sirius sat down heavily in his chair.

Another bad chapter ending Sorry it's short. I couldn't think of how to end it without going in to the next chapter. Anyway, Review review!! Please