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They day of the dance came and no one was even trying to study. Most of the teachers just let them have the period to do their homework. All the girls were twittering about what they were going to wear, and all the guys were sleeping. Maria and Remus however were playing a game of travel sized wizards chess. The game was in a dead heat and it took each person about 5 minutes to figure his or her next move.

'Oh come on Remus, it doesn't even take me 10 minutes to get a next move!' exclaimed Maria. Remus had been sitting there thinking for what seemed and eternity. All of a sudden he saw and opening and exclaimed, 'CHECK!' so loud that James woke up and Sirius fell out of his chair in surprise.

'Yes well, that's what you think.' Said Maria. She moved her castle one space to the left and said very calmly, 'If you hadn't moved your queen and had instead moved your bishop you would have won, but alas for you, I have beaten your sorry arse.' She had a very smug smile on he face and Remus just collapsed his head onto his hands in exasperation.

'Fine, fine. But one of these days, I swear I will have my vengeance.' He laughed. They looked at everyone in their class.

'Look at them Remus, just look.' Said Maria referring to a group twittering idiots in the corner. 'Have you ever seen a group of more vapid and mindless idiots?'

'No I don't think so, unless you include Peter in potions.' Laughed Remus.

'So are you going with anyone to the ball?' asked Maria.

'Umm… no… I mean I was going to ask someone… but…err… no.' stuttered Remus awkwardly. 'Err… are you?'

'Oh, me? Um… no.' said Maria equally as awkward.

Then the last bell of the teacher stood up and announced the end of the class. It was the last class before the ball, and this just made all the girls squeal and cheer.

'Hey Remus, I'll see you at the ball okay?' said Maria.

'Yeah right.' He said.

'Save me a dance?' she asked nervously.

'Are you kidding?' he said. 'Of coarse.'

She smiled and hurried over to some of her Slytherin friends, leaving Remus to look longingly at her. "Wow, she really is something else isn't she?" he thought.

'Now now Remus, you wouldn't want anyone to catch you staring would you?' said Sirius from behind him.

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'Hey Lucius, can I chill with u guys in the boys dorm?' asked Maria. 'I can tell that the girls dorm is going to be a violent battleground of mascara and perfume.'

Lucius laughed, 'Yeah sure. But are you sure their going to be starting so soon?' as he said that they walked into the common room, and the noise and commotion could be heard coming from the girls dorm. Maria walked up to the dorm with Lucius talking about his new book. There were so many new curses that he was amazed with.

'I would really appreciate it if you wouldn't use these curses on unsuspecting passerby's.' said Maria.

'Who me?' asked Lucius with fake innocence.

She just gave him a look and opened the door to the dorm where they found Severus among a pile of papers.

'Where were you in potions? We missed you.' Said Maria.

'Hey this is the guys dorm what are you doing here? Oh never mind, anyway I was just going over some things for the assistant teaching thing and so I got the period off.' Explained Severus.

'Well you're coming to the ball thing right?' asked Maria.

'I don't think so.' Said Severus.

'Why the hell not?' asked Maria.

'Well balls were never my thing, and I have to much work to do, and I don't really want to go.'

'Aw come on go. I bought a new dress and everything, so you have to go too.' Said Maria. Severus, being the smart person he is just decided not to argue.

'I'll try I suppose.'

Maria smiled 'Good.'

For the next few hours they all sat around and spoke about nothing in particular had a hex war, and many other things. About an hour before the dance Maria decided it was time she got ready. When she went back to the dorm it was a mad house. There were clothes lying around and makeup strewn about the place.

'Maria! Where the hell have you been?' exclaimed Liv. 'I have been looking for you everywhere, I thought you had ran away or something!'

'No but I was hiding in the boys' dorm.' Said Maria with a smile. She ran into the shower and quickly rinsed her hair then she put on some muggle body scrub stuff that made her skin all soft and glow like a goddess. She got out and dried herself. She slipped on her dress and went to the girl's dorm.

'What should I do with my hair?' asked Maria to no one in particular. To her surprise Narcissa came over and magically tried a lot of different styles before deciding that elegant waves were best. Maria then put on the Valatie bracelet. It was the type that went on your forearm. It was silver and looked like a snake coiling up your arm with red eyes. She then put on a simple silver necklace that had little red rubies woven into it.

She pulled on her dress and could tell she looked fabulous. For makeup she put on black eyeliner, a shimmery red eyeshadow, and a bit of clear lip-gloss.

'You know what I can't stand?' asked Liv, 'is how you don't have to try at all, and you still look absolutely stunning.'

'Oh be quiet. You could go in a sack and still look great.' Said Maria. 'Almost ready?'

'Almost just give me a sec' said Liv. She was so nervous that she had taken off and redone me makeup at least 10 times. Her dress had no sleeves so she had put on some shimmer on her shoulders and chest. The sparkles on her midnight blue dress, mixed in with the shimmer made Maria think of what the ancient Greek Muggles called goddesses, specifically a night goddess. She knew that Liv's looks alone would flatten Sirius the moment he saw her.

'Okay, you done.' Said Maria when she thought Liv was about to remove her makeup once again. 'Where are you meeting Sirius?'

'At the entrance to the Great Hall. I'm so nervous. I don't even know why!' exclaimed Liv.

'Are we going to meet Lily and Alice before the dance?' asked Maria.

'No we're meeting them there. Cause you know, Lily is going with James, and their in the same house, and Alice if going with frank and he's swinging by her house to meet her.'

'Okay then I guess there's no more avoiding it, lets go.'

As they set out, they were met by Lucius coming down the stairs of the boys' dorm. He was wearing very expensive robes of black silk that had silver lace lining the edges.

'Wow Lucius, going all out I see.' Said Maria.

'Ha, hardly, this is definitely not my best robes.'

'Then in that case I don't want to see how grand you best are.' Said Liv. 'Waiting for Narcissa?'

'Yes, how long do you think she'll be?' he asked trying to look into the girls' dorms.

'Well, when we left she was still doing her hair, couple that with makeup and being fashionably really late, I would guess anywhere between 15 minute's to an hour.' Laughed Liv. 'Is Sev coming?'

'He claims he is, but when I left the dorm he was swimming in papers.'

Liv and Maria smiled and walked to the Great Hall. About a minute before they would reach the Great Hall, Liv stopped turned and started walking in the opposite direction.

'What are you doing?' asked Maria hurrying after her.

'I cannot do this. I wont! This is so not happening. Do you have any idea what a fuss this will cause? Narcissa will probably throw me out of the dorm! I will be shunned by the entire house!'

'What are you talking about?' asked Maria, completely confused.

'What do you think I'm talking about? Sirius and me! This is not going to go over well if we go out, and then what if we break up? That will cause even more tension between the houses!'

'Um, yeah, I think you reading a bit too much into this don't you?' asked Maria.

'Maybe.'

'Come on, lets just go in and I promise the second you see him everything will look a lot better.' After Liv calmed down they continued to the Great Hall. Maria was completely right. The second she say Sirius it seemed like the last 10 minute's had never happened.

When sirs saw Liv for the first time, it looked as though a vela had asked him to marry her. Sirius walked over and took her arm as quick as lightning. He escorted her over to where they were all sitting. The dance had a diner first. There were circular tables where you could sit with all your friends. The dinner was about the same as what they had for dinner every night, but a little more elegant.

'Where is Remus?' asked Maria, noticing he wasn't there.

'Oh, he needed to finish some homework, he said he'd be a little late.' Said James who couldn't take his eyes off of Lily to even answer her question. Lily was another one of those people that when looked at, you thought you were actually looking at something not quite of this world.

As though on queue, Remus took the seat between Maria and Peter's date, Beatrice. While not a very pretty girl, Beatrice didn't have much personality either. She seemed the perfect match of Peter. Her dress was of flattering shape but a grotesque green color. Sadly, Peter's dress robes were the same color.

It was at this time Maria noticed that Sirius, Remus, and James were all wearing roughly the same elegant but simple black robes.

'Hmm, must me a guy thing' thought Maria.

'Wow, Maria,' said Remus. He had just gotten a good look at her. 'You look, wow, um, I think wicked isn't good enough. You look gorgeous.'

'Thanks.' Said Maria with a smile.

After eating and laughing, almost everyone was dancing; two of those that weren't dancing were Remus and Maria.

'Hey, want to dance?' asked Maria.

'Oh, err, I really don't, well cant, dance.' Said Remus, a blush creeping up on his cheeks.

'O, come on.' laughed Maria pulling him to the dance floor. She first positioned his hands, one on her waist, the other in her own, then she directed him on how to dance. After 2 or 3 minutes and having her feet stepped on at least 5 times each, Remus began to get the hang of it.

'See, isn't this fun?' said Maria.

'You're going to be on crutches from all the times I have stepped on your feet.'

'Don't worry, I think I can handle it.' She laughed again. Maybe it was her imagination, but it seemed Remus was leaning in, and Maria found that she was also leaning slightly in. when it seemed as though they would share a kiss they were torn apart, and someone had slapped Maria across the face in a blink of an eye.

It took Maria a few seconds to get her bearings straight, and she looked and it was none other than Angelina Crumpguard.

'What the bloody hell do you think your doing, trying to come onto my Remy?' she said in an annoyingly high-pitched voice.

'What the bloody hell do you think your doing slapping me, and calling him yours?'

Angelina glared. 'He is minc, and don't you dare ever go near him again.'

'I will be friends with whoever the hell I wish. You connot just say I wont and think you will be obayed. What do you evern think you could do? I have power you cant even dream of.'

'You have power? Is your daddy the assistant to the minister? I think not. I know who you are, and I know about your father. The stupid bastard is dead, and rightly so. And don't even think that's all I know. I know about your mother too, she isn't much smarter either, the stupid bitch she's…'

Angelina couldn't finish the rest of her sentence for Maria, with a single tear streaming down her face, had punched her squarely in the nose.

'If you ever, EVER speak about my family or myself again, you'll get a damn taste of the power I posess.'

No one had noticed this, but everything in the room shook when Maria had been mad. Her eyes, now an odd violet color seemed to blaze like the sun. some of the statues and tables had begun to float, not enough to attract attention, but they floated all the same.

By now, they had also attracted quite the sceen. Remus pulled Maria back, and was leading her out of the Great Hall.

'Maria, what is going on, you shouldn't have let her get to you, those things she said about us are nothing.' He said with concern in his eyes.

'Remus you really have to get out of your own little world, I don't care she said those things, but I will not let her get away with insulting my family.' She looked into Remus' eyes and saw a look of hurt that she never thought possible. She broke away from him and ran as fast as she could to her dorm.

When she got to her room she went and locked herself in her bathroom. She went over to the corner and just sat there. When she was sure that there was no one in there, she felt the hot tears first form, then slide down her face. The only image that she could think of was the look of pure hurt when she had yelled at Remus.

She was about to fall face first into her own grief when she heard some alarm going off and Remus' voice, 'Dimmit!' If it weren't for the fact that she was about to kill herself, she would have laughed. Remus never swore and when he did it was a time to savor.

She walked up the staircase to the common room and saw Remus on the ground getting up like he had been thrown back.

'What did you do?'

'I forgot, all those stupid rules, its not fair, Lily comes into our dorm every Monday to wake us up, but its not like we can go into her dorm to poor cold buckets of water on her head.' Maria's face almost smiled but she caught herself.

'Can I help you with something?'

'Yes, as a mater of fact, are you okay?' he said eyes pleading for an answer. 'I am so sorry, I never meant to assume that I was the reason you were upset.'

'No, I should be giving you an apology, I never should have yelled like that.'

'No what I said was totally unfeeling and self absorbed, you don't have to apologize for anything. So what was it about what she said to make you so angry?'

Maria closed her eyes for a moment and Remus thought maybe he shouldn't have asked.

'Its none of my business you don't have to answer.'

'No I think I should. I trust you, its just that I cant talk about it here, is there somewhere we can go?' she asked.

'Yeah, follow me.' Remus led Maria out of the Slytherin common room and to the Gryffindor one. He took her up to they boys' dorm where they could talk in private.

Maria looked around, she sat on what she thought had to be Remus' bed, it was the only normal looking one. They were all made on account of Hogwarts having excellent house- elves, but each bed had their own look, along with the bedside table.

The first one she decided had to be Frank's, it was very neat and plain, and the bedside table had a muggle alarm clock and what looked like a family picture.

The second bed was most certainly Peter's just had a sense of desheveledness. There were wrappers and paper covering the bedside table and maybe 5 pairs of mismatched shoes at the end of the bed.

The next was Sirius' there were many love letters at the bottom of the bed from what was probably that day, and a large Zonko's bag on top of his chest. The bedside table had a glass of water and an assortment of combs, cologne's, and hair products. Also there was a pair of white and pink bunny slippers that Maria knew she would tease him for later.

The seond to last bed was definitelyRemus' because the last was the one that was easily James'. It had a poster of the English pro Quidditch team. His chest was open and there were a messy assortment of robes and books, however the real tell- all was his bedside table. The top drawer sounded like there was a snitch trying to escape, and on the top of the dresser was a little box, and a picture of Lily and him flying on his broom, however in a pitch Maria had never seen.

Remus' bed was just very neat, not as much as Frank's but neat all the same. There was only 2 pairs of shoes and a stack of books at the bottom of the bed, on his bedside table was the book she gave him for Christmas, and she noticed that the chess set was at on the chest at the bottom of the bed.

'So Maria, are you okay?' he knew this was a stupid question but decided that its always good to ask.

'What do you think eh?' she tried to smile but couldn't quite get it out. Remus sat on his bed next to her.

'Do you want to tell me because you honestly don't have to.'

'No I trust you, but its in my nature so I have to threaten you: if you tell a single soul what I am about to tell you I will need no unforgivable curse to finish you off. I am perfectly capable of making you feel pain that you can't even imagine, comprende?'

Remus looking a little scared nodded. Maria's face softened from the fiery look in her eyes she got while threatening people.

'I guess I should start from the beginning, my last name, isn't just a name it's a way of life. All the woman in my family have a burden, I guess, it is a weight of extroaidnary power, in time and with careful practice I will me one of the most powerful witches in the wizarding world. And I'm not being conceited, Dumbledor told me that I may become more powerful than him, and if I become too powerful for myself I could blow up all of England, or at least as far as Spain.

' My mother was extraordinary, she receiver the highest marks in Hogwarts history, yeah she went here. She was so smart and powerful that people began asking questions, before long Voldemort, not a threat in those times, approached her and asked her to join him, well my mother refused she knew his potential. He was enraged he hounded and wouldn't leave her alone. After a month of this, she told Dumbledore she had to leave; he knew he couldn't stop her so he let her. She moved to America where she settled in the American ministry working as not an Auror but I guess was only sent out for the most dangerous and secret missions, the branch didn't even have a name so think even more secret than being an unspeakable.

'It paid extraordinarily well so when she became pregnant she could easily stop working for 9 months. After she had me she got a transfer to a highly paying, but not as exciting job in foreign affairs. So we lived comftorably for years then, he found us again, I really don't know how, he did, by now people began to see the real threat he posed and was starting to fear him. He was even more ecstatic when he found out I was born, I don't know why, but he just was, I guess it has something to do with me growing up to have the same power as my mom.

'Well, 5 years ago, my mom and I were getting school stuff at an apothecary store when it happened; he burst in and told my mother to join him. Well as you can imagine when she said no and just kept on shopping like it was nothing, he was furious he began to shoot spells everywhere breaking everything in the store, it just so happened that one of those things was a jar full of dragon claws above me, when I looked up, one of the claws came down and stabbed me in the chest, my mother got so mad that everything burst into flames, the entire store was up in smoke in minutes, I guess that when he knew that he would lose this, he killed her.

'I don't know how I survived, the nurse told me that I was lying outside the store. Anyway that dragon claw a tip of it broke off and is somewhat embedded in my heart. The doctors couldn't get it out without knowing what the magical properties might do to my heart. So its still in there sometimes it hurts, and the doctors aren't actually sure what's going to happen, weather it will just hurt sometimes or if there's something wrong.

' So I inherited all of my mother's money when she died, I could have just never left my house again and lived a very comftorable life, but I know I'm better than that. So I went to the school I had been going to until the end of last year, I got an unmarked letter that said he was coming for me. I didn't know what to do so I owled Dumbledore. He had offered to take me in to Hogwarts after mom died but I thought I could stay there, well obviously I couldn't stay now, so I owled him and he actually flooed over to my house and made the preparations with me. I sold my house, and I bought one here, so here I am to stay, until such a time happens that my destiny is complete.'

Remus was in awe. He didn't know what to say. Should he apologize, or hug her or what?

'Yeah I didn't expect you to really have anything to say, hell I don't know what I'd say if someone told me all this.' She smiled a sad smile.

'Where's you dad? Why isn't he here too?'

'I don't know who my dad is my mother never told anyone.' Maria lied. 'Any other questions?'

'So you live by yourself? What are you going to do become a hermit and live alone? Aren't you lonely?'

'Well I never really got lonely, I had myself and we can have great long debates.' Maria joked. 'I guess its lonely sometimes, but hey, what can a girl do?'

'Well I'm coming to your house after graduation definitely.' He smiled at her, then pulled her into a hug. 'I'm sorry, I never knew, I never even would have guessed.'

'I don't expect anyone to.' She said 'Any other questions?'

'Yeah actually only one, what did you mean by "until your destiny is complete"?'

'I had hoped you wouldn't have picked up on that. My mother wasn't exactly old when she died she was 32, she graduated early when she was 16 and had me when she was 18, trust me my mother made great money very fast, and so had her mother before her, her mother had also died when she was 38, the women in my family may be blessed with great power, but are cursed with dying at an old age.' She smile this time, she just looked at her hands.

'Maria, look at me, your not going to die anytime soon, especially if I have a say in that.' He pulled her into another hug, but instead of it being brief, he held on, but Maria didn't let go either.

When they did pull back it was for a second, when they looked at each other and Remus leaned foreward and kissed Maria. It wasn't forceful, but it wasn't boring either. It had a light but at the same time strong passion that seemed to cover Maria with a soft tingling feeling. She felt her spirit soar. It was maybe the worst thing in the world when Sirius, James and Peter burst into the room.

'Remus, I AM SHOCKED!' yelled Sirius in an abviously mock McGonagall impersonation. 'NO, NO, AND I SAY NO GIRLS IN THE DORM!'

James laughed but pretended to be angry. 'All this time we've been looking for you ALL OVER THE CASTLE and you've been her SNOGGING hot girls!'

By this time Maria was laughing and Remus was as red as a tomato. 'Shut up.' He managed, before looking at his feet.

'So my two little love birds, this is what you left the ball for, to go shag in the dorms, why didn't I think of that?' asked Sirius. 'Oh yeah, Liv is reeling, she dosent know where you are, insists you were kidnapped then raped, I guess she wasn't far off.'

'Shut up, Black.' She smiled. 'Err, I guess I'll see you later Remus. Bye you miscreants' Maria left the room closing the door behind her. While going through the common room she got a few weird looks but she just smiled and exited the portrat and returned to her common room truly happy.

DONE! Wow that was a long one. I hope you liked! I can't wait to put up my sequel, its going to be awesome!

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