A/N: Hello, hope you like it! I do not own any of the characters apart from 'Shadow Black' and the 'Dark' family.

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CHAPTER 9: Raven's Roar

At the dinner feast Dumbledore announced that there was another pupil going straight into sixth year, and that she was in Gryffindor. The entire hall erupted into a series of muttering about yet another person coming into sixth year, and into Gryffindor.

"Please, welcome, Miss Raven Dark," Dumbledore announced and, as Harry expected, Raven threw herself into the hall with a bang, her wand held tightly in her hand. Her robes were messy, her hair was all over the place and, for some reason, the Gryffindor lion had a raven's head. The teachers and the pupils eyed her carefully.

"Please, Raven, join the Gryffindor table." Dumbledore said warmly, pointing out a spare seat next to Shadow. Raven nodded and sat next to her.

"AHH! TIS A TABLE OF WEASLEY'S!" Raven howled, when everyone was eating, at Fred, George, Ginny and Ron.

"Correction, four Weasley's, and they have names," Hermione said bitterly. Raven glared at her then an evil grin played on her lips.

"I wonder what animal you would be if you were an animagus," Raven said, a broad smile now on her face.

"Well, my patronus is an otter, so I think I'd be an otter," Hermione replied, keeping a close eye on Raven. Raven's smile grew.

"My patronus is a snake," she said to Hermione.

"So, if you were and animagus, you would probably be a snake," Hermione said with great pleasure and a glance at the Slytherin table.

"Actually, I would be a raven and Shadow here, a wolf," Raven shot back at Hermione, her smile spreading even more.

"It's true, my patronus is a lion," Shadow contributed.

"So how do you know what you would transform into?" Hermione asked, thinking that they didn't know the answer and were trying to be smart. Raven and Shadow glanced at each other.

"Because of this," Raven said and she changed into a raven. Shadow raised her head in the air and her nose grew outwards, then the rest of her followed suit.

"They know because they are animagus'!" Fred laughed along with everyone else. Except Hermione who wasn't looking amused. Raven and Shadow transformed back to their human forms and Raven smiled sweetly at Hermione, Shadow let her hair cover her face and tried to merge with the background.

"Then why aren't you in Ravenclaw?" Hermione asked, acidly.

"It wasn't that hard a choice, but…" Raven quieted. "ROAR!" she yelled and started laughing.

"Wasn't that hard? That hat was on your head for two hours!" Shadow stated. They stared at Raven

"What? I'm a tricky customer," Raven said, stabbing her roast potato with a fork then shoving it into her mouth.

"I bet you are!" Fred laughed.

"Fred, catch me, I'm falling, I'm in love!" George said in a faint voice while sinking in his chair, resting his head on his left hand and staring at Raven murdering another potato.

"Well, Dem mi'e be joning Hogworts," Raven said with a mouth full of potato. Shadow flinched.

"Don't speak with your mouth open! It's rude," Shadow said, waving a fork at Raven in a threatening manor.

"Sorry," Raven swallowed, "but Dem might be enrolling too. He say's he misses me … yeah right!" she snorted.

"Who's Dem?" Neville asked.

"Demetrius, her brother," Shadow informed them.

"There are three of us, me a.k.a the almighty Raven, Dem, my brother and Am, my twenty seven year old sister…." As the others started talking about Raven's brother, Harry's mind wandered and his eyes fell upon Cho Chang. She blushed and looked away, but Harry didn't really care anymore.

"Who's that?" Shadow whispered into his ear. He turned and stared at her in the eyes.

"No one," he shrugged and they both joined the main conversation again, just in time to hear Raven say "Fred, George, which ever one you are, you look good pink,"

"Thanks…wait, how did you know about that?" Fred asked, raising an eyebrow.

"One, I made the sweets. Two, I was in her pocket," she explained, "Shad is hopeless at potions, she's handy to have around when you want to sweet talk people, though," Raven looked a bit dreamy, Shadow blushed.

"You were so confident when we first met you, now you're all shy," Hermione spat at Shadow.

"Confidence charm…" she muttered in response, the others laughed again.

A.N: Thanks for reading, please review and I hope I didn't disapoint! The next chapter is called CHAPTER 10: Not So Beautiful