Chapter 16: Sarah Talks to Harry.
"Mum wants us to all go home for Christmas. Your welcome to come…actually…she wants you to come." Ron said as he and Harry along with their entire class waited outside of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Faith had decided that she would see how well all the students disarmed and did a patronus for a final. So she had the entire class wait outside while one by one they all went inside to take their final.
"Well…I guess…" Harry said shrugging.
"I kinda have to go….and Faith is going….so it should be interesting." Ron said his eye wondering away.
"Wait…I thought…she had to plan that stupid dance." Harry said.
"Well my mum says that she's going to come Christmas Eve and then she is going to leave during the afternoon so she can go oversee this dance. There are a lot of kids that are staying at Hogwarts for the holidays just so they can go to this dance." Ron said. Harry noticed that Ron's ears were turning a slight pinkish color.
"One more final to go and we'll be finished." Harry said happily after finishing his Defense Against the Dark Arts Final.
"But the last final is Potions." Ron said with a groan.
"Oh Ron Please! Try to be a little optimistic." Hermione said.
"Ok Fine. Gee! I can't wait to have myself degraded by a slime ball of a teacher!" Ron said in mock glee and clapping his hands together. Hermione just shot him a venomous glare as they entered the classroom.
Silently, everyone took out their cauldrons and began making the potion that had been scribbled onto the board. Snape was just finishing his inspection of the Slytherin's potions when Harry dared sneak a peek at Hermione's cauldron. The potion inside it was a think light purplish color. Harry let his eyes fall on his own potion which was a runny gray color. Harry guessed that Neville's wasn't much better since it seemed to be spitting fire.
Snape came and stood in front of Neville's cauldron. A nasty grin spread on his face, but before he could utter a word the door swung open and Faith's head popped in.
"Serverus…I was wondering if you had anything to give to a stunned student?" Faith asked. (A/N: I know a million of you will ask 'why doesn't she just go to the hospital wing?' Well I'll tell you. Faith and Madame Pomfrey tend to butt heads. Faith made it into Saint Mungos, Pomfrey did not. Faith doesn't think she needs help…unless its for a potion…which by the way is her worst class apart from divination and astronomy.)
Snape handed a glass bottle to Faith and within the blink of an eye she was gone. Snape then returned to his spot in front of Neville. He looked down at the potion and said
"Mr. Longbottom, you better add the McGafe root before I am forced to take away points." He said in a very calm tone. Harry could have keeled over dead right there. Neville looked as white as a sheet and with shaking hands added McGafe root.
"That was amazing. I didn't see Snape mark off a single thing for Gryffindor. Wonder whats up with him?" Ron asked as they got out of class and headed towards the Gryffindor Common room.
"Oh come on Ron its quite obvious." Hermione said.
"Ok then. If your SO smart why was he so nice hmmm?" Ron asked.
"Did you not notice who came into the room before he inspected us?" Hermione said sighing.
"Who?" Ron asked.
"Faith" Harry said softly. He was apparently lost in his own thoughts.
"What?! Oh Come off it! You mean to tell me that Snape was nice just because Faith walked in?" Ron asked mockingly.
"Of course. And don't act like you didn't notice her come in." Hermione said with a slight glare (Jealous maybe?)
"You guys go along with out me. I'll catch up." Harry said waving them off as he saw Sarah walking out of the Divination class room. He could hear them arguing as they walked off farther and farther away.
"Professor!" Harry called out. Sarah stopped and turned. She had her hair in loose curls and Harry noticed that her eyes were a light blue color with flecks of purple in them.
"I wanted to talk to you." Harry said.
"Well…what about?" Sarah asked with a small smile.
"Faith, Sirius and possibly my parents." Harry said.
"I had a feeling you'd want to talk about that. Faith can't really give a good perspective of some of the things she did from her point of view…and I know for a fact she can tell stories about me far better than I can about myself. Although…I can't tell you much about James or Sirius…Remus would be the person to see for that. And Lily…Faith would know more." Sarah said as they walked through the halls.
"But you were her friend too." Harry commented.
"Yes…but Faith and Lily…they were like sisters. They were the best of friends. Even though they said there were no favorites…I could tell. I mean its not their fault…they just knew each other for slightly longer. Human nature." Sarah said with a smile.
"I'm also curious about…Snape and Faith…is…was…there…?" Harry started and looked down at his feet.
"It depends on your way of looking at it. From Faith's stand point they are just friends. Serverus…well…lets not go into that." Sarah said thinking about the many fights of Sirius and Serverus.
"Harry…you have to understand something. Faith is not good at showing emotion. The only two she can really show are happiness and anger. Of course there are the little ones like surprise and such but she has trouble with the big major ones. I know it may not seem like Faith misses Sirius…but she does." Sarah said.
"But…Whats the whole story behind those two. It seems like she's forgotten him." Harry said sadly.
"Trust me she hasn't forgotten him. There will be times when she will just sit there and stare at the fire, and you can just see the pain reflecting in her eyes. McGonagall has the room next to Faith's, and at night she can hear her crying herself to sleep." Sarah said solemnly. Harry just sat there in silence. For weeks he wanted to talk to Faith about Sirius but every time he brought it up she changed the subject. Now he knew why.
"Did you know Harry that Faith was the only girl Sirius actually liked? I mean Sirius always had girls he thought were cute but never anyone he liked. In fact Sirius didn't even always like Faith. At the beginning of the year he thought she was just a really attractive, annoying smart girl. Then they got detention together in their second year…Faith was sneaking out for some reason Sirius never told us what he was doing, but anyways and I guess he realized she was actually very interesting and not annoying at all." Sarah said with a smile.
"You know that ring Faith has?" Sarah asked. Harry gave a small nod.
"Sirius's. I remember. He gave that ring to her on the day that he supposedly betrayed Lily and James. An engagement ring." Sarah said.
"But why didn't she say that he was with her? Then he never would have gone to Azkaban." Harry asked.
"That wouldn't have done any good. The Ministry was so set on Black being the one. They made the entire world hate him. If Faith had said something she would have been put in Azkaban too…" she started but went silent.
"You know Harry…I have a pensive…anytime you want to check it out you can just ask." She said.
"Could…I?" Harry asked.
"As in now?" She asked. Harry gave a small nod.
"I suppose." Sarah said sighing and getting up. She led Harry back into the Divination room. Behind the her desk there was a tall cabinet with windowed doors. Sarah opened and rummaged around. She pulled out a black ceramic bowl. She set it on her desk and stuck her wand in the bowl.
"This pensive was shared by Faith, Lily and I. Lily does not have a lot of memories in here. So it would take me a full day just to find one of hers. I promise you that I will look so you can view one." Sarah said as she swirled her wand around, looking for a memory. When she found the one she was looking for she stepped back and allowed Harry to look into the bowl.
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