If Harry looked embarrassed when he had been asked how he was. It was nothing compared to how Calleigh felt when she had been asked to talk to Professor Lupin in the corridor.
"Yes, Professor Lupin," Calleigh asked sheepishly.
"Have you talked with your father recently?" he asked.
"Why?"
"I think you know why, Miss Black. The fact that you could have might have drawn the dementors to our compartment."
"Or it could just be that he is my father," she snapped at him. "He has done nothing wrong, and I would expect you one of his best friends to trust him and not the Ministry."
Lupin seemed taken aback by her last statement. She figured he didn't know anything about him. But she knew just as much as her parents would have wanted anyone to know about him.
"Now how would you know that?"
"I have my memories. I know just as much as my father wanted me to know, Moony. He has done nothing wrong, and if you don't believe that at the very least don't judge on second-hand knowledge," she growled before turning around.
"I can see you have figured out how to work your mother's necklace. I don't know who to trust, Calleigh. But, I will give him the chance that you want me too. No one else knows or at least realizes your connection with him, do they?" said Lupin with a great sigh.
"Only Hermione and the teachers at school, and my Uncle. But no one else. Hermione won't tell either, I know she won't," sighed Calleigh before returning to the compartment.
Calleigh entered the compartment just as the trained started to slow and they entered the station. Once they get off, they spotted Hagrid immediately. But there were too many people for them to talk much, and so they headed onto the carriages.
Harry, Ron, and Neville got one all to themselves, while Hermione, Calleigh and Ginny shared another. As they were pulled steadily up towards the castle the girls began talking.
"So what classes are you two taking?" Ginny asked gingerly.
"Divination, Muggle Studies, Arithmancy, Care for Magical Creatures, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Ancient Runes, Herbology, and Astronomy," Hermione said proudly.
"Well, I am taking Divination, Care for Magical Creatures, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Astronomy, Herbology, History of Magic and Ancient Runes," sighed Calleigh.
The three of them continued to talk the rest of the way up to the castle and once they reached it Ron and Calleigh headed for the Great Hall while Professor McGonagall talked to Harry and Hermione.
Their first class of the year was Divination. It was all the way up in the North Tower which seemed to take forever to get too.
"How do you know where it is?" Harry asked breathing heavily.
"Professor Trewlany would never let me live it down if I got lost. She is one of the few people I have had contact, I mean besides you guys, contact with since I started Hogwarts. She thought it would be extremely important for me to know how to get to her 'favorite niece's class'," Calleigh said with a laugh as they entered the tower.
"She is your aunt?" Hermione asked before being cut-off by the Professor.
The only remotely eventful thing that happened during the rest of the day had been Harry's death predicted and Malfoy had gotten hurt. The next day, though, everyone was in a whirlwind waiting for Defense Against the Dark Arts.
The first thing they did involved boggarts and the classes only seemed to get better. As the days passed it got closer and closer to Halloween and everyone was excited to be able to go to Hogsmeade for the first time, and the start of the Quidditch season.
"What are we going to do first?" Ron asked Hermione excitedly,
"I was thinking we could check out the Shrieking Shack first," she stated in amusement. "Oh, sorry guys. At least you won't be all alone."
It wasn't long before all of the third years had left for Hogsmeade and Harry and Calleigh were left alone, the only third years in all of Gryffindor still at school.
"Harry, let me help you with your Divination. It really isn't that hard. It is fun really," offered Calleigh.
"No thanks."
"Now, Harry. You aren't going to go trying to sneak into Hogsmeade will you? It is dangerous!"
"Look, I know. Sirius Black is on the loose and I need to be careful. I am not going to go looking for him. You are just like everyone else!" he shouted back at her.