The lesson ended and Sirius had due to Bella's strange mood been unable to tell her how he felt and watched her sadly as she departed from the tower in the company of her fellow Slytherins. Remus noticed his friend's sullen face.

"I take it you didn't get to talk to her!" He said placing a hand on Sirius's shoulder.

"No, she was in a odd mood. She hardly uttered more than a few sentences the whole lesson."

"You were lucky. Snivellus took great delight in elaborating quite vividly that I'd die in pain and bloodshed before my 24th." James said whipping his glasses that had misted up due to the incense sticks that Dorothea loved to light during her lessons.

Peter ambled over to them happy to have been freed from his ordeal. "Why, why do we have to have pointless and stupid Inter-house relations crap? Honestly that was quite possibly the worst 90 minutes in my life." He moaned running a hand through his blonde hair.

"Actually it is in essence a good idea but it has a major flaw with the inclusion of the snakes." Remus said intelligently. As a prefect he felt he should at least show a little enthusiasm for the basic idea.

"Well I'm with Peter it sucks and if I have to be paired with Snivellus again I'll scream." James sighed as they made their way to Transfiguration where the head of Gryffindor Minerva McGonagall presided over them and the Ravenclaws. Sirius wouldn't see Bella again until after lunch when they would have Defence against the Dark Arts with the Slytherins with Professor Dumbledore. That was Sirius's and his friends absolute favourite lesson. However Sirius's attention was soon turned back to his lesson as Miss McGonagall asked him a question to which he couldn't give an answer.

"Perhaps Mr Black you shall listen in future. 5 points from Gryffindor." She stated. McGonagall wasstrict butfair and would dock points from any house who disobeyed her rules or appeared to not be listening. Sirius's cheeks burned scarlet. To lose points for a prank was one thing but to lose points for not listening. "Way to go!" James said mockingly. The lesson continued on and they were about to move onto the practical aspect when a small first year ran in. "Miss McGonagall! Miss McGonagall." The girl wept.

"What?" Minerva replied somewhat impatiently. She loathed interruptions in her lessons.

"There's a Slytherin girl in the toilets Miss. She looks as though she may have collapsed."

"Oh my right class for now I'd like to practice the NEWT questions that I've prepared on the board. Mr Lupin I leave you in charge whilst I go and see to this incident."

"Okay Miss." Remus said looking up as the teacher followed the small Hufflepuff down the corridor."

"Okay which Slytherin could it be?" James said loudly.

"Prongs not now." Remus said warningly.

"Oh come off it Moony you're in charge. Whose gonna say anything?" Peter said.

"I reckon its Malfoy. He does look an awful lot like a girl!" James said pointing his wand at his hair so it grew longer and changed colour to a Platinum blonde then proceeding to stride up and down between the desks doing an over-the-top impression of the Slytherin Head-Boy which sent everyone into peals of laughter. "James it's not a laughing matter." Remus said as he flipped through his transfiguration book trying to find the answer to the question McGonagall had written up. "Oh come on she's bound to be alright. Anyway any other guesses? I hope its Morgana Goyle. She docked 20 points off me the other day for nothing." James said.

Remus raised an eyebrow. "James it's not nice to wish people hurt despite who they are."

"Yeah James." Sirius stated. James looked at him in disbelief.

"Oh come off it Padfoot. What's with you on the high horse? I get Mr. Prefect here been like that but surely there must be some Slytherin you'd want it to be."

"Actually there isn't. And may I remind you that two of my cousins are in that house."

"Yeah two cousins you hate." James stated.

"That's not the point!"

"God Sirius lighten up."

"Well why don't you try growing up!" Sirius yelled loudly standing up.

"Sirius calm down I'm sure James didn't mean to upset you." Remus interjected wanting his friends to calm down. "He didn't upset me." Sirius said.

"Well sit down, and James stop been an inconsiderate prat." Remus said taking control. The rest of the class got back to their work but Sirius couldn't as he had many thoughts running through his head regarding Bella or even Narcissa. As much as he disliked his elder cousin she was still his relative and he didn't want to think that it was her or Bella who had been found.