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Chapter 61

After much poking and prodding, Madame Pomfrey finally announced, "Mr Black, I am going to have to keep you in tonight for observation."

"Ok," Sirius said grudgingly, "but only for tonight."

"Yes, just tonight," Madame Pomfrey repeated. "But I'm afraid the rest of you boys will have to leave now. I don't want anything disrupting the tests."

Remus and James looked at each other and rolled their eyes before saying goodbye and leaving the hospital wing.

"Sirius? Sirius?"

Somebody was trying to wake him. Sirius opened his eyes to see who it was before remembering that he was currently blind.

"Who is it?" he asked groggily.

"It's me, Sirius," came the reply.

Sirius sat up. "Helga? What are you doing here?" he asked, sounding more harsh than he had meant to.

"I just wanted to-" she broke off. "I'll go if you want me to."

"No, I didn't mean that," Sirius corrected quickly and patted the bed. He felt Helga sit down next to him. "What is it?"

Helga began to cry.

"Helga, what's wrong?" Sirius put an arm around her shaking shoulders.

"It wasn't me, Sirius! I swear it wasn't me. I wouldn't – I couldn't do it!" she cried.

"Shh, it's ok," Sirius tried to calm her down. "I know it wasn't you."

Helga sniffed. "If you knew, why didn't you say anything?"

"I did."

"No, you didn't. You just stood there whilst they practically told me that – that-" she broke down again before she could continue.

"What? In Care of Magical Creatures? I was just surprised I guess. Shocked, really. I had a bit of a fight with the guys afterwards."

"Oh. So you never believed it?"

"Never," Sirius replied, and before he knew what had happened, she was kissing him.

The next morning Sirius woke to people sniggering.

"What is so funny?" Sirius asked, annoyed.

James pointed to the bed and gasped through peals of laughter, "Bed, bed!"

Sirius turned his head towards the bed and realised immediately what had so amused his friends.

"Helga," he shook the form lying next to him. "Helga, wake up."

She opened her eyes slightly. "What time is it?"

Sirius looked over at the clock. "It's just past nine."

"Wake me up in an hour." With that, Helga closed her eyes and promptly fell back to sleep.

"Sirius, my friend, what were you two up to last night that has Helga so tired this morning?" James asked, grinning from ear to ear. When no-one except for Sirius seemed amused, he looked around and demanded, "What's up with you lot? Hippogriff got you tongue?"

Lily, Remus and Yvonne were all staring at Sirius.

"What?"

"What time is it?" Lily asked.

"Nine. Well, ten past nine," Sirius answered slowly. "Why?"

"How did you work that out?" Yvonne asked.

"I looked at the clock, like every other normal person, and read the time. What's so amazing about that?"

"Blind people don't read the time," James said, finally cottoning on to what was happening.

Sirius was about to open his mouth to reply when Madame Pomfrey bustled into the ward.

"Mr Lupin tells me you are able to – Miss Prewitt! Get off that bed this instant!" The nurse said, sounding outraged.

Helga yawned. "Sorry Madame Pomfrey. I'm pretty tired. Sirius and I had a busy night."

With a grin, Helga got off the bed and exited the hospital wing, leaving Madame Pomfrey opening and closing her mouth like a goldfish.

A/N Erm. Yeah. Sorry about the lack of updates, for like the upteen-millionth time. You all should go and check out Midnite Chocoholic's new fic. All of you. Go. Now.

Keren, now that I've updated, albeit a little late, pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me who the mystery girl is! Update your fic!