Chapter 8: Quidditch
The next morning Sierra, Ron, and Hermione made their way down to the quiddtich pitch about quarter to eleven and wished Harry good luck and went to find seats. When they found seats Madam Hooch began the match and the players were off. After a few minutes of the game Sierra saw a bludger nearly miss Harry and the crowd went "ooh". Sierra grabbed her binoculars and saw once again that a bludger almost hit him again. Then finally Wood called a timeout.
"Finally, they better decide what they are going to do with that thing. With Fred and George flying around him Harry won't be able to catch the snitch." Sierra said worriedly.
"They can't possibly let Harry deal with that thing alone can they?" Hermione asked.
"Knowing Harry, he will tell Fred and George to go back with the team. He'll deal with it alone. He won't let Malfoy get to him Hermione." Ron had answered.
" I hope not," Hermione said.
"Look their back on the field and mounting their brooms," Sierra said. The other two looked back at the field. "Oh no, it looks like they did let Harry deal with that bludger on his own, look." Sierra said.
"But it looks like he saw the Snitch!" Ron shouted. The Gryffindor crowd began cheering and all of a sudden the bludger had finally hit Harry. The crowd made an oh. Sierra, Ron, and Hermione were all nervous and when he caught the snitch and the yelled "YES!" Then ran down to the field to see if he was alright.
When they got there Hermione said a spell that turned the bludger to dust and they all knelt beside Harry.
"Are you okay?" asked Sierra.
"Yeah, I should be. Oh no." Harry answered. Sierra looked to see that Lockhart was coming onto the field and she and Hermione lifted Harry up and was about to take him to the Hospital wing but Lockhart stopped in front of them.
"No need for the hospital wing I now how to fix it." Lockhart said.
" No Professor, its Madame Promfrey we need not you." Ron said rather rudely.
"Not to worry, every one stand back." Professor Lockhart muttered a spell. By the look on Hermione's face it wasn't heeled. She held his arm up and it just flopped around.
"You removed every bone in his arm Professor!" Shouted Sierra. " Ron told you we needed Madame Promfrey! She won't be pleased at all!" Sierra finished and she, Ron and Hermione supported Harry up to the hospital wing.
"It was only an accident Sierra," Hermione said after they were well out of earshot of Lockhart.
"An accident maybe, but he still should have left it to Madame Promfrey instead of showing off to everyone. Look what he did all he did was make a fool of himself." Sierra said.
The rest of the way was silent they reached the hospital wing. When she came out she looked at Harry's arm and wasn't at all pleased.
"You should have come straight to me!" She said.
" We tried Madame Promfrey, but Professor Lockhart wanted to show off." Sierra said angrily.
"Hopefully he learned his lesson. I can mend bones in a second but growing them back." Said Madame Promfrey.
"You will be able to won't you?" asked Harry.
"Of course she will, it will just take longer than just mending them that's all." Sierra said.
"It may be painful." Madame Promfrey added. "Your in for a rough night Potter. Regrowing bones is a nasty business."
"We did win though," said Ron hopefully making the room more brightened.
"That was the most amazing catch. Malfoy looked like he was ready to kill someone," Sierra said.
" What I want to know is how he fixed that bludger," Hermione said angrily. Finally after the Gryffindor quid ditch team burst in Madame Promfrey kicked them out and they all said goodnight to Harry and left him alone.
Chapter 9: The Dueling Club
The next morning Sierra, Hermione, and Ron went down to Moaning Myrtles bathroom they thought that it would be safe making the Polyjuice Potion. A couple minutes after they started making Harry came in scaring them by accident.
"Harry!" Hermione said in a scarred voice. " You gave us such a fright. Come in. How's your arm?"
"Fine, did you hear about Colin?" Harry asked.
" Yeah, over heard McGonagall telling Professor Flitwick and we all decided that it was time to start." Hermione answered.
"There is something else," Harry said.
"What is that?" Sierra asked.
"Dobby came and visited me last night."
"Who?" All three asked.
"I forgot to tell you guys, Sirius and Lupin told me what happened to my parents and I got distracted. Dobby is the house elf that stopped my letters this summer that's why I didn't write, he was the one who stopped us from going on the train Ron, the one who fixed the bludger to." Harry finished.
" If he doesn't stop trying to save you Harry, he's going to kill you." Sierra said.
" I also overheard Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore, the said the Chamber of Secrets has been opened before." Harry added.
The news that Colin was petrified went through the school like wild fire. Rumors and suspicion was everywhere. As they were sitting at the Gryffindor table Neville said, "They went for Filch first, and everyone knows that I'm almost a squib."
"Your not almost a squib Neville. You're a wizard, your mum and dad are and so are you, your just a little slower at learning than others." Sierra said.
"Thanks Sierra," Neville.
December came around and McGonagall came around with a list to see who was staying. Harry, Ron, and Hermione signed it but Sierra was going home for Christmas. She didn't like dealing with Malfoy during her holidays anyway. The Polyjuice was only half-way done.
One Thursday afternoon Hermione said, "What we need in potions is a diversion. Then one of us could sneak into Snape's office and get what we need."
Harry, Ron, and Sierra all exchanged looks.
" I think that I should do the actual stealing. Harry and Ron would get expelled if they did anymore rule breaking. Sierra I don't want you to get in trouble if you got caught. So I'll you three need to do is create a diversion to keep Snape busy for about five minutes." Hermione finished.
Potions took place in one of the larger dungeons. With Draco being Snape's favorite student, kept flicking puffer-fish eyes at Ron and Harry. All Sierra could do is glare at him for either of them did anything to retaliate that Snape would give them a detention before they can say "unfair".
Finally Hermione gave Harry the signal, he ducked and pulled one of Fred's Filibuster fireworks out of his pocket and gave it a prod with his wand. He straightened up and to his aim and lobbed it into the air; it landed right on target in Goyle's couldron. His potion exploded.
"Silence, SILENCE!" Snape roared. "Anyon who has been splashed, come her for a Deflating Draft- when I find out who did this-"
Harry, Ron, and Sierra tried not to laugh when they saw Malfoy run up to the front. Harry saw Hermione come out of the office. Then Snape went over to Goyle's potion and picked up the remainder of the potion.
"If I ever find out who threw this," Snape whispered," I shall make sure that person is expelled."
"He knew it was me." Harry said as the four of them hurried to Moaning Myrtles bathroom.
"He can't prove it was you Harry. He'll need some evidence." Sierra said. "As far as I know all he has is a left over firework."
A week later Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Sierra walked across the entrance hall Seamus and Dean beckoned them over looking excited. They came over.
"They're starting a Dueling Club!" said Seamus. "First meeting tonight! I wouldn't mind dueling lessons; they might come in handy one of these days…."
" What do you reckon Slytherin's monster can duel," Ron said.
" I don't know, but it could be useful as long as its not Lockhart teaching." Sierra said.
That night the four of them headed down to the great hall.
"Gather round, gather round. Can everyone see me? Can you all hear me?" Lockhart said.
" Now, professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions- for full details, see my public works."
" I bet you all he did was wave his wand and everything went wrong," muttered Sierra. Harry and Ron tried not to laugh.
"Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape," said Lockhart, flashing a wide smile. " He tells me he knows a tiny little bit about dueling himself and has sportingly agree to help me with a short demonstration before we begin. Now, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry- you'll still have your Potions master when I'm through with him."
"More like we should be more worried about Lockhart, Snape's not going to be easy on him. We'll be worried if we still might have Lockhart teaching us before the night was done." Sierra said. This time Harry and Ron couldn't keep their laughter in everyone was looking to see what was happening. That made Harry and Ron stop. Hermione however looked disapprovingly at the three. Which made Sierra shrug.
"As you see, we are holding our wands in the accepted combative position." Lockhart spoke to the crowd. "On the count of three one, two, three."
All of a sudden Snape cried "Expelliarmus!" Lockhart was then blasted off his feet: flew backward of the stage, and smashed into the wall, and slid down it to sprawl on the floor.
"Do you think he's alright?" Hermione asked.
"Who cares?" Ron, Sierra, and Harry said together.
After the demonstration Snape came forward and began spliting people up. Then he came to the four of them.
"Time to split the dream team up I think." Snape sneered, "Weasley you can pair up with Finnigan. Mr. Potter-"
Harry moved toward Hermione, Sierra was already partnered with her brother Lucus by Lockhart. But Snape said " I don't think so, Mr. Malfoy come here and see what you can make of the famous Potter. And you Miss. Granger can partner with Miss. Bulstrode."
Harry looked over and saw Sierra and Lucus giving death glares to each other.
"Face your partners!" called Lockhart, back on the platform. "And bow!"
Sierra did not take her eyes of her brother. Harry didn't take his eyes off Malfoy as they bowed.
"Wands, at the ready! Shouted Lockhart. "When I count to three, cast your charms to disarm your opponents- only to disarm them - we don't want any accidents- one…two… three-"
Sierra saw her brother raise his wand and she was ready for anything to come at her.
"Patrificus Totallus!" He shouted.
"Expelliarmus!" Sierra shouted back and blocked the curse. "Tarantallegra!" she shouted.
"Expelliarmus!" Lucus shouted and he also blocked the curse.
"You should come up with better curses dear sister." Lucus said.
"You should learn to listen he said to disarm only!" Sierra said angrily.
"Well, then you should do anything to block this curse," he whispered it so only Sierra could here.
"Expelliarmus! You shouldn't have used that one, now that I've got a wand I can block it. Dad used it so many times I know when some is going to use it on me." Sierra said.
Then they heard Malfoy, "Serpensortia." The two knew that spell and shouted at Malfoy.
"What's the deal Malfoy!" The two shouted at him not knowing that Harry and Mafloy were demonstrating the duel they were so intent on their own. Then Harry saw it was ready to strike at Justin. Told the snake, "Leave him alone!" Then the snake backed off and he grinned at Justin, hoping to see relief on his face but Sierra jumped on the stage and said "Come on, Come on." The Justin shouted as the four left, "What do you think your playing at?!"
They reached the common room and said the password and went in. "Harry, I'm sure you didn't know what you just did but you spoke Parseltongue in front of the whole entire school," Sierra said.
"Crap! I didn't even realize," Harry said.
"I know, now everyone is going to think your Salazar Slytherine's great-great-great grandson or something." Said Sierra
"But I'm not!" Harry said.
"I know you're not." Said Sierra then Hermione said "It's going to be hard to prove it to the school, Salazar Slytherin lived a thousand years ago for all they know you could be." Hermione said.
The next morning snow had begun turned into a blizzard. Then one evening Hermione said "For heaven's sake Harry go find Justin if its so important to you."
"I'll go with you Harry," Sierra said and the two got up and they went to the Library.
Sure enough they spotted a bunch of Hufflepuffs in the back of the Library. Sierra and Harry sneaked up closer to see what they were talking about.
"So anyway, a stout boy was saying, "I toldJustin to hide up in our dormitory. I mean to say, if Potter's marked him down as his next bvitim, it's best if he keeps a low profiles for awhile. Of course, Justin's been waiting for something like this to happen ever since he let slip to Potter he was Muggle-born. Justin actually told him he'd been down for Eton. That's not the kind of thin you bandy about with Slytherin's heir on the loose, is it?"
"You definetley think it is Potter the Ernie," said the girl with pigtails.
"Hannah, he's a parselmouth. Everyone knows that's the mark of a Dark wizard. Have you ever heard of a decent one who could talk to snake? They called Slytherin himself serpent."
Sierra was ready to make a move toward the boy but Harry held her back. She looked at Harry and mouthed "fine" and continued listening.
"Remember what was written on the wall? Enemies of the heir beware. Potter had some sort of run-ion with Filch. Next thing we know, Filch's cat's attacked. That first year Creevey, was annoying Potter at the quidditch match, taking pictures of him while he was lying in the mud. Next thing we know- Creevey's been attacked, Ernie said.
"He always seems so nice though, I mean he's still friends with that Black kid isn't he? I mean with all the drama and stuff going on in her life now. Well, he is the one who made You-know-who to dissappear he can't be all that bad."
"No one knows how he survived that attack by You-Know-Who, and maybe he's still friends with Black because he feels sorry for her. I know that's why I talk to her, and also she's kind of cute. Anyway, only a real dark wizard could've survived that curse." Ernie said.
"Excuse me Mr. Macmillian, can you tell me what type of Drama I may have in my life?" Sierra asked him rather angrily that Harry came out and stood beside her.
"Trust me Black, Hufflepuffs are not stupid. It just so happened that we figured out what you are. Don't push it we might tell everyone,"Ernie said.
"Why would still be friends with Sierra, because she's a great person to be with. You don't know half the stuff that's going on in her life. Why would I want to attack Muggle-borns?" Harry asked angrily.
" I hear that you hate the muggles you live with." Ernie said rather bravely.
"Well, you got another thing coming because in case you haven't notice Harry's best friends with a Muggle-born named Hermione Granger." Sierra said.
That shut Ernie up and the Hufflepuff's left. Sierra and Harry looked at each other and walked out. They ran into Hagrid.
"Hi, Hagrid" they both said.
"Hello, Harry, and Sierra you both look hot and bothered are you alright?" He asked.
"We're fine. What are you doing here?" Sierra asked.
"Gotta ask permission from Dumbledore this is the second one killed this month. See you." Hagrid said and went on.
"See you," the two replied back and headed back to the common room.
As they headed back the two came across a hallway and Sierra tugged at Harry's arm and he turned and saw the same thing. Nearly Headless Nick and Justin have been attacked. Just then Peeves came in. Shouted something and Mcgonagall came running out and saw Sierra and Harry standing their.
"Potter, please follow me, you two Sierra then I will take you to Gryffindor common room." Professor Mcgonagall lead them to Professor Dumbledore's office and told Harry to go in there and wait. Then she took Sierra back to the common. There she found, Ron and Hermione.
"What happened?" they asked. "And where is Harry?"
"Harry's in Dumbledore's office and there has been another attack. That git Ernie seems to think that he knows what I am and thinks that Harry is heir of Slytherine when Harry is best friends with a Muggle-born, which is you Hermione." Sierra finished.
"People here will believe anything, and the Polyjuice Potion is nearly ready. We know you have to go home for Christmas and we'll write and tell you what happen just be sure and read it when you are alone." Hermione said in a whisper.
Chapter 10: Mothers death
Before Sierra knew it, it was Christmas break and she, Hermione, Ron, and Harry walked down to the station together to see Sierra off. Sierra wished them goodluck and walked on the train and found a compartment, to herself. It was not long before her brother found her and he and his friends made themselves comfortable in her compartment.
"So, how's your school year going?" Asked her brother.
"Fine, yours?" Sierra answered.
"You know I'm surprised at our house. We all know that you are a werewolf and yet we haven't told anyone what you are. So unlike us isn't it?"
"If you call it that, your house is the type that wants to know everything and if it's any good they keep it to themselves so that they can tease that person without having to let others know." Sierra said cooly.
"Exactly, are you and your uncle coming for Christmas. I think its actually your turn to hold the Black Family get to together." said Lucus.
"I'm not sure." Sierra said.
The train stopped and the two got off the train and went their separate ways only Sierra saw that her uncle was glaring at her father and decided to head over there quickly and so that they could leave before anything happens. That's what the two did and they vanished and landed in front of their house. They went inside.
"What happened?" Asked Sierra.
"Your father made sure that we hold the Black Christmas banquet. In fact he threatened you so that I would do it." growled Sirius.
"So we are doing it then," groaned Sierra.
"Unfortunately yes," Sirius answered. "I am inviting Moony whether they like it or not.
"Sounds great then we'll have someone to talk to other than Andromeda and Tonks."Sierra said as a matter of fact.
The two arrived home and Sierra spotted Moony on the couch and gave him a great big hug.
"Hey, cub how's your school year going?" he asked.
"Alright, beside the fact that someone or something is attacking muggleborn's," Sierra answered.
"What?!" the two grown-up's shouted.
"We don't know who it is and I don't think that Dumbledore wants anyone to know about it." Sierra answered quickly.
"So are you two still holding the Black family christmas?" asked Lupin.
"Yes, and in order to do it, he threatened Sierra. If you do not hold it this year, this time I will kill her." Sirius growled.
"What does he mean this time?" Lupin asked Sierra and Sirius stood and looked at her.
" When I was little, I accidently got angry at what Dad said to Mum and well my magic was not trained and I hit Dad with some spell and he came after me. Then Mum stepped in front of me when he shot the killing curse toward me and killed her instead and was not sorry at all. I guess that is what he meant by this time." Sierra answered looking a little sad. Sirius took her hand.
"Why wasn't I informed?" asked Sirius.
"I'm not sure but I think you were hunting someone then and was tossed in azkaban. I wasn't ready to talk about it, I haven't even told Harry, Ron and Hermione yet either." Sierra answered truthfully.
Silence fell and the three decided they were going to bed.
Chapter 11: The Black Family Christmas
The next few days went by fast for Sierra the next thing she knew the guests were arriving for the Black family reunion. Sierra, Lupin, and Sirius waited and greeted everyone who came through the door. Then the three went into the living room where the family had gathered. Sierra spotted Greyback and moved closer to Lupin, who looked over and saw what she did and took her hand as they went up on the stage to address everyone.
"I would like to thank everyone for coming. I don't think I would have been able to contact you all if it wasn't for Sierra." Sirius addressed the crowd. "The Yule ball will take place as usual on New Years eve at seven O'clock. Hopefully there will be more children here to brighten up the party. I hope you all find your rooms suitable Sierra decorated them to your interests. Dinner will be served at seven. You all may go and get settled I will show you the way to your wing." Sirius finished and lead the crowd out while Sierra and Lupin set the tables with the houseelves. After a while Sirius entered the kitchen and helped them. The houseelves obviously cooked, since niether of them knew how.
"You know, I think Greyback liked his room too much,"Sirius said as the three sat down to rest.
"Why's that? I didn't even work real hard on that room I didn't want him to stay longer than he was welcomed." Sierra said.
"I don't know, we all have to be careful. Its a good thing that we got a big Christmas tree this year. It looks like they all bought Christmas presents for an army." Sirius answered.
"They always do. The only one's that remember me are Andromeda and Tonks, My dad and lucus and surprisingly the Malfoys." Sierra said gloomily.
"Now you have five more people to add on the list." lupin added.
Sierra nodded, she missed her friends already she was wondering if they took the Polyjuice potion yet and if it all went well. Moments later the house elves announced that dinner was ready and that the guests were alerted. Sierra looked relieved she didn't want to alert them all. So Sierra, Lupin, and Sirius took the table near the door. Sierra sat between Sirius and Lupin. The first to walk in were Andromeda, her husband, and tonks who sat accross from Sierra, Sirius and Lupin. The others filed around the other table, Greyback decided to sit next to Lupin, since he came in last and the other tables were full. Lupin and Greyback glared at each other.
Sirius stood up and cammanded them all to eat. So the plates were filled with food and food was on the table, almost like Hogwarts. Sierra began on her chicken first.
"So, how's Hogwarts this year dear?" asked Andromeda.
"All right. Well, we don't really have a DADA teacher who doesn't know what he is doing. According to Hagrid he was the only man for the job." Sierra answered.
"Well, hopefully they get a better teacher next year. You know when Sirius was in school him and his friends pulled such pranks on anyone and everyone who think that they deserved it. It was mostly Slytherins though." Tonks said.
Sierra grinned at her uncle. "I'll tell you the stories later." He said and continued eating. Most of the family was done and desert was added to the plates. Sierra had her favorite pumpkin pastries. Everyone was finished and Sirius stood up and once again addressed the crowd. "Now that all of you are done eating I have a couple more announcements to make. Tomorrow is Christmas you may stay in your wing and open presents from family and then come down or bring those presents with you. We awake at seven so see you then." Everyone got up and went to their separate wing. Sierra said goodnight to Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks and her family and went up to bed. When she entered her room Hedwig was sitting on her pillow. She went and opened the letter.
Sierra,
Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas break with your family. The juice we tried went all right with Ron and Harry. Me not so much, I'm in the hospital wing, but only because the juice turned me into a cat. I was wondering if there was any chance in you coming earlier before term started so that us four could catch up before anyone comes back. We all enclosed our Christmas presents so don't open them until tomorrow. Hopefully we'll see you before the end of Christmas break if not see you at the beginning of the term. It wasn't Malfoy, a bit dissapointing though.
Love from Hermione.
Hermione,
Sorry about your juice not going so well and I'll see if I can make it before term starts. How can I be having a wonderful Christmas with my family when everyone is here, including him. I hope you get better before I get back, nothing excited has happened yet and thanks for the presents guys.
Love Sierra.
She attached her note and sent Hedwig on his merry way and got into bed.
Sierra woke up and found Sirius and Lupin downstairs already. She sat next to Lupin.
"Morning sleepy head," Sirius greeted her.
"Morning," she replied.
Sirius handed her a gift from him and she opened it and it was another Locket only pictures of Sirius and Lupin in them. Then Lupin handed his to her, it was a book about Werewolves. She said thank you and slowly the family began to walk in and they all sorted who's is who's. To Sierra's surprise she got a pile of them same with Lupin, and Sirius. The family opened their presents and when all was done they headed to the kitchen for breakfast. After breakfast most of them spent the day outside having a snowball fight. Sierra got Sirius and Lupin a lot with the help of Tonks. Then in the afternoon Sirius and Lupin got the two back good by dumping a bucket of snow on top of them as they entered into the house. They saw Sirius and Lupin laughing hysterically. The two frowned at them and walked in to change clothes for dinner. After dinner they all relaxed finally it was time for bed. As soon as Sierra hit her pillow she was fast asleep.