Diclaimer: Do we really need to say it again? We own nothing except our two extra charries
Chapter Three
Maz blinked her eyes she had been having the funniest dream... it had all been about giant chickens doing the hula... it was very strange... Sam had been there to... just then Maz's eyes came into focus and she saw the two shocked faces of Sam and Harry look at her...
Sam immediately flung her arms around her neck and started crying... "I thought u were dead!" she cried...
Maz just sat there blinking till she turned round to see Ron was also there... in his hands he held a piece of paper... it looked vaguely familiar... suddenly Maz remembered... THE NOTE!
She flung Sam's arms of her and lunged at Ron...
Ron looked up just in time to see her flying in his direction he let out a frightened cry, but he needn't have worried...
Maz had very quick reflexes for all her Quidditch practice and she managed to avoid colliding with Ron while at the same time removing the precious note from his hands... she landed gracefully beside her bed and blushed deeply when she saw the shocked expressions Harry Sam and Ron were giving her...
"Um... Hi!" she said with a small wave... she looked at them and they looked back until Sam screamed
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
"Um getting my note back?" said Maz with a sheepish grin. Sam rolled her eyes
"Well that was and impressive way to do it for someone who had been passed only a few seconds ago," Harry fell back onto Maz's bed in frustration. He was going to kill his cousin.
Suddenly Maz realised where they were.
"Hey why the hell are Ron and Harry in our dorm?"
"Haha well you see Maz that's a great story..."
"Save it Sam what are they doing here?" Ron having recovered from the shock of the whole situation spoke
"We came through the mirror,"
"Am I still dreaming?" Asked Maz.
"No unfortunately you're not my cousin here went back in time and discovered the mirror's secret and decided now would be a good time to share with me her only blood relative that she had spent time with my mum and dad!" Harry yelled. Sam looked at Harry remorsefully.
"I'm sorry but Dumbledore..."
"He told you to lie to me!"
"Well its not technically lying..." Harry glared at her.
"Fine...yes he did. And while I'm at it this isn't the first time I've visited them, I spent most of last summer with Remus back in the past..."
"Oh this just keeps getting better!" said Harry as he collapsed back onto Maz's bed.
Maz and Ron stood between the to cousins... there eyes following them back and forth like a tennis match until Harry collapsed back onto maz's bed... Maz took this a good opportunity to butt in...
"Well I'm starving! Hey you guys wanna nick down to the kitchens?" Maz nudged Ron in the ribs, so that he caught on
"Yeah good idea Maz, some on guys that sounds like fun!" he said in a fake tone...Maz and Ron looked hopefully at the other to... at first there was a stony silence until Sam sighed.
"Fine" she said icily...
"What about you Harry?" Maz said in a cheery voice... Harry sat up to look at her he could see pleading in her eyes... he knew Maz really hated fights... he sighed.
"Alright"...
They all began heading out the door... Maz in last place... Harry saw out of the corner of his eye,Maz slid something under her mattress before exiting the room...
Harry had almost forgotten the note... what had it said?
Had Ron managed to read it before Maz had snatched it away? What was so important about it? Harry intended to find out...he decided that he would sneak back later on that night through the mirror using his invisibility cloak to retrieve the note...but he might need Sam's help...he was so angry with her right now...why hadn't she told him? They told each other everything...had something happened those times she'd gone back that she didn't want him to know about? Why hadn't Sirius or Lupin told him about it?
She had spent most of the summer with younger Remus...they were covering something up...so know he had two mysteries to solve...great just what I need! Thought Harry.
"What happened Maz did you just pass out?" asked Sam genuinely concerned but also trying to avoid Harry's gaze.
"Yeah that's about it really I just got a little light headed that's all" said Maz her voice tinted with the slightest uneasiness as if she was lying. Sam searched her eyes trying to figure out what was going on with her friend.
For the whole trip the boys were silent; Ron staring oddly at Maz and Harry glaring at his cousin feeling betrayed.
Sam chatted to Maz trying to understand what had happened but as she did so she felt a growing desire to tell her cousin and dearest friend what had really happened in the past...
Maz felt uneasy... she hated lying to her friends... she looked at all of them as she walked...
Harry was deep in thought... he is planning something, she knew it... she looked over at Sam, she too was in thought, it was about this going to the past thing...
Maz knew were Sam had disappeared to that term, but Sam had never told her what had happened while she had been there...
She'd overlooked it at first but now it seemed so much more important...
She turned to look at Ron only to see him look away... at the moment Ron was the one she was worried most about... how much of that note had he read? She couldn't believe he had found it... she only hoped that he hadn't read it all and that if he had, well that he understood...
Maz sighed... why was her life so full of these troubles all of a suddenwhy had these secrets all shown up now when she was so unsuspecting of them? she sighed... somehow, somehow there had to be something good to come out of all this mess... she just couldn't think of what it might be right a at the moment...
Suddenly they had reached the painting that marked the entrance to the kitchens.
The four looked up, none of them really wanting to speak...they had maintained a steady silence for the past few minutes of the trip...they all found silence more comfortable at the present moment rather than talking. Finally Harry spoke up.
"Are we going in or what?"
"Yeah of course!" laughed Maz as she lead the way into the brightly lit kitchen full of bustling house elves going about their business. A squeaky voice piped up.
"Why it's Harry Potter! What are master Potter and his friends doing visiting Dobby at this hour?"
"Uh hi Dobby we were wondering if we could get something to eat maybe?" Dobby looked at Sam warily as she said this
"Please Dobby?" she asked again this time using one of her famous smiles.
"Why of course the young masters can have what ever they wish..." Dobby hurried off to find some other elves. The four sighed in relief and slumped onto some chairs at one of the tables. Ron eyed Sam warily like Dobby had a moment ago.
"You used your mind powers on him didn't you?" he asked accusingly. Sam blushed.
"I have no idea what you are talking about Ronald. No idea at all," a contented smile had worked its way onto her face.
Harry looked across at Maz for support to find that her face was all screwed up in concentration.
He tapped Ron and Sam's shoulders either side of him and pointed at her.
They watched as her hair went from a wet brown mess into a spiked purple coiffure and her ears became pierced with several different sparkling purple earrings. Maz looked at their approving faces and smiled.
"I'll take that as a sign that I look good," she laughed.
"I still can't get over how you and Tonks do that," said Ron. Just then two house elves came bustling up to them...
Maz looked down at the two trays they were carrying... she looked over at Sam who looked back at Maz... both at the same time they exclaimed.
"POPTARTS!" and burst into fits of giggles...Harry and Ron rolled thee eyes... ever since spending the one summer a twelve Grimmuald place the to girls had discovered Sirius's love of pop tarts!
Harry ignored the immense amount of chewing that was surrounding him instead he went back to thinking about the two problems at hand... the note, and the time travel... he really had to figure these ones out! Just then the kitchen porthole swung open and the twins entered the kitchen... they were discussing loudly a new sweet flavour or something similar... they smiled when they spotted them...
"Hey guys" said George walking towards them... he looked down at the trays that were in front of them...
"Nice pop tarts!" he said and plunged his hand into the enormous pile that was before them... meanwhile Fred was looking over at Maz with her now purple hair...
"Nice hair Maz" he said winking at her... was it his imagination or did Maz squirm at this comment... what the heck was going on here!
"Well we hate to eat and run guys but we gotta go don't we George" Fred said signaling to his twin
"Oh yeah" said George grabbing a handful of pop tarts before heading to the portrait...
Fred turned to wave at Harry, Sam and Ron... Harry couldn't help but notice him wink at Maz before leaving... for some reason this made Harry even more agitated and determined to find out what was going on... meanwhile Sam and Ron hadn't seemed to notice the odd behavior of Fred...Sam however did notice that Maz was looking a little flushed.
"Hey Maz are you okay?" Harry and Ron looked over at Maz
"Yeah you don't look too good," concurred Ron
"You must be coming down with something do u want us to take you to the hospital wing?" Maz was happy that they hadn't noticed and yet mortified with the prospect of the hospital wing.
"Um no that okay Ron I think I might just need to lie down for a while lets head back up to common room" Harry who had been watching this all very carefully, got up off his chair
"Yeah lets go and he headed out of the portrait hole with Sam, Maz and Ron following him. When they reached the top of the second flight of stairs Harry stopped
"Um on second thoughts you guys take Maz back I just need to sort something out," Sam glared at Harry
"Where are you going Harry James Potter I know you better than that," she said hotly inside his head using her mind powers
"Why should I tell you when you didn't tell me about the time travel?" he thought viscously back at her in his mind. Sam didn't answer him she saw the hurt in his eyes and turned around to lead the others back to the common room.
"What was the staring competition about back there?"
"What?" asked Sam trying to make Ron believe that she had no idea what he was talking about.
"Oh come on Sam you and Harry were both giving each other death stares," said Maz.
"I don't have a death stare," retorted Sam.
"Oh yes you do," said Ron and Maz together.
"Believe us we know..." Sam shot a death stare over her shoulder at them as she stopped in front of the portrait hole leading to their common room.
"Inuctus Grande" a voice from behind them said. Ron's eyes widened
"Hey Ginny"...