Chapter Seventeen
The next day at breakfast everyone was sitting together chatting happily...
Maz was discussing what colour hair looked best on her with Sam and Ginny while Harry and Ron started bleary eyed around the great hall...
They definitely weren't morning people...
Sirius, Remus and the twins had their heads together obviously discussing pranks or something...
Just then the mail began to arrive, big owls swooped down to the four tables...
Dropping many a package and parcel...
Children all around them began ripping paper open exclaiming to there friends about what they had received or grieving at any sad news that had been told... suddenly three big tawny owls arrived at there section of table... Each holding a letter in their beak...
On the front of each letter was a name... Samantha, Remus and Sirius...
Each of them ripped open their letters to reveal three pieces of parchment each read the same thing...
"Please report to my office at exactly 12.00 signed professor Dumbledore... P.S I am rather fond of "pumpkin Pasties".' All three looked up at each other...
They all new what was going to happen, but they couldn't help but feel just a tad nervous about it...
...Sam wasn't all to sure why she had been summoned as well, she guessed it was to say goodbye to them when there sort of went back...or if anything went wrong...she hoped with all her heart it didn't.
"From Dumbledore eh?" is what Ron asked through a mouthful of toast so it sounded more like.
"Froghm Dublebyeehmdorug eghp?" fortunately Maz was fluent in what she called mumble crunch; so she at least understood what he was saying and could translate when the others all went.
"What on earth did you just say Ron?" Maz laughed as Ron rolled his eyes and took a mouthful of bacon.
"He asked if they were from Dumbledore," everyone laughed
"Ahhh okay. It's a good thing that you have Maz here Ron otherwise you may have to actually swallow and not stuff your face," Ron frowned at them as they all laughed at him not with him. When the laughter died down the attention turned to Sam, Sirius and Remus.
"So are you guys nervous?"
"Yeah kind of," said Sirius giving everyone at the table a lovely view of inside his mouth.
Ginny, Maz and Sam cringed. Remus who had better table manners swallowed first.
"A little bit but I trust Dumbledore so I'm sure it will be fine," he smiled reassuringly at Sam. This helped her nerves a little.
"I wonder why he asked you to go Sam?" pondered Harry.
"Do you want me to come along?"
"I would ask you to come but I think this is something I need to do without your help," Harry nodded, he understood.
"But why you as well?" he asked again. He raised an eyebrow at her.
"...Well...I think it's to say goodbye to them when they go back...or kind of go back if that makes any sense...," she paused not wanting to say the second possibility.
"And...?" asked Fred and George.
"Or it might be to say goodbye incase anything goes wrong with the spell," she looked down at her plate not feeling particularly hungry anymore.
"Don't worry it won't Sam and you know it. This is Dumbledore we are talking about here," Maz said comfortingly. Sam perked up.
"Yeah your right Maz,"
"That's the spirit!" chorused the twins.
The day passed without much more trouble.
The teachers who had been teaching a while were having trouble coming to terms with having Sirius and Remus in their class...again. Even though they had received memos about it, most had thought Dumbledore and McGonagall were joking...but obviously not.
When the time came for lunch the three said goodbye to Maz, the twins, Harry, Ron and Ginny.
As they were walking to Dumbledore's office they ran into Malfoy and his cronies.
"Hey Potter watch it!" hissed Malfoy
"My name is Everfield, Malfoy..." Remus and Sirius glared at Draco so this is Lucius's son...
"A Malfoy eh? Is that why you have such a rotten stench hanging about you?" asked Sirius with a wicked smile on his face.
"Who do you think you are calling me names? I bet you're a mudblood," Sirius didn't look the least bit offended.
"He didn't call you anything. He just pointed out your B.O problem," laughed Remus.
"Who are you two low lives?" the two boys smirked at each other.
"Black and Lupin and your service your royal stenchness," they mock bowed to him laughing their heads off.
Malfoy's face was now turning steadily redder and Sam wouldn't have been surprised if it had turned purple... Sirius and Remus were dancing around him laughing and crying out.
"Make way for his royal highness lord stenchness!" Sirius cried.
"Right this way your majesty," said Remus signalling with his hand... Malfoy simply stood there fuming at being insulted by these two nobody's. As they cornered him he suddenly pushed past them and stalked off calling back over his shoulder,
"I'll get you for that Everfield, you and your little friends will pay for that!"
Sirius, Remus and Sam all stared after him until he was out of sight before all falling to the fall laughing... Remus was the first to call to his feet… He wiped a tear from his eyes and turned to the others...
"Come on we'd better go or well be late..." Sam got up with help from Sirius... She then linked arms with the boys... One on either side...
They laughed as they headed towards Dumbledore's office not knowing what would happen next...
Maz had left the great hall to go for a walk, she sighed...
She was worried about Sam and Sirius and Remus... What if it didn't work? How much heartache would that cause Sam then, to know that they had been so close, so close to happiness?... She stopped and sighed, she couldn't stand to see Sam in that pain again...
"Well hello there Miss Mazazilian..." Maz spun around to see not only Dean but Seamus staring smugly at her...
'Damn' she thought... Why hadn't she asked Fred or one of the others to come with her? She felt scared but she didn't let her expression show it...
"Hey," she said before turning intent on walking back the way she had come but before she could take even one step they were on either side of her clutching her wrists...
"Well Miss Mazazilian," Dean hissed in her ear, "I don't believe we finished what we started last time..."
Dean was getting closer, she was struggling but she new it was impossible, she was outnumbered... Dean was leaning in closer when...
"Maz!" Someone yelled Seamus and Dean spun around... Running towards them were Ginny, Harry and Ron... Maz gave a smile of relief...
"What are you doing?" said Harry his voice dangerously quiet... Seamus and Dean immediately let go of Maz's wrists...
"Just talking" Said Dean and he leaned in closer to whisper in her ear...
"Next time we meet, I'll make sure there are no interruptions," He said before him and Seamus walked away...
"Maz what happened," Asked Ginny rushing to her side...
"Nothing," Maz said... "Nothing..." She said as she watched Seamus and Dean's disappearing figures...