Amera landed hard on a tawny beige carpet, covered in ash and soot.

"MOM! I'm home!" Amera called as she got up and dusted herself off.

"Ah! You're home! Good news, Tashia owled last night saying she's coming home today. She said there was a complication with her Demonology exam." said Aurora as she walked out the kitchen.

"Thought I'd make some treacle tart, invite Harry over so we can welcome her back."

Amera smelled the sweet air and the cooking treacle tart.

"What do you think the problem is?" Amera asked as she placed the many bags of shopping on the couch.

"I don't know. Don't you also take Demonology?" Aurora asked Amera.

"Yeah, but I still don't know what the problem is. Hope it wasn't a reset paper…"

"I hope for her sake too. Take all that shopping upstairs and unpack. Tashia is going to be home soon. Take my wand to let Harry out of those burglar bars."

Amera picked up all the shopping again, stuck her mom's wand behind her ear, and took it all upstairs. She put it all the bags on her bed, and divided it in half.

"I hope Tashia likes the stuff that Mrs Malfoy got her…" she looked into the bags with Tashia's stuff and sighed.

"If she doesn't like that top I'll have it…" Amera thought to herself.

"Better go call Harry…" Amera opened her bedroom window and walked across the roof that went over their and the Dursley's garden wall. The roof ran from under Amera's window and stopped just under Harry's bedroom window, and luckily Harry was always in his room. Amera tapped on the window, and she heard Hedwig screech inside. Harry stood in front of the window, looking up at her standing on the roof. He opened the window and spoke through the bars.

"Where were you yesterday? We were supposed to…"

"I know Harry. I went to go visit one of my mom's friends and she insisted I stay the night. I promise I'll show you the star trick I learnt at school."

Harry nodded absent mindedly, then looked back up at Amera.

"You're not supposed to be on the roof in the day…"

"This is a special occasion. Tash is coming home just now, and mom made your favourite…"

"Treacle tart?"

"Yep. So get a move on…" Amera looked around the neighbourhood for anyone, then took her mom's wand out of from behind her ear tapped the burglar bars.

Amera held out her hand and pulled Harry through the burglar bars and onto the roof with her. They ran across the roof and jumped through Amera's open window.

"Why is she only coming home today? Your school has been out for a week already." said Harry landing on the carpet.

"Yeah, it was something with her exam, but she'll tell us soon."

Harry saw all the stuff on Amera's bed, and wondered where it all came from. Harry looked around coyly, making as if he was interested in something else, while he was inching towards the bags.

"Where's your owl? I haven't seen him in days…" Harry asked, looking at the interlacing braches lodged in the corner of Amera's room, while edging towards the bags in the opposite direction.

"I haven't seen him either. Think he went really far away. Hope he didn't find another home…"

Amera saw Harry was heading for the bags, and jumped in front of him

"Nah uh! You will have to wait to see these clothes…"

"But its still forever until we go to school…"

"Then until we go to Diagon Alley. I'm not allowed to wear this stuff in Muggle world."

Harry laughed, he always did when Amera said "Muggle World", it sounded really weird because of the way she said it.

"Ok, until Diagon Alley then…"

But before they could say anything else, there was a thump downstairs.

"I'M HOME!" someone shouted from downstairs.

"TASH!" Amera shouted inside her room and ran out her room and down the stairs.

Harry followed the path downstairs, just at a slower pace. When he eventually got to the fireplace, Tashia and Amera were hugging each other, squealing excitedly. Tashia pulled away from Amera and sprung onto Harry, hugging him until he swore his ribs cracked.

"Hi Tash…how was your year?"

Tashia smiled, showing her model white teeth. She was a little shorter than Harry and Amera both, as they were the same height, but Tashia was just as pretty as Amera, just with hazel eyes and dark brown hair. Amera and Tashia both were wearing V- neck tops, except Tashia's was black and Amera's light blue.

"Fantastic! I got an O on my OWLs in Demonology. There was an enquiry because they thought there was a mistake, but they passed me! Now I know at least that I got one OWL." Tashia jumped up and down, squealing excitedly.

"OK you can stop acting so girly now…" said Amera slapping Tashia hard on the back.

Tashia almost choked from the thump, but stopped laughing so girly.

"Yeah you're right. Do I smell a little something for me?" Tashia smelled the air and smiled again.

"But only after lunch…" called Aurora as she came out of the kitchen again.

"Auntie Aurora! I missed you so much…" Tashia jumped again, hugging Aurora in a bone-crushing hug.

"Good to see you again…" Aurora loosened Tashia's grip on her ribs.

"I did bake you a little something, but first I think we need to go see what Amera brought you."

Tashia had a wild grin on her face and bounded upstairs, faster than any of them.

"I think she was eating way too many Fizzing Whizzbees at the Ministry…" Amera shook her head and followed Tashia upstairs.

"At the Ministry? Our ministry?" Harry asked as he and Amera walked up the stairs.

"Oh my…we don't tell you that much do we?" Amera asked, Harry shook his head before the question was even finished.

"We floo from Frozbergen to the Ministry to here. They must check our foreign wizarding passports or we can't floo home. Sometimes when we wait, we get candy."

Harry nodded; he was learning something new about magic everyday. Tashia was already in Amera's room, rummaging through all the bags.

"Ooh! Which side is mine? Please tell me it's the left!

Amera shook her head, and nodded. Tashia carried on looking through the bags, throwing out everything she didn't want.

"Ugh! Green! Don't like it…" she narrated as she threw stuff out of her bags.

Harry and Amera stood at the doorway and just watched all the clothes flying out the bags.

"GEE! How much did you buy?" said Tashia as she carried on through the bags.

"Well, we bought a lot of stuff, pretty much everything I like."

"Everything YOU like! We're going shopping again next week."

"Well we are anyway…"

"YES! Victory for me!" Tashia punched the air and took the remaining bags with her.

"If you want those, or change the colours, just tell me, because I still don't get Partial Transfiguration." Tashia walked past them as they made way for her.

"I'll come show you my outfits now…" said Tashia, closing her bedroom door right across the hallway.

"Okaaaaay…" said Amera, frowning slightly.

Harry looked just as bewildered. They stepped into Amera's bedroom and Amera shoved all the stuff off her bed and onto the floor, then sat on her bed.

"Well aren't you a neat child…" said Harry mockingly.

"Don't talk Mr Potter, I've seen your room, and it's not much better than mine."

Harry shrugged his shoulders guiltily, and sat with Amera on her bed.

"So…"

"SO…"

Amera looked like she wanted to say something to Harry, but she stopped herself from saying it.

"What do you want to say?" Harry asked her.

"Uhm…"

"Just say it…"

"I'm so sorry Harry…about…about Sirius."

Harry felt a lump in his throat, the one time that he didn't expect to be questioned about it, and it was brought up.

"It's ok."

Amera leant across her bed and pulled him into a hug, holding him protectively. They hadn't really known each other many years, she had only lived there since she started school when she was nine, and saw him every other holiday, but they got to know each other very well over the last couple of years. They didn't speak for a while until Amera spoke again.

"My mom knew Sirius. She knew him really well. When she heard, she almost broke down. She was the one who told me everything."

Amera was still hugging Harry, and he couldn't help but think about the last time he saw Sirius. Falling through the stone archway, through the curtain, just falling so slowly, then he was gone. Amera let go of Harry slowly, and Harry sat back.

"Your mom knew Sirius?"

"Yep, same house and year. Practically playing pranks all the time. Can you imagine my mother playing pranks on people?"

Harry laughed lightly. He remembered seeing Sirius in the Pensieve when he was having Occulmency lessons with Snape; he was a real a troublemaker. He never saw someone that looked like Aurora, but he wasn't really looking for her, he was looking for someone that looked like his parents.

"My mom always knew that Sirius was an innocent man, but she's so sad that the only way he could be proven innocent was…" Then Amera's voice trailed off.

Harry knew what she wanted to say next, and that's probably why she stopped.

"How about a game of exploding snap?" Amera suggested quickly.

"Sure. Gotta wait like three hours for lunch anyway."

Amera went to her cupboard and got a pack of exploding cards and threw them on the bed before walking back. They sat on the bed and played for something close to three hours, until Tashia came out with a weird black and red top with jeans. They looked up from their cards and at Tashia instead.

"Looks good, don't you think?"

"Looks excellent."

A voice came up the stairs, shouting for lunch.

"Yes! I'm starving!" said Harry.

"Sure looks like it!" said Amera, poking him in the ribs.