"You say you're not evil, and I'm going to believe you." Harry grumbled as he sat down next to Charis.

"And why would you do that?" Charis asked Harry curiously. Harry grumbled but didn't give an answer. "Oh, that means I should thank Ginny, doesn't it?" Harry nodded curtly.

Charis looked at the boy, he looked half annoyed and half worried. She wanted to say things she knew she shouldn't, to tell him everything she knew, but she knew that was wrong.

"I really don't want to hurt you or your friends." Charis said quietly. "I swear on my own life, I don't want to hurt them." Harry looked at her, the sincerity in her eyes and wondered for a second if he could truly believe the words leaving her lips.

"You are who you are." Harry replied firmly.

"I'm my mother's daughter, even if she doesn't realise it." Charis replied just as firmly.

Harry laughed, he actually laughed.

"Maybe."

"Harry isn't bad, I mean, if you're into the brooding hot guy." Charis laughed as she and Ginny gossiped in the living room.

"What about you, any guys you've noticed?" Ginny asked, Charis looked at her like she was insane.

"I haven't had the chance, I mean, there are a couple of guys who caught my eye, I guess…" Charis said feebly.

"I am so going to have to set you up with someone."

"I'm going to miss you so much!" Ginny whined as she hugged Charis once again, they were standing on the platform 9 ¾ saying good bye, as Charis was fully trained Albus Dumbledore had decided to keep her out of the school, it was an obvious target with her there.

"I'll miss you too!" Charis said hugging her friends back. Sirius stood beside the pair chuckling, overjoyed at his new found freedom, freedom he apparently found just before Charis arrived, she knew little of it, and no one really spoke much about it.

"Come on, Ginny we're going to be late!" Hermione sighed, giving Charis a quick fleeting hug before disappearing with Ginny onto the train, Harry and Ron had nodded in her direction, and that was that. She watched as her best friend and kinda friends disappeared, knowing she would not see them again until Christmas.

"You alright?" Sirius asked as they reached the Head Quarters. He looked really concerned and she felt bad.

"Yeah, I'm just gonna miss them, all of them." Charis admitted in a quiet voice.

"Well, let's not get too down, they'll be back by Christmas, and until then, I get to take you shopping." Sirius said grinning at Charis. "Molly's always saying that it isn't fair that you only have three outfits."

"But I don't have any money." Charis said feeling like a total idiot.

"I do." Sirius said, like duh!

"But you can't do that-"

"Carly, I never had my own kids, you and Harry are the closet thing I have to a family anymore, just let me do this, it's the least I can do for you." Sirius said, Carly smiled at him and shrugged.

"You're the only family I've ever known too." Carly sighed. "I don't think my mother and father count… They don't consider me their daughter."

"No, well, they missed out, didn't they."