A/N - You know the drill, I am sitting at home crying my eyes out that I don't own Sirius Black or Remus Lupin.
Sorry I cut this chapter off abruptly, I am having trouble writting Sirius. He is coming out shallow and one diminsinal. He is anything but that.
Fallen
Chapter 3
Waking up early the following morning, Miah can't wait to be re-sorted and find out where the hat in placing her this time. She knows that she will be having words with that irascible hat if it tries to put her in Slytherin. She knows that she does have some of those qualities, especially with how she is trying to influence the futures outcome, but her 'mudblood' scar would be too tempting to the future Butt Munchers that are in that house at this time.
When Miah comes out of the bathroom, Severus is waiting for her. He came early to speak to her privately. He wants to know who it was that betrayed Lily. She tells him he overheard the first two line of the prophecy before being caught listening and ejected. That he did not realize at the time that it was about his former friend Lily and that when he did he begged Professor Dumbledore to save Lily.
At this time, Miah asks him if his Patronus is a Doe to which he affirms it is. Same as Lily's then. When did it change, before or after you called her a 'mudblood?' "After," he replied sadly.
"For my edification, did you call her that on purpose to push her away as you realized you were getting too deep in the dark arts? I have theorized that you did it to try to protect her from 'your friends' who have no trouble harming others."
"Yes, I did," cries Severus, "How did you know?"
"I could read it in your eyes, to most everyone else they looked angry, but I could see the sadness," Miah softly told him. "Additionally, it is the way you treat all your students, with the exceptions of Slytherin's in the future. Because of this theory, I decided to stand up for you even when you were deriding me."
"I think you need to let her know. I believe she will understand," Miah told him softly.
"Thank you for your honesty," replies Severus. "Will you be telling everyone?"
"No, not the whole story, I will not tell them that it was you who betrayed them. I will leave that decision up to you if you feel the need. Now you should go before Sirius gets here. I am trying to get them understand you better but that will take a while. I will see you later."
- ooOoo -
Sirius, walking along to the Hospital Ward sees Severus leaving and wanders in asking Miah is everything okay, that he saw Snivellious leaving.
"You will not call him that," she angrily replies, her hair almost sparking. "I know you guys don't like him, but hopefully, it is more than he is a Slytherin. While he is not my favorite person he does not deserve to be bullied here at school, his one refuge away from his father, and besides he really is a good person at heart. He spends 20 years spying on the Dark Wanker, being tortured at that evil fucker's whim."
"What do you mean tortured?" asks Sirius horrified.
"Old Moldy loves to Crucio, as well as other dark curses, his subordinates when he doesn't get the exact results he wants, oh hell, even when he does. It is his form of fun. It is amazing what a bunch of masochists the Butt Munchers are."
"Severus just wanted a few details that I left out of my tale. I gave them to him, just as I will give you and the others information that I don't think the whole group needs to hear. Some secrets are just not mine to spill, like that extraordinary map, and the Witches statue that leads somewhere, or a certain cloak of the Potter's or a few illegal animagus.
Pulling him into a deserted classroom, warding the doors from intrusion and sound, she turns to him and shows her biggest secret. She too is an animagus. She is a griffin. "I am a Gryffindor for a reason."
"Wow that is so sexy," purrs Sirius, while trying to steal a kiss.
Pushing him away, laughing Miah purrs, "Oh, you like this form? Well, how about this one or maybe this one is better," Miah growls and turns into a Jaguar and then a Falcon, Miah leans forward and with one finger closing Sirius' mouth.
"Wait, you have more than one form? How is that possible, and can you teach me?" pleads Sirius.
"To answer your questions, yes, at this time I have four, but as I haven't perfected the last form yet I won't tell you what it is. When Harry found out about The Marauders learning to be animagus he decided to try himself, then he begged me for help. Having never been told that you are restricted to only one form we decided to try for other forms, as you can see it worked."
"How it is possible, it just takes practice and the belief that it can be done. As I stated, I never found any restrictions on one form and while I was meditating after perfecting my first form, I stumbled onto my other forms. Not everyone has more than one form but it doesn't hurt to try.
I found that through a different process than regular witches and wizards, werewolves were able to have a wolf animagus form. Moony was overjoyed that he was able to change into a wolf voluntarily every day of the month and not be a 'monster.'" Sirius glares at that word, and Miah quickly tells him, "That is his words, not mine. I screamed myself hoarse whenever he would call himself around me. It ate at him that he was careless that night in my third year that he turned in front of us, without him taking his potion."
Excitedly, Sirius exclaims, "Really, Moony can become an animagus and run with us anytime he wants? He will be over the moon when he finds out. Can I be the one to tell him, please oh please?"
"No, you may not tell him. I will not let you steal that joy from me, but I do want you to take photos. Here let me transfigure this paper into a camera. I am sure it will be very soon that I tell him."
"As to your last question, if you don't mind a lot of hard work then yes I will help you find your other forms."
"When you finally decide to learn, you should bring the others with you. We need to bring Lily in as well.
"It helps him during his forced transformations when he starts his animagus form. It is less traumatic for him and a lot less painful. The look of sheer joy on his face after the first moonrise was pure bliss to see and I for one would not mind seeing that look again, this time with camera in hand."
Looking ecstatic that his friend might find relief with his "furry" problem, Sirius grabs Miah picking her up swinging her around in delight. As he is putting her down, he leans down at tenderly kisses her. As she responds, he deepens the kiss. Breathless, he nibbles at her chin working his way down her long slender neck. Reaching the apex of where her neck meets her shoulder, he gently nips, desperately wanting to mark her as his for the entire world to see. Crashing his lips back down onto hers, he proceeds to kiss her as if this were the last time they would ever meet.
Hearing his friends in the hallways calling for him and Miah he slowly withdraws growling. Going over and taking down the wards, he calls them into the room.
Quickly getting over his displeasure of being interrupted, once again, and bouncing on the balls of his feet and eyes sparkling he begs Miah to tell them now. She looks at him exasperated and tells him okay. Dancing around James and Remus, he is telling them that they are going to love this. The two other Marauders are looking skeptical at the over excited boy.
Miah tells them, like you I have a few illicit secrets that I don't want to get out. Warding the door again with powerful locking and silence charms, she proceeds to show them all her different animagus forms. She tells them that she has a fourth form that needs a few more weeks to complete so she will show them that one when she is done. Gobsmacked, they shoot off a barrage of all the same questions as Sirius.
Remus looks a little jealous, thinking that he will never know the joys of having multiple forms voluntarily. Seeing his face Miah goes to him and tells him how in the future she was able to get him to turn into an animagus, but with only one form.
He looks at her incredulously. "What? How?" he asks.
"Through a lot of hard work, you will turn into a Gray Wolf, and when you turn into your werewolf form from your wolf form it is much less painful for you. Combined with the wolfsbane potion there are no lingering effects of the moon. But I don't know what, if any, effects there may be without the potion." After Miah told him that, he broke down and sobbed joyously. "Tonight, when I am re-sorted into Gryffindor," James interrupts her asking,
"How do you know that you will be re-sorted into Gryffindor?"
"Because I will promise bodily harm to that damn hat if not, I know where that hat is kept and I know a way to get into the Headmaster office anytime I like, without a password," Miah states empathically.
"Moony, I will start your instructions tonight. It may be even easier this time around as you know that it works in the future and won't believe that you will fail."
"Thank you so much, Miah. You have no idea what this means to me or maybe you do," he tells her softly. "Why would you do this for me?" he questioned.
"Because after my parents died, you acted like a surrogate father to me. I had no one left in the muggle world. My grandparents were gone and my cousins, aunt, and uncle were all living in Australia. You encouraged me to break out of the role of mother of the group and to speak my mind, to know when to break the rules and when to pull back. In other words, you taught me how to pull that stick out of my arse."
"Always before, I would follow along while still being bossy and you showed me how that alienated people. That it was those personality traits that turned people away from me. Before coming to Hogwarts, I was a lonely child. No friends except for books, and if I did make a friend they would only stick around for a few weeks until I would end up do accidently magic in front of them. They would end up calling me a freak, creep or weird."
"Even after I came to Hogwarts, I was lonely in the beginning. I didn't have a friend until Harry and Ron saved me from the Troll, and even then, it has really only been Harry, Ginny, Fred, and George. Ron tolerates me because I helped with his homework but we would fight more like a brother and sister who don't like each other, though there were those who said more like a married couple. As if I would marry such a mental midget," Miah shudders at that thought.
"Then when you and Sirius came along in our third year I was able to add you to my growing family," pausing in contemplation, Miah has a sudden epiphany, "You know, I didn't realize how alike Harry and I are. We both gravitate towards collecting people to add to our own makeshift family. They are sometimes so much better than the ones we are born into."
"Now helping you find an animagus form was easy compared to Tonks. She is a metamorpmagus and has always had it drilled into her that she couldn't be both. It is a lot harder for her but it is doable. The main problem with both of you was getting over the mindset that you were not able to transform."
"Your main motivation for change was that after the war, you and I were going to open a school, underground if necessary, to help teach other werewolves how to transform. We were also going to turn it into a magic school for any children that were werewolves. I never understood why you were the only wizard with lycanthropy to attend Hogwarts. You should have been viewed as a test case, as you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that no harm would come to the students, and no, the incident with Severus does not count against you."
"Now I was only going teach at night and on weekends as I wanted to try and get a job at the Ministry to help change the draconian laws regarding werewolves, vampires and other 'half-breeds' as that bitch Umbridge likes to call them."
"You really are impassioned about helping werewolves, aren't you? No wonder you went off on me yesterday."
"Yes I am and I will go off on anyone who calls you a monster including yourself. I don't like labels, YOU ARE NOT A MONSTER. Greyback is the monster, you and most other werewolves are not."
Jolted, Miah states, "You know I just realized I can't call you Pops anymore. You just aren't that precocious to have sired a child even before you were born. I am now older than you are. Well, I will just have to treat you like a bratty younger brother instead."
Laughing, he says "Then if I am the bratty younger brother I will just have to do this." He starts to tickle her. Miah screams for help, James and Sirius bound over and joins Remus in tickling her.
"No fair, three against one," she laughs. Grabbing her wand, she sends a tickling hex at the boys. They all fall over in a dog pile, gasping for air laughing.
Realizing the time, they all decide to hurry down to the Great Hall for breakfast before the long day ahead of them.
Arriving, Lily asks them why are they all flushed and out of breath. Miah tells her that she was showing the boys something and that, grabbing Remus in a quick headlock giving him nuggies, my little brother here started a tickle fight and these other two gits joined in against her. She laughingly begs Lily not to leave her alone with them, to help even the odds. She goes on to explain that she also wants to tell Lily the secret she showed the boys, but not here in public.
- ooOoo -
The Marauders, along with Lily and Miah head up to the 7th-floor. Arriving they find that Professor Dumbledore has already gotten the Room of Requirement ready for the day. They head on in and each of them grabs a bottle of butterbeer. They huddle together to ask Miah if she can tell them more about having multiple forms of animagus. Lily looks gobsmacked at this declaration.
Checking that there was no one nearby, she explains how exhilarating it is to go from one form to another and how she has found that those of the few that she has helped train, most of them had at least one magical form.
They ask her if she can do the Patronus and if so, what form does it take seeing as how she has four different forms. Miah tells them that her Patronus changes when she thinks about her different forms. She only uses one form to send messages to most people but for her inner circle of friends and family, she uses a different form that way they know it is really from her, she even has one just for Order members.
Finally, everyone arrives and takes their seats. Miah stands up and starts telling them about the 4th-year.
"During the summer hols, Harry starts dreaming about Old Moldy. His first dream was of Moldy killing an Old Man in some run-down muggle manor house. Also, in the dream were Wormtail, Moldy in some type of baby's body, and some unknown man. They were discussing the Tri-Wizard Tournament. How they needed to get Harry's blood for some type of ceremony. The ceremony would return the Dark Wanker to a full adult body. When he awoke his scar was hurting, so he decided to write to Sirius about the dream and his scar."
"Toward the end of August Molly Weasley wrote a letter to the Dursley's inviting Harry to go to the Quidditch World Cup after Arthur was able to secure tickets for the whole family plus Harry and me. When she sent the letter, instead of just placing one stamp on the front she covered the entire envelope with stamps, thus angering Uncle Vernon, but trying to stop Harry from going is like trying to swim against an incoming tide, a tide called Weasley's."
"Ron, Fred, and George warned their parents about the Dursley's so they were taking Harry whether they liked it or not. When the date arrived to pick Harry up, they tried to floo into the home. Unfortunately, for them, 4 Privet Drive did not have a proper Wizarding fireplace, just an electric one. They arrived behind the wall and had to break through. There were some very unhappy Dursley's that day."
"After they get through Arthur, who just loves all things muggle, was excited to talk to them. From Harry's letters to Ron, Fred and George knew that his whale-sized cousin was on a diet. They brought along some 'candy' that they accidently dropped. Of course, being the fat pig that he is, Dudley got a hold of some, and right as everyone was leaving Harry saw that Dudley was eating it. Next thing you know was his tongue was unfurling to about four feet long. It was a prank candy that the twins invented Ton-Tongue Toffee. Those boys were geniuses when it came to pranks, enough to rival even The Marauders, whom they worship by the way. They had wanted to test it all summer long and knowing what a prick Dudley was to Harry, they tested on him. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy." This got the Marauders excited. They wanted to know what else these boys have made.
"Finally, the day arrived for the World Cup. Taking a port-key, we land in a field full of odd-looking tents. When we find our own tent, Harry wanted to know how we were going to fit all those people in a small four-person tent (that is seven Weasley children Mr. Weasley, Harry and I.) I tell him that they are Wizarding tents, bigger on the inside. After eating breakfast, we all scattered looking for friends and to buy souvenirs."
"Later we head to the stadium. We had tickets to sit in the Minister's box so we trudge all the way up to the top."
"You talk like it was a burden to go to the World Cup Miah," huffs James.
"I am not a fan of Quidditch. I only follow it because of Harry. Also at that time, I was afraid of flying; well really, that is an understatement. I was afraid of falling, which in turn made me afraid to fly. I soon got over that fear the day I flew on the back of a dragon, but that is another year's story."
"WHAT THE FUCK MIAH! YOU FLY ON THE BACK OF A DRAGON. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR EVER LOVING MIND WOMAN?" screamed Sirius. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?"
"That it would probably be similar to flying on a Hippogriff or a Thestral?" she squeaks.
"We are going to have to have a serious talk tonight," he said steaming.
Everyone is chuckling under his or her breaths about how these two oblivious teens interact.
"After the game, we all went back to the tent for the celebrations. No gentlemen, I will not say who won, No placing pre-bets for the 1994 World Cup. As we drift off to sleep, we hear a disturbance outside the tents. Mr. Weasley comes running in waking everyone up and telling us to run to the port-key stations. When we get outside, we find Death Eaters abusing the muggle couple that runs the campground. As we are running through the woods, someone just ahead of us someone yells out Morsmordre, the spell for the Dark Mark."
Barty Crouch comes running over,throwing a spell our way. We hit the dirt. Arthur comes running screaming that we are his children. Winky, Barty Crouch's house elf is found with Harry's wand in her hand. They tried accusing Harry of casting the Morsmordre, but we were able to convince them that he didn't even know what that spell was. Inexplicably Mr. Crouch immediately gave Winky clothes for having and allegedly using a wizard's wand. It had been taken out of Harry's back pocket during the game, as she was saving his seat for her master in the box."
Everybody laughs when Miah retorts, "Yes Alastor, we know, Harry will lose his butt cheek carrying his wand that way."
"Actually, now that I think about it a wand holster should be a required item on the school letters."
"The day before the Hogwarts Express leaves, Alastor Moody was kidnapped. Hey, Moody, whatever happened to CONSTANT VIGILANCE? Anyway, he is quickly found."
"At the Welcoming Feast, we are told that this year The Ministry is bringing back the Tri-Wizard Tournament. It will be open to all students over the age of 17. At this announcement, Harry snorts and places a wager that his name will come out of the Goblet of Fire. That was not a wager I was willing to lose as I knew he was most likely correct."
The Headmaster goes on to introduce us to our new DADA teacher, retired Auror Alastor Moody."
Mr. Potter an Auror himself chuckles and says, "I feel for those poor children. Alastor is a task master."
"You are correct Mr. Potter, he was. At our first DADA class a few days later, the first thing he taught us was the Three Unforgivable curses. Using a spider, he demonstrates them. First was the Imperious curse. He made the spider jump up and dance, when everyone was laughing, he impressed on us that it takes away the free will of people and makes them do things they never would, such as murder."
"The second curse was the Cruciatus curse. He tortured that hapless spider for over a minute. Poor Neville was shaking like a leaf that I screamed at the professor to stop. What I didn't know at that time was that the Lestrange's and Barty Crouch, Jr. had on the night that Moldy killed the Potters, Crucioed his parents into insanity.
"The rest of September and most of October went smoothly."
"Right before Halloween Sirius reply comes. He tells Harry that he is coming back to England. We never did learn where he was hiding out, but knew it was somewhere tropical as an early letter from Sirius came by an extremely large exotic tropical bird. I hope you found a lot of bikini clad girls there Padfoot," Miah growled to him.
"Aw, isn't she pretty when she is jealous," crows Sirius smirking.
"Sirius Orion Black, I am not jealous of an old lecher like you," Miah huffed. He just sat there smirking at her.
"Once Harry realized that Sirius was coming back into danger he tried his best to stop him. He wrote back that it was nothing and he should bother coming home."
"Aw Prongs, your son is so sweet. Can we keep him?" pleads Sirius turning puppy-dog eyes on James. "Of course, only for you Padfoot," James replied.
"During the Halloween feast, Harry is proven correct when his name comes out as the fourth champion. Ron, the git, accuses Harry of cheating and so does the rest of the school. Only the twins, Neville and I believe Harry that he did not submit his name. Oh, and the real champion of Hogwarts, Cedric Diggory believed him.
"The other two champions were Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons; she was ¼ Veela and Viktor Krum from Durmstrang. Yes, the Seeker for Bulgaria was still a student. The Headmaster for Durmstrang was Igor Karkaroff, a former Butt Muncher who got off by naming names the most important being Barty Crouch, Jr. Beauxbatons Headmistress, Madam Maxime, was part giant like Hagrid."
"Around the middle of November, a note arrives from Sirius setting up a date to talk to Harry. Also on that day, I'm hit by a 'stray' hex while Draco and Harry were dueling in front of potions class, which caused my two front teeth grow down to my chest. Now what you have to realize is that my muggle parents are dentists who would not allow me to get rid of my oversized front teeth magically. They said that I would grow into them, but this gave me a chance to get them fixed now. It is bad enough to be cursed with this bush that grows out of my head that I didn't need to keep those beaver teeth."
"When Professor Snape," the greasy git, "Sees the duel he, of course, brings it to a halt, but when told that I was hit by a hex he claimed he saw nothing different with my teeth."
"What an arsehole," exclaimed James.
"Apologize right now, Severus," Lily told him angrily. Severus is glaring at Miah. How dare she have Lily angry with him?
"Don't worry about it Lily. He apologized to me already, and I have forgiven him for all the misery over the years when I realized why he had to be so mean to us. It was his way of saving us, even more misery at the hands of the Butt Muncher's kids."
"Thank you, Severus. I hope that my being here will stop all this from coming to pass and that you will find happiness." She thinks no one should die as alone as he had. It pained her remembering how lonely and afraid he looked after Nagini bit him. Severus just looked shocked and worried that she could not help him.
"On the following weekend a little after midnight, Hagrid takes Harry to see what his first task will be. It is Dragons. They expect a 14-year-old boy to perform a task involving Dragons; they really are crazy in the Wizarding world," Miah ranted. "After seeing this, Harry rushes back to the common room to wait for a floo call from Sirius. He tells Sirius more about his scar hurting and the unusual dream he had. Then he tells him what the first task was. Sirius was not a happy man, but tells Harry that he will research what he needs to do."
"Now having seen that while Hagrid had shown him the Dragons, he has also had shown Madam Maxime, Beauxbatons Headmistress the dragons and Harry had seen Karkaroff sneaking around as well. He realized that Cedric was the only champion who did not know what the first task would be, so he told him and why he was telling him."
"Professor Moody told Harry to play to his strengths. We took that to mean flying, I taught Harry the summoning charm 'Accio', but when it came time for the task, Harry, of course, got the most dangerous dragon breed, A Hungarian Horntail. Before he had a chance to summon his broom, Harry made an interesting discovery. He found out that dragons speak parseltongue. Harry explained what was happening and the dragon, who was upset when another dragon accidently crushed her eggs, checked her eggs and realized that the golden egg was not a real egg so she rolled it over to him. Everyone was stunned, including the dragon handlers. Afterward, the dragon handlers wanted to know how he had tamed her. He just told them he spoke with her. That all they needed was someone who spoke snake and then he walked away."
"This year a Yule Ball was held and everyone was required to stay and attend. Why it had to be held on Christmas Day I will never understand. Christmas should be about family. Anyway, Harry and Ron both waited until the last minute to ask anyone to the ball and finally ended up going with the Patil Twins. Those poor girls, Harry has two left feet when it comes to dancing. Ron thought he could wait until the day before the dance to ask me as if I couldn't get a date. Then when I told him I had a date, he wouldn't believe me."
"Just like James. When there is formal dancing involved, I have to wear steel-tipped pumps. All other dancing he just looks like he is going into an epileptic seizure," laughs Lily. "After our first dance, I thought I was going to have to see Madam Pomfrey."
"Who did you end up going with Miah," queried Sirius.
"Viktor Krum. Everyone was shocked. I really wanted to scream 'In your faces, Bitches,' but I held my tongue. The only problem was Rita Skeeter, The Daily Prophet's chief muckraker, Grrrr! I hate that woman."
"She later wrote lies about me saying that I broke Harry's heart by going out with Viktor. That I was a gold-digging muggle, so, of course, the sheep that call themselves witch and wizards believed her shite and sent me to hate mail. One even sent me bubotuber pus that got all over my hands. The worst was that Molly Weasley believes the crap. Rita also writes about Hagrid and Madam Maxim being half giants."
"Feeling humiliated Hagrid goes away for a few weeks until Professor Dumbledore talks him into coming back. DAMN IT! I REALLY HATE THAT WOMAN," screams Miah. She throws the empty butterbeer bottle against the wall. "Sorry everyone, that woman just gets under my skin. She started on Harry during 4th-year and has never let up since. 5th year will be the worst from the Daily Prophet, though the later years will rival it." Miah stalks away steaming.
Seeing how upset Miah is, Professor Dumbledore suggests that they all take a short break.
Thinking to herself Miah has the room conjure up a few dueling dummies in a far corner. There she proceeds to annihilate them while screaming DIE BITCH, why won't you just leave us alone. Eventually, she ran out of steam and fell to her knees sobbing her heart out. The Marauders and Lily all come over and create a dog pile hug with Miah in the middle.
They stayed in that pile for a while and as Miah was regaining her composure, she saw Regulus and Severus watching with a look of longing on their faces. A look that said that they wish that they too could be integrated into that group. She could also see the look of loneliness. She knows that look all too well. She had that same look growing up before Hogwarts. She makes the decision to call them over and include them in the hug.
When Sirius sees his brother coming over he tries to turn away, but Miah stops him. "No Sirius, you mustn't turn you brother away, by extending your hand who knows, you may help save his life."
"But he's a Death Eater," spits Sirius.
"Yes, he decided to take the Dark Mark, but he is already regretting that decision. He is dead in my time, and what we found out later was he died a hero defying the Dark Wanker. So yes, you must be the bigger man and extend your hand. Can't you see his heartbreak when you drew back from him? He wants his childhood hero back."
Sirius extends his hand to Regulus, who cautiously takes it. He then pulled him into the dog pile, both of them laughing and crying. Both happy to have a part of their family back, maybe all the hurts and misunderstandings can be healed. Miah also pulls Severus in. When Lily protests she explains that we need all the help we can get in this war, and Severus really was trying to do you a favor. Because of your blood status and friendship, the people who were trying to cultivate him for his talents would have targeted you. He knew the only way to protect his best friend was to push them away.
Miah is thinking her family just got bigger and she couldn't be happier.
Professor Dumbledore asks that they resume the story.
As the group of students untangle themselves, Severus mouths 'Thank you' to Miah. She could see his eyes were glistening with unshed tears.
"I am so sorry for that. That woman and paper made our lives a living hell and it really pisses me off," Miah states.
"Who would have ever guessed? That was one hell of a demonstration you gave, I for one would not every want to duel with you," grumbled Severus.
"Yeah, unfortunately, all my training came because I was fighting for my life. All that adrenaline pumping through you as you fight teaches you how to come up with spells off the cuff," sneers Miah. Everyone is looking incredulously at her statement.
"Are you telling us that you were able to create spells during the middle of dueling? Just how many N.E.W.T.S. did you get?" asks Professor McGonagall wonderingly.
"I never did get to go through my 7th-year, but I had planned on taking every N.E.W.T. available, even of the classes I wasn't enrolled in. I was out to show what a BS class Divination was," she scoffed.
"12 N.E.W.T.S. that's insane," cried Remus.
"You're only jealous because you'll only get 10 Remus," teased Miah.
"I get 10, wow," an exuberant Remus shouts.
"Now after the last task Harry had opened the Golden Egg, which was the clue for the next task, and it made a horrendous sound. I had kept on Harry about trying to figure out what the clue was, but he kept procrastinating. Finally, Cedric in a sense of fair play told Harry to use the Prefect's bathroom and to take his egg with him. He did and with the help of Moaning Myrtle, who has a crush on him, he listened to the egg underwater. It sang a song for him;"
Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching ponder this;
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect's black,
Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.
"Now he figured out that what it was that is taken is sitting at the bottom of Black Lake."
"Great idea Headmaster, sending students down to the bottom of Black Lake in the Highlands of Scotland in the middle of winter. Idiots, I do believe that wizards and witches are idiots. Now are they born that way or is it just our culture that makes turns them into idiots?" Miah snarls out.
"Toward the end of February, the second task is held. At this time, Harry is tied with Krum in the competition. Harry has figured out, with broad hints from Moody, that he will use Gillyweed. Dobby the house-elf that he freed from Malfoy back in 2nd year steals some for him for Professor Snape's personal store. When he goes down, he finds that what is so important to him in Ron Weasley. I am selected as Viktor's hostage, Fleur's is her 8-year-old sister and Cedric's is Cho Chang, his current girlfriend. Harry was the first to arrive in the merpeople's village and quickly released Ron, but instead of heading back to the surface, his noble sensibilities came into play. He had noticed that Fleur had problems with the Grindylows on the way down so he was trying to rescue her sister. The merpeople were trying to stop him. He would have rescued everyone else as well, but Cedric showed up with a bubblehead charm and Viktor used a partial transformation into a shark. Both Cedric and Viktor head topside while Harry was still struggling to save young Gabby. He finally gets her released and heads up. He is still a few feet below the surface when the gillyweed runs out."
"He was the last one to arrive, but because he rescued young Miss Delacour, he was awarded extra points, so he is now tied with Cedric for first place."
"Professor Dumbledore, you do realize that a Veela is a creature of fire, and fire and water do not really mix, right?"
"The next few months are relatively quiet. At the end of May, Ludo Bagman explains what the final task is, how the Quidditch pitch is being transformed into a maze." Cries of outrage from Professor McGonagall, James, Sirius, Remus, and Regulus fill the room.
Miah explained that it was only temporary and was immediately taken apart after the task.
"Viktor asked to speak to Harry and as they walking back to the castle; he wanted to know if Harry had designs on me or if he were free to pursue me. Barty Crouch came running out of the woods. He would switch back and forth between insanity and lucidity. Harry sent Viktor to the castle to get help. During his moments of lucidity, Mr. Crouch was trying to tell Harry about someone. At that moment, Alastor Moody came over to take over. He sent Harry back to the castle.
On May 31, Harry had another nightmare concerning our favorite bad guy. He immediately sends a letter to Sirius, who has been hiding out in the caves above Hogsmeade. He also goes to the Headmaster office to tell him; however, the Headmaster was just leaving but would be back shortly. He told Harry to wait for him. While waiting for the Headmaster, Harry found his Pensieve. Not knowing what it has he tentatively touched it and fell into the Professor's memories. There were a few memories but the ones that stuck out were the ones on Karkaroff's trial where he names Barty Crouch, Jr. as a Butt Muncher and then Barty's own trial. At this time, the Headmaster returns and pulls Harry from the Pensieve. Harry mention's that Barty Jr. looked familiar."
Turning to the Headmaster, Miah asks him to please pour everyone a glass of Firewhiskey as after the next part of this story everyone will need it, "Oh, and please make a big glass." Everyone is looking nervous at this declaration. How much worse can it really get?
"Finally, the day of the last task arrives. The start of champions was staggered depending on their points. Harry and Cedric go first then Viktor followed by Fleur. Harry uses a point me spell to led him to the center of the maze. He runs along and gets past the Blast-ended-skewerts, (no you don't want to know what they are), a sphinx, and a few other hazards. He comes across Viktor under the imperious curse and stuns him. Viktor had already taken out Fleur. So now, it is only Cedric and Harry left in the race. They both arrive at the center and are at equal distances from the cup and they both start racing toward the cup when an Acromantula grabs up Cedric. Harry, of course, can't leave him with the spider so he goes and helps Cedric escape. He tells Cedric to take the cup as he would have won the foot race to the cup, but Cedric is similar to Harry with his sense of fair play. He suggests that they both take the cup at the same time, knowing that it was a port-key to the exit of the maze."
"They feel the pull of the port-key but when they land they are not at the exit but in a muggle cemetery. Harry hears a high-pitched voice call out to 'kill the spare'. A flash of green light hits Cedric, killing him. Next Harry is hit by a stunner while trying to dive behind a headstone. When he wakes up he finds that he has been tied to another headstone and Wormtail, that is Peter Pettigrew to you who didn't already know, is preparing for a ritual. He places what looks like a deformed baby in a cauldron, then recites 'Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son! Flesh of the servant willingly sacrificed, you will revive your master. Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken, you will resurrect your foe' as he is adding a bone taken from under Harry's feet, then he proceeds to cut off his own hand, ending with cutting Harry's arm and collecting his blood."
"Dear Merlin that is the Regeneration Potion, some of the darkest magic," exclaims Alastor. Everyone pales at this and gratefully reach for their glass of Firewhiskey. Miah shoots the whole glass back. Gasping for breath but it does the trick, calming her back down. Most of the others follow suit, though Lily and Mrs. Potter just sip theirs.
After standing up, the Dark Wanker, his visage truly horrendous, light blue skin, hairless, slits in place of his nose and just a slash for a mouth. He grabs his wand from Peter presses the dark mark on his arm. A few minutes later a few of the Butt Munchers show up some of his most dedicated followers. Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and McNair, are the only names that Harry heard while the Dark Wanker is berating them for not looking for him while he was 'lost.' For some reason, just like any cinema villain, old Moldy had to give a soliloquy. It must be mandatory in the handbook for bad-guys-r-us."
"He and Harry duel and just as Harry threw an Expelliarmus and Moldy threw an Avada the two spells connect and cause a dome of a golden-white net around the two duelers. As they are trying to break the spell, all of the last spells of Moldy come popping out like opaque ghosts. First, it was Peter's hand, then Cedric, then an Old Muggle Man, then Lily followed by James. All these for a lack of a better word, ghosts, ring around them and Harry could see the fear in Moldy's red eyes. James tells Harry how proud they are of him and advises him to let go, grab the cup and get out of there. Cedric begs Harry not to leave his body, which Harry promises. On James' signal, he finally breaks the spell, runs to Cedric's body and Accio's the cup."
"Arriving back at the maze, clutching the cup and Cedric's body, Harry is screaming 'HE'S BACK. VOLDEMORT IS BACK.' When everyone realizes Cedric is dead they are panicking, accusing Harry or calling him, he is crazy that he-who-must-not-be-named is not back Ministry arseholes. Professor Moody starts to take Harry back up to the castle, questioning him. Asking what happened, what the Dark Lord looked and who showed up. Harry, still in shock, started to realize something is not right, as Moody had taken him to his rooms and not the hospital. While Moody was questioning him, Harry noticed that he was looking different. Just as he realized that this was an imposter under Polyjuice, the door flew open and Professor Dumbledore stunned him. He completed his transformation back to him and they found Barty Crouch, Jr. Do you want to know the sad part is, he was my second best DADA Professor; Remus was the best."
"Under questioning with Veritaserum, the truth came out. After being sent to Azkaban, his mother's health deteriorated and she begged her husband to get her son out of prison. They went to visit him and she stayed behind Polyjuiced while Jr. was Polyjuiced as his mother. Then his father kept him at home under an imperious curse for the next 13 years. Jr. was up in the Minister's box at the World Cup, disillusioned and under an invisibility cloak. After so many years, he was able to weaken the imperious curse and when he saw Harry's wand he took a chance and stole it. It was not Winky that had the wand but Jr., she only picked it up after his father stunned him. When he came across Harry and his Dad, he killed him and transfigured him into a bone, which he buried somewhere in the forest. The real Alastor was found in a trunk."
"Before any Aurors could question Junior, that arsehole Minister, Cornelius Fudge had him kissed. This way he could deny that he was back, call into question Dumbledore and Harry's sanity."
"After everything calmed down Snape had to leave to dote upon his 'Master.' He was not to return for a while. I hate to think what happened during the time he was forced to spend with the madman."
"That first night while Harry was in the hospital, I captured a water beetle that was near him. It was as I suspected Rita Skeeter an illegal animagus, a small water beetle. I held onto her for a few weeks and in the end blackmailed her not to write anything more about Harry, Sirius or myself without our prior knowledge and agreement."
"Hey, I thought you said you were a good law-abiding Gryffindor. That is downright Slytherin of you," scoffed Regulus.
"Well, I didn't tell you that the sorting hat I had a hat-stall, it had a hard time deciding where I would fit best, it was between Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor. I logically argued for Gryffindor. Now if it were to try to put me in Slytherin it would feel my wrath."
"That really is the end of 4th-year. Uh does anyone have the time? My watch is broken."
"5 p.m.," replied Mr. Potter.
"How about we take a two-hour dinner break? I really need to stretch my legs. Maybe hex the crap out of some dummies, or even better yet Lucius Malfoy is a 7th year right, maybe I can run into him and duel him. Oh the joy of wiping the floor with a Malfoy," chortles Miah. "It has been only 2 weeks since I fought him last. Too bad that Bellatrix has already graduated."
"Oh, you don't know, dear cousin Bella was sick all last year so know she has to repeat 7th-year," chortled Regulus.
"What? Great, I will get to torment her and ole Lucy this year. Thank you, sweet Merlin of the hairy balls," Miah exclaims gleefully.
- ooOoo -
The Marauders pull Miah and Lily out of the ROR dragging them down to the kitchen. Once there, standing in front of the picture, Miah reaches over and tickles the pear. "Aw, you already know the secret. I wanted to tell you," whined Sirius.
"Uh, I have gone through 6 years of school here and you think I wouldn't know how to find or get into the kitchen? I did tell you that Harry got his hands on your map right?" crows Miah.
"Oh, yeah, right, I forgot about that. Well, guys let's get that picnic basket and go outside to eat. Miah wants to run and play and I for one would like to join her," Sirius says happily.
After asking for a basket of food and drink, the six friends head out to their spot by the lake. Miah is amazed; this is her spot with Harry and Ron in the future.
Lily transfiguring a leaf into a blanket starts to pass around plates of food to everyone. They all eat in complainingly silence. After everyone has the initial satisfaction, they all start to throw out a question to Miah. Lily especially wants to see Miah's animagus forms. Miah tells them that they will need to move to another location for that, as this one is to public. She shows them a shortcut to get behind a big boulder and transforms into her griffin form. Sirius immediately transforms into Padfoot. Prancing around the griffin, Lily and Remus is urging James to turn into Prongs. He does so and the three animagus run off into the forest.
"Don't go too far," calls Lily. "We still have to go back and I want to see Miah's other forms."
The three friends play for a few minutes and come back. They too want to see Miah other forms. The boys have only seen them for a few minutes and want to check her out better. Miah quickly transforms into her Jaguar form and seeing Severus and Regulus coming out to see them runs to them scaring the life out of them. Running back to her friends she transforms back laughing. They all were laughing, "did you see the look on Regulus' face when she leaped up and licked his face," howled Sirius. "Why couldn't I have had a camera at that point? That would have been a great shot."
Severus and Regulus storm over yelling, "What are you trying to pull?"
Miah tried to apologize but is laughing too hard. Finally, catching her breath she does, "I am sorry, -but I just couldn't resist, but if you didn't like my form maybe you would like this one better," and she promptly turns into a Falcon. Flying off she soars through the sky. After the exhilarating flight on the back of a dragon, she found this form. Every since then she has loved to fly. Harry had just started teaching her how to fly a broomstick when they had to flee Bill and Fleur's wedding. Maybe she can get Sirius or James to teach her.
Hearing a whistle, Miah heads back to her friends. It is time to head back upstairs.
Feeling sad that this time must end so quickly, Miah reflects on how long it has been since she has been able to fully relax and enjoy life. She is praying that these times are not fleeting.
- ooOoo -
Arriving back at the ROR, they group heads in laughing at some joke that Remus has just told. They all grabs a plateful of deserts and a butterbeer and find their places.
Once everyone has come back to the table, Miah starts to speak about the summer between 4th and 5th-year. Not a good summer for Harry.
"Now for whatever bull shite reason he had, The Headmaster had asked that Ron and I not write to Harry, 'as it would be too dangerous,'" Miah spits out disdainfully.
"On 2 August Harry is trying to hide out from his fat-ass cousin and his gang. Dudley finds him and is torment him when inexplicably two Dementors show up. One almost kissed Dudley but Harry cast a perfect Patronus. He grabs Dudley and they make it back home. Within hours Harry receives a letter from the Ministry telling him that he is to be expelled and his wand snapped."
"Are you kidding? For protecting himself? What is the Ministry playing at?" exclaims Mrs. Potter.
"Well, Harry immediately sent Ron, Sirius and me a letter explaining the incident. We tell the Headmaster and he gets the expulsion reversed. However, due to a toady within the Ministry, they decide to hold an inquiry into the matter. A few days after the incident Harry is taken from the Dursley's and taken to the new headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, 12 Grimmauld Place."
"Our house?" exclaims Regulus surprised.
"Yes, by the time I had started Hogwarts every one of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Black, with the exception of Sirius has passed on. When you ran away Sirius, you thought you had been disowned, but that is not so. Your Grandfather never disowned you as he felt that you could bring the House back from the brink. The only Black's left are Harry through his paternal grandmother and Draco Malfoy, through Narcissa. The name has died."
"This is what your blood-purest Lord has wrought, the downfall of many of the old names. It is sad to see that there are only a handful of purebloods left, but in order to pass the name along that will die within the next two or three generations. If you do the research, you will realize that in this century alone, most purebloods have only one child and they have a higher incidence of birthing a squib. All life needs diversity. You don't inbred animals, why would you do so for humans."
"After Harry arrives he throws a tantrum as to why we did not write to him. He has been having nightmares all summer. Which when you think about it, he never did see a mind healer after witnessing Cedric's murder and the rebirth of old Moldy. He Uncle would beat him for having nightmares and daring to wake them with his screams. Fat ass cousin taunting him about his 'dead lover.'"
Mrs. Potter turns to Lily and asks her has her sister already married this man. Lily confirms that she has. "Then I want her address, as I am going to be making a visit to these people. I will not physically harm them but I do believe that a little mental torture is in order," Mrs. Potter murmurs to Lily. Lily asks if she can come along with her. "Of course my dear. Harry is my grandson and your son," she states with a wicked smirk. An evil grin lights up Lily's face.
Miah had watched the exchange between the two women, smirking. She will have to make sure that she joins them for that trip. She suspects that there might be a few other expeditions to 4 Privet Drive.
"Two weeks later the date arrives for Harry's hearing, which was to take place at 9 am. Arthur Weasley takes Harry to the ministry early, as he wanted to get some paperwork done before the hearing. Arriving over an hour early they find out that the hearing has been changed to 8 a.m. and in Courtroom 10. A full Wizengamot hearing. They rush down to the courtroom and arrive just as the hearing is starting. Harry could see that the pink-clad toad looking woman standing next to the Minister is upset that he is there."
"Starting, they start to question Harry they ask who will be counsel when Dumbledore walks in. He defends Harry, telling them how Harry and his cousin were attacked by Dementors in a full muggle neighborhood. How Harry cast a corporeal Patronus, which quite a few members of the Wizengamot did not believe until Harry cast one for them. Dumbledore even brought a witness, Arabella Figg, a squib. They found him not guilty and he leaves. When Harry turns to thank the Professor he walks away refusing to make eye contact with Harry."
"A few days before the leaving on the Hogwarts Express, the Ministry issue an Educational Degree that if Dumbledore cannot fill a position they will assign a teacher. At the welcoming feast, we find that they did indeed assign a new DADA teacher. She made Lockhart look like a genius. It was that pink toad woman from Harry's trial Deloris Umbridge."
"THAT BITCH? SHE HAS DRAFTED AND PUSHED THROUGH THE MOST HEINOUS LAWS ABOUT WEREWOLVES," screamed Remus.
"I know she is the one who helped me to decide for us to get together and start our own school for werewolves, love. We will stop this evil woman. I know she is a sympathizer of Moldy's, and during my year on the run, she persecuted muggle borns, rounded them up like the Nazi's rounded up the Jews during WWII."
Miah pulls Remus from his seat and gives him a big hug, saying, "I will do anything for my baby brother. We will win this hellacious war and we will restore proper order to our world, and maybe even bring back common sense. "
"Year on the run?" questioned Remus.
"I get to that another time. That would be in 7th-year."
"When we arrived at our first DADA class, now remember this is our O.W.L.S. year, Umbridge made us put our wands away. We were not to have any practical experience as the Ministry believe that we could still pass our O.W.L.S. just by reading theory."
Everyone started to grumble that this woman is crazy and going to get their children killed.
"She was appointed 'High Inquisitor' and kept adding more and more draconian edicts. Harry and I decided that we needed a way to practice our DADA training, so we were to make a secret club that we called Dumbledore's Army. This was because the Daily Prophet continuously printed that both Harry and Dumbledore were crazy or trying to take over the Ministry and that Old Moldy was NOT back. They ran a smear campaign all year long. The only good news on that front was Rita Skeeter was missing out writing that garbage."
"Umbridge somehow found out about our plan to start the DA and immediately set out to stop us. The edict read that no clubs or extracurricular activities were allowed without her express permission,"
Gasping in shock James asks, "Did that mean no Quidditch?"
"Yes," Miah quickly replies. "Of course, Slytherin was immediately allowed to play. The stupid idiots were too busy gloating to realize that they would only have themselves to play with, but of course, they are used to that, the dumb wankers." Regulus and Severus glare at Miah.
"After that edict, I create a special coin," she demonstrates by passing one coin around while manipulating the other, "As you can see, with the control coin I can send a message on when and where to meet. Our first meeting is in this very room itself. Harry had found this room with the help of Dobby the house elf and set it up as a place to duel and learn. He along with my help set up a lesson plan."
"Now, I had everyone who wanted to learn, no matter what year, sign a form similar to a wizard's oath, without the pain of death or loss of magic."
"Harry started off small by teaching everyone the Expelliarmus spell. Once everyone was proficient, he would move on from there. One spell he had everyone learn was the Patronus. He knew that it was an N.E.W.T. level charm but he figured if he could learn when he was 13 so could they."
"You never saw so many shocked faces as the examiners of our O.W.L.S. had everyone who was a DA member able to produce a Patronus, with Harry's being one of the strongest."
"Now during the first DADA class, Harry spoke out against Umbridge's asinine plan not to teach us any practical lessons as Moldy was back. Harry persisted on retelling how he came back and would not stop. She gave him a week's worth of detentions. When he went to his first detention he initially thought, it wasn't as bad as she had him writing lines, 'I will not tell lies.' The only problem was she had him write the lines with a blood quill."
"When I found out I told him to go to our head of house, Professor McGonagall, but before he could tell her the entire story she told him to just keep his head down. This is not the first time you have let him down Professor, but what I don't understand is why you won't listen to him. You pushed him away in the first year when he tried to warn you about the Philosopher's Stone," Miah sighs.
Excusing eyes all look to Professor McGonagall whose head is in her hands. She is lightly crying knowing that she has let her cubs down.
"I had sometimes wondered if she was under some spell. When she visited me when I received my letter, she was quite fierce about defending her charges. She and I had corresponded between the time I received my letter and start of term. My birthday is 19 September so I had almost a full year to wait to start. During that time, I learned a lot about the Wizarding world, and I learned about Professor McGonagall's personality. You are not a quitter, and you don't back down to people like Umbridge, which is why I think you were under some type of spell."
Professor McGonagall looked at Miah, with tears in her eyes thanking her for her kind words. It was breaking Miah heart to see her beloved teacher feeling so low.
"The Ministry passes another decree that allows Umbridge to inspect and evaluate all the classes. The stupid bitch can't teach herself and has the nerve to pass judgment on others. Sorry, she is even more hated than Skeeter."
"Hey, you have the right to hate her as you have lived this life. Did you and your friends ever have any fun," asks Sirius?
"Sorry, we had no time for pranks. We were too busy fighting for our lives, so we left that up to the twins. If I remain here in this time, remind me to invest in their joke shop. They are geniuses when it comes to pranks."
"As I was saying Umbridge is evaluating each class and the teachers. She ends up trying to fire Trelawney. Oh, I forgot about Hagrid. This is why I need to outline what I am going to speak about."
"When we first returned, we noticed that Hagrid was missing. He didn't show up for a few weeks and then when he did he was injured. When we questioned him, all he would say was that he was on a mission for Professor Dumbledore. This information's importance will become apparent soon."
"Not long after ousting Professor Trelawney, Umbridge was about to the same thing to Hagrid. When Hagrid realized that he asked that Ron, Harry and I follow him into the Forbidden Forest, he led us to a giant named Grawp, who happened to be his half-brother. He wanted us to promise to take care of Grawp if anything should happen to him. Do you know how unnerving it is for a giant to pick you up and bring you towards their face?" Miah shudders at that memory.
"This Winter Hols was to be a first for Harry. He had permission to spend it with Sirius." You could see Sirius face light up at that fact. "A few days before we were to leave for the hols, Harry had another dream. In this dream, he was a snake and he attacked Arthur Weasley outside a room in the Department of Mystery. When he awoke, his scar was hurting him. Because the dream was so real, he woke Ron and they proceeded to the Headmasters office. Once there he told the Professor the 'dream', he had. Professor Dumbledore sent a portrait of a former Headmaster (I never found out which one) to alert the Ministry that Arthur was hurt. Then Professor Dumbledore had all the Weasley's along with Harry go to 12 Grimmauld Place. I arrive after the end of the term. I can tell you that Sirius was more than happy to see friendly faces. All he had in that hell-hole was a screaming banshee portrait of his mother and Kreacher who had gone crazy living there alone with that portrait and one particularly foul relic."
"Even though it was under such horrendous circumstances, Sirius was glad to see Harry and everyone. He was trapped in that horrible house with Kreacher and all that Dark Magic, so he was happy to have company. Just like a big puppy dog." Miah winked at Sirius. "That was my introduction to your lovely fishmonger's wife of a mother. Her portrait would scream at anyone coming in. Was she always such a harpy Sirius?" Sirius barks out a laugh at that description of his mother.
"Christmas day we visit Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo. While there, we see Lockhart, who is still full of himself even though he doesn't remember a thing and Neville, there visiting his parents. Remember Frank and Alice was tortured into insanity by Bellatrix."
"When we go back after hols, Professor Snape informs Harry that he will be teaching him Occlumency. This is not going to be pretty. As much as Snape hated James he transferred that hate to Harry, even though he owes him a life debt."
"Early in the month of January, there was a mass breakout of Butt Munchers from Azkaban. They, unlike our favorite bad boy here," she pets Sirius on his cheek, "had help. Old Moldy's top lieutenants escaped."
"Occlumency lesson with Snape are not going well. It was more like mental rape for Harry, because of these tactics in teaching Harry he has not been trying his best to gain the mental barriers, so, he was dreaming nightly about trying to gain entrance into the DoM."
"One night we were having a DA class when we were caught. Most everyone got away with the exception of Harry. He stayed behind to give everyone a chance to escape. Taken to Dumbledore's office he is met there with Minister Fudge and a few Aurors. Umbridge comes in with a Ravenclaw who had been in the DA. She had spilled the beans to Umbridge when given Veritaserum by her. However, that did not get her around the curse that I had placed on the signup sheet for the DA. If you told anyone you had a hex put on you that cause purple and green pimples to appear on your forehead that spelled out sneak," Miah smirked.
"Ooh, that is pure evil genius, Miah. Can you teach me that hex," tittered Lily?
"Miss Granger, I cannot allow you to pull such stunts," rages Professor McGonagall.
Hanging her head in shame Miah replies softly, "Yes, Madam. I'm sorry." Miah doesn't like to upset her favorite teacher she is like an Aunt to her.
Umbridge tries to interrogate Harry under Veritaserum but Professor Snape claims that he has no more at this time because she has used up his supply. The next day was Harry's last day to have Occlumency lessons as his curiosity overcame him and he watched Snape's memory in a Pensieve. It was the memory of your guys hanging him upside down and the day he called Lily a mudblood. This enraged Snape and made Harry question everything he had heard about his father."
"You have to understand that because of his upbringing with the Dursley's Harry abhors bullies. From the memory, he saw (and I sure it was not a full memory as he did not see what perpetrated it) he thought his father was a bully. He often wondered why his mother got together with him." This causes James, Sirius, and Remus to hang their heads in shame. Mrs. Potter glares at the boys her look promising a stern talking to later.
"A week later, the Weasley twins had enough. All year they had been testing and selling their creations such as skiving snackboxes, (these are boxes with different types of candies that make you ill and their antidotes. With different types of candies; fainting fancies, nosebleed nougats, fever fudge and puking pastilles). I did tell you these boys are geniuses right? Well, anyway they get their brooms, which that bitch had locked up along with Harry's, set off a portable swamp in the main thoroughfare, and set off an impressive array of fireworks that they had created."
"Because she had said that she was in charge of everything, the other Professors refused to help get rid of the swamp, and if truth is known were quite impressed, and Filch had to ferry students back and forth over the swamp. "
"We finally have our O.W.L.S. and the examiners are impressed that a quite a few of the 5th year students can produce a full Patronus."
On the last day of O.W.L.S., Umbridge tries to fire Hagrid and have him forcibly removed from the school grounds, Professor McGonagall goes down to try and help Hagrid when those cowardly, forgive my language, mother-fucking Auror's (5 of them) hit her with stunners." Miah is wiping away angry tears from her face remember her mentor be hurt so badly. "I'm sorry, I need to take a break and blow something up." Miah runs to a corner having the room conjure a dueling dummy and starts blasting it to smithereens.
Professor McGonagall comes over to her and just holds her a moment, then asks her to step aside so she can have a go. This dry humor allows all the anger to drain from Miah.
"Thank you, Professor," sighs Miah.
Nervously, Miah continues the next part of her story involves her worst memory of the year. Hesitantly she picks up the story, "Later that night Harry has another dream. He dreams that Old Moldy is torturing Sirius at the DoM," she pauses to wipe away the tears. "Umbridge has locked down all means of communication with the exception of her floo, so Harry uses it to contact Sirius. He only gets Kreacher who tells Harry that Sirius is not home, that is a lie. In order to use the floo Harry had other dedicated members of the DA distract Umbridge, but she gets back to her office just in time to catch him. She called for Professor Snape to bring the Veritaserum, and Harry warns him that HE has Padfoot, HE is torturing Padfoot. Professor Snape has told her that his newest batch of Veritaserum (a/n - not canon) is not yet ready so Umbridge questions us. I lie to her and tell her that Professor Dumbledore had us making a secret weapon and I would lead her to it in the Forbidden Forest."
"You little hellion," laughs Sirius, he eyes glowing with pride.
"Wait until I tell you how I lied while under the cruciatus curse," she deadpanned.
"Anyway, Harry and I lead her into the forest to where Grawp is living. She, the stupid prejudiced cow, starts insulting Grawp. Centaurs show up admonishing us for being in their forests and of course, the pink toad just had to say how they should be bowing down to her and such rot. They grab her and Harry and I escape back to the castle. Harry insists that he must save Sirius, so, of course, Ron and I cannot allow him to go alone decide to go with him. Neville, Luna Lovegood and Ginny our most dedicated members of the DA will not allow us to go without them. Luna (she is a slightly strange girl who I believe may be a true seer) suggest we use the school's herd of Thestrals to get there. So off we go."
"Once we arrive, we go down to the DoM and find it empty. We find our way to the Hall of Prophecy and once we find the right one Butt Munchers show up. We are in the fight of our lives, six children up against Moldy's top lieutenants. I am fighting against Dolohov, while Harry was paired against Lucius Malfoy. This next part I only know through watching Harry's memories. While we were fighting, Snape had alerted the Order that we were at the DoM and they came running along with Sirius. Just as they arrived, I had silenced Dolohov but he hit me with a very dark curse. Being silenced is what saved my life otherwise…I found out later that I was hit with and entrails spilling curse. The Order members rush in and start fighting. Somehow, Harry and Sirius ended up in the Death Room with the Veil. Harry was fighting Lucius and Bellatrix when Sirius rushed in taking on Bellatrix," gulping for air Miah reaches for the bottle of Firewhiskey and takes a large gulp, no longer caring about the tears flooding her face she continues. "Harry gets hit with a hex, and it distracts Sirius enough for Bellatrix to hit him with a stunner, thus knocking him into the veil. She starts chortling in that horrid baby voice that she killed Sirius Black."
Miah couldn't take anymore, runs out of the room toward the Astronomy tower, her face flooded with tears. The Marauders and Lily race after her calling her name. They arrive at the tower in time to see her throwing herself off. Their hearts stopping for a moment until up shoots a screaming griffin. Flying to the Forbidden Forest, she is looking for something to kill something she can pretend is Bellatrix maybe a rabbit or any other small prey. As she is nearing the forest, she hears her name, "Miah, please come back, Miah." Turning she sees the Marauders calling her back to the castle. She turned back towards the castle.
Landing on the tower, she asks, "Did you know that the scene of Sirius falling into the veil with Bellatrix cackling 'I killed Sirius Black' became my Boggart? When…I see…that it…just…paralyzes me. I can't…even fight… off a…a…Boggart anymore," Miah wails. "I am so pathetic. HARRY I AM SO SORRY." Sirius just holds her murmuring soothing words while rubbing her back.
"It's just not fair. We were about to get you declared innocent. I worked all through the school year gathering evidence and you would have been free, out of that poisonous house away from that harpy mother of yours. I so sorry Sirius I failed you," Miah said brokenly.
"Hush you. It is not your fault. I know that I can act irrationally and it has gotten me into more trouble than I can count, so no, this would not be your fault," Sirius consoled her pulling her onto his lap rocking back and forth.
They stayed like that all the Marauders telling her not to blame herself. Then trying to lighten the mood, Lily says that is one awesome Griffin, asking her how long before she can start teaching her how to be an animagus. She tells Miah that she always wanted to be like Faline from Bambi. This causes Miah to start laughing hysterically; Lily doesn't know that James is Bambi. When she asks Miah why she is laughing, she points toward James telling her he…he…he…is…a…Stag animagus, in essential he is Bambi and you want to become his Faline. James and Lily look shocked and then they are start laughing too.
Feeling more composed they head back to the room of requirement. Miah apologizes and lets them know that this was the end of her 5th-year. She asks that the Headmaster sort her so that she can get some sleep. This day has wiped her out. Forced to remember how she lost Sirius, for which she blames herself. She should have remembered the two-way mirrors that Sirius had given Harry at Christmas time, or she should have insisted that they first get confirmation before rushing off. Miah feels it was her position to be the protector of Harry Potter and she allowed him to be harmed mentally.
Professor Dumbledore and Miah head down to his office. She asks if the Marauders, Lily, Severus and Regulus can come along to watch her being sorted. The Headmaster agrees. That it would be good for others to experience her sorting.
Arriving at the Gargoyle protecting his office he says "Bottle Caps," Dumbledore and his obsession with candy now it is muggle candy. She has always wondered how most wizards aren't diabetic with their overwhelming urge to eat tons of candy. Being the daughter of Dentist has marked her as someone who tries to stay as far away from loads of chocolate. Her family was the most unpopular house on the street at Halloween as her parents pass out oral hygiene products instead of candy.
They all troop up to his office and patiently wait while Miah puts that dirty old hat on her head.
It promptly says, "Ah, we meet again I see. From the future, hmm. I see that you are much more than a Gryffindor and Ravenclaw this time. I would say you would be better suited for Slytherin. Are you trying to get me killed you psychopathic rag? If you were to place me in that house with 'MUDBLOOD' carved on my arm, I would be harmed or dead within a month. Just know this you disgusting rag I know how to get into this office when the Headmaster and Fawkes are not here and I will make sure that you will never be seen or heard from ever again. Okay, back off already, I was only suggesting you would do better in that house. I guess you better be…GRYFFINDOR."
They all cheered for her and Sirius asked, "What took so long? It looked like you were going to have a hat stall."
"No hat stall, that stupid hat had the temerity to suggest that I would do better in Slytherin. As if half of that house would have survived me. Severus and Regulus are the only two I trust at this time in that house. The minute I went in I would be hexing and trying to kill Bellatrix and Lucius. Plus I know how to get into this office without a password and that hat can't just grow legs to run away from me."
"Now please point me to my bed, I am so knackered that I can barely fight off a stupid hat."
- ooOoo -
Sirius' grabs Miah's hand pulling her along to the Gryffindor common room, with the others trailing after them. Before they arrive Severus and Regulus who had been following asked what would happen with them. Miah tells Severus, while you had a bigger part in this than Regulus she was trying to get both of them out from under Moldy's thumb. It will be harder with Regulus as he has already taken the dark mark, but she knows that he has doubts. Because he has the mark he will need to serve as a spy within the Butt Muncher's ranks. She also informs him that she has a plan on how to remove the dark mark but first she needs to find someone who speaks parsletongue, one that is not on Moldy's side.
At that remark, Sirius speaks up and tells Miah that their Uncle Alphard is a parslemouth. Excitedly she asks, "Do you think that he will help us. Because if so, he can also get us into the Chamber of Secrets to kill the basilisk as these relics can only be killed by basilisk venom or Fiendfyre."
"I think he will. Especially when he knows the background of this Tom Marvolo Riddle," Regulus replies.
"If it helps, you can tell him that the Ancient and Noble House of Black will die out in less than 20 years time without his help."