Ok everyone, I think I owe you all you all a small apology for not updating this sooner. I won't bore you with excuses why but I have my reasons. At least it is up now.

So now it is onto Order of the Phoenix :)

Happy Reading!

Megan POV

The 16th of July came quickly and before I really knew it we were standing right outside the block of houses of Grimmauld Place. We watched as the number twelve house appeared between two others and walked up to knock on the door. We only waited for a moment before it was answered by Sirius.

"You are the last here today." He said as I enveloped him in a hug.

"Really, it is only ten o'clock." Said Remus when the hug between me and Sirius ended.

"Well, as you can probably understand, people are all very eager to start making plans." Sirius pointed out before leading us into the kitchen and dining area. "Sorry about the mess, nobody has lived here for about twelve years." Sirius said as we walked. I had to agree that the house wasn't exactly what I would call clean. The curtains on the windows were falling to shreds and the amount of dust was unreal. It didn't bother me too much though considering I spent two years of my teenage life sleeping in the woods without any shelter.

As Sirius opened the kitchen door we were greeted by eight people. Of course I recognised Dumbledore, Snape and McGonagall (who looked exactly the same as she did when I was a student at Hogwarts) but everyone else was a complete stranger to me. Eventually we had all introduced ourselves.

"So is this everyone?" I asked as I looked around the room.

"Our younger boys and Ginny are all upstairs." Arthur said.

"And some people couldn't make it until tomorrow." Snape said slowly. Clearly he was uncomfortable in Sirius' house. I nodded once and took the seat in front of me. Sirius and Remus sat either side.

"Shouldn't we wait for them then?" I asked. "It only seems fair."

"Today is only really about making introductions and clearing up the house to make it more practical." Dumbledore said. "We will begin planning tomorrow." I nodded slowly and pushed the jealousy I was feeling towards the people arriving tomorrow aside. They got to miss out on the cleaning, lucky people.

"And now introductions are done I think the cleaning should begin." Molly said in an almost excitable tone, she was clearly in her element. Everyone nodded slowly apart from Dumbledore who graciously excused himself saying he had a meeting with the Minister about something Hogwarts related. One of the great things about being him meant that you could do what you want without people questioning it.

"The boys and Ginny should already be doing a reasonable job with their rooms so we will leave them to that." Molly began again. "Bill and Flur, could you start working on some of the second floor rooms?" The eldest Weasley boy and the French Blonde each nodded once and left the room. "Kingsley could you and Minerva start work on the living area and Severus you could do the Bathrooms?" Sirius and I both began to choke on laughter at this thought but Remus gave us a look that told us we should be acting like responsible adults.

"Isn't that a job for the house elves?" Severus said bitterly.

"Kreacher has been working on cleaning the landings for each floor all day and still had a lot of work to do." Sirius spoke up.

"I see." Severus said and walked slowly from the room, I doubted he was actually going to clean the toilet. Molly smiled sweetly before continuing.

"Remus and Arthur, seeing as you are the best at the particular spell necessary could you make your way around the house and clear the boggarts out. This house has been abandoned too long for there to not be an abundance of them. Arthur and Remus shared a quick glance before nodding and also leaving the room. "Sirius, I think it best if you help me with the kitchen seeing as you know where everything goes and Megan," She stopped for a moment to think. "Everyone has all of their belongings in the first room from the front door. Can you just take it all up to their rooms, it is all labelled and the bedrooms have signs on to say whose room is whose." I did the same as everyone else, nodded once and left the room.

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I did Remus and my bags last so that I could unpack them in our room and avoid any cleaning (which by the way is probably the worst form of torture someone could bestow upon me hence why at home Remus did the cleaning and I did the cooking). Thankfully it looked as though somebody had already done the cleaning in this room so I unzipped Remus' suitcase first and began to unpack.

Half way through Remus' things I heard the front door open downstairs and several greetings being thrown about. "I thought that nobody else was due to arrive today?" I said quietly to myself before shrugging my shoulders and continuing with the unpacking.

When the drawers were full of Remus' things I slid his suitcase under the bed and unzipped my own bag. I pulled out one of my t-shirts and walked to the wardrobe to hang it up. What happened next was something I was completely unprepared for and could easily be ranked as one of the top five worst moments in my life and trust me, my past isn't pretty.

As I opened the wardrobe, instead of seeing an empty cupboard space, I can face to face with my with my little sister who, I should mention, has been dead for nearly twenty years.

A scream erupted from my mouth as I staggered backwards away from her. She stepped out of the wardrobe towards me holding one of her small hands against her bloodied shoulder.

"Where has Mummy gone Megan?" She said, walking towards me. I shook my head repeatedly telling myself that she was dead, gone, she wasn't here now but I could see her and hear her. "You killed her Megan." She said accusingly. It was her voice but with a tone I had never heard before.

"No!" I screamed. "It wasn't my fault. It was the lycanthropy." I began to shake uncontrollably as tears flooded over my eyes.

"You did this to me." She said quietly but still with the accusing tone. She removed her hand from her shoulder and pointed at a bite mark. "You killed me."

Suddenly the door burst open and a purple haired woman ran in. My sister morphed into a mummy as soon as the woman stood in front of her. "Ridikkulus!" She shouted and the mummy tripped over and fell backwards into the wardrobe. She closed the door quickly and came towards me.

"It's ok now." She said calmly. "It was just a Boggart." I nodded slowly and wiped away my tears. I had never fought a Boggart before and that had been horrible.

"Thank you." I muttered, still shaken up from seeing my sister again. "Where was Remus when I needed him?" I whispered to myself. Surely everyone had heard my screams.

"Everyone is in the kitchen at the moment having a coffee break. It is on the other side of the house so they may not have heard you over their conversations. I was just bringing my things up to my room just across the hall." She stood up and offered me a hand which I gratefully took. "I'm Nymphadora Tonks." She said kindly when I was standing. "Call me Tonks, I hate Nymphadora." I nodded slowly.

"Megan." I gave her my name.

"Nice to meet you Megan, although not such nice circumstances." She glanced to the wardrobe. "Do you mind me asking who that was?"

"My sister." I answered blankly. "She is dead now."

"I see, maybe you should come downstairs and have something to drink." I nodded and she lead me from the room.

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Tonks opened the door to the kitchen and pushed me into the closest empty chair.

"What happened?" Said Remus quickly with obvious concern.

"Boggart in the bedroom?" Tonks answered for me. "Something to do with her younger sister." Sympathy crossed Remus' expression immediately turned to sympathy.

"I will go and get rid of it now." He said starting for the door. "Thank you Tonks for helping her." He smiled to her and she smiled back as he left the room, leaving me to fight off the curious questioning of every other person here.

Tonks is here... Who will Remus be with? It is a mystery to all (except me who has now finished writing the story).

I intend to have the next chapter up in two days. :)