AN: Chapter two of Hayden Potter. Its a touch more rushed, but once again, unbeta'd and this time done with ten thousand distractions while on my phone so if its a bit choppy in some area's... that's why.

Chap 2

The next morning at breakfast, once Sirius stumbled down to greet them, Hayden launched into her questions.

"Sirius, is there any way for me to learn how to speak Italian, French or Japanese this summer?"

All conversation at the table halted as everyone looked at her curiously.

"Sure, but why do you want to learn?" Sirius asked despite the knowing look on his face.

"Well, in one of mums journals she mentioned that dad could speak those languages." She said, hinting that she wasn't talking about James Potter. Sirius nodded thoughtfully.

"I can teach you French, the Blacks originally came from France so we are all taught the language. James, Remus and Wormtail learned it so we could talk without to much worry of people listening in. I don't know much about Italian or Japanese but I'm sure if I gave the money to Tonks, she can go buy the required learning material and I can help that way. I've always had a gift for languages so it won't be to bad."

Hermiones eye were wide and the twins were looking at each other with undisguised glee.

"Would you mind teaching more than Hayden? I wold love to learn a foreign language!"

"We would"

"Also like"

"To learn" the twins pitched. Ron munched on his bacon as he thought about the benefits to learning.

"It would be helpful to learn. Then we could speak and write in code and in a foreign language, less chance of information being caught."

Ginny finally groaned and conceded. "I guess if everyone else is learning I might as well too."

The others laughed, even as Molly looked a mix between delight and suspiciously confused at the sudden want to learn something. She was not blind to her youngest four children's reluctance to learn.

"So you all want to learn?" She asked, "Just like that?"

"You have to admit, them learning other languages is a good idea Molly. I actually think it's a good thing. Once I teach them the basics, they can spend the next few weeks speaking only in the other language. Total immersion works best and if all the kids are learning they can keep up the skills while at school. Plus think of all the job opportunities knowing a foreign language opens up." Sirius pointed out calmly. Clearly Molly could tell she wasn't winning this particular debate, not that she was really trying. Especially when Hermione lit up at the mention of later Job opportunities.

"Very well. Since I'm clearly out numbered and it would be a good thing. How about we clean out the Parlor this morning so you have someplace to study this afternoon. Do you know what you'll need to teach them Sirius? Or shall you start tomorrow?" Molly asked briskly.

Sirius furrowed his eyebrows." I believe I know where all the old stuff is. I'll hunt them down while you all clean the Parlor room."

Hayden smiled gratefully at everyone. "Thanks guys. Is there anything I can do for you all?" She asked curiously.

"Now that you"

"Mention it,"

"We'll take our payment for another day."

Hayden cringed at the down right evilly mischievous looks they gave her, even if she knew that they would ask anything of her she was to uncomfortable with so agreed.

"Actually, I'll take that offer for a later date as well Hayden." Ginny informed. "I'm not sure what to ask for at the moment but I'll let you know."

"Ok." Hayden conceded, having figured that she would need to think about that first.

"Actually Hayden, I wouldn't mind catching up on some DADA. Your easily the best in the subject and this is our O.W.L year. I really don't want to have to try to learn four years worth of the subject on top of reviewing all our other ones." Hermione said thoughtfully as she started muttering about all the things she needed to review and if she should start making a tentative schedule now or wait till they got their class schedule. Hayden rolled her eyes with Ron and didn't bother to answer because the older girl had already tuned her out.

"You know, I can help you with that too. I might not be as good as Remus in the subject, but I did get all O's in it." Sirius offered.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Hayden said, she could tell that Sirius had been going stir crazy in the house without being able to help the Order at all and that the idea of being helpful, even if it was just to the kids, was perking him up. She looked to Ron, "what about you? Have anything you want from me or you wanna hold on the offer too?"

He shrugged, " I'll let you know later. It's still to early to decide." Hayden snorted and looked at Molly who was starring oddly at Sirius for some reason, but given how the two clashed often, Hayden figured Molly was trying to wrap her head around Sirius being serious for once.

True to the plan, the kids and Molly cleaned out the parlor while Sirius hunted down the things to teach the kids French with. At lunch time, Tonks, Kingsley, and Mad-eye dropped by for a few and Sirius asked his cousin to buy the supplies they needed for the two languages he didn't know while Moody gave them all a look of pride after hearing all the reasons that they had thought it would be beneficial to know the languages.

After Lunch, Sirius had them all seated comfortably in the parlor chairs in a circle with treys to use for their notes. Molly stayed to watch half the lesson before wandering off and leaving them to it. The lesson itself was great. Sirius was a certainly a talented teacher when it came to languages and was able to keep all of the kids attention while making the lesson fun and easily remembered. He taught them all a few fun songs to help them remember certain tenses and what words were feminine or masculine as well as some silly poems. When the twins started to get restless, he had them all up on their feet and learning while moving.

By the time dinner was ready and several others had stopped by the house for dinner, Sirius had declared the kids done for the day.

"We'll review all this tomorrow, as the some of the written word and do some more, by the end of the week, I'll only speak to you in French and you all have to speak to each other in French. I'll even make sure those that can speak it in the Order only speak it around you." Sirius said, to the dread of the others.

After dinner, the kids grabbed their school work and Sirius helped them out while Molly, Arthur, Tonks and Remus relaxed in the room. Sirius was a great help, even if he was a cruel task master.

"Hermione, teachers aren't looking for a dissertation on every topic they give you for homework." Sirius said after going through her transfiguration homework. "You have to remember that they assign paper lengths for a reason. It's not a minimum requirement, it's literally how long they want the paper." He explained.

"But how will they know everything we know then?!" Hermione said, completely offended.

"By summarizing, they want to know you truly understand the topic, not just that you can repeat what you read. Don't just say what the wand movements are and what the magic does to transform the animal into a goblet, explain why you use the wand movements and why the magic works the way it does In your own words." Sirius said patiently, handing back her paper.

"But that's not what they asked for!" Hermione hissed in frustration.

"Hermione, after this year you'll start using non verbal magic. You need to really understand what the magic is doing and why in order to use it. By this point in your schooling you should have a firm grasp of what your magic feels like and just what you personally can achieve with it and what's not quite in your reach yet. You'll never be able to use non verbal or wandless magic if don't have that understanding and that's what the teachers are trying to instill. I'm actually surprised that they have let you get this far without saying something about it." Sirius explained. Hermione gave him a sulky look.

"They may have said something once or twice." She muttered. Hayden traded worried glances with Ron, they both knew that Hermione did not like being corrected. Especially something she had decided was the right way to do something.

"Think about it okay? Can you feel your magic? Can you manipulate it to any degree? how does it move for different spells. If you can't feel your magic yet then I can teach you some meditation techniques to help you. When you get back to school, practice going through all the spells you know and trying to feel the difference between them through your magic." Sirius offered. Hermione sighed and nodded, stubbornly starting to rewrite her paper.

Next was Ginny's potions paper. "Okay, rather than just saying the specific order the steps are in, say why they are in that order, what happens when it's not in the order, what properties do the ingredients have alone and when mixed with the others. Why does it have to be a certain temperature?" He pointed out.

Ginny frowned at her work, "but I don't know all that! We were never taught why, just what order it all goes in!" She protested.

Sirius sighed in exasperation "Seriously? I figured Snape would at least do all that! He's the best potions master our generation ever had! He's found all manner of short cuts and better ways to do things than anyone before! I don't understand how he can be such a dismal teacher." He said

"He just hates Gryffindors." Fred said dismissively. Sirius scowled at the homework he was looking over.

"I know and understand that, even if I think he's being petty and childish with how he treats you guys, but you don't have class alone, your with the other houses. No, I think he just doesn't know how to teach and expects you all to just get it." Sirius grumbled before going and pulling out several beginners books, having the kids put there current homework down and started with the basics of potion making.

After an hour of Sirius explaining what properties certain ingredients have and why certain potions had different procedures and what safety measures were needed, Molly put an end to the lesson and sent the kids to get ready for bed, still giving Sirius baffled looks that the man ignored.

"I wonder what's up with the looks your mums giving Sirius today." Hayden said to Hermione and Ginny as they got dressed for bed in their shared room.

"Isn't it obvious?" Hermione asked, "she thinks of Sirius as extremely reckless and childish, him being responsible and teaching us school subjects seriously and able to keep all of our attentions is not what she thought he could do. Now she's trying to solve why he's so different from before you got here."

Ginny nodded as she jumped up onto her bed. "Yeah, i think Sirius is a lot happier now that you're here Hay. I also think he likes being needed. He's kind of trapped in a house he doesn't like so soon after getting out of that hell hole, I bet that's torture, especially since Snape keeps pointing out how he can't help the Order at all. You gave him something to do."

Hayden nodded her understanding. "I don't blame him, it's frustrating being cooped up somewhere you don't like with no ability to go places and do things." She said, referencing her summer visits to the Dursleys that made the other two cringe guiltily. Hayden rolled her eyes at them. "It's fine guys, I've mostly gotten over it. Anyways, I'm going to bed, night."

Then rolled over and went to sleep.

After that the days fell into a pattern for the week- get up, eat, clean, eat, learn a language, eat, do school work, go to sleep. True to his word, at the end of the week, Sirius would only speak to them in French and they could only talk in French unless they spoke to the members that only spoke English. Remus, Tonks, and surprisingly enough Muddungus also only spoke French to the kids. That went on until the end of July. While the kids had all become very proficient at the language, Ron had been the one to master the language, even before Hermione.

When asked about it he just shrugged, "It just makes since to me." He said.

Moody had looked thoughtful at him before saying, "if you can master other languages that fast, you'd make a decent international Auror, or maybe a linguist. If you like, you might even be a good fit as a dignitary to other countries." Ron had blushed bright red at the complement and had really thrown himself into learning the languages, sure enough, he mastered them before any of the others could even start to become good at them.

Kingsley had then dropped by and put the kids through several I.Q. Tests and Ron, Hayden and the twins were slightly insulted when everyone was surprised at how high they all scored.

"I don't know why everyone is so surprised." Hayden said at the dinner table after one of the Order meetings when most of them stayed for the meal afterwards and were discussing their results, "Fred and George have to be highly intelligent and creative to invent all those joke items and pull off some of the pranks they do. Ron is capable of beating even Professor McGonagall at chess since he was eleven and that takes no small amount of smarts along with his amazing ability to pick up languages apparently. And I'm no slouch in the mental department to be able to problem solve with little to no clues every year." She scolded, ignoring the grateful but embarrassed looks the Weasley brothers were giving her. She watched as Molly especially looked ashamed.

"Well said Miss. Potter." Kingsley said, making her blush.

For Hayden's birthday, Molly had tossed her a birthday party and had invited the other order members who almost all came by. Even Snape dropped by, snarked at her for a moment, dropped a present off with a sneer and stalked out to her bafflement.

She had received several awesome gifts, among them were some cultural books that Tonks bought her because of her new found appreciation for the other cultures. Some advanced DADA books that Remus bought her that he thought she would like. An old potions book of her mother's from Snape that had thrown her and it took Sirius and Remus to explain that the two had been friends until their fifth year, much to the kids utter confusion. A book on requirements for the Auror program from Moody, and a whole bunch of sweets.

They got their Hogwarts letters in August which had Molly going to get all their school books for them. The month was then spent learning Italian which was taught by Sirius in French until they got those basics and he limited them all to speaking Italian for the month. He also taught them how to meditate and find their magic and how to manipulate it as a start to doing wordless and wandless magic, though none of them except the twins were really able to grasp it because they couldn't actually perform spells, though he did spend a bit of time with the twins having them go over all their spells and helping them out. In the evening, Sirius and Hayden would just find somewhere quiet to hang out and talk about her parents, or her first two years of school, or even just sitting quietly together. Sometimes Hayden would ask Sirius for advice on various topics but otherwise just enjoying the time they had left together.

At the end of summer, Hayden was disappointed to be leaving for school. While she loves school, she wanted to spend more time with Sirius.

"I can come visit for Christmas right?" Hayden asked him anxiously as they stayed out of all the frantic scurrying everyone was doing to try and get out the door.

"Absolutely! I would love to have you anytime." Sirius reassured immediately. Hayden smiled gratefully at him, then asked

"And you're willing to do what you can to find Renato right?" She asked. Sirius nodded.

"Of course. I should have something for you by Christmas. Or I can at least narrow down where he is. Just leave it to me." He said.

They both had to stop their conversation there because it was time for the kids to head off. Hayden gave Sirius a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek before running down to meet with the others.

"Okay, everybody have everything?" Remus asked as he looked everyone over.

"We're not coming back if you forgot anything!" Molly warned, clearly remembering the disastrous trip three years previously.

Once everyone assured the adults they were ready, Remus called the knight bus, making Hayden slump in resignation.

"Ooohh! I always wanted to ride the knight bus." Ron said eagerly, and the other kids agreed.

"Trust me, soon enough your going to wish you never did." Hayden grumbled as she got on, ignoring Hermione's excited rambling about all the magic that went into making the bus and all that.

"Oh it"

"Can't be"

"That bad!" The twins said, both sitting and looking excited. Hayden just continues to mumble profanities under her breath.

Ginny seemed to be the only one to notice the nauseous looks on the other riders faces and a look of dread started to appear on her face.

Hayden had just barely been able to sit down and grip tightly to the seat when the bus launched forward, throwing the others to the ground and into the windows as it speed dangerously down the streets, making tight turns every few moments, flinging them all over the place before just as suddenly stopping.

"I'm never riding this bus again." Ron moaned, his face a sickly green, as he stumbled out of the bus. Only the twins seemed to have enjoyed the ride. But since they were crazy already, Hayden wasn't too surprised.

Hermione had hated the ride but was focusing more on the magic involved still and mumbling about ways to improve the bus, and Ginny looked as though she couldn't decide whether she hated or loved the ride.

"Alright you lot, be good, study hard, and keep in touch!" Molly said as she fussed over them all, then turned to Hermione and Ron and added, "And don't forget to do your prefect duties!" They nodded, even though Ron rolled his eyes. Hayden smiled at them, she had originally been disappointed that she hadn't made prefect, but she had to admit that being chosen over Hermione was about a 1 in 50 chance. Hermione just followed the rules much better than Hayden did.

While Molly finished fussing over the others, Hayden gave Remus one last hug and kiss on his cheek, laughing when a startled blush stole across his face. "Keep in touch ok?" She told him.

He nodded his agreement. "Alright, as long as you do the same, and remember to be careful about what you write."

Hayden scowled, but agreed before getting on the train.

"We've got to go to the prefect's carriage for a bit okay Hay?" Hermione told her anxiously, obviously nervous that she would be mad.

Hayden just smiled and waved them off, "That's fine, I'm going to go find Neville and give him these pictures I found. I'll talk to you later." She said before heading off to find her other friend with Ginny. The two girls found him sitting with a blonde girl that was wearing strange glasses, radish earrings and reading a magazine upside down.

"Hey you two, mind if we join you?" Hayden asked, taking a seat next to the blonde when Neville nodded.

"How was your summer Luna?" Ginny asked the girl kindly. The girl looked up, giving a slightly dazed smile.

"It was good, Daddy and I went looking for crumplehorned snorkaks. Unfortunately we weren't able to find any." She said dreamily. Hayden blinked and looked at the other two who just shrugged.

"Well, I'm Hayden Potter. It's nice to meet you." She said.

"I know. I'm Luna Lovegood, though most people call me Loony." She responded.

Hayden frowned, "That's not nice."

The other girl shrugged, still smiling, "It's okay, their heads are usually filled with Nargles. I don't mind."

"You should." Ginny muttered. Hayden regarded. the young blonde before turning to Neville and pulling out the pictures she had found.

"So, I got to go through a lot of my parents old things this summer and found a bunch of baby photos of us together. I also found a lot with you and your parents and thought you might like to have them." She said, handing the photos to the boy. He took them carefully, looking at the moving figures of his parents greedily, his eyes watering slightly.

"Thank you." He said, choked. "Are you sure I can have them?" He asked.

Hayden nodded, "Of course, I have more, I just thought you should have some too. Think of it as a belated birthday gift."

Neville blushed, "But I didn't get you anything." He protested.

"That's okay. I didn't give them to you for something in return." She shrugged. She then leaned back and asked him, "So how was your Summer Neville? Ours was really busy. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, the twins and I all worked on our homework and learning French and Italian. Our teacher was really intense because he totally believe in full immersion, so for three weeks we could only speak in French, than the next three weeks was Italian. Ron picked it up really fast, but I'm still struggling with gender pronouns and all the conjugating." She said, watching as Neville started to relax.

"That sounds hard." He agreed, "I got a Mimbulous Mimbletonia for my birthday and have been caring for it. Do you want to see?" He asked. The three girls nodded as even Luna put down her magazine to see. He pulled out a grey, boily looking plant that was pulsing slightly. "See, it's got all kinds of uses for healing and a really fascinating defense mechanism. If you poke it like this…" He poked it and the girls all eeped when the plant spewed out a rancid smelling liquid all over the compartment.

After wiping it away from her eyes, she glared slightly at the sheepish looking boy. "Sorry?" He said. Ginny grumbled as Luna just re-lifted up her magazine and continued to read as though nothing happened. Hayden pulled her wand out and cleared the mess away.

"It's fine, Neville." She assured.

"Yea, but we could have done without the demonstration. A explanation would have worked." Ginny pointed out.

"I think it was a wonderful demonstration." Luna stated, causing the others to stare at her. Hayden finally smiled and agreed, amused by the strange girl.

"What are you reading Luna?" She asked. Luna lit up and showed her the Magazine.

"It's the Quibbler, my daddy's the Owner." She said. Hayden listened intently as Luna explained all about the Quibbler and what they covered, asking questions about this and that. She burst out laughing on the article about Sirius secretly being Stubby Bordman and asked if she could keep the issue. Luna just beamed and agreed.

After awhile Hermione and Ron appeared, arguing in Italian.

"What's going on?" Ginny asked in the same language.

"Malfoy and Parkinson's are Slytherin prefects!" Ron gripped.

"Oh, he has a lot of nargles, it is quite the infestation." Luna said dreamily, also in Italian, making them all pause and look at her in surprise.

"You know Italian Luna?" Ginny asked in English for Neville, who was looking quite confused.

"Yes, my parents took me to Italy several times when I was young, momma wanted me to receive the full experience, so I learned the language." Luna said dreamily.

Hayden watched Neville who was trying to hide his envy.

"Would you like to learn Neville? I'm sure we could all teach you. Ron is really good and I bet he remembers all the fun little tricks we were taught." She offered. Neville blinked in surprise before smiling shyly.

"You'd do that for me?"

"Of course we would mate!" Ron exclaimed before taking a seat and diving into the basics. Hermione rolled her eyes and also siting down.

"So, is it just like you imagined? Being a prefect?" Hayden asked her.

Hermione shrugged, "I guess? It's only the first day so we'll see after I've had more of a chance to be a prefect." Hayden nodded her understanding, and then gestured to Luna.

"This is Luna Lovegood, Luna this is Hermione." She introduced. The two greeted each other nicely before Luna took to staring into space while Hermione decided to study for a bit. Ginny and Hayden played exploding snap for a while before the others slowly joined them, but overall had a very pleasant ride to school, they didn't even run into Malfoy until they got off.