Disclaimer: Aurora Clementine Badeau, Aberto Adriano Badeau, Alicia Doireann Badeau (nee Riddle), Timothy Durante Badeau, Alfred Cillian Badeau, Holly Caoimhe Badeau, Nicola Sorcha Badeau, Italia Isla Badeau, Thekla Sophia Badeau (nee Metaxas), Maximus Eligio Badeau, Alexander Fidel Badeau, Massimo Cillian Badeau, Dolores Maria Badeau (nee DaSilva), Gloria Boxington (nee Badeau), and Henry Boxington are © me lol I know, really long list of characters and yes, they're all related in some way. That'll be explained later. All of these names are authentic Spanish, Scottish, Italian, Irish, and Greek names (Thekla is the only pure Greek though). There are some names in here that I added but I'm not saying their mine because they don't play huge roles and I'm too lazy to go through the whole story again and type more names to this already long list (like Professor Markis, Nikita, etc…)

Pippa Lupin © my friend, Ashley :)

All other characters are © Jo Rowling (if you've seen the names in the original HP series)

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Defense Against the Dark Arts; by far James' and Sirius' favorite subject out of all of their eight classes. They joined the throng of 7th year Gryffindors and Ravenclaws and as they did so, James noticed that Lily was with Rebecca Prewett, a short, thin, orange haired, dark eyed Gryffindor girl; she was Molly Weasley's (nee Prewett) younger sister. The two girls were talking when Aurora Badeau, Siriuis' crush, joined them. The three girls chattered with each other, talking about who asked out whom or who was wearing what to the dance.

They were interrupted when the door to the classroom opened. Everyone filed in. Aurora and Sirius bumped into each other by accident, their eyes locking. For a brief second, Sirius could have sworn that she gave him a small, friendly smile but then she was gone, being pulled off to the left side of the room by Lily. He frowned but joined the boys at the right side of the room.

Professor Markis began his little speech about what they would be doing that day. How to strip an offensive object. Wonderful.

"Now, today I will not allow you to pair up on your own. I believe it's a time for change. I will only pair the ladies with the gentlemen. Now, let's see…Aurora, you will be paired with Sirius."

Aurora and Sirius immediately locked eyes. She looked stunned and a bit uncomfortable. Sirius gulped as James gave him a little nudge in his ribs, a sly smirk playing upon his lips. The professor went on with the list, pairing Alice Turner with Frank Longbottom and Remus with Molly Prewett. Lily was paired with Peter Pettigrew, much to James' dismay. James was stuck with Brooke Helburger, a girl who had stringy yellow hair, grey eyes, and a nasty case of acne.

Everyone stood up in a collective sound of fumbling and scrapping of paper and screeching of chairs against the stone floors. Aurora slowly made her way to Sirius, looking a bit nervous and pale. She sat down, collecting herself quickly. The nervous, pale look left immediately, replaced with a stony look of indifference. She pulled her wand out and put her book back in her bag.

"No talking to me. Just do the assignment," she said quickly and under her breath. Sirius blinked and then glared at her. As she went to grab the object that she had to jinx for him to un-jinx, he grabbed her wrist, startling her. Her confused crystal blue eyes found his dark grey ones.

"Why do you hate me so much?"

"I never said I hate- "

"You treat me like you hate me. You look at me like you hate me. You talk to me like you hate me. So I'll ask you again; why do you hate me?" He was angry, she could tell. His eyes were too dark, the way they got when he was around Severus Snape or Lucius Malfoy or Bellatrix, his cousin, or his younger brother, Regulus. She tried to pull her wrist from his grasp, but his hand only tightened around it. She winced a little as some of her skin twisted under his grip. He loosened his hold and she took advantage of this, yanking her wrist from his hand.

"I don't hate you, Sirius Black, but I sure as hell don't like you", she snapped, grabbing the tea cup that she was supposed to jinx. He looked livid with her. She put her wand out in front of her, pointing it at the tea cup. Then she cursed it silently. He blinked and looked confused.

"Aren't you supposed to tell me what kind of curse you put on-?"

"Figure it out on your own", she cut him off rudely. She sat back, crossing her arms under her chest, looking out the window to the right, just beyond him. She looked hurt more than angry, he noted. He sighed heavily. Great. Instead of pissing her off, I hurt her feelings. What am I going to do with you, Aurora? He thought to himself as he levitated the tea cup and then performed a simple test on it. It glowed red. Ok, it's one of two things. A skin-peeling curse or a skin-burning curse. She had to make it difficult. He sighed again and performed a charm on it.