YOU CAN'T CHANGE SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SEE ANY ISSUE IN THIER ACTIONS


FIRST YEAR IV/ SECOND YEAR I

"But back to what I was talking about before you both started ganging up on me," Sirius said. His gray eyes looking up and down at his sister's attire. A black and yellow scarf wrapped loosely around her neck. A bright golden yellow ribbon contrasted well against her dark unruly hair. One black glove on one hand and a yellow glove on the other. "Why are you wearing their colors?"

"Because I have team loyalty, Sirius," she rolled her eyes at him.

"But they suck," James finally made it to the stands with them. "At least root for a team that actually has a chance of winning."

"You're only saying that since they're playing your team," Adhara told the messy-haired boy. "And they might 'suck' now but once I play—

-you want to play quidditch?" both Remus and James—and another voice asked with wide eyes. It went unsaid but Adhara does not seem like the athletic type. She raised to be a traditional pure-blooded witch and playing such a tough sport can scare away the suitors. Remus turned around to see Fabian (or Gideon) behind them with the same shocked expression as James and himself.

Adhara turned around as well but much to Remus' displeasure he noticed the flush of pink come from her cheeks (and he knows that is not from the chilly February air).

"Is it that so shocking?" she raised an eyebrow at the redhead, ignoring the other first-year boys who asked the same question.

"I would think you would be a bit distracting if I played against you," Fabian (Gideon) winked.

"Can you not?" the implied, "flirt with my sister (in front of me)," left out from Sirius' grumbling. His eyes –if looks were meant to kill—glaring holes into the redhead.

"I admire beauty like I do with art, Black," Fabian (Gideon) shrugged with an arrogant smile.

Remus really hated that she blushed even more even if she looked even cuter.

"So what position would you like to play?" Remus asked her. Adhara jumped as if she forgotten that he was even sat beside her.

"Seeker," she said proudly. She then looks to her brother. "And he's going to be a Beater."

"The best one," he grins.

"I'm going to be a chaser and finally have Gryffindor win the house cup," James exclaimed.

"Oh, but you have to go against me, first," Adhara said.

It came to no surprise to Remus that Gryffindor won against Hufflepuff.

It was amusing to see how invested Adhara was in the game. Her hands either clung to James' or Sirius' arm, nails digging in each time the seeker of her house was this close to catching the snitch. They lost by a huge gap causing Adhara to pout as James' bragged in her face.

"Don't worry, love," Fabian—Remus later finds out—said to the first-year as he slung his arm over the girl's shoulder. "You'll get used to your house losing all the time," he teases her. With James and her brother's teasing, she was pissed off and threatened to hex them (which he finds out she is crud at) but when Fabian teases her she blushes like a school girl (which she is when he thinks about it).


"We're going to have to do something about that hair," Orion's wife seethed as soon as her two children left the train. He could feel her radiating angry and disgust when he saw their son hugging a blood-traitor and two half-bloods. Orion noticed how the taller half-blood's eyes lingered on his daughter. She waved before turning but that didn't stop the blood-tratior—Potter, he notices—grabbed her from behind and hugged her and cried dramatically. It would have been funny if it was not a blood-traitor.

Next thing he knows, two redheads—ugh, more blood-traitors—surrounded the first-years. Orion, being very observant of his daughter, noticed the flush of pink rose from her cheeks as she caught the eye of one of the twins

Luckily, Walburga cares more about appearances that she would not cause a scene of her children being surrounded by blood-traitors. To make it worse, Gryffindors.

And much to his pleasure, he saw Thomas Higgs walk up to Adhara and held out his hand. Orion could tell that Sirius was shocked that a 'snake' is aquatinted with his twin. Sirius looked back at Adhara clearly asking her with his expression why Thomas is there and she just shrugs with a smirk before shaking his hand. Her eyes widened and mouth dropped (along with the boys surrounding her) when Higgs took her hand to his lips before walking back to his parents with a smug smirk.

"At least she hasn't scared them all off," Walburga mutters.


Adhara made it her mission to not be in the same room as her father—alone—for the past two weeks. She made sure of it with her mother, too. It was pretty obvious what she was doing. Sirius thought it was hilarious. He rather is alone with his father than his hag of a mother.

But her running away would catch up with her sooner or later.

Orion treated her like a stray cat. Slowly and carefully with a warm smile that made her feel safe.

"Ah, my little star," he said to her. He sat next to her on her bed. "You haven't written to me at all."

Adhara felt instantly felt the guilt creep through her. She honestly was itching to write to him. But his letter brought back memories of what happened during holidays. Sirius never wrote either so what difference did it make for her to write back?

"Nothing to write about," she said. A lot of things that happened during the school year was nothing for her to write to her Purist father about. Her growing friendship with Ted Tonks who became more of an older brother to her. The light flirting of Fabian Prewitt (but who writes to their father about the boy they fancy) and growing friendship with Lily, James, and Remus. How she finally is becoming friends with her housemates.

"I figure you could find a reason," he replied. Adhara remained silent. Orion sighed. "I apologize for the incident with your mother during the Holidays. Your words…they scared her. She must have thought she was losing you to them. Though it was not right for her to strike you but I apologize for not protecting you, love."

"Okay," was all she could say. What else was there? Her brother inherited the puppy eye look from her father and now seeing the 'real deal' on her father sent her wavering. His usual hardened gaze that was only for the public now was full of warmth but sadness as well.

Orion shifted so that he was facing her more. He held out his arms for her and she knew what he was asking for.

"I realized that I am twelve now," she said with a forlorn expression. "I shouldn't be climbing in your arms anymore. I'm not six anymore."

"Ah, I knew the time would come," he said sadly.

"You don't do this with Reg or Sirius."

"Because you're my only daughter," which didn't seem like a logical answer. But the depressed expression of her father made her waver in her want of independence. She easily crawled over to him and wrapped herself into his embraced.


Remus sprouted three inches over the summer. His voice is a bit scratchy but overall the same. Hair lighter (maybe grayer?) and bags under his eyes.

Not the first look he wanted for the first day of school as a second-year.

Sirius grew only an inch. Hair longer that grew past his ear.

He had his hopes up when he saw them walking towards his compartment before he saw bloody Higgs call out to her.

"Lady Black," Higgs smiles at her. "And Lord Black," instead of greeting Sirius he said that to Regulus.

"Ah, Lord Higgs," Adhara smiles. "Did your summer fair well?"

"Ah, it was a bore. Over the months I wrote sonnets of your beauty that I missed," he jokes.

"What the hell is this?" Sirius seethes.

"No need to be aggressive, black," Higgs said. "I was just about to invite Adhara and Regulus to my compartment since it seems that there is no room in yours." Adhara had to hand it to him, he was right. With the compartment only can fit five maybe six it was already room for one more person.

The usual three friends of Sirius' group and the Prewitt Twins.

Remus noticed how fidgety Regulus was because of Sirus' obvious dislike for the boy. And then Regulus' eyes widened when he realized that he was actually following his siblings to sit with blood-traitors and half-blooded lions. Adhara seemed to figure out her younger brother's demeanor changed since she said, "Well, we accept your offer, Thomas."

"What?" Sirius—who is not use to sharing his twin sister—gaped at Adhara.

"What happened to Lord Higgs?" Thomas asked, clearly pleased to see how to put off Sirius was.

"I thought we became more familiar with each other," she shrugged before turning back to her brother who was still gaping at her like she said she was becoming a Dark Witch. "There is no room in there, Sirius."

"I'll kick those twins out," he said loud enough for 'those twins' to hear.

"Oi," they said with faked offended expressions. "You should be lucky we graced you with our presence," one of them said, then winking at Adhara. It was easy for Remus to figure out which one that one was.

"Who's with you?" Adhara asked Thomas.

"Belby from Ravenclaw and Nott." She recalled Belby, who tutored her in potions in her last few months as a first-year. Nott, she was not so sure about. All she knew about him was that he was a Slytherin. "They're not that bad," Thomas says with a teasing smirk to her.

"Fine," Adhara said before grabbing her little brother. "Would you like to sit with us, Reg?"


Sirius didn't know why he had his hopes up. It shouldn't have came to no shock that Regulus would be sorted into Slytherin. He missed the forlorn expression on his face as he went to his table but Adhara didn't.

Remus was relieved to see that Gryffindors did not have many classes with Slytherin. Only two to be specific: Defense of Dark Arts and Transfiguration. Herbology and Potions with Ravenclaw and only Charms with Hufflepuff.

It was like fate was against him trying to become friends with Adhara. He thought he had to worry about only Fabian but now a bloody Slytherin?

"Ugh, we're with the bloody teacher pets," James groaned when he saw the schedule.

"At least with the snakes, it was fun to poke fun at them," Peter mumbles.

"Blimey, we only have one class with Hufflepuff," Sirius pouts. And right on time his sister was walking to their table. "Are they trying to separate us, my dear sister." He said dramatically.

"I guess," Adhara said. "At least Ravenclaw students are not as intimidating," she adds. "I have two classes with them. I didn't have any with Slytherin last year."

"Lucky."


"Hello, can I sit with you?"

The voice was unfamiliar with him. Friendly yet uneasy. A girl's voice, too. Severus could count on one hand how many girls spoken to him his first year. All of them being Lily's friends (and because they were only being polite). He finally lifted his gaze from his potions book to lock eyes with a familiar gray pair. The only gray pair he's seen was…

Ugh, Sirius'.

He scowled as he finally comprehended who was speaking to him. Adhara Black. Severus took great pleasure in finding out that the girl didn't remind him much of her other half. Instead of a sneer, she held a small friendly smile.

"I'm Adhara Black," she holds out her hand. Severus could feel all the eyes on him from his house. His housemates were unsympathetic to treating Sirius Black like the blood-traitor he is but for some reason, they held Adhara to a different standard. Possibly thinking she's a soft-hearted puff who pities the muggle borns. Treating Adhara like he does with Sirius would not bode well with his fellow housemates.

He looks down at her hand. The first pure-blooded female to speak to him purposely. Her hand was out for a handshake which was informal—and more of a muggle mannerism. Severus had to show his fellow snakes that he understands the same mannerisms as a pure-blood.

He stares at her dainty hands before taking it into his bony ones. He turns it slightly and lifts it to his lips before quickly giving it a chaste kiss and letting go. Adhara's eyes widened at the act.

"Severus Snape."

"So…can I sit with you," she asked.

Severus slowly surveyed the room noting the many other empty seats. Many of them beside boys who was eager for her to sit there if Severus was to decline.

"I won't hold you down," she quickly said. "I'm pretty proficient. I got an O in potions. I just heard that you are very good. I had a partner last year who made me do all the work. I thought it would be good to have one to work with on equal grounds."

After a much long awkward silence, he finally said, "Fine."


Remus could hear the squealing of Lily when Adhara made her way in the classroom. She waved at the redhead before scanning the rest of the class for a seat. Seats was filling up quickly because of her housemates. And then her eyes went to his direction and he saw the smile spread across her face. Adhara waved at Remus as she walked towards him. He frowned, confused until he realized that there's an empty seat next to him.

Where is Peter, he thought but could care less (what friend he is) as Adhara sat her things down on their shared table.

"Morning, Remus," she greeted him. "Is this seat saved for Peter?"

Before he could decline (again what kind of mate is he?) Sirius jumped up to answer.

"He won't mind," he said. "He'll be ecstatic to be seated with a cute puff."

"So, Addie, you ready for quidditch season," James asked with a grin. Instantly Adhara gleamed at her favorite topic.

"Oh, I can not wait to put you in your place," she said. "Show you blokes that us Hufflepuff are not to be underestimated."

"Good luck with that," he said. "First you have to make the team."

"Are you doubting my skills?"

"I haven't even seen these skills," James rolled his eyes.

"She's a decent flier," Sirius tells his mate.

"I'm just sayin' that there're only been blokes playing this and don't they will hold back because of your pretty face," James tells her.

"Oh, you callin' us pretty?" Sirius teases as he flipped his hair back.

"Yeah, I can barely keep my hands off of you," James said as he lightly punches Sirius.

Let's just say it was hard for Remus to focus in class.


It didn't take long for the Black Twins to get into their first argument of the year.

And it was all because of Severus Snape.

Snape didn't cause it…intentionally. If Remus was to blame someone for starting the row between the siblings it was pretty obvious that it was Sirius. Well, any argument between the pair is started by Sirius.

Remus only lived with him for a year but he knows how easy it is for the pureblood's temper to rise. For someone who was raised by stoic parents, he can't really stop his brain to mouth filter (which worries him if Sirius was to find out that one of his mates he lives with is a monster).

It all started two weeks later in the halls during the weekend. James was dragging Adhara and Sirius to the quidditch pitch to practice since try-outs was only days away. Remus and Peter following closely behind.

And that's when Sirius saw him.

"Ugh, Snivellus," Sirus grimaced when catching sight of the snake.

Adhara furrowed her eyebrows. "Who?"

She looks over James' shoulder to see who caused the sudden tension in the air.

Before the boys could answer, Adhara grinned at the sight of her potions partner (and a new friend even if Severus doesn't agree), "Severus!" she waved full of excitement.

James and Sirius stopped suddenly causing the three others to crash behind them.

"Adhara," both of them said seriously with face showing betrayal.

"What?" she asked the two of them clearly not knowing what the problem was. Remus couldn't help but chuckle. Of course, Adhara would befriend her brother's 'arch-nemesis'. Severus was finally close enough in arms reach. "Hello, Severus. Where are you heading off to?"

Severus, clearly noting the glares of James and Sirius, nods at Adhara with a softer expression yet still alert. "Black—

-I told you to call me, Adhara," she cuts him off as shoves him playfully on the shoulder.

"I'm going to the library to work on our potions homework. Have you already finished it," he asked her.

"No, I'm planning on doing either tonight or tomorrow. Would you like to come to the pitch with—

-like hell we want this greasy snake around," James finally spoke up. Remus was shocked that he was silent all this time. James must have been really shocked enough to be speechless for ten seconds.

"Yeah, and I might find that nose quite distracting when practicing," Sirius adds with a smirk.

Remus glanced at Adhara to see her having a confused look giving it to her to Gryffindor friends. He could tell she was stunned to see this side of them.

Severus, who Remus is surprised to see stayed long enough, glowered at the two before swiftly walking away.

Finally, Adhara found her tongue.

"What the—what was that?" she asked the two.

"We should be asking the questions here," Sirius said. He grabbed her by the arm tightly. "Why the hell are you friendly with Snivellus?"

"Don't call him that," she growled which shocked the group of boys. Yeah, they've seen her mad before but never to the point where she talks back like this to her brother. Her eyes narrowed at him with her mouth pressed into a thin line. "I can't believe you guys. You both was just mean without a reason. He didn't even do anything to you."

"He exists that what he did," James said like that was the best reason to give.

"I can't believe you're defending him," Sirius yelled.

"He's my friend," she said like it was obvious.

"Well, you have a shoddy pick of friends, he scoffed. "I don't want you being friends with him anymore."

Adhara rolled her eyes. "Sorry, was I suppose to ask for permission? You don't get to tell me who I can be friends with."

Sirius, who is not used to this type of attitude being directed at him bristled. With a low growl, he shoved past his sister, bumping his shoulder into her harder than he meant to, and stormed off.