Sirius stared at the clock as his detention time ran out. He tapped his foot in anticipation. Precisely at eight, a girl walked in with a purple bag slung around her shoulders. The girl had white hair with electric blue streaks that went below her shoulders in ringlets, almost vampire like pale skin, and glittering blue eyes.
"Ah, Miss Hattaway." Professor McGonagall stood up and ushered Lydia over to Sirius, "I've got to go to a meeting, I'm sure you can handle him."
Lydia blushed as the professor left to room.
"Listen, I don't really care about any of this so, let's not and say we did." Sirius smirked arrogantly.
"What?" Lydia asked in amazement.
"I've got much better things to do than-"
"I honestly don't give a damn what you have to do. The grade you get in Herbology from now on directly reflects on me and if you screw that up, don't bother ever stepping foot in Hogwarts again." She said flatly.
"Are you threatening me?" Sirius asked, amused.
"Listen, I've got high expectations for what I want to be when I leave school and I will not hesitate to ruin your life outside of here if you screw this up."
"Yes ma'am." Sirius leaned back in his chair and propped his feet on the desk, "So how's this going to go?"
"You are going to listen to every word I say, and regurgitate them on paper in Professor Sprout's class." Lydia sat in a chair next to him.
"You're a Gryffindor?" Sirius motioned to her scarlet and gold tie.
"Please, tell me you are not serious." Lydia glared.
"Oh trust me." He flashed a charming smile, "I'm Sirius. And what's your name?"
"Lydia." She pulled out her wand. Crooked, made of yew, with a Chimaera scale core. Lydia swished her wand over Sirius' Herbology book and it opened to a page on Aligriwid, "You should know all of the plant's from Aligriwid to Green stone."
"Yes, mistress."
"Oops, forgot my…" Professor McGonagall bustled back through the door and grabbed a quill off her desk, "It's a favorite of mine. Good day."
"Good day, Professor." Lydia nodded her head as the Professor left once again.
"I've got Quidditch and better things to do than memorize these ruddy plants." Sirius's snapped.
"You've got two days." Lydia glowered at him, "I suggest you start on Frostys."
"How long am I going to be stuck in here?" Sirius looked at the clock as if it was his sworn enemy.
"You can leave whenever you like." Lydia shoved her book into her bag and walked out of the classroom.
Later that week found Lydia sitting by the lake with her nose buried in a copy of The Dream Oracle. Many other students were sitting in groups as they wrote on parchment.
"Where is our next lesson?" Sirius loomed over Lydia with Peter, James and Remus at his side.
Lydia carefully slide a finger into her book and closed it, "At the-"
"You need lessons?" Severus Snape's lip curled in a smile, "From a mudblood?"
"Shut up, Snivellus." James Potter sneered.
"At-" Lydia tried to start again, in a failed attempt to ignore Snape.
"What are you failing at this time, Sirius?" Snape took a step towards Lydia, "And consorting with mud-"
"Silencio!" Lydia held her wand menacingly at Severus, "The next lesson will be in the Quidditch field at ten tonight. And I must say Severus, I don't recommend calling anyone mudblood."
Severus stormed off with his voice gone. Peter looked at Lydia as if she was made out of gold as Sirius gave his most charming smile.
"Never bring up this incident again." She flipped open her book and continued to read.
"Is that frosty?" Sirius unsure at the plant that rested on Lydia's lap in an orange pot.
"Shh." Lydia pointed to the white stemmed plant. They were sitting on the Gryffindor stands in the Quidditch field, "Luckily for you, this is the night of the blue moon, and the plant will-" She said in a hushed whisper.
"Bloom." Sirius sat very close to her as they listened to the sweet melody of the frosty.
"Here." Lydia handed Sirius the plant and pulled out her wand, pointing it at herself, "Incendio." In a blaze the back of her hand was terribly burned.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Sirius yelled.
"Shut up and pick the petals." Lydia pointed to the blue glittery flower that had just sprung from the plant.
"Women…" Sirius huffed as he gently took the petals and placed them in Lydia's lap.
"As you may have read," Lydia eyed Sirius with skepticism, "These petals can heal burns."
"You could've just told me that." He said flatly.
"True." Lyida rubbed the gorgeous blue petals onto her burn, "But if I didn't do this I wouldn't have a reason to steal a frosty from Professor Sprout. You can keep the rest of the petals, for pepper up potion or invigoration draught."
"Thanks." Sirius smiled and put the petals into the pocket of his robes.
"I'd assign you more to memorize, but Professor Sprout is adamant that I don't teach you faster than she teaches the class." Lydia brushed the petals off her now healed hand.
"Nice charm, by the way." Sirius laughed and placed the frosty between him and Lydia, "That you used on Snivellus."
"I believe that I told you to never bring up that incident again." Lydia stood up, "Now, I've got to get this plant back to the green house." She picked up the plant and trotted down the stands, leaving Sirius with his eyebrows raised.
"Did you put in that word for me?" Kendra asked a bit too loudly at the breakfast table in the great hall, "Did he say anything about setting us up?"
"Will you shut up?" Lydia hissed as she scrawled on a paper before her, "I didn't put in a word for you. It's herbology, meaning about plants and fungi; not who likes whom."
"Just because you are a prude who gets off on school doesn't mean that you have to make life difficult for the rest of us." Kendra shoved a spoonful of pudding into her mouth.
"I charmed Severus." Lydia mumbled into her paper.
"What happened to 'I don't care that he goes around slandering people like me, I don't want to get involved'?" She mocked Lydia's voice.
"And that was all great until he said it to my face."
"So you would rather he said it behind your back?" Kendra snorted, "I don't know what you've been waiting for. I would have knocked that little grease ball on his backside the first time he even muttered about muggleborns."
"Well said." Sirius Black sat down next to Lydia.
"What charm did you use?" Kendra pried.
"Silencio." Sirius answered when Lydia didn't.
"Oh, you've got to teach me that one. I can't wait to see the look on Lucinda's face when that mouth of hers finally gets shut."
"I'm really beginning to like your friend, Linda." He looked smitten with Kendra.
"Why, thank you." Kendra blushed.
"I'm going to go drown myself in the lake." Lydia stood, "And after that I'm going to find a spell that burns genitals off."
"Did I do something wrong?" Sirius smiled to Lydia as she stormed out of the great hall.
"You called her Linda." Kendra laughed.
"That's her name right?"