I was going to publish yesterday but I wasn't feeling too great. :/

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I'm in the process of writing Chapter 32 right now. Buckle your seatbelts, my friends…drama is around the corner.

Also, on the subject of Deleted Scenes, I've been working on some of those at the moment. I've decided that after this story is done, I might include a chapter in deleted scenes with random facts from both of my stories. Such as things about certain characters, certain scenes, etc…Yay or nay?

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CHAPTER 31

Sirius flourished his wand and cast a hex, however, Karl had quick reflexes and blocked it with ease.

"Taking a cheap shot?" Karl called. "I thought Gryffindor House never sunk low?"

"There are some exceptions." Sirius called, gesturing to Severus. "For example, helping out a slimy git."

Severus glared, now raising his wand.

"What exactly is your problem?" Karl asked, coming closer.

"I think you know." Sirius looked at him evenly.

Karl gave a derisive laugh.

"Of course!" He called, exasperated. "Of course! You know, I was actually quite excited to meet you both, she spoke so highly of you. But you can't even get over the fact that she's in a relationship."

"Your point?" Sirius called, raising an eyebrow.

"My point is, if you were actually a friend of hers, you'd be happy for her. And by the way, don't you have a girlfriend? Or are females really that expendable to you that you keep forgetting which girl you're dating?" Karl asked.

Sirius attempted to fire something back at Karl, but he blocked it once more and walked away with Severus.

"Glad to see Karl is the bigger person." Lily breathed, as she and Audrey were ejected from Marlene's pensieve.

"Sirius is very lucky I wasn't there." Audrey said darkly.

"But, this proves it." said Alice.

"Proves what?"

"HE LIKES YOU." The other three girls said, looking at her. Audrey began to hit her head on the bedpost nearby.

"I hardly think it's that-"

Marlene interrupted. "Are we really going to go there, Audrey?"
"Well, you didn't let me finish!" Audrey protested.
"Oh, let's hear this one." said Chantal, emerging from the bathroom. Veronique, Marie, and Aimee, their other dormmates from Beauxbatons followed.

"Vat are we 'earing?" Marie asked.

"Audrey denying that Sirius likes her." Alice said, Marie snorted in response.

"As I was saying." Audrey continued, annoyed. "I have a theory."

"Oh no." Lily groaned, as they waited for her to continue.

"I think he just 'likes me.'" Audrey used air quotations. "Because I'm the only girl in Gryffindor tower that hasn't dated him." She shot looks at Alice and Marlene.

"It was one date in Hogsmeade during our second year!" Alice protested. "It doesn't count."
"If it's called a date, it counts." Audrey said pointedly, then turned to Marlene.
"I dated him for only two days." Marlene protested.
"Still counts." Audrey replied.

"But wait, there's a flaw in your theory." said Lily.

"What would that be?" Chantal asked, curious.

"He hasn't dated me." Lily said triumphantly.

"BECAUSE HIS BEST FRIEND IS IN LOVE WITH YOU." Everyone, including the girls from Beauxbatons said to her at the same time. Lily blushed and muttered something about how he wasn't.

"I think it's a good theory." Chantal said support. "Sirius hits on anything that moves, but he does seem to have a magnetic affect around you."
"Chantal!" Audrey whined.
"Just think about it! That's all I'm saying!" She said, holding her hands up in mock surrender.

One week later.

"Are you going into Hogsmeade today?" Chantal asked, shaking Audrey awake.

"Good morning to you too, sunshine." Audrey mumbled, she shouldn't have been surprised. Chantal was always one to shake someone awake.

"Well?" Chantal asked.

"Yeah, the whole gang is going in." Audrey replied, and by the whole gang, she meant everyone else in their dorm.

"Good, I want to go to the Hogshead." Chantal said.

"What?" Audrey asked, sitting up.

"You heard me."

"Yes, I did hear you. Chantal, are you taking a Stupid Draught?" Audrey asked, serious.

"No, I am not taking a Stupid Draught." Chantal did jazz hands to emphasize the last two word. "Very clever with that, but anyway, the Hogshead has tons of our kind there, Audrey. We're not going to be killed or anything. And they have an open mic!"

"So does the Three Broomsticks." Audrey replied.

"Audrey, you move rocks, you can cause an 8.0 on the Richter scale. I can shoot fire from my hands and turn into a vicious bird. We'll be fine." Chantal said casually.

"And you can charm the pants off of any guy you like." Audrey mumbled.

"It's not something I like to do though." Chantal shuddered, remembering the incident a few weeks back when a Ravenclaw boy by the name of Gilderoy Lockhart would not stop following her around. He was now following Audrey around.

"…And you have some veela in you too. Not to mention mixing that with your banshee genes and you're a regular man-eater."

"The only boyfriend I've had is Karl." Audrey replied quickly.

"Touché…truce?"

"Truce." Audrey replied, shaking Chantal's hand, laughing.

Halloween at Hogwarts had always been an interesting day, all of the meals were Halloween themed. There was so much sugar that I wasn't sure if it should be illegal to be around so many youths.

The only way I have prepared for it in the past years is to not eat at all two days prior, I could do it easily, and so could Remus and Chantal. Our other friends however…

"I'm so hungry." James whined. "Why did you tell me to do this?"

"I didn't tell you to not eat, James. I merely suggested it, I never said you had to." Audrey corrected him as they waited for breakfast.

"Well, how do you manage?" Peter asked, curious.

"I can go days without eating, so can Remus and Chantal." Audrey shrugged, looking at her fingernails for a moment.

Sirius snorted and said. "Special people."

Remus, Chantal, and Audrey clinked their glasses together, grinning.

I was on minor speaking terms with James and Sirius, whereas Lily…
Well, let's just say Lily Evans could really hold a grudge.

"Are you all going into Hogsmeade?" Remus asked the girls conversationally. They nodded.

"We're going to start looking at dresses." Lily grinned.

The boys all groaned.

"What about you guys, going to look for dresses too?" Sirius asked Karl and Sven.

"Da." Sven replied, sarcastically. Hans and Petro decided to change the topic and talk about Zonko's and the Quidditch shops.

"Just wait until later…" Audrey said to her boyfriend and best friend. "I've got something good for him." She nodded her head over to where Sirius sat.

In the last few weeks, Sirius and James had gone on their usual wild pranking sprees. However, Karl and Severus seemed to be more of targets. Audrey wasn't pleased to find out that one of their pranks, was turning Karl entirely pink after he showered one morning.

The excuse we had all made that we were dress shopping had been a half truth, we walked around Hogsmeade, looked at the three shops that sold dresses. We all tried a few on here and there, and had some of the shop owners order us dresses to try on which would arrive in a few weeks time.

Afterwards, we split off into pairs, Lily went with Marie, Alice went with Veronique, Marlene went with Aimee, and Sarah went with a girl named Carole.

Of course…Chantal and I had snuck off to the Hogshead.

"Welcome." said the bartender, Audrey found his resemblance to their headmaster a little surprising.

He looked at them curiously and then said. "Let me guess…veela." He pointed at Chantal, and then looked at Audrey. "And you…I'm not quite sure."

Audrey let her eyes flash yellow quickly.

"Ahh…interesting." The bartender said, looking at her with an expression Audrey couldn't quite place. "Well, I'm assuming you've somehow heard about this bar being a hotspot for others like yourselves."

The girls nodded, ordered their drinks and sat at an occupied table. The bar was fairly empty for this time of the day, and though there was supposed to be an open mic as Chantal said, it didn't start until 7 pm. By then, everyone would be back in the school at the feast.

"Next time." Audrey said to Chantal, motioning to the sign that said 'Open Mic every Saturday, 7 p.m.'

"How?" She asked.

"Knowing James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter…I'm sure they've found some way out of the school." Audrey shrugged, finishing her drink.

I left Hogsmeade early to meet Hisoka in her quarters, I was enrolled at a competition in London for that afternoon. The competition was different from the usual ones I had attended, it involved players of all ages. I knew I wasn't going to get to the finals, which was fine by me. The finals were during the Halloween feast after all…

"Hey, Russia!" James called as Audrey entered the Great Hall and sat with her usual group.

Hans, Petro, Karl, and Sven all looked at James.

"What?"
"You said 'Hey, Russia." Audrey pointed out. "We're all from Russia."
"I thought you were born in England?" said Remus

"No, I was born when my parents were visiting my great grandparents. I was born a little outside of St. Petersburg."

I left out the part about being born in a banshee colony…I was already weird enough.

"So how was the competition?" Sven asked, chewing on some bread.

"Was the bitch there?" Marlene's eyes widened. She loved hearing good stories about Angeline, just as much as Audrey loved hearing stories about Olivia - Marlene's rival from the camp she attended for years.

Audrey nodded. "Angeline was there, neither of us won though."

A few aww's were heard.

"It's alright though…I placed at least." Audrey grinned.

"And she didn't?" Marlene's eyes widened, a grin on her face. Audrey gave a tiny nod.

"Better than losing to her." Marlene raised her goblet, clinking it with her friend.

Audrey had planned to initiate her little scare after the feast, but to do that she needed bait. Severus had surprisingly volunteered, when he saw Audrey's shocked expression he shrugged and said.

"I want to see Sirius get it."

Severus left the hall early, which was the essential bait. Sirius of course, took notice right away. He grinned at James, the two got up and strode out of the hall.

Audrey flashed her friends a look, Karl grinned.

"Go get them, tiger." Remus laughed. Audrey smirked and stalked out of the hall.

Severus planned to lure the two onto the third floor, and he did with ease. Severus, unfortunately was hanging upside down and was being repeatedly hit with water balloons. Audrey sighed, shaking her head, for added affect, she didn't use her wand.

She simply waved her hand and Severus was released. Sirius turned around.

"Oh…" He said, furrowing his brow. "Spoiling the fun again, Russia?"

Audrey didn't say anything, but glared. She was half acting, half serious.

I told Severus that once my eyes turned red it would be the signal to leave, and he left quickly…and now the fun would begin!

She approached them slowly, for more affect. They stood rooted on the spot, curious. She stopped within two feet of them, wearing a sweet smile.

"Audrey…what?"

I have a rather bizarre gene pool, and sometimes I really like to abuse that.

Audrey's eyes turned black, her sweet smile still plastered on her face. Her teeth began to change from their normal appearance to sharp, long, and jagged.

The teeth, I had inherited from my mother. Her natural teeth were these tiny sharp points, but whenever she was angry they'd elongate slightly. So when he mouth was open she looked like she was about to eat whomever she was angry with. It is, as my father puts it, a defense mechanism.

James and Sirius took a step back…but there was more.

Audrey's skin began to change, bluish green scales began to form.

And for the grand finale!

She exhaled and fire shot from her mouth.

I inherited that from my father, who was half veela…he inherited the scales and the fire. Occasionally, a bird beak sprouted as well when he was incredibly angry. Naturally, if my parents fought, a portion of our house would most definitely be destroyed. I had seen it happen a few times here and there.

"Merlin's pants what the bloody hell?" Sirius shouted, as he and James set off sprinting down the hallway and out of sight. Severus popped out from behind a suit of armor and Audrey quickly changed back, giggling.

"That was brilliant." Severus smirked, and the two walked back to the Great Hall for the end of the feast.

Honestly, I don't think I had ever been scared in such a way before.

…but I couldn't stay away.