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Chapter 4

"Audrey!—come on get up—it's nine in the morning," said Rachel walking into Audrey's room opening the curtains, Audrey buried her head into her pillow.

"Up in five minutes Audrey—breakfast is ready," said Rachel walking back down to the kitchen, but as long as Rachel was not in the room Audrey didn't care, she slept on.

"Audrey!" shouted Rachel sternly from the kitchen.

"I'm up," came Audrey's muffled reply through the pillows and sheets.

"Get yourself down here Audrey—and brush your teeth!" said Rachel a cup of coffee in her hand.

Audrey walked down the stairs with her hair all over the place her eyes still drooping with sleep and obviously with teeth that were not yet brushed, but through her drooping eyes she could see the outline of a man sitting on the living room couch as the open door leading to the balcony let a huge amount of light inside. Thinking him to be her godfather she sat down or rather crashed next to him her head pushed against the cushion of the couch.

The man looked at her oddly for a while but then got back to his tea while he held a paper in his hand. Audrey's nose twitched a bit, the cologne that the man was wearing didn't seem to be like something Remus would use, Remus never used any cologne, he just smelt nice but this was definitely some sort of lovely-

"Audrey!" shouted Rachel again from the kitchen as Audrey fell off the couch while the man next to her looked worriedly at her his paper now by his side.

"What—I'm up—geez!" she whined and turned around to greet the man she thought was Remus, but he wasn't instead it was someone whose picture's had been all over France last year—Sirius Black was sitting there on her couch in her living room, Audrey eyed him with shock as he smiled and put forth his hand.

"Hi—I'm Sirius Black—pleased to meet you," he said. He was odd thought Audrey, they said he was mad, maybe he was, after all why in the world would a mass murderer like him offer his hand to a fourteen year old who was eying him like she was about to scream for help.

"Mum-" wailed Audrey still eying Sirius with the same gaze as she pulled a couch pillow towards her.

"I won't hurt you I swear," smiled Black, Audrey looked at him still holding the same expression but his smile calmed her a bit, it was one those notorious smile that Audrey had read about in muggle romance novels, the best smile set for the heroes like the one Uncle Al had like the one she dreamed her father to have, dear lord this man would look handsome if he were better groomed.

"What—oh!" said Rachel running out of the kitchen with Remus following.

"It's alright Audrey—" smiled Rachel calmly as she went and stood next to Sirius who was still smiling at Audrey whose expression brought out the confusion in front of her, Audrey propped an eyebrow at her mother which made Sirius disbelievingly scoff lightly.

"Alright?—there is a convict in our house and you think it's alright?" Audrey argued.

"Oh! Please—you can't possibly be any kinder," scoffed Sirius who Audrey glared at.

"He's my friend—one of my best friends actually," finished Rachel looking at Remus who smiled at her.

"Your friend?—are you certain?" asked Audrey a little shaken.

"Yes- very," finished Rachel laughing lightly.

"Well—any other convict friends you haven't told me about?" sneered Audrey her hands crossed over her chest.

"No, just this one," said Rachel reassuringly.

"Great—because next time I might just have my wand on me," finished Audrey stalking out of the room back to her bedroom to get changed.

"Bloody hell!" muttered Sirius

"Yes—see what I have to live with," whined Rachel mockingly as she set the table for five.

"She is just like him—exactly like him—can't emphasize how much like him, blimey," gulped Sirius.

"Yes—while we are on the topic—Audrey doesn't know anything about her dear father—let's keep it that way shall we!" finished Rachel as Sirius nodded gravely.

"Audrey!" shouted Rachel again as Audrey now walked out of her room and sat down next to Remus who greeted her pleasantly.

"Morning!" he smiled at her.

"Yea—" said Audrey inaudibly still not sure whether or not to look at Black, because he was staring at her oddly.

"I'm Audrey, by the way," gulped Audrey finally looking at Sirius who had half a toast hanging from his mouth as he filled himself some orange juice.

"I knew that!" he said his face full of food, she giggled at his antics and he shook her hand gently.

"So what year are you in?" Sirius asked as someone flooed into the house in the living room fireplace.

"Fourth," said the person who'd come in, Audrey turned around as her face brightened up.

"Aunt Min," smiled Audrey jumping from her seat dashing to hug Minerva.

"Oh! My lord is that really you Audrey Adams?" smiled Minerva as Audrey laughed while Rachel shook her head.

"Yes," laughed Audrey as Remus smiled at her.

"Professor McGonagall-" said Sirius getting up as Audrey giggled, Minerva's arm still around her shoulder.

"Mr. Black, what an umm...surprise," said Minerva looking at Rachel who shrugged.

"Aunt Min is here to take you to Le` Blanc Street like she promised," finished Rachel as Audrey nodded happily to her room to retrieve her already packed bag.

"See yea," said Audrey waving goodbye to her mother as Minerva through everyone at the table a smile as she followed Audrey out.

"So, uncle Albus is busy again?" asked Audrey a little disappointed, she loved it when her great aunt and uncle would come visit, they always talked about their life back home and Audrey would love listening to the story that Albus would come up with, he was the one who read her the whole Beetle of Bard, he was the one who told her about Hogwarts and her parents but then her mother had stopped him before he could tell Audrey the truth and since then Audrey hadn't had those frequent visits from Uncle Albus and she knew her mother had something to do with it, she missed him and therefore the perpetual writing of letters would go on, but he never replied as frequently as she sent the letters, yet Audrey understood his reasons he was Albus Dumbledore, he was the savior of the wizarding world, he had a school to take care of she couldn't possibly ask him to write to a fourteen year every day.

"You—know your uncle—always busy," said Minerva sympathetically as she and Audrey walked into an empty alley way in the busy Paris Street. They walked till they came across a wall with graffiti of an 'X' on it. Minerva looked around to see if anyone was looking, just in case a muggle was passing by, but there was absolutely nobody.

Minerva pressed the tip of her wand in the middle of the 'X'. The light emitted from her wand grew from yellow to blue. The duo stepped back as the wall opened up to let the witches in. Audrey stepped inside followed by Minerva who placed her wand into her purse.

"Where to first?" she asked Audrey.

"Well—I need dress robes," smiled Audrey devilishly as Minerva rolled her eyes and shook her head, they walked into the boutique selling dress robes where Audrey too her own sweet time to chose dress robes for herself, obviously Minerva tried to help her select,

"What about these lovely yellow ones?" asked Minerva as Audrey shook her head and showed her a black dress, but Minerva had a different idea; she pulled out a blood red dress.

"No way—aunt" mumbled Audrey still holding onto the black dress she had picked.

"Why not—it will bring out your complexion," said Minerva as Audrey shook her head hurriedly.

"This!" exclaimed Audrey showing her what she was holding as Minerva studied it and then gave a painful nod as Audrey smiled and walked into the trial room to try it on. She came out after a while wearing the dress. The dress was a simple thing but she made it look beautiful, it was a black dress that cut a little above her knees, it was sleeveless and came with a big brown belt.

"You do know they would want you to wear gowns," said Minerva as Audrey showed her the dress.

"Not when you're fourteen and in Beauxbatons—they'd make fun of me if they saw me in a gown," frowned Audrey as her customary pout became visible. Minerva sighed and then nodded, she wondered if she could melt her father's stone heart, a smile crossed Minerva's face, of course she would she was everything like him, stubborn, snarky and intelligent, she would make a good Slytherine, then again she would slash the sorting hat apart if he decided to place Audrey in Slytherine. Though Audrey would be like Potter, hard to place anywhere—too much courage and nobility lay inside Audrey, Minerva knew she would stay back and fight till she lost but the Slytherine in her would make her win. What a combination thought Minerva.

A while later most of the shopping was done though Audrey spent half of their visit in the potions store and then in the sports utility shop, though she didn't by anything from their spending half her galleons to buy her dress hadn't left her with much money, boy her mother was going to kill her if she found out how much that dress cost, but Audrey knew Minerva wouldn't tell, she loved her way too much to see her favorite and only great niece die.

Minerva noticed that as they walked out of the store and to the rest of the required shopping spots several people stopped to greet Audrey, well almost everyone who was around her age came and said hello or threw her a beaming smile as she passed, she in return greeted them in the same way, that was when Minerva realized that Audrey wasn't really that much like her father, when Audrey was famous for being nice, Severus was famous for being nasty, while Audrey was a sweet girl, Severus was neither. Yet, Minerva knew that however similar Audrey was to her parents she was her own person and this reminded Minerva strongly of Harry Potter once again.

So after they had completed their shopping with featherless Henry's treats Minerva shrunk all the bags and placed them carefully in her purse, so now she and Audrey left Le` Blanc Street to find a cafe` to have lunch in. Audrey suggested they walk till the end of the road, she knew a place that had good food.

They settled down in the tiny cafe` on the street and gave their orders to the waiter as they waited for the food to arrive Audrey realized how hungry she actually was.

"So are you going to be taking French this year—or no hope there?" asked Minerva looking at Audrey. Beauxbatons was the only Wizarding School that taught muggle literature and language along with magic.

"No, absolutely not—I mean they're going to be doing Austen this year—while they'll be teaching Voltaire or someone in French—and I'd prefer lovely Jane over boring Voltaire any day," smirked Audrey.

"Voltaire had some good books," argued Minerva.

"Yea—well—why are you and mum after my life to make me take French it's a stupid language anyways—I mean they have genders for everything-everything!" said Audrey dramatically defending her point.

"I think French is a lovely language—it so fluent, it's musical it has sound unlike English—quite drab I'd say," said Minerva, remembering her time in France and the beginning years of her career when she had taught transfiguration in Beauxbatons.

"I can sing in English too you know-" scoffed Audrey.

"Yes—I forgot you're unbeatable," sighed Minerva smiling fondly at her as Audrey wiggled her eyebrows at her aunt.

Lunch was spent discussing teachers at Beauxbatons and whether the headmistress would ever get a handsome young man—well as "big boned" as her. Minerva and Audrey started their discussion on Jean Claude and about how he was everything that was wrong for Rachel.

"He's an idiot—I don't know what mum sees in him," said Audrey in all seriousness.

"Yes—it is a mystery to us all," said Minerva agreeing as they reached the building lift; Audrey nodded to whatever Minerva had to say about Jean.

"Aunt min, can I ask you something?" said Audrey looking at Minerva from the corner of her eyes while her head was down facing the floor, Minerva nodded as Audrey began with her investigation. She had been meaning to ask Minerva this since a very long time, she knew minerva would tell her, but for all this time Audrey was afraid that if her mother found out what Audrey wanted Minerva to tell her she would have possibly stopped Minerva's contact with Audrey just like she was sort of boycotting Uncle Albus.

"My dad—what was he like?" she asked shyly, she was a little embarrassed to ask Minerva about this, she didn't know why but she just knew very well that Minerva might be a bit uncomfortable to talk to Audrey about this.

"Audrey—you know you're mother doesn't like it when I talk to you about this," said Minerva sadly as the lift deposited them on the tenth floor, Audrey nodded solemnly.

"But—I can tell you this—if he knew you existed—he'd love you more than anything he'd ever known," finished Minerva sympathetically.

"Well—then why did Mum not want him to know?" said Audrey pushing the topic further trying to get as much as possible as Minerva rang the doorbell to the flat.

"I think she's afraid-" said Minerva

"Afraid of what?" asked Audrey frowning as Minerva turned to her to tell her something, Rachel opened the door grinning like mad.

"Hello! Hope you found everything you needed," she said sweetly letting the two in as Minerva resized Audrey's bags, with a flick of her wand and they were all packed neatly into her trunk in her room.

"So you were saying?" said Audrey when Rachel went into the kitchen to retrieve some water for her aunt and daughter.

"Oh! Audrey—I don't think it's my place to tell you all this," said Minerva smiling gently at the child as Audrey looked slightly hurt.

"I'll see you soon, alright," smiled Minerva hugging Audrey who refused to hug her back and then with a pop she was gone leaving Audrey to stare at the spot her great aunt had stood in moments ago.

"Oh, so she apparated did she?" asked Rachel coming out of the kitchen as Remus and Sirius walked down the steps of the flat.

"Apparated?—what's that?" asked Audrey a little surprised

"Well—it is magic that allows you to disappear or appear rather to a destination of your choice at the time you chose to travel to the chosen destination," finished Sirius walking up to stand next to Audrey as Audrey nodded.

"And this apparition this-can it make to you travel from continent to continent?" asked Audrey wondering of a plan in her head, Sirius nodded smiling at her.

"How hard is it to learn?" asked Audrey hurriedly.

"No—absolutely not Audrey!" shouted Rachel coming into the hall as Sirius was about to give her the directions to a correct apparition.

Audrey jumped on the spot she had been standing as Remus took a deep breath and Sirius laughed at Rachel.

"Really—you think a fourteen year old can apparate—come on Rachel," he said shaking his head.

"Oh, you have no idea—what this one is capable off" said Rachel glaring sternly at her daughter, Audrey smirked a little as Remus chuckled at her courage of standing in front of her infuriated mother and smirking.

"Really— care to enlighten me at dinner?" said Sirius turning to Audrey who shook her head.

"Will you be staying with us?" she asked sweetly.

"For a while" said Remus as Audrey brightened up even more.

"This should be fun," she said as they sat down for dinner.

Severus was drenched completely by the London rain when he finally got back to Hogwarts, his hair flopping loudly on his face, his robes completely wet and his frown sitting royally on his forehead.

"Bloody Dumbledore," muttered Severus murderously as he entered the wet ground of the school and walked swiftly into the entrance hall as the thundering declared a clear warning that it was going to rain soon. He, Severus Snape the most feared professor in all of Hogwarts was sent to Surrey to tell a muggle born that they had been accepted into the school. He, Severus Snape, declared devil of the school had been forced to do owl work.

"Stupid Minerva had to take an off today had she—bloody stupid plan?" he muttered murderously to himself as he walked back to his office to discard his dirty robes and replace them with new ones before he could go and have dinner with the Dumbledores. Being in the sour mood that he was Severus decided to screw the robes as he put on a new white shirt and just cleaned black jeans that he found outside neatly folded in his wardrobe, as Severus buttoned his shirt he dried his hair with his wand, he wondered what the whole issue of sending teachers to muggle born homes was about. Even though he had never been to one before, the muggles seemed quite pleased that their spawn had gotten a wee bit of magic in them, so Severus never saw the whole purpose of going there and counseling them about how Hogwarts was the best thing that could happen to their child. Bah! The blasted letter had everything why couldn't the muggles read it properly.

"Standard procedure," Dumbledore had said, but Severus was still annoyed by the fact that he had to get wet in the sudden shower of rain that London had offered him for some stupid eleven year old muggle boy called Martin Mathews or something, how did it matter the boy was surely going to be sorted into Hufflepuff would be afraid of Severus was the rest of his life and would graduate to become another minion in the hands of the ministry all the Hufflepuffs' did, there were hardly any that got down to business and became aurors or warlocks.

Severus checked his watch and decided it was best that he left for the kitchens before Minerva would throw a fit that he was late again, well it would be her bloody fault again, and why had she gone away anyway?.

"Stupid Dumbledore's ruining my life," sneered Severus to himself as he left his quarters slamming the door behind him.

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