AN/- yes, yes, I know, how could I possibly take my own sweet time updating and how dare I leave you'll hanging? and other XYZ abuses flung at the author!-but hey I can't help it if my mother thinks exams that are not counted in the marksheet are important to attend...seriously don't know when I'll get that woman of my back-sheesh-eh! i suppose they werent that tuff-seeing how much of a nerd I am-anyways seeing that I have some time off I thought I'd update and make you guys happy. So have fun =)

~Penny

Chapter 47

Rachel walked up to her father's office as discreetly as she could, she could not be spotted by the Inquisitorial Squad or Umbridge for that matter because that would bring up questions and Rachel didn't have the time or the patience to answer any of them.

She said the password as the gargoyle greeted her with a grunt of approval and then let her in through the revolving staircase. Rachel knocked once and then shoved open the door to find Severus talking angrily to her father about...Well who else?

"I refuse to teach Potter anymore Albus—he's lazy, arrogant and just like his toe-rag father—I do not have the patience or the energy anymore to sustain him—he refuses to practice, refuses to respect or listen to me—truthfully I would rather teach a mule!" snapped Severus harshly as Albus listened to what his young colleague had to say silently. Rachel could care less, she sat down in the empty arm chair adjacent to Severus's who was fuming with anger.

"What happened?" inquired Rachel dryly as Albus chuckled lightly.

"Potter got into my memories is what happened!" snarled Severus.

"How did he do that?" she asked curiously.

"I made a terrible mistake of trusting him with the pensieve!" snarled Severus crossing his hands over his chest.

"Severus-!" began Albus

"No, I refuse to do this Albus—I am not kidding—I will not teach Potter Occlumency and that is final!" said Severus angrily as Albus stapled his fingers together and rest his chin on them; he turned to look at Rachel.

"And what is Audrey's progress?" asked Albus as Rachel snorted.

"You can't really call it progress can you," she said rolling her eyes as Severus looked at her intently.

"Meaning?" asked Albus.

"Meaning—Audrey is too lazy to clear her head of things, she has absolutely no way to remain alert—one word for this would be—vulnerable," said Rachel as Severus picked up the glass of water in front of him and sipped it slowly.

"She can't possibly be worse than Potter," said Severus shaking his head swallowing.

"Not worse but the same," replied Rachel shrugging as Severus slumped.

"I could teach Harry too you know—I'm not doing anything on Sundays," replied Rachel as Albus thought about this.

"Brilliant!" snapped Severus looking at Albus who looked at him sternly, Rachel rolled her eyes, she didn't have the patience for his theatrics today, she never did but it was different in the past.

"Seems as if I have a prior commitment, we shall continue this next week," said Albus dashing out of his office leaving the other two confused as Rachel shrugged at him and then walked over to the floo.

Audrey made her way towards the great hall as she saw several students making their way towards the entrance hall instead, she decided to follow them, today's visit to the village had been cancelled and so everyone had come down for lunch and it seemed as if there was something way more interesting to do now.

She made her way through a thick portion of the crowd and came into the first row of students; she had a clear view of what was happening. Filch stood in the middle of the hall dragging a few trunks to where Umbridge was standing with a pink slip as she pushed it into a weeping Trelawney's hands, the woman sobbed louder.

"Sixteen years—I have lived to teach—Hogwarts is my home—you can't do this," sobbed Trelawney as Umbridge looked at her disgustedly.

"Apparently I can—now why don't you clear off—you are embarrassing us," said Umbridge snidely as Trelawney sobbed into her dirty handkerchief. Audrey felt terrible—this wasn't what she had imagined happening to the Divination professor—this toad faced woman was sick—she was nasty and prejudiced her existence made Audrey's blood boil. Audrey wished she could walk up to Trelawney and console her or something but thankfully her grandmother stepped forth boldly as if challenging Umbridge to speak. Minerva placed an awkward hand around Sybil's shoulders as Sybil hugged her fellow colleague and wept onto her shoulder, Minerva patted the woman gently as she spoke.

"There there Sybil," said Minerva as she glared at Umbridge who looked at her threateningly, if it hadn't been for the hand on her shoulder Audrey would have stunned the toad like woman. She turned to see her father glaring at her wand offensively as if warning her and ordering her to put it away this instant, she obeyed quietly as his hand moved away instantly.

"Is there something you'd like to say Minerva?" asked Umbridge smirking.

"There are several things I would like to say!" snarled Minerva her nostrils flaring as she glared at the offensive woman as Sybil sobbed harder.

"There...there Sybil this doesn't mean you have to leave the castle," consoled Minerva as Flitwick and Sprout who had come in to help Minerva nodded encouragingly.

"And who gave you the authority to that statement?" asked Umbridge angrily as a few people entered the school through the main door. Dumbledore walked into the hall followed by Sirius who pushed his shaggy hair out of his eyes while a handsome Centaur walked besides them.

"I did," said Sirius a little smirk on his face, how he was dying to do this.

"Mr. Black—may I remind you that my job is to dismiss any teacher who isn't working up to the mark," said Umbridge as Sirius challenged her authority.

"You have the right to sack anyone you want—but I can let anybody live here—I own this place!" said Sirius as if he had the last say in things.

"And if she lives here where will the new divination teacher stay?" asked Umbridge looking at the Centaur down.

"That will not be a problem Professor Umbridge—this is Firenze I think you will find him—suitable," said Albus pleased with himself as Firenze glared back at Umbridge.

People departed seeing that the show was over, Harry, Audrey, Ron and Hermione stayed back as Hermione complained angrily about this. They heard someone calling out to them from behind one of the arches. Hagrid looked extremely worried as he took the four students down into the forbidden forest with him.

"What's this about Hagrid?" asked Harry as they had stopped in the middle of the forest in one of the clearings.

"Hold on!" said Hagrid as the trees began to shake in front of them and a giant appeared through it, Audrey whipped her wand out and so did Ron.

"Gwrapy—I thought you was lost," smiled Hagrid at the giant as Ron turned to look at Audrey.

"This is Grawp—he's got no one to look after him—ya see he's me half brother and he's only eight and lonely," smiled Hagrid at the giant.

"So you thought you'd get him here—how are expecting to get away with this?" asked Audrey shocked as Hagrid smiled at her pitifully.

"Well—that's why I need a favour from you guys," replied Hagrid unsure as to whether he should ask.

"And what's that?" asked Hermione sweetly turning to understand the giant who was playing with the bicycle tyre he had managed to get from somewhere.

"I have been put on probation by the toad—and ya know what happened ta poor ol' Sybil, and after I am gone—there'll be no one to take care of him—he gets his food and all—he'll need love is all when I'm gone," replied Hagrid as Harry looked at Grawp.

Suddenly Grawp got up and ran his heavy body towards Hermione as Ron tried to shield her but the giant swatted Ron away like fly and picked Hermione into his hand and gently patted her head.

"Grawpy—you don't grab 'em—there're you're new friends!"

"Hagrid do something!" snarled Ron hitting the giant with a large dead branch; the giant easily kicked him away.

"Grawp! Put me down—NOW!" scolded Hermione angrily as everything went silent, but to everyone's surprise Grawp listened to her and put her down gently, he then handed her the cycle handle and waited for to ring the bell.

"You stay away from her!" snapped Ron a little frightened as Audrey chuckled along with Harry. Grawp seemed to enjoying Hermione ringing the bell for him.

"Needs a firm hand is all," said Hermione simply to Audrey.

"I think you've got an admirer," smiled Audrey as Hermione laughed lightly.

"So you'll take care of him—I'm the only family he's got," finished Hagrid pleading as Harry nodded.

"Don't worry about it," finished Hermione as Hagrid smiled at her gratefully.

A few days since the sacking of Trelawney everyone had settled in, even the Patil twins and Lavender had started to well to put it literally—falling for Firenze. All in all everything seemed to be going just fine when one Monday, Audrey had a bad feeling about arrived, she didn't know why but she felt as if something terrible was going to happen today, so she did whatever she could to avoid anything troublesome. But her troubles were forgotten when Hermione decided to call a DA meeting, seeing that they wouldn't be able to meet for another week since there was a Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw game coming up.

Audrey walked up to the seventh floor along with Harry, since they had gone to the common room to put away a few bags. Audrey had been ignoring Harry since the Cho incident, she didn't want to be in middle of anything and if Harry was happy with Cho, Audrey was going to live with it. They climbed the staircases and walked the corridor in silence with Harry throwing her odd and reproachful looks.

"Audrey—why have you been ignoring me?" asked Harry a little disappointedly as Audrey looked at him; she blushed, so he had noticed.

"What?—why would I do that?" asked Audrey shrugging.

"I don't know you tell me," he said as Audrey shook her head.

"You're being silly," she replied.

"Am I?" he asked stopping as she paused too.

"Look, Harry, I don't want to be a reason for any discourse—"

"Audrey—your one of my closest friends—why would you think I would make a choice between you and her—I mean—you'd ignore me so that she wouldn't feel insecure?—that's being silly!" said Harry as Audrey looked at him a little confused.

"So you are not with her anymore?" she asked gently as he smiled at her and shook his head.

"You're friendship is more important to me," he replied as she beamed at him and threw her hands around his neck.

"Thank you," she said as she felt light hearted and happier than she had been previously.

All through class she kept a smile plastered on her face and the fact that they were practicing patronuses increased her happiness. Her stallion kept galloping happily around the room as a few more of their friends could now produce patronuses, Hermione for one brought out an otter that was chased by Ron's Rottweiler terrier, Luna's bunny hopped around dreamily while Neville's lion kept trying roar but since Patronuses couldn't make sounds except when told to deliver messages, it was useless.

Suddenly the room felt like it was shaking, like an earthquake of sorts suddenly there was a small crack that appeared in one of the mirrored walls. Nigel who was closest to it, approached it slowly as he peeped through the hole to see outside as Harry pulled him back to look through, what he saw made him retreat instantly as he pulled Nigel at least a foot away. The whole wall came crashing down as everyone stood there stunned looking at the tiny group of people behind the rubble as a girly shrill sweet voice could be heard saying "Get them"

Several of the DA members escaped as fast as they could, but according to Umbridge's orders, the inquisitorial squad wasn't supposed to bother with them, their job was to capture the real culprits, Potter, Snape, Granger, Longbottom and the Weasley siblings along with Lovegood who had been mass propagating this rubbish through her father's magazine that nobody read.

Draco caught hold of Audrey as she helped the Creevey brothers run off, he smirked as he caught hold of both her hands and then pulled them behind her back locking her in an odd position hurting her arms if she thrashed around. Zambini Blaise made sure he caught Ron correctly from his hair so that it would hurt; Pansy worked her way over to Hermione while Millicent Bullstrode almost trampled on Ginny before she could catch her and Neville was successfully captured by Theodore Nott who threw him a bad look, while Fred and George were captured by Crabbe and Goyle, while filch made work of Harry.

"Take them to my office—everyone apart from these two!" snarled Umbridge as the rest dragged the others to Umbridge's office while Millicent Bullstrode caught hold of Harry seeing she was twice his size and filch went with the others.

"Come!" said Umbridge smirking as the four followed her Malfoy and Bullstrode's wands in their captives' backs while they had their hands in the air.

Umbridge marched with her battalion and prisoners towards Dumbledore's office where there were a few people waiting. Audrey felt her hopes rise as she noticed Kingsley and Tonks, but they fell as quickly when she noticed the minister of magic there along with some other auror who looked smug faced like Umbridge, then there was Percy Weasley looking distant and smug. Harry felt an odd sort of hatred for Percy, to think he had actually spoken to him civilly and then there was Cho Chang with some sort of marks on her face and a woman who stood beside her.

"What the-?" began Harry as Cho looked away instantly.

"It was her—She told them about it Harry!" whispered Audrey angrily as Cho looked at her, her eyes glaring at her threatening to burn through her skin.

"Yea—I can tell," he said as he frowned reading the word "sneak" written in red boils all across Cho's face as tears stained her light cheeks.

When they made it through the gargoyle Umbridge knocked as she was invited inside with the rest, they all moved into the office occupied by three other people including Dumbledore.

"Ah—Minister—Professor Umbridge—what can I do for you?" asked Albus jovially, as Audrey wanted to laugh, he had got to be joking.

"This is the proof Cornelius—proof of what I have been telling you all this time," snapped Umbridge as she cut Albus in his speech.

"Conspiracy and sedation—an uprising—a revolt-!" snarled Umbridge as Cornelius nodded.

"It would most certainly be nice if you could unhand them—Ms. Bullstrode, Mr. Malfoy," smiled Dumbledore as they turned to look at Umbridge. Umbridge nodded as Millicent let go of Harry but Draco still had his hold on Audrey.

"Let go," she ordered threateningly as Draco smirked at her.

"Maybe I want to hold on to you a little longer princess," he smirked into her ear as Harry looked angrily at Draco who squinted his eyes and smirked, Audrey pushed her elbow sharply into Draco's stomach making him let go in pain as he pushed his wand into her back but Audrey wasn't slow either, she turned around in one swift moment and her wand was at his chin as she threw him the most loathfull look she could manage.

"Wands away now—we are not at war," smiled Dumbledore as Umbridge snapped at Snape all of a sudden.

"Quite a handful she is Severus—I thought she'd have been more civilized seeing she is your daughter," said Umbridge as Audrey clenched her jaw tightly while her father threw her a sharp look and then slowly pulled his eyes away from her to face Umbridge.

"I did not raise her—I will not hear complaints," sneered Severus, this would shut the toad up as Umbridge nodded in approval of his sentence as Audrey's head lolled down ashamed at what her father had just said, he was right though so why did it hurt and she knew he was only playing a role then why did it sting, it had never stung when the others said it.

"What proof do you have that what Ms. Chang spoke about wasn't under the influence of pressure?" asked Dumbledore as Umbridge glared at him and then pulled Cho in front with her hand as she hid her face from the room as Umbridge pulled her hand down. One look at her face and Severus turned to his daughter who seemed to look proudly at her handy work, the customary Snape smirk evident on her face.

"Tell them girl!" snarled Umbridge as she manhandled Cho who was crying, she turned to look at the room to see that the woman standing next to Percy, her mother, she was nodding her head. Cho opened her mouth to speak as the oddest thing happened, Cho's tongue rolled out swollen as if a result to a harsh spell or a bad allergic reaction to something.

"I want to see some reprimand—some action!" snarled Umbridge angrily as she held the piece of parchment with all the names of the DA members on it.

"There will be a punished handed out to them—Dumbledore—Potter and Snape need to be—" began Cornelius Fudge looking at Dumbledore who looked like he was preparing a brilliant comeback and he did when he cut fudge in mid sentence.

"But Cornelius Harry and Audrey were just following my orders—as you can see—the parchment clearly says Dumbledore's Army not Potter's, not Snape's—Dumbledore's," said Albus smoothly as he propped himself on his desk.

"Uncle Al!" began Audrey shaking her head—she couldn't believe it—he was taking the blame for everything, he was falling off the edge for them.

"That is very kind of you Audrey but they'd find out soon enough," smiled Albus as if thanking her as Audrey frowned and shook her head while Harry shared a disbelieving look with her.

"Kingsley—Tonks—Dawlish—you will escort Dumbledore to Azkaban on the charges of sedation and treachery towards the ministry where he will wait for a trial until next week," finished Cornelius as Dumbledore looked at them as his head snapped to Severus whose hand was inside his cloak pocket holding his wand as if ready to attack. Albus smiled at the man thanking him as his wife looked on worriedly. Fawkes squawked from his perch and sat down coyly on Audrey's shoulder as he rubbed his head against hers.

"Oh! But Cornelius you don't think—what is that saying—go quietly?" asked Albus a little taken aback as he got off his desk and hurried off behind his desk as his eyes fell on Audrey and Harry, one twitched as if telling them something—like he wanted to wink.

"This is it—I have had enough—Take him!" snarled Umbridge.

Fawkes then squawked in a very phoenix like manner as he swooped off Audrey's shoulders and onto his master's shoulders as Albus winked at Audrey and was gone in a fury of fire as his hand grabbed hold of Fawkes's tail feathers.

The force of the apparition was so violent that it shook the whole room as Audrey noticed someone had pulled her into them protecting her from harm. It was Harry, he had acted like a shield protecting her from the apparent harm. He had fallen over her in order to save them both, as he moved and stood up placing a hand in front of Audrey which she took gratefully. She could see the others in the room stirring awake as she noticed her father push his cloak away from his face along with her grandmother's, he had used his long black cloak to secure them from the fire seeing that it was made from synthetic material that was fire proof—something most potions masters used and Severus did after the stupid Granger girl had put his cloak on fire in her first year—Gryffindor prat!

"Now what?" asked Kingsley coughing as the minister turned to him.

"Dolores—seeing that—Hogwarts will need a head—I would prefer it if you would take that role—I trust most currently," said Fudge placing a light hand on Umbridge's shoulder as the woman couldn't contain her evil smile as the other people in the room had rather horrified looks on their faces.

"Very well—Cornelius—I will see to it that the discipline is maintain," smirked Umbridge looking nastily at Audrey and Harry.

"Honestly!" began the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black as the room turned to him.

"Dumbledore and I may have disagreed on many items—but honestly—you can't deny—the man has style—no one can really take his place!" finished Phineas as he nodded while the other portraits agreed and applauded for him.

"Enough!" snarled Umbridge as she turned to Filch who had been summoned to clear up the mess.

"Mr. Filch I would request the urgent removal of all the unnecessary portraits in the school—beginning with his office!" snapped Umbridge.

"Yes ma'am," said Filch evilly as he happily began his work like a good like minion he was.

News about Dumbledore's departure spread like wild fire, seeing Umbridge sitting in Dumbledore's chair for breakfast the next morning made every one look at the sombre and grave head table disappointedly, they could tell the teachers looked rather down seeing Dumbledore wasn't present and cracking his customary morning jokes, even professor McGonagall who normally held a stern expression looked at her full mug of tea in utter disappointment.

A few discussed about Umbridge's tyrannous policies while others blamed the DA for Dumbledore's departure, but this was not the only thing that made the lives of students pathetic. Umbridge had gone all the way and banned all social groups outside classes—even the choir practices were cancelled, there would be no more Hogsmeade visits and no one was allowed to associate with Hagrid who had been put on probation. Worst of all, whoever had been a member of the DA and had, had their names on the DA list had been scrutinized about their activities and then given severe mass detention as they had to write five parchments of "I will not break the rules again," as the inquisitorial squad supervised them.

But the fifth years did not have any more time to care about this—they had OWLS approaching and everyone just sat either in the library or in the common room studying and trying to remember whatever they could.

The first OWL was transfiguration and although Audrey did lose out on two marks, she did pretty well on her practical exams; she had a feeling possibly even better than Hermione had managed seeing that she wasn't so pleased with her results. Defence was the second paper and most of the DA members were very happy with their results, Harry was talking about how the examiner who had come in for the DADA practical asked him to produce his patronus and supported what he was trying to put across, Harry was excepting a result for this exam. Charms was alright and Potions went exceptionally brilliant for Audrey seeing how excited she had been for that paper hoping she had done justice to it but she knew she had when the examiner who had said to have failed students in the previous years have called her outstandingly marvellous and even tried her strengthening potion on herself, seeing the effects she had smiled at Audrey and shown her, her grade, Audrey was very pleased. The last and final paper arrived and after the theory in the morning they had astronomy practicals in the night.

The night was a pleasant one, everyone was told to find Venus, the north star, the great bear and a few other constellations which the examiner had noted in the sky, the students got to work as the examiner supervised them. A sudden blast was heard coming from Hagrid's hut as people looked away from their telescopes and squinted their eyes to look at what was happening down there as they saw smoke rising quickly from the outskirts of the forest where Hagrid's hut was situated.

"Let go!" came a might roar from that direction as everyone tried there best to focus their lenses towards that direction, they were all dangerously leaning against the safety railings.

"Now—please—please get back to your exam—there are only twenty minutes left," announced the examiner as no one really cared as to whether he existed or not. They could now see a thin feminine figure running towards the hut, her wand in her hand as she blew some people out of her way.

"Unhand him instantly!" snarled Minerva angrily as she brandished her wand at the aurors and Umbridge who were busy laughing as the ropes binding Hagrid were pulled by one of the aurors.

"What has he done to you—let him go!" snarled Minerva as someone threw a stunner at her, she deflected it.

"You see Minerva—Hagrid was told to vacate the property long ago but he hasn't really agreed to this proposal and therefore—he needs to be forced out and anyone who supports him needs to be-put down," smirked Umbridge evilly as Minerva was hit in the chest by five stunners while the Aurors laughed.

"No!" snarled Hagrid as the rage in him awoke suddenly as he went on a rampage setting himself free of the binds and then running berserk and throwing himself on to the aurors almost trampling two as he made his way to the forest.

"Five more minutes!" snarled the examiner—no one really bothered to listen—they all wondered what was going to happen to McGonagall.

Audrey dashed to the dungeons after her exam paper was handed in, she had to see her father, tell him what had happened and make him get her grandmother into the castle. Audrey knocked on his door frantically hoping that he would open up before the Slytherine's arrived and fortunately he did, his angry frown and death glare as if piercing and threatening the knocker.

"Dad!" she said hurriedly as she made her way into his office with any invite. He didn't really bother just shut the door behind him.

"Yes?" he asked pulling off his reading glasses as he placed the book he was reading on his desk.

"Dad! Professor McGonagall—I mean Aunt min—I mean—never mind—she went to save Hagrid from being arrested by the aurors and got shot by stunners—she's still outside dad—do something!" said Audrey pacing the office as Severus shot his eyebrows up, pacing—such a Dumbledore trait—Albus had it, Rachel had it—and now Audrey did as well.

"And what can I do about this?" he asked her strictly.

"You've got to get her inside—to the hospital wing!" she said frowning angrily, what was wrong with him—they were wasting time!

"And what if I get sacked for doing that—what if Umbridge doesn't consider-," he began as Audrey snapped wildly at him.

"You really care what Umbridge thinks after all this!" Shouted Audrey unbelievingly as Severus flinched slightly, he wasn't very used to being shouted at.

"I can't help her Audrey—if I-," began Severus helplessly as Audrey broke him sentence.

"She out there cold and unconscious—we don't know if she's alive or—not—what would you do if it was mum—would you still care to wait for another person to realize she was freezing to death somewhere—or go save her yourself?" snapped Audrey as Severus frowned—why did she put it this way—this did not make any sense—what was he supposed to say?

"Would you still care about what Umbridge thinks?" asked Audrey softly not breaking eye contact. She did not receive a response—well a response she was hoping for anyway, seeing that all he did was shift his weight from one foot to the other like a young boy caught stealing toffees. Audrey threw him a pleading look but once again did not receive a response—so all she could do now was turn around and go back to her common room. Her father had thoroughly disappointed her.

Audrey woke up the next morning and changed into her uniform quickly as she went down to breakfast. Today was supposed to be a study leave for their final paper on Divination tomorrow—luckily Hermione had Arithmancy instead and she was pretty much sorted in that paper seeing all she had to do was apply the measurements of one scale to another.

Audrey walked towards the Gryffindor table, her eyes going to the head table—not many teachers were present there—apart from Umbridge who was currently buttering her toast sitting on the chair where once the greatest wizard of all time had.

"No please—I'm sorry!" cried someone helplessly from the Slytherine side of the hall as Audrey's eyes snapped to the person in question. A young first year Hufflepuff boy was being hit in the face by Crabbe as the badge on his chest gleamed happily.

"Stop it—don't you see you're hurting him," called Audrey dashing over to the young boys rescue as Crabbe's fist froze mid-air.

"He deserves it!" he glowered like a gorilla he was.

"The only one who deserves a good beating is you—you big buffoon!" snapped Audrey angrily as Crabbe sneered at her holding his fist up angrily, threatening to hit Audrey in the face.

"Now—now Crabbe—you don't want detention from Professor Snape do you—he'll detent you for hitting his little princess," laughed Pansy sarcastically.

"As if—let me teach this little bitch a good lesson!" snarled Crabbe as Draco intervened.

"Stop it—you mustn't hit a lady!" he hissed angrily stopping Crabbe as he turned to look at Audrey disgustedly as an odd feeling crossed Audrey, for the first time in her life she looked deep into Draco's eyes—they were grey clouds of depth as he stared back at her. It was as if Draco had one good bone in his body. Crabbe looked at Draco a little offended but pulled his hand back as the Slytherine's retreated. Audrey scrambled back to the hurt boy with a black eye and what looked like a broken finger. The boy was sobbing heavily.

"Hey—hey—it's okay—it's alright—you'll be fine—come on let's get you to the hospital wing alright!" she smiled at him as he continued to sob. She began escorting him to the hospital wing.

"Hey—come—now don't cry—Madam Pomfrey will fix everything!" she smiled at him as his sobs turned to muffled hiccups.

"What's your name?" she asked him sweetly as they waited for the revolving staircase to come to their service.

"Frank—Frank Court," replied the boy in between hiccups.

"Well—it's nice to meet you Frank—I'm—," she began as Frank gave her a teary smile through as tried to clean his tears.

"I know who you are—Audrey Snape—everybody does—you're as famous as Harry Potter is," smiled Frank as Audrey didn't know whether to smile at him or not.

"You aren't as scary as professor Snape though—although in the beginning they told us you might just be a hag," said Frank blushing—he didn't know whether or not he should have said that, but when Audrey burst out laughing he was pleased. They walked towards the hospital wing as Audrey made Frank sit on one of the empty beds as she walked towards the nurse's office. On her way to the other side of the ward, she noticed a person on the occupied bed, her grandmother, lay there sleeping stilly like she was dead, only her heaving chest told Audrey that she was alive.

"Ms. Ad—I mean Snape—what are you doing here?" asked Madam Pomfrey as she carried a tray of potions and placed them neatly on one of the night stand next to Minerva's bed.

"A boy was hurt," she replied quickly as Madam Pomfrey pulled out her wand and walked towards Frank who sat up straight.

"Madam Pomfrey—how is my—I mean professor McGonagall," asked Audrey—however hard she tried to she just couldn't get herself to call her grandmother or whatever she was supposed to call her.

"Minerva—is not doing as well as I would have hoped—you see at her age getting hit by one stunner is pretty bad—It's a miracle she's even-," she did not continue but Audrey got the point as she bit her lower lip in anticipation.

"But—she'll be alright?" asked Audrey urgently as Madam Pomfrey smiled at her.

"Yes dear—don't you worry—a few fellow healers and I'll have your grandmother up and kicking in no time," smiled Madam Pomfrey as Audrey nodded.

"Madam Pomfrey—one last thing-?" said Audrey as the nurse turned to look at her expectantly.

"Who brought—her in?" asked Audrey as Pomfrey gave her a curious look.

"Well Professor Snape of coarse—he called your mother too—she was an immense help seeing reviving her without a blood relation would be almost impossible, very intelligent your father—sometimes I wonder why he didn't just become a healer seeing they get paid so much better than what teachers do," said Pomfrey shrugging as she then made her way to Frank asking him what was wrong with him, diagnosing him.

Audrey turned to look at her grandmother sleeping in the bed as her eyes fell on the large window behind her bed; she walked towards the window as she stuck her face to it. She noticed a woman standing outside Hagrid's hut. A woman in a white sleeveless shirt along with black jeans her black cloak hanging on her hand as she held her wand lightly in the same hand. Someone walked up from near her and then stood next to her, she seemed to be talking to a man dressed in black from head to toe, his arms crossed at the back as they twirled his wand in them carelessly.

Audrey smiled to herself—this was definitely a start—she knew they were going somewhere from here—and with a little more pushing they'd be just like they were when they were 17...but Audrey wasn't going to be raising her hopes too soon—these were unpredictable times anything could happen—anything—there was still some hope.

AN/- So...hope you guys like it...thanks and please review-I really really really like talking to you guys-it takes my mind of stupid stuff!