Thank you for the support, this is the next chapter for Quidditch Practice at the start of the new term.

It was early on a Saturday morning when Hermione and the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team arrived at the Quidditch pitch with Harry and Draco both trying for the seeker and Hermione training for Chaser. The team consisted of; Oliver Wood as keeper and team captain, Fred and George as beaters, Emily as Centre Chaser and Alicia Spinnet as Outside Left Chaser. The team only needed two players, quickly they were all up in the air and it seemed all of Gryffindor including Professor McGonagall came out to watch the game.

Madam Hooch released the Bludgers into the air and threw the Quaffle just after releasing the Golden Snitch. Hermione was watching as they had the Gryffindor substitutes playing as an opposing team. Emily grabbed the Quaffle and was quick to speed away on her Nimbus 2000 and Harry had been sent his and, much to his surprise, Draco had been sent one from Sirius. The group was quickly flying around when Emily became trapped by the other 'team'. She signalled to Fred and George who were circling below her and everyone held their breath, Emily jumped from her broom and was caught by George as her broom was caught by Fred, she was back on her broom before anyone could react, Hermione was awe-struck by the trio and realised that they must've been doing this for years to get that good at a trick like that.

After 10 minutes, Hermione joined in and helped with the broom swap as she noticed the team would circle Emily and she would pass to a chaser behind her. Hermione very quickly got to grips with what they were doing and soon was scoring strong goals for the team ready to be in the games. Then there was a test to see who would be the seeker, Harry was showing off, flying since he was very young but Draco was faster and caught the snitch. This meant that Draco was the Gryffindor Quidditch team's Seeker, much to Harry's dismay. On the walk up to the castle that night Emily said she would write her uncle on behalf of the team but didn't go into detail. As they arrived at lunch Emily ate quickly before heading to the common room to write a letter to Sirius and James.

The same night but at Marauder Manor, Sirius, Tonks, Remus, James and Lily had just sat down to dinner when a pitch black owl began tapping at the window, James went to grab it in and he read the letter to himself,
Dear uncles Pads and Prongs,
Draco and I are on the Quidditch team for Gryffindor!
But if we stand a chance of winning this year, we need new brooms for the team, Don't let dad and Lily in on this because they won't let us, But 5 members of the team are now with really old brooms and I mean seriously old, I mean we have George and Fred on ones from like when you were in school, you can't let your own house lose to SLYTHERIN IU mean you must still have some house pride right? Please could you get up some,
Love Ems.

James smiled at the thought of the Gryffindor Quidditch team all on Nimbus 2000's and he quickly informed Sirius and Tonks of the trip they would be the next morning. When morning arose, James, Tonks, and Sirius apparated to Diagon Alley to get the 5 Nimbus 2000's for the rest of the Quidditch team.

Saturday evening at Hogwarts was uneventful, well everywhere except the Gryffindor common room which had Muggle and Wizarding records playing on Harry's record player, all the Pure-bloods and Half-blood's now knew a lot of Muggle music and the Muggle-borns now knew a lot of Wizarding music. Everything was the same as usual, the room was chaos with everyone doing their own thing and the noise was unbelievable.

However, everything stopped when two owls carrying a single large package flew in through the window. The package was gently dropped into the open space in the middle of the common room, Emily stood from her place on George's knee's to see the parcel,
"It's addressed to, and I quote, "The Greatest Quidditch Team This Side of The Pacific." Harry laughed as Emily read it out and the team came over and began to tear off the brown paper. Fred opened the box and everyone saw that there was 5 Nimbus 2000's in the box, meaning the whole team had the world's fastest brooms to use to win the Quidditch cup. They all looked at Emily,
"Okay, so I sent a hint to my mum and uncles that the team didn't have very good brooms and an old Gryffindor chaser didn't want us to have to lose to Slytherin anymore," the whole house laughed.

At the bottom of the box was another small package with 'Emily' written on it in scribble-like writing, Oliver passed it to her and everyone watched as she carefully opened it. Inside there was a picture in a fragile-looking frame, it was an old one of Sirius, his deceased wife Marlene, twin girls only about 1-year-old, and four-year-old Emily, the girls had all been sat on Sirius' motorbike while Tonks had taken the picture, Emily smiled at the memory. Sirius had always said that one day he would give her that picture, Hermione looked over her shoulder suddenly angry at what she saw,
"Why have you been sent a picture of my dead mum?" Emily turned her head so fast that it nearly gave her whiplash.

Emily grabbed Hermione's wrist tighter than she meant to, but didn't let go, and lead her up to the 3rd year boys dorm, she put a couple of powerful locking charms on the door and then turned to Hermione,
"What do you mean that's your mum? How can she be, she died due to Voldemort, her two kids were with her, she thought their father was a spy for him but it turns out that some scum named Peter Pettigrew was the spy. Look, Mia, she died like 10 years ago, I remember the night, they never found the body's of the two girls." Emily had tears in her eyes as she looked at Hermione who was crying.

"My mum took me to my aunt and uncles, they told me that dad was a spy and that I should never bring him up, I found the same picture in the attic of my house. On the back was written 'The Black Family With Emily December 1981' I always wanted to ask about it but never got the courage. My aunt and uncle never speak of my dad, and neither does my sister, they drilled it into us." Emily looked shocked at Hermione,
"When I saw you in Diagon Alley, I thought I recognized you from somewhere, it was in your eye's I felt like I had seen them before but I couldn't place it, I wanted to find out more. When I got here I looked up my dad and found that he was a falsely accused spy who spent close to three years in Azkaban. His name is Sirius Black." By this point, Emily was silently crying with uncontrollable tears falling down her cheeks,
"That's my uncle," Emily whispered it. She now knew why she knew this girl, she needed to write Sirius.

The two girls went back to the common room where they saw Professor Dumbledore, Sirius, and Sophia waiting for them to return. Emily saw her uncle and smiled, she came running over to him and hugged him and whispered,
"It's Hermione, Padfoot, it's Hermione Jean Black."
"I know" Sirius whispered back. Dumbledore saw that Emily was crying and knew that she had figured it out.
"Earlier today, Emily, a Death-Eater went looking for a Muggle couple. Hermione, Sophia, your aunt and uncle were murdered," Dumbledore looked at them sadly,
"Why is he here?" Sophia asked,
"Sirius is here because, as you know, your mother thought that your father was a spy for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, this was in fact a lie. Your father was locked in Azkaban for three years, but he was proved innocent. Sirius is in fact-"
"Our father," Hermione finished,
"Emily had a picture sent to her, it's the same one that our aunt and uncle would always have up," Dumbledore nodded at the girl,
"I wanted to tell you because I didn't want either of you to feel abandoned if you write your aunt and uncle and they don't reply."

That night, Emily's head was spinning, the group all went to sleep but Emily just lay looking at the ceiling before walking over to the windowsill where she sat looking out over the rest of the grounds of Hogwarts. She couldn't get her mind over the fact that she had been spending most of her time with Hermione Black. She looked at the sleeping girl and smiled, she walked over and put the picture on Hermione's bed-side. No matter how much she wanted that picture it belonged to Hermione, she was Sirius' daughter and after all it was her who needed to get to know her family and Emily would eventually take back the picture when they found the one from Hermione's aunt and uncle's attic.

At breakfast the next day, the Prowl were laughing and joking but all that stopped suddenly and the entire group got up and left quickly, everyone was watching them, Neville had left with them. The rest of the hall looked around confused, eyes settled on Harry who looked like he was trying to hide away.

Outside the hall the group ran to their dorm, they had all forgotten about the map. As they looked at it they saw that the page was blank and Emily picked it up and whispered,
"Family isn't made of blood," they all cheered as words began to appear on the page in front of them,

Ice-Eye, Alpha,
Beta, Gama,
Speedy and Snow-Flake,
Are proud to present,
The Map Of The Prowl.

The group cheered once more. George spoke this time,
"Trouble succeeded," the map faded. Harry and Ron came into the room but neither of them knew what was happening.

The year was quickly ending, Harry, Ron and Sophia had disappeared during the night and ended up getting injured, Professor Quirrle had died and had had Voldemort in him. At the end of year feast, Dumbledore was speaking
"Another year gone! And I must trouble you with an old man's wheezing waffle before we sink our teeth into our delicious feast. What a year it has been! Hopefully your heads are a little fuller than they were... you have the whole summer ahead to get them nice and empty before next year starts. Now as I understand it, the house cup needs awarding and the points stand as thus; in fourth place, Gryffindor, with 312 points, in third place, Hufflepuff, 352, second, Ravenclaw, with 426, and Slytherin, 472." A storm of applaud and cheering broke out from the Slytherin table,
"Yes, yes, well done Slytherin. However recent events must be taken into account. First to Mr. Ronald Weasley, for the best game of chess Hogwarts has seen in a long time, I award Gryffindor house 20 points. Next to Miss Sophia Black, for the use of cool knowledge in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor 50 points. Third to Mr. Harry Potter, for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor house 50 points. Next to Miss Emily Lupin, protecting yourself is one thing, but it takes a lot to protect as many as possible, I award Gryffindor 40 points. There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but just as much to stand up to your friends. I therefore award 10 points to Mr Neville Longbottom."

The hall sounded like an explosion had just taken place, Gryffindor had gone from last to first in a matter of minutes and The Prowl were with the rest of the school, except Slytherin, in cheering on the Gryffindor house.

The next morning arose and the school were heading to the station, Sophia came over to Hermione and hugged her. They all boarded the train and the Prowl, Neville, Sophia and Ron all sat in one compartment. They were discussing their plans for the summer,
"Oh, a lot of Quidditch will be played," the whole compartment, except Draco, were laughing at Emily's comment, when the laughing died down, Draco spoke up,
"Where am I going to stay, I can't go home, not now,"
"We didn't tell you?!" Fred said, mentally slapping himself,
"Mum says that you can come and live with us," George said,
"And James has said that he will take you out to get some stuff soon," Emily added. Draco smiled happily, he felt loved in this group. Truly loved for the first time.
"They would really do that for me?" Draco said in shock,
"Like we've been telling you all year; family doesn't end with blood but it doesn't start there either, family cares for you no matter who you are, what you've been or where you come from, they are there in the good, the bad, all of it, that's family. And right now, I'd say that's what we are with what we've all faced this year," Emily took another look at her Hogwarts family and smiled before cuddling into George one last time.

Next chapter will be start of the summer.