Though Manda had never met her grandmother Walburga at any point in her life, she was still fully aware of what she sounded and looked like. How, you might ask? Well because of one very annoying portrait in the downstairs hallway of the house.

Whenever someone knocked on the door and rung the doorbell, the yelling and racial slurs started which caused the cranky, sleep deprived toddler, Noah, to start crying, Sirius to go quiet and flinch a bit, and for Liz to place a hand on his shoulder even if she had been in a different room before the yelling had started. Remus was always the one to answer the door purely for these reasons while Manda was in charge of shutting the portrait up. Wearing her Slytherin tie seemed to help a lot more than it probably should have but they were just glad that it did in fact work in shutting up Walburga and her hate speech that could be heard from all corners of the house.

Another thing that Manda had learnt while at Grimmauld Place was that Kreacher was actually more than willing to be at her beck and call without any complaints, the exact opposite of how he was towards her father and everyone else in the old home. Turns out being a Slytherin was worth a lot more in the history of the Black family than it did at Hogwarts. Manda still tried not to think about the utter disappointment she'd felt when being sorted in to Slytherin. That accompanied with the booing from the three other houses had made her want to just quit school and she probably would have if she didn't have friends like Blaise, Theo and Draco.

Manda's trip to the Zabini household had been postponed due to Blaise's mother randomly deciding that she needed more of a tan so she took her son with her to Spain. Blaise had announced this on the piece of paper that flitted between four different households, and each of the other three involved had teased him about possibly coming home with a new dad. If it had been anyone other than the three of them, they definitely wouldn't have lived to see whether that prediction became a reality or not.

When she made her way in to the room that had been given to the twins, she was greeted with a heavy smoke that caused her to cough. Pretty quickly a window was opened and the air slowly became more breathable but Manda, Fred and George were all still coughing.

Manda raised an eyebrow at the pair and the soot clinging to their hair. "I don't even want to know."

"You're dad's not going to be pissed right?" George asked her as he tried to shake the soot out of his hair.

"If you blew the place up he'd probably thank you," Manda told them as she flopped on to Fred's bed since it was the closest to the door. "He hates this place."

"So what I'm hearing is that we can blow the house up," Fred commented with a decisive nod as he closed the window.

Manda rolled her eyes but had a slight smile on her face as she sat up and felt George kiss her cheek. "Anyway, I actually came to get you guys. Molly's throwing a party for Hermione and Ron getting prefect," Manda told them with a shrug as she stood again.

"Why just those two? I thought you did as well?" George asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh, I did. I just didn't want a party so I told my dad and my mum and then you two and that was it. Oh and Remus but only because I knew my dad would otherwise."

"You're a traitor," Fred told George as the trio started to leave the room and head downstairs. "Dating a prefect. I thought you were raised better," he tsked as he shook his head.

George just rolled his eyes and wrapped an arm around Manda's shoulder, keeping her close to him as they all walked down the stairs. "See, if you think about it, it's the perfect situation. She's more likely to look the other way if we break a rule. You think any others would? No. We got Manda, Ron and Hermione to help us stay out of trouble. It's all good."

Fred hesitated in his response as he thought about everything that his twin had just said. "Fair point, Georgie. Fair point. Manda, you get to stay."

"Gee, thanks Fred. Nice to know that I have the Frederick Weasley seal of approval," Manda said sarcastically as she looked over at her boyfriend's identical twin.

"No problem. Just doing what I can for the community."