"I'm sorry, what?!"

"Wait, really?"

"Sirius, you moron."

Three different reactions from three different people. Liz, Manda, Remus. In that order. Everyone else just looked at Sirius with shock written all over their faces, unable to believe that he'd actually said that he thought Manda was right. Well, everyone was looking at him apart from George who was watching his girlfriend's reaction and Noah who was playing with Remus' jumper.

George wasn't overly fond of the way that Manda's eyes lit up at her father's words: the way that she smiled at the fact that he told her she was right made George feel sick to his stomach. One parent saying yes meant that Manda was one step closer to being the most at risk of everyone at this table (with the exception of Harry of course) and while he didn't know everything that the poor girl had gone through when she had lived with the Malfoys, he knew it was likely to be worse now that Bellatrix was living there.

He just had a bad feeling about this. Fortunately, Sirius felt the same way, but he also knew that sometimes there were risks that had to be taken.

"If anyone would be able to get us the information we need, it's Manda," Sirius pointed out, looking over at his very angry wife. "She's a Slytherin, she's still close with the Malfoy boy, Narcissa can never help taking in a stray."

"She isn't a stray, Sirius. She's your daughter," Liz argued, hands on her hips. A very angry mother protecting her child. That was what Liz was. Trying to make up for years of abandonment that she had no choice in. She wasn't about to throw her daughter into something so dangerous.

"And maybe Narcissa sees her as her daughter too. She did raise her for years." Everyone picked up on the hint of regret in Sirius' tone but no one said anything. "Remus back me up."

"I'm not getting involved," Remus told his friend as he looked over at his goddaughter. He'd been more than willing to take Manda in, the Ministry just hadn't allowed it. Told him that he was a safety risk, like he hadn't looked after that child for days on end while Liz worked and Sirius was off on missions.

"Traitor."

"Do I not get a say in this?" Manda asked, to which Molly and Liz both responded with a simple 'no'.

"You're a child. You aren't doing this. It isn't safe," Molly told her goddaughter as she set plates of food in front of everyone.

Manda groaned lightly and sipped her drink, running a hand through her now green hair. "You just don't want me to have a say because you know I'd do it," she grumbled, George squeezing her hand under the table.

She looked over at her boyfriend and that was when she noticed the worry in his eyes. George just was less likely to say something about it with everyone around, not wanting to cause an argument with her but also not wanting her to think he didn't support her and Manda knew that. She just couldn't help but wish he would say something about it or tell her how worried he was rather than her having to figure it out herself. The worry in George's eyes was perfectly mirrored in Molly's eyes, and Liz's. In fact it was in nearly everyone's eyes but Sirius'. His eyes shone with defiance but she knew if he wasn't so set on people seeing he had a valid point, they'd be filled with worry too. She sighed softly and leaned her head on George's shoulder, lacing their fingers together as he rubbed small circles on the back of her hand with his thumb. She knew she could get him to talk about it later with her. Right now, him just being there by her side was enough.

"You realise that I'm literally in the same house as them? And most of them are like my best friends? So I could find things out easier than Snape who is already hated by most of the Death Eaters so they aren't exactly having fun gossip sessions. If he asks questions then it makes him suspicious since he's already been accused of being a double agent. He asks questions and he'll get found out. No one knows that I moved back in with you guys, they assume I'm staying with the Weasleys, not with my parents and potential threats to them," Manda pointed out before she started eating.

Everyone at the table was silent, the adults thinking and the kids not wanting to interrupt their thoughts. They all knew Manda was right. She'd make a much better spy than Snape. She would be able to get information that Snape couldn't. It was just a matter of whether her parents would allow it.

"Fine," Liz said quietly but she didn't have to speak any louder for everyone to hear her. You could hear a pin drop in this room. "But not until you have code words and escape plans sorted out. You're not just showing up on their doorstep without a plan."

"I'll go through it with it with her tomorrow," Kingsley said, sending Liz a comforting smile.

Manda was over the moon, glad that people were finally seeing that she could help. George just felt sick to his stomach.