That evening, they decided to visit Hagrid. He was distraught, Sophia had tried to explain that her brother was an idiot and that the blame lied solely on him, to which Ron and Harry agreed. This earned them a bone crushing hug, and Hermione to lecture Hagrid about drinking. They were then forced back to the castle.

Draco didn't return to lessons until Thursday, Sophia thought he was a wuss. He'd been overselling the injury for far too long. She had visited him earlier in the week and decided he was fine. He really annoyed her that lesson, he couldn't do anything himself. Snape made Sophia's friends do all of his tasks for him, he then began to tease them about Hagrid.

"Shut it" she seethed but her brother kept talking,

As Draco bragged about their fathers influence she couldn't help but scoff,

"By influence, what Draco means is that he pays everyone off" Harry and Ron laughed at this, but then Draco continued talking, and they all grew angry, he wanted to get Hagrid sacked.

Apparently Sirius had been sighted, Sophia hurriedly turned and listened to Seamus. Apparently, he was nearby. Sophia had to hide her happiness, her brother then made some comments that confused all of them.

They all began chatting as they left the lesson, Hermione disappeared, Sophia chuckled. Clearly she hadn't returned to the exact right time.

Lupin wasn't there when they arrived in Defence Against the Dark Arts. When he did enter, he told them they wouldn't need books as it was a practical lesson which made Sophia smile broadly. Lupin then led them off through the corridor, Sophia excitedly shared theories with Hermione about they'd face.

Lupin sent a wad of chewing gum flying at Peeves which caused them all to laugh,

They were then directed into the staffroom, Snape then left but not before insulting Neville, hermione answered Lupins questions easily, apparently they'd be facing a Boggart, it was a creature that turned into your worst fears. Sophia didn't know what her worst fear was. He then taught them the incantation to banish one, they needed to make it funny.

Riddikulus.

They repeated the incantation, the everyone began taking turns in facing the boggart. Neville's was Snape before it turned into Snape wearing Neville's grandmother's clothes. The whole class burst out laughing. Seamus turned from a banshee to a rat. Everyone's fears were relatively normal until Jazz went.

Sophia saw her own body lying dead on the floor, her eyes widened and everyone turned to look at her, Harry, Ron and Hermione looked away from the scene and tried to distract her. There was a knife in her chest and blood was oozing out of it. She didn't know what to do, a sense of sadness and fear rushed through her. Her own voice echoed around the room chanting about how it was Jazz's fault, Lupin was about to step in, Jazz shouted the counter curse and she watched a clone of herself kissing Jazz's cheek. That also made her uncomfortable.

"And next..." Lupin announced, trying to brush off the air of awkwardness in the room.

"Are you alright?" Hermione whispered, Sophia shook her head but smiled anyway, she would think about how this had scarred her later.

A few turns later, it was Sophia's go. She watched a clone of herself appear in front of her, but she was wearing Slytherin robes and smirking. Immediately she knew what it was, her biggest fear was if she turned out like her parents wanted her to. Instantly, she shouted,

"Ridikulus!" And she watched as she turned into a selection of ballon's floating around and popping in mid air,

Ron also had a go, his fear being spiders. Next, it was Harry's go. But, Lupin dived infront of Harry. A silver orb hung infront of him before it turned into a balloon and flew around the room.

Once the lesson ended, Sophia was asked to stay behind.

"Is there a problem Professor?" She asked, he shook his head,

"I wanted to check that you were alright Sophia, Jazz's fear seemed quite" he tried to think of the right word, "graphic" she laughed slightly,

"I'm alright" she answered, looking down, "Jazz has always been like that" he nodded at her,

"I recognised your fear too, I knew someone with the exact same one" her eyes widened in shock, the only person she could think of that might've had the same one was...

"You knew Sirius?" He looked impressed that she'd already figured it out, a smile formed on his face as he nodded.

"I did, we were at school together, I don't believe I want to know how you've met him" she smiled, Lupin then dismissed her. Once in the corridor, she found Hermione, Harry and Ron all waiting for her.

"Oh Soph!" Hermione expressed and pulled her into a tight hug, Ron looked down awkwardly and Harry patted her shoulder.

"I'll be alright" she replied, the group then set off down the corridor.

"I'm sorry about Jazz... I know they won't apologise for that, so I will" Harry sighed, Harry and Jazz may have been twins but they weren't alike at all.

"I think it's bloody creepy!" Ron folded his arms, "no offence Harry, but Soph clearly doesn't like them. And that freaked me out, I can't imagine how you felt" Sophia smiled slightly at her friend, they kept walking.

"I'm used to it Ron, Jazz has been like that my entire life" she shrugged,

"That's just plain unfair" Ron scowled, Hermione agreed,

They discussed the lesson in more detail as they kept walking, Sophia told them that Lupin had been in school at the same time as Sirius.

"That's not surprising, Sirius Black is in his thirties and if you listened to Bree's rants you'd know that Lupin is too" Hermione shrugged, they then moved on to how they felt the next few lessons would go.

As they sat in the common room that day, Fred came over.

"You okay Goldie? We heard about your lesson... Jazz was ranting about it" Sophia dropped her head into her hands, groaning.

"Just what I needed" she mumbled, Hermione hugged her tight from the side, Ron and Harry were walking over from where they'd been talking to George, he came too. Fred put his arm around her and Hermione released Sophia into Fred's arms. Her head rested on his shoulder, he rubbed her arm gently. Sophia tried not to blush as he held her,

"Oh who hurt you?" Jazz asked, rushing over, looking ready to kill.

"You did!" Bree shouted, Sophia's eyes widened, "your boggart freaked her out to no end! Just leave her be Jazz, you're not helping!" Jazz ran off, complaining about everyone hating them. Fred smirked slightly,

"Nice job Black" Bree smirked and walked off, "now I would've done that, but I still have some remorse for that one" he sighed, Sophia smiled slightly and looked up at him, "Honestly though Goldie, if you want me to do anything about it all I will" her cheeks went bright red and she smiled, once again resting her head on his shoulder, "I know what will make you feel better, come on" he took her hand and led her out the common room, confused she followed him. They made their way to the broom store and collected their brooms, Fred grabbed a quaffle.

"Fred..." she asked confused, he smiled,

"Come on, it will be fun" she nodded, she smiled back at him and he led her onto the Quidditch Pitch.

They began to fly around the Quidditch pitch and they were both just trying to score goals, around fifteen minutes later, Harry, Ron, George and Ginny all joined. They then played a game with two teams.

Sophia, Ron and Harry against Fred, George and Ginny. They all had fun, Sophia was smiling, forgetting about the situation with Jazz. Hermione was sat on the side cheering for all of them, then McGonagall caught them,

She shouted for all of them to land,

"What makes you think that you can all come and do this?" She asked coldly, Sophia looked down.

"Goldie needed cheering up" Fred shrugged, smiling, Sophia looked over at him, McGonagall easily worked out who 'Goldie' was.

"And why does Sophia require cheering up?" She asked, looking over her glasses and the group in front of her, Sophia didn't answer but Hermione did,

"Because of Jazz" McGonagall sighed,

"What has Mx Potter done this time?" She asked, looking around for one of them to answer,

"It was their boggart! Well creepy it was! It was Soph dead then Soph kissing them, it freaked us all out" Ron responded, folding his arms.

"I see, Sophia come with me, the rest of you back to your dorms" it wasn't dark, so at least they hadn't gotten in trouble for being out.

"That's not fair! It wasn't Goldie's idea! It was mine!" Fred shouted, "I dragged her out here then everyone else joined" he looked annoyed and his arms were folded, McGonagall smiled as did Sophia, Sophia also went red in the face,

"Thank you Mr Weasley, nevertheless my instruction remains the same"

Sophia walked in silence with McGonagall to her office, this was becoming an annual event,

Like the previous year, she was offered tea and biscuits to which she accepted,

"Sophia, do you wish to tell me what happened in the lesson?" Sophia looked down before speaking,

"Jazz doesn't mean it...they just..." McGonagall interrupted,

"I'm not asking you to defend Mx Potter, I'm asking you to tell me what happened..." Sophia nodded, taking a sip of tea before she answered,

"Professor Lupin had us learning about boggarts. It was fun actually, Neville made Snape wear a dress and hat and it was hilarious" She could see McGonagall was fighting the urge to laugh, "and then Jazz did theirs and it was just freaky... seeing yourself dead is just not fun, and it was really violent and graphic and...." She bit her lip to stop herself from crying,

"Yes.... Professor Lupin told me about the incident, I intend to speak with Mx Potter tomorrow..." Sophia sighed,

"Then the next part was weird too, after they said the counter curse they imagined me uh...." She didn't really want to admit what happened,

"I am aware Sophia, may I ask you, do you know how long Mx Potter has had feelings for you?" She looked down,

"Since we were kids, it's always made trying to be friends with them awkward" McGonagall nodded, clearly listening intently to what was being said,

"In a slight change of subject, I hear congratulations are in order. Our newest chaser" Sophia found herself smiling at her Head of House.

"Thank you Professor" McGonagall was smiling broadly,

"And with a firebolt nonetheless! Oh I am sure we will win the championship this year" McGonagall was clearly imagining the victory, Sophia did too. A victory would be amazing. "I will not be bringing this small incident up to anyone, or writing any of you up" McGonagall snapped back to reality,

"Thank you Professor!" Sophia went to leave,

"But I would ask that you tell your boyfriend that, otherwise I fear I may be faced with an unpleasant prank at breakfast tomorrow" Sophia stared back confused,

"He's not my boyfriend..." McGonagall looked surprised and just smiled,

"He will be" and with that Sophia left the office and made her way back to the common room.

Everyone ran over as she returned,

"None of us are in any trouble" she explained, they all let out a sigh of relief, everyone began to disperse and get ready for dinner.

"Guess I can cancel my prank then" Fred smirked, Sophia felt her cheeks go red and nodded in response,

"Mhm" and she smiled over her shoulder at him as she joined Hermione, filling her in on her conversation with McGonagall.

"Do we want to know?" Ron asked a squealing Hermione,

"Imma go with no" Sophia answered, that satisfied the boys and they headed down to dinner.