NIKITA WASN'T EXACTLY SURE HOW DIVINATION had become her best class academically wise, especially considering she hadn't even signed up for it.

But what she did know was that she had been so caught up talking to Hermione one day she hadn't even realised Divination wasn't her class, and she had accidentally attended for a week before realising. But professor Trelaway had already decided that Nikita was one of her favourites, probably because of how open minded she was.

So now Nik sat with Neville, outside with her homework book upside down and Heka napping on her head as she attempted to tutor him.

Neville closed his eye's, placed his hand on top of his tea cup, and shook it vigorously. Before slowly removing his hand and peered into the cup before slumping in disappointment. "It's still all clumped together,"

Nik scrunched up her nose, and tilted her head to the side. "Did you add too much tea leaf?"

"No, I used the siv!.. Granted it's broken, but I used the good bit!"

He set his cup down beside him and flopped onto the ground face first. "I'm so bad at this," His voice muffled.

"No you're not!"

"Yes I am! Look, even the flowers on the cup know it, they're frowning!"

He picked up the pink cup and showed it to her, pointing at the flowers.

Nikita didn't disagree with him, they did look pretty sad. She took the cup from him, "Well... now they're smiling!" She tipped the cup upside down.

"And now my tea is gone,"

"Oh. Heh... my bad."

"It's okay, I don't like earl grey anyway,"

"Hey you two!"

The duo looked up to see George walking towards them, one hand holding an extremely long box covered by a sheet, while Fred held the other end.

"What are you up to?" Fred asked, setting his side down.

"Trouble, I hope," Added George, doing the same.

"I made my cup depressed," Said Neville.

"And I made it cry, sorry cup." Nikita tapped the cup apologetically.

"Hazel your book is upside down,"

She held it up and put her glasses back on, "So it is,"

"What's that?" Neville asked, nodding to the long sheet covered object. No sooner had he said it when the sheet suddenly burst off the board, and a boy identical to the twins came out from underneath. Neville screamed and elbowed his cup, smashing it.

Nik fell backwards down the steps, startling Heka awake who immediately went into attack mode.

"What on earth is that!?" Asked Neville.

"I think it's a human," Nik gasped.

"Lee!" Fred grumbled, "You weren't supposed to come out yet,"

"I couldn't very well let an opportunity like this pass!"

"Yeah, and Lee is perfectly entitled to come out of any metaphorical and physical object he wants. Right, hop back on, we've got a Percy to find."

***

Nik fell over for the second time that day when Sirius immediately pounded on her in dog form when she entered the shrieking shack.

The thought never crossed her mind that he'd ever hurt her so she laughed as he barked at her indignantly before switching back. "Hey! I'm scary!"

She just giggled more while he hauled her up. "You looked like a happy dementor!"

"The fuck?"

"The what?"

She opened up her basket of food she had brought and began to lay out a picnic like era for them on the dirty floor. Sirius ruffled her hair before sitting across from her, "What'd you bring chef Moony Goddess Ma'am?"

"Food!" She said brightly, holding up a pack on ham.

"Brilliant,"

He made some sandwiches from the random assortment in her basket before absolutely devouring them. Heka watched him with wide eye's while eating his pomegranate with much more dignity.

"Oi, don't judge me," He said with a mouth full of food, pointing at the animal, "You weren't the one eating stale bread for twelve years,"

"I was too!" Nik said, looking up from her food.

"No, I- I was talking to the bat, Nikita. You're okay,"

She narrowed her eye's at him suspiciously and he narrowed his eye's back.

They chatted for an hour until Nik had to go back. She packed away all her food, before pausing and looking at the corner of the room. "What's that?"

"Hmm? The piano? It's an instrument,"

"Why is it here?"

"What do you mean?"

"Isn't this where he came to transform? Why would there be a piano here? Does he play to calm himself?"

Sirius's cheeks reddened, "Actually I played it, when uh... when we would wait for the full moon to come," He cleared his throat, "Anyway. Get back safe Moony, and uh, don't come back for the rest of the day, yeah?"

"Why?" She adjusted her glasses, "The dementors don't affect me anymore,"

"No, I know that. I just have stuff do, and I don't want you getting caught up in it,"

Nik stared at him for a moment, before ultimately caving. She bid him goodbye and left the shrieking shack.

She made it out of the tunnel and half way across the grounds when she ran into Ron, Hermione and Harry. For a split moment, the four stared at each other.

"Why are you out here?" Asked Ron.

"Uh... I was uh... saying hi to the um... the dementors?"

As Ron's face turned incrediculous, Hermione's fell flat and Harry grinned at her obvious lie.

"It's okay," He said, "We're out here to see Hagrid too."

She nodded. Right. Hagrid. (Why were they going to see Hagrid? And more importantly, why did they call him Hagrid? Wasn't his name Rubeus?)

"Well I didn't actually see Hagrid, I just checked on my flobberworm,"

"It's still alive?"

"Yes? Why, isn't yours?" The two boy shared a mildly embarrassed look while Hermione rolled her eye's.

"Did Hagrid seem upset about Buckbeak?"

"I... don't know? Me and people don't really fit Hermione, so I don't exactly... but he was... alive? If that helps," Well, she was going to look really stupid if they went down and he was dead.

The three shared a look, "We best go see him. I'll see you later, Nik,"

She smiled and waved until they walked past her. Then heaved a dramatic sigh of relief and finished the climb back up to Hogwarts. She probaly would've made it back to her dorm, if she hadn't crashed straight into Severus Snape.

The teacher glowered down at her, and everything Sirius had ever told her about him came flooding back.

"Student, out of bed, clearly coming from out side," He drawled, "Dear me, what are we going to do about that?"

She froze on the spot, before backing up slowly, "You don't have to do this,"

He grabbed her arm as she attempted to make a run for it, yelling "You'll never take me alive!" Under her breath.

She didn't attempt to break free, but pouted at the potions professor. "I'll do with you later," Snape said, "But first, I need to take this to professor Lupin,"

Nik looked at the golden goblet in his hand as he dragged her along with him. Had she not known about professor Lupin's lycanthropy, she wouldn't of known what was in there.

They walked to his office in silenced, and Snape knocked before entering the room. Lupin was no where in sight.

What was in sight, however, was a very special map.