Chapter 10 - Second year

"Lyra!" Hermione voice was loud enough to be heard over the hustle and bustle of Diagon Ally which made Draco whine.

"Come now dragon" Narcissa smiled down at her sons display of annoyance towards the muggleborn witch who took Lyra's attention and lead him away just as Hermione's body slammed into Lyra's.

"Oh i am so happy to see you!" Hermione grinned squeezing Lyra tightly, she couldn't remember if in the books Hermione's hugs were described as bone crushing but if they were, they were correct.

"Can't...breath!" she gasped.

"Hermione dear, your friend is turning purple" a soft toned voice called somewhere from behind Hermione and she released her friend quickly.

"Sorry" the Granger girl grimaced but Lyra laughed.

"Blood hell Mi, you have some insane arm strength" she grinned when Hermione blushed before she turned to Hermione's mother, she'd been shocked to discover her parents names were in fact William and Melissa Granger, seems her little Gryffindor kept their first initials the same for when she had wiped their memories, turns out Wilkins had also been Melissa's maiden name something neither the books or films got into.

"Lyra dear so good to see you again" Melissa smiled happily seeing the two girls linking arms, she'd gone to the Granger house hold a handful of times over the summer to spend the day with Hermione, they'd mostly read but Lyra had force Hermione out into the garden after the second time of being held captive in doors.

"You too Mrs Granger, how's work going for you and Mr Granger?"

"Oh work is busy dear, William is about somewhere and please call me Melissa. Mrs Granger reminds me of my mother in law" the pretty brunette woman winked.

"Ahh! There you are girls, what are you three lovely ladies talking about?" William Granger joined them on the street.

"Dad!" Hermione blushed clearly embarrassed by her father, for whatever reason Lyra wasn't sure.

"I asked about your work Sir" Lyra grinned at her friends blush "It truly is fascinating work you do, Hermione told me about it when we were last at Hogwarts"

"Thank you!" William Granger beamed "It's not the most flattering job but someone has to do it, plus nothing is more satisfying then fixing a smile"

"My guardian says there is nothing prettier one can wear then a smile" Lyra beamed flashing her own teeth at the two dentists and Hermione grumbled under her breath as she watched her parents eat it up and fall in to Lyra's charm once again.

"Well that is just precious" Melissa cooed "I just might have to write that down and put it up in the clinic"

"Can we please do the shopping now?" Hermione begged before her parents could ask once more to give Lyra a check up, both were fascinated about her perfect alignment and white teeth but she didn't have the heart to tell them it was either good genes or spells her best friend used.

~~~

After a while William Granger had moved them into the owl store wanting to see if there were any difference between magical owls and muggle, Lyra didn't know the answer really and he was thinking of buying one so they could get more letters from Hermione over the school period.

Hermione and Lyra had waited outside seeing as the girl was spooked by them, Lyra pointed at the large figure heading their way and Hermione jogged off but was closely followed by Lyra "Harry! Hagrid!" she beamed at the two.

"Hello Hermione, Lyra" Hagrid beamed at the two girls.

"Oh it's so good to see you!" Hermione grinned at Harry who looked worse for wear, he was coated in soot and his glasses were broken, Lyra smirked remembering the whole 'Diagonally' moment.

Harry smiled "It's great to see you both too!"

"What did you do to your glasses?" Hermione asked and Lyra snickered making Harry shoot her a sharp glare but he could not hide the blushing on his cheeks at the though of the fact she may have seen it.

Oh god she probably saw the moment with the hand, he glanced up at her and at the sight of she smirk, she definitely had.

"Oculus Reparo" Hermione pointed her wand at his face once more and Lyra chuckled at his shocked face, apparently in a place with so many adults the ministry couldn't have the trace open, the magic of others interferes with the spell, which to Lyra made the whole thing pointless and actually a bit blood purist seeing as only the muggleborns or halfbloods would not be around that amount of magic.

"I definitely need to remember that one" Harry looked at his brand spanking new glasses before putting them back on his face.

"You'll be alright then now Harry? I'll leave you too it then" Hagrid smiled as the three of them said their goodbyes.

"Come on, everyone's been so worried" Hermione orders Harry along.

"You alright Harry?" Lyra grinned as they both followed Hermione to where the Weasleys were waiting in line.

"I'm alright, are you?"

She snickered "I'm grand"

"Oh just drop it" He huffed "I erh...I wanted to say thank you for...You know" his blush came back full force.

"You are more then welcome but you don't need to thank me Harry, you look good" she complimented him because he did, he was slowly filling out and given the fact they had 9 months back at Hogwarts and even after that she'd make sure he was fed he'd be back to full health in no time "You still taking those potions?"

"Every morning like i promised" he nodded "Mrs Weasley saw me, i hope you don't get into trouble"

"It's a nutrition potion Harry not a love potion, there is nothing untoward about it" she smiled seeing him relax before he tensed back up.

"Hang on, love potion?" he spluttered and she laughed.

"Oh Potter, you have so much to learn" together they caught up with Hermione who practically ran everywhere, they walked into the shop and the two girls lead Harry towards the magical family he'd been staying with.

"Oh there you are Harry! We'd hoped you'd only gone one grate too far" Molly started cleaning Harry of the soot on him.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Gilderoy Lockhart!" An announcer spoke and everyone applauded apart from a few.

Lyra sighed when he stepped out of a backroom all dramatically "Mum fancies him" she heard Ron declare to the room and Molly Weasley turn to smack his chest in a quick scolding but it didn't look like it bother the boy at all, more like being swatted by a fly.

She saw how much he'd grown already, a hand moved her out of the way "Excuse me little girl this is for the Daily Profit" she sneered slightly but didn't say a word as he took the fools photo.

"It's can't be, Harry Potter" the blonde fool muttered but everyone heard him and looked at Harry.

"Harry Potter!" the camera man moved grabbing Harry by his robe, he started dragging Harry forward.

"Oi!" Lyra snarled but Hermione latched on to her friends hand not letting her cause an even bigger scene.

Gilderoy grabbed Harry and firmly yanked him against his side "Nice big smile Harry" he ordered but Harry remained stunned "Together you and i rate the front page..." The camera flashed "Ladies and Gentlemen what an extraordinary moment this is, when young Harry Potter stepped into Flourish and Blotts this morning to purchase my autobiography, Magical me" he smiled and Lyra grimaced when Hermione swooned and the room clapped.

She locked eyes with Ron as both of them looked around as if everyone was crazy, she shrugged when he rolled his eyes "Which, incidentally is currently celebrating it's 27th week atop the Daily Profit bestseller list, he had no idea that he would be in fact leaving with my...Entire collected works, free of charge...Now Ladies" he started going on about signing puffing smoke up his own arse.

"It's getting crowded in here, his ego is expanding by the second" Lyra joked and Ron snorted nodding while Hermione glared at her.

"Bet you loved that didn't you Potter?" they all stopped walking towards the door when Draco stepped into their way "Famous Harry Potter, can't even go into a book shop without making front page"

"Leave him alone" Ginny stepped forward squaring up to Draco which made Lyra chuckle quietly.

"Oh look Potter, got yourself a girlfriend?" Draco teased and Lyra had to bite her knuckle to hold back a giggle, it was such playground teasing, they were all just so cute!

"Now now, play nicely Draco" Lucius approached putting his hand on the boys shoulder, Draco looked at her and Lyra winked at him "Mr Potter...Lucius Malfoy" he held his hand out for Harry and Harry hesitantly took it "We meet at last, forgive me" with that he pulled the boy forward a step and took a closer look at his scar.

"Your scar is legend, as of course the wizard who gave it to you"

"Voldemort killed my parents, he was nothing more then a murderer" Harry stated and Lyra wanted to applaud him.

"Hmm, you must be very brave to mention his name, or very foolish"

"Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself" Hermione would be the only child who would try to educate an intimidating adult.

Lucius frowned and turned to the girl making Lyra snort gently "And you must be, Miss Granger?" he looked to Draco who nodded glaring at Hermione's head, he didn't hate the girl for her blood merely the fact she took so much of Lyra's attention "Yes Draco has told me all about you...And Lyra of course"

Lyra was slightly stunned when he didn't mention her parents, that was new. One of the biggest changes to this world was the fact that the Malfoys didn't hate muggleborns or halfbloods, in their eyes magic was magic, they wasn't fond of muggles and went out of their way to avoid them but those who held magic were accepted...Well in secret because of Moldy.

"Let me see" Lucius looked at her small group of friends "Red hair, vacant expressions, tatty second hand book...You must be the Weasleys?" he asked taking Ginny's book from her cauldron, yeah that wasn't a difference here, the Weasleys and the Malfoys had a long lasting feud. She had asked why and Lucius had told her the reason was blurry after so long but he knew it had gotten worse when Cedrella Black married Septimus Weasley...Turns out Cedrella who just so happened to be Arthur's mother was also the niece of Narcissa's great grandfather!

 Cedrella was meant to marry a Malfoy but instead married into the Weasley family getting her burnt from the Black family tapestry and in turn, turning the Weasley house and Malfoy house further against each other.

Yeah, you read that right, Ronald and Draco are like third cousins once removed? Something like that and Ron's grandmother used to be a Black! What a small little world...

"Children, it's mad in here. Let's go outside" Arthur Weasley came out of nowhere.

"Well, well, well, Weasley senior" Lucius greeted him tensely.

"Lucius"

"Busy time at the ministry, Arthur, all those extra raids? I do hope they are paying you overtime but judging by the state of this i'd say not...What's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?" Lucius got catty and Lyra frowned at the ground, she understood he needed to hold up face and that they had a feud but sometimes comments like that tasted like acid in her own mouth and she didn't even say them.

"We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard Malfoy" Arthur snarled back.

"Clearly...Associating with muggles and i thought your family could sink no lower" and there it was, the dig at Hermione's parents. She knew he didn't really mean it seeing as he was happy to allow her to go to their house and she was sure he was doing it to get a rise out of Mr Weasley but it still sucked.

Mr Weasley looked ready to lunge at him and she wondered if they were going to have a bust up like in the books but he seemed to grit his teeth and bare it trying to set a better example for his children. "I'll see you at work" Lucius smiled tensely at the head of Weasley house before he walked out of the shop, Draco placed himself in front of Harry.

"See you at school" he raised his brows at both Harry and Ron before turning to Lyra "Come on Lyra, time to go home"

She sighed but turned back to her friends "It was so good to see you all even if it was short, i'll meet you all at the train station!" she smiled and hugged all of them including the twins and Ginny "Thank you for allowing me to join your family today Mr Weasley"

"Of course Lyra it was a pleasure to have you" the older man smiled softly and she saw it wasn't put on, such a nice man!

"Lyra!" Draco yelled at the door and she grinned sending them all a wave she turned on her heel and walked to Draco's side who immediately connected their hands together as they walked to find his parents.

~~~

At the train station Lyra stood with Narcissa who was smoothing her curls back "You remember you promised not to search for that beast" she whispered as she looked down on the girl, blue eyes clashing with grey eyes that looked like melted silver.

"I remember" Lyra nodded with a smile "I'll be safe"

"Draco?"

"Yes mother, i will be keeping an eye on her" the blonde boy nodded.

"Hey!" Lyra objected shooting him a glared but he just shrugged in a 'what can you do' motion.

She looked up at the clock and frowned, she had yet to see any of the trio "Alright my dears, you need to go get your seats before they're all taken" Narcissa smiled waving them onto the train, Lucius nodded his goodbyes, he always said his more heartfelt goodbyes back at the manor never in public.

"There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Hermione grinned at her, Draco huffed and shot the muggleborn girl a heated glare as he barged passed Hermione making her stumble slightly "What's his problem?"

Lyra shrugged it off helping steady her friend "He's just possessive"

"You're a person not a possession to get possessive over" Hermione gaped and Lyra chuckled.

"Jealous then" she corrected and Hermione sighed but nodded "Have you seen Harry and Ron?"

"No i haven't, i saw the twins and Ginny but not the two boys" Hermione grabbed her hand and started pulling her along to their carriage, the whole ride the boys were not seen so Lyra kept a look out her window for the blue car, Dobby shouldn't have shut the door to the train so she was slightly more then confused.

~~~

"Do you think they are alright?" Hermione was staring at the doors to the great hall almost expecting the two boys to come stumbling in.

"Oh yeah they're fine, just a bit of detention and Ron will be receiving a loud letter from his mother" Lyra snickered grinning at Ginny who had locked eyes with her, the younger red head blushed bright red before looking down at her plate.

"Why can they not just behave?"

"Because they are boys Hermione, it will not be the last time they get into trouble, nor the last time they will be late to things, maybe Professor McGonagall should have transfigured one of them into a watch" Lyra joked and Hermione giggled turning back to her food.

After dinner they went to their common room to find that Ginny had in fact been placed into their room, her trunks were laid at the end of what had been the empty bed, as they entered Onyx meowed loudly jumping into Lyra's arms "Hello my precious boy" she cooed cuddling him to her tightly.

"Jesus! Every time i see him he's grown" Hermione gaped at the huge cat in her arms, while Lyra had grown she still looked awkward when she lifted Onyx into her arms.

"Brilliant isn't it, don't worry he will never get to the size of Fluffy" Lyra smiled as she set Onyx down on the bed to unpack her trunks, her school bag like last year had been neatly pack by Kreacher.

"What classes are you planning on choosing for next year?" Hermione slumped back on her own bed when her unpacking was done.

Lyra groaned "Mi, it's day one of our second year and you're already asking about third year?" she smiled when her friend blushed.

"Well i though it was just interesting" Hermione grumbled.

"I was thinking of choosing Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes" Lyra decided to give in to her friends ways, if you can't fight 'em, join 'em right?

"Those are good ones, do you think they will let me take all five classes? I want to desperately" Hermione looked up at her with wide eyes.

"Considering that would mean you studying 12 classes, a lot of which start at the same time, i would have to say no but who knows maybe that would change...I don't think you'd like all 12 classes though" Lyra shrugged.

"I thought you would have taken divination" Lyra looked up at Hermione who was grinning.

"Why the hell would i read tea leaves to see the future when i can simply just ask for a vision?"

"You have to ask?"

"Well no, i do not see everything and somethings i desperately want to never show themselves to me, i only see what fate allows me to" Lyra answered having thought about this carefully a few years ago.

"Fate?"

"Of course, there are somethings that can not be changed so why would they show me and possibly allow me to change it? The future is never 100% set but some decisions are and not even I can change that"

~~~

The next morning Hermione had gone hunting for Harry and Ron and once she found them the Granger girl had hounded them and then proceeded to scold them for what they did all the while Lyra just watched with a smirk.

"Why didn't you tell us about the Whomping Willow?" Ron glared at her and she straighten her back.

"I am not your magic crystal ball Ronald Weasley, contrary to popular belief i do not see everything. You were the one stupid enough to drive a magical car into the Hogwarts wards, of course the magic in the car was going to falter! You could have simply sent a letter to McGonagall telling her what had happened and she either could have collected you herself or sent a port key, but as always you two decided to act before thinking"

"I didn't even say anything!" Harry whined about being pulled into the scolding session with Ron.

"Doesn't matter, we have Herbology now, unless you want to drive to that also i suggest we start walking" Lyra sassed and linked her arms with Hermione as the two boys sulked after them towards the greenhouses.

Inside they were given their gardening cloaks as usual while they waited, "Good morning everyone" Sprout greeted them as she entered making the room fall silent.

"Good morning Professor Sprout" they all echoed the greeting when she looked at them expectantly.

"Welcome to greenhouse three, second years now gather round everyone. Today we are going to re-pot Mandrakes now who here can tell me the properties of Mandrake root? Yes Miss Granger" she pointed at Hermione who raised her hand.

"Mandrake or Mandragora is used to return those who have been petrified to their original state, it's also quite dangerous, the Mandrakes cry is fatal to anyone who hears it" Hermione stated as if reading from a book.

"Excellent! 10 points to Gryffindor! Now as our Mandrakes are only seedlings their cries won't kill you yet but they could knock you out for several hours which is why i have given each of you a pair of ear muffs for auditory protection so could you please put them on right away" Sprout ordered and the room was quick to put their ear muffs on, Lyra patted them down tightly.

"Quickly, flaps tight down and watch me closely!" they all looked to their professor "You grasp your Mandrake firmly...You pull it sharply up out of it's pot"

Lyra winced when it's sharp cries still managed to pierce her ear muffs but she watched closely "Got it? Now you dunk it down into the other pot and pour a little sprinkle of soil to keep him warm" Spout added soil to her Mandrake but Lyra's eye flashed up to Neville who was swaying before he feel to the ground "Longbottom's been neglecting his ear muffs"

"No ma'am he's just feinted" Seamus noted the ear muffs pressed firmly on Neville's head.

"Yes well, just leave him there" Spout waved it off...That's a bit neglectful but alright "Right there you go, plenty of pots to go around...Grasp your Mandrake and pull it up!"

When everyone had lifted their own Mandrakes Lyra used those few seconds to snip a leaf off of the Mandrake in front of her, slipping it into her pocket as she lifted her own Mandrake up who was screeching at one of it's leaves being clipped, she stuffed it into it's new pot and threw soil on top of it hoping it would quieten down.

She heard someone yelp and glanced up seeing Draco's finger in his Mandrakes mouth, the Mandrake had clamped down making the boy panic "Boys" she rolled her eyes and turned to Hermione "He sees a hole and immediately thinks its a good idea to stick his finger in it"

~~~

Lunch time came and Lyra was sat opposite Ron who was taping up his wand "Say it, i'm doomed" he looked up at Harry who was also watching.

"You're doomed" Harry nodded and Lyra snorted making him flash her a grin.

"Hi Harry!" a sudden flash shocked Lyra, her vision now spotty "I'm Colin Creevey, i'm in Gryffindor too!"

"Hi Colin, nice to meet you" Harry greeted the boy who'd just taken his photo politely but any reply was cut of an owl approaching.

"Ron? Is that your owl?" Dean leant over and they all turned seeing Ron's family owl approaching with a letter.

"Oh yes! I've been waiting for this moment!" Lyra laughed loudly and sat back to enjoy the moment.

The owl crashed into a bowl of crisps on the table sending fried potato everywhere "Bloody birds a menace!" Ron shook his head as he took the letter from the owl Lyra was feeding some fruit, once the letter was detached from the bird he flew off "Oh no!"

"Oh yes!" Lyra held a shit eating smile on her face.

"Look everyone Weasley's got himself a howler!" Seamus announced to the table and Lyra cackled leaning on the Irish boy as they laughed together waiting for the show.

"Go on Ron, i ignored one from my gran once" Neville gulped in fear "It was horrible"

Ron slowly broke the seal on the howler "RONALD WEASLEY!" he dropped the letter on the table immediately as he paled but it didn't matter because the letter came to life and floated up into the air taking on a form of a speaking letter.

"HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! YOUR FATHER IS NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK AND IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME! Oh and Ginny dear congratulations on making Gryffindor, your father and i are so proud" the howler turned back to Ron from where it had moved to look at Ginny and blew a dry raspberry in his face before tearing itself up.

The table was silent before Lyra cackled "She's brilliant!" Lyra winked at Ginny who flushed once more and the twins chuckled to themselves as Ron panted trying to come down from his horror.

~~~

Lyra found herself sat beside Hermione in DADA, just behind the professor's desk now stood a huge portrait of Gilderoy Lockhart painting another Gilderoy Lockhart she was glaring at it as it continuously looked over it's shoulder and flashed the room a smile.

The door to the DADA office opened and the fool himself walked out "Let me introduce you to your new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher...Me" he grinned and Lyra rolled her eyes so hard she almost saw her brain.

"Gilderoy Lockhart, order of merlin, third class, honorary member of the Dark Force Defence League and five times winner..." he leant on his portrait who had stopped painting another version of itself to smile at the original who winked at it "Of witch weekly's most- Charming-Smile Award...But i don't talk about that, i didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at him" he chuckled at his own joke and Lyra couldn't help but snort at how pathetic he was. Her snort however was interpreted another way and he grinned at her happily which made she shiver is disgust

He started handing out papers and when Lyra saw what it was she huffed "I see you've all brought a complete set of my books, well done. I thought we'd start with a little quiz today, nothing to worry about, you have thirty minutes. Starting...Now"

1). What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favourite colour?

He has got to be joking...

2). What is Gilderoy Lockhart's secret ambition?

God he was being deadly serious...

Lyra glared at the paper but then smirked, alright Lockhart let's play it your way huh?

His favourite colour? Ego yellow.

His secret ambition? Finally reaching the height of fame.

So for the next thirty minutes Lyra answered every question, yes all 53 of them, with backhanded answers.

"Tut, tut - Hardly any of you remembered that my favourite colour is lilac, i say so in the year of the yeti" Lockhart kept talking but Lyra zoned out staring at her nails instead, inspecting them "But Miss Granger" her head snapped up hearing her best friends name "Knew my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market my own range of hair care potions, good girl! In fact...Full marks! Where is Miss Granger?" Hermione raised her hand "Excellent! Take 10 points for Gryffindor, now back to business..."

"Now! Be warned it is my job to arm you against the foulest creature to wizard kind" he tapped the covered cage on his desk with his wand and it rattled "You may find yourselves facing your worst fears in this very room, know only that no harm will befall you whilst i'm here...I must ask you not to scream" his hand slowly approached the cover on the cage building tension for the room.

"It might provoke them!" he yelled and ripped the over from the cage revealing a cage full of blue Cornish Pixies.

"Cornish Pixies?" Seamus snickered from two tables behind her and she chuckled, he was probably turning out to be her favourite so far besides the trio.

"Freshly caught Cornish Pixies" Lockhart tried to regain control but Seamus had fallen into a bout of laughter "Laugh if you will Mr Finnigan, but Pixies can be devilish tricky little blighters...Let's see what you make of them" he ripped the door to the cage open and the Pixies seeped out of the cage immediately causing as much chaos as they could.

The other students started yelling and some ran from the room "Come on, come on round them up! They're only Pixies!" Lockhart taunted but the room was spiralling, everyone was making a run from it but the Pixies had taken Neville hostage and had hooked him onto a chandelier.

A pixie grabbed onto Lyra's ribbon in her hair making it untie but Harry hit it away from her before it could rip some of her hair out, she turned hearing Hermione yelp as the same pixie had grabbed onto Hermione curls "Stop, stay still!" Harry yelled and batted the pixie away once more.

"Peskipiksi pesternomi!" Lockhart yelled but nothing happened apart from a pixie stealing his wand he retreated towards his office like a scampering rat "I'll ask you four to just nip the rest of them into their cage" he ran into his office slamming the door closed behind him.

"What do we do now?" Ron demanded as Hermione stood.

"Immobulus!" she yelled and the Pixies were stunned in the air.

"Why is it always me?" Neville asked softly from where he hung in the air by his robe.

Lyra smiled and grabbed her wand "Wingardium Leviosa" she spoke clearly as she gently brought Neville back down to the ground releasing the spell when his feet hit the wooden flooring "Are you alright?"

"Yes, thank you" the Longbottom boy nodded, he was slowly relaxing around her, Lyra thought it was the book that softened him up seeing as it was his favourite, he had apologise in a letter for not sending her a gift for Christmas but she had waved it off having not expected one.

"How are we going to round all these up?" Ron asked looking up at the pixies still floating around in the air.

Lyra snorted loudly moving to the desk she grabbed a piece of paper and started writing a note "We're not, he released them, he's the defence teacher he can round them up himself, come let's go" she herded the four Gryffindor's from the room.

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓇,

𝒲𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒾𝓍𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒸𝒶𝑔𝑒, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓎 𝒷𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈! 𝒲𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑜 𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓏𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜, 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓌𝑜𝓁𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐵𝒶𝓃𝓈𝒽𝑒𝑒, 𝒫𝒾𝓍𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝒶 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓏𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈!

𝐵𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝑔𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈,

𝐿𝓎𝓇𝒶 𝐵𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀.

~~~

September tryouts for quidditch had come and gone, Lyra had of course tried out but Oliver Wood was more then happy with the team he had last year which was fair so instead he placed her on the reserve team, Draco hadn't been happy in the slightest taking it as more of an insult then she ever had.

Draco though had made the Slytherin team but she had agreed to keep it secret, October was full of training with the reserve team players, she enjoyed it and actually thrived under Woods strict training programme. The reserve team didn't train with the main team but they had to follow the same drills, the same amount of reps and so forth, they were also expected to be present at every meeting, and every game suited up just in case.

Lyra sat with Ron and Hermione in the courtyard while Harry got ready for his training "Uh oh" she muttered noticing how both of her friends looked at her with wide eyes.

"Uh oh? Why uh oh? Oh god what is it!" Ron demanded looking sick.

"Calm yourself Ronald, you will soon see" she whispered and watched the Slytherin team walking out towards the fields just as Gryffindor was.

"Uh oh" Hermione echoed already seeing what was going to happen "Let's go"

"Give the Slytherin team permission to practice today" they joined the two groups as Oliver was reading a roll of parchment, Lyra smiled at Adrian Pucey who was just....Stunning, the fifth year nodded biting back his own smile.

"Owing to the need to train their need seeker...You got a new seeker? Who?" Oliver asked bring Lyra back from where she was appreciating Pucey in his quidditch uniform, everyone had been right, quidditch thighs were a beautiful thing. However being in a twelve year olds body meant anything other then looking was a no go, even if she was technically older mentally.

The Slytherin team moved from their planned positioning showcasing Draco "Malfoy?" Harry frowned.

"That's right and that's not all that's new this year" Draco shifting the broom in his hands drawing attention to it.

"Hey!" Lyra frowned at the stunning broom.

Draco chuckled "You have one in your room, don't pout Lyra"

"Those are new Nimbus 2001's, how did you get those?" Ronald gaped at the brooms.

"A gift from Draco's father" Flint sneered making Lyra grimace at his teeth, all the spells available to him and he hasn't used one to fix them, truly disappointing.

"See Weasley unlike some, my father can afford the best" she frowned at Draco's taunt, she really didn't want what happens next to happen but she didn't know what to do.

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in, they got in on pure talent" Hermione stated coldly as she cocked her head to one side, Lyra grimaced at the comment this whole situation was snowballing.

"No one asked your opinion Granger" Draco spat out and the Slytherin boys snickered.

"Yeah you filthy mudblood" Flint sneered which completely threw Lyra, this is not how is was meant to happen but she wasn't going to complain.

Lyra glared at the boy "Hold your tongue Flint"

"Oh are you taking after daddy dearest Black? Where is he again, oh yeah that's right he's rotting away in a cell, who knows maybe you'll join him when you get your pet mudblood killed" The Slytherin captain snickered as he looked down on her.

"And i bet his breath still smells better then yours" she grimaced looking at his mouth.

"You'll pay for this Flint!" Ronald shouted at the same time and before Lyra could stop him he raised his broken wand "Eat slugs!" a pale green colour streamed out but it backfired completely sending the young Weasley flying backwards before he hit the ground.

The Gryffindor's rushed over to the boy who looked ready to vomit "Ron are you okay?" Hermione gripped his shoulder who turned over facing away from them "Say something"

In answer Ron gagged and his whole body shivered as a huge slug flew from his mouth, a trail of what could be spit or slug slime still connected Ron and the slug before he spat and the fluid hit the ground.

A flash stunned Lyra slightly "Wow! Can you turn him around Harry?" Colin asked getting his camera ready to go.

"No Colin, get out of the way" Harry stood Ron up with Hermione's help, Lyra was too busy cringing as another slug was projected from the boys mouth, it was completely the most nasty thing she'd ever witnessed "Let's take him to Hagrid's, he'll know what to do"

On the way to Hagrid's Ron was spewing a slug every few seconds getting progressively more pale, the slugs were fat and so fucking slimy it was disgusting, when they did indeed get to Hagrid's he sat them all down and went off somewhere "This calls for a specialist's equipment" which was just fancy wording for a bucket.

Not seeming to care Ron snatched the bucket just in time for a slug to land at the bottom with a wet splat, Lyra had to look away and take a deep breath not wanting to puke herself. "Nothing to do but wait until it stops i'm afraid" Hagrid sat down in his chair as he watched the ginger haired boy gag adding another slug to the bucket "Better out then in, who was Ron trying to curse anyway?"

"Flint" Harry turned back to Hagrid "He called Hermione...Well i don't know what it means"

Hermione shot up from her seat but Lyra had seen the tears in her eyes, reaching out she took the girls hand but other then that stayed silent knowing Hermione needed to process her feelings "He called me a mudblood"

"He did not" Hagrid gaped looking angry for the girl.

"What's a mudblood?" Harry looked between everyone there, he hated being the only person not to understand things.

"It means dirty blood" Hermione span to look at Harry but the move made her tears obvious to the room "Mudblood's a very foul name for someone who is muggleborn, someone with non magic parents, someone like me. It's not a term someone usually hears in civilised conversation"

"See the thing is Harry, there's some wizards, like..." Hagrid's eyes flashed to Lyra who cringed and looked away, she knew Hagrid hadn't been meaning her personally but it still hurt "There are magical families who think they're better then everyone else because they're what people call pureblood" Hagrid changed where he was going with his sentencing at the girls cringe, he felt for her really he did but he knew who she was. It didn't take a genius to see she did not believe in all that rubbish even if she was brought up in the thick of it.

"That's horrible!" Harry snarled just as Ron spewed another slug.

"It's disgusting" the Weasley boy whimpered and no one asked him to explain if he meant the slugs or the comment.

"And it's codswallop to boot. Dirty blood..." Hagrid tutted "Why, there isn't a wizard alive today that's not halfblood or less, more to the point they've yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can't do, come here"

Hermione slowly put her small hand in one of Hagrid's "Don't you think on it Hermione. Don't you think on it for a minute, hey?" he shook her hand in a comforting manner patting it gently after as she smiled weakly but nodded.

~~~

Back in their common rooms Lyra was staring at the roof of her poster bed, burning a hole into the fabric that was left open much like Hermione's. The girl beside her was reading a book, one that Lyra wasn't sure the name of but it was probably a school book, she felt like she was going crazy.

"You don't believe him do you?" she gave up and turned her head looking at Hermione who startled at the sudden commotion.

"What?" Hermione lowered the book to look at her friend who's hands were frozen in her huge beasts fur.

"Flint, you don't believe him do you? Because i just...If you do you should know that being pureblooded isn't something anyone should really be proud of, it takes dedicated incestuous relations which actually has been affecting the magic, and really if you study it in detail a lot of pureblooded women are struggling to conceive which i think the pureblood regime might be a huge cause as to why!" she was rambling, she knew she was, words were spewing from her mouth unfiltered, unchecked but she felt so guilty.

"Lyra!" she stopped her word vomit induced monologue to look back at Hermione, at some point she had turned back to look at the top of her bed "I don't believe him, i know you would never do anything that could get me killed and i know you do not consider me a pet...Why was you even concerned that i doubted it?"

"Well it's just..." she sighed and rubbed her hand over her face "Everyone says that they don't believe my father killed his best friend but look where he is Hermione, people do believe him capable of doing it and i am his daughter. The apple never falls far from the tree even if what they believe is wrong, i just would never want you to..."

"Never!" the muggle born girl put her book aside and moved to sit next to Lyra on her bed "Never...They will see Lyra, we will get your father out of that horrid place and they will see you are in fact just like you father just in ways they hadn't believed possible"

"I haven't seen where Pettigrew is Hermione, without him there's no way he can get him out...It's been 11 years Hermione, i don't even know how much of my father is left there" she whispered feeling so guilty she hadn't been able to get him out before hand.

"We will get him out, i swear it! And he will be fine, we will get him any help he needs, we will be there for him, you will be there for him i believe that just may be enough" Hermione gripped her friends hand tightly, her heart breaking for the Black heir.

Lyra realised that Hermione had repeated the word 'we', Hermione was just as determined to help her as she was to help Harry save the world...People could say what they liked, they could taunt but Hermione Granger was the purest form of person the world had ever known and Lyra was never going to take that for granted.

In fact she was going to step it up, Granger didn't need protection but she also didn't need to spread herself so thin, Lyra knew that trying to keep the boys alive while helping Harry with the horcruxes and all the other bits worn her down. She was going to work as hard as she could to make sure Hermione knew she could rely on her, that Lyra was capable of helping.

God help anyone who so much as whispers a bad word about Hermione because if she was like her father in anyway? She wasn't afraid of hurting anyone who hurt her friends, that much had become clear.