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With winter break coming to an end the students fell quickly into the swing of things once again. But Sirius was aware of each and every damn bloody member of the male population near his sister.

Whether they were studying, discussing in class, walking to class, sitting at any meal time...It was a large task that he couldn't do alone and it just so happened that James loved a good system of pranking.

Remus' discretion was that if they prank every time a boy goes near her then no boy will, thus enacting the rumor that she was just bad luck.

The werewolf felt immensely bad whenever she would help him with the constellations, considering he knew these were the only times a male companion would be granted to be in close proximity.

Aurora knew too easily of what her brother was up to, but allowed it continue as this innocent trait was too easy to play. So while she sat with Remus she was working on the map right on in public. He had seen it after the holidays but it was looking more than perfect, her creativity was screaming. However the problem was that the summer was proving to be coming closer as well as Aurora's Alchemy placement test.

She told Remus that her brother had no knowledge of her study or even thinking of taking the class. But her wording of 'I think it'll be fun', ended all thoughts on him telling his best mate.

"Rory?" He whispered, and she hummed in response. But the lack of anything following back had her look up, and seeing how much of a struggle he was having to formulate a sentence she picked up her glasses and placed it high onto her head.

"You alright Rem?" She offered back, and he sighed. Ruffling through his hair, making sure to get his bangs into his face to get the attention away from the scar that patterned on from the years of being cursed.

"Y-yeah...I just don't want you to stress over this...We can wait until after the summer." She perked her lips before gesturing a smile. 

"I'm not stressing, this is actually a really fun project...Besides, it's either this or I'd be sketching dresses for Cissy and I rather do this and tell her I was busy with school work." Remus was relieved that she wanted to help, but never needed a reason as to why she was needed.

Rory on the other hand knew that he was fighting himself on whether or not he should tell her the truth. It was written all over his face, but when she nicked at her ear for a moment she felt his increasing heartbeat start to stagger and it was almost painful in her reflects. 

"You okay?" She nodded and rubbed her cheek for a moment. "Allergies I suppose...Tables have turned for me to feel sick aye?" She joked and it was a stress-free environment as the girl managed to make the stars a rather joyous occasion every time.

So when Remus returned to the Gryffindor common room to see the group up and around the fireplace hovering over a book.

A book that had all the answers. As Remus came closer to see the risen smirks of his mates, but the title soon fell into view.

Animagus Terminology.

"No," Remus spoke in the instant as he rushed upstairs in a roar of furry. That magic, that idea was so unbelievably unbelievable that he tugged on the locks of his hair and panted at the idea of them attempting and something went wrong.

He loved his mates, adored them to the ends of the earth. But the idea of Rory crying as something happened to her brother because of his own dirty secret was already giving him grey hair just by the mere thought.

It ringed up the horrors his mind manifested in his darkest hours. The idea of what Aurora would think of his secret, her smile never again being in his direction, it burned him to the core.

"Mate, it's a good bloody idea." Sirius was the first to rally, all before jumping onto his bed and leaning into his pillow to look at Remus. The boy still had his head in his hands struggling to get through the ideal.

"Oi, he's not speaking for us all. We didn't talk this through." Sirius scoffed. 

"What's there to talk about, it's perfect! I'll ask Rory about it—" That caught the werewolf's attention even quicker.

"NO!... Leave your sister out of this, please...It's enough that you three know." In reality, it had been on account of four, and the given sprinkles of thier teachers.

"Remus I'm telling you, Rory won't give a bloody damn if you're an elf. She loves you." That clung to his heart as that's all he's ever wanted to hear in his entire life, as though he had been starving.

And he gobbled it all up in the minute.

"Sirius you can't tell Rory, it's Remus secret and we have to respect that...But if she starts asking why we made the map..." Remus sighed. 

"It will help to get to the Willow easier, but you guys don't have to keep bringing me to the infirmary every time either. It's—" With the boatload of dispute on this very rainy Thursday night, it crossed Aurora's mind had pondered two new ideas to add to it.

Because what is a map without a few people markers?


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Unfortunately, the map had been collecting dust in the corner of the Ravenclaw tower as it needed proper time to solidify the spells casted onto it. With the colors, the protection spells. It needed time to bond with the parchment, and who else was patient enough to let it sit?

Remus, but that allowed his impatient roommates to have access to it as well. So it was safe on Aurora's bookshelf in the extended back was it hidden.

Aurora had already another one copied as her own personal ledger, but the boys were desperate to name the map yet nothing had ever come.

James was the one to continue pushing ideas after ideas, but nothing stuck as they were taking in their last hour of conversation before it was already summer.

On the train, Ms.Black had spent a quarter of the time with her friends, as well as seeing Sirius and his mates. But it was ample time to talk to Regulus who was in the same compartment as Rabastan and his friends.

Regulus had gotten used to the comments of his siblings, and Avery had sworn up and down that he'd make sure the boy wouldn't make the team the coming of years if he were to repeat any of the words.

And that kept him VERY quiet indeed.

It wasn't that they were talking ill of his sister, it was more of...Noticing strange traits that his sister hair. Like Avery making a comment of how she looked to Rabastan's hum of approval with a proud smirk. They sounded friendly never the less, however when Aurora was ever present the comments had stopped and were never told to her face.

Which sprung as odd in the boy's eyes.

The biggest two events of the summer for the Black family had been the boast of another wedding somewhere in the line of cousins or distant relatives. As well as Aurora's birthday, as it was a nice venture to have company as well as a distraction for their parents to dwell themselves in.

Sirius always assumed their harsh words were due to their rather bored and retched minds that have nothing else to occupy, thus finding relief when spewing nonsense.

Aurora's eating habits were getting better, but not by much. Breakfast for her considered of toast and tea, perhaps just tea at more than one morning. Lunch would be the same, or just a bit of fruit. Coming around dinner time she would finish her plate, but not in such a haste.

Pacing herself, just as her mother had told her.

But coming around midnight she could always be found searching the kitchen for a snack, Kreacher had caught her a few times and she just escaped it for making herself a bit of tea. "Kreacher I am perfectly capable of making myself a—" 

"But Mistress will be displeased with Kreacher...Please young Mistress, I prepare tea for young mistress." It was obvious very early on in her childhood that she liked to do things on her own and not have someone on hands and needs to get it down for her.

Instead she enjoyed stealing Sirius' book and talking to Jamesie. He never minded as he wanted to make sure either sibling had contact with him, so her first-year gift had come in handy on her own accord.

But judging by the past conversations it seemed like James was talking to Sirius into not telling his sister about Remus' problem. So it was good to know that they were completely aware, but on the same mention that they figured it out.

Once again a year later than she, but better late than never.

For some odd reason, Aurora was already preparing herself for her fifth-year OWLS. Whoever or however she had gotten her hands on a textbook concerning it made Sirius want to tear it to shreds right in front of her.

The girl was a nutcase, if the books downstairs didn't have dark and pureblood ordeals in them then perhaps she would've read them too.

However her newest attraction had been...Alchemy. On top of everything else that the girl has stuck in her head, it had to be the dumbest beside Divination.

"Rory what the bloody hell are you going to use Alchemy for? It's not a requirement." Aurora usually kept silent at his taunts and ignorant ordeals and she let it slide until her frustration of him bothering her for the umpteenth time today caused her to slam her book close and look him dead in the eyes.

"If you don't shut your trap this instant I will go and tell mother that you're taking muggle studies...Are we clear?" She growled, and that earned a smirk from her brother as he engulfed her into a hug as well as a sloppy kiss on the cheek before continuing off to go and talk with James. It was going to be their fourth year now, they had to up their pranks from the previous years.

On the other hand Rabastan had formulated a few plans this up and coming year, he wanted to take the Cassiopeia Aurora Black to Hogsmeade, well technically he wanted to do it long before him telling his mates the plan.

But all of them were telling him it was a bad idea, one it was his first date. And someone like Aurora was not going to be an easy bitting character.

"What are you talking about? She's never been on a date." Avery shook his head and told him that one of the older year Ravenclaws had taken her out, little do either Rabastan or Sirius know of this little secret.

Because for once, Aurora was able to keep the said secret. But there had been intel as Avery had fancied himself a given Ravenclaw and it was perfect evidence of it all.

"I'm gonna kill the bloke if he thinks for one second that he—" McNair, disagreed as he discussed that Aurora let him off easily. Perhaps she didn't understand what all that is, or so thought his friends.

"No, Sirius always complains she has her nose in the books at home. I doubt it's all non-fiction...R-right?" He after, but judging by the looks of his friends it was safe to assume that most of it was indeed all nonfiction.

Especially now, as Aurora didn't want a single thing wrong on her OWLS.

That was due in less than two years time.

Rory already had her book propped up in her compartment as she had gotten all her roommates scared for the inevitable doom that would be OWLS. Yet nobody had taken this fourth year course nor the firth year course and it was straining Aurora's mind that two years won't be enough to supplement all that needed to be learned.

The girl was combusting on herself it'd seem, so the only outlet was her weekly attempt of turning into her animagius or to work on the map. But it had hit a dead end in the summer as they needed to redo a certain level as it didn't come up quite clear on the map. That had brought Aurora to learn about James invisibility cloak.

"It's like I don't even know you lot anymore!" She gasped, being the one for the dramatics now. Especially when her brother was holding her close and continuing through the halls as they finally were at the destination.

Aurora groaned as she was so dumb to not have thought of it earlier.

"Why would we have to redo this bloody waste of space, there's nothing even—" The rest of Sirius' sentence was met with the inner palm of Aurora's right hand as she had closed her eyes and imagined her bedroom.

As her eyes returned and she looked to Sirius and then to the door before skipping all the way over too it did she smile and wink before all four of the boys had rushed and toppled into the sudden door that appeared.

However it had been almost a nightmare as he gasped at the given scene. It was her bedroom, and she twirled in the center as it was a devious game.

"Rory what is—" He had been afraid of course, especially for James and Remus if she had teleported them to the Black manner. "Welcome boys, to the 'come and go' room." She spoke, closing her eyes as her given room disappeared and the normality of the room shifted to a very tall lofted ceiling and subtle chandelier to prompt the room with light.

Sirius was in awe, scratch that, all of them were in awe as Aurora smiled deviously in her Ravenclaw sleepwear and her hair in a long braid to the side.

"H-how—When did you—" 

"If any of you did read History of Hogwarts like Remus had, then perhaps you would know of the Room of Requirements." The boy had the same smirk as she had as he looked around the given crannies of the room as a whole before turning to his mates.

Of course they hadn't read the books, he doubted they ever read the assigned textbooks at the very least. "When did you find this beauty?" Aurora took the compliment head first, but then bit her lip as it was sort of a rebellious streak she had.

"Er...Well I um, I was hiding from Flinch?" That in the instant caused all four of their heads to chase back into her direction, she smiled meekly but it was Sirius' tackle and swing of his sister at such a feat the truly leveled the field.

"You're just crazy as the rest of us darling!" 

"Of course I am, I have you as a brother. I'm pretty sure you dropped me when—" With the argument of the decade on numbed walls that didn't allow sound to escape did the rest of the boys watch the argument play out. But it ended with Aurora having a yawn escape her, thus enacting the boys to return her to the Ravenclaw tower.

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Date Posted: 02-07-19

Time: 9:58

Words: 2643