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"GOOD MORNING CLASS, TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LOOK BACK ON WHAT WE'VE LEARNED SO FAR." Professor Sprout shouts as soon as she enters the greenhouse classroom. She marches up to the front of the class with a grin embedded onto her face, her eye graze over everyone.

Nobody could understand how the woman could be so cheerful on a Monday morning. They all groaned silently as she talked, some even wondered how they came to pick this class. Ophelia on the other hand listened intently as she was sitting next to Remus, unfortunately the others weren't here.

"Now, could anyone tell me about Devil's Snare?" She asks as she wrote some things they'll be doing today on the blackboard. She turns back around and sees Ophelia with her hand up, "Miss Snape?"

Ophelia licks her lips, "Devil's Snare is a magical plant with the ability to constrict or strangle anything in it's surrounding environment or something that happened to touch it." She explains, "for example, say you got stuck in it, you couldn't do anything. If you panic it would only kill you faster, you'd have to relax for it to let you go."

"Well done! Miss Snape!" Professor Sprout applauded the girl, "ten points to Gryffindor!"

Students in the class froze. Some Slytherin's even looked up in shock. Remus, however stares at her in wonder, he was about to correct the teacher, but Ophelia butted her knee with his, she shook her head with a small smile that soon turned into a frown to listen back towards the lesson. But no one let it go, they tried to tell the woman about her mixup, but she just waved them off and went back to asking for questions.

The sandy – haired boy that sat next to her in class kept giving her side glances. She looks up at him and raises her brows, he shook his head and started packing his things away. Professor Sprout gave her a grin before letting everyone leave five minutes early since they had all done good.

As Remus and Ophelia were walking out, the werewolf could help but sigh loudly. "I'm guessing that's the repayment?"

"Yes," she said playing with the bottom sleeve of the robe. "A pretty good one though, right?"

"You didn't have to repay us, we've told you before." He says shaking his head and sighs.

"I've already said that it's okay, I do feel a lot better. You guys deserve the points anyway, the Slytherin's don't." She explains. She couldn't help but feel comfortable with Remus, she felt like she could trust him. She was jealous of the marauders, they had such a loyal friend.

"That was very kind of you, thank you." He says giving her a smile.

Ophelia looked closely at the detail of his scars and feels herself thinking back to hearing that howl. She knew. But still she wasn't going to say anything, she smiled back at him, not a fake one, a real one. His golden hues widen slightly, he knew he was getting somewhere. They both walk over the corridor bridge and stopped staring down at the huge drop below, but the sun shines down upon them.

Remus licked his lips and rubs his hands nervously, "can I ask you a question?"

"You already did." She says cracking a small smirk, she bit on her tongue to stop herself from laughing at his face. "I'm just messing with you, go ahead."

The boy chuckles, "how are you doing with all of this?" He said waving his hands around.

"Better than I was. I will admit I was scared at first, now I'm not...you guys make me feel safe." She admits, her cheeks turning a pink hue.

The scarred boy smiles at her, "I'm glad, you really mean a lot to us." He watches her smile and stare off into the distance, the window blowing her hair out of her face – the sun showing her complexion. The light kissed her skin and gave her a healthy glow, her doe eyes gave off a shiny reflection. Remus openly gapes, a look of awe dawned on his face, she was so beautiful.

"I'm really happy to call you my friend, Remus." She says, her fingers trailing over the flowery designs one one of her tattooed hands. "I'm glad to have all of you. If it weren't for you all – I don't really know what I'd do."

His scarred hand touched her cheek; gently pulling her face towards him. Both of their eyes meet, "you're an amazing girl. Yes, I understand it can be weird and awkward when people are just starting to see you for the first time, and suddenly want to be your friend. But I feel like once you get to know them, you finally can be yourself."

"How can I be myself when I don't even know who I am?" She asks curiously, "I've always felt like an outcast – always having to put a face on that isn't mine....I-I – I don't even know how?" She says furrowing her eyebrows.

"You let yourself relax, stop caring what everyone else thinks....let yourself go, let your mask fall – explore all the new possibilities, even if they are dangerous or bad – learn from them." He says brushing his thumb over the apple of her cheek. "I can see you becoming Ophelia Snape."

Ophelia stares in wonder towards him. "That's – thank you, Remus, really. No one's ever been nice or given me advice like this – what I mean is thank you." She smiles up at him.

"I know it's hard to trust people, I've been through it all." He chuckles, his eyes showing her emotions she's never seen before. "Trust is earned not given, I hope you can finally give the others a chance too."

The petite girl nods her head, "believe me, I've tried denying it for ages. I already trust them, they've done so much for me, but I always run away – scared. I've just never felt so warm, so welcomed. I'm finally starting to see what friendships are." She says, a glimmer of love in her eyes, her heart thumped loudly against her chest. The heavy weight was taken from her shoulders as she told Remus everything.

He took her into his arms and hugged her firmly against his chest. "We'll always be there and look out for you, but sometimes you have to do the rest of the adventure on your own."

Ophelia feels happy tears – the feeling of closure settles over her and she welcomes it with opened arms. She took in his musky scent and grins mischievously to herself, she suddenly pulls away and hits him playfully. "You're it!"

She runs along the bridge – feeling free, she could hear Remus laugh behind her as his loud footsteps were behind chasing after her. Both of their laughter echoed into the air, she was almost out of the bridge when she felt strong arms lift her from the ground. The sounds of their huffed breathing was a relaxing touch to the silence around them, Remus sets her down and gives her playful glare, but a smile had planted itself onto his face. She gave him a toothy-grin, her eyes widened with life, her black pools finally had twinkled.

"You are truly a wonderful person, Ophelia." He said grabbing her bag from her and putting it over his shoulder, he offered her a hand, " shall we?"

"We shall." She said taking it, the two of them walked down the pathway towards Hagrid's class. They both helped each other in walking down steps and looked out for any turned up tree-roots, they were walking down another path that entered through the forest – both of them heard the loud, faint chatter of other students. They'd finally made it when the noticed the group sitting on a log or leaning against a tree.

"Hey! What took you guys so long?" Peter calls out as soon as he spotted the two of them. The group had suddenly turned to them, a relived and bright smile glistened on both James and Lily's faces, they walked over and plucked Ophelia away from the boy.

"Glad you're finally here, Ophelia. James and Lily would not shut up," Sirius began mocking them. "What if Ophelia is hurt!?" "What if somethings happened to her!"

"Shut it, Padfoot." James grumbles. Lily sent the boy a glare before she started talking with Ophelia who's face was all red. They asked her some questions or how her morning was going so far, she gave them a smile; a real smile which caught them off guard; their reactions reminded her of Remus'.

After a couple of minutes of chatting, Hagrid finally showed up, but this time with a three headed dog. People scrambled away, and the group was not letting Ophelia near that thing, they grabbed her and set her firmly between all of them. "Guys, they aren't that bad! They're weakness is when the sound of music starts to play!" The Slytherin calls out, but was still being blocked by the bunch of Gryffindor's. Hagrid though had heard her and bellowed, "ten points to Gryffindor!"

That had the group looking at her along with other students, the students that were confused the most were her brother and his friends. But she gave the girls and the marauders a shit eating grin and ignored their questions as she listened to the lesson.

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Once a few classes were done and over with the group of teens went and sat by the lake. Ophelia was sat in between Marlene and Alice who's backs were against the big oak tree, everyone with the exception of Remus were confused at whenever the girl got points it went right to the Gryffindor house.

"So?" Marlene trails off, "what's going on with the house points?"

Ophelia shrugs, "I may have asked Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore to give the points I earn to the Gryffindor house." She says as if it isn't a big deal.

Everyone stares at her jaw dropped, "what! Why would you do that?"

"Because you guys have been kind to me, I just wanted to be thoughtful and repay you lot." She explains proudly, she ignored the looks they gave her and found herself biting her cheek to stop herself from laughing.

Lily sighs. "Ophelia, what have we told you?"

"You told me I don't have to repay you, but I'd feel bad if I didn't." The Slytherin says crossing her arms with a playful look plastered onto her face.

"I'm pretty sure we'll win the house cup thanks to you, Ophelia." Sirius said munching on a red apple that he pulled out of his satchel.

"Yes, and if we do win, we share the feast with her." Alice reminds smiling leaning up into Frank who was looking at the girl with appreciation.

Peter suddenly stood up bouncing on his feet excitedly, "we should get Dumbledore to and ask him to resort you into Gryffindor!"

"Peter that is literally the best thing you've said all day!" Marlene says her eyes twinkling with excitement as she turns to Ophelia. But her head turns to the small boy who glares, "no offence."

Ophelia shares glances with James and Lily who who seemed taken back as they turn to Peter. Of course, this exchange did not go unnoticed by Remus and Sirius who were confused, they both shrugged and kept at eye on the three of them.

Mary chuckles to herself, "we could say that your an undercover Gryffindor pretending to be a Slytherin."

The group started to bicker, but Alice jumps in, "I feel like she'd most likely be a Ravenclaw that a Gryffindor."

Ophelia slowly turns to Alice with a smile before joining in on the joke, "I'd have to agree with Alice, Ravenclaw would be more my style." She says causing Sirius to let out a loud laugh.

"Of course, you even act like them!" Sirius laughs along with everyone before his laugh was cut short. He turns to Remus with a pale look, the werewolf still held a small smile as he looked back, they've now suddenly realised. She was supposed to be put in Ravenclaw.

They glanced softly at Ophelia who was looking as if she was having a good time. Around her were Lily, Marlene, Mary, Alice, Frank and Peter who were gossiping like a couple of old people. Their eyes drifted to James who was staring at his girlfriend and the smaller girl between her with adoration. At that moment you could clearly see everything coming slowly together.

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all chapters have been edited!
oooooh! remmy and ophie are besties!!!

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I would just like to say I'm officially done with high school, today was my last day of sixth year. But I am on study leave, I have an exam on 12th May and I might not be able to update until after then! I'm finally getting my confidence and I'm proud to say that I'm officially a young adult that is heading to collage in September once everything is done! Please be patient!

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