Amelia sat near the grounds near the black lake, with a sad frown and pout. She wanted to go to the trip but couldn't. She was pissed at the whole world, everybody she knew was making her infuriated at that moment. Severus wouldnt allow her to go, cedric was mean to her yesterday, the girls of her dormantry wont shut up about shopping and stuffs. The weasly twins busy packing their stuffs they would use while pranking there, draco and his friends wouldnt come out of the slytherin common room, she was alone.

Sighing she layed on the grass thinking where her father and godfather would be right now. They could also provide her permission but she couldnt approach them. Not after what had happened.

Debating with her thoughts a strange question popped up in her mind. Where did the chosen one get the permission from. It could not have been his muggle relatives, she heard hermione on day saying that they are awful people and don't even allow him to hogmeade. Then who signed the permission.

Were his parents alive?

Any other wizard relative?

Maybe no- YES sirius black ,his godfather. He would have signed the permission, but how. Not wanting to debate alone Amelia stood up and ran all the way back to castle, inside the common room.

She looked around the chosen one was not here. She approached lee jordan who was cleaning his hiking shoes very eagerly.

" Hey jordan" Amelia said approaching from behind him, making lee jordan jump in surprise he turned around to see her.

" Hey Amelia, how can i help you" he asked nervously, with his both hands inside his shoes.

" Um can you tell me where Harol- i mean Harry is?" Amelia asked looking the boy behaving strangely.

" Oh yes he is in his dorm , do you want me to call him-?" He continued but Amelia ran to the boys dormantry before letting him finish. She climbed up the stairs of the boys dormantry, peeking through the open doors to see in which room he was.

She suddenly heard Ronald'd loud laugh and approached that room. Putting a ear on the door of that room she heard ron, harry and seamus finnigan talk loudly. This is the one.
She pushed the door open without knocking in excitment, but as soon as she opened the door and stepped inside everyone in the room including Amelia screamed on the top of their lungs. The boys were sitting there shirtless and just in their underwares.

" What are you doing here, what do you want, dont you know how to knock" ron shouted loudly.
Covering his important parts with a pillow. Harry and seamus doing the same.

Amelia tightly shut her eyes and turned around from the horrific sight.

" I-I wanted to talk to Harold" she stuttered.

" What" Harry exclaimed, before Amelia could turned around to speak, ron threw a pillow at her face.

" Dont turn you idiot, let us get dressed" ron shouted. Amelia turned back again had her eyes shut, she could hear the shuffling of clothes. A few moments later she asked.

" Are you seeable now"

" No"

" Gosh you take more time then girls to dress up Ronald" Amelia groaned

" Now turn around" Harry said.

"Hashh" Amelia approached Harry ignoring the other two.

" I want to talk to you. Alone" amelia said the last part eyeing the two extras.

" No talk whatever you want in front of us" ron said

" Its confidential" Amelia said.

"No its not unless you two are dating" ron said making harry blush furiously which went unnoticed by Amelia.

" Listen Ronald, do not interfere in my personal matters, i want you two out this instant" Amelia threatened ron .

" You cant boss around in our dorm" ron said pointing on her.

" Take him out seamus" harry said to his other friend. The both went outside, Amelia plopped herself on ron's bed which was untidy.

" Gross" she muttered.

" Now tell what are you here for" Harry asked impatiently.

" Chill out Harold, i should be the one impatient here, i am just here to ask, where did you get your permission slip signed from" Amelia said.

" From sirius" harry said simply shrugging.

" How?" Amelia asked

" What do you mean how, i sent him the slip through owl and he signed it" Harry said.

" not that Einstein, i want to know how is my father allowed to sign it, are you forgetting he is still a mass murderer in the eyes of world" Amelia said rolling her eyes.

" I told the truth to dumbledore and called snape as a witness and then he allowed me to have sirius sign it.". Harry said folding his cloths.

" Oh so now you too are going". Amelia said looking at his luggage.

" Yes, are you not?" Harry asked.

" No, sev refused to sign it" Amelia said frowning.

" But why?" Harry asked curiously. Amelia realised she was having a civil conversation with him.

" Thats non of your concern harold" she said standing up. Harry rolled his eyes on her mood swings. Harry's owl Hedwig caught Amelia's eye. She had a plan

" Hey harold" Amelia said turning around to meet the sight of the boy again.

" What now" he asked impatiently.

" I want to use your owl" she stated, not requesting. Harry rolled his eyes at the instincts of the girl.

"Sure" he said shortly continuing his work.

" Get a me a quill and parchment genius" she said folding her arms bossily.

" How you have so much audacity" harry exclaimed standing up to grab a quill ink and parchment and handing her.

" Yes thanks" she said grabbing them from his hand and plopping herself on ron's bed again.

She quickly started scribbling down. Thinking how she should start.

D̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶d̶a̶d̶,̶

No,it doesnt seem right to call him that, she didnt even call him dad when she met him that day. She crumpled the paper and threw it in the dustbin and asked for another parchment from harry. He rolled his eyes and gave it to her.

D̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶f̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶,̶

No, its way too formal, he may not like the formalities. She crumpled the parchment again and asked for another one. He groaned and said.

" Firstly frame whatever you want to write and then start writing" Amelia completely ignored the boys, he shook his head and went back to his place.

" What should i call him, god help me" she thought.

Yes. I know what to write.

𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑛𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠,

ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔? 𝑖 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝑖 𝑎𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑔𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝. 𝑆𝑒𝑣 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑜. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑖 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑑.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒.
𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦.

𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑎.

𝑝.𝑠. 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑑'𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒.

Amelia finished. Satisfied. After reading it again and again atleast 20 times. Smiling and rolling the parchment and attaching her permission slip with it Amelia went towards his owl.

" Hey owl, take this to my father" she said petting him.

" Hewdig" Harry called. Amelia rolled her eyes.

" Hey hewgid, you lovely boy, will you take this to my father, sirius black, i will really appreciate it." Amelia said petting it again and it flew out of the window. Amelia started to leave but harry stopped her.

" your welcome i guess" he said in monotone.

" No i would not like to come here again" Amelia said making a disgusted face.

" For Hewdig" Harry said rolling his eyes.

" Yeah whatve-" Amelia said. But ron's voice from outside cut her off.

" I am sure seamus they are snogging" he argued, with a flushed face Harry went towards the door and opened it to lead ron and seamus in. Upon stepping in ron eyed Harry and Amelia both curiously.

" what were you two doing this long" ron asked.

" Wrestling" Amelia said

" Then why is Harry blushing" ron argued.

" I am not" Harry said.

" Yes you are" seamus said.

" Did you two snog, please tell, i can win 2 galleons" ron said gushing.

" You bet on us" Amelia gawked.

" No, we had a bet, whoever snogs a girl first will have two pay two galleons to the other two." Seamus explained.

" So tell" ron said wiggling his eyebrows.

" ew never" Amelia exclaimed.

" But harry is not denying" ron said.

" I did not snog her fine" Harry huffed.

"Ok bye now i dont have time for this nonse- Wait- why were you all naked"

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Amelia waited for the whole day sirius' reply , it was starting to get dark, but it never came.she had asked numerous times to harry whether her letter arrive , but everytime the answer was no.

Why the hell is he not replying, did he forget, did harry's owl not deliver the letter. I am going to kill that owl. Amelia became furious.

She saw Harry approaching her, she quickly got on her feet and approached him excitedly. Maybe the letter came.

" Yes harold, where's my permission slip" she asked excitedly.

" Here" harry said handing it to her.
She saw it was not signed.

" What its not signed" she exclaimed frowning. Harry just shrugged

" What did you owl do, why is it not signed" Amelia raised her voice glaring him

" What has Hewdig to do with it, he went to sirius's place, and came after 6 hours probably sirius was not there" harry said.

" What" Amelia said her voice filled with sadness. Several thoughts started popping in her mind.

Why did he not sign it. Did he ignore my letter. He signed harold's why not mine. Did something happen to him. Did the ministry catch him. No if he were arrested, it would have been the news of the town. Then what happened.

"I guess i should go" harry said turning around.

" No" Amelia said loudly, harry could see tears were brimming his eyes. He felt bad for her.

" Send this once again, maybe this time, he might have arrived there and he will see it." Amelia said hopefully.
Harry felt like if he denied she would be more hurt, so he accepted and went to his dorm.

It was 6 o'clock right now, she still has twelve hours to go to the trip. She started roaming in the corridors, which were relly isolated, everyone busy with their packing and stuffs.

Suddenly she caught the sight of boy she had been ignoring all day. Cedric stood there talking about something to mcgonnacal. Hearing her footsteps the other two turned their heads towards her direction. Cedric looked at her apologetically. She ignored him again giving the smallest smile to mcgonnacal she walked past them.

Now its been three hours since Harry sent the letter again, Hewdig returned without the slip being signed. Harry told her. She was now feeling devastated. Severus had been keeping an eye on her whole day, watching her feeling sad.

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In the morning, the carriages were being readied, the students have been bustling here and there in the whole castle. Every students from 3rd year to 6th were ready, except for one, Amelia. The first and second year students were not allowed to go as they were very young, and the 7th years had to prepare for their newts. Amelia stood there with her slytherin friends, bidding them goodbye sadly, trying to keep the fake smile plastered on her face.

Dumbledore came forward with mcgonnacal, in front of the crowd of students. Severus was nowhere to be found.

" So now i suppose, all of you are ready for the trip, i expect good behavior from your side. There shall not be any mischeif caused, and students shall listen to the prefects of their houses. In an hour we will be leaving, you all shall make your way towards breakfast." Mcgonnacal said sternly.

The crowd of students started drifting to the great hall, to have breakfast.

" Why didnt you tell me, i could have gotten it signed by my mother, she is your aunt" draco said to Amelia disappointed.

' you didnt even have the time to notice me' Amelia thought to herself and rolled her eyes mentally.

" Its ok Draco, even if your mother would have signed it for me, sev wouldnt have allowed" she said looking down hands in her pocket.

" I will miss you" draco said playfully pouting.

' you didnt miss me when you ignored me whole day yesterday' she thought to herself.

" Okay now dont be so dramatic its just three days, they will pass in a heartbeat" she said smiling.

The students finished their breakfast and started hopping into their carriages, Amelia hugged her slytherin friends goodbye. Seeing all her friends go she tried nit to breakdown in front of them and ran inside.

She stood in the isolated corridor alone. She never liked to be left alone. Although she only had two people in her life, but atleast one of them always used be there for her. Tears started brimming her eyes. Suddenly she heard footsteps approach her. She swallowed those tears and composed herself.

Turning around she saw her uncle approaching her.

' what does he want now' she thought to herself and groaned internally.

" Miss black" severus said approaching her.

" Professor snape" she played along.

" Here" he handed her a parchment. Giving him a confused look she started opening it to see it was her permission slip. It was signed. By severus.she looked up to his face to see he still was expressionless.

" What's this?" She asked. Mentally facepalming kn jer stupid questions.

" I thought i taught you how to read. I severus snape, uncle of Amelia sierra Black, grant the permission to go on the trip hosted by hogwarts witchcraft and wizardry school." Snape read out the parchment. Rolling his eyes.

" Whatever kind of prank is this, i dont like it." Amelia said, turning around ready to leave.

" You have 15 mins before the carriages leave, if you want to go bring your stuff quick or stay here" snape said stopping her. She turned around to once again examine her face to find any sign of joke. But no he seemed pretty serious. Really now he is allowing her to go

" Why" she asked narrowing her eyes

" What why" he questioned back.

" Why are you allowing me to go now". She asked.

" You seemed pretty sad" he said .

" Aww you felt bad for your niece. Sev i didnt knew you were a softie" Amelia gushed.

" Do you want to go or not" he said not meeting her eyes.

"Oh yes--" she ran.but stopped and came back to engulf severus in a tight embrace.

" You are the best your are the best you are the best best uncle in the whole world" she squealed.he patted on her back.

" Now go" he said with a smirk.

"But wait i wont return the pictures
u still can deny " she said cautiously warning him.
He just rolled his eyes and said.
" I know your level of obstinacy, thats mot the matter now, go enjoy and let me live in peace" Amelia scowled playfully.

She ran quick to bring her already packed stuff from her dorm, withing five minutes she ran over three floors. She rushed outside, and went towards Draco and his friends carriage.

" Open " she knocked loudly on the carriage door. Blaise opened the door to see her standing with her luggage.

" Amelia what-" he started but was cut off by Amelia who quickly plopped herself in their carriage startling Draco, Pansy and Vanessa.

" I am coming too guys" she squealed. Pansy squealed back and stood up to engulf her friend in a hug.

" thank god Amelia" pansy gushed.

" But how did this happen last minute" Draco asked happily confused.

" Well maybe severus hit his head somewhere, who knows"
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