
You are Draco's cousin ?
Petra looked at the crowded dinner table, filled with red haired teens (to be precise 4), their equally red haired mother, a bushy brown hair girl looking at her with curiosity and the famous boy-who-lived, Harry Potter.
Well, in the pass hour or so, she had been explained in details by Moody, Kingsley and strangely Arthur Weasley, well that’s before he rushed for his office. So, all she could summarise was this was the head office of the Order of Phoenix, an old organisation which was created by Albus Dumbledore to fight against Voldy Moldy and his minions. And this organisation was revived by Dumbledore after the alleged comeback of Voldy Moldy and the recent-but-not-so-recent Azkaban breakout. The organisation was made up of some anti Voldy people who are quite promising in their skills of magic, or so Moody said. And that she was recruited in this organisation by Moody about a week about after discussing with her which she could not remember, unfortunately but it did not matter for Moody trusted she was capable enough. And lastly Sirius was not actually a pro Voldy person and it was actually Peter Pettigrew who had snitched on James and Lily Potter leading to their untimely death, which kind off explained why Harry seemed to be so close with an alleged convict who had escaped Azkaban to murder him for Voldy. And lastly 12 Grimmauld Place was the new head quarters of the Order of Phoenix and also Sirius Black’s ancestral home.
As it was too much information to register in an hour and she was too confused to focus on this, she decided to focus on the food before her.
Being a vegetarian she had a limited options and the smashed potato and beans with toasted and buttered bread looked quite appetizing.
Stuffing her face with bread, she looked at the bushy haired girl and the ginger freckled girl who sat across her. She had come to learn that the first one was called Hermione Granger, the one she had read about in the Daily Prophet , though it was hardly anything good and the ginger one was Ginny Weasley, the youngest Weasley child. Hermione looked at her half intrigued and half disgusted by her eating habits as it seemed and Ginny just watched her quietly like her mother, but with less doubt and more of an amusement. She didn’t know what made Molly Weasley dislike her but she just did. Well she was kind of happy she didn’t give her a burnt toast out of spite.
The famous Harry Potter sat at the end of the table with his godfather the famous Sirius Black and the scarred man from before who she came to know was called Remus 'Moony’ Lupin sitting there sipping hot tea. She could bet a 100 galleons that she had felt someone was staring her from their direction whenever she was looking away.
By god’s, she can’t even eat her breakfast in this damned house.
“So you are an auror, are you ? ”,asked husky yet smooth voice which she found, belonged to Remus Lupin. God’s, this man sounded as good as he looked.
“Well, I was actually, with Tonks but I am on break for a bit ..you know for personal stuff.”, Petra replied smiling at the end a bit before turning back at her food.
“Well, were you laid off or what ? Never heard of an auror being laid off before but maybe unemployment is catching up to the wizarding world.”, She heard someone say, she could heard the smug tone dripping off the comment.
“Well not laid off but on break, I did say, Sirius. At least I do not have Aurors from both the wizarding and the muggle world chasing after my arse, do I ?”, Petra said stuffing the last piece of bread into her mouth and picking up the plate, keeping it at the sink.
After she was done, she returned to her seat, sitting leisurely as she looked at the grim face of Sirius Black as he quietly sipped his tea. She guessed the comment from earlier burnt worse than she thought it would but he kind off deserved it. If only he hadn’t run away from Azkaban she wouldn’t have had to spent almost a year looking for him across Europe and spent the year learning something more resourceful, something which could have helped…helped…well never mind…she shouldn’t be thinking of it again.
“So how’s school Harry ? I heard so much about you from Draco, both about the annoying pottah and the filthy mudblood Granger – no offence to you Hermione though…I hope you understand..”, Petra said repeating her cousin, giving Hermione a quick apologetic look before turning back at Harry, who stared back at her.
“Draco is your cousin ?”, he asked surprised.
“Well, yes he is. As a matter of fact I had met him not even a week ago and he was nothing but praises about you…in his own way. Don’t tell him I told you, he did kill me for it.”, Petra winked at Harry who gaped at her making Lupin let out a small hearty laugh and Sirius a chuckle.
“But…you are a Selwyn..”
“Well Selwyn’s are one of the the purest 28, quite like the Black’s and Malfoy’s…that reminds me Sirius is cousin to Draco as well, Narcissa keeps mentioning that now and then..calling him a dim-witted bloke.” Petra mentioned remembering her occasional tea parties with Narcissa Malfoy.
“Well as if the one she married is the cleverest one in the entire wizarding world..”, Sirius mumbled under his breath before taking another sip of his tea making Petra laugh.
Well he wasn’t wrong either, was he ? Cousin or not Lucius Malfoy was an annoying piece of shit…
Her trail of thoughts was interrupted by a loud thud followed by loud growls of pain and screams, which she believed belonged to the three teenaged boys absent there.
Oh, god’s what a start of day...Well this was a kind of warm welcome to the Order of Phoenix she guessed, sarcastically before heading towards the noise with others .