Rediscovering Us

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
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Rediscovering Us
Summary
Petra Selwyn has been newly recruited into the Order of Phoenix by Alistair Moody in 1995. The witch young yet capable navigates through the situation while dealing with her traumatic past.Sirius Black, after been convicted for something he had never done, is back to where he belonged- with his friends and godson. The new witch as sassy she was seemed to have intrigued his interest. But what seems to interest him the most was the mystery surrounding her and her secret.Remus Lupin had never been very lucky with life but Petra Selwyn amused him, attracted him even. He had never met someone like her, much less from Slytherin and whenever he saw her he couldn't help but wonder what her secret was..(slight change : The Azkaban breakout happened after the triwizard tournament but before the order of the pheonix.)
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Chapter 1 : Where is the damn house ?Petra Selwyn looked at the house 11 and 13 Grimmauld Place. Where the hell was the 12th one ?!She had been taking a small nap or a rather long nap to be honest when she had received a patronous from Alistair Moody to reach 12 Grimmauld Place in 5. And so she had apparated directly here, after putting on some decent clothes. And now when she was there she could not find the god damn house and it was …..1 am at night. God ! She had slept well too long and had not even checked the clock before leaving her homeHer home, a small one bedroom apartment she could afford with her meagre savings she had built from working as an auror.Petra paced up and down the streets thinking what was to be done, lost in her deep thoughts when someone placed a hand on her shoulder.She turned around, stalted as her hand reached for her pocket in her jeans. But to her great relief, it was not a stranger but her old friend and co-worker, Tonks. Tonks or Nymphadora Tonks – a lean woman of 22 with bubble-gum pink hair, also her cousin, though quite distant. Beside her stood an unfamiliar man, he looked rather tired and sad dressed in an oversized coat . He has scars all over his face, which may seem to be odd to others but seemed here hot to her. Also his wet puppy like face was kind of cute.Holy Merlin!! It has only been less than a minute and she called the man hot- though mentally but still it counted.‘Simp, bitch! You are a simp.’It is what Elara would have said if she was here. If only she was here.“Back on Earth, Petra!! Merlin’s grey beard, you have the attention span of a chicken and you are late. You are a chicken yet you are late…”Tonks snapped her fingers before Petra’s face, blabbering away as Petra gave her a smile. God she missed her work and her friends.“Well I came here as soon as I got Moody’s patronous but still can’t find the place where he asked me to be…and can you please tell me why he called me at 1 am in the night. By god’s, it’s too late for a chat, not to forget am literally starving…” Petra said sadly running a hand on her stomach as it grumbled rather upset and complaining about her lack of discipline in life.“Well get in now...Moody will tell you everything…and I will tell Molly to cook you something maybe…Remus please look out for snooping muggles, will ‘a? ”Tonks grabbed Petra’s hand and dragged her along with her.Waving her wand in the air, Tonks took the guard around the house down and loo and behold there stood 12 Grimmauld Place. Tonks took her inside the house, which was basically a mansion even if it was nothing compared to the Malfoy mansion or the old Selwyn mansion. But all of the three looked quite as haunting if she was honest, the only similarity they seemed to have.“MOODY!!! MOODY!! PETRA.IS.HERE.”, Tonks screamed at the top of her voice, waking up the seeming silent house.What followed was only one thing…Chaos!! It started with a painting of the a lady in black throwing slurs at them , followed by the sound of utensils hitting the floor from the kitchen, and several heads belonging to young people, most probably teenagers, popping around the staircase looking or rather staring at her with curiosity.Moody came out of a room at the end of the long corridor, along with two men. Both very known to her. One of them was Kingsley Shacklebolt, one of her fellow Aurors and beside him stood Sirius Black, a convict from Azkaban, someone she had spent hours looking for with her seniors. Merlin’s nuts!! What was he doing here?! What was Kingsley and Moody doing with him?! Why hadn’t he been arrested yet?!She stared at Sirius Black as he stared at her, a smirk on his face and a glass with fire whiskey (or so Petra thought) in his hand. He looked good for someone who had spent 13 years in Azkaban with those soul sucking parasites called Dementors. Yikes.“Selwyn, you are late as always. Moody glared at her, making her a bit nervous before she smiled. That man always have had an affect on her. Not in the good way.“Hardly my fault, Alistair, hardly my fault. I could not find Grimmauld Place. God’s, why had you not informed me about the meeting in advance.” Petra pouted and returned Moody’s glare.Sirius let out an amused chuckle making Petra glare at him, as well.“I had informed you about it in advance, actually we had discussed it in great details How you can and your skills could be of great advantage to the Order Of Phoenix. But it seems you had forgotten all about it.”, Moody said looking at her with a suspicion in his strict eyes.“Perhaps you have been taking your ‘special’ pills again, have you?!”Moody questioned using his auror-investigator voice making Petra nervous, yet again.Yikes. She was in trouble. Again.
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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 .

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