THE SECRETS OF THE MANOR (Draco Malfoy x OC) *COMPLETE*

The show must go on!

CHAPTER NINE

"The show must go on!"

Christmas holiday was coming to a close, Aurora didn't want to leave Number 12 Grimmauld Place, her newest home. The place she felt the safest, and with her Godfather, the only person who seemed to really care about her right now.

Aurora spoke to Sirius Black in private and told him of the dream she had, where she saw the house and the book, the letter that was inside and the way Voldemort looked at the words that were written in front of him.

"Aurora if you go looking for this, you can not go alone, you can't go near him-" Sirius stopped himself and took a deep breath and then a long blink. His eyes landed back onto her as he reached for her hand. "Promise me, if you decide to go searching you'll ask me to come with you."

Aurora nodded. "Of course," She wasn't even sure where this house was or how she would even get there. She looked at the door where Molly and the others had been waiting for her to return to Platform 9 and 3/4 for their train ride back to Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

For days she had been contemplating on inviting Sirius to her production that she was directing at school, but she feared it would be another let down. That the Order wouldn't allow him to leave this home, to keep him guarded up behind these walls. The walls he once saw as a prison, worse than Azkaban.

"Wait," She said to Sirius before rushing to the door to leave.

Sirius paused and then grinned at her. "Yes?" He asked.

"Next month I'm directing a production at school, I'd love for you to be there. I'm sure that maybe we can work out a way to hide you, but I-"

"I'll be there Aurora," Sirius replied as he hugged onto her. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

She was over filled with joy, but also sorrow that she was leaving and wouldn't be back possibly until the summer. Although she could go without her Godfather's mother screaming from her portrait day and night.

"The girl leaves!" She shouted. "What a shame, a girl like her! Had so much potiential, now a half-breed who is a blood-traitor and loves mud-bloods! Listens to Muggle music! Awful!"

"Oh can it you old hag!" Aurora shouted at the portrait. "You're dead anyways! Why do you care who I am?"

"Because your father is-"

"Let's go." Sirius covered the portrait with a cloth and lead Aurora out the door and slammed it behind himself. She heard muffled words that didn't make any bit of sense. Half-breed. Dark Lord. Blood-traitor.

She assumed that Sirius' mother was angry that Severus had disobeyed the Dark Lord, that perhaps her mother was a Muggleborn and now Severus had been seen as a blood-traitor, although he was only half-blood himself.

Upon her return back to Hogwarts, she seemed to have forgotten all about Blaise. They hadn't spoke all holiday and her mind had been so wrapped up around the upcoming play, and trying to figure out the truth behind her and Harry's attacks. And even Voldemort.

As she sat in the common room she caught sight of Draco as he tried to sneak past her. He looked far more tired than he had but didn't look as though he had been drinking. Perhaps he was right, he was going to work on himself. Aurora wondered if Grandfather Malfoy had said something to him during holiday, something made him really change his mind. To change himself.

"Draco!" She called out with a smile on her face. "Come here, please?"

She pointed to the empty chair across from her at the table that was seated in the furthest corner of the common room. Most others were in the library studying for O.W.L's so Aurora took this time during her free period to talk to Draco about that night. That night Harry and she were both attacked. His father was there and Draco had to have known something. She needed to know the truth.