Juno Sinclair had always felt comfort in feeling the ground under her feet, but when Sirius Black comes along and knocks her right to the floor she can't say it was the most comfortable she's ever been with the earth.
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"Miss Sinclair, it's nice to have you back in my class again," came the voice of the Professor, from where she stood at the edge of the tower.
Juno adjusted her yellow and black tie, looking up to the Professor, whose dark black hair blew out from the tower in the wind.
"Thank you, Professor," she smiled, pulling out her textbook from her backpack. "I'll try to catch up as quickly as I can."
The Professor smiled kindly at her, as the remainder of the class began to file in.
"Well look who just can't get enough of me, went to as much trouble to join the class that I'm top in."
Juno turned around, her low tied ponytail winding over her shoulder, as once more she caught eyes with Sirius Black.
"Ha ha," smirked Juno. "Nice to see you too, Sirius."
Sirius grinned, shoving his hands in his pockets and rocking back and forth on his toes. "Well, what brings you to astronomy?"
"You got me, I was just too entranced by you to stay away. I went straight to Dumbledore and asked to be put in all your classes. Couldn't quite get all of them, wrong house and such, but they did their best and here I am."
A confident smile etched its way onto Sirius' face, causing Juno to scoff and laugh, her dimple appearing on her left cheek as she chuckled.
"Sorry Sirius, I'm kidding. I'm here because I did not pick well, I chose Arithmancy instead but the numbers are really not my thing, and I did just as well in Astronomy for my O.W.Ls, so decided it was best to make the switch." She spoke, shrugging her shoulders.
Sirius nodded, his head of thick hair moving with elegance. "Kind of cut that you didn't make the switch just because of me, but cool that you did anyway."
"Well thank you for your approval dear sir," Juno smiled.
The witch looked around as the rest of the class had come into the tower and were standing around, waiting for instruction.
There were three Slytherin students, the two boys named Casey and John and a girl, Nina George - who had brilliant silver hair which matched with her green and sliver tie. Phoebe and Zoe, the two Ravenclaw twins, were also in the room, chatting to vivacious blonde Gryffindor Marlene McKinnon.
Juno nodded her head in thought. She knew that John and Casey from Slytherin had been friends since Rosanna Hawthorne from the year above had been sleeping with the two of them at the same time - to neither of the boys knowledge.
Nina George was pretty Hispanic witch with dark and straight hair that hung down her back. She was the chaser and captain of the Slytherin quidditch team, and there was a rumour that even as a sixth year, the girl had been offered a position on the Kenmare Kestrals team.
Phoebe and Zoe were identical girls with dirty blonde hair and a clever disposition, who found great interest in Divination, the stars and all things mythological.
"Juno, hi," called Marlene, coming over to the girl. "Did you just pick up this class?"
"Sure did," smiled Juno, admiring Marlene's blonde ringlets. The girl was Lily's best friend, and one of the Gryffindor beaters, making her a true force to be reckoned with.
"That's brilliant," she grinned. "We've had odd numbers so far, and poor Sirius here has been without a partner."
Suddenly, the class was silenced as the teacher began to take control over the small group of students.
"Miss Sinclair, you'll be working with Mr Black, and while I have everyone's attention before we start the lesson, I'd like to ask if anyone would be interested in catching Miss Sinclair up and tutoring her for the remainder of the year."
Immediately, Juno nearly had her eye taken out as Sirius thrust his hand in the air.
"Professor Hesta, I'll tutor her. We all know there's nobody better than me to do it," he grinned, earning himself a whack from Marlene.
Nina snorted. "Oh not this again. Come on Marlene, we best just start our work and leave his ego to inflate until his head pops."
The whole class laughed, quickly making themselves busy with their class work, Sirius grinning like an idiot as Juno opened her books.
Later on, Juno was headed into the Hufflepuff common room on her own, knocking the rhythm on the barrels as she approached them, and walking into the warm and cozy room.
"Laurie!" She cried, catching sight of her freckled blonde best friend.
"Well well well, I get sick once and when I return I hear I've been missing you rolling around on the ground with both Black and Potter?" She questioned, crossing her lean arms.
Juno pouted at the girl. "Come on Laurie, let's go do the dormitory. I want to change, and I'll tell you everything from the past few days," she grinned.
Grabbing Laurie around the wrist, she pulled her up to the dormitory.
Juno quickly pulled on her warm mustard jersey, and sat down opposite her friend, who had pulled a small, brown bag out of an ugly pair of socks.
"Well, it'd be rude to say no, wouldn't it?"
Several minutes later, Juno had just finished informing Laurie about the accidental kitchens meet up, and was giggling as she tried to explain what had happened in the corridor with James.
"Honestly, I can say it was the furthest I've gotten with anyone in this castle. Added a real bit of excitement to my day." Juno spoke, raising her dynamic eyebrows to her friend.
"And why is everyone saying that you and Sirius Black are going to be the couple of 1977?"
"I swear, Hufflepuffs are just the worst gossips," Juno scowled. "Nothing is going on, I can promise you that. We just keep crossing paths, and now he's offered to tutor me in Astronomy so I can catch up. I can't really turn that down, plus he is rather funny."
Laurie looked seriously at her friend. "Not to mention he's ridiculously good looking."
Juno looked off to the side for a moment, and began to speak with a light smirk on her face.
"Well," she began, turning her head back to Laurie. "I guess you can't argue that."
