Treacherous | Hermione Granger Book II

|56| Chapter Fifty-Six

F I F T Y  S I X 

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Using Harry and Ron's final interactions with Hagrid and Dumbledore as a basis in their pursuit for answers, Saffron and the boys looked for both spiders and something or one to help them in the school over the days that followed. 

However, it was proving more difficult than they had ever anticipated. When it came to Dumbledore's part their search, Saffron promised Harry and Ron that she would try with Amanda, as she had finally confided in them who precisely the woman was. Naturally, Harry was curious as Amanda had known his mother. So, Saffron took Harry along with her to meet Amanda with her siblings the next weekend. 

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Saffron?" Harry asked her tentatively. "I don't want to intrude..."

"Don't be silly," insisted Saffron with a note of finality. She didn't want Harry to back out of going to see Amanda. Rachel had initially considered doing so when the Mitchell's first made contact with her and now she and Amanda had a great relationship. "You have just as much of a right to get to know her as we do, she was friends with your mum too, after all," Saffron sighed guiltily. "I feel bad for not bringing you with me earlier, but well, Amanda likes to take things slow, I think. She feels really bad for not making contact with us,"

"How did you meet her then?" Harry questioned, as they took another flight of stairs down to the spare classroom that Amanda always set up for them. They weren't supposed to go anywhere without a teacher and Amanda had gone to Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw specifically to walk with Rachel and Rowan. Saffron, however, insisted that there was no point in going all the way from Ravenclaw to Gryffindor considering they were on totally different sides of the castle. So they had to be quiet so as to not be noticed and get told off.

"It was an accident," Saffron told him honestly. "Olly and Padma had been trying to get me to go to their Charms club for a good while, when I finally agreed to go, I saw her. You see, I've had some pictures of my parents for as long as I can remember, I've looked at them every day. The one of their wedding, the one that I showed you with your parents, Amanda was in it. Anyway, she was very nervous to meet me but we agreed to meet again, and we haven't stopped since," Saffron paused. "I'm sure that if she was going to reach out she would have reached out to the four of us and you, but because it was an accident she never had to. Honestly, I'm not sure that she would have ever tried to talk to us, so we got lucky that the accident happened,"

Harry seemed nervous when Saffron opened the door to the spare classroom. His breaths were short yet deep and his hands were evidently feeling very sweaty as he kept on wiping them on his trousers. 

Sending a reassuring smile in his direction, Saffron set foot in the room to find that Amanda, Maya, Rachel and Rowan were all already there, eating away at the breakfast Amanda had taken from the kitchens for them.

"Hi," Amanda stood up, sounding and looking rather breathless. "It's so great to see you both, Saffron, Harry,"

Harry nodded uncomfortably.

"Harry, I---, you... well, you have your mother's eyes,"

Again, Harry nodded uncomfortably as the Mitchell's exchanged curious glances, all unsure what to think. But they completely related to Harry as they had been in his position with Amanda only months previously.