The Girl Who Remembers

Chapter 17

Dahlia's POV

"I can't believe you're going to be the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor!" I beamed, skipping alongside Uncle Moony while walking through King Cross to Platform 9 3/4s,

"This way I can keep an eye on you. Especially with Sirius now on the run" He replied, we walked through the wall to the platform and I watched him smile at the Hogwarts Express,

"Come on! Let's get aboard" I encouraged pulling his arm, he chuckled and we climbed aboard, he lead me to a compartment, he placed his suitcase on the railing above "Was this your compartment?" I asked, he nodded before pulling down the middle section on the chair revealing initials; JP, SB, RL, PP, Jen, my eyes widened as my fingers traced over Mum's name, "How come she didn't put JR?" I questioned, he sighed sitting down,

"When we made this her parents had disowned her and they went to court to make sure she couldn't use the Ridgeback name. Not that she was bothered about it. She was always known as Jen...or Lioness by us" he answered a small smile gracing his face as he remembered the good times.

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I was sat in the compartment reading as everyone was boarding, Uncle Moony had fallen asleep in the corner,

"Dahlia?" Harry asked as the compartment door opened, I looked up from the book to see the trio, I smiled and mentioned them to come in,

"Who's that?" Ron asked,

"Professor R.J Lupin" Hermione replies pointing up to his suitcase,

"My Uncle Moony" I added, the three of them stared at me and we set off from the station,

"So how are you? You know with your Dad breaking out?" Hermione asked, I looked down at the floor,

"I didn't think it was possible to break out of Azkaban...but I'm managing" I answered giving a small smile,

"You want to tell me why he's after me?" Harry asked,

"He's your Godfather, your Dad and mine were like brothers" I replied, the train jolted to a stop making me tumble forwards on to the floor, the windows froze up making my eyes widened "Dementors" I muttered backing away from the compartment door as a Dementor slowly opened it and looked into the compartment, it's gaze fell on to Harry before it began doing its thing, I jumped up and stood in front of Harry which seemed shock the Dementor, Harry collapsed on to the floor behind me

"Dahlia..." Ron whimpered,

"Uncle Moony!" I yelled and crouched down as he woke up and caught on to the situation and using the patronus spell sending the Dementor away,

"Everyone okay?" Uncle Moony asked looking towards us,

"Harry's out cold" I informed checking over him, moments later he woke up, groaning

"Here eat this" Uncle Moony encouraged holding out a piece of chocolate, "It's alright, it's chocolate" he comforted, I smiled as I helped Harry sit up properly,

"W-what was that?" Harry stuttered,

"A Dementor, guards of Azkaban" I answered,

"It was looking for Sirius Black. Now if you excuse me, I need to have a chat with the driver" Uncle Moony commented as he got up and began to leave the compartment, "Eat. You'll feel better" he demanded before leaving, we sat back down on the seats,

"You jumped in front of me...why?" Harry asked,

"I wasn't going to let it suck out your soul..." I shrugged,

"Why didn't it do it to you?" Hermione asked,

"Every Christmas I went to visit my Dad in Azkaban so I've trained myself to somewhat confuse the Dementors, it's like I've got a shield of sorts for a few minutes, which normally gave Uncle Moony enough time to produce a Patronus and get rid of them" I explained.

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We arrived at Hogwarts and was sat in the Great Hall listening to Dumbledore ramble on, explaining the usual boundaries, etc.

"Psst!" Malfoy hissed from behind, Harry and I turned around to face him, "Is it true you fainted? Like you actually fainted?" He asked as Pansy acted to faint onto Goyle making them laugh,

"Shove off Malfoy" Ron growled as he turned Harry back to the table, I flicked my wrist and the knives that were on the table in front of them appeared at their throats, silencing their laughter as they stared at the knives with wide eyes,

"Go on...carry on the teasing" I taunted, they all shook their heads so I dropped the knives into their laps "Exactly what I thought" I sighed before turning back around to our table, I looked up to the teachers table, I noticed Uncle Moony staring at me and shake his head, fighting off a smile.