The sun was creeping through the curtains, waking Melany Black up. She opened her eyes slowly, and sat up, looking around the room.

She wasn't the only one in the room. Ginny Weasley occupied the bed next to her, While Hermoine Granger and Jenine Potter, cousin of Harry, Occupied the beds across the room. She was the only one in the room that was awake, but that wasn't a surprise to her since she was one of the early birds at The Burrow.

Melany quietly got up and left the room, making sure that she didn't wake any of her roommates. She headed to the kitchen, checking if there was anyone else awake. And sure enough, all of the adults were awake.

"Morning," she said, half asleep.

Everyone looked up and smiled saying, "Morning," at the same time a little loudly, giving Melany a slight headache, considering she was still half conscious.

"Come take a seat next to your father, dearie. Would you like some coffee?" said Mrs. Weasley, quite cheerfully.

"Yes please, Mrs. Weasley," Melany said, while taking a seat next to her father, Sirius Black.

"How is my favorite girl this fine morning?" asked Sirius, giving her a warm smile while she took a seat.

"Fine, thanks dad," she said returning the smile. "Anything interesting in the paper?" Melany asked while picking up the paper in front of him.

"Oh you know, just the usual. Everyone cleaning up the mess those wankers left behind."

"Sirius! Mind your mouth. Especially around your own daughter," Mrs. Weasley said, after giving Melany her coffee. Melany couldn't help but laugh at her father being nagged by Mrs. Weasley.

"Sorry Molly," he said sheepily, winking at Melany.

That's one of the reasons why Melany loves her father so much. He treats her not only like a daughter, but like a best friend too. So using foul language around eachother was no big deal, unless she did it to him. That was a whole other different story.

Just right after Melany took a sip of her coffee, she heard two identical voices say "Morning."

Melany immediately turned to the two red headed boys and said with a smile, "Morning," along with everyone else.

"Honestly people, could you try to lower down your voices when you greet people who just woke up," replied Fred, with a look of annoyance on his face.

"Yeah, it's not all that pleasant starting your day with a slight headache,' said George.

"Oh will you two stop whining and take a seat. Coffee?" asked Mrs. Weasley, with a touch of annoyance in her voice.

"Yes mum," they both said, taking a seat next to Melany.

Melany immediately stuck her hand up to George, who looked at the hand quizzically.

"You owe me 5 galleons, remember," she said. They made a bet that would last throughout the summer that whoever wakes up first get 5 galleons from the other person.

George suddenly remembered the bet, and said, "No fair! You're always the one who wakes up before us!"

"Well too bad. You were the one who suggested the bet. And anyway, there was this week where you two woke up first. But I didn't whine."

"Fine. I'll give it to you later."

"I'll be holding you up against the promise, George Weasley," she said with a grin.

Her and George were always close. She was even closer to George than the Fred. While Fred was away with Angelina doing Merlin knows what, she and George would think of new pranks they could pull or new products they can sell. They also practiced their Quidditch if the weather was perfect.

After about 30 minutes, everyone was awake and in the kitchen, talking merrily about any random subject. Everyone seemed to have a sense of relief now, since the war ended two months ago.

Another 30 minutes passed, the conversations were interrupted by a series of tappings on the windows. Mrs. Weasley opened the window and 3 owls entered the kitchen. Pig had 5 letters attached to him, Hedwig had 2, and Eugene, Melany's owl, had just one letter.

Everyone took the letters, being a little confused. Melany spent no time looking at it and opened it right away. She cleared her throat loudly so that everyone heard her and read aloud her letter:

Dear Ms. Melany Black,

We would like to say thank you for your contributions to help in the war.

It has come to my attention that you did not attend your last year at Hogwarts, therefore, not finishing your education. After many thoughts about this, I have decided that something must be done in order to change that.

Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that you will be one of the many lucky people to be chosen to come back to Hogwarts and finish your 7th year.

The train will leave on September 1st at 11 o'clock sharp.

Enclosed is a list of books you need to purchase before you leave.

Please reply to this letter before August 31st with your decision.

Again, thank you for everything.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore

Melany looked up to see smiles on everyones faces, including her own. They all knew that they couldn't pass this offer up.

Suddenly, there was a big squeal which made everyone jump up.

"I MADE HEAD GIRL," cried Ginny, holding up a badge in her hand.

Everyone congratulated Ginny with hugs and praises. Jenine sat right next to Harry when he suddenly pulled out something silver and said quietly, "I'm the new Quidditch captain."

This time only Jenine heard and she was the only one to hug him. When she realized this she said, "Oh for crying out loud," she clears her throat and says loudly, "WHAT DID YOU SAY HARRY," which made everyone look at him.

Harry, slightly growing red, said, "I made Quidditch captain!"

Suddenly everyone moved from Ginny to Harry and sang praises. Jenine was quite happy at her action and she squeezed out of the flock of people.

She then looked in her envelope and saw a prefect badge. She went to Ron and Hermoine, who also had a prefect badge. They suddenly start talking about prefect responsibilities and such.

Meanwhile, Melany went into the living room to find George and Fred talking about their latest inventions.

"Did you guys get a letter too," she interrupted, while taking a seat in the squishy chair across from them.

"Yes," said Fred.

"We did." George said, finishing for Fred.

"And we are accepting it," said Fred.

"But unfortunately, we didn't get named anything special, like Harry or Ginny. But I don't understand why they would name Ronniekins a prefect," said George.

Melany gave a small laugh and said, "Well I didn't get any special name either, so you're not alone. But I am trying out for Quidditch. How about you two?"

They both nodded and smiled.

"Well if you don't have any responsibilities like the others," said George.

"Then you can help us with some products or pranks," finished Fred.

"I quite like that idea. It gives me something to do with my non-existent life. Plus I wont get lonely when everyone else is patrolling. So I accept the offer," she said, with a smirk on her face.

"Excellent," they said together, and they reached out their hands for her to shake. She crossed her arms and shook their hands.

This is going to be an interesting year, thought Melany.

Everyone immediately responded to the letters saying that they accepted the offer.

The next weeks have flown by, and soon, it was the day before they would leave. Everyone had their books, new supplies, and new robes for the year packed and ready.

Everyone decided to turn in early. Everyone accept Hermoine, who decided to start reading ahead on her DADA book.

She sat in the living room looking at the fire, instead of reading the book on her lap. She thought about everything that happened to her throughout the past year. It all went by too fast, but Hermoine was happy that it did.

"Hermoine?"

The voice startled Hermoine and she looked behind her, only to see that it was just Harry.

"Oh hello Harry. I couldn't sleep, so I just came down here To try to get ahead of reading," she said, while he took a sit across from her.

"Leave it to Hermoine to get ahead already. But it looks like you didn't get anywhere, seeing that your book is upside down," he said, with a smile on his face.

"Oh shush. I guess I just been lost in my own thoughts," she said, growing red embarrassment.

"Yeah. It's been a rough year. But I'm happy I get to go back home," he said wit excitement in his voice.

She simply just nodded in response.

Then there was silence. Awkward Silence.

After what had seemed hours but yet it was only a few minutes, Hermoine had enough of the silence, and got up.

"Well I should be going to bed now. Wouldn't want to get up late and miss the train," she said, in a rush.

"Yeah, yo-you're right," he said, getting up to follow her.

"W-well g-goodnight, Harry," she said, stuttering along with him.

"Hermoine," Harry said grabbing her arm. She jumped in shock and turned around.

"If you want to talk about anything, I'm always here to listen," he said, just inches away from her.

"Thanks, Harry," she said before turning around and walking to her room.

Harry decided to sit in the living room for just a few more minutes, thinking about the sudden contact to her.

Well that was pretty cheesy. 'If you want to talk about anything, I'm always here to listen' I bet she thinks I'm trying to be her bloody psychiatrist after that statement. I seriously need help on getting more pick up lines.

And with that, he walked to his own room, thinking of people that can help him with that.

Everyone woke up early enough to have time to get ready and eat, all thanks to Mrs. Weasley, who serves as a great alarm clock.

Since everyone got their apparition licenses, they decided to just apparate to Kings Cross.

"Are you sure you don't want us to come, dearies," asked Mrs. Weasley.

"Molliekins, they survived a war. Surely they can handle apparating to Kings Cross without getting hurt," Mr. Weasley said.

"Oh, alright," she said, defeated.

After many hugs goodbye, the 8th years (Ginny insisted on calling themselves that) grabbed their trunks, and said goodbye.

But before they left, they saw that Sirius and Remus were packed up ready to go.

"Sorry dad, but I don't think they will accept students from 20 years ago," Melany said, with a smile n her face.

"First of all, I'm not that old. Second of all, we're not attending Hogwarts as students," he said staring at his daughter with a smirk on his face.

Everyone looked at them with confused looks.

"Then why are you coming," Melany asked.

"We are going to be your new DADA teachers," Remus said.

Everyone, especially Harry, lightened up and had an ear-to-ear grin.

"Well what are we waiting for," said George.

"Let's get a move on," said Fred.

And with that, everyone said their final goodbyes and apparated to Kings cross and charged through the wall between platforms 9&10. With only 10 minutes to spare, they boarded on the train and immediately found an empty compartment.

Right after they got settled, the train immediately started to move, beginning the journey to Hogwarts and the journey to another long year.