Everyone had fallen silent, staring between Lexi and Sirius curiously. Even the poor girl seemed lost at his reaction. But Crookshanks's yellow eyes were fixed on Sirius as she watched him carefully through her cat basket.

     So he sees it too, Jenna thought to herself, taking aback that she looked familiar to him as well.

"R-really?" Lexi questioned hesitantly, breaking the brief yet eerie silence between them.

    "I'm probably just being illusional," Sirius muttered, mostly talking to himself. He shook his head as if to snap himself back to reality, and finally tore his gaze away from her.

    Although just then, his eyes fell upon Crookshanks's basket which Hermione was carrying in her hands, the look on his face suddenly softening.

    "Here, give Crookshanks to me," Sirius offered with a little smile, moving forward to gently take the cat's basket from Hermione. "I'll take care of her."

After opening Crookshanks's basket and setting her free, Sirius led everyone else upstairs and proceeded to show them to the guest rooms in which they were supposed to stay at over summer.

     Meanwhile, Jenna went back to Sirius's room and transformed back to her human form, closing the door behind her quietly. With a light sigh, she went and laid down on the bed without bothering to get under the blankets. She just wanted to get some rest, seeing as the Order meeting was later that night.

Bill and Charlie had joined them as well and took a separate room to themselves. Although they were only planning on staying at Grimmauld Place temporarily, because they both had to leave soon and attend to the Order's business.

     Later that night, Molly sent the kids upstairs to sleep so the meeting could take place. Once Jenna was sure that the corridors were empty, she walked out of the room and went downstairs to join the others in the dining room. Almost everyone else had arrived, except for those who were on their missions.

     Dumbledore asked Jenna to join the guarding of the Prophecy in the Department of Mysteries over the next few weeks, by transforming into different Ministry members each time. Her first shift would start tomorrow night, right after Arthur.

     Although no matter how much Sirius protested to do something for the Order, Dumbledore insisted that Sirius should stay at Grimmauld Place, for his own safety.

    Jenna wouldn't admit it out loud, but as much as she hated seeing Sirius stuck in this miserable place, she didn't want him to put himself in danger. The whole Wizarding community were still searching everywhere for him, convinced that he was a convicted mass murderer.

     Sirius finally gave up and let the matter go, but throughout the rest of the meeting he was in an extremely bad mood, a grim and bitter expression planted upon his face.

     Once the meeting was finally over and everyone had left, Remus, Sirius, and Jenna walked to the quiet living room, seeing as both Arthur and Molly had gone upstairs to sleep.

     "By the way," Jenna started, turning to face Remus, "how did you manage to get Buckbeak here yesterday?"

      "Just a Disillusionment Charm," said Remus, leaning back on the armchair. "It's almost as good as an Invisibility Cloak."

     "No, I meant what spell did you use to get him through the doors. He's too huge to fit through," Jenna corrected herself.

     "Oh, I placed an Engorgement Charm on the doors to make them larger temporarily," Remus explained. "We got Buckbeak up in Sirius's parents' bedroom."

     "Yes, my dear mother was not pleased," Sirius said with a proud grin, wrapping an arm around Jenna's shoulder as they were both sitting on the couch.

     She chuckled. "How so?"

     "She kept screaming her head off through her portrait. It brought back sweet, sweet memories," Sirius said sarcastically.

    Jenna laughed. "Speaking of which... why haven't you taken down her portrait yet? Please don't tell me there's a Permanent Sticking Charm on it."

    "Unfortunately there is," Sirius said, making Jenna groan miserably. "She probably wanted to make sure to leave a curse behind for me after the Black house was inherited to me."

    "Then I guess we should just be quiet and careful while passing the corridors," said Jenna. "Maybe that will keep her shut up."

     "God, I just hate being here!" Sirius huffed, running a hand through his long hair. "You know, if I could at least go on missions, then that would've made being here easier. But it's like I'm a prisoner again!"

    "Sirius, you know it's for your own good," Jenna said softly, hating to see him like this.

"Well, I can't just sit in this place when everyone else is out there!" said Sirius impatiently.

"We can't risk your exposure, Sirius," Remus spoke gently, trying to reason with him. "They are still after you. And to take people's attention off Voldemort, your arresting would make a great topic and distraction. Dumbledore said it himself —"

"— Well, Dumbledore can be wrong sometimes." Sirius cut him off sharply.

"About what? Like the Muggle girl?" Remus mused.

"What, Lexi? No, I was actually talking about the fact that he trusted Moody last year, but turns out he wasn't who we thought he was. Anyway," Sirius went on, the expression on his face changing, "you see what's off about Lexi too then, don't you?"

"Something's off with her? Like... that she didn't warn Dumbledore about Voldemort returning?" Remus questioned, though Jenna remained quiet, wondering where Sirius was going with this.

"No. Dumbledore said it himself; he asked her not to. He thinks that she's not supposed to be meddling with anything just yet."

"Then what's even the point?" Remus said with a light frown.

"Dumbledore thinks that there was a specific moment that she was sent to the past to change," Sirius explained, "yet he still doesn't assume that the moment's arrived. Reckons we have to wait and see."

"Then how should we know when the moment's right?"

"He says that there's going to be an obvious sign. And don't ask me what sign, because none of us know yet."

"All right..." Remus sighed. "Then what did you mean, saying that something's off with her?"

"Well..." There was a long pause as Sirius thought to himself. "She — didn't she seem — a bit... you know? Familiar to you?"

Remus chuckled. "Yes, I thought so as well. But I'd be damned."

     Jenna turned her head toward Remus, watching him curiously. He had realized that there was something familiar about Lexi, too.

"Exactly!" Sirius exclaimed. "I mean... it's been years since the last time I saw —"

"— Hang on," Remus cut him off. "Who are you talking about?"

Sirius took aback. "Who are you talking about?"

"Isn't it — isn't it obvious?" said Remus. "I mean... I know it must be just a coincidence. But there's no mistaking those eyes."

That's right, it's her eyes, Jenna thought to herself as the realization finally hit her.

   "Do you know who her parents are?" Sirius asked curiously after long seconds of silence.

"Yeah, Dumbledore mentioned them," Remus nodded. "Her dad's name is Roger Hooper. And her mum was... er... something Goldman. It started with an L. Leyla? Lily?"

     Sirius gulped and said in a whisper, "Lisa Goldman?"

     Jenna turned her gaze on Sirius sharply at those words, raising a brow at him.

     "Yeah — hang on," Remus blinked a few times, "how do you know?"

     There was more silence before Sirius said in a hesitant voice, "Who — who were you talking about, anyway? Whose eyes did she remind you of?"

     Another pause, and then —

     "Yours, Sirius. Those eyes belong to a Black, and there's no mistaking it."