"You do realise he won't let this lie" Remus cut in.
"He will" Harry responded confidently. "If not he will get it much worse".
Remus shook his head and sighed.
"I hope so" he declared. "We don't want to be pranking each other when we haven't gotten anyone else yet" he pointed out.
"Halloween" Harry reminded him simply.
The other three boy's grinned at the thought of what they were planning. (BREAK)
Tuesday evening arrived quickly as the week had flown by in a blur. Planning and pulling off the prank along with training, Quidditch practice and working on the Patronus charm with the others had left Harry continuously busy, though he managed to make time to help Lily out with her project when he could.
He arrived in the usual classroom before Bellatrix and had everything ready to begin before she arrived, which she did five minutes later and the duo settled down to start their assigned spells for the week.
"You know, you haven't once asked a single thing about me in all the time we've spent together" Bellatrix pointed out.
Harry frowned in thought an realised that she was in fact right, he had not asked her anything.
'Probably because I know all I need to' he mused. "Ok" he conceded, placing his quill on the desk. "What is it you want to do when you're finished school?" he asked, genuinely interested in what the girl's dreams and ambitions had been before she became a mass murderer.
Bellatrix tapped her chin with the end of her quill, clearly thinking hard about the question.
"Maybe a duelist or I'd like to write my own books" she answered uncertainly. "One of the two" she added sounding a little more confident.
The duelist revelation did not surprise Harry in the slightest. Despite she was completely insane, he could respect the fact that she was very formidable with a wand from what he had seen. The fact that she was considering writing her own books did surprise him however, that he had not expected at all.
"Interesting" he responded. "What about your family?" he asked further. He of course knew that Narcissa was her sister and she had another one who would end up being Tonks' Mother.
"I have two sister's, Narcissa and Andromeda" Bellatrix began, her eyes full of care and love for the two, something that Harry could not even fathom she had any understanding of. "Andi is in the year above us and is planning on being a lawyer and Cissy will be a healer I think, she's so caring and good with potions" she explained, clearly proud of her siblings.
"And your parents?" Harry inquired curiously.
"My Mother is great and she always encourages us to do what we want and what will make us happy" Bellatrix spoke fondly. "My father wants us to be the perfect housewives and marry into a rich pureblood family" she added with a sneer.
"Ahh" Harry deadpanned. "He would have us married to morons like the Malfoy's if he could" she continued disgustedly. "You should know all this, your mother is a Black after all" she pointed out.
"I haven't met any of the Black's" Harry reminded her. "I've barely been home since I was eleven, I didn't even meet Sirius until a couple of weeks before the school year started" he explained.
"Why did you come here?" Bellatrix questioned.
"Because of what's going on out there, I wanted to be closer to home, just in case" he answered cryptically.
Bellatrix nodded her understanding.
"So you haven't met my Grandfather yet then?" she asked with a smirk.
Harry just shook his head. "He will definitely want to meet you, you are his Nephew" She informed him. "Regulus wrote to him the first day here to tell him all about you" she concluded with a smirk.
Harry simply shrugged.
He didn't know the man but figured that he was not the most pleasant of people even if he was his Grandmother's brother.
The two settled into the work and completed it with their usual ease, both appreciative and respectful of the knowledge that each held between them and rarely needing to consult a book.
They exited the room to head to their respective common rooms, agreeing once again to meet in the same place at the same time the next week.
Harry entered the Gryffindor common room and took his place with Remus and James in their corner, both of them immersed in their own work. "Not being entertained by Sirius and Marlene this week?" he asked as he took his seat.
"Nah, they're boring now" James sighed. "It seems as though Sirius has learnt to tolerate her" he added disappointedly.
Harry shot a glance towards the pair in question and noted that James was right, the pair seemed to be working together in a companionable manner.
He shook his head.
"Where's Peter?" he asked.
"He came back a while ago and went to the library to do some stuff for potions" Remus shrugged. "How was your time with the Black widow" he returned with a smirk.
"Same as usual really" Harry answered. "We get the work done and go our separate ways and she hasn't tried to curse me yet" he explained. "That's about as good as you can expect I suppose" James interjected.
Harry nodded.
So far things had gone much better than he ever thought possible with the girl. He quite enjoyed her company and they shared similar interests, strangely enough. He had certainly seen a side to her that he never thought he would and grudgingly accepted that she was actually quite likeable in away he did not understand. They were by no means friends, but they weren't enemies either. It seemed that they both had at least been surprised by one another and had created something akin to an effective and pleasant working relationship, something that Harry was rather pleased to be a part of as they both had a considerable amount to offer each other.
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