Chapter Ninety-One
Just Desserts
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon, fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah
(Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard)March 18th, 1979266,809 Grains of Sand LeftDespite Dumbledore's original intention of keeping Mia out of the Order meetings,
she had somehow become entangled in many of the missions, especially since Remus's
attack six months earlier. She assumed that she would be given minor missions and tasks
to accomplish as Dumbledore had promised her. What she did not expect was her former
headmaster to inform Alastor Moody that she was an accomplished Occlumens with a
proficiency for Legilimency.
Her sudden usefulness to the ornery old Auror was the reason that Alice and Frank
were currently in her flat expecting Occlumency instruction. It was also the reason that
Sirius was sitting on the sofa, glaring up at her.
She was going to get Moody and Dumbledore back for this.
"So, as you obviously already know, Occlumency is the act of magically closing one's
mind against Legilimency," she began to explain, pleased to see both Alice and Frank giving
her their complete attention. "It's a very difficult practice of magic where—Sirius, really?
You're just going to sit there and pout the entire time?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. Are you going to keep keeping secrets?"
"You're being a child."
"Forgive me, I'm still adjusting to the news that my girlfriend of over a bloody year,
and the witch I've known since I was eleven, is a bloody Occlumens." He said the word with
disdain as though she had cheated on him with Occlumency.