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draped over their shoulders, looking bored. James's shoulders were tense as though he were
waiting for any of their fellow Order members to attack. Lily quietly huffed with her arms
folded across her chest, glaring at anyone who dared to make eye contact with her. Though
the boys missed it, Mia laughed when she caught her friend flipping off Marlene
McKinnon.
Mia was almost amused by the turn of events; though she was smart enough to hide
her smirk, considering Moody was still glaring.
Alastor Moody's problem had not, in fact, been Remus biting Mia to save himself,
or so he later claimed. Nor was his issue with the bonding ritual the pack had undergone,
merely the secrecy behind it all. He had also been incredibly—and, to Mia's great amusement,
vocally—displeased with Dumbledore, who had been the one to send Remus into a
dangerous situation without knowing all of the details.
By the end of the hour, the Order got a large education on werewolves, though
some were insistent that James, Sirius, and Mia be examined for traces of lycanthropy. Mia
acquiesced just so that she could rub it in the faces of those who were too ignorant to take
her word for it.
Once a few charms had been cast, proclaiming them infection free, the meeting
continued with Moody pacing back and forth, his hands behind his back looking like a
General in an old war film.
"We've got reports that Death Eaters are on the move again. They're back in Britain,
and slaughtering innocents during the holidays would be just the type of thing those rotten
bastards would do," Moody snapped angrily as he moved around the small room, dishing
out commands and instructions. "We're splitting off into teams to monitor activity in highly
dense spots. Black, Longbottom, you'll both be doing patrols around Diagon Alley on
Christmas Eve with Bones, Shacklebolt, and other Longbottom."
"Other Longbottom. Hear that?" Alice whispered to Mia, smirking. "Got my own
title now," she said sarcastically, and the pair stifled their laughter.
"Potter." Moody turned his attention to James, who sat up straight at the sound of
his name. "You'll be paired with Evans, Fenwick, and Dearborn, doing the same in
Hogsmeade."
Mia raised her hand as though she were back in Hogwarts. "What
about other Potter?" she asked with a grin.