For Me This Is Heaven

Chapter 1

Hello Readers!

Hope you enjoy my story, If you have any suggestions, I'll be sure to incorporate them as best as I can. And this is the new updated version, so Susie and James have a fling, but they don't date. So for now, I bid you good bye. Ciao!!

JJ

End of July, 1985

Los Angeles, California

Susie sat at her best friend, Cherie's house. It was the year 1985, the year of 80's rock. Dylan sat on the other side of the room. Of course, they were Muggles, non-magic folks. Cherie went over to the radio and turned it up.

"I love Blondie!" she screamed over the loud music. Susie smiled. In all her 15 years of knowing Cherie, Cherie was always up to speed on music, always in tune to all the latest bands that were 'in' as she liked to call it. Then there was Dylan. Dylan was Susie's ex bf, they had dated for a few months, but Susie had ended it.

Cherie turned the music down again.

"So are we going to the beach house again?" Dylan shrugged.

"I guess so."

"Cher," Susie smiled. "It's only the end of July, school hasn't even started yet."

Cherie grimaced. "Well, I personally am not ready to go back to school in September, especially since I'm gonna be getting Mr. Lewis as the Chorus director again!" Susie smiled and looked at her 2 best friends, they were the closest thing to siblings she had. Well besides one boy she knew, but this boy lived in London.

Susie sat back on Cherie's bed, remembering the few years she had spent in London with Ronnie, before Ronnie had decided to move to the states. She had been best friends with the neighbor boy, James Potter. And of course, she knew he was probably at Hogwarts, along with Remus Lupin. Remus had been her best friend in London, but Ronnie had uprooted Susie to the states, forcing Susie to never reveal what she really was, a witch.

Her parents, Conrad and Amelie McFasley were Legends in the Wizarding world, they had been top students at Hogwarts and Quidditch legends, their names held the highest honor in Hogwarts Quidditch History. Susie sighed. It had been years since she had been at London, 9 to be exact. She had kept in touch with Remus, sending him letters frequently. The two kept in correspondence over the years, while Susie had attended school in California; Remus had been attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Susie stood up. "I guess I'm going home, Ronnie wanted me to come home by 6:00. See you guys later."

"Bye Mrs. Williams," she called to Cherie's mom. Mrs. Williams waved as Susie walked down the street back to her house. It was a 20 minute walk back to her street and she knew it would be a while before she got home. Checking her watch, she saw it was 5:30.

The one thing Susie missed about London was the Underground. She remembered Ronnie would take her on the Underground for ice cream sodas in Trafalgar Square. This was their weekly tradition. But Ronnie had quit his job as an Auror at the Ministry of Magic, making an excuse that he had lost it, when she knew truthfully that he had quit, on orders from someone. They had moved to the States, namely California, where Susie had been for the last 9 years of her life. She had been entered in school here, and grew accustomed to living in the States. The only thing she hadn't lost, the one part of Britain that was still in her was her accent. That beautiful British accent, harmonized with her melodic voice was her only reminder of her true home; England. That and letters from Remus.

Her mother, a debutant from a rich family, high in society, was raised in every way the graceful and stylish woman that she had turned out to be. Her mother's family had been high in society in the Wizarding world and was proud to announce that they, along with the McFasley family, had been one of the few pure blood families that had been in Gryffindor. Generations and generations of her family had all been in Gryffindor. Then there was her father, Conrad McFasley, destined to inherit his father's share of Nimbus Co. Leroy McFasley, Susie's grandfather, was partners and head CEO with Parker Delanuit, father of Rainzzi and William Delanuit. Parker Delanuit had inherited the company from his grandfather, the original co-owner of Nimbus Co.

Susie had asked Remus one time in a letter about Rainzzi and William Delanuit, curious about the family who co-owned the other half of Nimbus Co. Rainzzi Delanuit, as Remus had told her, was a Slytherin, because of her pure blood family, but William had been put in Ravenclaw. Rainzzi was a smart, friendly girl and William was an intelligent but temperamental boy. But usually he kept his temper in check. Susie had gotten a letter from her Grandfather once, expressing his wish for her to come back to Britain as soon as she could, her share of Nimbus Co. would be split; one half to her and the other half to her cousin Mason, a fellow Gryffindor at Hogwarts. Of course Mason was her cousin on the McFasley side, Conrad's brother's child, but Grandfather Leroy had also expressed other wishes for Susie.

He had told her once, in his elegant writing, that he hoped that one day for her and William Delanuit to be joined in partnership. This would be a convenience for the company, making it easier for Susie and William to each inherit their shares of Nimbus Co. Susie had thrown the letter under her bed, not wishing to really know this William fellow. She didn't even know what he looked like and here was her grandfather, wishing that one day, her and this mystery boy would get married.

All this she had pondered on her walk home from Cherie's house. The last she had heard from her Grandfather was when he had sent her to the school she had wished to go to; The Broadway School of the Fine Arts, a boarding school on the southern coast of California, namely San Diego. He had paid her tuition every month since she had been at that school. She couldn't remember a time when she hadn't wanted to not be a Classical piano player. Being at Broadway had its advantages. She had also been educated in the fine ways of Theatre, Dance, and Literature, everything her Grandfather wanted her to be educated in. The only fact the Grandpa did not approve of was that they were allowed to go surfing every weekend, thus hanging out and meeting people on the sunny beaches of San Diego.

Susie opened up the door to her small, one story house located on Northwood Maple Drive, in small, quaint Granada Hills, which was at the center of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. This was her, Cherie, and Dylan lived at in the summer. Everyone else that went to that school lived in San Diego.

"Ronnie!" She called into the kitchen. No answer. After not finding Ronnie, she checked her watch '5:50'. Ronnie would be home at promptly six. She decided to get dinner started. Humming quietly, she took the vegetables out of the fridge, putting the meat in a pot. Turning on the small, portable radio on the window sill, she quickly turned the station from Ronnie's normal classical music (she heard that enough at Broadway) to her favorite Rock station KPAZ. Turning up the radio, she blasted Blondie, now addicted to the popular band, along with Alanis Morissette, U2, and Garbage.

At the dot of 6, Ronnie came bustling in the house. This time he wasn't alone. Susie went to greet him, surprised to find him with an old man, with long silver hair and deep eyes, eyes that had seen many in their day. This man was strangely familiar.

"Hullo Susie," Ronnie greeted her. One thing with Ronnie, he was still completely British; accent and manners.

"Susie I'd like you to meet someone. This is Professor Dumbledore." Susie shook hands with the strange man, eying him. He was wearing robes, the familiar robes. Susie knew. This guy had to be a wizard. The man didn't say anything, only studied her behind his half moon shaped glasses, and then he smiled, a small mysterious smile. "He'll be staying for dinner; did you get the pot roast going?" Susie nodded, returning to the kitchen.

An hour later, the pot roast was done. Susie set the steaming bowl of pot roast on the dining room table where Ronnie and this 'Professor Dumbledore' guy had been quietly talking. Susie brought out Ronnie's usually red wine.

"Can I get you a drink?" she asked Professor Dumbledore.

"Just some white wine please," he said quietly. Susie went to the bar, pouring some into a wine glass. He heard Professor Dumbledore say something to Ronnie.

"She's the spitting image of her mother." Ronnie agreed.

"Yes, but she's got her father's eyes. But I'll agree, she has her mother's beautiful facial features." Dumbledore said something else but Susie didn't hear so she went back to the table with the white wine. She handed it to Professor Dumbledore, who nodded thanks. Then sitting down, she began to eat. Ronnie and Professor Dumbledore soon followed suite.

"I can tell you're wondering who I am and why I'm here" Susie said nothing; those were the exact things she had been wondering. Dumbledore continued.

"My name is Albus Dumbledore; I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." This had caught Susie's attention. Dumbledore turned to Ronnie.

"Have you been educating her on Magic so far?" Ronnie nodded. This was true. Every night, Susie read her books on Defense against the Dark Arts, Herbology, Astronomy, Divination, Potions, and Care of Magical Creatures. She had been reading those books since she was 11, which was the age that first year students start at Hogwarts. Ronnie had recently started tutoring her on The Goblin Wars, Ancient Runes, and, of course, Muggle Studies. Susie found herself most interested in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration. Ronnie, an Auror himself, had told her that these were the classes that Aurors had to take.

Ronnie had kept Susie up with studies at Hogwarts, in hopes that he could come back to grip with reality and take Susie back to London. All it would take was a visit from Dumbledore. And here he was, in the flesh, Professor Dumbledore, the same man who had told Ronnie to leave London and come back when he was ready. Ronnie was ready to go back. He was worried about yanking Susie away from her life in the States and throwing her back into British society.

Ronnie turned his attentions back to Dumbledore. "Will she be accepted at Hogwarts if she goes back?" Dumbledore nodded.

"She's already been accepted, if she's prepared to go back." Both men looked at Susie. This was what she had wanted for a long time. To go back to London, to go to Hogwarts and finally live her dream. Her dream of course, was to play Quidditch, and then there was the undeniable lure of hot British boys that was tugging her in the direction of going to London. But what about her friends here? She would have to leave Cherie and Dylan behind, all her friends at Broadway; she would never speak to them again. Well her grandfather wouldn't have to pay her tuition any longer.

There was one thing that she had been dying to do, which Remus had told her in great detail about, and she had also seen it played. She wanted to play Quidditch. She wanted to do that desperately, like an urgent itch inside of her that never resided. She found herself nodding, she would go back to London, go to Hogwarts.

"Also Ronnie, the Ministry of Magic has offered their top Auror his job back." Ronnie's face lit up.

"Really?" Dumbledore nodded.

"Yes." Susie knew that her accepting the offer to go to Hogwarts meant Ronnie finally had his job back. He had loved being an Auror, but going to the States had caused him to lose his job.

"Dumbledore, I'll apparate our stuff, but where will Susie be staying?"

"Her grandfather has graciously agreed to let Susannah have a home in the McFasley Manor, but you as her proper guardian should decide."

Ronnie thought about this. "I suppose Susie should be back with her family." He looked over at Susie. "Don't worry Susie, I'll bring you to King's Cross on your first day alright? But you should spend a few weeks with your grandfather."

Susie nodded, standing up.

"Speaking of Hogwarts," Ronnie turned to Dumbledore. "What year will she be in?"

"Susannah will be in 6th year."

"And that's the year where you take classes for your chosen career correct?

Dumbledore nodded. Ronnie turned his attentions back to Susie. "Susie, you'd like to be an Auror, correct?" Susie nodded, being an Auror had always peaked her interests, especially hearing Ronnie relaying some of his adventures in Auror-ism to Susie.

"She's wanted to be an Auror for quite some time, very interested and talented at Defense against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration."

"Ah yes," Dumbledore agreed. "She'll be perfect in a NEWT Auror class, I'll be sure to let Professor McGonagall know." Dumbledore started to fade.

"Professor?"

"Yes?"

"What house will she be in?"

"Is there any other house she could possible be in?" Ronnie nodded, and Professor Dumbledore disappeared.

Susie was doing the dishes when the telephone rang. Drying off her soapy hands, she went to answer it. It had been a few days since the Dumbledore thing, and Ronnie was already making plans. He had booked plans for a plane that would be leaving in a week.

She had already broken the news to her friends, making the excuse that she was being transferred to a new boarding school in London by her grandfather. Cherie had been heartbroken and Dylan expressed that it would be different without her. She would never come back to Broadway, the last people she would see was Cherie and Dylan.

"Hello?" There was a scratchy noise and a faint hello.

"Hullo, is Susie there?"

"This is her, Remus, is that you?"

"Yeah it is," he chuckled. "I figured you'd know it was me, sore throat and all."

"What happened to your throat?"

"Well, umm kind of hurt myself on full moon." Susie saddened. Every full moon, Remus would turn into a werewolf, she had actually been there the night he had been bit.

"Remus, where are you going?" a 5 year old Susie asked Remus.

"I saw something in the woods, I'm going to look." Susie pulled on his arm.

"No! Don't go out there, there's scary things in the woods, you'll get hurt." Remus had pushed Susie off him.

"I'll be fine, stop being such a baby." Then he had left, disappearing into the woods behind his house. Susie had followed him shortly after, hiding behind trees as he explored.

"Susie, I know you're there, c'mon stop hiding!" Susie came out of her hiding place.

"I just want you to be safe Remus."

"Didn't I tell you I'll be fine, there's nothing here." Susie held onto his arm anyways, her long black curls falling in her eyes every now and then. Then she heard a sound, coming from the distance.

"Remus," she whimpered.

"What?" he snapped.

She pointed into the distance. "There' s something there."

"If you let me go, I'll go see what it is." He wrenched his arm out of her grip and went to where Susie had pointed. Suddenly she heard a yelp and a howl. Then she heard Remus' scream of pain. Scared to death, she ran over to where Remus' yell came from.

She had seen it as soon as she had entered the clearing. A huge wolf, standing on it's hind legs, with blood dripping from it's jaw. She saw Remus lying on the floor, holding his side, his face contorted into a mask of pain and agony. She stared in shock at the beast the stood over him. Remus looked up and saw here.

"Susie! GET OUT OF HERE! GET HELP!" Remus' yells in her direction had pointed the creature to her. This creature, as had been explained to her, had been a werewolf, a creature which was a normal human until full moon, then he turned into a monster, a werewolf. Susie turned and ran, screaming, the werewolf on her tail. She saw the shape of Remus' house and she picked up speed, tearing towards the house.

"Help!! Help!!" she yelled out, tears streaming down her face. She collapsed onto the grass, the werewolf at the edge of the forest. Help had come, she had managed to choke out Remus, hurt, blood, forest before blacking out.

That day had been horrible; she had found out that Remus would now suffer from the same curse as the werewolf that had bit him, every month at full moon, he would turn into the creature. Fortunately for Remus, he had great friends at Hogwarts. He had told her all about his 3 friends at school, James Potter, whom she had also known when she was younger, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. The 3 boys had somehow been able to become Animagi in their 4th year, so they could help Remus when he transformed and make sure he never got out of the Shrieking Shack, which is where he went every month. And Madam Pomfrey, the Hogwarts nurse, gave him a Wolfbane, which helped to help the pain of transforming and to control how destructive he got.

"Sus, Susie, are you still there?" Susie snapped out of her reminiscing and paid attention to the phone.

"Yeah I'm here."

"I heard you're going to Hogwarts this year."

"Yeah I am, Professor Dumbledore came down here."

"Oh, I see."

"Say Remus, who taught you use to a phone again?"

"Oh a friend of mine, her name's Lily Evans, well she's muggle born and I told her about you and she said she'd help me use the telephone. Actually she's here, well all my friends are here, we're at James' house." Susie had to smile at this.

"Does James still remember me?" She heard Remus calling James over to the phone.

"Here talk to him." She heard a distant 'hello' followed by a laugh then the voice came louder and clearer.

"Hello, Susie? Susie McFasley?" Susie laughed.

"Yes, it's me, Susie, do you remember me James?"

"Of course I do! You're the girl with the dirt hair and the bird eyes!" Susie's face screwed up at the memory. Susie, with her long black curly hair and cobalt blue eyes, had always been the butt of James' jokes. He had picked up a piece of coal, holding it up to Susie' head and proclaiming she had 'dirt hair' then one day, the 3 had seen a blue bird the same color of Susie's eyes, giving her the 'bird eyes'.

"Yes that's me," she said amusedly.

"You still sound British; you didn't lose your accent moving to the States?"

"Naw still got it."

"Ah I see, well Remus here says you're coming back to London. That true?"

"Yes it is, I'm leaving in a week."

"Then I suppose we'll all see you then. Wait, Sirius stop that, you don't even know her, oh fine. Susie, my friend Sirius would like to talk to you."

"Sure that would be lovely."

"Okay, here he is. Sirius you git, stop that!"

Susie had never heard the voice on the other side of the phone. It sounded extremely sexy.

"Hullo, Susie is it? I'm Sirius Black."

"Hello Sirius."

"So what house are you gonna be in?"

"Oh, Gryffindor, same as my parents and theirs and theirs and theirs before that minus 20."

"But aren't you a pureblood"

"Yeah, but both my parent's families were one of the few pureblood generations that were accepted into Gryffindor."

"Whoa sounds deep."

She laughed. "Not really, what about you?"

"Pure blood," he said bitterly.

"Why does that bother you?"

"Well because my family is really into Dark Arts and their in this whole movement against muggle- borns and haffies, and I finally disagreed and I got disowned from my own family.

"Oh that's terrible!" Susie exclaimed.

"Well I'm lucky, James and his parents let me stay at their place."

"Oh well that's good." Susie heard someone say something in the distance and Sirius mutter 'Fine, fine I'm getting off'. Remus got back on the line.

"Anyways Susie, I think I'd better hang up, it's morning and the girl's are complaining because Sirius and James keep bouncing around." Susie chuckled.

"Alright, I suppose I'll call you when I get to London."

"Alright then." He gave her a phone number, which Susie wrote down and stuffed into her pocket.

"See you later then."

"Oh and Susie?"

"Yes Remus."

Remus chuckled. "Sirius wants you to send a picture." Susie smiled.

"I'll send a letter tomorrow."

"He says great."

"Good- bye then!"

"Good night Susie."

Cherie and Dylan were saying good bye to Susie.

Cherie gave her a hug and gave her a friendship bracelet. "I'll wear the matching one" she said sniffling. Dylan stood up to hug her.

"Bye Dylan, I'll miss you" she said with a sad smile. He held out a ring.

"It's something I've been meaning to give you." She looked at it. It had a diamond in the middle.

"Dylan, how could've you gotten the money to buy this?" He smiled.

"It was my moms. She gave it to me before she died and told me to give it to a special girl." He smiled a sad, regretful smile.

"I'm sorry Sus; I'll miss you so much. You mean the world to me. I hope you come back soon." She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly. She had tears running down her face as she hugged each of her friends in turn. Dylan turned to leave, leaving Cherie and Susie alone together in her room. Cherie started crying again.

"Please don't cry, Cher, I'm going to cry so much. I'll miss you two a lot. You guys have been the family I've never had, besides Ronnie." They hugged tightly and then Cherie left.

She stood with Ronnie in front of her old house. Armed with suitcases filled with their clothes, they stood in the front yard, waiting for the taxi. Ronnie had already sent the belongings they couldn't carry to London; Susie's stuff waiting at her Grandfather's and Ronnie's to a flat in London. Ronnie had sold all her furniture and given her the money, sort of as a present.

Sitting on the plane, Susie flipped through a book Ronnie had given her; Hogwarts, A History. She flipped the page to the Quidditch section, amazed to find her parents with a few pages dedicated to them. She stared at their moving pictures, her mother had been beautiful. She had long, curly black hair, just like Susie's, with striking green eyes. Her father had brown hair, with locks that fell into his eyes. Behind the locks of hair in front of his eyes, was a pair of cobalt blue eyes, Susie's eyes.

Ronnie saw that she was looking at the picture of her parents.

"You have the same facial features as your mother, but you have your dad's eyes and his nose." Susie smiled.

"She was gorgeous, and my dad was really handsome."

"Your parents were the premium couple of Hogwarts, your dad and I were very popular in our day actually. Then your mom and dad started dating in 5th year and Conrad was in love, you could tell he loved Amelie, he already knew he wanted to spend his life with her."

Susie smiled. "That's great. I wish I could've known them."

Ronnie smiled sadly. "I wish you could've too, they were great people." The rest of the plane ride was for Susie to read her books and for Ronnie to sleep and read the London Weekly.

Susie shook Ronnie awake. "Ronnie, the stewardess is trying to tell you to buckle your seatbelt. We're landing." Ronnie shook himself awake.

"Sorry about that."

Susie smiled. "You're allowed to sleep you know?"

"You're exactly like your mother, you know that?" Susie smiled and buckled her seat belt. Landing in London, her stomach jumped around, making knots. She was scared. She grabbed Ronnie's hand and he squeezed it reassuringly.

"You'll be fine. Don't worry." Susie smiled and stepped off the plane and into her new life in London.