Her cocoa, thanks to the anti-spill charm she’d cast earlier, hadn’t spilled everywhere so she wasn’t lying. She ushered Henrik over to the couch, offering him a cookie from the plate on the coffee table. She would have called Sirius and Remus over but they were gone, probably making out in some other part of the house. The two were embarrassingly insatiable lately. Maybe because of the full moon? From Ashley’s personal experience, Remus tended to get a bit handsy during the days before his monthly transformation. Sirius would agree. Ashley figured she was better off not knowing where the couple had disappeared off to, not if she wanted to keep their bond a secret until her seventeenth birthday.