Chapter 1
All was quite on this beautiful summer morning as people went about the business. But on Privet drives, out of number 4 come are loud crash and a lot of shouting, breaking the silence.
The front door opened wide and a teenage boy wearing glass with emerald green eyes and hair as black as night come sprinting out the door and down the street.
A large man with blond hair and a thick, bushy mustash filled the doorway. He raised his fist into the air and shouted, "THAT'S IT POTTER! DON'T COME BACK! YOU'RE GONE! FIND SOMEWHERE ELES TO LIVE! YOU'RE NOT WANTED!" With that he steeped back into the house and slammed the door shut, dropping the paintings of the wall.
Harry heard but kept running, trying to get far away from that house as possible. He ran, not caring whom he passed, not caring where he was going, he just ran.
Angry tears filled his eyes, his face flaming red, his mind awhirl with thoughts and memories. It was too much to bear.
He ran into a park. Pigeon's flow and people starred at him as he went by. But he didn't care. Harry came to a fork in the path and he chose the left one. Not seeing the women coming down the path, Harry turned the corner and slammed to a stop. He was stopped from falling by two gentle hands that steady him. It took a moment before he realised that she was speaking to him.
The clear, happy voice asked the question again, "Are you all right?"
Harry stepped back looked at her. She was wearing jeans and a lose black, long-sleeved tee shirt who looked to be nineteen and was about five foot, seven inches. She had light brown hair, which almost reached her knees. Her eyes by far were her best feature; light blue. But now they look amber and they were familiar in some way.
"Are you all right?" she asked again, but she was frowning now.
Harry snapped out of it, and shrugged, "Yeah, as much as to be expected." The Harry realised that she was still on her feet, that nock should have sent anyone to the ground, "How is it that you're still standing?"
She smiled at that and her eyes looked green again, it has to be the light.
"It takes a lot more then that to nock me over." She suddenly bent and picked something off the ground. She came up holding Harry's wand. Her brow frond. Harry went bright red.
"I gather this is yours?" She asked steadily. Harry slowly nodded. "Phoenix feather isn't it?"
Harry mouth dropped open and his eyes turned to sauces. He quickly shook himself out of it and answered yes.
"I thought so; it seems to have a perceptive presence that most people can't feel,"
"How can you tell?" inquired Harry
"Manly wand makers and there dissentience" She handed it over to Harry, who put it in his jacket, "Oh, sorry. I'm being rude by not introducing myself. Going as have been, I am must be confusing you," She held out her hand," I'm Jessyka MCKillop.
Harry took it "I'm Harry Potter."
"Nice to meet you, Harry. Your name has travelled far and wide. It also helps that my aunt writes and tells me about you. So you're on school holidays aren't you?"
"Yeah," Harry answered a bit confused.
Jessyka saw the confusion on his face and smiled. "You'll have to forgive me; I'm not from Britain, but Australia. I'm going to have to get used to everything yet."
"You're Australian? But you sound so British"
Jessyka lightly laughed, "I get that a lot, British background. So what were you running from," She turned and started walking the way she came, with Harry by her side, "I didn't think Death Eater came out during the day."
"Ha ha. If only. Death Eaters I can handle. And who is your aunt?"
"You know her but I'm not telling."
"Why not?"
"Because you'll find out soon enough. So why were you practising for the Olympics?"
Harry took a deep breath, "I've been kick out of my uncle's house."
"What ever for?"
Harry went red with anger, "My aunt said that the reason Voldemort killed my parents is that my mum was probably was having an affair with him and in a jealous rage, he killed them both and it was a pity he didn't finish me of."
Jessyka inhaled sharply, "In all my life I have never heard anything that cruel! Mudblood sounds like chocolate cake compared with that." Her eyes were blazing and were now black, "The nerve of that woman. Oh, how I would like to go there now and turn her into a fly."
".Why a fly." Interrupted Harry cautiously.
Jessyka gave him a wicked smile, "Because my dear boy, fly's only live for a couple of days."
Harry was starting to fill a bit uncertain and Jessyka read his face expression and calmed down some and now had grey eyes. "Sorry, I may say things like that, but I would stoop to that level. Please continue."
Harry started to realised that Jessyka's eyes changed colour with her mood
"Ok, well I got very anger."
"As is your right"
". I said to Aunt Petunia that I wished she disappear and she did, then her scream come out of thin air, that I understand that she just went invisible."
"Mores the pity."
". Then my uncle come rushing into the room, she said that I turned her invisible more no reason."
"The lying crow."
".And then he was coming towards me so I went behind the table which he hurled across the room and I bolted."
"I would have too."
".With him coming after me I didn't bother to get my stuff, I just headed straight for the front door. As I was going down the street he yelled that I was not to come back."
"Would you want to?"
"No."
Jessyka's smiled "I think you getting kicked out of that mad house was probably the best thing that could happen to you." My aunt never wanted you stay there in the first place. "But all my stuff and Hedwig."
"Who."
"Oh, she my owl."
As they were talking they had walked out of the park and stopped out the road.
"So is there any where you can go? Because you can't go back there and Voldemort." Harry gave her a look, but she continued in the same breath. "I'm not brave I just can't be bothered being scared of that nitwit who can get to you now that you're no longer staying there."
Harry smiled, he started to like Jessyka very much, she was easy to get close to and he didn't mind that he was telling her thing that he would normally wouldn't tell to someone he just meet.
"Probably Hogwarts. I don't want to endanger any of my friends." Harry got a sharp pain of sadness as he remembered the previous year of school, he just hope they would understand that.
"Harry, don't worry. Your friends will understand."
Harry whipped around to face her, "How."
"No, I can't read minds I read expressions. People are like open books to me, what they think and fell show on their face and eyes, even if you can hide what you're thinking or felling, I can normally sense it.most of the time anyway."
"That's a handy trait."
"I think so. So is it still Hogwarts?"
"Yep"
Jessyka looked around to see if anyone was paying attention. When she was satisfied that no one was looking she held out her right hand and a couple of moments later the Knight Bus came to a stop in front of them. The doors opened and Stan Shunpike stepped out. "Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for wit-" He suddenly stopped in mid-sentence and looked at who was standing in front of him. "'Ell if it ain't 'Arry Potter." Stan looked over his shoulder to the elderly man with thick black glasses at the driver's seat, "'Ay Ern, it's 'Arry"
Ernie Prang looked out the door at Harry and nodded hello then went back to looking out the front window.
Stan turned and he got a adoring look in his eyes as he looked at Jessyka and bowed and took her hand and kissed it, "Nice to see you madam, you a friend of 'Arry's."
Jessyka gave Harry a sideways look and rolled her eyes, "Yes, can you take us to Hogsmeade, please."
Stan smiled deepened, "Certainly, and you just happen to be the two hundred and fiftieth person this month so you and 'Arry won't 'ave to pay a Knut." Ernie's head turned around sharply and gave Stan a hard look, but Stan ignored it and escorted Jessyka and Harry on to the Bus and to the two closes beds to the front of the bus where they sat down.
Ernie closed the door and started of hard sending Harry and Jessika on their backs and Stan went flying down to the back of the bus with a loud thump.
"Why the 'ell do you think your doin' Ern?" Stan yelled as he sat up and struggled to get back to the front of the bus with no success.
"Sorry, Stan. Must have stepped too hard on the petal." But Ernie had a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth showing that was not true.
Harry and Jessyka were able to sit up but had to hold on to the side of the bed to stay up. Ernie still doesn't now how to drive thought Harry.
Later on the bus suddenly the bus stopped, throwing everyone forward. And Stan went sliding to the front of the bus. "Ern, that's enough with the sudden stop and starts."
"But it was not me this time." Ernie looked confused, putting his foot hard on the accelerator, the engine growled but nothing happened.
Jessyka's eyes scanned the windows seeing nothing, "I have a real bad feeling about this," She murmured, but Harry heard her and he had to agree with her.
"Is there an emergency hatch or something where we can get out?" Jessyka asked Stan.
"Yeah, there's one in the roof of the second level but."
Jessyka got up and walked over to Ernie, "Ok, once Harry and I leave, I want you to go into reverse and quickly switch to drive, turn and get out of here." Ernie nodded and got into place. "Stan, hold tight on to something. Harry lets go."
They ran to the back of the bus and up the stairs to the second level. Both of them looking for the hatch in the roof.
"Over there" Harry pointed to the front and they both went over to it. Harry tired to reach it by standing tipie-toes and jumping to reach the latch, finally unhooking it. Jessyka pulled over a bed to stand on and pulled herself up and out of the hatch then reach down and pulled Harry up.
"Come on" She urged Harry to follow as she ran and jump of bus and on to the ground and landing like a fox. Harry followed landed on a step and kept running with Jessyka following close behind.
They ended up going into some trees up a head. They could hear the bus skid and drive off. The trees they ran into turned out to be a forest. Not just a forest though, it was the start of the forbidden forest.
"It's about five miles from Hogwarts from here. We'll keep going on foot as far as we can. Then we'll see if we can get a ride." Jessyka breathed.
"What do you mean get a ride and how. And why are we whispering." Harry enquired.
"I have contacts and they will help. And where whispering because we don't now what happened back there and we don't know who could be listening."
The keep going for a half an hour before the collapsed with exhaustion and lent next to a tree for a rest.
"If I ever walk again it will be a miracle," Jessyka panted.
Harry was breathing hard but got up and held out his hand to help Jessyka up, which she accepted gladly "Now, what about that lift."
"Good idea," Jessyka reached under her top and pulled out a sun shaped pendent, "Friend of the earth and sky, help us in our travel"
The wind around them seemed to increase but not a branch or a leaf moved. What light there was went as a large shape fell from the ski and landed a Dunn horse with black wings.
"Cool" admired Harry.
Jessyka went over to it and through her arm around its neck in a hug "It's good to see you, Coal"
It looked like the horse smiled, "It's only been seven days since we last sore each other though I am glad you missed me" A deep, strong voice greeted "It can talk" Harry exclaimed
Jessyka pulled back from Coal and laughed, "Yes, he can"
That was the first time Coal had noticed Harry and walked over to him "And whom might you be?"
"I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
"Well, Harry Potter," Coal said in a authoritive voice "I am Coal Skyeagle. I have been in the service of her fathers' family for the past hundred years since her great grandfather saved my life. I have been her guardian since her parents disappeared thirteen years ago. To make it easer on her and her twin sister, I got a wizard to give me a voice."
"Didn't Jessyka have any family?"
"Yes, she did. But thought it safer that she stay in Australia."
Jessyka started getting annoyed and cut in before anyone could say anything else "If you two don't mind, I would like to get to Hogwarts by night fall."
Coal whispered to Harry "She is a bit sensitive about her parent's disappearance." Harry nodded "Understandable"
Coal knelt on the ground on the ground so Jessyka could mount up with Harry getting up behind her, Coal stood and started flying into the air, above the tress and just below the clouds and towards Hogwarts.
"So, what do you think, Harry" Jessyka asked as turned to face him.
"It's better then ridding a broom, but it's a little slower then I'm used too," Harry answered
"What are you used too?"
"A Firebolt."
Jessyka grinned, "Are Firebolt is nothing. Show him, Coal"
Coal laughed and went above the clouds, faster then lighting he went. Up and down, through the clouds and he even did a somersault. Then he went into a dead dive, straight for the ground. Faster and faster they went. 'They were going to hit the ground' went through both Harry and Jessyka's mind as they came closer to the ground. They were about to hit when Coal sharply pulled out and took a couple of steps then stopped.
"We are here," Coal said smugly
Jessyka's knuckles were white from gripping his main for dear life and her eyes had lost all colour and were wide as sauces. She just sat there trying to calm herself.
Harry on the other hand, had been just hugging her waist. When hey had stopped, Harry had got down and walked around to face Coal.
"That was wicked" Harry grinned
"Thank-you, Harry" Coal said pleasantly
Jessyka climbed down and fell to the ground "I'm going to installed seat belts and are emergency brake, for my peace of mind."
Just then the front door burst open and Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Rubes Hagrid and Minerva MacGonagall come running out and down the stairs. "Here comes the stampede," Jessyka said as she stood up as the descending crowd came towards them.
Sirius was the first to reach them and went straight to Harry and hugged him "Harry, are you alright? What are you doing here?"
The rest arrived by then and MacGonagall was hugging Jessyka
"She's your aunt" Harry said to Jessyka
"Ah ha, I told you, you would know you"
Hagrid was in deep conversation with Coal "So how long do your kind actually live?"
Coal shook his head "Rules of our kind, were not aloud to tell humans."
Lupin walked over to Harry and shook his hand "It's good to see you, Harry"
"And it's good to see you" Lupin still looked as pale and sickly since the last time Harry saw him.
"I hate to interrupt everyone. But I for one think we should continue this inside my office over some nice butterbeer and muffins" Dumbledore said as he put his arm around Harry's shoulder and lead the group inside.
All was quite on this beautiful summer morning as people went about the business. But on Privet drives, out of number 4 come are loud crash and a lot of shouting, breaking the silence.
The front door opened wide and a teenage boy wearing glass with emerald green eyes and hair as black as night come sprinting out the door and down the street.
A large man with blond hair and a thick, bushy mustash filled the doorway. He raised his fist into the air and shouted, "THAT'S IT POTTER! DON'T COME BACK! YOU'RE GONE! FIND SOMEWHERE ELES TO LIVE! YOU'RE NOT WANTED!" With that he steeped back into the house and slammed the door shut, dropping the paintings of the wall.
Harry heard but kept running, trying to get far away from that house as possible. He ran, not caring whom he passed, not caring where he was going, he just ran.
Angry tears filled his eyes, his face flaming red, his mind awhirl with thoughts and memories. It was too much to bear.
He ran into a park. Pigeon's flow and people starred at him as he went by. But he didn't care. Harry came to a fork in the path and he chose the left one. Not seeing the women coming down the path, Harry turned the corner and slammed to a stop. He was stopped from falling by two gentle hands that steady him. It took a moment before he realised that she was speaking to him.
The clear, happy voice asked the question again, "Are you all right?"
Harry stepped back looked at her. She was wearing jeans and a lose black, long-sleeved tee shirt who looked to be nineteen and was about five foot, seven inches. She had light brown hair, which almost reached her knees. Her eyes by far were her best feature; light blue. But now they look amber and they were familiar in some way.
"Are you all right?" she asked again, but she was frowning now.
Harry snapped out of it, and shrugged, "Yeah, as much as to be expected." The Harry realised that she was still on her feet, that nock should have sent anyone to the ground, "How is it that you're still standing?"
She smiled at that and her eyes looked green again, it has to be the light.
"It takes a lot more then that to nock me over." She suddenly bent and picked something off the ground. She came up holding Harry's wand. Her brow frond. Harry went bright red.
"I gather this is yours?" She asked steadily. Harry slowly nodded. "Phoenix feather isn't it?"
Harry mouth dropped open and his eyes turned to sauces. He quickly shook himself out of it and answered yes.
"I thought so; it seems to have a perceptive presence that most people can't feel,"
"How can you tell?" inquired Harry
"Manly wand makers and there dissentience" She handed it over to Harry, who put it in his jacket, "Oh, sorry. I'm being rude by not introducing myself. Going as have been, I am must be confusing you," She held out her hand," I'm Jessyka MCKillop.
Harry took it "I'm Harry Potter."
"Nice to meet you, Harry. Your name has travelled far and wide. It also helps that my aunt writes and tells me about you. So you're on school holidays aren't you?"
"Yeah," Harry answered a bit confused.
Jessyka saw the confusion on his face and smiled. "You'll have to forgive me; I'm not from Britain, but Australia. I'm going to have to get used to everything yet."
"You're Australian? But you sound so British"
Jessyka lightly laughed, "I get that a lot, British background. So what were you running from," She turned and started walking the way she came, with Harry by her side, "I didn't think Death Eater came out during the day."
"Ha ha. If only. Death Eaters I can handle. And who is your aunt?"
"You know her but I'm not telling."
"Why not?"
"Because you'll find out soon enough. So why were you practising for the Olympics?"
Harry took a deep breath, "I've been kick out of my uncle's house."
"What ever for?"
Harry went red with anger, "My aunt said that the reason Voldemort killed my parents is that my mum was probably was having an affair with him and in a jealous rage, he killed them both and it was a pity he didn't finish me of."
Jessyka inhaled sharply, "In all my life I have never heard anything that cruel! Mudblood sounds like chocolate cake compared with that." Her eyes were blazing and were now black, "The nerve of that woman. Oh, how I would like to go there now and turn her into a fly."
".Why a fly." Interrupted Harry cautiously.
Jessyka gave him a wicked smile, "Because my dear boy, fly's only live for a couple of days."
Harry was starting to fill a bit uncertain and Jessyka read his face expression and calmed down some and now had grey eyes. "Sorry, I may say things like that, but I would stoop to that level. Please continue."
Harry started to realised that Jessyka's eyes changed colour with her mood
"Ok, well I got very anger."
"As is your right"
". I said to Aunt Petunia that I wished she disappear and she did, then her scream come out of thin air, that I understand that she just went invisible."
"Mores the pity."
". Then my uncle come rushing into the room, she said that I turned her invisible more no reason."
"The lying crow."
".And then he was coming towards me so I went behind the table which he hurled across the room and I bolted."
"I would have too."
".With him coming after me I didn't bother to get my stuff, I just headed straight for the front door. As I was going down the street he yelled that I was not to come back."
"Would you want to?"
"No."
Jessyka's smiled "I think you getting kicked out of that mad house was probably the best thing that could happen to you." My aunt never wanted you stay there in the first place. "But all my stuff and Hedwig."
"Who."
"Oh, she my owl."
As they were talking they had walked out of the park and stopped out the road.
"So is there any where you can go? Because you can't go back there and Voldemort." Harry gave her a look, but she continued in the same breath. "I'm not brave I just can't be bothered being scared of that nitwit who can get to you now that you're no longer staying there."
Harry smiled, he started to like Jessyka very much, she was easy to get close to and he didn't mind that he was telling her thing that he would normally wouldn't tell to someone he just meet.
"Probably Hogwarts. I don't want to endanger any of my friends." Harry got a sharp pain of sadness as he remembered the previous year of school, he just hope they would understand that.
"Harry, don't worry. Your friends will understand."
Harry whipped around to face her, "How."
"No, I can't read minds I read expressions. People are like open books to me, what they think and fell show on their face and eyes, even if you can hide what you're thinking or felling, I can normally sense it.most of the time anyway."
"That's a handy trait."
"I think so. So is it still Hogwarts?"
"Yep"
Jessyka looked around to see if anyone was paying attention. When she was satisfied that no one was looking she held out her right hand and a couple of moments later the Knight Bus came to a stop in front of them. The doors opened and Stan Shunpike stepped out. "Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for wit-" He suddenly stopped in mid-sentence and looked at who was standing in front of him. "'Ell if it ain't 'Arry Potter." Stan looked over his shoulder to the elderly man with thick black glasses at the driver's seat, "'Ay Ern, it's 'Arry"
Ernie Prang looked out the door at Harry and nodded hello then went back to looking out the front window.
Stan turned and he got a adoring look in his eyes as he looked at Jessyka and bowed and took her hand and kissed it, "Nice to see you madam, you a friend of 'Arry's."
Jessyka gave Harry a sideways look and rolled her eyes, "Yes, can you take us to Hogsmeade, please."
Stan smiled deepened, "Certainly, and you just happen to be the two hundred and fiftieth person this month so you and 'Arry won't 'ave to pay a Knut." Ernie's head turned around sharply and gave Stan a hard look, but Stan ignored it and escorted Jessyka and Harry on to the Bus and to the two closes beds to the front of the bus where they sat down.
Ernie closed the door and started of hard sending Harry and Jessika on their backs and Stan went flying down to the back of the bus with a loud thump.
"Why the 'ell do you think your doin' Ern?" Stan yelled as he sat up and struggled to get back to the front of the bus with no success.
"Sorry, Stan. Must have stepped too hard on the petal." But Ernie had a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth showing that was not true.
Harry and Jessyka were able to sit up but had to hold on to the side of the bed to stay up. Ernie still doesn't now how to drive thought Harry.
Later on the bus suddenly the bus stopped, throwing everyone forward. And Stan went sliding to the front of the bus. "Ern, that's enough with the sudden stop and starts."
"But it was not me this time." Ernie looked confused, putting his foot hard on the accelerator, the engine growled but nothing happened.
Jessyka's eyes scanned the windows seeing nothing, "I have a real bad feeling about this," She murmured, but Harry heard her and he had to agree with her.
"Is there an emergency hatch or something where we can get out?" Jessyka asked Stan.
"Yeah, there's one in the roof of the second level but."
Jessyka got up and walked over to Ernie, "Ok, once Harry and I leave, I want you to go into reverse and quickly switch to drive, turn and get out of here." Ernie nodded and got into place. "Stan, hold tight on to something. Harry lets go."
They ran to the back of the bus and up the stairs to the second level. Both of them looking for the hatch in the roof.
"Over there" Harry pointed to the front and they both went over to it. Harry tired to reach it by standing tipie-toes and jumping to reach the latch, finally unhooking it. Jessyka pulled over a bed to stand on and pulled herself up and out of the hatch then reach down and pulled Harry up.
"Come on" She urged Harry to follow as she ran and jump of bus and on to the ground and landing like a fox. Harry followed landed on a step and kept running with Jessyka following close behind.
They ended up going into some trees up a head. They could hear the bus skid and drive off. The trees they ran into turned out to be a forest. Not just a forest though, it was the start of the forbidden forest.
"It's about five miles from Hogwarts from here. We'll keep going on foot as far as we can. Then we'll see if we can get a ride." Jessyka breathed.
"What do you mean get a ride and how. And why are we whispering." Harry enquired.
"I have contacts and they will help. And where whispering because we don't now what happened back there and we don't know who could be listening."
The keep going for a half an hour before the collapsed with exhaustion and lent next to a tree for a rest.
"If I ever walk again it will be a miracle," Jessyka panted.
Harry was breathing hard but got up and held out his hand to help Jessyka up, which she accepted gladly "Now, what about that lift."
"Good idea," Jessyka reached under her top and pulled out a sun shaped pendent, "Friend of the earth and sky, help us in our travel"
The wind around them seemed to increase but not a branch or a leaf moved. What light there was went as a large shape fell from the ski and landed a Dunn horse with black wings.
"Cool" admired Harry.
Jessyka went over to it and through her arm around its neck in a hug "It's good to see you, Coal"
It looked like the horse smiled, "It's only been seven days since we last sore each other though I am glad you missed me" A deep, strong voice greeted "It can talk" Harry exclaimed
Jessyka pulled back from Coal and laughed, "Yes, he can"
That was the first time Coal had noticed Harry and walked over to him "And whom might you be?"
"I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
"Well, Harry Potter," Coal said in a authoritive voice "I am Coal Skyeagle. I have been in the service of her fathers' family for the past hundred years since her great grandfather saved my life. I have been her guardian since her parents disappeared thirteen years ago. To make it easer on her and her twin sister, I got a wizard to give me a voice."
"Didn't Jessyka have any family?"
"Yes, she did. But thought it safer that she stay in Australia."
Jessyka started getting annoyed and cut in before anyone could say anything else "If you two don't mind, I would like to get to Hogwarts by night fall."
Coal whispered to Harry "She is a bit sensitive about her parent's disappearance." Harry nodded "Understandable"
Coal knelt on the ground on the ground so Jessyka could mount up with Harry getting up behind her, Coal stood and started flying into the air, above the tress and just below the clouds and towards Hogwarts.
"So, what do you think, Harry" Jessyka asked as turned to face him.
"It's better then ridding a broom, but it's a little slower then I'm used too," Harry answered
"What are you used too?"
"A Firebolt."
Jessyka grinned, "Are Firebolt is nothing. Show him, Coal"
Coal laughed and went above the clouds, faster then lighting he went. Up and down, through the clouds and he even did a somersault. Then he went into a dead dive, straight for the ground. Faster and faster they went. 'They were going to hit the ground' went through both Harry and Jessyka's mind as they came closer to the ground. They were about to hit when Coal sharply pulled out and took a couple of steps then stopped.
"We are here," Coal said smugly
Jessyka's knuckles were white from gripping his main for dear life and her eyes had lost all colour and were wide as sauces. She just sat there trying to calm herself.
Harry on the other hand, had been just hugging her waist. When hey had stopped, Harry had got down and walked around to face Coal.
"That was wicked" Harry grinned
"Thank-you, Harry" Coal said pleasantly
Jessyka climbed down and fell to the ground "I'm going to installed seat belts and are emergency brake, for my peace of mind."
Just then the front door burst open and Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Rubes Hagrid and Minerva MacGonagall come running out and down the stairs. "Here comes the stampede," Jessyka said as she stood up as the descending crowd came towards them.
Sirius was the first to reach them and went straight to Harry and hugged him "Harry, are you alright? What are you doing here?"
The rest arrived by then and MacGonagall was hugging Jessyka
"She's your aunt" Harry said to Jessyka
"Ah ha, I told you, you would know you"
Hagrid was in deep conversation with Coal "So how long do your kind actually live?"
Coal shook his head "Rules of our kind, were not aloud to tell humans."
Lupin walked over to Harry and shook his hand "It's good to see you, Harry"
"And it's good to see you" Lupin still looked as pale and sickly since the last time Harry saw him.
"I hate to interrupt everyone. But I for one think we should continue this inside my office over some nice butterbeer and muffins" Dumbledore said as he put his arm around Harry's shoulder and lead the group inside.