Prophecies
Chapter One- Good To Be Back
By Lady Rhiana
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Authors Note:
Okay! This used to be called The Potter Secret, but I decided to change the title. Anyway, it is Harry's fifth year and he's going to find out something that will change his life forever. Thanks so much to Lady Reena who beta read this.Told by Harry Potter
I climbed onto the Hogwarts Express, and walked up to the back carriage where I had arranged to meet my two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. When I walked into the compartment, it was complete chaos. Fred and George were diving round the compartment after what seemed to be a little orange creature. Crookshanks, Hermione's cat, was meowing wildly from his basket, and Hermione was trying to calm him down. Ginny and her friend Clara Watt were standing up on the seat and shrieking whenever the little orange thing so much as past them. Ron was sitting by the window trying to shut his little owl up. I'm definitely back, I thought to myself, smiling.
"Hi everyone!" I yelled over Ginny and Clara's screams as the orange creature landed on the seat they were standing on. They jumped down from the seat and Fred pounced on the trouble-making little beast.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Then he glanced at me. "Oh hi Harry. Look at what George and I got!" He opened his hand excitedly like a seven-year-old showing his friend a new toy. Inside his cupped hands lay a little orange lizard-type creature. Instead of scales, though, it had feathers.
"It's a Fefast's lizard. Isn't it cool?" asked George, stroking it. Then he brought out a little terrarium and put it in. "His name's Sparky," he added with a smile.
"Well we'd better go... I'm sure Lee would love to see him," said Fred and he walked out if the compartment followed by George. Clara and Ginny also left, leaving Hermione, Ron and I alone.
"My word" said Hermione. "Those two are such trouble makers," she said as she opened the basket and let Crookshanks walk out of it. The whistle blew for the train to leave, and we were off. We talked and laughed about all that we had done over the holidays, but I didn't tell Hermione and Ron about the strange note I had received on my birthday. Happy Birthday Harry, love KP. I still had it with me because I wanted to show it to Sirius.
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"Harry," someone was saying as they shook me awake gently. "Harry we're here." I opened my eyes to find Hermione standing over me while Ron stood waiting.
"Huh?" I said as I sat up sleepily. I had fallen asleep on the train.
"Come on Harry," said Ron. We stepped of the train and into the familiar Hogsmeade station. We climbed quietly into one of the carriages. There was an atmosphere of relief to finally be here around us.
"Its nice to be back," said Hermione. "This place is home away from home to me"
"This place is home to me," I put in. When the carriage stopped, we climbed out and walked up the castle steps and then went inside and into The Great Hall with everyone else. We sat down and talked to our friends, then watched the sorting. After the sorting was over, Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Hello to you all, students, teachers and friends," he said. "This year we have to made a few changes. In your free time, you may wear clothing of your choice. We have made an all-school common room and you can spend your free time there or in your own house common room. Please welcome our new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Dave Kopin." Everybody clapped, and expected the new teacher to stand up. "Unfortunately he is running a little late, so you all may begin eating." The food appeared on the plates and everyone began to eat.
"One of the best things about this place," said Seamus Finnigan, "Is the grub." Everybody laughed.
"Attention, everyone," said Professor Dumbledore when everyone had finished eating. "I hope you have had a nice meal. Now go back to your common rooms and rest well, for tomorrow the lessons start." Everybody got up from their tables and went back to their common rooms, and I went straight up to my dorm. Now we were in fifth year, we had a room with just two people sharing, and it was Ron and I in a room, Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan in another and Neville Longbottom on his own. For the girls it was Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, and Hermione alone in another because there was only three Gryffindor girls in our year. I walked sleepily into our dorm and flopped down on the bed. As my head hit the pillow, I felt something small, cold and hard against the back of my head. I sat up, and there was a little gold locket lying on my pillow. It sparkled as though it was a magical type of gold, and it probably was. I noticed a little catch on the side, and tried to open it, but it would not open. I brought out my wand and tapped the locket.
"Open," I said, and tried several variations including the alohomora charm, but nothing would open it. I sat it on the bedside cabinet and got changed for bed. As my sleepy eyes closed I forgot all about the locket and I was whisked off into a land where I win the Quidditch Cup for England every night.
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The next day, during a very boring History of Magic lesson, I was sitting in class copying out the rules of the classroom, as was everyone else in the room. The door opened, and every single person in the class looked up. Little Dennis Creevey walked in and up to Professor Binns and handed him a note. From where I was sitting, I could see Dumbledore's curly signature, so it must have been important.
"Potter!" called Professor Binns. "You are to report to the head master's office at once." I gathered my things together and walked out of the class and along to Professor Dumbledore's office where Professor Mc Gonagall was standing waiting for me.
"Ah, Harry," she said and muttered the password. The gargoyles jumped aside and we walked up to the headmaster's office. She let me inside and to the left. I sat down on one of the couches and reached under my robes and into my trouser pocket and took out the locket. I looked at it and somehow, although I had never seen it as far as I could remember, it seemed familiar to me. Dumbledore
walked in, looking a little troubled. I quickly put the locket back in my pocket.
"Oh, hello Harry," he said.
"Good morning Professor," I said.
"Well the reason I called you here this morning is to inform you that your godfather, Sirius Black, is staying here in the castle with us for a little while. Remus Lupin is also staying under a glamour as the new D.A.D.A teacher. Sirius will be up any min-" he said, but was interrupted by Sirius bursting in the door.
"You have to come quick Professor Dumbledore!" said Sirius. He was in such a panic I wondered what was going on.
"All right," said Dumbledore to Sirius. Then he turned to me, "You stay here just now, Harry," he said. They dashed out of the door and left me alone with my thoughts. I wondered where this locket had come from, and whom it belonged to. I planned on showing it to Sirius later. I got up from the couch and walked over to the window, looking out at the vast Hogwarts grounds. I started humming something; it was a tune that I had heard in my dreams last night, although I didn't know where I had heard it before that. A little while later, Dumbledore and Sirius came back in, but they were carrying two unconscious people with them. One of them I recognised as Peter Pettigrew, the man who betrayed my parents, and the other was a girl who looked my age. She was quite small and had long jet-black hair and ice blue eyes. Her ragged grey dress was torn and she had a big, bloody cut on her arm.
"Who is she?" I asked, as she didn't look familiar.
"It does not matter at the moment," said Professor Dumbledore. "Would you go and fetch Miss Granger's cat, Harry? Bring him up to the hospital wing please." I thought this a very odd request but did as he asked. When I arrived in the hospital wing, the girl and Pettigrew were lying in beds,
both of them still unconscious. When Crookshanks spotted the girl, he leapt from my arms and ran over to her bed. Much to my surprise, he changed into a ginger haired human boy who had green eyes. He too looked the same age as me.
"What's happened to her, Sirius?" he said frantically. "What's she doing here?"
"Calm down Jack," said Sirius. "Wormtail got her out, or at least that's what we think, and they were stopped. He got her this far, he was always worried about Kayla... he knew what they had planned for her." I looked on, wondering whom this boy who I thought to be a cat was, and who the girl was, and how Sirius knew them.
"Oh, Harry," said Sirius. "Thanks for bringing him up... this is Jack Whyte... and that's his twin sister Kayla over there." He pointed to the girl. "I was friends with their father." It was as though Sirius read my mind.
"Thanks so much Harry," said Jack. "I really appreciate you bringing me up here. But... well, can you not tell anyone that I amn't really a cat?"
"OK," I said. Pettigrew stirred in his bed and sat up. Sirius jumped up from the seat he was in and ran over to Pettigrew's bed. He held his wrists.
"What happened?" he asked him angrily.
"Well you and I know what plans he has for poor Kayla, and I had to get her away from that place... she deserves better. She should be here like Harry and Jack." He paused for a moment. "So last night, when everyone was asleep, I took Kayla from the horrible old castle we all were staying in. I had arranged a portkey to get us out of there, and we arrived just outside the grounds. It took us a while to actually get in, and when we did it was morning. Then Lucius Malfoy turned up. He blasted me and tried to get Kayla, but she hid. Then we left and Kayla must have fallen out of the tree she was in, either that or he blasted her too."
"Well, even though you did save her, we're turning you in. Dumbledore is letting Kayla stay here to get some education." Wormtail wriggled and turned into a rat, so Jack turned back into a cat and caught him. Sirius took Pettigrew from Jack while I sat down on a seat. My head was spinning. Jack went back to human form.
"Thanks for saving my sister, asshole," Jack said angrily to Peter. Dumbledore came into the hospital wing.
"Now, now Jack," he said. "Harry, you had better get back to class. Come back up here when lessons are over, please." I left the hospital wing, hungry and confused. It was lunchtime anyway, so I walked down to the Great Hall, ready to eat my lunch, but not so ready to keep this from Hermione and Ron.
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