A Mother's Warning
A shrill whistle sounded over the grounds of the extravagant estate calling home one of its prized members. Gracefully soaring to it's mistress she responded, always fateful, always a dependable companion.
Awaiting her faithful companion's return; a sandy haired girl of seventeen stood leaning against her bedroom window with her eyes closed and face turned towards the sun. Slowly a smile crept onto her serine face. In just a few hours she'll be on the train bound for her third home, the one that she loved almost more then her real home. 'Hogwarts,' she thought with a sigh. 'Just this last year and I'll be out of there.' With that thought a frown clouded over the smile that was there mere seconds before.
She was starting to think of what this year would be like when a quick rapping was heard from her mahogany door. "Leah, are you in there?" Called the voice that could only belong to her mother. "Yes, mum I am. You can come in." Leah called over her shoulder without taking her hazel eyes off the cloudless August sky watching for her winged friend's return.
A bit timidly a tall, slender woman with dirty blond hair walked into her daughter's room and headed toward the balcony. "Do you have everything ready to go?" She asked looking at the queen-sized bed where Leah's wardrobe and school things where scattered all over it. Pulling out her wand and muttering a quick 'sortify' all the clothes, quills, parchments, and others swiftly flew orderly into her daughter's trunk and shut.
"You know I could have done that," Leah remarked glancing over her right shoulder at her mother. "Yes you could have, but you would've waited until the last second again and forgot more of your potion things like last year." Rebutted Heidi.
"Snape held that over my head for a month. Seriously being in Advanced Transfiguration is better then Snape's wrath at that. But yes, everything you just sorted into the trunk was everything; it's been checked three times already. When Raye gets back from her hunt I'll start carrying everything down." Leah commented off headedly glancing over her shoulder carelessly at her trunk, broom, and empty cage on the bed. 'Raye's going to hate going in there like every year.' She sighed as her gaze turned back over the railing and to the sky above.
"Leah, there's one more thing that your father wanted me to remind you of before I head back home. You have to make your choice by the end of the Christmas Holidays. No matter what you think in your mind to be right, you can't be neutral anymore. You must decide. Neither side will allow it any longer. Either way your father and I will support your decision just like we did when Josh chose the Order.
"But Leah you must think long and hard on this. There are going to be a lot of times when the pressure from both sides will be too great for you to handle. When even your best mates will turn their backs on you. Challenges mental, physical, and emotional will be grueling to the point where you wont be able to think straight. Simple things may even seem harder for you to understand. Just remember Leah, your family will always be here for you when you need to rest, when you need to think..." "When I need to feel loved," Leah finished for her mum. "Your words of comfort and warning when times get too hard. You've told Josh and I that ever since we started at Hogwarts. I will remember mum."
With that Heidi gave her daughter a hug and turned to leave. "Be safe, love. I have to go Mark will be getting impatient if I'm not back soon. Love you." "Love you too. Bye mum." And with the soft click of the door being closed, signaling that she was once again alone, Leah turned back to the view out her balcony.
'Mum, I know that you want me to be safe but I've got an inkling that it's going to be harder then you thought," Leah thought with a sigh as her gaze focused upon two dark specks in the sky as they sped fast towards her. 'They're at it again. ' With that the smile that was once gone returned with full force. "Careful Dragon, she flies dirty," She murmured then turned back into her room.
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