CHAPTER 2-MEETING THOSE SAID OLD FRIENDS.

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AT- So here is the great chapter 2.

KT- I think your going to like it.

Ryan- I think you find about me.

KT- Ahhhhh. Where did you come from.

AT- KT meet my hallucination. Ryan meet KT.

Ryan- Yeah. AT's not so tired anymore but I thought I'd stick around.

AT- well while you're here you might as well…

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AT- We wouldn't be writing a fic if we did.

CHAPTER 2-MEETING THOSE SAID OLD FRIENDS.

"Course I'm alive"

From where he had been looking at Dumbledore, Harry turned to look at the girl surprised. She looked up at him tiredly. "An old man can't kill me that easy. But the younger ones sure are trying." (AT- "You call Lucius Malfoy young! "Lucius- "Hey I'm here too" AT- "OMG This is getting creepy")

Harry looked totally shocked at her whilst she attempted to get up. Snapping out of his daze, he pushed her down "um… I wouldn't if I were you, you've been pretty ... toasted." "Oh I'll be alright" she said waving her hand dismissively, the tube in it coming rather close to Harry's face and he jumped out its way. She looked between him and the tube amusedly before turning it so he could see the label. "Relax, it is just a tube 'o' smarties" He looked at her. "Smarties!" She nodded and suddenly everything seemed funnier. He burst out laughing.

"Harry. Why don't you take her with me to get her checked up." Dumbledore said. Harry nodded and helped the girl up, supporting her as they walked to the hospital wing.

"Madame Pomfray" Harry called as they entered. 'Oh what is it." The old witch said as she came bustling in. "Don't tell me you've gone and hurt yourself already." She stopped as she saw the girl. "Oh my. What have you done." She led her over to a bed where she made her sit with her legs up so she could examine them. "So… who are you?" Harry started as he realized he didn't know her name. "Ani" she mumbled. "Oh what a pretty name" the matron commented.

She waved her wand over Ani and did many diagnostic spells. After much 'hmm'-ing and 'ahh'-ing, she stood and looked at the headmaster. "She should be fine. Bit short of energy but that's all. I'm actually surprised there wasn't any more damage. She seems to be able to heal abnormally quickly."

"Hello. Still here" Ani muttered quietly. The teachers did not hear her but Harry did and he moved over to sit next to her.

"I know they do that to me too. It get's really annoying doesn't it?" Ani grinned at him.

"Yeah it does." She seemed to realize what he had said and asked. "How many times have you been in here then" Harry thought about it before answering. "About 16 times." Ani gaped.

"And I would say no more but he always finds some way to get back here." Madame Pomfray had joined.

"ah" Dumbledore said. "How about we get you sorted Ani. If you want to stay that is."

Ani accepted and so they Harry once again supported Ani as she limped along.

They were in the corridor very near Dumbledore's office. Ani and Harry had gotten into a good conversation on the best way to tackle a death eater. It would have been a boring conversation for most, but Harry Potter was not most people and found this very interesting as did Ani. Dumbledore had been walking slightly ahead and had either been eavesdropping, or politely ignoring.

They approached the gargoyle and it jumped aside when the headmaster said 'canary crème" He went in before Ani and Harry who were so enraptured in their conversation they did not see the two other people in his office until they made themselves known.

"But just shouting at a death eater isn't going to get anything done" Ani had said as they paused inside Dumbledore's office. "Yes but it give a distraction" Harry replied.

"And what exactly are you distracting them from?" Ani asked.

"um… I don't know it could be anything!"

"No." Ani replied. "With a death eater you don't play to your strengths or they wouldn't stay secret. You need to play to their weaknesses"

"I get that." Harry said. "But why hide your strengths."

"So you can surprise them." Ani answered. "Honestly, you call yourself the chosen one."

"Uh, no I don't" Harry defended. "Everyone else does."

"Even so. She has some good points. You should listen to her."

Both teens whipped round to find a slightly amused Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks watching them [Tonks- "How many times have I told you. DON'T CALL ME NYMPHADORA" AT- "Oh wow you're here too"]

"Professor Lupin!" Harry exclaimed happily hugging his ex-professor. Remus smiled as he was hugged and when Harry let go he remarked. "Gosh, You become a professor for one year and they never let you forget it." He looked at Ani who was standing to the side, awkwardly keeping herself up with the wall. "Hi." He said. "I'm Remus Lupin." Ani looked up at him shyly.

"Hello, prof-"

"-I was teacher for 1 meager year. Just get over it and call me Remus already!" Remus had exclaimed before Ani even finished. Tonks put a hand on his shoulder and he calmed down visibly. Ani looked at Harry.

"Are they… (Married)?"Harry shook his head sadly.

"No. But we hope they do soon."

"They…(Would be so good together)"

"Huh. Try telling them that"

"Telling who what?" Remus and Tonks were both looking between the two suspiciously. "Nothing." They both chorused, not deflating the suspicions at all.

"Right" Dumbledore said "On with the sorting."

Ani approached the stool nervously and sat on it pulling the hat on to her head, sighing when it flopped over eyes. The hat became straight and its rip opened. "Hang on a minute. The years gone a bit too fast." It said. 'I haven't had my nap yet let alone thought of a new song"

"Mister hat." Dumbledore said politely. "I have an extra student to be sorted. A year has not gone."

"Ah" And the sorting began.

They all stood watching the hat in nervous silence. [At-"How can silence have an emotion?" SILENCE-"I can have a lot of feelings you know!" KT-"What! Really? This is going to far. Get out." *Silence* "I said go."]

After about five minutes the boredom started to set in and after ten minutes Harry finally exclaimed "How long is this going to take!"

"patients" the hat said. He [AT-"I think"] looked down and said. "Well it'll be the same house as your cousin the… GRYFFINDOR!"

"Thank merlin" Harry sighed to the amusement of the adults. They became even more amused when Ani came off the stool and limped over to Harry to tell him off. "Thank merlin me! I seem to know for a fact that your sorting took a spectacular 10 minutes.!" [KT- "We know it's not true but…"]

"Yeah" Harry spluttered "But at least I'm not part dragon!" Ani looked at him shocked before bursting into uncontrollable laughter. Harry looked confused 'she breathed fire' He thought 'I saw her.' He only pondered on this for another second before realizing that Remus and Tonks had succumbed to the contagiousness of her laughter. "Oh" Remus said after he had finally stopped laughing. "Dragon. Ha ha " And he was off again.

"Calm down. Calm down." Dumbledore calmed them down though he was still chuckling himself. "Now what to do with you" He looked at Ani who looked back confused, having thought that the sorting was all that needed to be done. Dumbledore waved his wand in a fancy gesture and crutches appeared around Ani, successfully helping her stand up. Harry and Ani stared awed then looking between themselves they made to walk out. "Oh and Ani?" They stopped in the door way as Dumbledore called Ani. "Yes sir" She replied, Harry noticed that when looking at the adults she looked slightly scared.

"If you are an important target for Voldermort than it is likely that he will come here on an attack to get you back. Just as a precaution, will you use your abilities to change appearances. So word does not get out." All those present in the room stood there with confused faces. Ani, however, stood there with her mouth dropped open in complete shock.

"but but-" She spluttered "How?"

"How what?" Harry was now more confused then ever.

"Oh my gosh" Tonks was the one who said this. Harry looked at her hoping for some kind of explanation. "Oh my gosh." She continued. "you're a metamorphagus. I knew there was something about you." She poked Remus. "I told you. I did"

Harry turned his now shocked face at Ani. "You're a metamorphagus. You have to show me that"

"Alright" Ani shrugged. She closed her eyes and made to change. Her face was relaxed, unlike Tonks' and she changed in stages instead of all at once. First her hair changed. It shortened slightly to about her mid-back and turned curly and caramel brown. Her face changed to a tanned colour and her eyes- as she opened them- were blue.

"Wow" Tonks said. "That was something else."

Ani looked at Harry, grinning at the feeling of transforming. "You better not tell anyone about that."

Harry ignored the amused looks from the adults and grinned cheekily. "or what?"

She gave him a look that said 'You've-seen-me-and-you-say-that?' Harry sighed. "point taken."

"I'd hope so." She murmured it but Harry heard anyway.

"What's that meant to mean?"

Ani looked at him. "Well I'd hope you don't take 25 minutes to get a point as you usually do."

He looked back at her. "You've only known me for 5 minutes. That's not enough to get to know a person."

She looked up at the clock and then back at him. A spark of amusement was evident in her eyes. "It's actually been 20 minutes."

"Still' Harry said "That's not enough." Suddenly he thought of Sirius. How he had thought him a murderer but in the Shrieking Shack he had been proved wrong.

With a start he was back in the present again.

"That meeting can't have been more than about 20 minutes right?" It was Ani talking.

"How did you do that?" he said, pushing down the pain and guilt that thinking of his godfather had caused. Ani looked at him. "I'm talented." And with that she hobbled out of the room.

As she did so Remus turned to Harry. "Good luck figuring her out. Far too mysterious for my liking. But I recognize her. Be careful."

Harry nodded, hugging his uncle again, before running out to show Ani the way to Gryffindor tower.

AT-So I hope you liked that chapter.

KT- Sorry none of the mysteries were solved.

Ryan- They promise to solve some in the next chapter.

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