Chapter2: Questions
Disclaimer: don't own Harry Potter
AN: If you haven't noticed Isabeau is only a little insane, and Orion's a little shy. Flash backs are in Italics. And Annabel Bot knows that she has forgotten a lot of things but she can't remember what she forgot except for little pieces. Letters are Bold Italics.
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Annabel Bot was hiding from the world. She had seen Harry run away from his aunt's house a month ago, but it never stopped being scary. It reminded her of something, something that she couldn't remember. So now when ever she wasn't painting, she was sitting on her memory case. Inside of it were things that didn't make sense, like moving pictures, a broom stick, and books that made no sense at all. She also had an owl, why she had no idea. But it was the owl that was the cause of her most recent fear. When Harry ran away, he was holding an owl cage, and behind him was his screaming uncle, and rising behind the house was an extremely fat woman screaming. Did this mean that she was like Harry? Did she have powers? Did Orion? Did her brothers? She opened the case just a bit to grab out a picture of her, and three other boys. The more she looked at the picture the more she remembered:
She was pregnant. Her black hair was pulled back into a braid, and she was crying. One of her brother's was standing in front of her holding her, and whispering, "It's okay Ann I'll be back in before you know it." It was the brother with the black hair like her, and the grey eyes.
"But Sirius, it isn't you it's me, I'm supposed to go back to the Death Eaters tonight, and Dumbledore wants me to stay there until you come back." Ann cried.
"Come on Ann, you can't be serious. You're the girl who beat up your sister just last week. You can be her, you're good at it." Sirius tried to comfort her.
She sniffed back the last of her tears. Why was she crying none of her friends were dead, and she obviously wasn't. With one last sniff she drew her wand…wait is that what that stick is called…and pointed it at her phoenix tattoo, and changed it to a skull and snake.
Annabel was back sitting on her floor, and now she was crying. Why she had no idea, but she knew that she had lost something. She feared that she was in the middle of something evil, and she didn't know it.
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Isabeau looked at the dog that now stood over Draco, the dog was really thin and it didn't seem to have had a bath in a century. Drawing her wand she pointed it at the dog and said, "Scourgify" that made the dog a bit cleaner but not really. Shrugging Isbeau turned around and started to walk away. The dog followed her. Isabeau turned around and looked at the dog. The dog put on a really good pouting face, "What do you want?" Isabeau asked the dog. The dog replied by walking past Isabeau to toward the castle. Isabeau sighed, "Fine but I'll have to ask McGonagall."
At the mention of the teacher's name the dog's ears drooped, but followed Isabeau anyway. Isabeau led the dog through the school to Professor McGonagall's office. When Isabeau knocked on the door she was answered by McGonagall's voice calling her to come in.
"Umm, Professor I found this dog on the grounds and I was wondering if I could keep it?" Isabeau asked sweetly.
McGonagall looked at Isabeau then looked at the dog. "Well you would need to clean it first, and then maybe get it some food."
"Thank you Professor." Isabeau stood up.
"Oh Isabeau, If I ever find out that, that dog has caused any problems, that dog is out." McGonagall said with a sense of finality.
"Professor, What if I caused the problem?"
"Then you'll get detention."
"Okay, see you tomorrow Professor." Isabeau said as she walked out of the office.
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At first everyone was upset at Isabeau, because her dog stank, but after a few dozen baths, and meals the complaints grew less and less. On the first Hogsmead visit on Halloween Isabeau, tracked Orion down in Three Broomsticks. "Hey can I talk to you?" Isabeau asked. When Orion stared at her blankly she tacked on "Now?"
Orion nodded, so she pulled him back to the very back of the pub and after threatening the fourth years that were sitting there, they got their spot to themselves. "So what do you want to talk to me about?" Orion said carefully. No one really knew how his sister's mind worked, least of all him.
"Our parents."
"What about them?" Orion asked not seeing what this had to do with anything. When they were adopted their families received letters explaining that their birth names were Isabeau Aquila Abbot and Orion (Rion) Robert Abbot and that they had twin sibling living at such and such address. On their first day of school Dumbledore took them to his office and explained that their parents had been killed in the war with Voldemort. Ever since then they hadn't really asked a lot of questions, now that Isabeau was bringing them up right now made absolutely no sense.
"Well, more specificity our father. I don't think he's dead, or ever was for that matter."
"Where are you going with this?"
"Sirius Black, I think that he's our father." There she said it, now she had to listen to her brother call her insane, then she had to get to Zonko's.
Orion however didn't call her insane, all he said was, "How the hell did you come up with that idea?"
"Simple really, I have his face and hair, you have his eyes."
Orion stared blankly at her, and thought she was insane. Why she had to come up to him on a perfectly good day like that one? It did not make any sense. Even he had better things to do. "When did you decide this?" he asked.
"When I was spacing out in the Leaky Caldron and ended up looking at his picture, which is posted all over that place like every where else, so it didn't take long for me to make the connection." Isabeau said. Then she looked at her brother's face and said, "You think I'm crazy don't you?"
"Yeah, pretty much." Rion said truthfully without thinking.
Isabeau's light blue eyes flashed with hurt and anger, reminding Rion of something that he couldn't quite place where he had seen that look and not on his sister. Then Isabeau swallowed tears, stood up, and said, "Fine, but now you know what I think."
As the rest of the school sat down in the Great Hall for the feast a loud explosion caused the whole student body, and staff to run out into the entrance hall. There they found a very funny sight. Draco Malfoy was hanging from the ceiling very much awake waving his wand around as his robes around his head but his pants suspiciously stuck to the ceiling. The other person was none other than Orion who was knocked out but his ears kept on growing more and more till at that point they had reached, the size of a small cat. Everyone thought that this was hysterical, excluding the teachers who were trying to get through the crowd to the two students. No one noticed the black haired girl pushing her way back in to the hall. Isabeau laughed as she sat down in the empty hall, revenge was sweet, but getting away with it was sweeter.
When Orion finally regained consciousness it was well past midnight, though he thought that he was still asleep. His ears hurt, and there was a strange man standing over him laughing to himself. Orion couldn't quite see the man's face because it was very dark but he could hear what the man was saying, " I see that she was right, Isabeau definitely has the spunk, but you are a time bomb, I'm betting by the time you're in seventh year, you will be a rebel like your sister. But anyway…" the man stopped talking and looked the other end of the ward, where the door was opening. Without making a sound the man got up from the bed and disappeared. Immediately after that two teachers came in their wands glowing.
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It was well past midnight but Isabeau was still up. It was almost Christmas, and the year was going great. Aside from the scare on Halloween, there had been no news about Sirius Black. This upset Isabeau a lot, she looked at the dog that had taken up the habit of sleeping at the foot of her bed, and she could always count on him as a guard dog, though sometimes during the middle of the night Isabeau would wake up to find him gone. This was such a night.
For some reason this made Isabeau feel extremely lonely, and scared. For comfort she held on to her locket. This locket she had had since she was born. It was given to her by her real parents, and she guessed it was her mother. Once again she found herself tinkering with the lock, when she opened it she found as usual two blank pieces of parchment. But unlike the rest of the times she had opened the locket she got an idea. Being a sister of Fred and George Weasly, and knowing how they got away with all of their pranks. She drew her wand and said, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." When nothing happened, she changed the words a bit, "I solemnly swear I am up to some good." Writing appeared on both pieces of paper. On the first page there was a letter, and then on the other one there was a map. Isabeau read the letter first,
Dear Isabeau,
I have given this to you because I think that you have more use than your brother, who did not make half the ruckus you made in the womb. Anyway I have given you this map as a good way to cause trouble, at Hogwarts. I know that your father would approve, he probably wishes he thought of this first but he was always a bit slow. I wish that I could be there for you, but if you are reading this then I was killed by Death Eaters, for my work as a double agent. I hope that Voldemort has been defeated by you read this. But if he isn't then always know that your job is to make his reign hell.
On a happier note, if you ever have seen the Marauder's Map, this map is a counter part to that; it shows some places that that map missed. I hope you will use it wisely, or at least recklessly. I hope that your father is showing you the ropes about how to get away with anything at Hogwarts. You were always his favorite. That's probably because he choose your name, well your first name any way. Anyway I hope that you grow up to be a beautiful woman, and tell your brother that I love him. I will always remember you both.
Love,
Ann Abbot
Your mother.
PS. If your father died in the war as well please know that he loved you and would never stop.
Then at the very bottom of the page was scrawled in very messy hand writing that was obviously written later than the rest of the letter was written:
He didn't do it.
Isabeau stared at the bottom of the page for a very long time, apparently her mother though that her father was innocent. That would explain one thing, why her mother loved her father, but it didn't explain the rest of the problem. To get her mind off the subject she looked at the map it read:
Miss Wingedears proudly presents;
AA's Map
A counterpart to the Marauder's map, but also can be used by it's self.
Isabeau gasped, on the map it was exactly the same as the Marauder's map, but the hand writing was different, and as she looked through the school, many more secret area's and on the sixth floor there was an arrow pointing to a wall and underneath the arrow read: Room of Requirement (unplotableand in the second floor girl's bathroom an arrow pointed to a sink and it read: Possible Chamber of Secrets, if you believe in that sort of thing. Isabeau was amazed, how had her mother known these things? It seemed impossible that anyone one person could know so many things, and still have a social life. As she scanned the map she found, that most of the castle was still asleep, Professor Lupin was pacing in his office, and only a few first years were sneaking around on the fifth floor. Just as she was about to close the map when she spotted something that caught her eye: Sirius Black (aka the dog). Isabeau sat up in bed, she was shocked. Now that she knew the truth, what was she going to do? Well first she had to get on her bathrobe, and then she walked down to the common room, to wait.
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AN: sorry about how it to get this up. Yesterday was the first day that I finished my homework before midnight so I had a chance to finish this chap. please review.
