All the characters of Harry Potter belong to J. , not me. However, Aquila is my OC.
I hope you like it!
Harry walked to the library the morning after the "incident" with Snape. He had asked Hermione about books with Pureblood lineages giving her the excuse of trying to figure it out if he had any distant cousins from his Dad's side. She, of course, sent him a sympathetic look and told him that there was one near the Restricted Session.
He decided that he should check that too. Maybe he had distant cousins that would like to stay with him during the summers. The green-eyed boy entered in the session that the book should be, there was girl with mountains of books in the table she was sitting. Or she was as obsessed as Hermione with books or she was hiding from someone.
Harry heard her start to talk in hushed tones even when she was completely alone. He hid himself behind a bookshelf trying to hear what she was saying.
"You better start talking or I won't help you anymore, Alex!" She hissed angrily. Harry heard a sound coming from the same table she was, but much low so he couldn't tell what it was.
The girl groaned. "Alex, I'm breaking the law for you. Don't say I never did anything risky for you. I'll lift the Charm off this phone if you don't say what you need from this lineages book!"
A cellphone. The girl charmed a phone to talk to someone. Harry was amazed and shocked at the same time.
"Okay. Black and Prince families? Just the living ones in the families, why?" The girl frowned while listening to Alex's answer. After a second she smiled as if she had just heard the best news ever. "You found him? Where? The ritual too?"
Harry frowned in confusion, who did the person on the phone find? What ritual were they talking about?
"You're not with him? But Layla's locator spell worked, right? Give me the address. Maybe I can ask Aunt Emma to search the place for him." Pause for his answer and the boy-who-lived heard the girl write something on a piece of parchment. "Okay, okay! I'm on the page with the Black family open right now."
The boy went a little closer, but not much because if he did, maybe she would see him. What would someone need names from the Black family anyway?
"Alive? Okay. There are the children of Cygnus Black, three sisters, Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy and Andromeda Tonks. The latter was disowned though. She has a daughter, Nynphadora. Bellatrix has no children, but Narcissa has a son, Draco, he's one year younger than me."
There was a pause again. Harry stopped. Tonks was Malfoy's cousin? They looked nothing alike! Then again, Malfoy looked more like his father, but he had the same grey eyes Sirius had.
"Now there are Orion's children, Regulus and Sirius. Sirius has no children, figures, he spent 12 years in Azkaban, can't see anyone having children there." She sneered, Harry felt like hexing her. "But, damn, if he had, they would be hot." Then she chuckled.
"Now the Prince family… Just Katherine and Severus Snape, he teaches Potions here, my second favorite teacher, although, he is the Head of my House. I need to turn it off; Madam Pince is glaring at me. Oh wait. I just saw something." Harry heard her turn many pages. "Here, Harry Potter. You know, the guy who supposedly killed Voldemort years ago and saw him coming back two years ago? That I believed. Anyway, his grandmother was Dorea Black. Now I really need to turn it off!"
There was a brief pause before she said something. "Okay, I'll be careful. You too. Okay? Don't die. Tell Aunt Lena that I want more letters from her. Bye!"
Harry heard her sigh and saw her rest her head on the table. Maybe he could talk to her, she was with the book he needed anyway. He walked to her table. The girl had dark brown hair; he cleared his throat when he was in front of her table. The strange thing is, her hair immediately turned black when she raised her head quickly.
She looked a bit confused, maybe by the fact that it was a Gryffindor trying to talk to a Slytherin – he figured that part when she said that Snape was the Head of her House. He decided to be nice if he wanted to find things about the strange girl that apparently knew about Snape's sister, otherwise she would have been shocked.
"Need any help?" She asked and Harry almost choked. A Slytherin had just offered him help?
The boy hesitated, but nodded. "Uhm, yeah. My Potions essay. I couldn't finish it and I can't think of what else to write."
"What is it about?" She asked. He could see her Prefect badge on her robes.
"The Catena potion. I just need some of its usages." He explained. It wasn't a lie; he did need help with that part of the essay Snape had passed.
She motioned to the chair in front of her. "Sit, you'll be more comfortable." He did what she said. "The Catena potion has two usages. The first is to make a temporary connection between the two people drinking the potion, making both able to feel each others feelings and talk inside each others heads."
Harry noted down all she was saying. " A lot like reading each others minds?" He asked.
"You could say that." She answered. "Just to check, what is supposed to be in the cup the people will drink?"
"They should put hair of the other person on the cup with the potion." He answered her.
She smiled a little. "Correct. The second usage is to draw energy and power from the other person, that why it is dangerous. What is the usual duration of the potion?"
It took him fifteen seconds to remember. "One to two years at most. Depends if the person already has a magical connection with the other."
Harry finished the notes he wrote down and smiled in gratitude. "Thanks, you're a life saver."
She shrugged, "Nah, I doubt that. I'm a Prefect, I'm supposed to help people, even if they're not from my House."
"I never learned your name."
"Aquila." She said, he didn't asked for the last name because he didn't want to push his luck with the only nice Slytherin he'd ever met.
"Harry." He said in return; Aquila seemed pleased for the lack of Potter in his phrase, although, for some reason, he knew that she knew that he was Harry Potter. The scar and the glasses made it kind of obvious.
"Need anymore help?" Aquila asked.
"Yes, do you know of any books with the pureblood lineages?"
"This one" she handed him the book that was by her left. "May I ask why?"
"Just curiosity."
"Okay. Have fun. Tell me your grade on the paper when you get it back. I've got to go, or McGonagall will eat me alive." Aquila joked and he couldn't help but chuckle. She gathered her things and stood up.
"Thanks for the help." He thanked again.
"No problem!" She said leaving the library, earning a hiss from Madam Pince.
Harry opened the book eagerly going as fast as he could to where Aquila had found Snape's name. The Prince family.
There were loads of dots with names Harry didn't care to look. All he looked for was Katherine and Severus. And there they were, under Eileen Snape née Prince. But what shocked Harry weren't the fact that Snape did have a sister, but that fact that there were two dots right under Katherine's, which meant she had children.
Harry opened the book eagerly going as fast as he could to where Aquila had found Snape's name. The Prince family.
There were loads of dots with names Harry didn't care to look. All he looked for was Katherine and Severus. And there they were, under Eileen Snape née Prince. But what shocked Harry weren't the fact that Snape did have a sister, but that fact that there were two dots right under Katherine's, which meant she had children.
But the things is, he couldn't read the names. Not for the lack of trying, of course. It didn't matter how hard Harry tried, the names just kept getting blurrier. For a second he thought it was his vision getting worse, but he shook the idea off because he could read the other names just fine.
The boy almost had a heart attack when someone said, "Hello, Harry." He closed the book quickly and looked to the person by his side. Was it just him, or did Luna just suddenly appear by people's side at the oddest times?
"Luna, don't scare me like that!" Harry said trying to calm his heartbeats.
She shrugged, "I'm sorry, I was just going to tell you that there's no use trying to read some of the names in the pureblood lineages book."
"Why?" Harry asked curious.
"A spell, when someone in the family don't want a family member revealed, they put a spell on the name, like a glamour, but only another family member can take it off." The blonde explained, "If you don't mind me asking, who were you looking for? Maybe I can help you with whatever you need…"
The green-eyed boy almost told her, but then he remembered Snape's threat and decided against it. The man hated him already, it would be worse if he did anything the man would take as threatening to his privacy.
"I appreciate the offer, Luna, I really do, but I want to keep this to myself." He said and she nodded understandingly.
"Okay, if you need anyone to help you, I'm here. Just watch out for the wracksputs!" With that she left as silently as she entered before he could say anything.
If someone ever told Harry that within two weeks he would befriend with a Slytherin, he would've have given the person one-way ticket to St. Mungos. But the world did take strange turns.
"Please?" He begged for the millionth time.
The girl was scowling extremely annoyed, "No, no, no and no! Did I mention no? I don't think so, NO!"
"Oh, c'mon, Aquila! I've been helping you out for weeks, why can't you tell me how you charmed the phone to work?"
"It's something against the law, Harry. If I tell you I'm sure-hell, I'm more than sure- that you'll charm another one to use it." She hissed angrily organizing the books she had used in the library. They started to meet in the library everyday since they met each other, and Harry had to admit, it was being good for him to hang with someone different from his friends.
Aquila looked at him, blue eyes glaring at his startling green ones, Harry bit his lip, which gave away his answer, she grunted. He chuckled.
"I hate you." She said putting a book on the shelf she had picked it from.
"No, you don't." Harry stated, she glared at him more. "But I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stop you from killing me anyway.
The brunette girl smirked at his words. "You're smart, keep it like that."
"Is that a compliment I hear?"
"Not really, just a tip." She smirked when he pouted.
"Please?"
Another grunt, "Can't you stop with that? Why would you even use a telephone? No one here uses it!"
"You do!" He disagreed.
Aquila's eyes narrowed, "That's different! I use it to talk with my family, which is one ocean away from me most of the time!"
With that answer, Harry was silenced. He would use any kind of way he could to talk to Sirius; he couldn't exactly blame her for doing it. Even if she broke the law.
The girl took a deep breath to calm down. "Look, Harry, you have enough problems with the Ministry of Magic already. There's no need to put one more thing on their 'why should we send Harry Potter to Azkaban' list.
He nodded sadly at her response. Aquila finished putting the books back in the shelves and was about to walk away when she stopped by his side.
"Why do I have a feeling that something bad will happen to you tonight?" she whispered stroking a notebook she carried around all the time.
Harry shrugged, "I don't know." Then he smiled weakly at her, "But don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die." He tried to joke, but the older girl only bit her lip and left.
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