Harry glanced over at his friends to see if they had heard…which they hadn't and were just talking casually. Then he looked over to Elizabeth to see her expression towards his subject, but obviously she had already known or just didn't care because she was just sitting in the same position in her chair as she was when she first sat down, shoulders back, back straight, head up, expressionless face. Finally Harry turned back to look at Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore
"Have you gone mad?!?!" exclaimed Harry.
"Listen Harry, we know that this is hard for you to comprehend, but we figure that this is the right decision" explained McGonagall.
"This is literally impossible" said Harry.
"Oh and how do you figure Mr. Potter?" asked McGonagall.
Harry thought about how he would word his explanation, and then began. "This girl is younger than me, my parents would have had to of had he after I was given to the Dursley's or else I would of remembered her. That means that if she is infact my sister that she would have had to been born after I was given to the Dursley's, which is logically impossible because both of my parents were…ah…, dead by then."
"Harry, there is one problem with your solution…Elizabeth happens to be older than you by seven minutes and thirty seven seconds, making it possible for Elizabeth to be your twin." McGonagall explained.
"There is one thing absolutely insane about what you have just said ma'm" said Harry.
"Oh? And what would that be?" asked McGonagall.
"…How in the world would you two be able to know the exact birth times or us two" questioned Harry, while pointing to himself and Elizabeth, who was just sitting there.
McGonagall said nothing, but began to scramble through her purse (something Harry had never seen her carry in his life) and finally pulled out two folded up pieces of paper and began to open them. "This is how we know your birth dates and times. These were tied to your ankle, Harry when you were put on Albus's doorstep and this one was tied onto Elizabeth's" she answered, placing one of the two sheets of paper in front of Harry and the other in front of Elizabeth. Harry recognized them to be birth certificates. "Although, we can't be positive that Elizabeth is your sister on account of there is not last name on her certificate which was mind boggling to us both" said McGonagall while glancing over to Dumbledore, "but the most confusing thing is that the hospital that the certificate says Elizabeth was born at, has no record of her birth."
Once again, silence fell over them. Harry looked at both McGonagall and Dumbledore in their eyes and then focused his eyes onto Elizabeth. Harry could not believe that for the hour to an hour and a half that she had just looked off into space and did not voice her opinion on any of this non sense.
"Okay…one thing, how come Elizabeth doesn't talk? She hasn't yawned, coughed, sneezed, or talked for the past hour to and hour in a half, all she did was just sit there and stared at who knows what.
"You see Harry, for the past 13-14 years that we have been raising Elizabeth, whenever we or anyone would bring up the subject of her parents or her being a witch, it is almost as if she goes into a state of shock and she doesn't talk or move for an hour or two" explained Dumbledore.
"So what do you expect for me to do with her right now if she wont move or even talk for that matter?" asked Harry.
"McGonagall and I are going to go home, freshen up a bit, run some errands, take a walk in the park, and then meet you back here. Until then, we expect you to become well acquainted with Elizabeth."
"How am I supposed to get acquainted with her if she won't talk?"
"You will have to entertain yourself in here for awhile with Miss. Granger and Mr. Weasly until Elizabeth feels comfortable enough to talk to you." Said McGonagall.
"Fine."
"We will see you four in a couple of hours" said Dumbledore awhile looking at the four teens and walking out into the warm, morning sunshine that had just made it's way up over the horizon.
Immediately after the two of them were out of sight Ron and Hermione ran over to where Dumbledore and McGonagall had just been sitting, sat down and Ron just exploded wit questions, "Who is she? How are you? Why were McGonagall and Dumbledore talking to you? How come you didn't reply to any of our letters? What did McGonagall and Dumbledore have to tell you? Why…"
"Would you shush up for as little of 5 second so that Harry could tell us about his summer so far and has time to answer at least one of your questions?" said Hermione.
"Geeze…someone is pushy today" Ron said. Hermione just ignored the comment so that Harry could speak.
"Alright" Harry began. He told tem about how horrid his summer had been so far and could not possibly spend another day with the Dursley's. Once he noticed that Hermione and Ron were bored by his summer story, he started with the story about what had happen today. He started with waking up at 6:30 to his doorbell ringing, walking to the coffee shop, seeing the birth certificates, the girls silence, and practically anything that was worth mentioning. His explaining took all of 30-45 minutes but seemed like eternities to Harry. Once Harry finished, Ron started asking questions again.
"She can't possibly be your sister, can she?"
"Well, mayb…"
"So what if I am his sister, what does it matter to you?" suddenly asked Elizabeth. The trio just looked at her in total amazement. "What, never seen a teenage girl talk before with the exception of her?" she asked while pointing to Hermione.
"Actually….we HAVE NOT heard you speak before" said Ron smart ellicly.
"Well, excuse me for not wanting to spe…" started Elizabeth before she got cut off by Hermione who was trying to prevent a fight from happening.
"Listen Elizabeth, I am sorry for my friends' rudeness, it is just that we are all surprised to hear you speak so soon. I mean, Dumbledore and McGonagall told Harry that you might not speak or move for a matter of a few hours, and it has only been an hour since they left."
Harry was still just staring at Elizabeth, with his eyes wide open and his jaw dropped because he still could not believe that she had spoken.
"Okay first off, I hate being called Elizabeth and like to be called Lizzie. Second of all, you are hearing me talk now, so would you tell my "brother" over here to stop staring at me?" said Lizzie.
Ron began to snap his fingers in front of Harry's face, "Harry snap out of it." When that didn't work he called over Hermione to help.
"Ron, snapping won't do anything. Here, let me be more useful then you. Step aside.
Just then Hermione slapped Harry across the face and yelled into his ear, "SNAP OUT OF IT!" Harry tipped over in his chair.
"What was that all about Hermione?" asked Harry.
"Sorry, but you wouldn't stop staring at Lizzie." Said Hermione.
"Oh, well…okay. Sorry Lizzie." said Harry, "Um, Ron…Hermione, you never told me how you got here and how you found me."
"Well, we just took my dad's car" said Ron.
"Hmm…well didn't people see you and wonder while you were in the air? And how in the world did you actually find me?"
"We put on the invisibility in the air. About finding you…well, we went to your house and figured that it wouldn't be the best choice to knock on the door, so we got back into the car and flew up to your window. We saw no one in there…so we just went on a search. We checked the park and every store on your street until we came here, and here you are!" explained Hermione.
"Wow, why did you guys want to find me so bad"
"We wanted to make sure you were alright Harry, you weren't returning our letters" said Ron.
"Letters? What letters?" asked Harry.
"Ron and I must have sent you at least five each, but none of them had replies" said Hermione.
"Well, I have to tell you that I have got none at all, I wonder what happened" said Harry.
"Exxxcuse me, but am I chop liver or something? You cut me out of your conversation!" said Lizzie.
"Sorry Elizabeth…it is just that we have not seen each other or heard from each other for the longest time and…" started Harry.
"Does it look as though I care? And you are going to call me LIZZIE!"
"If you're going to be like that, we are not going to talk to you at all" said Harry, "What do you expect us to talk about with you?"
Lizzie just began to glare at Harry. Everything fell silent for a matter of about three in a half minutes.
"Hey Potter…Lizzie" said a voice.
"Hey Draco, I have missed you so much!" said Lizzie while jumping up from her chair and giving him a big hug. The trio just had a big astonished that it was if it was planted into their faces.
"Malfoy!" shouted the trio in unison, "What are you doing here?"
"Not that you should care, but they brought me here" Draco said while pointing in the direction of he doors as Mr. Malfoy, Dumbledore, and McGonagall stepped in and came over to where everyone was now standing instead of sitting.
"Hello kids…how have you all been getting along?" asked McGonagall.
"Just peachy" said Harry while gritting his teeth, but how do Draco and Lizzie know each other?"
"Oh, over the summers and winter holidays; Lizzie visits with them so that she is not so bored all the time." said Dumbledore.
"Well, what does she do when you two have to be at school?" asked Hermione.
"We just send her to a boarding school, she has never wanted to go to "school", but we are going to force her to go this year because she has missed two years already and can not afford to miss another" explained McGonagall.
"Oh."
"Yes and ah, we have some news for you Mr. Potter" said McGonagall.
"Um, is it good or bad news?"
"Well…" McGonagall started. She began to study Harry's face for she knew that he would not like this news, but lied anyway. "It is good news…we know that you hate the Dursley's. Is that correct?"
"Hell ya!" said Harry but then got the evil eyes from Dumbledore, "Sorry for my language…continue."
"Dumbledore and I have decided that while summer break and the winter holidays are here that you should be spending them at the Malfoy's."
