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Chapter Three:
Albus Potter
"Does this make me a bad wizard?"
After my folks had said good-bye, I walked onto the train with James. The train looked a lot different on the inside than on the outside I had noticed. I was so caught up in taking the scene in that I barely noticed my brother walk away.
"HEY JAMES!" A boy called to my brother. Jame's face exploded into a grin.
"Catch you later, okay Albus?" James said. Not bothering to introduce me or to offer me a place to sit with them.
So, I guess you could say I was on my own. The train corridors were pretty much cleared now. I looked in every compartment. They were all filled with students rejoicing over seeing their friends again. Practically all of them were packed with students. It was almost too many students to make the compartment comfortable. I sighed as I searched.
"EEEEEEEEEEK!" I heard a high pitch screech coming from a compartment at the end of a deserted corridor. I quickly ran in. I put my hand on my wand, even though I didn't exactly know much about how to use it. I still figured that I should just in case. My Dad has always stressed constant vigilance. I ran in to find a girl with crazy curly hair sprawled on the floor. She had obviously fallen.
"Um... are you alright?" I stammered. The girl stared up at me for a minute, puzzled. She was obviously a first year. Her face then went redder than I thought was possible. "Here, let me help you up." I said, offering her a hand.
"Um, thanks. I think I'm okay. Really." She said as she awkwardly dusted her self off. I noticed that there was nobody in the compartment with her.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" I asked, setting my stuff down on a chair.
"Sure. I promise I won't fall and practically kill myself again. If I do, it's a good thing you're here." She joked with a crocked smile with dimples. I couldn't help laughing.
"I'm Albus. Albus Potter." I said, extending my hand for her to shake. Mother says it's always good manners to shake someone's hand- even if it seems stupid.
"I'm Arielle. But I don't like my name." She said, shaking my hand three times. I thought about Teddy Lupin's Mother. She had died fighting in the battle of Hogwart's, but she hadn't liked her name either and had came up with the quirky but cool nickname of Tonks. It had been her surname. But then Arielle's eyes widened. "Wait, you're the son of Harry Potter! THE Harry Potter!" She then clasped both her hands over her mouth. I blushed from embarrassment. I loved my Dad and all. Really, I do. But sometimes having your Dad being a famous wizard and all is really no party.
"Uh yeah. I guess." I said. I hated it when other kids thought I was like royalty or something.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to say that! My Mouth just blabbers away sometimes and I can't control it!" She said. She seemed to mean her apology. She can't control her mouth, hates her name, and seems clumsy from when I walked when. She seems a lot like Tonks... Even though I never met Tonks. I thought silently in my head. For that, I decided to forgive her.
"It's okay." I said. Her face then turned really pale as she got a serious expression on her face. Uh oh…. Does she really think I'm royalty or- My thought were interrupted as a scaly body climbed over my hand. I drew my hand back in shock and gasped a little. Suddenly, by accident I knocked a snake that appeared to be slithering over my hand to the ground.
"VINCENT!" I heard her yelled…. In parsol tounge? My eyes widened as I was drawn into a flashback of the night when I was four after I learned I could speak parsol tounge. I was supposed to have gone to bed two hours ago but I was sitting on my Daddy's lap saying I couldn't sleep.
"Why can't you sleep, Albus?" Daddy asked, cradling me in his arms.
"Well… You know when Mommy screamed because there was a snake in the garden?"
"Yes?"
"Well… I think I can talk to the snake. Like something takes over me and I speak another language. Is that bad? Couldn't the Dark Lord speak to snakes too?" I remember asking my Dad. I couldn't help but start crying at the next part. "Does that mean that I'm going to be a Dark Wizard too?" I said as tears fell out of my eyes and soaked my Father's shirt.
Daddy got a far away look in his eyes. I couldn't tell if he was happy or sad. We didn't really speak much about the past or the Dark Lord at my house. Dad says that it was a part of the past and that it should probably stay in the past. I guess I hadn't really thought much about it, but after fighting the greatest Dark Wizard in history, you are rather changed for life. Maybe even a little scarred in your heart? Is that how Daddy feels?
"Son," Father began, putting his fingers under my chin and gently turning my face so I could meet his eyes. "Just because you can talk to snakes does not mean you are going to be a Dark Wizard. Just because you possess a quality that other don't have does not mean you are evil, or different, or anything else. Speaking to Snakes doesn't make someone evil. Nobody has just good or bad in them. Everybody has both good and bad. It just depends what people decided to act on. " Father said. I remember Daddy telling me that that's what a good cousin of his told him once. I think I would have liked this cousin.
"Are you sure Daddy?" I asked, rubbing my wet eyes and cheeks.
"I'm sure. Besides I know someone who's not a Dark Wizard that speaks Parsol Tongue."
"Parsol Tounge? Is that what they call my ability? "
"Yup." Said Dad with a little smile. He used his fingers to wipe away my drying tears.
"Well, who is it?" I asked. I couldn't think of any likely candidates.
"Me." My Father told me. My eyes widened with shock and my hands clasped over my mouth. "My parsol tounge saved your Mother's life when we were in school." He said. His eyes clouded as though he was taking a trip down memories lane. He was referring to the time my Mother was in the Chamber of Secrets. But we don't talk about it much at our house.
"So maybe Parsol tounge isn't such a bad thing?" I asked.
"Nope. Not at all." My Father said with a big grin. I then threw my arms around my Dad's neck in a bear hug.
"Shouldn't you be in bed?" My Mother asked, walking into the living room. She was assuming Dad had lost track of time again. She then noticed my puffy eyes and Dad's soaked shirt.
"Now he is." My Dad said, picking me up and tickling me so I giggled. My Mother smiled. I guessed she figured that my father would tell her later. My Dad carried me to bed that night and tucked me in. Mommy gave me a good night kiss first, and then walked away so she could go to bed. My Dad then gave me a good night kiss.
"Good night Daddy I love you." I said. Dad smiled.
"I love you too son." He said, I then suddenly realized that he said it in Parsol tounge as he walked out of the room and quietly closed the door.
"I have the coolest Dad in the world!" I had quietly shouted in parsol tounge once alone in my bedroom. What I hadn't known at the time is that my Father had smiled when he heard it from outside the door when he was walking back to bed.
I snapped out of my memories and realized that Arielle was staring at me. I thought I would never met another kid who could speak parsol tounge liked me. I wondered if she had. I decided probably not, there really aren't many of us in the world who are able to do it.
"You can speak parsol tongue too?" I asked in parsol tounge, smiling broadly.
"Yup." Said, grinning as equally big.
"So I'm not the only freak around here."
"Freak? I prefer specially programmed to do exotic things." She said. We both then laughed and laughed. Arielle and I talked for the rest of the time being. I even met Vincent, her pet snake. Unlike the snake I had met in the garden. Vincent was very well mannered and cultured. He sounded more like a professor than a snake, really.
We soon felt the train slow to a stop. Vincent climbed into Arielle's cloak pocket.
"We must be here." She declared. She slowly stood up and picked up her bag. I noticed she grasped onto the edge of the seat, probably to make sure she wouldn't fall.
"Yeah." I agreed. "Let's get into the corridor." I said. I opened the sliding door that leads us out of our compartment and into the corridor. It was now packed with students jabbering to each other. "I hear the first years get a boat ride." I said to Arielle.
"Yeah…" She said, trailing off. She bit down on her lip. What was so wrong with a boat ride? I wondered. I soon saw a very familiar half giant as I walked off the train with Arielle at my side. This half giant was calling all first years over to him. I couldn't help but run ahead of Arielle- who was pulling her cloak over her head- to see Hagrid.
"Hagrid!" I shouted. Hagrid's enormous face grinned when he saw me. Once I came near, he wrapped me in a bear hug. That was when Arielle had caught up.
"Good to see 'ya Lass." Hagrid said, messing up my hair with his giant hands and fingers. "Are 'ye excited for the boat ride?" he asked.
"Definitely!" I said. I glanced over at Arielle, she looked less than thrilled to be riding in a boat. She was looking over her shoulder. The expression on her face was puzzled.
"Hagrid! Meet my friend Arielle!" I said. Arielle suddenly snapped out of whatever was capturing her attention.
"Hello… Er… Arielle." Hagrid said. I had a feeling the cloak thing was making him feel a little uncomfortable. "Welcome, to er… Hogwarts." He finished with as much as a smile as he could muster.
Arielle's friendly smile faded at this. She stared at her combat boots, looking at the ground with an expression that I could not read.
"Pleasure's all mine." She muttered, her voice hushed. I shot her a confused look; she didn't meet my eye. But Hagrid was glancing at his watch.
"Time to go on 'yer boat ride into Hogwarts, folks!" Hagrid shouted. He walked us down to the lake, and we were all smashed into boats. Arielle was closest to the edge of the boat. I was next to her and our seats were in the middle section of the boat. I noticed Arielle was taking deep breaths. Her eyes were shut tightly and I could tell she was tensing up.
"Arielle?" I asked. "Is something wrong-"
"All right lads! Let's get this show on the road!" Hagrid shouted.
The boat ride had begun.
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