Tom Riddle had one daughter. Just one. But he never knew that she existed. Lela knew that her love for Tom would not save him from the downward spiral to evil. She knew that her daughter could never grow up in this world. Evil was something a child should never be around. So she took her to the one person that would keep her the safest. She took her daughter to the one that was destined to one day best Tom. She took her daughter to Harry Potter. This is how Carina Nott Riddle because Cara Potter.
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Chapter Three: Hagrid
Apparently away in the Dursley's mind mean to go to the tiny little island house where you can do absolutely nothing. I hated it there. I was completely surrounded by water and there was nothing I could do about it. There were no other houses on this tiny little island and I was sure I was starting to go insane. Since there really wasn't much for the Dursleys to yell about they mostly left us alone. Most of the days on the island Harry and I would sit on the beach with are feet in the water and I would read to him. I had found some other books stored away in the tiny house and I was currently working on a book about advance mathematics.
"I don't think I've ever been more board." Harry complained as he lay down in the sand. About twenty feet from us Dudley was running into the water and slashing around making a fool of himself.
"I'm sure you have but you just can't remember." I said without looking up.
"I doubt it." Harry mumbles. I can tell he's depressed. Tomorrow is his birthday and mine as well as we have so decided.
"I know what will cheer you up." He gives me a look that say you're insane but I just grab his hand and pull him to his feet. "Come on!" I said. I practically dragged him back to the house. Let me tell you dragging Harry Potter is not an easy task. You would think that he'd shut up once in a while but no he complains the whole way. I sighed and threw the door open shoving Harry inside. I fell and glared at me. I simply smiled.
I walked over to our back pack of things and dug through it until I found what I needed.
I made my way back to a pouting Harry and shoved the tiny small box into his hands. He looked at me and then down at the box before he tore into the wrapping paper made of scribbles. In his hands he held a metal picture frame with silver designs. It had cost me three months of mowing the grass for me to earn enough money to buy it. In the frame was a picture on the unmistakable Lily Evens. I had found it one day when I was cleaning the Dursley's attic. When Harry looked up I mean I saw instant tears in his eyes. I gave him a soft smile before he threw his arms around me in a hug.
I was a little surprised at first but I hugged him back all the same.
"Thank you Cara, you have no idea how special this is to me." Harry whispered in my ear. I just held him tighter. About five minutes later and about a thousand thank yous from Harry. He wondered over to the backpack and pulled out the small box that he had gotten from our cupboard. When he sat down across from me he shoved the box in my hands. I looked at him for a moment and wondered what it could be. I finally decided that (since Harry obviously wasn't going to tell me) the only thing to do is to open it up.
I pulled off the lid and what greeted me left me surprised. I pulled out a tiny miniature piano that fit in the palm of my hand. The black surface was covered with a glassy paint. I flipped it over to see a golden engraving.
To my best friend Carina Riddle aka Cara Potter
Your brother Harry
I saw a little knob and I twisted it. The next thing I knew I heard the soft sound of a piano and I realized that the miniature piano was a music box. It must have cost Harry a fortune. Money was very hard to come by. I looked up a Harry.
"It took me a few years to get the money but I just knew that you would love it." And I do. I love it more then anything I have in my pathetic life. I threw my arms around his neck and cried. This was the nicest thing he or anyone else has ever done for me.
Harry was working on the eleven candles on top of the cake that I had drawn in the dirt on the floor where we laid. I finished up the 'Happy Birthday' and looked at the watch on Dudley's wrist. One minute to midnight. As Harry finished his mission he came to lie beside me in front of the roaring fire. We both looked at Dudley's watch and waited.
5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
"Make a wise, Harry."
"Make a wish, Cara." We spoke at the same time and at the same time we closed our eye and wished for the same thing.
Someone please help us.
With this wish we blew the 'candles' out and dirt flew away from us. The next thing that I knew the door was being banged on.
1 bang- Harry and I had turned around to see what was going on.
2 bangs- Everyone in the house was up.
3 bangs- Harry was pulling me to my feet and behind the fire place.
4 bangs- The door comes crashing down.
Harry and I hid quietly beside the fireplace waiting for danger to pass. We listened as someone stomped into the house and I pulled Harry closer.
"Sorry 'bout that." We listened quietly as the booming voice rang through the house.
"I demand that you leave at once!" Oh shut the hell up Uncle Vernon. "You are breaking and entering." Yes I believe that is quite clear to all of us that this dude is breaking down the door and entering. Thanks captain obvious. There were a few more monsters steps and then the booming voice rang again.
"Dry up Dursleys. You great prune." Harry had to cover my mouth to keep me from bursting out in laughter. I mean of all the insults to use on Uncle Vernon that one had to be the funniest I had ever heard. But what happened next had me shocked. There was a sound of metal turning and then a gun fire. What the hell?
"Well, I haven't seen you since you was a baby Harry. But you're a bit more along then I would have expected; particularly around the middle." Harry and I looked at each other and then at Dudley who was cowering on top of a table. So this stranger thought that Dudley was Harry. But then how did this stranger even know Harry?
"I'm not…I'm not Harry." Dudley stuttered. Harry looked at me and I could tell from that look in his eyes that he was about to do something incredibly stupid or in his words brave. But brave people are usual stupid or at least in my opinion. Then Harry moves out of my grasp and into the open. All the time I whispering how he is a stupid idiot.
"I am." He says to the stranger. I glare at him. Does he have a death wish? I'm sure I can grant him that if it is what he wishes.
"Well of course you are." Dude didn't you just assume that the idiot Dudley was Harry? I just don't get this. "Got something for you. Afraid I might have sat on it at some point but I imagine it'll taste fine just the same." I peeked around the corner and watched at the HUGE man handed Harry and box with a ribbon wrapped around it. "Baked it myself." He said as Harry unwrapped it to revel a pink cake with green letters. "Words and all."
"Thank you." Harry said a bit surprised. He looked at me and motioned for me to come out but I shook my head. I was not going to be that stupid. I just wasn't.
"It's not every day when your young man turns eleven now is it?" The giant man sat down on the couch and drew out his…umbrella? Then two flames shot out of this 'umbrella' and lit the room with the dancing red flames. Everyone's eyes widened even mine. So this guy was a wizard. Harry set down the cake on the table beside the couch and I wanted to laugh when I saw Dudley eye it.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" Of course it had to be Harry to ask the question. Always the idiotic noble one.
"Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." He said while poking the fire. "Of course you'll know all about Hogwarts." I looked around and saw the Dursleys start to panic. They were hiding something. Something important.
"Sorry, no." At this answer Hagrid seemed lost and confused.
"No?" He also sounded a little shocked. "Blimey Harry didn't you ever wonder where you mum and dad learned it all?"
"Leaned what?" I found myself stepping out of my hiding place involuntarily. Fine, if Harry was going to play stupid then I guess that I would have to play brain.
"Magic." I said before Hagrid could speak.
"Yes. I knew that." Harry said as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Sure you did." I rolled my eyes.
"And who are you?" Hagrid said. His deep and friendly voice had suddenly turned suspicious.
"Carina."
"She's my sister." Harry said. I smiled at him. Okay stupid act was going away.
"I wasn't aware that you had a sister." Hagrid said. His eyes skimmed over me. "You look oddly familiar. Who are you're parents.
"I assure you sir that I have never met my parents before. I have lived with the Dursleys my whole life." I explained.
"Well anyway. Harry you're a wizard." He went on to explain. I think he was expecting Harry to be shocked but as I have said before Harry and I already have had experience with powers. "And a thumpin' good one I'd wager once you've trained up a bit." It was at this point that Hagrid reached into his coat and pulled out a letter. I had seen these types of letters before. Mine rested in my back pocket and I knew Harry knew exactly what the letter was.
He opened it with haste and I couldn't help but smile. He had seemed so down when Uncle Vernon kept taking away his letters. It was nice to see him finally happy.
"'Dear Mr. Potter, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.'" He read as a wide grin crossed his face.
"He will not be going!" Uncle Vernon rushed over angrily. Bye-bye happy grin. "We swore when we took him in that we would put a stop to all this rubbish!" Okay now even this surprised me. I mean how could the fat prat know that Harry had magical powers and never tell him. Now that is just plain rude and Harry thought the same.
"You knew!" He shouted. "You knew and you never told me?" I was a little surprised. Harry was never really angry that was usually my department. But right now I had never seen him so enraged. His green eyes were so wide with anger that I swear they were going to pop out any second now.
"Of course we knew." Aunt Petunia sneered. "How could you not be?" What is she talking about? "My perfect sister being who she was. Oh I remember the day she got her letter. My parents were so proud. We have a witch in the family. Isn't it wonderful?" She was slowly advancing toward us. I grabbed Harry's hand. He might have been able to keep a calm face but I knew Harry well enough to know that inside he was a mess. "I was the only one who saw her for what she really was... a freak." I saw the hurt look flash in Harry's eyes and his grip tightened on my hand. I too understood this. How could she say that about Harry's mother? It was just mean. "And then she met that Potter, then she had you and I knew you would be the same just as strange just as abnormal." Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia sneered at us. "And then, if you please, she got herself blown up, and we got landed with you." Okay I lied when I had said I had never seen Harry angrier. Right now I swear he had gone into full blown rage.
"Blown up?! You told me my parents died in a car crash!" He yelled in is fury.
"A car crash?" Hagrid's voice shook the whole house. I grabbed Harry hand again but this time in fear. "A car crash killed Lily and James Potter?!"
"We had to say something." Aunt Petunia said. Really was that the best she could have come up with? I mean we all knew that she hated Harry.
"It's an outrage. It's a scandal!"
"He will not be going!" I think I'm having some Déjà vu. Hasn't he said this before?
"Oh and I suppose a great muggle like yourself is going to stop him." Hagrid said in a mocking tone. Harry and I looked at each other. What on earth was a muggle?
"Muggle?" Harry asked.
"Non-magic folk." Hagrid pointed a finger to Harry. "This boy's had his name down since he were born. He's going to the finest school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world. And he'll be under the finest headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore..." A sense of wonder filled Hagrid's voice and I understood immediately that this stranger idolized this 'Dumbledore'.
"I will not be paying for some crack pot old fool to teach him magic tricks!" Oh dude. Very bad move.
"Never insult Albus Dumbledore in front of me..." He raised his 'umbrella' so it was point straight at Uncle Vernon's face. His eyes then flickered the Dudley. I followed his gaze and my eyes landed on where Dudley stood hunched over stuffing his face with the cake that Hagrid had given Harry. With a flick of his 'umbrella' a pig's tale grew from Dudley's behind.
Aunt Petunia let out a scream and Uncle Vernon started yelling. I broke out in laughter and had to lean on a laughing Harry for support. Hagrid looked down at us and smiled.
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone at Hogwarts about that Strictly speaking I'm not supposed to do magic." We both smiled up at the huge man with laughter clearly in his eyes.
"Okay"
"Sure" Hagrid pulled out a golden pocket watch and looked down at the time. He gave a deep frown.
"We're a bit behind schedule." He looked at us. "You will also be coming with us. You got you letter of course didn't you Miss Riddle?" I nodded. "Best be off then." He turned and pulled down the door he had previously put up after knocking down. Neither Harry nor I moved. "Unless you'd rather stay, of course." Both Harry and I took that as cue to hurry up. I grabbed our backpack while Harry grabbed our jackets. I took his hand and we both smiled.
We were finally free. Or at least for a while.
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