Chapter 4
Alex jumped as she saw her brother's head in the mirror.

"Harry!"

"Alex, thank God your there!" Harry answered.

Alex screamed again, almost dropping the mirror.

Alex shoved the mirror behind her back and looked up at Lily. She was staring at her with questioning eyes.

"Are you alright?" She asked, sitting up on the bed.

"I um…I have to go to the….yea I'll be right back." Alex bolted for the bathroom again; locking the door behind her she pulled the mirror in front of her and stared in disbelief.

Alex poked the mirror with her index finger.

"Harry…how did you get in there?" Alex asked slowly, examining the mirror, thoroughly confused.

"Alex I'm in our time…the future for you I guess. This was the only way to contact you; we've been waiting here for hours."

Alex bit her bottom lip."We?"

Ron's face appeared in the mirror pushing Harry's out of the way.

"Thank Merlin you're alright, we've been worried sick. What are you doing in the past anyway…have you seen…you know…them?"

Alex nodded.

"I can't come back until I righted a wrong or something like that…or until I find another port key…I really don't know Dumbledore didn't tell me anything."

"Yea, he didn't tell us anything either."

Hermione's head was now in the mirror.

"This is completely going against nature!" She screeched. "What happens if you change something and you two don't end up being born or something!? Suddenly you'll disappear and Ron and I won't know what to do! Alex, don't do anything stupid." Hermione began to get a little too emotional.

Alex sighed. "I know Hermione; I'm not going to change anything."

Hermione was wringing her hands together. "What have you told people so far?"

"Mostly that I was home schooled and I'm from Germany."

"Good. That should work…wait, you don't know anything about Germany. I know these great texts in the library…wait; do you think they're that old? Would they still be there?"

"Hermione, chill out it's ok. I'll figure out something."

"Alex…are you ok?" It was Lily.

"Um…yea I'm fine I'll be right out." She yelled through the door. She turned to Hermione's head. "Put Harry back on."

Harry pushed Hermione out of the way and looked at his sister through the cold glass of the broken mirror.

"You've seen them then?" He asked quietly.

Alex nodded. "I never understood until now. When you saw them 4th year, and you tried to tell me, I didn't understand."

Harry nodded. "Must be weird, seeing them in the flesh." His eyes became downcast as he tried to find something to focus on next to him.

"Harry, I didn't ask for this. If I could go my whole life without seeing them I would. This, this is too much. I wish you were here." A tear began welling in Alex's eye. She took a deep breath. "I don't know if I can do this alone Harry."

Alex could see Harry was deep in thought. He nodded slowly and tried to smile.

"Make sure they still name me Harry, I don't want to end up being called Francis because of you."

Alex laughed. "It would serve you right."

Harry's face was brighter, "I'll talk to you soon?"

Alex nodded. "I couldn't have it any other way. Tell Ron I'm sorry I didn't get to talk to him as much."

Harry turned his head and whispered something to Ron, Alex assumed.

Harry smiled. "You're boyfriend says he'll count down the minutes until he can talk to you again." Alex's eyes widened as a fist hit Harry in the shoulder knocking him out of view.

"He's not my boyfriend!" Alex shrieked. The mirror went blank and Alex was left standing in the bathroom, completely bewildered.

"What a prat." Alex mumbled as she walked out of the bathroom.

Lily was standing by her bed, looking at Alex strangely.

"Uh, hi." Alex said awkwardly.

"Were you talking to yourself?"

"Oh, no, um it was my brother." Alex stated a little nervously. She wasn't sure how this was going to work.

"You have a brother?" Lily asked. A small built girl with long black hair walked into the room and stood next to Lily, she nodded to Alex and looked to her friend with questions in her eyes.

"Alex, this is Gemini." Lily said brightly. Gemini just nodded and stood next to Lily.

"Hi." Alex said with a smile.

"Alex is from Germany." Lily supplied. Gemini didn't really look like she cared much.

"Where's she sleeping?" Gemini asked with a hint of attitude.

"On the empty bed over there." Alex said, pointing.

Gemini nodded. "Has she been warned about Colette and Vinnie?"

Alex looked confused.

Lily shook her head. "No, I haven't had a chance. So there are two other girls in the room, Colette and Lavinnia. They uh…they're sort of…."

"Cruel, heartless, prissy, unbearable, spoiled, mean….the list continues." Gemini said with no feeling.

Alex tried not to laugh. This girl had some spunk. She reminded Alex of herself.

"Alex was just telling me she had a brother. Tell me about that mirror, that was…weird." Lily looked down at Alex's hand. She was still holding the mirror.

"Oh, this, it's for me and my brother Har…Harold." Alex wasn't sure if she should use Harry or not. She shrugged it off and hoped it wouldn't change anything. She continued, "He's still off being homeschooled so to communicate we have these mirrors. We're really close."

Lily smiled. "I wish I were close to my sister, we uh, we don't get along so well."

Alex nodded knowingly. "Is she difficult to get along with?" She knew all too well how her Aunt Petunia was.

Lily laughed. "You have no idea. She's off at some boarding school. I think she's jealous because I'm a witch."

Gemini smiled. "Or just jealous because you have friends."

Lily's eyes widened. "Gemini that's terrible!"

She shrugged. "She may be your sister, but she's still insufferable."

"Apparently she has a boyfriend now." Lily said with a giggle. "Vernon. He sounds pretty pompous if you ask me."

Gemini and Lily burst into laughter together. Alex watched them, an emotion welled inside her. Was it joy? Sadness? Alex couldn't tell. She looked at this girl across from her, red hair, green eyes, laughter, life. This was her mother. The emotion was overwhelming her, Alex couldn't breathe. She took a deep breath and held back her tears.

"So…do you guys have boyfriends?" Alex asked casually, trying to change the subject. They shook their heads.

"I have my eye on one though." Lily smiled. "His name is Edward…well, Eddie, McGrowder. He is so dreamy." Lily nodded. She remembered Hagrid telling her that her parents didn't date until seventh year, so she had nothing to worry about. She still couldn't let her mother date this Eddie guy, what if something were to happen? This must be why she was sent, to make sure things went as planned…for the most part. Lily looked at Alex strangely again.

"Are you sure you're ok?" She asked. Alex nodded.

"I'm just not used to the school yet I guess. It's very different from being home schooled." She lied. Alex looked at her watch; it was near 1:30 in the morning.

"Oh wow, look at the time!" Alex exclaimed. Gemini looked over at her wall clock that hung above her head board.

"Whoa, it's late we'd better get to bed." Gemini stated. They smiled at Alex, Lily gave her one last look to make sure she was alright, then drew her curtains around the bed and fell asleep.

Alex wondered where the other two girls were. Just as soon as she thought it two girls dragged themselves in, frantically whispering to one another.

Colette stopped.

"Who are you?" She asked Alex abruptly. Alex was just standing in the middle of the room.

"My name is Alex…I'm from Germany."

"Oh really? Me too." Lavinnia exclaimed. "What part?" Alex looked around.

"Um…the green part." Lavinnia looked at Colette.

"Which part would that be?"

"Um…Look, I have to go somewhere real quick, I won't be gone long then we can finish our little…chat." Alex smiled quickly and dashed behind them and down the stairs to the common room.

"How odd." Colette exclaimed.

Alex made it to the common room without fail, tip toeing the whole way.

The boys were already there waiting.

"Oh good you came." Sirius said happily.

"Of course. I'm a rebel, that's why I was sent here, I couldn't keep out of trouble at home."

"Perfect, then you'll fit right in." James stated. As he talked he brought out an invisibility cloak.

"I'm not sure if everyone's going to be able to fit under here." He said looking at the cloak.

"It's fit five before." Alex said on impulse again. She really needed to stop that. Alex mentally scolded herself again.

"What?" Peter asked uncertainly.

"Nothing, I didn't say anything."

"I could have sworn you said something." Peter said.

"Well, I didn't."

Peter shrugged.

They all got into a huddle and James threw the cloak over them.

"Is everybody under?" James whispered. Every one whispered a positive response and soon they were all on their way to the passage way to Honeydukes.