Disclaimer: as I'm sure you know by now, I don't own Harry Potter nor am I making any money off of this story. The only characters I own are Alicia and Jay. Enjoy:]

Chapter 4

Jay's Story

As Jay sat there holding Alicia close to him, he began to think about her nightmares. He knew from experience that recurring nightmares were usually brought on by some sort of traumatic experience. Form what he knew about Alicia though, she'd never had a traumatic experience. Sure, what she was going through now could be considered traumatic but that still didn't explain the men she said she saw in her dreams. He decided then that he needed to talk to her about them, really talk.

"Hey Ali, could you tell me about your nightmares again please."

"Um, sure Jay, but could we possibly move to the bed because right now my legs are starting to go numb."

So they both moved to her bed. As they sad down, Alicia once again, told him about her nightmares. She told him how she kept seeing a man who terrified her. How he always had a snake with him. She told him how there was also another man, but this one didn't scare her as much. He seemed to radiate a sense of protectiveness and safety along with the darkness he seemed to emit. She told him how as time went on, they began to get stronger and more frequent.

"Is that all? Just the two guys and the snake?"

"Well…there is one more thing. Lately, I keep hearing the name, Harry Potter. I have no idea who that is though…"

That definitely took Jay by surprise. All of a sudden, he was struck with a memory that he had almost forgotten about. It had taken place five years ago. He had stayed after class to assist Professor Trelawney in cleaning the crystal balls. As they were finishing up, it happened. She dropped the ball she was cleaning and began to slightly shake.

"Professor? What's wrong?"

Then she began to talk in a deep, slow voice,

"On the 15th birthday of "the chosen one" a girl will appear that will aid him at defeating the Dark Lord. Not only will she help rid the world of a terrible evil, but she will also help a man with a terrible scar. She shall be the half blood prince's other half."

Then she began to blink rapidly, almost as if she were waking up from a deep slumber. She then noticed him standing beside her.

"Oh I'm sorry dear, did you say something?"

"N-n-no Pr-pr-professor. Um, I'm done now…may I go?"

After leaving her classroom, he ran all the way back to the dormitory and began to shake. After that day, he avoided Professor Trelawney whenever he could. Other than the divination classes, he steered clear from her as much as possible. Later, he quit the quidditch team, much to their dismay, and as the year went on he withdrew further into himself. His friends began to wonder what had him so preoccupied but he would only blow it off and blame it on the final exams. When the summer holidays were approaching, he got a letter form his relatives in America asking if he would like to spend the summer at their house.

It was almost as if they had known that he was desperately looking for an escape. For a long while he had decided that he no longer wanted to be a part of the wizarding world. The world in which both of his parents were killed by a mad man who was known as He Who Must Not Be Named. A mad man who, according to his divinations professor, would be returning soon. That was perhaps the catalyst to one of his most important decisions of his life. While at his relatives house, he decided to permanently stay there.

Once Hogwarts had been notified and all the proper paperwork was filed, he was signed up for a muggle school that same fall. As time went on and he met Alicia, he began to forget about the incident in Professor Trelawney's classroom. Since his relatives were muggles, he didn't get any news from the wizarding world. He didn't know that Harry Potter, the boy who lived, was currently in Hogwarts. He didn't know that just recently, the daily prophet had announced that the Dark Lord was back.

"Jay? What's wrong?"

As abruptly as the memory had come, it quickly vanished.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Listen, we need to talk."

"So you're saying you're a wizard? And that you think I'm part of some prophecy you heard from your professor?…Jay this isn't funny here?!? I'm having a really hard time here and you're just making fun of it all!"

As Alicia began to get up, Jay quickly grabbed her wrist and stopped her.

"No, Ali I'm not. Look,"

Jay pulled out his wand form his inner pocket of his jacket,

"Lumos!"

Alicia watched in amazement as the tip of the stick that Jay had pulled out of his pocket lit up. She then looked at him with questions in her eyes. If what he was saying was true, then there was an answer for all the weird things that had been happening to her lately. Grant it, it wasn't the most logical one, but it was still an answer.

"Wow!!"

"See Ali, I would never lie to you. Now back to your nightmares and such. You asked me before who Harry Potter was, I'll tell you."

Jay then proceeded to tell Alicia the story of The Boy Who Lived. He told her all about Voldermort and how he had tried to kill Harry but failed. How because of that, Harry Potter was so famous that every child in his world knew who he was. As the afternoon wore on, he told her the reasons as to why he decided to forget about the wizarding world.

"But, don't you miss it? I mean I get why you wanted to leave, but you grew up like that. Don't you sometimes wish you could still do magic and stuff?"

"Oh I can still do magic. See, I'm over 17 now, which is the legal age in the wizarding world, so I'm allowed to do magic. Also, because the Ministry knows I'm living with my muggle relatives here, they can't punish me for doing magic."

As Alicia processed what she had just been told, she began to think about something. It all made sense. How whenever she went over to his house there always seemed to be some secret they were keeping from her. She always blew it off as some sort of paranoia but now she understood what that secret was. Jay was a wizard!

"So…what do we do now?"

Even though she finally began to understand her nightmares and what they were probably telling her, she still wasn't sure what she was actually supposed to DO.

"Now? Now we have to go find Dumbledore."

"Who?"

Jay figured he might as well tell her everything now instead of waiting at the last second. He began telling her all about Hogwarts then. He told her that Dumbledore was the headmaster of the school. He told her all about the professors at Hogwarts,

"Then there's also the potions master, Professor Snape. I never liked him. He always favored the Slytherins and let them get away with whatever they wanted."

As he noticed the questioning look Alicia gave him, he told her all about the houses. He told her how he was in Hufflepuff and how he was on the quidditch team. Before she asked, he told her what quidditch was, as night grew closer he suddenly came to a decision.

"ok, if the prophecy's right, then you have to be there by tomorrow.."

"There? Where's there?"

She had been intently listening to Jay's story that the sudden outburst took her by surprise. It all sounded so fascinating! A hat that was placed on your head and told you where you belonged, being able to transform animals into inanimate objects, being able to make things fly, and this quidditch sport sounded really interesting!

"Well…I'm going to have to take you to Dumbledore, like I said before, and there meaning Hogwarts."

"You mean London?"

"Well…not exactly London but pretty much yeah…"

This definitely brought her up short. London?! She couldn't begin to imagine going there. What would she tell her parents? HOW would she get there? She had absolutely no money. Not only that but what was she supposed to do once they got there? She had no idea how long they were going to be there either. From what Jay had told her, this seemed like a long term thing, she had college to go to, she had a life here! Was she supposed to just simply forget about it all to help a world that an hour ago she didn't even know existed?

As she looked at her best friend, she knew. Yes, she was. That was exactly what she was supposed to do. She always knew that Jay lived with his aunt and uncle, he once had told her that his parents had been killed in a car crash when he was very small. Now she knew the truth, they had been killed by an evil psychopath who, according to this prophecy, she was supposed to help get rid of. If that meant getting rid of the man who murdered her best friend's parents then she would do it. She would do it for Jay. He had always been there for her when she needed him most, the least she could do was help get rid of the killer who made him leave his world behind. Before any of that could happen though, she needed to get to London, which she once again remembered, she had no money to go to.

"But Jay, I have no money. YOU have no money! How are we supposed to get over there!?"

"Don't worry about that Ali, I sort of lied before when I told you I had no money…"

After she had decided to go with him to London, she packed a small bag and they left her home. Before going out the door though she wrote a note to her parents telling them she was going on a trip with Jay, and it was last minute. She knew her parents loved jay, they'd let her go with him anywhere. As they entered Jay's house, and went up to his room, she began to wonder how much money Jay said he had. Even though he didn't have a job and his aunt and uncle didn't make much, Jay still managed to shop at very expensive stores. Once he closed the door to his bedroom, he opened up his laptop and pulled up his bank statement. Curious, Alicia stood behind him to see. He had defiantly been lying before! He probably had enough money in there to buy himself a house!

As the plane landed, she began to feel very queasy. According to Jay, in a couple of hours she would come face to face with one of the greatest wizards in history! Albus Dumbledore. Once they left the airport and got in a taxi, Jay gave the driver an address.

"How do you know where to go?"

"You seem to be forgetting that I used to live here Al."

As they got out of the taxi, she looked at the building they were standing in front of. It was a really shabby looking structure. The paint on the sign seemed to be fading terribly and it looked as if it had been here for hundreds of years. Once the taxi left and Jay turned back, she look at him questioningly,

"The Leaky Cauldron? Why are we here? Is this some sort of hotel?"

"You can see it?!"

"Well…of course I can see it. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not blind! Besides, I'm wearing contacts right now!"

Jay was speechless for a couple of minutes. He always assumed Alicia was supposed to help Harry by helping him locate some sort of weapon or something. If she could see the Leaky Cauldron then that meant that she had wizard blood. She was a witch! But how was that possible? From what he knew, she never got a letter otherwise she would've told him about it when he told her about the wizarding world. What was going on here? He definitely needed to get to Dumbledore as soon as possible.

"Oh, well…it's just that muggles can't see it. It's a wizard pub."

"Oh…ok then."

Alicia was just as confused about it as Jay was, if not more. What did this mean then? Was she a witch? Could she do magic just like Jay could? It would definitely help her in helping this Harry kid.

As they made their way inside the pub, Alicia had a good look around. It was dark and it smelled of some sort of liqueur. Before she could ask Jay anything though, a voice called to him.

"James is that you?!"

She turned towards the source of the voice as Jay did. A girl was sitting in the corner, accompanied by an older looking man. He looked like he didn't feel very well, not to mention he was wearing ragged looking clothing. The girl looked to be his exact opposite. She was young, with modern pants and a shirt. Her hair was a bright pink. Before she could ask Jay who the girl was, he spoke,

"Tonks?!"

Well, here's another chapter! I decided that Jay had to be included in the whole fight against Voldermort thing. Hope you guys don't mind…lol well, please review :P the ones who do will get a cookie =)