Disclaimer : I don't own Harry Potter but Alicia is mine
Chapter 6
"Oh, look, Harry, I can see an owl coming!"
Ginny and Harry had been waiting for a letter from McGonagall. She was supposed to tell them what house their daughter had been sorted in.
Now Ginny let the school owl enter their kitchen. Harry had already taken the letter.
They were finally going to know.
With trembling hands, Harry opened the letter.
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Harry let out a cry of horror. He was still clutching the letter in his right hand. His body was shaking.
"Harry? Are you all right?"
Harry was having troubles breathing.
"Ali … must be a mistake … talk to McGonagall …"
Ginny looked at husband as if he was mad. What was he talking about?
"Harry, please calm down and explain it all to me."
It had been a long time since Ginny had seen Harry so scared. She tried to grab the letter from Harry's grip, but he stopped her.
"No," he said.
He had stopped shaking.
"I'm going to Hogwarts, Ginny. I need to speak to someone."
He handed Ginny the letter and then disappeared.
Ginny read the letter.
"Dear Harry and Ginny,
As you asked me to, here is the symbol of the house your daughter has been sorted in.
Professor McGonagall, Headmistress of Hogwarts."
Ginny gasped as she spotted the symbol under Minerva's letter. It was a snake.
A snake that looked very menacing.
A snake that looked very clever.
A snake that had big green eyes.
Alicia …
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"Why do you want to meet my father?" Elisabeth asked again.
Alicia didn't answer. She had dragged Elisabeth into their private dorm. The brown book lay open on her lap, and her face was hidden behind a long curtain of red hair.
Elisabeth couldn't see the grin on Alicia's lips.
If she had, she wouldn't have given so much information about her family.
"Fascinating …" Alicia murmured as she continued to read.
Elisabeth sighed. She wished she had never become friends with such a mysterious girl.
"It says in this book that your father used to be one of the Dark Lord's servants. Is that true?"
Elisabeth felt annoyed but she tried to hide it.
"My father was a very naïve young man. He didn't know what to do. He did his time in Azkaban. Now, however, he's not interested anymore in the dark arts."
Alicia looked up at Elisabeth's pale face.
"I'd still like to meet him."
Elisabeth frowned.
"I may look very dumb, Alicia, but I'm not my father. I'm much wiser and I won't turn into anyone's servant. Now tell me exactly what you're planning."
Alicia had seen this coming. Elisabeth was the person she knew best.
Alicia had felt this rebellion coming.
How tiresome people could be!
"Dear Elisabeth, Alicia said kindly, I don't think you have understood me very well. I'm not planning anything. It's just that, like so many other Slytherins here, I'm very interested in the dark arts. Your father knew Voldemort, the most powerful wizard. That is why I'd like to meet him."
Elisabeth relaxed immediately. She wanted to believe her friend. So she nodded silently, as if ashamed of her outburst.
"Good, Alicia said sweetly, now get me a pencil and a piece of parchment."
Elisabeth did as she was told.
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Harry appeared at the Hogwarts' gates. A normal wizard wouldn't be able to go any further.
Harry was no normal wizard.
He knew Hogwarts very well. He tapped the gates and said the password that protected it.
The gates opened and Harry walked in.
He went up into the castle. Many students stared at him and whispered to each other.
"Yes, it's Harry Potter! Harry Potter is here, at Hogwarts!"
Harry would have smiled if he wasn't too wrapped up in his thoughts. Twenty years ago, when he had made his very first entrance in Hogwarts, the children had acted exactly the same.
Harry knew Hogwarts very well. He stood in front of the large ugly stone gargoyle and waited.
What was the password?
Harry tried a few words but it didn't work.
Then a young man came.
"Harry?"
Harry turned. He fell face to face with one of his childhood's friend.
Neville Longbottom.
Neville had become the new Herbology teacher at Hogwarts.
"Neville!" Harry cried.
They shook hands happily. Neville was a handsome man, married and had four kids.
"What brings you here?" Neville asked.
"My daughter."
"Alicia? Ah yes! What a wonderful student she is! It's shame she has been put into Slytherin."
"That's why I'm here, Harry felt his anger rising, there must be a mistake."
"A mistake? Are you sure?" Neville frowned.
"Yes, I'm sure. Why would I be wrong? She doesn't belong in Slytherin! The hat must be getting old."
"Well, she's certainly happy in her house.The Slytherin kids keep coming over to her!"
"Poor child, Harry said, she doesn't know what they're capable of."
"Harry …"
"Her place is in Gryffindor."
"Before making any changes, Harry, you must talk to her about it."
There was silence. Harry didn't know what to say. But he knew Neville was right. First he had to speak to Alicia about it.
"Where is she?" He asked at last.
"It's a sunny day. She's probably outside, having a walk with her friend Elisabeth."
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Elisabeth and Alicia were indeed outside. They were sitting on the grass, near the lake, their feet swimming in the water.
"All dark wizards loose one day," Elisabeth said.
Alicia shook her red hair.
"That's because they all have a weakness."
Elisabeth snorted.
"The Dark Lord didn't have any weakness!"
Alicia thought for a while, trying to remembering what she had read in her father's books and in the library.
"Voldemort had a weakness, I'm sure of that. Just like everyone I met has."
Elisabeth nodded.
"Well, we're humans!" She laughed.
Alicia frowned.
"At the end of his life Voldemort was barely a human. His soul had been cut in many pieces."
Elisabeth gasped.
"What? How can that be?"
Alicia shrugged.
"I just read something like that in "The Last Horcruxe", a book written by one of my father's friends, Luna Lovegood or something."
The two girls were silent for a while. Elisabeth stood up and with her wand, she dried her feet.
Alicia, however, didn't move. She was staring at the clear blue sky.
What weakness could Voldemort have had?
And suddenly, as Alicia thought of her parents, she found what Voldemort had never known.
Love.
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Harry almost ran out of the castle. He was in a hurry to see Alicia again.
He found her near the lake, dressed in a short green and silver skirt. A blond girl was standing beside her, also wearing Slytherin's colours.
Harry felt his heart beat very hard in him. Why was he so scared to talk to his own daughter?
But he felt as if Alicia had changed a lot in the past few days. As he watched her stand up and put her neat little shoes, he could see a different light in her eyes.
She seemed so older than the little innocent girl he knew.
Harry watched her for a while and then decided to talk to her.
He approached her slowly.
"Ali!" He called.
Alicia turned with a sweet smile that immediately faded away.
"Dad?"
Author's note : Tadam, here is the chapter 6.
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