Chapter 6: An Unknown Past (Part I)
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"I need to speak to Elizabeth for a moment" said Mr. Weasley.
Elizabeth got up from her chair and headed out the door with Mr. Weasley. Harry wanted to know what it was that he was going to talk to Elizabeth about.
Elizabeth followed Mr. Weasley out of the door and into the entrance hall.
"Alright so I want the four of you to go into the study first and start cleaning there. It never seems to stay clean for long" said Mrs. Weasley.
Ginny, Hermione, Ron and Harry nodded and walked out of the kitchen toward the study.
"So…are you going to tell us about your dream now?" said Ron, as soon as they entered the study.
"I suppose I should. I don't think anyone will hear us in here" said Harry.
"So what happened?" said Hermione.
Harry started to describe in detail what he had dreamt the night before; Ginny, Hermione and Ron listened intently.
"I can't believe you actually saw what happened to Elizabeth and her mother" said Hermione shocked.
"Do you think she knows that you dreamt about her?" said Ginny.
"I don't know" said Harry.
"Probably not, I mean she would have reacted differently toward us if she'd know he had dreamt of her" said Ron.
"I'm more concerned with the connection that Harry and her share. I mean why would Harry dream about someone he had never seen before" said Hermione.
Their conversation went on for about half an hour. Everyone kept on talking back and forth about why they thought Harry had dreamt of Elizabeth. Neither of them could come to a consensus about the reason.
"Nothing seems to make sense" said Harry.
"Nothing that happens to us makes any sense mate, and…" Ron managed to say before Hermione interrupted him.
"Be quiet, someone is coming" she said.
They all turned toward the door and listened. Hermione was right; they could hear footsteps approaching the door. They head a soft knock on the door and Harry said "Come in." It was Elizabeth.
"Mrs. Weasley said you would be here. I thought I should come and help you clean" Elizabeth said walking in.
She seemed very nervous and uncomfortable being there with them.
"Come in we're trying to clean all of the bookcases" said Ginny handing her some cleaning supplies.
Elizabeth took the cleaning supplies and started to clean the bookshelves next to Hermione and Ginny.
"So…can you tell us about the school that you went to?" asked Hermione.
Elizabeth began to tell them all about living in Spain and the time she spent in school.. They talked about school, muggle sports, Quidditch; and Elizabeth seemed to gradually feel less uncomfortable being with them. They finished the study and moved to the dinning room area to clean there too. Before anyone knew it they'd been talking for hours. After cleaning they had lunch and then back to more cleaning. Harry couldn't believe how much the house got dirty, and then he couldn't believe that he began to like cleaning. It gave him the time to get to know Elizabeth. In just a few hours he had learned a lot of things about her; she preferred to be called Liz, she was allergic to any kind of peanuts, she loved dogs, etc. She was a very easy person to get along with and he felt very sorry for her and wanted to know more than ever why he had dreamt of her; and if he should even tell her that.
"I bought Crookshanks there two years ago" said Hermione; making Harry come back from his thoughts.
"I haven't been there in a while. I used to go often when I was a child" said Liz.
There was a knock on the door and Mrs. Weasley came in.
"Some of the Order members are starting to arrive we are going to have dinner before the meeting. Come on dinner is almost ready" she said.
Harry and the others got up and headed to the kitchen.
Lupin, Mr. Weasley, Tonks and some other order members were in the kitchen when Harry went in. They seemed to have been whispering to each other, but stopped suddenly when they saw Harry and the others enter the kitchen. Lupin smiled at Harry when he saw him; yet Harry saw that he looked extremely tired, and age wore on his face.
"Sit down everyone. I will be serving dinner in a minute" said Mrs. Weasley.
"Harry, how are you?" said Lupin.
"I'm good. How about you?" said Harry.
"I'm good too" answered Lupin; but Harry knew he was lying.
Dinner went by quickly, and no one talked very much. Harry felt the tension in the room. He knew that they were all waiting eagerly for the Order meeting to start; Ron couldn't keep his leg from twitching, Hermione kept tapping her fingers on the table. Like Harry they also thought that maybe tonight they would find out more about Liz.
At a quarter to eight, Mr. Weasley took Harry and the others into the Order room. It was the room next to the study. The room was incredibly huge. It had dark blue walls covered with tapestries. There was a fireplace at the end of the room, and there was a big round table in the center of the room. Harry and the others sat down, Liz was almost directly in front of him. In the next few minutes other Order members arrived; Mad Eye Moody, Professor McGonagall, Fred, George, Bill, Charlie and a couple others.
At exactly eight o'clock Professor Dumbledore entered the room. Except he wasn't alone, Snape was with him. Harry felt an urge of anger and loathing toward Snape. He still couldn't believe that Snape was part of the Order. Nonetheless, he said nothing.
Professor Dumbledore sat down at the table, with the fireplace behind him. He smiled at everyone and then said:
"Good Evening. Now that we are all here, I think it's a good time to start."
Harry's heart began to beat fast. He was sure they would be talking about Liz and her parents and maybe even about the dreams that he was having, but it hadn't occurred to him that maybe Dumbledore would say something about Voldemort. He hadn't heard much about him in the papers; they were probably just covering up the truth. Now that he was sitting there he was very eager to hear what the order knew about Voldemort.
"It would be best if we start at the beginning. Or like I was told 'It would be no good to hide anything'" said Dumbledore, and then he turned to Liz, "I agree that it is the best thing to do at the moment. To do, that I think Elizabeth would be the one to start."
Everyone turned to look at Liz; she hesitated to a moment before she said anything.
"Before I can say anything about what has happened in the last few weeks, I think it would be best if I explained why they happened. Now, I think I'm right in saying that no one here knows about my ancestors, is that correct?" said Elizabeth, she looked at Dumbledore and he simply nodded.
Harry wondered what she meant by "ancestors."
Liz took a deep breath and then said "I'm a Withan."
Mrs. Weasley gasped a little bit and Hermione just gaped out. Harry didn't understand what she had just said. Did Liz say she was a "Withan?" He didn't know what she meant, and when he looked over to Ron he looked just as dumfounded as Harry.
"I thought the blood line of the four had extinguished centuries ago" said Hermione.
"Elizabeth is the last surviving member of two of them. There may be others, but it is highly unlikely" said Dumbledore.
"Wait. I don't understand. What is a 'Withan'?" said Harry.