A/N: Sorry that I haven't updated in a while I've had writers block and I've been busy :)
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As they stepped into the office, they saw a man sitting in a rather large chair, Albus Dumbledore.
Harry and Scarlett stared at their feet, Ron however was staring straight at the man, the minute they had walked into the office they saw the colour in Ron's face drain,
"I see you have found your ability, Miss Lawton." Dumbledore spoke gently, his eyes twinkling brightly.
Both Harry and Scarlett looked up at Dumbledore, Harry looked confused and the elder smiled at him before gesturing towards the window, they all walked over towards the window and looked out, there just below they could see the lake where Scarlett had been just that morning.
Ron nodded silently and turned back to face Dumbledore, the colour in his face had returned a little,
"So... You saw it all, Sir?" Harry asked curiously, he looked quickly around the office and then his gaze fell back on the Professor who was nodding his head slowly,
"I assure you Mister Malfoy and his friends will be punished." he whispered peering over his glasses at Scarlett,
"S-sir, what do you mean... ability?" she spoke, barely above a whisper, she stared at the man who seemed to look older as each minute passed,
"Well, when you went into the water and you transformed, my child." He spoke gently again, getting up out of his seat, he walked closer to Scarlett and stared into her eyes, "Your eyes, they speak the truth of your ability, Miss Lawton." Dumbledore nodded, and Scarlett looked at Harry who was edging over to look at her eyes,
"So what is she, Professor Dumbledore?" Ron piped up, confusion and anxiety in his voice.
Dumbledore turned to face both Harry and Ron, then back at Scarlett, "May I?" he asked, Scarlett nodded and stood next to Ron, she was clearly anxious and scared,
"You, my child," he started, looking Scarlett right in her fiery red eyes, "are a Syreni."
"A Syreni?" Hermione whispered, and all three of them nodded, she sat back in her chair and looked around the common room in bewilderment,
"What's a Syreni, Hermione?" Harry asked looking up over his book, they were sitting at one of the few tables in the 'Homework Corner' as they called it, because it had bookcases on either sides and many Gryffindor's chose to do their homework there.
Hermione cleared there throat and Ron rolled his eyes, leaning his head on his left hand, he was preparing for her big speech.
"A Syreni, or commonly known as a Mermaid, is an aquatic creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, China, and India. Mermaids are sometimes thought of as perilous creatures associated with floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drowning." She stopped to take a breath and get comfortable in her chair "Many muggles think that they invented the idea of mermaids; they think they aren't real. Apparently though, an old witch had told her muggle neighbours children stories of mermaids, and they had told their parents, and so on and so forth, mermaids are thought of as a fictional species." Hermione quoted, she frowned at Ron who appeared to have not understood a word of what she said.
Scarlett noticed and rolled her eyes, "Honestly, Ron, it's not that hard to understand." and Harry nodded in agreement.
Ron just shrugged and pulled his quill and parchment out and began starting his Charms homework, Harry too started his homework and Ron kept glancing over to Harry's parchment to occasionally copy a good part.
Scarlett watched in amusement as he glanced up at her and smirked, he sat back in his chair, his hands folded, still smirking,
"I wonder if the Professor would be able to find out if someone had copied someone else.." he spoke, Hermione looked confused and he winked at her and looked towards Ron who had stopped writing and was staring at his parchment, biting his lip.
Hermione cracked first and burst out laughing, followed by Scarlett and Harry, soon all four of them we're laughing, nearly falling off their chairs.
"Harry! Harry look! Look!" came the voice of Neville Longbottom, he was holding out a copy of the Daily Prophet, Harry took the paper and frowned
"Gringotts was broken into!" he exclaimed, gaining the attention of some older Gryffindor's who all crowded around Harry, Scarlett looked at the other tables, each we're crowded round a copy of the Daily Prophet, it was the front page and the picture was of a dozen goblins crowded around an open vault,
"Gringotts hasn't been broken in since... well... never!" Hermione exclaimed throwing her hands in the air, all of the Gryffindor's had returned to their seats now,
"Something definitely is off here. Look at the date, that's when I visited Gringotts with Hagrid!" Harry exclaimed, pointing his index finger at the date,
"Yeah, I saw you and Hagrid walking in." Scarlett nodded biting into a piece of toast,
"Hagrid took a little parcel out the vault, said it was important that Dumbledore needs to get it." Harry continued and frowned,
"Maybe we should ask Dumbledore?" Ron suggested and piled another two pieces of toast onto his plate,
"What do we have first?" Scarlett asked quickly, changing the subject, she didn't really want to see Dumbledore again for a while. Hermione pulled out her neatly folded timetable,
"Potions – with Professor Snape." She spoke, trying to hide the disappointment in her voice, and clearly failing as she noticed Ron grinning,
Scarlett finished her juice and as soon as she got her bag Hermione was leading her out of the Great Hall and into the corridor, followed by Harry and a confused Ron,
"We need to go to class, if we're so much as five minutes late, Professor Snape will have us in the minus'" Hermione sighed, and lead the way to Potions.
"Well that was a disaster." Harry sighed and leant on Ron who looked equally tired,
Hermione and Scarlett nodded and Scarlett pinched the bridge of her nose,
"Would you care to enlighten us all on what lesson we have next, Hermione?" Scarlett spoke, the sentence dripping with sarcasm;
Hermione looked up from her timetable and was beaming,
"Well?" Harry asked curiously,
"Flying." Hermione grinned.
"With the Slytherins!" Ron added, and they all groaned and made their way out to the field.
"Up!" Scarlett commanded, Harry's and Malfoy's had gone straight up, Hermione's took a few times and Ron's hit him in the face,
"UP!" she said sternly, the broom gracefully lifted off the ground and into her hand,
'Odd, everyone else's had gone up quickly.' She thought, but pushed the thought's away as Madam Hooch was telling everyone to mount their brooms,
she and all the other Gryffindor's watched in horror as Neville went higher and higher,
the Slytherin's were howling in laughter as Neville fell off his broom,
"Mister Longbottom get back here this instant!" Madam Hooch shouted, and she immediately ran forward as Neville fell to the ground,
"Everyone stays here while I take Mister Longbottom to the Infirmary." Madam Hooch spoke as she rushed Neville to the Infirmary.
"Hey look. Looks like Longbottom forgot his Remembrall!" Malfoy exclaimed picking it up off the ground and smirking,
"Give that back, Malfoy." Harry demanded, stepping towards Malfoy,
"You'll have to come get it." Malfoy taunted, mounting his broom and kicking off, Harry too mounted his broom,
"Harry you cannot be serious! You could be expelled!" Hermione exclaimed gripping Harry's arm,
"I have too." Harry spoke, and before Hermione could list the many reasons why he shouldn't do it Harry was up in the air, gliding gracefully.
"Crikey he's good at flying already." Ron spoke, and watched as Malfoy threw the Remembrall and Harry sped up and caught it.
They all gasped as they watched Harry start to wobble, and gasped once again as they noticed there was now three figures flying,
Hermione turned around and frowned,
"Where's Scarlett?" she asked and then it hit them, Scarlett had gone up there too to help Harry.
"Harry, concentrate!" Scarlett spoke, as she tried to guide Harry,
"Put the Remembrall in your pocket, that way you can use both hands on the broom."
Harry did as she told him to and steadied on the broom,
Scarlett's father had already given her flying lessons before school had started, so she was pretty ahead of them all,
"That's it, good. Now follow me." She instructed and turned back towards where everyone else was, they were cheering at them,
they landed on the ground and we're crowded by a dozen excited Gryffindor's,
"Mister Potter! Miss Lawton! Come with me!" came a female voice, Professor McGonagall, everyone turned to her in horror, and moved out the way so Scarlett and Harry could follow her.
All of the Slytherin's smirked.
"They're going to get it now." A Slytherin commented and the others nodded in agreement.
Little did they know they would get far from that.