Again sorry for the late update my parents have gone away and i'm left doggy-sitting and she's a lot of hard work to be honest lol. So thanks again for the reviews and I wonder how many times I can put that before you get sick of reading it. Here you might recognise some stuff taken from both wizards and the order of the phoenix but i'm not having too much similarites I want to put my own ideas in.

Chapter 6 – All is revealed

Both Alex and Harry made their way slowly up the staircase when Harry held out his arm stopping Alex in her tracks pulling her behind a suit of armour.

"What is it?" Alex hissed peering out from behind the suit of armour to try and catch a glimpse of what they were hiding from.

"Peeves," Harry murmured in a hushed tone Alex hardly heard what he'd said when out of the corner of her eye she saw an ink bottle flying towards them, pushing Harry out of the way ducking as the bottle smashed against the wall coating the wall with black ink.

"PEEVES!" Harry snarled picking himself up and looking furiously at the poltergeist as Peeves rolled in mid-air cackling wickedly.

"Was Potty Wee Potter and friend trying to hide?" Peeves asked eyeing the two suspiciously, his evil grin still plastered on his face. Harry and Alex continued making their way to the Gryffindor common room while Peeves pursued them singing his rhyme.

"Oh, most think he's barking, the potty wee lad. But some are more kindly and think he's just sad. But Peeves knows better and just thinks he's mad."

"LEAVE US ALONE!" Harry bellowed but it didn't make much of a difference the poltergeist carried on following the pair of Gryffindor's until they finally reached the seventh floor.

"Wait potty and friend I have one last rhyme for you." Peeves smiled wickedly floating in front of them.

"Now Potter you're ugly but what can we do. Everyone thinks you belong in a zoo. If you look in the mirror you'll find it'll crack. Peeves suggests you wear a nice sack."

"OUT OF THE WAY!" Harry yelled taking a swipe at Peeves.

"Just leave it Harry." Alex breathed tugging on Harry's robes. They finally managed to ditch Peeves and finally standing in front of the portrait of 'The Fat Lady'.

"Password?"

"Flibbertigibbet." Harry replied as the portrait swung open. Harry and Alex climbed through the portrait hole into the common room where they were greeted by Ron.

"How was detention?" He asked his eye's shifting from his parchment.

"Fine." Harry replied crashing down into one of the comfy armchairs as Alex began making her way up to the girl's dormitory when Hermione caught her shoulder.

"You said you'd tell me how you did that spell in potions this morning." She demanded now blocking Alex's path, Alex groaned letting Hermione lead her to where the two boys were sitting, also allowing herself to collapse into the armchair.

"So how did you do it?" Hermione asked, all three of them now fixing their eyes on Alex.

"Well they're called make em ups." Alex sighed.

"You just have to make it rhyme and the wizarding world will grant the spell…only you have to get it right because they take you very literally." Alex explained her eye's shifting to look around the common room finally catching sight of her little brother.

"Max," She called beckoning him over to where they were all sat.

"Max remember when dad taught us make em ups?" Alex asked her little brother.

"Can you say the spell dad told you to do before?" She continued fixing her dark eye's on him.

"Sure." He replied excitedly then frowning.

"What was the spell again?" He asked as Alex wrote down the spell for Max to read.

"Satisfy my empty belly make me a peanut butter and jelly." He read suddenly transforming in front of their eyes into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

"Ahh great I'm starving." Ron sighed reaching towards the sandwich.

"NO!" Alex explained snatching the sandwich from his grip.

"You can't eat Max, this is what I mean by them taking you literally." Alex explained setting the sandwich back onto the table.

"Although I like such tasty snacks I'd rather have my brother Max." Alex said as the sandwich transformed back into Max. Harry, Ron and Hermione sat in their seats dumbfounded.

"Cool." Ron finally breathed breaking the silence between them.

"So what else can you do?" Harry asked his eye's fixed on Alex when Hermione interrupted.

"In the library I found a book and it said that you can lose your powers…what does it mean by that?" She asked her eye's shifting from Alex to Max.

"Oh well we have a family Wizard competition where Justin, Alex and I will compete to keep our powers." Max answered.

"Blimey." Ron gasped

"I beat Justin once but I gave up my full wizard powers to save my family." Alex added blushing and ruffling Max's brown locks.

"She's almost as exciting as you Harry." Ron chuckled, Alex also letting out a small laugh.

"But we can share stories another time, I'm so tired." She yawned, stretching her arms and once again making her way up to the girl's dormitory.

"We can learn a lot from both Alex and Max." Hermione whispered making sure none of the other students were listening.

"Their magic is so much more advanced I'm surprised they came here." She continued in her hushed voice both Harry and Ron straining to hear her words.

"So you think if she teaches us we'll be able to fix our potions and all that crap?" Ron asked trying to hide the hint of excitement in his voice.

"I think so." Hermione breathed her eye's shifting for Ron to Harry a small smile appeared on her face.

Alex awoke early the next morning which was unusual for her, she had, had a sleepless night the searing pain from the words that had been etched into her skin burned furiously making it impossible to get a decent nights rest. She climbed quietly out of her four poster bed and dressing into her uniform heading down to what she thought was the deserted common room, only when she noticed Harry with his back to her sitting in one of the many armchairs his green eye's fixing on the flames amidst the fire. Alex could have sworn to herself she saw the face of a bearded man in the middle of it.

"Morning," She murmured, Harry jumping slightly turning rapidly to face Alex.

"You couldn't sleep either huh?" Alex asked giving him a sympathetic look as he nodded clutching his hand where the words were still visible. They both sat staring into the flames when they heard footsteps coming from the staircase Hermione walked briskly into the common room followed by Ron stumbling behind her.

"It should be none of your concern who I write to!" Hermione snapped not looking back at Ron she clearly hadn't noticed both Harry and Alex sitting quietly in the armchairs.

"I'm just saying Hermione he will have lots of girls falling over him he probably doesn't even remember you." Ron sighed noticing Hermione's cold gaze at his words.

"Well…I think it's time we all went down for breakfast." Harry announced not wanting his two best friends to fight as they had last year over Viktor Krum, a Bulgarian Quidditch star who had competed against Harry in the Triwizard tournament the pervious year.

"Alright mate." Ron sighed. Both Harry and Ron walked off leaving Hermione and Alex alone in the common room.

"So boyfriend issues?" Alex asked her eye's looking Hermione up and down.

"No I'm single, just a guy I like." Hermione blushed not meeting Alex's gaze and a smile grew on Alex's face.

"So who is he?" Alex inquired lifting herself from her seat and standing beside Hermione both beginning to make their way down to the Great Hall.

"His name is Viktor he goes to Durmstrag he competed against Harry in the Triwizard tournament." Alex stared at Hermione blankly she didn't know what Durmstrag or the Triwizard tournament was but it was her fault for asking she thought to herself. Hermione explained everything until they finally made it to the entrance hall. Where they were confronted by a few of Slytherin students, Alex noticed that amongst them were Stevie and Draco.

"Out of the way mud blood." Sneered Draco to Hermione, she watched as Stevie and the rest of the Slytherins laughed although she didn't know what a 'mud blood' was she could tell it was a directed insult. Alex frowned and took hold of Hermione's shoulder and led her away entering the Great Hall taking a seat with the two boys.

"What's a mud blood?" Alex asked attempting to comfort Hermione as a tear rolled down her cheek.

"A mud blood is a foul name for someone who has non-magical parents it's not a word used in civilised conversation." Hermione said wiping a way the tear rolling down her face.

"What's wrong with having non-magical parents?" Alex asked raising her dark eyebrow.

"Some wizarding families think they're better than others because they're what they call 'pure blood' they think all muggles and muggle borns are scum." Ron replied a disgusted look taking over his face Alex's eye's widened.

"That's horrible." She uttered taking a drink from her goblet.

The four sat discussing different topics, Alex listened to Harry's stories about facing Voldemort and saving his God father Sirius Black she also shared some of her stories her adventure of fetching the stone of dreams and restoring her family. They were laughing about the time when Alex had shrunk herself down and lost her wand when Justin appeared behind them interrupting their conversation, taking a seat beside Alex.

"What? Haven't you got any of your own friends to annoy?" Alex asked sarcastically.

"I sent mom and dad a letter about your detention by the way how was that?" Justin asked smirking as both Harry and Alex slipped their hands under the table hidden from sight.

"Pffft fine." Alex insisted staring down at her now empty plate.

"You'd better not get another one." Justin lectured coldly.

"You make me look bad." He continued straightening his prefect badge.

"Oh please you do that on your own." Ron tried to hide his smirk from Alex's words and Justin shot him as cold glare. Alex looked up at the ceiling watching owls flood the room dropping packages and letters to their owners. Alex watched in awe, she wasn't expecting anything when her own owl swooped down dropping a red envelope in front of her with her name on it. Justin let out a laugh.

"Alex it appears you've got yourself a howler." He sniggered knowing what was about to happen in the next few seconds.

"A what?" Alex retorted examining the envelope.

"This should be a laugh." Ron laughed bracing himself. Alex wasn't sure what it was but she knew it wasn't going to be good. Alex ripped open the letter and to her surprise it jerked itself out of her grip a hovered in front of her face as her mother's stern voice filled the hall.

"Alexandra Margarita Russo, you promised to stay out of trouble and the way you go about this is getting detention on your first day! If you put another toe out of line you will be grounded for the whole summer that means no dating, no parties and no magic! We will be having a talk when you come home for Christmas please be good until then." The letter ripped itself up, the whole hall burst in to laughter as Alex's face turned scarlet she just wanted to melt in to the floor and disappear. Alex put her head in her hands when Justin grabbed her left wrist.

"What's this?" He asked examining the back of his little sister's hand.

"Ouch," She cried pulling her hand away.

"It's nothing." She lied clutching her hand and hiding it back under her robes. Hermione grabbed Harry's left hand and revealed he had the same exact marks.

"Did Umbridge do this to you?" She cried as Harry pulled his hand out of Hermione's grasp.

"As Alex said it's nothing." Harry replied bitterly his jaw tightening in anger.

"This place is a freak show." Alex murmured clenching her fists but wincing at the pain it caused her.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I will update as soon as I can with Chapter 7.