Chapter 9

At eight am Isis showed up at the Dursley's front door. Dudley answered.

"Hello Dudley, is Harry ready?" she smiled.

"The freak is in his room," said Dudley.

"Thank you," Isis said still smiling, "you shouldn't call people freaks it might offend someone else. I'll go get Harry." She went up the stairs and opened the door. He was still asleep and having a nightmare. Isis walked up to his bed and sat on the edge. She shook his shoulder, "Harry," she said. Nothing. "Harry," she said louder, still nothing. She put up a silencing spell, "HARRY," she yelled. He jumped and probably would have fallen off the bed if Isis hadn't been sitting there. "Good morning sunshine!" Isis said happily.

"How are you this happy in the morning?" he said groggily.

"I'll be a bitch in the morning once school starts, so enjoy it while it lasts," she said brightly while getting up, "is your owl flying to school."

"Turn around," said Harry, " she left last night."

Isis turned around while he changed. He had filled out and grown over the short time since they had met. He now had some distinguish able muscle, not the bulky muscle but lean muscle. 'It's a wonder what some exercise and decent food can do for you,' thought Isis. They picked up the rest of Harry's stuff and closed his trunk. Harry lugged his trunk down the stairs while Isis took Hedwig's cage.

"Good bye Mr. and Mrs. Dursley," called Isis.

Once outside Isis took one end of his trunk. Ro was at the end of the driveway. "Come on kids," said Ro, "we're goin' to Dunkies." When his trunk was in the back of the SUV they went to Dunkin Donuts.

"Man Harry you've changed a lot," said Rose.

"What do you mean?" he asked blushing a bit.

"You've gotten taller, broader, stronger. You were kinda small and skinny. You filled out well. You're quite hansom too, you'll have to beat the girls off with a stick," said Ro.

Harry blushed.

Isis smirked, "Ginny will be impressed."

"We're not like that," said Harry blushing deeper, "we're just friends."

"Who's Ginny," asked Ro.

"She's a girl who likes Harry and who I believe Harry should date. She's a cute little red head, quite the little hottie if I do say so myself."

It was quiet for about ten minutes until Ro turned on the radio.

When they reached Kings Cross Isis grabbed her black messenger bag. Harry pulled his trunk out of the back and Hedwig's cage onto a trolley. Ro pulled out Isis' trunk while Isis tried got another trolley.

"You're wearing rather bright colors today," Harry said to Isis. She was wearing a light mint green shirt and white skinny jeans.

"Rosaline made me," said Isis, "I'd rather wear my darker colors."

"But you look so cute," said Ro pinching Isis' cheek.

"Buzz off hag," Isis said swatting at Ro's hand.

"Hag am I? I'm only twenty-nine."

"And you adopted me at seventeen somehow."

"I don't even know that," Ro said, "how so we get on the platform?" when they reached the barrier.

"You run through the wall," said Harry.

Harry ran through and Isis and Ro followed once he had disappeared.

"That's so cool," said Ro.

Harry walked over to the Weasleys.

"Harry nice to see you again," said Mrs. Weasley giving him a hug.

"Nice to see you too Mrs. Weasley," said Harry after she let him go, "Hey Ron, Hey Ginny, how was the rest of your summer?"

Mrs. Weasley walked over to Mrs. Longbottom to talk.

"Pretty good mate," said Ron.

"Alright," said Ginny.

"The muggles treating you ok?" asked Ron.

"They were ok. I was at Isis' house most of the summer," Harry said.

"What were you doing there?" asked Ginny 'why does he spend so much time with her?'

"She was teaching me some stuff. I just wanted to be away from the Dursleys and she's nice and Ro can cook well."

"Hey guys," said Isis.

"Hi," said Ron.

"Hello," said Ginny.

A woman with light brown curly shoulder-length hair came up, "you ganna introduce us Ice."

"Are you going to school too," asked Ron.

Harry, Isis and the woman laughed. "I'm flattered you'd think so but I'm twenty-nine sweet heart."

"Everyone this is my aunt Ro. Aunt Ro this is Ron and Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger isn't here yet," said Isis.

Just then Hermione walked up, "hello."

"Hermione this is my aunt Ro," introduced Isis.

"It's nice to meet you," said Hermione, "these are my parents Dan and Emma."

Mrs. Weasley walked back over.

"You must be Mrs. Weasley," said Ro, "I'm Rose Dark, Isis' aunt."

"Oh, it's wonderful to meet you," said Mrs. Weasley, "Isis is such a nice girl, and call me Molly."

"She's all right but she is quite the prankster if you catch my drift."

"Well that's probably why she got along so well with the twins."

Ro laughed, "Hey Ice, I have to go, text me when you get there," Ro hugged Ice and said good bye to everyone.

"We should get on the train," said Hermione.

They all got on and found the compartment that Neville and Luna were in and sat with them.

"Hello," said Neville, "who are you?"

"I'm Isis Black," she said.

"I'm Neville Longbottom and this is Luna Lovegood."

"Nice to meet you."

"How was your summer Neville?" asked Ginny.

"Gran let me fix up the old green house out back, I didn't finish it though, Uncle Allgie is going to fix it for me. How were your summers?"

The Weasleys hadn't really done anything different from any other summer but they got to stay at the burrow rather than Grimwald Place. Mrs. Weasley had the kids cleaning, degnoming the garden, and spraying doxicide. Harry had been studying with Ice. Hermione went to Spain with her parents.

"Luna, what did you do?" asked Isis.

Luna looked up, "My father and I went to Laos to find flying ground-mongooses."

"Did you find them?" asked Ron.

"No we think they migrated west," she said.

"There's no such thing as…" started Hermione.

"West to Texas," said Isis.

"You've seen them," asked Luna.

"During an advanced Care for Magical Creatures trip," said Isis, "it was a weeklong trip in the desert."

"I'll be sure to tell father that," Luna muttered to herself and went back to the Quibbler.

A little while later after the snack cart had gone by three shadows eclipsed the door. "Heard there was a new student sitting with all these freaks, they obviously didn't know who they were sitting with." Malfoy and his cronies had arrived for their annual visit. "I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy," he said extending his hand, "don't wand the new kid to fall in with the wrong group. I can help you there."

Isis wasn't listening; in fact she hadn't been listening to anyone for the last hour. She had her I-pod playing and her head was bopping to the music, eyes closed.

Harry was cracking up.

"Hey Potter what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing much," he said.

"What's wrong with her? Is she deaf?" Malfoy was getting angry.

"No, she's not. She had her I-Pod on. It plays music that only the person with the device can hear it," said Harry, "She'll kick your ass if you touch her," he warned as Malfoy reached for her.

"Malfoy just leave," said Ron.

"Why should I weasel? Do you like her? Tired of your mudblood hoer."

In less than a quarter of a second six wands were pointed at him, Isis still listening to her music.

"Say that again," said Neville.

"It'll be the last thing you do," followed up Luna, to everyone's surprise.

"You can't do anything, Crab, Goyle," Malfoy called his cronies.

"Batus Mocus," said Ginny casting the bat-boggy hex at Crab. While Hermione cast a boil spell at Goyle.

"Now Malfoy anything else," smirked Harry.

"You're lucky Potter. You won't get away with this. Hey girl, come on," Malfoy said grabbing her arm. Isis' eyes sprang open, grabbing his wrist and twisting it she flipped him into crab knocking then both out of the compartment. Next she did a round house kick to Goyle sending him back on top of the other two.

"Wow that was cool," said Ginny.

"Thank you," said Isis taking off her head phones.

"Where'd you learn that?" asked Hermione.

"My aunt and I spent a couple of summers over in Hong Kong. At a shrine actually, her friends Tabias and Suza Li. Me and their son Cory took taiquando, kick boxing, and sword lessons from Tabias, aka Master Li, five days a week. We also learned archery and old Chinese magic."

"You lived in China?" asked Ron.

"Just during the summers for six weeks," she said, "I'm a third degree black belt; I took classes at home too."

"Can you speak Chinese?" asked Neville.

"Fluently," she said.

Everything was pretty quiet the rest of the way. Except when Isis pulled out her pet python, Lela. Neville almost fainted.

"Isn't she cool," said Isis.

"You're not supposed to have snakes as pets," said Hermione.

Isis shrugged, "oh well, here Harry wanna hold her?" Harry took Lela.

"Hello," said Harry.

"Greetings Mistresses friend," said Lela, "Who are they?" gesturing to the others.

"They are four friends, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Neville, and Luna."

"Mistress?" asked Lela.

"It's Isis," hissed Isis.

"Lady Isis will I be staying with you?"

"Would you like to stay around my waist?"

"Thank you," Lela slithered to Isis and wrapped around her waist twice.

Ginny looked a little freaked out but it went away. 'I'll make a note to ask her,' thought Isis.

Another hour later Trevor had disappeared and Neville and Luna had gone to look for it and Hermione and Ron had gone to the prefects meeting. The only ones left were Isis, Harry and Ginny.

"So, Ginny what had you so freaked out a while ago?" asked Isis.

"It was nothing," she answered.

Isis shrugged, "I'm going for a walk."

"What was it?" asked Harry, "I won't laugh or tell anyone."

"I understood what you three were saying, the parseltounge I mean."

"Maybe it's from the diary; he did have to give you some of himself in order to control you."

"But now I'm evil," Ginny said rather stressed out.

"No you're not, am I?" said Harry.

"No," said Ginny.

"Well then neither are you."

Everyone came back eventually and they all just hung out.