Draco P.O.V
Ava never came back to the common room last night after her little visit to see Krum. I asked Pansy this morning if she seen Ava, and she said she hasn't seen her and that her bed hasn't been slept in. Me and the boys are all worried about her because it's unlike Ava to just wondering off like this is.
"Where could have gone?" I ask.
"Maybe we should ask Krum, I mean he was the last one to see her" Blaise says.
"You don't think he's done something to her, do you?" Crabbe asks.
"No" Goyle says. "No, he wouldn't. He likes her too much to hurt her or let anything happen to her."
"Maybe she spend the might with him" Blaise says.
I glare at him. "Ava isn't like that!"
"I was just saying. It would make sense on why she's not here and her bed hasn't been slept in."
"Let's just find Krum and see what he has to say" Crabbe says. We nod and leave the common room, and rush all the way to his ship
I was about to knock on the door but stop when is suddenly opened. I look and see Krum walking out. He looks at us one by one.
"Yes? Can I help you?" he asks.
"Where's Ava?" we all ask.
"What you mean?" he frowns.
"No one has seen her since last night, and her bed hasn't been slept in" Blaise says. "We" I clear my throat and he sighs. "I, thought she might be with you."
"No, I haven't seen her since last night" I look at him and I can see the worry on his face.
"Where did she go after she saw you?" I ask.
"I dunno. Professor Moody said that her father wanted to see her in Professor McGonagall's office and I haven't seen her since."
"Did he say what for?" Crabbe asks.
"No, he walked off before she would ask, but that Weasley boy was also there, he stopped us from ki -" he stops himself and glances at me. They were going to kiss. I wonder if they have kissed before?
"Anyway, I better go, the 2nd task is about to start" he pushes past us and rushes off before we could say anything else.
"Come on, let's go and see Snape" I say. They nod and we start walking to his office.
"You ok, mate?" Blaise whispers, as we walk down the corridor.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"Because he let slip that they were about to kiss."
"He did? I didn't notice" he gives me a look. I sigh. "Fine, maybe I did notice, but there's not a lot I can do about it, is there?"
"There's a lot of things you can do about it."
"No there's not" I huff, walking off before he could say anything else. Crabbe knocks on the door as soon as we reach it.
"Enter" he pushes open the door and we all walk in. I look around and see Snape sitting at his desk.
"Have you seen Ava?" I ask.
"Yes, she's at the bottom of the Black Lake."
"What?" we all shout.
"Relax" Snape says, rolling his eyes. "She's fine. it's part of the 2nd task. Mr Krum has to save her from the Black Lake within an hour."
"And if he doesn't?" Blaise asks worriedly.
"She still will be fine, if Mr Krum fails to rescue her, then someone else will" he stands up and walks over to us. "Come on, I'll walk with you to the Black Lake. The 2nd task starts in 5 minutes."
We nod and leave his office and make our way to the Black Lake. I look at Snape and even though he said Ava will be safe, I can see the worry on his face.
Me and the boys go and find some sits whilst Snape goes to sit with the teachers. We find some sits near the front and sit down. I look and see all four of the champions lining up on the platform. Dumbledore is talking, but I'm not listening, I just worried about Ava. I can't believe they are even allowing this. It's so fucked up.
Just then a whistle goes off and the champions jump into the water, well, apart from Potter who looks like he's about to be sick. Moody smacks his back, then pushes him in the water and everything goes quiet. I look around and see that half of the people look excited, whilst the other half look worried.
"Krum better save her, or he will have me to deal with" I mutter to myself more than to the boys.
"First he gets her drunk and gets her into trouble with her father, and now this, I mean, I know he didn't have anything to do with this but still" Blaise says.
"I know. I can't wait until he's gone from the school" the boys smirk at me. "What?"
"You only want him gone so you can have Ava all to yourself again" Crabbe says.
"I don't know what you're talked about" I say, looking at the lake.
"Come off it, Draco. We all know you fancy her" Goyle says.
I look at them. "It is that obvious?"
"Yes" they all smirk.
"I think she likes you too" Blaise says.
"As if" I huff. "She likes Krum."
"She might like him, but I don't think she likes likes him."
"You think so?"
"Yes, haven't you seen the way she looks at you?" Blaise asks. I shake my head.
"Why don't you tell Ava you like her and take her off Krum?" Crabbe asks.
"Because I want her to enjoy her first year here, and if that means hanging around with Krum, then so be it."
"But aren't you jealous of Ava and Krum?" Blaise asks.
"Of course I am, but I can't really tell her who to be friends with, not that she would listen to me anyway, so I would rather be jealous in secret and have Ava happy, than be jealous in the open and have Ava moody. Plus we are still spending time together, we have had some really good times together actually."
"Look at you, playing it smart for once, instead of rushing in there head first" Blaise says smirking. I roll my eyes.
"We are betting on when the two of you will get together" Goyle says.
I frown and go to say something, but stop when I hear splashing. I look and see Ava and Krum in the water. She's smiling and hugging him.
"Come on lover boy" Blaise says, "let's go and check on your girl."
I roll my eyes. "She's not my girl."
"Not yet she's not" Goyle says.
We stand up and start pushing past people so we can get to Ava. When we reach the platform I see Krum whispering something in her ear, which makes her giggle and nod. He kisses her cheek then walks off.
We rush over to her and she smiles at us. "Are you ok?" we all ask.
"Y-yes, I'm f-fine, just c-cold" she says shivering.
"Group hug" Blaise says grinning, "you know, to keep her warm" I look at him and he nods towards Ava.
She looks at us. "W-why you b-being w-weird?"
I look at her and see that her lips are turning blue. I don't hesitate and pull her into a hug, then the boys join in. We can still her feel her shriving.
"W-wait" Ava says, pushing us away a little. "Did G-Gabrielle m-make it b-back ok?"
"Who?" I ask frowning.
"S-she's Fleur's l-little sister" she says, looking around. "S-she was Fleur's t-treasure, she w-was so s-scared a-about going into t-the water, I t-told her t-that her s-sister w-would lo -" she stops when we hear slashing coming from the water.
We look and see Fleur's little sister trying to keep herself above the water. Ava throws off her towel and dives into the water and swims over to the little girl who grabs hold of Ava the second she reaches her.
She hugs her and says something to her, Gabrielle nods. Ava goes to swim back, but stops when Weasley pops up next to her. He says something to to her, she says something back, then he swims off.
Ava puts Gabrielle on her back and starts swimming back to the platform. They get out of the water and Gabrielle is tackled into a hug by Fleur, whilst Ava is tackled into a hug by Snape.
"I-I don't f-feel so g-good" she says, holding her head. I look at her and she's gone very pale and her lips are still blue. Snape goes to pull away but stops when Ava suddenly passes out in his arms.
"Ava" me and boys gasps.
Snape picks her up and rushes off with his daughter in his arms. Me and the boys look at each other, then rush off after him.
I'm just on my way to the hospital wing to see Ava. She had to spend the night there, she's ok, but the nurse wanted to keep her in just in case she felt unwell again.
I open the door and walk over to Ava's bed, but stop in my tracks when I see Granger sitting by her bed. I look at Ava and see that she's asleep. I clear my throat, which makes Granger jump. She wipes away her tears before looking at me. "I was just going."
"Good!"
She stands up and faces me. "Look, I know I messed up, ok? I never meant to hurt her the way I did, but Ron was saying some awful things about her and Snape. He was saying that her mom left her to be a Death Eater and it just slipped out, and once I said it, I couldn't take it back. He just laughed when I said it, so Harry hit him around the back of the head, which is understandable since it was You-Know-Who, who killed his presents too. I told him not to say anything, but he did and now I've lost Ava because of it."
"You broke her trust, Granger, trust and promises mean a lot to Ava."
"I know, I can see that, but I never meant to."
I sigh and look at her. "Listen, I know Ava, and she does give out seconds chance, but only two. If you want her back then you will have to prove to her that she can trust you again."
"I will, I will do anything to get her back" she says before waking away.
I walk over to Ava's bed and sit down in the chair Ganger was just sat in. I look at Ava and smile, she looks so peaceful and beautiful. She moves in her sleep and it makes her hand fall on top of mine. I smile to myself and hold her hand.
I've been sitting here for about an hour when I see Ava move in her sleep. I look at her and see her slowly opening her eyes. "Hi" I say, making her jump a little.
"I hate when you do that" she mutters.
"Do what?" I ask, already knowing the reason why she hates it.
"Talk to me before I've had the chance to properly wake up" she looks at me. "You know it always makes me jump."
"Why do you think I do?" I smirk.
"Because you're evil" I laugh a little. She looks at me and smiles. "How long have you been here?"
"About hour."
"You have stayed with me for an hour?"
"Yeah. I didn't want to leave you on your own."
"Aww, that was very sweet of you."
"I can be sweet when I want to be you know."
"I know, I've seen your softer side" she says smiling.
"Granger was here by the way."
Ava looks at me. "She was, did she say anything?"
"She's sorry about what she did, and she only said it because Weasley was saying awful things about you and your father."
"What was he saying?"
"She didn't say what he was saying about you and your father, but Weasley was saying your mother left to be a Death Eater, and she let it slip about your mother, Weasley just laughed, so Potter hit him" she laughs a little.
She looks at me. "Do you think I was to hard on her?"
"Not really, I mean she did betray your trust, but she really did look sorry for what she had done."
"I don't know what to do, what should I do?"
"I don't know A, that's for you to decide."
"I want to talk to her, because I miss her, but I told her not to tell anyone about my mom, and she went and told the last person I wanted to know. What if I tell her something else, and she lets it slip again? Ugh! This is why I don't have girl friends, it comes with to much drama" she says and I laugh a little.
We had been talking for about half an hour when Madam Pomfrey kicked me out of the hospital wing so that Ava could rest for the day, whilst the rest of us had lessons to go to.
Ava P.O.V
I'm spending my Saturday with Krum. He felt really bad that I ended up in the hospital wing because of him. I tried telling him that it wasn't his fault and that I'm fine, but he wasn't listening to me. He took me to Hogsmeade this morning where he spend the whole time treating me with all my favourite things.
It's the afternoon and we are just sitting in the library, the 3rd task is tonight and all four champions are very nervous about it since they have no idea what the task is. All they know is that they have got to make their way through a maze, but they have no idea what's waiting for them in the maze. Hopefully it's nothing too bad and no one gets hurt.
"It's been a crazy year, hasn't it?" I ask, looking at Krum.
He looks at me. "Yes, but it's also been an amazing year, because I met you."
"I'm glad that we met, I've enjoyed spending time with you."
"I've enjoyed spending time with you too, Ava" he say smiling.
I look at him. "Do you want to play truths?"
"What's that?" he asks, frowning.
"We ask each other questions and we have to answer them truly."
"Ok, sounds good, you ask me first."
"Do you sing in the shower?" I ask.
"Sometimes, you."
"All the time."
He smile at me. "Have you ever pretend to be sick because you didn't want to do something?"
"No, sometimes I've wanted to pretend I'm sick so I don't have to go to my lessons, but it will never work because my dad can always tell when I'm lying" I look at him. "Have you ever pretend to be sick?"
"Yes, my father wanted me to learn this really dark spell and I didn't want too, so I pretended to be sick for a week, after that he stopped asking, which I was grateful for."
"I can understand why you did that, I mean I would have done the same thing" he nods. "What is your biggest fear?" I ask.
"Falling off my broom."
"Have you ever fell off before?"
"Yes, more than once, but nothing bad so far, but I'm worried one of these days I'm going to fell off, and not able to stop myself."
"Yeah, that dose sound scary"
"What about you, what's your biggest fear?" he asks.
"My dad leaving me, just the thought of him walking away from me scares the hell out of me."
"I don't think you need to be scared about that, your father loves you Ava, he will never leave you, so you have nothing to wrong about" I smile at him.
"What do you like about me?" he asks grinning.
"You have a lovely personality, you're charming, you have a nice voice, I could listen to you talk all day, and you have a lovely smile."
"Ava Snape, you're making me blush" he says fanning his face, which makes me laugh a little.
"What do you like about me?"
"You have an amazing personality, you're funny, you have beautiful eyes and smile, I could listen to you sing all day, and you're very beautiful."
"Viktor Krum, you're making me blush" I say fanning my face. We look at each other and burst out laughing.
It was getting a little hot in the library, so we have come down to the Black Lake. We are just sitting in front of a tree, when I see Krum pull something out of his pocket. "This is for you" I say handing it to me. It's a black box.
I open it and inside was a moving picture of me and him at the Yule Ball. We are dancing down and smiling at each other.
I look at him. "It's beautiful, but how did you get this?"
"There was a little boy talking photos of anyone there and I asked him to take one of us. I also asked for this." he pulls out something else out of his pocket. I look at it and see that it's a moving picture of me and dad dancing. I smile at it.
"Thank you" I says smiling at me. "I don't have many picture of me and dad together so this is lovely" I say giving him a hug.
"Your welcome."
I pull away from him and he just kisses me, which takes me by surprise. He moves away and frowns. "Why didn't you kiss me back?"
"I wasn't expecting you to kiss me that's all."
"Oh, do you want me to kiss you again?"
"Yeah, but I've never kissed anyone before so I'm not sure what to do."
"Just follow me lead, ok?"
I nod and he kisses me again. I kiss him back this time and it feels … weird. I was expecting to feel everything you're meant to feel when you kiss someone you like, but there's no spark, no butterflies in my stomach, no nothing. Maybe I only like him as a friend after all.
Next thing I know, he's pushed me down onto the grass and is on top of me. This is too much. I push him away, but he doesn't move, so I push him again and this time he moves away and frowns at me. "What's wrong?"
"N-nothing, but I've just remembered that the 3rd task will be starting soon. We should walk over there just in case they want to talk to you."
He nods and get off me. He holds out his hand, I take it and he pulls me to my feet, then we walk to the stadium hand in hand.
We walk into the tent and see that all the other champions are already stood there. They all look as nervous as Krum. I touch his arm and he looks at me. "You're going to be ok."
"I hope so" he mutters.
"You will be. You will your spells and you know how to use them, just don't over think things."
He smiles at me and puts his hand around my waist and pulls me closer to him. He was about to kiss me when someone cleared their throat. We look and see Moody stood there.
"They're waiting for you, Mr Krum" he nods. I thought Moody was going to walk off, but he just stands there looking at us.
I look at Krum. "Please be careful."
"I will be" he kisses me before I could move my head to the side. He pulls away, then walks off with Moody. I look around and see Harry stood there staring at the floor. I walk over to him. "How are you feeling?"
He blinks, then looks at me. "Like I'm about to pass out."
"You look like you're about to pass out as well" he gives me a look, I smile at him. "You will be fine, just best your best and don't over think things."
He was about to say something, but got cut off by a whistle blowing. I look at him. "I've got to go, but good luck, Harry, and be careful."
"I will, and thanks" he says, giving me a little smile. I don't know why, but I just give him a hug, he tenses up at first, but he soon relaxes and hugs me back.
"I hope you don't mind me hugging you" I whispered.
He laughs a little. "No, it's fine."
"That's good because sometimes, a hug is just what you need."
"It definitely is."
We pull apart when someone clears their throat. I look and see dad stood there. He gives me a look that said 'leave, before I give you a detention'
"Ok, ok I'm going. Bye dad, bye Harry" Harry said bye back whilst dad just nodded. I walk out of the tent and make my way to the stadium. I walk in and I see the boys sitting near the front.
I walk over to them and Blaise moved over so that I can sit down. I smile at him and sit down in the middle of him and Draco. Crabbe and Goyle are on Draco's other side.
"Where have you been?" Draco asks, looking at me.
I look at him. "I was in the tent, all four of them look shit scared."
"I'm not surprised" Blaise said. "I would be shitting myself too if I had to do something like this."
"Same" Crabbe and Goyle mutters.
Just then music starts playing and all four champions walk out with Dumbledore following them. He turns around and looks at everyone, but I'm not listening to him. I'm just looking at Krum, he looks weird. He's just stood there with a blank face.
Moody whispered something in his ear and he nodded. Krum looked at me and smiled, but it wasn't his normal smile. This one looked forced. I give him a little smile back, then he just stares at the floor. Weird.
A cannon goes off and Harry and Cedric nod to each other, then walk into the maze. A few minutes later another cannon goes off and Fleur and Krum look into the maze. Once they are in, the maze closes on its own and we are left sitting there in silence.
"Well, this is boring" Crabbe huffs.
"I'm ok" I say, pulling James and the giant peach book. "I can read this."
"Nerd" Draco smirks, as I open the book. I roll my eyes and start reading. I go to turn the page but Draco stops me, "no wait, I haven't finished reading the page yet."
I look at him. "Who's the nerd now?"
"It's still you" he says, looking at the page. "Ok, I've finished."
"What's the book about anyway?" Blaise asks.
"I have no idea" Draco says. "So far I've read about magic crocodile tongues, a giant peach that they are using as a boat, and there's also talking bugs."
"James Henry Trotter is a happy four-year-old boy - that is, until his parents take a trip to London, where an escaped rhinoceros eats them. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the newly orphaned James is forced to move in with his evil aunts, Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge" I read from the back of the book.
I look at the boys and laugh at their confused faces. "It's a good book, you just need to read it to understand it" I say.
After about 20 minutes of reading, Fleur comes out of the maze looking like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards, she taken to one side.
10 minutes later the mazes opens again and Krum is being dragged out by a teacher. He looks around, it's like he doesn't know where he is. I look and see that he's been dragged into the tent.
I put my book in my book. "I'll be back in a minute" I stand up and rush off before the boy could open their mouth. I run throw the stadium, down the grassy him and into the tent. I look around and see him stood there with McGonagall.
I walk over there, but before I could say something, Krum grabs my wrist really tightly. "Ow! W-what you doing?" I ask, but he doesn't answer me. I look at him and see that his eyes are all cloudy. "Viktor."
"He won't answer you, Miss Snape" McGonagall says.
I look at her. "What's wrong with him?"
"He's been bewitched."
"W-what? Is he going to be ok?"
"Yes, but he needs the hospital wing" I nod and she packs up his things, whilst I try to get out of grip. Bloody hell, he's got a strong grip, my hand is actually going numb.
"Professor" I say and she looks at me. "Can you get him off me, it's starting to hurt."
She pulls out her wand and waves it over his hand and he lets go. I look at my wrist and gasp when I see that it's all bruised. I quickly pull my sleeve down when I see McGonagall looking at me.
"You know he didn't mean that" she said, putting her hand on my shoulder. I look at her. "You know he wouldn't have done that if he wasn't bewitched."
"I know, it was just a shock that's all."
She nods and takes her hand off my shoulder. "Anyway, I must take Mr Krum to the hospital wing before he hurts anyone else."
"Ok, I'll come with you."
"There's no points. He will go straight to sleep after he's been unbewitched. You stay here and then you can go and see him after the tournament is over."
I nod and she drag Krum away. I rush back to my seat and sit there trying to get my breath back. "What's the matter?" Blaise asked.
"Krum's been bewitched, McGonagall has just took him to the hospital wing."
"Who could have bewitched him?" Crabbe asks.
"And why would they need to bewitch him?" Goyle adds.
"Not sure. McGonagall didn't say anything about it" I go to put my hair behind my ear, but Draco grabs my hand.
"What the hell happened to your wrist?"
I pull my hand away and pull down my sleeve. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Did - did Krum do that to you?" Draco asks.
"No" I say quickly. He rises his eyebrow at him. I sigh. "Yes but -"
"I'll kill him" all 4 boy growl.
"You're not going to kill him. He didn't know what he was doing."
Draco went to say something but stopped when I gasp and held my shoulder.
"You ok?"
"Yeah, just a little pain, nothing to wo -" I stop when I suddenly feel weird. "Harry" I whisper. Wait what? Why did I just say Harry for?
"What about him?" Draco frowns.
"I think - I think there's something wrong with him."
"He's sure he's fine, Ava" Crabbe says.
"No, no he's not. I can feel him - Ahh!" I have another pain, but this time it's a lot stronger. "Can one of you get my dad. I want my dad."
"I'll go and get him" Draco says, before he stands up and rushes off. A few minutes later he comes rushing back over with dad following him.
"What is it? What's wrong?" dad ask bending down in front of me.
"M-my shoulder really hurts" I look at him. "D-dad, there's something wrong with Harry."
"Potter?" he frowns.
"Yes, I can feel him. He's in pain dad, I know he is. Some -" I start screaming when it feels like there something cutting into my wrist. Once the pain has stopped, I pull up my sleeve and see a straight line cut that's about 3cm long.
"W-what?" I gasp. Dad quickly pulls out his wand and heals it, but I'm now left with a scar. I look at him. "Someone needs to get Harry."
"Potter is fine, Ava" dad says. "If he was in trouble then he would have sent red spark with his wand."
"But what if he can't? What if he's dropped his wand?" I squeeze my eyes shut and bite my lip when I have another pain in my shoulder. "The pain is getting worst."
"Come on, I'm taking you to the hospital wing" I nod and stand up. Dad looks at the boys. "You can all visit her later" they nod and me and dad walk off.
I'm just lying in the hospital bed. Dad was with me for a while, then he left so he could talk to Dumbledore. The nurse checked on my cut but everything was fine since dad healed it. She give me a potion to help with the pain in my shoulder, which it did.
I look around and I can see Krum asleep in one of the beds. He looks so peaceful. Just then the doors open and in walk Hermione, Ron and a woman, who I'm guessing is Ron's mom. They all look very pale. I get out of bed and walk over to them. "What's wrong?"
"You haven't heard?" Hermione asks, frowning.
"No. Why? What's happened?"
"Cedric Diggory is dead and You-Know-Who is back" Ron says. I look at him shocked because, one, he's talking to me and two, someone is dead and Voldemort is back.
"Where's Harry? Is he ok?"
"I'm fine" he says, walking into the hospital wing. I was about to give him a hug, but stop when I see his arm bleeding. I pull out my wand and some tissue. I clean up the blood, then point my wand at his arm and bandages shot out the tip and wrap around his cut.
"Thanks, Ava."
I look at Harry's arm and frown. "What that matter?" he asks.
"Your cut."
"What about it?" I pull my sleeve and show him the same scar he has. He gasps. "W-what?"
"I don't know what was happening. My shoulder really hurt, then I felt something cutting into my arm, and this cut appeared." I look at him. "How can we have the same cut?"
Just then Dumbledore walks in without my dad, I wondering where dad has gone? Me and Harry look at him. "Why do we have the same cut?" we ask together. We look at each other shocked, Dumbledore just laughs a little.
"There's something the two of you need to know" he says.
"What?" we ask each other. He looks at the door and a dog walks in.
"Wait, that dog was following me and Draco around Diagon Alley" I say then it suddenly turns into Sirius Black. "You? You're the dog that's been following me around?" he nods.
"Well I did not see that one coming, but cool, you're an Animagus? Can you teach me how to become one?" Sirius laughs a little.
"Ava" Dumbledore says, giving me a look.
"What? I was just asking. I would love to be able to turn into an animal."
Sirius smiles. "You're exactly like your mother."
"You knew my mom?"
"Yes, now what I'm about to tell you and Harry might be a bit of a shock" we nods. Sirius looks at us, then points to the bed behind us. We walk over to it and sit down. "You two are cousins."
We look at each other, then back at Sirius. "Your mothers were. Ava, you and your mother, Jane, were there when Voldemort turned up at the Potters. Once he had killed J-James, when went upstairs to kill Harry, he didn't expect you and your mother to be there too." he stops for a second, then carries on talking.
"He told them to move out the way, but they wouldn't. They begged him to them instead of you two. Voldemort killed Jane first, but Lily still wouldn't move. In the end, he killed her too. He went to kill Harry first, but failed, but Ava, you also got hit with the killing curse, on your shoulder."
I wipe away my tears. That's the first time I've head anything about the night my mom died. Everything that Sirius has just told us played over in my mind and I realise what he said.
"Wait" I say, looking at him. "I got hit too?"
He nods. "On your shoulder."
I touch my shoulder "there's no scar there."
"There is" Sirius walks over to me "may I?" he asks and I nod. He pulls out his wand and moves my top. He points his wand at my shoulder and mutters a spell that I've actually heard dad say before.
I feel my shoulder tingle. I grab a little mirror out my bag and look at my shoulder and I see a lighting bolt scar. I look at Harry forehead, then back at my shoulder.
I run my finger over the scar. "I would never have guessed that it was there."
"Your father put a charm on it" Sirius says.
"He knew?" he nods. "Why didn't he tell me?"
"It was to keep you safe. Voldemort didn't know about your mother and Severus, they kept their relationship a secret, then a Death Eater named Bellatrix Lestrange found out about you and your mother, and she immediately told Voldemort."
"What?" I shout. "That bitch sold out my mom?" I ask angrily.
"You have heard of her?" Sirius frowns.
"Oh I've heard of her alright. Lucius told me all about her, and why she's in Azkaban."
"Why would Lucius tell you about her?"
"I found a photo of her and asked him about it. Oh, wait" I look at Sirius "that would make her your cousin" he nods. "Poor you! Having that as family."
"Yes well, you can't choose your family, can you?"
"Actually you can. Friends are the family you get to choose."
"That's very true" Dumbledore says smiling.
I smile at him, then look at Sirius. "Then what happened?"
"Your father was worried that he would came after you both, so he told her to stay with her sister, Lily. Ava, you were also meant to stay with Petunia, your father was to broken that he couldn't look after you, you could barely look after himself. You were there for about 3 months when one day your father turned up and took you away."
That's heart breaking, dad thought we were safe. I can't even imaged how he felt when he find out about mom, I hate Bellatrix Lestrange. If she didn't open her big mouth then my mom would still be alive! And me staying with Petunia. My head is spinning, but I wonder why dad changed his mind, I snap out my thoughts and look at Sirius.
"What made dad get me in the end?"
"Someone talked some sense into him."
"Who?"
"I don't know" he says not looking at me. He knows who, so why isn't he telling me?
"It all makes sense know" Harry mutters.
I look at him. "What dose?"
"Back in 3rd year, there were Dementors at the school, and they took a fancy to me, and whenever they got close to me, I could hear two women screaming, I could hear them saying 'not Harry and Sophie, take us instead' no one would tell me who Sophie was."
"Ava" Sirius says. I look at him. "You're Sophie.
"What?" I ask shocked.
"Your really name is Sophie Jane Snape, but your father changed it to Ava to keep you safe."
"This is too much to take in" I mutter to myself.
"And just now in the graveyard, he was going on about the night my mom and dad died, and he mentioned someone named Jane and Sophie."
Harry looks at me. "He thinks you both died that night. And when I saw my mom and dad come out of Voldemort's wand, she was with them. She smiled at me. She just looks like you, Ava. She, along with my mom and dad helped me get away."
"You really saw her?" I ask, and Harry nods. "I wish I could see her" I mutter to myself. "But wait" I say looking at Dumbledore, then Sirius. "I knew Harry was in trouble, I could feel him, his pain I mean. How could I feel his pain? And how did I get this?" I pull up my sleeve and show him my scar. "Why did it cut me too?"
"We don't understand why you got cut too. That shouldn't have happened" Dumbledore says, before Sirius could open his open.
Sirius frowns, then looks at us. "You two are connected through your scars, which means you both will feel each others pain, but not physically go through what the other one is going through. You will also share the same dreams and nightmares."
"Oh, that would explain why I've been dreaming about naked ladies for the last few nights" I say smirking at Harry. Everyone starts laughing, but Ron quickly stops himself.
"Ava!" Harry snaps, going red in the face. "I haven't" he says, looking at everyone, then glares me.
"Relax, I wouldn't out you like that even if you were" I say.
"You do that and I will out you."
"Go ahead, but I dream about some weird shit that people wouldn't even understand what you're on about."
"Wait, did you dream about -" I cut him off by putting my hand over his mouth. I can feel him smirking under my hand.
I roll my eyes and remove my hand. "I bet you loved it really."
"As if" he huffs.
Dumbledore looks at us "Ava, Harry it's probably best not to tell anyone about this."
"Why not?" we both ask.
"Because Voldemort thinks you died that night, he if hears you're still alive Ava it could put you in danger."
"Can't I tell my friends?"
"No Ava, no one."
"Shouldn't you thought about that before you said it in front of these 3" I say pointing to Hermione, Ron and Mrs Weasley.
"I trust them not to say anything to anyone."
"And I trust my friends."
"I don't, there Slytherin after all" Harry says.
I look at him. "You Gryffindor's need to open your eyes and see that there are good Slytherin's."
"Oh please, all of them bully people for fun" he says.
"I don't, and anyway you think your friends are any better? Hermione can't keep her promises or her mouth shut, and Ron calls me names whenever he gets the chance because he's judged me before he even knows me."
I hear a smack behind me, then Ron groans. I'm guessing Mrs Weasley has just smacked him. I bite my lip to stop myself from laughing.
"I don't care, you're not telling anyone."
"You can't tell me what to do."
"I can" Harry says.
"What makes you think I will listen to you?"
"Because I'm your family."
"So, just because we are family that doesn't mean you can boss me around."
"I'm older than you are" Harry says smirking.
"By one day" I say rolling my eyes.
Harry goes to say something but gets cut off "that's enough the pair of ya" Sirius says loudly.
"Sorry" we mutter.
"Don't be sorry, it's like watching Lily and Jane when they used to start on each other, but I had to shut it down before it went on all night."
"Ava" Sirius says, making me look at him, "Dumbledore is right, it's to dangerous to tell people."
"People already know."
"Yes, but it's the right people who know"
"What? So you're saying that my friends are the wrong people?"
"No, that's not what I'm saying."
"It sounds like you are."
"Ughh!" Sirius says, throwing his hands up. "It's like arguing with your mother, she also had an answer for everything."
Dumbledore looks at me. "Ava, for your own safety, you will be staying with the Weasley instead of going home."
"Why can't I go home? I will be safe with my dad."
"Your father isn't going to be there, he's doing something important for me and won't be home, so I've talked to Mrs Weasley and she's kindly said you can stay with her."
"Will I get to see my dad at all this summer?"
"Yes, you will see him, but I'm not sure when" I nod. I look at Mrs Weasley and smile, she smiles back, and I see Ron give me a nasty look. I just look away from him.
Great! This is going to be the best summer ever. NOT!