Harry was sleeping peacefully in his bead until he heard the familiar sound of a chime…ringing throughout the house. The second he recognized the sound to be the ringing of his doorbell, he hopped out of bed and ran down the stairs in fear that the Dursley's would punish him for being the cause of awakening them.
Now being more cautious, he slowly turned the door knob; nervous to find who he would find standing on the Dursley's door step at this hour in the morning. Harry had never been one to get nervous or frightened this easy, but as he swung the door open and saw the figures in full view, he recognized two of the faces as Albus Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. But the other face standing in front of him was a boggle…he had never seen the girl before in his life.
"Hello Harry, we apologize for this rude awakening, but we have some important business to talk with you about" Dumbledore calmly explained.
"What might that business be" questioned Harry?
"Well, we would like to talk more about that in the comfort of your home, may we step in for a moment?" answered Dumbledore
"I am sorry, but I don't think that would be the most brilliant idea…considering the family that I live with" started Harry, "but there does happen to be a coffee shop down the street a couple of blocks that is open at this hour that we could speak freely in…we can go now, the Dursley's shall not care…I think."
"Are you sure you would not like to…ummm…change into more suitable clothes" replied McGonagall while eyeing what Harry had come to the door in.
"Um, I will be back in a second, but I am afraid you will have to wait here while I go to change"
"That is fine" said Dumbledore.
Harry closed the door quietly, and then scrambled up the steps and to his room to change. It took him all of three minutes and was quickly back down to the door to find Dumbledore, McGonagall and the girl in the exact same places he had left them.
"Now we shall go" said Harry as he closed the door behind him. Just then, he looked into the dark, brown, sparkling eyes of the girl that stood before him. As she walked she stood tall and proud and her brown hair flowed in the wind, almost as if it was apart of the nature around them. Yet, even though she had the sparkling eyes glittering on her face and the tall shoulders, it was if the rest of her face was depressed with everything around her.
The walk was a whole fifteen minutes of silence, but Harry couldn't help to glance at the girl every now an then…she happened to be so beautiful. Now that he looked at her, she looked somewhat familiar.
They began to approach the coffee shop. Harry walked faster so that he could go ahead and open the doors for his guests. As they stepped inside, everything was orderly and quiet. No one was inside except for the employees who stood by the cash registers waiting for customers.
The four of them walked over to four separate chairs surrounding glass table, sat down, and got comfortable.
"Now not to be rude, but may I know the meaning of this and why you have brung this girl to my door step at this time of hour" said Harry.
"We know that this must be weird for you and that you are going to take this information some what hard, so we are going to start out with the smaller facts" started McGonagall, "This is Elizabeth…we have been raising her ever since she was placed on Albus's doorstep, exactly like you."
"NO, I am sorry…you must have been mistaken…but if this situation was exactly like mine, then you would have raised me. Instead you put me in the hands of this horrid family that rarely gives me food and clothes to live on" rampaged Harry, " I want to know the truth, why didn't you keep me in the comfort of your home, I wasn't good enough for you, is that it?"
"Harry, Harry…calm down, you have to understand that McGonagall or I could not have raised you in our homes because He-who-we-can-not-speak-of knows both of us and where we live…therefore making it too dangerous for you to live with one of us" explained Dumbledore.
"Ya ya, I get it…but why did you bring her to ME" questioned Harry, I mean…you could of brought her to any other human being on the planet, but why me?"
"Because, she is not any human being…she is like you and me…basically. She is a witch and with her not going to Hogwarts when she needed to…she is going to need training. She is two years behind and we feel like you are the right trainer for her" explained Dumbledore.
"No offense, but that is the most BS I have ever heard in my" said Harry, "besides when Draco talks" he murmured with a small enough giggle that the two of them didn't notice.
"Oh and why is that" questioned Dumbledore?
"Because, you are the most powerful wizard there ever was and if you wanted someone taught how to do magic that was already two years behind then you would do the teaching yourself…I am not saying that I will not teach her, but something is fishy about your story and about why you brought her to me" explained Harry.
There had been a moment of silence that had fallen between all of them because neither Dumbledore nor McGonagall could think of what to tell him. Harry knew that he wasn't getting the whole truth, but he couldn't figure out why. Just then Harry noticed that they had totally ignored talking to Elizabeth and she had not said anything since her arrival with McGonagall and Dumbledore on the Dursley's doorstep. Elizabeth had seemed strange to Harry and he couldn't help but stare at her.
The silence was broken when Dumbledore asked Harry what in the world he was looking at?
"Oh nothing, I just got caught in a trance…that's all" Harry started, "but I would like to know the whole story and the real truth about why you have brought her to me."
"Alright, we think you deserve to know…we just think that you might react weirdly to the subject. We are not setting in stone that this information that we are about to tell you is true, but we are almost certain" said Dumbledore.
"For gods' sake, stop beating around the bush and just tell me already!" screamed Harry.
"Okay…we believe that Elizabe…"
"Harry…we are so glad we found you" said a familiar voice.
Dumbledore and McGonagall looked around the room to see who had called Harry's name and Harry did the same. Harry was the first one to spot them; it was his two greatest friends, Ron and Hermione. Happily Harry got up out of his seat and raced over to greet them. Hermione greatly hugged Harry, but Ron was staring at Elizabeth as if he had just seen a ghost.
"Is something the matter Ron" asked Harry.
"Who is that girl sitting over there in the chair that is next to the one that you were previously sitting in" Ron asked.
That reminded Harry, right as Ron had shouted to Harry, Dumbledore was just about to tell Harry the important information of why he had brought her to him. "Ah, her name is Elizabeth, I will explain everything later, but right now…Dumbledore needs to tell me something…wait here and I will be right back" answered Harry.
Harry went back over to where Dumbledore and the others were sitting and apologized for rudely running off like he did and asked for the information.
The two of them turned to each other and gave worried looks, "Harry, we believe that Elizabeth is your sister" Dumbledore and McGonagall said in unison.
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Aright….so that was the first chapter…what do you think. I know it was short…but just to tell you, that is how most of my chapters are going to be because I don't have a lot of time on my hands. Umm….this is my second story…but my first one, Life Misplacement…that is still in Progress sucks…so that is why I am starting this one. But don't worry to all of you that actually like Life Misplacement…I will still add chapters to it every now and then.
