Chapter 28

"I have a bone to pick with you." I said calmly but I'm sure he could here the anger in my voice. He motioned for me to continue. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the prophesy ball. I placed it on the table in front of us as I carefully watched his expression. To my disappointment it remained neutral. Dumbledore is a good actor. You would need to be if your specialty was manipulation.

"Do you know what this is?" I inquired innocently.

"That is a prophesy ball." He replied calmly. "As to what's in it, I assure you I don't know."

"But you gave it to the ministry head master." I told him. There was still no reaction.

"Why ever do you say this?" He asked. I was starting to get sick of his innocent act. I growled and put the prophesy ball back in my pocket.

"Enough!" I fumed. "We both know what you did! What spell did you use?"

"What do you mean?" But I saw him subconsciously glance briefly at a book on his bookshelf. It was so quick that I barely noticed it.

"What spell did you use to summon me from the future? Show it to me!" I demanded. His eyes moved to the book again. It was so quick this time that if I hadn't been watching him so closely I wouldn't have noticed.

"I assure you I don't know what you mean." He insisted. I grew frustrated.

He sighed and looked down at some papers on his desk. I put my hand behind my back and wordlessly and wandlessly summoned the book he had been looking at. It flew neatly into my hand. "Fine, I'll just go." I said as I turned. I was careful to keep the book out of sight by blocking it from his view with my body. I walked out of the door and shut it behind me. I knew immediately when he realized what I did because he yelled out my name and told me to come back right now. I heard him get up and make his way to the door. What am I going to do? I got a desperate idea. "Hogwarts castle, the heir of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff requests your help." I whispered hurriedly.

Dumbledore turned the doorknob and to my great relief the door wouldn't budge. He pushed and pulled. I heard him try a few spells but they did not help him. I grinned gleefully and went down the stone steps behind the Gargoyle statue. "Thank you Hogwarts." I muttered happily. I knew that it couldn't keep Dumbledore away indefinitely but I just needed enough time to read the book. I went to the ravenclaw library so that no one could disturb me.

I put the books from my trunk on the table so they would float back to their places on the shelfs. Once they had all found their places, I sat down at the table and opened the book I stole from Dumbledore's office. It must be important because he sounded really angry. I began to flick through the delicate pages. They were brown with age and the corners were slightly worn. It was all hand written. After reading a few pages I realized what it was.

I flipped back to the page I was on and continued slowly looking through it. I found the spell I was looking for near the end of the book. It was called 'arcessentes ex tempore'. The page said:

This spell is used to pull someone from a point in time. It is almost impossibly hard to perform and it can only be done by incredibly powerful and experienced wizard. This spell can be dangerous and should not be used unless in dire need. There can be side effects if the spell is not done correctly. There are also side effects if the higher power decides it is necessary to make it so. They may include:

It then went on to list side effects. I underlined the ones that were relevant to my case in pencil so I could rub it out before I gave it back to Dumbledore.

Subject changing gender, subject becoming younger (The magical core will stay the same though), subject changing colour, subject becoming no longer able to use magic, subject not being able to say certain things about their time, subject's appearance changing drastically, subject's mind becomes protected from Legilimency, and subject becoming older.

So I'm guessing, this 'higher power' decided it would be best if I had the underlined side effects. It makes sense I suppose. Something that intrigued me was that it said my magical core would stay the same even though I became younger. Does that mean I have the magical strength of a fully grown wizard? That would certainly explain why I am so powerful.

What am I going to do about Dumbledore though? I can't avoid him forever. Actually I don't want to avoid him. I want to stomp over to him and give him a smack upside the head. I probably would too, if it wasn't for the fact he was already very mad at me and I don't know if he will attack me or not. I don't know if me knowing about the spell interferes with his plan for the 'greater good'. I know he wouldn't kill me because 'I have a purpose' but he might obliviate me. That would be very bad! If he tried I wouldn't be able to stop him. I'm only thirteen. Then again, my magical core is of age. Add that to the fact that I'm very powerful because I'm the heir of not one but two founders. Maybe I could take him.

I didn't want to risk it though. I figure, all I have to do is avoid being anywhere alone with him. He can't do anything to me in front of people, especially teachers. I should be safe for now. I closed the book and shrunk it so it would easily fit in my pocket. I then found the door that lead to the Gryffindor common room.

Once I was in the common room, I walked over to the couch where my friends were sitting. "Hi." I said.

"Where have you been?!" Hermione almost yelled at me.

"Just umm...with the headmaster." I said.

"Okay that's it!" Harry snapped. "I'm sick of all your secrets! You just disappear for an entire holiday and don't write, Cedric Diggory says something about seeing you in a forest and now you leave without a word after dinner and don't come back for two hours! What are you keeping form us? We're your friends, we deserve to know."

"Your right." I relented. I've been a bad friend. I couldn't tell them about being from the future, nor could I tell them about the horcruxes, but I could tell them about what I found in my vault and the cave. I stood up. "Let's go to the library where we can talk in private." I said.

"But the library is closed. It's past curfew." Hermione said anxiously.

"I think she meant the other library, Hermione." Neville said, giving her a meaningful look.

"Oooh!" She said as she caught on.

I made the wall slide down and while no one was looking, I pulled them all inside. We made our way down the passage and I said the words to open the door. Once we were all sat down at the table, I started to explain. "You guys know how I inherited a Gringott's vault right?" I asked and they nodded and I pulled a letter off one of the shelves. "Well, I found this letter and inside was a riddle and a map." I opened the letter and put the riddle and the map on the table so they could read them. I pointed to the cross on the map. "I traveled here by bus and I found a cave..." I went on to describe what I faced in the cave to get to the room I found at the end.

"Wait!" Harry said. "So when you said you spent the holiday traveling around on busses and fighting dragons in hidden caves, you weren't kidding?"

"Well no." I admitted. Neville was in shock and Ron looked slightly envious at my story so far. Hermione looked as if she were on the verge of scolding me for doing something so stupid so I quickly continued my story.

"The exit from the cave came up into the forest." I explained. "That's were Cedric and his dad found me. I was pretty exhausted and weak so I fainted. I woke up on their couch but I didn't tell them what happened to me. That's why Cedric was asking me why I was in the forest again. He is determined to find out."

"So what did you find in the cave?" Neville asked, snapping out of his shock. I went and pulled the scroll off the shelf and handed it to them so they could read it.

"So this explains why Voldemort is so powerful and why Harry is supposed to be evenly matched with him." Hermione mused.

"Those were my thoughts exactly." I told her.

"Does this mean that you're twice as powerful as Voldemort since you are the descendant of two founders?" Ron asked in awe. I shrugged.

"I'm not sure. I do have two powers though." I admitted.

"What are the powers?" Harry asked. I grinned at him.

"You can fly." I informed him.

"That's impossible!" Hermione said. "Wizards can't fly without brooms."

"Once, before I knew I was a wizard, my cousin Dudley was chasing me and I somehow got onto the roof of the school building." Harry told us. "I thought the wind had caught me or something but now that I look back on it, I was probably flying."

"Wicked!" Ron exclaimed.

"Voldemort can move things with his mind." I told them. Ron and Neville flinched at the name.

"What about you?" Neville asked.

"I can do wandless magic almost as easily as I can do it normally." I explained. "I also have something called 'Advanced Apparation'. I'm not really sure what that is though."

"I wish I had powers." Ron muttered. Ron really isn't all that mature yet.

We soon went back to the common room as it was getting late. Ron, Harry and Neville said good bye to me and Hermione and went up to their room. Hermione and I then went upstairs to the girls dorm. Our other room mates were already asleep so we just changed quietly and hopped into bed. I burrowed under the covers and was soon drifting to sleep.

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