Prophecies
Chapter Two- New Places, New Faces
By Lady Rhiana
Disclaimer: Anything you recognise from the Harry Potter series belongs to J K Rowling and her people.
Authors Note: This is from Kayla's p.o.v. In case you are wondering who Kayla is, I made her up ^_^ Thank you to Lady Reena who did my beta reading! Please read and review, it means a lot to me. Thanks to Lady Reena who beta read this.
Told by Kayla Whyte
I woke up in an unfamiliar bed. It was comfy and the pillows were soft and fluffy. I looked around and I was in a long room with lots of windows. Everything was white or made from metal. I definitely was not in Tayte Castle, the dirty old castle I had been staying in for the last few months. I had vague memories of Peter Pettigrew getting me out of there last night. I'd better explain. When I was only one year old, Peter told my mother that he was just taking my brother Jack and I out for a little while. He took us out, and I have never seen my parents since. He handed Jack and I over to the dark lord and we were made to be his servants and do what he told us to. But only a month later, Voldemort fell from power, and Peter left. I can remember one of Voldemort's most faithful followers coming into the horrible old house and taking us to another one. Lucius Malfoy was his name. He kept Jack and I in the cellar and we were treated as badly as he treated his house elf. He had a son our age... I think his name was Draco. Draco had the best of everything, and he was a horrible boy. He was so horrible. Lucius made Jack and I take orders from Draco.
As soon as we were five, Malfoy started to teach Jack some black magic and some basic stuff. He trained Jack to be an animagi so that he could change into a cat. Just a little while before our twelfth birthday, Jack left the house. He was sent to Hogwarts on an undercover mission for the dark side. I remember getting double the beating for something I had not done. Malfoy had said, "Your stupid brother has revealed himself to that bumbling old fool Dumbledore! We'll never hear from him now!" and he was right. He didn't hear from him, but I did. Jack and I owled each other a lot.
A few months after my thirteenth birthday, Sirius Black came and rescued me from Malfoy Manor. He told me that next year he was going to get me into Hogwarts, but first he had to teach me some of the basic stuff. He taught me a lot, and I worked hard to learn it. I got to see Jack too and I also got to meet Jack's godfather Remus Lupin.
The day after my fourteenth birthday, Sirius was out and he left me alone in the cave we were living in at that time. Peter Pettigrew came back and got me again, and though I tried everything I could think of, I could not get away from him. He took me back to his master, the dark lord who was living in the old ruins of Riddle House. I had to be his servant once more, and as time went on, more people came to the house and stayed there. He was becoming more and more powerful, and rumour had it that he would come back to full power in the summer. I heard that he also had plans for me, though nobody would tell me what they were. They must have been bad, because Peter became so worried about me that he got me out. He must have felt it was his duty, as he is my godfather.
I sat up in the bed I was in and looked around me. To the right of the bed, there was a boy with jet black hair and green eyes and a girl with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes. I looked to my right and there was a boy with fiery red hair and lots of freckles.
"Where am I?" I said to them weakly.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," said the girl. Hogwarts... that's where Jack is, I thought.
"Where's Jack?" I said to them. They looked at me strangely. I knew who the boy with the black hair was; Harry Potter, Sirius' godson. He was who caused the dark lord to fall from power.
"Who is Jack?" asked the girl.
"My brother... my twin brother." I lay back on the bed. "Who are you all?" Harry went to
open his mouth but I interrupted. "I know who you are... Sirius' godson, Harry Potter."
"I'm Hermione Granger," said the girl. I looked at her curiously. Jack had told me about a Hermione.
"And I'm Ron Weasley." said the red-haired boy. I looked over at the boy. His deep blue eyes looked worried. I remembered Jack telling me of a Ron as well. He knew Harry Potter too. These people must know Jack, I thought. My mind was hazy from sleep and I'd forgotten that Jack was mostly in cat form at Hogwarts.
"You must know Jack" I said to them. He had told me about them.
"Calm down, Kayla," said a familiar voice. I looked toward the door and I saw Sirius and Remus Lupin.
"Remus you must know where Jack is" I said to him. He walked over to my bed and picked up a sleeping ginger cat from the bottom of my bed. I knew who it was.
"Jack," I said quietly as Remus sat the cat next to me. I stroked Jack; he liked that when he was in cat form.
"Whoever Jack is, that's not him. That's my cat, Crookshanks," said Hermione. I shook my head at her.
"No... No it's not," I said.
"Yes it is!" she argued.
"Think what you like," I said. "But I know for a fact that this is my brother."
"So your brother is a cat?" asked Ron.
"No of course not, he's an animagi!" I snapped.
"Kayla!" exclaimed Sirius.
"What?" I said "Don't they know? Oh dear... sorry."
"Well lets see then," said Hermione, set on thinking that Jack was a cat. Harry was very quiet; maybe he knew. Hermione got her wand and pointed it at Jack. She muttered a spell and Jack turned back into human form.
"Good going, Kayla," he muttered sarcastically in my direction.
"My goodness!" said Hermione.
"Wow," said Ron.
"Hi I'm Jack Whyte and this is my big mouthed twin, Kayla," He said bitterly.
"You two can't be twins. You look nothing alike." said Ron
"They are, Ron," said Remus.
"Where is Peter?" I asked them. Sirius and Remus looked at each other.
"They turned him over to the ministry... He admitted to everything." said Harry. I was shocked. I knew what was going to happen to him. He would be given the dementor's kiss for all that he'd done. I looked around at them in silence. Everyone stayed quiet. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.
"Well... I'd better get going," said Hermione. "I've got a lot of homework."
"Yeah me too," said Ron.
"So do I," said Harry.
"Harry, could you stay? We need to talk to you," said Sirius to Harry quietly. Hermione and Ron left. Harry sat down, and so did Jack, Remus and Sirius. I looked at Remus and Sirius.
"How could you?" I said to them in barely more than a whisper. In my eyes, Peter wasn't such a bad guy. I didn't know the kind of things he had done.
"Do you know what he has done Kayla?" Sirius asked me. "He betrayed people. He took you and Jack from your parents and handed you over to the dark side and countless other things. I'm surprised, Kayla. I thought you knew." Harry and Jack stayed silent.
"What, exactly, did you go to Azkaban for?" I asked him.
"Killing Peter. I didn't kill him though, did I?" Sirius said. A tall old man with long white hair and a long white beard walked through the doors.
"Ah, hello Kayla. You are awake, at last." He said to me. "I am Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of this school. The day after tomorrow, Jack will be starting regular lessons with all the other students. You may also start, if you please."
"Oh yes, I'd love to!" I told him eagerly, all thoughts of Peter vannished from my brain at the thought of a proper education.
"Very well," said Professor Dumbledore. "Please come to my office at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. You will need to take a test to determine which year you will start in, and you will also be Sorted." He left with a nod to Remus and Sirius.
"We will tell you another time," said Sirius "You three should get some rest."
"He's right," said Remus. "Jack, you are staying in a dorm with Neville Longbottom. Harry will show you where it is." Harry and Jack left the room, followed by Sirius, leaving me with Remus.
"Remus, What was You-Know-Who going to do to me?"
"Its best if you don't know Kayla." I looked at him.
"Okay... if you really want to know. He wanted you to have his child. Now get some rest." He said and then left the room. I was alone with my thoughts. Why did he want me to have his child? What was special about me?
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I stood nervously in Professor Dumbledore's big round office, waiting for the results of my test. I felt like all the portraits of past headmasters were watching me, and they were. I smoothed down the black robes I had been given and straightened up the pointed black hat. Under the robes I had on blue jeans and a red sweater. I wondered where all of this stuff had come from, and who had paid for it. When I asked Sirius this morning when he gave it to me, he said that I had paid for it. I had money, which my parents left to me and Jack, and also a third of money that Peter left to Harry, Jack and me. Sirius said I still had a lot left. Professor Mc Gonagall entered the office.
"OK, Miss Whyte." she said. "We have decided that you shall be in fifth year."
"Okay," I said to her.
"Now to sort you... Jack is in Gryffindor, by the way." She took a very grubby, patched wizards hat and placed it on my head. It slipped down over my eyes.
"Hmmm..." it said. "Another one of you lot, eh? You are very brave and determined... I will put you in the same as your brothers, Gryffindor." I took the hat of my head.
"What did it say?" asked Professor Mc Gonagall.
"I'm in Gryffindor, like Jack."
"Very good, dear," she said. "You will start your lessons tomorrow. I'll show you to your dorm now. I believe Sirius is going to take you out to Hogsmeade later so you can buy some things." She led me to a portrait of a fat lady wearing a pink dress.
"Pixie dust," said Professor Mc Gonagall. She climbed through the hole and I followed her up to a nicely decorated dorm. It had two big windows overlooking the grounds, two pine four poster beds with red and gold hangings, two wardrobes, two dressers and a door leading to another room. It was like a palace compared to what I was used to.
"Thank you so much," I said, and I flopped down on one of the beds and thought about what the hat had said. Your brothers instead of your brother. It was all very confusing.
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Sirius, Jack, Remus, Harry and I sat down at a table in The Three Broomsticks after a long shopping trip. It turned out I had more money than I thought. We were all drinking butterbeer and talking to each other happily.
"Remus, would you come over here for a moment?" Sirius said to Remus. They left the table and went over to a corner of the bar.
"I'm just gonna go use the little boys room," said Jack as he got up from the table. Harry and I were left alone at the table. We stayed silent. I felt envious of Harry and his perfect little life. He really had it made, or so it seemed to me. Sure he had a few run-ins with the dark lord, but apart from that he had everything. I looked over at him. He was holding a sparkling gold locket up in front of his face. It was just like my locket. I felt my neck and noticed it was missing.
"Hey!" I said to him "Where did you find that?"
"On my pillow," he said to me very calmly.
"Well its mine!" I announced.
"How can it be?" he asked me. Sirius and Remus came back over to the table and sat down.
"What's going on you two?" asked Sirius
"He has my locket," I said. Remus looked at the locket and gasped. He then looked at Sirius.
"But I thought that..." he said.
"It was enchanted." said Sirius to him. I didn't know what they were talking about and neither did Harry.
"Where is Jack?" asked Remus. "We have to talk to you three."
"He went to the bathroom," said Harry.
"Give me my locket Harry!" I demanded.
"What's the magic word?" he said. I took out my wand and pointed it at the locket.
"Accio" I said, and it flew out of Harry's hand and into mine. I smiled bitterly at him. The locket was very precious to me, it had belonged to my mother.
"Sirius!" complained Harry. Sirius and Remus laughed, but neither Harry nor I could see the funny side.
"What's so funny?" We said at the exact same time, joined by Jack who had just got back.
"Nothing," said Remus. "Now we'd better go back to the castle, it's getting late." We finished our butterbeer and left. None of us said anything as we waked back to the castle. When we got there, I went straight up to my dorm. Hermione was already up there, lying stomach down on her bed reading a book. I tossed my bags down on the floor by my bed and flopped down on it.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi," I said, sitting up.
"So my cat is your brother then?" she said.
"Yeah..." I said. I wondered if I should tell Hermione about what the hat had said but I decided against it.
"I guess he isn't really my cat anymore," she said with a sigh. "What did you buy?"
"Oh just some books and clothes and some posters and stuff. I hope you don't mind if I put them up." I told her.
"No of course I don't mind. What are the posters of?" she asked.
"Only the nicest looking guy I've ever seen and some others," I said with a smile.
"Who?"
"Aidan Lynch... You know, the Irish national team seeker." She smiled. I took out the posters. There was one of Lynch, one of the Irish national team, one of The Weird Sisters and one of a snidget. I put the poster of Lynch above my bed, and Hermione helped me decide where the other two would go.
"Perfect," she said with a smile as we positioned the snidget poster. I looked around the room. There was a magically powered CD player and on Hermione's dresser there was bottles and potions. I smiled sadly and thought of what life used to be like.
"I love it here already," I told Hermione with a smile.
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