chapter3

Prophecies

Chapter Three- Three Piece Set

By Lady Rhiana

Disclaimer: Anything you recognise from the Harry Potter series belongs to J K Rowling and her people.

Authors Note: See the end... Please read! And I had to put it at the end otherwise I would have spoiled the story!

Told by Jack Whyte

I lay awake in my bed that night. I was tired, but all I had really done that day was visit Hogsmeade with Remus, Kayla, Sirius and Harry. It was strange. The boy I was sharing a dorm with, Neville Longbottom, was nice enough. He talked a bit too much though. Dumbledore had told Hermione to tell people who asked that Crookshanks, otherwise known as me in cat form, had run away. I turned over in bed and glanced at Neville, who was snoring in his bed. Tomorrow Kayla and I would be starting lessons. I thought of Kayla. This was the first time she'd had a civilised place to stay since she was a baby. That cave she'd stayed in with Sirius was hardly the Ritz, and the basement of Malfoy Manor wasn't exactly what I'd call five star accommodation. I felt sorry for her. I'd been living in the lap of luxury for the last few years, and she'd been stuck with those death eaters, apart from when Sirius and I finally got her out of there. Then Peter had taken her again. "Kayla will get a shock when she sees Draco again," I thought. I had seen him around, and I remembered how much Kayla hated him. I turned it over and over in my mind, and closed my eyes. When I finally dropped off to sleep, my dreams were full of memories from when I was a little kid, mostly bad ones.

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I woke up early the next morning. I got up and dressed. I walked out of the bathroom and glanced into the mirror. I was clad in long black robes, a pointed black hat and new trainers. Under my robes I had on baggy khaki combat trousers and a red T-shirt. It was the first time I had worn the Hogwarts uniform. And these were new clothes, too. I sighed and glanced at the watch my godfather; Remus, had bought me for Christmas last year. It was only six a.m. I decided to go and pay Kayla a visit, so I left my dorm and walked along the corridor and down the stairs, then up the other set of stairs, which led towards the girls' dorms. I went along until I got to the room Kayla had told me she was in. 5C, it said in shiny gold letters. And under that there was a little plaque that said 'Hermione's Room' on it. It looked like a Muggle thing to me. Under the little plaque there was a piece of parchment with, 'Kayla
and Hermione's room' written on it in rainbow coloured ink. It was Kayla's handwriting. I knocked on the door.

"Jack... what are you doing here?" Kayla muttered sleepily.

"Nothing" I said. She glanced at the clock on her bedside table.

"Ten past six?" she said in a panicky voice. "Oh my God!" She jumped out of bed as though someone had prodded her with a hot poker. "Oh my God!" she repeated.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"I have to get ready!" she said as she grabbed some clothes from her chest of drawers. "You stay there, Jack," she said as she went into the bathroom. I guessed that Kayla was used to getting up really early, because usually I'm not up until around seven-thirty. I'm not much of a tidy person, but Kayla could make a mess in an empty room. Her covers were all over the room, and she had knocked four or five sweaters out of one of her drawers. I decided to tidy up for her a little. I made her bed and put the sweaters back into her drawer. Then I went over to the window and sat down on the little wooden window seat. I stared out of the window and out onto the grounds. Time must have passed pretty quickly, because when I glanced back at my watch it was quarter past seven and Kayla was still in the bathroom. I heard movement behind me and I turned around. Hermione had rolled over in bed, and she was awake.

"Jack?" she said, sleepily.

"That's me," I said to her.

"What are you doing here?"

"I thought I'd get Kayla down to breakfast. Ya know, its our first day and all... well my first official day..." I looked away out of the window at this point. I felt bad for deceiving everyone. They all seemed like pretty good people.

"Well, I guess I should wish you could luck," she said with a smile "But you gotta get out of here."

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"She means get out of our dorm!" said Kayla, coming out of the bathroom.

"Why?"

"Two reasons." said Hermione. "One, its against school rules for boys to be in a girls dorm. And two, we need to get ready!" I laughed and walked out of their dorm. I went down the stairs and into the common room and waited for Kayla to come down. She was the only person whom I really knew. I mean I knew Hermione, Ron and Harry, but they don't really know me. I sat down in a big armchair. Leaning back and yawning, I glanced at my watch. Harry and Ron came down the stairs, then walked over to me.

"Hey," I said.

"Hi," said Harry.

"Hello," said Ron. "What are you doing?"

"Waiting on Kayla," I told them.

"Okay, we'll wait with you. We gotta wait for Hermione anyways. Chances are, they'll be together," said Harry, smiling. We soon warmed up to each other. I found out that Ron was trying out for Keeper this year, and his sister, Ginny, was trying out for Chaser. Both his twin brothers were hoping for the captain position. I guessed Harry was hoping for it too. He was pretty good on that nifty little Firebolt. Of course, Kayla and I had never had a go on a broom, let alone play Quidditch.

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The day went pretty well up until last period. Breakfast was pretty uneventful, and classes with the Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs went well. But last period we had Potions. We had two classes with Slytherins, History of Magic and Potions. Just my luck that they are my worst subjects. Kayla and I lined up outside the potions class with Ron, Harry and Hermione. I was surprised at how easily they had accepted me, seeing once they thought that I was a cat. They had been really great to Kayla and me. They were really nice people.

"But Aidan Lynch is gorgeous! Viktor Krum is always scowling... I don't think he knows how to smile!" said Kayla. I turned round and looked at her and started laughing. She and Ron were arguing over who was a better Seeker, Aidan Lynch or Viktor Krum.

"Well, who won the world cup?" said Ron.

"Viktor Krum does know how to smile..." said Hermione.

"What?" said Kayla. "Your meant to be on my side... you know, girls together and all!" I hadn't been able to contact Kayla last year, so she didn't know about Viktor Krum and Hermione. Of course, she knew all about the Triwizard Tournament, all of the Death Eaters were talking about it.

"I know him," said Hermione. Kayla's eyes nearly popped out of her head.

"You do?" she said.

"Yeah, Viktor is a personal friend of Hermione's," said Ron, with emphasis on the words 'personal friend'.

"Oh..." Kayla smiled at Ron "Her personal friend, huh?" she said.

"Ron!" said Hermione. "Well what he means is that we get on very well. I actually went to stay with him during the holidays."

"You did?" said Harry and Ron together.

"Yeah" she said.

"We thought you didn't go," said Ron

"Because you didn't tell us," added Harry. Hermione laughed.

"I don't need to tell you guys everything," she said. Harry and Ron looked rather hurt. "Sorry guys, b..." she was cut off mid sentence.

"Silence!" snapped a voice from the front. It was professor Snape. I had seen him around, and he knew that I was a cat before. "Everybody, come in and sit down." We all filed into the class. Ron and Harry sat down next to each other at the very back left-hand corner, and Kayla sat down next to Hermione. "Sorry," Kayla mouthed at me. I sat down in front of Harry and Ron, and a pretty sandy blonde haired girl sat down next to me. I supposed she was a Slytherin, because I hadn't seen her before. I looked around at Kayla, and she was shooting daggers through her eyes at the girl. I turned around to face the front and the girl shot me a million-dollar smile. Honestly, her teeth were so white and perfectly formed; she had a nicer smile than Celestina Warbeck did. I could hardly take my eyes
off her.

"You there!" called Snape. I looked away from her. "Yes, you!" he said. "Face the front." I sighed.

"Yes, sir," I said. He called the register, and when he was finished he looked around the classroom.

"Kayla and Jack Whyte?" he said. "Stand up." Kayla and I stood as we were told. Everybody turned around to look at us. Draco Malfoy must have recognised us, because he looked pretty surprised. Snape started to ask Kayla and I a load of questions. It was terrible. We didn't know the answers, and neither did anyone else, apart from Hermione. He gave us detention. Detention on our very first day. Does he have no heart?

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Kayla and I had to polish trophies the Muggle way for detention. It was so boring. Filch, the caretaker, watched us polish. While we were polishing, Harry came too see us. Filch looked at him suspiciously when he walked in.

"I'm glad I don't have to do that," he said as he walked in. Kayla shot him a withering look and he held up his hands. "Sorry..." he said.

"Never mind her," I said to him.

"Well, when you guys are done, come up to Rem... I mean professor Kopins office... He asked for you to go there." said Harry.

"Run along now, Potter!" said Filch and he mouthed a goodbye to us two. We polished as fast as we could and pretty soon we could see our faces in every trophy. We left the trophy room and hurried up the stairs to Remus' office. When we got up there, Remus was still under the glamour. Sirius was there in his dog form, and Harry was just sitting in front of Remus' desk on one of the three chairs there. I noticed that there were two behind the desk.

"Finally!" said Remus. "What were you doing?" he said as he closed and locked the door, then went back to himself. Sirius also transformed to himself. You may imagine that it hurts, transforming to animal form, but it doesn't.

"Polishing trophies," said Kayla gloomily. She sat herself down on one of the chairs in front of the desk, and tugged on the locket around her neck. It had been our mum's. I sat down next to her.

"Oh." said Sirius. He paused for a moment, then said, "Kayla, can I see your locket?" She looked at him, then reached around and opened the catch. She handed the locket to Sirius and he smiled. He sat down behind the desk beside Remus behind the desk, and handed Kayla's locket to him.

"Will I?" Remus asked Sirius. Sirius nodded, and Remus took his wand and tapped the locket three times, muttering something that sounded like forever over and over. The locket sprung open to my amazement. Inside, I could see a picture. It was a red haired woman and a dark haired man. I supposed that they were Kayla and my parents. Sirius held the locket up for us too see the picture.

"My parents!" said Harry. Kayla looked at him.

"How can it be? That's my mum's. You must be mistaken, Harry."

"Kayla, he's right," said Remus. I was confused, and I could tell by Kayla's face that she was too.

"But..." said Kayla. But was all she could get out of her mouth.

"But Peter told us that it was our mum's locket. Kayla has had it for as long as I can remember," I said. I knew that was what Kayla had intended to say. She nodded.

"Why does Kayla have the locket if it has my parents' picture in it?" Harry said to Remus and Sirius.

"Well, it's complicated," said Sirius.

"It is your mothers locket," said Remus to Kayla and I.

"But its your mum's too," Sirius told Harry.

"That must mean... That must mean that we have the same mum," said Kayla.

"You do," said Sirius.

"What?" I said. "What do you mean?"

"You three, you're triplets." Sirius said to us. We were silent.

"But why didn't anybody miss Kayla and Jack?" Harry asked the adults.

"Because. Well, it's very complicated as I said before. Nobody knew about Kayla and Jack but Peter, Sirius, me, your parents and James' brother, Kevin. The dark side kidnapped Kevin. They knew something was going on that Peter hadn't told them about. We never saw Kevin again, but he hadn't told them. We knew that. It was Peter who told them. You see, there's a prophecy..." Remus stopped and took a drink of his coffee.

"It says that if three Potter children are born on the same hour of the same day to the same mother, then together they can destroy the dark side. We knew this, and so we didn't tell a soul. But they found out through Peter. They took Kayla and Jack, and never planned on them getting away. What you-know-who didn't know was that there is a kind of key to the power in the three of you. They thought that if they got Kayla and Jack away, It would be fine. They could do away with your parents and Harry would be an orphan. It is believed that you, Harry, are the key to the power." Sirius said. We sat silently. We were gobsmacked. How could this be? All our lives Kayla and I were just twins. A two piece set. But now we were being told that there was another piece to the set. And we were always Jack and Kayla Whyte, not Jack and Kayla Potter. Kayla must have thought of this.

"But I'm Kayla Whyte, not Kayla Potter!" she exclaimed. "And it's the same for Jack."

"They didn't want to let you two know that you were related to Harry or any of the Potters." Remus told us.

"Look, you guys," Sirius said. "You can't tell anybody. We weren't meant to tell you yet."

"But I have to tell Hermione and Ron." said Harry.

"You'll have to wait," said Remus. "No one can know! Now go and get some sleep, and let this sink in." And with that, Kayla, Harry and I got up and left Remus' office together. It was so weird. We walked together back to the common room. Kayla kept looking from Harry to me.

"Why didn't I see it before," she muttered to herself.

"See what?" Harry asked her.

"You two... you have the same eyes," she said quietly.

"We do?" I said.

"Yeah..." she reached into her pocket and pulled out a little compact mirror. She flipped it open and tapped it twice with her wand and it got a lot bigger. She held it up in front of Harry and I. She was right. We did have the same eyes. Kayla put the mirror away and we walked back to the common room. We went our separate ways when we reached the split in the stairs to the boys and the girls dorms. Kayla said goodnight and hugged me, then hesitated. She then hugged Harry too. Then we went up the stairs and went into my dorm. I didn't expect to sleep that night.

*********The End For Now**********

A/N: Okay, okay, so I suspect that this has been done before, but I have big plans for this! Please, please, please review! It means everything to me. Oh yeah, and a majorly massive thanks to Lady Reena for doing my beta reading!