Harry Potter and the Mysterious New Magic Pt. III
A/N: The third part!!! YAY!!! Okay, so sorry to all the people who were expecting this last week. I got side tracked. My sister came home this weekend from college, and we had to go out and celebrate leaving my poor poor unattended computer. Anyways, I should have 1 part come up every week.
This is dedicated to my sister (Happy B-day!!!)
Chapter 11: The Derellor (A/N: Don't know if this matters, but itz pronounced dare-lore)
*Ahem* *ahem*
Sirius reluctantly let go of Harry to see who had interrupted them.
Harry turned around to see Professor Lupin and Madeline with a rather large bandage on her head.
"Are you okay?" Professor Lupin asked.
"Yes, I'm fine." Harry replied.
"Where would you like Dobby and Winky to put these, Mistress?" a squeaky voice spoke.
Madeline pointed toward the table, they set the food and goblets down and walked out.
"Well, we have to go to a meeting with Professor Dumbledore soon, so, please start eating or something, if you wish." Said Professor Lupin.
Madeline got up and started toward the door. Harry was about to ask her something, but Sirius beat her to it.
"What's the meeting about?"
They paused for a moment. "He said something about my upcoming conditionand hers. She will have to modify her schedule a bit now-a-days." he replied quietly as they left.
"So Harry, tell me everything. How's everything?"
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Dinner was excellent. Harry had talked about his short summer with the Dursleys, Ron and Hermione being prefects, and his newest girlfriend Cho. And Sirius in return, talked about his little adventures around the Eastern Hemisphere.
"Come on in, Professor." Harry and Sirius welcomed Professor Lupin in.
"I see Harry has found out your little secret a bit early eh, Padfoot?" Lupin asked grinning.
"Yes, well, he'd find out anyway, wouldn't ya Harry?" Sirius playfully punched Harry on the shoulder.
Harry blushed at being the center of attention. "I guess," he managed to squeak out.
Then, after the tension faded out the room, the three of them started to relax and Sirius and Remus began to tell Harry stories of their days at Hogwarts.
When Harry came to realize that it was time for him to head toward Gryffindor tower, he reluctantly got up and said: "Well, Sirius, it was great seeing you, but I have to head back to finish those essays."
"I should head back too, I need to rest up for the upcoming full moon." Lupin said as he got up to follow Harry.
"Well, come back soon. It gets a bit lonely here only talking to 1 person whom doesn't reply." Sirius said as they went through the door.
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When Harry got back to the Gryffindor Common room, Ron and Hermione ran up to him.
"Where were you?" They yelled at him in unison.
He then told them about the creature, Cho, the fight, Madeline and Sirius.
"Wow," Ron said. "Seems like you've had quite an adventure today, eh Harry?"
Harry laughed, but stopped when he saw the look on Hermione's face. Ron saw her too.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"Could you describe what the creature looked like again?" He did.
"And you say that it had scratched her hard enough to bleed?"
"Yes....Hermione, what's this about?" Harry asked.
Hermione was digging through her rather large pile of books looking for something. She then pulled something out. It read Mythical Magical Creatures by Bertha Grahme. She began flipping through the pages frantically, then stopped to turn the book around and show Ron and Harry.
There stood a picture of an absoulute replica of what Harry had saw earlier. It read "the Derellor"
(A/N:Whooo!! Long Chapter!!)
Chapter 12: Realizations
Harry read the text in the book. It had said that the Derellor was a mythical creature only called upon by most powerful wizards. They are faithful creatures and obey only their master. They can only be destroyed by certain people, called Sealers, in certain ways.
He stared at the one sentence that bothered him. "-when they come in contact with human blood, they share a common bond between one another." 'Did that mean that Madeline is now a Derellor or something?' Harry asked himself. 'That's probably why she had to talk to Dumbledore.'
Harry got up and walked slowly toward the Boy's Dormitory without finishing his essays or conversation with Ron and Hermione. This was just too much for him to handle. He was sure that Voldemort probably sent that Derellor, and now that because of him, another student had gotten involved and hurt. This was just all too familiar.
Ron and Hermione were still in the common room. They decided to let Harry's emotions sort themselves without their help. They had come to the same conclusion as Harry did. Ron didn't know it, but Hermione was going for a different approach to Madeline.
She was probably the only other person besides the teacher that noticed Madeline was usually there for half the class and mysteriously disappeared and then reappeared in their next class. This was all very peculiar, and Hermione was determined to get to the bottom of it.
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Hermione had asked Ron for support to go see Madeline the next morning. All he did was grumble and fall asleep again. She sighed as she wandered out of the common room. When she had reached the gargoyle, Cho had approached her.
"Good Morning, Hermione." she said cheerfully.
"Good Morning, Cho." Hermione replied. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, Professor Dumbledore asked me to come up and tell him my story this morning. What about you?"
"Er..,I wanted to ask Professor Dumbledore something." Hermione lied.
"Oh, then we can go in together." Cho said.
"Okay,"
This was not at all what Hermione had planned. She remembered that Harry said that she lived somewhere in Dumbledore's corridor. So she followed Cho to Professor Dumbledore's office.
*knock* *knock*
"Come in,"
"Good morning, Professor," Hermione and Cho said.
"Good morning girls. Miss Chang, I did not expect someone was coming with you." He said.
"Well, I wanted to ask you something, Professor," Hermione interuppted.
"Very, well. Do you mind waiting, Miss Granger?"
"No, Professor. I will be waiting outside." She turned to leave, but the Professor stopped her.
"We don't mind you staying. You may sit down next to Miss Chang."
Hermione sat down while Cho was telling her story. She wasn't really listening but her last statment caught her attention.
"-and it was so dark, until the door opened and that new girl was there. She helped untie me and helped me get out of the cabinet. And after that, she fled."
"Hmmmmm.........." The Professor pondered for a while.
"Professor?" Cho asked hopefully.
"Yes, Miss Chang?"
"If I could, I would like to thank her for getting me out."
A smile crossed Dumbledore's lips. "Of course, you may. Miss Granger, would you mind accompanying us?"
"No, Sir." Hermione was now glad that she had came in with Cho.
Chapter 13: Where Two Become One
Professor Dumbledore, Cho and Hermione walked out of his office and towards the other side of the corridor. They stopped for a brief moment so Professor Dumbledore could knock gently on the door.
*knock* *knock*
"Come in,"
They entered through the doorway. Hermione and Cho gasped at the size of the room on the other side. It had navy blue walls with a dark blue ceiling sprinkled with little white and yellow specks. There was a rather large marble fireplace on the opposite wall of the doorway with a table and two armchairs. A dining table was near the fireplace with 5 chairs around it. On the two parallel walls (A/N: I'm tryin to say the walls to their left and right) there were a few doors on each of them. Hermione contemplated (A/N: ooooh!! big word!!) that one of them was Madeline's rooms.
In the center of the room, there was plenty of space for the whole Gryffindor house to be enclosed in.
"May we help you?" a greasy voice said.
Hermione gasped as she saw Professor Snape come up behind her.
"What are *THEY* doing here?" he sneered.
"Ms. Chang wanted to thank our dear Madeline, here for saving her." Dumbledore replied.
Cho walked over to where Madeline was standing and they immediatly started talking excitedly. Professor Snape and Dumbledore turned to a corner to talk privately. Hermione couldn't see Sirius or "Snuffles" anywhere in the room. She guessed it had something to do with Snape being there.
As Hermione was walking up toward Cho and Madeline, she noticed that Madeline was carefully sipping a goblet of purple liquid and cringing and the taste.
"Oh! Hermione, would you like to join us?" asked Cho.
Hermione joined the two, but didn't hear anything they said. She was in deep thought. She gasped. 'I knew it!'
Everyone in the room looked at her. "Are you okay?" asked Cho.
"Yeah, just fine." mumbled Hermione.
"Well, we best be on our way. Breakfast is starting in an hour." Dumbledore said.
Everyone left except Hermione and Madeline. This was the only chance she got to actually confront her.
Sirius niticed that everyone else had left and came out.
"Good Morning Hermione. To what to we owe this pleasure?" asked Sirius once he changed back.
"I just wanted to talk to Madeline for a while." Hermione replied. Sirius nodded and went to another room to give them privacy.
Madeline nodded to show that she had her full attention.
Hermione paused and closed her eyes tightly, "I know what you are....Harry told us what you did. And it all fits." she sighed," you're a Sealer, aren't you?"
Chapter 14: A New Friend, An Old Friend
(R/H peoples here's your chapters)
She just nodded. But when Hermione looked into her eyes, she began to answer a question that wasn't asked.
"You leave class all the time, probably for practice or something, am I right?" Madeline only nodded," and after what happened to Harry, I'm sure that that was an instant give away."
Madeline gave her a sad look that said "please don't tell anyone."
"I won't tell. But I just wanted to warn you. How are intending to hide this from everyone, including the fact that you *are* a Derellor? They might not notice it now, but sooner or later they will find out."
She just shrugged and started to break down and cry.
"Don't worry, we'll figure something out. I'll be here to help you." Hermione said as she let Madeline cry on her shoulder.
"Besides, you'll need someone for tutoring if you're only listening to half the class." Hermione joked.
Hermione could just barely hear a very small and silent "thanks".
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"WHERE WERE YOU?" asked Ron.
"I was ........ in the library, studying." Hermione lied.
"I went in there, you weren't there!" Ron exclaimed.
"Then, maybe you didn't look hard enough!" Hermione spat back," besides, I'm here now, so what do you want?"
"We have to finish planning the Christmas Ball, in case you didn't know!"
Everyone in the common room stopped to watch the 2 prefects yelling at each other in amusement. George conjured up some popcorn for everyone.
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Harry awoke to the empty boys' dormitory, but he heard yelling in the common room. He got up and walked slowly toward the door.
"The streamers should be hanging off the end of the tables!"
"No! The streamers should be hanging off the ceiling!"
"Table!"
"Ceiling!"
"TABLE!"
"CEILING!" (A/N: Gee this could go on forever, huh?)
Then, ironically, they were in each other's arms, embracing one another.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!" The Gryffindor group said.
When they started to move their heads toward one another, Fred and George started yelling:
"Okay people move and let the happy couple have some privacy! Go on! Hey, morning Harry! Wanna watch the fireworks?"
Harry shrugged and sat down in one of the large Gryffindor armchairs trying hard to not notice the couple making out in the center of the room. This action made him think about Cho and how much he suddenly missed her.
Chapter 15: The Ferret, the Owl, and the Cat
(A/N: This chapter's kinda unimportant, it just says the animals' names and why she chose them)
Harry, Ron and Hermione were walking toward Professor Dumbledore's corridor to have dinner once again with Sirius and Madeline. When they reached Sirius and Madeline's 'home', they entered.
"Welcome back Harry! Oh! And I see you've brought Ron and Hermione!" welcomed Sirius.
Everyone gave their hugs and kisses when Sirius brought Harry's present. He opened it and inside was new book with blank pages.
"It's a daily log for you to put down your memoirs." Sirius said. "Plus it can shrink it self to fit in your pocket and become invisible when you point your wand at it. Do you like it?"
"It's wonderful!" Harry said. "But why a log?"
"Your father had one just like it and wrote in it everyday, as far as I can remember."
There were no signs of Madeline there, but her pets certainly were. Sirius began to feed them.
"You know the funniest thing happened today." Sirius began. "Snape came up to visit me. He gave me three bags of pet food for each of these little things. He even told me a few things. Did you know that he was best friends with Madeline's father?"
Everyone just shook their heads, wondering how Professor Severus Snape ever had any friends.
"Yeah, he also told me he had seen her grow up and everything. He was appointed as her God Father."
Ron nearly spit up his juice.
"Plus he was there when she had named her little pets. Like, that eagle owl, for instance, was given to her by her mum and named it after her Great Aunt Wendolyn. Then that little black cat was named after her little sister, Adeline, that had died years before. And that skinny little furball there? He was named after her brother, Jeremiah, whom gave it on her 14th birthday."
A/N: The end of yet another part!! Wow, this is the longest yet. Not by much, thought. Anyways, please please please read and review!!! Constructive critisim is good or if you wanna just go out and diss me is just, that's great. I managed to start this, but wasn't able to finish it until fall break. As you can kinda tell, I've tried to cut down on the A/N's cuz I know it bugs some of you. But, if you have time, you can keep on reading cuz right now I'm tellin you why I chose the animals' names.
Wendolyn- I liked the suffix "lyn" so I chose this one cuz Gwendolyn doesn't sound like a name for an owl
Adeline- It's a cute name. My personal favorite.
Jermiah-A while ago, I was listening to the Forrest Gump soundtrack and I was listening to the song "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night
That's it!! If you've read this far, that means you've got time to review!!! So, go on!!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the animals, the Derellor, the purple crap, the makeout session between Ron and Hermione, the names and the popcorn.