A/N: The third part. I'm still working on a title though. Oh, well, I'm still open to suggestions.
Chapter 2
An Even Bigger Surprise
The next morning Harry awoke half expecting to hear Petunia screaming for him to wake up. Instead, he opened his eyes to the smell of bacon and he could hear voices in the kitchen. After getting dressed, Harry started downstairs. He stopped when he reached the kitchen and looked around.
Vivian was behind the stove laughing at Sirius, who was trying to steal a piece of bacon without her noticing. Dumbledore was magically flipping pancakes, and Lupin was frosting a cake.
" They look just like a normal family," Harry thought, "At least," he amended, "just like a normal wizard family."
At that moment Vivian looked up, saw Harry, and smiled, "Harry! You're up. Can you please set the table?" Harry nodded and began to wonder when Vivian was going to talk to him. He looked up and saw a very nervous-looking Vivian mouthing the words, "Not yet," at a very insistent-looking Dumbledore. Just then Harry dropped a cup, and all activity stopped. Vivian turned to get a new one, but Dumbledore caught her arm. Gently, but firmly, Dumbledore pulled Vivian towards Harry.
"I think it is time that he knew," Dumbledore said softly.
"Knew what?" Vivian babbled, "Dumbledore, I really don't know-"
"I really must insist Miss Potter," Dumbledore said with a familiar twinkle in his eyes. Vivian stared at him for a few moments and then spoke.
"Dumbledore, you can't just tell him like that," Vivian said disapprovingly and turned to Harry and smiled anxiously at him.
"There's really a very simple explanation for this, Harry," she said, "Harry?" she asked again when he didn't reply. He blinked and looked at her, his eyes getting a little wider.
"You even look like my mom," he muttered, "I should have known you were related to me," then he got more excited as the information sunk in, "But how? Do I have to live with the Dursley's anymore? What about Sirius? Can I still see him? What-" he started to ask before Vivian interrupted him, laughing gently at his frantic questions.
"I'm your sister, no you don't have to live with the Dursley's, and yes, you can still see Sirius," Vivian said matching Harry's tone of excitement exactly. The whole kitchen to burst out laughing as Vivian grinned triumphantly and Harry muttered a quick sorry which caused Vivian to give him a brief hug. When the hug was done Harry looked a little embarrassed. To the best of his knowledge no one had ever hugged him like that. Like he was important and loved.
Suddenly aware of the uncomfortable silence he asked, "But how can you be my sister? And why haven't you come to get me from the Dursley's yet?"
"Well Harry," Vivian answered, "It's a little confusing," and Vivian proceeded to tell Harry the entire story.
"During my first year at Hogwarts, right around Halloween, Dumbledore told me to come to his office right after dinner. My friends teased me endlessly when they found out I was supposed to go," she said. Then, seeing Harry's confused look she explained, "They thought that I had gotten in trouble again."
"Again?" Harry thought to himself and opened his mouth to ask, but Vivian had obviously anticipated this question because, before Harry could ask it, Vivian explained once more.
"My friends and I were always getting into trouble, even in our first year," Vivian clarified grinning slightly at the memory. Then her grin faded as she went back to her story.
"Anyway, once I was in Dumbledore's office he told me that my parents had been killed by Voldemort. I wasn't terribly surprised. Right after I received my Hogwarts letter I told Mom and Dad that I wasn't going because I might be able to help if Voldemort came. They told me that it was safer at Hogwarts and made me go. I remember, "Vivian faltered, swallowed, and stared again, "I remember, right after Dumbledore told me, all I could think about was how I hadn't wanted to come Hogwarts because I could have helped when Voldemort came. I could have helped, " Vivian repeated accusingly to herself.
"Anyway, after a couple minutes, I asked about you," she told Harry as she wiped away tears, "If I was surprised to find that you were still alive, I was even more surprised when I found out you had defeated Voldemort. I was also outraged when I found out you had been taken to the Dursley's. 'What about Sirius,' I asked, 'He's Harry's godfather.' Dumbledore informed me that Sirius was being accused of betraying Mom and Dad. I told Dumbledore that I was going to testify for him, but he told me that my testimony would do nothing. That people would just think I was distraught because my parents had died. So there was nothing I could do. I tried though," Vivian said suddenly, turning to Sirius, "Really I did. Had I actually testified-"
Sirius interrupted her gently as he hugged her, "It turned out all right in the end." Nodding, she pulled away. Wiping her tears away, she continued.
"I demanded that you be brought to me so that I could look after you, but Dumbledore convinced that it would be best to leave you at the Dursley's until you at least knew about the wizarding world. From then on I took odd jobs so that I could pay for my staying at Hogwarts and for my school supplies. I took the least amount of money out of Mom and Dad's account at Gringotts, and most of what I did take out I paid back. That way there would be a lot for you when you entered Hogwarts. You might possibly have noticed that, each year, there seems to be a little money in the account," she added. Harry nodded. He had noticed that a little.
"Well," Vivian continued, "that's because I'm still depositing money in it for you. Anyway, after I graduated I stayed at Hogwarts and did odd jobs around the grounds and at Hogsmeade. Well, when you turned eleven I started pressuring Dumbledore. He told me to give you time to settle in. 'In the meantime,' he said, 'you can stay at Hogwarts and check up on him.' Well," Vivian continued, "I did just that. I learned different teaching methods over that past four years, and next year, according to Dumbledore, I'm going to become the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."
"And a fine one too, what with all the training you've gotten," Sirius piped up grinning and got an angry glare from Vivian for his trouble.
"You're going to be my teacher?" Harry asked still trying to process everything Vivian had said. She nodded and Harry went on.
"Won't the kids at Hogwarts say something," he wondered.
"Well if they do," Dumbledore replied in a voice that forbade discussion, "they can come and voice their concerns to me."
That summer Harry and Vivian were almost never apart. Harry told Vivian about all the students she was going to have, and Vivian told Harry stories about Lily and James. It was a wonderful summer and Harry forgot all about Voldemort. That was his one mistake.
A/n: Cliffhanger! Anyway, please r/r!
