Harry Potter and the Heir of Light and Darkness - Chapter 4 - Arrival at
Hogwarts
Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter, or anything related to it. I own Kaori, the servant, Makoti, Darius, and whomever I decide to add later. Why do I have to write these things?
(A/N: I changed the name, as you can see. Before it was just the dark knight, but now its Harry Potter and the Heir of Light and Darkness. Creative, ain't' I?)
The rest of the summer:
The rest of the time spent at Ron's moved swiftly for Harry. Kaori eventually forgave Ron for being such a jerk about her friend dying (he was killed by a death eater; that was all she would tell him). She never blamed Harry for not knowing; she said that Ron should have been used to the accent by now; Harry was excusable. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had went to Diagon Alley to shop for all of the kid's things, which included quite a list for all of them put together. During their trip at Diagon alley, Mr. Weasley ran into Lucious Malfoy, got into (guess what?) a fight, and eventually wound up in the Daily Prophet for excessive use of magic while breaking everything in sight. Of course, good ol' Draco had to get his share into the article, and bluntly stated that the Weasleys were a family that the wizarding community, frankly, had no use for. This, of course, got everyone enraged, and caused a big scene when the entire Weasley family sent howlers to the Malfoys, one from each of the Weasleys. Lucious swore on his place in heaven (ah-hem) that he would raise an uproar in the Ministry like no other, which of course, never came. Before they knew it, September first came rolling along like a steamroller, and it was time to go to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Harry, Kaori, Hermione, Ron, and the rest of the Weasleys boarded the train, Harry saw a familiar shadow out of the corner of his eye. Harry turned to look at it, and yelped out in surprise.
"Sirus!" Harry whispered as he hissed angrily at the jet-black dog with soft puppy eyes. The dog whimpered playfully, and started to lick Harry's hand. "Sirus, what are you doing here?" The dog barked a reply, much to Harry's avail. Ron and Hermione both had a look of angst and mortification as the dog barked and entered the train. Kaori seemed amused at the whole spectacle. Harry followed the dog into the train, Hermione, Ron and Kaori following his trail. Harry turned to Hermione, and signaled her to distract Kaori.
"Kaori, why don't I introduce you to some of our friends? Lavender and Parvati would be glad to meet you, why don't we go and find them?" Hermione said in a convincing voice. Kaori looked at her and laughed.
"Oh, please, Herms, I made up that trick," Kaori said as she reached over to pet the dog. The trio looked apprehensively at Sirus and Kaori, but was surprised to see that Sirus started to lick her hand. They all breathed out a sigh of relief to see that Sirus didn't start chewing her fingers off. Sirus barked again, giving Harry the 'ok'. Harry shrugged, thinking, "Oh, what the hell" and found a car where they could talk alone. All four of them walked in, Hermione, being the last, putting a spell on the door to lock it. At last, they turned to Sirus, who was still being petted happily by Kaori. Sirus barked at her, telling her to get back.
"Ok, you don't have to be pushy about it," Kaori said defensively as she backed away from the dog. Slowly, the dog began to change, subtly at first, but then faster and faster until the dog was no more, and Sirus was all that was left of it. They all looked apprehensively at Kaori, who just looked at Sirus in shock. Suddenly, he shock turned to a smile as she shook her head appreciatively and chuckled. "You could have told me it was you, you know." Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked at Sirus and Kaori with startled expressions. "I mean, its rude not to, isn't it?"
Sirus greeted her with a look of surprise. "Ex-excuse me? Do I know you? I mean, I thought that since you were a friend of Harry's-"
"Sirus please," she said cutting him off. "Did I really change that much? Or are you just in denial?" she said playfully. The look on Sirus' face didn't change, however, and she moaned in annoyance. "You're as slow as the last time I saw you, you know that?" she said jokingly. "I mean, it has been a while of course, Sirus dear, but still. I mean, when you were at you wit's end, it was me who talked to you, remember?"
Sirus looked at her in puzzlement. Suddenly, realization sparked in his eyes as he laughed. "Kaori Knight? Well, I'll be damned! Never thought I'd see you again! Last time I saw you, you were crawling on my lap for a story of wizard pirates and witches that gave love potions to men to make them fall head over heels for them!" Sirus eyes her over appreciatively. "Well, you certainly have grown up, if I don't say so myself. You were such a little tyke when I saw you last. Mean as hell. Didn't trust anybody. And then you just came up to my cell one day, strutting your stuff, acting all high and mighty. You come right up to me, stuck your finger right between the bars, and said, 'you the guy who killed twenty-one muggles, Peter Pettigrew, and James and Lily Potter?' I say yeah, just to put on a good show, and you laugh like you thought it was funny. I said 'what's so funny?' and you go and say, 'right on brotha! That's the way you do it!' From that point on, you would not leave me alone! I thought someone had bewitched you to follow me around!" Kaori blushed lightly, and hit Sirus over the head.
"Jeez, Sirus, tell the whole world, why don't ya!" she said as she looked at him, annoyed, but laughing. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, however, didn't look so amused.
"Kai, why were you in Azkaban?" Harry asked her inquisitively. She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly.
"My adopted gramps got stuck in there," she said lightly as she went over to Sirus and gave him a hug. "Good to see you again, old friend. And since when did you start hanging around with Potter? Wouldn't he kind of hate you, you know, you being the man that killed his parents?" She nudged his shoulder in a friendly way. "It does sort of kill the purpose of killing his parents." Sirus' eyes darkened, finally showing all the signs that hiding in constant fear had given him.
"I didn't kill them. It was that Pettigrew, I tell you. Pettigrew was the one who was their secret keeper, not me. I would never do that to Lily and James," Sirus said quietly. Kaori's eyes furrowed, as she put a hand on his shoulder.
"Oh, don't get all weepy on me, Paddy. Didn't mean to start the waterworks." Sirus elbowed her jokingly, while giving her the expression of both a scowl and a grin at the same time.
"Shut up. 'S not like you were dry all the time," he said as he pouted.
"So, er, Sirus, what are you doing here?" Ron asked, changing the subject. Sirus looked thoughtfully at Ron, then switched his gaze to Harry.
"Well Ron, that has quite a few answers. The first one is that I'm on a mission from Dumbledore. He wants me to use my being an Animagi to spy a bit on some of the people at Hogwarts. He, erm, believes that there could be a spy at Hogwarts. Especially now that Voldemort's well and back." Kaori's eyes widened as she looked on at him, shocked.
"What? Voldemort is back? But-but that's impossible! He-he can't be! He just can't," she said, her voice tapering off to a mere whisper as she slid down onto the couch, gripping the wall for support. "But, Harry-Harry killed him! Or something like that! Didn't he?" she said weakly. Sirus, Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at her sympathetically as Hermione gently put a hand on her shoulder.
"Last semester, Voldemort used the Triwizard Tournament to get Harry. He brought him to his secret lair using Barty Crouch and used his blood in a dark arts ceremony to essentially, come back to life," Hermione said gently.
Kaori's eyebrow's wrinkled a bit. "Barty Crouch? What's Barty Crouch got to do with this?" And so began the epic retelling of practically the entire fourth year at Hogwarts, with each of them interrupting each other often. Finally, Kaori sat there, shocked, to say the least. Harry smiled weakly at her as he sat down beside her.
"Hey, don't worry. You'll be safe at Hogwarts. With all the extra protection there lately, I'm sure Voldemort won't-"
"He didn't seem to care when he abducted you, did he?" Kaori replied. She sighed loudly, as a sudden knocking came from outside the door.
"Yoo-hoo! Open the door, I can't get through!" the usher who brought the snacks said through the door.
"Herms, you mind?" Harry said, as he watched Kaori's sorrow slightly forgotten.
"Food?" she asked plainly. "Food would be nice, right about now."
"Yeah, its food," Ron said as he nudged Hermione towards the door rather roughly. Hermione shot a look at Ron, but said alohomora all the same as Sirus transformed back into a dog, and opened the door for the plump witch. She woman trotted in with her cart of sweets, Kaori looking slightly better now.
"Next time, don't lock the door," the woman said, annoyed. Her expression quickly changed, however, as she saw the jet black dog that was sitting in the car. "Ohhhh," she said, getting excited. "He's so cute! Hello, puppy, what's your name?" She turned to Harry. "Is he yours?" she said as she started to pet Sirus roughly. Sirus, however, enjoyed the attention.
"Er, yeah," Harry said uncertainly. "Um, so can we get two of everything, please?" Harry said as he grabbed a handful of galleons from his pocket and held it out to the woman.
"Oh, sure!" she said as she took the galleons from Harry and place them in a tin. She gave Harry two of every type of candy imaginable, petted Sirus for the last time, and walked out of the cart. Harry held the candy out to his friends, as Ron and Hermione each took a piece. Kaori, however, grabbed mostly all of them and dug right in. ((A:N/ And when I say dug in, I mean dug in *lol*)) The trio, along with Sirus, looked on in amazement as she downed half the candies in around thirty seconds flat.
"Woah," Ron breathed. "That was, well, fast," he said, unable to hide his shock.
"Wha?" Kaori mumbled as she started on the second round, amid startled looks from her companions. In mere seconds, the rest of the sweets were gone. "What? When I'm stressed, I eat fast. Is that a crime?" she asked, grim faced, as Ron and Harry sighed. Hermione, however, burrowed her eyebrows deeply into her forehead, thinking. This didn't escape Kaori's glance, however, and she turned to Hermione quizzically. "What's the matter? You never seen someone eat fast?"
"No, that's not it. I just-remember something from a book I read once. Hold on-" she said as she dug into her bag and sorted frantically through it. ((A/N: insert sweat drops *hehe*))
"Does she always go for the books when something little happens?" Kaori whispered to Ron. Ron nodded his head solemnly.
"Usually. There's no stopping her when she finds some new angle, or something like that," Ron said sadly.
"Damn! I can't find it!" Hermione shouted so that the entire train could hear her. Her companions looked at her in surprise.
"I think we really have had a bad influence on her," Harry whispered to Ron.
"Most definitely," Ron replied, just as Malfoy came bounding in through the door of the car, followed closely by his two henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle. All of their expressions changed instantly, as annoyance and anger lined their faces. Even Sirus growled menacingly as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Kaori turned to face the Slytherin boy.
"Oh look, its Potty, Weasel, and the Mudblood. What else is new? And look, they've got two new additions to their group of perkiness and joy. A stupid, dirty mutt, and-" his gaze looked up at Kaori. Startled, he did a once over. Slowly, his eyes wandered across her body, studying every curve, every line, every part of the perfection that lay in from of him. "And you would be?" he asked, changing his expression from shocked to flirtatious. Kaori returned his smile.
"That depends. Who would you be?" she said just as flirtatious as he.
"Malfoy. Draco Malfoy," he said as he moved closer to her.
"Oh. Well, then, I'm someone who really *doesn't* give," she said as she pushed Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle right out of the car, one by one (she had to because of Crabbe and Goyle's massive size). And out they went, flinging straight across the car where Justin Finch-Fletchy and the rest of his Hufflepuff friends were sitting. "You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye," she said curtly as she slid the door closed behind her, locked it, and erupted into laughter. By then, Sirus couldn't stand it anymore. He transformed back into a human and broke out into laughter, following the three Gryffindors and Kaori.
* * * *
"Wonder what the first years'll be like?" Ron asked as he sat with Harry, Hermione, Fred, and George at the Gryffindor table. McGonnagol had needed to speak to Kaori privately, probably to sort her into one of the houses.
"Well, I do hope I won't have any trouble from them," Hermione said prissily.
"Yeah, you being a prefect and all," Ron sighed, exasperated.
"Well, I have to keep them in line, you know. It's not every day that you become prefect, and I have to do a good job of it. I can't let them just wander around and cause mischief."
Fred and George both cleared their throats loudly. Hermione looked at them stubbornly. "Herms, doesn't that remind you of someone? Rather, some people that happen to have gone here for the past five years? Rather, us?" Ron said sarcastically.
"Ron, shut up, would you! Not that it wasn't all fun, but we really have to start thinking about the future! We have our OWLS to study for, and the whole thing with You-Know-Who, and God knows what else it bound to happen this year!" she exclaimed.
"Well, maybe, if you weren't so uptight, then I could spend less time worrying every second that my girlfriend is a certified worry-wart!" Ron shouted back.
"Well, maybe-"
"Guys!" Harry hushed them. "It's starting," he said as he motioned them to keep their voices down. Ron and Hermione quieted down, as Professor McGonnagal placed a dirty, soiled, old hat on a stool. Without warning, the hat began to sing. It carried on for a good five minutes, singing an even longer song than all the previous years. At the end of the song, everyone stood up and clapped joyously, while Professor McGonnagal started to call up the first years to be sorted. When that was all done with, Professor Dumbledore stood up to make some announcements.
"Good evening, all my fellow you witches and wizards! Before the feasts begin, I would like to make a few announcements. The first, all dripper donger gummy chewers are banned, on Mr. Filch's request." Fred and George both moaned, followed by Dumbledore giving them a wink. "Second, a new student has arrived from Romania. She has stayed at the Weasley's house for the summer, and is now going to this school. Please welcome Ms. Kaori Knight!" Kaori came out through a side entrance, and ran over to the Gryffindor table. "Miss Knight has already been sorted into Gryffindor." The Gryffindors cheered loudly, while the Slytherins booed. Malfoy looked at her with an unexplainable look blazing in his eyes.
"Of course, Albus, doll, did you think I would be anywhere else?" Kaori exclaimed in a thick Romanian accent. All the students turned to look at her, and she shrank down into her seat. "Jeez, I was just kidding," she said in a British accent. The students dismissed it, and looked back at Dumbledore.
"Yes, well then. Third, we will be having a New Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, as you well know. Please welcome Makoti Grey!" The students clapped enthusiastically as Makoti came bounding out through an invisible door at the sidewall of the massive room. Hermione's eyes suddenly bulged out in surprise as she gave him a double take, as did many of the other female students. His boyish features were highly accented; his robes were loosely fit onto his body, showing the tight t-shirt underneath it. He wore snug blue pants underneath the robes that were a perfect complement to his blazing blue eyes. His hair was a sandy blonde colour, which cascaded carelessly across the features of his face. He had high cheekbones, which accented the rosy complexion of his cheeks greatly. In all, he looked like he couldn't have been older than nineteen.
"Wow," Parvati and Lavender both said breathlessly, as Hermione just continued to stare. Kaori, however had a different expression on her face. Hers was a look of mingled confusion, fury, just plain.*longing.*
"I don't know who to believe anymore," she whispered to herself as she grimaced, unnoticeable by the rest of her peers. She stared at Makoti as he looked to all the students. His eyes grazed the room, finally resting on her.
'I'll be waiting,' he mouthed wordlessly to her, quickly, so as not to attract attention. Her heart hammered in her chest as she nodded motionlessly at back at him, the look in her eyes saying everything. His attention left her, as he proceeded to sit down at Dumbledore's left. Kaori closed her eyes as Dumbledore proceeded to speak.
Lastly, I will be telling you that there will be extra precautions this year surrounding Hogwarts. As you know, the unfortunate events that occurred last year were no accident, as the newspapers had said they were. It took the work of extreme evil to do what happened. And so, there will be guards stationed at specific areas of the grounds. They will not be visable to the naked eye, however, so I do suggest you keep out of trouble if you don't want them coming to me and telling me what you have done. And please note, they are only here to ensure your safety. Unlike the guards that came here two years ago, they are some of my most trusted friends and confidants. I would trust them with my life, as should you. Now, let the feast begin!"
* * * *
As Harry rolled into bed, he felt a rather strange feeling inside of him. I was like none he had ever experienced before, and definitely strange. He didn't think he liked it.
"Ron?" Harry asked to his best friend.
"What is it Harry?" Ron replied.
"What do you think will happen? I mean with Voldemort and all," Harry said. Even though he couldn't see Ron, he knew that he had flinched at the sound of Voldemort's name. Then, Ron sighed.
"Go to sleep, Harry. Just go to sleep." Harry did just that.
Chapter four is finished!!!!!!! Thank the Lord almighty. That took quite a while. *Wipes sweat off of forehead* Yeah, well, too bad. I hope I'll have chapter 5 up soon. It's taking a while, but I'm getting there. And this one is actually somewhat long (On my computer anyways). Oh well. Peace! Oh, and Read and Review!!!!! Please!!!!!!
PS. I know I spelt the names wrong. My stupid friend took my book. (Die Mandy! Die!) And plus, I wasn't about to think of a song for the sorting hat to sing. I don't have that much energy, ya know.
PPS This is the revised version. Added the guy. Things'll be more interesting that way. R&R!
Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter, or anything related to it. I own Kaori, the servant, Makoti, Darius, and whomever I decide to add later. Why do I have to write these things?
(A/N: I changed the name, as you can see. Before it was just the dark knight, but now its Harry Potter and the Heir of Light and Darkness. Creative, ain't' I?)
The rest of the summer:
The rest of the time spent at Ron's moved swiftly for Harry. Kaori eventually forgave Ron for being such a jerk about her friend dying (he was killed by a death eater; that was all she would tell him). She never blamed Harry for not knowing; she said that Ron should have been used to the accent by now; Harry was excusable. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had went to Diagon Alley to shop for all of the kid's things, which included quite a list for all of them put together. During their trip at Diagon alley, Mr. Weasley ran into Lucious Malfoy, got into (guess what?) a fight, and eventually wound up in the Daily Prophet for excessive use of magic while breaking everything in sight. Of course, good ol' Draco had to get his share into the article, and bluntly stated that the Weasleys were a family that the wizarding community, frankly, had no use for. This, of course, got everyone enraged, and caused a big scene when the entire Weasley family sent howlers to the Malfoys, one from each of the Weasleys. Lucious swore on his place in heaven (ah-hem) that he would raise an uproar in the Ministry like no other, which of course, never came. Before they knew it, September first came rolling along like a steamroller, and it was time to go to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Harry, Kaori, Hermione, Ron, and the rest of the Weasleys boarded the train, Harry saw a familiar shadow out of the corner of his eye. Harry turned to look at it, and yelped out in surprise.
"Sirus!" Harry whispered as he hissed angrily at the jet-black dog with soft puppy eyes. The dog whimpered playfully, and started to lick Harry's hand. "Sirus, what are you doing here?" The dog barked a reply, much to Harry's avail. Ron and Hermione both had a look of angst and mortification as the dog barked and entered the train. Kaori seemed amused at the whole spectacle. Harry followed the dog into the train, Hermione, Ron and Kaori following his trail. Harry turned to Hermione, and signaled her to distract Kaori.
"Kaori, why don't I introduce you to some of our friends? Lavender and Parvati would be glad to meet you, why don't we go and find them?" Hermione said in a convincing voice. Kaori looked at her and laughed.
"Oh, please, Herms, I made up that trick," Kaori said as she reached over to pet the dog. The trio looked apprehensively at Sirus and Kaori, but was surprised to see that Sirus started to lick her hand. They all breathed out a sigh of relief to see that Sirus didn't start chewing her fingers off. Sirus barked again, giving Harry the 'ok'. Harry shrugged, thinking, "Oh, what the hell" and found a car where they could talk alone. All four of them walked in, Hermione, being the last, putting a spell on the door to lock it. At last, they turned to Sirus, who was still being petted happily by Kaori. Sirus barked at her, telling her to get back.
"Ok, you don't have to be pushy about it," Kaori said defensively as she backed away from the dog. Slowly, the dog began to change, subtly at first, but then faster and faster until the dog was no more, and Sirus was all that was left of it. They all looked apprehensively at Kaori, who just looked at Sirus in shock. Suddenly, he shock turned to a smile as she shook her head appreciatively and chuckled. "You could have told me it was you, you know." Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked at Sirus and Kaori with startled expressions. "I mean, its rude not to, isn't it?"
Sirus greeted her with a look of surprise. "Ex-excuse me? Do I know you? I mean, I thought that since you were a friend of Harry's-"
"Sirus please," she said cutting him off. "Did I really change that much? Or are you just in denial?" she said playfully. The look on Sirus' face didn't change, however, and she moaned in annoyance. "You're as slow as the last time I saw you, you know that?" she said jokingly. "I mean, it has been a while of course, Sirus dear, but still. I mean, when you were at you wit's end, it was me who talked to you, remember?"
Sirus looked at her in puzzlement. Suddenly, realization sparked in his eyes as he laughed. "Kaori Knight? Well, I'll be damned! Never thought I'd see you again! Last time I saw you, you were crawling on my lap for a story of wizard pirates and witches that gave love potions to men to make them fall head over heels for them!" Sirus eyes her over appreciatively. "Well, you certainly have grown up, if I don't say so myself. You were such a little tyke when I saw you last. Mean as hell. Didn't trust anybody. And then you just came up to my cell one day, strutting your stuff, acting all high and mighty. You come right up to me, stuck your finger right between the bars, and said, 'you the guy who killed twenty-one muggles, Peter Pettigrew, and James and Lily Potter?' I say yeah, just to put on a good show, and you laugh like you thought it was funny. I said 'what's so funny?' and you go and say, 'right on brotha! That's the way you do it!' From that point on, you would not leave me alone! I thought someone had bewitched you to follow me around!" Kaori blushed lightly, and hit Sirus over the head.
"Jeez, Sirus, tell the whole world, why don't ya!" she said as she looked at him, annoyed, but laughing. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, however, didn't look so amused.
"Kai, why were you in Azkaban?" Harry asked her inquisitively. She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly.
"My adopted gramps got stuck in there," she said lightly as she went over to Sirus and gave him a hug. "Good to see you again, old friend. And since when did you start hanging around with Potter? Wouldn't he kind of hate you, you know, you being the man that killed his parents?" She nudged his shoulder in a friendly way. "It does sort of kill the purpose of killing his parents." Sirus' eyes darkened, finally showing all the signs that hiding in constant fear had given him.
"I didn't kill them. It was that Pettigrew, I tell you. Pettigrew was the one who was their secret keeper, not me. I would never do that to Lily and James," Sirus said quietly. Kaori's eyes furrowed, as she put a hand on his shoulder.
"Oh, don't get all weepy on me, Paddy. Didn't mean to start the waterworks." Sirus elbowed her jokingly, while giving her the expression of both a scowl and a grin at the same time.
"Shut up. 'S not like you were dry all the time," he said as he pouted.
"So, er, Sirus, what are you doing here?" Ron asked, changing the subject. Sirus looked thoughtfully at Ron, then switched his gaze to Harry.
"Well Ron, that has quite a few answers. The first one is that I'm on a mission from Dumbledore. He wants me to use my being an Animagi to spy a bit on some of the people at Hogwarts. He, erm, believes that there could be a spy at Hogwarts. Especially now that Voldemort's well and back." Kaori's eyes widened as she looked on at him, shocked.
"What? Voldemort is back? But-but that's impossible! He-he can't be! He just can't," she said, her voice tapering off to a mere whisper as she slid down onto the couch, gripping the wall for support. "But, Harry-Harry killed him! Or something like that! Didn't he?" she said weakly. Sirus, Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at her sympathetically as Hermione gently put a hand on her shoulder.
"Last semester, Voldemort used the Triwizard Tournament to get Harry. He brought him to his secret lair using Barty Crouch and used his blood in a dark arts ceremony to essentially, come back to life," Hermione said gently.
Kaori's eyebrow's wrinkled a bit. "Barty Crouch? What's Barty Crouch got to do with this?" And so began the epic retelling of practically the entire fourth year at Hogwarts, with each of them interrupting each other often. Finally, Kaori sat there, shocked, to say the least. Harry smiled weakly at her as he sat down beside her.
"Hey, don't worry. You'll be safe at Hogwarts. With all the extra protection there lately, I'm sure Voldemort won't-"
"He didn't seem to care when he abducted you, did he?" Kaori replied. She sighed loudly, as a sudden knocking came from outside the door.
"Yoo-hoo! Open the door, I can't get through!" the usher who brought the snacks said through the door.
"Herms, you mind?" Harry said, as he watched Kaori's sorrow slightly forgotten.
"Food?" she asked plainly. "Food would be nice, right about now."
"Yeah, its food," Ron said as he nudged Hermione towards the door rather roughly. Hermione shot a look at Ron, but said alohomora all the same as Sirus transformed back into a dog, and opened the door for the plump witch. She woman trotted in with her cart of sweets, Kaori looking slightly better now.
"Next time, don't lock the door," the woman said, annoyed. Her expression quickly changed, however, as she saw the jet black dog that was sitting in the car. "Ohhhh," she said, getting excited. "He's so cute! Hello, puppy, what's your name?" She turned to Harry. "Is he yours?" she said as she started to pet Sirus roughly. Sirus, however, enjoyed the attention.
"Er, yeah," Harry said uncertainly. "Um, so can we get two of everything, please?" Harry said as he grabbed a handful of galleons from his pocket and held it out to the woman.
"Oh, sure!" she said as she took the galleons from Harry and place them in a tin. She gave Harry two of every type of candy imaginable, petted Sirus for the last time, and walked out of the cart. Harry held the candy out to his friends, as Ron and Hermione each took a piece. Kaori, however, grabbed mostly all of them and dug right in. ((A:N/ And when I say dug in, I mean dug in *lol*)) The trio, along with Sirus, looked on in amazement as she downed half the candies in around thirty seconds flat.
"Woah," Ron breathed. "That was, well, fast," he said, unable to hide his shock.
"Wha?" Kaori mumbled as she started on the second round, amid startled looks from her companions. In mere seconds, the rest of the sweets were gone. "What? When I'm stressed, I eat fast. Is that a crime?" she asked, grim faced, as Ron and Harry sighed. Hermione, however, burrowed her eyebrows deeply into her forehead, thinking. This didn't escape Kaori's glance, however, and she turned to Hermione quizzically. "What's the matter? You never seen someone eat fast?"
"No, that's not it. I just-remember something from a book I read once. Hold on-" she said as she dug into her bag and sorted frantically through it. ((A/N: insert sweat drops *hehe*))
"Does she always go for the books when something little happens?" Kaori whispered to Ron. Ron nodded his head solemnly.
"Usually. There's no stopping her when she finds some new angle, or something like that," Ron said sadly.
"Damn! I can't find it!" Hermione shouted so that the entire train could hear her. Her companions looked at her in surprise.
"I think we really have had a bad influence on her," Harry whispered to Ron.
"Most definitely," Ron replied, just as Malfoy came bounding in through the door of the car, followed closely by his two henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle. All of their expressions changed instantly, as annoyance and anger lined their faces. Even Sirus growled menacingly as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Kaori turned to face the Slytherin boy.
"Oh look, its Potty, Weasel, and the Mudblood. What else is new? And look, they've got two new additions to their group of perkiness and joy. A stupid, dirty mutt, and-" his gaze looked up at Kaori. Startled, he did a once over. Slowly, his eyes wandered across her body, studying every curve, every line, every part of the perfection that lay in from of him. "And you would be?" he asked, changing his expression from shocked to flirtatious. Kaori returned his smile.
"That depends. Who would you be?" she said just as flirtatious as he.
"Malfoy. Draco Malfoy," he said as he moved closer to her.
"Oh. Well, then, I'm someone who really *doesn't* give," she said as she pushed Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle right out of the car, one by one (she had to because of Crabbe and Goyle's massive size). And out they went, flinging straight across the car where Justin Finch-Fletchy and the rest of his Hufflepuff friends were sitting. "You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye," she said curtly as she slid the door closed behind her, locked it, and erupted into laughter. By then, Sirus couldn't stand it anymore. He transformed back into a human and broke out into laughter, following the three Gryffindors and Kaori.
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"Wonder what the first years'll be like?" Ron asked as he sat with Harry, Hermione, Fred, and George at the Gryffindor table. McGonnagol had needed to speak to Kaori privately, probably to sort her into one of the houses.
"Well, I do hope I won't have any trouble from them," Hermione said prissily.
"Yeah, you being a prefect and all," Ron sighed, exasperated.
"Well, I have to keep them in line, you know. It's not every day that you become prefect, and I have to do a good job of it. I can't let them just wander around and cause mischief."
Fred and George both cleared their throats loudly. Hermione looked at them stubbornly. "Herms, doesn't that remind you of someone? Rather, some people that happen to have gone here for the past five years? Rather, us?" Ron said sarcastically.
"Ron, shut up, would you! Not that it wasn't all fun, but we really have to start thinking about the future! We have our OWLS to study for, and the whole thing with You-Know-Who, and God knows what else it bound to happen this year!" she exclaimed.
"Well, maybe, if you weren't so uptight, then I could spend less time worrying every second that my girlfriend is a certified worry-wart!" Ron shouted back.
"Well, maybe-"
"Guys!" Harry hushed them. "It's starting," he said as he motioned them to keep their voices down. Ron and Hermione quieted down, as Professor McGonnagal placed a dirty, soiled, old hat on a stool. Without warning, the hat began to sing. It carried on for a good five minutes, singing an even longer song than all the previous years. At the end of the song, everyone stood up and clapped joyously, while Professor McGonnagal started to call up the first years to be sorted. When that was all done with, Professor Dumbledore stood up to make some announcements.
"Good evening, all my fellow you witches and wizards! Before the feasts begin, I would like to make a few announcements. The first, all dripper donger gummy chewers are banned, on Mr. Filch's request." Fred and George both moaned, followed by Dumbledore giving them a wink. "Second, a new student has arrived from Romania. She has stayed at the Weasley's house for the summer, and is now going to this school. Please welcome Ms. Kaori Knight!" Kaori came out through a side entrance, and ran over to the Gryffindor table. "Miss Knight has already been sorted into Gryffindor." The Gryffindors cheered loudly, while the Slytherins booed. Malfoy looked at her with an unexplainable look blazing in his eyes.
"Of course, Albus, doll, did you think I would be anywhere else?" Kaori exclaimed in a thick Romanian accent. All the students turned to look at her, and she shrank down into her seat. "Jeez, I was just kidding," she said in a British accent. The students dismissed it, and looked back at Dumbledore.
"Yes, well then. Third, we will be having a New Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, as you well know. Please welcome Makoti Grey!" The students clapped enthusiastically as Makoti came bounding out through an invisible door at the sidewall of the massive room. Hermione's eyes suddenly bulged out in surprise as she gave him a double take, as did many of the other female students. His boyish features were highly accented; his robes were loosely fit onto his body, showing the tight t-shirt underneath it. He wore snug blue pants underneath the robes that were a perfect complement to his blazing blue eyes. His hair was a sandy blonde colour, which cascaded carelessly across the features of his face. He had high cheekbones, which accented the rosy complexion of his cheeks greatly. In all, he looked like he couldn't have been older than nineteen.
"Wow," Parvati and Lavender both said breathlessly, as Hermione just continued to stare. Kaori, however had a different expression on her face. Hers was a look of mingled confusion, fury, just plain.*longing.*
"I don't know who to believe anymore," she whispered to herself as she grimaced, unnoticeable by the rest of her peers. She stared at Makoti as he looked to all the students. His eyes grazed the room, finally resting on her.
'I'll be waiting,' he mouthed wordlessly to her, quickly, so as not to attract attention. Her heart hammered in her chest as she nodded motionlessly at back at him, the look in her eyes saying everything. His attention left her, as he proceeded to sit down at Dumbledore's left. Kaori closed her eyes as Dumbledore proceeded to speak.
Lastly, I will be telling you that there will be extra precautions this year surrounding Hogwarts. As you know, the unfortunate events that occurred last year were no accident, as the newspapers had said they were. It took the work of extreme evil to do what happened. And so, there will be guards stationed at specific areas of the grounds. They will not be visable to the naked eye, however, so I do suggest you keep out of trouble if you don't want them coming to me and telling me what you have done. And please note, they are only here to ensure your safety. Unlike the guards that came here two years ago, they are some of my most trusted friends and confidants. I would trust them with my life, as should you. Now, let the feast begin!"
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As Harry rolled into bed, he felt a rather strange feeling inside of him. I was like none he had ever experienced before, and definitely strange. He didn't think he liked it.
"Ron?" Harry asked to his best friend.
"What is it Harry?" Ron replied.
"What do you think will happen? I mean with Voldemort and all," Harry said. Even though he couldn't see Ron, he knew that he had flinched at the sound of Voldemort's name. Then, Ron sighed.
"Go to sleep, Harry. Just go to sleep." Harry did just that.
Chapter four is finished!!!!!!! Thank the Lord almighty. That took quite a while. *Wipes sweat off of forehead* Yeah, well, too bad. I hope I'll have chapter 5 up soon. It's taking a while, but I'm getting there. And this one is actually somewhat long (On my computer anyways). Oh well. Peace! Oh, and Read and Review!!!!! Please!!!!!!
PS. I know I spelt the names wrong. My stupid friend took my book. (Die Mandy! Die!) And plus, I wasn't about to think of a song for the sorting hat to sing. I don't have that much energy, ya know.
PPS This is the revised version. Added the guy. Things'll be more interesting that way. R&R!
