Through The Eyes of a Half Breed Scam Artist
Chapter 6
Jessica was walking down the street. She had already gotten her supplies and was now looking for some of her friends.
"Hey Jessica!" She smiled as she spotted the rowdy bunch of Gryffindors in front of Florean's.
"Hi guys." Max, Niaomi, Alannah, Kurt and Paul were all sitting with ice cream in front of them. "How is your summer's?" She asked, taking a seat next to Niaomi.
"Pretty good, Niaomi and Tory are staying at my house while their parents are on vacation." Max answered.
"Yeah, he's at Malkin's getting his robes." Niaomi told her.
"Did you really try robbing Skylar?" Kurt asked the question that was on all of their minds.
"Yeah, but I didn't know it was her until she pulled my hair."
"Why were you robbing someone in the first place?" Paul asked with surprise.
"I needed to eat." The others just looked down at their ice creams, suddenly feeling bad.
"Have you gotten your supplies yet?" Jessica asked, wanting to change the subject and quickly.
"We're almost done. We just have to get our books." Max said, gesturing to the twins for the 'we.'
"I need to get almost everything, but I'm supposed to take Tory with me."
"Cool." Jessica took a sip of Niaomi's milkshake when she wasn't looking.
"Did you hear? Professor Black had her baby."
"Yeah, Lupin told me. Neither is going to be our professor this year. McGonagall hired a new one."
"What did they name the baby?"
"Halley." Skylar came up to the group, sitting down next to Max. "She caused a bit of an argument in the family."
"Why? What happened?"
"My parents couldn't decide who got to name her."
"Seems to me that your mother won."
"No, my mom named me, so Dad named Halley." The others raised their eyebrows. "He named her after Halley's comet." The table, after a moment of surprise, burst in laughter.
"Yeah just think if my mother wasn't so nice, I would've had a normal name. She did Dad a favor by somewhat keeping tradition, by putting Sky in my name. I could've been named Ashley." Skylar shuddered.
"Ashley is a nice name." Someone said, coming up behind Skylar and putting their hands on her shoulders.
"Hello Tim."
"How'd you know it was me?" He asked, still standing, since there were no more seats left around the table.
"Two reasons. First, you're the only one I know stupid enough to sneak up behind an Auror in training, and two, I know your voice by heart."
"And I'd know your lovely voice anywhere."
"Stop flirting you two." Meg said, smacking Tim upside the head. "Looks like I almost missed the reunion. So what have we been up to?"
"Learning the significance of Skylar's sister's name."
"Oh what is it?"
"Halley." Skylar said, with pride.
"After the comet?" Meg laughed. "That's priceless." Meg then realized the three-toned look of Skylar's hair wasn't an effect from the umbrella above them.
"What did you do? You look like a librarian that was an experiment of a rookie hair dresser."
"I got sick of my hair being normal. And the librarian outfit is because of me working at the Auror mailroom. You think my father would allow me to wear my normal clothes and embarrass him? And I wouldn't wear my normal clothes anyway. They would smell like owls all the time."
"What about the glasses?"
"Oh, my contacts screwed up my eyes. Who knew extreme heat would affect them that much?"
"Fireworks?"
"No, dragons." Jessica was completely confused. They were jumping from comets to owls then dragons?
"I should know better than to try and understand Skylar." She thought. She started looking around, trying to see if Luke was around.
"Jessica!" She turned her head to see Marcus coming up to the table. Skylar looked on amused as Max glared at him, oblivious that Skylar stole his sundae.
"Hi Marcus."
"My dad wants to talk to you. He couldn't believe you remembered your mother's name." Skylar started choking on a peanut.
"Ely! You know your mother's name?"
"Yeah its'…" Skylar cut her off.
"Not another word. I think I just found the solution to our problems." Skylar stood up and pulled a pocket watch out of her purse. "Ely you are coming with me to the Auror office."
"But my father is on the Ely investigation! He's with the Ministry."
"Tell your father, screw the Ministry. She's coming with me. The Ministry doesn't have the files and materials needed for this investigation." Skylar fiddled with a few dials, and then put her hand on Jessica's shoulder. "And don't forget to tell your father what I said." With a snap the watch closed and the two disappeared.
They appeared in the entrance room of the Auror department where the Apparating and port-keying people arrive. Skylar starting walking down the hall quickly, making Jessica having to run after her.
"Skylar! Wait up, you have longer legs than me!" She yelled, causing many Aurors around them stare at her. Skylar finally stopped when she came to a desk with a blonde witch sitting at it, filing her nails.
"Can you tell me where Mr. Black or Potter is?"
"Elite room." She said, with a pause and a snap of her gum between the words.
"Of course, thank you." Jessica stopped, trying to catch her breath. When Skylar started moving again, Jessica groaned and started running again. She finally caught up when she saw Skylar putting an ID card in front of a door. On the door was a shiny gold plaque with the words 'Elite Room' engraved in it. With a click the door opened and the two girls stepped in. Sirius was reading the newspaper and Harry was drinking coffee.
"Done shopping?" Harry asked over his coffee cup.
"No, but I found out something very interesting. Ely knows her mum's name." The two men weren't interested.
"Yeah, Remus told us."
"Did he tell you that I'm supposed to be 19?" Now they looked interested.
"No he didn't. I think we're going to have to play Spanish Inquisition with dear Lupin." Sirius said, setting down the newspaper and getting out of his seat. Skylar took the newspaper and flipped to the comics. The door clicked open again and a humming Remus walked in. He looked around the room and saw the two people he last expected.
"Did I miss something?"
"Yes." Sirius pulled out a chair and pushed Remus down into it. "Miss Ely here tells us she should be 19."
"That she should."
"And why?" Remus started explaining the story.
"And this book is in the Auror file room?" Skylar asked with glittering eyes.
"Yeah. I put it there a long time ago."
"I'll go get it." She jumped out of her chair and ran out of the room.
"I don't think she grabbed her ID card." Sirius said as someone started banging at the Elite Room door. He opened it up for her and scolded her as she came in. "That's what happens when you go in a rush." Skylar dropped the book on the table, making it emit a cloud of dust. After everyone stopped coughing, Remus opened the book to the last two pages.
"This is the spell I did on Jessica. It's roughly translated as the Second chance spell." Skylar flipped through the pages, grinning.
"I think I should learn these spells."
"Why?" Sirius asked looking over her shoulder. She pointed to a page with a picture of two people, one was surrounded by a giant bubble and the other had their wand pointed at the bubble person.
"Well, like this shield spell, I could use it if my wand is conjured away from me." Harry pulled the book out from under her nose.
"You know, that's not such a bad idea."
"I'll take that as a compliment." Skylar mumbled, pouting that she didn't have the book anymore.
"Could you teach it to me then?" Jessica asked, trying to take a peek at the book.
"Well I think you and Lupin will have to teach us. Since you are of elf blood and he's one of the only wizards able to successfully use Elvin magic."
"Okay, Remus, you get translating those spells. Sirius, you go down to the file room and see if there is any mention of Elven magic before the war."
"Never thought I'd be taking orders from my best friend's son." Sirius said with a small smile. He then turned to his daughter. "Skylar," She straightened up in her seat and looked at him eagerly, "take Jessica back to Diagon Alley and keep an eye on her.
"I have to be a bodyguard?"
"I need a bodyguard?" They both yelled at the same time. Skylar grabbed her bag and stomped out of the room. Jessica hurried after her.
"I'm sorry you have to watch over me." She said, jogging up next to her.
"It's alright." Skylar slowed down. "I was just hoping I'd be getting my first mission or something." Skylar smiled and flipped open her pocket watch. "Oh well, there's always next time." She turned a few knobs and put her hand on Jessica's head.
"Come on Ely." The disappeared from the arriving room and stepped into the Leaky Cauldron.
"You wait here. I'll see if Tom has a room for you." Skylar walked towards the bar and started talking to the bald walnut man. Jessica stood in the corner, covering her ears with her hair nervously as everyone in the bar looked at her curiously. After a few minutes Skylar came down. "Okay, you're in room 7. I got the room right across from you, so if something happens I'll hear." She handed Jessica a key. "You better get some rest. We have a big day tomorrow." Jessica nodded and walked up the stairs to her room. As she stepped into the room, she noticed a cat sitting on her bed.
"What is that?" Luke asked, looking at the cat with disgust.
"It's a cat." She looked at the tag that read 'From a friend'. "Do you know who dropped it off?"
"No…" Luke started blushing. "I was at the Auror office."
"Doing what?"
"People watching."
"Who were you watching?" Jessica teased, seeing him blush more. He mumbled something. "What?"
"I was watching Skylar."
"Skylar? She's kind of involved with someone."
"Yeah I know, Weasley. She could do better."
"They were made for each other. They're just too oblivious to do anything." Jessica started petting the cat that was rolling around.
"Okay, I'm leaving. That thing is making me sick."
Sirius started coughing. He was looking up Elven magic references before 1981. All of the files were covered in dust. No one had touched them since 1997, and that was 17 years ago.
"Just when I thought my kids would grow up in a world without evil, and wouldn't have to worry about it." He said, pulling another file out.
"Sirius, you in here?" Someone asked, with a bit of a cough.
"Yeah." Remus walked in, carrying the Elven spell book. "Hope you don't mind me bugging you."
"Don't worry, I'm rather enjoying the interruption from the suffocating dust." Sirius pushed Remus out of the file room, and into the nice clean hall way. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Let's go to the Elite Room," Remus said, "it's of a private importance." Sirius nodded and headed to it.
"Where's Harry?"
"He couldn't handle what I was telling him. He went home." Sirius sat down, afraid of what he was going to be told. "I translated two spells. One was the spell that Pettigrew used to resurrect Voldemort in '94." Sirius read over the parchment, and looked at the page in the book. "And this other one takes an Elven body, and resurrects someone in it."
"And that affects us how?"
"Well…I think they are going to resurrect Voldemort in Jessica's body." Remus said, looking up at his best friend. Sirius looked down at the paper and then to Remus with worried eyes.
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