Part Two:
Back to School
It was a week until school started. Sirius wrote back a few days ago that he didn't know anyone named 'Sarah potter' nor did he know more then what was written about 'raven'. So Harry had to trust that she was good.
Last week she took him shopping and he bought himself a note book, some pens, and some candy. The Durleys were also taking to the friendship between the two as a good thing.
So, whenever his family went out someplace, they left Harry over at Sarah's. But that wasn't the problem anymore. School started in a week and he had no way of getting there. Well at least to the train at Kings Cross.
He knew his aunt and uncle had a very important meeting at his boss's house that day and that they weren't going to have time to take him. This very much scared Harry. Maybe he should have gone to Ron's, but he wanted to find out more about Sarah. Now he was in a rut.
"I guess it won't hurt to ask." Harry jumped out of bed and went over to Sarah's.
*~*~*~*~*~
She was cleaning in a t-shirt and jeans. "Harry lift this up for me please" he did so and she finished cleaning up.
"So what can I do for you?" she asked innocently enough as she made tea.
"Umm. I have a few questions I would like to ask you?"
"Sure shoot."
"Are you Raven?"
"Yes."
Harry gulped. "Ok then, do you practice dark arts?"
"No, but I know them" she poured a few cups for them, Harry sipped then continued.
"Does anyone else know who you are?"
"No."
"Do you know of anyone who knows your alive?"
"Nope."
"Will you take me to Kings Cross in a week's time?"
"Sure. I'm going to Hogworts too anyway."
"What for?"
"I need to speak with Dumbledore. He needs to know I'm alive. And I have some work to do."
"What about your muggle job?"
"I'm taking a vacation for the first time in ten years, I'm sure they won't mind." She smiled.
"Alright. Umm. who were your mom and dad?"
"That's my business Harry."
"Alright." There was a pause
"You're still wondering if we are related."
"Yes."
"We are in a way. All people with the same last names are related though very distantly. Ok I'll tell you. Like you, I never knew my mom and dad. So we may be closer then you might think, or I might know. Do you know if your father was an animagis?"
"He was, illegally."
"What did he turn into?"
"A pronghorn"
"I see, than may be. You might want to try shape changing yourself. It might be in your blood if we are related."
"What do you turn into?"
"A Raven."
Harry smiled and they finished their tea. Harry went back to number four and told his aunt he found a way to school.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
The day of September first, Harry found himself in a luxurious car with leather interior and wondering how Sarah planed to get this back to her house. But with the widows open on a slightly cool day, Harry enjoyed the ride with Hedwig in the back seat and his trunk in the trunk.
Sarah looked slightly business like, with her black sunglasses and her tight dress from the day he met her. She looked strict, but free in the way her hair flew behind her. Harry caught himself. Was he falling for her? No, she just seemed freer with what she does, and then he ever felt, besides when he was up in the sky on his broom. Sarah owned a convertible, she had the top down, and it felt nice to Harry, like he was flying almost.
Soon they were off the freeway and stuck in morning traffic. Sarah put the hood back on the car so they wouldn't have to breathe exhaust fumes. "You doing alright Harry? We are almost there."
"Yeah." He smiled at her. "Thanks for the ride."
"No problem, as I told you, I was coming anyway." Harry laid back and waited until they arrived at the station.
As it always seemed to be, King's Cross was packed, mostly with muggles. Harry found a cart, and with Sarah's help loaded his stuff onto it. She wasn't bringing anything. They casually chatted as they walked though the barrier between platforms nine and ten and soon enough, the red Hogworts express sat in front of them, steaming and looking as it always did when he passed though the barrier.
Sarah took off her sunglasses and awed at it. "its been ages, wow, it still looks the same as it did the first time I stepped onto it."
"I bet it's supposed to."
She looked down at him. "It is at that. Dumbledore once told me it was to make the students feel safe, something that never changes makes you feel safe right, its almost like if the whole world changed, you would know this would still be exactly the same."
"Yeah."
"Harry!" two voices shouted as the walked though the barrier. Sarah quickly slipped her glasses back on, and turned to look at Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly. They stopped in their tracks once they saw her.
"Hello Ron, Hello Hermione." Harry smiled at his friends as they stared at Harry's companion.
"Well, I had better be going, must tell the driver I'm here. See you later Harry." She nodded and turned on her heal, heading to the front of the train.
"Who was she?" Hermione asked first, though Harry could tell both wanted to know.
"I'll tell you on the train, come on before we are late."
*~*~*~*~*~*~
Once in their usual compartment, Harry told them all about Sarah, besides the Raven part.
Ron was taken instantly. "Harry, she can teach us information we can't find in our books!"
"I don't know, we aren't really supposed to be able do magic without wands now are we?" Hermione was always the logical one.
"She says it's just the type of magic that she has, we couldn't do it unless we forgot all we have learned." Harry calmed both sides.
"I would hate to imagine that there is something Granger can't do, Potter." Malfoy had entered as he usually did sometime on the trip. He was followed in By his two side kicks, Crabbe and Goyle, both very large and both VERY ugly.
"So who would be this mysterious person that couldn't teach the brainy mudblood here?"
"You're pushing it malfoy." Ron hissed.
"Oh am I Weasly?" Draco smirked at him.
"Oh you two stop, honestly!" Hermione jumped form her seat, shocking both of them.
"Want to say something, Granger?"
"Yes. Leave, malfoy, if you were to know, you would have been told by now, you know you would have. 'father has all the connections in the ministry' remember?" Hermione countered, shocking Draco completely.
"I hear you. I'll leave, some other time Potter and Weasly, Granger won't always be there to help you say something back." and he left.
"Nice Hermione." Harry commented.
"It was easy, he always is bragging how he knows things we don't, I just used what he said back at him." She sat down looking proud of herself.
After a while of eating some sweets for lunch, Hermione left so the Harry and Ron could change, when she returned, she was also in her robes. Ginny followed her in.
"Did you know there is a pretty lady up in the front of the train, she doesn't talk too much, but she's gorgeous." Ginny was up in hysterics about Sarah.
"Her name's Sarah," Harry told her.
"Really? How do you know?"
"She's my neighbor."
"Oh. Then do you know why she's going to Hogworts?"
"Probably the DA job. We do need a new teacher." Neville came in holding onto Trevor securely. "And she said to give you this Harry," he grabbed a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to Harry. "Well its dark, so we had better get back see you!" and both Neville and Ginny left the three.
"What's it say Harry?" Ron was very curious.
"That her raven, Nightlight, will be staying with Hedwig in my room." Harry Lied. The note really told him that he was to go up to Dumbledore's office, once he got up to the castle.
Both of his friends shrugged it off as the train came to a stop at the castle, Hogowrts.
Hagrid was shouting for all the first years to follow him up to the castle. The new bunch looked just as confused and scared as Harry remembered that he was when he first arrived.
He Ron and Hermione found a horseless carriage for themselves and shut the door as they were brought up to the main entrance. Once they exited the carriage, they found that all of the students weren't going in. "peeves." All three said at once, but they were shocked to find that it was the DOOR that was causing the problem.
It just refused, latterly, to let any one in. Ginny ran up to the three once she spotted them "Harry! It says it needs to speak with you before we can go in!" and she grabbed his wrist and pulled him to the door as the crowd of students separated, leaving him a path.
The door was black and iron-ish unlike its usual wood like form. "Ok what's the problem, we have to get inside."
"No doing Mr. potter." A face appeared on the door.
"Then why did you want to speak with me? Everyone says it's so you'll let them in, so spill, its cold!"
"Isn't it obvious potter? It wants an autograph!" a burst of laughter came from all the slytherins around him. And Harry knew who had made the comment, Draco.
"Shut it! Unless you actually want to stay out here all night?" Harry shouted back. That made them quiet.
"So what do you want to say to me?"
"Raven wishes you to enter alone, Mr. Potter. You and only you are aloud in the castle at this time, besides the staff, which aren't aloud out."
"You're kidding me." Harry noticed he sounded a bit too comfortable with what the door had said. "What in the hell is she up to?"
"Your guess is as good as mine, Mr. Potter." The door said simply. Harry was now, very aware of the whispers happening all around him. He knew what most of the students knew, that he too, knew. Raven was the only one that he was afraid of. Openly afraid of. But Harry also knew something no one else knew. Raven was in fact his kind sweet easy going muggle loving, odd neighbor Sarah. And he also knew that she wouldn't hurt a fly unless necessary.
"Is Dobby and the other house-elves inside as well?"
"Yes Mr. Potter, Raven said dinner will still be severed, but later."
"Then give me leave to enter, so we may get this over with." "No can do Mr. Potter."
"What? But you just said-"
"I said, Mr. Potter that ONLY you may be aloud in."
"And that's what I asked for!"
"Yes, but the other students will enter the second I open my self up."
"I see." And Harry turned around. And shouted as loud as he could and as menacing as he possibly could sound. "NO PERSON IS TO ENTER ONCE THESE DOORS OPEN! IF ANYONE SHOULD EVEN TRY, KISS DINNER AND A WARM BED TONIGHT GOOD BYE, DO YOU UNDER STAND?" heads nodded all around. "That enough?"
"Yes." And the door opened. Harry walked in, and the door slammed behind him, signaling a chain reaction to start the lights to illuminate. Going straight down the hall, to where the gargoyle leading to Dumbledore's office was.
And slightly above him, in a nearby window.
Was a raven.
AN:
A bit shorter than the first I know, but was it good? Please review and tell me!
Also if you have any ideas tell me, I may be able to use them!
Relena
It was a week until school started. Sirius wrote back a few days ago that he didn't know anyone named 'Sarah potter' nor did he know more then what was written about 'raven'. So Harry had to trust that she was good.
Last week she took him shopping and he bought himself a note book, some pens, and some candy. The Durleys were also taking to the friendship between the two as a good thing.
So, whenever his family went out someplace, they left Harry over at Sarah's. But that wasn't the problem anymore. School started in a week and he had no way of getting there. Well at least to the train at Kings Cross.
He knew his aunt and uncle had a very important meeting at his boss's house that day and that they weren't going to have time to take him. This very much scared Harry. Maybe he should have gone to Ron's, but he wanted to find out more about Sarah. Now he was in a rut.
"I guess it won't hurt to ask." Harry jumped out of bed and went over to Sarah's.
*~*~*~*~*~
She was cleaning in a t-shirt and jeans. "Harry lift this up for me please" he did so and she finished cleaning up.
"So what can I do for you?" she asked innocently enough as she made tea.
"Umm. I have a few questions I would like to ask you?"
"Sure shoot."
"Are you Raven?"
"Yes."
Harry gulped. "Ok then, do you practice dark arts?"
"No, but I know them" she poured a few cups for them, Harry sipped then continued.
"Does anyone else know who you are?"
"No."
"Do you know of anyone who knows your alive?"
"Nope."
"Will you take me to Kings Cross in a week's time?"
"Sure. I'm going to Hogworts too anyway."
"What for?"
"I need to speak with Dumbledore. He needs to know I'm alive. And I have some work to do."
"What about your muggle job?"
"I'm taking a vacation for the first time in ten years, I'm sure they won't mind." She smiled.
"Alright. Umm. who were your mom and dad?"
"That's my business Harry."
"Alright." There was a pause
"You're still wondering if we are related."
"Yes."
"We are in a way. All people with the same last names are related though very distantly. Ok I'll tell you. Like you, I never knew my mom and dad. So we may be closer then you might think, or I might know. Do you know if your father was an animagis?"
"He was, illegally."
"What did he turn into?"
"A pronghorn"
"I see, than may be. You might want to try shape changing yourself. It might be in your blood if we are related."
"What do you turn into?"
"A Raven."
Harry smiled and they finished their tea. Harry went back to number four and told his aunt he found a way to school.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
The day of September first, Harry found himself in a luxurious car with leather interior and wondering how Sarah planed to get this back to her house. But with the widows open on a slightly cool day, Harry enjoyed the ride with Hedwig in the back seat and his trunk in the trunk.
Sarah looked slightly business like, with her black sunglasses and her tight dress from the day he met her. She looked strict, but free in the way her hair flew behind her. Harry caught himself. Was he falling for her? No, she just seemed freer with what she does, and then he ever felt, besides when he was up in the sky on his broom. Sarah owned a convertible, she had the top down, and it felt nice to Harry, like he was flying almost.
Soon they were off the freeway and stuck in morning traffic. Sarah put the hood back on the car so they wouldn't have to breathe exhaust fumes. "You doing alright Harry? We are almost there."
"Yeah." He smiled at her. "Thanks for the ride."
"No problem, as I told you, I was coming anyway." Harry laid back and waited until they arrived at the station.
As it always seemed to be, King's Cross was packed, mostly with muggles. Harry found a cart, and with Sarah's help loaded his stuff onto it. She wasn't bringing anything. They casually chatted as they walked though the barrier between platforms nine and ten and soon enough, the red Hogworts express sat in front of them, steaming and looking as it always did when he passed though the barrier.
Sarah took off her sunglasses and awed at it. "its been ages, wow, it still looks the same as it did the first time I stepped onto it."
"I bet it's supposed to."
She looked down at him. "It is at that. Dumbledore once told me it was to make the students feel safe, something that never changes makes you feel safe right, its almost like if the whole world changed, you would know this would still be exactly the same."
"Yeah."
"Harry!" two voices shouted as the walked though the barrier. Sarah quickly slipped her glasses back on, and turned to look at Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly. They stopped in their tracks once they saw her.
"Hello Ron, Hello Hermione." Harry smiled at his friends as they stared at Harry's companion.
"Well, I had better be going, must tell the driver I'm here. See you later Harry." She nodded and turned on her heal, heading to the front of the train.
"Who was she?" Hermione asked first, though Harry could tell both wanted to know.
"I'll tell you on the train, come on before we are late."
*~*~*~*~*~*~
Once in their usual compartment, Harry told them all about Sarah, besides the Raven part.
Ron was taken instantly. "Harry, she can teach us information we can't find in our books!"
"I don't know, we aren't really supposed to be able do magic without wands now are we?" Hermione was always the logical one.
"She says it's just the type of magic that she has, we couldn't do it unless we forgot all we have learned." Harry calmed both sides.
"I would hate to imagine that there is something Granger can't do, Potter." Malfoy had entered as he usually did sometime on the trip. He was followed in By his two side kicks, Crabbe and Goyle, both very large and both VERY ugly.
"So who would be this mysterious person that couldn't teach the brainy mudblood here?"
"You're pushing it malfoy." Ron hissed.
"Oh am I Weasly?" Draco smirked at him.
"Oh you two stop, honestly!" Hermione jumped form her seat, shocking both of them.
"Want to say something, Granger?"
"Yes. Leave, malfoy, if you were to know, you would have been told by now, you know you would have. 'father has all the connections in the ministry' remember?" Hermione countered, shocking Draco completely.
"I hear you. I'll leave, some other time Potter and Weasly, Granger won't always be there to help you say something back." and he left.
"Nice Hermione." Harry commented.
"It was easy, he always is bragging how he knows things we don't, I just used what he said back at him." She sat down looking proud of herself.
After a while of eating some sweets for lunch, Hermione left so the Harry and Ron could change, when she returned, she was also in her robes. Ginny followed her in.
"Did you know there is a pretty lady up in the front of the train, she doesn't talk too much, but she's gorgeous." Ginny was up in hysterics about Sarah.
"Her name's Sarah," Harry told her.
"Really? How do you know?"
"She's my neighbor."
"Oh. Then do you know why she's going to Hogworts?"
"Probably the DA job. We do need a new teacher." Neville came in holding onto Trevor securely. "And she said to give you this Harry," he grabbed a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to Harry. "Well its dark, so we had better get back see you!" and both Neville and Ginny left the three.
"What's it say Harry?" Ron was very curious.
"That her raven, Nightlight, will be staying with Hedwig in my room." Harry Lied. The note really told him that he was to go up to Dumbledore's office, once he got up to the castle.
Both of his friends shrugged it off as the train came to a stop at the castle, Hogowrts.
Hagrid was shouting for all the first years to follow him up to the castle. The new bunch looked just as confused and scared as Harry remembered that he was when he first arrived.
He Ron and Hermione found a horseless carriage for themselves and shut the door as they were brought up to the main entrance. Once they exited the carriage, they found that all of the students weren't going in. "peeves." All three said at once, but they were shocked to find that it was the DOOR that was causing the problem.
It just refused, latterly, to let any one in. Ginny ran up to the three once she spotted them "Harry! It says it needs to speak with you before we can go in!" and she grabbed his wrist and pulled him to the door as the crowd of students separated, leaving him a path.
The door was black and iron-ish unlike its usual wood like form. "Ok what's the problem, we have to get inside."
"No doing Mr. potter." A face appeared on the door.
"Then why did you want to speak with me? Everyone says it's so you'll let them in, so spill, its cold!"
"Isn't it obvious potter? It wants an autograph!" a burst of laughter came from all the slytherins around him. And Harry knew who had made the comment, Draco.
"Shut it! Unless you actually want to stay out here all night?" Harry shouted back. That made them quiet.
"So what do you want to say to me?"
"Raven wishes you to enter alone, Mr. Potter. You and only you are aloud in the castle at this time, besides the staff, which aren't aloud out."
"You're kidding me." Harry noticed he sounded a bit too comfortable with what the door had said. "What in the hell is she up to?"
"Your guess is as good as mine, Mr. Potter." The door said simply. Harry was now, very aware of the whispers happening all around him. He knew what most of the students knew, that he too, knew. Raven was the only one that he was afraid of. Openly afraid of. But Harry also knew something no one else knew. Raven was in fact his kind sweet easy going muggle loving, odd neighbor Sarah. And he also knew that she wouldn't hurt a fly unless necessary.
"Is Dobby and the other house-elves inside as well?"
"Yes Mr. Potter, Raven said dinner will still be severed, but later."
"Then give me leave to enter, so we may get this over with." "No can do Mr. Potter."
"What? But you just said-"
"I said, Mr. Potter that ONLY you may be aloud in."
"And that's what I asked for!"
"Yes, but the other students will enter the second I open my self up."
"I see." And Harry turned around. And shouted as loud as he could and as menacing as he possibly could sound. "NO PERSON IS TO ENTER ONCE THESE DOORS OPEN! IF ANYONE SHOULD EVEN TRY, KISS DINNER AND A WARM BED TONIGHT GOOD BYE, DO YOU UNDER STAND?" heads nodded all around. "That enough?"
"Yes." And the door opened. Harry walked in, and the door slammed behind him, signaling a chain reaction to start the lights to illuminate. Going straight down the hall, to where the gargoyle leading to Dumbledore's office was.
And slightly above him, in a nearby window.
Was a raven.
AN:
A bit shorter than the first I know, but was it good? Please review and tell me!
Also if you have any ideas tell me, I may be able to use them!
Relena