Harry Potter and the Family Secrets
Author: Louise Mills
Email: dimblou@hotmail.com
Summary: Harry returns to Hogwarts in his firth year and finds out more about parents death, from someone he didn't realise connected to him. Along the way Harry has fun and falls in love.
Rating: PG
Chapter Three – Hidden Truths
Gryffindor Common Room,Harry, Hermione and Ron walked though the wall portal into the common room and sat down at the table. All curious about what Oliver had to tell Guinevere. "So, what do you their up to?" Ron asked making it sound like Oliver and Guinevere were doing something perverted. And in return all he got from Harry and Hermione were shrugs of their shoulders.
"Probably making out, like in the old days!" They heard someone state from behind them, which made them turn, and a grumpy Rebecca and Rachel greeted them. "Like the old days?" You telling us they were an item before you got ill?" Hermione question them, but all she got in return were, 'down in the dumps' nods.
"Yeah, them two were inseparable and us their friends were either cast to the side lines, or forgotten completely." Fred said, who was coming down the stairs with George when he caught Hermione questions. Rebecca and Rachel gave each other glances then give Fred and George a glance, wondering how they knew Guinevere was Azabeth.
At which George walked over to Rebecca and Rachel and spoke quietly to them, making sure Harry and the others couldn't hear. "You don't think we wouldn't realise it was her? They may change her hair colour, but they couldn't change her facial features and personality, which all screamed Azabeth."
Rebecca and Rachel didn't know what to say to what George had said, so they kept quiet, which shocked the twins because it always seemed like they always had something, or knew what to say.
A few minutes later the wall portal opened into the common room and a distorted Guinevere walked though followed closely by a concerned Oliver.
"You're sure your okay?" Oliver asked, "I'm fine." Guinevere answered in a mutual tone. "I don't believe, you are fine, that's the twentieth fines I've heard from you since coming here."
"That's because you keep asking me, 'if I'm okay,' which believe me I'm finding sick of hearing!" She yelled at Oliver, Oliver took a step back realising either he was on thin ice or she was on her last nerve that kept getting thinner and thinner, and that she may do something in angry that she would regret later.
She turned quickly and started walking off towards her room, when Oliver grabbing her arm stopped her. Oliver made Guinevere face him, and look into his eyes.
"Guinevere?" And with that simple word, Guinevere's disposition dissolved and she lowered her head, so she could no longer look into his caring eyes.
"I'm sorry, I just need to be alone, to take is all in and think." "I wish I didn't have to tell you that." Guinevere looked back at him.
"I know, but I had to know. And do you know what? There is also someone else who has the right to know. And I don't see them running to him and telling him, and you tell Dumbledore and McGonagall they should tell him. And if they don't, believe me I will find a way of telling him without them being able to trace it back to me. Now I'm going to my room, I need sometime alone, and don't worry I will be okay." Oliver smiled at her, and wrapped his arms round her, and when they parted he placed a soft kiss on her forehead and whisper. "That's all I wanted to hear." At which she couldn't help but smile. Before she went to her room, she pulled him in and kissed him passionately on the lips.
Guinevere slowly parted and walked up the stairs to the girl's dorms, leaving a shocked group of her old and new friends.
"Well, that's not something you see everyday a student kissing a Teachers Assistant, like that!" Ron said, who interrupted the silence, which filled the room since Guinevere departed.
"Oliver?" Oliver turned round and faced his friends, realising for the first time they had witnesses to their conversion.
"Yeah?" "I'm just wondering." Fred said as he walked over to Oliver. "Is it even possible for you two to still persuade a relationship? Because last time I checked a Teachers Assistant position is like a professor position." "I'm not sure, but all the teachers at Hogwarts know about how unique my relationship with her is."
"And can you tell me why your unique relationship with her, is different from anyone else's?" Oliver turned away from Fred and stared at the stairs where minutes ago Guinevere disappeared to. "Because she is the other half of my soul."
Hermione's mouth dropped open from surprise, she knew what he had just said was impossible. "Come on Oliver, you expect us to believe that. Everyone knows Wizards and Witches Soul mates are impossible." Oliver smiled at Hermione's outburst and turned to her. He knew she was very intelligent, but on this instance she was wrong.
"Not impossible, but rare. I know in the last hundred years there have only been three pairs of soul mate's and before that there wasn't any for centuries. You see not everything you can learn from a book, but from your experience. And these three soul mates happen to have existed in our generation. One as you know, because I have told you is Guin, and me the second are no longer alive. And the third… well the third pair don't know their soul mates yet, even thou they know each other as friends."
"Okay, but I'm taking a lot of this on fate, but one thing about what you said about the third couple, how do you know who they are? I can understand how you know about the second couple." Oliver walked to one of the spare armchairs and sat down ready to answer any of their questions.
"Okay anyone who has got a soul mate and found them, can sense who ever else has a soul mate." "Then the third couple know they are each other's soul mate, because you said they know each other as friends?" Rachel question.
Oliver hit his hand against his forehead, "Oh I knew I forgot something. And the answer to your question Rach is no they don't. Because you don't get the sense until they both have connected though a higher level. And once connected they will never ever again have another relationship with anyone else."
"Cool! So do we know these people?" Ron asked thinking if Oliver had sensed the two soul mates and knew they were only friends, there is a possibility he knew them. "Maybe!" "Okay I'll take that as a yes, so can you gave us a clue?" "Okay, a clue, alright soul mates usually ran in one of the soul mates families, and I can tell you it's not my family." Oliver said this realising only Fred, George, Rebecca and Rachel would know who one of the third pair was, and would guess who the other one was.
"That's not much of a clue, we know none of Guin's family." Hermione pouted. "So your telling us that Guin's brother has a soul mate?" Rebecca said, and all she got from Oliver was a nod.
"And their friends?" George next stepped in to say. Oliver nodded again but added something, "Best friends!!" When Oliver said that, all four of their eyes grew double in size and their heads quickly turned to Harry, Hermione and Ron's direction.
"Hey don't look at us like we know who your talking about because we don't. But you could tell us?" Hermione said quickly. The four of them quickly looked away and started to talk about other things, which left Harry, Hermione and Ron dumb founded.
"Oliver, what's wrong with Guin?" Rebecca asked carefully. "Sorry, Becky I can't talk about it." "You can't or won't talk about it?" "I can't! Believe me I wish I could because it would help her, and someone they don't won't to know, could find out. And I believe the same as Guin does, that he should know as it would be all his dreams and wishes come true." "So we're talking about a family problem?" Oliver nodded his head.
Oliver turned to Harry and said, "How Quidditch going, Harry?" "Great, I think but I can't get any practice until I either go to the Burrows or here, because of my Uncle and Aunt. And they wouldn't let me go to the Burrows this year, so the last time I flew on a broom was at the Triwizard Tournament." "Well I'm sure you be fine."
"Well I'm going to bed, see you in the morning guys." Hermione said as she stood up, she hugged Ron good night, and then Harry but she kissed him on the cheek as well. And then they parted they stood in front of each other, just staring in each others eyes.
This reaction made Rebecca, Rachel, Fred, George and Oliver look at each other and then to Harry and Hermione that made smiles come to their faces.
Then Harry and Hermione, realised they had been standing there, staring at each other for a few minutes, they quickly turned away from each other nervously, and turned red.
Hermione turned to Oliver, and hugged him and said, "It's great to see you again." Hermione walked to the stairs and Fred and George shouted together, "What no hug for us!" Which made Rachel roll her eyes. "No! You probably have a joke you wanted to try on me!" Which made all the others laugh hard.
Everyone else stayed up a few more hours talking about his or her holidays and interests.
2am,"Oliver, I'm going to tell Rebecca and Rachel about what you told me early." "But you can't!" "Why not? Because Harry could find out! Don't be so stupid; you know they wouldn't tell anyone, I trust them with my life. Anyway I need to tell someone who I can talk about it to, except for the teachers." Guinevere said while slowly raising her voice.
"You can talk to me about it!" Oliver yelled back. "It's not the same. I feel like every time I talk to them that I'm deceiving them. I have never kept anything from them, and I'm not going to start now. It's only easier for the professor's at Hogwarts that only a handful of people know. Please Oliver let me just tell them?"
Oliver stared at her, his mind debating weather he should say yes or no. So he decided to go with what his heart and soul knew what was right. "Alright!" "Thank you!" she shrieked, and she jumped into his arms and he embraced her tightly.
"Okay you two, tell us what?" Rachel said yawning and walking into the light of the common room with Rebecca. When Oliver and Guinevere saw them there they weren't shocked, because it always seemed like they were always eavesdropping on them. "I think you will need to sit down!" Oliver stated. Rebecca and Rachel sat down and waited for someone to speak.
"Dumbledore this morning was informed by the Ministry of Magic, that all signs recently have been indicating at another rising of a few powerful Wizards is coming soon. And they have located that these people died round about the time Voldemort falling. They feared that they were very powerful in the darks arts was going to rise again, but seers though the Ministry have been saying that else people are quite the opposite. And they are only rising because of a spell was cast on them with the purest form in the light arts. And that someone who performed the spell, they have indicated was I! And that the people who will soon rise again, will be my parents." Rebecca and Rachel just sat there in silence, not knowing what to say.
Boys Dorms,Harry awoke suddenly from a nightmare; he got out of bed and walked over to his desk. He turned the desk lamp and opened a book, determined to not only to past this year, but with flying colours.
He just started reading when he heard people talking in the common room. Curious he got up and crept out of the room, determined to find out who was up. He got to the junction on the stairwell that went to the girl's dorms and the common room, when the door to the girl's dorms opened. And he saw Hermione walk out.
"Hermione? What you doing up?" "I heard someone talking downstairs I thought I investigate, what you doing up?" She whispered. "Same thing!" They silently agreed to investigate together and slowly approached the common room.
They stopped a few steps up from the common room, where they couldn't of been seen, but could tell hear what was being said, but the common room had gone silent.
"Oh my god!" They heard Rachel say and they could tell she was shocked of what was said before. "Guin, you have to tell Harry, he has a right to know!" They heard Rebecca say, but they were shocked that Harry's name was mention and that they were keeping something important from him. "God, don't you think I know that, but Dumbledore and McGonagall won't let me or Oliver tell him."
Hermione looked over at Harry and noticed he was just staring ahead at nothing. She placed an arm round his back, which made Harry come out of his shocked state and looked towards her.
"Okay guys you should go to bed, you have an early morning tomorrow." "What about you?" Rebecca asked, Oliver was about to reply when Guinevere answered for him. "His staying with me tonight, and his right we should go." That these announcements Harry and Hermione race back up the stairs. When they got to the junction Hermione started to go to her dorms when Harry grabbed her arm and pulled her to his room.
"Harry, what are you doing?" She yelled as quietly as she could without waking anyone. "Well if I'm not mistaken, Guin sleeps in your dorm, and if she found you just rushed into bed from running up the stairs. What kind of trouble do you think you will be in?" "A lot less then I'm in now, because me bed will be empty. So why don't you tell me the real reason?"
Harry walked to his bed and sat down, then he looked up to her. "I now know their keeping something from me and with that on my mind I won't be going to sleep anytime soon, and I don't want to be alone within that time. And you're the only one awake to keep me company."
Hermione smiled and walked to him, she sat down next to him and leaned against him setting her head on his shoulder. "Why didn't you just say that in the first place?" "I don't know."
"So why don't we get into bed and keep each other company. And we don't even have to talk if you don't want to!" Harry smiled, he moved the quilt on his bed and moved to lie down. Once he had laid down he opened his arms up, and Hermione moved to lie next to him. One of his arms went round her shoulders, and then Hermione laid her head on his chest. He covered them up with the quilt and his over arm went just below the other one, and he held her close.
They close their eyes. "Thank you Hermione." He spoke softly then placed a kiss in her hair. With in minutes in each other's arms they were sound asleep.
End of chapter three – Hidden Truths. Please review.