Mika went deeper into the room and grabbed one of the books in the
bookshelf. The cover read "Hearts Family History" and her eyes sparkled
with curiosity. She flipped through the pages of text and realized she
wanted to see pictures and not read. It seemed too much like Professor
Binns' class. She grabbed a leatherbound book and opened it. It was a photo
album. She flipped through it and saw pictures of Marionie's mother as a
child with Draco's father
Maironie turned to Harry and Ron. "Well, since you two know the most about her, where would she go in my house?"
Ron looked at Marionie and said, "After something like that, I would think she'd look for any trace of chocolate in your house. Either that, or she's looking for Malfoy, ready to kill him."
Harry shook his head and said, "No, Ron...I think she'd look for a place to be alone. I think it just depends. All the stuff we said has happened before. Chocolate, hunting for Malfoy, searching for a place to be alone...who knows?"
Marionie thought for a moment trying to remember where she put everything. "The chocolate is all downstairs, Malfoy is probably with his father, we have a Library, an art gallery, a garden, and a fountain room. She could be anywhere." Marionie said becoming more worried
"What's in your fountain room?" Harry asked
Ron sighed. He was getting worried about Mika too. He thought carefully about what Mika would do.
Marionie looked at Harry. "Mostly just fountains that change water color. There is one that lets you see what is going to happen to you in the future." Marionie shuddered. "I hate that one."
Harry gave Ron a look. In unison, the guys said, "Your library!"
"You see, Mika likes the library but not like Hermione does. She loves all sorts of fiction...and she reads them to get away from reality!" Harry explained, blurting the words out.
"I should have thought of that!" Ron exclaimed.
Marionie nodded, "Alright follow me." She began to run down the halls passing large doors until she stopped in front of a set of double doors engraved with an unsual simbol. "Oh no."
"What is it, Marionie?" Ron asked
Marionie placed a finger on the engravings and drew her hand back as if she had been burned. "Remember those weird twist I was talking about?"
Ron nodded.
"Yeah, what about them?" Harry asked.
Marionie blinked and pointed to engraving, "That states that the person inside does not want to be bothered. Unless I can convince it that I am really Marionie Hearts, it will not let us in." Marionie sighed looking down at her hands. "The problem is, it hurts a bunch!"
"You think Mika activated that?" Harry asked worriedly.
"And how are you gonna prove your identity?" Ron chimed in.
Marionie sighed. "I know Mika activited it." Marionie looked from her hands to the engraving. "Don't watch me."
Ron and Harry obidiently turned away, closed their eyes and blocked their ears.
Marionie lifted her hands now glowing a soft white and placed them to the engraving and cried with pain as her hands touched it. With in seconds the door to the library opened. "That's how I prove it." Marionie still had tears of pain rolling down her cheeks.
Harry hugged Marionie and said, "That looks painful..."
Ron smiled faintly and said, "Let's go inside."
Marionie nodded her head and walked in the library doors looking around.
Mika ducked behind a statue, afraid she was going to be in trouble. The phone album she was looking at fell with a thud.
Marionie heard the thud and looked around seeing a few pictures on the ground. "Mika, it's just us. Where are you?"
Mika said, "You're not mad?"
"My hands hurt a little bit because you wanted so much privacy, but other than that no." Marionie laughed looking around for her friend
Mika stepped out from behind the statue. "I'm sorry..." she said with a whisper.
"What are you sorry for?" Marionie showed her hands that barely even had bruise marks left of them from all the punching.
"Yea Mika, Marionie is fine." Harry chipped in hoping Mika wouldn't feel so bad.
Sighing, Mika managed to smile faintly.
"Mika, it's okay!" Ron assured her.
Marionie nodded picking up the photo album. "I've never seen this one before."
"Your mom's in it...with Draco's dad. Our age." Mika sighed.
Marionie blinking opening up the photo album. "Wow, Draco looks just like his dad did."
Mika shivered. "That's creepy..."
Marionie only laughed and flipped the page showing a picture of her mom as Harry looked over her shoulder. "You look just like your mum Marionie." Harry stated smiling.
"That's true," Mika commented.
Harry smiled and said, "We ought to go find the others and tell them we found Mika."
Marionie nodded her head looking at the photo book intrigued. "I'll bring this with us!"
Mika walked out of the room, deep in thought. She still had thoughts of family in her mind.
Marionie followed the group flipping the pages of the album, "I would never have believed anyone could be this close to the Malfoy family. My mom seemed to have spent most of her time with them.
Mika sighed, she didn't want to tell Marionie she was tired of hearing about the Malfoy family. It was making her uncomfortable as well as reminding her of her mother's death.
Marionie slammed the album shut. "Where do you think the others went? I really don't know them that well."
"I dunno about the girls," Ron said "but I know the twins would be looking for food."
"Hermione and Ginny might be looking for food too," Harry chimed in, "We haven't really eaten."
"Well, Mulic probably has something cooking in the kitchen. It's downstairs, I'm sure he wouldn't mind having us down there." Marionie offered smiling.
"Well, if you offered!" Mika said as she ran past Mari and the two boys. "I'm first!"
Mari smiled and motioned for the boys to follow as she caught up with Mika and dashed down the stairs. "Mika turn left!"
Mika ran to the left smack into Marionie's father. "Oaf!" Marionie skidded to a stop in front of her father. "Wow, look at this herd!"
"Hi daddy!" Marionie said smiling. "We're going to the kitchens, have you seen the others?"
"Sorry about that Mr. Hearts. I think my stomach was ahead of my eyes." Mika's face flushed red as she looked at the ground.
"It's alright Mikaila." Mathew smiled putting a hand on Mika's shoulder. "It didn't hurt much. I think I saw your friends head out back Marionie."
"Thanks daddy!" Marionie smiled as her father laughed then looked at the others. Harry and Ron had their eyebrows raised and Mika was looking out a window. "What?"
"How big is this place Marionie?" Mika asked turning around looking at her friend. 'This place is huge.' She thought to herself.
Marionie blinked. It was rather large. The largest in the neighborhood, she wasn't sure about Ron's house but she new hers was much larger then the rest. "Um. big."
Mika pointed out the window. "Can we go out there?" Marionie joined her friend at the window and nodded her head.
"Yea, sure! That's were we keep our hippogriff and Unicorns. Twilight is out there. Twilight is special, my grandfather gave him to me when I was a baby!" Marionie walked over to a set of glass doors and opened them.
"What do you mean special?" Ron inquired as he stepped through the door.
"Just wait, you'll find out!" Marionie said stopping two feet from the stables. "Stop here guys." The others followed suit and stood beside Marionie giving her sideways glances. "Twilight, come here! My friends want to meet you!"
'What is she doing, the unicorn must be in his stable, he can't come here if the stable doors are shut.' Mika thought looking at her friend, and then she gasped. There it was a silver unicorn standing right in front of her. "How did he. are those?" Mika struggled with the statement.
"Bloody hell, those are wings!" Ron said walking forward to the unicorn. "I've never seen a unicorn with wings before."
"How did he get out her so fast?" Harry asked petting the unicorn's mane. "I mean, the stable doors are shut."
"Oh, well. I guess I can show. You're my cousin and you all are my friends." Marionie said gesturing to the group. "Twilight, fade." The four watched as the Unicorn disappeared before their eyes.
"Where did he go?" Mika asked walking toward the empty space.
Marionie smiled. "Come on, I'll show you." Marionie started walking toward the stable but when she reached the door she couldn't open. Neither could anyone else, even with the four together they couldn't open it. "What's that spell again? There was a spell Mulic told me about that I could use to open it."
"Alohamora?" Ron suggested.
"Delitrius?" Mika suggested looking at the door with extreme prejudice.
"Wingardium Leviosa?" Harry suggested looking the door up and down for a hint of entry.
"No, it's weird, it's a French spell. Why wasn't I paying more attention?" Marionie looked at the ground. "Ouvrez, it has something to do with ouvrez." Marionie hit her forehead, "Of course! Ouvrez-vous à mon contact."
"What does that mean?" Harry looked at Marionie bewildered.
Mika only laughed. "It means, 'Open at my touch.' in French."
Marionie nodded her head. "Horrid isn't it? It was great when I was five." Marionie smiled and turned to the door again. "Ouvrez-vous à mon contact." Stepping back the group watched as the door vanished.
"Wow! That's awesome!" Mika said walking into the stable. "But where's Twilight?"
"Well, here is Roi our Hippogriff. Then you have the three Unicorns: étincelle, beauté, and étoile-éclat. Down in that stable you'll find Twilight." Marionie crinkled her face as she said the names.
"Why are all the other animals names in French and Twilights isn't?" Mika asked petting beauté. "I mean, it's a bit unusual."
Marionie smiled, "Well, when I was little, Mulic was trying to teach me French, so he named them with French names hoping I would get it. My grandpa didn't live in France and he was the one who named Twilight."
Harry nodded his head but still had a confused looked on his head. "Well, Mulic is English why didn't he just give them simple names?"
"Because if you couldn't tell, Mulic has a French accent. it's stronger then Marionie's." Mika said rolling her eyes at Harry.
"Duh, even I caught that Harry." Ron said smiling at Marionie.
"No you didn't, you were to busy watching Marionie to notice the accents!" Harry said patting his red-faced friend on the back. Marionie blushed and started walking down the stables and stopped at the door.
Mika stopped next to her friend and looked in the stable shocked. "That's, that's Twilight!" Mika gasped shocked, "But how could he do that?"
"My grandfather said that he was born during a certain moon in a certain year or something odd like that. He said he gave him to me because he would help me later on in life. So I got him when he was a baby and he got me when I was a baby." Marionie smiled as she pet the unicorn's snout and his horn glowed a bit. "I never did understand my grandpa."
"Where's your grandfather now?" Harry asked petting the unicorn again.
"Grandpa and grandma were killed. When I was seven. I don't really remember what happened. Mum and Dad never wanted to talk about it." Marionie looked at the Unicorn and smiled. "Twilight has memories of them too. Sometimes he likes to show them to me."
"Hello, is there anyone in here?" A voice said from the other end of the stables.
"Yes Hermione we're here." Harry yelled at the door. "Come 'ere!"
"Everyone, they're in here!" Hermione yelled to, whom Mika guessed, the rest of the search party that was looking for her.
'Well, at least someone cares about me.' She thought as she walked over to the unicorn whom she remembered Mari called étincelle. 'What does that mean again.'
"Mika, you may not want to pet him." Mari advised running over to her friend. "He's rather wild. 'Hmm. he isn't reacting to Mika the way he does to everyone else. I think he actually might like Mika.' Mari thought to herself watching the Unicorn.
"Is that why this Unicorn is named Spark? Because he doesn't get along well with anyone but you Mari?" Mari nodded her head smiling. "I was trying to figure out why its eyes were yellow red and orange, then I remembered his name!"
"Oh wow! How pretty!" Ginny said walking up to the other Unicorn. She was stopped though when Roi let out a sound that stated he wanted attention. "Is that your Hippogriff?"
"Actually, that is my dad's hippogriff." Marionie laughed looking at the hippogriff. "He's really only and thinks he is really special."
"JOEY COME BACK!" A masculine voice yelled and the group could hear loud running steps heading in their direction.
"Sounds like Malfoy has made his sister mad again." George said turned around looking at some odd birds that were in a pen.
"Nooooo, I said I hate youuuuuuu! Leave me alone!" The little girl yelled as she raced into the stables standing behind Marionie peaking around her side. "Make 'im go away!" She pleaded.
"What did he do this time Joey?" Harry asked smiling. "Shall your cousin or Mika give him another black eye?" The little girl stood for a moment thinking over the question and nodded her head vigorously as Draco ran into the stables stopping quickly nearly falling forward on his face.
Draco didn't even stay he turned around quickly and walked out. "Joey, mum says we have to go now." He yelled back to his sister and continued back to the house.
"Yea, mum said we had to go too. all of us." Fred said glumly. "I wanted to investigate some more." Marionie smiled, "We'll just sneak up one day."
Marionie laughed with the others as they began the walk back into the house. "You go ahead and do that Fred, I'm not sure I'll let you in. but then again."
"Don't let them in!" Mika said laughing. "They will destroy the place, you should see their room at the burrow!"
Hermione giggled, "I don't think she would want to considering how clean her room was. then again she could do that charm on their rooms."
"No! No clean charm in my room!" George said shaking his head. While Harry, Ron, and Ginny laughed.
"We'll see you on the train next week." They all said as they left. And Marionie's home became once again, quiet and to herself.
'Boring.' She thought as she climbed the stairs back to her room.
Maironie turned to Harry and Ron. "Well, since you two know the most about her, where would she go in my house?"
Ron looked at Marionie and said, "After something like that, I would think she'd look for any trace of chocolate in your house. Either that, or she's looking for Malfoy, ready to kill him."
Harry shook his head and said, "No, Ron...I think she'd look for a place to be alone. I think it just depends. All the stuff we said has happened before. Chocolate, hunting for Malfoy, searching for a place to be alone...who knows?"
Marionie thought for a moment trying to remember where she put everything. "The chocolate is all downstairs, Malfoy is probably with his father, we have a Library, an art gallery, a garden, and a fountain room. She could be anywhere." Marionie said becoming more worried
"What's in your fountain room?" Harry asked
Ron sighed. He was getting worried about Mika too. He thought carefully about what Mika would do.
Marionie looked at Harry. "Mostly just fountains that change water color. There is one that lets you see what is going to happen to you in the future." Marionie shuddered. "I hate that one."
Harry gave Ron a look. In unison, the guys said, "Your library!"
"You see, Mika likes the library but not like Hermione does. She loves all sorts of fiction...and she reads them to get away from reality!" Harry explained, blurting the words out.
"I should have thought of that!" Ron exclaimed.
Marionie nodded, "Alright follow me." She began to run down the halls passing large doors until she stopped in front of a set of double doors engraved with an unsual simbol. "Oh no."
"What is it, Marionie?" Ron asked
Marionie placed a finger on the engravings and drew her hand back as if she had been burned. "Remember those weird twist I was talking about?"
Ron nodded.
"Yeah, what about them?" Harry asked.
Marionie blinked and pointed to engraving, "That states that the person inside does not want to be bothered. Unless I can convince it that I am really Marionie Hearts, it will not let us in." Marionie sighed looking down at her hands. "The problem is, it hurts a bunch!"
"You think Mika activated that?" Harry asked worriedly.
"And how are you gonna prove your identity?" Ron chimed in.
Marionie sighed. "I know Mika activited it." Marionie looked from her hands to the engraving. "Don't watch me."
Ron and Harry obidiently turned away, closed their eyes and blocked their ears.
Marionie lifted her hands now glowing a soft white and placed them to the engraving and cried with pain as her hands touched it. With in seconds the door to the library opened. "That's how I prove it." Marionie still had tears of pain rolling down her cheeks.
Harry hugged Marionie and said, "That looks painful..."
Ron smiled faintly and said, "Let's go inside."
Marionie nodded her head and walked in the library doors looking around.
Mika ducked behind a statue, afraid she was going to be in trouble. The phone album she was looking at fell with a thud.
Marionie heard the thud and looked around seeing a few pictures on the ground. "Mika, it's just us. Where are you?"
Mika said, "You're not mad?"
"My hands hurt a little bit because you wanted so much privacy, but other than that no." Marionie laughed looking around for her friend
Mika stepped out from behind the statue. "I'm sorry..." she said with a whisper.
"What are you sorry for?" Marionie showed her hands that barely even had bruise marks left of them from all the punching.
"Yea Mika, Marionie is fine." Harry chipped in hoping Mika wouldn't feel so bad.
Sighing, Mika managed to smile faintly.
"Mika, it's okay!" Ron assured her.
Marionie nodded picking up the photo album. "I've never seen this one before."
"Your mom's in it...with Draco's dad. Our age." Mika sighed.
Marionie blinking opening up the photo album. "Wow, Draco looks just like his dad did."
Mika shivered. "That's creepy..."
Marionie only laughed and flipped the page showing a picture of her mom as Harry looked over her shoulder. "You look just like your mum Marionie." Harry stated smiling.
"That's true," Mika commented.
Harry smiled and said, "We ought to go find the others and tell them we found Mika."
Marionie nodded her head looking at the photo book intrigued. "I'll bring this with us!"
Mika walked out of the room, deep in thought. She still had thoughts of family in her mind.
Marionie followed the group flipping the pages of the album, "I would never have believed anyone could be this close to the Malfoy family. My mom seemed to have spent most of her time with them.
Mika sighed, she didn't want to tell Marionie she was tired of hearing about the Malfoy family. It was making her uncomfortable as well as reminding her of her mother's death.
Marionie slammed the album shut. "Where do you think the others went? I really don't know them that well."
"I dunno about the girls," Ron said "but I know the twins would be looking for food."
"Hermione and Ginny might be looking for food too," Harry chimed in, "We haven't really eaten."
"Well, Mulic probably has something cooking in the kitchen. It's downstairs, I'm sure he wouldn't mind having us down there." Marionie offered smiling.
"Well, if you offered!" Mika said as she ran past Mari and the two boys. "I'm first!"
Mari smiled and motioned for the boys to follow as she caught up with Mika and dashed down the stairs. "Mika turn left!"
Mika ran to the left smack into Marionie's father. "Oaf!" Marionie skidded to a stop in front of her father. "Wow, look at this herd!"
"Hi daddy!" Marionie said smiling. "We're going to the kitchens, have you seen the others?"
"Sorry about that Mr. Hearts. I think my stomach was ahead of my eyes." Mika's face flushed red as she looked at the ground.
"It's alright Mikaila." Mathew smiled putting a hand on Mika's shoulder. "It didn't hurt much. I think I saw your friends head out back Marionie."
"Thanks daddy!" Marionie smiled as her father laughed then looked at the others. Harry and Ron had their eyebrows raised and Mika was looking out a window. "What?"
"How big is this place Marionie?" Mika asked turning around looking at her friend. 'This place is huge.' She thought to herself.
Marionie blinked. It was rather large. The largest in the neighborhood, she wasn't sure about Ron's house but she new hers was much larger then the rest. "Um. big."
Mika pointed out the window. "Can we go out there?" Marionie joined her friend at the window and nodded her head.
"Yea, sure! That's were we keep our hippogriff and Unicorns. Twilight is out there. Twilight is special, my grandfather gave him to me when I was a baby!" Marionie walked over to a set of glass doors and opened them.
"What do you mean special?" Ron inquired as he stepped through the door.
"Just wait, you'll find out!" Marionie said stopping two feet from the stables. "Stop here guys." The others followed suit and stood beside Marionie giving her sideways glances. "Twilight, come here! My friends want to meet you!"
'What is she doing, the unicorn must be in his stable, he can't come here if the stable doors are shut.' Mika thought looking at her friend, and then she gasped. There it was a silver unicorn standing right in front of her. "How did he. are those?" Mika struggled with the statement.
"Bloody hell, those are wings!" Ron said walking forward to the unicorn. "I've never seen a unicorn with wings before."
"How did he get out her so fast?" Harry asked petting the unicorn's mane. "I mean, the stable doors are shut."
"Oh, well. I guess I can show. You're my cousin and you all are my friends." Marionie said gesturing to the group. "Twilight, fade." The four watched as the Unicorn disappeared before their eyes.
"Where did he go?" Mika asked walking toward the empty space.
Marionie smiled. "Come on, I'll show you." Marionie started walking toward the stable but when she reached the door she couldn't open. Neither could anyone else, even with the four together they couldn't open it. "What's that spell again? There was a spell Mulic told me about that I could use to open it."
"Alohamora?" Ron suggested.
"Delitrius?" Mika suggested looking at the door with extreme prejudice.
"Wingardium Leviosa?" Harry suggested looking the door up and down for a hint of entry.
"No, it's weird, it's a French spell. Why wasn't I paying more attention?" Marionie looked at the ground. "Ouvrez, it has something to do with ouvrez." Marionie hit her forehead, "Of course! Ouvrez-vous à mon contact."
"What does that mean?" Harry looked at Marionie bewildered.
Mika only laughed. "It means, 'Open at my touch.' in French."
Marionie nodded her head. "Horrid isn't it? It was great when I was five." Marionie smiled and turned to the door again. "Ouvrez-vous à mon contact." Stepping back the group watched as the door vanished.
"Wow! That's awesome!" Mika said walking into the stable. "But where's Twilight?"
"Well, here is Roi our Hippogriff. Then you have the three Unicorns: étincelle, beauté, and étoile-éclat. Down in that stable you'll find Twilight." Marionie crinkled her face as she said the names.
"Why are all the other animals names in French and Twilights isn't?" Mika asked petting beauté. "I mean, it's a bit unusual."
Marionie smiled, "Well, when I was little, Mulic was trying to teach me French, so he named them with French names hoping I would get it. My grandpa didn't live in France and he was the one who named Twilight."
Harry nodded his head but still had a confused looked on his head. "Well, Mulic is English why didn't he just give them simple names?"
"Because if you couldn't tell, Mulic has a French accent. it's stronger then Marionie's." Mika said rolling her eyes at Harry.
"Duh, even I caught that Harry." Ron said smiling at Marionie.
"No you didn't, you were to busy watching Marionie to notice the accents!" Harry said patting his red-faced friend on the back. Marionie blushed and started walking down the stables and stopped at the door.
Mika stopped next to her friend and looked in the stable shocked. "That's, that's Twilight!" Mika gasped shocked, "But how could he do that?"
"My grandfather said that he was born during a certain moon in a certain year or something odd like that. He said he gave him to me because he would help me later on in life. So I got him when he was a baby and he got me when I was a baby." Marionie smiled as she pet the unicorn's snout and his horn glowed a bit. "I never did understand my grandpa."
"Where's your grandfather now?" Harry asked petting the unicorn again.
"Grandpa and grandma were killed. When I was seven. I don't really remember what happened. Mum and Dad never wanted to talk about it." Marionie looked at the Unicorn and smiled. "Twilight has memories of them too. Sometimes he likes to show them to me."
"Hello, is there anyone in here?" A voice said from the other end of the stables.
"Yes Hermione we're here." Harry yelled at the door. "Come 'ere!"
"Everyone, they're in here!" Hermione yelled to, whom Mika guessed, the rest of the search party that was looking for her.
'Well, at least someone cares about me.' She thought as she walked over to the unicorn whom she remembered Mari called étincelle. 'What does that mean again.'
"Mika, you may not want to pet him." Mari advised running over to her friend. "He's rather wild. 'Hmm. he isn't reacting to Mika the way he does to everyone else. I think he actually might like Mika.' Mari thought to herself watching the Unicorn.
"Is that why this Unicorn is named Spark? Because he doesn't get along well with anyone but you Mari?" Mari nodded her head smiling. "I was trying to figure out why its eyes were yellow red and orange, then I remembered his name!"
"Oh wow! How pretty!" Ginny said walking up to the other Unicorn. She was stopped though when Roi let out a sound that stated he wanted attention. "Is that your Hippogriff?"
"Actually, that is my dad's hippogriff." Marionie laughed looking at the hippogriff. "He's really only and thinks he is really special."
"JOEY COME BACK!" A masculine voice yelled and the group could hear loud running steps heading in their direction.
"Sounds like Malfoy has made his sister mad again." George said turned around looking at some odd birds that were in a pen.
"Nooooo, I said I hate youuuuuuu! Leave me alone!" The little girl yelled as she raced into the stables standing behind Marionie peaking around her side. "Make 'im go away!" She pleaded.
"What did he do this time Joey?" Harry asked smiling. "Shall your cousin or Mika give him another black eye?" The little girl stood for a moment thinking over the question and nodded her head vigorously as Draco ran into the stables stopping quickly nearly falling forward on his face.
Draco didn't even stay he turned around quickly and walked out. "Joey, mum says we have to go now." He yelled back to his sister and continued back to the house.
"Yea, mum said we had to go too. all of us." Fred said glumly. "I wanted to investigate some more." Marionie smiled, "We'll just sneak up one day."
Marionie laughed with the others as they began the walk back into the house. "You go ahead and do that Fred, I'm not sure I'll let you in. but then again."
"Don't let them in!" Mika said laughing. "They will destroy the place, you should see their room at the burrow!"
Hermione giggled, "I don't think she would want to considering how clean her room was. then again she could do that charm on their rooms."
"No! No clean charm in my room!" George said shaking his head. While Harry, Ron, and Ginny laughed.
"We'll see you on the train next week." They all said as they left. And Marionie's home became once again, quiet and to herself.
'Boring.' She thought as she climbed the stairs back to her room.