"That was extremely scary," She heard Ron's voice say.

"You're right. It was a little weird. I never would believe it could happen if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Was it a coincidence, Jes?"

"No, it's happened a few times before," Jes replied. He didn't always like sharing secrets with people.

"You mean, you've screamed for no apparent reason before? Harry, has that ever happened to you?" Hermione sounded worried.

"At times I've felt like screaming, but I don't think…" Harry's voice trailed off as he searched his memory. "No! Wait! It has happened to me before. I screamed, but I could never figure out why."

Okay, Kari thought, they both must have screamed at the same time. That's how they knew I was in trouble.

"Harry, when was the last time it happened?" Ron asked.

"Just over the summer. I think it was in June sometime" Harry took a second to think about it.

"Jes? When was the last time this happened?" Ron asked. He apparently thought he was going to prove a point.

"Over the summer," Jes answered, "It was June the 21st. That was when Kari was captured by Voldemort." Ron flinched at the name. "Only it wasn't just a scream. That time, I felt a lot of pain all over my body. Then later I found out that they used one of the Unforgivable Curses on her."

"Now that I think of it, I did feel a lot of pain that night." Harry said to himself."

Kari silently tapped into Jes's eyes, so that she could see what he saw. She did the same to Harry. If they noticed this, they showed no sign. They were standing if front of the fire in the common room. Hermione had a book in her hands and she looked nervous.

"I think I've read about this from somewhere." Hermione said. "Yes!" She went silent for just a second then she said. "Here! The connection between twins, or triplets, is a non-magical form of communication. Children with a twin (or triplet) often can make up their own secret languages without realizing it. It says here that it is not uncommon." Ron's eyes were wide.

"Wow!" Ron said, "I wonder if Fred and George can do that!" Harry glared at him. "Oh, sorry." Hermione continued.

"Twins that do develop these languages can often communicate without speaking and if one twin is injured, the other twin instantaneously is injured also. That would be freaky. Have you ever gotten hurt and the other one felt it?"

"Yeah, a few times. Let me see that," Jes said as he took the book from Hermione.

"Twins often know what their sibling is feeling and sometimes thinking. Similarities in thoughts and actions are often normal between twins that share similar emotional lives and experiences. Many studies have shown that twins are more likely to like the same things and have similar abilities if they are together," Jes read. He closed the book and looked at the cover. It was bought from a muggle library. "Hermione, when did you get this?"

"I-I," Hermione stuttered for a moment. "I bought it after Kari had her first vision right after Care Of Magical Creatures. I wanted to understand how both of you got scars when Harry and your parents were attacked even though you weren't there." She looked down at her feet.

"Why didn't you tell us Hermione?" Jes said. He didn't like the fact that she was doing research on them like they were some kind of experiment. He threw the book across the room. It hit the wall with a loud BANG and he stormed up to the dormitories.

"I think you should have told them, Hermione. I wouldn't like being researched either," Ron looked her in the eye. Harry turned and tried to leave the room quietly, but Hermine caught him.

"Harry, are you mad at me?" Hermione asked. Even though she had asked the question, she didn't want the answer. "I swear, I didn't mean anything by it. I just wanted to understand." Harry turned and smiled at her.

"No, I'm not mad. I'm sure Jes'll understand. We just need to give him a little time. He's not used to letting people know this much about him." Hermione smiled back. She walked up the stairs and went to bed.

Ron followed Harry up to bed. Kari untapped Harry's eyes and closed her own. She heard Hermione come in, but didn't look. She drifted off to sleep long after the sound of Hermione's snores filled the room.

That night, Kari had a terrible dream. She was standing by the lake with Katie, just as it had been earlier. Suddenly, the dark figure appeared. It stepped into the light and she found that it was Voldemort. He reached into his robes and took out his wand.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" he yelled and pointed his wand at Katie. Kari screamed, but there was no one to save her this time. Katie's body hit the ground. With just one look, Kari knew that she was dead. Voldemort grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into the darkness. She tried to fight him, but he was too strong.

Kari woke up because Hermione was shaking her. Startled, she looked out the window. A face could clearly be seen through the glass. She recognized the face from her dream and she let out a startled scream. Hermione turned around to see what she was staring at, but the face was gone.

"Kari, what's going on?" Hermione half screamed. All of the other girls were staring at them. Kari quickly got up, grabbed her robe and headed down the steps to the common room. She was shaking like mad. Voldmort has come for me again, she thought. Hermione came down the stairs followed by Jes, Ron, and Harry. Kari rushed to them, hugging them tightly.

Tears flooded from her eyes and she explained her dream and when she described the face in the window, Ron gasped. Her tears kept coming uncontrollably. She couldn't help but feel completely hopeless.

"If he wants to get me, he'll find a way," she said after about an hour. Jes shook his head. Harry put an arm around her shoulder comfortingly. Jes knew it was true, but he would never admit to it out loud.

No one slept very much for the rest of the night. When the other Gryffindors came down the stairs to head to breakfast, they found the group sitting by the fire. Kari yawned and sat up. Jes's head was resting on her shoulder, and trying not to wake him, she lay his head down on a pillow. She ran upstairs and got dressed, trying to act as thought nothing had happened.

When she got back downstairs, the others were up and moving, everyone except for Jes, who was still asleep on the couch. She put her finger to her lips, telling everyone not to wake him. She looked at him and remembered all that he had done for her. When she was little and tripped and skinned her knee on the sidewalk, he had comforted her. Jes, before coming to Hogwarts, had been the only brother she had ever known.

Jes finally woke up about fifteen minutes later. He ran up, got dressed, and they all headed down to breakfast. A tension hung in the air, but it was not a stifling as it was the night before. They talked a little during breakfast and then went back upstairs. The day was like any other, except that they were all very tired and kept drifting off to sleep in their classes. Kari almost got a detention when she fell asleep in Defense Against the Dark Arts.

By the time it was time for dinner, Kari's eyes were a dark gray. She went through the whole meal without speaking. When she did finally head up to bed, she was asleep as soon as she hit the pillow. Her days began to run together as Christmas approached. Although she enjoyed the decorations and the snow, she was always tired no matter how much sleep she had gotten.

A week before Christmas, she began to perk up a little. It must have been the extra sugar she was consuming, because she was unusually perky. She went to Hogsmeade one weekend to buy Christmas presents with Katie and Hayleigh. After picking out her purchases, they headed to the Three Broomsticks to get some butterbeer to warm themselves up.

Christmas was creeping closer and something was going to happen. Kari could feel it, although she didn't know whether it was going to be good or bad. She couldn't bring herself to inform Jes and Harry about it, but she tried time and time again.

Christmas Eve came before Kari had a chance to mention it and they were all wrapped up in the holiday activities, so their minds never had a chance to linger on it. After the feast, Kari went to bed very full and very sleepy. When she woke up the next morning, the sun was shining through the window and a fresh inch or so of snow was on the ground.

Every one else was in the common room when she showed up with her gifts for her friends in hand. She handed them each a parcel and sat down on the sofa next to the fire to watch them open them. Harry opened his parcel first. Inside, he found two books. One with a black leather cover with the initials J.P. on the front and the other was navy blue with the letters H.P. in the corner. His jaw fell open as he stared at the two journals.

"Kari, I don't know what to say." He was finally able to say. Jes smiled. Both of them had read their father's journal already and knew all of its contents by heart. "Thank you," Harry said. He was grinning from ear to ear. Jes was the next to open his gift. He pulled out a photo album and held it up for the others to see. There was a picture of Jes and Kari on the front. They couldn't have been more then seven years old. Jes flipped through the book of their childhood pictures.

Hermione opened her present very slowly. Inside, she found a rectangular velvet box and when she opened it, she gasped. Inside was a necklace with a silver claw holding a marble. She looked at the marble and saw that inside, was the universe…Every star was represented in the tiny marble.

"Oh my," she said out of breath. "I cant' believe it! It's beautiful! Thank you, Kari!" she hugged Hermione and sat back down, smiling. Ron was the next to open his present. He ripped back the paper and pulled out a key, a note, and a map. He looked at the note and read.

Ron,

You have been such a good friend to me and if you follow the instructions on the map and dig when u reach the X, you will get your reward.

Love,

Kari

"Aww, Kari," Ron said. "It was nothing…I don't need a reward." Kari got up and gave him a kiss on the cheek. His ears turned red and he smiled at her. The friends talked and gave presents until it was time for lunch; then, they hungrily raced down to the Great Hall.

After lunch, they went outside and had a snowball fight for a few hours with Fred and George. When the sun started to set, they walked back up to the castle for dinner. Kari, brushing the snow off her robes, was the last to enter.