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Chapter 5:
"Welcome back Miss Novus, Miss Riddle. I wish to speak with you both in my office. Mr. Weasleys you may go back to your common room."
Selene kissed George on the cheek and followed them stairs up the stairs leaving George standing there turning red with a blank look on his face and a lopsided, dazed smile on his face while Fred tried really hard not to laugh at his brother.
At the entrance to his office Dumbledore said
"Nutty buddy."
And the door to his office slid open to reveal a magnificent revolving stairway to his office. They stepped on the rotating stairs and were carried up to the doorway to the Headmaster's office.
Once they were inside the office and Dumbledore had sat down behind the magnificent desk he motioned them to have a seat in the chairs in front of him.
"Would either of you care to explain to me where you went?" Selene looked at Neo uncertainly and Neo looked back at her with the same look, then they looked back at the headmaster and said in unison
"No sir."
Dumbledore looked at them with his ever-famous knowing smile that always made students squirm when it was directed at them.
"I know that Selene shares the same last name as a student who went here over fifty years ago. And I also know that the student disappeared after he left Hogwarts and Tom Riddle was never heard from again. Can it be possible that in all of his years of destruction Lord Voldemort managed to find time to acquire himself a wife who bore him a child?"
Selene stared at the floor lost for words or even an explanation to what she heard.
'How could that old man know so much more about my life then most of my closest friends?'
Neo looked at her sister and decided to answer for her.
"Yes she is the daughter of Lord Voldemort, and so am I."
Neo glared at Dumbledore full of pride that she had said it to
someone who didn't already know that she was his daughter and positively beamed
with joy as she saw the look of shock in Dumbledore's eyes.
"So you are both the daughter's of Lord Voldemort? That is very
interesting indeed. Due to the fear of people finding out that Lord Voldemort
has not one but two heirs I believe it best that you two remain orphans for the
time being."
Selene regained her voice and looked up from the floor.
"I don't have to remain an orphan, I have a mother too."
"You do? What is her name? And is she Neo's mother too?"
"No, Neo's mum is... well we aren't exactly sure where she is."
"Is your mother alive?" Selene nodded her head.
"Yes she is professor."
"What is her name?"
"Why should I tell you? We've told you more then we should
have as it is. Haven't you ever heard of family matters being private?"
"Because I would like to contact her. Where is she, do you know?"
"She's kicking around here somewhere, probably rotting in a cell, and her name shall remain a secret."
Dumbledore realized he was going to get nowhere with either of
them anytime soon and decided to leave his inquiry where it was.
"Very well, I can not force you to tell me what you do not with to tell.
You may go to your common room and remember, you two are orphans."
Selene and Neo rose from the chairs, walked out of the office and descended the staircase to the hallway.
They snuck downstairs to the kitchens to get some lunch since they had missed it and breakfast was several hours ago. Inside the kitchens they tried to help the house elves make them lunch but the elves protested greatly and eventually they gave up trying and sat down at a table that was set up for them.
"Why would Dumbledore have Filch and Hagrid both search for two missing students?"
Neo asked while the elves set food on the table for them.
"I have no idea, it's not like he's does that for other students."
"Yeah I know, we must be a special case."
"Of course we're a special case Neo. We're Slytherins and before he knew we were both You-Know-Whose daughter he at least knew I was."
"That's true, but why was he so interested in our parents?"
"He doesn't trust us duh. If you knew the greatest dark lord had at least one child wouldn't you be worried he had more? Plus as I said before, we're Slytherins and he doesn't trust us."
"I don't know why, we do what any other intelligent person would do. We get what we want by using any means at our disposal."
Neo heard a sneeze from inside a pantry door. She quietly walked across the kitchen and pulled open the doors to discover Harry Potter and his sidekick Ron Weasley.
"What are you doing here Potty? Stalking people with your trusty sidekick Weasel?"
Neo asked them suspiciously.
"Fred told us you were back and we didn't believe him so we came here to see if he was telling the truth."
Ron said in response defensively.
"What else did he tell you?"
"Nothing."
Harry cleared his throat to stop their bickering and asked.
"Selene, are you related to Tom Riddle by chance?"
Selene looked up from her plate surprised.
"No, why do you ask?"
"Because there was a Headboy here once with the last name Riddle and I thought he was your father." Selene shook her head. Nope. I'm sorry but I've never heard of him."
"Are you
sure?"
"Harry I might be an orphan but I know who my parents were."
"What about you grandfather?"
"I very much doubt it, my grandfather was a muggle."
"Oh, ok. Do you knows how they died? Your parents I mean."
Selene looked at the table sadly and said
"They were killed."
Harry stepped out of the pantry and walked over to her and whispered.
"Were they killed by Lord Voldemort?"
Selene sat quietly for a minute then said in a choked voice.
"My dad was, but my mother was killed by her own brother."
Selene stood up and grabbed her cloak keeping her head down and her face hidden.
"I'm going to go warm myself up by the fire, Neo are you coming?"
"I'll be there in a minute."
Selene nodded her head in acceptance and left. As soon as the kitchen door was closed Neo grabbed Harry's arm and swung him around to face her.
"Why'd you do that?"
Harry looked at her confused.
"Do what?"
"Ask her questions about her family? All she has left of her family is a cousin who doesn't even know she exists! Thank you so bloody much Harry, now if you'll excuse me."
Neo grabbed her
cloak and stormed out of the kitchens leaving Harry and Ron behind.
A/N: I like that ending… yea… no killing me later at least I got
the chapter up, I had a little help *glares at Nora* I'm gonna get going now. I
have some work to do *winks at George* Bye Bye ~Aj
