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Chapter 9 La Manor de Carlton
Hermione soon found herself at the statue that guards Dumbledore's office. She said the password, "Smarties". She knocked on the door.
The faint voices inside stopped. Then, "Come in", the Professor's voice said wearily. Hermione opened the door and went. She was surprised to only see the Headmaster there. She started to say, "Where are Sirius and- ", she stopped when Sirius and Amethyst appeared out of no where. "Invisibility Charm", Hermione thought.
Hermione was about to say something, but Professor Dumbledore started to speak, "We have decided that it be best for you to go to Amethyst's house." Sirius interrupted, "I'm expected soon, I have to go." Hermione did not have any time to wonder where he was expected, as Dumbledore continued, "You should pack some stuff, and then you and Amethyst will be departing for La Manor de Carlton."
"La Manor de Carlton?" Hermione asked. "The Carltons have always lived there, that's what our house is called." Amethyst explained. "Oh.." Hermione said, mind now elsewhere. She turned and left the office, and headed to her dorm to pack.
*********
Hermione had grabbed some clothes from her dorm, some makeup and other stuff she thought she would need. People stayed far away from her, obviously remembering her "little episode". Hermione climbed out of the portrait hole to find herself face to face with Amethyst.
Hermione felt very comfortable with this woman, as if she had known her all her life. In the hour they knew each other (after Hermione had been a baby) they had grown very close, and a strong bond had been formed between them. Amethyst motioned for her to follow her, and they walked in a comfortable silence, enjoying each other's presence. Amethyst broke the silence when they were just outside Hogwarts.
"We are going to walk to Hogesmade and apparate from there." Amethyst told her. Hermione was about to tell her she couldn't apparate. Amethyst could tell that she was going to say that, so she stopped her and said, "All Carltons have a natural apparating ability. I could do it when I was 3." Hermione started at her, impressed. You could have to, but I had to lock up most of you powers, so you wouldn't know you were a witch till the letter from Hogwarts came. All of your special abilities are locked up inside you, so you couldn't use them. I wanted you to blend in, not stand out with some many special talents. Someone might have suspected something, and I wouldn't put you in danger if your true identity was revealed.
Hermione nodded, taking in the information. "If you want, I can unlock them tonight and take off the appearance charms." Amethyst told her. "I'd like that." Hermione said, excited and anxious. They reached Hogesmade. Amethyst gave her a quick lesson on Apparating. Then in a blink of an eye, they were gone.
*********
Hermione had closed her eyes when she apparated, and opened them to see a HUGE house, no mansion, no castle infront of her. "Wow", she said to Amethyst. "You like?" Amethyst asked her. She nodded. She was looking at the estate and didn't see a flash of red come tearing out of the house. Before Hermione knew it, she was engulfed in a huge hug. She could barely breathe, and couldn't see the person hugging her. She heard Amethyst laughing.
"Er, can you let me go please?" Hermione managed to say. "Oh, of course! I'm just so excited to finally meet you!" a cheery voice responded. The person let go. She had red hair and emerald green eyes. From the pictures Hermione had seen, she thought that this lady looked like Lily Potter.
The red haired woman introduced herself, remembering Hermione had no idea who she was. "I'm Emerald Carlton O'Keefe, but you can call me Emmie, everyone does. I'm your Aunt Emmie." Emmie sounded very excited, and she was almost bouncing, her read hair moving up and down on her shoulders.
"It's really good to meet you", Hermione told her, "I'm umm, I'm." She looked to Amethyst for help. "Your full name at the time of your birth was Ella Athena Antoinette Sarah Mya Carlton-" at this point Amethyst started to what sounded like choking. Emmie patted her on the back and said to Hermione, "How about we call you Ella? The name your use to is Hermione, but your name is actually Ella. Let's call you Ella, I always loved that name!"
"Oh, I'm being a terrible hostess! Come in!" Emmie said and grabbed "Ella's" arm and brought her towards the house.
*********
When Ella/Hermione entered the house, she heard screaming. She heard a girl's voice yell, "Jonathan Michael Carlton O'Keefe! You get back here! You are in so much trouble when I tell Mom!" The voice got nearer as she spoke, and soon they were face to face with the person who had been yelling.
The girl had red hair, almost identical to Emmie's. But, she had gold eyes. "Gryffindor colors", Hermione thought, amused. The girl's brilliant gold eyes fell upon Ella/Hermione. "Ella?" she asked. Ella nodded and the girl yelled, "E!" and hugged her. Hermione could breath this time though.
The girl introduced herself, "I'm Vickie. Well", the girl put on a very proper voice and serious face, "I am Victoria Eleanor Jasmine Carlton O'Keefe. Pleased to meet you." She curtsied, and then broke into a fit of laughter.
A boy, probably brought by the laughter, entered the room, and greeted everyone with a dull, "Hi." Vickie spoke for him, "Ella, this is your cousin, Jonathan, and my annoying bratty brother." The boy looked at Ella, apparently not noticing Hermione before. He smiled at her, a sly smile, which instantly reminded her of Fred and George Weasley. "Uh oh, a prankster", Hermione thought, but smiled back at him.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Her- er Ella." She told him. "I know that, dumbit!" he told her. Victoria hit him lightly on the arm. "Don't call her a dumbit, Jon!" she told him. Hermione just smiled, but inwardly was taking notes on what had happened. Sirius entered the room, and smiled at everyone, the same type of smile Jonathan had used. He mimicked Victoria, "Yah, don't call her a dumbit, Jon!" Hermione had to try hard to keep from laughing, he did a perfect impression!
Amethyst interrupted, as Vickie looked murderous. "Ella is going to stay here tonight. I'm going to show her to her room." Amethyst motioned for Hermione to follow her, and the 2 walked away, Emmie bouncing around behind them. It took them along time to get to where Hermione would be staying, and Emmie talked the whole way.
Hermione learnt a lot though, from Emmie's constant chatter. Amethyst and Emmie went to Hogwarts, though Jon and Vickie were home- schooled. Emmie's husband's name is Calvin, and he is Hermione's uncle. Jon and Sirius hung out together a lot, since Sirius stayed here some times to avoid getting caught, and were constantly playing pranks, their target usually being Victoria. Emmie's husband, Cal, as she called him, was an auror. He went to Hogwarts and was a Ravenclaw, Emmie a Gryffindor. Jonathan loved to play Quidditch, and she was going on and on about Victoria's music abilities when Amethyst stopped suddenly.
"This is were you'll be staying. We'll leave you to unpack." Amethyst told her, and then Emmie and her left. Hermione opened the door.
Her mouth dropped. The room was elegant beyond elegant, beautiful beyond beautiful, queenly beyond queenly and just plain wow! It was done in silver and gold, "Gryffindor and Slytherin colours", Hermione thought amusedly, and amethyst. The bed was huge, the whole room gigantic. There was a beautiful velvet couch. Hermione walked to one of the two doors in the room (not including the one she entered in). She opened it to find a huge walk-in closet, and tons of clothes. There were dresses and dress robes fit for a queen. Hermione closed the door and walked to the other one. It led to a bathroom as grander than the Prefect's bathroom she used at Hogwarts.
Hermione went back to her bedroom and sat down on the bed, still amazed at it. "The Carltons must be a very rich family", Hermione thought with a smile. She quickly unpacked a bit, and then grabbed her cds and her cd player. She pulled on her headphones and collapsed onto the gold couch. She put in a cd and started to sing along with the song, hoping no one would hear her.
"Please tell me what is taking place,
Cause I can't seem to find a trace,
Guess it must've got erased somehow,
Probably cause I always forget,
Everytime someone tells me their name,
It's always gotta be the same.
(In my World)
Never worn cover-up,
Always beat the boys up,
Grew up in a 5000 population town,
Made my money by cutting grass,
Got fired by fried chicken ass,
All in a small town, Napanee.
You know I always stay up without sleepin',
And think to myself,
Where do I belong forever,
In whose arms, the time and place?
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
I never spend less than an hour,
Washin' my hair in the shower,
It always takes 5 hours to make it straight,
So I'll braid it in a zillion braids,
Though it may take all friggen day,
There's nothin' else better to do anyway.
When you're all alone in the lands of forever,
Lay under the Milky Way,
On and on it's getting too late out,
I'm not in love this time this night.
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
(la la la la)
Take some time,
Mellow out,
Party up,
But don't fall down,
Don't get caught,
Sneak out of the house.
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World"
Hermione meant every word she sang. Hermione stopped singing and went into her own World. She was rudely brought back to reality by a knock on the door. "Come in", she told the person. Amethyst appeared in to view. She came and sat down on the couch.
"Ella, sweetie, I've discussed it and thought over it, and decided you have to know who your father is. I'm going to have to face him sooner or later, and I'd like to talk to you before that. Ella Athena Antoinette Sarah Mya Carlton, your father is..."
End of Chapter 9
A/N: This is the point I try and kill the author! Cliffies, hate them. Okay, sorry it was short, and took me longer than planned to get out, please forgive me! I have my new characters and this whole story planned out though. Lets just say its way different than the 2 chapter fic I had originally planned! Well, hope you enjoyed pretty please review! Thanks for reading. Here are my thank yous:
Cho Chang: Thanks for reading what I had when I had writer's block! Thank you for your review, so glad you love it!!
Sugar Girl: Here's more for you. Thanks tons for your review!
Oriencor: Yep, you are my longest review, including both you wrote, I think. Thanks! Mya really needed a change, glad you think so too! The longest review you've ever written is on my story? Thanks so so much!
Arime Setta: Thanks for your review! You don't get to find out who her father is or how she really looks till next chapter, sorry!
Draco'sGoodGirl721: Okay, thanks for the update on your story, me appreciates it! Another song for you, which I had some trouble picking, I'm using a bit too many Avril Lavigne songs. Oops. Her father wasn't in Gryffindor, sorry if I said he was!
Thanks so much reviewers! I have 46 reviews, Yah for me!!!! Thanks so much, you guys are the best! Till next time, I'll try to have the next chapter up very soon, though I'm totally swamped with school, I'll do my best!
Thank You so so much!
-Eliza
Chapter 9 La Manor de Carlton
Hermione soon found herself at the statue that guards Dumbledore's office. She said the password, "Smarties". She knocked on the door.
The faint voices inside stopped. Then, "Come in", the Professor's voice said wearily. Hermione opened the door and went. She was surprised to only see the Headmaster there. She started to say, "Where are Sirius and- ", she stopped when Sirius and Amethyst appeared out of no where. "Invisibility Charm", Hermione thought.
Hermione was about to say something, but Professor Dumbledore started to speak, "We have decided that it be best for you to go to Amethyst's house." Sirius interrupted, "I'm expected soon, I have to go." Hermione did not have any time to wonder where he was expected, as Dumbledore continued, "You should pack some stuff, and then you and Amethyst will be departing for La Manor de Carlton."
"La Manor de Carlton?" Hermione asked. "The Carltons have always lived there, that's what our house is called." Amethyst explained. "Oh.." Hermione said, mind now elsewhere. She turned and left the office, and headed to her dorm to pack.
*********
Hermione had grabbed some clothes from her dorm, some makeup and other stuff she thought she would need. People stayed far away from her, obviously remembering her "little episode". Hermione climbed out of the portrait hole to find herself face to face with Amethyst.
Hermione felt very comfortable with this woman, as if she had known her all her life. In the hour they knew each other (after Hermione had been a baby) they had grown very close, and a strong bond had been formed between them. Amethyst motioned for her to follow her, and they walked in a comfortable silence, enjoying each other's presence. Amethyst broke the silence when they were just outside Hogwarts.
"We are going to walk to Hogesmade and apparate from there." Amethyst told her. Hermione was about to tell her she couldn't apparate. Amethyst could tell that she was going to say that, so she stopped her and said, "All Carltons have a natural apparating ability. I could do it when I was 3." Hermione started at her, impressed. You could have to, but I had to lock up most of you powers, so you wouldn't know you were a witch till the letter from Hogwarts came. All of your special abilities are locked up inside you, so you couldn't use them. I wanted you to blend in, not stand out with some many special talents. Someone might have suspected something, and I wouldn't put you in danger if your true identity was revealed.
Hermione nodded, taking in the information. "If you want, I can unlock them tonight and take off the appearance charms." Amethyst told her. "I'd like that." Hermione said, excited and anxious. They reached Hogesmade. Amethyst gave her a quick lesson on Apparating. Then in a blink of an eye, they were gone.
*********
Hermione had closed her eyes when she apparated, and opened them to see a HUGE house, no mansion, no castle infront of her. "Wow", she said to Amethyst. "You like?" Amethyst asked her. She nodded. She was looking at the estate and didn't see a flash of red come tearing out of the house. Before Hermione knew it, she was engulfed in a huge hug. She could barely breathe, and couldn't see the person hugging her. She heard Amethyst laughing.
"Er, can you let me go please?" Hermione managed to say. "Oh, of course! I'm just so excited to finally meet you!" a cheery voice responded. The person let go. She had red hair and emerald green eyes. From the pictures Hermione had seen, she thought that this lady looked like Lily Potter.
The red haired woman introduced herself, remembering Hermione had no idea who she was. "I'm Emerald Carlton O'Keefe, but you can call me Emmie, everyone does. I'm your Aunt Emmie." Emmie sounded very excited, and she was almost bouncing, her read hair moving up and down on her shoulders.
"It's really good to meet you", Hermione told her, "I'm umm, I'm." She looked to Amethyst for help. "Your full name at the time of your birth was Ella Athena Antoinette Sarah Mya Carlton-" at this point Amethyst started to what sounded like choking. Emmie patted her on the back and said to Hermione, "How about we call you Ella? The name your use to is Hermione, but your name is actually Ella. Let's call you Ella, I always loved that name!"
"Oh, I'm being a terrible hostess! Come in!" Emmie said and grabbed "Ella's" arm and brought her towards the house.
*********
When Ella/Hermione entered the house, she heard screaming. She heard a girl's voice yell, "Jonathan Michael Carlton O'Keefe! You get back here! You are in so much trouble when I tell Mom!" The voice got nearer as she spoke, and soon they were face to face with the person who had been yelling.
The girl had red hair, almost identical to Emmie's. But, she had gold eyes. "Gryffindor colors", Hermione thought, amused. The girl's brilliant gold eyes fell upon Ella/Hermione. "Ella?" she asked. Ella nodded and the girl yelled, "E!" and hugged her. Hermione could breath this time though.
The girl introduced herself, "I'm Vickie. Well", the girl put on a very proper voice and serious face, "I am Victoria Eleanor Jasmine Carlton O'Keefe. Pleased to meet you." She curtsied, and then broke into a fit of laughter.
A boy, probably brought by the laughter, entered the room, and greeted everyone with a dull, "Hi." Vickie spoke for him, "Ella, this is your cousin, Jonathan, and my annoying bratty brother." The boy looked at Ella, apparently not noticing Hermione before. He smiled at her, a sly smile, which instantly reminded her of Fred and George Weasley. "Uh oh, a prankster", Hermione thought, but smiled back at him.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Her- er Ella." She told him. "I know that, dumbit!" he told her. Victoria hit him lightly on the arm. "Don't call her a dumbit, Jon!" she told him. Hermione just smiled, but inwardly was taking notes on what had happened. Sirius entered the room, and smiled at everyone, the same type of smile Jonathan had used. He mimicked Victoria, "Yah, don't call her a dumbit, Jon!" Hermione had to try hard to keep from laughing, he did a perfect impression!
Amethyst interrupted, as Vickie looked murderous. "Ella is going to stay here tonight. I'm going to show her to her room." Amethyst motioned for Hermione to follow her, and the 2 walked away, Emmie bouncing around behind them. It took them along time to get to where Hermione would be staying, and Emmie talked the whole way.
Hermione learnt a lot though, from Emmie's constant chatter. Amethyst and Emmie went to Hogwarts, though Jon and Vickie were home- schooled. Emmie's husband's name is Calvin, and he is Hermione's uncle. Jon and Sirius hung out together a lot, since Sirius stayed here some times to avoid getting caught, and were constantly playing pranks, their target usually being Victoria. Emmie's husband, Cal, as she called him, was an auror. He went to Hogwarts and was a Ravenclaw, Emmie a Gryffindor. Jonathan loved to play Quidditch, and she was going on and on about Victoria's music abilities when Amethyst stopped suddenly.
"This is were you'll be staying. We'll leave you to unpack." Amethyst told her, and then Emmie and her left. Hermione opened the door.
Her mouth dropped. The room was elegant beyond elegant, beautiful beyond beautiful, queenly beyond queenly and just plain wow! It was done in silver and gold, "Gryffindor and Slytherin colours", Hermione thought amusedly, and amethyst. The bed was huge, the whole room gigantic. There was a beautiful velvet couch. Hermione walked to one of the two doors in the room (not including the one she entered in). She opened it to find a huge walk-in closet, and tons of clothes. There were dresses and dress robes fit for a queen. Hermione closed the door and walked to the other one. It led to a bathroom as grander than the Prefect's bathroom she used at Hogwarts.
Hermione went back to her bedroom and sat down on the bed, still amazed at it. "The Carltons must be a very rich family", Hermione thought with a smile. She quickly unpacked a bit, and then grabbed her cds and her cd player. She pulled on her headphones and collapsed onto the gold couch. She put in a cd and started to sing along with the song, hoping no one would hear her.
"Please tell me what is taking place,
Cause I can't seem to find a trace,
Guess it must've got erased somehow,
Probably cause I always forget,
Everytime someone tells me their name,
It's always gotta be the same.
(In my World)
Never worn cover-up,
Always beat the boys up,
Grew up in a 5000 population town,
Made my money by cutting grass,
Got fired by fried chicken ass,
All in a small town, Napanee.
You know I always stay up without sleepin',
And think to myself,
Where do I belong forever,
In whose arms, the time and place?
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
I never spend less than an hour,
Washin' my hair in the shower,
It always takes 5 hours to make it straight,
So I'll braid it in a zillion braids,
Though it may take all friggen day,
There's nothin' else better to do anyway.
When you're all alone in the lands of forever,
Lay under the Milky Way,
On and on it's getting too late out,
I'm not in love this time this night.
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
(la la la la)
Take some time,
Mellow out,
Party up,
But don't fall down,
Don't get caught,
Sneak out of the house.
[Chorus:]
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Can't help if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
But sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World"
Hermione meant every word she sang. Hermione stopped singing and went into her own World. She was rudely brought back to reality by a knock on the door. "Come in", she told the person. Amethyst appeared in to view. She came and sat down on the couch.
"Ella, sweetie, I've discussed it and thought over it, and decided you have to know who your father is. I'm going to have to face him sooner or later, and I'd like to talk to you before that. Ella Athena Antoinette Sarah Mya Carlton, your father is..."
End of Chapter 9
A/N: This is the point I try and kill the author! Cliffies, hate them. Okay, sorry it was short, and took me longer than planned to get out, please forgive me! I have my new characters and this whole story planned out though. Lets just say its way different than the 2 chapter fic I had originally planned! Well, hope you enjoyed pretty please review! Thanks for reading. Here are my thank yous:
Cho Chang: Thanks for reading what I had when I had writer's block! Thank you for your review, so glad you love it!!
Sugar Girl: Here's more for you. Thanks tons for your review!
Oriencor: Yep, you are my longest review, including both you wrote, I think. Thanks! Mya really needed a change, glad you think so too! The longest review you've ever written is on my story? Thanks so so much!
Arime Setta: Thanks for your review! You don't get to find out who her father is or how she really looks till next chapter, sorry!
Draco'sGoodGirl721: Okay, thanks for the update on your story, me appreciates it! Another song for you, which I had some trouble picking, I'm using a bit too many Avril Lavigne songs. Oops. Her father wasn't in Gryffindor, sorry if I said he was!
Thanks so much reviewers! I have 46 reviews, Yah for me!!!! Thanks so much, you guys are the best! Till next time, I'll try to have the next chapter up very soon, though I'm totally swamped with school, I'll do my best!
Thank You so so much!
-Eliza
