"HERMIONE GRANGER!!!", Harry shouted without actually intending to.
"Yes Harry,I am afraid, it is Hermione."
Harry became dizzy. He didn't know what to say.
"They gave her the surname Granger and never let her or anyone else know that she was a witch. So it was a complete surprise for her when the letter arrived and when she came here no one ever thought that she was of wizard and Voldemort too never dreamt of it... Her parents aren't Muggles, they had a hard time learning the Muggles' ways, but perfected themselves..."
Dumbledore went on, but Harry wasn't listening, Hermione his sister, something was sure wrong...
Harry avoided Hermione and Ron that day, it wasn't very difficult cause they were immersed in one another...
Late that night Harry lay awake, how was it possible, why didn't anyone tell him, should he tell them about it, what do they think, he had been jealous cause Ron was in love with his sister and she's with him, something is just not right...
***
Far away some one laughed a cold high pitched laugh: "And they think Dumbledore is greater than me, that I am afraid of him, ha!"
The next day, Harry felt so very sick, he couldn't believe he was jealous of their relation ship. He can't believe that he thought about Hermione in more than just friends, if she was his sister that was just down right wrong. He walked slowly to breakfast to see Ron and Hermione walking towards him, he wanted to tell Hermione but felt to sick...
"Harry we're really sorry for ... er .... leaving you out lately. I mean you're our best friend!" said Hermione. Harry was getting very dizzy, he had way to many things on his mind, the room began to swirl and Harry felt himself hit the floor and before he knew it he had woken up in the hospital wing.
***
"Please be quiet! " he heard an angry Poppy Pomfrey say.
"Poppy, we must speak to Harry, as soon as he has a waken... Alas!..."
"Hello, Harry feeling better?" said Dumbledore with his normal calm self.
"Ok!" he lied as the room looked to be coming alive.
"You had quite a fall before breakfast, lucky nothing to serious... " he said dragging on but Harry had stop listening... his scar began to burn like never before, it burned!
"Malfoy..." said the voice in Harry's head...
"Draco, Malfoy..." the voice said Voldermort stronger... run but you can't hide..." the voice was like a snake hissing, hissing in his ear! "Help him over come the power of... his father!"
Who's father? Harry thought.
"Who should I help..." then the voice spoke again ... " Lucius is the Enemy..." the voice said
"Help Draco..." Harry's scar was burning. The room came back. He could see he had fallen on the floor holding his head.
"HARRY... Harry wake up it's ok..." said Dumbledore who was leaning over him.
"LUCIUS!" Harry yelled "Voldemort is back!" said Harry who bet he sounded pretty insane by the look on their faces .
"WE have to help Draco... Malfoy... his father. Something's wrong!" he yelled trying to stand up.
"HARRY... HARRY... slow down." said Dumbledore, his eyes twinkling.
"Please professor something is wrong with Draco... please..." said Harry.
"I assure you Draco is --" but before Dumbledore could continue, Snape ran in with a unconscious Draco Malfoy in his arms.
"Oh my!" said Madam Pomfrey.
"What happened Severus?" said Dumbledore glancing at Draco and then to Harry.
"I don't know, I found him like this in the empty history room." said Snape looking at Harry strangely. "He said he needed help, because his father might do it again. " said Snape who had laid Draco on the bed. He laid motionless.
"Do what, I do not know" he said looking once again at Harry.
"Snape may I see your arm?"
"Yes head master he said pulling up his sleeve." Snape squinted as the mark turned black and then red...
"Voldermort is back..."
Sirius Black had just sat down to a cup of tea with Remus Lupin when an owl fluttered in and dropped a letter in his lap. Sirius quickly opened it and read aloud:
Sirius, Voldemort is stronger than ever, Harry passed out and when he awoke he said that his scar burned very badly. He began muttering about Lucius Malfoy being the enemy, and how we had to help Draco Malfoy. A minute later Draco was brought to the hospital wing and all we could get out of him was that his father might do it again. I recently told Harry the truth about his parents and about Hermione being his sister. Sirius, you must come to Hogwarts immediately and bring Remus."
Sirius and Lupin hurriedly got up and went to get their cloaks. Then they appeared to Hogsmeade in the cave at the outskirts of town in which Sirius had hidden the previous year.
Sirius turned himself into his animagi form as a dog. And set off with Lupin to Hogwarts.
When they got to the entrance of the castle they met up with Filch. "
Dogs are not allowed in the castle.
"Oh, its you Remus." said Filch.
Lupin stated: "I got an urgent letter from Dumbledore, Argus, I must see him immediately."
"Very well then, Remus." Sirius and Lupin hurried up to Dumbledore's office. When they got there they found Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Prof Snape, Harry, Hermione and Draco already sitting down. Sirius went back to his human state, and Draco began screaming.
"Ah, its Sirius Black the murderer, AHHHHH!!!"
"Its alright Draco, Sirius isn't going to hurt anyone ." Dumbledore said sternly. For once Harry didn't see a look of pure hatred on Snape's face.
"Sirius, you and Remus may stay in the teachers bedrooms." Dumbleode said. "Draco, what exactly did your father do to you?" asked Dumbledore kindly.
"He..He..He" Malfoy went into kind of a trance, snapped out and shouted: "He didn't do anything, I'm not telling you anything."
Harry felt his scar burning and for some reason shouted:
"He's lying! " Then he said with a lighter tone: "I just felt my scar burning."
"Oh, dear" said McGonagall with a worried expression on her face. "Prof Snape, would you be so kind as to go brew me up a veritsderum(truth) potion, so we might be able to get the truth out of Draco. In the meantime Harry, Hermione you may go back to your common room.
"Sirius, Remus you shall follow Prof. McGonagall back to her office. I will keep Draco here." said Dumbledore. Everybody left Dumbledore's office.
Dumbledore had left it upon himself to keep an eye on Draco in his office. But as luck would have it, Dumbledore felt a sudden surge in his bladder. He needed to use the restroom. He tried to make Draco promise not to leave but Draco would not consent to it.
So, Dumbledore had to bind his legs and arms to a chair while he hurried off to the bathroom. Upon return to his office Dumbledore found that Draco was no longer there, and, neither was Fawkes!!
***
"I managed to snatch that wretched bird, Fawkes the Phoenix!" Lucius said with a look of hatred upon his face. "Twitchy! Where's my butter beer?!" Lucius yelled. "I said I want it NOW!"
A tiny, scared voice could be heard from the background. Twitchy the house elf was muttering to himself. "No.. No.. Not again.. Evil man.. Bad.. Bad..."
"TWITCHY? What was that you said? Because I believe I told you to come out here! Stop muttering to yourself like some kind of psychic!" Lucius was getting angry.
"Yes, master! So sorry, master! So sorry!!!" Twitchy came running out of the kitchen and brought Lucius and Voldemort both butter beers. They were now sitting in the living room with the blinds closed.
"Excellent, Malfoy. You have a great mind, stealing that bird. If you hide it somewhere, that could lead Potter into my trap. Maybe even his sister."
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Twitchy could be heard slamming her face into the wall.
"Sister?" Lucius had an astonished look on his face. "There are two of the brats?"
"Yes, that little Granger girl.. Is really a Potter. Dumbledore placed the memory in his basin.
"Little did he know that I have access to that." Lucius was beginning to look a little pale.
"Of course, I know. You had no idea you'd be working with two of them, did you? Well I want them both dead. I don't expect there to be any more of his family continuing. That will be the day I can run this place MY way." Voldemort laughed evilly. He knew this day would be soon.
***
Meanwhile...
Harry and Hermione were walking down the hall on their way back to the Gryffindor common room. They talked in low voices about what might happen in the future.
"I'm telling you he is back!"
"He can't be!" Hermione exclaimed. "how can he?"
"I have no idea." said Harry confused also. "I thought my scar would burn once he had risen again, but..."
"But what?"
"I really think there is something strange going on. I mean Malfoy is trying to be my friend! How strange is that?"
"Yeah I know what you mean."
They walked in silence for a awhile as they slowly headed back to the common room. All Harry was thinking about how he was actually related to Hermione, how could they be he had thought over and over in disbelief. They suddenly became aware of the sound of a footstep rushing up behind them. Both Harry and Hermione turned around at the same time to see Sirius and Lupin running to catch-up with them. Once they had Sirius hugged Harry in a fatherly way.
Harry looked confused in a way not quite sure where Sirius had come from. Than he asked:
"What are you doing here?"
"Well nice to see you too Harry." said Sirius in an exasperated tone. "Dumbledore sent us a letter and told us to come right away."
"Oh. So you know about Voldemort." They all winced at the sound of his name. "Sorry." he said quietly.
They all continued to walk to the Gryffindor tower in an uneasy silence not sure what to say to each other. Harry was just dying to tell Hermione what Dumbledore had told him, but wasn't sure if he should. Harry said the password not really enthusiastic about the meeting they were going to receive because of what happened at lunch and having Sirius with them considering he was an escaped convict from Azkaban.
They entered the room Harry first, Hermione, Lupin, and than
Sirius....
As they entered the room many people turned their heads, but already expected it to be Harry and Hermione after what happened at breakfast. A few students started to walk towards them wanting to ask what had happened but when the saw Lupin they stopped and some even backed- up for no apparent reason. When they saw Sirius walk in there many gasps of surprise and a few screams from some girls.
They all stood in silence as they began to move into the room a little more, many of the students began to back-up giving them space, but most of them just starred in awe.
Harry was the first to speak: "It is all right, he is not going to hurt anyone. To tell you the truth he was falsely accused it was someone else I know that for a fact."
A few people who knew Harry very well relaxed.
One of the first years spoke out in question of why he was there: "What is he doing here? And how are we sure we can trust him?"
"He is here because he is my godfather though he hasn't been able to adopt me officially. You can trust him because Dumbledore trusts him, he has known where he has been since he had left, and he trusts him just as much as I do." When Harry finished, a few students relaxed and went back to what they were doing.
But he spoke up again: "Only Gryffindors shall know he is here until Dumbledore has made his decision about it later on."
With that, Harry lead the others up to the Boys dormitories where Harry and Ron stayed.
Harry was very tired after they had left Dumbledore's office, he felt just as he had when he had finished the third task the year before. But he felt he should stay awake because Sirius was there and he could tell he needed to talk to him.
"Harry," Sirius began but he couldn't seem to bring word to what he was wanting to say. He finally said: "I'm sorry for not telling you before but Dumbledore told me not to tell you and that he would tell you when the time came to tell you."
"Yes Harry,I am afraid, it is Hermione."
Harry became dizzy. He didn't know what to say.
"They gave her the surname Granger and never let her or anyone else know that she was a witch. So it was a complete surprise for her when the letter arrived and when she came here no one ever thought that she was of wizard and Voldemort too never dreamt of it... Her parents aren't Muggles, they had a hard time learning the Muggles' ways, but perfected themselves..."
Dumbledore went on, but Harry wasn't listening, Hermione his sister, something was sure wrong...
Harry avoided Hermione and Ron that day, it wasn't very difficult cause they were immersed in one another...
Late that night Harry lay awake, how was it possible, why didn't anyone tell him, should he tell them about it, what do they think, he had been jealous cause Ron was in love with his sister and she's with him, something is just not right...
***
Far away some one laughed a cold high pitched laugh: "And they think Dumbledore is greater than me, that I am afraid of him, ha!"
The next day, Harry felt so very sick, he couldn't believe he was jealous of their relation ship. He can't believe that he thought about Hermione in more than just friends, if she was his sister that was just down right wrong. He walked slowly to breakfast to see Ron and Hermione walking towards him, he wanted to tell Hermione but felt to sick...
"Harry we're really sorry for ... er .... leaving you out lately. I mean you're our best friend!" said Hermione. Harry was getting very dizzy, he had way to many things on his mind, the room began to swirl and Harry felt himself hit the floor and before he knew it he had woken up in the hospital wing.
***
"Please be quiet! " he heard an angry Poppy Pomfrey say.
"Poppy, we must speak to Harry, as soon as he has a waken... Alas!..."
"Hello, Harry feeling better?" said Dumbledore with his normal calm self.
"Ok!" he lied as the room looked to be coming alive.
"You had quite a fall before breakfast, lucky nothing to serious... " he said dragging on but Harry had stop listening... his scar began to burn like never before, it burned!
"Malfoy..." said the voice in Harry's head...
"Draco, Malfoy..." the voice said Voldermort stronger... run but you can't hide..." the voice was like a snake hissing, hissing in his ear! "Help him over come the power of... his father!"
Who's father? Harry thought.
"Who should I help..." then the voice spoke again ... " Lucius is the Enemy..." the voice said
"Help Draco..." Harry's scar was burning. The room came back. He could see he had fallen on the floor holding his head.
"HARRY... Harry wake up it's ok..." said Dumbledore who was leaning over him.
"LUCIUS!" Harry yelled "Voldemort is back!" said Harry who bet he sounded pretty insane by the look on their faces .
"WE have to help Draco... Malfoy... his father. Something's wrong!" he yelled trying to stand up.
"HARRY... HARRY... slow down." said Dumbledore, his eyes twinkling.
"Please professor something is wrong with Draco... please..." said Harry.
"I assure you Draco is --" but before Dumbledore could continue, Snape ran in with a unconscious Draco Malfoy in his arms.
"Oh my!" said Madam Pomfrey.
"What happened Severus?" said Dumbledore glancing at Draco and then to Harry.
"I don't know, I found him like this in the empty history room." said Snape looking at Harry strangely. "He said he needed help, because his father might do it again. " said Snape who had laid Draco on the bed. He laid motionless.
"Do what, I do not know" he said looking once again at Harry.
"Snape may I see your arm?"
"Yes head master he said pulling up his sleeve." Snape squinted as the mark turned black and then red...
"Voldermort is back..."
Sirius Black had just sat down to a cup of tea with Remus Lupin when an owl fluttered in and dropped a letter in his lap. Sirius quickly opened it and read aloud:
Sirius, Voldemort is stronger than ever, Harry passed out and when he awoke he said that his scar burned very badly. He began muttering about Lucius Malfoy being the enemy, and how we had to help Draco Malfoy. A minute later Draco was brought to the hospital wing and all we could get out of him was that his father might do it again. I recently told Harry the truth about his parents and about Hermione being his sister. Sirius, you must come to Hogwarts immediately and bring Remus."
Sirius and Lupin hurriedly got up and went to get their cloaks. Then they appeared to Hogsmeade in the cave at the outskirts of town in which Sirius had hidden the previous year.
Sirius turned himself into his animagi form as a dog. And set off with Lupin to Hogwarts.
When they got to the entrance of the castle they met up with Filch. "
Dogs are not allowed in the castle.
"Oh, its you Remus." said Filch.
Lupin stated: "I got an urgent letter from Dumbledore, Argus, I must see him immediately."
"Very well then, Remus." Sirius and Lupin hurried up to Dumbledore's office. When they got there they found Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Prof Snape, Harry, Hermione and Draco already sitting down. Sirius went back to his human state, and Draco began screaming.
"Ah, its Sirius Black the murderer, AHHHHH!!!"
"Its alright Draco, Sirius isn't going to hurt anyone ." Dumbledore said sternly. For once Harry didn't see a look of pure hatred on Snape's face.
"Sirius, you and Remus may stay in the teachers bedrooms." Dumbleode said. "Draco, what exactly did your father do to you?" asked Dumbledore kindly.
"He..He..He" Malfoy went into kind of a trance, snapped out and shouted: "He didn't do anything, I'm not telling you anything."
Harry felt his scar burning and for some reason shouted:
"He's lying! " Then he said with a lighter tone: "I just felt my scar burning."
"Oh, dear" said McGonagall with a worried expression on her face. "Prof Snape, would you be so kind as to go brew me up a veritsderum(truth) potion, so we might be able to get the truth out of Draco. In the meantime Harry, Hermione you may go back to your common room.
"Sirius, Remus you shall follow Prof. McGonagall back to her office. I will keep Draco here." said Dumbledore. Everybody left Dumbledore's office.
Dumbledore had left it upon himself to keep an eye on Draco in his office. But as luck would have it, Dumbledore felt a sudden surge in his bladder. He needed to use the restroom. He tried to make Draco promise not to leave but Draco would not consent to it.
So, Dumbledore had to bind his legs and arms to a chair while he hurried off to the bathroom. Upon return to his office Dumbledore found that Draco was no longer there, and, neither was Fawkes!!
***
"I managed to snatch that wretched bird, Fawkes the Phoenix!" Lucius said with a look of hatred upon his face. "Twitchy! Where's my butter beer?!" Lucius yelled. "I said I want it NOW!"
A tiny, scared voice could be heard from the background. Twitchy the house elf was muttering to himself. "No.. No.. Not again.. Evil man.. Bad.. Bad..."
"TWITCHY? What was that you said? Because I believe I told you to come out here! Stop muttering to yourself like some kind of psychic!" Lucius was getting angry.
"Yes, master! So sorry, master! So sorry!!!" Twitchy came running out of the kitchen and brought Lucius and Voldemort both butter beers. They were now sitting in the living room with the blinds closed.
"Excellent, Malfoy. You have a great mind, stealing that bird. If you hide it somewhere, that could lead Potter into my trap. Maybe even his sister."
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Twitchy could be heard slamming her face into the wall.
"Sister?" Lucius had an astonished look on his face. "There are two of the brats?"
"Yes, that little Granger girl.. Is really a Potter. Dumbledore placed the memory in his basin.
"Little did he know that I have access to that." Lucius was beginning to look a little pale.
"Of course, I know. You had no idea you'd be working with two of them, did you? Well I want them both dead. I don't expect there to be any more of his family continuing. That will be the day I can run this place MY way." Voldemort laughed evilly. He knew this day would be soon.
***
Meanwhile...
Harry and Hermione were walking down the hall on their way back to the Gryffindor common room. They talked in low voices about what might happen in the future.
"I'm telling you he is back!"
"He can't be!" Hermione exclaimed. "how can he?"
"I have no idea." said Harry confused also. "I thought my scar would burn once he had risen again, but..."
"But what?"
"I really think there is something strange going on. I mean Malfoy is trying to be my friend! How strange is that?"
"Yeah I know what you mean."
They walked in silence for a awhile as they slowly headed back to the common room. All Harry was thinking about how he was actually related to Hermione, how could they be he had thought over and over in disbelief. They suddenly became aware of the sound of a footstep rushing up behind them. Both Harry and Hermione turned around at the same time to see Sirius and Lupin running to catch-up with them. Once they had Sirius hugged Harry in a fatherly way.
Harry looked confused in a way not quite sure where Sirius had come from. Than he asked:
"What are you doing here?"
"Well nice to see you too Harry." said Sirius in an exasperated tone. "Dumbledore sent us a letter and told us to come right away."
"Oh. So you know about Voldemort." They all winced at the sound of his name. "Sorry." he said quietly.
They all continued to walk to the Gryffindor tower in an uneasy silence not sure what to say to each other. Harry was just dying to tell Hermione what Dumbledore had told him, but wasn't sure if he should. Harry said the password not really enthusiastic about the meeting they were going to receive because of what happened at lunch and having Sirius with them considering he was an escaped convict from Azkaban.
They entered the room Harry first, Hermione, Lupin, and than
Sirius....
As they entered the room many people turned their heads, but already expected it to be Harry and Hermione after what happened at breakfast. A few students started to walk towards them wanting to ask what had happened but when the saw Lupin they stopped and some even backed- up for no apparent reason. When they saw Sirius walk in there many gasps of surprise and a few screams from some girls.
They all stood in silence as they began to move into the room a little more, many of the students began to back-up giving them space, but most of them just starred in awe.
Harry was the first to speak: "It is all right, he is not going to hurt anyone. To tell you the truth he was falsely accused it was someone else I know that for a fact."
A few people who knew Harry very well relaxed.
One of the first years spoke out in question of why he was there: "What is he doing here? And how are we sure we can trust him?"
"He is here because he is my godfather though he hasn't been able to adopt me officially. You can trust him because Dumbledore trusts him, he has known where he has been since he had left, and he trusts him just as much as I do." When Harry finished, a few students relaxed and went back to what they were doing.
But he spoke up again: "Only Gryffindors shall know he is here until Dumbledore has made his decision about it later on."
With that, Harry lead the others up to the Boys dormitories where Harry and Ron stayed.
Harry was very tired after they had left Dumbledore's office, he felt just as he had when he had finished the third task the year before. But he felt he should stay awake because Sirius was there and he could tell he needed to talk to him.
"Harry," Sirius began but he couldn't seem to bring word to what he was wanting to say. He finally said: "I'm sorry for not telling you before but Dumbledore told me not to tell you and that he would tell you when the time came to tell you."
