Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter in case you didn't already know that.
A/N: Here is the second chapter of my fic. I hope you like it!!
Who Are You?
Chapter Two
Arthur took off his glassed and rubbed his eyes. He was exhausted. He had been talking to Janine for over an hour now with no luck. It seemed to him that the Harris family was just like any other muggle family. They had no big family secrets or enemies who might be out to get them. They were just your average muggle family. Then why would Voldemort want them dead?
Janine was also starting to look very worn out. Arthur could tell that with every question he asked she got more and more annoyed. He didn't blame her though. After all, her parents were just killed the night before and now she had to keep reliving everything in her head, in hopes of finding some sort of clue. Any kind of clue. But, it was just not going anywhere.
"Why don't you try and get some sleep," Arthur finally said to her when he ran out of questions to ask.
Janine looked very grateful at this suggestion. She hadn't slept all night and it was already well into the morning.
"I think I'll just lay down in here," Janine said with a yawn. She didn't feel like walking past her parents room to get to her own bed. Anyways, she wasn't sure if she would make it to her room.
Arthur stood up to allow her to lie down on the sofa.
"If you need anything, just call." he told her as she lay down and closed her eyes. He wasn't sure if she heard him though because it looked like she instantly fell asleep.
Arthur smiled at her. She really was such a sweet girl. It's such a pity that this had to happen to her.
Arthur walked out of the room and decided that he would go and see if the others had any progress. Any clue would be helpful to. Arthur was beginning to think that maybe Voldemort was just bored and needed to kill something. Maybe there was no special reason at all. Though, something inside of him told him that there just had to be a reason. He just had a bad feeling about the whole business.
Arthur walked outside to see if the ministry workers had found out anything of importance. He ran into a ministry worker named Robert. Robert looked just as tired as Arthur felt.
"Hey, did you guys find out anything yet?" Arthur asked him.
Robert gave a sigh. "I'm sorry Arthur, we haven't found anything useful at all. Just a couple of footprints leading to the house. We can't even make out how many sets of prints there are. Maybe two or three. I just don't know. Most of the men already went home for the day. It's really starting to look like just another random attack."
Arthur sighed. Things weren't going well at all.
"Well, just keep looking. There has to be something that we're overlooking. Some sort of clue to point the way."
Arthur started to walk away when he suddenly heard someone call his name. He turned around to see who it was and groaned.
"Sam, I thought I told you to question neighbors," he said with an annoyed tone.
"I did!" Sam said, running up to Arthur. He was very excited about something.
"Well, did you find anything out?" Arthur asked him.
"Oh boy did I ever!" Sam said. "The lady down the street said that two days ago a man came to her house to question her about the Harris' and he was most interested in the girl."
"Janine?" Arthur said, feeling puzzled. "But she wasn't even home when they were
attack."
"I know," Sam said. "My guess is that he came for her but saw that she wasn't here and decided to get rid of her parents instead."
"If he indeed wants Janine, then he'll be back for her," Arthur said thoughtfully. "She's not safe here."
"What do you think he would want with a muggle teenager?" Sam asked.
"I don't know but we have to find out. And she can't stay here. It's not safe at all."
"Where will she go?" Sam asked Arthur.
"I don't kn…"
"Arthur! Sam!"
Arthur looked as Mike, another Ministry worker came towards him.
"What is it?" Arthur asked him.
"Direct orders from Fudge." Mike said. "We're done here. He says that it must've just been a random attack. We're supposed to get Janine to a friend or relative's house. They can look after her for now."
"We can't do that!" Arthur cried. "There's much more to this whole thing then what meets the eye. Janine is in danger. We can't leave her with some muggles."
"But Fudge said…"
"I don't care what Fudge said. We can't just…" Arthur sighed. "Is Fudge still here? I need to talk to him."
" I believe that he may still be at the downstairs fireplace." Mike said.
Arthur hurried over to it in hopes to catch Fudge before he left, Sam following closely
behind. He saw Fudge's head still there.
"Oh! Arthur," Fudge said when he spotted him. "You're done here. Mike told me how you couldn't find out anything of importance so it must've just been a random attack."
"I don't think so," Arthur said.
"What? Of course it was. I mean, it was crazy to think that there might be something special about those muggles anyway. They're just muggles!"
"Fudge, listen to me. Apparently Voldemort's main target was the girl and not the parents." Arthur told him.
"What?!?! That's ridiculous. What would make you think that?"
"A neighbor lady said that he came to her house and asked a bunch of questions about Janine. She's not safe here."
"And what do you propose we do?" Fudge said, sounding as though he wasn't believing a word of it.
"We should give her some kind of protection. There has to be a spell or something…"
"So, what you're saying is that we should protect this muggle girl just because you-know-who asked a question about her?"
"No sir, I mean yes. I have a really bad feeling that she is in great danger." Arthur said desperately.
"I'm sorry Arthur, but that is not a good enough reason." Fudge said angrily. "We are not going to waste time and money to protect this girl just because you have a bad feeling!"
"But.."
"No Arthur! The answer is no." Fudge said. "Now, just find someone for her to stay with for a couple of nights. Goodbye."
With a poof, Fudge's head disappeared.
"Darn it!" Arthur shouted. He couldn't believe Fudge would just let this go like that. He started pacing around the room, trying to think of something for them to do. He could not, would not just let Janine stay unprotected. Even if it meant watching over her himself. You-know-who wanted her, for what ever reason, and if Fudge didn't do anything, he'd just have to go to….
Arthur stopped pacing for a moment and started to calm down.
Sam, who had been standing there silently the whole time asked, "What do we do now?"
"Get me connected to Hogwarts," Arthur said in a flat tone.
"Hogwarts?" Sam asked, slightly confused.
"I need to speak with Dumbledore."
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Janine was back at the party. She was in a crowded room and loud music was playing in the background. She saw her friends and waved at them. They didn't seem to see her. She was about to call over to them when there was a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and saw the gorgeous boy who she had been making googly eyes to all night.
"May I have this dance?" he asked, his voice sounding far away. So distant.
"Certainly," Janine answered with a grin.
Janine reached for his head but she could grab onto it. The boy was becoming transparent. She could see right through him.
"What!" she shouted.
He just gave her a sad look.
"What going on?" Janine asked, starting to feel frightened.
But then the boy faded away, along with the room and everyone else in it. Suddenly, Janine realized that she was at her house.
She saw her mom walk down the hall and turn to go into her bedroom.
"Mom?" she said.
She went inside their bedroom and saw her parents laying there. They weren't moving at all. Their eyes were open wide open and their faces twisted in pure terror.
Janine tried to scream but she couldn't. She took a couple of steps backwards and lost her balance, falling to the ground. Suddenly, the scenery started to fade again and she found herself in a graveyard.
Janine looked around. It was so dark! She couldn't see anything.
"Mom!" she shouted. "Dad! Where are you!"
She got up and started to run. She ran past the old and rotting tomb stones. And she ran, and ran, and ran. It felt like she ran for hours.
Is there no end to this?
Finally, she collapsed onto the ground. She sat there, holding onto a tombstone for support, trying to catch her breath. As she sat there, she looked down at the tombstone. There was a dim light shining on it. She looked at the name.
"Tom Riddle,"
Something seemed to be nagging at her. There was something about this name that she couldn't quite place. Almost, as though she heard it before.
She got up slowly and saw that there were now only 4 tombstones in the whole graveyard, all in a row. She went to the one next to Tom's. It read, Frank Harris.
"Dad," She said in a whisper.
The tombstone next to that said, Elizabeth Harris.
She walked down to the last one. For some reason she was dreading this one most of all. She couldn't read it though. There was dirt all over it. She got down on her hands a knees and started to wipe the dirt away. She could just almost read the name when suddenly a snake came from no where and wrapped itself around her.
"No!" she screamed, struggling to get away. It just squeezed her tighter.
Then, she saw I dark figure appear in front of her. He was dressed in a long, black cloak. A hood was covering his head completely. He reached out one bony finger and pointed it at her and suddenly the snake let go. Janine wanted to run away, far away but for some reason she couldn't.
"You need to know," a dark voice came from the figure. He reached up to the hood and lowered it.
Janine screamed.
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"Wake up Janine! Wake up!"
Janine opened her eyes. It took her a moment to realize that she was back at her house and no longer in the graveyard. She saw Mr. Weasley looking worriedly down at her.
"Oh God, it was awful!" Janine said through tears. "It was so awful! I…"
Mr. Weasley pulled Janine up in a comforting hug. She was shaking like crazy.
"It's alright now." He said gently. "It was only a dream."
After a few moments, Janine calmed down a bit. Arthur let go of her, seeing that she was calmer and asked,
"What did you dream about?"
Janine opened her mouth to answer but then stopped. What did I dream? She asked herself. It had all been so real, so clear, but, she couldn't remember it now.
"I-I don't remember." She answered.
Mr. Weasley just looked at her worriedly.
"How late is it?" Janine asked, trying to change the subject. She was starting to feel a bit hungry. She hadn't eaten at all that day.
"It's about four o'clock," Mr. Weasley said.
"Well, I don't know about you but I need a snack," Janine told him, getting up.
"I think I'll join you for a snack. There's many things that we need to talk about."
"What about?" Janine asked, puzzled. She thought they had already covered everything that he needed to know.
"We have one more thing that we must do today."
"What's that?" Janine asked curiously.
"We're going to Hogwarts."
"Hogwarts? Where's that?" Janine said puzzled. "On second thought, what's that?"
"Well," Arthur said. "You may want to sit down for this."
Janine gave him a weird look but did as he said and sat down on a chair.
"Okay, now that I'm sitting, what do you got to say?" Janine asked.
Arthur ran his fingers through his hair nervously. He really didn't know how he was going to tell Janine what he needed to tell her.
"Okay," Janine said. "Now your starting to scare me. Just talk, will you?"
"This is going to be really hard to believe," was all the Arthur managed to say.
"After today, I'll believe anything," Janine said.
"We'll see about that." Arthur said, starting to pace around nervously. "You see, Janine, I've kind of been hiding a few things from you."
"What things?" Janine asked.
"I know more about your parents death then you think."
"What do you know?" Janine asked slowly. Janine could tell that Arthur was really nervous and she was starting to wonder if she could trust this guy.
"Alright then, I guess I'll just come out with it." Arthur sat down next to Janine and looked straight into her eyes. His face looked extremely serious and his gaze made Janine feel uncomfortable.
"You're parents weren't killed a normal way or by what you would call a normal person. Your parents weren't killed by a wizard."
Janine's mouth opened in shock.
"I'm sorry, what did you say? Cause, for a moment there I thought that you said my parents were killed by a wizard, which would just be crazy cause wizards don't exist." Janine said, looking at Arthur as if he were crazy.
Arthur just looked at her with that serious expression of his. His face showed that he was not joking. Which meant that he had to be crazy.
"Wizards don't exist," Janine repeated, quietly.
"They do, Janine." Arthur said. " I know that it must be hard to believe, but you have to. You're in great danger right now because the wizard who killed your parents is after you."
Janine sprang up from the chair.
"You're crazy," She said to Arthur.
"What I'm saying is true, Janine. No matter how hard you try not to believe it, it's still true. Wizards exist."
Now Janine started pacing around. This was just too much for her.
"Okay, so say wizards do exist. What would one want with me?" she demanded.
"I don't know. That's why I need to take you to Hogwarts where there are people who can help you in figuring this out."
"I'm not going anywhere with you,"
"Janine, you have to listen to me. This wizard is very dark and powerful. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants and right now he wants you. If you stay here, you'll be killed. That's what he does. He enjoys cursing people like you."
"People like me?? What do you mean by that?" Janine asked.
"Non magic people," Arthur answered.
"This is just crazy," Janine shrieked. "Curses! Wizards! It's all make believe."
"No, it's not Janine," Arthur said gently, trying to calm Janine down. "It's all true. We just hide ourselves from non magic people."
Janine froze.
"'We'? What do you mean by 'we'?"
Janine looked at Arthur as if she were seeing him for the first time. She had just assumed that he was some sort of police man. Only now did she realize that he never really did say who exactly he was.
Arthur took a deep breath.
"I to am a wizard."
Janine stared at him with disbelief.
"Get out of my house," she finally said.
"I'm sorry Janine," Arthur said desperately, reaching out for her hand. "I should of told you sooner but I didn't know how you would take it."
Janine backed away from him.
"You're crazy!" she shouted. "Stay away from me!"
Arthur looked at her desperately. He didn't know what to do.
"Janine…"
"LEAVE!!!" Janine shouted at him.
Then, she turned around and started for the door. She just had to get out of there. This was all to much for her.
She ignored Arthur's shouts as she reached the door and pulled it open. She ran out and straight into three masked man in black cloaks.
A/N: Hmm… I wonder who they could be? Could they be death… Wait! I can't tell you!! You'll just have to wait for the next chapter to find out. Please write a review. Criticism is welcomed! Always looking to improve.