The next day was double potions class first thing. Snape was feeling
especially monstrous today, which was very bad for Harry and Draco.
Ever since Draco changed houses, Snape had given Draco a hard time. Sometimes Snape would be meaner to Draco than he was to Harry, which was really saying something.
"Mr. Malfoy, if you read the directions carefully your potion should be a silvery white substance."
"It is Professor!" Draco said. Snape looked down in the cauldron to find Draco correct. Snape glared at Draco and waved his want. Everything in the cauldron disappeared.
"I will not tolerate smart backtalk." Snape said as he walked off. Draco was shaking with fury, but Angela held him back.
Soon after Dumbledore walked into the dungeon. "If I may Severus. I need a word with a few of your students." "Go ahead. Who do you need? "Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Malfoy."
Snape glared at the three boys as they gathered their stuff. As soon as the three boys left Snape yelled at the class, "Well? That potion is due at the end of class. NO EXCEPTIONS!"
Under his breath but still he was heard, Snape said, "Even those three."
Angela heard this thanks to her powers so when it was time to turn in their flasks each girl put a little of theirs into flasks and put the boy's name in it so they wouldn't fail.
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Dumbledore did not say anything to the boys; he didn't even acknowledge them. He started walking to his office and they boys followed, not saying anything but giving each other quizitive looks.
They arrived at two gargoyles standing guard at Dumbledore's office. They spoke to him.
"Hello Albus. How are you this morning?" The gargoyle on the right asked.
"I am fine, Grante, how are you? And what about you Aztor?" Dumbledore asked the other gargoyle. The other one, the one on the left wasn't so friendly. He just nodded at Dumbledore and he nodded back. The one on the right shrugged. They both moved out of the way, letting Dumbledore and the boys pass.
That finally reach Dumbledore's office and he gestures to the chair across from his desk.
The boys looked at each other and Dumbledore realized there was only one chair for three boys.
"Oh. So sorry." And with a wave of his hand two more chairs appeared.
The boys sat down but Dumbledore started to pace. He would face the boys and open his mouth but then it looked like he forgot what he was going to say, and he started pacing again.
"Professor?" Harry asked. Dumbledore stopped pacing and looked at Harry." "Right." And Dumbledore sat down in his chair.
"When I first put you all on the assignment, I know you would come through. And you have, you have, so far. But it is not over. These girls,"
"Are very important. Yeah, we know." Draco said. "Indeed. Have any of you read the Daily Prophet lately?" Dumbledore asked.
Harry shook his head and so did Draco. Ron however nodded. "So Mr. Weasley must know by now what I want." Dumbledore said.
Ron nodded again. Dumbledore opened a drawer and took out the newspaper. He gave it to Harry and him and Draco skimmed the story that was circled by what looked like highlighter. They finished at the same time. Harry handed the paper back to Dumbledore.
He put it back in the drawer and closed it. "We all know it was only a matter of time until He would come back, but we didn't anticipate it would be this soon.
"I told you how important these girls are to the wizarding community, and no doubt you know about their powers. The Daily Prophet shows that Voldemort is rising, and at a steady pace.
"He knows about them. He knows about their powers, and he knows how to steal them. They must protect themselves, but a little shielding charm wouldn't hurt anything, now would it? And all of you know how shielding charms work."
The three nodded. Harry spoke. "I have already thought of that, and I gave Kelsey a necklace with that charm a long time ago."
"Yes, I am very aware of the gift, so you other two know something you can do?" "We can manage. Is that all you wanted Professor?"
"Yes, that will be all."
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The girls wanted to spend some time alone, just by themselves, and with Casey of course. The problem was that they had no where to go to be alone. They did the only thing that they could think of, they went to talk to Dumbledore.
After talking and getting past the gargoyles they entered Dumbledore's office. The atmosphere in the room was different since the first time they were in the office. They found Dumbledore looking out the window, staring at the big lake.
"Professor?" Angela said. Dumbledore didn't know anyone else was in there so when Angela said that, he jumped a little and turned around.
His appearance matched the feeling of the room. It was a little distressed, and tired. He looked very tired and he had bags under his eyes. His robe was all wrinkled and his sleeves were pulled up.
"Oh hello. Come sit. Would you like some tea or something to drink?" Dumbledore asked.
The girls shook their heads. They sat in the three chairs that only a few hours before the boys sat in.
"We didn't mean to disturb you but we-" Kelsey started but she was interrupted. "Kelsey, that necklace, did Harry give that to you?" Dumbledore questioned.
Kelsey thought the question was a bit strange but she answered, "Yeah. He gave it to me the night he told me about Hogwarts, why do you ask?"
"He is a very smart boy, that one is." Dumbledore was almost talking nonsense. He continued. "You keep him Kelsey, he is a keeper. Oh, you girls wanted to talk to me, what is it?"
"Well, it's just, we wanted a night by ourselves, and Casey. We haven't talked with her alone since she got here, and there are a few things that we want to talk about. So we were wondering if we could have a place tonight to ourselves, somewhere in private where we can talk."
"I think that could be arranged, after all, Casey doesn't know anything about her sisters and you all have been separated for a while, yes, I think that we could get you four in an empty classroom and you could spend the night there, would that we to your liking?"
The three girls nodded their head excitedly. "Done. When you are ready, go find Professor McGonnagal and she will show you to a room. Anything else?"
Angela and Vanessa shook their heads but Kelsey asked, "Are you alright Professor? Anything that we can do?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact. These are the time where you must really focus on your powers. I feel that something big is coming up, and you girls need to be ready for anything. By knowing that you can take care of yourselves, you have already helped me greatly."
"Done. We will try our best." Vanessa said. Dumbledore nodded once and went and looked out at the window again. The girls felt like that was a closure to the conversation and they left.
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Once back in the common room, Draco and Ron were trying to decide how to give Angela and Vanessa their charms.
"C'mon, it's not that hard! You both already love them! Its NOT that bad!" Harry said as he fell in the lounge chair. Hermione walked up behind the boys. "What's going on?"
The boys were startled by the voice, but once recognizing it was Hermione, they calmed down.
"Hey Hermione, nothing here, what's up with you?" "Well, I was going down to the library to get some books for Snape's homework." "Oh man! Did we get homework in that class?" "Yep. One parchment on the uses of sleeping potion. Due next class, no exceptions." "Damn. Oh well, I'll do it later."
"Alright. Whatever, just don't fall behind. Snape was pretty mad when you all left, and I wouldn't want to get on his bad side by not doing your homework." Hermione said.
"What are you talking about? We are already on his bad side, especially Draco and Harry." Ron said.
Hermione shrugged as she left the boys to think about more important things.
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Angela, Vanessa, and Kelsey were all in their dorm, packing for their sleepover. They were talking about old times, when they used to spend the night at each others house's. They were startled by a knock at the door.
Vanessa went and opened the door; it was Casey. She came in the dorm and sat on one of the empty beds. "Hey guys, whatcha doin?"
"Nothing. Well actually, we are packing. And you need to be too." Kelsey said. "Why? Where are we going?" Casey questioned.
"We are going to have a little sleepover, and you're invited. So go gather your stuff, because we are leaving soon." "Well, that's all fine and dandy, but what's the occasion?"
"We need to talk about a few things with you. So go! Hurry!" Angela said. Casey nodded excitedly and left to her dorm to pack.
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The girls had all their stuff packed and headed down to the common room. There they saw the boys.
"Hey Angela, could I talk to you for a minute?" Draco asked. "Well actually, I was just leaving, can this wait until tomorrow?" Draco looked sad that she didn't want to go with him, but he said, "Uh, sure. Tomorrow." Angela kissed him on the cheek as she left.
Draco walked back to Harry and Ron and told them that the girls were doing something and would be back tomorrow. At first the boys were worried, but seeing that Casey was also going with the girls, they felt better.
Ron decided that he would give the charm to Vanessa tomorrow, but Draco knew that he couldn't wait that long. He decided that a note on Angela's bed would do the trick. He wrote a note, and stuck the necklace he put the charm on in an envelope. The envelope and note went on Angela's bed. Draco felt that this was the right thing to do.
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The girls found Professor McGonnagal and she directed them into an empty classroom. "Now girls, just because you are by yourselves, don't think that you are an exception to the rules. The same rules apply to you. You may not leave after curfew and such. Do you understand?" The four girls nodded and with that Professor McGonnagal left.
They put down their things and for the first time in a long time, they relaxed. They lounged in the desks and just talked about regular stuff. Soon, Kelsey stopped the conversation and told everyone to come down to the ground.
There, they made a circle. Kelsey knew it was time to tell Casey everything, but it was going to be difficult. Vanessa and Angela both knew what this was about too. Casey had no clue what was going on. She thought this had to be some sort of game or something that they were going to play. Seeing the serious looks on the other girl's faces, she knew it wasn't going to be a game they were about to do.
"Casey," Kelsey started, "You have just come here, and there are a lot of things you don't know, and we feel that you need to know some stuff, and the sooner the better."
Casey nodded with a curious face. Kelsey continued. "That night, when they told us, well, you didn't, you weren't, well you didn't get the whole story I guess we could say, so we think that now is the time you found out."
Kelsey went on to explain about how her, Angela, and Vanessa were fraternal triplets (a/n: haha, I accidentally said twins before, sorry about that! ;) ), about their parents, and even about Voldemort and him stealing powers.
Casey was overwhelmed when they finished their talk. She kind of sat there in shock and then she shifted positions so she was lying on her stomach, propped up against her arms.
She had a dreamy look on her face and finally said, "I wonder what our parents were like, I mean, what they looked like and all. I wonder where they are now, no one ever told you did they? Did our parents die, or are they just hiding somewhere?" Casey wasn't really directing these questions to anyone in particular, but Angela answered by saying, "We don't know anything about them really, I wish we did know more."
Vanessa was silently crying. She didn't often cry, let alone let her emotions get the better of her, but thinking about things, she had to cry. She wiped a tear that was rolling down her cheek and said, "I wonder why they sent us to League City, and to Clear Stream."
The three older girls reminisced on Clear Stream. "I wonder what everyone is doing. Probably getting ready for TAKS or finals or something." Angela said as she laughed to herself. "Can you imagine us still there? With Mr. Bidthespot?" The girls laughed.
"But in truth, I really do miss the normal life sometimes. Sometimes I wish that I was back at Clear Stream."
The other girls nodded, even Casey.
Suddenly the silence was broke by loud footsteps. The girls poked their heads out of the classroom door to see what was happening.
They saw total chaos, and then they saw a familiar face coming towards them. It was Professor McGonnagal.
"Girls, Clear Stream has just been attacked by Voldemort!" Professor McGonnagal said all flustered.
The girls looked at each other in disbelief.
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A/N: hey everyone! How is it going? Well, this should be the last boring part, from here it gets exciting *wink wink* but not like gross exciting, like action adventure packed exciting. It is nearing the end. I am trying really hard to type and finish this story, but it takes a lot more time that I have. I will write when I can but I got all this vacation stuff coming up, relatives I gotta entertain and summer homework I gotta finish before school (YIKES!) so yeah. Please review! Good, bad, whatever! And also read my other stories, they are all really good. Thanks a bunch everyone! Ta Ta!
Ever since Draco changed houses, Snape had given Draco a hard time. Sometimes Snape would be meaner to Draco than he was to Harry, which was really saying something.
"Mr. Malfoy, if you read the directions carefully your potion should be a silvery white substance."
"It is Professor!" Draco said. Snape looked down in the cauldron to find Draco correct. Snape glared at Draco and waved his want. Everything in the cauldron disappeared.
"I will not tolerate smart backtalk." Snape said as he walked off. Draco was shaking with fury, but Angela held him back.
Soon after Dumbledore walked into the dungeon. "If I may Severus. I need a word with a few of your students." "Go ahead. Who do you need? "Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Malfoy."
Snape glared at the three boys as they gathered their stuff. As soon as the three boys left Snape yelled at the class, "Well? That potion is due at the end of class. NO EXCEPTIONS!"
Under his breath but still he was heard, Snape said, "Even those three."
Angela heard this thanks to her powers so when it was time to turn in their flasks each girl put a little of theirs into flasks and put the boy's name in it so they wouldn't fail.
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Dumbledore did not say anything to the boys; he didn't even acknowledge them. He started walking to his office and they boys followed, not saying anything but giving each other quizitive looks.
They arrived at two gargoyles standing guard at Dumbledore's office. They spoke to him.
"Hello Albus. How are you this morning?" The gargoyle on the right asked.
"I am fine, Grante, how are you? And what about you Aztor?" Dumbledore asked the other gargoyle. The other one, the one on the left wasn't so friendly. He just nodded at Dumbledore and he nodded back. The one on the right shrugged. They both moved out of the way, letting Dumbledore and the boys pass.
That finally reach Dumbledore's office and he gestures to the chair across from his desk.
The boys looked at each other and Dumbledore realized there was only one chair for three boys.
"Oh. So sorry." And with a wave of his hand two more chairs appeared.
The boys sat down but Dumbledore started to pace. He would face the boys and open his mouth but then it looked like he forgot what he was going to say, and he started pacing again.
"Professor?" Harry asked. Dumbledore stopped pacing and looked at Harry." "Right." And Dumbledore sat down in his chair.
"When I first put you all on the assignment, I know you would come through. And you have, you have, so far. But it is not over. These girls,"
"Are very important. Yeah, we know." Draco said. "Indeed. Have any of you read the Daily Prophet lately?" Dumbledore asked.
Harry shook his head and so did Draco. Ron however nodded. "So Mr. Weasley must know by now what I want." Dumbledore said.
Ron nodded again. Dumbledore opened a drawer and took out the newspaper. He gave it to Harry and him and Draco skimmed the story that was circled by what looked like highlighter. They finished at the same time. Harry handed the paper back to Dumbledore.
He put it back in the drawer and closed it. "We all know it was only a matter of time until He would come back, but we didn't anticipate it would be this soon.
"I told you how important these girls are to the wizarding community, and no doubt you know about their powers. The Daily Prophet shows that Voldemort is rising, and at a steady pace.
"He knows about them. He knows about their powers, and he knows how to steal them. They must protect themselves, but a little shielding charm wouldn't hurt anything, now would it? And all of you know how shielding charms work."
The three nodded. Harry spoke. "I have already thought of that, and I gave Kelsey a necklace with that charm a long time ago."
"Yes, I am very aware of the gift, so you other two know something you can do?" "We can manage. Is that all you wanted Professor?"
"Yes, that will be all."
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The girls wanted to spend some time alone, just by themselves, and with Casey of course. The problem was that they had no where to go to be alone. They did the only thing that they could think of, they went to talk to Dumbledore.
After talking and getting past the gargoyles they entered Dumbledore's office. The atmosphere in the room was different since the first time they were in the office. They found Dumbledore looking out the window, staring at the big lake.
"Professor?" Angela said. Dumbledore didn't know anyone else was in there so when Angela said that, he jumped a little and turned around.
His appearance matched the feeling of the room. It was a little distressed, and tired. He looked very tired and he had bags under his eyes. His robe was all wrinkled and his sleeves were pulled up.
"Oh hello. Come sit. Would you like some tea or something to drink?" Dumbledore asked.
The girls shook their heads. They sat in the three chairs that only a few hours before the boys sat in.
"We didn't mean to disturb you but we-" Kelsey started but she was interrupted. "Kelsey, that necklace, did Harry give that to you?" Dumbledore questioned.
Kelsey thought the question was a bit strange but she answered, "Yeah. He gave it to me the night he told me about Hogwarts, why do you ask?"
"He is a very smart boy, that one is." Dumbledore was almost talking nonsense. He continued. "You keep him Kelsey, he is a keeper. Oh, you girls wanted to talk to me, what is it?"
"Well, it's just, we wanted a night by ourselves, and Casey. We haven't talked with her alone since she got here, and there are a few things that we want to talk about. So we were wondering if we could have a place tonight to ourselves, somewhere in private where we can talk."
"I think that could be arranged, after all, Casey doesn't know anything about her sisters and you all have been separated for a while, yes, I think that we could get you four in an empty classroom and you could spend the night there, would that we to your liking?"
The three girls nodded their head excitedly. "Done. When you are ready, go find Professor McGonnagal and she will show you to a room. Anything else?"
Angela and Vanessa shook their heads but Kelsey asked, "Are you alright Professor? Anything that we can do?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact. These are the time where you must really focus on your powers. I feel that something big is coming up, and you girls need to be ready for anything. By knowing that you can take care of yourselves, you have already helped me greatly."
"Done. We will try our best." Vanessa said. Dumbledore nodded once and went and looked out at the window again. The girls felt like that was a closure to the conversation and they left.
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Once back in the common room, Draco and Ron were trying to decide how to give Angela and Vanessa their charms.
"C'mon, it's not that hard! You both already love them! Its NOT that bad!" Harry said as he fell in the lounge chair. Hermione walked up behind the boys. "What's going on?"
The boys were startled by the voice, but once recognizing it was Hermione, they calmed down.
"Hey Hermione, nothing here, what's up with you?" "Well, I was going down to the library to get some books for Snape's homework." "Oh man! Did we get homework in that class?" "Yep. One parchment on the uses of sleeping potion. Due next class, no exceptions." "Damn. Oh well, I'll do it later."
"Alright. Whatever, just don't fall behind. Snape was pretty mad when you all left, and I wouldn't want to get on his bad side by not doing your homework." Hermione said.
"What are you talking about? We are already on his bad side, especially Draco and Harry." Ron said.
Hermione shrugged as she left the boys to think about more important things.
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Angela, Vanessa, and Kelsey were all in their dorm, packing for their sleepover. They were talking about old times, when they used to spend the night at each others house's. They were startled by a knock at the door.
Vanessa went and opened the door; it was Casey. She came in the dorm and sat on one of the empty beds. "Hey guys, whatcha doin?"
"Nothing. Well actually, we are packing. And you need to be too." Kelsey said. "Why? Where are we going?" Casey questioned.
"We are going to have a little sleepover, and you're invited. So go gather your stuff, because we are leaving soon." "Well, that's all fine and dandy, but what's the occasion?"
"We need to talk about a few things with you. So go! Hurry!" Angela said. Casey nodded excitedly and left to her dorm to pack.
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The girls had all their stuff packed and headed down to the common room. There they saw the boys.
"Hey Angela, could I talk to you for a minute?" Draco asked. "Well actually, I was just leaving, can this wait until tomorrow?" Draco looked sad that she didn't want to go with him, but he said, "Uh, sure. Tomorrow." Angela kissed him on the cheek as she left.
Draco walked back to Harry and Ron and told them that the girls were doing something and would be back tomorrow. At first the boys were worried, but seeing that Casey was also going with the girls, they felt better.
Ron decided that he would give the charm to Vanessa tomorrow, but Draco knew that he couldn't wait that long. He decided that a note on Angela's bed would do the trick. He wrote a note, and stuck the necklace he put the charm on in an envelope. The envelope and note went on Angela's bed. Draco felt that this was the right thing to do.
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The girls found Professor McGonnagal and she directed them into an empty classroom. "Now girls, just because you are by yourselves, don't think that you are an exception to the rules. The same rules apply to you. You may not leave after curfew and such. Do you understand?" The four girls nodded and with that Professor McGonnagal left.
They put down their things and for the first time in a long time, they relaxed. They lounged in the desks and just talked about regular stuff. Soon, Kelsey stopped the conversation and told everyone to come down to the ground.
There, they made a circle. Kelsey knew it was time to tell Casey everything, but it was going to be difficult. Vanessa and Angela both knew what this was about too. Casey had no clue what was going on. She thought this had to be some sort of game or something that they were going to play. Seeing the serious looks on the other girl's faces, she knew it wasn't going to be a game they were about to do.
"Casey," Kelsey started, "You have just come here, and there are a lot of things you don't know, and we feel that you need to know some stuff, and the sooner the better."
Casey nodded with a curious face. Kelsey continued. "That night, when they told us, well, you didn't, you weren't, well you didn't get the whole story I guess we could say, so we think that now is the time you found out."
Kelsey went on to explain about how her, Angela, and Vanessa were fraternal triplets (a/n: haha, I accidentally said twins before, sorry about that! ;) ), about their parents, and even about Voldemort and him stealing powers.
Casey was overwhelmed when they finished their talk. She kind of sat there in shock and then she shifted positions so she was lying on her stomach, propped up against her arms.
She had a dreamy look on her face and finally said, "I wonder what our parents were like, I mean, what they looked like and all. I wonder where they are now, no one ever told you did they? Did our parents die, or are they just hiding somewhere?" Casey wasn't really directing these questions to anyone in particular, but Angela answered by saying, "We don't know anything about them really, I wish we did know more."
Vanessa was silently crying. She didn't often cry, let alone let her emotions get the better of her, but thinking about things, she had to cry. She wiped a tear that was rolling down her cheek and said, "I wonder why they sent us to League City, and to Clear Stream."
The three older girls reminisced on Clear Stream. "I wonder what everyone is doing. Probably getting ready for TAKS or finals or something." Angela said as she laughed to herself. "Can you imagine us still there? With Mr. Bidthespot?" The girls laughed.
"But in truth, I really do miss the normal life sometimes. Sometimes I wish that I was back at Clear Stream."
The other girls nodded, even Casey.
Suddenly the silence was broke by loud footsteps. The girls poked their heads out of the classroom door to see what was happening.
They saw total chaos, and then they saw a familiar face coming towards them. It was Professor McGonnagal.
"Girls, Clear Stream has just been attacked by Voldemort!" Professor McGonnagal said all flustered.
The girls looked at each other in disbelief.
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A/N: hey everyone! How is it going? Well, this should be the last boring part, from here it gets exciting *wink wink* but not like gross exciting, like action adventure packed exciting. It is nearing the end. I am trying really hard to type and finish this story, but it takes a lot more time that I have. I will write when I can but I got all this vacation stuff coming up, relatives I gotta entertain and summer homework I gotta finish before school (YIKES!) so yeah. Please review! Good, bad, whatever! And also read my other stories, they are all really good. Thanks a bunch everyone! Ta Ta!