~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~
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Harry groaned, "Where am I" he muttered to no one in particular, but wherever he was there didn't seem to be anyone around there was a lot of noise though, too much noise. "My head hurts" Harry decided after a moments thought.
Harry's emerald green eyes opened slowly and he looked around. Everything around him was blurred because he didn't have his glasses on but he deduced he was in a bed, in the hospital wing after he realized that pretty much everything surrounding him was white.
Suddenly a figure walked into the curtained off square that he had been behind. "Hey Harry" the person said carefully, "You alright?"
"Sirius?" Harry questioned
"Yeah, the one and only" Sirius said and Harry didn't need to be able to see properly to know that his godfather was grinning at him. There was suddenly a warm hand on Harry's forehead and Harry relaxed back into the bed.
"Sirius can I have my glasses?" Harry asked and his godfather handed him his glasses. "Thanks" he said grateful that he was able to see properly again. Then suddenly realization struck him. "Sirius!! What are you doing here you'll get caught!" Harry cried but his godfather just laughed at him
But before he could explain Malfoy and Ron walked in. "We thought we could hear you yelling" Ron said a grin on his face causing Harry to smile
"Pity, I liked it much better when you were asleep" Malfoy said and both Ron and Harry burst out laughing.
"Your a prat, you know that" Harry said smiling,
"Well at least we know that nothings happened to you head," Draco said rolling his eyes at him,
"So what happened exactly?" Harry asked,
"Oh Merlin, I so thought you were a goner for a minute there Harry, when you were just falling! You scared me half to death" Ron cried, "And Hermione was hysterically. She was ready to run through the entire battle to get to you."
"I have to admit, for a moment there I thought you were done for" Malfoy said looking at Harry, "But then you just don't die do you"
Ron sniggered, "Well if he died they'd have to change his name wouldn't they, and it wouldn't go done so well calling him 'the boy who died'
Harry just stared at the two. "I was so sure I asked a simple question, what's so terribly hard about answering "What Happened" and Sirius, why are you here, turn into snuffles at least, what if Fudge walked in or something!" Harry exclaimed his voice slightly raised.
"Harry!" Hermione cried rushing into the curtained off area. Tears streaked down face as she threw her arms around him holding on for dear life "Oh Harry! I was so scared, I thought we'd lost you!! It was terrible!"
"Er- Hi Hermione" Harry said, "but before, you start telling me how I fell through the air, can someone please tell me what happened, because all I remember is talking to Malfoy about Sirius, then nothing!" Harry cried desperately.
"Mr. Potter, good to see your awake" Professor McGonagall said as she walked into the area and Harry sighed, at this rate he was not *ever* going to find out what happened.
"Hi Professor" He sighed "You don't want to tell me what happened do you?" He asked but before he could get a reply someone else entered the area.
Dumbledore entered his blue eyes sparkling magically. He smiled at Harry, "Certainly," He said answering the question that was directed towards Professor McGonagall.
"Dumbledore" Harry sighed visibly relieved as the old headmaster sat on a seat next to Sirius.
"It's actually quite a long story, what happened, but as I lack the time to tell you everything, I will just give you the details. First off the whole event has caused a terrible amount of controversy." Dumbledore said. "You see, the death eaters were getting desperate, and as a result they gave up trying to curse you and instead borrowed a beaters club, which is how you ended up here. Your godfather has been cleared, thus why he sits next to you freely."
Harry blinked at this piece of information and then looked at Sirius who was grinning at him. Harry grinned back, "How?"
"Well, just as you were knocked out the Auror's arrived and they were all there to watch Sirius catch you before you hit the ground. It also just happens that Pettigrew was one of the death eaters that you and Master Malfoy here, proved were not very skilled flyers."
"But what about Fudge, I've had nightmares, where Peter would be found alive but Fudge still wouldn't believe Sirius..."
"Fudge was killed in the attack Harry. He arrived with the Aurors, but it seems that he wasn't well practiced in his defense spells" Dumbledore said gravely.
"Then who's the knew Minister of Magic?" Harry asked, and Sirius started laughing, "What"
"The new Minister of Magic is Remus Lupin" Dumbledore said chuckling.
"Professor Lupin!" Ron cried, "Cool!"
"Isn't he a werewolf?" Malfoy asked obviously flabbergasted by this piece of information. Then he shrugged, "I suppose anyone's got to be better than Fudge though"
"So is there anything else I need to know?" Harry said, he was still grinning widely from the news. Not even Fudge's death had phased him enough to frown. Sirius was free and Lupin was the Minister of Magic, nothing was going to make him frown today.
"Oh, one more" He said smiling, "Gryffindor one the quidditch game." Harry was about to interrupt and tell Dumbledore that they couldn't possibly have won as he didn't catch the snitch when Dumbledore chuckled, "I'm sure Ron and Draco here will tell you all about it, but I do have a lot of work to do, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to excuse myself." He said and with that he and McGonagall left.
"Alright then, explain, how the hell did Gryffindor win?"
Malfoy scowled, "Even when your unconscious, you can catch the snitch" he muttered annoyed causing Ron to snigger.
"You see when you fell, the snitch just happened to be directly under you. So basically it fell with you as your weight was pushing it down, then when Sirius caught you, the snitch was caught between you and he, meaning just as Malfoy put it, you caught the snitch while you were unconscious. And with the extra points, Gryffindor won the game" Ron explained.
"So questions all answered now Harry?" Sirius asked smiling
"I think I've got everything," Harry said thoughtfully, "Actually no, I have one a question, why didn't Voldermort turn up?" he asked
"Voldermort, we don't know about" Aliandra said as she walked into the area, "But its not the first time that he's sent his followers alone,"
"It might just be a scare tactic of his" Sirius said thoughtfully, "I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to show everyone that he was back, and that he could go anywhere at anytime..."
Aliandra shrugged, "I believe that Dumbledore's having it looked into anyway. Anyway how are you Harry?" She said smiling.
"Yeah I'm alright, could've been worse" Harry said smiling,
"Could've been worse, he does know he just got hit over the hear with a beaters club" Malfoy said exasperated. Ron sniggered at the comment while Harry rolled his eyes.
"So what made you change sides?" Harry asked looking at Draco carefully,
Malfoy shrugged, "I don't really know, I guess I really didn't want to become my father" he said after a moments thought about the question. "Anyway your amusing enough, I'm sure this side of the war will at least be somewhat entertaining. People on the other side just shout all the time"
Ron rolled his eyes, "Glad to know that you chose our side because we're a bunch of idiots" he muttered causing Harry, Malfoy and Sirius to burst out laughing.
Aliandra shook her head and looked at Hermione sympathetically. "Are they always like this..."
"Yes" Hermione said cutting her off.
Aliandra looked at Hermione, "If it makes you feel any better, I know how you feel" She said
"And what's that supposed to mean" Sirius laughed looking at Aliandra accusingly while Harry, Ron and Malfoy laughed harder.
"Nothing, Nothing at all," Aliandra said grinning and they both joined in laughing. Suddenly Harry knew that while the world around them fell to darkness, in the end everything was going to be okay.
* * *
He was released from the wing a lot quicker than usual as there were more serious cases that the medi-wizards were worried about, apparently in this world getting hit over the head with the equivalent of a baseball bat didn't class as a serious case.
Classes had been canceled because many of the students and Professors were still hospitalized, so the three had a lot of free time on their hands. Free time that they had decided to spend reading Lily and Aliandra's diary.
They had just one problem, they couldn't find the diary.
"Look, where did we have it last?" Hermione said trying to take the logical side.
"I've already told you that, we last had it right here!" Ron exclaimed pointing at the desk. "And then I don't know where it was put after that, I was so sure you took it!"
"Did Aliandra take it?" Hermione asked and the two boys looked at each other,
"Yeah, she might of" Ron said thinking over the idea, "But she wouldn't take it without asking us would she?"
"Not unless she had some reason to use, or protect it, but she would have told us when she was talking to us the other day if she still had it, wouldn't she." Harry said carefully,
"Not necessarily, there was a number of others in the vicinity, perhaps she didn't want to risk it" Hermione suggested.
"Alright, what we know though, is that unless she's taken it without telling us, we had it, and we're all sure that we had it here last" Ron said.
Hermione sighed, "Maybe we left it the library or something" She said
"Great!" Ron cried sarcastically, "Of all the places in Hogwarts we could lose a book, we lose it in the library, the place with the hundreds of other books!"
Hermione rolled her eyes and Harry sighed falling back into a chair. Hermione shook her head at him. "What! He has a point you know, if we did leave it in the library, that's the last place I want to go looking for it, you do know how many books are in there!" Harry said
"Over seventy thousand" Hermione said,
Ron's mouth dropped open, but Harry just rolled his eyes, "Hermione, how many times exactly have you read 'Hogwarts, a History'?" He asked and an expression of understanding hit Ron's face.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Well, I mean it's not like it would have been labeled and put back on the shelf, its probably just sitting around the library somewhere" She said
"What is?" a familiar voice asked and the trio turned to find Sirius looking at them smiling.
"Hey Sirius" Harry said slightly preoccupied.
"Hi Sirius, do you want to help us search for a book that we lost in the library" Ron said and Sirius shook his head, actually he started shaking his head before Ron had even finished the sentence.
"No way, I've already had to do that once in my lifetime, never again." Sirius laughed, "Anyway Harry I wanted a word..." Sirius stared but the three seemed to be preoccupied by their current crisis so he just sat on one of the chairs.
"I swear it was in here" Hermione muttered and suddenly Sirius had a deep sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Which book, exactly, have you lost?" Sirius asked carefully, dreading the answer.
"The Diary" Hermione answered quickly her concentration centered on the bag in front of her.
Sirius nodded feeling extremely sick, "Where- When did you last have it?"
Hermione looked up, "Er- a few nights ago, last night, I can't quite remember"
Sirius nodded, "I think you three had better come with me, we have to see Dumbledore, Aliandra, Remus and Severus right now" Sirius said seriously. Harry, Ron and Hermione shared a look before following Sirius out of the common room
* * *
"I TOLD YOU THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN LEFT WITH IT!" Severus Snape roared in a true evil potions master fashion.
"Calm down Severus" Aliandra said, "It wouldn't have mattered who had the book, the quidditch attack was a decoy, he would have found it anyway."
"What I want to know how he knew it was there" Sirius said
"And while were answering questions I would love to know why Voldermort wants Aliandra and Lily's Diary" Ron added in a slightly raised voice. They hadn't been in the office very long, but they had been there long enough to be annoyed at the fact that everyone else knew what was going on.
The room went quiet at this outburst, everyone seemed to be waiting for someone else to make some sort of response to the question, but no one seemed to know exactly how to answer it. Suddenly everyone looked at Aliandra who sighed.
"I was under the impression that you three had worked out the secret to the diary" Aliandra said to the three students and suddenly Hermione's expression lit up. The two boys, on the other hand, stared at her blankly.
"So you *are* Merlin's heir!" Hermione cried, "But that means, oh no, you shouldn't have left it with us..."
Harry was frowning, "So that means Voldermort has a book, that holds extremely powerful magic, to flick through at his pleasure" He said
"Now they know what's going on, Black had a very valid question back there, how did Voldermort know it was Merlin's Book...?" Snape asked carefully.
"Well I guess its been activated lately, I mean I have been around it far more than I should of been," Aliandra said shrugging.
"Your taking this all rather lightly," Severus said suddenly.
Aliandra shrugged, "Its not like he's going to be able to work out how to open it"
"No! He's only considered the most powerful dark wizard of the century! Of course he's not going to be able to figure out how to open the book" Severus cried
"Lily has fooled him with the simplest of spells once before, and for that matter she still has him fooled, the problem with witches and wizards these days is they always look at everything from the most complicated of angles, Voldermort included." She said. Severus just shook his head at the woman. "Oh? You don't believe me?" She said carefully raising an eyebrow.
"No, not really," He answered darkly, "I think that you are taking this far to lightly for anyone who is not allied with Voldermort"
Aliandra's eyes flashed with power and within seconds Sirius and Harry who had once been behind Snape had moved to the other side of the room, both knowing all too well the magnitude of power that had just flared inside her,
Snape looked at them disgusted, "You are pathetic" He said to Harry and Sirius who were both looking at him as though he was mad.
"Pathetic, I've seen the consequences of that"
"Seen! I can feel the consequences of that," Harry cried, "Your one powerful witch" Harry said looking at Aliandra.
Aliandra stopped glaring at Severus for a moment looking at Harry, "How long have you been able to do that?"
"Do what?" Ron asked
"Only recently" Harry replied, "And only when large amounts are used"
"What?" Hermione said.
Aliandra shrugged, "Its a handy gift"
"Once I can control it I suppose, although when your sitting in potions and suddenly Snapes magic flares up, its not as spectacular as yours but it really makes you want to run out of the room."
"It becomes easier once you recognize your own power level" Aliandra said and Sirius nodded in agreement
"What?! What are you talking about?!" Snape cried
"Harry can feel the levels of magic in people," Sirius said, "I'm not surprised, Lily had that gift"
"Hmm, you have it too don't you" Aliandra said looking at Sirius, he nodded,
"As did James, we read somewhere that most powerful wizards do"
Aliandra shook her head, "No, its actually a very rare gift" she said then shook off whatever she was thinking, "Anyway, where were we" She said turning back to Snape.
"Before any damage is done to my office I am going to have to intervene" Dumbledore said interrupting the crowd. "We do have a problem, I don't want to think about the consequences of that book being opened by Voldermort." Aliandra went to object but Dumbledore raised his hand.
"If you are correct, then it gives us more time than we need, but I don't wish to take any chances. You of all people know the magic that is contained in that book, not to mention the spells that provide a lot of safety to a lot of people, the magical world can not afford to leave that book with him" Dumbledore said.
Aliandra looked out the window. "At midnight, the book will let me find it, but until then there is nothing I can do" She said.
"Why at Midnight?" Hermione asked.
"Don't ask me how the old wizards mind worked, but its a safety measure, if the book feels it is somewhere it shouldn't be, on the stoke of midnight that night it alerts me and if I feel its in the wrong place I'll be able to find it." She said then she looked at Dumbledore, "I don't know what you want to do after I know its location"
Dumbledore looked over his half moon spectacles. "You are going to have to find a way to get it back" he said causing Ron, Harry and Hermione to share a glance.
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Harry groaned, "Where am I" he muttered to no one in particular, but wherever he was there didn't seem to be anyone around there was a lot of noise though, too much noise. "My head hurts" Harry decided after a moments thought.
Harry's emerald green eyes opened slowly and he looked around. Everything around him was blurred because he didn't have his glasses on but he deduced he was in a bed, in the hospital wing after he realized that pretty much everything surrounding him was white.
Suddenly a figure walked into the curtained off square that he had been behind. "Hey Harry" the person said carefully, "You alright?"
"Sirius?" Harry questioned
"Yeah, the one and only" Sirius said and Harry didn't need to be able to see properly to know that his godfather was grinning at him. There was suddenly a warm hand on Harry's forehead and Harry relaxed back into the bed.
"Sirius can I have my glasses?" Harry asked and his godfather handed him his glasses. "Thanks" he said grateful that he was able to see properly again. Then suddenly realization struck him. "Sirius!! What are you doing here you'll get caught!" Harry cried but his godfather just laughed at him
But before he could explain Malfoy and Ron walked in. "We thought we could hear you yelling" Ron said a grin on his face causing Harry to smile
"Pity, I liked it much better when you were asleep" Malfoy said and both Ron and Harry burst out laughing.
"Your a prat, you know that" Harry said smiling,
"Well at least we know that nothings happened to you head," Draco said rolling his eyes at him,
"So what happened exactly?" Harry asked,
"Oh Merlin, I so thought you were a goner for a minute there Harry, when you were just falling! You scared me half to death" Ron cried, "And Hermione was hysterically. She was ready to run through the entire battle to get to you."
"I have to admit, for a moment there I thought you were done for" Malfoy said looking at Harry, "But then you just don't die do you"
Ron sniggered, "Well if he died they'd have to change his name wouldn't they, and it wouldn't go done so well calling him 'the boy who died'
Harry just stared at the two. "I was so sure I asked a simple question, what's so terribly hard about answering "What Happened" and Sirius, why are you here, turn into snuffles at least, what if Fudge walked in or something!" Harry exclaimed his voice slightly raised.
"Harry!" Hermione cried rushing into the curtained off area. Tears streaked down face as she threw her arms around him holding on for dear life "Oh Harry! I was so scared, I thought we'd lost you!! It was terrible!"
"Er- Hi Hermione" Harry said, "but before, you start telling me how I fell through the air, can someone please tell me what happened, because all I remember is talking to Malfoy about Sirius, then nothing!" Harry cried desperately.
"Mr. Potter, good to see your awake" Professor McGonagall said as she walked into the area and Harry sighed, at this rate he was not *ever* going to find out what happened.
"Hi Professor" He sighed "You don't want to tell me what happened do you?" He asked but before he could get a reply someone else entered the area.
Dumbledore entered his blue eyes sparkling magically. He smiled at Harry, "Certainly," He said answering the question that was directed towards Professor McGonagall.
"Dumbledore" Harry sighed visibly relieved as the old headmaster sat on a seat next to Sirius.
"It's actually quite a long story, what happened, but as I lack the time to tell you everything, I will just give you the details. First off the whole event has caused a terrible amount of controversy." Dumbledore said. "You see, the death eaters were getting desperate, and as a result they gave up trying to curse you and instead borrowed a beaters club, which is how you ended up here. Your godfather has been cleared, thus why he sits next to you freely."
Harry blinked at this piece of information and then looked at Sirius who was grinning at him. Harry grinned back, "How?"
"Well, just as you were knocked out the Auror's arrived and they were all there to watch Sirius catch you before you hit the ground. It also just happens that Pettigrew was one of the death eaters that you and Master Malfoy here, proved were not very skilled flyers."
"But what about Fudge, I've had nightmares, where Peter would be found alive but Fudge still wouldn't believe Sirius..."
"Fudge was killed in the attack Harry. He arrived with the Aurors, but it seems that he wasn't well practiced in his defense spells" Dumbledore said gravely.
"Then who's the knew Minister of Magic?" Harry asked, and Sirius started laughing, "What"
"The new Minister of Magic is Remus Lupin" Dumbledore said chuckling.
"Professor Lupin!" Ron cried, "Cool!"
"Isn't he a werewolf?" Malfoy asked obviously flabbergasted by this piece of information. Then he shrugged, "I suppose anyone's got to be better than Fudge though"
"So is there anything else I need to know?" Harry said, he was still grinning widely from the news. Not even Fudge's death had phased him enough to frown. Sirius was free and Lupin was the Minister of Magic, nothing was going to make him frown today.
"Oh, one more" He said smiling, "Gryffindor one the quidditch game." Harry was about to interrupt and tell Dumbledore that they couldn't possibly have won as he didn't catch the snitch when Dumbledore chuckled, "I'm sure Ron and Draco here will tell you all about it, but I do have a lot of work to do, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to excuse myself." He said and with that he and McGonagall left.
"Alright then, explain, how the hell did Gryffindor win?"
Malfoy scowled, "Even when your unconscious, you can catch the snitch" he muttered annoyed causing Ron to snigger.
"You see when you fell, the snitch just happened to be directly under you. So basically it fell with you as your weight was pushing it down, then when Sirius caught you, the snitch was caught between you and he, meaning just as Malfoy put it, you caught the snitch while you were unconscious. And with the extra points, Gryffindor won the game" Ron explained.
"So questions all answered now Harry?" Sirius asked smiling
"I think I've got everything," Harry said thoughtfully, "Actually no, I have one a question, why didn't Voldermort turn up?" he asked
"Voldermort, we don't know about" Aliandra said as she walked into the area, "But its not the first time that he's sent his followers alone,"
"It might just be a scare tactic of his" Sirius said thoughtfully, "I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to show everyone that he was back, and that he could go anywhere at anytime..."
Aliandra shrugged, "I believe that Dumbledore's having it looked into anyway. Anyway how are you Harry?" She said smiling.
"Yeah I'm alright, could've been worse" Harry said smiling,
"Could've been worse, he does know he just got hit over the hear with a beaters club" Malfoy said exasperated. Ron sniggered at the comment while Harry rolled his eyes.
"So what made you change sides?" Harry asked looking at Draco carefully,
Malfoy shrugged, "I don't really know, I guess I really didn't want to become my father" he said after a moments thought about the question. "Anyway your amusing enough, I'm sure this side of the war will at least be somewhat entertaining. People on the other side just shout all the time"
Ron rolled his eyes, "Glad to know that you chose our side because we're a bunch of idiots" he muttered causing Harry, Malfoy and Sirius to burst out laughing.
Aliandra shook her head and looked at Hermione sympathetically. "Are they always like this..."
"Yes" Hermione said cutting her off.
Aliandra looked at Hermione, "If it makes you feel any better, I know how you feel" She said
"And what's that supposed to mean" Sirius laughed looking at Aliandra accusingly while Harry, Ron and Malfoy laughed harder.
"Nothing, Nothing at all," Aliandra said grinning and they both joined in laughing. Suddenly Harry knew that while the world around them fell to darkness, in the end everything was going to be okay.
* * *
He was released from the wing a lot quicker than usual as there were more serious cases that the medi-wizards were worried about, apparently in this world getting hit over the head with the equivalent of a baseball bat didn't class as a serious case.
Classes had been canceled because many of the students and Professors were still hospitalized, so the three had a lot of free time on their hands. Free time that they had decided to spend reading Lily and Aliandra's diary.
They had just one problem, they couldn't find the diary.
"Look, where did we have it last?" Hermione said trying to take the logical side.
"I've already told you that, we last had it right here!" Ron exclaimed pointing at the desk. "And then I don't know where it was put after that, I was so sure you took it!"
"Did Aliandra take it?" Hermione asked and the two boys looked at each other,
"Yeah, she might of" Ron said thinking over the idea, "But she wouldn't take it without asking us would she?"
"Not unless she had some reason to use, or protect it, but she would have told us when she was talking to us the other day if she still had it, wouldn't she." Harry said carefully,
"Not necessarily, there was a number of others in the vicinity, perhaps she didn't want to risk it" Hermione suggested.
"Alright, what we know though, is that unless she's taken it without telling us, we had it, and we're all sure that we had it here last" Ron said.
Hermione sighed, "Maybe we left it the library or something" She said
"Great!" Ron cried sarcastically, "Of all the places in Hogwarts we could lose a book, we lose it in the library, the place with the hundreds of other books!"
Hermione rolled her eyes and Harry sighed falling back into a chair. Hermione shook her head at him. "What! He has a point you know, if we did leave it in the library, that's the last place I want to go looking for it, you do know how many books are in there!" Harry said
"Over seventy thousand" Hermione said,
Ron's mouth dropped open, but Harry just rolled his eyes, "Hermione, how many times exactly have you read 'Hogwarts, a History'?" He asked and an expression of understanding hit Ron's face.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Well, I mean it's not like it would have been labeled and put back on the shelf, its probably just sitting around the library somewhere" She said
"What is?" a familiar voice asked and the trio turned to find Sirius looking at them smiling.
"Hey Sirius" Harry said slightly preoccupied.
"Hi Sirius, do you want to help us search for a book that we lost in the library" Ron said and Sirius shook his head, actually he started shaking his head before Ron had even finished the sentence.
"No way, I've already had to do that once in my lifetime, never again." Sirius laughed, "Anyway Harry I wanted a word..." Sirius stared but the three seemed to be preoccupied by their current crisis so he just sat on one of the chairs.
"I swear it was in here" Hermione muttered and suddenly Sirius had a deep sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Which book, exactly, have you lost?" Sirius asked carefully, dreading the answer.
"The Diary" Hermione answered quickly her concentration centered on the bag in front of her.
Sirius nodded feeling extremely sick, "Where- When did you last have it?"
Hermione looked up, "Er- a few nights ago, last night, I can't quite remember"
Sirius nodded, "I think you three had better come with me, we have to see Dumbledore, Aliandra, Remus and Severus right now" Sirius said seriously. Harry, Ron and Hermione shared a look before following Sirius out of the common room
* * *
"I TOLD YOU THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN LEFT WITH IT!" Severus Snape roared in a true evil potions master fashion.
"Calm down Severus" Aliandra said, "It wouldn't have mattered who had the book, the quidditch attack was a decoy, he would have found it anyway."
"What I want to know how he knew it was there" Sirius said
"And while were answering questions I would love to know why Voldermort wants Aliandra and Lily's Diary" Ron added in a slightly raised voice. They hadn't been in the office very long, but they had been there long enough to be annoyed at the fact that everyone else knew what was going on.
The room went quiet at this outburst, everyone seemed to be waiting for someone else to make some sort of response to the question, but no one seemed to know exactly how to answer it. Suddenly everyone looked at Aliandra who sighed.
"I was under the impression that you three had worked out the secret to the diary" Aliandra said to the three students and suddenly Hermione's expression lit up. The two boys, on the other hand, stared at her blankly.
"So you *are* Merlin's heir!" Hermione cried, "But that means, oh no, you shouldn't have left it with us..."
Harry was frowning, "So that means Voldermort has a book, that holds extremely powerful magic, to flick through at his pleasure" He said
"Now they know what's going on, Black had a very valid question back there, how did Voldermort know it was Merlin's Book...?" Snape asked carefully.
"Well I guess its been activated lately, I mean I have been around it far more than I should of been," Aliandra said shrugging.
"Your taking this all rather lightly," Severus said suddenly.
Aliandra shrugged, "Its not like he's going to be able to work out how to open it"
"No! He's only considered the most powerful dark wizard of the century! Of course he's not going to be able to figure out how to open the book" Severus cried
"Lily has fooled him with the simplest of spells once before, and for that matter she still has him fooled, the problem with witches and wizards these days is they always look at everything from the most complicated of angles, Voldermort included." She said. Severus just shook his head at the woman. "Oh? You don't believe me?" She said carefully raising an eyebrow.
"No, not really," He answered darkly, "I think that you are taking this far to lightly for anyone who is not allied with Voldermort"
Aliandra's eyes flashed with power and within seconds Sirius and Harry who had once been behind Snape had moved to the other side of the room, both knowing all too well the magnitude of power that had just flared inside her,
Snape looked at them disgusted, "You are pathetic" He said to Harry and Sirius who were both looking at him as though he was mad.
"Pathetic, I've seen the consequences of that"
"Seen! I can feel the consequences of that," Harry cried, "Your one powerful witch" Harry said looking at Aliandra.
Aliandra stopped glaring at Severus for a moment looking at Harry, "How long have you been able to do that?"
"Do what?" Ron asked
"Only recently" Harry replied, "And only when large amounts are used"
"What?" Hermione said.
Aliandra shrugged, "Its a handy gift"
"Once I can control it I suppose, although when your sitting in potions and suddenly Snapes magic flares up, its not as spectacular as yours but it really makes you want to run out of the room."
"It becomes easier once you recognize your own power level" Aliandra said and Sirius nodded in agreement
"What?! What are you talking about?!" Snape cried
"Harry can feel the levels of magic in people," Sirius said, "I'm not surprised, Lily had that gift"
"Hmm, you have it too don't you" Aliandra said looking at Sirius, he nodded,
"As did James, we read somewhere that most powerful wizards do"
Aliandra shook her head, "No, its actually a very rare gift" she said then shook off whatever she was thinking, "Anyway, where were we" She said turning back to Snape.
"Before any damage is done to my office I am going to have to intervene" Dumbledore said interrupting the crowd. "We do have a problem, I don't want to think about the consequences of that book being opened by Voldermort." Aliandra went to object but Dumbledore raised his hand.
"If you are correct, then it gives us more time than we need, but I don't wish to take any chances. You of all people know the magic that is contained in that book, not to mention the spells that provide a lot of safety to a lot of people, the magical world can not afford to leave that book with him" Dumbledore said.
Aliandra looked out the window. "At midnight, the book will let me find it, but until then there is nothing I can do" She said.
"Why at Midnight?" Hermione asked.
"Don't ask me how the old wizards mind worked, but its a safety measure, if the book feels it is somewhere it shouldn't be, on the stoke of midnight that night it alerts me and if I feel its in the wrong place I'll be able to find it." She said then she looked at Dumbledore, "I don't know what you want to do after I know its location"
Dumbledore looked over his half moon spectacles. "You are going to have to find a way to get it back" he said causing Ron, Harry and Hermione to share a glance.
