-~*The Secret*~-

An owl flew through the open kitchen window and landed on the table in front of Alec.

'Hello there, what brings you here?' Alec looked at the owl as it hooted once and stretched its foot which had a piece of parchment tied to it. Alec took the letter and opened it.

Dear Alec

How is she? Is she alright? The illusion went just as we planned, I do hope that

you take good care of her and don't let anything harm her. Teach her everything

you can and I hope she will not be too much trouble.

Yours sincerely

Albus Dumbledor

Alec watched as the piece of parchment crumbled up into ash and disappeared. He looked through some of his cupboards and pulled out a piece or parchment and a quill and sat back down ant the table so he could write.

To My Dearest Friend

Her arrival was exactly like we planned, your memory spell worked well,

she cannot remember a thing, her new name will be Faith Hobbs, I thought it

would be better if she took my surname. She seems very enthusiastic and I see

she has a lot of potential but if you would have sent her here sooner I could

have taught her more spells and she would have been better prepared, but now

I can only say that I will teach her everything that I have learnt and I will give

her illusion lessons as well, I have a feeling that it would be best for her to learn

illusions as well as her normal lessons.

I only have on fear, what if she remembers then she will want more answers that

I an give her. But apart from that I have a good feeling that she will do well.

I will protect her with my life, you can put your trust in me my dear friend.

Your dear old friend

Alec Hobbs

Alec rolled up the piece of parchment and tied it to the owl's leg, he tapped it with his wand and let the owl fly out of the window. Faith went downstairs and lifted her wand (which she had found in her cloak pocket) to show Alec.

'Got it' Faith smiled and watched as Alec waved his wand and the dished went in the sink and began washing themselves.

'Good, time to start your lessons, I was thinking we should start with Defence Against the Dark Arts you know just in case you run into some bad wizards or witches. What do you think?' Alec asked as he made his way into the living room and sat down on a sofa.

'Hmm, I like it, so what's after Defence Against the Dark Arts?' Faith asked taking a seat opposite him.

'Charms'

'And after that?'

'Well take a break'

'And after we took our break?' Faith continued.

'You know you ask too many questions' Faith giggled as Alec waved his wand and a book flew into Faiths lap.

'What's this?' Faith asked opening it and flipping through the pages.

'That my dear, would be a book.' Alec smiled as Faith stuck her tong out at him.

'I knew that, I mean what type of book?' Faith closed it and looked at the cover reading the title 'Oh, I see'

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Dumbledor sat in his office silently and gave a loud sigh.

'Are you alright professor?' one of the paintings around him asked as he sat down in his chair.

'Hmm? Oh yes quite alright.' Dumbledor replied looking at the grandfather clock near his desk. 'An owl should have arrived by now, What's keeping Hobbs?' it was early in the morning and Dumbledor would have to make a speech about their recent death, he wasn't really looking forward to it, I mean nobody died, Kate was just well renamed. Dumbledor stood up and looked outside the window.

'Is something on your mind sir?' a woman spoke this time.

'In fact I was awaiting a letter, quite important, hope it gets here soon.' Dumbledor turned around to face the old witch who sat in her painting. An owl flew in trough the window and landed on Dumbledor's shoulder making him jump. 'Ah there you are.' Dumbledor took the owl from his shoulder and untied the parchment from its leg. He let the owl fly off and it landed on the desk. Dumbledor took out his wand and taped the piece of parchment and it unfolded so he could read it. A smile spread across Dumbledor's face as the letter ripped itself up and disappeared.

'Good news then professor?' Another painting asked.

'Yes, yes very good news.' Dumbledor took his wand back up and made his way out of his office and down the spiral staircase. When he arrived in the hall al the students were sitting down wondering why their food wasn't served yet. Dumbledor made his way into his seat and turned around so he could face the students. He remembered that last night he had to speak to four students regarding their certain loss, and now he would have to speak to the whole school about it.

'Sir is everything alright?' Professor McGonagall whispered to Dumbledor.

'Yes dear, Hobbs contacted me just a few minutes ago, he says everything went according to plan.' Dumbledor whispered back before he cleared his thought.

'Good, good.' McGonagall sat back down and looked up as Dumbledor began his speech.

'As some of you may have heard, last night there was a tragic accident, one of our students went for a little stroll through the forbidden forest, as she was walking through the forest she was attacked by some savage beasts, the poor girl did not survive her attack and I am very sad to say that she did not come back, today we take a couple of minutes to remember this young lady, some of you may know her as Kate Potter, we shall remember her as an adventurous and brave girl, and if any of you need to talk feel free to visit me in my office. Now don't let me keep you form your breakfast. Enjoy your meal' his voice echoed through the silent hall and as he finished it was filled with whispers, Sophie was sitting next to Remus crying on his shoulder as he held her tight to him. Sirius stabbed his food angry at himself that he couldn't do anything to bring her back. And Peter, well Peter just sat there enjoying his meal. He hadn't been terribly close to Kate, she didn't pay much attention to him and him to her. they didn't hate each other they just never got around to talking.