Chapter 13

Gwynny gazed out the window in the Gryffindor Tower, looking down on the snowy grounds below her. She sniffed slightly. Emrys moved inside her robes.

What issss the matter, Maer? He asked.

I'm lonely. And I miss my parents. Gwynny whispered.

Ahh, yessss, I can underssstand that. Talk to me, Maer, I shall be here for you.

About what?

Anything.

No, not tonight. I don't feel like talking.

Very well.

They were silent for a while, then Gwynny spoke up.

I'm glad that I've got you at least. She said to Emrys, I don't know what I'd do if I were here alone.

I am glad I am in your company too. Emrys replied.

"Ginny? What are you doing? Who are you talking to?" Gwynny's father's voice asked. Gwynny turned around, and watched in horror, as Harry took off his invisibility cloak.

"Da – I mean, Harry?" Gwynny croaked. He nodded, and frowned.

"Yes, it's me." He said. "Who are you talking to? And why are you saying you're here alone?"

"I had a fight with Leslie, Harry." Gwynny said coolly. "Even you, who ignores me as though I am no more than a spot on the wall should see that." Her father blushed.

"What about your other friends? What about Colin Creevey?" He asked.

"All he wants to do is talk about you." Gwynny lied smoothly. She knew that Colin had a bit of a crush on her mother, but it made her nauseous.

"Oh." Harry, as she now thought of him, paused. "Well, who were you talking to?"

"My best friend."

"Your best friend? But you were speaking parseltongue. And how could you have been? There's no one here but you and me."

"That's what you think. Who says he isn't under an invisibility cloak, like that wonderful gift of your father's?" Harry flushed again, then looked suspicious.

"How did you know it was my Dad's?" He asked.

"I listen, Harry. You and the other two musketeers aren't exactly quiet, you know."

"Oh." Harry replied. "Well…I guess I'll see you later then."

"If you do, I should be very surprised." Gwynny said shortly, and then smiled. "Sorry, I'm really tired, but I shouldn't be taking this out on you. Good night." She hugged him, and walked upstairs to the dorm, not missing the blush on his cheeks.

~*~

Kati knocked on her parent's door, and her Dad answered.

"Hi, Kati-bee." He said, smiling tiredly. Kati smiled back, and hugged him.

"Hi, Daddy." She said, looking at him in concern, her clear green eyes so much like both his, and her sister Gwynny's. "Can I come in? I need to talk to Mum."

"Off you go, then, she's in the lounge, looking through photos." Kati nodded, and walked into the lounge room of their extensive suite.

"Hi, Mum." She said, sitting down. Her mother looked up, and smiled.

"Hey, sweetheart. I'm just looking through these old photos. Look, here's one of us at a picnic." She pointed. Kati had a good look at the picture. There were her and Ron, dunking each other in the small lake near where they'd lived back when they were the Wesley's (they'd been on vacation), there were Mum and Dad, smiling fondly at each other, both looking as though they were the only ones there. Gwynny wasn't in the picture, and Kati wondered why, then she realised that the picture was clear, not unfocused, totally unlike those on either side, in which Gwynny featured. This one had obviously been taken by Gwynny, and that was proved, in the next picture, which was exactly the same, except for one thing. As Ron ducked Kati, Gwynny darted into the picture, and almost tripped over a twig, trying to be back in her place before the pictures were all used up. Kati remembered that she'd angled the camera so it caught all of them. She'd set it on auto-shoot, so it just kept taking pictures. Kati grinned, and turned the page. On this page was a picture of Gwynny, just after she'd been born, still slightly red, cooing, and smiling up at the camera. Even then, the newborn blue irises had a tint of green. This album was compiled of all of Kati's Mum's favourite photos. She turned the page over, and saw a photo of her parent's wedding day; there they all were, dressed up in their wedding finery, smiling. Kati watched, as her mother's hand drifted to her stomach, as if she already realised what was happening inside her. Kati looked up, and her mother smiled.

"It was that night that I realised I was pregnant." She said, looking at the picture fondly. "Here, look, this is a picture of me with Harry in his 7th year." Kati looked, and saw her parents' familiar features, a bit younger, yes, but there all the same. She turned the page, and saw an unfamiliar girl. Yes, she looked like her mother, but she held herself differently, smiled differently. Her mannerisms were so different from her mother's. There was an innate grace in the girl, as she turned around, and smiled, that Mum didn't have.

"Who's this?" Kati asked, pointing. As she watched, an emerald snake darted out of the girl's robes, and licked at her ear. The girl laughed, and pushed the snake away gently. She blinked, and smiled directly into the camera, smiling at Kati. Kati gasped, and dropped the book. It was Gwynny!!!

~Preview of Chapter 14~

"Are you sure?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Kati and Danni sternly. "If you're wrong, we could bring the wrong girl to the future." Kati nodded firmly.

"I'm sure." She said.

Hi!!! 'Tis my 16th birthday today!!!! Yay!!! Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Ash…*stops* Ahem. Sorry about that. SO…as a birthday present to me, and to all of you, I've finished the story!!! That's right, all 19 chapters of it!!!! Be proud, I've spent a LOT of time writing this…(my best friend says I have no life, and she's probably write.) But I shouldn't have told you that, I should NOT have told you that. Oops, sorry again, too much birthday cake. Sugar screws with my brain. Have a happy 25th of September everyone!