I'm home sick from school, so I can get another chapter or two written today (I hope).

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Usagi wearily trudged back up to the Gryffindor tower. Snape had sent an owl to his father, asking him to come to Hogwarts as soon as he could, and then forbidden Usagi to mention their possible connection to anyone if she didn't want to lose all of Gryffindor's house points.

"Where did you go?" Hermione asked, looking up from Harry and Ron's chess match. "We've been looking all over for you."

Usagi shrugged, and then sat down next to Hermione. She still had the diary clutched in her grasp.

"What's that?" Harry asked, looking up from the game.

Glancing around to make sure the other Weasleys weren't around, Usagi whispered, "It's a diary…" and she explained about the note and the room, omitting the fact that Snape was her possible half-brother.

"And only one other person can get into the room?" Hermione said, skeptically.

"That's what the note said…" Usagi said, suddenly unsure.

"Well, let's go see if we can get in," Ron said decidedly.

"All… all right," Usagi uncertainly agreed. This time, she knew the way on her own, by the same sense which had helped her find Gryffindor tower, and know the passwords.

"I've never seen this before," Hermione said, looking at the statue.

"Me neither," Ron agreed, and Harry nodded.

"Kitty stalks by moonlight," Usagi said, blushing as she realized how ridiculous that would sound.

All three stared in amazement as the statue cracked open, and Usagi stepped in and down a few stairs. She didn't speak, but instead beckoned with one arm. The others followed her.

Ron was stopped halfway down the stairs. "Ouch!" he exclaimed. "There's some sort of wall here."

Hermione, who had been behind him, said, "I guess you just can't get down any further."

Hermione hit an invisible wall on the very last step. She was able to still see the room, and talk to Harry and Usagi, so she said, "Wow, Usagi. This is really pretty!"

Usagi, however, was looking at Harry curiously. He hadn't been stopped, and was now looking over the books that Usagi had discovered.

"We should bring as many of these back as we can," he said. "You should look them all over."

Hermione, too, realized that Harry hadn't been stopped. Turning around and saying, "So what was in this wardrobe again?" noticed the two girls looking at him most peculiarly. Without answering, Usagi walked over to the bed and picked up the note, holding it out for him to read.

His eyes widened as he realized that he was the only person who could enter the room, aside from Usagi. Covering up his shock, he said, "So, should we each carry some of the books?" Usagi nodded, and they split their load into fourths.

"Hermione, could you run these up to Ron, and explain?" Usagi asked with a small smile, holding out the stack of books that Ron was to carry. "Tell him he can go back to the common room if he wants to. It probably is boring up there on his own…"

Nodding, Hermione took the books and dashed up the stairs. When she reappeared, she said, "He's going to stay there. He SAYS he's fine."

Usagi simply handed Hermione her stack of books, which were set down on the step beside her.

"Let's look in this wardrobe," Harry said, opening the doors. Hermione gasped as she saw the beautiful dresses, but Harry only said curiously, "What's in here?" as he took out the shabby box. "You open it, Usagi." He held the box out to her.

Usagi lifted the cover and gasped. Inside the box lay a beautiful tiara.

"Put it on," Hermione encouraged. Usagi did so, and was surprised to find that it fit perfectly.

Ron's voice drifted down the stairs, saying, "Why don't we go back to the common room now? You've been down there for ages!" Harry, laughing, snatched up his stack of books and ran up the stairs.

Usagi turned to Hermione, smiling mischievously. "Should I?" Hermione nodded, so Usagi removed the tiara, took down her hair, and slipped off her robe. She put on one of the many identical dresses, and as she had suspected, it fit perfectly. She also took off her shoes and socks and placed in their stead one of the pairs of slippers. Placing the tiara back on her head, Usagi turned around and faced Hermione.

"What do you think?" Usagi asked, grinning.

"You look exactly like the statue!" Hermione gasped. Usagi only grinned, then cast out her senses to see if there was a mirror located anywhere within the room. There were actually several, all of them set in a golden frame. Usagi stepped in front of one, not noticing the peculiar look Hermione was giving her.

She did look like the statue, only more colourful and life-like. "Should I leave it on?" Usagi asked of Hermione.

"Yes. Harry and Ron are going to faint when they see how much you look like that statue. Really, the resemblance is uncanny!" Hermione didn't mention the major magic she had just seen Usagi do.

Usagi wrapped up her shoes and books in her robe, and joined Hermione on the stairs. Ron's voice drifted down again, even fainter this time. "Will you hurry up?!"

The two girls giggled and took their time ascending the stairs.

"It's about time," Harry said as Hermione appeared at the top. "We've been waiting a…ages," he broke off, staring at Usagi (who was trying hard not to laugh at his and Ron's expressions). She had been standing beside the statue, unknowingly assuming the same stance that it was positioned in.

Harry's eyes flicked between the statue and Usagi several times, then said, "If you were the colour of stone, I wouldn't know which was the statue and which was you!"

"He's right," Ron agreed. No one voiced their confusion about how Harry was the one who could enter the room, but instead headed back to Gryffindor tower.

Usagi, amazingly, only smiled at Fred and George when they looked at her, and walked up to her room, sat down on the bed, and began to read. Hermione poked her head into the room hours later, and said, "Usagi? It's time for the feast. Are you coming?"

Usagi nodded and stood, straightening her dress. She hadn't come across anything that was of direct relation to her, but she had found out something about this Queen Serenity, and a kingdom on the moon.

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Usagi had hardly eaten anything the whole feast, which had drawn a lot of weird looks her way. She also had left after about twenty minutes, to return to her room to… read. The Weasleys, Harry and Hermione were worried about her: first she hardly ate anything, and then she was spending all her spare time reading. This was so unlike Usagi that a confrontation was inevitable.

"Usagi? We need to talk," Ron said one day after breakfast, as she was going up the stairs to her dormitory.

"About what?" Usagi asked. She hadn't been cheerful at all, and dark bags under her eyes showed how little she'd been sleeping recently.

"About your obsession with those books! You've been doing nothing else for the whole holiday, and I doubt you're going to stop once term starts again," Hermione said severely. Being reprimanded for reading by Hermione clearly meant that they were all very worried.

"We know you want to find out about your… your history, but this is going to the extreme. You hardly eat, you hardly sleep, you haven't done anything fun for the past week!" Harry said, a hint of anger in his voice. "What will you do when you have all your roommates back, and you have to revise {A/N: That's how the English say study} for all your classes? You won't have the time nor place to read! You might as well stop reading so often. There's no huge rush for figuring this all out." Harry grimaced inwardly a bit. Who was he to tell her not to be so obsessed with something, when he himself had been wondering about Nicholas Flamel non-stop?

Much to all of their surprise, however, Usagi sighed and said, "I supposed you're right…" a ghost of a smile flitted across her face, "So, who wants to go steal Percy's prefect badge?"

The group all laughed loudly at this, and things were back to normal for a while… as normal as they could be when Usagi's life had changed so drastically again.

Usagi did go back to reading the books, but not as much as she had before. Her normal eating and sleeping habits also returned, and she was doing just as well in her classes as she had before.

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"I'm going home," Usagi announced to her friends in the common room when the list arrived to sign up to stay at Hogwarts for the Easter holiday.

"I am, too," Hermione said.

"So that leaves you and me, Ron" Harry said with a grin to his friend. Harry was excited… now he would be able to return to the strange room on his own. Usagi had only gone back a few times, to return the books she had finished (except for the diary), as well as the clothes that she had worn only once. All those times, however, she had refused an escort, and Harry somehow knew that she would know that he had gone if she was still in the castle. He didn't want to lose her trust and friendship.

The day before the students who were returning home were due to leave, Usagi was summoned to Snape's office. The man from the Leaky Cauldron stood before the fire, back to her. Snape was nowhere in sight.

"Hello," Usagi said.

"I knew you'd find out," the man said, "She was your mother after all…"

"My mother is Ikuko Tsukino," Usagi said stiffly, "And she was not the woman that I have seen in my dreams. Who is she?"

"She was Queen Serenity. I trust you've been reading her books?" the man queried shortly, still not turning around. "Well, she was that queen of the Moon thousands of years ago. She did send her child's spirit and her child's friends' spirits into the future, to be born to other people. She also managed to send herself, although she ended up in a different time, and a completely different person."

"So what does that have to do with me?" Usagi snapped.

"You are the reincarnation of her daughter. You were born to her, but also to the Tsukinos. Technically, Severus is your half-brother, and I your step father."

Usagi stood stock still, shocked. Then, she walked up to the man, and said, "What was she like? Why does everyone seem to know who she was?"

"That, Little Rabbit, will come all in time," the man said, smiling down at her. "Now, why don't you go get packed? Your mother and father won't want their daughter coming home without anything to show from her months at school, will they?"

Usagi nodded, and slowly left the room.

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I'll stop here for now… I'm basically going to skip the second book…. Probably only a chapter or two about it… so, what do you all think? Review and tell me, pleasepleasepleaseplease!

Nina_79934- this is coming out now ;-)

Firefly-chan- it's not too bad… at least it's a way to get money ;-D

~**Rini**~