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The Fourth Potter

By: Emerald May

Chapter 19

Sakura Kinomoto woke up late the next morning, nearly eleven o'clock when she did. She yawned, stretching, in her pink flannel nightgown of course, and glanced at the clock, her jade hues widening. "HOE!!"

She startled some of the other students that were sleeping in as she jumped out of her four-poster bed, and ran to the bathroom. She hurriedly brushed her teeth and washed her face before running back out, and picking out one of the many outfits Tomoyo had packed for her.

As she rummaged through her belongings, she came across a photograph of Syaoran, Meiling, Tomoyo, and her. Her eyes saddened slightly as she gazed at Syaoran's face. It was then that she had realized that none of her friends had sent her an owl. Had they forgotten about her already?

She sighed, and replaced the pink and white framed picture back into her luggage bag, and pulled out an outfit. It was a short, pale pink skirt that came just above her knees, embroidered with white-outlined cherry blossoms. How convenient it was of her. As for her top, a light blue, Chinese styled top, a contribution from Meiling. For a finishing touch, Sakura wore knee high socks, her feet adorned with her black school shoes from Tomoeda, but freshened up by a simple spell. Her honey-auburn colored hair was pulled back into two half-pigtails, the rest of her tiers framing her face.

Sakura turned to the full sized mirror in the girls dormitory, smiling at herself, commenting on the outfit. "Kawaii! Oh Tomoyo-chan. You always know what colors and the type of style is best for me." With that, the young Clow Mistress turned and picked up her Hogwarts messenger school bag, and rushed out of the Gryffindor Tower, and into the corridor, where she began to run to the Great Hall, the soles of her shoes echoing as they hit the ground. A smile on her face, she burst into the Great Hall, where other students who had just risen glanced in her direction. She gave them a look of apology as she proceeded to the Staff Table, with only minutes to spare before it was time for her parents and her to depart to Muggle London.

Lily and James stood up, facing their daughter. Happiness was clearly written upon Lily's face, as this was her first "excursion" with her daughter. "Good morning, Sakura. Are you ready to go?"

Sakura nodded. "Hai! I mean… Yes."

James nodded once and faced his wife. "Alright then. Why don't we go now." He turned and his wife followed, Sakura walking beside her. As James walked ahead, Lily and Sakura began to engage in conversation, started up by Lily.

"Well, Sakura. I guess this is the first time we are to go somewhere together."

Sakura nodded, smiling her kawaii smile of hers to her biological mother. "Yes, it is. Uhm… if you don't mind me asking… On the night I was… uhm, teleported to Japan… how did… well, how did it happen?"

"Oh well, uhm…" Lily looked flustered for a moment, surprised that her daughter had chosen that subject as a topic to discuss. "Well… It is hard to say really. It happened all so fast. You were born during a very unfortunate time period, you see. You-Know-Who was gathering followers at that time, and had come to our house to ask, more like demand, us to join his dark forces. We refused, of course, and he gave us another chance before he was to kill us, saying that you would be most useful to his gaining forces toward the Dark Side, though I have no idea what he had meant by that…"

But of course, Sakura knew exactly why he had said that. It was her destiny, her fate to become the Clow Mistress of the Clow Cards, and with immense power as that, it was no telling what would have happened if he did manage to capture her, and drawn her to the Dark Side. Sakura returned her attention to her mother.

"…he had activated the Killing Curse, also known as Avada Kedavra, first on Harry, but it had backfired on him, and the curse hurtled towards you and You-Know-Who. And then… you were gone… we all though you had been killed in the blast… but… as we know now, you were simply teleported by some magical force to Japan. We had visited your God-father afterwards, and we grieved over the loss of you, of course."

Sakura spoke up. "I have a god-father?"

James, upon hearing this, turned around. "Ah, yes you do have a god-father. His name is Sirius Black, and he is currently in America right now as a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Your "uncle" Remus is in America as well, but his whereabouts are unknown."

Sakura nodded slowly. "Oh…" She glanced up, observing the surroundings around her. They had, amazingly, already passed through Diagon Alley, coming to the heart of Hogsmeade. "Wow, we are here already?"

James nodded, chuckling softly. "Yes, we are. While you and your mother were chit-chatting, I had apparated us from Diagon Alley to here, Hogsmeade. Now. What is the place your friend lives at?"
"Oh, he lives at the Hiiragizawa Manor. We can… apparate there."

Lily glanced up at her husband, and then back at Sakura. "But Sakura, dear, isn't he of the Muggle realm?" Sakura gasped slightly, knowing she could have almost blown the cover of her Card-keeping. "Oh yes, I forgot. He is muggle-born. But from what he has told me, he owns the largest piece of land around, and his manor is more like a mansion. I think he said it was by some mountains…"

At mountains, James perked up. "Ah, I believe I know where we can find some mountains..." In an instant, Sakura, Lily, and James disappeared in a "pop" and reappeared in a meadow of wild flowers, mountains directly behind them, a unusually large mansion in the distance.

Sakura breathed in the scent of the flowers, her face glowing, radiant. "Hoe! This place is beautiful!" Small giggles escaped her pink lips as she danced around a bit, before calming down, and faced her parents formally. "I suppose we can go there now…"

The married couple nodded, and the three of them began the short journey to the Hiiragizawa Manor. Unknowingly, the were being watched, by more than one…

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Eriol Hiiragizawa looked out of a window in his large home, seeing his friend, and in a way, distant daughter, approaching his house, along with her newly found parents. His guardian then knocked softly on his door, and the young face turned to look at her.

"Ah, Nakuru. Come in."

"Eriol-sama, the Clow Mistress and her parents are approaching the manor," Said the teenaged form of Ruby Moon, her "hidden" form, a disguise for her true figure and nature.

"Thank you, Nakuru." He glanced around, his gray-blue hues scanning the room, and just outside to the corridor. "Where is Suppi-chan?"

"I believe he is in the kitchen, enjoying a snack of sliced apples. I have prepared a meal of sandwiches for Sakura-chan. From what you have told me, her parents are not staying, correct?"

Eriol nodded. "Yes… they aren't staying. The rest from Tomoeda are going to arrive soon as well." The half-reincarnation of Clow Reed smiled slightly. "A little… reunion for the Cherry Blossom and… my cute little descendent…"

At that moment, the deep sounding of a bell rang throughout the mansion as Sakura and her parents arrived. Eriol stood up, and allowed Nakuru, who would pose as a guardian and housekeeper, lead the way the grand entrance hall of the Hiiragizawa Manor.

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Sakura had her hands behind her back, swaying gently on her heels. Her biological parents stood behind her, a bit uncertain in this trip. Would it be another trap to steal their daughter away? As Sakura waited for the doors to open, she could feel familiar auras, very familiar in fact, yet couldn't place as to which direction it was being emitted from. Peculiar… She thought. She returned her attention back to the door, in time to see it being flung open, and a female figure grabbing her up in a hug.

"Sakura-chan!" The bubbling voice of Naruru being shouted in Sakura's ear as she hugged her back, her kawaii smile upon her face.

"Nakuru-san! So good to see you after all this time!" She looked behind her, seeing Eriol, and she smiled widely. "Hello Eriol-kun!"

He smiled warmly at her. "Hello Sakura-chan. Hello Mr. and Mrs. Potter." Sakura whirled around, cannot believing that she had left her parents standing there awkwardly.

"Eriol-kun, these are my parents, and these are my friends, Nakuru and Eriol Hiiragizawa."

The married couple nodded their heads. "Hello there, Nakuru and Eriol." The four exchanged shakes, just as they heard yet another voice behind them.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Came the familiar voice of Tomoyo Daidouji ran into her friend's arms, she too grabbing her in a hug. Right behind her were Meiling and Syaoran, and they too joined the hug while Lily, James, Nakuru, and Eriol stood aside.

"My, she does have… affectionate friends. But I am glad she has many to rely upon," Lily whispered to her husband, watching her daughter through her emerald green orbs, lost in the whirl of Japanese talk, which made her just only slightly sad. She was surprised when Sakura's friends said "hello" to her and James, in nearly perfect English.

"Hello, Mr. Potter and Mrs. Potter. I am Tomoyo Daidouji, and this is Meiling and Syaoran Li."

Lily and James just nodded their heads, greeting them back as they turned to their daughter. "Alright, Sakura. We'll leave you to your friends. We will be back in an hour because your mother and I have to aid Madam Hooch in supervising the Quidditch Try-outs, and you are to be there as well." Sakura nodded, waving goodbye to her parents as they walked off into the distant where they could disapparate in secret.

Syaoran saw Sakura, blushing slightly, not able to bring himself up to hug her. Instead, Sakura took no notice to the blush, and simply hugged him and Meiling. "It's so good to see you two!" At this, Syaoran's naturally pale face turned into a deep crimson and Eriol laughed, causing Syaoran to scowl.

"Well, hello there Meiling-chan and my cute little descendent." Syaoran glared at him. "Shut up…"

Eriol laughed gaily, and invited his friends into his home. "Wow, Eriol-kun. You sure have a huge place. Bigger than Tomoyo's even," Said Sakura, awed at the surroundings before her.

As the five friends sat around the living room, Sakura spoke up."Uh… I have a question for you, Tomoyo, Meiling, and Syaoran… How come you guys haven't been writing to me? I mean… I've sent letters, but they are never responded…" She looked down, embarrassed.

Syaoran quirked an eyebrow. "What do you mean? We've sent you tons of letters. You haven't been sending any back." Meiling and Tomoyo nodded in agreement. "Wait… then does that mean that you do not know that Meiling and I are attending a wizardry school now?"

Sakura's eyes widen in amazement. "You are? Wow, what's is the name of your school?"

"Kotabori," The cousins replied simutaneously.

Sakura shrieked a little as she said, "Really? Cool! Then you know that ours school and three others are going to compete against each other in a Quidditch Tournament?"

They nodded. "Yeah. And Syaoran and I are on the same team that will be fighting against yours. Are you in the playing?"

Sakura shook her head. "I am not sure yet. I have to tryout today, in about an hour, when my parents are coming back. Hey, how come you guys didn't get accepted to Hogwarts like I did, and Tomoyo, did you get accepted into a wizardry school?"

Tomoyo glanced up from fiddling with her video camara. "I think I can answer the first question as well as the second. I'm guessing that Sakura got accepted to Hogwarts because she is really a citizen of Great Britain, not to mention that her own flesh and blood attended Hogwarts. Meiling and Syaoran probably went to Kotabori because there isn't a wizardry school in Hong Kong, and because China is a country of communism. And no, I didn't…" She was slightly disappointed, but was happy for her friends. "But it is alright," She smiled her kawaii smile, "Because I can always visit my friends! And besides, I don't have any magical blood in me, remember?" Sakura nodded.

"Yes, I know… but as Kero always said, 'Expect the Unexpected'."

"Yeah. But anyway, back to the letter mystery. We need to find out who or what is keeping the letters from being received," Tomoyo pointed out. They nodded.

Eriol, seeing everyone in ponderment, took heed to voice out his opinions. "Well… I was able to receive your letter, Sakura, about wanting to visit, since I had welcomed you to." Syaoran growled, scowling at his "arch-nemesis". "Maybe letters can't be sent to other wizardry schools?"

Tomoyo shook her head. "I don't think that would be the reason why… because I haven't been receiving any letters either. Maybe someone is preventing the letters to be sent…"

Sakura looked up suddenly, remembering a story Harry told her, an event that had just recently occurred. "Hey… maybe someone is. My biological brother, Harry, told me that some house-elf had the power and ability to keep letters from being received by another. The house-elf, Dobby, was even able to create a barrier to keep Harry and Ron, his best friend, from passing through the wall between Platforms 9 and 10." Tomoyo, Eriol, Meiling, and Syaoran stared at her.

"First off… what is a house-elf? We don't have them at Kotabori… least… I don't think we do." Meiling said.

Sakura blushed slightly. "Oh yeah… right… a house-elf, according to Harry, is sort of like a servant, except it is elf-like and they don't get paid… in fact, they won't except wages in any form."

"So they are like slaves?" A concerned Tomoyo asked, not able to believe it. Sakura could only nod, thinking she sounded a bit like Hermione.

"Hm… maybe someone is doing that, but… then it wouldn't be able to be someone from the wizardry world… but someone that knows the secrets of the Clow Cards," Eriol said to his friends.

Syaoran narrowed his eyes. "You wouldn't happen to be that "someone", now would you…?"

Eriol chuckled, knowing that he was indeed the one that had created "disasters" to help Sakura transform her Clow Cards into the Sakura Cards. "No, Syaoran, for once I am truly innocent in this. But it wouldn't seem likely that it would be someone from the wizardry realm, considering none know about Clow Reed."

Sakura looked down, slightly ashamed. "I am afraid that someone does know about it…"

Meiling looked sharply at her. "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is… that I had to reveal my powers to a friend of mine at Hogwarts. We were concocting a sleeping spell, and we were supposed to enter each other's dreams and record what we had seen. For some reason, Voldemort, the guy who had teleported me to Tomoeda managed to enter as well. In fact, it was more like reality than a dream because he nearly killed us. Yue and Kerberos had combined their powers together to shield my friend and I from being hit by the Killing Curse."

"Oh… Maybe he told someone about it. And if he did, that would not be a good sign on our side," Said Tomoyo. "We will all have to be extra careful, especially you, Sakura." Eriol nodded his agreement.

As Sakura nodded, the doorbell rang. Lily and James had arrived. "Okay, well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys later. I am going to ask my headmaster to allow you, Eriol, Otou-san, and Onii-chan to come to the Quidditch games. It'll be November 8th, but I guess you already know about this from Meiling and Syaoran." Tomoyo nodded, smiling.

"Yeah, I do. Well, guess we'd better get going too. Great getting together again, and able to see each other," Said Meiling.

Eriol and Nakuru showed them to the door, Suppi-chan still in the kitchen, munching on the snack Nakuru had prepared for him. Lily and James were waiting for Sakura.

Sakura and her friends joined up into a group hug, tears brimming her eyes a bit, knowing she wouldn't be able to see them for quite some time, not until November, which was nearly three months off.

"Ah, do not cry, Sakura," Said Syaoran as he wiped her tears away with his thumb. "You are much more prettier when you are smiling-" He broke off, his face turning scarlet as he, in away, confessed his feelings to her. "I, uh, I mean… uh…" Sakura too was blushing, and as always, Tomoyo was filming the cute, not-so-yet couple. Meiling stood beside Tomoyo, her arms crossed, grinning, for she had actually teamed up with Tomoyo to help the two get together, and their effort was slowly living up to its purpose. "KAWAII!"

Lily and James would have sweat-dropped if they were animated, but simply were dazed, thinking their little girl had a boyfriend – and they had never had the chance to see. Sakura and Syaoran turned away quickly, and shouted simultaneously, "TOMOYO!" Syaoran reached over and covered the lenses, growling slightly. Eriol stood of to the side, laughing, thinking at the same time, I wonder how long it will be before the prophecy takes effect…

Seeing that it was nearly time for the Quidditch tryouts, James tapped Sakura on the shoulder. "I'm sorry, Sakura, but we have to go now. You'll have to say good-bye to your friends."

Sakura nodded, and turned to Syaoran. "Well, ah, guess I'll see you later." She hesitated before she hugged him good-bye, and turned to her other friends. "See you later, Meiling, Tomoyo, and Eriol." The Clow Mistress then turned and began to walk to her parents, waving good-bye to her friends. "Ja'ne! See you guys later, in two months!"

"Ja'ne, Sakura-chan!" They waved, and Syaoran watched Sakura walk away with her parents, and he began to ponder about Sakura's 'friend' as Tomoyo, Meiling, and him bid their farewells to Eriol, and apparated back to Tomoeda first to drop Tomoyo off, and then back to Kotabori. I wonder who this friend of Sakura's is…

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Author's Note: Kon'wa!! I finished chapter 19 sooner than expected. Woo! Wow… and this chapter is far by the longest than the rest… I think. ^_^ And I got reviews! Hope I gets lots more for a chapter I worked hard on! Hm… Lots of things going on, ne? Quidditch Tournaments, the mystery of the ghosts, mystery as to why the letters aren't being received, and Meiling and Syaoran being excepted to a wizardry school. I decided to allow them to go to a wizardry school, since everyone was kinda disappointed, but I made Tomoyo stay in Tomoeda because she doesn't even have magic in the manga anyway. Heh. ^_^ Ooh, bet y'all are waiting to see the time when the Quidditch Tournament begins, and when Syaoran and Sakura battle against each other. (Well no duh that Sakura is to compete against Syaoran. What did you expect? If Gryffindor wasn't to be the chosen team to represent Hogwarts, the Quidditch Tournament would be pointless, now wouldn't it? *realizes that author just gave away a hint in the future chapters.* Aww man… Hehe, just kidding. I was gonna tell you that anyway. ^_^) Okay, if you want me to add you to "The Fourth Potter" mailing list, just simply include your e-mail address within your review. (Ah, review, review, my life. XD!) Well, hope you all enjoyed this "episode" of, "The Fourth Potter". There will be much more to come with this story. Till the next update, bye!!! And as always, READ AND REVIEW!!! (review, review, review.. *goes on for several hours*)

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