Changes
by NicolaPadfoot
Authors Note- Hello again! Sorry this chapter is a lil bit short, it's packed with action though, so I thought you wouldn't mind it being a bit less than usual. Thank you to everybody who reviewed, as you well know you are GREATLY appreciated, and that is why your name will show up just below this authors note! Kiss Kiss !! xx
Princess Gin-Gin- Hee hee, i don't like that name either, lol. Anyway, you'll find out soon enough who our secret admirer is, maybe in another 4 chapters i reckon, but, if ur clever you'll guess before that. My clues are really easy, i'm not much of a suspense writer, i can't make people guess i'm too generous with clues. Anyway's thanx 4 the reviews, see you later!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shayla- oooh! Threats now eh? Well, they might get together, they might not, depends wot mood I'm in. Heres a tip, the more reviews i get, the better my mood is, lol. Thankenyou for the review, it is greatly appreciated, as i have undoubtedly said before! Love ya lots like jelly tots!!!!!! xxxxx
Rini....no....Chaos Child....no...Rini- Well, i shudn't think that all that junk would clear a sore throat, you know wot does tho? Hunny, believe me is works, specially if you need to be able to talk and you cant. You know the Corisant thing. The name just popped into my head, and now i know where it's bloody well from!! Star Wars!! I was wonderin where the imaginative names were coming from, and yes, i do like star wars. I haven't seen the new film yet tho, im going to see it with my daddy soon, lol. He's a trekky, so he likes stuff like star wars. Bless....anyway, see you later!!!!! mwuuuuaaaahhhh!!!! xxxxx
Mrs Grim- I agree, Serena is a nice girl bless her. Sirius is a bit of a .....hmm...prat...sometimes. But hey, that's woa lads are like isn't it? I am soooo glad you got to go to the Prom with him!!! Did he kiss you? Were you like Lily and James, ohh so in love/lust (or in their case, most of the time hate)? Sorry i'm being nosy, lol. You will find out who the moon stone is from, don't worry, you strike me as clever, you'll guess. Ohh yeah he MIGHT say he likes her sometime soon, it aint a definite!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! cough...sorry...cough. I also checked out ur web site, it's really cool, i wish i cud do something like that but no, not enough time, and i cant be arsed. See you later chikedee!!!!!!! Thanks!!!
Faye- Hiya hun, how did you do in ur Physics, i got the highest!!!!!! lol Mr Smith was sooooooo shocked, he was such a cheeky git as well, he goes to me, who did you cheat off? Cheeky beggar, he was jokin tho, after all you cant cheat, your almost in bloody isolation wen you do the exam. I beat all the geeks, hahaha. It proves it tho, just because u wear make up 4 school and av a laugh in classes doesn't mean ur thick or ditzy. Anyway, thanks 4 reviewin, see you hunny!
Heraclas- Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations Mrs Vice President! Im proud of you, wot sorta powers do you have? Can you change lunch food and stuff, hee hee. Organise dances?? Dares you to do a Harry Potter themed school dance, that would be fun. The party was great, except the fact that this lad was flirtin with me and tryin to kiss me, but my best friend is in love with him....oops!! Needless to say i stayed well away (rhyming) He's quite nice but i cud never do that to my friend, I've never had a twix cookie, ive had a twix though! They might be the same thing tho, lol. You know who i love at the moment, Michelle Branch, she is soooo good, Anyway what the hell is teacher appreciation week, and why i ask, is there no student appreciation week, that would make more sense. After all i think that out of about the 70 teachers in my school i only respect about 5 of them. The rest are all naggy and think they know more than we do, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for reviewin then i loved it wen you do!!!!! You're a great reviewer!!!! kiss kiss kiss kiss!!!!!
Izzy- I love your review, hee hee, i posted as soon as i could for you! You av to review this chapter as well, hee hee. I hope you used copy and paste for all of that cos if you didn't it would have taken ages and ages! I'm glad you really like my story,it's nice to be appreciated, lol. Thankyou for reviewing, twice I will look forward to hearing from you again, love ya loads and loads!
Disclaimer- see previous chapters
10. Professor Albus Dumbledore
The next day after her tiring lessons, Serena resolved that she would go and visit Professor Dumbledore to ask him if she could tell her friends the truth. So at four o'clock she went to James to ask him where the headmasters office was, after all, he had been there enough times.
"It's on the fourth floor, the gargoyle by the green bookcase. The password is humbugs. Why do you need to go there?" James asked, as though he thought it highly peculiar.
"Ohh....er...I need to ask him something about the....holidays...erm you know, whether I'll have to go to the orphanage," James had a suspicious look on his face. Serena's stuttering had given her away. She sensed this and walked quickly away, leaving James looking puzzled.
As she travelled to the fourth floor, many thoughts went through her head. What would she do if Professor Dumbledore wouldn't let her tell her friends? She would feel guilty forever. Then again, what would she do if Professor Dumbledore agreed to her telling her friends? The prospect of this was much more daunting. She had been through so many ways of telling her friends in her head. Whether she should tell them separately or all together. Whether she would be forceful or whether she should be polite and remorseful. She was unsure on the way it would come out best.
Before she knew it though, Serena didn't have anymore time to think because she was at the ugly gargoyle next to the ancient green bookcase. As she said the password the Gargoyle snarled and sprang to life, jumping aside where the wall behind him parted to reveal a moving staircase. Serena looked on in amazement until the gargoyle made an impatient noise, hurrying her along onto the staircase. Serena stood on the stair nervously as it took her to the top and to an oak door with a brass Griffon knocker. Serena tapped on the door nervously and waited for any signs of life from behind the door.
"It's open" said a voice from inside the office, and to Serena's surprise the door creaked slowly open by it's own accord. "I really must get that creaking sorted," said the voice. It was Albus Dumbledore.
"Erm...hello Professor Dumbledore," she said nervously, "I'm sorry to intrude like this Sir-"
"Oh no! I love receiving visitors, however unexpected they may be. Why just the other day I had James and Sirius in here, but maybe that wasn't exactly unexpected. They seem to treat my office as a second home..."
"It isn't hard to understand why Sir, this office is beautiful!" Serena wasn't lying either. Every part of the office was interesting, and Serena couldn't help letting her eyes wander.
"Well in that case, maybe I should make this place look like a prison cell, they probably wouldn't get into as much trouble then. But, I doubt it, I think mischief is in their blood. Anyway Serena, we are getting side-tracked, what is it that you wanted to come and speak to me about?" he said kindly, smiling at Serena with that familiar twinkle in his eye.
"Well you see, it's about Sirius, James and Peter. I have become closer to all of them just recently and I know I trust them all...and I want to be completely honest with them. Like I am with Remus and Lily. I don't think I can live a lie any longer. I'm an honest person, I can't keep on lying to people who obviously trust me. I want to tell them who I am." Serena said this with her heart, she was sick of having to lie to some of her closest friends, she couldn't do it anymore. Dumbledore smiled at her, his eyes twinkling even brighter than usual.
"Well Serena, if that is what you feel you must do, then I shall be behind you all the way. As I have said to you a thousand times, you should not be ashamed of your family. Your mother was a marvellous woman, clever, beautiful, musically talented" Dumbledore grinned, "Your father was also brilliant, until he was taken over by the dark side. The evil that your father possesses is not in your blood. It has nothing to do with you, therefore you should have nothing to be ashamed of. You are you Serena, you are not your mother or father, you are you."
"Thank you Professor Dumbledore, I suppose that's the easy bit over with, now I have to go and tell them," Serena said heavily, "I really don't know the best way to put it Sir. Whatever I do, they aren't going to be happy. What if they don't understand and they never talk to me again?"
"Well, if any of them react badly, give them some time to sort out their feelings. If they don't sort them out and keep on reacting badly, then they were never real friends in the first place. They will understand though Serena. Some may take a bit longer than others, but they all will, eventually."
"Thank you Professor. I'll go now, I might as well get it over with," with that she walked over to the large oak door.
"And Serena," Professor Dumbledore said to her, "If ever you need advice, do come and see me. It's nice to see pupils who aren't in trouble sometimes."
Serena smiled and opened the door to the moving staircase, which was now going the opposite way. The journey back to the Common Room had never been so short for Serena, it went faster than she would have liked. Soon enough she was murmuring 'Golden talons' to the Fat Lady, who looked at her with concern.
"Are you okay, my dear? You're looking a little pale if you don't mind me saying. Is there anything I can help you with dear?" She was a sweetie really, she cared for the pupils in Gryffindor.
"I don't think you can, but thanks for offering."
Serena stepped into the Common Room to a familiar scene. All the first years were running around looking to cause havoc on everyone and everything. The second years were having a loud game of exploding snap with the third years, the forth year girls were looking on at the fifth year boys with dreamy expressions on their faces. Serena even caught one looking at Peter, she smiled as the thought of Peter on a date came into her head. The sixth and seventh year pupils were mainly doing homework, looking through large, dusty text books and then slamming them shut in anger when, what they were looking for was obviously not in that book. The fifth years were all sat in a corner laughing at some funny joke that Sirius had told them, Serena marched proudly over, giving a forth year girl who was staring at Sirius with puppy eyes a dirty look.
"Er...could I speak to Sirius, James, Lily, Remus and Peter alone please?" she asked the other girls and Lucas. They all nodded and left the corner to sit in another. "Right, now I have something to tell you all, well...Lily and Remus already know, but I think they should be here too."
"Since the beginning of this year we've all become really good friends. Before that, I only had Lily and Remus, so that's why they knew. Right, back to what I was going to say. I'm not who you think I am...maybe that wasn't the best way to put it, but I'm not. It's about my family, namely my father. You know my family are dead? Well they're not...look...this is too hard to explain!" Lily and Remus gave Serena a look of pity. This wasn't going how she would have liked it to. Why did nothing go right in her life? "As I was saying, it's about my father. He's alive."
"Wow Serena! That's amazing! When did you find out? Are you going to live with him?" said Peter, James and Sirius seemed to be genuinely excited for Serena. Serena's heart gave a twist of pain. They didn't understand.
"Well...I've known since I was child that he wasn't dead. You see, he killed my mother," said Serena looking down at her feet.
Sirius looked at her with a puzzled face, "But I thought Lord Voldemort (Peter flinched) killed your mother, you told us he did!"
"And I wasn't lying, you see, Lord Voldemort did kill my mother, and so did my father, because they are one. Lord Voldemort is my father."
