Chapter 28
"Alana? Alana?" Seamus said as Justin and him were trying to get her attention.
"Oh I'm sorry, you want to do that step again?" Alana said to Justin.
"Are you ok?" Justin answered.
"Yea" Alana lied.
"For the last two days you been on edge" Seamus said as Justin nudged him.
"It's just stress" Alana said forcing a smile on her face as Bowen flew over to her. "Hello Bowen" Alana said as she grabbed her letters.
"We're getting some water. Take it easy for five minutes please" Justin said as him and Seamus walked away.
Alana watched them walk away and opened a letter from Becky and grandfather. She noticed another no return address. Alana took a deep breath and opened the letter.
"Potter is not going to save you this time," the letter read as it showed a picture of her and Harry in Umbridge's office.
"Who is doing this?" Alana said out loud as Justin and Seamus walked back.
"Got anything good, Money from grandfather" Seamus said. Alana closed the letter and looked down.
"Alana?" Seamus said.
"Oh, I'm not feeling very well, do you mind practicing without me Justin" Alana asked.
"Yea don't worry about it" Justin said as he touched her shoulder.
"Talk to me later" Justin said as Alana got up from the bench and walked away.
"I will," She said miserably walking back to the dormitory.
"Hey Justin, Seamus" Hermonine said as she was walking with Ron, and Harry.
"Hey" Justin said turning off wizard wireless.
"I'll have to get to class, see you all at dinner" Seamus said grabbing his book bag.
"Bye, we need to get going too" Hermonine said to Ron and Harry.
"Harry wait I have to talk to you" Justin said as Ron and Hermonine walked ahead.
"Yea" Harry said.
"Look there's something wrong with Alana, I don't know what it is, she's been like this for two days" Justin began to say.
"I noticed it too," Harry said.
"Well what is it exactly? She's been checking her mail a lot too. Her owl came five times to bring mail over the last two days" Justin said. "Maybe you can get it out of her" he added.
"Maybe you should try again," Harry said trying to avoid her as he promised himself.
"You need to talk to her, she likes you" Justin said as Harry began to walk away.
"What?" Harry said,
"She never was this close to a guy in Salem. And maybe it's none of my business but I think you like her too" Justin said knowing Harry got the message.
"Hey" Alana said walking into the common room.
"Hey" Ron and Hermonine said looking over at Harry. Alana walked over to the sink and tried to pour herself a glass of water.
"Damn it!" she screamed as the glass broke.
"I'll help" Harry said noticing Alana's bag was opened.
"No I got it Harry" Alana said trying to zip up her bag. As she knelt down the letters fell out of the bag.
"Let me help you" Harry said noticing one of the letters written in blood. "What's this?" Harry said as he read one.
"Who is sending you this?" Harry said angrily realizing what's been bothering her.
"I don't know!" Alana yelled back.
"The both of you calm down," Hermonine said.
"When did you get these letters?" Ron said as they laid them out on the table.
"Two days ago after that meeting with grandmother" Alana said.
"They were sending them to my home in America where my grandmother lives" Alana said tearing up.
"No return address" Harry said calming down for Alana's sake.
"It has to be Umbridge she's having meetings with my grandmother, she is the only one who could have gotten that picture of me" Alana said.
"Someone could have been following you" Harry said.
"That's just great" Alana said sarcastically as she kicked the sofa.
"The fundraiser is in two days and I said I'll be there. I'll be there to protect you" Harry said firmly remembering what Justin said to him.
"I can take care of myself" Alana began to say.
"Then you shouldn't have a problem with me going" Harry said cutting her off.
"Well all be there," Ron said as Hermonine nodded. Alana uncrossed her arms and sighed.
"You have 50 million things to do anyway let us handle it" Hermonine said throwing a pillow in Alana's direction.
"Don't remind me," Alana said as she started to laugh. "Thanks you guys' Alana said.
"Your welcome" Harry said as they looked at each other.
Chapter 29
"Welcome to the E.D. relief fund benefit" Alana said happily as witches and wizards entered Hogsmade.
"You look great" Padma said walking in with her sister.
"That robe is wicked" Lavender Brown said.
"Thank you, remember we have to meet up 30 minutes before show time" Alana said as they nodded. "Welcome to the E.D. relief fund benefit" Alana said happily as she tried to look for Harry.
"She looks beautiful," Harry said in his invisibility cloak. Alana was wearing a sporty robe similar to the Quidditch uniforms but was more fitting for a young women's body.
"Where is he?" Alana said out loud as Harry heard it.
"Who are you looking for?" Hermonine asked.
"Harry, I mean he said he'll be here" Alana began to say as Harry walked behind her.
"And here I am" Harry said coming out of the cloak.
"Ah! Don't do that please" Alana said as Harry laughed.
"Sorry I thought you knew about my father's cloak" Harry said as Alana got a better look at it.
She sighed and turned back around. "Welcome to the E.D. relief fund benefit" Alana said as a witch walked by.
"How are you feeling" Harry said as he was standing behind her.
"Never better" Alana said forcing a smile.
"Welcome to the E.D. relief fund benefit" Harry said imitating Alana.
"You have to be cheerful!" Alana said laughing.
"That's more like it" Harry said as Alana realized he was trying to cheer her up. She smiled and turned around again.
"Dance club is performing again?" Harry asked.
Alana nodded as Harry tapped her left shoulder. "Roserto" Harry said as a dozen of white roses appeared on Alana's lap.
"Oh thank you" Alana said.
"How cute" Pansy said as her and Millicent walked into Hosgmade.
"Yea Malfoy will never do that," Alana said as Harry laughed.
"He had important stuff to take care of," Pansy said as she raised her eyebrow.
"The roses are for luck, I doubt you guys need it" Harry said.
"Thank you Harry, for everything" Alana said as her grandmother walked towards her.
"Alana, my dear you look lovely" Ella said.
"Grandmother these are my friends Hermonine Granger and Harry Potter" Alana said.
"How do you do?" Ella said smiling as she shook their hand.
"Nice to meet you" Harry said feeling nervous.
"Ella, how are you?" Umbridge said walking towards them. Alana looked over at Harry.
"Delores, you look lovely" Ella said.
"Well I see you met some of the Gryffindors" Umbridge said staring at Harry and Hermonine.
"Yes" Ella said. "
Why don't we take a walk and look around the festival?" Umbridge said as they walked away.
"I don't want that woman near my grandmother" Alana began to say.
"I won't be far behind" Harry said as he walked over near a tent and wrapped himself at his invisibility cloak.
"Harry wont let anything happen to your grandmother" Hermonine said touching her shoulder.
"I know" Alana said worrying about him now.
"So Alana hasn't talked about her friends at Hogwarts?" Umbridge said as Harry was following her.
"No, just that their nice, John really wants her to come home so I think that's holding her back from talking about them" Ella said as Harry saw Umbridge make a face of disappointment.
"Would you mind covering for me I just need to get change before the meeting" Alana said to another model.
"Sure" the model said as Alana walked into a tent.
"Here we are," she said holding a white tank top and sparkly black pants.
"Not bad at all" she thought looking at herself in the mirror as a scratchy noise startled her.
"Who's there?" Alana yelled taking out her wand.
"Only Dobby" Dobby said coming in.
"Don't scare me like that not today Dobby" Alana said giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"They won't see this coming" A voice said watching Alana.
"You look crazy" Justin said to Alana as she fixed her black beret.
"So do the rest of you guys," Alana said at the dance clubs matching outfits.
"You better now?" Justin asked.
"I'm getting there," Alana said as she saw Umbridge and her grandmother taking a seat.
"Where's Harry?" she thought hoping he didn't get caught.
"Come on Alana" Padma said, as the performance was about to start.
"Welcome to the entertainment section of this event, the students of Hogwarts have put together a little song and dance number courtesy of the choir and dance clubs" Ella said as the audience clapped. Harry took off the cloak and walked next to Hermonine who finished seating people.
"Did you find anything?" she asked.
"No, she was trying to get Mrs.Deerr to talk about Alana's time at Hogwarts. She isn't a naïve old woman she knows Umbridge is up to no good," Harry said as he saw a few students wearing black berets with sparkling pants to match.
"Let me present big spender presented by Hogwarts" Ella Deerr said happily as she left the stage.
A trumpet played by Neville was introduced as a setting of a nightclub appeared on stage. A drum played by a slytherin girl followed as dancers appeared on stage. Students wearing the black berets with sparkling pants walked towards the crowd.
"Hey fella can I talk to you for a sec?" Padma said to one of the tables.
"What the harm in a little talk" Lavender Brown said walking pass Professor Dumbledore.
"Hey good-looking I like your hair" Justin said pointing at Umbridge as some students laughed.
"You speak French?" Michael said to Cho as he walked on stage.
"You wanna tango it takes two to tango" Parvarti said standing next to her sister.
"Oh your so tall!" Alana said to Harry who blushed.
"Let's have some fun," Lisa said as the choir appeared on stage wearing the same costumes.
"Shh" the group said as a piano played and the choir started to sing.
"Hey big spender!" the students cried as the dance club left the stage collecting donations for the fund a few minutes later. Alana frowned as Colin walked passed Pansy and Goyle because he tripped moments later. Alana walked passed them doing a turn causing a glass of pumpkin juice to splash on Pansy face.
Alana smiled innocently as she walked back on stage while the performance was ending. Hermonine looked over at Harry,
"You can't take your eyes off her can't you?" she said.
Harry just looked at her. "No need to say anything," Hermonine said grinning as the group posed.
"That was lovely wasn't it, your help can help clubs like the ones shown in Hogwarts. It gives our children a refuge from events they have no control over, please give what you can" Ella said noticing that her message sunk in with a lot of people. "Well let's continue celebrating," she said as the music started again.
"Hi grandmother" Alana said as she hugged her.
"I am very proud of you, so proud of you in fact that I want you to have this" Ella said as she took a gold bracelet out of her purse.
"It's beautiful," Alana said looking at it.
"It was my mother's and her mother's well you get the picture" Ella said looking at the bracelet.
"Shouldn't you give this to Tracy, she's your blood" Alana began to say.
"You're my granddaughter in every sense of the word," Ella said as Alana's eyes began to tear up.
Harry looked over at Alana and her grandmother talking. "Hello Harry" Lupin said taking a seat his table.
"Hi, Remus" Harry said continuing to look over at Alana's direction.
"That was a nice performance," Lupin said noticing where Harry's attention was.
"Very nice" Harry said.
"The performance or Ms.Deerr?" Lupin said jokingly.
"Both, ok more of her" Harry said thinking about his conversations with Justin and Ginny from the last two days.
"Your parents would want you to be happy," Lupin said. "So would I" he added as the walked away.
"Your boyfriend is waiting for you" Ella said to her granddaughter as they looked over at Harry and Lupin talking.
"He's not my boyfriend grandmother" Alana said blushing.
"Some potential maybe?" Ella said. "I, I don't know" Alana said honestly.
"Well I do" Ella said. "
What is it?" Alana asked.
"I rather keep it to myself, enjoy the rest of the event my dear" Ella said walking away.
Alana smiled as she walked up to Harry. "Hey" she said.
"Hey it was, well you were good" Harry said as they hugged each other.
"A hem" Lupin said enjoying the interaction between them.
"Good afternoon professor Lupin" Alana said as she moved a few paces away from Harry.
"Well done, Alana" Lupin said hinting that she didn't need to be so formal
"Thank you" Alana said happily.
"Well I better be off, see you both in class on Monday" Lupin said as he walked away.
"I keep forgetting that he is your friend, more uncle like" Alana began to say.
"Yea, I know, but you don't have to call him that outside of school well if your with me" Harry said as Alana smiled.
"You also forgot that the performance was over an hour ago" Harry said as he looked at her clothes.
"Oh wow, yea let me get back to normal. My clothes are in the other tent" Alana began to say as she felt a rain drop.
"It's starting to rain" Harry said.
"I'll be quick," she said running towards the tent.
"There she is and Potter isn't with her" a voice said as a group started to follow her.
"Things are very quiet" Ron said as he waited with Harry for Alana to get dressed.
"Yea too quiet" Harry said looking around as rain started to pour heavily.
"What's this?" Alana said as she fixed her hair and noticed a note in her bag.
"Scream" Alana read as a group of dark clothed men came from behind hitting Alana on the head. "
What was that?" Ron said as Harry and him heard a scream.
"Secure the area!" Lupin yelled as a few members from the order started to look around.
"Alana!" Harry said as him and Ron ran into the tent.
"Who are you" Alana yelled as one of the dark figures was carrying her.
"You should keep you enemies closer" the figure said giving Alana an Indian burn.
"Ow" Alana yelled.
Alana took out her wand and said "Literaro!" an electric shock hit the back of the figures neck causing Alana to break free and run.
"Get her," one of the figures said.
"It was that person writing the letters I know it" Harry said as Ron and him continued to search.
"That was the costume she was wearing" Ron said picking the hat up.
"There are footsteps," Harry said getting out his cloak.
"I have to keep moving" Alana said hiding behind a trashcan as two hooded figures walked pass her.
"Harry look" Ron said as he noticed the figures looking inside stores.
"Goyle hurry up," Pansy said taking off her hood.
"What if she is on to us," Goyle said.
"Draco won't let that happen," Pansy said as she felt someone looking at her. "Come on the bitch couldn't have gotten far," she said as she put the hood on her head.
"That bastard" Harry said realizing it was Draco who was sending the letters. He heard a trash can fall.
"Maybe that's more of them," Ron said as they started to run.
"Dammit" Alana thought as the trash can fell. She felt someone running behind her. "Come on" she yelled forcing herself to run faster.
"Alana" Harry yelled as he took off the cloak and grabbed her hand.
Alana screamed as Harry turned her around to face him and Ron. "Oh thank goodness," Alana said almost in tears as she gave Harry and Ron a hug.
"It's ok" Harry said caressing her arm.
"Someone or something grabbed me from behind. There had to be five of them," Alana said looking around. Harry and Ron looked down as Harry clenched his fists.
"What is it?" Alana said noticing their demeanor
. Harry and Ron said "nothing".
"Ah, my head still hurts" she said touching the back of her head.
"They hit you" Harry said angrily as he also noticed the burn on Alana's right wrist.
"I'm going to end this" Harry said coldly walking away from Alana and Ron.
"Thank goodness Alana your safe, thank you Harry and Ron" Ella said hugging Alana.
Ron walked over to Hermonine who asked "Who did it?"
"Malfoy, who else" Ron said as Harry heard him.
"Well everyone should be heading back to Hogwarts in the next hour, please don't linger" Dumbledore said as Harry watched Malfoy and his friends walked into the Hog's head. Harry looked over at Alana who was still rubbing her wrist.
"Where's Harry?" Hermonine said concerned.
"Oh no" Alana said remembering Harry's words a few minutes before.
"Hog's head is closed Potter" Draco said.
"You listen to me, you and your friends don't touch Alana again. Don't send her letters, don't go near her. The next time you come near her, you'll regret it." Harry said angrily.
"Or what?" Draco said.
"Stay away from her" Harry said pushing Draco as Alana ran into the inn.
"Yeah! Come on!" Draco said as Pansy tried to hold him back.
"Come on!" Harry said angrily as they started to fight.
Harry pushed Draco to the ground and started kicking his left side.
"No, Harry, don't" Alana screamed.
"Get out of here!" Harry yelled at Alana as Draco pushed Harry to a wall and started punching him. As Harry fell to the ground Pansy threw a glass at the back of his head.
"Harry!" Alana yelled, as Harry didn't get up. Harry groaned a few moments later and pounced on Draco. He started punching the blonde haired Slytherin in the face.
"Stop it" Pansy yelled at Harry as both the young men's faces were cut.
"Harry get off!" Alana yelled trying to break it up.
"I told you to get out of here," Harry said trying to push her away. Alana started to tear up as Ron, Hermonine, Lupin and Hagrid ran in hearing Pansy and Alana's screams.
"Harry get off" Ron said as Lupin was holding Malfoy back.
"This isn't over" Draco said to Alana.
"Don't you dare talk to her" Harry said as he tried to get out of Ron's grasp.
"I don't know exactly what happened but the both of you can be in serious trouble. We are going to leave this room not mentioning what happened on either side" Lupin said disgusted at both of them.
Harry looked at Alana who looked at him with anger in her eyes.
"We're leaving in 30 minutes make the bloody best of it" Hagrid said as they left Hog's Head.
Rain started to pour, "No bloody umbrella" Ron said as him and Hermonine went into Honeyduke's. Draco and Company walked with a group of Slytherins as Lupin and Hagrid looked over at Harry who was standing outside Hog's Head and Alana who was starting to follow Ron and Hermonine.
Alana turned around and walked towards Harry. "What's wrong with you!" Alana yelled angrily as she took some wet hair away from her face.
"I'm heading back to school," Harry said angrily as Alana grabbed his arm.
"You could have killed Malfoy, How am I supposed to feel if you go to Azkaban because of me? Alana said.
"Look, I gave my word to protect you, dammit he wanted to do more than scare you, sending letter's to your house, putting them in your bag" Harry said pointing back at the inn as thunder clapped.
"I don't need a reminder on what he did" Alana began to say.
"I wanted to finish him, he had it coming!" Harry interrupted.
"You can't just burst into places and start beating people up, especially when we don't have evidence!" Alana said surprised at irrational Harry was being.
"Dammit Alana, I told you to get out of there!" Harry said angrily.
"Harry, I'm afraid for you, look at you, you're hurt" Alana said touching a cut that appeared on the top left of his face.
"You don't have to worry about me," Harry said angrily taking her hand away.
"Oh yea, you don't need anyone, what if they need you, Lupin, Hagrid, Ron, Hermonine, me" Alana said angrily wiping a few tears away.
"Don't" Harry began to say.
"Don't worry I'll stop crying in front of the boy who lived" Alana yelled as tears came down her face.
"I just wanted to protect you. I'm all right," Harry said realizing that he scared her.
"No, I couldn't stand it if anything happened to you. (She pulls Harry's face closer to hers) When I saw you laying on that floor, I thought" Alana began to say as they started kissing passionately.
Harry broke the kiss and wiped a few tears away from her eyes. "I, I don't want you to be afraid of me" Harry said as Alana wiped a tear from his eye.
"I'm not," Alana said as she took some of Harry's wet hair away from his face. Harry put his arms around Alana as their foreheads touched. He looked down at Alana who had her arms around his neck.
"Your so beautiful" Harry said as Alana smiled. She gave him a peck on the lips as they continued to hold each other in the rain.