Chapter Thirteen

Everyone turned to stare at Audrey, and then at Voldemort's astonished face. Time seemed to stand still as Voldemort started to shake and everyone else looked at Audrey and wondered why she instilled such fear in this powerful wizard.

Breaking the silence was Wormtail, who came crashing through the woods, pushing a thin, disheveled woman in front of him. The woman spotted Audrey, screaming, "Audrey! Voldemort! No!" She tried to break away from Wormtail, but he held her fast.

Audrey looked at the woman and yelled, "Mom!"

Voldemort, coming out of his trance, yelled, "Expelliarmus!" Harry, Hermione, Ron and Audrey's wands flew out of their hands and laded ten feet away to their right. "Don't move!" screamed Voldemort as they lunged for their wands. "Unless you feel like an early death!" Turning to Audrey, "Are you Margaret's daughter?" Audrey nodded. Screaming at her with so much fury that sparks flew out of his wand, "Then why in the heck are you practically a clone of Lily Potter!"

The clearing again fell silent except for Voldemort's loud harsh breathing. Margaret was the first to speak. "She is my daughter, Voldemort."

Screaming in rage, he levitated Margaret off the ground and slammed her down in front of Audrey. Snarling, "We shall see...Bloodlectus!"

Hermione gasped and said, "The spell is used to determine if there are any blood relatives in a group. Anyone who is related to that person will glow purple."

As the group watched, Margaret's purple aura did not spread to anyone else. Smirking triumphantly, Voldemort asked, "Now Margaret, are you willing to tell me who she is?"

Glaring defiantly, she cried, "Not over my dead body!"

"That can be arranged...Crucio!" Audrey screamed and fell to the ground as she watched her supposed mother twitch and scream on the ground.

Audrey could feel her world falling apart. Her mother wasn't her mother, her father wasn't her father. Who was she? Suddenly, she noticed that Voldemort had lifted the spell. Looking up, she saw him standing over her. Staring into her face, he seemed to be lost in it.

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, "Expelliarmus!" Voldemort's wand flew out of his hand and he swore. Then, he called out in some weird language.

All around the group, everything went cold. At least one hundred dementors started swooping down on the five people. Hermione pushed Audrey's wand in her hand. Hermione and Ron were looking extremely pale and faint. Audrey could feel all the happiness leaving her. She started to sink to the ground, but suddenly she saw Harry create a Stag Patronus.

Pushing herself back to her feet, he knew she had to help. She noticed that Hermione and Ron were unconscious. Also, Audrey could see that Harry was fighting a losing battle. She had never created a Patronus herself, but she had to try. Thinking her happiest thought, she screamed, "Expecto Patronum!"

From the tip of her wand, a huge white figure exploded. Staring at it intently, she figured out it was a white stag, exactly like Harry's. Walking up beside Harry, they watched the identical stags drive away the dementors. Before their eyes, the day returned to the clearing. Voldemort, Zina, and Wormtail had vanished. The silence was broken when the Order of the Phoenix rushed in.

Voldemort stood in his hideout with clenched fists. Harry Potter had gotten away...again. Then, he remembered why. The identical stag to Harry's burst out of Audrey's wand. Right before the arrival of the dementors, he was pondering ht idea that she was a long lost cousin...but twins?! His worst suspicions were confirmed when she produced the identical stag.

Voldemort knew he couldn't do anything before he examined this new threat. There was no reason to risk losing his powers again. He would just lay low while he examined this new twist in his plans.

Audrey, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Margaret were hastily transported back to the castle. Nobody asked any questions and when they started to speak, they were shushed and told any talking would be done with Dumbledore.

When the group reached the castle, Harry and Audrey were separated from the rest of the group. Mad-Eye took them to a section of wall and tapped his wand on one of the blocks. A door handle formed and Moody pulled it open. "In you go," he encouraged.

Harry and Audrey walked up a winding set of stairs and then straight into Dumbledore's office. There, Dumbledore was waiting, pacing back and forth behind his desk. The minute he spotted them, he gestured them into the chairs in front of him. "You've been through quite a day, but can you tell me what happened?"

Going one at a time, they each told it from their perspective. Harry asked why Audrey's Patronus was the same and Audrey asked if her mother was her mother and why she looked like Lily Potter.

Dumbledore sighed, "I'm afraid I just can't answer your questions outright...The answer begins the day you both were born..." Audrey and Harry glanced at each other. Neither of them had the faintest idea what conclusion Dumbledore would come to.

"Harry...Audrey," he continued, "You were born on the last day of July to James and Lily Potter." They stared at him for a few seconds before they figured out the meaning.

Audrey found her voice first, "What?! Are you implying we're brother and sister?!"

Gravely, Dumbledore continued, "More than that...You're twins—"He held up his hand to keep them quiet. "Yes, you are twins...Audrey, Voldemort mistook you for Lily because you're a spitting image of you mother." Harry looked more closely at Audrey, his eyes becoming moist.

Dumbledore then explained that he Potters decided to send Audrey to America just in case the rest of the family was killed by Voldemort. It was the perfect solution since Margaret had just turned in Voldemort's most trusted advisor. The plan backfired when Voldemort found out that Margaret lived in America while recruiting followers.

"So, Audrey, it was decided that you would come to England. We felt fairly sure that no one would recognize you because there was a cloaking spell that was placed over you." Dumbledore sighed, "I was proved wrong when Professor Snape recognized you...I should have seen for myself...Your eyes are exactly the same. Then, I knew that Voldemort must never see your face. As I expected, he recognized your resemblance, immediately. I was afraid that he would kill you before asking questions. Voldemort didn't this time, but there will be no second chances. Now, to your question about the Patronus, Harry. They are identical because you are twins. I'm afraid that's probably what solidified Voldemort's suspicion...Also, I don't think either of you know, but Audrey, I know that you can see into Voldemort's mind just like Harry. That is also because you are twins. Continue to practice Occulmency." Dumbledore paused, "Is there anything else you would like to ask?"

"Yes," Audrey queried, "Where am I going to spend the summer? With Harry's Aunt and Uncle?"

Dumbledore chuckled, "No, I don't think his Aunt and Uncle would want to learn that Harry has a twin. Lily's protection does not work on you anyway. No, Audrey, you will stay at Grimmauld Place with your mother."

Glumly, Audrey countered, "She's not my mother."

Looking stern, Dumbledore said, "Margaret has been your mother for the sixteen years of your life. It may not be by blood, but she loves you like it is." Audrey was forced to look away from his piercing eyes.

After a moment of silence, Harry asked, "Why did Audrey's and my wand react the same between Voldemort's and my wand?"

"I wondered when you were going to ask that. Audrey's wand also has one of Fawkes' tail feathers. I was curious to see whether she was compatible with the wand. And, since we are here discussing this, she is."

Dumbledore ran his hand over his beard. "I ask you to tell nobody of this meeting...Yes, I know Ron and Hermione will be privy to this. But no one else. I would like to keep it a secret for a while longer." He rose from his chair signaling the end of their conversation. "Head down to Madam Pomfrey before she comes looking for you."

The end of year feast passed in daze for the foursome. Hermione and Ron were told about everything that Harry and Audrey had learned. It did come as quite a shock that Audrey and Harry were twins. Still, because they had become such good friends, they took it in stride.

Audrey could barely believe all the excitement one year could bring. Just a short twelve months before she was living a carefree life in America. Now, her life was in danger! Her father and grandmother were dead and her mother wasn't even her real mother! To top it all off, Harry Potter was her twin brother! 'Well,' Audrey thought, 'I wonder what the next year will bring.'

The End

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