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Into the Shadows
Written by: Miss Kaitlynn Nicole and Miss Anna Marie
(Last names not provided for privacy)
Published with permission.
Chapter 1: The Cornsparrow Ball
"You shall work for me now my daughter," Voldemort said threateningly to his daughter.
"Yeah, like I would work for you," Leah said sarcastically to her father.
"NEVER DISOBEY ME! Crucio!" Voldemort thundered with anger. Her eyes widened as she screamed and writhed in pain.
Harry woke with a start. 'What was that about? Who was that girl? What was her name again? Umm, um, Leah! Yeah that's it! Leah. Maybe I should write to Dumbledore.' Harry lay there in bed thinking of his strange dream.
Reluctantly, he got up and quickly wrote letters to Dumbledore, Hermione, and Ron about his very strange dream. "HARRY! Get into this kitchen immediately! Me, Vernon, and my Dudderkins need food!" Petunia yelled forcefully.
"Ahh b." Harry stopped in mid sentence. There standing below his window was a black cloaked person. Slowly, he over and looked down.
"Ahh. Harry Potter." The black figure sighed and floated to his window. "Harry Potter, you have a mission. Leah Riddle requests your presence at the Cornsparrow Ball. Do you accept?"
"Sure," Harry replied.
"She doesn't know you're coming. She thinks she's a mere muggle but she is the most powerful witch of all time I want you to be friends with her and teach her magic. The Ministry will reject this teaching but do it anyhow. Understand?"
"I guess," Harry said slowly.
"Come with me." The figure grabbed Harry and that's when Harry realized the figure was female. Her nails were painted!
"Who are you?" Harry asked.
"Taelia. Hold tight!" she answered.
"This reminds me of Peter Pan," Harry added.
They approached a huge underground ice cavern. She took off her cloak. Harry gasped. Taelia had huge beautiful wings and wore a long blue robe. "Who's Leah Riddle?" Harry finally said.
"She's the most powerful witch ever. Even more powerful than you. Surprising ain't it?" she answered sarcastically. "You must befriend her but DO NOT FALL IN LOVE!!!" she yelled.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"That will come later. Now shut up," she said suddenly alert. "Get in here," she said and pushed him into a small hole between the bed and the floor.
"Wha," Harry said in confusion.
"Shush!" Taelia whispered.
"Where's the boy?" a high pitch voice said. Harry clasped a hand over his mouth to stifle his laugh.
"What?" Taelia answered innocently.
"You know what boy!" the voice said fiercely.
"I have no idea Elise Vinegar." Taelia said.
"Vinegarrrr roll the stupid r." Elise said.
"Why don't you just go?" Taelia asked.
"No I'm not leaving 'till I get that boy," she roared.
"Well you ain't gonna find him here," Taelia retorted.
"Ain't ain't a word," Elise protested.
"Yeah it is. It's in the dictionary so you ain't smart," Taelia said pointing to her head and making a face.
"I'm smart!" Elise said.
"Am not!" Taelia said back.
"Am too!" Elise said with anger and tackled Taelia. Fortunately, Taelia jumped out of her place and landed gracefully on the other side of Elise.
"Missed me!" Taelia said joyfully.
"Rrrr..." Elise growled then ripped out her wand and said, "Rictusempra!" pointing to Taelia. Taelia's eyes widened in shock as she flew backwards.
"You'll pay for that one Elise!! Everte stadium!" Taelia said while pointing her finger at Elise.
"You can do magic without a wand?" Elise asked after being blasted towards a wall.
"No I just have an invisible one," she said sarcastically. Elise stood up and ran out of there as fast as she could. Taelia ran after her and yelled, "Hahaha. You SUCK! Muwawawa!"
"Ya' know you weren't very nice," Harry said as he crawled out.
"And your point is?" Taelia asked blankly.
"Maybe you shouldn't do that," Harry said.
"Maybe I should just give you to Voldemort right now. Get your British butt over here we need to get ready for the ball," Taelia grinned.
"There now you look all spiffy," Taelia said. Harry stood there in a tux admiring his new shoes. Harry looked up and suddenly Taelia was wearing a short strapless dress, big black boots, and long black gloves. "You like?" she asked turning around.
"Not really," Harry replied.
"Well, too bad Q-tip," she said. Taelia put on a black cloak and handed Harry one. "We'll be going through Voldemort's grounds so shut up and be unnoticeable." Harry muttered something and crossed his arms. "Oh no you didn't say that," Taelia said to him. "Hmmph..." Harry replied. They remained quiet and unnoticeable whole way there. They finally approached a huge castle. It was brick and towered high above them. Harry didn't know why but it looked familiar.
"Have we been here before?" Harry asked. Taelia nodded and whispered, "It's Hogwarts. The professors throw parties during the holidays. Oh yes that reminds me. I'll be teaching at Hogwarts this year. Don't worry I'll be nice." She grinned. They walked through the double doors.
Harry took off his cloak so did Taelia but in a very elegant manner. "Hey Tae," Professor Snape said as he strolled up. He kissed her hand. "Hey Pepe," Taelia laughed. "Pepe?" Harry asked. "Yes it's actually a funny story. Well, Pepe here and I went to school together. One day, we went to Defense Against the Dark Arts and he," she laughed her face turning pink, "He farted and thought it was just a fart so he apologized. Then, I smelled poo and"
"I think that's enough," Professor Snape interrupted. Taelia pulled Harry aside and pointed Leah out to him. Then she went with Professor Snape or Pepe to go dancing. He gawked at them dancing and walked towards Leah to introduce himself. When he approached her he said, "Hello, I'm Harry Potter, care to dance with me?" She looked up and said, "Sure I'm Leah Riddle." "It's a pleasure to meet you Leah," Harry replied. He took her hand and let her to the dance floor. "Shall we?" he asked and Leah nodded. They danced side by side next to Professor Snape and Taelia. Suddenly, catchy Spanish music came on. Harry recognized Cornelius Fudge walk by Professor Snape and Taelia they both just grinned and began doing the tango. "You know Fudge hates the tango," Leah whispered grabbing Harry's hand. She started doing the tango with him but he had no idea what to do. He looked over to Taelia and just did what Professor Snape was doing. "Wow Harry I didn't know you danced this good," Leah said. "Umm yeah thanks," Harry replied. "Want to be my friend?" Leah asked. "Sure," Harry said smiling a friendly smile. "That was stupid," Leah said. Harry laughed and kept glancing at Professor Snape to make sure he was dancing right. "Why do you keep looking over there?" Leah asked. "Umm... I thought I saw a mouse," he said quickly. "That's the most stupidest thing I've ever heard. Liar," she retorted. "You don't know how to dance," she said knowingly. "How do you know that?" he asked. She shrugged and sat down at a table with Harry. "Impressive that's the 5th margarita Snape has had and he isn't drunk. Wow," she said coolly. Harry and Leah watched the people dancing for awhile.
Out of the corner of his eye, Harry saw Voldemort come thru the doors. "What's Voldemort doing here?" Harry demanded. "Q-tip everyone is welcome," Taelia said as she approached them. "But it's VOLDEMORT. You know, the bad guy," Harry protested. Snape shrugged and said, "Tae let's go do that chaotic thing you were talking about." She grinned, "Yeah this party is getting kinda dull. They left towards the dungeons laughing and Harry's eyes grew wide. "You perv," Leah slapped his arm. "They're going to prank Fudge. This will be fun. Keep an eye out. Excuse me I'm going to ask the DJ something." She turned her heel and her ebony dress flowed behind her. Taelia entered the room and cut open a lemon. Cornelius Fudge stood right in front of her. She saw him (Harry) and winked. Snape came out of nowhere and "accidentally" bumped into her which made the lemon squirt and the juice landed on Fudge's pants. "Go ahead and call me Pepe but call him Peepee!" Fudge's face turned red with fury. Harry even heard Voldemort who was standing right next to him laugh. Harry moved away from him. "How come every time I come here and you too are here something bad happens?" Fudge demanded. "I'll be watching you two. If you break a single law I'll pounce," he threatened pointing a finger at them. "Whatever you say Peepee I mean Fudge," Taelia laughed.
"Hey Q-tip," Voldemort said facing Harry.
"You got that Tae didn't you?" Harry scowled. Harry's scar burned like fire.
"Your scar is turning red. Hey. Between you and me, I didn't mean to give you that scar," he said.
Harry fiercely replied," Oh and I bet you didn't mean to kill my parents."
"Oh no. I meant to do that. I didn't even know you were born. I heard a noise and I turned around by reflex. I didn't know what it was. Who knows what that darn man does. You see your father had created a machine that makes whatever he wants to happen, happen. He wanted me dead. Everywhere I went something tried to kill me. So I had to divor-I mean kill her-I mean him," Voldemort explained.
"Were you going to say divorce?" Harry asked.
"No! Of course I wasn't. Why would you even think of such a thing?" Voldemort retorted.
"Well, it sounded like you did," Harry replied.
"So how's school so far?" Voldemort asked trying to change the subject.
"Fine," Harry replied. Then Leah approached them.
"Harry I" she looked at Voldemort oddly. "What are you doing here talking to Harry?" she asked.
"Well we were talking about how Q-tip got that scar," Voldemort replied coolly.
"Oh..." Leah said. "Yeah umm, ummmmm???" Harry said confusedly. They watched in silence as the dancers danced by. Fudge stormed out of the dungeons. Taelia and Pepe waltzed out of the dungeons a few minutes later. "What did you guys do?" Leah asked. "Well" Pepe was interrupted by Fudge who yelled, "You-Know-Who! What are you doing here?!" "Talking to Q-tip," Voldemort replied. "Who the heck is Q-tip?" Fudge thundered. "Rrrr... I mean that I'm talking to Harry, your so called 'Boy-Who-Lived.' That's who," Voldemort retorted. "What? Are you two friends now?!" Fudge asked fiercely.
"Hmm, let me think, YEAH!" Harry yelled. Voldemort glared at Harry and he shrugged. "That's what I'm talking 'bout bro," Voldemort said smiling and did a weird handshake with Harry. "Yeah Fudge they're home dawgs. Ya' know what I'm sayin'?" Taelia said. "Snape, do you even know what she just said?" Fudge said. "I know what my boo says. Whatcha' think?" Pepe (Snape) said. Fudge threw up his hands and said, "I'm leaving." "Bye Popsicle," Voldemort, Tae, and Snape said together. "Bye Tae, Pepe, Leah, and Q-tip," Voldemort said rustling Harry's hair and then Leah's. He walked over to Dumbledore.
"I'm not your boo. I'm just a friend," Taelia said to Snape. "Hey, I gave it a try didn't I?" he replied and Taelia rolled her eyes. "Tae!" a woman with wings exclaimed and ran over. She had green streaks in her hair, green wings, and her outfit was just like Tae's except it was entirely green. "Hey Illusen! You look fabulous!" Tae said excitedly and gave Illusen a hug. Another woman approached them. Her wings were a dark rich purple and hooked, green streaks ran thru her purple hair, her green nails clenched a glass of wine, and her deep purple and black dress reached all the way down to her black shoes. "Hello Tae and,... Illusen," she said Illusen with disgust. "I can't believe you're friends with her," Illusen rolled her eyes and stomped off brushing against the woman. "Hi Jhudora," Taelia said cheerfully and they hugged each other. "So what are you doing here? Visiting?" Tae asked Jhudora curiously. "Well, visiting and meeting up with this guy I met," Jhudora said smiling. "Uh huh, well, umm I have to talk to Dumbledore now, so bye!" with that Tae walked off.
"Ok hi again Leah, Q-tip," Voldemort said. "Alright here's the deal, them Death Eaters don't know that I'm siding with the good side now," he said quickly. "You mean 'the' not 'them'," Harry said to Voldemort. "Whatever Q-tip," Voldemort retorted. "Why does every person I talk to call me Q-tip?!?!" Harry asked fiercely. "Because you are a Q-tip potter," Malfoy sneered walking up. "Be nice," Voldemort snapped. "But I want to call him Q-tip," Malfoy whined. "Ok I guess," Voldemort answered. "Hello. It's my nickname," Harry whined. "Boys," Voldemort said sternly. Malfoy and Harry started whining together. Leah and Jhudora laughed. Snape snickered. "Boys. Boys." Jhudora laughed patting Malfoy and Harry on the shoulders. "You two are so funny."
Lucius Malfoy strolled up and Jhudora's grip tightened. Both Harry and Malfoy winced. "Excuse me," she said and tried to leave. Malfoy and Harry fell down. Jhudora's nails were snagged in their tuxedos! "Sh-" she cursed. Taelia spotted them and ran over. "Your nails again?!" she said. "Yeah," Jhudora replied. "You should get a manicure," Tae said as she bent over Malfoy first and began unhooking the nails. "Stupid nails," Jhudora muttered to herself. Then she yelps in pain. Her nail broke completely off. "Back off!" she screamed and hurriedly tried to get the nails out. Dumbledore came by and unhooked her magically. "Thanks," she said nursing her finger. "Sorry," Tae said making her nail grow back. "It's alright," Jhudora said to Taelia.
After Jhudora left, Harry asked why she (Jhudora) hates Lucius Malfoy. "Well, it's because of something that happened during childhood," Taelia said quietly. "What happened? Did my Dad do something outrageously mean or horrible to her?" Draco asked. "Yeah it was more horrible than horrible ya' know?" Taelia said to them both. "Oh... still... what was it?" they both asked. "Do you wanna know? Do you really really want to know?" she asked. "YES!!!" They (Draco and Harry) yelled. "Are you absolutely sure?" Tae asked. Harry and Draco glared at her. "Ok. It was her first year at Hogwarts. Lucius was a second year and he decided to be 'nice' and show her around the school. Well, he locked her in a room and enchanted it to have mirrors and be a maze. He then sent in animals and did something really bad. He spread a rumor that she liked the geekiest guy in school. Arthur Weasley!" Draco and Harry gasped. "He didn't," Harry said in disbelief. "Oh but he did," Taelia retorted. "No he didn't," Draco said defiantly. "Well, you ask him then if you don't believe me I'm just telling it as it is," she said crossing her arms.
"How do you do that handshake thingyamajigamabober with Voldemort?" Draco asked. "It's easy here I'll show you," Harry said to him. Draco shook Harry's hand. "Ow!!" Harry asked. Draco had shocked him! "What did you do that for?!" Harry asked nursing his palm. "'Cause I felt like it," Draco replied. "I can't believe I fell for that!! I feel like an idiot!!"
A girl walked in and sat down, she looked sad. "Hey, that girl looks sad, really really sad," Draco said. "Let's go cheer her up," Harry said. "Ok," Draco sighed and they walked up to the girl and sat next to her. "Hello my name is Draco and this is Potter," Draco said. "It's Harry," Harry said. "Hello," she said weakly, "My name is Kaily." "What's wrong Kaily?" Draco asked gently. "Well, I feel sad and angry on the inside." Kaily said back. "I'm sad because I found out I'm living with foster parents and I'm angry because they wouldn't let me go to Durmstrang 6 years ago." She said. "Where do you go?" Harry asked. "I'm a student in Beauxbatons," Kaily said bitterly. "But guess what?" she asked. "What??" Harry and Draco asked confused. "Well, I'm an exchange student for Hogwarts," she replied with a huge smile on her face.
"Hey that's great!" Draco said excitedly. "Hey, why are you so happy?" Harry asked. "Uhh... I don't know!" Draco said dumbly. "What do you mean you don't know?! You're supposed to know!" Harry yelled. "She was happy so something good must've happened and why do I always need a reason to be happy?" Draco stormed off. Suddenly, a huge clatter rang thru the air. Jhudora and Voldemort ran into each other spilling wine, chili dogs, and Hot Cheetos dipped in ice cream everywhere. "Cold, cold!" Jhudora yelled. Ice cream had spilled all over her! Voldemort grabbed a fistful of napkins helping Jhudora clean up. Leah walked up to Harry. "Just like a movie. 2 people run into each other and they fall in love. It's so romantic," she said. "They don't always fall in love," Kaily corrected. "But, I bet they will." Harry rolled his eyes. Voldemort is heartless. He could never love, Harry said to himself. Jhudora's hand bumped into Voldemort's. She smiled and for the first time ever, he blushed.