Winter Expulsion

Early 1981- Harry is 10 going on 11

Harry sat in the playground talking to some of his friends. They had been playing football but after one of them had slipped in the snow and twisted his ankle they'd given up. The snow was about a foot high, though on the playground it seemed to be a bit of a sludge. They shouldn't be out but the teachers couldn't really keep them under control inside. They'd been inside for three weeks now and the children wanted out.

"Harry!" shouted Emma as she ran over to her brother with Rhia and Kara.

"What is it?" Harry asked. His friends looked rather amused.

"Kaylee and Jessie might be getting into trouble again." Kara said.

"That's not my problem, they're in the infant school." Harry said.

"Yeah but we can't find Orion to warn him." Emma said. Harry rolled his eyes.

"Sorry guys." He said to his friends before following Emma and her friends. "Those twins are so annoying! Why don't you try and sort out Jessie and Kaylee yourselves."

"They won't listen to us." Rhia said quietly. Harry looked at Rhia curiously.

"They won't?" Harry asked. Rhia shook her head and smiled at the floor. Harry looked at Emma. Rhia always acted like that around him. Usually when she was really loud and hyper but she seemed to calm down a bit in front of Harry.

"Ok, how do we get into the infant school?" Harry asked. Their school was divided into two bits. The juniors and the infants. There was a bit of chicken wire that separated the playgrounds so the children didn't mix. There had been a few cases of the juniors bullying the infants so they built the fence to keep the juniors out. Of course that didn't stop Emma and her friends.

"Follow us." Kara said. They walked down the length of fence to a bit where the wire had obviously been cut. Emma pulled off her gloves and started to undo the small bits of wire that held the wire together.

"Hey guys." Came Orion. He was still in the infant school but he really wanted to be in the juniors.

"Hey." Rhia said, "Have you seen our annoying little sisters?" Rhia asked.

"Um, yeah, why?" Orion asked.

"They're going to get into trouble." Kara said.

"How do you know anyway?" Harry asked.

"Because we saw them on the roof!" Emma said. "Remember when we went on the roof?" Orion grinned, that had been when he'd started skateboarding.

"It's cold." Rhia said rubbing her arms. The girls all wore skirts and fairly long socks. They had their coats and jumpers on but they were still really cold. Harry shrugged off his coat, he felt rather hot.

"Here." Harry said handing it to Rhia. Rhia went slightly red.

"Um, no it's ok." She said.

"No take it, I'm not cold at all." Harry said. Rhia took it shyly and put it on over her own coat.

"Ah, got it." Emma said. She pulled the chicken wire aside and slipped in through the gap. Orion looked at her confused.

"What are you doing?" Orion asked.

"Stopping your sisters!" Kara said as she squeezed through as well. Harry waited for Rhia to go through and then went through himself. The infants were teeny compared to the four juniors.

"Ok, where did you see them?" Harry asked.

"Um." The three girls scanned the playground. There was a crash and a tree started swaying. A few more crashes later and two young identical looking girls plopped out of the tree.

"Ow." One of them muttered.

"There!" Rhia said pointing to her sisters. The two younger girls had identical dark blond hair, the same brown eyes and both wore necklaces. One had a K and the other wore a J. They got up and the one wearing a K necklace grinned cheekily.

"Oh no!" Rhia said. She ran across the playground with Kara and they tried to catch one of the twins. They managed to get Jessie, who decided she'd rather stay with her older sister then her twin sister. Emma ran after Kaylee but Kaylee slipped through another fence and onto the ice covered car park where the teacher's cars were parked.

Emma and Harry stood at the fence and looked at each other. This wasn't good. Harry turned to where Rhia and Kara came up to them. Jessie surgically attacked to Rhia's hand.

"Where did she go?" Rhia asked. Jessie grinned widely.

"Where has she gone Jess?" Harry asked, "If you two get into any more trouble then you'll be in VERY big trouble." Jessie continued to grin and hugged Rhia.

"Oh-" Kara looked like she was ready to swear, had she been old enough to not care about swearing.

"HARRY!" Orion shouted from across the playground. Harry looked at Orion, who pointed past the fence. The four juniors ran over and saw Kaylee on the roof of the lunch hall. She was just climbing up and then she stood there beaming. When she saw Harry and the others staring she grinned and waved at them. Jessie waved back and she began laughing. Rhia hit Jessie lightly and Jessie stopped laughing. Rhia turned to Harry, who was looking at her apprehensively.

"Oh, Mum's going to kill me." Rhia complained.

"No she wont." Emma said.

"She will." Harry said, "The oldest always gets into trouble." He said pointedly at Emma. Emma grinned and shrugged.

"Not my fault you blew up the TV." Emma said with an innocent smile.

"Kaylee Black." Mrs. Hardy said to Kaylee.

"Yes?" Kaylee said sweetly with a grin.

"Don't you smile. Do you know how much trouble you're in?" Mrs. Hardy said. Kaylee shook her head and grinned. Mrs. Hardy shook her head and wrote down something. Kaylee craned her neck to see what she was writing. Kaylee couldn't read but that didn't stop her. There was a knock at the door and Mrs. Hardy shouted "Come in." The door opened and James Potter came into the room. Mrs. Hardy looked up.

"Hi, James Potter." He said holding his hand out. His hair looked rather windswept and slightly out of breath.

"Where are Mr. And Mrs. Black."

"Oh, they send their apologies but due to various reasons they can't come. There was a crisis at Mrs. Black's office and Mr. Black will have to travel about three hours to get here. I'm Kaylee's godfather." He said. Mrs. Hardy nodded and indicated for him to take a seat. James did so and looked at Kaylee. Kaylee had her hands folded in her lap and she as looking at the walls.

"I'm afraid Kaylee is in serious trouble." Mrs. Hardy said.

"What kind of trouble?" James asked with a frown. He rested an ankle on his knee and leant forwards slightly.

"Kaylee has been attending this school for five months. She joined in September and in five months she has managed to get on the roof eight times, she's set the kitchen on fire, crumbled all the chalk sticks to powder every time her teacher gets a new box. Hidden the school accounts, god knows how they got those." Mrs. Hardy went through a rather long list and James' eyes widened in horror and surprise. He looked at Kaylee, who was grinning at each of her 'achievements' and humming a soft tune. Mrs. Hardy stopped and all they could hear was Kaylee laughing. James pinched the top of his nose with his fingers. How was he going to sort this out? April or Sirius really needed to be here.

"Kaylee, be quiet!" James snapped at her. Kaylee went quiet and looked at James. "Did you really do all this?" James asked.

"Yes." Kaylee said with a grin. "Jessie helped me sometimes."

"Yes, well there's the other problem with her sister. Now both girls are very bright and they are very enthusiastic girls. But I'm afraid they will have to be separated. On the whole Jessica is rather well behaved but when she's with Kaylee she becomes rather disrupted. Now, I would hate to bring this predicament on you but I'm afraid that we have tried to move them into separate classes, and if anything it made them worse." Mrs. Hardy said. James looked at her, he was at a loss. "I'm afraid that even though, Kaylee isn't yet even five I will have to prevent her from attending the school" Mrs. Hardy said.

"And that means?" James said. He really hoped it didn't mean what he thought it meant.

"Kaylee Black is expelled. You will have to move her into a different school. She is simply too destructive to carry on at this school" Mrs. Hardy said sternly.

"What!" James said planting both his feet on the floor. "You can't expel Kaylee, she's only four!"

"I'm sorry Mr. Potter but I'm afraid that the only way she will be allowed back into the school is if her behaviour is improved but even then it is highly unlikely. I also believe it will be good for her to spend some time away from her sister" Mrs. Hardy said. Kaylee's mouth dropped open.

"Away from Jessie?" She asked. Mrs. Hardy nodded. Kaylee stood up in her seat. "You can not do that!" She shouted at Mrs. Hardy

"Sit down Kaylee!" James snapped at Kaylee.

"Not if she seprate me and Jessie! She's my sister!" Kaylee said. Mrs. Hardy looked at James.

"An example at her disregard for authority." Mrs. Hardy said.

Rhia sat on the sofa, hugging her knees. Orion was sitting next to her with a frown and the twins were sharing a chair for one person. Their dad was glowering at them.

"Rhia! You are responsible for making sure they don't misbehave!" Sirius said

"But I can't keep an eye on them all the time! Orion should look after them!" Rhia said in defence.

"I don't care. You are the oldest and while your mum and I aren't present you should look after your sisters."

"I tried to!" Rhia said, "I did but they just don't listen to me! AND they're in the infant school!" Sirius scowled.

"Which school are you in?" He asked.

"The junior one dad." Orion said.

"Oh yeah." Sirius said. He turned to Rhia. "But you've still got to look after them"

"Why! You're their dad!" Rhia said. Sirius scowled.

"Just be grateful your mum's stuck in the middle of Romania." Sirius said a bit more gently. Rhia looked at her dad coldly before getting up and leaving the room. "Rhia!" Sirius said helplessly. He started as he heard Rhia's bedroom door slam shut.

"Not cool dad." Orion said as he got off the sofa and picked up his skateboard.

"And where are you going?" Sirius asked.

"My bedroom?" Orion said like it was obvious.

"Oh, ok." Sirius said. Orion left. Kaylee and Jessie got up.

"Ok, we go outside." Kaylee said. Sirius turned to look at his daughters sternly

"Oh no you don't. You two are staying there until your mum gets home" He said in such a dangerous tone that Kaylee and Jessie sat back down and stayed silent for once in Kaylee's life.

It was unfair. Kaylee got expelled and Rhia got told off for it. It wasn't her fault that her sisters were complete troublemakers who never followed the rules! She sat on her windowsill and looked out of the steamed window. She loved her dad, more then anyone else, well not everyone else, there was one person she loved more but she wasn't even sure if she loved him or what her feeling to him was. Rhia put her head against the window and stared out into the garden where Orion was constructing some kind of snowy ramp thing. Didn't he ever understand that you can't skateboard in the snow! Rhia watched him for a while then when Orion had finished he got one of his old skateboarding desk, one without wheels, Rhia vaguely remember Jessie pulling it apart and throwing the wheels into the lake that Harry's parents owned. He went to the end of the garden. Put the deck on the floor and pushed it like a snowboard. He got to the ramp and he jumped slightly in the air before crashing down on the floor. Orion scowled and decided to try going down the ramp.

Rhia sighed and played with a lock of her hair. She wanted to go out flying but unlike the Potters, she lived in the middle of Godric's hollow. Suddenly there was a tapping on the window and Harry's face appeared in the middle of the air.

"Ah!" Rhia shouted as she fell off the window sill in surprise. Harry laughed as Rhia got up and opened the window. The cold air rushed in and Harry climbed into her room and closed the window. Rhia was looking at him in shock.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Where's your body?" Rhia asked. Harry looked down.

"Oh yeah" Harry pulled off a long silvery cloak and held it in his hand. "I stole my dad's invisibility cloak." Rhia nodded and smiled. He held a broom in one hand. He dropped it on the floor and jumped onto Rhia's bed.

"Did you get into trouble?" Harry asked. Rhia nodded.

"It's not my fault that Kaylee got expelled."

"Kaylee got expelled?" Harry asked. Rhia nodded. "Wow. She isn't even five yet!"

"I know." Rhia said. She sat down next to Harry and sighed. "It's unfair that I get blamed for everything!" Harry gave her a supportive smile.

"If it helps I get blamed for everything Emma does." He said.

"But it's Emma" Rhia said, "She doesn't get into much trouble." Harry nodded in agreement.

"True." He said. Rhia gave another sigh. Harry smiled. He suddenly jumped up and took Rhia's hand. "Come on." He said.

"What? Where are we going?" Rhia asked. He picked up his broom and the cloak.

"Just come with me." He pulled the cloak around the two of them and was about to open the window when the door opened.

"Rhia?" Sirius said. He looked in. Rhia tensed and looked at Harry. He put a finger against his lips. "Rhia?" Sirius said coming into the room. Rhia started to smile as Sirius frowned slightly and sighed. "She must be at James." He muttered to himself. "I knew I shouldn't have had a go at her." He said as he left the room. He closed the door and Harry laughed slightly.

"Come on." He said. He pulled open the windows and helped Rhia onto the window sill.

"Where are we going?" Rhia asked.

"Oh, just for a broom ride. You look like you need to go flying." He said. Rhia let out a long breath.

"Is it that obvious" She asked. Harry smiled and helped her onto the broom.

"Come on, you lead the way." He said as they flew high in the air. Rhia grinned and Harry held her onto the broom. She smiled to herself, yeah, there was only one person she loved more then her dad.

Kaylee and Jessie had stayed absolutely silent from the moment their dad had a go at them to the moment their mum got back. It was about eleven o'clock at night. It was the longest that Kaylee had ever been silent but she was scared. She didn't know what her mum would do. Normally her dad laughed but he'd gotten angry and shouted at Rhia more then he usually did. What was mum going to be like? April came into the living room and stopped. She frowned then turned around.

"Sirius! Why aren't the girls in bed?" April asked. Sirius came into the room and frowned.

"Oh yeah, I forgot they were there. They've been really quiet." Sirius said.

"Kaylee, silent?" April asked. Kaylee nodded. April looked at Kaylee then at Sirius. "What happened?" She asked. "And don't lie, I don't want to have to read you." She said. Sirius twisted his hands nervously and bit his lip.

"Um, well. Kaylee got into a bit of trouble..."

"Again?" April asked tiredly.

"Well, not a little, a lot of trouble." Sirius said. April looked at him.

"Why didn't the other children try and stop them?" April asked.

"They did." Jessie breathed. Sirius and April looked at Jessie in surprise. "I stay with Rhia. Kaylee got into trouble." She said. April looked at Jessie for a few moments before turning to Sirius slowly. Sirius seemed to be very scared of her.

"What happened Sirius?" April asked, "Is this what James had to see to earlier?"

"Um, yeah." Sirius said. "Um, you see, according to James, he was speaking to their headmistress and um..." Sirius took a breath. "Kaylee's expelled." He said quickly. So quickly April thought she hadn't heard it properly. She looked into Sirius's eyes. He knew better then to close them and stopping April. April's look of confusion fell away to disappointment and anger.

"She's only four! How the hell could she get expelled!?" April asked Sirius.

"I'm not sure but you'll have to ask James, he knows more about it. But the bottom line is that we've got to find another school for them" Sirius said.

"Only me." Kaylee said. April turned to Kaylee.

"Be quiet!" April snapped, "You've been misbehaving too much. Why don't you act more like Rhia or Jessie? They hardly ever get into as much trouble as you, why don't you just copy them"

"Rhia's boring and Jessie is too quiet." Kaylee said.

"But at least they don't get into trouble!" April said. "That's it. You are not going to get anything for the next few months and you're not allowed to go outside and play-" Kaylee was about to protest but April held her wand out at Kaylee. "Don't talk back Kaylee. You're in very big trouble." Kaylee looked at the floor and nodded.

"Why does she listen to you and not me?" Sirius asked April. April shrugged.

"Do you know ho difficult it is going to be to find a school for her now. At least some time apart will do those twins some good. You two spend too much time together!" April said to them. "Kaylee, if you get into trouble one more time you're moving into Rhia's room" Kaylee and Jessie looked at April. Jessie with a grin at the thought of a room to herself, Kaylee with a look of horror. Share a room with Rhia? Rhia was boring! All she did was talk about Harry or about homework or about going swimming or flying or horse riding with Kara and Emma!

"But Rhia's b-"

"Don't you say Rhia's boring!" April said, "She's more sensible and you should be more like her, or at least like Jessie! Now get to your bedroom! Both of you. Go to bed!" April said. Kaylee and Jessie slipped off the chair and left the room. Orion ran down the stairs and nearly knocked over Kaylee. He wore his favourite Star wars PJs and skid to a stop in front of his parents.

"Mum! Dad!" Orion said. "Rhia's missing!" He said. April and Sirius looked at Orion.

"What?" Sirius asked. "She's supposed to be in her room."

"She's not there, and she's not in the bathroom and I've looked for her to tell her something but I can't find her!" Orion said.

"Shit!" April said.

"Yeah, Rhia is very sensible Mummy!" Kaylee said.

Rhia hid under a bush. Where was Harry? She scooped up some snow and crushed it into a snowball. It was very dark but it was fun to have a snowball fight. She knelt up and glanced over the top of the bush. She grinned as she as a tiny reflection of the moonlight against his glasses. She grinned and got ready to throw the snow. She stood up and was about to throw the snow but couldn't see Harry. She frowned and fell sideways as a huge pile of snow hit her at the side of her head.

"Harry!" Rhia snapped. Harry was rolling on the floor laughing. Rhia scowled and kicked some snow at him and threw the snowball at his face.

"Ow!" Harry said rubbing his cheek where Rhia had hit him. Rhia gave him a smug smile.

"You shouldn't have hit me." She said. Harry pretended to glower at her. She gave a smile and ran for Harry's broom before he could chase her. He ran after her and threw a snowball at the back of her head. Rhia ducked and ran behind a tree.

"Missed me." Rhia shouted.

"No I didn't" Harry replied. Rhia scowled as a pile of snow fell on top of her from the branches above her. Harry started laughing. Rhia dug her way out of the pile of snow.

"You're horrible to me!" Rhia said. Harry smirked and then flew down from the tree to Rhia's side.

"But you still like me?" Harry said. Rhia went slightly red. It was dark so Harry couldn't see.

"I think we should go home now." Rhia said.

"Yeah. Mum and Dad will get annoyed with me." Harry said. "I sneaked out of the house."

"Same." Rhia said. Harry smiled at Rhia and let her get on the broom. He pulled the invisibility cloak around them and launched them into the air. They had gone quite far away from Godric's Hollow. Harry knew which way to go to get back to the house. They flew for about fifteen minutes in silence then they came to Rhia's bedroom window. She pulled them open and awkwardly climbed into her bedroom.

"See you tomorrow." Harry said. Rhia smiled and closed the window just as her bedroom light switched on. Rhia turned to see April in her bedroom.

"Mum?" Rhia asked. She crossed her arms and tried not to shiver.

"Where have you been?" April asked.

"Um...out?" Rhia said

"Do you know what time it is?" April asked. Rhia shook her head. "It's nearly midnight."

"Oops." Rhia said. "Harry and I didn't mean to be out that long. I swear." Rhia said nervously. April looked at her curiously.

"Harry? What's Harry got to do with anything?" April asked.

"Harry and I had a snowball fight." Rhia said. April nodded slowly.

"That's why you're all red and dripping wet. Come here Rhia." April said. Rhia nodded and went to April. April closed the door and got out her wand. She said a spell that dried off Rhia.

"Get changed and go to bed." April said. Rhia looked at April with a frown

"Aren't I in trouble?" Rhia asked.

"No, you're not." April said. Rhia frowned at her luck.

"Why?" Rhia asked.

"Because I've exhausted myself with Kaylee"

"That wasn't my fault." Rhia said quickly.

"I know it wasn't." April said. Rhia smiled. "Good night Rhia." April said going to the door. Rhia sat on her bed for a moment.

"Mum." Rhia said. April turned around.

"Yes?"

"What's love?" Rhia asked. April raised an eyebrow.

"Why?" She asked with a smile.

"I just want to know." Rhia said shyly. April sat down next to Rhia.

"Why do you want to know?" April asked with a smile. Rhia shrugged.

"I don't know." She said.

"Well, love, is a feeling that you get when you care for something, or someone, more then anything in the world. And you'll do anything for them." April said.

"Do you shiver with happiness when they say your name?" Rhia asked. April laughed gently.

"Yes. You do." April said. Rhia grinned to herself and cuddled her knees. April smiled and pulled Rhia closer to her. "Why? Who are you in love with?" Rhia shook her head.

"No one." She said. April laughed gently.

"Is it Harry?"

"No." Rhia said quickly and seriously. She looked at April slightly scared and shaking her head. "No, not Harry." April smiled.

"Ok Rhia," She kissed Rhia's forehead. "Good night."

"Good night mum." Rhia said. April left the room and Rhia sighed. That was close

A/N:-Ok, one more chapter to go then this story is FINI!!! THe new story will be called A New Beginning. It'll start in HArry's 6th year. There is a small introduction to it so don't worry. Also I'm back at school so i won't be able to update as often (glares at Rhia and Kaylee).....My education is far more important then writing, articularly after my spectacularly crap AS results...apparently they're quite good but to me i failed and if i want to get to med school i gotta work this year, but as i have so many free periods I'll do some writing on paper at school for you people. This story will never leave my mind, i hold this story close to my heart and several of you reveiwers...well I love you all as well, you will stay with me forever, well in my heart anyway. I'm being all sentimental like i'm never gonna update again, haha. Anyway, next chapter is the last. It ends with a rather amusing scene invovling Lily, Emma and Harry. It was kinda embarassing to write cause i felt slightly embarassed for the characters but it's kinda funny, just make sure you know the song Car Wash! Also, I will no longer say any thing about relationships cause i'm scared that i'll ruin it. and those of you who do know what's planned in the next story please hush. I don't want anyone knowing whose going through the veil ;)