Chapter 6

Harry woke up on Monday smiling. He had loved the night before. Nothing had happened with him and Alex, but he thought they had gotten closer. They had talked all night about school, and all about Hogwarts. Harry had explained to her everything that had happened the last 6 years, and she had loved it all. But that had flown past and her was now in the common room waiting with Ron for Hermione and Alex to come down stairs.

"Alex, Hermione come on!" Ron said. "We're going to be late!"

Then the door opened and out came Alex and Hermione in their Hogwarts uniforms. "We're coming don't worry. We still have forever."

"No we don't!" said Ron. "We only have 1 hour for breakfast. A guy has to eat you know!"

Harry couldn't help, but laugh. He hadn't been this happy since the end of last term. After he and stopped laughing he looked at Alex, and again couldn't suppress a smile. She was so beautiful. "Are you ready?" he said to her.

"I think so. I mean I have everything."

"Don't worry, everything id going to be fine. On the first day I came to Hogwarts, I didn't get lost. And believe you won't either."

"Oh, I know my way around Hogwarts; I just haven't been in a class with lots of students for a long time." replied Alex.

"Its okay, believe me; Better than being alone with a teacher. "Ron said "Now lets go eat, I'm starving."

They all walked outside into the hallway, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione explained to Alex everything there was about going to school. When they arrived at the Great Hall, they were joined by Malfoy and his gang.

"Why if it isn't Potter. Why do you always come back, can't you fall over and die somewhere?" Malfoy sneered, while looking around at all of them. When he saw Alex he gave at her a look that Harry had never seen before, but it was almost as if her thought her attractive. Harry put his hand on her shoulder, and Malfoy quickly stared into Harry's eyes. His entire face was carved with loathing.

"I think you are the one who needs to fall over and die Malfoy. Your family is a disgrace, I mean your father being in Azkaban and all." Harry replied. "I remember you saying that he would break out. Well, he hasn't yet."

Malfoy gave him a look of disgust, and walk away to the Slytherin's table.

Harry quickly lifted his hand off Alex's shoulder, hoping she didn't notice. They all walked to the end of the Gryffindor table, and sat down. Ron, like always, started stuffing his face with food. Hermione looked at him with disgust and started arguing with him over proper eating manners.

Harry looked at Alex, she wasn't even eating. He could tell she was extremely nervous. "Don't worry Alex; you are going to be fine."

"Yeah I know, I just don't want to get out of control with my powers and all."

"What?! That's what you are worried about?" Harry really couldn't believe it, she still didn't think she had control over her powers. "Look Alex, you showed me the other day that you could control your powers. You just have to believe in yourself."

"I know I can control most of my powers, but we didn't work on electricity, or anything else. We only worked on Fire, Ice, and Water."

"The rest of the elements have got to be the same as the other ones, so don't worry."

At that moment, Professors McGonagall came over to Harry, and said in an urgent voice, "Professor Dumbledore needs to talk to Harry. It is very important."

Hermione, and Ron voices stopped arguing and they were looking at Professor McGonagall seriously. Alex looked worried, and Harry wished McGonagall could have come at other time, but since the damage was already done, he said, "Ok."

He got up and followed her to a small room to the right of the teacher's table. Dumbledore was waiting inside with Lupin, and Mad-Eye Moody. "What's wrong?" Harry asked.

Dumbledore looked at Harry, but he wasn't smiling. He looked almost sad. "Harry, we can't let Alex, go out to classes yet. She can't wander the halls alone either. It's too dangerous still. She hasn't mastered her powers, and she is in danger of being caught by Voldemort."

"She can't be caught by Voldemort. He is not here, and he can't come in the school, that would be suicide." Harry said, trying to keep calm. He wanted Alex to go to class, and he knew she wanted to be free from all the imprisonment.

"Voldemort has ways of getting her that we still don't know. And our sources say that he is preparing to get her."

"But he doesn't know about her for one. He couldn't have found out."

"He did though. We don't know how, but he found out, and he wants her. She has to master her powers, so that she can protect herself."

"But se has mastered her powers, she showed it to me. She has mastered it."

"No she hasn't. Her powers are so strong that they take control of her when she sleeps. She went to Hogsmeade and burned down a house, Harry."

"That's impossible! She would never do that!" Harry exclaimed. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Alex wasn't like that.

"Look, Harry. You have to accept it. Now, this is what we are going to do: You will be teaching her every night after lessons, until she does master her powers. Ok? Then you will start teaching her spells, and how to defend herself against certain creatures."

Harry knew he would never win this argument, so he just accepted what he was being told to do, and nodded. "What kind of creatures?" Harry asked, not really caring if Dumbledore gave him an answer or not.

"Dementors."

Harry suddenly snapped to attention, looked Dumbledore in the eye. "What? Why?"

"She needs to protect herself from them; Voldemort has been using them very much these last few months."

"What? so I have to teach her how to defend against them, I mean Lupin taught me, why doesn't he teach her?" Harry said quickly, pointing to wards Lupin. Harry didn't want to be in the same room with a Dementor, even if it was a boggart.

"Lupin, for one doesn't have time to help Alex, Harry. And you are a born natural at defending against Dementors, and I think she would like it if you taught her."

Harry couldn't believe what Dumbledore was making him do, but he knew it was probably for a good reason, so he just nodded, and said "Ok. I'll do it. But I'm not a natural at teaching. Can I go back now?"

Dumbledore looked at Harry behind his moon spectacles, he looked like he had a lot of things on his mind, but Harry didn't care. He was giving him lots of things to think about too. "Yes, of course."