The Truth is Told

Chapter 9: We'll Ride On a Boat To the Land of Candy

By: Sailor Juliet aka Starz, Sapphire999

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Jorell Parr was not exactly what you call Gryffindor material. He wasn't trustworthy, and not at all pure of heart. His rat-like appearance earning him the nickname "rat" turned people away as well. But he was loyal to at least one person...the person sitting across from him at the moment.

The room was very dark and secluded, but you could still see the blood red eyes of the man shining through the gloom. He was a very well built man. He had fabulous gold hair cut in a slightly militaristic style, but a little bit longer and spiked. Under his drab grey cloak he wore only the finest...jeans and shirts. He was very in the now, but he looked more like a teenager than a powerful business man. The man waited patiently for the news the rat was about to convey.

"What news do you bring child?" the man snapped out slowly losing his patience.

"Well father," he said losing what little nerves he had, "I have some surprising news for you about Malfoy and his little girl friend."

"Your job is to give me important news; things that could help me ruin Malfoy forever! Not useless information about his son's little 'girlfriend.' So it had better be good," the man hissed.

"But what if I told you his girlfriend is Hannah Potter?" the rat squeaked nervously, but slightly regaining his nerves.

"Interesting...do continue child."

"Well..." and the rat spilled the beans about Hannah, Harvey, Maya, and Leo's powers. His Father's eyes lit up as he remembered something about weather in a prophecy concerning four stars. He threw a gallion onto the table and left without a word. The rat took it and departed as well. 'Someday I'll earn more than money from you dad,' he thought as he walked away from the meeting place.

The four teenagers made their way to the kitchens to meet up with a very familiar house elf.

"Welcome friends! Hannah Potter must sit! Tell Dobby about Harry Potter!" Dobby said in an overly cheerful manner.

Hannah chuckled at the thought of her father and this strange little creature being friends. The thought seemed irrational. She did as instructed by Dobby, and waited as he seated everyone else, including Diana.

"Dad's fine Dobby. How are you?" Hannah asked politely while eyeing the real reason they came to the kitchen in the first place. Warm bottles of butter beer. She was still wet and chilly as well as Maya and Leo. Diana was the only dry person, and it was a mystery as to why she was actually there.

"Dobby is fine Miss Potter. He is flattered that you should ask," Dobby answered humbly. "You are all wet! Have some butter beer and sit by the fire!"

"Thank you Dobby,"Maya said as she moved her seat to the fire and grabbed a bottle from the table they were sitting by.

Diana stuffed her face with every morsel of food in sight. Well, the mystery of her appearance was solved. She was rapidly levitated out of the kitchen with a disgusted look from Hannah.

"To what does Dobby owe the pleasure of your company?"

"We need some information Dobby," Leo said.

"Do you clean the library?" Hannah asked.

"Yes. It is a dusty place if I don't," he said with wide eyes full of wonder.

"Did you ever come across a book that said anything about ancestral powers or weather and magic?" Maya asked.

"Dobby thinks he saw a book ma'am. I big book, but sadly Dobby cannot read. He has never found the time to learn," Dobby answered.

Harvey sat at his desk trying desperately to stay awake through his potions teacher's lesson on proper ingredient measurement. The last time someone had the misfortune of misreading the ingredient amount on the board the entire castle nearly blew up. So the teacher lectured on the importance of proper measurement and good reading skills. Harvey kept his head low and burried in the text to avoid all of the stares he knew he was recieving instead of the teacher.

"So does everyone understand the importance of reading instructions CAREFULLY and measuring CAREFULLY before adding the ingredients?" the professor said in a thick French accent for Harvey's benefit. However it wouldn't have mattered because Harvey would have understood anyway. He had mind powers remember?

Nobody said anything and found this to be a rather large mistake.

"Then I would like for you all to write me a two foot parchment on the importance of good reading skills and proper measurement, and I expect references to my lecture."

'Damn. I fought the good battle but I still lost,' Harvey thought to himself.

He wondered exactly how far his owl had gotten. If it had gotten to Hannah yet. If she knew what to do. It was so frustrating to be so far away from his lucky sister without any protection from girls. The enemy was cunning...oh so cunning. Around every every corner was a trap. Poor guy didn't even see it coming when he got locked in a closet with Fluer's daughter. Luckily he had his wand.

The bell rang and Harvey flew down the corridor to the library. He had just enough time to start his potions homework and get it done before he met there with Corrina. She had one more class than he did so he could plow through at least one of his assignments while he waited.

He had just finished one foot of his parchment when Corrina came in.

"Any word from your sister?" she asked.

"Nope."

Hannah and Leo had probably pulled every book out of the library on anything relating to special powers. They found nothing. Hannah proceeded to bang her head against a thick book called 'How Do You Know When You're Psychic?'. Leo was about to do the same when Maya came in with a scroll of parchment that Harvey had sent through Kandahar.

"Harvey's gift must be more powerful than we thought," Maya said looking a bit stunned.

"How's that? Wait a tic-YOU'RE READING MY MAIL?!!" Hannah screamed. Needless to say they were thrown out of the library for a good week.

"Nice going Hannah," Leo said. He had to duck rather quickly though, because Hannah moved to hit him in the head with 'How Do You Know When You're Psychic.' She had stopped hitting herself with it a moment ago.

"Anyway, what is this about Harvey's gift?" Leo asked. He was keeping an eye on the book in Hannah's hand just in case.

"Read it. You'll see," Maya said.

"Can't you ever give me a straight answer?" Hannah groaned.

"And risk dissapointing you? Never," Leo said, narrowly dodging another attempt to clean his clock.

While they read it Maya pried the book from Hannah's hostile hands. Leo was a valuable asset to them, not to mention funny.

"How freaky is that? It's so ironic it's scary. Way to go little bro!" Hannah yelled.

"That's weird. He must've seen the part about your family and immediately sent it to you. You guys didn't know I had powers did you?" Leo asked.

"No," Hannah and Maya said together.

"Do you know what this means? We're part of a prophecy. We're the four stars!" Maya said excitedly.

"If that's true Harvey may be in danger. That is not a good thing," Leo said. (authors: dum dum dum!)

And so the plot thickens. We had to be evil and leave you with a cliffie. I guess you'll have to review to find out what happens next. Sorry it's so short.