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Chapter 21 - Welcome Back Isabel

Lia's scar hurt badly while she was tied to a chair in the cottage at the swamp. She was sweating and breathing hard. Wormtail kept staring at her, wondering what was wrong. Bellatrix entered the cottage with a mug full of water.

"Drink this." She said as she put the mug at Lia's lips.

Lia turned her face away, but Bellatrix pulled her back. "I said drink!"

"Get… away… from… me." Lia said between gasps for air.

"Bella, why isn't she able to breath? Do you think we tied her too tight?" Wormtail whispered.

"No, I don't think so. There must be something else." Bellatrix replied. "Come on girl, drink this I said. It's just water."

"I'm… not… thirsty!" Lia replied.

"What water is that?" Wormtail whispered to Bellatrix.

"It's the swamp water." Bellatrix whispered back. "It will make her sleep."

At that moment, Voldemort came out of the basement. He took off his cloak and put it aside. Lia stared at his skully face and her heart started to beat faster, which made her scar hurt more.

Voldemort looked at her and he walked closer to her. "Looks like you're having a little problem there." He said.

Lia kept staring at him, trying her best not to faint.

"I believe I know what is causing you such discomfort." Voldemort said. He put his hands on her shirt and ripped it. Lia gasped in horror. "Ah! Just as I suspected. It seems that the Potter blood has the habit of leaving scars that are quite useful sometimes." Voldemort said and a smile formed on his face.

"So that's why she's breathing hard!" Bellatrix said. "Master, what should we do with her now?"

"She must meet Isabel." Voldemort hissed. "My friend wants to see her."

"Yes Master." Bellatrix said and with a wave of her wand, the ropes around Lia disappeared, which made Lia fall to the ground.

"How touching." Voldemort hissed. "Wormtail, bring her to the basement."

"Yes Master." Wormtail said and picked Lia up from the ground. He held her tight and took her down to the basement.

"Bella, this place should be clean by the time we return. I'm sure that my friend would like to see her cottage clean."

"As you wish Master." Bellatrix replied with a bow.

Lia's face was pale and covered by cold sweat and she was shaking. When they reached the basement Voldemort looked at the skeleton lying in the dusty coffin in the middle of the room.

"Isabel, she's here." He said.

The skeleton let out a long breath that was more like a hiss. "Bring her closer, let her hold my hand."

"Do it Wormtail." Voldemort said.

Wormtail dragged Lia closer to the coffin and took Lia's hand and put it in the witch's bony hand. Lia felt colder, she felt like her heart was about to stop beating. She was too weak to do something.

"Your soul is mine to keep. Your body is mine to use." The witch said. "It's time for your wand Voldemort."

Voldemort took out his wand and put it on Lia's hand. "For evil you shall serve. For glory you shall live." He said.

A green light shone from the hands of the two women, which grew bigger and filled the room.

Lia felt like she was being stabbed in her heart and like she was being choked at the same time. She tilted her head back with her eyes wide opened.

"H-Harry…" she called and her eyes and hair changed their color into black and her hair grew longer and reached her waist.

Lia stood there now like nothing has happened. Wormtail let go of her and took a few steps back. She turned to look at Voldemort and smiled.

"Hello Voldemort." She said.

"It's nice to see you back Isabel." He replied and pulled her to him. He moved his bony hand through her hair. "I missed you."

"I missed you too my friend." She replied.

O o O o O

Sirius was showing Harry and Ron around the castle and suddenly Harry stopped and put his hand on his scar.

"What's wrong mate?" Ron asked.

"My scar. It hurts."

"What is it?" Sirius asked.

"Harry's scar hurts whenever there's something wrong." Ron explained. Little he knew that the man who stood in front of him knew everything about that scar.

Sirius' face went pale. "Er… what should we do?" he asked trying to act, as he doesn't know anything about the scar.

"I don't know. Harry, do you feel something else?" Ron asked.

"Only pain." Harry said and suddenly the room started to move in circles in front of him and it went dark.

"Harry!" Ron called as he held his friend so he wouldn't hit the ground.

"Let me help." Sirius said and picked Harry up and put him on a couch. "Go get the others." He told Ron.

"Alright." Ron said and ran out of the room.

"Harry, can you hear me?" Sirius asked.

Harry opened his eyes and screamed. "LIA!"

"Harry calm down!" Sirius said.

"He has done something to her." Harry said. He was shaking.

Remus entered the room running, followed by Snape and McGonagall.

"Harry are you alright?" Remus asked.

"He has done something, he killed her!" Harry said and broke into tears.

"This can't be." Remus said.

"He can't kill her!" Sirius said. "He needs her alive for something!"

"I will call professor Dumbledore." Professor McGonagall said. She took out a small mirror from her pocket and looked at it. "Mirror, show me Albus Dumbledore."

The mirror shimmered and cracked until it revealed Dumbledore sitting at his office.

"Albus can you hear me?" McGonagall said.

Dumbledore picked up a mirror and looked at it. "Minerva! What a pleasant surprise! Harry and Ron are practicing Quidditch at this moment. Do you have any good news?"

"Well, unfortunately I have two bad news instead." She replied.

"Alright then, tell me." Dumbledore said with his calm voice.

"Harry and Ron are here. They have found their way through the passage in the Forbidden Forest."
"But Snow White has turned off the mirror. Who opened it?"

"It was… William." McGonagall said and Dumbledore nodded. He knew that she was speaking near Harry and they didn't want him to know that Sirius was alive.

"Alright, and what's the other news?" Dumbledore asked.

"Harry has just passed out. When he woke up he said that Voldemort has done something to Lia."

Dumbledore was silent for a while. McGonagall looked at Harry, who was pale and shaking, while Remus and Sirius were trying to calm him.

"Minerva, please tell Severus that I am asking him to use occlumency and read Harry's mind. I hope that we can find something helpful."

"Alright Albus." McGonagall said and put the mirror back in her pocket.

O o O o O

"How about a little celebration my dear?" Isabel said.

"Of course. First…" Voldemort waved his wand at her, and the clothes that Lia was wearing has turned into a black dress that reached the ground and it was decorated by diamonds. "Now we can celebrate you return my dear."

Isabel smiled. "Let's go upstairs. I'm sick of this place." She said and they all went out of the basement.

O o O o O

Ron came back with Wolf, Tony, Virginia and Wendell. Cinderella followed them slowly.

"What kept you so long?" Sirius asked, looking at Ron angrily.

"I was explaining what happened." Ron replied and came closer to Sirius to whisper in his ear. "I had to repeat everything three times until Tony understood what was going on."

"Oh I see." Sirius said.

"We have to go and find her." Harry said, still shaking violently.

"We will Harry." Remus said.

Professor McGonagall pulled Snape to a side. "Severus, I have just spoke to Albus and he is asking you to read Harry's mind, to see if you can find something useful."

"Why couldn't you do it Minerva?" Snape asked. "The headmaster knows that I do not with to open my mind for Potter, and we do not have a penseive here."

"You know that you are better in Occlumency than any other of us." McGonagall replied.

Snape sighed. "Alright, but I will not do it again, no matter what are the circumstances."

"I do hope that we will not need to do it again." McGonagall replied.

Snape turned to look at Harry with his cold eyes. "Potter, follow me."

Harry looked confused and got up. Ron helped him, as he was still in shock.

"He can walk on his own Weasley." Snape snapped.

"I'm only trying to help!" Ron said. "You can see that he's shaking!"

"I am not going to repeat my words Mr. Weasley." Snape said and left the room.

"Greasy git." Sirius muttered and Ron heard him. He turned to look at Sirius with a raised eyebrow.

"I can go alone Ron. Don't worry." Harry said.

"Alright mate." Ron said and let go of Harry.

Harry left the room and followed Snape to another room. Ron went to sit next to Sirius.

"Excuse me Sir, but I heard you call Snape a greasy git." Ron whispered.

"And he is a greasy git." Sirius replied.

"I have no doubt about it. But I wanted to ask how do you know him, if you two have just met?"

Sirius didn't expect that question. "Er… well, you can tell what kind of a person he is at first sight." Sirius said. 'Phew! That was close!' he thought.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Ron said. "I just hope that he won't say something harsh to Harry."

"He won't." Professor McGonagall said. "Professor Dumbledore has asked him for a favor, and that's why he took Harry to another room."

"Not Occlumency again!" Remus said.

"Albus wants to know if we can get some useful information from Harry that he cannot recall. Sometimes we cannot remember things but they are in our minds." McGonagall said.

"Poor Harry!" Ron said. "I hope that Snape won't treat him like he did last year during his Occlumency lessons."

"He doesn't have his penseive around, so don't worry." Sirius said.

Professor McGonagall shot him an angry look.

"Oops!" Sirius said.

"How do you know about the penseive?" Ron asked.

"Well…" Sirius said. "I…"

"I told him about it." Wolf said.

"You did?" Remus asked.

"Yeah!" Wolf looked into Remus' eyes as to tell him to shut up. "Huff-puff! Remus you're losing your memory, you know. You told me about the penseive on the full moon night, and I told William about it. It's such an interesting thing."

"Oh… yeah… I remember." Remus said, moving his hand through his hair.

Ron looked at them suspiciously.

Wolf dragged Remus to a side. "I saved your bacons and you better tell me later what a penseive is!" Wolf whispered.

"I promise to do so. Thanks a lot." Remus whispered back.

"What are we going to do next?" Wendell asked.

"We will wait until Severus and Harry return and then we can start our plans." McGonagall replied.

Little they knew that they wouldn't be able to find Lia, as the Swamp Witch has possessed her body and soul.