Wow so guessing you liked Faith's entrance. I was really excited 'bout that bit and don't worry the confrontation will come soon although you will all have to wait and see why, how, whether faith's evil etc etc.

Holy Trinity:I totally agree-spilling everything out in one go is so annoying. Don't worry I wont be doing that. Harry meeting Buffy all planned just not quite there yet.

Tanydwr: Extra bit was in the prophecy in ch 2- Harry only knows what J.K. R. wrote but I added a bit to that.

I apologise 'cos I haven't checked this very well, hope it's ok.

So on we go……..Hope you like!!!!!

A warrior for the light

Unusual though it was Buffy and Dawn were following instructions to a T, Dumbledore's instructions to be precise. He had suggested they explore the castle which they had done in the morning and asked them to have lunch with him in his office which is why we join them there. They had not been there long yet Dawn was already attacking a burger and chips (she had been very disturbed to learn that fries were no longer to be called fries and that chips were actually crisps.) Dumbledore had been faintly amused by the young American girl's requested luncheon and decided to be adventurous and have the same, Buffy did not. There was very little conversation while they were eating, Dawn asked a few questions about magic which Dumbledore answered briefly and he asked a few questions about their life which Buffy answered even more briefly, and not fully comprehensibly. Suddenly the door to the office was flung open and a sallow skinned man with dark, slicked back hair stormed into the room.

"Headmaster." He gasped. "We have a problem. The Dark lord…he…he is planning to ascend." Buffy drew a sharp breath and Snape looked at Dumbledore's two guests for the first time, immediately pulling out his wand. "Oh Headmaster I…"

"It is quite alright Severus. This is Buffy Summers and her sister Dawn Summers. Anything you have to say to me may be said in front of them." Snape nodded curtly to the girls then turned back to the headmaster.

"Professor I really do need to speak to you privately. An ascension, it will make the Dark Lord invincible. I do not know how but it must be stopped."

"Ooh I know." Dawn squealed her hand darting into the air and causing Buffy to shoot her an irritated look. Snape however ignored Dawn and continued talking to Dumbledore.

"We need a plan now, and even if we act immediately I do not know if we can stop him in time."

"I told you" Dawn said cutting off Dumbledore's reply. "We've been there, done that, got the T-shirt."

"Dawn." Buffy hissed and Dawn rolled her eyes.

"Ok so buffy got the T-shirt, I just borrow it sometimes."

"Dawn." Buffy said louder and with more annoyance.

"What? I said you stopped the ascension. I gave you the credit." Buffy's eyes were wide with exasperation but both Dumbledore and Snape were staring at the sisters. It was Snape who broke the moment of awkward silence.

"That is impossible. No little girl could stop an ascension. It took a volcanic eruption and the destruction of an entire town to prevent the last unsuccessful one from being successful."

"Uh either rumours really raise the scale of things or you mean the one before last. I'm pretty sure the last one only used a few tonnes of explosives…and it was only the high school that was destroyed." Buffy said with a trace of anger at being called a little girl by someone called Severus.

"And what would make you such an expert?" Snape asked silkily with a look that said plainly he trusted Buffy about as much as he'd be able to hurt her (not that he knew just how little that would be.)

"I told you she did it." Dawn said excitedly bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet.

"And I already told you that's impossible." Snape retorted waspishly.

"Not if you're the slayer Greaseball." Dawn cried triumphantly getting carried away and causing Buffy to exclaim yet again in extreme annoyance,

"Dawn!"

The two wizards were staring very hard at Buffy.

"You are the slayer?" Dumbledore asked calmly, his blue eyes stony.

"The whater? No…she's lying, she's making it up…really." Buffy trailed off under Dumbledore's cool gaze.

"She is not lying. You are the slayer."

"Oh yeah, you can do that mind-reading thing. How 'bout if she's delusional?" Still Dumbledore stared at Buffy. "I suck at the whole secret identity thing, I don't know how Spiderman does it. Yeah I'm the slayer." Buffy would have continued with the whole slayer spiel but Snape cut in, a genuine tremor of fear in his voice.

"The Vampire Slayer?"

"No shit slimy."

"Headmaster she has to go. She cannot stay here, she must go to Azkaban."

"Where? what? What did I do?" Buffy babbled, confusedly.

"Headmaster it is too dangerous."

"Now hang on a minute. I know I blew up the school but I swear it was only to stop the ascension. And the Hemery gym was…"

"See." Snape interrupted. "headmaster the slayer is a liability at Hogwarts. She has to do."

"I'm not gonna blow anything up. I swear." Buffy said in a small voice.

"Miss Summers…Buffy, you know that the slayer line arises from the slayer line arises from great darkness." Dumbledore began.

"Yeah I got the memo but slimeo here must have missed his 'cos we're the good guys now." Dumbledore saw Snape open his mouth to respond but cut the potions master off.

"That may be so. It has been a long time since the magical world had a slayer, in fact you are possibly one of less than five slayer witches in history."
"She is a witch as well?" Snape interrupted but Dumbledore continued as if he had not.

"You see the stigma of evil is not one easily erased and the last slayer witch gave rise ro one of the greatest evils that walked this earth."

"Ok Faith may be evil but she's not that evil. Hang on. Faith's a witch?" Buffy asked genuinely surprised.

"Faith?" Snape repeated obviously not understanding.

"The other…you know what obviously not faith, never mind." Buffy said not wanting to delve into the story of the rogue slayer.

"The slayer I mean is Audi Zeva. She attended Hogwarts with me actually although she was in Slytherin and I in Gryffindor. I believe she was called in our final year and kept it a secret." Buffy flushed red but Dumbledore did not pause. "It was only later I found out the truth, when I taught her son."

"A slayer had a son?" Buffy had not known any slayers had even lived long enough to have children.

"Indeed and he is the evil she gave rise to. You see the son of the last slayer witch is Lord Voldemort."

There was silence for a moment following this declaration, then Buffy spoke.

"Was she…"

"Evil?" Dumbledore supplied. "I do not know. Evil ran in her veins, the blood of Salazaar Slytherin contributed no doubt as did the darkness her power stemmed from but she was called as a warrior for good, whether she was a turncoat I do not know."

"So what do we do with her?" Snape asked Dumbledore and indicating Buffy. "We do not know where her loyalties lie either." Buffy was hurt by these words although not all together surprised. Such was the price of being the slayer, those whose lives you touched or saved or both never knew. No one would ever thank you or recognise you, they may fear you or despise you and yet, like those before her, Buffy would continue to help the ungrateful, to touch those without belief.

"I believe we give her a chance Severus, as I do with many."

"But this is more serious Headmaster, think of the damage she could do."

"No no" Buffy spoke up. "Go with the chances, chances are good."

"Yet so are insight and certainty, particularly when our security is at stake." Buffy could relate to Dumbledore's words. Though she did not like to think what he may do to her she knew that letting an character of unknown quantities infiltrate your foundations could be deadly, and Dumbledore had no reason to believe her when he could not even feel the truth of what she might say.

"Shall I fetch the veritaserum?" Snape asked but Dumbledore shook his head.

"No, we have all we need right here. Severus the sorting hat please." Snape fetched the ragged grey hat from its stool and brought it to Dumbledore looking confused.

"You will put this hat on." Dumbledore told Buffy who looked at it suspiciously. "It will be able to read inside you even though I can not."

"I thought you didn't like reading people's minds." Buffy protested but as ever Dumbledore was ready with the answer.

"I do not but security is my priority at the moment. Besides the sorting hat is not merely a reader of minds but of character. It judges everyone to pass into this school, sorting them into a house. It will tell me only what I am suited to know about you, the rest only you will hear. Will you put the hat on please." Buffy nodded and Dumbledore placed the hat on her head where it immediately fell over her eyes. A moment later a small voice whispered in Buffy's ear."

"Oh dearie me what have we here…a slayer no less yet not to be sorted. You wish to know your character…no the headmaster wishes to know your character…you are scared to hear it."

"No." Buffy thought. "No I'm not scared."

"I suppose scared is not the right word." The hat said pensively. "You shy from it though, as if you do not want to know. You doubt yourself because of choices you have made, because of what you set out to do. Your choices came form your power, a power of great darkness." Buffy's heart felt leaden, she knew that choices from darkness were not generally a sign of a good character. When the hat spoke again however Buffy could tell it was speaking out loud. "She makes choices now from her heart. The power that blights her life does not fully darken it. The dawn of goodness breaks through the shadows within. She judges with her heart, she knows when one is truly redeemed. She is a light fighting the darkness every day and will accept only those who are of light to gain her trust, and her respect. She is the one headmaster, the chosen one, chosen for a destiny of darkness, but made to be guiding flame through it."

The hat fell silent and Buffy slowly lifted it off her eyes. The three other occupants in the room along with all the portraits were staring at her, Phineas Nigellus with a particular intensity.

"I think," Dumbledore said, "We may believe Miss Summers to take our side."

So lots of talk I know but happy now there's been the revelation? More action very soon-If You Review!!!!!Please!!!!!