THE SECRETS WITHIN

A/N Here's chapter 2! Hope you like it!!! Special thanks to Nidawi for been my first reviewer!!! THANKIES! -kisses yo feet- -coughs some cat hair ball- -gets pelted by an angry mob and a monkey- o.O

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"Noone to trust

And nobody to talk to

I was alone in this cruel world

Until a little bit of light

Focused on my face"

" I am your godmother " the woman smiled.

Harry choked and cleared his throat.

" Pardon me? " Harry narrowed his eyes.

" I am your godmother, Harry "

" I'm sorry mam, but . . . I thought I heard you say, you were my . . . godmother? "

The woman again laughed heartily

" And so stubborn like your father! "

Harry gave her a puzzled look as he stared at the woman as in waiting for her answer.

"Yes, Harry my darling, you heard right; I am your godmother" she took his hand in hers.

"But. . .how?" Harry again gave a puzzled look.

"Well, first things first. Let me introduce myself; Hello, I'm Zusanne, nice to meet... you at last!"

" I'm Harry Potter"

" I think, I already know that, mind you" Zusanne said raising an eyebrown.

" I know, I was just trying to be a gentleman" Harry grinned.

" I know that, honey" she smirked as she sat down muttering something like "pure father". Harry also sat down next to her and payed close attention as he prepaired himself to hear to all the story.

"Well, me and your mother,Lilly. We were best friends since the first year in Hogwarts, always did everything together and always told our secrets. However, in our 6th year, my parents got sended to Japan for a special work and we had to move there for at least six years. Your mother promised me, that if she married James Potter, though I knew by heart they would marry. . . we made a pact, that she would made me godmother of her first child. Within this pact there was left a mark, which is this one. . ." Zusanne slowly un-buttom two buttoms of her bluse.

Ron grow scarlet and looked somewhere else; Hermione just stared at him and tried not to laugh.

She slowly showed near her heart, a mark which looked as a birthmark. It had the form of a small heart and Harry just stared at it for just a few seconds.

She buttomed her bluse again.

"After that I lived over five years in Japan. However when the news about Lilly and James s' death reached my ears, I was thunderstruck and full of grief. I returned to England and looked for information everywhere. I then found out that Lilly and James had the opportunity of having a baby boy and named him Harry."

"I then knew that my pact with Lilly had come true, and that this mark would appear in this boy. I then tried to looked for you, I searched everywhere and asked everyone that knew about the news, but nobody knew where was the boy who lived."

"Until I told myself that there was only one person who I knew for sure that he could tell me where you were....yes, Professor Dumbledore. I came back home, I came back to my sweet school years....I came back to Hogwarts".

"There. He greeted me with open arms...I wonder how he can always remember your name? no matter if you were the little mice of the house, he could say your name with your last name and all; Dumbledore is some special wizard with so many talents...anyways,I told him the pact me and Lilly made in our school years and asked him if he knew were you were".

"He said yes, but could not tell me, for he knew too well,and I couldn't understand it at first why couldn't I at least see my godson. You see Harry, not only did your mother and I made a pact, but we also made a...um, a sort of shield...that protects you, and only me and her could so that if one of us die or something, then the other one would still be protectingyou; onein flesh,and the otherin spirit."

"And Dumbledore, of course, knew that. This pact was stronger than what Lilly and I thought it was. How queer it's the magic, don't you think?--"

"Hmmm, so not only his mother was protecting him in spirit but also you were and still are protecting him in flesh, and so the two unite made this so call shield stronger..." Hermione said thoughfully.

"Indeed, you are, afterall, what they had told me...a very smart young witch, maybe the first one in centuries" Zusanne smiled kindly.

Hermione grow scarlet and smiled also.

"Yes, and that is why in order to protect you and me at the same time from Voldemort, he decided to not tell me where you were, but promised me that one day we shall meet again and that in this meeting I shall meet you".

"I see now, I think I under-- wait a second! you said Voldemort!" Harry said amazed.

"What about it?" Zusanne smiled as her eyes twinkled.

"Nobody says that! 'cept for me and well, Hermione....they do not dare say his name, they always say You-Know-Who"

"Why would I'd be afraid to say the name of an old prat?" Zusanne said smiling wider as her eyes became bigger trying to supress an inocent look.

Harry couldn't help himself but grin at his godmother.

"Afterall he did? he killed my best friend and her husband! loath is what I feel! not fear!" Zusanne said as her twinkling eyes became dull.

"But, it is okay now Harry, I moved again to London after going back to Japan and marrying and having kids; you shall meet them, their your age. Yes, today you'll meet them. It is time Harry dear,come live with me...what do you say?" Zusanne stared at Harry with twinkling eyes again.

Harry just smiled and couldn't help himself but hugged her. Zusanne was a little amazed but hugged him back.

"I say let's go home" Harry whispered as he let go of her and smiled at her.

"Good, get your stuff" Zusanne caressed his cheek and smiled back.

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A/N Woot!!! yay! chapter 2! Sucess!!! AND FINALLY!!! BOOK 6! HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE IS COMING YOUR WAY ON JULY 16TH!!! MY BD TOO!!! WOOHOOOO! I FEEL SO SPECIAL! pre-ordered it NOW! and now to conmemorate this moment, I will do a little dance -does a happy little jig- -like Ica, gets pelted by an angry mob...and the monkey...once again- >.> dang! they're everywhere!