A/N: This stuff isn't mine, except for the characters I made up... and in a way they aren't mine either, because most of their last names are used In JKR's Harry Potter. Oh well... so yepp... still not mine...
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Dumbledore came to the door almost instantly.
"What is wrong?" He said, a worried expression in his pale gray eyes.
Lani was having trouble catching her breath. "Voldemort... dad... alive... dueling... no Priori Incantatem..."
Dumbledore was a master at nervous language and pieced her words together. "Your father and Voldemort are alive?" Both Eliza and Will flinched at the name. He continued, "Their dueling? How is there no Priori Incantatem?" He said calmly, but Lani was anything but calm.
She finally got her voice to work properly. "I gave him my wand" she replied simply. "This is his". She pulled her father's wand from her robes.
Dumbledore took the wand from Lani and examined it closely. "Yes... this is his wand..."
A very large bird landed on his shoulder, making Lani, Eliza and Will jump back.
"What...?" Lani began, then realized what the bird was, a phoenix. The bird was lowering his head towards the wand, and when Dumbledore gave it back to Lani, He jumped on her shoulder and refused to move.
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Lani explained the entire story and Dumbledore and her two friends listened intently, though when she finished, she was definitely caught unawares by Dumbledore's response.
"I understand your worry, Elana, though I am afraid there is nothing I can do, and I must ask you to stay here."
"But why!" Lani forgot her manners. "You're the most powerful wizard alive!"
Dumbledore shook his head.
"You see, we cannot interfere with a prophecy" He sighed. "The Potter family is the only family that has a chance of defeating Voldemort" He said in an annoyingly calm voice.
"I'm a Potter!" Lani screamed furiously.
"Yes, well... Elana, There's something I have to show you..." He said, and as he said it he walked to a closet and took out what looked like a bird bath except the water was sort of like light.
" I made the mistake of not telling your father about this until he was fifteen, and I don't intend to make that mistake again."
"What---?" Lani began, but Dumbledore took out his wand and poked the water with it.
A middle-aged woman with half-moon spectacles and bug-like eyes appeared. She started to speak in a very harsh tone.
"THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES... BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES... AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT... AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES... THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES..."
"What...?" she paused, trying to decipher the meaning, but Eliza spoke up first.
"That... that sounds just like my father as well." she said, in a slightly scared voice.
"You're right, Elizabeth. There was a possibility between two people that that prophecy could've referred to. One was Harry Potter, The other, Neville Longbottom... Though your father, Elana, was marked as his equal. That scar is the mark."
He then touched his wand to his head, and pulled a strand of silver from it and put it in the bird-bath looking thing. Then he told Lani to touch it.
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Lani was in Dumbledore's office, but it was different, she looked around and saw Dumbledore talking to a boy with wild-looking black hair. She walked up to them
"Where am I?" She questioned, but neither the boy nor Dumbledore seemed to hear her, then she decided to listen to what they were saying, considering that's what she figured Dumbledore wanted her to do.
(A/N-Don't kill me... I took this exactly from book five, apart from Lani's thoughts, this isn't mine)
"Professor Dumbledore?" the boy said quietly, "It... did that mean... what did that mean?"
"It meant", said Dumbledore, "That the only person who has a chance of conquering Lord Voldemort for good was born at the end of July, nearly sixteen years ago. This boy would be born to parents who had already defied Voldemort three times."
My father! Lani thought. This boy is my father! she listened intently.
"It means--me?" Harry questioned.
"The odd thing is, Harry, that it may not have been you at all., Sibylls prophecy could have applied to two wizard boys, both born at the end of July that year, both of whom had parents in the Order Of the Phoenix, both sets of parents having narrowly escaped Voldemort three times, one, of course, was you. The other was Neville Longbottom"
The Order of the Phoenix? What is that? Lani thought, but before she could listen any more, the current Dumbledore came and told her it was time to leave.
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Lani left ten minutes later, but, as opposed to what she told Dumbledore, she had no intention on staying where she was, she was going back to where her father was. The Phoenix, whose name was Fawkes, wouldn't leave her shoulder, and Dumbledore said he wasn't going to force him to if Lani didn't mind, and she didn't, so he was coming on their little adventure as well.
Lani ran outside as fast as she possibly could towards where she put the twig.
"Where are you going?" Will said in a nervous voice
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"Back to where my father is" She noticed that she sounded a lot more brave than she felt.
"But Dumbledore said not to" Eliza chirped
"Well, I'm not going to just let my dad die! You guys just stay here, I'm going" Lani said irritably, then she stalked off towards where the twig was.
"We're coming" Will said, and they followed her to the place where the twig was.
"No, If it was a dumb idea to go I'm not going to get you guys killed for my stupidity." she said dryly, but they kept following her, she finally gave in to let them come.
Lani found the twig. "Are you guys sure you want to come?" she said nervously, "Fawkes, are you sure you want to come?" she asked the phoenix, then stroked his feathers, they all nodded, even Fawkes, and on the count of three they all grabbed the twig and disappeared in a swirl of wind and colour.
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Short chapter.. I know, but it's hard to decide where to end them without starting something else. please review, I really appreciate them!
