By the end of the day Alexis new everything I knew about the castle. Considering I had the marauder's map this was quite a bit. In the beginning I had been reluctant to share a lot of information. But the more I talked to her the more I trusted her. It wasn't as though she was even trying to convince me to trust her. If anything it would be the opposite. I still only got one word answers from her, but it was defiantly an improvement upon last night.
Ron and Hermione were very insistent on knowing where I had been all day. As soon as Alexis and I walked through the porthole they were asking me questions. I noticed people watching us and told Ron and Hermione I wasn't telling them anything. Asking me questions in front of everyone was drawing attention to the fact that Alexis and I had both missed classes. I hoped telling Ron and Hermione I wasn't going to tell them anything would make other people think we had just had a prolonged snogging session and wouldn't try finding out the real reason. After saying this I gave both of them a quick but significant glance. Not anything onlookers would get ideas about but my tow best mates in the world would understand. We would talk later.
After this I changed the subject. "Guys met Alexis. Alexis this is Ron Wesley and Hermione Granger. There also in 6th year."
"Nice to meet you," Hermione said. She waited a moment for Ron to say something then elbowed him in his ribs.
"Owe what you do that for."
"Say something."
"Oh…Yeah…Right…Hi: everything was quiet for another moment until Alexis chuckled softly. I had to do a double take because I wasn't even sure she knew how. I'd been trying to get some sign of amusement out of her all day. Once I realized I was staring I quickly looked at Ron. He had a sort of sheepish grin stuck on his face. I guess if you weren't used to this sort of thing it would be very funny. "Anyways we were just coming back to ask if you guys wanted to join us for dinner. We were sort of…busy and missed it." I said building on the snoging idea.
"Yea that sounds great." Ron said. He never ate enough food.
""I promised Ginny I would talk to her tonight about something," Hermione said.
"So bring her along and talk to her then," I said.
Ginny's Point of View
I stood pacing in the girls dormitories. I thought Hermione would have been here by now. We weren't the best of friends, but I trusted her. She wouldn't just not come without some kind of generic reason. I think if we were in the same year we would be really good friends. But we weren't so we didn't have any classes together. Not only that, but with all the things Harry and Ron get her involved in, we hardly every have a chance to talk. If it wasn't for all the time she spends at the burrow and now at Headquarters last summer that I had the chance to try and get to know her. Now I really needed to talk to her. She was the only person who could help me with my current problem. Just as I started to really freak out, Hermione walked through the door. "What took you so long," I asked in a rush.
"Harry missed all his classes and Ron and I were worried. He just got back with Alexis a few minutes ago."
"Were was he wait a sec Alexis who's she?"
"Remember the new girl who was sorted into Gryffindor last nigh."
"The one he couldn't keep his eyes off of." I said under my breath.
"What was that, I missed it?"
"Oh I just said
where was he all day."
"Yeah right…I don't know he's
going to tell us at dinner. They missed it. So were going to the
kitchens. You want to come. I know you needed to talk to me but I
thought you could talk to me then."
"Well its not really something I want to talk to everyone about but yeah I'll go to dinner with you. I'm interested in what Harry's got in store for this years excitement." We both had a small laugh about this. It was funny on the surface but if you thought about it, it is rather odd. Why did Voldermort care so much about Harry. He's only a 16 year old boy. What made him so special?
Hermione's point of view
I was very interested in what Harry was up to. It was obvious he was trying to cover up that he missed class in front of everyone. It was odd as well that he had been with Alexis. What would Harry possibly have to do with her? Nobody even knew her yet. She hadn't really given anyone the chance. Finally we reached the picture of fruit that hid the entrance to the kitchens. I was about to burst with curiousness about all this. Harry was the firs one though and in seconds was pounced on by dobby. "Harry Potter sir I was not expecting to see you yet. What can dobby do for Harry Potter sir?"
"Hey Dobby, do you have any place that's private. My new friend and I missed dinner and I was hoping we could grab something from down here."
"Yes Harry Potter sir Dobby knows of the perfect spot for Harry Potter to have a nice private dinner with his friends."
To say I was shocked with what Harry's explanation would be an understatement. Voldermort…daughter…wow…wow…My brain was for once going pretty slow. This was a lot to take in. Finally after a few moments of silence it started in overtime again. If she fought on our side it could be the edge we needed. "So what do you think about all this," I asked. So far I hadn't heard her say a single word. And come to think of I Harry still hadn't said why he missed all day. My mind was going in a hundred different directions. This was one of those times I would run out of the room to the library while Ron called me 'barking mad.' Harry was talking again.
"Then today I decided to wait until tomorrow to start classes and take the chance today to get to know Alexis." Harry finished and looked around.
This all made sense I guess. Harry had to trust Alexis. Nothing of Dumbledore's plans could go into action if there was not a strong bond of trust built up. Trust was the key to Dumbledore's plan. Somehow I just knew it. I didn't know how that was going to happen, how do you trust someone you just met and found out they were the offspring of the most evil man on earth. Harry met my eyes. Without saying anything I knew what he was trying to say. "Help me"
And that was just what I intended to do.
End Chapter 2!
Well I know its really short, but I liked how that ended. I'm sorry for the very long delay in updating. But don't worry I'm on spring brake now so I should have plenty of time to work on the story. Chapter three is already well underway as well. I'm hopping to update two more times this week so check up often! Now on to responding to my two wonderful reviews. Please send me a review. I really love them, even if you just say 'it sucks' I promise to respond to EVERY review I get so please please please send me ANYTHING.
Lux Aeterna – I want to start with saying I appreciate the review! Responding to some of the stuff you said…First off I knowingly created her to be a Mary-Sue. I can't say more than that without giving anything away. I also stated that Harry understood that "you can't help who you were related to." As for ripping off the line from return of the king, I've never seen lord of the rings so that's not what I did. Dumbledore is out of character because he doesn't know how to act around Harry (Although I must admit he's one of the hardest characters to write about) The last on is its Americanized because I'm from America. I'll try to tone it down a bit. Thanks for your very honest review. Please stick with me till the end.
Girlygirl75 – I loved your review. It was the first really positive one I've ever received. Considering that my grand total is 2 that's not saying much, but I still really enjoyed reading it. Please stick around for the chapters still to come.
