Disclaimer: See Ch. 2
By: js140deg
Romance, Humor, and Love
Chapter 5: The Discovery
Recap:
"Um, hey, guys? How about we wait. I mean, Voldemort will be expecting us, so why don't we wait a few days, or a week, and then go, when his guard is down." Harry said stopping a few feet from the entrance to the street. Hermione and Ron turned, and their draws dropped in almost perfect unison. Apparently they couldn't believe he was saying it either.
"Uh, well, sure, I guess that's a good idea…"Hermione said, stuttering slightly.
"Yeah, we could probably do that, but what would we do in the meantime?" Ron asked taking a step forward.
"Well, you know that little girl's mom on the train? I could have sworn I knew her from somewhere. I know it sounds kind of crazy, but-"
"Yeah…I thought the same thing, I thought it was just me" Hermione said, cutting Harry off.
"Me too, it was weird." Ron added.
"Alright, lets go then, I think she went that way" Harry said point to the right of the entrance to the street.
And so they set off in search of the mysterious woman from the train.
Chapter 5: the discovery
Harry, Ron and Hermione decided to go and split up. Hermione and Ron went one way, and Harry went the other. Harry tried to peak over the crowded street to see the women and the young girl. Harry then saw Ron and Hermione further down the street, and they were traveling at a fast pace. He ran down the street, knocking over a few people on the way, and met the 2 at the entrance of the Leaky Cauldron.
"Harry, there you are! We found her, she went into that little neighborhood over there." Hermione pointed to the small neighborhood that she was talking about.
"Good, lets go." Harry said as he started walking towards it. The trio looked around the muggle town. It was strange, what was she doing here? Ron, being as tall as he was, sighted the woman walking with her daughter up some stone steps to a fusia colored house. The woman was welcomed into the house by a tall witch with black hair. Harry stopped out of sight to the house, but he saw that the name "Halliwell" was engraved on the front of one of the steps. Harry made a mental note to check out the name later.
They only had to wait about 10 minutes before she came out again. She kissed her daughter and hugged the woman goodbye before going back down the steps. When she came out the house, she had a new change in clothes. When she was on the train she was wearing a pair of dress pants, heels, and a shirt that was loose. She no longer had her purse. Now, she was wearing heels about 2 inches high, jeans, and a more form-fitting shirt. She wore a thick black chocker on her neck. In her arms, she carried what looked like a light black cloak. He could hear Ron ogling over the woman's form. Harry had to admit, she looked in good shape.
She walked down the street back towards Harry Ron and Hermione. The 3 scattered and went out of the woman's range of view, but they could plainly see that she was going back toward the Leaky Cauldron. She walked in, and of course Harry, Ron and Hermione followed her. When she got to Diagon Alley, she put on the cloak and masked her face with the hood. She walked straight through the Alley full of people into the dark corner that led to Knockturn Alley. To Harry's mind, she didn't seem to notice that she was being followed, but he was wrong. As soon as she stepped foot down the stairs, she took off running. She turned into an alley, in which she disappeared.
"No fair, did she apperate?" Ron panted
"No way! You can't apperate in and out of these alleys, or else everyone would." Hermione said, as she started to look around. Harry said nothing as he looked around too. He walked to the end of the alleyway to walk straight into something invisible. He stepped back and took out his wand and said "Rictusempra". Strangely enough, the spell blasted off whatever invisible thing that was there, and revealed a green, half-circle, transparent shield. When the shield went down, Harry saw 2 fingers pointed at him, and a bolt of electricity shot at him, blasting him clear out of the alley.
"Harry!!" Ron and Hermione yelled. Hermione rushed over to him while Ron took out his wand and yelled "Stupefy!" the woman barley dodged when Ron shouted "Dormitoria!". This spell hit the woman straight in the chest, and made her collapse.
The woman awoke about an hour later. 'Where am I?' she thought 'o goodness, ANASTASIA!!' she began to panic. She opened her eyes and was shocked when she saw that she was lying in a room that looked like an insanity ward. 'Screw this' she thought, and tried to apperate out. She received a shock when she tried that caused her to yelp out in pain. When she yelped, Harry Ron and Hermione came back in with Dumbledore.
"Now miss, please calm down" Dumbledore said in his famously calm tone. Asia glared at them with cold eyes. She needed to get out of here, she had things to do!!!!
"Let me out" she demanded
"We have questions-" Hermione said
"So do I, but we can't always get what we wan now can we?" she said coldly. Harry was surprised by the woman's attitude. She didn't seem like this was the person that she really was.
"What's your name?" Harry asked
"What's yours?" she asked
"I'm albus Dumbledore, this is Harry potter, Hermione granger, and Ronald Wesley." Dumbledore said calmly. The woman seemed shocked at Harry's name, but reluctantly responded "the names Asia stone."
"Well that's a start." Ron said
"Start? What do you guys want? You knock me out in an alley, and bring me to who knows where! I don't even know you!"
"Where did you get that mark? Is it a tattoo?" Harry asked. Asia's eyes squinted slightly and turned a deep shade of green.
"Whom do you work for?" she asked
"The ministry of magic. Please Mrs. Stone, were only trying to help-"
"DONT call me that!" Asia yelled. The room went silent before Dumbledore suggested that Harry Ron and Hermione leave. Once they were gone, Dumbledore looked at Asia and said gently "Asia, they need to know the truth, and I do too. You disappeared off the ministry's radar and gave me quite the scare."
"Dumbledore, quit talking to me like I'm a kid. I know the ministry lost track of me."
"Why didn't you come back to us? To at least let us know that you were alive"
"For what? To get lectured about how he was a good-fro-nothing who couldn't be trusted? Yea yea, I know now. And I couldn't come back even if I did see it."
"Why?"
"I have a daughter...Anastasia. I didn't want her to find out what was really going on with her father. And I didn't want 'him' to get to her. I guess I should've come back, but I got a liking to having a normal life. Don't get me wrong, she knows about magic, but a life without...you know, people missing and dieing and a bunch of chaos. I'm sorry Dumbledore." Asia's voice was soft; much softer than that of which she spoke to Harry, Ron, and Hermione with.
"Tell me one more thing however," Dumbledore, said, "why did you tell Harry your name was Asia stone?"
"Because I don't think he's ready for another potter...2 infect" Asia said with a smirk. "But they do disserve an explanation" Asia confessed with an annoyed tone. Dumbledore's famous eye twinkle does it again!
Asia and Dumbledore walked out of the room casually. Her face was calm and cool and rather warm.
"We both have some explaining to do," she said with an apologetic smile. Dumbledore left them alone as Asia, Harry, Ron, and Hermione left to the outside. They sat in a park under the shade of a tree.
"Before we start, spill. Why were you tailing me?"
"You looked familiar, sorry. But did you have to shock me into another era?" Harry said playfully
"No one has ever been able to sense me when my invisibility shield is up. I have to admit you, gave me a scare when you made it show. And I gave you a low voltage blast, nothing to serious." Asia said almost casually. She chuckled at everyone's expression of disbelief. "No, but really, I could have done worse."
"Note to self, never tick you off." Ron said to himself. Everyone gave a small chuckle before smiling and telling him or her her story:
"Well, it's like this. My parents are dead. They were killed a long time ago, so my 3 godmothers raised me. We were, well, happy. I went to school and graduated when I was 16."
"But you're a witch," Hermione said confused "and I never saw you in Hogwarts."
"Because I went to a different school. Not the other 2 schools, but another one you never heard of. I went to the Extraordinary Youngsters Academy in Germany. That, is where I had to go to learn how to control my powers. As you've noticed, I don't go for my wand unless I really need it. Actually, I barley use it." Asia paused. Seeing all the faces, she said "oh yea, the reason I have these powers is because of my mother. She was emotional eyed, that's what the mark on my head means. My daughter, as you've met, has the same mark on the palm of her hand."
"Wait, emotional eyed? You, your mum, and your daughter? How is that? There has never been a record of more than 1 emotional eyed witch in any family for centuries. The only one that was was killed because she lost control." Hermione said
"Amelia Carnoft. Yes, I know all about her. And I know about the genetic thing too. You see, that's another reason why I lived in Germany. My parents were killed in Britain. My godmothers left to Germany not only because it was where the E.Y.A was, but because it was where they had a small house to hide with me. The ministry considered killing me when they found that I was emotional eyes."
"Don't you think that you're in danger now? You and your daughter?" Ron asked
"Well, when am I not in danger? And my daughter has barley come into her powers. She only has telekinesis, and it's rather weak.
"There's another thing though," Harry said "why did she say that you know more about me than I do?" Harry asked.
"Well, I tell her stories about you...since they were told to me." Asia said truthfully. "Why don't you meet her? I have to go pick her up anyway since you guys sort of spoiled my plans."
"What were you doing that involved Knockturn alley?" Harry asked
"Well, trying to lose you one, and two, I have a score to settle." Asia said, and no one asked anymore.
Harry's POV
I like her, she's nice. But how could a woman so beautiful be so cold sometimes? At least her life is happy, but now it isn't since she sounded so angry. But...her story sounds familiar. Why?
End POV
