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CHAPTER 5: Elle's letter and the return of the parents.

Ellouise smiled. Her cousin was finally coming home. After another year away he was coming home. She had missed him so much.

It was always a bit more awkward than it had been when he lived with the family at Privet Drive but regardless she was excited. This year she was changing schools and as predicted she came top of the class. Every school she had so far applied said yes. But the one school she had really dreamed of going to for two years had so far not sent her anything. Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry.

It was so exciting to her mind. Last summer Harry had told her so much about it. Riding brooms, half giants who kept fire breathing dragons and 3 headed dogs. It was like something out of a fairy story.

She and Harry wrote to each other (at night because if her parents knew they would be so mad with her) but it wasn't the same. Elle thought back two years ago when he had first left for his new life.

-Flashback-

He had just given Dudley a pig's tale. Oh my god thought Elle.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have lost my temper." said the giant.

Harry smiled. For a bit longer the three of them stayed up after the other members of the Dursleys left the room.

In the morning just before the giant, named Hagrid and Harry left Hagrid had said something that had forever since played on ellouise's mind.

"Don't worry, Ellouise you'll follow in your parent's foot steps soon as well". But her parents had never gone to Hogwarts, had they? Oh well, maybe he had just made a mistake. There had to be a mistake.

-End flashback-

At that moment there was a knock at the door. She ran downstairs and opened it.

"Harry!" she cried as she jumped in to his arms.

"Hi Ellouise, I've missed you so much" said Harry beaming at his little cousin.

"Me two"

"What you've missed yourself?" the two laughed. It was so good to be back with their first best friend again.

"Don't be stupid you know what I mean!"

"Yeah, I know." The two hugged before harry took her hand in his. "I've so much to tell you, come on!" The cousin's run up the stairs and talked enjoying each other company for a long time. Elle cried when she heard what Harry had been through that year much like she had the last. To hear what her beloved cousin did, being a hero all the time, endangering his life scared her half to death most of the time when she heard the stories. It was so much easier to keep him safe when he lived at home. He just held her close till dinner. He had missed hugging her. She was quite content just to be there when a horrid thought came to her mind.

"Harry" she said sleepily

"Yes?"

"Aunt Marge is coming to stay this summer"

"Oh no!" Harry made pretend crying noises making Elle giggle" we'll survive, baby cousin"

"I hope so!" she laughed.

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Finally it was Harry's birthday night. His aunt and uncle had become cold towards him since he had started at Hogwarts so it was just him and Elle. Dudley after receiving the pigs tail had been scared stiff of Harry. They were excitedly unwrapping his presents so far he had got a pocket sneakoscope , a broom servicing kit and a monsters book of monsters. Elle had got him a couple of new t –shirts.

All of a sudden a fourth owl had come to the window it had a letter attached to its leg Harry unattached it from the leg and looked at it expecting it to be for him but it wasn't. It was for Elle! It was an acceptance letter!

"Elle!"

"What?" she said tiredly. How could he be so excited, it was 1 in the morning? Then again she loved her birthday too and was exactly the same .

"It's come!"

"What's come?"

"Your letter! Your Hogwarts letter!"

"What! Really? Please don't say you're joking" this had definitely taken away her tiredness.

She read it. It was exactly what her cousin had said it was. She couldn't say how happy she was. She was going to experience real magic. Be part of Harry's life again! Then a terrible thought came to her mind. One that made tears come to her eyes.

"Elle, honey what's wrong?" said Harry concerned." This is amazing news, please, honey don't cry"

"I know and honestly I can't wait to start this whole new life…But how do I tell me father, a man who hates magic but loves me, I'm going to Hogwarts? I don't want to lose my dads love!" she looked down tears silently falling from her eyes. "I've dreamt of this moment, Harry, it wasn't meant to feel like this. I was meant to be on top of the world, I wasn't meant to feel guilty for wanting this."

Harry pitied the girl. He knew how close her she was to her father. He knew how he was her idol and hero and she was his beloved star and a centre point of his life. "You're going right?"

"Of course I am!"

"Good. I'm glad to have you coming with me this year like part of my, our, world. We can be together all year again." He wanted so badly to raise her spirits. He wanted her there with him.

"I know! It will be great but I have to tell my family and I'm dreading it. It will be the most terrible moment of my life!" she tried to explain how she felt.

"I'll be there with you I swear and besides it might not even be so bad "Harry tried to comfort her and hugged her from behind. "But Elle just to warn you , well you saw what happened last year and I'm not leaving with out you so be packed and ready to leave at any time."

Elle took a deep breath. This was so hard and exciting. She was torn in two. But she knew what the right thing for her to do now was. She turned in his embrace and looked down not looking at him till her forced her too tilting her head up tenderly. "Okay."

After saying goodnight she quietly walked back to her room only pausing outside her brother's room to hear him dreaming peacefully. More tears spilled over. What about Dudley. She lose her place in his heart forever…but it was to late to change her mind now the letter was being flown back to Hogwarts now and in the morning her name would be ticked off as one of the new first years on her way in to Hogwarts.

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" I'd better go and get Marge in a minute petunia her trains comes in at 10." Vernon said.

"Damn!" joked Harry

"Don't be so rude, boy" snapped his aunt. "Now go and clean your room."

"Yes aunt Petunia" Harry sighed. As he walked up the stairs he passed Ellouise who looked tired, pale and ill.

"Honey, are you ok" he asked.

"No, I'm not, I feel really bad"

"Aww, poor you" said Harry sympathetically before turning more serious "Have you told them yet?"

"No, not quite but soon I will, I promise you" she said quickly.

"Okay Elle, calm down!" she just moaned in reply ."Go get some medicine"

"Ok" she walked in to the kitchen and her family was instantly worried about her. She had come down in her dressing gown for starters and rarely did she look anything from perfect in, really well any ones company, but now her eyes were glazed and she just looked exhausted. She crossed the room to her father and buried herself in his shoulder making Vernon's concerned heighten even further. They hugged and showed each other affection daily but never like this like had his daughter needed his support before.

"Princess, what's wrong?" he'd noticed a change in her behavior a few weeks ago now, but she was plainly ill today.

"I don't feel well dad! My heads so sore and I feel dizzy!" she started crying, shaking and shivering in his arms.

"Dudley go and get her duvet, now!" he barked at the alarmed boy. "Come on darling in to the living room and lay down" he said supporting her till they were there and he laid her head down in his lap.

"Pet, love, could you fetch Marge" Vernon asked his wife "I don't think I should leave the little one, do you?"

" Of course not she needs you, I'll get your sister" she kissed both her husband and her daughter. This was the times when she almost wanted to hold Ellouise for she had developed feelings for the young girl over the years but it was too late for them to be as close as Elle and her supposed father, for his love had come easily and automatically for her and he had never hesitated too be there by her side when she was in need unlike she had.

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Many miles away in a forest a stag woke up. He felt something leaning against him and he looked down to see a tiger laying there that was also waking up. Her emerald eyes toke a moment to focus on the stag and she seemed happy to see him. They felt like they had slept for an unnatural long time. Then all of a sudden the tiger was alarmed. Where were they? Where were her precious young cubs? They both instantly started searching for the cubs only disturbed by a bark of a large black dog. At firstly the dog seemed to want to kill the tiger and the stag but he instead sniffed them. Yup, as unbelievable as it was there they were. His surrogate brother and his wife whom he had not seen in 13 whole long years, ALIVE! After much rejoicing and play fights because they were so glad to see each other the tiger looked at the sky. A full moon shone in the sky. They all ran off trying to find a scent of as werewolf, whom they all loved very much, he would need them. The cubs may be with him. "No" thought the tiger" they will be, there's no might about it, where else would the babies be?"

A/n : okay done(finally) very tired of this chapter. I had a HUGE block and was unable to write. Glad to be done. No more before New Year on this story I don't think. I'm half way through a chapter for my Josomir story and well I hope to be done on that by Christmas Eve and then the visiting round begins going to see my aunts, uncles , cousins and grandparents! SO merry Christmas to every one reading my story and I'd be so grateful if you could give me a present and review.