Chapter 5

The truth behind a pretty face… or is it?

(Narrator P.O.V)

Suddenly he heard Hermione gasp.

"You're a demon!" Hermione nearly screamed.

Harry looked up at his 'sister' to see that her burning red hair had lost its color and turned to shimmering silver. Her deep green eyes had turned to brilliant gold. If she was pretty before, she was absolutely beautiful now.

"That's right, Hermione." Amy said standing up straight, her scaled tail swishing gently before coming to rest on her forearm.

Harry noticed that she radiated a faint crimson light. A power flowed off of her in almost tangible waves. Something like wand magic but more powerful, Much more powerful.

"Now before you stands a secondary demon, I have…" Amy stopped and gazed at Hermione. "What is wrong?"

"She's a demon! Demons are known to be dangerous and evil and bad tempered!" Hermione squeaked.

"Yes, some demons are bad tempered and some are down right evil, but Hermione, you must keep this in mind, not all demons were created equal…" Amy said and gazed at Harry. "I could be very dangerous, if I lost my self-control. But that won't happen… not now." Amy lifted a elegantly clawed hand and gently stroked Harry's cheek. "Now I have priorities that call for my complete attention. Priorities that can push me to do certain things without regret. I have lived a lengthy life and I have never done or felt things that I have in the last thirteen years…" Amy said as her tail drifted to caress Harry's cheek where her hand had been.

"What do you mean?" Harry's voice was leaving him, but he didn't care as he leaned into the crimson caress.

"Your parents employed or rather adopted me to look over you, to protect and care for you after they were gone. Their demise came all too soon." Amy draped her tail around Harry's chest and stomach and wrapped her arms around Harry's shoulders, cradling his head on her chest.

"Now you are mine, mine to care for, mine to love and protect, but only if you wish it." Amy's voice was laced with sorrow as she spoke. Sirius, Ron, and Hermione looked on silently not wanting to break the feeling that had fallen over the car.

"Anything you want, I can give, but only if you wish it. Just ask me and I can do it, but only if you wish it…" Harry was floating somewhere, somewhere unfamiliar but somehow known to him. His friends were not here, he could feel them but not see them, he could hear them breathing, he could feel their heartbeats.

'This feeling…' he thought to himself and suddenly he heard Amy speaking to him. Her voice was slow, soft, kind, and relaxing.

"Only if you wish it, I will stay by you side… forever." He heard her voice say.

"I want you to stay," Harry felt himself say. " I need for you to stay,"

'Say it…' another voice urged.

"I wish for you to stay…" Harry was slowly fading back into the real world; the train car and all of his friends came swimming into view. He heard himself speaking but couldn't figure out what was coming out. He lifted his head and looked up at his sister. She was changing before his eyes. The silver of her hair was fading to black and the honey color of her eyes was giving way to deep emerald.

"You understand that I gave you the choice, either live life with the Durselys or with me. You chose me, you understand that you will be put through the same tribulations that I am." Amy said and Harry nodded. "It's good that you understand…"

"Sister, you are my sister no matter what any one says. If my parents thought of you to entrust my life to you then you must be worthy of the greatest of titles…" Harry said and a human Amy Potter smiled at him

"Sirius…" Amy said abruptly and Sirius changed into a great black dog just as the car door opened and the trolley came in.

"Amy!" the trolley witch said in astonishment. "You've come back to Hogwarts have you?"

Amy smiled and nodded.

"So have you come back to teach or back as a student?" the witch asked.

"Both, Dumbledore called me to join the faculty but I'd like it better if I didn't have to teach Divination and Potions." Amy said sighing.

"POTIONS?" Everyone (except Sirius) said.

Amy looked almost affronted.

"Yes, didn't you know? It seems that the good professor has fallen ill… a potion backfired. Surprising since he is the potions master…" Amy struck the cliché pose for thinking. "Dumbledore said something about him not being able to speak…"

"You mean Professor Snape won't ever be able to speak ever again!" Ron asked excitedly.

"No. He will be able to speak again before the first semester is over." Amy said ignoring the depressed sighs of the trio.

"You three should be happy to have such a teacher. He's devoted to his work even though he doesn't like it." Amy scolded. "Snape is a marvelous man, kind, sweet, and loyal." Amy received bewildered looks from all in the car.

"Are we talking about the same Snape?" Harry asked his sister who gave him a sneering grin.

"The one and only. He only acts like an ass because he doesn't know any better. He's a great person once you get to know how to read him. Not many can tell the difference between his cruel joking and when he's actually being serious. And he is a bit bitter…" Amy added as a side note.

"How can you speak of Snape as such?" The trolley witch asked. "Every time I see you with him he is insulting you. But yet you speak of him as if he were worthy of your attentions…" Amy's eyes hardened only for a second.

"Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, it doesn't really matter that much." She said and picked up a chocolate frog from the trolley. Her voice had been finalizing and ended the conversation. Ron, Harry, and Hermione started to get what they wanted from the trolley.

Harry noticed Amy was doing something to her hand. Upon closer inspection he say that she had pushed her right hand into the palm of her left. She left her hand there for a moment then started to retract it. With her right hand came a bag that she hadn't had before. Amy stood and collected varied items for the trolley then place the bag onto the trolley and the witch pushed the trolley out of the car.

"Wait, we didn't get a chance to pay." Hermione said but it was too late the witch was gone and the car door closed.

"Don't worry, I paid her more than enough." Amy said and laid back across her seat and fed chocolate frogs to Sirius.

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It's been far too long since I put up a new story or updated for that matter…

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