An Unexpected Visitor

"You what?" came a half surprised half angry voice from the kitchen. "What is this school anyway?"

"I dunno, I just got the letter this morning…it seems like a really cool school."

"Honey, you know stuff like this doesn't exist. Someone's just probably trying to play a trick on you."

"Mom, I don't have any friends here, who would play a trick on me?"

"I don't know dear, it just doesn't seem right."

"Well, they said that someone would come and talk to me about the school. I want to go guys, I could actually find friends there."

"If you tried hard enough, you could find friends here too."

"But all these people are boring."

"Carter! Don't say that. I find most of them fairly nice. Except perhaps the Dursleys who live in the gray house own the street…"

Mrs. Evans had gotten welcome gifts from all of the neighbors except the Dursleys. When she went over to their house to greet them, all they did was slam the door in her face, thinking she was trying to sell them something.

Carter sat down at the table, eating his breakfast (eggs and bacon). He was a tall boy of fifteen, and had dark hair. His eyes were the most brilliant shade of blue anyone could look into, these he got from his mom. In his old school, he was the boy that all girls wanted to go out with. He played with his food, pushing the eggs around all sides of the plate before eating it.

Harry slowly walked down the stairs. Opening the door, he saw Uncle Vernon reading the morning papers, as usual. Dudley was sitting at the table, eying the food Aunt Petunia was preparing eagerly. At the sight of Harry, Aunt Petunia left the stove and beckoned Harry to finish the breakfast. He waited for the pancakes to cook, and then loaded them onto four plates. Handing each plate to his three relatives, Harry sat down. He hurriedly ate his rather small proportion and then went back up to his room. As he opened the door and was about to collapse onto his bed, he realized there was someone in the room with him.

"Hello Harry" said a girl with dark brown hair just past her shoulders. She was sitting on his bed, as though waiting for him. "My, it takes you a long time to eat. I've been up here for a while now."

"Umm….who are you?" he questioned to the girl starring at him.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I never really introduced my self, have I? My name is Anna, Harry. I'm Dumbledore's great granddaughter."

Dumbledore has a granddaughter? Since when? "Umm…I've never heard Professor Dumbledore mention that he had a granddaughter."

"That's because he doesn't like to talk about his family much. Not many people knew that he was one out of ten kids!"

"Right. What are you doing here?" Harry suddenly realized that this sounded very rude. "I was just a little surprised, I'm sorry."

"Apology accepted. Now, I was sent to ask you to do something for the school. I could, of course, do it my self; but Dumbledore said it would be better if you did it."

"What does he want me to do?"

"There's a new boy that has just moved here that is around our age. His name id Carter. Dumbledore wants him to join the school, because he definitely shows potential, but he feels he might need some help catching up with school work. That's were you and I come in. we're supposed to teach this guy all the spell work you've ever learned in school, and I'll be there to help you." she finished saying this with a broad smile on her face.

"So you're saying Dumbledore wants me to help teach this guy spells?"

"Well, basically, yes."

The doorbell rang suddenly. Mr. Evans got up from the table with an annoyed expression on his face. "Who could that be? It's only 6:43AM!" He walked into the hallway and could be heard opening the door. He then came back into the kitchen, closely followed by two teens. One, a tall and thin boy, had black hair and green eyes. He also, as Carter noticed, had a scar shaped like a bolt of lightning on his forehead. The other, a girl who was also tall and thin, had dark brown hair and hazel eyes, looked at Carter and smiled. Carter returned the smile, and arose from his seat.

"Um, who are you guys?…"

"My name is Anna, and this is Harry" she pointed to the boy. "I'm not exactly sure if you received your letter yet, but we're here to teach you some things before school starts." She ended her sentence, still, with a smile.

"So the school is real" Carter replied in awe. "You guys aren't kidding me?"

"Of course not! Why would anyone kid about something like this?" the girl, Anna, questioned.

Harry, who had been silent through the whole conversation, looked up at Mr. and Mrs. Evans. "I know this can be a little bit surprising, but if we're supposed to teach him spells that we've learned in the last four years in two months, we should probably start working."

"Right…right, of course." Mr. Evans stuttered. "The list said Carter needed certain things…um, where are we supposed to buy him a wand?"

"Not to worry Mr. Evans," said Anna. "We can take Carter to Diagon Alley today if that fits you schedule. All you have to do is give him some money to buy his school supplies. I'm not sure of muggle money, but I think it will come out to be around $500."

"Right, um, right…" Mrs. Evans looked into her purse, pulling out a stack of bills. "I believe this will cover it." Carter took the money from his mother.

"Mom, this…$1000!"

"Well, the list said you could get a pet. Buy yourself something nice for your birthday sweetie."

"Your birthday's coming up?" When?" asked Anna excitedly.

"Um, it's July 31st."

"Really? That's my birthday also!" said Harry.

"What a coincidence, my dear." Mrs. Evans reminded Harry vaguely of Mrs. Weasley.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Lets go!" Anna interrupted. She seemed excitedly. Harry had the feeling nothing could get this girl's mood down.

how was that? i'm sorry if these are getting a little lame, but please review! oh yeah, i'm sorry for updating so late, but the site wouldn't let me update until now...something about being a new member...