Hey! Thanks to the people that reviewed! I am sorry it takes me so long to update. I have been busy with schoolwork and have been really tired and pissed off.T.T To the people who reviewed and were confused, hopefully this chapter will help clear things up.

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Chapter 5

" So, what seems to be the trouble Harry?" Dumbledore asked once the place was picked up and they were all sitting comfortably in the living room.

" Well, I wanted to know if Alex and Professor Snape were related to me in any way, and the only way we could think of is by a blood test." Harry said. " And, I was wondering if you would be able to check mine, Alex's, and Snape's blood to see if we actually are related."

Dumbledore took a sip of tea, then looked thoughtfully between Harry and Alex, and then smiled. " Of course I will. We just need to wait for Severus to arrive, then we can head off to Hogwarts." He replied.

Just then there was a knock on the door. Dumbledore got up and opened it and there stood Severus. He looked at Dumbledore curiously, then at everyone else. " Hello Albus, may I ask what is going on?" He asked as he stepped into the room.

" Well Severus, dear Harry owled me asking if I could administer a blood test so he could actually see if he was related to you and Miss Alex." Dumbledore replied, his eyes dancing with mirth. " I believe it was Miss Granger's idea and I agree with her."

Severus looked awed for a moment, then smiled slightly. "Okay, I agree. When do we plan on doing this?"

" Well, from the way Mr. Potter sounded in the letter, he wanted it to happen right away. We can floo back to my office at Hogwarts at the moment and test the blood there." Dumbledore said.

" All right, let's go then." Sanpe said.

Harry grinned and he, Ron, Hermione, and Alex stood up and walked over to the fireplace. Each grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace, flooing each in turn, with Harry being the final one leaving, locking up everything before going.

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"Okay Harry, Severus, Alexandra," Dumbledore said as they were all situated in his office. He had some kind of huge goblet in front of him, that kind of looked like a small pensieve. " I need a some blood from each of you." He then pulled out his wand. "Extend your arms." he instructed.

Harry, Severus, and Alexandra did so,and Harry noticed that Alex was shaking a little. 'She must be nervous about the outcome.' he thought as he felt a small prick on his hand. He looked to see Dumbledore had tapped him with his wand, and saw as some of his blood slid up the wand, like water through a straw, and land in a small flask in Dumbledore's other hand. He set the flask down and did the same to Severus and Alex. He noticed once again how Alex shaked when Dumbledore tapped her and let out a small whimper. Dumbledore smiled at her softly.

" Okay, now that I have a small sample of your blood, time to see if you are related." Dumbledore said. They all watched in silence as he added weird and strange coloured liquids to the goblet-type container. Every once in a while, the liquid in the container would bubble or smoke, and the Dumbledore would just stir it or add another strange liquid. Finally it stopped and the liquid inside was dark blue and Dumbledore smiled once more.

" Now then, let's add Severus's and Harry's blood to the concoction. If they are related, the liquid inside will turn lime green, if they are not related it will turn white. And, if Severus is Harry's father, it will turn red." Dumbledore stated as he added their blood to the potion.

Harry waited with bated breath as smoke billowed out of the goblet. He was nervous about the outcome. It would be awesome to have a dad, but Severus Snape, the evil git? The over-grown bat? ' Well, maybe if we are related...things will change.' he though as the smoke started clearing.

The potion was red.

Harry stared at the potion in shock, as did everyone else, except Dumbledore who was smiling, his eyes twinkling merrily. Harry looked up at Snape and was surprised to see him smiling. But, what shocked him was that there were tears falling from his eyes, and soon, Harry felt tears falling from his own eyes. He had a dad...HE HAD A DAD! He let out a cry of absolute joy and hugged Snape who in turn hugged him back. Harry looked at everyone else in the room, and saw the smiling at him. Hermione and Alex had tears in their eyes, and Ron looked somewhere in between happiness for his best mate and complete and utter shock at the situation at hand, but decided on grinning at him. Dumbledore's voice tore him out of his little coma of joy.

" Sorry to interrupt the happy little reunion, but there is another person here who could also be related to you, Harry." Dumbledore said softly, his eyes still twinkling.

It was then that Harry remembered Alexandra and looked over at her. She was looking at the potion, her face pale, her frail body trembling. She looked over at him and gave a small smile and he gave a small smile back. Then, they both walked over to the potion, and stared at it.

"Okay, this time, if you two are related, that would mean you would be siblings because Harry's mom is Lily, as is Alex's mom, or so we know, so the potion will turn dark purple. If you are not related, the potion will turn brown." Dumbledore said. Then, he added the blood to the liquid and a red smoke cleared the room, telling everyone that the old potion was disappearing.

Harry was once again nervous and he could feel Alex next to him shaking terribly. Then, the smoke in the room changed from red to brown, and he heard Alex give out a gasp. He instinctively place his hand on her should, as to comfort her, and felt her stop shaking a little. Then, the smoke started clearing and Harry was able to see the liquid.

It was purple.

Harry was about to give Alex a hug when she tackled him, crying and laughing at the same time. And pretty soon, Harry was crying and laughing too, and so was everyone else in the room, while Dumbledore smiled on, his eyes twinkling merrily the whole time. After another moment, Alex got off of Harry and held out her hand, which he took and pulled himself off the ground.

"Well Albus, thanks for this enlightenment, I think I'll take this lot back to their home, then head back here." Severus said as he walked towards the fireplace.

"Okay Severus, see you all soon." Dumbledore said, smiling at them all before each of them left his office in turn in a whirl of flames.

( spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace)

Once back at the apartment, each person stood there awkwardly for a moment, taking in all the information they had just received. After about 3 more minutes, Severus began speaking.

"Well Harry, Miss Granger, Mr. Weasley, I think Alexandra and I should leave for the night." Snape said as he nudged Alex towards the door.

"Wait...father," Harry began slowly and Severus turned to him in a state shock and awe. " Do you think...that Alex could stay for a little while longer, about two hours, and then you could pick her up?" he asked.

Snape stood there thinking thoughtfully for a moment, then smiled softly. "Of course, I'll see you in two hours then." He said, before walking out the door, closing it behind him.

Each teen stood there for a moment again, before Hermione started drilling Alex with questions.

"So Alex, where do you go to school?" She asked.

"Well, I went to Salem Witchcraft School, the most prestigious one in America, and for schooling before then, I went to Rebecca Nurse's Beginning Witchcraft School to get a head-start on my schooling." Alex replied causing Hermione to snicker.

"Were you a dunderhead or something when you were little?" Hermione asked, while Ron and Harry looked at their friend in shock. Alex glared at her, then smirked.

"No, I had to go because my father was teaching you dundherheads here." She shot back and Hermione looked hurt. Alex looked really upset and ran over and hugged Hermione.

" I'm sorry Hermione!" she cried. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!"

Hermione looked startled and hugged Alex back. "I'm sorry too!" she cried back, and both girls stood there hugging while Harry Ron stared at the two in confusion. When the two girls stopped hugging, the questions started up again.

"So, you seem like an interesting girl, were you popular at your old school?" Hermione asked.

" Well...no. I only had six true best friends, they were all sisters, hextuplets, but two of them died while we were in Beginner's School." she said sadly, looking near tears. " And, people seemed more interested in making fun of me, rather than getting to know me, so I only had those six. But, now I have none here."

" You have us mate." Ron said brightly causing Alex to smile slightly.

"Yeah...hey!" Harry said suddenly, grinning. "We should throw Alex a party so people can get to know her before school starts."

"That's a good idea!" Hermione said.

" Can we talk about this over dinner?" Ron asked. " I'm starving."

They all agreed and headed into the kitchen. They decided on making pizza for dinner, and each found something to do to help prepare dinner. Alex set the table and cut up and sliced the cheese, Hermione made the dough, and Harry and Ron chopped up the rest of the ingredients. Twenty minutes later they sat there eating the delicious creation, while discussing Alex's past schooling and the party.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron decided the entire Weasley family (except Percy), Seamus, Neville, Dean, Parvati, Sirius (A/N: HE ISN'T DEAD! ), and Luna. They also decided that Hermione and Ron would run out to some stores early the next morning to get supplies for the party. Then, while Hermione and Alex cleaned up dinner, Harry and Ron sent out invitations to everyone through a fast mailing system called Silver Bullet, from the people who established the Floo Network. It was a new invention made for the teen group and alot of teens used them. The would replace owls if they didn't run out of Floo Powder so quickly. People still used owls anyways.

After that was done, they retired to the living room, where they spent an hour doing one of a teenager's favorite past time: playing videogames. DDR to be exact. Hermione had charmed her television and Playstation 2 from her parent's house, along with other electionic devices, to work in the wizarding world. Harry and Ron were not that good at it, but Hermione and Alex were. They turned it into a tournament and after a few rounds, Hermione had turned out to be victorious.

Just then, Snape apparated into the room, causing each teen to jump, and Alex to scream. Harry had his wand drawn and was about to utter a spell, when he realized it was Snape, and immediatly lowered it. Snape looked amused.

" That was a good reaction time...for a person in a coma." he said, in a very criticizing tone, but smiling the whole time. "Ready to go, Alexandra?" he asked, turning to her.

"Well...dad...I was wondering, if it was okay with Harry and his friends that is, if I could stay for the night?" She asked, looking back and forth between Snape and Harry uncertainly.

" It's fine with me." Harry said.

" Well, I guess so-" Snape said slowly, but was cut off by Alex running into him full force and hugging him.

" Thank-you dad!" She said joyfully.

" You're welcome." Snape said. "Harry, do you want me to take her home after the party?" he asked.

" Sur-Wait, how did you know about the party?" Harry questioned back.

" Molly flooed over, asking all sorts of questions." He replied, his eyes twinkling, remembering the events of the past. He stopped day-dreaming and looked back down at Alex.

" Well, I'll see you tomorrow at the party. Love you Alexandra."

" 'Kay, bye, love you too dad"

" Bye Harry."

" Bye...dad" Harry said as Snape left with a 'pop'.

After that, they continued playing DDR for a while, then switched to Kareoke Revolution where they soon discovered that Alex was a very good singer. They stared at her in awe as she sang various songs, applauding her when each song was completed, and she did the same for them. After they became bored with that, they decided on heading to bed, seeing as it was midnight and the party started at noon, and they needed to get a head-start on setting up the next morning. Harry set up the couch for Alex, as they only had three bedrooms, then retired to his own room for the night. Moments later, each teen had drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

Or at least it had seemed peaceful to begin with.

Around two, Harry woke up to the sound of someone sobbing, and it was coming from the living room. Harry walked quickly into the living room where he found Alex, sobbing uncontrollably in her sleep. He quickly woke her up and she looked at him, before latching herself onto him.

" Harry!" She sobbed. " I-It was s-s-o awful!"

" What was Alex? What happened in your dream?" he asked, concerned.

" Y-You and Dad and Daddy and Mum and Hermione and Ron and my friends were there, a-and then in a f-flash of green light, you each died, then some guy in a dark cape stepped out and killed me." She replied, then started crying more. " It was so horrible!"

Harry sat there, at a loss for what to do. The person she described sounded alot like either a Death Eater or Voldemort himself. As Alex had not yet stopped crying, Harry hugged her. " It'll be okay Alex." He said. " It was just a dream, that won't happen." As he said that, he internally cringed. Taking in the fact that she was who she was, that actually could happen. He looked down at Alex and realized she had fallen asleep. Smiling, he laid her back down and covered her back up before heading back to his room and falling back to sleep.

That's it for thise chapter!

Once again, I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY FOR TAKING THIS LONG TO UPDATE! MERRY LATE CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! And, I am sorry if my spelling/grammar sucked in this chapter or so far. I do not have Microsoft Word on the computer I am on. But, for Christmas I finally got a laptop:) If I could only set the bloody thing up. . As soon as it is set up though, I am going to post my stories on the site from that computer, so my spelling will be better.

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