Finally I finished this chapter well here it is
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CHAPTER 9:
Rahul's dad was keeping some information from him; he knew it and this frustrated him. Did they think he was not capable of handling the truth? Everyone was keeping something from him, OK, Maybe he was just an 11 year old but hadn't he proved himself capable of handling everything. It was not fair.
These thoughts haunted Harry, Ron was enjoying his stay immensely and his grandpa and grandma already liked him and didn't object to having him here that was when he noticed an owl waiting for him to open the window impatiently and hurriedly opened it and let the owl in. He untied the letter from the owl's leg, it immediately flew out of the window, and he rather thought it seemed glad to be out of here.
He frowned, who would be writing to him now, he had only received a letter from Hermione yesterday so it couldn't be her and Ron was here so there was no way it was Ron, Remus and Sirius were probably too busy to be writing to him (well, Remus was probably too busy with researching about something which he refused to speak about, Sirius meanwhile was snogging some girl and it sometimes annoyed him that Sirius didn't seem to care that he was breaking too many women's heart)
He was shaken out of his thoughts by his mum saying, "What do you say, honey?", with horror he realized that his mum had come inside his room while he was thinking been speaking to him but he hadn't heard even one word of it and if he told his mum that he hadn't been listening she would get mad. She was incredibly short tempered, his father used to say that was a curse she had inherited because she was a red head (A/N: No offense to red heads)His father came in at that moment and started talking with his mum about some relatives coming from India for a visit. He let out a sigh of relief which thankfully nobody heard.
His mum left the room to speak with his grandma about something and his father turned towards him, "Harry, your relatives from India are coming and your cousin will also be coming, her name is Amulya or something like that, I could never pronounce the Indian names correctly anyway, you just be careful about what you tell them. They should not know you are a wizard, OK?" Harry nodded as he processed this information.
He knew his mom's birthplace was India and that his grandma was an Indian while his grandpa was British so that must mean the relatives were from his grandma's side. If they started talking in whatever language they spoke, (he had long ago given up on trying to find out in which state they spoke what language) it was only even worse for him.
His mom came rushing in at that moment and gave him his clothes, ironed and folded neatly.
"They will be here in half an hour's time , put one of your ironed clothes and come down immediately" she said , seeing his expression she hugged him and said with a smile , "we will be gone tomorrow so just put up with them for one day , all right" , Harry said "Ok" and she ruffled his hair affectionately and went off.
He took out his favorite blue jeans from the pile and a T-shirt and his favorite white sweater.
Within five minutes he was dressed, he had attempted to make his hair lie flat but he had been unsuccessful but he thought it looked a bit neater than before; he heard a sound of car at that moment and rushed downstairs.
A very pretty girl was getting out of the car, she had waist length shiny black hair like all Indians normally do, an open smiling face, chocolate brown eyes, her lips were rosy and her skin was extremely tanned due to the weather there, he supposed, but she didn't have a tanned skin like an African nor was she extremely fair like an American, her skin was mixture of both.
He expected her parents to get out after her but surprisingly the car started to leave, while the girl made her way towards his mum and grandma, she gave his grandma a hug and said in an accented English, "Mom and Dad will be coming tomorrow, they are visiting their friends here" and then turned towards his mom and hugged her tightly saying, "Auntie, I have missed you so much", while his mom returned the hug and said something he couldn't hear.
His mum turned around and saw him, she smiled at him, and his mom, grandma and that girl came inside, once inside the girl approached him, held out her hand and said in a polite voice, "Hello, my name is Amulya, you're Harry, right, Harry didn't know why but he liked her immediately he smiled back and said, "Yeah I'm Harry and my friend is also here, he is upside I think".
His grandma came towards them and asked Pavithra if she wanted to rest till dinner to which she replied, "No , If you don't mind I'd like to go outside till dinner and as I'm a stranger here" she continued turning towards him "would you please come with me?" , Harry said "All right" with a grin.
They both made their way outside and she spoke, "Harry, If you don't mind can we ride on horse?" he grinned as he remembered something, "Yeah and I'll show you a place, I'm sure you'd like it" she looked interested and asked, "What is this place?", "You'll see" he replied.
They saddled the horse and started to ride in the direction of the mountains with Harry leading in a chestnut brown horse, at that time she noticed that the sky had gone cloudy , she called out to Harry , "I think it is going to rain" , Harry stopped and looked at the sky , he looked at his cousin he wanted to show her that lake but he couldn't now , "We will go back now and then come later", he said , "Oh, ok" she answered.
They went back and Harry excused himself and went up to his room while Pavithra went to unpack her things , once inside his room he closed his door and logged into his messenger and saw that his sweet e – pal had left him lots of messages , "if the messenger itself was so worse then the emails should be even more worse" he was about to sign in when he heard a knock on his door he turned his head to see his mom closing the door gently so that they wouldn't disturb his sleeping grandparents.
"Harry, we will be leaving early morning tomorrow so better get your things packed so that you needn't worry about it afterwards", seeing his disappointed look she said, "We will go straight to our house after spending the Christmas at Hogwarts and even though Professor McGonagall doesn't accept it, she wants you to come to Hogwarts before leaving to our house for the rest of the holidays" , "Think of all those food the elves made for you" came his father's voice , immediately he went to dreamland , he saw those delicious food all beckoning him to come he only came out of his dream world when his mother reprimanded his father , she disapproved of house elves doing all the job and always tried to help Cookie(Potter's house elf don't ask that's the name I could think of right now)but cookie wouldn't even hear of it and how much ever times Lily insisted that cookie call her by her name but cookie called her as mistress only , she refused to use the name of her mistress because it might disgrace her even though Lily begged her.
Dinner was boring even though the food was delicious, his grandma kept on trying to make him stay but he answered diplomatically, after dinner he decided to tell goodbye to Amulya.
He knocked on her door and a moment later she opened it, seeing him she looked surprised, "Hello, Harry, is there something you wanted?" she asked, "Er...Actually I am leaving tomorrow and I just wanted to say good bye" he said, her face fell when she heard this,"Oh then Ok , and just so that you know owl post is Ok even though I am not a witch my sister is and I know all about witches and wizards though your parents don't know that I know" it was his turn to be shocked, "Well , I'll see you around" she said still looking disappointed , coming out of his shock he replied "Yeah , see ya" , he left after that and went into his room , he had left messages for his e pals that he wouldn't be able to talk with them for sometime as he was going somewhere.
He took out a novel but since he wasn't able to concentrate he decided to go to sleep, he was asleep within a few moments and suddenly he was in the middle of a thick dark forest. The lady with long black hair was bowing to a tree and what a strange tree it was! it had a sinister look about it and Harry saw that there were flowers and leaves scattered everywhere but there was nothing near the tree it was as if everything else was afraid of the tree.
He then noticed the woman take out her wand a murmur, "sordeo".
Immediately a cauldron full of bubbling blood red liquid appeared out of thin air she added some black flowers and waited for a minute of two before taking out a bottle full of blood, she poured a little and muttered "Evanseco" immediately it vanishedshe began to stir it, she kept on stirring it, he didn't know how long he stood there watching her but all he knew was that this was something very important.
The sound of his alarm clock woke him up, he sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes, after 5 minutes he got up and began to get ready, after he finished taking his bath he went down to find that Ron was already halfway through his breakfast.
He sat down after wishing Ron "Good morning" Ron muttered something which he couldn't understand in return, Ron pointed towards a plate piled up high with food and his grandmother said that since they were growing boys they had to eat a lot which Harry said that would be enough to feed a military but today he didn't complain in fact his plate was so clean that it needn't even be washed.
His mother hurried down, "Harry, Ron have you finished you breakfast?" when they nodded she went on "Ok, get ready we are taking a Portkey in 5 minutes" with that she hurried off in search of her husband and soon enough the four of them were surrounding a tea pot just then Harry remembered something, he said "Just a moment" and ran upstairs before his mom could protest.
He opened his room and took out a neatly wrapped present from under his bed, he had got this for Amulya since he wouldn't be seeing her for a long time, he hurried out and left it in front of her room and ran downstairs.
He saw his mom shoot him an annoyed look and then his father asked "All ready? on the count of three 1… 2….3"they all felt as if they were being jerked from the ground and a moment later they landed inside Dumbledore's office , in James and Lily's case in gracefully in Ron and Harry's case on top of each other.
Dumbledore beamed at them, "Ron and Harry, are you both all right?" when they nodded he said "Excellent Excellent well breakfast is about to be served I suggest that we all go to the great hall, I assume that Harry and Ron have both had your breakfast, in that case would you come with us down to the great hall or would you rather go someplace else?", "We would like to go to the Gryffindor tower if you don't mind, Professor" , "Or course , Harry" Professor Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling madly.
Harry and Ron both ran out of the office and went straight to the Gryffindor dormitory where they knew the twins would, they wanted to get the help of the twins for something, they went into the twins dorm and pushed the twins out of the bed, the twins proceeded to chase Harry and Ron, after sometime they could not run anymore so they collapsed in the couches by the fireplace, "So why did you two wake us up, anyway?" asked one of the twins.
Harry told them about a map that the marauders had created which Filch being the git he was had confiscated , Fred and George looked at each other and finally Fred said to Harry , "Could it be anything associated with Meesers Moony , Wormtail , Padfoot and Prongs?" , Harry who hadn't been expecting this nearly feel out of his chair in shock. "How did you..."He sputtered.
Fred and George looked to see if anyone was around when they were satisfied that nobody was there they took out a very old piece of parchment, tapped it with their wands and said, "I solemnly swear I am upto no good"
"Messers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs welcome you to our wonderful creation"
The words vanished a map began to appear, Harry's and Ron's jaws dropped down, James had described it to them but they still couldn't help be fascinated by it.
"How did you get it?" asked Harry , Fred and George told them about their near detention and how they had managed to escape from Filch , "So can you share it with us?" asked Fred looking slightly uncomfortable , "Share it with you , but you got it out of Filch's office so it belongs to you" Harry said in surprise , "Well your dad made it so it is yours" George said , Harry looked torn, "Well what about we share it?" asked Harry and they all agreed.
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