Chapter 16: Back in y'old home

How Selena had been able to go with them, she didn't know.

First she had felt rage of leaving Yasmine behind and so, but her urge to know the answers had been bigger…

Her world was turning and twisting again, after she touched that old banana.

As sudden as the spinning had started it stopped and it reminded Selena far too much to her experience in that coma and she was shivering and had clam sweat on her forehead.

'Are you all right?' A woman asked, with very, very pink hair in spikes.

'No…' Selena managed to get out, before falling on her knees and vomiting her breakfast over the dusty floor.

'Wotcher!' The woman yelled and jumped backwards.

Selena was as white as a ghost and her body wasn't just shivering, but literally shaking of angst.

Panic took her over again and she didn't understood why.

If this had been her life, with magic and all, why did she react like that?

She felt bad and even worse when Harry and the others arrived too.

Luckily that pink woman had cleaned up her mess already, so all they could see was a sweaty and white Selena on the floor.

Harry immediately fell on his knees before her and asked what was wrong.

She couldn't and didn't dare answer that question, she was scared that she'd vomit again.

'She felt sick, so I told her that she should sit down.' Saved the pink lady her.

She nodded to Harry's questioning eyes.

'It… It was just-' She managed to get out, even feeling more embarrassed that she caused such a scene.

'I was all dizzy and so… I'm ok now.'

A couple of hours later they were all sitting down in the salon, while Selena was trying to digest all the information she had received in those hours.

She had been told that she was a witch, always had known she had been a witch, but that she had lived with Muggles, which were non-magical folks, so they said.

Yasmine was her half-sister, sadly both their parents had died after a big battle with Voldemort.

They were sent to foster-parents, yet the Ministry had made sure they were still together.

They had been to a private school and were going to start their 6th year in Hogwarts, an official school, that year.

Accordingly, there was something in the law that stated that they needed to be in an official school before being accepted as full grown witches.

There were still gigantic gaps in the story they had told them, but Selena had been too excited to notice this at first, but now she was rethinking all the events and discovered the holes in it.

Yet she was too timid to start asking questions again over herself, so she started to ask things about their lives.

'Harry, what happened in your life?'

Everyone snapped their heads towards Harry, who just shook his.

'Not here, not now. Tonight.'

Selena was a bit taken aback by this answer, but didn't press it further and just nodded.

She asked the same question to Hermione and Ron, and the Weasley's.

'I'm an only child, my parents names are Jean-Marie and Carine Granger. Most of my family lives in France, but I was born in England. I'm a witch, but my parents have got nothing magical in them, which is nothing special.

I'm in Gryffindor in Hogwarts-'

'What's Gryffindor?' Selena asked puzzled.

Dumbledore explained it all, as he was the headmaster of the school.

Selena nodded and Hermione went on.

'And my best friends are Harry and Ron and the Weasley-family. That's all, I think.. Oh, and I own a cat called Crookshanks. Need to be a bit careful around him, he can be grumpy.'

Ron snorted and mumbled something, which deserved him an angry look by Hermione.

'If you know it better, Ronald, please do enlighten us about your life.'

Ron nodded to Hermione and said that he would.

'My name's Ronald Weasley, but I prefer just Ron. I'm also in Gryffindor and my best mates are Harry and Hermione. I'm a pure-blood wizard, which means I come from a pure family, though it doesn't really matter what you are, as long as you are good in heart.'

At this comment, everybody looked amazed to Ron.

'What? It's true, isn't it?'

Molly Weasley nodded and said that he could continue.

'See what I have to go trough, Selena? Well, I have a big family. I've got 5 older brothers and 1 younger sister.

I own an owl called Pig, don't ask why.'

Selena grinned and the rest of the group introduced themselves too.

After all that was done, Selena was tired, though she didn't really know of what she could be tired from.

'Dear, you'd better go and lay down for a while. We'll call you when it's time for dinner.'

Selena went upstairs, followed by the two youngest Weasley's, Hermione and Harry.

She looked everywhere in the house.

How come it was all so dark? She somehow recognised it all and then again didn't.

She was sure she had never been here before, but why did she have a feeling of recognition in her mind?

'Harry,' She asked after they had were in her room, which was as dark as the rest of the place.

'Could you stay behind?'

Ron and Hermione looked at Harry, with looks of secrets in them, and Ginny just whispered one thing.

'Remember.'

After that, they left Harry and Selena alone in the room, both looking a bit confused.

Selena snapped out of it and asked Harry to answer her question.

'About my life?'

She nodded.

'I doubt you're going to like it.'

He sighed and told her everything.

Everything that had happened in his yet young life.

He told her about his parents, how he too had lost them, about his relatives, how they had abused him and many things more.

When he came to Voldemort-parts, Selena squeezed his hand slightly, whether or not it was intentional, Harry didn't knew, but it felt good.

After what seemed hours, he was at the worst event ever in his life until now and tears were streaming over his wet cheeks.

Selena was holding Harry, and rocking forwards and backwards, as if he was a baby needed to be comforted.

She was having very hard and raw emotions now, she wasn't able to recognise all of them.

They hit her like a rock, but somehow she could put them away and just listen to Harry.

'And only a month or two ago… I lost my… Your father's brother-'

He told her about the events in the Ministry of Magic, in the Department of Mystery.

Selena's eyes were tearing too.

This boy was the reason she didn't have any relative left?

How could she comfort him then?

She felt how one part of her wanted to push him away, but another knew that if she would do that, Harry would never be able to overcome his problems.

So she held him close, all night. When they knocked for dinner, they didn't answer.

Harry felt secure, being close to someone who had Black-blood running in their veins.

He felt that if Voldemort would attack now, he'd be able to survive and even kill him…

'What are you thinking about?' Selena ended the hour-long silence between them.

'About what I've told you. I shouldn't have…'

'I asked and you gave the answers. I'm glad you did… Harry-'

She stopped. She had one last question, concerning her father.

'Yes?'

'Did… Did you know my father?'

'No, I've never known him.'

'Oh-'

Somehow this didn't really came to a shock. She had known her parents had died, but she wanted to know how they had been.

'Did anyone here know my father? Or mother?'

Harry shook his head.

'Not that I know… Maybe Dumbledore, but-' His voice hardened.

'He won't tell you.'

'Why not?'

Harry sighed.

'For various reasons.'

Selena somehow understood that he didn't wanted to talk about his headmaster, but she did want to know about her father.

'Harry?'

'Yes?'

'To whom does this house belong?'

That hadn't been her original question, but it still had come out.

Some inner feeling had told her to ask it.

Harry's eyes looked very shocked into hers.

'You remember something?'

Selena was surprised of this question.

'No, I just have this feeling about this house. Like I should know it.'

'You should know it… Or at least recognise it.'

'Why?'

Harry sighed and sat up straight.

Selena was a bit startled by this action.

Did this had anything to do with her past? Her life before the amnesia?

'This was Sirius' house. His and your father's house of their youth. Sirius inherited it after Regulus, your father, died. Now it belongs to Dumbledore, until they could find another heir.'

'But.. But-'

Something fell into place for her.

'But I'm the other heir..?'

Harry nodded.

The night had fallen for a long time and suddenly Selena felt even more tired then she had ever been.

They were silent for a while and Selena fell asleep, with Harry's head resting on her stomach again.

In the morning Molly came in, and had to hold a scream back.

'Remus! Remus!' She whispered loudly.

Remus came to Molly, also whispering and asking what was wrong.

'Come and see this.'

Remus came into the room too and gasped for breath.

With a beam of sunlight across Harry and Selena's faces, they resembled as fallen angels, sleeping peacefully after a night full of events.

Molly decided to let them sleep and when they woke up, she'd make them breakfast.

Back in the kitchen, neither of them spoke a word about what they just saw, not even when Ron and Hermione came in and asked where Harry was.

'Still sleeping.'

'What! Why may he sleep and I can't, even though I'm exhausted.'

'Ron, stop making a scene and eat your eggs.'

Ron poked his eggs angrily and Hermione rolled her eyes.

Remus sniggered by the thought of those two, how he missed the years with his own friends, acting like that.

While downstairs breakfast was already done for hours, upstairs Harry only started to wake up.

He looked to the face of Selena, who had a little smile on it.

He somehow felt peaceful of seeing that smile, it resembled Sirius's.

She looked much better and he hoped she actually felt better.

'Why are you staring at me?' Selena suddenly said, opening her eyes.

Harry felt as if he almost had an heart-attack and sat up straight.

'I asked you a question.'

Harry looked into the green-black eyes and saw those twinkling.

'You resemble a lot to Sirius. You have the same smile.'

'Oh… That's a good thing, no?'

Harry nodded.

'Yeah, I guess so.'

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Next chapter Yasmine'll wake up, how will she react on the story she's been told and on the fact that Harry and Selena starting to get really close.

Will something happen here or not?

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Paddy

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