Chapter 3

The Saddest Birthday

Harry was shocked. No one said anything for a while, but Dumbledore began to talk…

"This has been a shock to you, Harry, yes?" Harry nodded, barely. Kali kept on staring at her lap.

"Harry, this concerns you. Of course, being near Kali, will make you two in more danger than you have before, but being as you two need all the safety you possibly need, you two should stick together." Kali looked up at this.

"What?" Dumbledore chuckled.

"I mean when danger comes."

"Oh," she said, relaxing a bit.

"Very important for you to know, Harry. But… We found out that your godfather is alive." There was silence, Harry jumped up.

"Sirius is alive?" Kali looked up at Harry, confused. Dumbledore nodded.

"You mean… Sirius Black…? That's his godfather?" Dumbledore nodded, once again.

"Of course he didn't do anything harmful. But he is stuck in another dimension. You see the veil he fell behind had a Transferie behind that. He fell into it, getting hit by a spell… But not the killing curse…"

"That's, that's brilliant!" Harry said shouting.

"But, the problem is, Harry, that no one cannot get through the shield that surrounds it. Only the Mullwins that surround it."

"Mullwins?" Kali asked.

"They are little munchkin people, who are torturing Sirius in the cold… And the only people he lets through is his relative, and his enemy."

"Me and Kali," Harry began. Dumbledore nodded.

"But, he wants to kill you both… Wanting to kill any relative that has to do with him, and of course you Harry." There was a pause.

"I want you two, with me, and your closest most trustworthy friends that could help you along the journey, Harry. I trust Neville, Luna, Hermione, Ginny, and Ron would be a big help."

"Wouldn't the parents freak about this?" Kali asked, not quite understanding.

"Mmm… Well we haven't evidentially told them, yet. I am with you all, so I understand that they would allow that. This is excluding the exams."

"The exams? We don't have to do the N.E.W.T's?" Harry asked, excited. Dumbledore shook his head, chuckling.

"No, Harry. Everyone who takes part in this doesn't have to." Harry sat back down.

"That is all for now." Dumbledore said, standing up. Kali and Harry both stood up.

"I will tell the others next week, Harry. I would like you two and the others to not tell anybody. I would like it to be just between all of you and me." Kali nodded and they soon left the spiral staircase. By now, it was 6 pm and everyone was eating dinner.

"Do you fell hungry? Because I don't…" Kali said sitting down.

"Nope," said Harry full of excitement.

"Loads of homework to do." She said as she looked through all her parchment that was piled on the desk.

"Oh… I forgot about that," he said looking down at all his books piled on a desk next to Kali. Soon, they both started doing their work and stayed up till about midnight. They were the only two in the common room when Kali started to yawn.

"Tired… At least tomorrow is Saturday," she said getting up and stretching. Harry yawned.

"Yep," replied Harry.

"Night, Harry," she said with her books in her hands, and started to walk up the stairs.

"Good night."

"Wake up, Kali… Wake up."

"Mmm…" Kali said as she covered her head in frustration. Someone lifted the pillow.

"Kali… Come, on. I got a surprise."

"What?" She awoke opening her eyes. She was in a common room with green furniture all around, everything was blurry and when she tried to grab her glasses someone pulled her up, before she could grab them, and kissed her lightly on the lips. When she pushed away, she could see someone in front of her, but it wasn't Harry.

"Harry?" She asked confused.

"No… The one you have been waiting to talk to for a very long time."

"Dad?"

"…No." He said. The guy was getting impatient and finally blurted it out.

"Kali…"

"You're Kali?" The guy smirked, and started to laugh.

"Kali!"

"What?" Kali awoke and found she sweating. Hermione was in front of her. Kali hastily put on her glasses.

"Kali, you okay?" She asked.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"You were yelling out names in your sleep," said Hermione.

"Oh… Uh… Nightmare…" She thought up.

"Okay," said Hermione, confused, sitting back in her bed and looking at the clock beside her bed. It was 6 o'clock. There was a grunt coming from Darian's bed and she awoke with a start, shouting.

"Ronald no!" She yelled opening her eyes. There was silence as Hermione and Kali stared. Luckily, no one else awoke, and Kali shook her head and went back to sleep. In the morning she got dressed and headed downstairs, finding everybody eating already.

"Had a nice sleep?" Hermione asked.

"Not exactly," said Kali.

"Mail," Seamus said, looking up at the owls above him. One was pooping in his pumpkin juice.

"Aww! Nasty!" He said picking up his drink and staring at it. A letter landed in front of Kali, on her empty plate.

"Wonder what it could be," she said opening it. She stared at it for a couple of minutes, and then started to put the letter in her pocket.

"I'm… I'm going to go…"

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked. Kali shook her head and began to leave with her arm covering her eyes. Harry looked from Ron to Hermione.

"Hope she's okay. It's her birthday you know."

"It is?" Harry exclaimed choking on a piece of egg. Ron patted his back and Harry swallowed it. Hermione nodded, then looked at where Kali sat and found a piece of parchment. She picked it up and skimmed through it. Hermione gasped.

"No wonder!"

"What?" Asked Ron, pumpkin juice spilling over his chin from his mouth.

"Look at this." She handed them the parchment.

"No way!" Ron yelled pumpkin juice flying everywhere.

"Eww!" Seamus yelled as some pumpkin juice got splattered into his face.

"Sorry," Ron said as he wiped his mouth.

"I never knew… I thought they were…" Harry stopped. He shouldn't be saying these things aloud and not to Ron and Hermione, just yet. Dumbledore would soon tell them.

"Thought they were what, Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Alive," thought up Harry.

"Yeah, me too."

"But didn't she say she lived in an orphanage?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, but you never know Hermione. They could be still alive and wanted to get rid of her."

"Get rid of whom?" Darian asked as she walked up to Ron.

"I'm going," said Harry.

"Okay, Harry," Hermione, said.

"You don't know what you're missing."

"Oh, I know." He said and left. He did not want to be near the couple at this point, and wanted to see where Kali was. Harry heard a sob from outside and found her sitting on a bench looking at the sunrise.

"Kali?" Kali wiped her tears and turned around.

"You… You okay?"

"I'm… I'm fine…Really…" She stammered.

"What's wrong?" He asked trying to look her in the eyes.

"My… My dad died…" There was a pause as Kali sniffled and grabbed her legs.

"I knew he was alive… But he could have said something… That… That he was alive."

"I'm… I'm sorry to hear that…" Harry said, not thinking of what to say.

"It's not your fault…" She said. There was a long pause and Kali got up and they both went in, in silence.

The next couple of weeks were so slow, now that Kali was crying and barely talking to anyone. But as soon as it was Halloween her spirits rose. Everybody ate like pigs, making sure that no one would steal all the sweets. The next morning, everyone felt sick as dogs and luckily there wasn't any school. Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, and Ginny soon all knew about saving Sirius. They thought it was a splendid idea and began to talk about it a little every weekend night at around midnight when everyone was asleep.

The first Quidditch match of the year was starting, and Kali was all dressed up. It was raining and everyone had to wear special goggles. Especially since they had glasses.

"And here we have the Gryffindor Quidditch team!" Yelled Colin Creevy into the microphone, making everybody's ears hurt.

"Colin! Softer!" Yelled Professor McGonagall.

"What? Oh! Yes, professor." He said a little embarrassed.

"And here we have the new Chaser! Kali Horita! With Ginny Weasley and Katie Bell! With our beaters, they return! Fred and George Weasley!" Everyone cheered very loud at this. "Our keeper is the one and only Ron Weasley! With our seeker, Harry Potter!" The crowd roared with screams full of girls.

"And… The Slytherin team." Colin said sadly. There was boos and hisses from the Gryffindors.

"Now, let's all play fairly," said Madam Hooch. She opened up the trunk and the Quaffle was released.

"The Quaffle is released and the game begins!"