As I promised one last chapter before I leave for England. I promise that I'll be back with at least 2 more chapters, if you want them... anyway again thanks everyone that read the last chapter "How Low Can You Get?". And may I just say that this is the last chapter out of Hogwarts. Next one is on the train. YAY. So once again i thank everyone that reviewed my last chapter:-
Firstly to "kill mary sue" who was anon: your comments were harsh (very harsh) but ... well no they were just harsh. Please people, I can't stress this enough. Be "constructive" if you're going to bad mouth me. And although i like to hear that it's not everyone's "cup of tea". Did you really have to break the spirit of a young "female minor"! I'd say more but I don't belive in fucking swearing. So sorry I had to say that, had to clear my mind.
And then, on a less fustrating note, WolfbainKohako, thankyou for your very nice and much apprecated review. It really lightened up my day. More funny begining you ask... like in the first chappy? Or charlie waking up?... well the sixth chapter is going to be the next funny one. My dear friend 'charlie' was very happy to hear that so many people can relate to her in the morning and she totally feels your pain. And to your dad thinking that your crazy, don't worry, just go with it.
And thankyou everyone else that read the last chapter, and that will read this one. (A/N there is a big hint to the plot in this chapter. See if you can get it, it's not that hard to miss)
Chapter 5: that's so cute... I hate cute
In a room of their small cottage at the edge of the forest sat a mother and her daughter, a small girl of about three or four. She watched from her chair as her mother set about opening the windows and doors to let out the smoke.
"I shouldn't have left the wood there, it was too hot. I'm just glad that the house is still standing," the girls mother muttered, "Honey, could you wet that towel there for me?"
The small girl quickly ran to the basin with the towel and turned the tap on. She looked back to her mother, who was muttering again to herself. She turned off the tap and gave it to her mother.
"You're not hurt are you," her mother asked as she cleaned her daughter's face. The girl shook her head in response. "How could I have left you here by yourself, you must have been so scared"she muttered for the seventh time.
"Mum, I did it" the small girl said to her mother, who stared at her daughter.
"What?" she asked her softly.
"I started the fire" she repeated to her mother. Again her mother stared at her. "It was an accident I didn't mean for it to happen. I just lost control that's all, I'm really sorry" she said as she bowed her head in shame. Her mother lifted her head up so she could see her daughter's eyes which were much like her own. "It will never happen again" she told her mother through her tears.
"Don't say that" her mother reasoned as she opened her arms to the child. The small girl rested in her arms, "you just need more practice"
"Practice?" she asked her mother. The woman held out her hand towards the fire place and it lit up. The flames flickered through the logs and the smoke bellowed through the chimmney.
"How did you do that?" the small girl asked her mother.
"Like you, I'm a witch, and your father is a wizard. Infact magic flows through you veins, it's in your blood" the mother said as she held her daughter's hand to inspect it. "Magic royalty, that's what we are. Great power has been a family trait from my side of the family. And your father is a very powerful man himself. And one day, you to will have great power"
"Will I go to Hogwarts?"
"Most diffinately, but remember. You mustn't be afraid to stand up for what is right. You were born to fight for causes that I could not. You were born in defiance of the old ways of our family because we know what is right. Promise me that you won't let anyone tell you what to do, how to think, or what to feel. Promise me!"
"I promise mum." The girl said ernestly to her mother. The woman stared at her daughter.
"One day you'll understand" she said as she picked up the girl and carried her to the child's room. She lay her down in the bed and sung her to sleep.
The words she sung lingered in the air. They hung over the girl's head and shut her eyes. But over in the Department of Mysterys at the Minstry. In the shelves that contained the prophceys, a new glass orb began to grow. Inside the words swirled around in a cloud of smoke and a new prophecy was born. The words began to re-arange themselves in order. One of the unspeakables noticed this and picked up the orb. The unspeakable noticed the last words of the prophecy, it stuck in his mind like they were burnt in.
'Until we take our final sleep...'
"I'm so sorry that I can't go with you today kids, but I have heaps of work to do at the house before you get to school." Mrs Weasley apologised to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. But this could not disturb Harry's happiness, as far as he was concerned everything was going right for once.
To Harry's delight he was dispatched, by Remus, from the Dursley's the day after he had a run in with those witches that were in Surrey. And then Remus told him that Dumbledore wanted him back to teach Defence Against the Dart Arts this year and all the parents and students agreed with Dumbledore's decision to rehire him. This made Harry even happier as his favorite teacher and only real family was going to be there with him this year. He had also recived a letter from Dumbledore saying that this year he was going to be Gryffindor's Quidditch captian, which gave him all the privlages of a prefect. And now he was sitting at the Weasley's dinning table along side his best friends Hermione, Ron and Ginny, who sat oppisite him. Remus was also there as he was escorting them through Diagon Ally.
"Harry, I think that Fred and George want us, or rather you, to go to their shop later today" Ginny then spoke up. Remus made a mental note of that.
"Only after you've finished all your shopping though. School's tomorrow and I don't want anything to be left behind" Mrs Weasley then complained. Remus also made a mental note of this.
"Anyway we better get going" Remus said while getting up "Molly thanks for the meal"
"Yeah thanks mum" Ron said as he got up
"Thankyou very much Mrs Weasley" Hermione thanked her.
"Thanks for breakfast" Harry said as he tucked in his chair
"We'll see you after shopping" Ginny said as she left with the rest of the group
Alexia lent against a wall behind the Leaky Cauldron, it was apparantly the portal to Diagon Ally but to Alexia it was a wall. Next to her was Charlie, who also decided to lean against the wall as aposed to Leisha.
Leisha was waiting for Katie to come back from checking in. After their stay in the muggle hotel the four girls moved alittle closer to their world and booked rooms in the Leaky Cauldron. Katie was just fixing up the room arrangments. Katie finally returned to them looking quite pleased with herself.
"Katie could you hurry it up? I need to get my order" Alexia yelled at her friend Katie.
"Ok, ok, now... how did Tom say you get in?" Katie thought out loud.
"WHAT?" Leisha yelled, "you spent half an hour in there, and you come back with nothing? What were you doing?"
"Well...lets just say... Leisha you wouldn't be interested" Katie said simply, which made Leisha shut up.
"I'll get Tom" Charlie muttered as she left the others to work out who to blame.
The bartender came to the girl's rescue. "Don't worry girls your not the only ones that couldn't open the portal. I've helped many before you lot" he said as he pulled out his wand and tapped the wall. As the portal opened Alexia fell through and landed painfully on her bum. As she slowly got up she noticed her friends laughing at her.
"Oh shut up guys" she told them as she got up. Alexia searched through her pocket to find the address she wrote down earlier. "This way girls" she said as she pointed them in the right direction.
The four girls came to a store called the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes. Inside it looked very busy, filled with students that were all looking at the merchendise that lined the walls of the store.
"Don't worry guys, I owled ahead" Alexia said as she entered. The rest of the girls followed her. They all tried to reach the front counter, but were held back by several kids that were running around. Finally they reached the counter where they found a tall red haired boy with freckles on his face. He also had a name tag that read 'Fred'
"Hello ladies, how may we help you today?" Fred asked them.
"We?" Leisha asked him as she pointed out the mistake, "what do you mean we? There's only one of you"
"Sorry I'm back here" someone else said from the store room behind the counter. He came into the room and Leisha got her answer. The new boy looked just like the first one. Leisha looked for his name tag which said "George" and she then decided that she wasn't going insane, they were just twins.
"Anyway, I'm here to pick up my monthly order. The name's Alexia Willson" she told them. The twins looked gobsmacked.
"We finally get a chance to put a face to that order" Fred said while extending his hand to her, which Alexia took.
"You were our quickest member to recive a Prankster's Platinum Card." George said as he also extended his hand to her.
"What can I say, I love your work" she told them. The twins looked extatic.
"We were just going to send the pack to you, George do you mind getting Alexia's package?" Fred explained.
"Not at all" George said as he dissappered into the store room.
"So, what made you decide to turn up at our humble store? Did you hear that the 'boy-who-lived' was making a apperance today?" Fred asked all the girls as they waited for George. Next to Charlie, Katie asked her "is that some sort of band?" Charlie just shrugged her shoulders.
"Not really we're just doing a bit of last minute shopping before the school term." Leisha explained to Fred, as George came back, struggeling to levitating a very large package.
"Seems a bit light this month" he said as he let the package down with a slight thump onto the counter.
"Mind if I take a quick look through, you know, just to see if everything's here?"
"Not at all" George said as he opened the box with his wand. The door to the shop opened and four more teenagers stepped through with an adult for company. The Weasley twins excused them selves that approched the new group. Charlie grabbed Leisha's sleeve and started tugging it to get her attention for something that she wanted to buy.
"That guy looks fimilar" Katie muttered out loud. Charlie tried to see over the croud but as she was a head shorter than the rest of them it was hard. Leisha to found it hard to see as she was about the same height as Charlie.
"um... Wealseys?" Alexia asked tentavily, four red haired children turned to her but only the twins came back to her.
"Is there a problem Alexia?" Fred, or was it George, asked her with a smile.
"Yeah you gave me too many dungbombs and not enough fire crackers"
"An easy fix" which ever weasley it was, he dissappered under the counter, and then reappered with his arms filled with fire crackers. "Take them and keep the extra dungbombs free of charge, for the mistake."
"Cool, well thanks heaps. Hogwarts won't be standing after I'm done with them" she said dieviously.
"May your pranks be numurous"
"But your detentions ... um ...fewest?" the twins chimmed as the girls left the store.
So the girls spent the rest of the day buying their supplies. The bags started piling up as they continued till there was one item left on the list.
"Leisha can't we just forget about the wands?" Charlie whined as she walked towards Ollivander's wand shop. "can't we just enlarge a toothpick or something, it's cheaper and I'm sure if we ask Tom nicely..."
"No Charlie, we're getting the wand and that's final" Leisha said finally for the seventh time.
When they entered the shop everything looked dark and there was no one at the counter. The girls put down their bags
"Hello? Is there anyone in da house? Or the shop? Or whatever?" Alexia yelled through the shop. Katie hit her to shut her up. The four girls then looked around the shop. Along the wall there was thousands of small, thin boxes.
"Ah, I take it you girls are from Castells? Are you not?" A deep voice asked them. They turned around to find a man with white hair and bright blue eyes staring at them.
"Yes, we're sorry to bother you, but is this where we can buy wands?" Leisha asked him in her polite tone. Alexia made a sound as if she was about to puke. Leisha always used that voice when she wanted to sound mature or when she was talking to an important person. This was probably how she got prefect in Castells, all the teachers though that she was all innocent. Boy were they wrong.
"Of course it is. Now if you girls would be so kind as to raise your wand arms" Ollivander asked as he raised his own wand. The girls looked at eachother with amused faces, 'wand arm?'. Slowly they all raised their right arm. Ollivander took down the measurements and, with his wand, summoned the right sized wands to the counter. As the boxes reached the counter they would slowly spread out into four piles, one for each girl.
"Who'd like to go first?" he then asked them. Charlie of course stepped forward and Mr Ollivander held "Ok, 11 ½ inches, walnut, unicorn hair," he told her as he held out the wand. No one but him and Leisha understood what Ollivander ment by all that. Charlie had barely held the wand when he took it back. "No not this one, try a cherry with a dragon's heartstring core."
As Charlie reached out to the wand, light was emmited from the tip. Once it was placed in her hands she gave it a small wave and the dried flowers that were in the bowl next to her rehydrated and becamed alive again.
"Splended! Yes that's the wand for you. Your name please?"
"Charlotte Westhoff" she told him with a smile as she held onto her new wand. Ollivander then turned to Alexia and saw the pile of 'Weasley Wizarding Wheezes' bags that she had. With a small smile he picked up the top wand of a new pile and handed it to her.
"And for you a maple and mahogany combination, with Gryffin feather. Perfect for transfiguatin and..."
the table next that had the newly revived flowers on it started hovering high above the ground. "Levitation. Great for any prankster"
"Prankster? Me, Alexia Willson, a prankster? you can't prove and thing" she exclaimed as she hid the bags behind her. Katie chuckles.
"Rosewood with silver Thistle feather core" Ollivander said while holding out a wand to Katie. As soon as she reached out for it the wand flew out of both of their reaches. "Hummmm, close but not quite right. Lets try adding walnut as well" again the wand flew out of her hands.
"I wonder if... yes it just might. It's mermaid's hair in a rosewood and walnut combination, it may be a weird core. But it might just work" and sure enough it did. So three out of four were done. Leisha then stepped forward to her pile of wands. One by one she tried different combinations of woods and cores but none seemed to work. Leisha was having doubts that there was actually a wand in the world that could work for her.
"Don't worry" Ollivander told her as he put down another wand, "There was once a boy, Edward Parker I belive, it took him two days to find the right wand. Maybe it would be easier if i knew what you can do already"
Alexia noticed that her friend was hesitent about releasing some magic, in fact after the run in with those boys from Surrey, Leisha did seem less fierce and very tired.
Slowly Leisha raised her hands at shouder level and they started glowing a pale green as if surrounded her in a glowing orb. The shop keeper picked up a glowing piece of parchment and rolled it into a ball, with care and accuacy he threw it as it hit the parchment burst into flames
"That's enough" he told leisha as he raised his wand to summon the wand that would work best.
"Holly and Ebony" ollivander started "it represents..."
"Strength, protection and harmony right?". Leisha intrupped. ollivander gave her a quizical look.
"I like to know what I'm getting involved in" she explained. Ollivander gave her the wand "an interesting core though, Phoenix tallon, but it should work for you" and it did, so together the girls paid for their wands and thanked Mr Ollivander for his help, and left the shop.
As she walked Leisha stared at her new wand, she didn't know the reason she got this one,as she had spent a lot of time reading up about different types of wands. 'Strength protection and harmony my arse, it can't be that powerful if I got it, especially now...' she thought to her self as she stared down at her hands. 'maybe I should hold off on the magic till I'm better.'
Together the four girls started to walk back to the Leaky Cauldron when Leisha felt someone's hands cover her eyes. She panicked and did the first thing that came into her mind. As one of her hands tried to pry off the hands that blinded her, she used her elbow to hit whoever it was in the stomach. There was a loud moan from behind her, and Leisha turned to see her brother holding his stomach in pain.
"Atleast that bump on the head didn't affect her fighting spirit" he managed to spit out.
"Holy Merlin! Rob I'm so sorry," Leisha said as she helped her brother up.
"Most sisters take it as a joke, but no, not mine. Instead she hits me... just spiffy:" he muttered to himself. Although Leisha was listening, she was looking past Rob's head and saw a tall blonde haired boy. Lloyd was here too. He saw her and joined the group.
"What are you guys doing here?" Charlie asked both the guys.
"Yeah Rob aren't you meant to be lounging around on the lounge at home" Leisha asked her brother.
"Well I thought that you girls could do with my help" he told her as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
"Have you both finished your shopping? Do you need any help?" Katie asked them, she probably thought that they needed more bags.
"Nup we're done, we were just heading back to the Leaky Cauldron actually" Rob explained to them.
"Yeah we need a knew place to stay, after what Rob said to my cousin" Lloyd said harshly.
"He's a frigging muggle-hater, I just can't stand it" Rob said in his defence.
"Yeah, yeah, we know" the girls said in unison
"Well we're already booked in there. I'm sure we can ask for extra beds or something" Leisha said in conclusion.
The six friends then headed to the Leaky Cauldron as it was already night. Together they all took a table inside and Lloyd and Leisha talked to Tom the bartender about the rooms, who was more than happy to help them. They ordered dinner and butterbeer and started swapping stories of their travels over their meal. Charlie, Katie and Alexia were all explaining the events that happened over the flight.
"... and the the pilot came over the speaker phone say 'attention ladies and gentelmen, we'll be making a short stop in Perth for medical reasons'" Alexia quoted in her best pilots voice. (For those who don't know where Perth is, it's still in Australia, so it didn't take long for Shane to piss off Leisha)
"Leisha just hung her head in shame" Charlie finished off. Everyone cracked up laughing at the story. Leisha's head started spinning again and she let her head flop down on her brother's shoulder.
"Leisha what's wrong?" he asked her in a panic.
"Just really tired. Haven't been able to sleep, that's all" she half mumbled back to him. Lloyd then got up.
"Well come on, let's get you to bed" he said while picking her up gentlly. He excused them and then carried her off to her room with Leisha slowly nodding off. Carefully he put her down on her bed and found that she was half sleeping.
"Ok Leisha, cut the crap, tell me what's wrong?" he demanded of her. Leisha's eye immedatly snapped open.
"What do you mean crap?" she asked him in a offended tone.
"i've known you for nearly six years, you can't lie to me"
"How can you tell these things but Rob can't, maybe you should be my brother" Leisha asked as she lay back down in her bed.
"Don't change the subject!" Lloyd suddenly demanded.
"Lloyd keep your voice down people will hear."
There was then a moments silence when the two of them just stared at each other. Lloyd was determainded to figure out what was wrong with her. But Leisha was good at keeping things 'top secret' and hiding the truth from others. She was also uncannily strong when it came to defending her secrets
"I worry about you, that's all" Lloyd finally admitted to her. Leisha smiled at him and gave him a comforting hug which he returned.
"Oh Lloyd, that's so cute" Leisha said with a smile, Loyd slightly blushed "I hate cute" she added to the end and Lloyd laughed.
"Rob's right that bump on the head hasn't affected you at all" he said as they let go of eachother.
"And you better remember that"
Leisha climbed back into bed and pulled the covers up.
"So are you going to tell me?" Lloyd asked one last time.
"If there was something to tell Lloyd, you'd be the first to know" Leisha said simply with a smile.
"See you in the morning?" he asked, a bit disheartened.
"Yeah sure, see you then" he said as he started to leave.
Leisha watched as Lloyd closed the door behind him and then the smile on her face vanished. Leisha did have a problem and it was serious. Her powers were fading...
S did you get the hint... don't worryI won't mention it anymore. hopeI get some more reviews asI love hearing what you think. (WARNING: You are talking to the girl that could stab you with a pillow case J/K) soI hope to hear from you beforeI get back.
Wth many thoughts,
Leisha Robinson
