PREViOUS CHAPTER:
It was a girl. She had wavy, dark brown hair, tan skin, beautiful violet eyes, and an hourglass body over her stunning silver and black robes.
There was now silence, except just one person.
Sirius1' eyes widened and he paled considerably.
The whole hall heard him. "Raye!"
The girl looked at him in suspicion and surprise.
Sirius1 fainted.
Professor Dumbledore cleared his throat. "You seven- go up to my office and wait there."
Harry was fully sober now and help James and Sirius get Sirius1 in a proper position. He was still unconscious.
"We can levitate him." Harry said quietly.
Remus pulled out his wand and said, "Locomotor Mortis."
All of them walked in silence. They glanced at Raye once in a while, biting their tongues so they wouldn't ask questions. Once they got to the stone gargoyles, Harry started naming sweets.
"Ice Mice, Fizzing Whizbees, Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans- oh wait, he doesn't like those very much, er, Chocolate Frogs, Blood Pops, Cockroach Clusters, Acid Pops, Jelly Slugs, Licorice Wand, Sherbert Balls, Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Toothflossing Stringmints, Pepper Imps, Sugar Quills-"
"Lemon Drop." Hermione stated clearly, cutting Harry off.
The stone gargoyles moved aside.
"Lucky guess." Harry muttered as they stepped onto the moving staircase. It rose up and stopped at the oak doors. Hermione pushed it open and they went inside. She summoned seven chairs. They didn't have to wait long for Dumbledore to arrive.
"Hello, all." Dumbledore greeted them as he sat down. He looked expectantly at the new girl.
"I'm Rayenna Elddir. I'm 17 years old and I've been home schooled all of my life. I've learned a lot from my mentor. The reason I've come here is to attend Hogwarts. I'd like to see how I do learning with other people. It's new to me, but I think I'll do well. I have the skills of a graduated student, but I haven't learned everything yet." Raye said clearly.
"I see," Dumbledore said, "So you're aiming to be a student, not a professor?"
Raye nodded. "Yes."
"I'll have you choose which classes you'll be taking, except for the core classes- Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, History of Magic, Herbology, and Charms. Use your best judgment to whether or not you will take the NEWT level courses for those. Then you have two elective courses." The Headmaster explained.
Raye nodded in understanding.
"What the-? Holy shit- Raye?" Sirius1 had awoken. He sat up from the ground, staring wide eyed at Raye.
"How do you know my name?" Raye asked suspiciously.
"It really is you!" Sirius1 gushed happily.
"So this is Raye that you were talking about." Sirius said.
"How the hell do you know me, Mister?" Raye demanded.
"I know your name is Rayenna Colette R-" Sirius1 started.
"Wrong. It's Raye. Raye Elddir." interrupted Raye.
Sirius1 raised his eyebrows but said nothing else. Raye's eyes flashed turquoise.
"How'd you do that?" Harry asked immediately.
"It's a gift." Raye said uneasily. She looked strangely at him.
"Mine can change, too, but only to silver." He demonstrated. His eyes turned misty silver.
"Where did you get that?" Raye asked, paling considerably.
Harry's face darkened. "From an opponent in a… duel."
Then Raye's eyes flashed pale, faint, icy blue, almost white.
"Your eyes can change to more than one color!" Harry stated in surprise.
"Yeah…" Raye said quietly.
Dumbledore cleared his throat. "You may get sorted here." He summoned the Sorting Hat and placed it on Raye's head.
As the hat talked to Raye silently, she paled. She murmured something back angrily, and shook her head slightly.
At last, the Sorting Hat boomed, "GRYFFINDOR!" Raye let out a breath of relief and relaxed.
"Welcome to Gryffindor." Remus said warmly. "I'm Remus Lupin."
"James Potter. Head Boy, a member of the Marauders, popular, handsome, and adorable." James said, bowing dramatically.
"Pleasure to meet such a lovely lady like you, I'm Sirius Black." Sirius said, kissing her hand.
"Pleasure's mine." Raye said dryly, pulling her hand away.
"I'm Hermione Granger, one of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors." Hermione said with a smile.
"Sean Courtley, at your service!" Sirius1 said, giving Raye a charming smile.
She looked at him. "Are you sure you're not related to him?" Raye asked curiously, pointing at Sirius.
Sirius1 grinned. "Pretty sure."
"Harry Donovan, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, Raye." Harry said with a slight grin.
Raye frowned. "It's complicated. You look like him, too." She said, pointing to James.
"Yeah, we get that a lot. But we're not related, or anything." Harry said, smiling. Raye shrugged.
"Your belongings will be up in the 7th year girls' dormitory. I'm afraid all of the girls there are on a vacation. It's the holidays, but you should use this time to make sure you've learned everything the 7th years learned. Will that be alright, Miss. Elddir?" Dumbledore asked.
"That's fine." Raye said.
"Would you like to contact your parents, James?" Professor Dumbledore asked, turning to James.
"Yes, please. Do you think we can stay here overnight?" James asked.
"It's your choice." Dumbledore said with a smile.
They all agreed on staying over. Once James got permission from his parents, they all went to the Gryffindor common room. There were a lot of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years there. After games of Exploding Snap and chess while eating food from the kitchens, the guys and Hermione were going to go sleep.
"Wait!" a voice said from behind them.
They turned around. It was Raye. She closed her eyes, which were bluish gray.
"I need to talk to you three- please?" Raye finally said, pointing to Sirius1, Harry, and Hermione.
"Sure." Harry said. "We'll see you guys later." He said to the 3 Marauders.
James, Remus, and Sirius shrugged and went up the boy's dormitories.
"We can talk in the Room of Requirement." Hermione suggested. They walked to the Room of Requirement in silence. Once they got there, they saw a room with three couches and a crackling fire. They all sat down and waited for Raye to speak.
"First- how do you know- me?" Raye asked Sirius1.
"Er… it's hard to explain, but I know plenty." Sirius1 answered.
"I have no idea what you two are talking about, but Raye… just know that you can trust us." Harry said gently.
"I know that." Raye looked at Harry. She stared at him and he stared back until his eyes started to water. He blinked.
"Look… I know you can do things with those eyes, the silver ones." Raye finally said.
"How?" Harry asked.
"Because… I have powers- abilities- with mine. A lot, actually. I can sense auras, and yours… yours are really complicated. I can hardly sense them. It's like you're not here… it's like you don't exist." Raye said, looking at all of them.
Hermione sighed. "Like Harry said, you can trust us with your secrets- and I'm hoping we can trust you with ours."
Raye bit her lower lip. "You know everything, don't you?" she asked Sirius1.
He nodded. "I don't care, either. I never did." He gave her a small smile.
Raye looked at him and gave him the smallest of smiles- just the corners of her mouth tilted upwards.
She took a deep breath. "My name is Rayenna Colette… Riddle. Though I don't know if you would know from that name-"
"You're related to Voldemort- Tom Marvolo Riddle, aren't you?" Harry interrupted.
"You know his name? Almost nobody does." Raye stated. Harry and Hermione nodded.
"He's my… father."
"But you don't look anything like him!" Harry exclaimed.
"I'm getting to that. Well, he's not my birth father. He found me- actually, he stole me from my mum when I was only months old, and raised me as his own. He needed an heir or something. Or an innocent to do some spying work for him. I wasn't old enough to do that before, so instead, I learned Dark Magic. Loads of it. That was all I knew. But when I turned ten, I got sick of it all and ran away. I went to find a mentor, or anyone that would teach me light magic. I found an elderly lady, Mrs. Weasley, to take care of me and teach me. She told me of Hogwarts, and I got interested. By then, I was fifteen years old. I got a lot of gold from my father's vault and put it in a new one I made. Mrs. Weasley gave me the directions to where Hogwarts was and I left to find it. So now I'm here. You've got to believe me. I have no bad intentions and I want to be good. I want to have nothing to do with my father.
"Do you believe me?" Raye asked in a small voice.
Harry stared long and hard at her, and could sense Hermione thinking rapidly.
He finally spoke. "I believe you." He said with a small smile.
Hermione nodded slightly. "You're not lying."
Raye let out a sigh of relief. "Tell me what you all have to say. Your secrets, now that I've said mine." Raye said.
"Who wants to tell?" Harry asked with dry humor.
Sirius1 volunteered. "We're from the future. Well- they are, but I'm from the dead. But basically from twenty years in the future."
Raye was quick to comprehend that. "So that must be why your auras are so faint. You don't really exist, but you're still here, so you have a little." Raye said, thinking aloud.
"Yes, that must be it." Hermione said in surprise. She thought Raye would be in a state of disbelief.
"And?" Raye asked calmly.
"Well, I'm really Sirius Black." Sirius1 spoke up. "The older version of that other bloke that kissed your hand- sorry about that, by the way."
Raye smiled in reassurance. "It's no problem."
"I'm Harry Potter, I actually am related to James." Harry said with an uncertain smile.
"I'm Hermione Granger- there wasn't really any point in changing my name." Hermione said with a small roll of her eyes.
"Wow, this is the first time I've met time travelers. But… it feels like you're special, or something. Like you're important to all of us in this time." Raye stated.
"Something's going to happen soon." Harry said, "there's going to be an attack on Hogwarts. We've got to try our best to stop it."
"So you must play a large role in this, then." Raye said with a yawn.
"Oh!" Hermione said in alarm. "We shouldn't keep you- you should get some sleep."
(I'm going to just put his name as 'Sirius' not 'Sirius1' because there's only one Sirius there… I'll be doing that when there's only one Sirius at the scene for the rest of the story)
They stood up. "Can I talk to you for a moment, Sirius?" Raye asked hesitantly.
Sirius looked at her curiously. "Sure."
"We'll wait for you outside, then." Harry said, and he followed Hermione out the door.
"It's… weird how you know me so well and I've never met you before in my life." Raye said after they were alone in the room.
"You're really amazing." Sirius said out of the blue.
Raye grinned. "Yeah, I know." Sirius punched her lightly in the arm with a smile.
"I don't know you, but I can't help but trust you." Raye said.
"Ah, well, I'm a trusting guy. So is past-me. I mean, I know I was a prat back there, but once you get to know me, I guess I'm pretty okay." Sirius said with an uncertain smile.
"Wow, that's very deep coming a guy." Raye teased.
"Hey, what can I say- I'm a sensitive guy!" Sirius said with a casual shrug.
"I'm wondering. I old are you guys? Harry and Hermione looked hardly older than me, and I have no idea how old you are." Raye said.
"Well, Harry and Hermione's only 18. They graduated last year. As for me, you'll have to guess my age." Sirius said, grinning.
"Er… 25 years old?" Raye guessed.
"I wish." Sirius stated.
"Oh, I don't know, I give up. Tell me!"
"Ah, okay, but don't tell anybody, especially the girls, or they won't swoon at me anymore. I like being obsessed over." Sirius said.
"Alright, I won't, now tell me!"
"I'm-" Sirius took a dramatic deep breath, and ran a hand through his hair. "40."
"Bloody hell, you're old!" Raye exclaimed.
"Watch it, kid." Sirius said in mock warning.
"Whatcha gonna do, old man?" Raye said, grinning widely.
Sirius grinned evilly. He lunged at Raye and started to tickle her right below her chest.
"How… the… bloody hell… do you…know…my… tickle spot!" Raye said through her laughs and giggles. She wriggled around, trying to get him to stop. He stopped tickling her.
"It's been a while since I heard those giggles… Damn, bloody while…" Sirius said quietly.
Raye stopped laughing and frowned slightly. She stopped herself from asking about the future- she knew she couldn't.
"I…" Raye started uncertainly.
"I should go. They're waiting for me." Sirius abruptly stood up and strode to the door. "Good night, Raye." And he left.
This was a horrible chapter. It's no fun and really boring. I'm soo sorry. Blame writer's block, or something. Stay with me! It should be getting better. This is a short chapter, too. Am I getting worse, or what? Well, anyways… Read and Review!
