Hello again!
Yea, I realized the pacing is very fast, but it will hopefully slow down. I just wanted to get out of the Mary Sue thing I started earlier.
When Harmony arrived at the cottage, she almost immediately fell into a snow drift. Cold snow melted against her skin, soaking her thoroughly.
Well, the name "Hidden Drift" made sense.
She got up, and started wading through the waist deep sludge. Then she remembered. She could fly.
She imagined the wonderful, weightless feeling again. Soon she hung in the air, her toes just touching the snow. Harmony was shivering.
She quickly flew over to the door. She was about to knock, when a sudden nervousness took hold of her. She had always dreamed of having a family. Now she had a brother. What if he did not like her? What if...
She closed her eyes. Well, she could either leave or go through with it. And there was no way she was leaving.
Gathering up her courage, she knocked.
Nothing.
She knocked again, a little louder this time.
Suddenely the door was flung open. "Yes?" A icy voice asked.
"Hi...er..." Harmony realized that she had not really thought about what she was going to say.
"I don't care why you are here. I don't allow visitors, so get out." Her brother said bluntly.
"Um...well...actually you see I'm your sister. " Harmony said, deciding to just get to the point.
He froze. "Harmony?"
"You know who I am?" She asked in a shocked voice.
"No." He said, slamming the door in her face.
She stood alone in the cold. Tears stung in her eyes. He knew of her before and he just left her. He never tried to contact her.
She stood like that for about a whole minute, tears slowly dripping down her face. The wind blew her hair around and her thin cloak did nothing against the cold. She could not believe it. She finally found family. Real family. And they want nothing to do with her?
Slowly she felt anger rising up inside her. She always tried to help. Always tried. She tried so hard to get the Dursleys to appreciate her, but no! She still was not good enough. She tried so hard with her friends and Dumbledore, but turns out they were just using her.
And now, her brother! Her twin brother! Her closest family wanted nothing to do with her. He knew she was alive, but he still did not care.
Harmony saw red.
For the first time in her life she felt the need to hurt and destroy. With a ferocious howl she flung her hands forward. The small cottage caught fire. Huge flames melted the snow and ice. She could vaguely make out a dark shape of some sort in the fire.
Her brother would feel the pain she was in. And so would Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione...all of them.
Power rushed through her. Harmony had never felt anything like it. The whole mountainside was on fire. The snow and ice burned.
It felt great to twist the very laws of physics. Harmony laughed. The fire steadily grew. She vaguely heard someone shout her name, but she could really not bring herself to care.
Suddenly all the power she felt vanished. She felt herself fall. Then nothing.
xXx
Harmony vaguely registered that she was laying in a bed. Her mind was blurred and fuzzy. Why was she here again? She had a horrible head ache. Harmony decided to just leave it and go back to sleep.
xXx
"Aargh." Harmony groaned. She hated mornings. Especially in the winter. She slowly started to climb out of bed, then she froze, where am I?, was her first thought.
Then she remembered. Slytherin Castle. She was just in a different room. Slowly her memories came back. Her brother, the fire...
She jumped out of bed.
How did she get back here?
"Hello." A voice said.
Harmony spun around to look at her brother. "What are you doing here?!" She snarled.
"Well, after you burnt my house down, I brought you here."
"What...?"
"Well, You would have probably died out there in the snow." He stated.
"So, what do you care?! You knew I was alive, but you still did not try and find me!" All her earlier anger was back.
"Maybe I don't care. I just needed a place to stay and decided to save you anyway." He said calmly.
"Wait...why was I dying? What did you try to kill me too?"
"No, your own magic did that."
"How do you know?" She asked.
"I...just know. I've been studying this types of magic for a while. Stay out of it Harmony. It is dangerous."
"You know what? You have no right to tell me what to do! You are nothing to me." Harmony hissed in a low voice.
She saw hurt flash across his face, before it was gone. She smirked. "In fact I can make you do what I want to." She said.
He stared at her, as if trying to decide if she could.
"You will stay here. You will tell me everything you know about magic. You will be my servant!" She spat.
"Well, since you destroyed my home..." he began, but Harmony cut him off by blasting him across the room.
"You can sleep where the house elves used to." She growled.
He looked like he was about to protest, but then he got up and walked out of the room. Harmony made sure he went to the dungeon rooms where the house elves used to sleep, before racing to her own room.
She made sure she cast every single silencing spell she knew, before breaking down into heartwrenching sobs. Finally she wiped away a tear. She would never let anyone else in. Family or not. This had proved to her once and for all that she was alone.
Btw, I don't know if Harmony reacted to badly, but think form her point of view. Her brother, the family she had always wanted, just acted like everybody else. And she is still deealing with the other betrayals.
Also, I know her brother does not have a name yet. It kinda did not want to fit. Either way, since the next chapter is still unwritten you can suggest a name.
Thx for reading. I really, really hope you review! =) Please review!