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Chapter 3
Another Half-Breed
"Hello?!?!?!" The booming voice sounded again. No one moved. It was so quiet that a pin drop would be heard. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Came the deafeningly loud knocking, making us jump again.
I was getting really annoyed now. Will someone just open the damn door already? We have vampires and werewolves here, for goodness sakes. Why should we be afraid? But even as I thought this, I couldn't help but feel fear. What could possibly be that big?
Was it another vampire? Considering the loud knocking, only someone as strong as us would ever be able to do that. I was taken aback.
But wait, no, I could smell human. Human and… something else I've never inhaled before. I was becoming more and more frightened as the seconds ticked by slowly, torturing me.
"Emmett," I said in a hushed tone, "just open the door, please." Annoyance leaked into that last bit. Taking my word for it, he cautiously turned the doorknob over with overly exaggerated slowness, and pulled open the door. It took merely an eighth of a second. Our unexpected guest outside still had his hand up in mid-knock.
The sight of the person--- giant, I mentally corrected myself--- standing on our doorstep was utterly shocking. His face was almost completely hidden under a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild tangled beard. His eyes were visible, though, glinting like black beetles under all the dark brown unruliness. The most shocking part of his appearance, however, was not his jungle of a head. It was the fact that he was towering over our door, and had to bend down to look at us. He was even bigger than Emmet, which was news to me. He. Was. Huge!
He was the first one to speak. "Couldn't move out o' the way an' let me through now, could yeh? It's terribly cold out 'ere," The giant had a thick English accent. He walked in and let kicked the door shut. As he bent down to unlace his thick animal skin-- I wasn't sure what animal, but it looked like really thick leather—boots, the two wolf packs scattered away from the colossal stranger, backing up into the living room, where Sue, Billy, and Charlie were standing with their mouths hanging open. The vampires, however, still stood frozen in their places. They could've passed as statues, with their pale skin and rigid formation. The giant walked into the house, and sauntered with heavy footsteps over to plop into one of the many leather couches, making himself comfortable. I slowly followed him, unsure of my actions.
"Um...s-sir," I stammered. Why was I being so polite to this strange man? He looked up at me, beetle eyes searching. Five seconds later, he smiled, happy that he found what he was looking for.
"Yeh must be Renesmee Cullen," he said, unexpectedly, "am I righ'?"
I felt a blast of unrecognizable shock. He knows my NAME?!?!?!?
"Who are you and what do you want with my daughter?" my father growled, teeth bared dangerously. The rest of the Olympic clan growled along with him. Even though I was terrible aghast at the recent situation, my cheeks went embarrassingly beet red. Yes, I admit, I was embarrassed of my family. Well, at least their actions. I sighed.
"Woah, now, vampire, back o'," he replied calmly, "I mean no harm ter yeh."
Dad growled again, surprised that this mountainous being knew our well kept secret. I muttered a silent, STOP, and turned to face the man.
"Not to sound rude or anything, but, who are you, and h-how did you know we were vampires?" I said, a bit too quiet. I was afraid of saying something I shouldn't. I mean, MAN, those hands looked huge.
He chuckled, and threw another smile in my direction, "I'm Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. Not ter mention yer new Care o' Magical Creatures teacher."
The mention of Hogwarts shot a scared feeling through my body. Rubeus looked at me, and chuckled yet again. Then I remembered he didn't answer my other question. Why was that? Was he—
"Why don't yeh make me a cup o' tea, an' we'll sit down an' have a nice little chat?"he said, interrupted my thinking.
Rosalie was already back with a steaming mug. Alice probably tipped her off.
"Bloody, that was fast!" He exclaimed, eyes gleaming at Rose as she set down the mug on the tiny coffee table that looked in danger of his large hands. He picked the mug up, and took a sip. Sighing, he set down the mug, satisfied. Everyone was watching his every move cautiously.
I built up some more courage and asked, "I'm sorry, but I still don't really know who you are, and what you are doing here…in my house."
"Well, surely, you must know about Hogwarts," he replied, sounding somewhat surprised.
"We just got a letter before you showed up," Carlisle spoke for the first time, "Can you explain what… what Hogwarts is?"
"Doesn't it say in the letter? Hogwarts is a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry!" he exclaimed, voice booming throughout the house.
All of a sudden, a shuffling noise by the front entrance distracted me and caused me to turn around. The pack and my human family stood at the doorway. They had on their coats and shoes. It took me a minute to process what they were doing. Wow, I was really out of it.
"We understand," Dad said, answering some unspoken thought. Our party guests nodded and smiled apologetically. Jake opened the front door and left, with everyone saying their last goodbyes and birthday wishes. Jake walked over to me and planted a sweet kiss on my forehead before walking out and closing the door behind him.
"Bye," I mumbled. What a nice birthday, I thought. "So, this isn't a-a-a…joke?" I asked, turning back to the over grown man sitting on the now-squished couch. Oh, damn, Esme was really fond of that couch.
"Blimey," he muttered, "a joke? O' course this isn't a joke!!!" he picked up his tea again and took a long gulp. "Hmmm," he mumbled, "not bad for a vampire, thanks Rosalie. "
Shock ran through my veins yet again. How did he know her name?
"You still haven't told us how you know what we are," my mom hissed, "we work very hard to hide our true identities, yet you walk in here, rudely disrupting my daughter's birthday, while acknowledging us by our names!" I hurriedly put my hand on her cheek. Stay calm, I told her, let's just see what he wants. He means no harm, Alice would've told us if there were any danger here. I could feel her tense muscles relaxing just a tiny smidge.
Rubeus raised his eyebrows, surprised at our little exchange. He coughed, "I come fro' the Wizarding world. Where I am from, there ar' no secre's which we do no' know. Vampires have existed fer a while in our histories. And it wa' immediately eviden' tha' yeh weren' normal human beings."
"Well, Rubeus," said Rosalie, a little rudely. Thankfully, he didn't notice. Rubeus gave off the kind of feeling that if we made him mad, there would be trouble. I hoped Rose wouldn't ruin this for all of us. She wasn't exactly the nicest person around.
"Please, call me Hagrid. That's wha' everyone back in our world calls me."
"Ok, Hagrid," Rose sneered. Oh, no, I thought. "You aren't a normal human being either," she continued, and was cut off by another chuckle.
"O' course I'm no', ar' yeh blind? I'm half giant," he said proudly, with a hint of anger and her rude tone, "My mother wa' a giant, father human. Now, enough abou' me! Back to the lovely Renesmee," he scratched his beard, "I'm sure yeh've read the letter, now…righ'?"
I nodded, "Um…yeah," I said hesitating just a bit, "So, this is all real then? I'm a witch? How did this happen though?"
"Yeh must've had some sort of magical blood in yer history, or it migh' just be random. Tha' happens sometimes, yeh know," he said.
"I believe you," At the voice, I turned around, becoming startled as I recognized it.
"Alice?" Esme and Rose gasped, highly disbelieving. The others were taken aback. Only dad knew what was coming next.
"I can see," she said simply, "Nessie is going to become a witch!" With that, she smiled at me, excited at the news. Instantly, my family relaxed. They trusted Alice a lot because of her ability.
"Eh?" said Hagrid.
"I have an ability to see into the near future, but it isn't always accurate," said Alice, completely oblivious to the fact that she said this to a stranger. Wow, this shows a lot, Alice must really trust him. If Alice trusted him, I knew the Cullens would, too. One look at their faces and relaxed poses tells me my opinions were definitely on the right track.
"H-Hagrid, can you please give us some more details? How do we send Nessie to a school that we haven't even heard about? Where is it anyways?" Esme asked, a little nervous, seeing as it was the first time she spoke.
"London," he replied, "I can take yer lot ter Diagon Alley, ter buy everything Rene--uh--Nessie needs, and then I will give yeh directions ter the train station tha' wil be takin' her ter Hogwarts. But if yeh excuse me, I have ter go now, I am expected…somewhere." He winced a bit when at his last word. Hagrid sat up from our now crushed couch, and walked his way to the doorway. While lacing up his big black boots, he said, "I will be comin' back ter escort yeh lot ter Diagon Alley on the upcoming June 30th. Don' worry, I'll send back the message ter inform yeh ar' goin'." He gave up trying to tie up his laces, pulled out a pink flowery umbrella, and pointed at the strings. The laces tied themselves up into a neat butterfly knot. I could almost hear the mental gasps. Then he picked up the mug, handed it to me, and left the house with a quick goodbye. I watched as he walked down the driveway, and out of sight.
"But wait! What if I'm not going?" I yelled into the darkness. No answer came back.
Sigh. What was I going to do?
I shut the door, and ignoring the stares coming from my loved ones, I cantered upstairs to Alice's room, and sat down on the beautiful pink four poster bed that belonged in a fairytale to a princess. Of course, it was only a prop seeing as vampires didn't actually sleep. I wonder why Alice needs it...
I gasped mentally and snapped out of it. She was my aunt, and it was absolutely disgusting to think of something like that about her and my Uncle. I shuddered.
"Nessie," Jasper said in a normal conversational volume even though he was all the way downstairs. I only heard because of my super sensitive vampire ears. Dashing downstairs, I saw my serious faced family members gathered around the crushed couch. As I got closer, I could see my mom sitting on the couch. She looked tired, and that was weird, considering she couldn't sleep.
"Bella!" Alice screamed, "Nessie is going to Hogwarts and becoming a witch! It is part of her!"
"Yeah, otherwise they wouldn't have picked her! She's special!"
"I already know she's special!"mom yelled, "I'm her fucking mother!" Wow, I've never seen mom this mad. She never uses language around me, if she could help it.
"Mom, we can discuss this la—"
"We are not discussing this! There is NO way under my watch you are going to that school! You will be attending Forks Elementary like you've always had, and that is FINAL!" she screeched. I quickly backed up, terrified of my own mother, and started tearing up uncontrollably. Rose, Alice, and Esme rushed over to me, melting me into a big, comforting hug.
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