Questions and Futures

I paced my room; it'd been exactly two months. It was practically school time again and the summer barley stuck to me.

I was also lying a lot. I back tracked last-night and the last months along with their events.

First; me and Draco had fake-broken up.

I had to. Hermione, Harry and Ron didn't trust him and last-night definitely defined that I needed Harry's trust.

Second; (which is leads up to the third) I was bitten by Fred, who happened to be a half-vampire along with George.

Apparently the idiots had decided to engage with an old coven as an experiment on their trip to Romania to see Charlie in their 2nd year. One thing led to another and they got bitten while the vampires were dying in the light making the twins only half-vamps. Afterwards Fred being the weird-experimental boy he is decided to bite me in the middle of the night last month to see if I'd turn into a half-vamp too and I did (stupid crazy-asshole child).

Third; Voldemort recruited me.

The moment Dumbledore got me out of the hospital wing he told me everything about what happened in the Grave-yard and he instantly came up with a plan; Severus Snape would bring me as a recruit to Voldemort, it would protect me and keep another insider for Dumbledore. On that night Dumbledore told me that plan he also showed me a prophecy that was half-right so far.

"On Hallows eve a year from now a baby witch shall be born of Slytherin's heir, she must be accepted into Hogwarts when she shall be but several fortnights from 11 years of age. She will have advanced powers far beyond that of those years ahead of here…her blood shall be that of Veela and Merpeople in the faintest ways but etched in the very fabric of her being and talent…The Dark Lord…he shall mark her, his last living relative, as he was, orphaned and lone. She will be above him…on the morning of the first Quittage match she'll observe she will be traumatised into a obsession to be away from the world…the Dragon knocked out of the air…ha-ha-ha…and onward she must be recruited by the Dark Lord or everyone will die worse that ever…and she will be un-dying and in the two darkest hours of Hogwarts she will be a saviour…the muggles would call her 'the fifth element'…"

I instantly understood that it was talking about me and the more I remembered it the more it made sense.

After Dumbledore let me see this he told me the plan, "you shall be what Voldemort wants, a friend of Harry's betrayed and hurt back for revenge but in secret'.

Dumbledore had shown it to Draco too and Draco instantly understood and the next day I told him in the Great Hall that he was a highly-polished jerk for making a joke about Neville for having no family. We had a giant fake row broken up by Harry telling Draco to "Fuck off Malfoy if you don't REALLY appreciate her!" and Draco running off with a fake-evil smirk.

A couple days later he sealed the plan off by kissing Pansy in the middle of Potions class and it spread like crazy. And I faked pain and suffering from then on in front of the school and whenever Harry, Ron or Hermione mentioned Draco in the slightest.

I plopped into the seat in my lame room. I had been taken to number 12 Grimmauld Place after mine and Sirius' trip to Toronto, New York City, and Los Angeles.

We both had enjoyed the small strip of freedom.

Mrs. Weasley had nagged me the moment I got back, wanting to know every word of what Dumbledore had told me.

On the same night I got back, Snape showed me his dark-mark and let me see his past through Dumbledore's Penisive.

He had loved Lily Evans (eventually Potter) since they were kids! I was shocked he showed me everything from the moment they met until when he came to Dumbledore and told was told she was dead.

He even showed me his patronus, it was a beautiful doe. It had apparently changed the moment he realised what he felt for her was love (but it was too late too tell her).

He was loyal to Dumbledore and hated Voldemort for killing the only being he ever truly loved. Which is why he told me; "Kill him, when you get the chance cut off that should-be-vampires head and stuff a can of ass-kicking down his throat?"

I smiled at that memory but them it reminded me I was in a house I didn't belong in. Suddenly I heard Mr. Weasley's soft voice carry up, "Melody, come down please. There's someone on there way to see you."

I walked down the stairs gracelessly. Mr. Weasley, Sirius, Remus, and Snape were there waiting.

"Who's coming to see me?" I asked.

"Tonks." said Sirius. "She's going to help us train you for battle."

I felt confused. "Battle?"

"Dumbledore." answered Snape.

"Oohh." I said understanding. "Wands or we doing the muggle approach?"

"Wands." said Lupin who looked paler than usual.

The door opened quietly on the other end then; SLAM!

"TONKS!" they cried in unison over Mrs. Black's new batch of howls.

"Filth! Disgrace of MY blood!" she pointed at Sirius. "Horrid child, allowing filth in my fathers' house! AND returning yourself after betraying your own flesh and blood!"

"Shut up you banshee!" cried Sirius he tried forcing her curtains close.

"What is wrong with you!" I cried at the portrait. "Purity is not stained if you discuss, socialize and live among half-bloods, breeds and muggleborns! And YOU, you're DEAD! If you don't shut up I will have a portrait of myself made and hung in here next to yours and torture you for ETERNITY!"

Her eyes bulged, staring me.

"Stop." she said in a hoarse voice that cried 'obedience'.

They immediately ceased trying to shut the curtains.

"You?" she pointed at me and everyone whipped around. "Are you not the descendant of the Great Slytherin?"

"So what if I am?" I asked.

"You don't care for whom you talk's blood status?" she asked her voice in soft type of shock. "You could be stained, marked."

"I don't care." I said sternly. "I find out whom they are first. Didn't you ever like anyone for who they really where?"

She thought. "No." she said in a small voice.

"Maybe you should start." I said. I grasped the curtains and shut them on her pondering face without difficulty.

It was all quite, then Sirius spoke.

"Man if only you'd been around when I was a kid and changed her before she died, maybe she wouldn't have been a complete bitch her whole life and in her likeness." He said gesturing towards the portrait which didn't even seem as haunted.

I smiled and everyone seemed in complete awe.

"Are we going to train or what?"

The training was amazing. I even learnt some muggle moves from Sirius.

I sat in my room and drummed my fingers on the solitary desk.

'Nothing to do but try to get some sleep." I thought.

I got up and flopped on the bed.

I slowly cleared my mind like Severus had instructed me in our Occlumency lessons.

I listened to the trees moving outside, turned over and closed my eyes.

Like a television being turned on I instantly landed in a dream.

It felt real and looked like the hall to the Department of Mysteries; same darkness and tiles, even the door at the end of the hall from the lift.

"Close master!" said a high, cold female voice.

'Nagini!' I thought. 'Oh my god! They're caring out the plan now!'

I saw Arthur Weasley at the end of the hall and my mind went into over-drive.

'If I don't stop her he dies, but if I do I compromise my location, ruin the overall plan or die!'

Then it dawned on me, Dawlish.

He was on duty, Arthur was driving us to the train station tomorrow with some other members of the Order.

'It was just a dream!'

My eyes then shot open. It was light out even through the blinds.

I looked at the clock. "SHIT!"

It was 11 exactly, the train was already moving out of the station.

Then my door opened and in came Mrs. Weasley. She looked around and took a double-take on me.

"Damn!" she cried. "TONKS!"

Crack!

"What!" she asked, wand out which fell on me. Her wand dropped. "No….we couldn't…how could we?" she sat down, dazed.

"I don't know!" Molly whimpered.

"I'm fine." I said.

"Mel." Tonks took a deep breath. "Severus said he'd take you to the train today. Not us, so we thought….you'd gone already when you didn't come to breakfast."

I got up and dressed myself.

"Why wasn't I told?" I asked after I couldn't stand the silence.

"We didn't want you to be pressured." said Molly

"Dumbledore said…." Tonks started.

"'Melody mustn't be pressured or she'll kill someone and she's meant to protect.' Knowledge is pressuring Melody."

I sighed. "I must have slaughter the world then because I know more then most." I flicked my wand at my wardrobe.

"You want me to walk you to door?" asked Tonks.

I nodded.

When I spun at the stop on the top step all I wanted to be was in the compartment Harry was in.

When I arrived though, I was in a closet. I stayed there until the train stopped, got off and didn't look back.

"Now, Miss. Gaunt could you demonstrate the proper removal of Mandrakes to the class?"

I snapped back, not even a week and wasn't focused, thinking about my lies and Draco and the burning mark on my arm.

I placed the ear-muffs on my ears and apologized to Professor Sprout.

"Not to worry, if you could just demonstrate," she assured. "I've already told them the theory now they need to see."

I held the pot, grasped at it and pulled.

It screwed up its face and cried I felt weakened but my vampirism kept me from death or fainting.

I strolled out of Herbology as soon as I was given a bathroom break.

I suddenly felt the pain in my left arm reach searing.

"Melody, you must weaken Harry slowly, but without him knowing!" hissed a high, cold voice in my head.

"Yes my Lord." I answered to his command aloud, hiding the pain I couldn't ignore.

The moment the pain subdued I bolted to Dumbledore's office.

"JELLY SLUGS!"

The gargoyle remained dormant.

"MOVE!" I bellowed at it, and started hammering at it.

"!" said a cold, shocked voice.

I whipped around. It was only Severus.

"Sever-I mean Professor Snape-" I ran towards him.

He held up his hand for silence.

"Wait Mel."

He waved his wand, muttering something.

A silver animal erupted from his wand very like a patrouns. It bowed to Severus and then me. It then turned, galloped down the hall and out of sight.

"Was tha-?" I started, and then thought better of asking personal questions.

Dumbledore was there as suddenly as he had apperated.

"Professor-"

"Hush, Severus. Walls have ears and mouths."

We walked-instead of to Dumbledore's portrait covered office-onto the grounds and toward the forest in silence.

"Melody." Dumbledore finally said. "Obey him. Disclose everything you know without hesitation or regret. You'll be forgiven. In fact…plot a plan in his head."

I looked at Dumbledore. He appeared buoyant, but still troubled.

"You talk to me more than you do Harry." I stated flipping the subject. "He needs you…maybe…. just maybe, the upcoming events will unfold like a flower instead of lashing out like a whip, if you did."

Dumbledore sighed.

A flicker of a smile ripped across his lips.

"Maybe…but I believe what I'm doing is right, Melody. Foolish, but right."

"Professor?" Severus spoke "Perhaps Miss. Gaunt has a point."

"She does Severus." Dumbledore responded. "I believe that if we require a though…then Mr. Potter and his friends will understand…they must unite."

"An army?" I asked. "A rebellion of teenagers against the Dark Lord!"

"In a way, Melody-yes-an army of teenagers not unlike yourself."

"Professor, you know I'm nowhere near the intelligence, physique or magical ability of my peers. I far surpass them…sadly I'm not as high as you." I smiled, lightly.

He chuckled heartily. "No. You are above even myself….you're an even bigger threat to Voldemort."

My smile melted off and so did his.

"Have you talked to Sybil?" I asked. "About what I asked?"

He nodded. "You'll change him soon…before this year comes to a close."

"And the others?"

"Their own choosing."

"Lastly the kiss…where must it happen?"

He chuckled, "'The only location 'the Heiress' can reach, 'the chosen one' and the 'Dark Lord' too.' "

"The 'bathroom'!" I hissed in shock.

"Yes."

Severus looked completely bewildered.

"You must go Melody." Dumbledore said calmly.

AUTHORS NOTE:

Hey everyone who's expecting more of my story,

I'm sorry to but I'm discontinuing this story.

DON'T FREAK OUT JUST YET! I've just decided to go with a different direction. It'll be relabelled, and it will have a different plot and Melody will have a parent. You'll just have to find out who he is.

Also the intro of characters and some view of Melody's will be changed, but for the better of her character I believe.

Thanks!