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Chapter Four: Meeting in London

On November 9th a letter arrived at Harry and Ginny's flat in London. Unusual for them it arrived in the mailbox. Ginny came in with a confused look on her face, "Harry this just arrived in the mail." She said handing the letter to him.

Harry took it and looked at it. The letter was addressed to him at the flat's address but instead of arriving by owl the postage was present in the corner of the envelope. The name and address was written in electric blue ink. There was no return address in the other corner. "Who do we know that sends things by muggle mail?" Ginny asked.

"No idea. I doubt it's the Dursley's and Hermione would just owl us." He opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of paper not parchment, which they were both so used to. The writing in the letter was written in the same ink as the address. "It's from Jessica." He said somewhat surprised.

"Well what are you waiting for? Read it." Ginny said.

Harry was still surprised that his newly found sister would even write so soon, but he did as his fiancée asked.

Harry,

I've thought things over for the most part and even though I'm still uncertain about this I'll agree with Ginny and a friend of mine for now. You do have a right to get to know me seeing as I've never had the courage to face you before hand. I've known about you practically my whole life and you've only known about my existence for barely a week. I'll meet you in a muggle London cyber café, meaning that they'll have computers galore. It's right across the street from the Leaky Cauldron entrance, all right? It shouldn't be that hard to find. If you can't find it call my cell (cell phone) 928-379-4824. I can only pray that you know what a cell phone is having grown up with muggles. I'll be there next Monday November 14th from five till eight at night. If you don't show up then I'll assume either you didn't get this letter or you just don't want to meet, either way just so you know I won't be mailing again. Any problems once again call me. That's about it, see you then.

Jessica

P.S. Here's you first bit of information for you. I don't live like a wizard, hence the cell phone, and I don't own an owl or any bird of the sorts. I go to a muggle college, live in a muggle town, and obsess (though not as much as my roommate) over technology. Be thankful that this letter was written out and not word-processed. Bye-Bye!

Harry stared at the letter. "She doesn't live like most wizards even though she's a witch?" Ginny asked reading over Harry's shoulder.

"I guess so. Most wizards don't have a clue what a telephone is let alone a cell phone. And wouldn't they meet in Diagon ally, and not a cyber café in London? Strange isn't it? I hope she isn't like the Dursley's."

Ginny giggled, "I doubt that. Didn't you see her outfit at all when we met her in the graveyard?"

Harry stared at her confused "Not really I didn't think it was that important. Why?"

"Well," Ginny said sitting on his lap. "The first thing I noticed was that she wore a tube top in the middle of the fall and there was a striking tattoo on her back. There was another tattoo on her wrist I noticed when she took the parchment. Her ears were pierced as well, multiple times. She doesn't seem like the type of person who would agree with your relatives about anything." She looked up at him and saw concern in his eyes. "What's wrong?"

"I faced the darkest wizard of the age, you would think I wouldn't be afraid of anything." Harry laughed. "But this is nerve racking."

Ginny smiled, "I don't expect you not to be afraid."

Jessica sat in an art museum researching for a paper she had to write for her professor. She wasn't concentrating much on the material and kept glancing at her watch every few minutes. Her class let out at three and she's been sitting in the London museum since then. Frustrated with herself she closed up her notebook and left.

'Why, why did I let Derek and Sparks talk me into this?' she thought.

Cause they're your friends and they can see the situation much clearer than you can at the moment. Admit it if Sparks didn't push you to write that letter you wouldn't even be meeting him later.

'So what is it a crime to want to keep things to yourself?'

It's not fair to Harry. You know enough about him from Mrs. Weasley and others but he knows nothing, nada, zilch.

'I'd rather this being the only meeting.'

And that comes from the girl who's boggert was her own name.

'I like the name Aqua better anyway.'

Jessica shook her head to stop from arguing with herself. It was pointless. She checked her watch one more time showing quarter of five. She walked the rest of the way to the café. She slipped her laptop out of her bag and started her paper with what notes she was able to gather getting more information from the Internet when needed. At five thirty a man with very messy black hair came into the café. Jessica sighed and waved him over.

Harry took a seat and watched her put away her computer. "Is there a reason your staring? Or is it really that fascinating when a person puts away a computer?" Jessica asked.

"I've never seen a witch with a computer, so it's different. And weren't you raised by our wizard grandparents?" Harry asked.

"And so begins the interrogation." Jessica said laced with sarcasm. "They died when I was three. And I grew up in a muggle orphanage from there. Weren't you paying the slightest attention to what I was saying in the graveyard, or was that cloak covering your hearing as well?" Harry looked taken aback and Jessica laughed. "Get used to my sarcasm. It's very common around America."

"The United States?" Jessica nodded. "Where exactly-?"

"California suburbs. Actually we, our grandparents and I, lived in Arizona but then we moved the suburbs near LA After they died I went to an orphanage in the city and went to elementary and part of middle school near there."

"You went to school at Orenda Academy?"

"Yeah, it's somewhat like Beuxbatens, prissy and extremely boring, but when you through Americans in with that the result isn't exactly what they hoped for. I dropped out after two years though along with my two friends Sparks and Magma." Harry looked surprised. "Chill. We took summer classes and got the gist of most of it. We went to a regular high school during the school year and managed jobs during the school year. Things went much more to our liking that way. Sparks and I stayed with Magma and her folks during the year since we didn't want to stay at the orphanage any longer. They were very nice about it even went as far as offering to adopt us. We said no of course. Sparks always hoped her family would get some sense knocked into them eventually, and I didn't want to be tied like that."

"You didn't want to be tied by a family."

"No," Harry scowled. "Don't give me that. Maybe you would have liked a real family to grow up with instead of the Dursley's but I prefer to roam free. I guess you could say that I felt afraid of families they just seemed to suffocate me a lot of the time. Mr. and Mrs. Dera were the closest things I had to parents since our grandparents died and Sparks, Magma, and Derek are my family now."

"Who are they exactly?"

"Well Derek lives in the village near where I live, he's a muggle by the way, and even though I've only known him a few years I feel like I've known him forever. Sparks I met at the orphanage when I got there. We weren't so much as alike, but more that we were so different from everyone else that we became fast friends. Magma we met when we got to Orenda. Once again it was the fact the three of us were so different from the other students that brought us together under one banner." She tucked a piece of loose copper hair behind her ear and Harry notice the silver dolphin dangling from her ear and three other earrings all different shades of blue. As well as the unusual tattoo on her right wrist Ginny had told him about.

"What does that represent?" He asked pointing to the tattoo.

Jessica looked where he was pointing and smirked. "I thought you wanted to know 'bout me not my tattoos." She said laughing. He was about to remark but she cut him off again. "But I guess it has some what of a reasoning with me. This," she said showing her right wrist. "Is the banner we came under. We made this symbol in junior high and tattooed it magically. In the center is a golden lighting bolt similar to your scar. Around it is a blue raindrop and around that is a crimson flame. Sparks, Aqua, Magma."

"Why do you call each other by those names?" Harry asked curious.

Jessica looked at him odd. "Well we aren't like normal witches are we?"

"I don't know, aren't you?"

Jessica shook her head gently, "Nope. I'm a water witch." She said waving her hand in her direction. "Remember that trick I pulled in the graveyard?" Harry nodded. "Well, what I did there was take the water within the earth and made it rise into the air. Shaping the water and solidifying it a bit I was able to take your wands. It's a simple trick not anything like making tsunamis or tidal waves. Those take a lot of energy and time to get right.

As for the other two, Sparks is a witch of thunder and lightning so she'll usually spend a lot of time outside in a thunderstorm. Also she's an electronic eccentric it caused a bit of problems with her family who are like totally in to the pure blood crap. Magma on the other hand is muggle born and a fire and ashes witch. She used to be part of a LA gang until she got accepted to Orenda and met us. According to her she was really coveted for her ability to control fire, she doesn't talk about it much." She paused and waited for more questions.

"What do you do now that you are out of school?"

"I'm a student at the nearby art university. I was writing a paper for a class of mine before you got here. Sparks goes to the same school but she majors in photography and program design while I do drawing and painting. We haven't been going very long seeing as we just graduated last year. We actually finished our schooling in England, near where Sparks and I live now."

"So your other friend isn't around any more?"

"Nope Mags moved back to Cali after graduation she prefers a place where winter is almost unheard of. Sparks doesn't mind it so much but still complains about the cold."

"You don't seem bothered by it." Harry said nodding to her T-shirt.

Jessica laughed. "On the contrary. I much rather prefer warm weather to cold, but London has a lot of mist and fog. I wear short sleeves to feel the water molecules against my bare skin. Even Sparks will shed her sweatshirt in a thunderstorm. The only thing we both hate is snow."

"But isn't snow water just frozen a bit?"

"Hey, I'm not a snow witch that's Haley's job."

"You mentioned her in the graveyard. Something about her in the final battle."

"Yep, if you recall the frozen corridor. She's the one who did that piece of art, anyone who came ten feet toward the center of that arctic, trying to reach her was immediately frozen. Magma had to get her out of there being as she's the only one who can reach Haley when she's like that." Jessica paused looking troubled. "Thing is she shouldn't have been in that battle to begin with. She was only seven. Mammalia got into so much trouble with Lee cause she brought Haley."

"Who are all of these people?" Harry asked frustrated with all of the extra characters.

Jessica looked at him with an observing eye. "I'll trust you with a little information on that subject but that's it. Only basics nothing more." Harry nodded a little tempered. "Alright then. We're, Magma, Sparks, and myself included, are the guardian spirits. Water witch, thunder witch, fire witch, snow witch, and there's more. Mammalia is the witch of animals. We have to witches of plants one of regular flowers and such and another that controls ivy and vines. There is a witch who controls all things electronical, and another that controls metal, an earth witch, the witches of sun and moon, an air witch, and even a witch of the after life. Not to be sexist or anything but all of the guardians are girls. Don't ask me why I have no idea. That's the way it's always been, just as most of the guardians have been born in the Americas."

"But we were born here in England."

"Yeah I know. So was Sparks, weird ain't it? By the time I was old enough to come into my powers I was already living in the US, but Lee took Sparks from her family when she was two. Sparks thanks whatever gods there are that Lee did that, other wise she might have wound up just like them growing up with that pureblood crap. She visited them for a few days every couple of months growing up." She muttered under her breath something Harry couldn't decipher.

"What?"

Jessica looked up suddenly as if she just noticed him, but then smiled. "Oh nothing. Not my story to tell. Any other questions?"

"Yeah, how is it that you were in the Order underage?"

Jessica shrugged, "Dumbledore asked a favor of Lee to have the guardians join the Order. And here is exactly what she told him, 'We don't interfere with the workings or wars of others. That is completely against the rules. WE KEEP OUT OF IT!' but then she went right around and said that Sparks, Magma, and I could do it seeing as we were underage and not fully into our powers yet, which was a downright lie by the way. Our ability to control our powers was second only to Lee, Tei, and Warp. Lee also added the little fact that we never really gave into rules to begin with so it was all right. I don't know what else she told him to allow underage witches in the Order.

Eventually though every guardian rose up against Voldemort. That was around the time when Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and you went hunting for Horcruxes."

"How do you know about the horcruxes?"

"Ana told us. She's the witch of the afterlife." Jessica said answering the question on his face.

"The afterlife?"

"You really don't want to know." Jessica said plainly. They sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes before Jessica said, "So is that it?"

"Yeah I guess. Between what you've said here and what I heard in the graveyard I can understand what your life was but I really don't know what your like."

Jessica smiled knowingly staring into her cup stirring lightly. "Same here. I know the small gist of your life but I don't know you personally. My only question is what are the Dursley's like? After all they're part of my family, too."

Harry looked surprised but quickly said, "Growing up I slept in the broom cupboard and got Dudley's old clothes. My birthday was forgotten for the most part. And after I found out I was a wizard, well they locked me in my room for the first summer in between first and second years, but afterwards mostly ignored me. Dudley and I settled most of our differences before we went into hiding I get a few letters from him, around Christmas and such."

"Did you invite him to the wedding?"

Harry nodded. "Ginny wanted to invite you by the way. She even wanted to ask you to be a bridesmaid." Jessica stared at him dumbstruck. Then shook her head vigorously.

"No way. Tell her that the offer's appreciated but declined. I'm not a dress person. I'll think about the going to the wedding, though." Jessica said.

Harry laughed and Jessica smiled the ice melting somewhat between them. "The wedding is on May 18th. Just so you know."

She nodded unsure. She checked her watch for the hundredth time that day. "I've got to go. I still have that paper to write." She stood up and held out her hand. "I've got to admit this was nice. Maybe we'll do it again sometime." She added hesitantly.

Harry shook her hand but before he could say anything she was gone. "Why is it that every time I want to talk to her she disappears?" He asked himself before leaving himself. 'Good thing for tracking charms.' He thought. 'I'll give her a bit of time before I follow her.' He went to Diagon Ally to pick up a few things Ginny asked for before returning home.

A/N: Hello again! Sorry I took a while to put this up, I've been gone on vacation. No Internet it sucks. I hoped this chapter met up with the others. Just to clear this up Lee is my own character not anything related to Lee Jordan (who is all Rowlings) also incase anyone was confused Lee is a girl. Another thing everything above that doesn't seem familiar is of my own creation. As always Comments and Criticism are welcome. Sorry for the wait.