You don't have to read this is you are not reviewing my story under the name timber: Okay, for starters, I would like to thank the reviewer Timber for taking the time out of his day to be completely obnoxious and tell me that my story is "worthless crap". It is also funny that even though you said it wasn't worth reviewing, *gasp* there it is! If you are going to hate on my story than fine! But don't just write that its crap and not tell me what you hated about it so that I can fix it! And don't use a fake name just so you don't have to face to consequences of being an ass! And if you hated it so much WHY DID YOU READ UP TO CHAPTER 8 DUMBASS!" Don't ruin my day with your worthless crap comments! And what you said about there being only a few reviews in 2 months, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT! I have reviewers and I'm grateful for that! But I'm not going to stop writing just because I don't have a bazillion reviews! And I am especially not going to stop writing just because people like you try and tear people down!
To my nicer reviewers, I thank you for being supportive and not being jerks. I know other people are reading this story as well so thank you for that, even if you aren't reviewing it's nice to know that I'm writing for people who appreciate what I'm writing and don't try to destroy other peoples self-esteem =).
Third Message, please read!: I am really sorry I haven't written in a while, my life has been pretty hectic for a while. For one thing, I made a school sport team so I've been at practice all day. I also had to hand make all of my Christmas presents. Yuck! And I just got a surgery done, not to worry I'm fine! But I hear I was pretty funny while on anesthesia! Anyway, heres the next chapter of the story, but you should know that I probably wont have another chapter ready until after Christmas. Sorry!
Harry could barely breathe. He knew that he wanted to meet them, but he was scared that they might not want to know him once they met him. From what he had learnt from the Dursleys, it was apparently very hard for his family to like him. He had decided that he was angry at Dumbledore. It wasn't enough that he had ignored him all summer, but he had apparently hid the only remaining family that he had from him. This was one thing that would make it hard for Dumbledore to regain his trust.
He was also shocked at the pure size of the house that they were walking towards. It was beautiful. And to think that this was where his father had grown up! And now his sisters were here waiting for him.
They had reached the door with the identification tests, but it seemed as if in anticipation of the meeting, Joey and Danny had opened the security system so that Dumbledore and Harry could get in easier. This proved true when they heard the door click and lock behind them. This seemed ominous to Harry, but Dumbledore kept on walking. Finally, they were walking up the stairs, which started to move underneath them. Harry couldn't help but think that this house looked smaller from the outside. Which was surprising considering how large it had looked even when you were looking at it from the outside.
"We will be upstairs momentarily." Dumbledore said quietly. "Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? We still have the option of going back."
Harry shook his head, and the stairs brought them to the newest level, where Danny and Joey were waiting.
"What is taking so long?" Danny was pacing back and forth in the living room. Joey was sitting nonchalantly on the couch with her arms crossed and legs folded, following her twin with her eyes.
"If they weren't coming, Dumbledore would have already contacted us. They'll be here Danny calm down." Joey said tiredly. Danny had been freaking out all day.
But so have I. She admitted to herself in her head. She had been taught from a very young age not to let anybody know what she was feeling. Emotions were giveaways. Danny had a childhood with a little bit of a… softer aspect. So she was more of an emotional person. It made Joey worry about her a lot to think of what she might do if she got really upset.
"That's easy for you to say! You're used to this sort of thing!" Danny shrieked. She had finally stopped pacing and picked up the rubics cube that she had left on the coffee table last night. She loved those things but she could never solve them. Joey always found it strange that she loved doing the one thing that she failed at over and over again.
"How is anything I've done related to this?" Joey asked testily. Danny was starting to annoy her. She didn't like it when this was brought up. It always made her more stressed and made her put all of the mental shields up. She especially didn't need that now that Harry was finally coming to see them.
Danny immediately sensed that she had said something wrong. "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. I guess I'm just a little scared of what might happen. What if he doesn't like us? What if we don't like him? What if he doesn't want anything to do with us? What if-"
"DANNY SHUT THE HELL UP!" Joey shouted. "God your rants are annoying. Calm down, none of that is going to happen."
"But how do you-"
"Because he's our brother." Joey said quickly. She couldn't let herself doubt this. She was the strong one. Without her, Danny would fall apart. Speaking of Danny, her eyes had widened in shock. Soon Joey heard it too. The stairs were moving! They both looked to each other and Danny sat down, clutching Joeys hand in hers.
!
When he saw them, the first thing he noticed was that they were twins. They looked too alike to not be. Both had the red hair that he had seen in all of the pictures of his mother, and yet the hazel eyes that he had seen in pictures of his father.
The first thing that they noticed, was that he looked exactly like their father. From the ink black hair to their height. Except for the eyes, that had once belonged to their mother.
Dumbledore steered the shocked Harry to the couch across from them and they both sat down. "Well, " he started carefully. "Since this is your first meeting I suppose I should introduce you three. Harry, this is Daniella and Johanna, your sisters. And girls, this is Harry, your brother. I understand that this situation cannot be very comfortable so please, take your time trying to adjust."
After saying this, he sat back in his seat and resolved to let the chips fall where they may. They had to work this out themselves from this point on.
"Um, hi. I guess." Joey started awkwardly. "So, I guess we should start off with something simple…Ideas, Danny?"
Danny's head jerked towards Joey, she swallowed the tears that she could feel behind her eyes and tried to speak. "Um, how about…uh…" There should really be a book about what you should say to the brother that you haven't seen for 14 years.
Joey, seeing that Danny would sit there stuttering until Harry thought she was insane, quickly took back the conversation. "So, I heard you've been staying with our mentally insane relatives. How fat did Dudley get?"
Harry gave a small smile at that. She was trying to use a topic that could get him laughing and that they both knew about. The Dursleys were a laughing matter. "Well, as of my fourth year Dudley became wider than he was tall." This made Joey burst out laughing imagining the boy that they had seen in pictures even fatter than he had been. Even Danny snorted, seemingly trying to be polite and not laugh at their ridiculous family members.
"Is Aunt Petunia still too nosy for her own good?", Joey asked between laughter.
"Worse," Harry said, "She's been following some divorce obsessively for months. But she would deny it to anybody who brought it up." This sent them all into a new round of laughter. None of them notice Dumbledore quietly exiting the room.
When they all finished their laughter, they turned their conversation to different topics. They all asked and answered questions cautiously, seemingly trying to not scare each other away.
"So, what's Hogwarts like?" Danny asked quietly.
Harry looked confused. "You never went there?"
"No, we went to Beuxbatons." Joey answered. "We had to go out of the country, Dumbledore didn't want anybody to figure out that we were Potters. All of the teachers knew mom and dad so well, they would have recognized it immediately."
Harry frowned. It wasn't fair that they shouldn't be allowed to go to school where they wanted just because Dumbledore said that they needed to be hidden. They seemed to all be following the same general line of thought because this was when they all noticed that Dumbledore had left. "Hm." Joey said. "Well that's not normal. Oh well! Dinner anybody?"
Harry noticed quickly that Joey tended to jump from topic to topic randomly. She seemed more go with the flow, like nothing would shock her. While Danny seemed more like Hermione. She wanted things to be planned. She wanted to know what was going on. And yet, she was less like Hermione in that she seemed more emotionally fragile. She didn't look like it would take much to upset her, and yet he could tell that when they needed to, they could have tempers just as big as his.
They all moved into the kitchen. Harry was looking around the room like he couldn't get enough to see. "How is this so much bigger from the inside than the outside? I mean, I know you must have used magic to make it this big but I still cant believe the size of this thing!"
"Oh you haven't even seen all of it!" Danny said. "This house has been in our family for generations. Every new Potter family that moved in used magic to make the house their own. Everybody has their own signature wing that they made their own. The rest of the house is kind of like a museum to the Potter family."
"How big is it?" Harry asked.
"We don't exactly know. We cant really tell from the outside measurements of course. And the inside just takes too much time. We've guessed that its probably about the size of three of the Queen of England's castles."
At this, Harry choked over the glass of butterbeer that Joey handed him. "It's really that big!"
"Well yea." Joey said smirking over her glass of butterbeer. "Practically every member of our family that's lived here has added on their own…wing, I guess you could call it. It's our way of leaving a mark."
Danny meanwhile, had been bustling around the kitchen. "Jojo, we've got nothing. Unless you want to eat leftover Chinese food?"
"What do you mean we have nothing?" Joey said, walking over to the fridge. "I just went out Thursday!"
Danny rolled her eyes. "Yes, and then you immediately invited the boys over for band practice and promised me you would replace all the food that you ate."
"You're in a band?" Harry asked from over the counter.
"Yea, I have to disguise myself when we play though. I even have a stage name." Joey said, her eyes lit up while talking. He could tell that the band was very important to her. "Maybe we'll bring you to one of my concerts sometime. It's a lot of fun you'll love it." She turned back to the scowling Danny. "I'll just go out and get some food and be back in fifteen minutes. Or we could just borrow food from Gunner."
"Who's Gunner?" Harry asked.
Joey smiled and Danny rolled her eyes again, but even she was smiling. "GUNNER!" They both shouted. Out of nowhere a huge dog came skidding around the corner and jumped up to sit at Joey's feet. She smiled and took a huge bag of dog food out of the closet. "I'm guessing we're all going to skip the dog food?"
An hour later, they were all sitting on the couch eating a pizza. Even Gunner was tearing up his own piece on the floor. Minnie had come up shortly after Joey had left and had already been introduced to Harry, so she was eating with them.
"So, seeing as Dumbledore has left, would you want to stay here tonight?" Danny asked cautiously. Joey didn't look up from her pizza, but she stiffened. Harry could tell that they were both on edge about this. They were still trying not to scare him off.
"Um, sure I guess." Harry said quietly. "So where would I sleep?"
Both sisters blushed at this. "We've had a room ready for you since we moved in here. It was done before anything else." Danny said embarrassedly.
"Oh," Harry said. "Thanks."
"Well this just got awkward." Joey said bluntly. "Come on, we'll show it to you." She dropped her plate of half-finished pizza on the counter and stood up. Not waiting for either of them, she walked down the stairs that Harry and Dumbledore had come up not too long ago. While Harry and Danny stood to follow her, Minnie stayed behind to pry the pizza that Gunner had stolen off of Joey's plate out of his mouth.
Instead of going all the way down to the bottom, Joey walked down one level and stopped in front of a door. When she opened it, they were in the long hallway full of rooms that the Weasleys had walked through only a few days before. Walking down the hallway, Harry noticed that a lot of the rooms had wooden blocks on the front that were obviously supposed to be carved with names.
As they continued walking down the hall, he only saw three with the name plates carved. One door had his own name carved into it. It was right next to Danny's room. Which had paintings and drawings neatly taped to it. In a sharp contrast, straight across the hallway was Joey's Room. Her door had glow in the dark butterflies and bumper stickers stuck to it. Most of which said some things that would make Aunt Petunia gasp with horror. Skipping over their own rooms, the girls lead Harry to the room that was labeled his own.
When they walked in, the first thing Harry was shocked at was how much it looked like his dorm in Hogwarts. "Dumbledore said that you were very school spirited." Danny said timidly, wondering if they had decorated wrong. They had never actually seen the dorms at Hogwarts.
The walls were all painted deep red, with gold trimming lining the floor and ceiling. A large thick red blanket was draped over a dark mahogany bed in the corner, which matched the desk of the same material and color that was across from the door. A dresser also sat next to the closet and his school trunk was at the foot of his bed. Other than that, it seemed that the girls had mutually agreed that he should be allowed to decorate his own room, along trying to prompt him to leave them hints about his life. There was a combination of empty frames nailed up on the wall to the right of the door. Most were labeled, family, friends, memories.
All frames but one was empty. In the middle, there was one frame with elegant wooden carvings surrounding it and in the middle there was a photo that was older than it looked. It had been well taken care of over the years. Harry walked over and stared at the picture for a while, shocked that he had never seen it before.
"It was one of very few pictures of all of us." Danny said, smiling as she walked up behind him. Joey stayed hovering by the door. "Mom and Dad had Sirius take that picture at their Anniversary party. It took us all 20 minutes to get you to stop crying, you were tired all day."
The picture showed the five of them all together. Lily and James were both sitting in chairs behind Danny and Joey, who were sitting on the floor and looked around the age of five. Right after Harry was born. Harry himself was sitting on James lap. The girls faces were unclouded by the troubles that had befallen them after their parents deaths. Joey clung to James' leg and Danny leaned against both Lily's legs and Joey's shoulder.
Both the twins smiled at the memory that they thought of whenever they saw that picture. Harry blinked sporadically to keep tears from coming. "Um, thanks. For the room." He said quietly.
"We've had it ready for a while anyway." Joey said. "So, I guess we'll see you in the morning. Uh, bathroom is right down the hall." Gunner slinked into the room quietly and sat down on a bed that was already placed in the corner of Harry's room. Joey smiled sarcastically. "And Gunner will probably end up sleeping on your bed by the end of the night, be warned."
Harry smiled. "I don't mind." He said, smiling at the dog. The girls both went to stand right outside the door.
"Um, knowing Dumbledore your clothes are probably in the drawers. So, we'll see you in the morning? Danny is making pancakes for breakfast!" Joey said happily, Gunner's head perked up at this but Joey quickly calmed him down. "Not till tomorrow Gun. Sorry."
All three of them laughed when Gunner immediately went back to sleep. "Goodnight Harry!" Danny and Joey said in unison.
"Goodnight." He said quickly. They both exited the room and looked to each other, silently asking each other if they thought it had gone well before they headed to their respective rooms with no answer.
Harry located his pajamas in one of the drawers and quietly settled into the bed in the corner of the room. After turning off his lights, he realized that the furniture was not the only thing the girls had put in his room. Glued to the ceiling was at least 200 glow in the dark stars that he wouldn't have been able to see if he had not turned off the lights. He smiled to himself before turning over and falling asleep.
I know it may not be what some people were hoping for, but I seriously don't think there would have been some tearful reunion where they all sob and tell each other how much they love them. We will probably eventually get to the tearjerker moments but for now, sorry. Anyway, next chapter we're gonna see the Weasleys again, and we are finally gonna get some details of Joey's mysterious past! Ominous right?