I woke up to Hermione's cat and my own cat sitting on my chest. As I sat up the cats jumped to the ground and I climbed down the ladder. I grabbed their bowls and got them their food walking over to my dresser. I changed into my school uniform before realizing that we were going to Hogsmead today for our fieldtrip. I changed out of my uniform and quickly pulled on a long sleeve shirt and a pair of black skinny jeans. I grabbed my jacket as I rushed out the door. I raced down the stares to the school entrance and stood off to the side as McGonagall called roll.
"Sadie Sinclair?" She called and everyone stopped what they were doing.
"Here." I said holding up my hand. I could feel everyone staring at me as I leaned against a stone wall and I sighed. We all walked out the front gate and headed to Hogsmead. Everyone kept a safe distance away from me, but I didn't care, so long as they didn't start pestering me with questions I was happy. When we got to Hogsmead I walked off on my own and headed to the book store. Walking from shelf to shelf I picked out a few books and headed to the counter. Paying for the books I walked out of the store and headed to the Shrieking Shack. Sitting down on a large boulder I pulled out one of the books I had just bought and opened it. As I read I heard something coming toward me through the woods. It stopped at the edge of the woods and I looked up to see Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny staring at me. Sighing I closed my book and put it back in my bag jumping off of the boulder.
"Sadie, we're really sorry." Harry called as I started walking away from them. I stopped and looked back at them in anger.
"You don't need to apologize. I want Fred to apologize, not you guys. By the way Fred you can go fuck yourself." I said looking past them into the woods. I turned to leave and heard Fred step out of the woods.
"You don't belong in Gryphondor. You're just like your stuck up boyfriend, Malfoy." I heard him say with a slight laugh. I could feel my blood boiling as I slowly turned and walked back to them.
"So what if I am? I have every right to be acting like a Slytherin right now and my relationship with Malfoy has nothing to do with you!" I screamed at him.
"What else should we have expected from the girl that was raised by Snape?" Fred said snidely. By then my entire body was shaking wildly from how angry I was.
"Do you know why your mom left you with him after she died? She left you with him because he's your real dad." He said leaning closer to me.
"I'll kill you!" I shouted lunging at him. Sadly someone held me back refusing to let me rip the infuriating boy before me to shreds.
"Sadie, clam down." I heard a familiar voice said from behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw Lupin holding me back.
"Let me go Remus." I yelled struggling against him.
"I'm sorry Sadie, but you leave me no choice." He said reaching into his pocket and pulling out a midnight blue stone. I froze when I saw it and he took that chance to press the stone to my forehead. I was knocked out cold almost instantly and woke up a few hours later in my dorm room. I sat straight up and glared at the door. Not even bothering with the ladder I jumped off my bunk and stormed out of the room.
"Don't ever use that on me again Remus." I said glaring at my Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. He looked up at me and frowned.
"You left me no choice. I had to use the stone." He said. I walked up to his desk and saw the stone lying in front of him. Grabbing it off the desk I threw it at the wall as hard as I could.
"I've asked you before not to use it." I said turning back to Lupin. I didn't even realize that I was crying until I saw a tear drip onto his papers. I quickly reached up and wiped my eyes as he stood up and walked over to the wall picking up the stone.
"Why did you stop me from fighting him?" I asked staring at the desk.
"I stopped you because you thought he was lying." Lupin said walking back over to me. I looked up and over at him quickly.
"Severus is your father Sadie. Your mother left him shortly after you were born and altered your memories so that you wouldn't know." He said softly. My eyes widened and I stepped back in shock.
"Lupin, what do you think you're doing?" I heard from behind me. I spun around and saw the very man we had been talking about glaring at Remus. He stepped toward him and I snapped out of my daze stepping between them.
"Is it true?" I asked looking up at Snape. He sighed and looked down at me.
"Yes, it's true." He said walking back toward the door. I quickly followed him and we walked into the potions classroom. He sat down behind his desk and looked up at me.
"I want to know everything." I said. He pulled out a small stack of papers from one of the desk drawers and handed it to me. I looked at the papers and told him good night before heading back to the dorm room. I sat on my bunk with the papers Snape had given me spread out on the mattress before me. Flipping through a stack of letters I found the oldest one and started reading it.
The Letter
Dear Severus,
I am sorry for leaving without giving you a reason. I feel that you are not ready to take on the responsibility of being a father. I know that it has been almost two years since I left, but I had to tell you why. I have met someone. His name is Victor Sinclair and we are getting married in August. He wants to meet you and talk with you about Sadie. I think that it would be best if she was not around when you arrive, so please write me before you come so that I can arrange for her to stay with my parents. She turned five last month and is starting kindergarten in a week. Well, goodbye Severus.
P.S.
Write to me when you want to come visit.
Sincerely,
Olivia
End Letter
It had been a long time since I had seen my mothers writing but I still recognized it. Flipping through the other papers I found a picture of the three of us at the park. I sat on the swing between them and was smiling up at my mother as they pushed me up into the air. Snape was on the other side of me smiling and laughing. Why had my mother really left him? We seemed so happy, but then again things weren't always as they seemed. I ended up falling asleep surrounded by papers that night. I felt someone shaking me early the next morning and opened my eyes to see Hermione standing on the ladder staring at me.
"What is it?" I asked sitting up.
"You have to get ready. The first round of the tournament is about to start." She said quickly. I jumped off my bunk and raced over to the dresser throwing on a pair of old jeans and a dark purple tank top. I slipped my shoes on as we raced out of the school and down the hill to the arena. I entered my tent and waited until I was called out. I was the last to go out and I was surprised to see a huge red dragon on the other side of the arena. I walked out so that everyone could see me and Dumbledore's voice came booming out of the loudspeakers.
"Now the champion from Hogwarts will face her dragon." He said sitting back down. I looked up at the dragon as it approached me and took a step back. It hissed and flames shot from its mouth. I quickly jumped to the side and the flames just barely missed me. The dragon turned to face me again and I stood up on a big boulder. My eyes flashed bright purplish pink and I looked into its eyes.
"You don't have to fight me." I said quietly. It stared at me for a few seconds before raising its head high into the air and looking down at me.
"Yes I do. It's the only for me to gain my freedom." I heard the dragon say to me through its thoughts.
"Don't you understand? Fighting me won't set you free. They'll only let you go if I can get that egg." I said motioning to the golden egg in the nest behind the dragon with my eyes. The dragon looked at the egg then back at me.
"I'm sorry little one, but I must fight you." He said swiping at me with his claws. I grabbed a silverish clear stone out of my pouch and held it in my hand. As the claws came closer I held my arm up and a spiked shield covered my arm. The dragons claws hit my shield and it pulled back quickly.
"How did you do that?" He asked looking at me.
"Each of the stones in my pouch has a different power. Each power causes more pain that the last. I do not want to use these to fight you, but if you continue attacking me I will have no choice." I said. The dragon chuckled and went to attack me again. I jumped off of the rock and landed a few feet away. I ran toward the egg, but was stopped when the dragon's hand slammed into the ground blocking my path. After fighting the dragon for a while I gave up and pulled out my wand.
"I'm sorry." I said looking up at the dragon as he brought his head down above me in an attempt to eat me.
"Sembariouse." I whispered right as his head came to the tip of my wand. A bright light flashed and dragon vaporized. I sighed and walked down into the nest. Holding the egg up in one hand the crowd stood up and cheered. As I walked into my tent people started swarming in and surrounding me.
"That was amazing Sadie." Luna said smiling at me.
"Way to go." Ron and Harry said.
"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant." Hermione said. I sighed and set the egg on the table.
"So what does it do?" Neville asked reaching out to open it. I quickly spun around and pointed my wand at it.
"Fieliant." I said quickly and a force field formed around the egg. I sat down in a chair and watched everyone as they praised me and congratulated me. From the corner of my eye I saw someone sneak into the tent and stood up. Stepping in front of them I held up my wand.
"I'm not talking to the press so get out." I said coldly. The woman looked at me and smiled.
"We have permission to interview you." She said. The man behind her held up a camera and flipped it on.
"You may have my school's permission, but you do not have mine. I don't care what my headmaster told you; I will not speak to the press under any cercumstances." I said glaring at the woman.
"Well, we're not going anywhere until we've interviewed you." She said with a smirk. Glaring at her again I pointed my wand at the camera and, without me even saying anything, it blew up.
"I said get out now." I said with a growl as I turned back to the woman. Everyone had stopped and was now staring at me in shock. The woman stood still and the camera reformed in the mans hands again.
"We want an interview." She said simply. Lowering my wand I sighed and looked at the ground.
"If you want an interview then start writing." I said looking up at her as she pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil.
"You think that these tournaments are fun and games, but they aren't. I'm an animagus and I can speak to other animals. All the dragon out there wanted to do was go home, but I was forced to kill him because you stupid people told him that killing me was the only way to gain his freedom. I had to kill that dragon because the press wanted a good story. You told him that he had to kill me and he believed you. You made me have to kill that dragon. Now get out of my tent. Don't bother trying to alter what you wrote or the video either. I've put a spell on it so that it can't be altered." I said flatly walking back to my chair. They left the tent and everyone else left too. Later that day I walked to Hogsmead and went to the cemetery. I knelt in front of my mothers grave and started to cry.
"What would you have done mom? They brain washed that dragon and there was nothing I could do. I'm sorry." I sobbed covering my face with my hands. I heard someone walk up behind me and turned around to see Malfoy and Snape standing there. I stood up and walked over to them.
"It'll be alright, Sadie." Malfoy said hugging me. The three of us walked back to the school and I walked into the common room. It was empty and I started a fire in the fire place. Sitting on the couch I pulled my knees up to my chest and just watched the flames. I fell asleep on the couch instead of going back to the room, but my sleep was filled with nightmares. I had horrible dreams about my mother and the dragon from the first round of the tournament.