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Chapter 4: A talk with Dumbledore

On the fourth of July, we find a young woman walking up the winding path from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts. A white stick with a black grip, and red bottom section was tight in her hand. The figure was maneuvering it from left to right over the rough ground. Her blond curls blew in the wind, and a snake was wrapped around her shoulders. The cane vibrated slightly, and the figure slowed her pace in front of the gates to the castle. From the depths of her robes she pulled out a wooden stick, and sent a patronus to the Headmaster.

A few minutes later, the girl heard footsteps on the other side of the gate. As they creaked open the figure stepped inside, and the gates closed again.

"You know that mask makes you look like a Death Eater?" Severus Snape asked. The girl pulled up her right sleeve and pushed it in his face.

"Clearly--Snape--it seems I'm not." With a hidden smile under the mask the figure made her way up the stone path to the castle. Snape sighed, and then said,

"Davidson, even in school you amazed me with your knowledge, but now," he paused, "it has become a nuisance to know that you may know as much--or more--about our world than Dumbledore, and Voldemort together."

"I know as much as Dumbledore, but it will take a while for him to understand all of it unless I intervene. As for Voldemort, there is not much hope for him; he is always on the right track for the wrong reasons."

"It's almost like you will become another dark lord with that thing around your neck." Snape replied. The figure stopped for a moment, and in one swift movement her cane collided with his shin, and she said,

"I will become the next dark lord when Luna Lovegood figures out that crumple-horned snorkacks don't exist."

Snape looked sideways at her as he bent down to soothe his throbbing shin; and with a scowl on his face the two made their way up the stone steps.

"I can find my way from here; it was nice to know you would become one of my followers if I decided to turn into another Voldemort."

Snape just looked at her oddly, and went on his way back to the dungeons. The figure made her way up to the Headmaster's office, but on the way she got sidetracked by a conversation between Dumbledore and Lily.

The figure disillusioned herself, the cane, and snake, and then quietly she turned the corner to listen.

"And my last order of business," Lily was saying, "do you know who Hollianne is?"

Dumbledore looked at Lily warily.

"I can't say I didn't see this coming. Yes Lily I know exactly who Hollianne is."

"And?" Lily asked with excitement growing in her voice.

"She is a very intelligent sharp-witted individual that has exceeded every expectation I have put in front of her, and the only one besides Alastor and me that have really mastered the art of constant vigilance." Lily looked utterly confused.

"She has to Lily; it's almost a crime to be her at the moment just as much it is to be Harry."

Lily looked worried, and then asked,

"What do you mean?"

"I am not sure I can tell you. I am supposed to have a meeting with her right now, but if I know her (and I think I do) she is standing quite close to us, and listening to everything I have said."

Lily glanced around with a frightened look across her features. The figure stepped around the corner, and made herself and cane visible, but the snake couldn't be seen by Lily's eyes. And now that she thought about it, maybe it was a good idea to take off the mask. So, with her free hand she lifted the mask off her face, and vanished it back to Davidson Manor. She rounded the corner, and with a smile on her face she said,

"Good afternoon Headmaster!"

"Ah, Rose..." But before he could continue with his sentence the figure pulled out her wand, and then growled,

"Don't call me by my middle name."

"Hollianne, calm down. I know you hate your middle name, but can we help what people have named us?" Dumbledore ask with a twinkle in his eye.

"Actually, I could, and don't get me wrong Headmaster I love my relatives, but my Mum went overboard with naming my older sis and me." Holly glared at Lily, and then smiled, "You're James Potter's wife huh?" she asked.

"Why?" Lily countered. Holly shrugged her shoulders, and then said,

"Just being polite. So are you?"

"Yes."

"Tell Jamesie-poo to watch himself, I still haven't gotten my revenge, and neither has my sister."

Dumbledore was watching this with an air of amusement. Lily took two steps toward Holly, and narrowed her eyes.

"What do you mean?" she said in a menacingly low voice.

Holly giggled, smiled, and then said,

"Now now Mrs. Potter you can tell James that I am recruiting when I become the new Dark Lord once your son defeats Voldemort. This is why I am here, so we can figure out the best plan to destroy him. I don't need any more competition, now do I?" Lily brandished her wand, and pointed it at Holly, but before she could fire a spell Dumbledore disarmed her.

"Holly stop teasing." he said.

"But Headmaster can't a girl have fun?"

"Fun is one thing, but I don't think Lily here has noticed that you are just joking."

"You'll be talking about my son?" she rounded on Albus "you didn't tell me that someone besides yourself, James, and I new about the prophecy."

"I can assure you I did not tell her.

At that moment James rounded the corner, and found a strange sight. Dumbledore with two wands, his second eldest niece with that Potter grin, and his wife with a murderous look pointed toward Holly. On his arrival Dumbledore handed Lily back her wand, and then Holly explained.

"I was teasing her about me becoming a Dark Lord, and that I was gathering followers for after Harry squashes Voldemort, and you were merely a suggestion." she paused for a moment as James chuckled, and as an afterthought she added, "maybe I'll recruit Harry, so he can speak to my snake. I wonder what she would tell us anyway." James and Holly roared with laughter, and they even got a chuckle from Dumbledore, but Lily didn't find it funny. Holly walked over, and embraced Lily,

"Don't worry I was only half kidding." Lily pulled back from the embrace, and frown before asking,

"Which part were you half joking about?"

"Both actually." Holly replied.

"You don't have a snake." Lily snarled.

"I don't?" Holly asked sarcastically. With a wave of her wand the--once invisible--snake lay sleeping atop her shoulders. Lily gasped, Dumbledore chuckled a bit, and James patted the sleeping animal gently on it's head.

"Anyway children," Holly said, "I'll be in your office Headmaster, and it was nice to meet the both of you." Holly walked to the gargoyle, and said the password. After Holly left, James glanced at Lily, to Dumbledore, and back to lily a few times before asking.

"Why is she here?"

"She is here to discuss business about your son with me." Dumbledore provided the explanation.

"Why weren't we invited?" James ask with a tint of annoyance in his voice.

"She knows about the prophecy James." Lily said interrupting there conversation. James looked questioningly at Dumbledore.

"She does know, but I have assured Lily, and I am assuring you now that I didn't tell her. She found out all on her own."

"But..." James started, but Dumbledore cut across him.

"I am a half an hour late for that discussion, and I will tell everyone at the order meeting everything she tells me, but in bits and pieces." At his last words, he strode to his office, and vanished from sight.

When Dumbledore entered his office he found Holly over by the cage that contained Fawkes. Holly was gently stroking the phoenix while he sang his song.

"You like Fawkes don't you?" Dumbledore asked the smiling girl. Holly lifted her gaze from the phoenix to Dumbledore, and said,

"Always have, and I wish I had one of my own."

"Are you sure a snake and a bird would get along?"

"Hedwig and Coils do." she answered still caressing the animal's feathers. Dumbledore walked around his desk, and sat down. He observed Fawkes and Holly for a moment, and then asked,

"So what is it you wanted to tell me?"

Holly stopped her rhythmic movement, and turned to face Dumbledore.

"As you know I live a life with a mixture of muggle and wizard activities, right?" Dumbledore nodded. "And you know that I have an extensive collection of muggle and wizard books alike, correct?" he nodded again. "Well, my point is that I know everything that happened every year sense Harry started school. I didn't have my Uncle tell me any of it; actually, books told me what might happen in the next three years." Holly paused, and Dumbledore asked,

"What kind of books?"

"You can find these books in any muggle store." She answered.

"What kind of information do these books contain?" Dumbledore enquired.

"The books start... well--um--they start the night after Aunt Lily and Uncle James were attacked on Halloween 1993."

"These books showed exactly what happened that night?"

"They did at the end of the series, but Professor, in these books the only kid my Aunt and Uncle had was Harry, and when Voldemort attacked them--Harry was the only survivor."

Dumbledore pierced Holly with a look of utter horror.

"Lily and James died?" he asked. Holly nodded, and continued,

"Voldemort disappeared when he tried to kill Harry, and no one heard from him until Harry's first year. In these books, Aunt Lily sacrificed herself to save him." Dumbledore looked thoughtful, and holly resumed her story. "The books tell us that the house they lived in was under the fidalius charm, and Peter Pettigrew was the secret keeper. When Sirius new the house was attacked, he went to find Pettigrew, and attempted to kill him. I know that you know my Uncle, Sirius, and Peter were all illegal animagus', and to get himself out of a sticky situation Peter blasted the street killing 12 muggles, and then he cut off a finger before transfiguring himself into his animagus form. He crawled into the pipes, and (luckily for him,) but not for the family he found the Weasley's, and lived with them. Sirius went to Azkaban without a trial for killing 12 muggles and one wizard. Of course we didn't find all this out until Harry's third year, but the point is that it happened. You, Professor McGonagall, and Hagrid brought Harry to his muggle Aunt and Uncle, (my Aunts sister) where he would live until he started school." Holly paused, and calmed herself down before she finished the beginning of the story, but before she could, Dumbledore asked,

"So what happened to Rochelle, Clayton, and Anastasia?"

"As far as I know, Rochelle may not have existed, and neither did the kids; actually, we aren't even sure of Joanna and her kids, but we do know that Remus eventually got married to Nymphadora Tonks just before Harry was supposed to go back to school, and in April they had a kid together. I also forgot to mention that Alice and Frank were tortured into insanity, and Neville went to live with Frank's mother. Before you ask, they didn't have any other kids besides Neville. The longbottoms remained in St. Mungos for the rest of there lives."

"Holly, stop for a moment," Dumbledore advised. He tried holding up his hand to silence her, but because she couldn't see the movement--it meant nothing to her.

"One more thing before I shut up; I know that Remus is a werewolf, and like I said before the books told me everything I am telling you now, and we do know that my Uncle was an only child, so naturally, I didn't exist. Voldemort wiped out the entire family except Harry."

Dumbledore sat in thought with his hands resting on the desk in front of him. Holly resumed petting the phoenix, and Fawkes sang for them. Coils was at Holly's feet, listening to everything she was saying with wrapped attention. Dumbledore opened and closed his mouth a few times before speaking,

"Does these books tell us how Voldemort can be destroyed?" The question pleased Holly, and she answered with enthusiasm,

"Yes, but we have to play our cards right if we want to succeed." she replied.

"Before I continue asking you question, and you answering them, could you tell me the prophecy just so I know you weren't lying?" This question Holly new would come up, but she didn't think it would have come out the way it did, but she took a deep breath and then said,

"Yes, I most certainly can tell you the entire prophecy, and it is: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. ... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not. ... And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. ... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches will be born as the seventh month dies. ..."

Silence.

"Why should I not be shocked as am right now?" Dumbledore asked.

"Because you thought only you, Professor Trelawney, my Aunt Lily, and Uncle James were the only ones who new the entirety of it, not to mention Professor Snape knows half himself."

"The books told you that as well?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes professor." Holly admitted.

"Is there anything else I will need to know, I will be telling also; of this to the Order of the Phoenix on the 8th of this month."

"Not at the moment, just don't tell anyone that Harry and I are cousins, Merlin knows I'm already a target to Voldemort just as much as Harry is just like you said earlier."

"I know Holly, and it's not surprising that he hasn't attempted to kidnap you for all the information." Dumbledore thought out loud.

"I think it will take sometime before it reaches his slippery self."

"So what are we talking about next time?"

"I think you may need to know about Harry's first year. When are we meeting again?"

"How about on the tenth?"

"Same time?" Holly asked.

"Same time." Dumbledore confirmed.

Holly gave the Phoenix one last pat before Coils wrapped herself around Holly's shoulders, and resumed sleeping. Holly unfolded her cane, and said,

"See you Headmaster," before she exited the office.

She reached the landing a minute later, and as she walked silently down the corridor a person jumped out behind her. Holly heard the sound of footsteps, but before she could turn around the person picked her up, and swung her around in the air. Coils hissed menacingly, and when she opened her mouth to strike the attacker she closed it, and slithered to the ground protecting the two. The cane flew out of Holly's hand, and clattered to the ground a few feet away. Holly let out a scream of terror, and in a second the person put her back on the ground.

"I think I should gag you next time," a male's voice said. Holly's face was contorted with rage for a moment, and then she flung herself into the man's arms.

"Uncle James! I ought to kill you for that!" she said squeezing him tighter, "I haven't seen you in ages!" she said smiling.

"I know, I think you were like two and a half feet tall the last time I saw you--shrimp."

Holly smacked him on the arm,

"Don't call me that, I know I'm short."

James just chuckled, and then said,

"Can I call you Rose?"

"No." She said shortly.

"Awe, why not?" James asked.

"Firstly Cause I said it is illegal, and secondly, because my mother gave me that middle name just to piss you off, and you know it."

"Yes, she most certainly did." James said frowning, "but now I have my wife, you with the same middle name as Lily, and your older sister with an extended version of her first."

"I have no idea why Mum didn't just name her Lillianne Rose, that would have just made things much easier for me, and I could have Elaine--never mind, I don't think that sounds right." she finished as an afterthought.

"Have you ever learned to shut up?" James asked.

"Have you Marauders learned it yet?" She countered.

"No, I don't think we have."

"Then why should I." Holly said smiling.

"I s'pose you don't have too."

James face became serious, and he asked,

"So what did you have to tell Dumbledore?"

"Nun-ya business Mr. Potter. You'll find out on the eighth though"

James sighed,

"You know you are the most stubborn person I've met, right?"

"No, I think you have missed someone."

"And who would that be?"

"You!"

James sighed again as Holly gave him one last hug.

"I've got to get back to Mum, and the rest. It wouldn't surprise me if I go home and Mitch has made Molly hide under my bed."

"Under the bed?" James asked with a confused expression.

"Yes, under the bed, I am the only person besides my Mum, Molly, Reilly, and a muggle-born friend of mine that is aloud in my room."

"Oh," was all James said. He walked over to the spot where Holly's cane lay, and picked it up. "Here's your cane, I'll see you sometime?" Holly took the cane,

"See you sometime yes." she responded. As Coils and herself left the castle, James just stood where she left him smiling to himself.

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