"Are you positive?" Hermione asked, frowning. "Alexandra is her daughter?"

"She tricked Dudley all those years ago," Harry nodded.

"Seems to be a bit elaborate," Ron pointed out. "Marrying your cousin and living as a muggle for years?"

"Her goal was probably to conceive Alexandra," Hermione told him. "She does have Harry's blood. I suspect Claridina was also hoping that Dudley would be able to give her access to Harry as well, seeing as they're related, but when she realized that the two weren't speaking at the time, she had to work with only Alexandra."

"Now that I think about it, you can definitely see the similarities, appearance wise, that is," Ron said. "The hair, the eyes, even their faces to an extent."

"Yup," Harry sighed.

"Harry?" Hermione asked softly. "Does Alexandra know about this?"

"Dudley says she doesn't," Harry said heavily.

"But what do you think?"

"She definitely knew who Claridina was," Harry said. "How could she not? The papers have had her picture in them every other day for the past year and when she was just about to start Hogwarts she saw Claridina face-to-face. When she saw her mother last summer…there was no way she would not have recognized who she really was."

"But then, why did she never say anything?" Ron asked. "She could've come to you."

"I don't know," Harry said. "I'd like to know that myself."

"Are you-are you going to talk to her about it?"

"Yes," Harry said instantly. "Not for awhile, though. Dudley says he wants to talk to her first, and well, I think he still needs some time to let the news sink in."

"She was probably terrified, Harry," Hermione said gently. "Finding out your mother is the most wanted witch in Europe? That's got to be tough for such a young girl. She must've been confused and worried."

"If she would've come to me, or anybody, for that matter, she could've been protected," Harry said firmly. "We could've made sure that Claridina didn't lay a hand on her."

"Maybe Claridina wasn't what scared her most," Hermione said.

"What else could it have been?"

"Living with news must've been hard enough just for her to deal with," Hermione said. "But then to have everybody else find out; to have them start drawing the wrong conclusions about her simply because of her mother? I'm sure she wanted to tell somebody, Harry, especially you, but how could she have known you wouldn't have thought of her after that like you do of Claridina?"

Harry pondered this. He thought back to a conversation he had with Albus just a few months ago during the Easter holiday.

"No one else talks to him, dad," Albus had said. "Just because he's a Malfoy."

Harry nodded. "But you do."

"He's my friend," Albus said. "People whisper at him in the halls. They say that there's no way he belongs in Gryffindor; that the Sorting Hat must've made a mistake. I stick up for him sometimes, I tell them that his father's changed and he's not on that side anymore, but they don't believe it."

"Sometimes it's just easier for people to believe what they want to," Harry said carefully.

"James says that you hated his dad," Albus said. "And that's why I shouldn't be friends with Scorpius."

Harry sighed. "Scorpius's father and I were enemies all through out our time at Hogwarts. I won't deny that. But do you know what, Al?"

"What?"

"The man who you are partly named after, Severus Snape, and my father were enemies as well," Harry told him. "And for years and years I hated him because I thought I was supposed to, because that's what my father did. But then something made me realize that you can't judge a person by anything else than what you think of them. I understand why my father hated Snape and even why Snape hated him back. But I can't let that control what I think of the man, because he truly is one of the bravest men I've ever known."

Albus nodded.

"Don't think about who Scorpius's father is, that's not who he is," Harry said. "The others, they'll have their own opinions as well, and unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about that. But don't let them make you lose a friend."

But if Alexandra had come to him and told him she was Claridina's daughter, would have been able to take his own advice, or would he not have been able to see past her bloodline?

"What's Claridina going to do with her, though?" Ron asked, snapping Harry out of his thoughts. "Sure, Alexandra's got your blood in her, but what's that going to do for her?"

Ron and Harry both turned instinctively to Hermione, but she shook her head. "I've been thinking about that myself, and-and I don't know. Voldemort tried to use Harry's blood to make himself invincible to Harry, but that went back to Lily's dying to save him, which lead to his first downfall. Claridina didn't use her blood to make herself, stronger, though, and even if she had tried, it wouldn't have had the same effect as it had with Voldemort. And I don't think even having a daughter that's related to her can have that much of a significance. If she wanted Alexandra to fight against you, she surely would've stayed around to raise her. She doesn't have contact with Alexandra; Alexandra's not on her side."

"No," Harry agreed. "But then what does Claridina have up her sleeve?"

He turned and looked out of the tiny office in the underground Ministry where the three had been talking. He saw workers scurrying about and he wondered which ones of them were spies for Claridina. She really did have everything within her grasp. It was only a matter of time before she built up her own ministry and set it up where their own once was. She controlled Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, even two of the largest wizarding schools in Europe.

But she didn't get Hogwarts. No, that she lost.

Harry sighed. Perhaps that was the tiny ray of hope everybody needed. Hogwarts was still pure, despite everything it had been through. The castle that had been home to nearly everyone at one point or another still stood, and Harry intended to make sure that fact remained.

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AN- Well, that's the end of Oddity. All of you readers and reviewers have been fantastic, and I just wanted to thank you for sticking with the story for this long. I have just put up the sequel to this, it's called Uncanny. Make sure to check it out! Also, I highly recommend everyone to read Hailstorm234's companion pieces to this series, which focus on Claridina's side of everything. There are two of them. Claridina's Revenge and Claridina's Wrath. Thanks again for reading!