The Dinner Guest That Changed Everything

Year: 2002 (Present Day)

Date: August 30

Elizabeth Age 13

Dear Diary,

Today school sucked I mean really sucked. Brittany and I are still fighting. I wish she will just get over it. Justin doesn't like me; he is in love with her. Bitch! She can't get over what happened 2 summers ago with Cedric and me. It was a summer fling and nothing more. He moved back to England. He was just visiting family. It started like "Hi. You're a witch. I'm a wizard. We both can do magic. Let's make some." Bastard! I never forgave him. Lupin said I'll get over it and fall for someone else. I'm still waiting.

XOXO

Izzie

PEACE OUT!

"Izzie dinner," Remus yelled for her from the kitchen.

Elizabeth Timberlake, she likes to be called Izzie fro short, has long black hair, average height for her age and she has grey eyes. Which other people and herself thinks that it is pretty uncommon.

She came into the kitchen to find a very old looking man. He had a long beard and moon shaped glasses. 'Weird' she thought. And the weird got weirder; he looked at Izzie like he knows something about her she doesn't. He looked at her like he knows her.

"Elizabeth," the weird old guy said.

"Hi," she gave a little wave.

"Izzie. This is Albus Dumbledore. He is the Headmaster at Hogwarts…,"

"Hogwarts?"

"You know of my school?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yeah. Who doesn't? It is one of the oldest magic schools in the world."

"Yes, it is."

Izzie took her place at the dinner table.

Remus spoke, "I invited Albus to dinner."

"So. Dumbledore, what brings you here?"

"Elizabeth…," he started.

"Call me Izzie."

"Okay. Izzie, I have come to ask Remus to teach at my school. There is an opening for Defense Against the Dark Arts. And I've come to ask you to attend my school starting September 1st."

"What?"

"And I have agreed."

"Lupin no. I go to school here. And you told me we could never go to London because of you taking care of me. And I for one, am not going back into foster care," she almost came to tears. For the first time in years.

"Izzie, honey. You are never going back into foster care. I will not allow that."

"Okay. Then what? I can't just leave school. I just started 5th year."

"The more reason to do it now. School doesn't start until the first of September. And 5th year? I thought you're 13," Dumbledore asked.

"I am."

"Dumbledore, here in America you start two years earlier. Izzie started going to magic school at the age of nine."

"Oh. I'm sorry to tell you. If you attend my school you'll have to be put into 3rd year."

"But. But…,"

"You'll behind than the average 5th year student."

"Lupin?" she asked looking at him.

"I'm sorry. There is nothing I can do about that."

"Fine. When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Izzie repeated.

"Excellent hearing Izzie. Yes tomorrow. Tomorrow is the first."

"But tonight I have to sing at the school concert."

"You sing?"

"Yes."

"I would love to hear you sing tonight."

"We can pack after the concert," Lupin suggested.

"Good. I promised Peyton."

"You should never break a promise," Dumbledore stated.

"Now let's eat."

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"And now the young talent, Izzie Timberlake," the announcer announced.

"This song is from the band Evanescence, My Immortal," Izzie announced before she started singing.

I'm so tired of being here

Suppressed by all my childish fears

And if you have to leave

I wish that you would just leave

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I held your hand through all of these years

But you still have

All of me

Half way threw the song Dumbledore leaned over to whisper something into Remus's ear, "She is very talented. And you raised her well. Does she still have nightmares, you wrote about?"

"Yes. But she doesn't want to tell me about her nightmares. She won't admit she still has them."

"So much like her parents. She has her father's personality."

"You noticed that as well. I thought it was just me," Remus chuckled.

Izzie finished singing. They stood to clap for her.

"I think this move will be good for her. If she goes to the place where her parents were raised, it may help the nightmares. And I believe she doesn't need to know that her father has escaped from Azkaban. Not yet anyway. She still does not know who he is or that he is even alive," Dumbledore said as he and Remus head for the exit.