Harry Potter's Sister

Chapter 26: The Second Task And Finding Out My Secret

Ever since the party, I have been planning on how to tell Harry that we were going to the black lake with merpeople to find our friends. Yeah, I listened to most of the egg but Hermione and every body else in the common room decided to wake up and yell at me for the "screaming" that I still can't even hear.

I walked up to a stressed out Harry in the Common Room and plopped down on the couch right next to him.

"Hey little bro!" I screamed in his ear making him jump for dear haven.

"I am not your little bro, Jennifer." He exclaimed, struggling to get back onto the couch.

"Whatevs." I said checking my perfectly polished sparkly nails from the ball. Oh Yeah! They're still not chipped. Okay maybe a little in the right corner of the pinky on my left hand.....but other than that they are still perfect.

"So, I've been doing some brainstorming about that egg and came to a conclusion." I told him.

"Oh please do tell." He said sarcastically. If you don't won't my help then fine! But I shrugged it off because if I don't help him who will? I mean there are no other mermaids around are there?

"Well, since I'm a you-know-what, I can hear the screaming turn into beautiful, melodic voices singing a song; It's merpeople. You heard screaming, I heard singing.Since I am a mermaid, way different from being a merpeople by the way I can sing and talk above the water and I look good in "fish" form. Anyways, since I'm a mermaid I could hear them singing a song, In the song it said we cannot sing above the water. Figure the rest out for yourself." I then walked away from him..... well I started too but he called me back.

"Wait! Jenny, how can you tell if you are a mermaid or just merpeople besides from their voices?" He asked. My breath hitched in my throat. That's why I was dreading this second task, everyone would not just know my mermaid secret, but the bigger more important, deadly secret behind it.

"A merpeople is born, and a mermaid is......cursed." I whispered so only he could hear. He looked at e solemnly before i turned around and walked back up to my dorm and fell asleep, skipping dinner.

Harry's POV (I think you kind of expect that now but eh....)

I couldn't believe my sister was cursed. Forget about the bloody egg, I'm going to the library. Excuse my French...... I walked well more or so ran to the library but walked in. I quickly looked for a book on mermaids.

Merpeople, merpeople, merpeople, merpeople, merpeople, mermaids, merpeople, merpeople, merpeople....Wait!

I quickly located the book again and opened it. I began to read....well nah what else are you supposed to do with an open book?

Mermaids are highly rare creatures. They are even more powerful and prettier than veelas themselves. A mermaid is very different from a merpeople in many ways. The mermaid is more elegant and graceful than the merpeople. The mermaid can sing beautifully and will have prettiest voice you will ever hear on land where rather with merpeople above water all any human will hear is screeching like nails on a chalkboard. A mermaid can have legs when she's dry and a tail when she's wet. And above all a merpeople is born with their half human half fish abilities while a mermaid is cursed. A mermaid can only be cursed by a very powerful very evil wizard, never a witch. That person must have the ingredients to make a potion and then cast a extremely difficult spell for the witch to become a mermaid. This wizard must really have a purpose for making this potion and casting this spell. A mermaid is in danger everywhere she turns and cannot escape it. There are only two mermaids known to mankind and one of them has died.....

I quickly slammed the book shut. No...Oh my gosh my sister is in danger every second of every minute of every day. There's only one person who could have possibly cursed her. Voldemort. Everything points to him, Miranda and Snape, the only guardians Jenny has ever had in her life, are both death eaters. Most likely Miranda let him into their house when she was really small to do it.