Reborn (Harry Potter fanfic)

Carissa Candice Calandra

I own nothing and no one apart from Cassy, a few Durmstrang boys and a few Slytherin girls.

I fell asleep in my chair.
In the morning Draco woke me up.
"Ali!"
"What!" I said and I jerked awake.
"Oh." I said. "Thanks."
"You Okay?" He asked and I nodded.
I had a lot to think about. I went for a walk around the castle. I found myself wondering through  some of the secret passages that me and the marauders had found.
I found myself drawn to a passageway. It had been our favourite place to hang out as hardly anyone knew it was there.
I saw a portrait. I frowned, It was me.
Not Ali Moor, Cassy Dumbledore. I looked at it. She smiled at me.
"Hello again." She said.
I grinned back.
I looked at the name underneath.
'Carissa Candice Calandra' and a few scratch marks.
I looked at the marks.
'Sirius- Padfoot' , 'James - Prongs' , 'Remus- Moony' and 'Peter - Wormtail.'  Although the last name looked a little odd, as if someone had tried to wipe it off. I ignored that and looked fondly at the names of some of my best friends.
"Steamy." I sighed.
To my utter shock, my portrait opened.
I stepped inside.
I looked around in amazement. I found myself looking at hundreds of pictures that wall papered the room. Some muggle, some wizard.
Most of the pictures had me and Lily or me and the boys, although a few had me and Sev and me and Molly.
I looked at the room. It was round and had one door/portrait which was covered with pictures. I sat down at the round table. The sofa around it had six places. I curled myself up. I felt tears coming. My best friends had  created this in memory of me. Little did they know I was a pheonix child and would come back to see it. A single photo frame stood on the middle of the table. It was the photo that I had developed the day I was kidnapped and murdered. Me and Lily lay across our boyfriends with Peter and Remus next to us with the lake in the background.
I took the photo in hands. One day. I promised, I'll see you again. I smiled.
I looked around the room and left. I returned a lot to talk to Cassy because I had found many of my house dull and dumb.
I smiled and thought that I was basically being vain in saying that the portrait/me was better than the Slytherins to talk to.

I talked to me a lot. I thought I was crazy, talking to myself but really, she was a portrait and I was the real thing.
She told me about what had happened after I died. They all came and scratched their names on the sign and started to decorate the room. She also mentioned that the room wasn't on the map and that they would tell their kids where it was.

I listened to her talking and eventually left. That night I dreamt of some of my scarier times at Hogwarts.

I ran. My life was at risk. I ran faster than I ever did before. My feet pounded across the stone barefoot and were beginning to hurt. I ran through the doorway and screamed "Sirius!"
The boys all looked at me, halfway through a wizards chess game.
"What?" Remus asked. I walked over to Sirius bed and sat down faintly on it.
"Cass?" Sirius said urgently.
"Ly-" I choked out, "Lily wants a makeover party."
They all looked at me in horror.
I nodded.
"Lock the door. I'm sleeping on the floor in here tonight." I told them.
"You can sleep in mine." Sirius said. I smiled, "Okay."
I summoned my night things and got changed in their bathroom. I was really tired so I layed down, watching the game the was being played in between Padfoot's and Prongs' beds.
I stroked Sirius' head with my hand and murmured, "Knight to E5." To Sirius so he could take James' queen. Eventually I closed my eyes and felt Sirius jump in next to me and give me a hug. I grinned and fell asleep in Sirius' arms.