In love with the badboy

Chapter 30 ~ The secret is out

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Chapter 30 :

That afternoon I met up with Harry again just before supper. We had to make Dumbledore an unexpected visit and it seemed rather important. We were just chatting a bit while walking up to his office. Harry seemed to be deep in thought though the entire walk.

“Alice” he said, after a while. “Where exactly did you get that broomstick? It’s even slightly better than the firebolt. It must have cost you a million galleons.” He didn’t seem jealous or anything, just rather curious.

“Why do you ask? Do you want to try it out?” I asked him laughing. He laughed along and confirmed my question. “Well anyway” I continued, “I got it as a present for Christmas…from Malfoy.” The last part I added very quietly, half and half hoping that he wouldn’t hear it.

“WHAT?” He had stopped walking abruptly, looking at me with disbelief in his eyes. “And you accepted it? Why didn’t you tell me?” He was as confused as I had ever seen him.

“I wouldn’t turn down a present Harry, from anyone” I tried to reason with him. We continued walking as we were almost late.

“Look Alice, he is planning something evil. You have to believe me, please I beg you. You are the only real family I have. I don’t want him to take you away from me when we have just found each other!” He looked desperate.

“Family? Well isn’t this just too good to be true” A mischievous voice said with a little smile. Around the corner came Crabbe, who gave me goose bumps as soon as I saw him.

“Brother and sister? The two Potters? It certainly is friend” Goyle joined him. Harry and I narrowed our eyes at them.

Before we could say anything to them they had disappeared again. And this didn’t mean much good. I knew that we wouldn’t have been able to keep it quiet forever but I didn’t expect it to come out this soon.

“This isn’t good” I said. Harry agreed. “And listen” I added. “I won’t ever choose anyone over my family or friends Harry. You can be sure about that.”

We visited Dumbledore, both a little out of spirits. He tried to calm us down and advised us to act as normally as possible around everybody else and to ignore questions. If Crabbe and Goyle knew about Harry being my brother, we could be sure that the secret would be out in just a matter of minutes.

“I didn’t summon you here for no reason though” Dumbedore said after we cleared that little problem up. We both nodded and waited for him to go on. His face looked worried and he had big bags under his eyes.

“I have tried to train you well” he contained. And he had. He had provided a tutor for me and had even taught us some advanced spells himself occasionally. “And an extremely important time has come. It’s almost time for me to go on a very important trip, which I might or might not survive.”

Both Harry and I were sitting at the edge of our chair. “I want to come professor” Harry decided resolutely.

“Yes, me too!” I agreed. If it was coming down to a fight I wanted to join. What else had I been training for all these months? I guess that was the Gryffindor part of me. “We can be useful at this trip and help you.”

“You are both allowed to come with me” Dumbledore said, much to my surprise. “If you promise me to follow my every order. Even if that order would be to abandon me to save yourself.”

“We will professor” I promised. I already looked forward to it though it made me feel nervous as hell and a little scared. Harry on the other hand seemed more determined. He had more experience in this sort of stuff.