Misery || Harry Potter's Twin Brother

Chapter one

"Lianna, I need your help." The ghost looked confused at the determination on the boys face.

"How can I help dear?" She asked, she was always so kind and so compassionate towards him and he respected her a great deal.

"I want to look at my prophecy." He told her, she nodded.

"I understand." She smiled softly. "I'd want to if I was in your position."

"Do you know where it is?" He asked, she nodded.

"I will take you there Sirius, but first, I need help with Gideon."

"What's happening with him?" Sirius asked, concern filling his face at once.

"I don't know." She turned to look at the door leading to his tomb. "He went quiet this morning, and I daren't go alone."

"Let's have a look then." Sirius slowly opened the door and looked in, it was all quiet. Gideon's body lay quiet on the stone slab given to him. Next to him, on a slab of his own, lay the body of Fabian, Gideon's brother. Their bodies preserved by magic and whatever magic had bound them to one another and Aro.

"He isn't moving." Lianna said, Sirius went closer and confirmed their thoughts.

"He's dead, completely and fully... dead." Sirius said, jumping as the silver, see-through figure of a boy came through the wall. "Gideon?"

"I haven't seen my brother since he died." Gideon said sadly, standing in between the two bodies. "I'm not in pain anymore, thank you for helping me."

"Um... you're welcome." Sirius nodded. "Are you... okay, apart from the obvious?"

"Better than I have been for a while." Gideon nodded. "So you're looking for your prophecy?"

"Yeah, I have to know the truth." Sirius nodded.

"Can I come with the two of you?" Gideon asked.

"Sure, I might need you." Sirius agreed. "The more the merrier."

"Shall we go?" Lianna asked, Sirius nodded and followed the two ghosts out of the room, closing the door respectively.

Lianna led them to a set of stairs hidden at the back of the tombs.

"I didn't think this place could surprise me anymore." Sirius commented. Both ghosts laughed lightly.

"Secret tunnels are Aros favourite." Lianna commented.

"There are so many secret passages at the house." Gideon added.

Sirius' face lit up. "There are?"

"Of course, its finding them that's the issue." Lianna agreed.

Sirius saw the image of two boys walking down these very same steps flash into his mind. It took him by surprise like a slap in the face, and it certainly felt like one. He assumed it was Gideon and Fabien, but without seeing their faces, he couldn't tell.

The image left as quickly as it came and Sirius was left slightly confused and disorientated.

"Sirius? Are you alright?" Lianna and Gideon has stopped to wait for him.

"Yeah, how long does this go on for?" Sirius asked, shaking the image from his mind and moving quickly down the steps.

"We're almost there." Gideon told him, looking at him as though he knew Sirius was hiding something. Sirius nodded.

"Brilliant."

They finally reached what Lianna called the artefact room. It was full of treasures, money, jewels, ancient muggle weapons, a collection of wands, and at the far end, a whispering, ghoulish crystal ball.

"That's it, isn't it?" Sirius asked, his voice barely a whisper. He wasn't so sure he wanted to know anymore. There was something terrifying about the prophecy.

"That's it." Gideon agreed. Lianna had gone over to the wands, and looked almost upset.

"These are our wands." She explained as Sirius went over to her. "I didn't think he would keep them."

"Maybe he's more sentimental then we realise." Sirius mused, there were so many wands, each with a little name tag and a death date. It was morbid, but oddly comforting. Maybe Aro really cared about them.

"Indeed." Lianna agreed, before she led Sirius over to his prophecy.

"Are you ready?" Gideon asked, Sirius sighed.

"I don't know." Something was stopping him from finding out the truth. As though something deep down did not want him to find out the truth, something inside him wanting to maintain the blissful ignorance that he had when he didn't know what his prophecy was.

But he had to find out, he needed to know, what he was expected to do, who he was supposed to be a team with. Who was telling him the truth?

"Go on, you have to know." Gideon encouraged him. Sirius nodded and picked up the prophecy.

"The Potter and the Swan, the formidable team. Stronger together than apart, one owned by the evil, one free as a bird. The perfect team against the darkness." The prophecy read.

"What does that even mean?" Sirius groaned.

"Read the tag." Gideon suggested.

Sirius picked up the tag connected to the prophecy and flipped it over. It only held his name. "It doesn't even say." He sighed. "Well that was a waste of time."

"Not necessarily." Lianna said, Sirius stared at her. "It means you have a choice."

"Oh great." Sirius sighed. "How do I know who to choose? I don't even know which one is telling the truth."

"I guess you just have to figure that out." Gideon said.

"Thanks for those wise words Gideon." Sirius sighed. "I was so sure it would tell me what to do."

"How do you know it hasn't?" Lianna asked.

"Stop being so cryptic!" Sirius sighed. "It just isn't helpful."

"At least you know what it says." Gideon said brightly.

"There is that, I guess." He nodded. "Come on, let's get out of here."

"I thought I'd find you here boy." Aro appeared by the stairs. "Gideon, it's nice to see you."

"Aro." Gideon nodded.

"Hi Aro." Sirius added.

"Please leave us, I must talk with the boy." Aro commanded, Lianna and Gideon promptly left, Sirius bit his lip nervously.

"I had to know." He blurted out suddenly.

"I know." Aro replied. "That's not what I wish to speak with you about."

"Oh." Sirius frowned. "But I haven't done anything."

"Let me speak boy." Aro sighed. "Are you in contact with Elias?"

"What? Not that I know of." Sirius shook his head. "I haven't seen him since... I'm not sure the last time I saw him."

"If he gets his hands on you, we will be ruined." Aro said.

"What does that mean?" Sirius asked, Aro was making less sense then usual.

"Go back to the house." Aro turned away.

"But-"

"Go!" Sirius didn't argue again and all but ran across the room, glancing back to see him pick up Sirius' prophecy. What was going on?