Thalia Patil

The Missing One's Son

Hey.

I’ve gotten over my cold, thank Merlin. It was on the verge of making me lose my mind. Let's say I did try to type and spelled about three quarters of the words wrong. Then I asked Calli to try to do some and she spelled Thalia Thalya and Evelin Evalyn. Other than that she couldn't spell any of the houses to save her life. Moral of the story: do not ask your twin to write for you.

Anyway, I'm back and the creative flow is, well, flowing!

-Alyss

with minor help from Calliope.

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I was a seventh year and my cousins still thought of me as weird but it was fine because I knew I could go back to WADA after. And maybe at the end of the year I could get a job there if I did well enough.

Then my owl came with my book list and I literally screamed in joy.

Thalia Patil,

You have been made Head Singer. You will now be taking part in whichever play you want and will be on the casting board for all of the plays.

Will Stern

"What is it, Thalia?" Ebony, my younger sister by one year, said, poking her head in. With all of my strangeness, she understood better than her twin brother, Mike.

"I'm Head Singer." I replied, beaming.

"What's that like? Head Girl?" Ebony said.

"Nobody even knows what that is, Thalia." MIke grumbled, "Why can't you just be normal for once?"

"Mike!"Mom snapped. He jumped to reveal her just behind him, appearing as she always did, with no warning. "Go! Both of you!"

Ebony and Mike scampered.

"Colloportus, Muffalato!" she muttered so I knew what was coming next.

"I'm not in the mood for a pep talk." I snapped.

"I wasn't planning to. I don't do those things, that's your father. Unless, of course, you want one." she grinned, "I was wondering if you'd like to go to Noelle's for the rest of the holidays. School only starts in four days."

"Five days." I reminded her.

"Right. And we were going to have Teddy and Victoire over to try and find Evelin as usual. I thought you might and want to avoid Ben and Juliette." Ben and Juliette were Teddy and Victoire's kids. Ben was 15 and Juliette was 12. Evelyn has mysteriously vanished about a year after Matt's death. Since Teddy, Mum and Dad had been trying to find her.

"Yeah." I pretty much avoided that side and my father's parents were gone. His father was in Azkaban and his father killed his mother. So the closest relatives were second-aunts Pavarti and Padma who rarely came over.

"She'll pick you up in two hours, get your trunk ready and don't use wingardum leviosa. Not today, Thalia." Mom said. "I'll try to do something about the twins."

"Alyss! I think you said you wouldn't cast that spell anymore! That buzzing is quite annoying."

Mom rolled her eyes, cast the counter-curse and apparated.

Dad banged the door open, "Thalia, what did you explode?" he asked and then got confused as, for once, I had not exploded anything by accident or on purpose. Even Gramma Weasley thought I was more of a handful in terms of my future than her twins. George was the only one that liked me, I was a trickster and loved doing pranks on the cousins that called me a freak. He was happy to help me get my revenge, even against his kids.

"Now who's making assumtions? It was me apparating not anything exploding, unless George is here...." Mom said. "Anyway, I have Quidditch practice in ten minutes. Noelle is coming in two hours."

"Don't get hit by another bludger." Dad sighed.

But Mom had already vanished. She had played for the Montrose Magpies and Teddy played for England. Now Mum was on the reserves. So if something happened to one chaser she was playing. Plus we got free tickets whenever we wanted them. Basically she was the fourth best chaser in Britan and Ireland.

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We were at the start of term feast and Mr. Stern stood up.

"I'd like to congradulate our Head Director, Blake Mason, our Head Writer, Katie White, our Head Actor, Logan Porter, our Head Singer, Thalia Patil, amd our Crew Manager, Connor Webb." There was a lot of applause and we all stood to greet it. "And we have new students. Nigel Peyser, seventh year director. Amelia Jones, a fourth year actress. Jen Jones, sixth year crew. And Sestiva Leffin, seventh year singer."

Nigel and the others were standing at the front and hastened to find a table among the round ones we sat at. He just happened to pick mine.

Mr. Stern sat down and the food appeared.

"Hi, I'm Nigel." he said.

"Thalia, Thalia Patil." I said staring at him in disbelief. After everything I found him?

"Kanani Morisse singer."

"Noelle Doyle, actress."

After a few more introductions I was still staring at him.

"Thalia?"

"Is your mother's name Evelin?" I blurted.

"How did you know?" he had an English accent though my parents said Evelin was American.

"My parents were her best friends. She vanished when they were 19. They've been trying to find her. Where is she?"

"London. 19 Craven Street."

"Do you know anything about my parents, Alyss and Tom, or Teddy?" I asked.

"Isn't Alyss the name of Hermione Weasley's sister?"

"YES!"

"No, I've never. she hasn't told me anything." Nigel said, "you're Hermione Weasley's neice?"

"She is but she's not attending Hogwarts for a reason." Kanani hissed.

"Don't ask." Noelle advised.

"It's fine. I'm related to the Weasleys and I didn't fit at Hogwarts. They don't talk about me."

I sent Mum an owl that night about Nigel and told her exactly where Evelin was.