Harry's sister

chapter twenty-three

professor McGonagall looked at professor Dumbledore and after he nodded she took a deep breath and said "canis, taking into account the condition you are in when you come to Hogwarts compared to when you leave, we think it would be best if the dursley's were no longer your legal guardians. Professor Snape has graciously volunteered to take you in if you accept the offer."

i frowned, i would have jumped at the opportunity if it weren't for harry. i looked over at snape, his usual emotionless facade on but as always his eyes gave away his feelings. as i looked into those black pits that held worry, excitement and anticipation, the image of the girl in the mirror and the picture of Snape with a baby flashed in my mind, it occurred to me that the baby in the photo and the girl in the mirror resembled each other and they both very strongly resembled Snape.

i sighed pushing away the thoughts as I turned back towards professor McGonagall and said "professor i couldn't leave harry alone with the dursley's. my job is to protect him, how can i do that without being with him?" that was when snape spoke up and said "Canis, how will you protect harry after you starve to death? harry is not as frail as you are, he can take care of himself, you however may not be able to survive another summer with the dursley's. brains can only get you so far."

i thought about it for a moment, staring at the keepsake book in my hands before looking up and saying "i'll think about it, i'm going to need to talk to harry first and i want to know where i might be living. i'll give you an answer before the end of the year." they all nodded and i was dismissed.

i entered lockhart's classroom, sat in the very back of the class with harry, ron and harmione and begrudgingly took out all of lockhart's books. When the whole class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly and silence fell. He reached forward, picked up Neville's copy of Travels with Trolls, and held it up to show his own, winking portrait on the front.

 i felt as though i was losing brain cells as he talked about all his 'accomplishments'. he then proceeded to give us a test on his books. the only thing i wrote on the page was my name, i didn't even bother to read the questions. thirty minutes later he took in the quizzes and was riffling threw them, after he proceeded to praise harmione it seemed he had gotten to my quiz because he looked up at me and said "tut, tut -- miss potter you didn't answer a single question on the quiz, have you not read the books?"

 i looked at him with disgust clear on my face and said "no, gilderoy i didn't. in fact i didn't even read the test. i refuse to show you any respect or participate in your class, the only reason i'm here in the first place is because i don't trust you with my brother, i mean honestly neville is a better wizard then you are. no offence neville." neville shook his head, blushing. lockhart looked very disappointed and said "unfortunately i'm going to have to take 10 points from gryffindor for your disrespect." 

he quickly moved on and soon we were being attacked by Cornish pixies. i didn't move from my seat, putting a barrier up around harry, harmione, ron and myself as they wrecked the rest of the classroom. when the bell rang everyone ran out of class. i grumbled as lockhart asked us to put the pixies back in their cage and ran out of the class, closing the door. i wanted the spell to be as powerful as possible to stop all the pixies so i actually said the incantation as i pointed my wand at a pixie near me "Immobulus." all the pixies seemed to freeze and fall to the floor where i used a floating charm to shove them all back into their cage.

the rest of the day i spent in the forbidden forest, checking the animals. right before sunset i found an odd glossy blue egg. i never liked being in the forest alone at night so i picked the egg up and went to hagrid's hut, i figured he would know what it was. he was very surprised when i showed it to him and said "that there's a phoenix egg missy, odd you findin' it in th' forest when phoenix's us'ally nest on mountain peaks. some'un must of meant for yeh teh find it."  i nodded and said "well i don't want to leave the little egg in the forest and you're very busy so i suppose i'll keep it safe until it hatches." 

i left quickly after that, cradling the egg under my robes so nobody would see it. i was extra alert and cautious on my way to my room. people were still up after all. when i finally got there i made a nest out of blankets and set it on a shelf before setting the egg in the nest. i'd read books about phoenixes before and i knew they didn't need to be incubated but i still didn't feel right putting it on a hard surface. i filled the space on the shelf in front of the small egg with books so that if anyone came into my room they wouldn't see the egg, i was pretty sure phoenixes weren't allowed at school. 

the next few days were a blur of harry hiding from lockhart, trying to get him alone so i could talk to him about my moving in with snape since i didn't want everyone knowing and Ron's wand messing up. i had also been secretly working on my nimbus 2001 which had come just after I found the Phoenix egg. i was working on enchanting it to be faster and learning how to fly it, once i got the hang of flying it normally i added a small platform for me to stand up on because i thought it would be interesting to be able to stand up while flying it. it was much harder to get the hang of riding it while standing but i was slowly getting there, using a spell to stick my feet to the broom helped as well.

 when i found out over breakfast that wood had woken up harry and the twins at the crack of dawn to practice without feeding them first i was furious. Though it might have seemed odd for me to worry about George and Fred, while staying with the weasley's my friendship with the two had become much stronger and I now thought of them as brothers. i picked up a few pieces of toast with marmalade and brought them to the quidditch field, going into the changing room when i saw nobody was on the field.

 i walked in on wood's speech not caring and gave a piece of toast to George, Fred and a very sleepy harry before turning to wood, who was distraught that i was in the changing room and glaring at him menacingly, instantly shutting him up as i said "if you ever wake my brothers up at the crack of dawn and tell them to practice without eating first i will burn you alive, is that understood?" he quickly nodded and i smiled sweetly, relaxing as i said "good, have fun practicing everyone."

i then left to spend the morning with hagrid and check on his pumpkins, though to my dismay lockhart was already there trying to give advice on how to get kelpies out of a well. i glared at him as i drank tea, i was happy when he left. Not a minute later harry, ron and harmione showed up, ron had apparently tried to curse malfoy and when i found out the reason i was outraged and disgusted. i slammed the tea down on the table as i stood up and said "you leave the curses to me ron, malfoy will wish he'd never been born when i'm done with him. i'll see you later hagrid good job with the pumpkins." 

i stormed out of the hut before anyone could say anything marching towards the quidditch field. when i saw colin i called him over and said "i have a job for you colin, i need you to take a picture of draco after i finish cursing him. make sure you aren't seen okay? if you do this i'll get you harry's autograph." he nodded eagerly and followed me.

when i found Draco leaving the quidditch field i hid out of sight with colin and used a curse i'd been working on, casting it on him, his face immediately broke out in boils that spelled 'ass' on his forehead. i then cast the full body bind curse and tongue tying curse then to top it all off i used a horn-growing hex. i nodded signaling colin to take a picture and he did then we ran away towards the school. malfoy spent the afternoon in the sick ward and i spent the afternoon asking the twins for help and begging harry for his autograph, i celebrated when he finally gave me one.