Cinder and the Philosopher's Stone ( part 1 )

Chapter five

"But - but you said that the Dursleys were the only family I had?" Harry said

"They were the only living family, Harry" said Dumbledore "I'm so sorry to say this Cinder, but your parents passed away"

When Dumbledore was done Harry and Cinder couldn't believe what they just heard. Cinder eyes were like waterfalls, the tears just kept on coming . So she ran, she could not let anyone see her in the state she was in. She didn't cared if she got lost she just needed to be alone, so she ran away from the truth. After a few moments she found herself at the Black Lake. She sat under a tree and allowed her tears to fall for the first time in many years. She thought of all of those moments she cursed her parents for not loving her enough, for all of those years she thought that she was so unloved that even her parents hated the thing that they created, but she was wrong. They were dead and she could never see them again.

Cinder woke up infort of the Lake. Her clothes were filthy and there were small twigs  in her hair, so she got up and tried to clean herself as much as she can. As she entered the castle, people started to stare at her while whispering to each other . Suddenly out of nowhere her scar started to hurt, it had happened before, but this time it was stronger. She quickly shook her pain away and walked to the common room.

"So it's true then?" Draco said as Cinder was about to enter the girls dormitory. "There is another Potter"

"Yeah it's true. Do you have a problem with that?"She asked as she walked towards Draco

"Oh that's sad, so your parents really are dead" he smirked "and you're as forgotten as them - "

Cinder surged towards Draco, pushing him against the wall. She pressed her forearm against his throat.

"Don't say that," she hissed "DO - NOT - SAY - THAT"

"I'm s- sorry" he stutters. She walked slowly towards her dormitory door and then Draco yelled. "My father will hear about this!"

"I don't care who your bloody father is!" Cinder yelled back and then entered the dormitory.

After a week of finding out the truth, Cinder tried , as much as she can to ignore Harry. If he tried talk to her she would quickly make up an excuse or ignore him until he leaves. She thought about everything that past  7 days and made up her mind. One Friday morning she asked Professor Snape to change her name in all of the records into Cinder Potter, and he coldly agreed. As evening arrived she was heading towards Potions and she spotted Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

"Harry!" Cinder yelled and ran towards him

"Oh Hello-" he was cut off by a tight hug, so he hugged her back.

"I'm sorry Harry,"she said after she broke the hug "it's just I had a lot on my mind and. . and-"

"It's okay" said Harry "really it fine Cinder"

"I changed it" Cinder said happily "my name I changed it, I'm Cinder Potter now"

The end of the school year seemed to be getting closer by the minute. The first - years were to take the exams which would determine if they are going to stay for the next year. Cinder did the best she could, trying to ignore the stabbing pains in her forehead which had been growing stronger ever since Harry told her about his trip to the Forbidden Forest where he encountered a hooded figure dripping blood.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione suspected that Professor Snape was helping Voldemort into stealing the Philosopher's Stone even thought Cinder told them that Snape was not that bad. After the truth about her being Harry's cousin started to spread out, Professor Snape had given Cinder  a really hard time, he had accused her of stuff she never did, just like Harry . So the day after the exams she went to talk to him, but she didn't find the answer she had been looking for.

"Professor can I enter?" asked Cinder

"Want do you what Cinder Potter?" he said as through he was forced to say her name. He was still grading and kept his head down at his papers as he spoke.

"What happened to you?"she said "when you didn't know who I really was you were so nice to me. . . so what changes that I'm a Potter?"

"I didn't like your tone Ms. Potter" he said, and looked up from his papers "fifty points from. . . Slytherin and if you incest on continuing this discussion it would be a hundred points"

Cinder 's eyes turned red with rage as she stormed out of Snape's office, maybe he is helping Voldemort after all she thought.

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"No more revision, " Ron sighed happily."You could look more cheerful, Harry and you too Cinder, we've got a week before we find out how badly we've done, there's no need to worry yet"

Cinder was trying to rub the pain away from her forehead.

"I wish I knew what this means!" Harry burst out angrily. "My scar keeps hurting - it's happened before, but never as often as this"

"Does yours hurt as if knifes are stabbed into your brains?" asked Cinder

"That's exactly how it hurts. . .wait your scars are hurting too?" He asked her

"The one on my left has been hurting me ever since I came to this bloody school" she replied. "I'm not ill or anything, I just think it's -"

" - a warning. . .it means danger's coming" Harry completed her sentence.

Harry suddenly jumped to his feet.
"Where're you going?"said Ron sleepily.

"I've just thought of something,"said Harry. He had gone white. "We've got to see Hagrid, now"

"Why" panted Hermione, hurrying to keep up.

"Don't you think it's a bit odd, " said Harry, scrambling up the grassy slope,"that what Hagrid wants more than anything else is a dragon, and a stranger turns up who just happens to have an egg in his pocket? How many people wander around with dragon eggs if it's against wizard law? Lucky they found Hagrid, don't you think? Why didn't I see it before?"

"What are you on about?" said Ron

"Oh God, it means Hagrid might have said something he wasn't suppose to say" Cinder said

After they talked to Hagrid about this, and Cinder was right. He had told the stranger how to get past Fluffy, which meant someone was going to steal the Philosopher Stone. The stranger did not show Hagrid his face, and their guess was that he was either Snape or Voldemort. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Cinder went to Professor McGonagall and asked her where Dumbledore was, but they were too late because Dumbledore was gone.

"He's gone" said Harry frantically "Now?"

"Professor Dumbledore is a very great wizard, Potter, he has many demands on his time - " Professor McGonagall said

"But this is important" Cinder said

"Something you have is more important than the Ministry of Magic, Ms. Potter ?" She said as she raised an eyebrow.

"It's about the Philosopher Stone" Cinder bursted out

Their talk with Professor McGonagall was as hopeless as it can get. Now that Dumbledore is out of the way it only meant one thing , Snape was going to steal the Philosopher Stone. . tonight.