Harry and Eloise Potter

Chapter Nine

   After months of searching, we found nothing. I've been staying out of it best I can, but I've been invited to Order of the Phoenix meetings. And I wasn't given a choice but to go after missing seven.
   "Rosalie, you made this map, is there something we're missing?" Dad asked me. I felt the urge to say no, almost like I was being forced. I closed my eyes quickly. "Ro-"
   "Don't talk. He can hear you. Give me a second." I told them quietly. I traced that feeling back to him and forced him to break off the connection and saw where he was and pointed to somewhere on the map. "He tried to imperio me. He won't be trying it again. I broke it off. Let's go. I know where he is." I grabbed my jacket and put it on as I headed outside of Grimmauld. All I did was head down the street and take a left turn before feeling like I forgot something, but I know I didn't. "He's put up wards to keep wizards away, just fight it." I headed further in and so did they. We soon got past the wards and I headed to the abandoned house down the road. I stopped in front of it, looking at it. "Let's get this over with." I muttered, taking out my wand and heading inside slowly. We went through every room downstairs and slowly headed upstairs, me in front. I found him in the attic.
"Ah... you've found me have you?" He looked weird, a twinkle in his eye. I put up a silent barrier so no one could come in, and he couldn't apparate out, and so that way we couldn't leave, and that included me.
"Rose, why can't we come in?" Dad asked me.
"I put up a barrier. Neither of us can leave this room through apparition or walking. And it's my spell so he doesn't know the counter so he can't break it. And I'm sorry, but my name isn't Rose." I went back to being Eloise.
"You've been our daughter this whole time?!!? Why didn't you-!!" Mum exclaimed, tearing up.
"I had to prove you wrong! All of you! You didn't believe me!! It was the only way to do it!"
"Why didn't you come back after everyone found out it was Dumbledore?"
"Because the real Dumbledore..." I looked to the one in front of me. "Wanted me in my dreams. There's something special about me. And I want to know what."
"The prophecy wasn't about Harry like you all thought, it was about you Rose, or should I say Eloise now?"
"The one about who would kill the Dark Lord? But so? I get to kill you, everyone is safe, it's a win, win really."
"But there's something else about the prophecy no one knows. If I die, you have to die too. I wanted to take you to kill you, but your stupid grandmother got in the way."
"She said Tom would come after you. That he would shed the light. That he'd stop you." I heard running footsteps and heard Draco's voice.
"Rose!" He tried to come in.
"Draco... you can't stay here." I put my hand on the barrier and then so did he.
"Yes I can. I can help, just let me in."
"I can't do that, Dray, I'm so sorry."
"Why not? Why can't you let me in??" He was panicking.
"Because I love you Draco. And I can't see you get hurt. Go... I can't let you watch this."
"Damnit, I was supposed to ask you out and tell you I love you, not the other way around."
"Little late for that. I love you Draco."
"I love you too Potter." I let out a small laugh before choking down tears.
"I'm so sorry Draco... but I have to die with him... to make him die for good... I have to die too." I stepped away from the barrier, dropping my hand.
"No! ELLE DON'T DO THIS!!!!" He screamed at me as I faced Dumbledore.
"I'm not afraid to die. I'm afraid of hurting those that I love. But if it means dying to protect the ones I love, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Mad-Eye, get my parents, Draco, Sirius, and Remus out of here. They shouldn't have to watch this." I heard them protest but they were gone. "I'm done watching the ones I love get hurt. I'm done watching people die. So I'm going to die in the place of many. Bring it on you old fart." He chuckled darkly before shooting the killing curse at me. I shot one of my own spells and felt the wind carry my hair backwards. I took slow steps forward, not letting up. His hand was shaking though. "You're old, you won't last that long!" I yelled to him. I stepped forward again and my spell slowly destroyed his wand. Something happened and my grandmother was talking to me as I held the spell.
"We can distract him but only for a moment. Go! GOOOO!!!!" They all attacked him and I got out before putting the barrier back up stronger so he couldn't cast spells or do anything except be in there. He couldn't escape.
"We'll find a way to kill him without killing you too, don't worry. You'll get out of this alive, I promise." Tonks places a hand on my shoulder but I shook it off, just staring at Dumbledore.
"Put up silencing wards around the property. If muggles hear him, they'll call for the police." I told them before walking downstairs and out the front door, heading back to Grimmauld Place and going upstairs to the room they gave me, not announcing my presence to anyone that was in the kitchen. I slid down the door and just sat there, head spinning and my heart racing, my eyes starting to sting as my vision blurred from tears. I heard yelling coming from downstairs and then footsteps as I grabbed my stuff and climbed out the window. I can't stay here with them. They'll just pity me, expect things I can't do, expect answers I can't give. They'll overwhelm me and I can't do that. I headed to the Leaky Cauldron and got the rest of my stuff packed up, including my school stuff, before two owls came in. My dark eyebrows furrowed as I took both letters.
'Come home Elle, please? I want to talk to my sister again! Catch up with you! I want you home, please? Come home. I want my twin back.' Harry wrote.
'Eloise Lillian Euphemia Potter, get back home, now! I want my daughter back! I want to catch up with you and apologize in person. I know your mother, as well as your uncles feel the same. Please come home, we love you and miss you. Please come back. Please.' Dad wrote to me. I put them in my satchel softly, having everything else shrunk and in there as well. I put on my jacket before heading out the door, transforming into someone new so no one would recognize me. I put on the fake glasses and headed down the street. I soon found a hotel after I converted a bunch of galleons into muggle money to get a hotel room. I paid in cash and kept my face hidden until I had closed the curtains and made sure there were no cameras or anything. I went back to my real self and started studying for the upcoming school year. I studied hard, as usual, but I kept myself isolated and ordered room service once a week. I'm going back to Hogwarts as a new person, a model in fact. Who takes shit from nobody. And I'm not backing down.