Monday, May 15, 2006
CHAPTER 8 - Confrontations
A/N: Sorry, it's been so long since I updated. Actaully I was struggling about if I were to put my story up in fanfiction.net for everyone to read. You know, it's quite scary to know that your story goes out to so many people. Anyway, I'm still struggling. But if, only IF, I were to put it up to that site, I don't think I'll continue to put it here though. Anyway, enjoy this chapter.
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"Welcome back, Alfirin," said Lord Elrond without looking up, as Hannah stepped inside the study room.
"Adar," cried Hannah, running towards Lord Elrond, giving him a bear hug.
"Alfirin, iell nin," whispered Lord Elrond as he hugged back.
When they finally broke off, Hannah said, "I miss you, Adar."
After a teary meeting, Lord Elrond and Hannah finally sat down for serious business.
"Adar, had the Valar decided how will I get into Hogwarts?" asked Hannah.
"Yes, the Valar had actually. You are to go into Hogwarts as a Professor."
"A Professor? What subject do I teach? I don't know much."
"That I am not sure, iell nin. You will know when you get to the school. Come, let's go to the Main Hall. You must eat before you go back."
Soon, Lord Elrond and Hannah were walking down the corridor chatting happily. The distance between the study room and the Main Hall seemed to have shrunk, as in reality, it was a long walk to the Main Hall.
Not long after they arrived at the Main Hall, Elladan and Elrohir came walking in, along with Glorfindel.
"Alfirin! How come you are here?" asked Elladan, surprised.
"Well, I have something to discuss with Adar, so I came back. I'm going back after dinner."
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"Guys, I need to go to the Gringotts first. I'm running short of cash now," said Harry as they entered Diagon Alley.
"Right, first stop, Gringotts," reported Ron, as they started to walk towards the bank.
"Looks like we will separate from here. Ginny, Fred, George and I will go ahead first," said Mrs Weasley. "Remus, you will go with Harry?"
"Yes sure."
"I'm staying with you, Harry," said Ron and Hermione together.
"We'll meet here again in two hours time then," said Mrs Weasley cheerfully.
After Harry had withdrawn some Galleons from his vault, they started towards Flourish and Blotts to purchase their books.
"I can't believe we have so many books this year," groaned Ron, carrying a fairly large stack of books.
"Oh Ron, stop complaining. We have to start our preparation for our OWL this year. So we have to have so many books," stated Hermione.
After they came out of Flourish and Blotts, they went to Apothecary to purchase their potions ingredients required for the year and Stationers to buy ink and parchments.
"Is there anything else that we need?" asked Ron carrying several heavy parcels and bags.
"I think we've got all we need, Ron." replied Hermione checking her own stocks.
"Would you guys like to go to Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour for some ice-cream?" asked Harry. "I needed a break though. All these stuffs makes me a bit tired." Though Harry knew very well that he was not tired at all, but said it as not to get them suspicious especially Remus.
"Sure Harry, let's go. I'm quite tired as well," replied Hermione.
The four of them sat at the parlour for a while, when they noticed Fred and George walked past with a smile on their faces.
"Guys, what are you so happy about? Where's Mrs Wealsey and Ginny?" asked Hermione stopping them.
"Oh, hi guys. Didn't know you are here. Just went to Gambol and Japes. Found quite a bit of precious in there, ain't it George?" said Fred smirking, which caused Hermione to roll her eyes.
"Yeah. Precious stuffs, Fred," replied George with a smirk on his face as well.
"Got to go back. We sneak away from Mum to get to there," said Fred. "See you guys later."
With that, Fred and George jogged off. "I can't believe them. Always trying to play a prank on others," said Hermione annoyed.
"Come on you three. It about time to go back," said Remus suddenly.
All the time while they are in Diagon Alley, Remus had been silently walking behind the three of them observing Harry.
'There is definately something different with Harry. Where had he been? What had made him so different?' Remus thought. Every now and then, Harry would look back at Remus. 'He knows I'm looking.' Remus thought.
When Harry said he was tired and wanted a rest, Remus knew that was not true. He had been watching Harry and he had not shown signs that he was tired, unlike Ron, who had been fidgeting with his parcels of items, and Hermione, who kept stopping to shift her parcels. All the while, Harry had been carrying all his parcels as if they are like feathers. When they stood up from the seats at the ice-cream parlour, Ron and Hermione had to struggle with their parcels, but Harry had picked up his own as if they did not had any weight.
"Come let me help you. I suppose I can cast a Featherweight Charm on your parcels to make it lighter," said Remus amused.
"You should've done that earlier!" said Ron.
"I'm all right with it, don't worry about me," commented Harry walking off.
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"Remus, nothing happened to you all, did you?" asked Mrs Weasley when she saw the look on Remus face as they met up with one another at the entrance to Leaky Cauldron.
"What? Oh no. Nothing happened. Nothing to you as well, I believe?"
"No, nothing."
"I'll go back up to my room to put my things first. Meet you down here in five minutes," said Harry, hobbling up the stairs.
Everyone stared at Harry as he hobbled up the stairs.
"How can he do that with all this weight?" asked Ron puzzled.
"I don't know about you guys, but somehow I do feel he's a bit different after he came back from that place," said Ginny.
"How I wish I can floo back home to put down my things and come back here. These are really bulky," groaned Ron.
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"Alfirin, I'm back!" shouted Harry as he opened the door.
Silence.
Harry climbed up the remaining stairs to his room, and what he found was an empty room. He then smacked himself sliently as he remembered that Alfirin told him she will be back after dinner. Suddenly, Harry realised that he missed Alfirin. He enjoyed Alfirin's company. They had a lot of things to talk about. The first couple of weeks when he was back in Rivendell, when Elladan and Elrohir played a prank on him, Alfirin would shield him from the two. Slowly, naturally, he would automatically went to Alfirin if something happened.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Harry scrambled down to open it, and he found Ron standing in front of him.
"Are you all right, Harry?" asked Ron.
"Yeah, why?" asked Harry puzzled.
"We're all waiting for you downstairs for the past ten minutes. We thought something might happened to you, so I came up and check if you are all right," explained Ron.
"Oh, sorry. Just, er, just stomachache. I'm all right now, let's go," lied Harry.
As Harry and Ron reached the table, Mrs Weasley asked Harry if he was all right. They had an enjoyable dinner. Remus realised that Harry had helped himself to a few serving of salad and no meat. He even avoided his favourite food, sherperd's pie.
After a couple of hours of dining and chatting, everyone began to fill out. The Weasleys and Hermione stayed at Leaky Cauldron for the night, curtosy of Harry, as they were too tired to floo home.
"Goodnight Harry. We'll see you tomorrow," said Hermione.
"Yeah, g-goodnight H-Harry," said Ron, yawning.
"Goodnight," replied Harry smiling. Turning to Remus, "goodnight, Remus."
"Night, Harry."
Harry turned towards his room, what he did not notice was that Remus instead of returning to his room, he followed Harry. As Harry opened the door to his room, Remus grabbed Harry's shirt, shoved him up the stairs to his room and closed the door.
"What? Remus, let go of me!" yelled Harry struggling.
"Where have you been, Harry? Tell me everything," demanded Remus.
"What do you mean by this?" yelled Harry.
"I knew you had changed, Harry. Ever since you came back, I knew you were a different person. Now, I-"
"Harry, I-"
Both Harry and Remus turned towards the voice and Alfirin stood between the beds eye-wide, jaw dropped to the floor starring at Remus. Remus took out his wand and move cautiously towards Alfirin, eyes fixed on her.
"H-Hannah? No, Hannah's dead. You can't be Hannah. Who are you? Why are you disguising as Hannah? Speak now!" demanded Remus, aiming his wand at Alfirin.
"I-I, ugh-"
"NO!" yelled Harry, running to stand in front of Alfirin, blocking her from Remus.
"Ion nin, it is all right," whispered Alfirin. "Do you mind if you go get Sirius?"
"B-But, he'll-"
"Don't worry, I'm sure he will not do anything to me," said Alfirin, smiling. "Go now and be quick, if he decided to change his mind."
"Please don't hurt her, Remus. I'm going to get Sirius now. She means no harm," pleaded Harry, running towards the stairs.
"Why get Sirius? H-Harry, get back here!" shouted Remus.
"How do you know Sirius?" questioned Remus, turning back to Alfirin.
Alfirin said nothing just smiled.
"Speak now!"
Bang!
Remus turned around sharply and found Harry running up the stairs with a large black dog.
"Remus, my friend, stop," panted Sirius, as he transform back in to human form, stopping in front of Remus. "She means no harm."
Harry ran over to Alfirin and ask if Remus did anything to her, Alfirin shook her head and smiled at Harry. Alfirin looked over to Sirius and tried to smile. Tears were dwelling in her eyes.
"Come here," said Sirius softly, stretching out his hands. "Let me take a good look at you."
Alfirin walked over to Sirius slowly as tears were flowing down her cheeks. She flopped into Sirius arms and cried. By their side, Remus stood there eye-wide, jaws dropped to the floor.
"W-What's g-going on?" asked Remus.
"Remus, my friend, don't you recognise her?" asked Sirius looking at Remus, holding Alfirin at arms length.
Remus looked over to Alfirin, who was wiping off her tears with her hands, then to Harry and back to Sirius, then back to Alfirin again.
"No, this can't be true. She's dead with Lily and James! This must be a Death Eater who drank the Polyjuice to become her," said Remus, shooking his head.
"The main ingredient of a Polyjuice is that person's hair. Where do you get the hair when she's dead years ago?" asked Alfirin slowly. "Remus, it's me."
"Also, she would be still in a toddler form if she drank the Polyjuice. Polyjuice is to become the person's image, not the grown up form," said Sirius, in a as-a-matter-of-factly tone.
Remus took a step back and looked over to Sirius for confirmation, who nodded. Just then, Alfirin took a step forward towards Remus.
"H-Han-nah?" stammered Remus.
"Yes," replied Alfirin, who nodded and smiled. "Yes, it's me. Godda."
Remus was stunned. "It really is you," he said finally, smiling. "Come here."
Alfirin went over to Remus and hugged him. "Godda, I missed you."
"Godda? What is godda?" asked Harry puzzled.
Sirius walked over to Harry and smiled. "Godda means Godfather. It's the word they shared."
"Huh? You mean Remus is Alfirin's godfather? No way," said Harry shocked.
"Yes way, Harry. Like you and I."
"What happened to you? I mean I, everyone, thought you were dead, with Lily and James. How come you are alive?" asked Remus.
"Come sit down, my friend. I think Hannah had many things to tell you," said Sirius.
They went over to the bed and sat down. Alfirin then told Remus everything about elves, and she, Harry and James are all elves. And she told him why James had to come to this world, and why Sirius couldn't tell him even though he knew.
After telling the truth, Alfirin let Remus sank in everything before she made him promised that from then onwards, he was to call her Alfirin and not Hannah; and not to reveal a word of the truth to anyone.
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A/N: Well, I edited some of the parts before I posted up as my original plot does not goes with Chapter 7. Well, how is it? Plse R&R. Thanks.
written by Kuraire Claire-`
