Unofficial Portkey Archive

Harry, Wendy and McGonagall rushed from the office to find a pegasus barreling through the hallway, scattering students everywhere. Potted plants were knocked from their stands by its great wings and the paintings all ducked as the magnificent creature ran past. "How on Earth did that get in here?!" McGonagall said with surprise.

Without missing a beat Wendy moved in front of the winged horse and held up her hands. Harry was all ready to push Wendy out of the way when the pegasus came to a screeching halt just inches in front of her. Wendy moved toward it talking softly. "Shhhhhhh. It's okay. I won't hurt you," she cooed as she stroked it's nose. Except for Wendy talking to the animal there was almost no sound in the hall.

McGonagall looked surprised but had kept her composure for the most part. She strode over to Wendy. "Why didn't you tell me you were a beastmaster?"

Wendy looked embarrassed. "Well, with everything you guys could do I didn't think you'd care about something so small."

McGonagall looked taken aback but remembered quickly that Wendy wouldn't realize how significant this was. "A beastmaster is quite rare. Only three thousand and fifty eight have ever been born," she said "Our Care of Magical Creatures professor would give his right hand to be a beastmaster."

Almost as if to prove McGonagall's point Hagrid came huffing up the hall with a broken lead in his massive hands. "I," cough, "I don't know how ye did it miss but thank ye fer stoppin' her."

McGonagall was tapping her foot. "What is the meaning of this Hagrid?"

Hagrid shuffled his foot. "I'm sorry. I was tryin' ter walk her past the main doors when Draco Malfoy threw a snap at her....and since the doors were open due ter the weather....... "

McGonagall looked extremely annoyed. "Hagrid. You should not have brought her so near the school building. As for Malfoy, I'll deal with him later," she said, narrowing her eyes.

Wendy began to choke back tears of joy. "I can't believe it. A real pegasus. She's so beautiful." She turned to the pegasus. "Hello girl. You're very pretty. Yes you are," she sniffed.

Dumbledore walked up to the group. He had apparently been watching the entire thing. Wendy wiped her eyes.

"Albus. Why aren't you still with the students?" asked McGonagall.

Dumbledore smiled. "I decided I did not wish to miss such a momentous occasion." He looked at Wendy. "Is this her?" he asked.

Mcgonagall nodded and smiled. She led Dumbledore, Harry, and Wendy back into the office.

Once everyone was inside Dumbledore looked to McGonagall. "Do you mind if I continue this, Minerva?"

McGonagall smiled. "Not at all, Albus," she said as she seated herself.

"Good to see you're alright Harry," Dumbledore said with relief in his voice. "And you too, Wendy Kitanya," he paused a moment. "Or should I say Wendy Potter."

Harry whipped his head around to his left and just stared at Wendy with a look of utter shock.. Wendy gave him a half hearted smile, not knowing what to say. Dumbledore squared his shoulders and spoke again. "I must say, you gave us quite the chase. The wizard who took you put an anti-search charm on your hand. That's why none of the location spells we used worked."

At that time Harry said in a choked tone. "What are you talking about?"

Dumbledore sighed. "Please sit down....both of you," he said as he himself sat in the large arm chair by the fireplace. He suddenly looked his age. Worn. Tired. "I've always had trouble accepting that so many tragedies could befall one family, but before you lost your parents you also lost someone else." He scratched the small area on top of his head where the hair was thinning. "Harry....Wendy is your sister."

Harry was stunned into silence. Finally he spoke in a very small voice. "Sister.........I have a sister?" he said only half believing it.

Dumbledore continued. "Wendy was James and Lilly's first child. One night, while they were on holiday in London, someone stole Wendy right out of her carriage. She was only a year old. We launched an enormous search but she was nowhere to be found. The Potters were devastated. Not long after, they discovered that you were to be born Harry," Dumbledore sighed sadly, "And only one year after that we lost them and nearly you." He paused for a moment and then half laughed. "It's amazing to think that we only found Wendy because Minerva was desperate to remove a few wrinkles."

"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Harry with a bit of irritation in his voice.

"You had already been through so much. I did not want to bring you more pain by telling you there was yet another family member that you had lost," Dumbledore said regretfully.

Harry looked at Wendy again. After a moment of staring a small smile slowly played across his lips. Wendy followed in kind. The smile quickly grew into a huge grin as Harry ran over to Wendy and gave her a huge bear hug. "Um, Harry? Air, becoming an issue here."

A voice came from behind the newly reunited Potters. "I can't believe she's actually here," said Sirius.

"How long have you been standing there?" asked Harry.

Sirius smiled. "Long enough."

"Why?" asked Ron through a mouthful of mashed potatoes. Wendy had just finished telling the trio that she would be starting school with the first years.

"I would think that's obvious Ron," said Hermione. "She knows nothing about magic. It would be silly to put her in our class."

Wendy nodded in agreement. "Yeah. At least I'm in Gryffindor, so we can still hang out." The trio looked at her, confused. "Urm, that's a bit American isn't it? I meant we can spend time together."

Harry looked at his sister. "You have your first flying lesson today, don't you?"

Wendy suddenly looked like she'd won a million galleons. "Yeah! I can't wait! I've been dreaming of flying all my life! Granted I won't be totally free cause ya hafta use a broom n' all, but it's the closest I'll ever get to flying under my own power." Everyone just sat there and blinked. She'd said all this very rapidly. Wendy noticed the blank stares and blushed furiously. "Sorry. I can be kinda hyper sometimes. But ever since Professor McGonagall told me about riding broomsticks I haven't thought about much else."

"It's the best feeling in the world. You'll love it," said Harry smiling. Wendy grinned. She'd had a lot of culture shock since she moved to the school. Harry had been very patient with her America slang and phrases, explaining to her what to replace them with so people would know what she was talking about.

"Alright, Miss Potter, your turn," said Madam Hooch. Wendy continued to talk to the girl next to her. "MISS POTTER!"

Wendy jumped. "S..sorry. I'm still getting used to the new last name."

Madam Hooch nodded. "Very well then. Mount your broom please."

As Wendy prepared for her first take off Harry watched from the edge of the field. He was very curious to see if Wendy would show the same talent he did the first time he flew. Professor Flitwick had given him special permission to skip class. He still couldn't believe he had a sister. He was thinking of asking Sirius if she could move in with them at the end of the school year but he wanted to get to know her better first.

What Harry really had a hard time believing was the strangely warm feelings he'd had for Hermione lately. This was the same girl who had annoyed the hell out of him during the beginning of his first year at Hogwarts. Then they'd become friends, then good friends, and now........now he didn't know. She was definitely a lot more beautiful then she used to be. It was amazing what fixing her teeth and a good hair charm had done to her looks. He'd nearly choked when he saw how she looked at the Yule ball. Maybe he should talk to her about this. He knew it wasn't love yet but it was way more than friendship.

"Miss Potter stop showing off!!" yelled Madam Hooch. Harry snickered as he watched Wendy doing loops. She looked like she was having the time of her life. He was glad. He knew how much flying ment to her.

The class ended and Harry left the field to go to lunch.

Harry walked up to the fat lady. "Wishing star," he said tiredly. When the portrait opened and Harry stepped inside he stopped short. He heard crying coming from the back of the dark common room. Harry lit his wand and went to see who it was. He found Wendy huddled on the rug near the entrance to the girl's dormitory. "Wendy?"

Wendy startled and looked at her brother. She began hurriedly wiping her eyes with her sleeve. "H..Harry. Hi."

"Are you okay?" Harry asked with concern.

"Yeah. I was just lookin' out the window, and I started to think about Mom and Dad." Harry sat down next to Wendy. "I used to dream all the time about my real parents coming to take me away. I'd always wanted to meet 'em. Then Professor McGonagall told me they were dead. It just really hit me hard tonight. Sorry."

"It's okay. I know exactly how you feel," Harry said with a sympathetic smile. He gave Wendy a hug. "I wish we could see them too."

Harry's sleep was filled with disturbing dreams. He walked through the forbidden forest in his night robes. He seemed to be looking for something. Suddenly he stopped, crouched down and picked up a small object. He couldn't see it very well, so he lit the end of his wand. The wand's light shone on a gorgeous blue crystal. It was multifaceted and about the size of the snitch. He held it up closer to his face and saw smoky shapes swirling around inside it.

The shapes in the crystal had just started to become clearer when a beast the likes of which Harry had never seen before, jumped in front of him and knocked the crystal out of his hands. Harry stared in pure terror at the creature. It was about ten feet tall, with two glowing, white eyes with no pupils. It's head was about the size of a basketball. It's mouth was long , gaping, and had two rows of very long, very thin teeth which gave it's face the appearance of a deep sea fish. The leathery skinned, muscular body, which was littered with cats claw shaped spikes, was supported by four legs. The back legs were short and thick. The front legs extended down from the creature's dark purple, almost black shoulders. The feet had three toes that each sported six inch, retractable claws. It's arms came out right next to the tops of the front legs. Both of it's hands had six fingers which ended in very nasty looking black claws. It's last feature was a long scorpion like tail with a scythe blade attached to it. Harry could do nothing but scream and scream.

The cold water was actually a welcome thing compared to looking at the beast but Harry was still annoyed. Harry wiped off his face and looked up to see Hermione standing over him with an empty cup. "I'm sorry Harry. But you were screaming in your sleep and I couldn't get you to stop."

Harry shivered. Partly because of the water, but mostly from the memory of the beast. "It's okay. I didn't frighten you did I?"

Hermione shook her head. "What were you dreaming about?"

Harry described the creature to his friend. Hermione gulped. "Is it another premonition?"

Harry sighed. "I don't know."

"So tell her," said Ron as he scratched a mosquito bite on his arm. They were sitting in the library looking up spells that might tell Harry what his nightmare ment.

"It's not that easy. I'm not really sure what I feel myself," Harry replied.

"Ya know if it was any girl but Hermione, you'd be sure," Ron said as he flipped another page.

Harry rubbed his eyes with his palms. "You're probably right."

"Of course I am," Ron replied, grinning.

Harry just rolled his eyes and sighed.

"What?" Ron prodded.

"Nothing," Harry replied as he shook his head.

"I hate it when you do that. What?"

Harry chuckled. "You're just a prat. That's what."

Ron playfully punched Harry in the arm. "Hey," Harry grumbled.

"Well, I'm going to see Hagrid," said Ron as he started to get up from the table. His knee hit the edge, which rocked the table and sent the heavy book he'd been reading to the floor with a loud thunk. This earned him an icy stare from the librarian.

"Okay. Hey. If you see Wendy there tell her I need to talk to her."

"Yup," Ron called back as he walked down the hallway.

Wendy stroked the chimera's lion head. Hagrid was washing the powerful animal. Wendy turned her attention to the goat head which was nuzzling her hand in an effort to get petted. She heard someone behind her and turned to find Ron. Unfortunately when Wendy was distracted she lost her hold on the chimera and it went wild. Ron and Wendy jumped out of the way as the chimera's dragon headed tailed sailed towards them.

Ron turned to Wendy. "Can't you stop it?" he said as he ducked the tail again.

"I have to be able to look in it's eyes!" Wendy screamed as she rolled out of the way of the chimera's claws.

Suddenly a cloud of dust surrounded the chimera and the great beast fell to the ground with a thud. Hagrid wiped the remaining dust off his hands. "Yer shouldn' sneak up on a beastmaster when they's workin' Ron. It's righ' dangerous. Yer lucky I had some sleeping powder left from handling the dragons fer the wizardin' tournament."

Ron sighed in relief. "Harry wants to see you," he said as he turned to Wendy

Wendy tore her eyes away from the sleeping form of the Chimera. "You all set with the chimera Hagrid?"

"Yeah. I'll jes put 'im back in 'is pen."

"K. I'll see ya later then," Wendy said as she headed back up to the castle.

.........TO BE CONTINUED

I hope you like it. Just to let you know the Harry Hermione relationship will heat up later. I just wanted to go a little slower on their romantic realizations than in other fics I've read. Most other writers make them seem to have either loved each other all along or they go from friends one second to saying they love each other in next second. But even though I'm going slow you don't have to worry cause this is a loooooong fic.