Reunited (Marionette and Lamenting_Quill) IC

[Lamenting_Quill]

The air was cold tonight and stars sparkled in a crystal clear sky. Breath fogged up in ghastly swirls of white.
None of this however could quell the joy in the heart of Zelda Potter. Tonight she would be reunited with her twin brother, the only blood relative she had left in this world.
Glancing at the strict but kind professor of Hogwarts standing beside her, Zelda could not help but feel a little bit angry. It was not fair that she and her brother were kept apart for so very long, they never even knew about each other up until a few weeks ago.

"What time is it, professor?" Zelda asked, fidgeting a little as her emerald green eyes searched the pitch black driveway of Grimmauld Place. The only place even moderately safe for the twins to reunite.
"Relax, Miss Potter" McGonagall replied softly, "Your brother will be here very soon, I am certain is as eager to reunite with you as you are with him... I'm sorry, by the way... the lives you two have lived... are too much to ask of teenagers"
"You mean splitting us up and keeping us secret from each other" Zelda muttered, though she did not hate McGonagall and Dumbledore. They did what they believed would keep them the safest.

McGonagall nodded and then a smile spread across her face, it seemed unusual for such a usually stern woman "You will be good for him, the two of you are so much alike. Only you seem to take more after your mother, Lily, you certainly do look like her"
Emotion filled Zelda's eyes as she looked intently at Professor McGonagall "Do I truly look like her? My mother?"
The female professor nodded warmly "Yes, you have her heart and her spirit too. Don't ever let the beauty of your heart die out"

Zelda smiled and nodded before turning her emerald gaze back to the stars, she was told her twin would be arriving on broom to join her with a few companions in tow. She was excited to spend her sixth year of school at Hogwarts with her brother and his friends she had been hearing so much about. Ron and Hermione she believed their names were.
Tomorrow they would depart for platform nine and three quarters, that was when her life would truly start. She would be safe and happy at her twin brother's side and have many friends. What more could any one want out of life?

Zelda thought of Ron and Hermione and smiled, they had been very kind to her when she had briefly met them inside the house, but it seemed they knew she needed time alone to relax before meeting her brother for the first time.
She would most definitely visit with them more when Harry arrived, then he could introduce her to them properly.

[Marionette]

“Harry! We don’t all have firebolts! Slow DOWN!” Mad-eye moody shouted at Harry, Harry sighed, frustrated and anxious. He was breaking the precious form that Mad-eye had set up, with him in the middle, but could anyone really blame him? He was going to meet family that was alive, actually flesh and blood that was linked to his. His heart throbbed at the thought of not being alone anymore. His head raced, thoughts switching to what he would do if any death-eater-scum dared look twice at his sister, and how much fun and comfort he would welcome. To say the least these past three years hadn’t been easy,(or his entire life if he really wanted to think about it) finally he was catching a break.

They were close now, Mad-eye was giving the signal to land, Harry’s self restraint caved in as he defiantly bolted out of formation. Landing before even those in front of him, he skidded to a stop and stumbled forward, waiting impatiently for the others. Needless to say Mad-eye was furious again.

“Oh loosen up you old coot! He’s excited to see his only living blood relative, I wouldn’t have kept formation for so long if it was me, be glad he didn’t just bolt the minute we got on our brooms…” Harry was grateful for Tonks’s understanding; it reduced Mad-eye’s words to mumbling.

“Well Miss Persephone is meeting a long lost relative tonight too isn’t she?” Remus gave a forced smile to Persephone, Sirius’s daughter. “I am meeting the Order, and giving my first report. That is all Mr. Lupin.” Lupin sighed inwardly at her cold reply. Oh lord this was going to be a tense night. He had tried to make small talk to see what she was like, to loosen her up to the idea of her father, needless to say it had been quite unsuccessful.

Harry’s heart started to race as he sighed and tossed his head to the side impatiently, he would have felt bad for Sirius if it hadn’t been for his anxiety to meet his sister. He made up his mind to perhaps talk with his godfather about it later. Grimmauld place revealed itself at an extremely slow pace, or at least in Harry’s mind it did. When it finally did come into view, Mad-eye stepped aside and motioned for Harry to do the honors of knocking on the door. As anxious as he was, when he finally stepped up to the door, he hesitated. Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to knock; he had faced Voldemort before this, why should this make him fearful? Oh but it was.

The door swung open, Ms. McGonagall, and behind her, a small girl that could only be explained as his relative. His greeting to Ms. McGonagall fell to the floor as he stared at his sister. At first he thought it was his mother, but she was too young, and her hair was black. She was so tiny, his heart welled up with brotherly emotion.

“Well don’t just stand there! Get inside.” Harry felt himself pushed forward by a smiling Tonks and a rueful Mad-eye.

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Persephone Made her way in carefully, her heels clicking softly on the wood floor as she glanced sideways at the reunited siblings. From what she knew, neither child had an easy going life. They were fortunate to finally find one another. She would have smiled if she had the emotion left. She was shut down at the moment, emotionally exhausted, she always was after work at the Cirque Du Burlesque. Fake smiles fallowed by alurring glances, not to mention she had to do it all over again with the Death-eaters. The mark on her wrist assured that.

Her dark hair was down and perfectly silky, rouge lips, painted eyelashes, flawless skin, she was a doll. Her black coat hid her indecent clothing, the only evidence were her heels and lacey leggings.

Behind her fallowed the others, they felt it best to leave the potter siblings to themselves. Even Ms. McGonagall fallowed. Persephone boldly entered the meeting room and took a seat next to a man she did not know, but everyone else knew as Mr. Weasely. She trained her eyes on the map sprawled on the table.

[Lamenting_Quill]

Her breath hitched in her throat, Zelda recognized her twin brother almost immediately. The messy black hair and the round glasses... the scar...
Emotion filled her heart to the brim, she was no longer alone. Medli had loved her and taken care of her, but it just was not the same as having blood related family at your side.

She took a tentative step forward and delicately reached out a hand towards Harry's face to gently run two fingers across his cheek, as if to make sure he was real and no some beautiful illusion to torment her.
When her fingers touched warm flesh, a joyous cry escaped her lips before she tossed herself into her brother's arms "Oh Harry, I have dreamed of this all of my life! To not be alone anymore! I've found you! I've finally found you!"

Professor McGonagall took a few steps back to allow the newly reunited twins to have their moment, it was sixteen years overdue. The stern professor's eyes bubbled with mist as she gazed upon the emotional pair, their joy was infectious.
To think that two whom needed each other so desperately was kept apart for sixteen years, they should have been brought back together long ago. If only the circumstances had been better.

"Let's go, they need some time alone to talk" McGonagall murmured to Ron and Hermione, ushering them towards the meeting room "You may both sit quietly and rejoin Harry and Zelda once they are finished"

Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger entered the meeting room, a recently cleaned parlor and whispered in amazement about how Harry was now embracing his long lost twin sister, they almost felt as if they did not know what to do; it was almost like making one statement aloud would shatter the moment.
"Can you believe it?" Hermione murmured to her boyfriend "They are together at last"
Ron nodded eagerly "They should have reunited these two a bloody long time ago, Merlin knows they needed each other throughout everything that has happened"

McGonagall shushed the pair and put her eyes back onto the map that the rest of the order was now gazing upon with avid interest.

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