Outstanding powers

Isabella's story:

"My parents are Danielle Craft and Sirius Black. Yes Harry, your godfather." Isabella added at everyone's astonished gasps.

"But...he...I never knew..."stuttered Harry. "That makes me your...brother, sort of, since my parents are dead and my godfather is supposed to take care of me." He added with a grin. He was starting to say something when a deadly glare coming from his friends shut him up.

"Okay, Harry, you and I will talk later. Before he went to kill the Potters, Voldemort stopped by our house. I was a couple of months old. Sirius was out. Voldemort killed my mom, Danielle after a long fight, and then he cast the Avada Kedavra spell on me. Then he went to the Potters' house. When Sirius got home, he saw mom dead. I was crying. He directly knew that Voldemort-Oh would you get used to the name Ron! -was going to try and kill Harry. He went to Godric's Hollow, with me in his arms. On the way there, he dropped me at his friends' place. They were a newly wed couple, and they were Squibs. He told them what happened and they promised to take care of me until he came back. When Sirius got arrested, they kept their promise and kept me with them, knowing that Sirius was innocent and that he would come back one day. I grew as a muggle, unaware of the magical world. And my best friend in the world was Jason McGregor. When I was nine and Jason started to go to Hogwarts, I was made to believe that he was going to a regular boarding school. But when I turned eleven, I found out that I was an irregular-and very rare-type of witch. I was sent to another magical school called Herford to learn how to control my powers. I used to take all Hogwarts classes. When I came back from school last summer, Dumbledore sent me a letter asking me to join Hogwarts since I had already completed my first cycle of magical arts, to continue my education in Magic."

"Isabella, you said something about controlling your powers, I didn't get that." said Ginny.

Isabella smiled and asked if there were any other questions. Harry, Ron and Hermione raised their hands.

"Where is Herford? I never heard of it," said Hermione. "What do they teach there?"

"How come you call your dad Sirius, not dad?"

"None of your business Ron," said Harry. "Why do you think Sirius never told us about you?"

Isabella sighed and closed her eyes for a moment. She opened them suddenly and gave everyone a large grin.

"First of all, I'll answer Ron's question. I call my father Sirius because I've known him for four years only. My foster family had decided with Sirius-sorry, dad-that I would be known as Isabella Croft, because in the magical world, Black was the name of a criminal and they didn't want to have people laughing at me because of my name." Isabella's eyes flickered in anger at the thought of her father being called a criminal. "But now that Si...dad has escaped, I asked Albus Dumbledore to be called by my dad's last name. Harry, I think dad never told you about me because he missed me so much. He couldn't take the risk to see me at Herford; he would have put both of our lives in danger. So he didn't talk about me to forget about me as much as he could. He thought he would never be able to see me until I was twenty-one. That's the age of graduation at Herford. But I finished my cycle very early and maybe I'll go back there someday to see my old teachers. I didn't have many friends there...Oh and Harry, your dad was my godfather."

Harry looked mildly surprised; after all, their fathers were best friends. He gave her a small nod and a huge smile.

"Hermione, the people who have been to Herford are very rare. Therefore the people who have heard of it are rare too. Herford is in another dimension and another time. Renaissance Italy I think."

Hermione looked puzzled. Harry, Ron and Ginny knew that she would do as much research as she could as soon as she got to school.

"Now, before I answer Ginny's question, you have to promise me not to tell anyone about this. Nobody can know except you guys okay?"

When everybody nodded in approval, Isabella continued her explanation.

"I have a big variety of very rare and unusual powers. My mother's great great great great great great grandmother, or something like that was burned at the stake in the middle ages by the people of the village where she lived. She cursed them and told them that every woman who will be born in her family after her will have outstanding powers. Mine are: Time freezing, telekinetic abilities, molecular acceleration-otherwise known as blowing up stuff- molecular transportation-otherwise known as orbing- astral projection, and other stuff that I can't learn how to control, not at Herford."

"Can you show us?!"

Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione had asked this question all at once. Isabella looked at Jason who nodded encouragingly at her. She looked back at the others, smiled and stood up.

"First I've got to ask Professor Dumbledore." She bent her head and closed her eyes. Her breathing stopped and she stood still. Everyone, including Jason, looked at her in puzzlement. Ginny touched Isabella's hand. It was cold. Ginny withdrew her hand quickly and looked at her brother with concern. Suddenly Isabella's eyes opened and her breathing resumed. She raised her head and smiled at them. "Professor Dumbledore said I was allowed to show you a sample of my powers." She held out her hand and whispered "Malfoy's wand". Blue dots of light appeared in her hand and a wand materialized, resting in her palm. She giggled at the looks on everyone's faces. She then dropped the wand on the floor. She flicked her finger and the wand flew in the air. She then froze it in midair. When Jason touched it, it didn't move a bit. He tried to move it but nothing happened. Isabella explained what she had done-orbed the wand into her hand, used her telekinetic ability to make it fly in the air and then had frozen it-and laughed at everyone's astonishment. Just then, the compartment door flew open and Malfoy stood there, eyes glaring. Jason stood up and reached for his wand in his pocket.

"Chill, McGregor. I'm here to ask you if you've seen my wand. It appears to be missing." Malfoy looked at Isabella intensively. His gray eyes seemed to search her soul for something. "I wouldn't walk into a compartment full of losers if it weren't important." he said. He hadn't seen his wand, floating right above his head. He then stared at Harry with a deadly glare. Isabella smelled trouble and quickly unfroze the wand with a wrinkle of her nose. It fell on his head and then on the floor. Malfoy jumped and took his gaze off Harry to look at his wand.

"Oh, look. It's raining wands." Ron said with a smirk. Malfoy threw them a suspicious look and turned around to walk out of the compartment. Isabella narrowed her eyes and gazed at the back of Malfoy's head with a look of pure disgust painted on her face. She didn't like that guy at all. She was about to sit down when the door opened again. Isabella's muscles tensed, ready for another encounter with Malfoy. But instead of the sneer she was expecting, she saw a smile. A plump lady with a chariot full of every kind of sweets asked them if they wanted anything to eat. Harry and Isabella bought everyone a little bit of everything. They all ate happily and chatted about the differences between the muggle world and the magical world. The door opened when they were talking about electrical inconvenience-eklectical inconvenience for Ron-when the door opened again. Three smiling boys were standing there. One spoke with an Irish accent, the second looked absent-minded and the third had green hair. Harry, Ron, Hermione stood up to greet their friends. Harry introduced Jason to the boys and was about to introduce Isabella when the Irish boy stopped him:

"Why our friends have a new companion. Hello miss, my name is Seamus Finnigan, and I'm in Harry and Ron's year."

"I'm Dean Thomas. Sorry about the weird hair but my potion experiment blew up in my face."

"My name is Neville Longbottom."

"Hi, my name is Isabella Black. I've heard about you Neville. My parents were in the same year as your parents when they were at school. I'm really sorry and I hope they'll get better someday." She smiled sweetly at Neville who smiled back at her.

"What is a beautiful girl like you doing at Hogwarts? Have you been transferred from another school?" Seamus asked. Isabella blushed deeply at the compliment. She never thought of herself as beautiful or pretty, but she was. She had shoulder-length brown hair and bangs that fell in her deep black eyes, which always shone with an inner fire. She had rather tan skin and blood red lips. And she wasn't too thin, nor fat, but just plain beautiful.

"I have been transferred from Herford. Don't bother asking, it's a long story that the Headmaster doesn't want me to tell." Isabella said. Seamus smiled at her and she smiled back.

"Stop the romance Romeo!" Dean said with a snicker, "Isabella, are you related to Sirius Black?"

Isabella's smile faded slightly but when she saw that Dean looked only politely curious, she answered:

"Yes, actually I am. He's my father."

Dean nodded his head. Seamus looked surprised and Neville looked...well he looked out the window, unaware of the conversation. Neville exited the compartment, saying he had to find a friend. He blushed furiously when Harry and Ron teased him about it. Neville had been dating Hannah Abbot since last year. Dean took Ginny's hand and told everyone he wanted to have a private conversation with her. Ron looked a little annoyed but he let them go with a smile after Hermione whispered something in his ear. They spent the rest of the journey happily. When Hogsmeade Village came into view, the boys left for another compartment to let the girls change into their Hogwarts robes. Isabella's was plain, with no crest on it. When the train stopped, they all went down, everyone carrying their own pet. Hermione was carrying a cage in which Crookshanks purred sleepily. Harry had an empty cage because Hedwig was off carrying a letter for Sirius. Pig was going mad in his cage and Ginny was begging Ron not to kill him. Isabella however was carrying a hawk in her cage. Its feathers were auburn and his yellow eyes glowed in the darkness. Jason had a little kitten he was carrying in a small cage. He kissed Isabella on her forehead and went to meet his friends. Isabella was about to climb into a carriage when she stopped. Harry poked his head out of the door to see what was keeping her and he found her near the Thestral that was attached to their carriage. She was smiling at it and petting its back gently. He grabbed her hand and pulled her in the carriage where Ginny, Hermione, and Ron were already sitting. After a few minutes, Hogwarts castle appeared.