9 3/4
Scene: Later, eating supper. The three, Hagrid, Calla, and Harry, are at a long table, eating soup.
Hagrid: You all right, Harry, Calla? You seem very quiet.
Harry: He killed my parents, didn't he? The one who gave me this. You know, Hagrid, I know you do.
Hagrid: {Sighs and pushes bowl away} First, and understand this, Harry, 'cause it's very important. Not all wizards are good. Some of them go bad. A few years ago there was one wizard who went as bad as you can go. And his name was V-...his name was V-...
“Your not gonna get him to say his name,” Remus snorted
Harry: Maybe if you wrote it down?
Hagrid: No, I can't spell it. All right. His name was Voldemort.
“Huh,” Remus blinked, surprised as did many others.
Harry and Calla: Voldemort?
Most people gasped, but Ron groaned and shoved his head in his hands.
Hagrid: Shh!!
{Harry looks around Calla raises an eyebrow}
“You look like your challenging Voldemort's very existence,” Harry snorted
“I was,” Calla raised both eyebrows and once again challengingly.
“Please don’t challenge Voldemort to his face,” Hermione buried her head into her hands
“Tth like I’m afraid of old Moldy Shorts,” Calla said haughty, channeling her inner Damian. Both her parents choked on air and Remus pinched his nose tiredly. Sirius began to cackle like a maniac. This caused Regulus to inch away from him slowly.
A flashback ensues, consisting off a cloaked man walking towards a house, breaking in with his wand, and proceeding to terrorize. Hagrid narrates.
Hagrid: It was dark times, Harry, dark times. Voldemort started to gather some followers, brought 'em over to the dark side. Anyone that stood up to him ended up dead. Your parents fought against him, but nobody lived once he decided to kill 'em. {Harry and Calla’s mother, LILY, screams as she is killed by Voldemort's wand} Nobody...not one. Except you. {close-up of baby Harry.}
James pulled Lily into a tight hug as she sobbed. Both Sirius and Remus went to comfort there two best friends.
Harry: Me? Voldemort tried to kill...me?
Hagrid: Yes. That ain't no ordinary cut on your forehead, Harry. A mark like that only comes from being touched by a curse...and an evil curse at that.
Harry: What happened to Vo-...to You-Know-Who?
Calla: don’t say You-Know-Who you sound like an imbecile
“Thank you Calla,” Harry sighed
“Calla, you can’t say that to your brother.”. Lily snapped still emotional from her crying
“Excuse me,” Calla arched her eyebrow perfectly
“Be polite Calla,” James said soothingly. Everyone who knows Calla sucked in their breaths and started frantically gesturing for her parents to quit while their ahead.
“Respect your parents,” Lily snapped, not liking Calla’s attitude.
“Really?” Calla’s face darkened, “where are they? Not here. You didn’t raise me. Or Harry for that matter. I have a mother and a Father. I have several siblings whose names are Dick, Barbra, Cassandra, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Damian and I have one cousin named Mara. My grandfather's names are Ra's Al Ghul and Alfred Pennyworth. I have had a whole life that you weren’t there for. It is not fair to either of you but it's true. You're not my parents,” her face was hot with tears and her face was flush. No one had ever seen Calla so upset. Both Lily and James looked like they had been slapped. The thing that really surprised them was that no one seemed shocked.
“Ahm,” Umbridge said, “Ms. Potter…”
“Please call me الابنة إذا كان الخفافيش,” (daughter of the bat in Arabic), “that is my title,”
“Did you say Al Ghul,” Moody narrowed his eyes at Calla
“You know of them,”
“Only rumors,” Moody shifted a little nervously. This of course made everyone else nervous due to the fact that Moody is never nervous.
“Don’t worry I play by my Fathers rules not my Mothers,” Calla smirked as her housemates pulled her to their table. And fussed over how upset she was and if she was ok. Lily and James wondered where it all went wrong.
Hagrid: Some say he died. Codswallop in my opinion. Nope, I reckon he's out there, still, too tired to go on. But one thing's absolutely certain. Something about you stumped him that night. That's why you're famous, Harry. That's why everbody knows your name. You're the boy who lived.
Scene: London Train Station. Up on a crossing bridge, Harry and Calla (with carts, owl, and bat) walk beside Hagrid. A couple look at Hagrid.
Hagrid: What're you looking at? {Looks at watch} Blimey, is that the time?? Sorry, Harry, Calla, I'm gonna have to leave you. Dumbledore'll be wanting his...well, he'll be wanting to see me. Now, uh, your train leaves in 10 minutes. Here's your tickets. Stick to it, that's very important. Stick to your tickets.
Harry looks at his golden ticket. Calla nods at Hagrid.
Harry: Platform 9 ¾? But Hagrid, there must be a mistake. This says Platform 9 ¾. There's no such thing...is there? {Harry looks up and Hagrid has vanished.}
Calla: I’m assuming it does because are ticket say 9 ¾
Hermione snorted
Scene: Harry and Calla are walking down the lane between trains. A man rushes by.
Man: Sorry.
Harry sees a train master.
Calla: No Harry don’t
“Yet he never listens,” Calla grumbles to her friends
Harry continues regardless
Harry: Excuse me, excuse me.
Trainmaster: {talking to woman and child} Right on your left, ma'am.
Harry: Excuse me, Sir. Can you tell me where I might find Platform 9 ¾?
Trainmaster: 9 ¾? Think you're being funny, do ya? {Leaves}
Calla: Told you
Harry ignores Calla. A woman, daughter, and four boys walk by, pushing carts.
Mrs. Weasley: It's the same year after year. Always packed with Muggles, of course.
Harry: Muggles?
Mrs. Weasley: Come on. Platform 9 ¾ this way! All right, Percy, you first.
A tall boy with red hair comes forward and runs towards a brick wall. Amazingly, he disappears right into it. Harry is amazed. Calla’s eyes widen but her face remains neutral.
“Does anything impress you,” Briar shouted to her friend from a separate table. In return Calls only smirked.
Mrs. Weasley: Fred, you next.
George: He's not Fred, I am!
Fred: Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother!
Mrs. Weasley: Oh, I'm sorry, George.
Fred: I'm only joking. I am Fred. {He runs through the wall, and is followed by his twin brother.}
Harry shakes his head in disbelief. Calla’s eyes return to normal.
Harry: Excuse me! C-could you tell us how to
Mrs. Weasley: How to get on the platform? Yes, not to worry, dear. It's Ron's first time to Hogwarts as well. {pan to a red haired boy who smiles} Now, all you've got to do is walk straight at the wall between platforms 9 and 10. Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous.
Ginny (daughter): Good luck.
Calla: Thanks
“That was really sweet of you Ginny,” Luna told Ginny
Harry takes a breath and runs at the wall. He shuts his eyes and emerges on the other side a magnificent station with a red train and bundles of people. A whistle blows, and Harry sighs with relief. Calla appears behind him.