Unexpected Changes

Chapter Three


“I made a costume for tomorrow night. Do-” she was cut off when she noticed Severus Head in the fireplace. “Hey Severus. Is something wrong?”

“No, nothing is wrong Harry. I was just wondering if you would mind coming thru there is something I want to talk to you about that me and Remus I have been talking about for the last couple of days.”

“Sure. Do you mind if Mione comes through as well?” Kalista asked him as she begun to stand from her seat.

“Sure you can bring Granger. I trust that you have already taken all preliminaries.”

“I trust her Severus. She won't betray us.”

“Glad to hear. I going to need you to come on through now though what I have to discuss with you need to be taken with serious thought in put into action tonight if you wish to go through with it.”

“Well pull your head out and we will be through in a minute.”

“What do you think he wants to talk to you about that is so important?” Hermione asked Kalista

“I have no clue. But whatever it is we better not keep him waiting or he will just be unbearable.” Kalista told her as she grabbed enough Floo- Powder for the both of them. Two minutes later both girls found themselves standing in Severus' Chambers with a tired Remus sitting beside him as they watched the kids playing.

“Kali!” Little two year old Benji yelled from across the room as he picked himself off the floor to run to Kalista.

“Hey there little love.” Kalista said as she picked the little boy up and hugged him. “How have you been?” Kalista asked him as she gave a nod of greetings to Severus and Remus before turning back to Benjamin.

“Good. Daddy took us to the zoo earlier today. It was a muggle zoo Kali! I had so much fun got to see a tiger too! I wanted to pet em but daddy said that would be too dangerous.” Benjamin said with a slight frown, but then his face lit up again. “I got to pet a snake Kali! It looked like the one you have at home too!”

“Did he now. To bad I wasn’t there to talk to him for you.”

“I know, that's the same thing I told daddy. I wanted to know his name like the time you told me Aries'.”

“Maybe next time Benji. Have you been watching Aries for me?”

“Yes! He's getting big Kali! Daddy don’t let me play with him anymore because you aren’t around and he is scared that he might hurt me by accident.” Benjamin said with a pout.

“Well when I get home I’ll make sure you get a chance to play with him again. And since he is getting so big now it might be best for me to bring him here with me now. That way your daddy doesn’t have to worry about him getting lose since I am not around.”

“But Kali I won't see him anymore! I'm going to miss him.” Benjamin said pouting and tears welling up in his eyes.

“You will get to visit him Benji. I just don’t want him there with all of you and I’m not there to talk to him. You know he is a bit temperamental.”

“Okay Kali. But as long as I get to see him on the weekends.”

“If your Fathers say that it is okay. Than I won't mind your company.”

“Okay. Put me down so I can go ask them.” Benjamin said as he begun to wriggle in Kalista's arms so he could be let down.

“Alright little love.” Kalista said chuckling than kissing him on the head before letting him down. As soon as his feet hit the ground he ran straight for Severus.

“How are you doing Kalista?” Remus asked him as he waddled over to give Kalista a hug, well as best as he could with this six month belly getting in the way.

“I am good. What did you and Sev have to talk to me about?” Kalista asked Remus when he turned to give Hermione a hug.

“Well before we get to that let Severus ward the room up while I help Dingy with the kids.”

Once the kids were in the room with Dingy, Severus house elf and the wards had been put in place they all set down by the fireplace.

“So what is this all about Severus?” Kalista said as she took the tea that Remus had given her.

“Remus and myself thought that with all of the other schools coming here to stay the term that it would be a good idea to let you be yourself for the remainder of the year.”

“How exactly would that work. It would be too tiring to keep up with two lives.”

“No that's not how we wanted it to go. We wanted you to go to Dumbledore and tell them that you are going to be continuing your education in private. And tomorrow morning when some of the late arrivals arrive you will be among them. You can use your identity as Kalista that we have already set up for you in the States. You don’t even have to pretend to be a student from Founders. Tomorrow some of the Home schooled students are arriving so you can be among them.”

“Then I’ll still be right here under Dumbledore's nose and he wont even know it. I like it. But Hermione also wanted to go with me to the States. We were going to pose as sisters, can that still be done if we go through with this.”

“If you have an idea of what you want your new identity to be then I can get the paperwork done tonight and tomorrow you can arrive with Kalista under your new identity. But I hope you know that this will be a permanent change. Severus has come up with the potion that will change your identity completely. Well technically it was Harry that came up with it but Severus modified it.” Remus said as he turned his attention to Hermione.

“It wont turn me into a guy will it?” Hermione asked warily.

“This modified one will not. You just need to have an idea of how you want to look. When you take the potion this new person has to be clearly in you head. And during the night while you sleep the changes will take place and in the morning it will be a new you.”

“Will I be able to keep some part of my identity?”

“You will. If you want to keep your eye and hair color than you can. Whatever you want to keep you can. If you don’t trust yourself to have the picture clearly in your head, than you can give Kalista a description of what you want and she'll sketch it for you. She has proven to be an amazing artist. You should see some of the clothes she has designed and some of her other sketches at the house.”

“Remus they aren't that good.” Kalista said blushing at Remus' praise.

“Nonsense Kali. Your art work is wonderful.” Remus said as he gave her hand a squeeze. Then turned back to Hermione. “If Kalista, sketches the picture for you and it is to your liking Severus can add it to the potion. It works either way from thought or from photo.”

“I think I want it sketched.”

“So what do you want your name to be so I can go and contact my friend at the Ministry and have the paperwork done?” Severus asked Hermione.

“Krista Lillian Pavens. Do we change our birthdays to?”

“Well it will be for the best. Kalista had hers changed to the day of her accident. December 5th. We can have your changed to October 29th if that is okay with you.”

“Can we do that posing as sisters? Or do we need to change the year?”

“No. If you plan on keeping some of your identity than we can say the both of you have different mothers. But the same fathers. My friend at the Ministry will have all your paper work set up. And if anyone would try to even look into your backgrounds they won't find much because your families are private people and your parents died in a fire when you were twelve.”

“Wow you all really thought this through.”

“You have no idea. And adding you into the picture doesn’t even disturb the foundation we have built.” Kalista told her as she turned her attention to the fire. “I guess if we are going to do this than we need to go ahead and pack and get to Dumbledore's. Than we can set out for Spinner's End. Since we don’t want the order to see us at Grimmauld.” Kalista said turning to face them again.

“Don't worry about packing your things Kalista I have already sent a house elf to your rooms. And it will soon be going to your rooms to Ms. Granger.” Severus told them. “But come along we have a Headmaster to go and see.”

“Wait let me put my Glamours in place. It will not do to have gone through all this planning for it to be blown all to hell now.” Kalista said as she took out her wand and begun to wave it over her body. It was a good five minutes before she got them in place. Once again she looked and sounded like Harry Potter. How she couldn’t wait for that life will be behind her and for her new one to start. “Alright I am ready now.”

As they left Severus chambers and started for Dumbledore's Office Kalista couldn’t help but feel a bit anxious. This was the last time she was going to have to walk these halls and corridors as Harry Potter. Soon she will be able to just be herself. She wasn’t even really given those chance even last summer when she stayed with Severus and Remus because Draco would stay with them some days when he wanted to get away from his parents and 'meddling cousins' as he had called them. She was surprised to learned that he had cousins for as long as she remembered she always thought that his Father was the only child. But to learn otherwise was a pleasant surprise. Supposedly the head of the Malfoy family had sent his younger siblings and their children away so they wouldn’t get involved in the war. And on many occasions he even sent Draco among them so he would not be seen by Voldemort. The way he figured out of sight out of mind, and it must have worked because during the whole war Draco had stayed Dark Mark free.

“Ice Mice.” Severus said to the gargoyle outside of the Headmasters quarters when they arrived. The gargoyle moved aside so they could step onto the moving staircase they led up to Dumbledore's office. On the way there Kalista heard Severus tell them to clear their minds and keep their walls up so Dumbledore couldn’t get into their minds. For a moment Kalista was worried that Hermione wouldn’t know how to do it. But then she remembered that Hermione had been keeping her walls up against Dumbledore for years now since she lost trust in him.

“Come in.” Dumbledore called from the other side of the door after Severus had knocked on the door.
“Severus, Mr. Potter, and Ms. Granger; what a pleasant surprise. What can I do for all of you this lovely afternoon?” Dumbledore asked cheerfully with that damnable twinkle in his eye that just made Kalista want to puke.

“My two charges have come to pull themselves out of Hogwarts, I have tried to dissuade them but they are determined to continue their education privately.” Severus drawled.

“Is that so. May I ask why? This is your final year here at Hogwarts surely you Ms. Granger wouldn’t want to give up your chances to further your education.”

“I'm not Professor. I just decided that with all that has happened in the last couple of months with the death of my family I need a quiet environment so I won't feel so overwhelmed while continuing my education. I still plan on taking my N.E.W.T.s but I will do it on my own time.”

“And you Harry?” Dumbledore said as he turned his attention to Kalista.

“I just want to spend time with the only family I have left. Remus and the kids are all I have left and I am sure that with the baby coming he could use my help. And Hermione is the only real friend I have left here, if she is leaving then so am I. I would be dreadful miserable without her.”

“And what of Mr. Weasley is he not one of your friends as well?”

“Ron and I haven't been all that close since before the fall of Voldemort at the end of last year. For the past several months he has been nothing but nasty to me. With all that I have on my plate I really do not need his bullshit on top of it. Besides I need a break, I have been weighed down for the past seven years.”

“Is that so? I can talk to him and see if that may help?” Dumbledore offered.

“It doesn’t matter sir. If he wanted to continue our friendship than he could have always come to me himself. And either way it does not matter. I do not wish to continue my education here in Hogwarts.”

“How would you two be continuing your education?”

“We will be teaching ourselves for the most part. With all the books that have been provided for us and living with a Professor will be more than enough for us to learn our magic and still pass our N.E.W.T.s.”

“Do you wish to wait till after the Hallow Eve Ball?”

“No sir we pull out today. We have our own plans for Halloween.” Hermione answered for them.

“Well since you both are of age I can not stop you. Will you be staying at Grimmauld Place?”

“No, we will be staying at Spinner's End. The security there is better and will allow us to keep out unwanted visitors.” Kalista told Dumbledore looking him straight in the eye to let him know that he was one her unwanted visitors.

“Very well. I hope we will be able to meet again soon. You two were always amongst my favorite pupils.” Dumbledore said with a smile but Kalista could see that the man was seething inside and it made her want to smile but she held his composure.

“Maybe, but I will make no promises.” Kalista said as she grabbed Hermione by the elbow and left the office with Severus not to far behind them.