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Ella and the forgotten promise	By : DarkRoze Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 2871 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Ella spent the next month going over her books, practicing small things with her mom and flying around their little island. On July 31st Ella woke up to someone shaking her, she opened her eyes to see her mother looming over her. For one terrifying moment, Ella thought she was in trouble.
“Come on sleepy dragon, time to get up.” Bellatrix said pulling the blankets back. “You need to pack up your stuff so we can get you to the train.”
“Yes mum.” Ella said getting up quickly.
“Leave your broom here on your bed.” Bellatrix said using a tone Ella knew that meant she was to obey, then headed down stairs. Ella packed quickly and put Taharqa back in his cage before putting him in the bag. Ella looked around her room and up at the new paper clippings of wizards and witches zooming around the Quidditch pitch before taking a deep breath and pulling the door closed. She hurried down stairs where Jilda was crying and blowing her nose on what looked like an old worn out polishing rag.
“Knock it off Jilda,” Ella said not needing the house elf to make her feel worse.
“If I wanted my sitting room flooded I’d have built it in the sea!” Bellatrix said and kicked the house elf out of the room. Jilda hurried around the corner before peaking back at them, she knew Ella would come back but having helped raise the girl made her even more attached to the young mistress.
“Alright have you gotten everything?” Bellatrix asked.
“I think so, books, scrolls, robes, owl, scales, wand...” Ella said.
“Getting out of your night dress?” Bellatrix said rolling her eyes.
“Oh!!” She said dropping her bag making Taharqa screech angrily as she ran back upstairs and got dressed in a clean black dress she’d made. When she got down stairs, Jilda had left a picnic basket for them and Bellatrix was outside summoning a boat. Ella smiled at Jilda then grabbed her bags and hurried out.
“We’ll be going to the shore by boat then have to walk to King’s Cross Station. We can’t risk apparating today. Do you have your ticket?” Bellatrix said annoyed.
“Yes mum,” Ella said, Bellatrix nodded and got in then held her hand out for Ella.
“Who are you?” Bellatrix said, Ella knew what her mother wanted to hear. Bellatrix had been having her recite this as long as she could remember.
“I am Elladora Narcissa Lestrange. I am the daughter of Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange of the House of Black. I can trace my pure blood lineage back over 400 years. I am a pure blood.” Ella recited.
“What are you going to do at Hogwarts?”
“I’m going to learn everything I can from the classes. I’m to find other likeminded students and test them. If they are worthy, they will join us. Nothing else maters but rebuilding the ranks for the dark lord, to serve him I must be the best.” Ella said evenly, holding her head high when she spoke of the dark lord.
“You were chosen by him before you were born to be the next generation. My daughter will not fail him.” Bellatrix said proudly. Ella nodded hoping that was true, she didn’t want to fail the dark lord because she knew that meant failing her mother. She had no one else.
“Then he will rise again,” Ella said smiling, making Bellatrix smile.
“That’s right baby, now what do we have in the basket?” She asked, Ella opened it up and pulled out some wrapped sausage. She held them up, and Bellatrix took one as the boat slid across the sea. The two women ate in and watched the sun come up as they went unnoticed though the mouth of the River Thames and up the river until they pulled up next to the Blackfriar Millennium Pier. Bellatrix got out carefully then helped her daughter up onto the dock before leading her up to Victoria Embankment.
“I’ve cloaked us so the muggels can’t see us; we need to be very careful.” Bellatrix said, Ella nodded this was the part she’d been scared of. They walked the whole way to King’s Cross-station, by the time they got there Ella’s feet felt raw and sore. She’d never walked this much or this far but she knew that complaining would upset Bellatrix and over the last couple of weeks things had been going so well. Ella wasn’t sure which was worse, her sore feet or the panic that any moment they were going to be attacked by the muggels. She would swear sometimes they looked right at her.
Bellatrix had raised her to believe that muggels where these barbaric beasts that where the largest danger the magical world had ever known. Their cruelty was unmatched by any other and if they ever got their hands on her they would rip her apart. She knew all about the burning times and how they tortured and killed innocent people in their effort to locate witches and wizards. A full grow witch could handle the situation without a problem but Ella was a child and weak, vulnerable, and helpless. The only place that was safe for her was with her mom, at home, or at school. However Bellatrix warned her about mud-bloods, they were the children of muggels that had powers, they were even more dangerous because they had no loyalty to the pure-bloods and sought only to rob witches and wizards of their magic. The Mystery of Magic was blinded by the mud-bloods and sought to treat them as equals. Elladora was taught that would only hasten the end of their kind, she had precious little time to find others like her that still believed in the dark lord and would serve him faithfully.
“Alright dear we’re almost there,” Bellatrix said bringing Ella out of her reprieve as they crossed the street. “It’s 9 o’clock the train should be here.” They entered King’s Cross Station which was packed full of muggels bustling about them.
“Platform 9 and… ah there it is, 9 and three quarters. Come on dear.” Bellatrix said and hurried them towards the divide between platforms 9 and 10. They were walking faster and faster and she was sure for one short moment that they were going to run into the wall but she closed her eyes just before they would have smashed into and never missed step until her mother was slowing her down.
“Ah there we are.” Bellatrix said proudly, as the long scarlet steam engine came to a stop with a hiss and let of the pressure on the steam brakes, giving the platform an ominous look as steps where set out at each cart.
“Mama I’m scared.” Ella suddenly said realizing she’d never been away from her mom or home for any length of time.
“Nonsense, you’re a Black, a Lestrange. We don’t know the meaning of fear.” She said harshly, but she could see that didn’t help her daughter and sighed. Bellatrix reached up and took off her necklace.
“Here, it’s a family heirloom. I was scared on my first day of school to; my mother gave this to me who got it from her mother on the first day of school. Someday I hope you’ll give it to your daughter, this will protect you while you’re away from me. It’s enchanted and as long as you ware it I’ll know if you’re in danger and I’ll be there before you can blink.” Bellatrix said putting the necklace on her, with a little smile. Then to her surprise, Ella gave her a long hug.
“There, there, you’ll be back before you know it. You have a cousin that will be attending as well; perhaps you can make friends with him. His name is Malfoy.” Bellatrix said walking her daughter over to the train as more people started to show up. “Send me letters every day, and if you need anything let me know and I’ll have it sent. I’m very proud of you.” Bellatrix said and kissed her daughter on the cheek. Elladora smiled and got on the second to the last car of the train. She found a compartment but when she looked out at the platform, again her mother was gone. This didn’t really surprise her as the train didn’t leave for another two hours, she reached down into her bag and pulled out ‘One thousand magical herbs and fungi’ and ‘Magical drafts and potions’. She would read each potion and commit it to memory, she use the herb book to know what each ingredient was for and why. Her mother had once told her every potion ingredient had its own perfect time to be used. She wanted to know what each of those times where so she could make the best potions in the world.
Once people started arriving on the platform Ella couldn’t focus on her books, she’d never been able too just look at so many different people. She did notice that the almost everyone had on the same type of cloths as the people her mother had called “mud-bloods”. The same type of cloths she had seen people wearing on the way here and she figured that since everyone seemed to be coming in the same way she and her mother had then they must be mostly witches or wizards in muggels cloths. She wondered why they didn’t just put a charm on themselves the way her mother had them. Then someone caught her attention, it was the boy that she’d seen in the Quidditch shop, she’d since learned that he was Scorpius Malfoy her Aunt Narcissi’s grandson and therefore her cousin. He was with his parents; she could clearly see where he got his hair. Then Draco looked at another man just a few feet away, she didn’t know who the dark hair man was but she recognized his wife, Ginny Potter. She couldn’t help but stare out the window in shock; her excitement was building as she got to see her idol in person for the first time. Then it clicked that the dark hair man who nodded back at Draco must have been Harry, the man responsible for the death of the dark lord. Harry turned to look at the train for a moment as the whistle blew. Ella quickly looked back at her books she hadn’t realized how much time had passed. She couldn’t risk Harry Potter discovering her, she couldn’t risk failing her mother like that before she even left the station. She wasn’t sure IF Harry would be able to tell anything about her but Ella preferred to air on the side of caution with that one.
“Mind if I sit here? Everywhere else is full.” A blonde-haired female said opening the door to the compartment door. Ella jump some and looked back at the girl, she wasn’t expecting anyone to need to sit with her let alone talk to her.
“Ok, sure.” She said nervously, she hoped that the girl wasn’t one of those mud-bloods she’d been warned about, but she seemed nice so Ella motioned her to the seat across from her.
“Hey thanks.” The girl replied sitting down, as the train gave its final whistle. Ella was thankful she wasn’t closer to where the sound originated as the first jump of the train came indicating they were taking off. Ella couldn’t help but flinch when the other girl jumped to her feet and went to the window and opened it to lean out and began waving to all the parents.
“Bye Daddy!!” She called and Ella felt a strange sadness, she couldn’t wave good-bye to her mother. She didn’t have a father either. Harry Potter had killed him, the anger at that thought kept her from crying.
“I won’t forget!” She yelled and Ella sighed trying hard to focus on her books.
“Don’t you want to say good bye to your family?” The girl asked her, Ella was a little surprised by this and felt a funny warmth in her face.
“My mum already left.” Ella said simply, hoping the girl would just sit down and stop behaving like a wild house elf.
“Well that sucks.” She frowned; Ella couldn’t help the relief that washed over her when she felt the train turn the corner, which took the station from view. Ella went back to reading the two class books and wishing she could wright without risking spilling the ink all over the page of notes. She wasn’t comfortable enough with the movements of the train yet.
“THAT’S IT!!” The other girl suddenly exclaimed bringing another reason to Ella’s mind why it was better to just read and take notes later. She had no idea what this girl was going to do from one moment to the next.
“What is?” Ella said not sure what the girl was talking about but she was mildly curious.
“I saw you in Diagon Alley at the book store!!” She shouted happily.
“Oh, that’s possible.” Ella admitted nervously, she knew it was dangerous for her mom to be seen as most people thought she was dead.
“Umm yea, you were wearing that long pretty black cloak. Oh that must have been your mother you were with.”
“Yes it was.” Ella said a little unsure why this mattered to the other girl.
“I’m Erica.” The blonde-haired female said holding out her hand.
“I’m Elladora.” She answered in what she hoped was a polite manner but she didn’t have much experience meeting knew people and wasn’t quite sure why Erica was holding out her hand. After a few seconds, Ella decided that Erica wanted her hand so she slowly reached out to take the blonde-haired woman’s hand.
“Nice to meet you.” Erica said sounding happy as she shook Ella’s hand. “Are you first year to?”
“Yes, I am. I’m actually a little nervous.” Ella said admitted softly looking away as she pulled her hand back. She knew that as a Lestrange and as a Black there should be nothing that made her nervous but this was her first time away from home and she couldn’t help it.
“Nice to know I’m not the only one.” Erica said with a smile. Ella looked back a little surprised.
“I haven’t been away from my dad this long before.” Erica said, the admission seemed to give her pause and that caught Ella’s attention that perhaps she could get to know Erica and they wouldn’t be quite such a hard trip.
“I’ve never been away from my mom this long either.” Ella said setting her books down. “We’ve been alone for as long as I can remember.” Ella admitted. Sure, there were times when Bellatrix would leave her alone but only for a day or two a couple times a year and NEVER without letting Ella know, she was leaving.
“Yeah I get that, it’s just been me and dad for all my life.” Erica said leaning back in the seat to get comfortable. “What about your dad?”
“He’s dead.” Ella said simply, she’d come to grips with it long ago. Erica didn’t push for more information and Ella wondered if she’d grown up hearing the stories of the battle her father and the dark lord had died in.
“What about your mum?” Ella said trying to get her mind off that dark subject.
“She… died, giving birth to me.” Erica said, and Ella could tell the girl was about to cry. She had seen Jilda do something similar to this.
“Oh I’m sorry! I didn’t know!” Ella said, thankful there weren’t any skillets around for the girl to beat her head into. She glanced around the compartment hoping the Erica didn’t try to do something else.
“It’s ok; you had no way of knowing.” Erica said shaking her head, and then tried to give Ella a half smile. Ella was searching for anything else to talk about that wouldn’t be so depressing. Somehow, between the two of them they ended up talking about the train, and how it was the first train ride for both of them. Slowly they swapped information back and forth and became a little bit more at ease with each other and the situation and going back and forth between silence and talking. They found they both did enjoy the train ride and were just gliding over a lake when the compartment door slid open.
“Anything off the trolley dears?” The woman asked with a smile.
“No I’m good thanks.” Erica said indicating a bag she’d brought with her. But Ella who hadn’t had anything since breakfast got up and bought several items that looked good. Including some chocolate frogs she’d had a couple times in her life but never enough to start a proper card collection. She wanted that to change now. She paid and thanked the woman who closed the door and pushed the cart further on. Ella dropped the stuff on her books as Erica moved back to her seat and pulled out a sandwich from a brown paper bag.

“What is that?” Ella asked having never seen brown and white stuff on the inside of bread. Therefore, when Erica took a bite the white goo just made her too curious.

“It’s a peanut butter and fluff sandwich, want one?” Erica asked offering another one to her.

“Peanut butter and what?” Ella asked, she’d been sure that she’d been missing out on things other warding families got to do and eat but she wanted to make sure it what she was eating before she tried anything.

“Fluff.” Erica said simply handing over the sandwich, Ella gave her a chocolate frog not wanting to upset Erica by not returning her kindness. The whole thing presented entirely new circumstances for Ella that was completely outside of anything she’d ever had prepared for her by Bellatrix.

“And what is this ‘fluff’?” Ella asked taking the sandwich out of the bag and proceeded to try and pull it open wondering what was inside, this made Erica laugh.

“It’s peanut butter and marshmallow,” Erica explained, Ella looked up at her a little worried that she’d done something wrong.

“Just try it, it’s really good.” Erica encouraged. Ella looked at it from every angle making sure it didn’t have any runes or strange things on it that might hurt her before she took a little breath and took a bite.

“Mmm you’re right this is pretty good.” Ella admitted smiling a little.

“Told you.” Erica beamed.
“You! Girl!” Scorpius said causing both girls looked up in surprise.
“You! Boy!” Erica countered. He gave a little huff and shook his head.
“Not you, her.” He said pointing to Ella. “Are you really a Lestrange?” He demanded.
“Yes.” Ella answered lifting her chin a little in defiance.
“I’m Malfoy, Scorpius Malfoy.” He said proudly. “We’re cousins.”
“Yes I’m aware of that, my mother told me. Your grandmother is her sister.” Ella said, she was curious about her family but wasn’t entirely sure if she could trust her cousin. He came in and sat down, and looked at Erica who seemed to be trying to make herself very small.
“Who are you?” He asked.
“E-Erica, Erica Gates, why?” She responded a bit unsure.
“Gates? I’m not familiar with that Wizarding family.”
“Oh?” Erica said she wasn’t sure what he expected her to say.
“I don’t mean to sound rude but why are you here?” Ella asked.
“I just wanted to meet my cousin. I didn’t even know I had one until I saw your bag at Diagon Alley, but dad called me before I could. So I asked Gran when I got home and she told me all about Aunt Bellatrix, but she said she had died. So how are you related to them or to me?” He said, Ella did her best to hide the fact she was shocked by how open he was with information. Then again, since he was, she supposed that Erica would have to be a pure blood or surely he would have been scared to since they came from the same stock.
“I am related, isn’t that enough?”
“I guess so, but I just thought we could be friends. I don’t know anyone else in the family that’s my age.”
“Well now you do, does it change anything?”
“It changes everything!” He said happily. “We can hang out together now!”
“Oh, I see. Well I’m terribly sorry but I was speaking with Miss Gates first.” Ella said noticing Erica was doing her best to try to seem invisible. “Erica, where did you learn peanut butter and fluff?”
“From my Aunt Janie when I lived in Boston.” Erica said.
“Where is Boston?” Ella asked, making Scorpius snicker, which made Ella blush.
“It’s city on the northeast coast of North America in Massachusetts.”
“Oh that’s why you sound funny.” Ella said then blushed a little.
“My dad was at a Law firm there, until he got a promotion. That’s why we moved here.”
“Law firm? Wait, are you-” Scorpius started to say something but he was suddenly cut off when someone opened the compartment door.
“Please get changed into your school robes, we’ll be arriving at the Hogwarts station soon.” The older boy said, and then walked off. Scorpius got up and ran out going back to his own compartment. The girls looked out the window surprised with how fast it had gotten dark before they changed quickly. They had just finished gathering up their stuff when they felt the train start to slow to a stop.
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