Chapter One
*Pitter pitter* Pat pat* I hear, not wanting to get up or even open my eyes, I just wait for one of my children to come bursting in my door saying that they've had a nightmare or something.
"Mommy?" It's Primrose whispering at the door. Maybe if I stay asleep she'll just go back to bed.
"MOMMY?" She whispers loudly in my ear this time. I take a moment to wipe the hot spit out of my left ear before I answer her.
"Yes Prim? What's wrong?" Maybe I can get Prim back into bed before Julie wakes up as well.
"Mommy? Prim? What's going on?" Julie walks in busting the door all the way open and flooding our room with the lights from the rest of the house. Looks like Prim turned on every light in the house on her way here.
"What is going on?" Dexter roles over and looks at us. "Girls, what are you doing up? Do you want me to take them back to bed Dessa?" He said as he started to get out of our bed.
"No, no I got it honey. Go back to sleep." He happily obliged. "Come on girls." I say taking their hands and walking them to their rooms closing the door on the way out.
"Wait, no, mommy I'm thirsty." Prim tugged at my arm trying to pull me in the direction of the kitchen.
"Me too mom." Now Julie is pulling my other arm.
"Alright." I say and walk them to the living room.
"You guys sit here and I'll get you something to drink. What do you want?" Prim taps her little finger to her chin, which of course prompts Julie to tap her little finger to her chin as well.
"Surprise us." Prim says and Julie nods in agreement. I chuckle a little to myself and go inside the kitchen. I heat up some water and add hot chocolate powder to it. Then I pour it into their favorite mugs. Before I walk out to give it to them I pour a little eggnog into each creating their favorite drink.
"Here you go girls." They take the mugs and start guzzling it down. I think I heard a thank you in between guzzles.
"So Prim?" She looks up at me still drinking. "What's up? Is there something wrong?" She shakes her head no still drinking. "Are you sure? Did you maybe wake me up because your older bothers and sister are going back to school in a couple days? She looks up at me with those eyes that confirm that I'm correct.
"What if he returns again? Daddy said it himself that Hogwarts would be the first place he would go with those followers of his what are they called?" Primrose turned toward Julie who answered, "Death Eaters."
"Yeah Death Eaters. Daddy said that they would either capture the students or they would kill them."
"Okay first of all, don't listen to your father he's an idiot." A dead idiot for telling our nine-year-old twin girls that. " Second of all Voldemort will never be coming back. I saw him die myself." My little girls stare up at me in wonder as I told them this.
"What did you see die?" Grayson walks in rubbing his eye and sits on the floor in front of the couch the twins and I are sitting on.
"Oh nothing Grayson you go on back to bed it's late." Grayson stops rubbing his eye and looks me dead in my eyes and says, "It's because I'm the middle child isn't it?" I roll my eyes at him and he smiles.
"Grayson! Mommy's about to tell us a story!." Prim says.
"No I'm actually going to get you guys back into bed." I say.
"You should tell us the one about how you helped out in the final battle at Hogwarts. And don't leave out any details this time. I heard that you told Madeline the whole story starting before that school year even started for you. So I want to know the whole thing unless there is something special about Madeline that your other four kids don't have. Is this how you are revealing who your favorite is mother?" Oh hell how do I get out of this one?
"No smarty pants. I told Madeline because she really wanted to know and it wasn't one a.m." I said hoping that would settle the case.
"What did you tell Madeline?" Madeline asked walking down the stairs to join us in her long Ravenclaw night gown.
"Just the story about what I did during the time Voldemort was at Hogwarts." I said trying to make it sound uninteresting.
"Oh wow! I love that story." Madeline said sitting next to Grayson on the floor waiting for me to begin.
"I…uh…" What do I say to get these kids back in bed?
"What is going on out here? Some people are trying to stay up all night." Now Peter's sitting in the arm chair and all of my kids are looking at me to start the story.
"Okay, well I guess I"ll tell you."
"Yes!" They all said like they had it rehearsed.
"Yes but just to warn you, it's a very long story and as soon as one of you starts to close their eyes I'm done with it and everyone goes to sleep deal?" I look at each one of them. And they all give me nods of agreement. Well here we go.
"It was the summer right before Lux and I returned to Hogwarts for our last year. The summer our mother was kidnapped by Augustus Rookwood who worked in the Ministry and reported information to Voldemort."
"Why did he kidnap her?"
"Because my mother, your grandmother is the best seer anyone has ever heard of and Voldemort wanted to use her powers. To this day I have always wondered how she got captured if she was so great but she has never told me. Now, no more interruptions." Peter stuck his tongue out at me; I rolled my eyes and continued. " So we lived with our grandmother and she trained us in defense against the dark arts of every kind. At the time we had no idea what she was training us for but the night before we left for school she told us that she had been training us because Voldemort was going to attack Hogwarts and we needed to be there."