1 The Beginning
"Marie! James!" Ginny called for the two twins from the kitchen. It was their eleventh birthday today (August 16th) and Harry and Ginny had decided to bring them and a few of their close friends to a muggle amusement park. To say the least they were all excited even Harry and Ginny as they themselves haven't ever been to one before.
They planned to have everyone meet at their house at nine as the park opens at ten and it takes a half hour to get there. They planned on taking about a half hour to get everyone settled and into the cars.
Marie and James came bounding down the stairs two at a time. It was now eight thirty and they wanted to eat breakfast before everyone came. They entered the kitchen to the smell of bacon, eggs, and toast ready for them on the table accompanied by a glass of pumpkin juice.
Harry was already sitting at the table with his food reading a copy of the day's Daily Prophet with a large grin on his face.
"I'm guessing by the look on your face that you approve of the new Minister of Magic?" Ginny said looking at her husband.
"Mistress of Magic." Harry corrected her. "And you'll never guess who it is."
"Who?" Ginny asked excitedly.
"Shaina," Harry answered.
"Lupin? No way! I didn't even know she was in the running for it and she's one of my best friends."
"One of our best friends," Harry said jokingly, "and I didn't know either."
"I guess that she didn't want us to know in case she didn't get it."
"Probably."
"Auntie Shaina is the new Mistress of Magic!" Marie exclaimed.
"Yes, she is."
"Awesome!" James said with a mischievous look in his eyes.
"Now James just because your aunt is the Mistress of Magic doesn't mean you'll get special privileges." Ginny told her son.
"Now your mothers right James, but you will get a special present as it is your birthday. You too Marie." Shaina said as she and Remus entered the kitchen.
"Auntie!" Marie and James yelled together and ran to give her a hug.
"Oh and what am? Dragon dung?" Remus joked.
The two turned to their uncle and gave him a hug also.
"Shai, why didn't you tell us that you were in the running for Mistress of Magic?" Ginny asked her good friend.
"Because I didn't have much hope of getting it and I didn't want pity if I didn't."
"Well that goes to show you that you're wrong pretty often." Remus said half-kidding. Shaina in turn lightly pushed her husband of fifteen years.
"Anyway, CONGRADULATIONS!" Harry and Ginny exclaimed.
"Ha…thanks." Shaina said blushing. As the adults started talking about Shaina and her new job position, Hayden walked in from the living room.
"Hey Hayden!" Marie and James greeted the twelve-year-old Lupin boy.
"Hey you guys." He answered back. "Are you excited to go to Hogwarts this year?"
"Yes, we got our letters two weeks ago!" Marie answered excitedly.
"Congrats! I hope you guys get into Gryffindor with Katie, Jen, and me." Hayden said.
Katie was the daughter of Bill and Fleur Weasley and Jen was the Potter's neighbors' daughter. She was a half-blood. Her mother was a muggleborn and her father was a pureblood. Rachel and Draco Malfoy.
When it came down to the last battle between Voldemort and the Order (including the trio and Ginny) Draco turned. He chose the pathway of the good. He had shown he true colors. Harry and him had teamed up and brought down Voldemort side by side. Draco got rid of any death eater coming their way while Harry faced Voldemort. Ever since the Malfoys have been close family friends.
"Us too, but why wouldn't we? I mean both our parents generations have all been in Gryffindor for who knows how long." James said.
"You have a point, but there's a good chance that you could be in Ravenclaw. I mean your both pretty smart."
"Ugh I don't want to be put there with all their smart arse people. But it's better than Slytherin or Hufflepuff. Hell I'd rather be in Hufflepuff if it'd save me being in Slytherin."
"I wouldn't mind being in Ravenclaw, they don't sound that bad. But I agree with you on the Hufflepuff and Slytherin deal. Just thinking about being put in Slytherin makes me shiver." Marie shuddered.
"Ha…trust me you two won't be put in Slytherin. But you two are lucky that your dad's not the Headmaster."
"Yeah, but he is our uncle." James said.
"True."
Five minutes later the Weasley's entered the kitchen. Among them Hermione, Ron, their daughter Ashley and son Jon, Fred, his wife Angelina, their son Devlin, George, his wife Alicia, Bill, Fleur, and their daughter Katie.
"So Sarah, Helen, and Kevin are all staying with Massie because she didn't want to go and they can't ride most of the rides, right?" Angelina asked.
Sarah is the Potters nine-year-old, Helen is Fred and Angelina's nine-year-old, and Kevin is Alicia and George's nine-year-old. Massie is an old family friend who went to school with Remus, Shaina, and the rest of the old group (Massie and Shaina are OC's in my Lily and James story).
"Yep." Ginny answered. "And the Malfoys should be here any minute they just had to finish getting ready."
"We're here." Draco said as he, Rachel, Jen, and their ten-year-old Shara entered.
"Great, so is everyone ready? Its nine fifteen." Harry asked.
"Okay well I got us all ministry cars. I got five, that should be enough," Shaina said.
"Okay so lets have Harry, Ginny, Marie, and James in one car. Ron, me, Ashley, Devlin, and Jon in another. Another one can have Rachel, Draco, Jen, and Shara. Um…Remus, Shaina, Hayden, Alicia, and George in the fourth one. And in the last car we can have Angelina, Fred, Bill, Fleur, and Katie." Hermione said. "Is that alright with everyone?"
"Yep." They all replied.
"Well I think its safe to say that Harry, Rachel, and I will be handling all the money affairs as we all have experience with muggle money." Hermione said.
"Agreed." The rest replied.
"Okay kids into the designated cars." Remus instructed them.
"Cortez! How many have we got?" a forceful women's voice asked the 32-year-old Rafael Cortez.
"We've got my wife Pansy, Brandon and Gabriella Nott, Roger and Tara Davies, um…Bellatrix and Rudolphus Lestrange, Cole and Jenna Faison, and Sadie and Garrett Faison, Mistress."
"That's all? What of all of my father's old followers? Where are they?" The voice of before asked fiercely.
"More than half are either dead or in Azkaban."
"Well get the ones that aren't…NOW!"
"Yes Mistress." With that Cortez left to get more people for his Mistress.
The Mistress sat in a warm fire lit room on a dark green couch. She sat staring into the flames. "Father I've done as you've told me. What else is there to do but wait until I can get more allies and power on my side?"
"You are to do as I tell you," a high-pitched eerie sounding voice said all around her. "I cannot do anything, only guide you through the beginning stages."
"You have taught me well while you were alive. What will you have me do now?"
"You must go to the Trayjing Crevasse in the Himalayan Mountains. There is knowledge there that can bring great power to you. I learned of this crevasse too late into my reign. Just a week before Harry Potter became my downfall. You must retrieve that information before you can become known. Only with that information can you dream to achieve what I was so close to getting."
"Yes father. I will get that information if it's the last thing I do."
"To find the knowledge you must figure out what the scroll I left you half finished means. You must first finish translating the scroll, then go on your mission."
"Yes father."
"Goodbye for now daughter."
"Bye father."
The voice that surrounded the room now disappeared leaving an unsettling silence behind.
"I will finish translating that scroll and retrieve that information." The woman muttered to herself.
Half an hour after leaving the Potter's the five cars arrived at their destination. As the kids jumped out of the cars their jaws dropped having never seen or been to a muggle amusement park before. Even the parents' jaws dropped save Hermione, Harry, and Rachel as Hermione and Rachel are muggleborn and Harry was raised by muggles.
"Look at the size of that thing!" Shara exclaimed pointing towards the Ferris wheel. The rest gaped at it as Harry, Hermione, and Rachel smiled at the kids and parents excitement.
"Now kids…and parents remember we're muggles while here. No word of anything magic, no mention of Hogwarts, no wands, and NO dungbombs." Rachel told them.
"Aww." Jon, James, Devlin, Katie, Jen, and Hayden all said.
"Yeah because I don't want to have to deal with the magic reversal squad having to erase the memories of hundreds of muggles." Shaina said.
"And if you do you will never come back here again. There will be no Quidditch matches for the rest of the year and I'll make sure all of you going to Hogwarts this year start off with a months worth of detention and those not would be grounded for the month." Ginny said.
"Okay we won't." They all replied quickly with innocent smiles planted on their faces.
They all headed to the admission booth. Hermione went up to the booth and said, "Fourteen adults and nine children."
The lady working's eyes widened in shock of so many people in one group. "Well a group of over twenty is 120 dollars. It's a discount for large groups such as this."
"Okay, thank you." Hermione said counting and handing 120 dollars to the lady.
"Have everyone step up and I'll give them each a stamp on their hand."
"Okay."
One by one the kids and parents stepped up and received a stamp on their hand. Then the kids ran into the park and stopped to stare at all the people and rides around them with shock evident on their faces. The parents stood in front of them to address them and tell them the rules.
"We are all going to stay together in groups of four or five. Two or three adults with two or three of you. Now split into four groups of two or three."
Marie stood next to Ashley and Shara. James stood next to Hayden. Jen stood next to Katie. Finally Jon stood next to Devlin.
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione took Marie, Ashley, and Shara to the Ferris wheel and other gentle rides. Remus, Shaina, and Angelina took James and Hayden to the arcade. Jen, Katie, Bill, Fleur, and Fred went to the water rides. Lastly Jon, Devlin, Alicia, George, Rachel, and Draco went to the roller coasters.
The groups each spent the rest of the day visiting and going on every ride in the park and playing every game in the arcade. By the end of the day the kids were all sad to go and the adults just wanted to get home and rest. It had been a very long day.
A woman sat at a desk in a dimly lit room staring a scroll trying to figure out what it meant. All that was written on it was what her father had figured out before he died.