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Chapter 4

Harry POV

Before I had realised it, it was the day that Fleur arrived and Ginny and Mrs. Weasley were not looking forward to it, but all four of us were a little depressed because of... Hermione... not that it was her fault, of course.

When Fleur arrived, she was really pleased to see me, and she remembered how I had saved her sister from the lake just over a year before.

"'Arry! 'ow glad I was to 'ear you were 'ere!"
"Yeah, great to see you too, Fleur."
"I 'ave not forgotten you saved my little sister. 'Ow are your little friends?"
"Um... Ron's great... but... um... Hermione's... she's missing..."
"Oh! 'Ow awful! Molly and bill 'ave not told me. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, we'll be fine, Fleur..."
"Oh, 'ello Ron." Ron Blushed.
"You... remember me?"
"'ow could I forget when you asked me to ze Yule Ball?"
"Oh... right that..."
"Bill will be coming and going, 'e still is needed at Gringotts. I am not working for a few weeks."
"So, I take it you will be helping with the housework, then?"
"Um.."
"Don't worry, everyone does." I whispered to her.
"Alright zen."

Bill didn't arrive until the next day, as he was needed at Gringotts. Ginny and I, however, had gone on a spontaneous walk, because neither of us had a real desire to be around the house.

"So, Harry, are you glad that phlegm's here?"
"Who's Phlegm?"
"Fleur."
"Oh. Right, she's nice... but I can't stop thinking about..."
"Hermione? Me too... it's just not the same without her... I hate being the only girl here."
"I just hope she's alright... wherever she is..."

Then, suddenly, I saw a lady appear next to us, in the shade.

"Harry Potter?" She asked, I noted that she was an American.
"Um... yes, who are you?"
"My name is Esme, and I need your help."
"Um... I'd... love to help you, but I have a big problem which... my best friend's missing..."
"You don't understand, so are four of my eight children." I looked at her... she didn't look old enough to have eight children.
"My son, Edward, spoke of you fondly. I thought it best to get your help."
"We don't know any Americans called Edward, do we harry?" Ginny said.
"You knew him before I did, then."
"Well, I'm sorry, Esme, I really want to help you, but I don't think I can,"
"Maybe you'd like to see a photo of me and my family, then?" she said, pulling a folded photo out of her pocket and handing it to Ginny, who opened it and showed it to me.
"But that's impossible..." I gasped. "one of these is dead..."
"No, I think it's a little more than that..."
"That's Edward, with his wife Bella." She pointed to the boy I recognised as Cedric, who was hugging a brown haired girl with one arm, and a smaller teenager with his same hair in the other. The brown haired lady had her other arm on a tanned boy who was holding the hand of the girl with Cedric's hair.
"No, that's Cedric, I saw him die..."
"Doesn't that look like..." Ginny said, pointing to a girl who had a slight resemblance to Draco.
"Yeah... freaky."
"Anyway, Edward, Bella and my other daughters, Alice and Rose went missing on a visit to this country, and as Rosalie and Edward both used to be wizards, I knew who to look for."
"Two?"
"They were both 'killed' by Avarda Kedavra... it's a complicated curse. It doesn't actually cause death... well it does, but you come back as a... something else... 3 days later."
"Does that mean... my parents are alive?"
"Lily and James Potter were destroyed by... people a few years ago when they tried to contact you. I'm sorry, honey."

I didn't cry about that, I had gone on my whole life with my parents dead, and it didn't make any difference to me.

"now, Harry, we need to get inside the house where you are staying. I believe we have some things to discuss." She said, whilst putting on a headscarf, gloves, sunglasses and putting up herumbrella. This confused me, because it was a nice sunny day, why did she need an umbrella?


Ok, I churned this out pretty quickly. Short though. Hope you enjoyed it :) Hope I didn't make any major mistakes. Till next time :)

Kaisha :)