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Chapter 4 The First Clue

It was the morning after the Welcoming Feast, and everyone was in the Great Hall having breakfast before their first class.

"Will you two hurry up all ready?" Lucy asked.

She was very fidgety. No one knew why until it came to Albus about what their first class was. It was Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"Someone's excited about seeing out new Defense Against the Dark Art's professor," he said.

"Jenkins was horrible. Uncle Ron said that he reminded him of Lockhart," James admitted.

Molly and Roxanne, who had apparently been listening to this, started to giggle uncontrollably.

"I'm sure all of us are glad he decided to leave," Fred said.

"Come on," Lucy called.

Albus and Rose turned to find Lucy was all ready at the entrance waiting for them.

"All right, we're coming," Rose said with a laugh.

"Bye," James and Fred waved.

Rose and Albus were out of breath by the time they finally caught up with Lucy.

"Lucy, you're acting like there won't be any seats," Rose said as the three of them walked into the classroom.

"Honestly, what's with the hood?" Rose asked in a whisper.

There were surprisingly more students all ready in classroom then Albus and Rose had predicted.

"To mask me from my enemies, Miss Weasley," a voice came from the stairs that led to the professor's office.

"Oh…" Rose said, just staring at the cloaked man that was now walking down the stairs.

"Now, will you all take your seat?" the professor asked.

They all obeyed. Lucy leaned into her two cousins.

"The Headmistress didn't even tell us what his name was," she whispered to Albus and Rose.

"That is because I asked her not to, Miss, Weasley," their professor said.

Lucy's eyes grew. She thought she had said it softly enough.

"Shhh," Albus told her.

"Thank you, Mr. Potter," the professor said.

Albus's eye grew. If he had known any better, he could have sworn he had heard a hint of laugh in his voice.

"The Headmistress believes it will be safer to have an Auror here until every Death Eater is caught," the professor said.

"That would take years," a voice said from towards the back of the room.

They all turned to find that the comment had come from Scorpius Malfoy.

"Hardly, Mr. Malfoy," the professor laughed.

Albus began to think. He knew that there were still Death Eaters out, but he didn't know just how many there were.

"How many are still out there, Sir?" he asked.

The professor turned to Albus, who swallowed hard.

"Twenty that we know of, but they've been trying to recruit," the professor said.

"Who would be that idiotic to join?" Rose asked.

"Exactly those people, Miss Weasley. Idiotic people," the professor said.

Everyone was surprised when their professor suddenly let out a little laugh.

xxx

Later that night, Rose, Albus, and Lucy were sitting on the couch that faced the fireplace in the Common Room.

"He's amazing," Lucy said in an almost dream like state.

"I suppose," Rose said with a laugh.

Albus opened his mouth, but stopped when James and Fred walked behind the couch.

"Who are you three on about?" James asked.

"Our Defense Against the Dark Art's professor," Albus told them.

"I think Lucy's fancying him," Rose laughed.

Lucy looked angrily over her cousin.

"Is it the whole dark and mysterious thing?" Fred asked.

"That's gross," Lucy snapped.

She was clearly annoyed at this.

"Well, stop acting like you do then," Albus said.

Lucy stormed off.

"Honestly," Rose said.

Even though she had poked fun at her cousin too, she also got up and followed Lucy to console her.

"What's that on the table?" Fred suddenly asked.

James and Albus turned to the table Fred was pointing at.

"It looks like…" James began, taking a step closer.

But it couldn't be. Why would just be lying on a table in the Common Room where someone could just take it and read it. James looked around to find at they were quite alone now.

"No, it can't be," Albus said.

They turned to Fred as he began laughing. They finally reached the table.

"It's just a piece of parchment you two," Fred said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh," James replied, his eyes still on the piece of parchment.

Before James and Albus could do anything, Fred had the piece of parchment on his hand.

"Wait a minute," Fred said in shock.

He looked up at James and Albus, who both swallowed loudly.

"It has yours' and Lily's names on it," Fred said.

Albus then began looking around as James took the parchment out of Fred's hand.

"Where is she anyway?" he asked.

"She and Hugo wanted to get a better look at the Quidditch Field," Fred said.

Fred then noticed the look James and Albus were giving each other.

"What is this about?" he asked in a demand. "I have a feeling there's something you haven't been telling me."

"Nothing… only just our parents have been sending letters not for the past year," James said, looking down at the letter.

"They what," Fred snapped.

He was clearly upset that he hadn't been told this information before.

"Sorry, but we couldn't tell anyone," James said.

"Only Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione know because… well they all ready did somehow," Albus tried to explain.

"So, you know where they are then?" Fred asked.

"No, they haven't told us," James said with a sigh. "Why do you think we've been spying on their meetings with Mr. Malfoy?"

They were surprised when a small showed on Fred's face.

"This is wicked," Fred said.

"I guess we'll tell Lily when she comes," Albus told them.

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James and Albus waited for Lily and Hugo to return.

"Lucy, there's something Albus and I need to show you. It's important," James said.

Hugo understood and happened up the stairs to his dormitory.

"Important? Wait, no way! We got another letter from…" Lily began before Albus covered her mouth.

There was to telling if anyone would come walking down the stairs at any moment.

"Shhh…" James said.

"What?" Lily asked.

"No one's supposed to know," Albus whispered.

"All right, then," Lily said.

Albus turned to James, ho began opening the letter.

"Go on," he urged.

James cleared his throat and began reading.

Dear Kids,

I hope you are enjoying your classes. If I'm not mistaken, this will be the first time for Lily. We are aware that your aunt and uncle are looking for us. We will be reunited soon. However, it's not quite the time for searching just yet. I will tell you, though, that we're closer than you think.

Love,

Mum and Dad

They stared at the piece of parchment in James's hand for a long moment.

"Closer than you think'? What the bloody hell does that mean?" James asked.

Lily looked up at her brothers.

"They couldn't possibly mean Hogwarts, could they?" she asked.

"That'd be too obvious in my opinion," Albus told her.

"Maybe they're trying to throw us off," Albus then suggested.

"It's a thought," James said with a shrug.

James and Albus looked over at their sister, who had made a small noise.

"Well I don't know about you two, but I got studying to do," she said.

"You definitely take after Mum in that sense," James laughed.

With that, the three of them went up to their dormitorys for the night.

AN:

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