A/N: Sry it took so long I wasn't really happy w/ the way it was going after reading HBP so I changed the way it was going a little bit not really any spoilers but some things r a little like wat happened in da book but not really olo

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In the morning when Ginny got up and realized what time it was she shot out of bed, got her robes on, and woke up Hermione and Lindsay. "Come on if you two are going to come to breakfast with me, you better hurry up." Ginny told them.

"You go down and we'll meet you in the Great Hall when we are ready." Hermione assured her.

"Ok." Ginny said walking down into the Common Room looking around to see if there was anyone around to walk down with. She looked around and surprisingly found none of her friends so she decided to just walk to the Great Hall by herself.

When she got there, she found Ron and Harry sitting at the Gryffindor table talking about Quidditch and eating breakfast.

"Hi Ginny." Harry said as he saw her sit down across from him.

"Hi," Ginny sighed, "any news on if there is going to be the Quidditch game today?"

"No, not yet." Ron said.

"Maybe there will be something in the Daily Prophet today." Harry said.

"Yeah." Ginny agreed starting to eat her food.

When she was half way done eating Lindsay and Hermione came into the Great Hall. "Hi everyone," Hermione said sitting down, "has the post come yet?"

"No, but it should be coming soon." Ron answered.

"Look it is coming now." Lindsay said pointing up to the owls that were flying around the Great Hall.

"Finally!" Ginny said taking the Daily Prophet from the owl in front of her and depositing a knut into the pouch.

"So has he been caught?" Harry asked.

"Um...no" Ginny said as she threw down the paper.

"Now we probably won't be able to play Quidditch today." Ron said angrily.

A few minutes later Dumbledore stood up, noticing that most of the students were in the Great Hall, to make some announcements. "Because of the breakout of er...a death eater," he carefully chose his words looking at Draco, "from Azkaban there will be no Quidditch match or practice until otherwise stated. You may now continue eating your wonderful meal." At this Dumbledore sat back down and everyone went back to their conversations. "Oh yeah, another announcement," Dumbledore said as he once again stood up. "We will be having a few guests joining us here at Hogwarts. Professor Snape's wife and two children will be staying in a house on the grounds near the Dark Forest. They will be coming to dinner tonight, and I would like you to make them feel at home." There was a pause. "But, give them their space. That is all." Dumbledore sat back down and started to eat his food. Harry could hear people all around him talking about the news they just heard.

"I wonder if this is the arrival of people I heard about." Zack said.

"Snape had better have married a pure-blood." Draco sneered to Pansy.

"I still can't believe it." Ginny said

"Yeah, I know what you mean, but I wonder what they will be like." Agreed Hermione.

"He will just have to wait till dinner." Lindsay said taking a bite of her toast.

"So, what should we do in the meantime, since Quidditch is cancelled?" Harry asked.

"Why don't we go back to the Common Room and play chess, Ron?" Lindsay asked.

"Love to, but can't. I have a load of homework to do." Ron sighed.

"Harry?"

"Sure, I'll play." He said.

"I'm going to go to the library, there is a book I've been wanting to look at, Ginny, wanna come?"

"Ok." agreed Ginny getting up as her and Hermione left the Great Hall and went to the Library.

Lindsay, Harry, and Ron followed them out of the Great Hall, but instead of going to the Library, they went up to the Gryffindor Common Room.

.X.

In the Common Room Ron grabbed his stack of books and began working on his homework. "Ron, could we use your chess board? I don't feel like getting mine." Lindsay said.

"Sure...Wait Harry when did you finish your homework?" He asked

"Yesterday in the Library with Hermione."

"Oh, lucky." Ron added before going back to work on his homework. Lindsay set up the board and her and Harry started playing. They would hear Ron grown every time a piece would get smashed because he was stuck doing homework when his friends were playing his favorite game. Harry was very close to winning, he had Lindsay's king in check when he heard Ron close his books. "Finally done!" Ron said happily, "I play winner!"

"Ok, one minute...check mate!" Harry yelled. "Ha, I beat you!"

"Don't get used to it." Lindsay said sounding a little annoyed that Harry beat her, being the very competitive person she is. "Next game you play you are going to LOSE!"

"You better hope you are still lucky, or you are going to lose!" Ron said laughing

After one hour of playing, Ron won. "Just like I said you would lose, Potter." Lindsay said laughing.

Lindsay and Ron were about to start another game when Hermione came through the portrait door with Ginny following behind and sat down next to Harry. Ginny sat down next to Lindsay and started whispering to her.

Ron went to go put his books away and Ginny sat down where Ron was sitting (next to Harry) and whispered in his ear: "We came up with an idea, as you know Hermione said she didn't want you two calling her a nickname, so we think you should. To make Ron mad that he can't and you can..."

Harry cut her off, "Isn't this going a little too far? Ron doesn't seem to mind and..."

"He does mind can't you tell?" Lindsay asked.

Ron came back down and they all went quiet.

The rest of the day went by just like the last. Harry and Hermione were hanging out together playing muggle card games. Ginny and Lindsay were talking about good places to go at Hogsmeade and Ron was just sitting listening to what everyone was talking about pretending to be lost in his own thoughts.

"B.S.!" Harry yelled.

"Nope! I really had 2 Jacks. HA! Now you have to take all those cards." Hermione said laughing as she looked over at Ron. "You sure you don't want to play?"

"Yeah, I...er..."Ron started.

"Ron, Pig is going crazy in the Owlery." Neville said a little more cheerfully then the last time they had talked.

"Coming!" He yelled back to Neville. "I have to go calm Pig down; I'll meet you in the Great Hall for dinner." He said relieved that he didn't have to make up an excuse to not play with Harry and Hermione.

"Can you two teach us how to play...uh...whatever you're playing?" Lindsay asked.

"Yeah, sure." Harry and Hermione said at the same time.

"First of all the name of the game is B.S." Hermione started.

"What does that stand for?" Ginny interrupted.

"Bull Shit." Harry said smiling.

"Yeah, and what you do is deal out all the cards, you look at the cards in your hand, it helps if you put them in order like Ace, 1, 2 exc. Then you go around taking turns, the first person puts down all their Aces, if they have two they said two Aces and put them down in the middle upside down. Then the next person puts down twos. If you don't have any of the card that you have to put down then you can take any card you have and say that they are the card that you need." Explained Hermione.

"If you think that the person is lying then you call B.S. and you check if the person is rite if they are lying they get all the cards in the middle, but if they are not they the person who said B.S. gets the cards. The first person to get rid of all their cards wins." Harry finished.

"Do you get it?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah."

"I think."

"So, let's play." Harry said as Hermione dealed out the cards.

10 short games later

"B.S.!" Ginny called turning over Harry's cards he just put down. "One Ace, and that's my last card! I win again. That makes 7 games for me, and one for each of you. One more game?"

"Well..." Harry tried to think of an excuse, it wasn't fun loosing 9 games out of 10.

"It's..." Lindsay said thinking the same thing.

"It's almost dinner time and I am really hungry." Hermione finished for both of them.

"Ok. Fine. Maybe I can beat Ron at the game later." Ginny mumbled the last part smiling to herself.

.X.

When they got to the Great Hall they noticed a lot of people were already there. Just about everyone was huddling around something at their tables they saw Ron and sat down by him. "Hey Ron." Lindsay said, "What is everyone looking at?"

"This." He grabbed what looked like an emergency copy of the Daily Prophet and handed it to Lindsay. "It says that Lucius Malfoy has been seen in America and that the M.O.M. know where he is going."

"That's good!" Hermione said.

"Why America though?" Harry asked.

"I thought the same question." Ron said, "But what if it isn't him. When I went to Egypt strangely there was someone who looked like me from the back."

"That was weird..." Started Ginny.

"Let's just hope it is the real him, and if not he is captured soon." Lindsay said.

"Attention everyone!" Dumbledore said standing up like he had earlier. "A couple announcements, first I would like to welcome our guests; Alex, Gabrielle, and Ben. As you know they are Professor Snape's family and will be staying here." The new guests were sitting in the three new chairs put at the teachers table. "Second, I am glad to say that Lucius Malfoy has been caught and is in America at the time, so as of now the trip to Hogsmeade is back on. So, all students who have permission can go to Hogsmeade on Saturday. And finally the Quidditch game that was cancelled yesterday will take place in two weeks giving the teams plenty of time to practice." When everyone was sure he was done talking the continued eating.

"Yes! I am sooo glad we are going to Hogsmeade still." Lindsay said happily.

Ten minutes later everyone was still talking about Dumbledore's announcements Harry decided to bring up a different subject with Ron.

"So, what was wrong with Pig before?"

"I don't know exactly. He was just flying around the room waking up all the other owls. It took a while to calm him down."

"Oh."

When dinner was over the five Gryffindor's went back up to the common room. Ginny went off somewhere with one of her friends in her year, Lindsay was sitting by the fire writing a letter to her parents, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione all sat down in chairs and started talking.

"We have Potions tomorrow first don't we?" Ron questioned.

"Yea." Harry and Hermione answered at the same time.

"Now we'll get to see how Snape acts when his family is around." Harry said.

"I wonder if the kids will be in the classroom with us." Ron said.

"I don't think they would be because their mom would be in school to watch them." Hermione said. "I wonder if we'll ever really see them around."

"Yeah." Harry and Ron agreed.

"Well, I'm going to bed. Night." Harry said walking up the stairs to the boys' dormitories.

Now it was only Ron and Hermione sitting on the chairs. "Ron, is something wrong? You have been acting weird lately."

'Yes, there's something wrong. You and Harry are going out with each other,' Ron thought. "I have just been really tired; I haven't been able to sleep."

"Then you should probably head to bed then..."

"Yeah, I guess so. Night Hermione."

"Night Ron." Hermione said back.

Hermione stayed awake for a while sitting in the chair lost in thoughts for a while. After sitting there for about a half hour she too went up to bed.

.X.

The next morning after breakfast Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Lindsay went to Potions with Professor Snape. It didn't go very different from the usual classes. He still criticized everything Harry and the other Gryffindor's did. At the end of class he ended up giving Slytherin 50 points and he took 30 from Gryffindor. And to top that he gave a homework assignment that was 20 inches on the Polly Juice Potion.

When Harry, Ron, Lindsay, and Hermione got the assignment they thought it would be easy, but when they started working on it they had trouble filling all 20 inches (Harry, Ron, and Lindsay mostly).

"I can't believe Snape was still as mean as ever." Ron said. "By the way he acted when he got the news that his family was coming I was sure he was going to change." Ron said after they were all finished with their homework.

"Well maybe he wasn't happy that his family was coming, maybe he was happy about something else." Harry said.

"I wonder what he is like around them maybe they are really not his family or something." Lindsay suggested.

"There is only one way to find out." Harry said.

"Harry, don't even think about it. Now, with all the death eaters breaking out of Azkaban, if you're caught out on the grounds after hours you will be in sooo much trouble!" Hermione said.

"Your right, but..." Harry started.

"Come on Hermione it'll be fun." Said Lindsay.

"You three can go, but I'm not."

"We could go now and then if we get caught outside we won't get in trouble." Harry said trying to get Hermione to come.

"Do you know what time it is? It is already past our time to be outside."

"Come on Harry lets just go." Ron said

"Fine I'll go get my invisibility cloak."

When he got back he, Ron, and Lindsay went under the cloak and went out of Hogwarts onto the grounds. They walked over to the house and looked through the window and saw Snape and his wife they seemed to be yelling about something.

"I wonder what they are yelling about." Just as Lindsay finished saying that, someone walked into the main room. It was none other then Lucius Malfoy.

"What is he doing here?" Ron asked.

"Why isn't Snape getting Dumbledore or jinxing him or something?" Harry yelled.

Snape must have heard Harry because after he yelled that he turned and looked towards the window. He didn't see anything of course because they were under the invisibility cloak. Ron turned his attention to the other side of the room and saw Snape's kids.

"Look," he said pointing at them. "They are like hiding in the corner."

"I wonder why." Lindsay said.

Harry looked at his watch. "We should go it's getting really late.

When Harry, Ron, and Lindsay got back to the Common Room they went and sat down where Hermione and Ginny were talking. "Back already?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah." Lindsay said.

"And..." Ginny asked. Hermione told her what they thought and what they were doing when they were gone.

Harry, Ron, and Lindsay all took turns telling Hermione and Ginny what they saw.

"Shouldn't we tell someone?" Ginny asked. "They think they found Lucius and captured him, but he is really here at Hogwarts."

"We can't! If we do we'll get in trouble for being out late and for spying on then." Ron told her.

"We'll just have to be sure first maybe Snape will turn him in tonight." Harry said.

"How 'bout we wait till after our trip to Hogsmeade. And until then we try and get proof." Lindsay suggested hoping they would all agree.

"Yeah, why not? I can't wait to go." Hermione said looking at Harry. She could see through the corner of her eye Ron looked mad.

'Hermione is actually not going to do the rite thing just so she can go to Hogsmeade with Harry' Ron thought. "I'm, uh... going to go to bed. Night."

"Night," his friends called back as he walked up the stairs.

About a half hour later Harry also went to bed leaving Hermione, Ginny, and Lindsay alone talking.

"That was good before, saying you didn't want to tell Dumbledore until after the trip. Ron looked really mad." Ginny said laughing.

"Yeah, and then he went to bed." The three of them laughed.

A while later the three girls went to bed leaving the common room empty.

.X.

The rest of the week went by quickly. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lindsay, and Ginny were busy all week. They had class which brought A LOT of homework. And because there was no news about the real Lucius Malfoy they also were trying to figure out what was up with Snape and his family. Questions were running through their heads. 'Why was Snape and his wife yelling?' 'Why were their kids hiding?' and 'why was Lucius at Hogwarts?' Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Lindsay were all eager to find out the answers to the questions. But, not so much Ginny. She was busy trying to find someone to go to Hogsmeade with. Since it was already to close to the trip everyone had someone to go with basically.

On days when the common room was full of people Harry and Hermione would go to the library to either do homework, talk about what's going on with Ron, or in Harry's case, what is Snape up to. By doing this they got closer together. Ron was noticing this and started getting more and more jealous, but still not showing it. Ginny suggested that Lindsay try to let Ron know that if something was bothering him he could tell her.

On Friday night Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lindsay, and Ginny went out onto the grounds to go see if they could see anything going on in the house again. They weren't wearing the invisibility cloak because they were still allowed outside, but Harry had it in his pocket for when they got to the house. When they were only feet away from the house Snape's two kids came through the door and were face to face with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Lindsay.

"Uh...Hi. My names Ben and this is my sister Gabrielle." Said the boy.

"Hi." The five of them said back.

"I'm Lindsay; this is Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Harry." She said each name as she pointed to them.

"So, what are you doing over here?" Gabrielle asked.

"Oh, we were just taking a walk." Ginny lied.

"Would you mind if we came?" Ben asked nervously.

"Uh...sure." Ron answered.

"Thanks, so where are we going?" Gabrielle asked

"We were going to visit Hagrid." Harry told them.

"Where does he live?" Ben asked.

"Are we allowed to go where ever it is?"

"It is by the Dark Forest and he is a teacher so we can go there" Harry assured.

As they started walking the twins started getting warmed up to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Lindsay. "Do you two like living here?" Hermione asked.

"Well, Hogwarts looks nice, and we can't wait to come here, but..." Ben trailed off.

"Our parents aren't used to each other being around so much, so they have been fighting a little." Gabrielle told them.

"Oh. Well maybe it will get better." Ginny said cheerfully.

"Yeah right." Ben said under his breath to Gabrielle.

"You say something?" Ron asked.

"No."

"Are you all going to the trip to Hogsmeade tomorrow?" Gabrielle asked.

"Yeah, but not all together." Lindsay couldn't help saying the last part. She really enjoyed trying to get Ron jealous. "I'm going with Michael Corner, Harry and Hermione are going together, Ron and Lavender Brown, and...uh...Ginny did you get someone to go with?"

"Yes," She said looking very happily at Ron. "I'm going with Dean Thomas."

"Are you two going?" Ron said trying to change the subject.

"Yeah our mom needs to get some things and we got her to take us." Ben told them.

"We are all going to meet at the Three Broomsticks 3:30 want to come?" Asked Hermione.

"Ok sure we'll meet you there." Gabrielle told them. "But, I think we have to go now. I didn't think it was so far. Come on Ben...we'll see you tomorrow."

When they were out of ear shut Ron said, "It seems that Snape and is wife are fighting a lot. I guess them coming wasn't the reason why he was happy."

They were all thinking about what they had heard from the twins and what most of them had seen that night with Snape, his wife, and Lucius as they walked up to their dormitories and into bed to await their trip to Hogsmeade the next day.