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Disclaimer: John & Yuki like J.'s playground to.

Harry Potter and the Speaker of Truth

Chapter 4 The new guardian

John Montgomery was an unhappy man. He had assumed since the death of Lorien Matthews that his best friend would name him guardian of the child they both loved. He was floored when the lawyer at the reading of the will named some old lady in the U.K. guardian to his snow princess. When he questioned Yuki she admitted that she had never met the woman in question. Further she had refused to explain her parents reasoning. She had spent the last twenty two days systematically going through her family home getting rid of some things packing others; and even more surprisingly had sent her beloved pets of to the U.K. for their required quarantine period. She had not even waited for her guardian's approval; so he promised himself that if the woman tried to make waves about it he would make it clear which way the wind blew.

John was quiet as he and Yuki drove to pick up "that woman" at the Baltimore airport. The whole ride in the car he reminded himself that she had custody and if he wanted to see Yuki before she was eighteen that he must be polite. But it was for sure, one of the hardest things he'd been asked to do.

Yuki was quiet and watched out the window. It had been harder than she imagined with her dad gone. Her mom's death had been easy given the pain of the months prior to her death. However her dad had been healthy and energetic the last time she saw him, which made it hard to accept that she would never again see him. His funeral had been two days ago, no one could understand why she'd delayed it. But she delayed it so all of her dad's team members could be there. John understood when Tom showed up. Tom had checked himself out of the hospital against medical advice so he could attend in a wheelchair. Nick had attended on crutches. Yuki had made a point to talk to both of them so they understood her father would place no blame. That as their commander in the op. he would rather have died than have to explain why they did. Since her house was mostly packed and empty Yuki was staying with Uncle John. It was good. It meant there was a built in sparring partner, so she was tired when it was time to sleep. He had questioned her shipping the pets off but he allowed it. He questioned her spending time alone to pack up her parents home, but he allowed it. Good thing she snorted to herself given that she had been using multi compartment, magically expanded trunks for the things she wanted to keep. She had found a home for her mom's lovebirds and Sonia and Steve were taking the fish. The disabled veterans truck was coming for what was left the day after tomorrow everything was handled.

She had cleaned Uncle John's house and had started an Irish stew in the crockpot for supper. She wanted her new guardian to see her as someone capable and to be glad to come for her, however she was scared that her great-grand-aunt only saw her as a duty.

John pulled into the parking garage and found a place to park. He got out the sign that he and Yuki had made to find Minerva McGonagall. Together they walked to they area where international travelers exited customs and waited.

Minerva McGonagall handed her travel papers to the customs agent at the International Floo Connection. He glanced through them stamped the passport and wished her a pleasant visit. He then directed her to go through a set of double doors that led to the customs exit.

It had been three weeks since she had gotten the letter. It had taken her the whole night to fill out the paperwork, two days to get it in the right hands and nineteen days for it to go through the proper channels between the ministry and the muggle government. When she'd been told she couldn't go to collect Yuki-himme immediately, she returned to the classroom and her students. But she didn't know if that had been worth the effort, more than once her fellow teachers and the students in her house had asked , "Was everything alright? Was anything wrong?"

Yesterday Severus Snape had arrived at her door late and handed her a potion. He said,"You need a good night sleep before you leave tomorrow. This is a combination of calming draught and dreamless sleep. Drink it. Good now go to bed."

This afternoon Albus handed her a tin of his lemon drops as she left. She was surprised but supposed her behavior of the last few weeks had warranted it. Pulling two out to suck on she pushed through the doors.

There five yards away she saw them. An older man in a muggle military uniform and a teenage girl whose features had an Asian cast. Well that answered the question what kind of name was Yuki-himme. They were scanning the crowd and holding a sign with her name. Clearing her throat slightly, hoping it would let her talk around the lump she felt: she walked over to them and said, "I'm Minerva McGonagall.

a/n: I know cliffy