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Chapter 6 - A Fatal Mistake

Dumbledore was busy with his part in Mage's Association, Headmaster of Hogwarts, Chief Warlock of ICW and ministry as well as the attacks from death eaters. That is what had held him from coming and having a look at the children and possibly finding just who the key child of the prophecy is.

It was already two days since the birth of the potter children and three since the birth of Neville Longbottom. Tomorrow was the first party after the birth of the children. A combined party as it was, he would have a chance to compare all three children together. But unknown to him he was going to regret that day very much in a not so far away

Party or as it was a small gathering of families and friends, since it had been a long time that they had seen their friends and have laughed together, it was held at potters as moving two children would be difficult and also keeping an eye on them would be difficult as Longbottoms had only room for one baby in their nursery as they had not prepared extra due to the lack of time.

Potters on the other hand had extra room in their nursery as they had two children and had taken majors to see that they had a little extra room for another two children in their nursery. Alice would only need to bring her Neville's crib as it was better and more reliable than transfigured or conjured one.

Only a handful of people were invited as only a few were given the fedilius s secret. It included Minerva Mcgonagall, filius flitwick, and of-course the remaining marauders (although they were going to be there anyway), Albus, Augusta Longbottom (grandmother of Neville and mother of Frank Longbottom) along with Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, Neville Longbottom, Chris Cornard with his wife Ema Cornard-perks (a muggle-born), and the Weasley's. Molly Weasley - Prewt, Arthur Weasley and their twin sons who were already about three year olds, Fred and George Weasley and their older son Percy weasley. The oldest two Billius weasley and Charlus weasley were not coming as they would be keeping their youngest brother Ronald company. Ron was almost a year old and both Bill and Charlie were already in Hogwarts. Then there was Andy and Her daughter Nymphadora. This was the small list of people they were calling for this occasion.

Preparations were not difficult as Albus has generously offered help from Hogwarts elves about purchasing things they may need from Diagon Alley as spotting of any potter elf may cause trouble. It was well known that they along with Longbottoms had either fled or gone into hiding due to being targeted by dark lord and spotting their elves after this period may cause people to think that thy were back. And these people included death eaters as well. And that definitely wasn't a good sign. Same was in case of Longbottoms.

Finally after a number of pops and a lot of waves from the wands of the marauders, Frank and Cornard with a number of charms and spells, hall of the room was ready for the guests. Lily and Alice were looking over the preparations of food in the kitchen. Once Hogwarts house elves had delivered all the necessary ingredients, Frodo and Trixi, the elf of Longbottoms had started to prepare for food. In under less than an hour they had enough food to last for the party. They had chicken soup, mushroom soup, and beef for gravy, brown bread, boiled eggs for dinner. They also had prepared sweets. They had Gulabjamun an Indian sweet dish, they also had chocolate ice-cream.

Soon the time for party came and one by one started to arrive.

First to come was Andy.

"Good evening Andy." Lily greeted Andy as Andy stepped out of fireplace.

"Good evening Lily, how are you feeling now." Andy asked while stepping aside and accepting Lily s hand for handshake as well as inquiring about the new mother.

"Very..."

But she was cut off as another figure stepped out of the fireplace slipping and almost hitting Andy in her fall before she was caught by James.

"Sorry." she said timidly and looking down while shuffling her feet.

"No worries kid, so how are you and your Dragon." James asked her while ruffling her hair.

She relaxed and quickly started to tell him about the Dragon that he had gifted her on her birthday. How it was awesome and could also emit fire and it also hovered a little in the air. She was so excited about it that it made him laugh as well.

Looking at the two Andy just smiled at lily and said, "You know, I bet that you two would prove to be great parents."

"Thank you." was all that Lily could say.

They checked upon children to make sure that they were asleep or awake. Both Neville and Nat had started to cry indicating that they were awake. They took one of each in their arms and left the nursery. As soon as the doors clicked shut Harry s eyes opened and his fast developing mind started to look everywhere. He looked in the two other cribs, they were empty. His mind registering the fact that there was something here just a while ago before he had closed his eyes and it had been moved and his instincts telling that some who he should be with wasn't here. He lifted his hand and put his thumb in his mouth, sucking on it and again falling asleep.

Soon one by one guest started to arrive. First to come was the Weasley family. After came Cornard family. And others continued to come in. Lily went upstairs and took harry out of his crib and came back in the hall. Nat was in Remus s hands and Neville in his mother s. Party had already started and was in full swing. Harry had already awoken and was taking every face in. he was silent most of the times. But his eyes betrayed his wonder about all that he was seeing. There were ribbons hovering above them which would disintegrate with a small blast in a shower of small stardust like particles.

All the children were being passed from one person to the other. Neville was making a lot of fuss while Nat was giggling mad when he was swung from one place to other.

After some time during the party, fireplace once more turned green and a tall figure with a long bearded and a crooked nose with glasses on it stepped inside the room.

"Good evening everybody" he said.

"Good evening headmaster" Lily greeted him.

One by one everyone started to greet them. Soon he was through all the greetings and then he was with only the mothers and the three children. As he had expressed that he wanted to meet them.

They soon gathered in one corner of the hall and with quick cast wards around them in less than a few minutes he turned to them. Lily was holding both Nat and Harry in one hand each while Alice was holding Neville.

"What is it Headmaster?" Alice asked.

Dumbledore smiled his grandfatherly smile.

"Nothing to worry my dear, I am but curios to see how powerful these children would be, so I would like to see that." He said.

"Oh!" Alice said relieved that it wasn't about any danger or any recent attack.

Dumbledore took Neville from her hand and looked in the eyes with the child. Neville s mind was starting to develop; he could see it with a gentle probe of legillmens. He activated his aura-site to see the strength of Neville's aura. It was white but not very intense. Hmmm. A light wizard and from the dormant size of it, an above average wizard.

"He will probably rival his father in coming times, my dear." He said looking at Alice and handed Neville back.

Alice smiled back brilliantly and said, "I'll go tell his father" and she rushed out.

Once she had left, he turned to Lily and first took Nat in his hand. Following the same procedure he found that Nat had a better grasp of emotions and his aura was more intense than that of Neville.

Aura was a representation of one's power. It wasn't true power like magical core's size, but it usually gave an approximate value of one's base affinity of magic and strength. It may change in future though. Depending on what path one chooses to follow.

He looked at Lily and said, "Nat will be exceptionally powerful, I am certain that he will be a mage class at least. Expect a lot of trouble by the time he is about 4." His smile was not a stretched one though, after all a potter was sure to be a Gryffindor at heart. In turn under his thumb.

Lily couldn't keep her excitement within her. She was almost bouncing on her feet in her position. She then took Nat back and handed him Harry.

Unfortunately he couldn't read anything; it was complete dark in Harry s mind. He scanned Harry s aura, again nothing. He frowned. Finally he deduced that due to Harry and Nat being twins, Nat must have received most of the magic and thus Harry must be a squib. It explained why he couldn't read anything from Harry as his mind was undeveloped being a squib. But unfortunately if he had been a healer, then he wouldn't have come to this conclusion and handled this with a more cautious approach. But alas he wasn't and the conclusion he made now would be the downfall of light.

Magic was generated inside a body from the beginning unlike the popular belief that it was generated within a mother s womb and then absorbed in the body of the infant after some time, while creating a new core in the infant for handling magic. Very few pursued the path of healers. It needed more precision and control than raw power. And most people with larger magical capacity choose Currier's involving more power. Only one Sorcerer was known to be a great healer. But unfortunately all this information was not known to Dumbledore as he never had much interest in the specifics of healing.

After looking at the troubled look on Dumbledore s face Lily asked worriedly, "Anything wrong Albus?"

"I cannot sense any aura in him. Unfortunately it seems that Harry is a squib. You may want to try magic revealing spells used by healers. Aura-sight is usually accurate but I may be wrong." He said with a somber face. It was a tragedy indeed. He wasn't a master manipulator for nothing he wanted to make sure that the boy was indeed squib and he wasn't going to take any blame if it was not true. So the best way was to make Lily herself do the spells.

Lily already had tears in her eyes. She shakily took her wand out with her free hand and cast spells used to check magical health of a person like exhaustion level and etc. but nothing came positive. Thus implying that Albus was right. Her younger son was squib. She started to sob silently. One hand still holding Nat and her grip unintentionally tightened.

"I know it's a tragedy for you Lily, but look on the brighter side, Nat is sure to be a mage and you will have to be strong for your family. James will be hard to accept the fact. You will have to comfort him." He said with a sad smile on his face.

Lily nodded looking at Nat. she wiped her tears and shakily took Harry in her arms.

Soon everyone started to vacate potter s household. When everyone had already left, she put the children back in their cribs. Both were already asleep due to all day s activities.

She descended downstairs and sat on sofa after having a long hot bath. Soon James joined her. He put an arm around her shoulders and slowly closed the gap between them. She rested her head on his shoulder. Both sat in silence for some time.

Finally James spoke," It was a great day wasn't it? All friends together not worrying over war or anything, such a relief." He finished with a sigh.
Lily nodded in his chest but a sob escaped her lips, betraying her true emotional turmoil.

James raised her chin making her look at him. But she refused to look him in the eyes, shaking her head.

"Look at me Lils, please look at me." He said soothingly but a hint of worry was evident in his voice.

She looked him in eyes and clutched him for dear life like any moment everything would be taken away from her and started to sob uncontrollably. James kept mumbling soothing words in her ear. Soon she calmed down enough to be able to speak.

"I - I a - am sorry Ja - ames, I am sorry." She said.

"What for?" James asked confusedly.

"Nat is very powerful probably a mage, he said." She said.

It didn't take much time for James to conclude that but then he processed her words. "bu - but that's a very good news. Why are you sad?" He asked skeptically, not understanding her reasoning for crying at all.

"Y - yes, yes but James, Harry . Our Harry I - is a - a squib." And she again started to cry.

James was shocked with this revelation. Utter disbelief was written on his face. No potter had ever been a squib. None from the time of first lord potter himself.

If he had been in a standing position, he would have definitely collapsed on floor.

"Wha - what did you say?" he asked her in a whisper to confirm what he heard. Desperately wanting to hear something else but knowing that he wouldn't.

"Nat is going to be in the mage class James, b - but H Harry is a squib." She said looking down.

James heaved a long sigh and closed his eyes.

After a long silence Lily timidly asked, "Are you all right James?"

He gave a small chuckle and said," I don t understand if I should be happy that Nat will surpass even me in magical prowess o - or grieve that Harry will never do any magic at all." His face was really looking on the verge of crying. But he had held his tears for he had to support Lily as she was blaming herself for this. Even she knew that potters never had a squib in their entire family.

It was an irony that he never wanted to face again. In the history of potter s there has never been birth of twins. Nor has there been birth of a squib. They for some odd reason had always just one heir born in each generation. This time there were two, but magical heir was still only one. And it was yet to be seen if Nat would be accepted as Next Lord Potter, there has not been one since his grandfather who was a sorcerer.

There is nothing we can do Lils, let's just give everything in raising our child and give him everything that he needs; we cannot neglect Nat at all now, as he might be You - Know - Who's new target due to being a more probable candidate.

Lily nodded.

"Yes. We would need to take great care of Nat, he h he might be You - Know – Who's target." She said. Consequently both forgot about Harry.

In the nursery Harry's eyes opened at exact that moment and glowed an eerie shade of green. Wind picked in the room but he suddenly blinked and everything became normal again.

Harry looked around moving his tiny head. He put his thumb in his mouth and started to suck on it. Soon he drifted off to sleep...