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Chapter 6
DeathsPreviouslyDumbledore examined the girl closely before turning back to Molly.
"It would be a pleasure."
"Wait!" Fred yelled, everyone stopped and looked at him "You never told me who I marry."Teddy's povEveryone from our time got tense once Fred asked that, and I think it showed. I looked to Victorie and saw her looking worriedly over to Bella, who was death staring Claire and Olivia, who looked like they were about to speak up until they caught Bella's eye.
"Why don't we talk over dinner?" I suggested, trying to ease the tension.
Everyone from the past nodded their heads, and we all trudged to take our seats. Dumbledore cast a spell which made the table expand, and more chairs to appear.
I went to take a seat by my mum and dad, while Bella went over to Roxanne, and Victorie sat in between her dad and Kingsley. Devon ran over to the seat next to Elaine's, Claire and Olivia followed and Charlotte took a seat next to her dad. Lily sat next to Harry, and Albus next to Ginny, while James was over with Fred (A/N: Fred II will be known as Fred for when he's mentioned with past Fred) sitting in between Fred, George, Lexi, and Lorraine. Hugo and Rose took seats next to their parents and Evie, who just came down sat next to Regis. Then Molly started serving dinner.
It was quiet and just the sounds of forks and knives scraping against plates could be heard throughout the kitchen. McGonagall and Snape went back to Hogwarts before we started eating, with a stern nod and the usual scorning look as goodbyes.
It was Molly who broke the silence "So, are there anymore grandchildren?"
Vic nodded her head "Yes, I have a younger sister Dominique who is 17, and my brother Louis who's 16."
"And I have a younger sister, Roxanne who's 14." Fred put in, looking away from his conversation with James and both sets of past twins.
"And then there's Lucy and Molly." Charlotte said, most people from the past looked confused.
"What are they Charlie's kids?" George asked, snorting a bit.
Charlotte raised an eyebrow "No. They're Percy and Audrey's."
"Percy!" Most of the Wealsey's cried out.
"He comes back?" Arthur asked.
"Yeah, right before The Battle of Hogwarts." Lily said nonchalantly
Molly burst into tears while hugging Arthur "Yeah, so er that's all of your grandkids." Lily finished lamely.
Regis turned to Charlotte "So how many grandkids do I have?"
She smiled and said "Well there's me, Devon, Claire, Olivia, and we also have a little brother his names Robert but we call him Ricky, and he's 4."
"Why do you call him Ricky?" Elaine asked
"Because when he was like 1 or 2, we were at the Burrow, and Aunt Evie said that he looked like Uncle Richard and Ricky just kept saying it, so we called him that." Claire explained.
Elaine nodded, while Richard and Crystal who just came in exchanged a look.
"Do I have any kids?" She asked
Olivia nodded "Yeah, you have a daughter Jamie she's 18. And a son Nicholas, who's 19. Oh, and your married to Cameron Jenson"
She nodded "I think I remember him, he was a year older than me right?"
Richard spoke this time "Yeah, he was prefect in my 7th year."
"What about us?" Lexi and Lorraine asked.
Bella nodded "Yeah both of you took me and Anna on vacation to Paris, and met Dillon Russell and Andy Sanders at the French Ministry, and your still dating in our time."
"It would be you two who meet boys while taking your little cousins on a vacation." Evie said shaking her head at the twins.
"You know, it really is nice to see you without 3 long scars running down your face." James commented conversationally.
"I have 3 long scars running down my face?" She asked incredulously
I gave James a sharp look, and nodded at Evie "Yes, you got them at The Battle of Hogwarts, just before you killed Greyback."
All of Wise's heads shot up and looked to Evie, then back to me
"She really did kill him?" Regis asked
I nodded, Evie smiled and Elaine got up to hug her.
"So now that we know that I don't die, do I get married?"
Rose smirked "Yeah, and you have two kids Connor and Grace, Connor's 3 and Grace is 7. Your married to Seamus Finnigan."
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Elaine all looked to Evie, who had wide eyes and a blush creeping up her cheeks.
"When did she start dating him?" Richard asked
"Well from what we've heard from Neville, it was in her" Bella squinted thinking back to when Neville came over to the Potter's house while me and Bella were there, and she asked when Evie and Seamus started dating "6th year, and Seamus's 7th while her, Luna, Ginny, and Neville reformed the DA."
There were many looks of confusion "What the DA?" Hermione asked.
"It's a club that you, Ron, and dad formed in your 5th year. Dad taught a bunch of students spells and counter-curses."
Mum looked even more confused "Isn't that the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's job?"
Hugo nodded "It's supposed to be, but this year it's Dolores Umbridge who's the teacher who came with her 'ministry approved' teaching methods. So basically all you do is copy from a first year book until the quarter of the year, and then mum suggests you form the DA."
Everyone looked to Hermione, then back to Hugo as if he was crazy
"Hermione" Fred exclaimed "She's prefect, how can she form something against the rules of Hogwarts."
You could tell that Hugo was offended by Fred's comment, so I intervened
"She was really bad" I explained "Gave Harry detention for saying that Voldemort was back in her first 5th year class. With a blood quill no less."
Hermione gasped, as it looked like she was the only one who knew what a blood quill was.
"She used that?" She asked horrified, I nodded
"Will someone tell us what a bloody blood quill is?" Ron asked
"Ronald!" Molly scolded, I smirked into my hands.
Hermione glared at him before explaining "A blood quill Ronald, is a type of quill that doesn't require ink. It uses the blood of the person in possession of it to write on parchment and as you write, the words will make scars on the back of your hand, as if a knife was carving the words."
The witches and wizards from the past looked shocked that anyone would use that punishment on a child.
"So now that we've gone over them" Fred said, gesturing towards the past children "what about me? Who do I marry?"
We all exchanged glances and shifted in our seats, I looked up and saw Fred looking at me expectantly, that was until dad softly said "Some of us don't make it do we?"
I turned to him and tears started forming in my eyes as I shook my head.
"Who." Molly asked in a choked whisper
"I'm named after Uncle Fred for a reason." Fred said sadly looking down. I saw that both Fred and George had gone considerably pale.
George started hugging Fred while whispering in an off tone "no, no please no". Molly got up and walked as if in a trance over to Fred and engulfed him in a hug, sobs shaking her body. The rest of the Weasley's had also gone very pale and along with Hermione, Elaine, and Harry had tears in their eyes. I looked down knowing that I was going to have to tell my parents their fate.
"Who else?" Regis whispered.
I closed my eyes "Professor Dumbledore-" Everyone gasped I reopened them to see them all looking over at Dumbledore, who seemed unfazed.
"One question." Ron said attempting to lighten the mood "how are we going to live the minute after his death?"
Dumbledore just chuckled "I'm getting old, and I am sure that everything will turn out fine when I'm gone."
"-Moody" More gasps, the ex Auror just grunted something unintelligible.
"-Snape" There were no gasps this time, I looked towards Harry "You'll find there is a reason why you named Al after him." Harry just nodded
"-Sirius" I looked up and saw that dad had gone pale, along with Harry and Sirius. Harry stood up and went over to hug Sirius.
"No! He can't die!" he said defiantly, Sirius just shook his head
"Harry, you'll be fine. And you even named your kid after me." He said somberly, then added in a conceited tone "and I'm sure I died in the most valiant way possible."
James snorted from his side of the table "I know you're my namesake and all, but I do have to ask: does getting killed by drapery count as valiant?" Sirius smiled slightly
"Thanks" he said sarcastically
I thought now was probably the best time to tell about my parents.
"Mum, dad" I said as tears reformed in my eyes and starting spilling over. Victorie continued,
"You died in the Battle of Hogwarts" she said "when Teddy was a month old."
Mum sobbed and hugged me tightly as did dad. "I'm so sorry" she whispered, still crying. I looked up still red and puffy eyed to face my dad.
He also had a tear stained face, but still managed to smile a little bit "Well at least I wasn't killed by drapery."
Sirius looked mock angry at his friend though you could tell that he had also cried "Can someone tell me exactly how I died?"
Lily shook her head "No one really likes talking about it, especially dad. But from what we found out from Aunt Lexi and Lorraine, it was at the end of this year. People call it the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Bellatrix shot a killing curse at you, then you kind of fell through the veil in the Death Chamber. Dad went to the Ministry after Voldemort got into his mind, and made him believe that he was torturing you, the Death Eaters were waiting. Even Aunt Elaine's family doesn't like talking about it."
Elaine looked at her questioningly "Why don't we like talking about it."
Lily looked down, then back at Elaine with sadness in her eyes "Because Uncle Richard was also killed by Bellatrix in it."
Elaine's eyes widened and tears immediately starting coming out of them, she got out of her seat and went to a pale Richard who opened his arms for her.
Charlotte spoke in a small voice "And Aunt Charlene also died in the Battle of Hogwarts."
Elaine started crying again and Charlene went and wrapped her arms around her little sister.
"It's okay 'Lane. At least we both died fighting for what we believe in." Charlene whispered trying to calm her little sister. Elaine looked up, wiped her eyes, and nodded hugging her tightly.
"Well it's good to know that the sad part's over." Bella said "We were all dreading to tell you."
Claire whispered something in Devon's ear, and the little girl smiled then got out of her seat, went over to Elaine, and hugged her legs tightly. Elaine smiled, and then bent down to pick her youngest daughter up. Devon smiled brightly at being in her mum's arms again as she snuggled closer to her and started playing with the necklace that was dangling in front of her.
"Well" Claire exclaimed "it good to know that she finall-"
"OW!" Both Olivia and Claire shouted. Molly looked over to them worried
"What is it? Are you hurt?"
They both shook their heads and gulped, all of the future kids were smirking, James full out laughing.
"I don't know why you're laughing James!" Claire snapped "It's your fault that we're here in the first place, and if you haven't noticed we have Devon! Mum is definitely going to kill you."
James, realizing what she said also gulped.
"What are you talking about?" Elaine asked, still holding Devon but back in her own seat.
"Well you know how we said that Devon didn't like dad?" Olivia asked, Regis nodded his head while Luke looked shocked and hurt "Well since me and Claire liked dad more than mum, she's just a little overprotective of Devon and Ricky because they like her more." Her voice got higher as she carried on.
"Wait, were is Ricky?"
"Oh he's over at Grandma Rena's" Crystal looked shocked
"She's still alive!"
"Crystal!" Her dad scolded "Don't disrespect your grandmother like that."
She looked down and mumbled "Well I was just curious."
"Well what are those?" Ron asked
"They're necklaces that mum got us when we were in our 3rd year. She says it was a gift for us turning teenagers, but we think that its because she didn't want to come to Hogwarts every week to yell at us for doing some prank." Claire said rolling her eyes a bit.
"That doesn't exactly describe them." Harry stated looking at the pendants curiously
"Well it's a form of communication, like your mirror. Except that we can't see the persons face, you can only hear them. Though in this situation either of things don't sound very good."
"Why?" Elaine asked, but Olivia ignored her and turned to me
"Should I answer it?" she asked.
"No!" James yelled.
Claire rolled her eyes; I shushed him, and then turned to both of the twins "Better now than later."
They just shrugged "I would block your ears." They advised, then clicked open the locket
A/N: Dun dun duunnnnnn. Hehehehe aren't cliffies so much fun? Always remember to REVIEW AND TAKE MY POLL, Oh and I disclaim ;p!