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"I was surprised to hear you were the spy for the Order." Severus approached his once best friend, wondering what had made the man decide to switch sides. The two were in the basement at Grimmauld Place, having just finished an order meeting. The meeting had contained only a small portion of the order, only member who were privy to the identity of the spy. Severus had excused himself to go brew a potion when the meeting adjourned, and his friend followed him down.
"Yes, well, the Dark Lord took an unhealthy interest in Draco, I did what I had to do to keep him safe, Merlin knows his mother would hand him over the second the snake faced bastard asked." Lucius sneered at the mention on his wife. His friend's marriage had never been a happy one, his wife was on of the Dark Lord's fanatics, just like her sister, and would have done anything the bastard asked of her. "I'm sure you can understand where I'm coming from."
"I understand completely. It is one of the reasons we returned, I wanted to make sure my son was as protected as he could be. I never thought anyone would find us in America, but found out just how wrong I was. Thank Merlin one of his friends was with him and able to get him safely home." Severus hated thinking what would have happened to Harry had Wyatt not been able to get him out of there. He didn't know if the Dark Lord would keep Harry alive so that he had leverage over him to control him, or if he would kill Harry as he was the one prophesized to defeat him.
"Speaking of which, I have yet to see the boy. I must confess I was shocked to hear you even had a child, I hadn't known you had even found your mate." Lucius said with a raised eyebrow, but Severus didn't rise to the bait. He wasn't going to trust his friend just yet, not till he himself was sure of where the man's allegiance lie. It was one of the reasons he'd sent Harry and the Weasley children to the Halliwell Manor when the meeting started. He trusted his new friends to keep them safe, and Remus and Sirius had left after the meeting to join them at the manor.
"You'll forgive me if I keep him hidden for now, your son is not the only one the Dark Lord is after." He knew Lucius wouldn't hesitate to sell out Harry if it meant keeping Draco safe. The man may be a cold hearted bastard, but he loved his son more than anything else, and would do anything to keep him safe, even if it meant putting Severus's own son in harms way.
"I suppose I can't blame you wanting to keep your son safe." Lucius wasn't at all offended, he would have done the same thing for his child. "I have heard a rumor that a clan of High Elves have joined the Dark Lord, I even spoke of it to Dumbledore, but I doubt the man believes me."
"I don't know if I would believe you, High Elves are notorious for their hate of all things Dark or Evil. Why would they align themselves with the Darkest Wizard of all time?" He'd dealt with enough High Elves while with James to know that there was no way they would work with the Dark Lord.
"I didn't believe it at first either, but then he spoke of returning something to them to gain their allegiance. He was quite pleased with himself, knowing that when the enter the fight, many light creatures will follow them." If it was true, and High Elves had sided with the Dark Lord, then his friend had every right for concern. It was very possible the light creatures would follow them into battle.
"But what could have been so important to them that they would go against everything they believe in and side with someone so evil all because he could give it back to them?" He wasn't going to disregard what his friend had to say, just because it seemed improbable. This was a war, and disregarding anything was a good way to get people killed.
"I don't know what it was, but they must have wanted it really bad. What I do know is his army is growing stronger by the day as more and more dark creatures come over, maybe it's time we tried to bring some darker to our side." Lucius looked to him, and he knew what his friend was getting at, but he also knew there was no way his clan would ever join the Order. The leader of the clan had exiled him from it when he was still a teenager, for reasons still a mystery to him.
"I think we both know that won't work, I've been a rogue elf most of my life, they would likely kill me before I could even get close enough to talk to them." His friend didn't look too disappointed to know that he wouldn't be going along with his plan, in fact it looked as though he had expected that answer. "What about the Veela?" It was a well kept secret that his friend and the man's wife and son were full blooded Veela.
"I'm afraid Narcissa was able to bring them over to the Dark Lord's side by informing them of the High Elf's allegiance." This was why his friend was so concerned, not because it was a hypothetical, but because it was actually starting to happen; the light creatures were already going over to the Dark Lord's side.
"What if The Charmed Ones joined this order of yours?" The two men spurn around at the sound of Paige's voice, and Severus couldn't help but wonder how long her and Piper had been standing there.
"I'm sorry, buy who?" He was surprised to see the confused looks on the two women's faces.
"The Charmed Ones, you know, the Power of Three...three magical wiccan Witches who fight against evil...have taken out The Source of All Evil...One married their Whitelighter...Another married a cupid...Nothing?" Paige seemed to get more and more frustrated when the two showed no recognition as to what she was talking about. Sure Severus knew they were witches, and powerful ones at that, but they had never told him about being the Charmed Ones figuring, like everyone else, that he knew.
"Never heard of them, sounds more like a legend or a bedtime story for children. Honestly, they sound too good to be true." Lucius finally spoke, wondering who these two women were, and if maybe one of them was his friend's mate, though he was always under the impression that Severus swung the other way.
"And yet two of the three stand before you now." Paige said with a bored tone.
"Absolutely not." Everyone turned to look at Severus in shock when they heard the anger in his voice. "This is our war, not yours, I will not be responsible for dragging you into it. I will not do that to Harry. It's bad enough his father and godfathers are a part of it, I'm not going to let the woman he see's as his mother enter. Not when it's already claimed his dad."
"No one's asking you to let us, this is what we do, why we have our powers, to fight evil. You'd be surprise what our family can do." This time it was Piper that spoke, "We'll discuss it with our family, and if we decide to fight it has nothing to do with you. Now, I am here to work on that potion, and I brought Paige because she had some ideas we thought might work." He'd known Piper long enough to know that he would not be able to fight her on this right now...didn't mean he wouldn't try again later.
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"What are you two doing up here?" Phoebe asked when she entered the attic and saw Harry and Hermione sitting on the floor with The Book of Shadows out in front of them. She had offered to stay at the manor with the kids, Leo, Sirius, and Remus while Piper and Paige went to help Severus with a potion he and Piper had been working on.
"Wyatt and Chris said it was ok if we added some of the magical creatures it didn't have in it." Hermione looked nervous, and Harry was starting to shake, probably thinking she was going to get mad at them. She knew she had to be careful with how she handled this, knowing she could very well undo the work they had down with Harry to get him to trust them.
"May I take a look." She sat on the floor in front of them, and Hermione turned to book so she could see what the two of them added. They had been adding a page for a creature called a dementor, Hermione writing down everything she knew about it, and Harry drawing what appeared to be a very detailed picture of it, if the picture in the text book next to him was anything to go off of. "This is really good, I've never heard of this creature before." She continued to read what Hermione had written, and wondered just why they'd never heard of a creature so dangerous.
"They mostly stick to the wizarding world, but I figured you can never have too much information." Hermione explained as she turned the book around and continued writing. "Most of the creatures we're adding are mainly seen in the Wizarding World, but that doesn't mean they don't venture out from time to time. This way, if you run into one, you or future generations may know how to handle them."
"This is really helpful, thank you both for doing this." She smiled at the two, as they both went back to writing in the book, obviously uncomfortable with the attention they were receiving. "So Hermione, how do your parents feel about you spending Christmas with your friends?" She was not expecting the girl's eyes to fill with tears, or her to get up as she angrily wiped them from her eyes and fled the room.
"Her...parents were...killed by" Harry fumbled with his signs, but she was able to understand what he was saying, thanks to her lessons with Sirius, though he stopped and tried to find the word he was looking for before flipping to a page in the book and pointing at it.
"Deatheaters?" She took the book from him and read what the two had put in there about these wizards. Apparently they were wizards who followed the Dark Lord Voldemort, and thought people without magic, or non magical blood in them deserved to be killed or enslaved. "These are the people who killed her parents?" Harry nodded his head, "Your dad and Lily too?" She was surprised when he shook his head, and flipped to another page, "Voldemort himself?" She read what the two had put in there about him, wondering at his snake face and red eyes, he seemed to be something out of nightmares.
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"I was raised by my grandmother, did you know that?" Phoebe asked the girl sat on bench in their small garden. "My mother died when I was little, I don't really remember her, Piper is really the only one who remembers her, but not a day goes by that I don't miss her."
"They didn't do anything wrong, they were just sitting down to dinner when their neighborhood was attacked." Hermione was crying, and Phoebe pulled the girl into her arms. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do without them, I just want my mum to hold me, my dad to tell me everything is going to be ok, but I can't have that because their not here, I'm never going to have that again."
"I bet you have other family who will love you, I know it's not the same, but it can make it not seem so bad." Phoebe remembered her own Grams, who had taken over the role of mother when her own mom was killed and her dad left.
"My grandmother and aunt both said they wouldn't take in a witch." The girls sniffed, and Phoebe felt horrible for making thing worse. "My mum's family is all dead, and my dad's family wants nothing to do with me. Dumbledore said he found a distant relative who he thought would willing to take me, but he'll probably send me away when he finds out I'm magical." Phoebe just held the girl as she cried, not knowing how else she could comfort her.
