Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter or any of it's characters. But I do own Maddie, Jon, and Tal.
"Thinking or mind speak"
"Flashback"
Everyone was shocked. Remus, Madelynn and Harrison had been missing for ten years. Sirius was the first break from his shock.
"Mooney, why did you betray me!" he shouted, pointing at Tal and Jon, voice filled with hurt and anguish. Remus snorted and handed Tal to his father before turning to his ex-husband. "Excuse me! What do you mean betrayed you? I can remember all the times you came home drunk at midnight smelling like some cheap whore, you even brought one home once." he smirked at Sirius' shocked look, "Oh you think I wouldn't figure it out, I was a werewolf I could smell it," while Remus was talking a member of the order of the phoenix slipped out unnoticed to call Dumbledore. The wolves had refused to speak to a human and if they were going to negotiate they would only speak to Remus. The order member thought that Albus could get Remus back.
While that was happening, the Potter's had gotten their voices back and were now yelling for answers to where they had been for the past ten years. Maddie and Ri just looked at each other and leaned back into their boyfriends. Severus wrapped his arms around Maddie while Draco did the same for Ri. It took a while for the others to notice, and by the time they did Albus Dumbledore had arrived. He looked at the scene before him and sighed,
"Sirius, James, Jake, Lily calm down," he said to the shouting group. He then turned to the other group and looked them over. They were all healthy and looked well, but they should be helping in the war.
"Remus it is good to see you, did you come to help us with the war and training Jake, and where have you been all these years we were very worried about you," he looked disappointed and disapproving, Jon snorted and smirked as Dumbledore turned to him.
"Remy was right then, you are a meddling old goat." he narrowed his eyes at the man, "My family has no part in this war I would thank you to leave us alone," Dumbledore frowned "Very well, Severus, Lucius, Draco, Harrison, Madelynn come with me," he replied, intending to lure them to his side. Ri looked at him as if he were a bug and stepped forward out of Dray's arms
"Look old man, I was adopted by Dad years ago and Remus is my papa so why the hell should I go with you, well?" he sneered as the great Albus Dumbledore spluttered.
"HARRISON JAMES POTTER! Apologize to Professor Dumbledore right this minute." Lily yelled at him,
"Pardon me, why the hell should I listen to you, you aren't even my mother," he replied. She went white as sniggering was heard from Maddie and Sev. "Nice big brother,' his eyes went purple as he replied, "no problem,". Sirius hearing the sniggering turned towards the two and his eyes widened, what was his daughter and Snape doing together? She was coming home with him right now, so he could talk some sense into her, honestly who would want Snape.
"What are you doing with him?" Madelynn get here right now," he stomped up and grabbed her by the arm attempting to drag her away when his felt like it was on fire. He looked it was on fire and Madelynn was glaring and smirking evilly at him, her eyes were glowing faintly green. He quickly let go and stepped back, "What are you?" he shouted. She stiffened and then went emotionless Remus and Jon saw what had happened and Jon went to comfort his daughter.
She was having a flashback,
"Bet you anything I will beat you easily," Ri smiled at Maddie.
"No way brother dear," Maddie and Ri were racing towards the school, it was august the third and they were going to hand in some assignments before leaving for England. They had just handed their Transfiguration assignments and then separated so that Maddie could hand in her charms while Ri did HPE. She was going to the teacher's office when she heard footsteps from behind her she turned.
"Well, what do we have here? A lost little girl," it was Michael. She groaned and kept walking. He caught up to her and started to talk, "You know, Maddie this is your last chance to go out with me, so what do you say," she looked at him and sneered
"Not if you were the last guy on earth you disgusting piece of shit! You mother fucking asswipe, you are the ugliest, most horrible and revolting thing to ever walk, or in your case waddle, on the face on this earth," he grew angry at this and grabbed her arm pulling her into an unused classroom.
"Get away from me!" she pulled out of his grip and used her Elvin speed to get to door. He jumped to try and grab her; he got her by the ankle and pulled her towards him. She was fighting him every step of the way.
"Ri, Ri! HELP!" Screaming in both her mind and out loud. Michael wondered for a moment why her eyes were green, but quickly shoved that thought aside as attempted to climb on top of her, ripping her shirt.
She panicked even more and was hyperventilating. Her magic swirled to protect her, lashing out the cause of her panic. Michael was thrown against a wall and fainted. As he slid to the ground she could see the cracks that his body had made on the wall.
Ri started to run when he heard his imotou screaming for him. The picture he saw when he burst into the room made him furious. Maddie was leaning against a desk, panting with her shirt ripped and bruises forming on her arms. The arsehole that had attacked her was stilled passed out. He quickly conjured some ropes and tied him up, then sent his patronus for help while he comforted Maddie.
Remus and Jon were very upset. Their daughter had been attacked at school and Mr. Lelijk was saying that Maddie should be prosecuted for harming his son, because he was still passed out even though their was nothing wrong with him. "D-dad," the principal ran to his son, as the healers checked him over before confirming that nothing was wrong. Michael sat up and his eyes widened as he spotted Maddie, he started shaking and spluttering trying to get the words out. "W-what a-are yo-you?" he shouted at her making her shrink back in fear. No-one had ever said that to her before and the way he said it made her feel inferior and small. Remus saw this change in his daughter and told them to take the brat away.
Flashback ended
"Sshh, Maddie, calm down sweetheart. Lelijk can't hurt you now, remember his wand was snapped and he was stuck in prison when they found out that he tried to attack other girls before, he isn't getting out for a long time, " she was brought back from her memories by the sound of her dad's voice. He comforted her and gestured towards Sev, indicating to him to comfort his girlfriend. When Sev had a hold of her Jon turned to the silenced and stunned Sirius Black, courtesy of Remus. Jon went up to him and released the spells, just before he was about to talk Jon motioned to him to be silent, as he was talking. "Look, Black just because your are her biological father does not mean your her dad," he sneered at the mutt, "not even a week ago she was attacked and you have the gall to grab a girl who hasn't seen you for about ten years, because your such a crap parent and the only memories of you she basically has are of you fawning over Jake and ignoring her, coming home drunk and forgetting her birthday or just plain ignoring her and Remy. You think with all that she would willingly go with you? What are mad or something?" while he was ranting Remy had gathered their group and ushered them into his manager's office. Jon quickly joined him when he was done, leaving Sirius and the rest standing in the lobby speechless.
They could hear pounding on the door as Grumplock gathered all his papers. Ri soon silenced the door and Maddie was sitting in Sev's lap finally calm. Grumplock looked over everything he had on heir ship when the heir had been adopted and grinned when he was finished, well as close to a grin as a goblin could get. He cleared his throat to get attention. "Now with the heir ship of Potter, James has tried to get it for Jake but it seems that the ring wouldn't accept him as the heir. It glowed yellow when he put it on indicating there was a better heir that was in the Potter line. So all you have to do is try on the ring and if it glows white it has accepted you," he handed Ri the box gently and everyone waited anxiously as he opened it. RI gasped this was a magnificent ring. It had the Potter crest of two swords crossed with a griffin in flight over that. The swords were silver and the Griffin was a rose-gold with copper inlay. The band itself was pure gold. He put it on sighing with relief when it glowed white and resized to fit his finger. The goblin grinned before turning to Maddie. " Now with the Black ring all you do is try it on, if it glows white it has accepted you," she slipped it on laughing happily when it glowed the same white as Ri's did before resizing to fit her finger.
Everyone slumped in relief when all the paperwork had been signed and put away. Tal had gone to sleep and Draco was following when Ri took away the silencing charm on the door and smiled when he heard no pounding. The goblin however frowned as he looked at the door. He cleared his throat again grabbing attention just before Luc reached for the handle. "Mr Lupin-Emrys, something that you might not know about me is that I can sense human magic, and recognize it as well. It seems that the Potters and Lord Black are waiting behind the door with a portkey. May I suggest you go by the back way," he finished. Remy growled as he ushered his family to the door Grumplock had suggested.
Outside the door was a corridor that had many door lining its walls. The goblin led them to a door that had a picture of Australia on it. When they went in they saw a room with more doors lining the walls. And on each door was a name of the cities in Australia that had a Gringotts bank. They quickly found the Middlemount door and went through, only to step in air. When everyone had gotten through the place they were in started spinning and it felt like a portkey. The sensation lasted a few minutes before it suddenly stop and they all fell to the ground. As they got up they realized that they were in front of the Gringotts branch in Australia.
"That was so cool, dad can we do it again?" Draco loved portkeys and that was like a portkey. Lucius frowned, he hated portkeys and for him that was one of the worst. Where did Draco get it from? Narcissa had hated portkeys as well.
"No Draco, we are not doing that ever again! And your behavior is unbecoming of a Malfoy." at this Draco snorted.
"So father for the past month yours has? You've been nice to everybody and generous. Even the little kids like you, for god's sake," it was true everybody liked the newcomers, Luc always helped out with the kids when he could and gave contributions to the schools and hospitals, he gave a lot more here than he ever did in England. Draco was with Ri all the time and they gave help to anyone who needed it, regardless of who you were, well except for the Lelijk family, the boys didn't even go near them as they would have been attacked, because when the population of Middlemount had heard what Michael had done to Maddie they didn't like it one bit and his father had to step down as principal. The two also helped out with tutoring sometimes, with subjects like DADA, DA, and the rest. Maddie and Sev made a lot of potions for the hospital at a discounted price and sometimes taught at Middlemount elementary. There weren't even any werewolves left because the cure that healed Remy was given to all of them, but it seems that they still liked to go out on the full moon and transform into wolves happy in the fact it was a choice and it didn't hurt. In fact the whole group; Luc, Sev, Dray, Maddie, Ri, Remy, Jon and even Tal was loved by the people of Middlemount. Their life was perfect.
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Back in England, life was far from perfect. After the incident at Gringotts, when they found out that the two had claimed their birthrights, there was a mix of joy, anger and sadness coming from the Potter's and Sirius. They were happy because the two hadn't fully forsaken them. Angry because they didn't stay and sad that they still hated them. Dumbledore however was just thinking and when they had gotten back to Hogwarts and his office, it all clicked together. He called the order and when they had all arrived he cast a sonorous charm and spoke. "Everybody can I please have your attention?" he smiled when they all turned towards him. The Potter's and Sirius were particularly eager to hear what the head master had to say, "Now, today at Gringotts a particular group of people were there, three of them have been missing for ten years now." the order looked confused and a lot couldn't figure out who they were, but some did. Albus continued "the three were, Remus Lupin, Harrison Potter and Madelynn Black,"those who didn't know gasped. Everyone knew how broken Sirius seemed when his husband and child ran away.
"But Albus why did they run away in the first place?" Minerva asked her leader. Albus thought for a moment.
" I believe they ran away because we simply forgot them," everyone looked guilty at that, "Now there were other people with them, three of them we do know," Albus looked at a sea of confused faces, " those three were Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape," there were a lot of indignant faces at this, he put up a hand to stop all protests, "Does anyone hear remember when Severus took a month off to help a friend who had a sick husband?" the staff nodded, they remembered when the Malfoy boy had rudely told them then slammed the door on Albus' nose. "Well when they came back with the phoenix who was the boy with them? Lily, James?" the two looked shocked, and as one they said.
"it was Harry," even the staff was surprised at that, but then the rest of what happened that night was remembered. "Albus, didn't Harry call Malfoy, his boyfriend," James looked at Lily confused at what she said for a second and then exploded.
"No way in fucking hell is my son dating a Malfoy," Albus sighed and continued,
"Now as I was saying, I believe that Remus has gotten remarried and the it was his husband that Severus was called to help, meaning the phoenix belongs to their family, I also believe that they have adopted Madelynn and Harry as their own and one of them has given birth to a little boy," Sirius looked heart-broken at that, he always wanted more kids but he was sterile.
"Hold on a minute Albus, didn't you say that Mooney was remarried and had adopted the two, what are their names now?" Arthur Weasley was quite confused.
"It seems that Remus' new name is Remus Jacob Lupin-Emrys, Madelynn's is Madelynn Elizabeth Black Lupin-Emrys, Harry's is Harrison Jonathan Potter Lupin-Emrys and the little one's name is Tal Christopher Lupin-Emrys, oh and Remus' new husband's name is Jonathan Merlin Emrys,"
"But headmaster, how do you know these are the people Professor Snape went to help?" asked Hermione Granger, her friend Jake and Ron Weasley were behind her nodding along. Albus Dumbledore sighed why is everyone questioning him lately. It is so annoying. "Hermione, Severus went to Australia last year. Those at Gringotts had Australian accents, even Severus, Draco and Lucius had a bit of an accent. The three of them were with Remus and his family. Finally Harry and Draco seem to be dating and Severus and Madelynn also seem to be very close."
"Eeww! Who would want to date that greasy bat?" Ron just didn't know when to shut up. "Albus, is there any way to get them into Hogwarts?" Lily asked, Albus thought for a moment. "I do not think so Lily. I know how much you want your son-"
"Albus, wait a minute. Didn't Fudge pass a law saying that if a blood heir was adopted, disowned, run away, etc, and wanted to claim their title, but the head refused, they had to go before the Wizengamot and plead their case." Hestia Jones enquired. Albus' eyes lit up and twinkled that was right. The order quickly made plans on what was going to happen and Albus sent a letter off to the Ministry.
It was August the 20th when they got dates for the case. The Ministry had sent letters to all parties involved and the date of the case was the 30th. The Potter's and Sirius were ecstatic.
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Ri frowned when a owl came through the window at breakfast time and quickly snatched the letter, that was attached to it's leg. He opened it slowly and read it's contents to everyone.
"Dear Mr. Potter and Miss Black, the reason for this letter is that the head's of the houses Black and Potter have contested your claim as heirs on the basis that they do not know what you will do to affect the family. The case date is set for the 30th of August and you each may bring up to five witnesses. Have a nice day
From
Alfred Snawzle
Head of the Department of Heirs and Heads"
Ri looked furious, and the others weren't much better.
"How dare they do this?" Remy growled, Jon tried to comfort him.
"Babe, don't worry we will just have to make sure that we win okay," Remy nodded.
"Dad with the five witness thing, how about I bring you, Sev and I will ask Madame Pomfrey, while Ri an bring Papa, Luc and Dray." Jon nodded at his daughter. Soon they finished Breakfast and went to go pack they planned on going back with Sev, Dray and Luc tomorrow so that they could build up a case against the Potter's and Black.
"I just wish they would leave us alone," Ri leaned against Draco.
"I know, they just want you to go back to them and play happy families. What they don't get is forcing you back to England isn't going to make you happy." Draco replied trying to comfort his boyfriend. Ri nodded in agreement and they stood there for a while before they went to pack.
"Ri, do you know where you guys will stay, when you get to England?" Draco stood in the doorway of Ri room, watching him pack. Ri stopped just as he putting some pants in his suitcase. He looked at Dray for a moment, before shaking his head.
"No, we don't. Papa sold his house before we left, but we will probably just stay at that Leaky cauldron place, we went through." he shrugged it was no big deal to him, where they stayed. "How about you stay with us at Malfoy Manor, since Dad divorced Narcissa, it isn't as girly as it was before," Dray really wanted them to stay at Malfoy Manor. Ri smiled, but than frowned. "Yeh I reckon that's a great idea. What happened to Narcissa anyway, I heard that Luc divorced her around two years ago, but that was all we were told." Dray smiled painfully at him. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to,"
"No don't worry about it. Since I was 12, Narcissa has been Voldermort's bed warmer." he smiled as Ri came up and pulled him into a hug. "Anyway when I turned 14 she sent me to him and he wanted me to do her job. Dad, when he found out he was furious and wouldn't let me go, thank god. He divorced her and hasn't been to a Death eater meeting since. I haven't seen her at all either." Ri pulled him to the bed and just hugged him, feeling the tears on his shirt. They sat there for ages and eventually fell asleep.
Soon it was time to go. Lucius had arranged a portkey to take them to Malfoy Manor where they would be staying. Sev was going to stay there as well, until the start of term. They all grabbed a hold of the portkey, which was in the shape of an old pillow. They went in a whirl of colours and shapes. All the adults stumbled as they hit the ground in front of the Malfoy lands, well all of them except for Remy who was holding Tal. The teens managed to land semi-gracefully and were laughing at the adults; Luc and Jon weren't very happy with the rest of them and were grumbling all the way up to the manor.
After everyone was shown to their rooms (Draco was next to Ri, Sev was next to Maddie and Jon and Remy were in the same room with a crib put in for Tal). The group decided to rest for a bit and unpack.
At dinner that night Draco asked a question that had been confusing him.
"Maddie, why are you going to ask Madame Pomfrey to be a witness?"
"Draco she is a nurse and whenever we were hurt we would go to her, so she knows how the Potter's and Sirius acted when we were hurt compared to the way they acted when Jake was hurt,"
"Oh," It all made sense now. Madame Pomfrey was unbiased and knew what had happened. They decided to fire-call her late at night so that no one in the castle would know that they were in England.
"Madame Pomfrey's office, Hospital wing, Hogwarts," Severus stuck his head in the fireplace and looked around the Hospital wing, even at night it was still very white. "Poppy! Poppy! Are you there?" A figure came into view.
"Severus! What are you doing in my fireplace?" she asked a bit frantically, what if Albus or any of the staff came in and saw him.
"Poppy I came to ask if you weren't too busy, could you come over to Malfoy Manor? I'll explain everything there," she looked up at the clock and saw that it was midnight. She thought for a minute.
"Well, I have finished everything that needs to be done and I suppose Albus won't know about this, so okay," she got everything she needed and went through the fireplace.
Severus quickly got out of the way to make room for Poppy to come through. She walked out of the fireplace to find herself in a room full of people that were meant to be in Australia.
"Severus Tobias Snape, may I enquire as to what is going on?" he shrunk back at her gaze. She looked around the room with one eyebrow raised and Ri stepped forward in a pleading gesture.
"Please Madame Pomfrey we would like to know if you would be willing to testify for us in the Heads vs Heirs case we are now tangled up in. I'm sure you've heard of it." Poppy smiled grimly.
"I'm not sure who hasn't heard about it. It has been all over the papers because of the boy-who- lived being a Potter. They're also painting Remus, Jon and the rest of you out to be the bad guys in all this. The Potters are even giving out interviews saying that Ri was stolen from them in the dead of night by a jealous werewolf-"
"Why would Papa be jealous of the Potters?" Ri was about to laugh, what a stupid idea that was.
"Because they have the boy who lived and their "Happy Family". She used quotations marks for the last two words, she obviously didn't believe the Potter's were a happy family. More like spoilt. "But the weird thing is Sirius is staying out this and just saying no comment when the Reporters hound him for information. Anyway the papers are saying that you two were brainwashed into hating your biological parents," she looked confused when the two teens burst out laughing.
"B-br-brainwashed, we didn't need to be brainwashed the Potter's and Black made us hate them when we lived them." Maddie managed to stutter out through her laughter. The adults just looked at the laughing teen's and then they gestured towards Sev and Dray to calm their significant others. The two rolled their eyes but managed to calm down Maddie and Ri.
"Poppy would you be willing to give up some memories that the Wizengamot could observe." Jon already had permission and the memories from the others including him.
"Yeh sure just as long as I get to choose which memory they take," she didn't have a problem it.
"Awesome!" Said all four teens (Ri, Maddie, Dray and Sev). They knew that memories couldn't be tampered with, without it being obvious. They also knew that they would have to be careful of how long the Potters and Black's memories that they used were. It wouldn't do for the Potters and Sirius to only show part of a memory.
It was late so they got a house-elf to make up a room for Poppy to stay in for the night. Then everyone went to bed to get a good night sleep.
By the time everybody had woken up Poppy had already left explaining in a note that she had to get back early, just in case Albus or one of the teachers wanted something. Remus started to make breakfast when her head popped into the fireplace.
"Remus! Jon! Severus! Lucius! Draco! Maddie! Ri!" they all ran to the floating head in the fireplace. Poppy looked frantic she was saying stuff so fast they couldn't understand her.
"Poppy! Poppy! What's wrong slow down, what are you on a coffee high or something," Ri looked very curious. She swallowed and took a few deep breaths before speaking again. "Dumbledore knows you guys are in England and at Malfoy Manor, he is preparing a raid at the Ministry to flush you out," the entire group went white. Ri was the first to recover. "Poppy, how does he know where we are?"
"Last night when Sev flooed me, it seems he heard our whole conversation, and he even tried to go to Malfoy Manor but the wards kicked him out. I heard him speaking to Professor McGonagall about this morning at breakfast. He said the raid was at 12pm but I wouldn't bet on it. So I would suggest that you get your butts out of this house and into a safe one." everyone completely agreed with her and it was soon decided that the Lupin-Emrys family would go to their property that Jon lived in as a kid and would stay there until it was safe to go back to Malfoy Manor.
"Shit!" Maddie swore as he heard someone trying to get in the front door. "Hey! Everybody! Their here lets go!" she didn't worry about silencing charms as the house had a permanent one on it. Her family ran down the stairs and they left through the gardens that were actually attached to the Emrys one, but the Emrys property had the Fidelius charm on it, the Malfoy's, Sev, Poppy and the Family were the only ones who knew about it and there was a special spell twisted in with the charm so that if you try and tell someone your mouth refuses to work and you immediately forget the address. It was a part of the special Emrys family magic that was passed down and taught throughout the family, but if you married into another family and your children weren't the heirs then all the Emrys magic was locked within your mind. You could still perform it, but you couldn't teach to anyone. Not even your own kids.
When they got into the house/ mansion they managed to settle in quite well and after all their stuff was put away they went into the gardens and watched the raid go on. It was funny to see the aurors look for you and you were five steps away, but they could see, sound, smell, touch or even sense them. Ri was the first to see Draco, Severus and Lucius come the three looked on bored as the ministry workers tried to be polite as they went through the gardens looking for hidden stuff. The three just brushed off any attempts that were made to bring some conversation and just acted like snobs, it was very funny for the Lupins-Emrys who just laughed and laughed. Sev and the Malfoys could also see them and watching two grown men and two teens rolling on the grass laughing their asses off almost made them laugh. A few twitches of the mouth could be seen.
It took a while but finally the raid ended and the Aurors left, but not before Mad-eye Moody threatened them one last time.
"I have no doubts that those people were hiding here, we will be watching you and when they come back we will get them back to their families and out of your brainwashing, death eater hands,"
"Of course you will Auror Moody and Jake and I are best friends, now get off our land!" after Draco spoke the Malfoy wards kicked him and the rest of the straggling aurors off. Dray smirked at the pathetic reflexes of some who tried to catch themselves. Most of them just made their situation worse by trying to get up as they fell down from dizziness almost immediately. They soon realized that it wasn't a good idea to try and apparate so the aurors made portkeys, some tried making them two-way portkey but it didn't work. The wards forbade it and the only reason that the aurors actually got on to Malfoy land was that the Head aka Lucius let them on. They weren't getting back on without permission from Lucius and by some extent Draco, not even Severus or the Lupin-Emrys could get anyone else in unless it was considered an emergency. "Finally, now can they come back dad?" Lucius shook his head it still wasn't safe, the three slytherins went inside and in their side of the gardens the Lupin-Emrys family did the same.
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"Albus, are you sure they are in England? They could still be in Australia," Professor McGonagall was worried that her boss could be wrong about this. What if Harrison and Maelynn didn't want to go with the Potter's and Sirius, but whenever she voiced her doubts Albus would just twinkle his eyes and tell her not to worry.
"I am sure they are in England and I am also sure that the Malfoys know where they are. Harry and Madelynn will come back and do their duties," she frowned at him.
"Duties Albus, what duties would two teenagers have to do in this war?" Albus was about to speak but was interrupted by the door swinging open. Moody came through, he was alone. "Albus, they aren't there, we searched high and low but there was no sign of the wolf and his kids anywhere,-"
"Alastor! Do not speak about Remus like that, he did what he thought was best, you know as well as I do that we ignored Madelynn and Harry when they were little. "She thought for a second, "Now that I remember, I am pretty sure that the only ones who paid attention to them were Remus, Severus, Lucius and Draco. Anyway why are you looking for them, you'll see them on the 30th." she raised an eyebrow at the two men and then left for her office. Alastor continued his report.
"As I was saying before we looked everywhere for any trace of them. There was none. There wasn't even anything to suggest a female lived there."
"None? I find that a little bit hard to believe, wasn't there any trace of Narcissa?" Albus was so confused.
"None, it was a complete bachelor's pad. It was like she never lived there at all," Alastor hated mysteries. The two talked for a little while more before the head auror had to go back to work.
"I wonder what is going on and how did all my plans fall apart," Fawkes trilled in the background as the head master went to work.
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It was soon the 30th and time passed far to quickly in Ri's opinion. He hadn't wanted this day to come and now it was here. Draco and Maddie came up to see him. They weren't happy. "Harrison Jonathan Potter Lupin-Emrys get your ass out of this funk," his little sister definitely wasn't happy with him. Fortunately however his boyfriend was more sympathetic.
"Maddie calm down. You have your way of dealing things and so does Ri, "She flushed, but he was right and she didn't have Sev to rant to because he was making some potions and they were very delicate. Draco continued speaking. "Besides, I don't think there is any chance that you will have to back to the Potter's and/or Black because you both have two masteries. Ri your Charms and Dueling masteries can grant you adult status, same with Maddie's healing and potions," he smiled at their shocked looks and then as it all clicked identical slaps on the forehead.
"We are so stupid, I cannot believe we forgot about that," Maddie felt like slapping herself again. Ri was the same. Draco stepped in before any more injuries took place. "Anyway it's time to go, the case starts in an hour and we have to be there early," he directed them downstairs where everyone, even Sev was waiting. Remus held out the portkey,
"Why is it always a portkey?" Luc was disgusted and Jon wasn't much better. He had trouble with portkeys at the best of times and this time he had to hold Tal as well. Remy just rolled his eyes and told them to suck it up. They took the portkey and everything was gone in a swirl of colour.
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Sirius paced nervously as he waited for them to arrive. The Potter's were also very nervous. James was pacing up and down and Lily was rushing around fixing up ties and coats. They were in the court room with the Wizengamot when Albus Dumbledore arrived. He looked calm and composed on the outside but on the inside it was a different story, he was a nervous wreck. Wondering what would happen, any deciding factors and what not.
It was half an hour until everything was scheduled to start when suddenly a group of people appeared in the middle of the court room. It was a while before the shock wore off but when it did a figure stepped forward and took off his hood. When they saw who it was the people gasped, it was Remus and he looked both powerful and angry at the same time.
"Hello James, Sirius,"
