The next day on Christmas Eve I am told that I would be attending the Ministry Yule party then on Christmas would be the Malfoy Yule Party. I wake up early in the morning and the first thing I do is call Vlad. "Wait here a moment." Vlad nods and stays where he is while I go and change into some clothes.
When I return I am happy to see him still there. "My two guests will still need to be taken care of. I want you to get them some beds to sleep on, some clean clothes to change into and some food." He bows and snaps his fingers making them appear. "Good. Follow me." I open my trunk and lead the elf inside where the two of them are. "Bring it all in." the elf snaps his fingers and the beds appear, each with a change of clothes and a tray of food on them. "You will bring them food and clothes every day until it is time for the ritual. If they request a shower or bath you will take them to my personal bathroom to wash up. They are my guests."
"Um… excuse me… I don't mean to be rude… but do you have Bi-polar?" Ethan asks.
"No. I had a long day yesterday and was tired and stressed."
"So you killed Ellie?"
"Ellie wasn't working for my plans. I have the real Jasmine Potter here so this ritual will go better now. Eat, get dressed. If you need anything Call Vlad and he'll come help. He won't let you out and he won't do anything that might harm anyone." And with that I leave.
Most of the day I spend reading about and preparing for the ritual. After I've done what I can for the potion I begin carving runes into the rune stones I would be making a circle with. I also collect all the memories I have into little vials and put them in a protective case with my name on it. Once I got my memories done I go help Cadmus collect his memories and I put his in a separate case.
Finally I'm climbing out of my potions lab when Narcissa comes in. "We need to get you ready." She was already dressed and looking amazing. I nod and go get my dress which she helps me get on. Then I pull on my stockings and my shoes. "Before I do your hair can I take a picture of you as Trixie?" I nod once then close my eyes and focus on changing to look like me.
I smile for the camera and stand tall and proud while she takes the picture. I see her eyes get watery. "I thought I would never get to see the real you again."
"I'm here, Aunt Cissy. I'll always be here when you need me to… unless I'm at school or in New York for the summer." Aunt Cissy laughs and pulls me into a hug.
When she pulls away I change my look back to being Jasmine Potter and allow Aunt Cissy to fix my hair up. She fixes her make up then we go into Cissa's room to help her. My baby sister. She looks pretty in her dress. Like a princess.
The three of us walk down to see Lucius, Draco and Cadmus in their dress robes with slick hair and perfect aristocratic posture. We all pull on our traveling cloak then Lucius asks his wife "Shall we go?" Narcissa nods once and the six of us disappear only to reappear at the Minister's Mansion.
We walk down the drive and up to the large doors where we are greeted by Aurors standing guard. "Lucius!" Exclaims the minister as he sees us. "It's so wonderful to see you again! Narcissa, you look lovely as ever." He says while taking her hand and kissing the back of it with a bow.
"Thank you, Cornelius." She says pleasantly.
"And who are these fine young people?"
"I'm sure you remember our son, Draco, and our niece, Cissa."
"Yes of course. It's a pleasure to see you both again."
"These two are Draco's friends as school, Evan Potter and Jasmine Potter."
"Potter?"
"Harry is our brother sir." Cadmus informs him blankly with a bow. "It is a pleasure to meet you." I give a small curtsy as well.
"The pleasure is all mine. Now I have the whole Potter family her! And the black family as well! So wonderful! Andromeda, I'm so glad that you could make it!"
"Hello, Minister. Sorry I'm late, Ted was starting to get a cold and Dora broke her foot trying to get him soup. It's a long story." I scowl darkly before it turns into a gentle smile while I turn to look at the woman who just came in.
"Andromeda!"
"Hello, Jasmine." Then she sees who I'm with and her face turns stony. "Are you going to introduce me?"
"This is Lord and Lady Malfoy, Their son and one of my best friends, Draco, and here's Evan. And of course I can't forget Cissa. With a face like that nobody could ever forget someone so adorable." I smile while pulling Cissa into a hug. She giggles and pulls away before stepping forward.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." She curtsies. Andromeda gasps and I see her eyes start to glisten a bit.
"You are quite adorable, Aren't you?" She says softly. Pain is clear in her voice to anyone who has known her personally. "I would love to see a twirl from such a beautiful princess." Cissa giggles and twirls for Andy who smiles at seeing the girl so happy. Andy's eyes flicker up to Aunt Cissy's and she goes blank face again. "If you all will excuse me I think I will go find my cousin before he spikes the punch." And with that Andy walks swiftly away.
"Why doesn't mother just stay with us for once." Cissa frowns. We all turn to her.
"How did you know she was your mother?"
"The way she looked at me told me. Like she wanted to grab ahold of me and never let go again. If she wants me so bad why does she leave?"
"She doesn't know what's best for her." Aunt Cissa sighs. "Come I shall take you to the children's room."
We follow Narcissa through the crowd to the sideroom where everyone under the age of seventeen are at. Draco goes and greets his other friends followed by Cadmus, Cissa goes and spends some time with Lyra Greengrass, and I go sit at a table by myself. I do not remain alone, however, when Daphne Greengrass soon comes over. "Well you seem to be enjoying yourself. May I join you?"
"You may." I state while gesturing to the seat to my left. She sits. "So how are you this fine evening?"
"I'm tired of parties already and I have three more to attend."
"How unfortunate. I only have two more but I don't think the Potter one counts so really only one more."
"Lucky you. I have to attend to find myself potential suitors."
"At eleven years old?"
"Father likes to plan far ahead."
"None of these children are worth having you." I state calmly. "None of these prissy boys could handle you."
"Maybe it doesn't have to be a boy then." She tells me with a smile then says "If you'll excuse me I have yet to dance with Draco." And she gets up to leave.
"Hello." I look up to see Blaise Zabini standing in front of me. "Would you care to dance?"
"I would love to, Mr. Zabini."
"Please, call me Blaise." He smiles as he leads me onto the dance floor.
I'm Blaise and I dance to three songs before finally James Potter sees. "Jasmine! Get away from that boy!" I step away and turn to see James, Lily and Harry all storming over. "It is bad enough that you are in Slytherin and now we find out you're consorting with the children of death eaters."
"It's not a big deal, Father, we were only dancing."
"I do not want you talking to them!"
"Please, father, what are they going to do? Force me to go muggle hunting? Like I would even if they asked me."
"I don't like this attitude of yours."
"I don't have an attitude, father."
"You are an arrogant little brat and need to learn not to expect everyone to put their attention on you. What were you thinking outflying your brother?"
"I thought this was about my friends."
"It's about all of it! Everything since you went to Slytherin. You are in a dangerous place and I don't want you there. They're nothing but death eaters. All Slytherins are evil."
"But Death eaters didn't only come from Slytherin."
"They did too—"
"So Peter Pettigrew wasn't the fourth Marauder before he joined You-know-who?"
"Peter was different. We'll talk about this when we get home, let's go."
"No. I'm here enjoying the holidays with my friends. Evan and I will see you the day after Christmas. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to get some refreshments."
"Allow me to escort you, Miss Potter." Blaise holds out his arm which I take and allow him to lead me to the refreshment table.
I somehow end up sitting between a chattering Cissa and a silent Draco. I have no idea where Cadmus went. Suddenly I look up to see Andromeda standing in front of our table. "May I sit here for a moment?"
"Of course." I say. "Cissa, Talk to Andromeda." I say but the moment the girl saw the woman she falls silent. "Now she stops." I groan.
"Cissa, I know you won't remember me… I haven't seen you since the day you were born… I'm your mother."
"I know. I saw how you looked at me when we met."
"Okay. So if you ever need someone to talk to or a place to get away for a while, my door is always open."
"And if you ever want to come to your senses and be a family again, our door is open." Andromeda leaps out of her chair and turns to look at Lucius and Narcissa. "Until then Cissa will stay with us until she's old enough to move out."
"I want my daughter back." Andromeda demands.
"Then why don't you go to Dumbledore and ask for Bellatrix and Andromeda back. I'm sure they'd love to meet their little sister. Maybe they'll want to stay with us as well."
"You won't get away with this. You kidnapped her."
"She's our god-daughter and you were in no state to care for a new born child. Narcissa and I have done a wonderful job with Cissa." Lucius says calmly. Andromeda glares at them then glances sadly down at Cissa before turning and heading for the door.
"Are you children alright?"
"I'm sad. I want her to come home." Cissa says.
"So do I."
The rest of the party went by fast and the next day—after unwrapping Christmas presents which included books, clothes, and a pensieve—I go to my potion's lab where I check on the potion. Seeing it's fine I work on other potions to get my stock of many potions filled until Vlad appears. "Lady Malfoy wishes to see Mistress."
"Thank you, Vlad. Go see if my guests need anything." He disappears. I finish filling my potions bottles with pepper-up potion and set them in my stock area before exiting from the trunk. "Is it time to dress, Aunt Cissy?"
"It is." I nod and go get the dress on and we do the party thing all over except with no dramatic scenes because the potters and Andromeda aren't there.
The next day after breakfast I go pack all of my things into my trunk except for what was already in the room and I go down the stairs to see the only one we're waiting on is Cadmus. I see Cissa crying and I set my trunk go over and I check on her. "What's wrong?"
"I don't want you to leave." She sobs.
"I don't want to go either, Cissa, but if I don't then my father will punish me."
"Will I see you again?"
"I don't know. He seemed rather cross with me."
"Don't go, Jasmine!"
"I must, Cissa." Cadmus comes down as well.
"Please stay!"
"We must go, Cissa. Please, don't cry. You still have Belladonna. Whenever you miss me just look at her and you'll remember me." I hug the girl.
Cadmus gets some hugs as well then we floo away through the many fireplaces until we end up in Potter Manor. "Mother, Father! We're home!" all is silent for a moment then Lily comes into the room.
"This way. We have something to discuss with you both." Cadmus and I look at each other with worry then follow her into the dining room where Professor Dumbledore, Professor Snape, James, Remus, Sirius, Harry and Lily were all gathered. Cadmus and I go sit as well.
"What is this?"
"We've decided that for health reasons Slytherin is not the best house for you. Therefore we are having you both re-sorted and will inform the Hat that Slytherin is not an option for the both of you."
"What!" I exclaim. "You can't do that! He can't do that, can he professor?" I turn to Snape.
"As your parent it is perfectly within his rights to request that you be re-sorted if he feels you are failing in either health or academics. Seeing as your current overall grade is perfect he has decided to claim health." Snape glares at James. "I cannot prevent his decision."
"Why are you doing this?" Cadmus demands. "We're perfectly happy where we are!"
"They're doing it because they don't like the fact that we made the front page of every Newspaper and Magazine for being Potters in Slytherin and for being better at Quidditch then our idiot brother." I sneer. "They care as much about us as they do that vase there. It's been broken five times."
"That's not true! We love both of you and care very much! That is why we're doing this. You'll understand when you're older." Lily reasons. "Now you have the choice of being sorted now or wait until the first day of school."
"I'll wait. I want the entire school to know that we don't agree with this decision. It doesn't matter what house we're re-sorted into we are slytherin and we are proud of it." And with that Cadmus and I went down to our rooms in the dungeons where we stay the rest of the break. We only leave our rooms to visit each other. This extra time alone gives me a chance to work on our memories for our soon to be replacements in this messed up family. I'm able to fabricate images in my mind and make them realistic with my magic. I have Cadmus help me get all of the ones for Evan done as well.
On January 2nd we all return to Hogwarts and that night at dinner Cadmus and I sit as far away from the other Slytherins as possible both of them looking upset but they won't talk to anyone. Finally when everyone is there Dumbledore stands for an announcement. "Welcome back everyone! Before we have dinner I have been informed that Professor James Potter is unhappy with his children being in Slytherin and has decided it is unhealthy for them to be there so he and his wife have requested that Jasmine and Evan Potter be re-sorted—" he barely gets the words out when the entire Slytherin table erupts into angry shouts and complaints. "Silence! The board of Governors were already approached and there was no possible way for them to decline the request therefore Jasmine and Evan will both be resorted. Professor McGonnagall if you will please."
McGonagall steps up to the front of the room and calls "Evan Potter." Evan walks up with an expression of pure rage on his face.
All is silent for a moment then the hat shouts "RAVENCLAW!" Evan steps aside rather than joining the blue table.
"Jasmine Potter!" I walk up and allow my magic to radiate anger off of me while staring at James and Lily with pure hatred.
"Ah, Miss Drake. I see you've discovered your true identity. This plan you are crafting is truly genius. Salazar would be proud."
"I require to be in Ravenclaw." I mutter.
"I can see that. Yes, Ravenclaw works perfectly for the Potter duo. Good luck with your plan while in RAVENCLAW!" I hat is removed and Cadmus and I head back to the Slytherin table.
"Children, I insist you move to your own house table."
"Coat us in blue and stick an eagle on our robes and we're still Snakes, professor. A wardrobe change cant change that." I state coldly.
"You are Ravenclaws now—"
"Maybe tomorrow, headmaster. Tonight my brother and I will be spending dinner with our true house… our true family."
"I demand that you join the correct table. You belong in—"
"Slytherin, Headmaster! That is where we were sent the first time! That is where we belong! I don't care what you say I will NEVER be a true Ravenclaw!" I declare proudly before taking a seat next to Draco with Cadmus at my side.
Dinner is a silent and awkward affair and after dessert we are told to head to our dorms but Evan and I are held back by the Slytherins as each one of them wanted to give us a hug. They all lined up in a single row with the first years in front and took turns hugging us before heading down to bed. The last one to us was Flint. "I guess you both will be on the blue team then."
"No hard feelings, Flint?"
"Don't beat us too bad."
"We'll lose on purpose if we have to." I grin. He laughs and hugs me before moving on to Cadmus. Once Flint is gone Cadmus and I turn to see a Ravenclaw Prefect waiting for us. "Well what are you waiting for, Bookworm, lead us to the dorms. I want to get some sleep and hopefully avoid the worst of you nerds." The prefect scowls and leads us to the entrance to Ravenclaw tower.
"You need to knock three times and answer a riddle to get inside." The prefect snaps then steps back to watch.
I step forward and knock on the door. "A hungry donkey was tied to a rope eight feet long. About thirty feet away there was a basket of fresh carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots. How did he reach them?" comes a voice from the door.
"Obviously the donkey wasn't tied to anything else." I sigh with boredom. The door swings open and Evan and I follow the prefect in. "Is that the best your door has? I hears that one so many times I can and have answered it in my sleep." I drawl. Every student turns and stares. "What." I snap.
"Um… welcome to Ravenclaw. I'm—"
"David Crowings. Chaser, Quidditch Captain, left handed. You glance at the hoop you're going for before you throw. You also have several other tell signs but I'm not going to list them all right now."I state which gains me shocked looks. "What is it you want?"
"Our Keeper quite and we have a chaser out on injury for the rest of this year. Would you two fill in?"
"Fine. Now where do we sleep."
As soon as I'm directed to my new room I close the door and lock it. All Ravenclaws have their own room and it stays that way all seven years so that the Ravens can study in silence. This works for me perfectly because now nobody will bother me while I prepare for the ritual.
School started up again the next day and I go through the motions, over the next few days, purposely allowing my grades to drop while in my free time I work hard on the ritual preparations. Finally the day come that the potion is ready. January seventh I finish the potion and then go down for breakfast in my Ravenclaw robes that hold fourteen different Slytherin pins. "It's done." I mutter to Cadmus. "We'll finish this tonight."
"I just found out that Dumbledore is guarding the Sorcerer's stone on the forbidden third floor corridor."
"Sounds like something we'll take care of before we leave."
"Deal." He replies. We eat in silence until James and Lily Potter come over.
"Take those pins off."
"It won't happen." He tries to summon them but nothing happens. "Only I can take them off."
"Take them off."
"Not doing it."
"Ten points from Ravenclaw for disobeying a teacher."
"So?"
"20 points for talking back to a teacher."
"I don't care." I decide before going back to my food. I struggle not to laugh at how red his face gets.
"100 points from Ravenclaw!" she shouts and all of the goes quiet as they turn to look.
"Is that is?"
"Detention Friday night with Lily."
"Wonderful."
"For the rest of the Term."
"Can't wait." James growls in frustration and stomps away while I continue to smirk after him. Then I turn to the head table "Professor Flitwick I found that picture of your wife and son you were missing!"
"200 points to Ravenclaw!" Flitwick squeaks and summons the picture from my hand.
I go through the day like normal then as I head down for dinner I hide my bag in an empty classroom. After dinner I say that I forgot my bag in the classroom and I drag Cadmus with me. Once we're alone I lead him up to the room I had found.
I close the door, lock it, and then place privacy and protection spells on the room so we wouldn't be heard or caught. "You ready for this?" I ask him. He nods.
I grab my bag and my trunk out of it and unshrink it before pulling out everything I needed for the ritual. The ward stones and candles are set in a circle around the cauldron. After a few moments of chanting the potion is ready. I pull out two vials of it and hand one to Cadmus. We add the hair of our parents first then the hair of their parents and then the memories we made. I have Cadmus hold my bottle while I went into my trunk and got the two people inside.
We have them both sit on the floor on either side of the circle and I hand my vial to Jasmine while Cadmus hand his to Ethan. "Drink them." I say." they look at each other nervously then turn to their potions and drain them.
Thank Morgana I had the good sense to cast a silencing charm around the room. Both of them begin to scream in pain although Jasmine's isn't as bad. "What do we do now?" Cadmus asks me in worry. I look in the book.
"Nothing. Now we wait and watch." I sigh.
We wait for several hours while the two of them writhe in pain. It's several hour later and still they're both in extreme pain and three professors have passed by calling their names already. "When will this end?"
"I have no idea, Cousin." I sigh and lean against the wall "This is the first time I changed someone's entire identity inside and out."
"I think Jasmine is done."
"What about an alibi for where they've been?"
"Chance Logan lost his cat and they were chacing it. They found it but realized they were lost and struggled to find their way back."
"Chance lost his cat?"
"Not exactly." I say. just then my book bag moves and I prod it with my wand "Hush, Sylvester."
"You stole his cat?"
"Jasmine and Evan will give him back. it's not stealing, just borrowing without permission."
"That's stealing."
"Cadmus, don't be so uptight. We're going to give the beast back." I sigh.
"Alright."
It's about dinner time when Evan stops screaming. Looking at their faces I can see the transformations worked. They looked exactly the way we do. "I dunno. I recon I'm better looking than him."
"I can hear you." Evan groans as he sits up. "What the… who are you? Why do you look like me?"
"It's a long story."
"You remember that we did a ritual?"
"Of course." Jasmine sighs while sitting up "Why else would I willingly lie on the floor?"
"Alright. The ritual worked." We hand them the wands we got at Ollivanders. "Cast the lumos charm." They do and I'm happy to see it worked. "Good. Now." I pull two shrunken trunks from my pocket and unshrink them. "School trunks these have one extended compartment for your things, one Closet for your clothes and a library of books. I made a copy of all our books for you and all the clothes you'll wear are in there. Any questions?"
"What's our story for why they couldn't find us?"
"You got lost tracking down Chance Logan's cat." I say while pulling the cat out of my bag and calming it by petting it.
"You stole his cat?"
"Why does everyone keep saying that?"
"Because you stole his cat."
"I will kill you." I glare at Evan.
"No you won't I'm important to your plan. If you were going to kill me you wouldn't have done a ritual on me. What ritual was it anyway?"
"Long story, not enough time. take the cat shrink your trunks and go." I say. they scowl at me stapping at them but do as I said anyway.
"They listened to you?"
"I modified the ritual."
"How?"
"I laced the imperious curse into the series of enchantments I was using."
"That's illegal."
"So is the Cruciatus and the killing curses. I used both of them on that muggle girl. I do what I have to for my family. It was necessary."
"Just don't get caught."
"We won't." I gather my things up, shrink my trunk, put it in my bag then turn to Cadmus. "Ready?" I ask him while holding out an old quaffle.
"To New York?"
"Start spreading the news."
"We're leaving today. Yeah, let's do this." And as soon as he touches it we're gone without a trace.