Chapter 8
LPOV
I came out of the bathroom my eyes were puffy, but I continued on to my next class which was defense against the dark arts. When I got there the class was about to start I noticed it was another class I had with the Slytherins I sat next to a girl with light blonde hair and ice blue eyes. It took a minute but I recognized her it was Astoria she was reading a book not noticing anything around her. I continued to look at the front of the room when I felt a pair of eyes on me, I looked over to see Astoria's icy eyes looking at me.
"Um… Hello sorry for staring I know you must be getting that a lot. I'm Astoria though you probably wouldn't have met me in your time." She said, and I smiled at her.
"No we have met your son is dating my cousin Rose she's in Ravenclaw," I said, and then gasped. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that," I said, and she smiled a bit.
"Sorry didn't mean to make you tell me something you weren't supposed to, your not going to get in trouble are you?" She asked, looking somewhat worried and I remembered her family was one of the ones who remained neutral during the war.
"No we just didn't want to tell everything," I said, and she nodded then Professor Umbridge came in to the room and everyone settled down and was quiet.
"Good Morning!" She said, in an overly cheerful voice, she reminded me of a toad and was giving me a reason to hate pink more then ever. Only a few people said good morning but most stayed silent and I couldn't blame them she gave me the creeps.
"Now that just won't due I would like you to reply 'Good morning Professor Umbridge.' So one more time please. Good Morning class!" She said.
"Good morning Professor Umbridge," We said, back to her and I felt like I was back in primary school again.
"There now that wasn't so hard? Now take out your quills please?" She said, and I frowned I hated notes of any kind, words then appeared on the board:
Defense Against the Dark Arts A Return to Basic Principles
"Well now, your teaching in this subject has been rather disrupted and fragmented, hasn't it?" stated Professor Umbridge, turning to face the class with her hands clasped neatly in front of her.
"The constant changing of teachers, many of whom do not seem to have followed any Ministry approved curriculum, has unfortunately resulted in your being far below the standard we would expect to see in your OWL year.
"You will be pleased to know, however, that these problems are now to be rectified. We will be following a carefully structured, theory-centered, Ministry-approved course of defensive magic this year. Copy down the following, please." I frowned, and got ready to write
She rapped the blackboard again; the first message vanished and was replaced by: Course Aims:
1. Understanding the principles underlying defensive magic.
2. Learning to recognize situations in which defensive magic can legally be used.
3. Placing the use of defensive magic in a context for practical use.
For a few minutes the only sound heard in he room was the sound of quills scratching on parchment.
"Has everybody got a copy of Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard?" She asked, and there was a murmur throughout the class.
"I think we'll try that again," said Professor Umbridge. "When I ask you a question, I should like you to reply, 'Yes, Professor Umbridge', or 'No, Professor Umbridge'. So: has everyone got a copy of Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard?"
"Yes, Professor Umbridge," rang through the room and I nearly groaned, I also noticed that the list she put said nothing about practicing spells.
"Good," said Professor Umbridge. "I should like you to turn to page five and read 'Chapter One, Basics for Beginners'. There will be no need to talk." I frowned we rarely had to read from our book in class back home so I wasn't expecting us to here. I read the chapter and decided then that this was useless and that it had nothing to do with the dark creatures that we were supposed to learn about, so I raised my hand and Professor Umbridge looked at me surprised.
"You are supposed to be reading," She said in a sugar sweet voice, and all the students turned to look at me since I didn't put my hand down. "Well dear do you have a question about the chapter?" She asked, in the same sweet tone.
"No, I finished the chapter," I said.
"Well then read the next one then," She said, and I continued to speak.
"Actually I have a question about course aims," I said, and she raised an eyebrow.
"And your name is?"
"Lily Potter," I answered, and more of the students stared at me shocked and she smiled a bit.
"Well Miss Potter well I think the course aims are very clearly written up there if you just read them." She said, and I frowned I knew what they meant.
"Well, I don't it doesn't say anything about using defensive spells in class," I said, and she frowned at me.
"Using defensive spells?" Professor Umbridge repeated with a little laugh. "Why, I can't imagine any situation arising in my classroom that would require you to use a defensive spell, Miss Potter surely aren't expecting to be attacked during class?"
"Yes won't we need to learn them to pass our exams?" I asked and some of the students nodded but she still smiled.
"If you learn the theory then you should have no problem taking your exams," She said.
"Wait so the first time we are going to use the spells is during the exams?" A girl with dark curly hair said.
"Students must raise their hands before speaking in my class Miss..?"
"Vane," She said, as I raised my hand again.
"You have another question Miss Potter?" She said here voice sounded like it was now truing to be sweet.
"Yes, but the whole point of Defense Against the Dark Arts is to know how to protect ourselves if we get attacked?" I said, and Professor Umbridge looked shocked at my statement.
"Who would want to harm children like yourselves?" She asked in a concerned voice.
"I can think of a few people who would want to hurt kids our age like oh I don't know like Lord Voldemort." I said, and Astoria jumped from beside me, while a few of the other girls who were in my dorm squeaked and Professor Umbridge seemed to be trying really hard to smile.
"Now I would like to make this clear you were told that a certain dark wizard is back and I would like to tell you that it is a lie." She said, and I frowned and remembered dad telling me to keep my temper in control but I couldn't help it.
"That is a lie, we learn about the second war with Voldemort in my time," I said, and everyone looked at me and Professor Umbridge smiled at me.
"Well clearly your teacher is wrong because the ministry has assured everyone that He-who-must-not-be -named is not back.
"Well if Fudge says that Voldemort isn't back then we should believe him over the kid from the future," I said, and Professor Umbridge snapped.
"Detention with me tomorrow evening. Five o'clock. My office. I repeat the Ministry has assured you that He-who-must-not-be-named has not returned." She said, and I took a deep breath and calmed down before glaring at the book in front of me.
It was later that evening that I heard Aunt Angelina arguing with Dad about something and moved over to hear.
"How could you get detention Friday night at 5 o'clock?" She asked, raising her voice a bit.
"It's not like I want detention what do you expect me to do?" Dad asked, looking slightly stressed and annoyed.
"Convince her to let you go to the practice tell her You-know-who is a figment of your imagination just be there." She said and I decided to intervene before it got out of hand.
"You got detention on the first day back to Dad?" I asked moving closer to where they were sitting and Aunt Angelina looked at me shocked.
"Yes, but what I said was true," He said defending himself looking at Aunt Angelina who glared at him.
"Besides the point if it was right or not, why did she just call you Dad?" She asked, and I smiled at her.
"I'm one of the students who went back in time and his future daughter, nice to see you Aunt Angelina oh and my name is Lily." I said, and she just looked at me shocked and I smiled.
"Ok so you're his future daughter and why did you just call me Aunt Angelina?" She asked and I could see she was freaking out a bit.
"Yes and because you are my aunt," I said, as Lee, Uncle Fred and Uncle George came and sat near us the looked at Aunt Angelina's shocked expression.
"What did you do to her?" Uncle George said, looking at me.
"I just called her Aunt Angelina like I usually do in my own time and she freaked out, at least she didn't pass out like Aunt Hermione did." I said, and Aunt Hermione frowned at me.
"So you did you tell her which Weasley she marries?" Uncle Fred asked, and I shook my head and Aunt Angelina looked at me with her eyebrow raised.
"Who did I marry and did any of my kids come back in time with you?" She asked, and I smiled at her.
"You married Uncle George, and you only have two kids and they did come back in time. There's Fred and he is a 6th year in Gryffindor and Roxie who is a 4th year in Ravenclaw." I said, and she nodded still looking shocked.
"Well I think I'm going to go to bed because I am still a little shocked," She said getting up.
"Yeah well just wait till they start calling you Mum then you will really be shocked," Dad said, and I smiled a him, "So how was your first day?" Dad asked.
"I got detention with Professor Umbridge tomorrow evening at five o'clock," I said, and Uncle Fred and Uncle George smiled while Aunt Hermione frowned.
"What did you do to get detention?" She asked.
"I questioned her course aims and made a few remarks about Voldemort being back." I said, as Uncle Ron flinched at the name.
"Oh great you and I can bond in detention," Dad said, and I smiled and rolled my eyes detention was not the most fun place not that I knew I had never gotten detention.
"Wait you questioned the course aims too?" Aunt Hermione asked and I nodded as Mum came and sat down with us.
"Yes, we aren't even learning defensive spells I couldn't just sit there and she just made no sense at all so I lost my temper." I said, and Aunt Hermione nodded.
"Well I could keep my temper but you are right she made no sense at all." Aunt Hermione said, and I nodded before remembering something.
"Oh by the way Dad stay away from that Ravenclaw girl from the train," I said as I grabbed my bag and started to leave with my Dad looking at me shocked while everyone else just laughed at him. I walked to the library where Rose and Al were studying and I rolled my eyes it was only the first day how could they be studying?
"Hey you two why are you studying it is only the first day?" I asked, and Al looked at me like I was crazy and Rose smiled.
"We want to get the work done so that we will have time to study for our OWLs this year." She said, and I knew that this was her way of distracting herself from everything that happened.
"Ok, then what do you two know about Professor Umbridge she used to work at the ministry but she doesn't in our time." I asked, and Al looked up from his work and frowned.
"Well, she was put in Azkaban after the war for running the muggle-born registration during the war, she also made the laws against werewolves that Aunt Hermione changed." I nodded, well that did not make me like her at all, well I didn't like her before but now I think I might hate her.
"Hey did you notice that Uncle Harry doesn't have the scars on the top of his hand?" Rose asked, Al and I just frowned.
"Maybe he got them sometime in the future," I said, and Rose nodded.
"So have you mentioned anything about the future to anyone?" Al asked, and I frowned why did he assume that I would tell?
"I accidentally told Astoria about Rose dating her son but that is it and I told Aunt Angelina about Fred and Roxie which I should because hey will call her Mum and that would freak her out." I said, and Al nodded at the Aunt Angelina thing while Rose frowned at what I told Astoria.
"We aren't supposed to tell everything Lily," She said, and my frown deepened.
"I know it slipped out ok now I am going to leave you to your studying," I said, getting up and leaving the library, I walked out down the hall toward the Hufflepuff common room, when I got half way there I heard a sobbing sound, I walked over to one of the staircases and saw Molly sitting there crying on the steps.
"Molly are you alright?" I asked, and she hiccupped looking at me.
"Dad abandoned the family, how could he do that to everyone? I mean in our time he is all about family, and not to let them go." She sobbed, and I hugged her.
"I don't know why he left the family but clearly he came back and regretted leaving." I said, and she nodded still crying, I continued to hug her while she cried till she wiped her eyes.
"I have to go thanks for being her for me Lily," I nodded and got up as she smiled at me before walking off as she did I got an idea. I checked my watch for the time and saw that I had thirty minutes before curfew so I immediately ran out to the owlery when I got there I notice it was starting to get dark.
"Lumos," I said, holding out my wand and it glowed, I grabbed a piece of parchment and my quill and ink and started to write.
Dear Uncle Bill,
I need you to do something for me and if you don't want to do it at least ask someone to do it please! I need you to talk to Uncle Percy and tell him about Molly and Lucy. Molly is upset about him abandoning the family, maybe if she can talk to him she might feel better. I don't really know but he deserves to know about them while they are here.
Love Lily
I folded the note and called one of the owls down and gave them the letter and told him where to go before going back down to the common room.
BPOV (Bill's POV)
"Zat is very funny," Fleur laughed, as I told her one of the stories from when I was a teenager.
"Yeah I guess, but I was grounded for the rest of the summer and as your English teacher I should remind you it is that not zat." I said, and she smiled looking at the window.
"Um Bill I zink you 'ave mail," She said, pointing to the mail and I looked over to see and owl that I didn't recognize at my window. I frowned wondering who it was from and got up opening the window the owl came and held out it's leg. I grabbed the letter and opened it.
Dear Uncle Bill,
I need you to do something for me and if you don't want to do it at least ask someone to do it please! I need you to talk to Uncle Percy and tell him about Molly and Lucy. Molly is upset about him abandoning the family, maybe if she can talk to him she might feel better. I don't really know but he deserves to know about them while they are here.
Love Lily
I frowned talking to Percy was not something I wanted to do and I didn't think I could do it without losing my temper, I was considering asking Dad if he could but knew he was to proud to maybe Tonks would do it.
"Bill are you ok?" A voice shock me out of my thoughts and I noticed Fleur was sitting on my couch.
"Um, yeah sorry just zoned out," I said and she smiled at me looking at the letter.
"Who is ze letter from?" She asked, and I immediately froze not sure how to put it, I didn't know if I should tell her but she did have a right to know about it.
"It might be hard to explain who it is from," I said and she frowned at me and I couldn't help but feel somewhat sad I couldn't tell her.
"I might understand," She said, and I smiled and sat down.
"Ok but don't say I didn't warn you. Now this summer we went to get Harry from his relatives when we got back these kids popped out of nowhere. So we interviewed them and found out that they were well sort of our future kids." I said, but stopped because her eyebrow rose and I smiled.
"A group of kids came to your 'ouse and said zey were your future kids? And you believed zem?" She said, looking at me like I had lost my mind.
"Well we had them talk to Dumbledore and he believes them also they look a lot like there parents." I said, smiling remembering how much Vic looked like Fleur.
"So, who is the letter from?" She asked, again and I smiled at her.
"Harry's daughter she wants me to do something for her or ask someone to do it for her." I said, and Fleur nodded.
"So who did you marry in ze future?" She asked, and I looked at her she looked somewhat scared at the answer.
"So beautiful French woman with long blond hair and amazing blue eyes," I said, and she smiled at me looking a little excited.
"We get married?" She asked, and I smiled at her.
"Yup the kids look like you all have blonde hair and blue eyes," I said, and she smiled at me blushing a bit.
"We should get back to our English lesson zen you can tell us about our kids." She said, smiling and I nodded.
TPOV (Tonks POV)
I walked through the ministry offices looking for Percy, Bill had asked me to tell him about Molly and Lucy. I ask why did he ask me? I looked around till I found him I can't believe I missed that hair and walked over to him.
"Hello Percy," I said, somewhat coldly and he looked at me and then recognized me.
"Hello Tonks what bring you up here?" He asked, sounding a bit pompous.
"I am guessing you heard about the kids that traveled back in time?" I asked, knowing that it was common knowledge in the ministry.
"Yes, I do Dolores mentioned that Harry's future daughter is trouble." He said, and I frowned she seemed like a sweet kid.
"Well you should know that two of the girls that came our your future daughters, they are named Molly and Lucy. I came to tell you about them because Lily, Harry's daughter asked, someone to because Molly is upset about you leaving your family." I said, seeing him flinch when I mentioned him leaving his family.
"My daughters?" He said, sounding shocked.
"Yup," I said, and he nodded.
"Well um thank you for telling me I have to go do some work," He said, walking away and I walked away, maybe he would come back or at least talk to his kids.
PPOV (Percy POV)
I was already regretting leaving my family something I knew I shouldn't have done but I was upset that my family wasn't happy for me. I always worked hard and when it came through they accused it of getting close to Dumbledore not of me actually being able to do the work. I walked into the office and sat at my desk wondering what I should do about my daughters, I knew I couldn't keep them from my family and that I shouldn't even try it wasn't right but I couldn't just swallow my pride. Maybe I should try to talk to my daughters maybe they cold help me, I got up to talk to the minister, I walked to the his office and knocked on the door and waited while he said to come in.
"Ah Percy did you get those papers finished?" He asked, and I frowned I knew I forgot something.
"No, I haven't yet but I wanted to ask you something, I found out that the two of the time travelers are my future daughters-" I started but he interrupted.
"Really they are?" He asked, eagerly.
"Yes well that is what a friend who was there when they appeared said," I said, and he smiled.
"Good Percy then you can convince them to tell everyone that Voldemort isn't back. A few of the other ones are saying that he is back." He said, and I frowned if the kids from the future were saying that he was back then he must be back.
"Well I was hoping that I could go and talk to them today to straighten some things out." I said, and he smiled.
"Yes, yes why don't you do that don't tell Dumbledore I sent you." He said, and I left and went to the fire place outside my office, I grabbed some floo dust and stepped in the fire place.
"Dumbledore's Office," I spoke before the flames enveloped me.
Ok so I wrote more in this chapter because I had so much to do and I couldn't just do it is separate chapter. So please review.