Five minutes to the second, after the aurors left, the fireplace lit up and out walked the Minister of Magic. "Cornelius. Good evening I hope." Dumbledore stood up and shook his hand. "Albus, so good to see you. Now about this meeting." Snape left the room and returned with a bottle of Fire whiskey. He poured four shots and even handed one to me. I thanked him quietly and quickly tipped it back. Maybe if I could get out of here I could find a few bottles of that, or maybe something just as strong. "Well apparently Ms.-" "Evangeline Discordia Black." I said. I don't really know why I changed it but I knew I had family who wasn't associated with the Dark Lord on that side of my family. "As I was saying, apparently Ms. Black is a hidden prophet. It was even kept from her and suppressed when she was at school by using dreamless sleep potions. She just made a prophecy about an hour ago. That's why the head of the Department of Mysteries has been summoned." Just as Dumbledore was saying this the fireplace came alive again and out stepped an older looking gentleman with white hair and a beard almost as long as Dumbledore's.
"Hello Dumbledore. Cornelius, Snape." He said looking around the room before his eyes stopped on me. "Hello, Jonathan. I have something for you. Three things, really. One is a memory of Severus's. It is of the most recent prophecy made by Ms. Black. I have reason to believe it involves You-Know-Who." He said the name so as to not offend his guests. "The other two are from Draco Malfoy's memory. He was with her when she made them. You may also want to visit her parent's memories to make sure we have them all." I stood up on shaking legs. I thought my knees where going to give out on me. "Can I help you with something Ms. Black?" Dumbledore asked sitting down behind the desk.
"Yes. I want a dreamless sleep potion and then I want to go to my dorm and spend the rest of my year as inconspicuously as possible. I don't want anything about this to get out to the students and I want to keep living my life as it has been for the past seventeen years. But I highly doubt that I will get any of those things so I'm going to go to my common room, bribe some kids out of the corner chairs next to the fireplace, and get what little sleep I can. Good night Headmaster. Good night Professor Snape. Good night Minister, and good night head of whatever." I made it to the doorway of Snape's classroom before I was stopped.
"I'm sorry to inform you but this changes things completely. We are going to send you to a safe house, and you will be tutored from there. You are not allowed to contact anyone outside of those who we tell you. That is for your own safety. You will finish your schooling there and will be alerted about the happenings of what is going on. You leave tomorrow." I let my knees give and sat on the floor. I could feel the tears start pouring out of my eyes, but I couldn't bring myself to care. Everything was going to change. "What about Thomas?" I had forgotten but when I thought about everyone being in jail I realized he was the only on that I cared about who wasn't in with the Dark Lord. "Thomas? My dear, who might I ask is Thomas?" Cornelius spoke up from the doorway to Snape's office. "Thomas Dooley. He is my cousin and the only family I have left." I said choking on my words. "He was a student here at Hogwarts. He graduated last year." Dumbledore filled the Minister in. "I wrote him but he hasn't replied yet. I'm worried about him." The Minister cleared his throat. "I'll go and fetch him Dumbledore. It would be good to have him around." He disappeared through the doorway and I heard the fireplace.
"Join us back in the office?" Dumbledore asked from behind me. I didn't trust my voice right now so I nodded my head. He helped me up and back into the office chair. Snape poured me another drink, which I quickly downed. We had been waiting about ten minutes when the Minister's head appeared in the fireplace. "Dumbledore, I think you should see this." He said before he disappeared. "Severus, pour her another drink and keep her here." Dumbledore said before stepping through the fireplace.
I had two more drinks before Snape gave me the bottle. It was an hour before Dumbledore returned. "Severus, give her one of the potions and let her go to sleep in the room in my study. Keep her away from the others." I was drunk. I'll admit that. I couldn't even remember my own name by the time I was being led up the stairs.
