Nineteen Years Later
A/n: Well, I'm on HP drive, that stands for both hyper and Harry Potter!!!!
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Fred was at wits' end, Paige hadn't turned up and now her F.U. coin wasn't responding, just like Sam's Bridgette's, Garry's and Clhaire's. There was no alternative, she had to be gone. He ran to Neville's office, ignoring the fact he had also called up Piper and J.P. When he reached Neville's office the door was open.
"I'm not here to stay." A female's voice came from within.
"Oh, please Luna!" Neville begged.
"There's no point pleading with me," Luna's voice suddenly went softer and possibly nervous; "I just came to see how you are."
"Still wishing I had hidden all your things." Neville replied.
"Wouldn't have done anything." Luna shrugged.
"Where have you been staying?" Neville questioned.
"I stayed with Cho up to Christmas, and then went to the Burrow, until Garry was taken. I had to go back to Cho's, help her with Cedric and Nathan. Good kids, it's just Cho…" Luna rambled.
"I love you Luna." Neville touched her hand.
"I love you too, but I don't love this place, and as long as you do, I can't be with you. As long as you love this place, call this place home, we're through." Luna shook her hand free, "I went to visit your mum and dad, you should try it sometime."
"We do have a house, you know." Neville grabbed her hands and forced her to look into his eyes.
"No-one ever goes there. It's cold and dark and feels wrong." Luna shivered at the thought, "I have to go now, I promised Cho."
Luna allowed Neville to kiss her cheek and then stepped into the fireplace. In a flash of green she was gone. Fred forgot why he had come; he hadn't realized things were so bad for the Longbottoms, or Cho and her band of 'misfits'. It hadn't ever felt right to ask Garry about his home life, he tended to block it out, but now that one of his brothers were with him it was obviously getting harder. It had never seemed right to ask if his mum was feeling alright, or how she was coping with two little children on her own.
"Fred, come in." Neville beckoned.
Fred stepped in slowly as he racked his brains for the reason he had come in the first place, then he remembered.
"Come to report another kidnap?" Neville frowned, Fred wasn't sure if this was him joking or what.
"I'm sorry, but this time it's Paige." Fred apologized, but he wasn't sure why, it wasn't his fault his cousin had gone.
Neville looked at him with deep sympathy and opened his mouth as if to say something but passed the thought. Fred watched him carefully, waiting to hear it.
"I'll contact her parents and the ministry, although I doubt Percy will like that." Neville said instead.
"Professor-Neville, do you-do you miss Samantha?" Fred stuttered, not sure if he should ask teacher's personal questions, but this was Neville Longbottom, his family's friend.
Neville, who had sat down at his desk and taken out his quill and two pieces of parchment, stopped and looked at him, his eyes were not sharp as Fred had expected, but soft and sad, "Of course I miss Samantha. I dread what it must be like for you, to have lost family and friends when I have just lost her."
"She's your daughter; you have a love of her that I may never know." Fred sighed.
"Expecting to go the same way as your uncle?" Neville asked.
"I have to go. I'm sorry Neville. I'm sorry about Luna too."
Fred ran off before Neville could question what he had said.
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"Mummy, what are you doing here?" Piper asked the older version of herself who was pacing outside Neville's office.
"I'm here to stop your father from killing Nev-Professor Longbottom." Piper's mother answered, her face shining with dried tears.
"Why should Daddy 'kill' Professor Longbottom?" Piper queried.
Her mother bit her lip, had she said too much?
"Mummy?" Piper's face creased with worry.
"Come on Penelope!" Percy Weasley stomped out of Neville's office, "Oh, hi Pipes." Percy managed to smile in the presence of his eldest daughter.
"Hi Daddy." Piper waved at Percy.
"I have to pay Fred and George a visit before we go so I'll see you in the summer." Percy avoided Piper's eyes.
"Bye Mummy. Bye Daddy." Piper whispered to her parents' retreating backs.
Why was everyone acting weird around her today?
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Piper stormed into the Gryffindor common room after curfew with a sour look on her face.
"Pipes?" Fred asked hesitantly, he was sitting with a rather long tedious essay for Professor Brown, his Divination teacher, about the importance of the Grim.
"Why are people acting weird around me today?" she took out her Defence Against the Dark Arts essay on the unforgivable curses.
"You mean no-one's told you?" J.P. had now sat beside Fred, and was trying to copy his essay, but throwing in a couple of his own made up words.
"Told me what?" Piper asked making sure she stared at J.P. who she knew would crack under pressure even if Fred did not.
"Um…well…you know…Paige…she…um…" J.P. stuttered under the force of Piper's gaze.
Fred gave him a look of disapprovement.
"Spit it out! What about Paige?" Piper snapped.
"She…um…" J.P. forced himself to look at her, "She's missing!" he blurted it out and scribbled down a few words to avoid being questioned more.
Piper shook her head in an annoyed fashion, as though there were a rather loud bee buzzing around her ears, but said nothing.
"Piper, it's okay to cry, y'know." J.P. smiled at her encouragingly.
"Why would I want to cry?" Piper blinked at him and settled down to write her essay.
Fred and J.P. exchanged looks of puzzlement.
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"I heard about Paige," Jack approached Piper just as she was packing up, "I'm sorry."
"Why should you be sorry?" Piper looked into the fireplace and dropped her quill absentmindedly.
Jack picked it up and handed it to her.
"Thank you." She muttered politely and tried to walk off, but Jack had hold of her arm.
"I wanted to be an Auror when I left school, Dad always said it was a good profession, but now do you know what I want to do?" Jack whispered to her.
Piper shook her head and headed up the stairs. Jack sighed, he was lovesick, and it was beginning to become apparent to his friends, and almost to his brothers.
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Jack tried to concentrate on the crate in front of him; he wanted 'monkey bars'. He waved his wand in a complicated pattern and the 'monkey bars' began to form out of the crate.
"Well done Jack." Professor Carmichael praised, "Don't forget to do the same in the exams."
"Thanks Sir." Jack grinned at his father/teacher and packed up his books.
He left without another word, stuck in thoughts of Piper and N.E.W.T.s.
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Wordlessly Piper filled her glass with water. She was aware Jack was watching her and made sure to bore him from up the table. Her movements were slow and relaxed, but her heart was going a mile a minute. Why was he watching her? She did not know. All she knew was he has been a lot nicer to her since he had beaten up Draco Anderson. Piper did not like Jack because he was too laid back and Jack did not like Piper because she was too up tight. The two could not be anymore different and bickered continuously. J.P. and Paige were sick of it as they got along fine.
"Pipes, are you aware Carmichael's watching you?" Kennedy Young grinned as she passed the Gryffindor table, "I'll bet my left eye that he 'lurves' you."
"Don't be silly Kennedy. He detests me." Piper shook the thought from her mind, "He pities me just now."
Kennedy's grin faded to a smile as she patted Piper's arm, "Hey I'm sorry about Paige. It completely slipped my mind that it's her birthday tomorrow."
Piper stared at Kennedy blankly, it had slipped he mind too.
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"Dad told me I'm doing great in Transfiguration, and at this rate I'll get an E." Jack told his friend Carl Peaks.
"You're so lucky to have the Transfiguration teacher as your dad." Carl bit his lip, "Why do you keep watching that Weasley girl? You don't-you don't like her do you?"
Jack shook his head hastily and Carl smiled.
"That's good; she's a right bossy boots." Carl laughed.
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J.P. sat in his dorm, he and Fred had both been given dorm confinement for the seventh time that year. This time for assisting Craig, Lucas and Bill in blowing up three toilets in succession. Somehow Craig, Lucas and Bill had gotten away with two and a half toilet seats, but Fred and J.P. had ended up with detention and dorm confinement.
"Do you think Jack likes, as in like likes, Piper?" J.P. asked Fred out of the blue.
"Jack hates Piper and Piper hates Jack. Everyone knows that." Fred pointed out.
"But Titchy Young's telling all the Hufflepuffs that Jack loves Piper." J.P. stated.
"Don't listen to Titchy Young. You know Jack way better that Titchy. You know he could never 'love' Piper." Fred laughed.
"I s'pose." J.P. shrugged.
"The person who's taking them is trying to destroy the Weasleys. I know they are." Fred voiced his thoughts although they were on a completely different subject.
"You can't know that."
"They want revenge for something."
"Stop it Fred!"
"Grandma Molly killed someone in the Hogwarts Battle."
"STOP IT FRED!"
"Grandpa Arthur did too. And Uncle Harry. Everyone did."
"FOR GOD'S SAKE FRED! SHUT UP!"
"We have to think about it, we'll probably have to stop it as the ministry isn't doing a damn thing about it. We could never see them again if we don't do something, Albus and Rose'll help. Maybe Lucas and Craig. Please J.P. I need you too."
"What're you talking about? What can we do?"
"Albus doesn't know about this, but remember that piece of parchment we nicked from James that you and Garry were sure had no use whatsoever. Well it's a map. A map."
"A map? What good's a map? We already know this place like you know the inside of Sam's mouth."
"The Marauders' Map. The Marauders are possibly the greatest pranksters that ever lived, with Dad and Uncle Fred coming a close second. Their map shows the movements of everyone in Hogwarts. We can watch Malfoy on it."
"Hold it…Malfoy…The pale faced kid?"
"Uh-uh!"
"Scorpius Malfoy? Why do you suspect him? It could be anyone!"
"It has to be someone within Hogwarts. The hiding place is within Hogwarts. And he has all the right connections. The right background."
"Just because his father and grandfather-"
"And grandmother. And her sister. His whole family were Death Eaters."
"I don't think he's the one."
"Let's see!"
Fred bent over his trunk, which looked burnt, and pulled out an old saggy piece of parchment. He laid it on the floor in front of himself and J.P. and set his wand in the middle.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Fred swore honestly.
From the point where his wand was black inked lines spread themselves out into the shape of Hogwarts. Fred quickly located Scorpius Malfoy who was sitting Slytherin common room in the dungeons. He was surrounded by others, such as Anna Anderson, Phoebe Kingston, Raphael Rodgers, Horace Peters and Sandy Young.
"Nothing outta the ordinary there." J.P. remarked, but as he spoke they all started walking.
The girls, Anna, Phoebe and Sandy went one way and the boys, Raphael, Horace and Scorpius went another.
"They've gone to bed-Bed. Are you happy?" J.P. exclaimed.
Fred looked at him sternly and they too went to bed.
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