I just ran into an old friend from high school a couple of days ago, and he told me his girlfriend gave birth a couple months ago… my friend is a ginger with brown eyes, his girlfriend is a brunette with green eyes (and she has freckles) – their daughter has his hair and her mom's everything else… my friend's daughter is a ginger, with green eyes, and freckles. She has red hair, green eyes, and freckles… her name? Lily! My friend and his girlfriend named their ginger daughter who has green eyes and freckles; Lily! So this is how he tells me… "Oh, Ev, you're gonna love this one. So my chick gave birth a couple months ago!" me: "Oh, wow, congrats!" him: "Yeah, it's cool, whatever. But I totally thought of you… So my daughter, she has my hair, and my chick's eyes. She's even got her freckles. Poor thing has my brother's nose, but I guess she's still cute. But guess what-" me: "…" him: "We named her Lily!" my jaw dropped, and he grinned, "Now, do you know why I thought of you? You're the only one I know who would understand it. I tried calling you, but you changed your number." Me: "I love you! Let me be your mistress! I will raise that child as my own, and I will love her. Your girlfriend's a whore – never liked her. You belong with me, and I will buy our child her very first broom. We will love her no matter what. I gotta call my mom; I need to tell her I have a daughter now. Where is this perfect, beautiful child of yours? I am her godmother, I am her mother, I am her best friend… hurry up, buy your things, we need to have a class reunion and find out if anyone has a son named James!"

So yeah, it was amusing, I was a bit excited, and my friend even sent me pictures of Lily – she's adorable… just thought I'd share some happy news with you guys… now enjoy this story(:

Changing History

The next two weeks were filled with much planning from all sides.

Because Draco couldn't let it be known he was now a part of Dumbledore's Army; he's been coming to only the late night training sessions when Tonks and Remus were showing up to train the young Order members. It was hard for him to continue acting like the pompous arse he's always been, but everyone would have been suspicious if they noticed the change in him. He continued to pick on Hermione for being a Mudblood, and he continued to tease Luna for being so loony while they were out in the public, but at night the three of them were close. Not as close as he and Ginny were though. Living with the memories of his future, Draco understood his bond with the youngest Weasley, and he craved the friendship that he wasn't meant to have yet. Ginny listened as he told her about the movie night dates the two of them would always have, and she even laughed when he told her about a dream he had that showed the two of them pranking George because they were fed up with him always pranking them. Things were changing quickly, and Draco was happier than he's ever been in this lifetime.

Blaise and Seamus continued to secretly meet whenever they had the chance, and now that their friends knew about them they were allowed to be together during their training sessions and meetings. It was only in class, and around the publicity of Hogwarts, that they had to continue sneering at each other, and pretending to hate the other person. Harry, Ron, and Neville hardly spoke. All of their free moments were spent with training. They were determined to make it out of the Ministry alive, and they felt there wasn't enough time to prepare them… no matter how much they knew.

Snape and McGonagall continued trying to protect all the students against Umbridge, but it was proving futile – the new headmistress had so many rules and decrees that it was impossible to prevent students from getting a detention. Remus and Tonks continued showing up every night for training, and once in a while they would even bring Bill or Charlie Weasley.

When Bill wasn't meeting with Fleur, working at Gringotts, or showing up for late night training sessions at Hogwarts, he was watching Tonya at Grimmauld Place. He, Sirius, and Remus all noticed how the younger girl took to treating a certain notebook like a bible. They didn't know for sure what was in it, but they all had their suspicions. Their suspicions were what made them push even harder to find a way into the Lestrange vault.

Remus told everybody about Draco knowing the complete truth, and the twins were proud of him when they heard he was now training and meeting with everyone else. The only ones in the dark about everything were Tonya and Lucius. Charlie was the only one who was hesitant about Draco knowing, but once Remus went into detail about Draco's breakdown that first day, and Tonks started to praise Draco's quick learning ability, he started to come around.

Everyone noticed that three people were always missing: the twins and Kreacher. It was strange not seeing the twins laughing in the sitting room, or stuffing their faces in the kitchen, but they refused to come down. They claimed they were working on something important, and that it had a deadline. Kreacher's disappearance was odd too. Tonya was positive that he wasn't betraying them like the Kreacher in the past did, but they didn't know where he was. He always returned to make sure they had their meals ready for them, but they never saw him around anymore. Nobody said it out loud, but they were all worried that the future Harry was calling him back to them. The future needing him could mean only one thing – they caught the killer and needed help.

Tonya remained locked in her room most of the time as well, but occasionally she would pop her head out and check on everyone. She continued writing to her unborn child, and she continued to plan things that she'll never be able to do for it. There was a constant nagging feeling in the back of her head, and she couldn't get rid of it. It was just always there… like something that she should know; something that would save Draco's life even if they lost the battle at the Ministry. It was a strong sensation that told her even if Draco were to be branded as a Death Eater he might not be killed in the future. It was… it was something that branded him as a personal target, and they could prevent it.

She just didn't know what it was.

"Harry, where were you?"

Entering the Room of Requirement, Harry had his hand bandaged up. "Detention."

"Merlin's beard!" exclaimed McGonagall, "Potter, I thought we told you to stop pushing her buttons."

Allowing both Hermione and Ginny to fuss over his now bleeding hand, Harry threw himself down onto the couch next to a disgruntled Draco. "I tried to," he sighed, "But earlier this morning I saw her threatening two first year Hufflepuffs. One of their bags ripped open, so the other stopped to help her; it was a boy and a girl. Umbridge was shouting at them because of the 'No-Boy-And-Girl-Shall-Be-Within-Five-Feet-Of-Each-Other' decree. I got detention for rolling my eyes and congratulating the girl on being the only person for being pregnant at eleven years old by simply standing within five feet of a boy who was helping her gather all of her books."

"Brilliant!" snorted both Ron and Neville.

"Blimey, 'Arry," Seamus gasped.

Blaise chuckled, "I wish I could've seen the look on Umbridge's face when she heard that."

"I bet it blew up just like a toad's does," Ginny muttered while rubbing the Murtlap Essence on the back of Harry's hand.

Luna had a frown on her usually dreamy looking face. "I hope the kids are alright."

"Don't worry, love," Neville smiled kindly at her, picking her hand up in his, "I'm sure Harry's detention made Umbridge forget all about them."

Harry nodded his head, "Umbridge told them to run off while she dealt with me. They're fine, Luna."

"This is getting ridiculous, Severus," McGonagall said sharply. Turning all of her attention on the bat-like professor, she narrowed her eyes into tiny little slits, "We need to do something about her."

"I know that, Minerva," Snape drawled out in his usual deeply slow baritone. "But everything we've tried isn't working. There's nothing much we can do, other than try to keep the students from getting into trouble with her."

"Maybe…" everyone turned to Hermione who had a troubled look on her face. Harry and Ron were the only two people who truly understood what it meant when she was biting on her lower lip. Everyone else thought she was just deep in thought, but it actually meant she hated what her own mind was creating. She sighed, "It might be the only way to keep them out of detention with her."

"What do you mean, Miss Granger?" questioned a suspicious Snape.

Draco gasped. He cocked an eyebrow at Hermione, and when she nodded her head at him, he smirked. "It could work," he admitted. "I've gotta admit, Granger; that's pretty Slytherin of you."

"What's pretty Slytherin of her?" Ron asked. He was confused.

Hermione sighed again. "I don't like it, but it's our only option. We need all of the other professors to assign detentions. As long as we keep the students in detention with you lot, they won't get the time to serve hers."

Everyone stared at Hermione with dropped jaws, while Snape and McGonagall had a silent conversation with one another. After a few minutes, they both nodded their heads. "It could work," McGonagall announced. "We'll talk to the other professors."

Draco sat there, continuing to listen to them talk about what happened on Valentine's Day. It was over with already, but they still talked about it because it was the day that Harry broke up with Cho for Ginny. It was Ginny's idea, really. Apparently, on the real day, Cho broke up with Harry because he wanted to leave their date to meet up with Hermione for an apparent interview with Rita Skeeter that she had set up for him. Cho got all jealous because Harry has no tact, and she broke up with him. This Valentines was different though. Hermione still made the appointment with Rita Skeeter because it was good on Harry's part to let people know his side of the story, while Xenophilius Lovegood printed it out in the Quibbler. Instead of going out with Cho to Hogsmeade though, Ginny forced Harry to break up with her in the morning, so that they could go out together. Ginny apparently did not care that Harry would be breaking up with the unsuspecting witch on Valentine's Day; Ginny seemed to think it was fit and justified for Cho simply just existing. Harry had no choice but to agree with Ginny, because he was afraid of the redheaded witch.

It amused everyone, except for Harry and Ginny, how good Cho was at hexes. She wasn't bitter enough to drop out of Dumbledore's Army, but she was bitter enough to hex Harry in front of his face, and attempt to hex Ginny behind her back. Ginny still had the 'I will not attempt to kill girls for Potter' carved into the back of her hand. It was Cho's downfall when she tried to hex Ginny; but it was Ginny's downfall when she successfully hexed Cho in front of Umbridge. It was a scar she wore with pride though. Since then, Cho still showed up for DA meetings, but she stayed away from Harry and Ginny unless she had to.

Draco listened while Snape and McGonagall assured them that they'll convince the other professors to assign numerous amounts of detentions, and then they saw the portrait open up. "Fred! George!" Ginny grinned.

Grinning back, the twins both held large boxes in their hands. "We've come with goodies."

"Messers Weasleys," McGonagall lifted one eyebrow, "What are you two doing here?"

"We're here with goodies," George said, continuing to grin. His eyes met Draco's, "Good to see you've finally come to your senses, Malfoy."

"Yeah," Fred said, also still grinning, "We heard you're one of us now. Congratulations on no longer being a prat."

Chuckling, Draco shook his head, "What's in the box?"

"Goodies!" the twins said together, as if no one could understand them the first two times they said it.

Carefully peering into the box, Snape frowned. "What kind of… goodies?"

"Ahh… well, we came up with a way-"

"-to prevent poor Marietta from giving up-"

"-secrets of the army-"

Together, they both started to pass out tiny clear colored patches. "Anti-Veritaserum-Patches!"

Fred frowned, "We're working on a better name."

"Anti-Veritaserum-Patches?" questioned Neville, staring at the square shaped patch in his hand.

George nodded his head. "Tomorrow is the day when Marietta gives away the information to Dumbridge," even Snape and McGonagall snickered at the name for the toad-like headmistress, "So we decided to create something that makes the user immune to the effects of the Veritaserum."

"We tried making pills or sweets, like most of our other products, but we kept getting sick when we would eat it then drink the potion," Fred added. "So then we decided on the patches. We finished them last night, but it works. We've tested it on Charlie and Sirius just to make sure we weren't somehow immune to the effects of the potion after two weeks of testing products."

"We're working on other shapes," George continued, "But for now, we're in a rush. We brought over two-hundred; it should be enough for now."

"Just put them on your hip," Fred instructed them, "And the clearness of it allows it to blend in with your skin. With the way it blends in with the user's skin, and the location of it, Umbridge won't realize you're wearing it. She won't suspect a thing."

"It lasts for twelve hours," George warned them. "After the twelve hours are up, it sort of warms up to let you know that its time is up, and then it just dissolves on its own, so that way you don't have to worry about taking it off."

Everyone's jaw was hanging open. Snape and McGonagall had saucer-like eyes while Ginny was smirking. They always knew they twins were geniuses, but to create a patch that would render the user immune to the effects of a truth potion? Where did they come up with ideas like that? "So, you two created a patch to help prevent Marietta from being forced to tell Umbridge the truth tomorrow?"

They nodded their heads in unison. "Just hand them out tonight, and make sure everyone puts it on in the morning. Once their patches dissolves have them put on another one just to be sure they aren't caught off guard late at night."

"This is brilliant," Hermione said in awe, her eyes twinkling at the product in her hands. "Are you going to sell this in your shop?"

"We were thinking about it," the twins both nodded their heads, "But it might be illegal. What if a Death Eater buys our product then uses it to fool the Ministry?"

Blaise nodded his head, "You two could end up in Azkaban."

"Exactly," Fred nodded in agreement.

George, however, had a dreamy look on his face that could rival Luna's, "Which is why we're only going to share this with members of the Order and the DA for now. After this all ends, we're going to come up with a product that senses the patches. For now, we made it where Filch's wands and sensors won't catch it, but we're going to create something that does."

"That's genius," Ron exclaimed! "Sell the patches to anybody, then sell the sensors to the Ministry."

"Exactly."

"Well, then," Fred announced, "We need to head back."

"Yeah," George was already heading towards the portrait, "Sirius and Charlie are over at Fleur's while Bill's at Gringotts. They don't know we left yet."

"Who's with Tonya?" Draco asked them.

"Remus," opening the portrait, they both waved, "Well, see ya'. Let Remus and Tonks know how it works the next time you see them."

Draco continued staring at the object in his hands. They all were. No one said anything after the twins left; they were all too stunned at what the twins had created. Draco was staring at the patch, but his mind was on something else. Since the night that Remus told them they couldn't break into Gringotts without a goblin, he's been trying to come up with ideas to help them out. He was a part of their team now; he should be able to attribute something to them... Bill's at Gringotts, he didn't know why, but George's statement kept jumping back up at him. Bill's at Gringotts…

Bill's at Gringotts… "I can hand them out to the Ravenclaws," Luna's words broke Draco's thoughts, causing him to snap his head towards her.

"And we can pass them out to the Gryffindors," Ginny stated, pointing at most of the room.

"I can try to get some to the Hufflepuffs," Neville offered, Bill's at Gringotts… "I'm close with a few of them because of Herbology."

McGonagall cleared her throat, "Severus and I could pass some out during our classes, and we could have Pomona pass some out to her students as well."

Bill's at Gringotts… "No," it was Blaise who disagreed with the professor, "It's too dangerous for you. If we get caught we'll just get detention. You could all lose your jobs, and the students need you."

Hermione cocked her head to Blaise, "No way, Blaise. You and Draco can't hand them out either. You're both Slytherins, and part of the Inquisitorial Squad; you'll be killed. That's much worse than detention or getting fired." Bill's at Gringotts…

"Really Hermione?" teased Harry. "I thought getting expelled was worse than death?"

Turning a light shade of red, Hermione puffed out her chest. "I was eleven, Harry. Leave me alone."

Bill's at Gringotts… "We can 'and them out," Seamus assured his boyfriend, "Don't worry, love."

Draco stared at both Ron and Ginny while they laughed about their rule-breaker brothers actually doing something good for once. Bill's at Gringotts… "I always knew they were brilliant," Ginny stated, "But this is beyond just brilliant."

Bill's at Gringotts… "If only they put this much effort into school," McGonagall sighed. The pride at the Weasley twins being from her house was obvious in her face.

Bill's at Gringotts… "Remember when they-" Bill's at Gringotts…

Bill's at Gringotts… George's words were overpowering Draco's mind now, and it was all the Draco could hear. He tried to shake it out, but it became a mantra in his mind: Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at Gringotts… Bill's at… Bill's at Gringotts? "Bill's at Gringotts?"

Everyone lifted their heads to look up at Draco who just blurted out the random question. Ron nodded his head, "Yeah, he works there."

"I know that," Draco frowned. He suddenly gasped. "Bill's at Gringotts…" he jumped up. "Isn't he a Curse Breaker?"

Ginny nodded her head, "Yeah, he-"

"Bill's at Gringotts!" Draco laughed, cutting a confused Ginny off. "I gotta go," he announced, running towards the door. "Bill's at Gringotts…" he was still laughing while running out of the room; leaving a room full of confused people behind him.

Bill was in a somewhat foul mood by the time he returned to Grimmauld Place. Sirius and Remus were sitting in the kitchen and talking about something that James once did while they were still in school, and the twins were laughing in the sitting room while watching Tonya and Charlie play a game of Wizard's Chess. The pieces that Tonya was using belonged to Sirius, and they all seemed to be trying to impress her. Charlie's pieces seemed to want to impress her too, and they were strutting about the board; ignoring Charlie's demands for them.

Looking up from the game, Tonya saw Bill. "Hey, Bill."

He smiled down at her, "Hey, Tonya."

"What's wrong with you?" she asked him. She was frowning at the look in his eyes.

Sighing, Bill threw himself down onto the chair. Remus and Sirius were walking out of the kitchen, and towards him. "Some woman came into the bank today," he explained. "She started accusing the goblins of stealing galleons out of her vault. The goblins lost their cool with her, and one of them tried to attack her. The security wizards stopped him with their wands, and then one of the other goblins accused the wizard of mutiny, and just a bunch of other things."

"Wow," Remus frowned. "Is the woman alright?"

"She's in St. Mungos. Tonks and Kingsley arrived with the other Aurors who were called to the scene. It's just been a very long day. So how did it go at Fleur's?"

Sirius looked over at Charlie, who smirked. "Mum was there."

Bill began gasping for air. "What? Why?"

"Well, according to Tonya, Mum hated Fleur in the beginning, until she proved that she wasn't going to leave you just because you were scarred. So now, Mum already loves her. When we got there they were looking at the old album."

Groaning, Bill, shook his head. "It's just not my day."

"I don't know," Sirius grinned. "Fleur seemed to enjoy them. She even cooed at the potty training ones."

Feeling sorry for Bill, and sort of in awe at how his face was redder than his hair, Tonya decided to change the topic. "The twins went to Hogwarts today."

"We gave them the patches," Fred nodded his head. "McGonagall and Snape looked confused."

"Could it be because you two never paid any attention in their classes?" snorted Charlie.

George shrugged his shoulders, "They're gonna hand it out tonight so the DA members will all be using it from the time they leave their common rooms in the morning."

"I think it's brilliant that you two came up with them," Remus admitted. When he was a professor at Hogwarts he always saw the Marauders in the twins, but now he was starting to see a bit of himself and Lily as well. He always only saw James and Sirius, but it was nice to know they were exceptionally bright when they were passionate about something. "It's really going to help the DA out."

Chuckling, Tonya looked up at the twins, "Exactly. And what's the point in trying to follow anything anymore. I mean, we're already changing the future, so why not re-write the past as well."

"Exactly!" Fred beamed. "We're only changing history!"

Hearing a tapping noise on his window, Bill was confused. Owls couldn't find Grimmauld Place unless they knew where to go, and there weren't a lot of owls who did. Jumping out of his bed, he walked towards the window, and became even more confused. Why was Harry sending Hedwig to him? Weren't the owls at Hogwarts being watched? Quickly allowing the snowy owl inside of his room, he took the rolled up letter from her.

Allowing Hedwig to drink water from his cup, Bill sat on the edge of his bed and began to read the letter.

Bill,

Do not let Tonya read this, or find it… she'll recognize my handwriting. You cannot reply by letter through Hedwig either; I was able to sneak her out of the castle because of my position on the Inquisitorial Squad, but there's no guarantee that I'll be the one who checks her when she returns. And I couldn't use any other owl because Hedwig is the only one who knows where to find you – or else I would have used my own; he never gets checked. Harry knows I'm using his owl though, so it's fine.

You must be wondering why I'm writing to you, of all people? Remus explained to us that all of you know about me by now (of how I know the truth) and I know about the dilemma about breaking into Gringotts. I've got the solution. It came to me today while your brothers were dropping off the patches. George mentioned how you work at Gringotts, and I remembered from my future memories that you're a Curse Breaker. You can get into the vault – YOUcan!

You're a Curse Breaker, and the Lestrange vault is known for belonging to the notorious Death Eaters. The goblins and the Curse Breakers have every right to check inside of the vaults whenever they feel like it, just to ensure nothing is wrong in there. Because you're new to the London branch of Gringotts you could make it seem like you want to do a mandatory check up on all of the vaults. You could claim that you just want to make sure your predecessor did a thorough job of it. Seeing as how both the owners are in Azkaban, you don't need to warn them you're going to do it – don't check only that vault though, and don't do it first. Do a clean sweep of other vaults as to not gain suspicion. Take items from other vaults that are faulty, so when you leave with the goblet the goblins won't be suspicious. As an employed Curse Breaker for Gringotts, you have every right to remove an item from the vault in order to break whatever curse you need to, as long as you don't have the correct equipment on you at the time.

Because both my aunt and uncle are in Azkaban at the moment, they won't notify either of them, nor will they contact anyone else. No one will know about it, aside from the goblins and you. But they don't gossip, and you'll only tell the Order members.

It's the only option I can think of. But you'll have to do it alone – no one from the Order, or Tonya, can do it with you. Fleur's not a Curse Breaker so she can't either. Make sure you talk to Tonya about what the goblet looks like exactly, to ensure you don't grab the wrong one. And don't grab only the goblet – grab a bunch of cursed items from that vault, as to not raise any suspicion about why it's taking so long to return it. Slowly return the others, so that way you have enough time to keep this one until the battle.

Tonya's a very nosy person, from what my dreams tell me, so make sure you convince her that this has been bugging you for a while, and you just realized it's the only way to make it work.

You can contact me through Tonks or Remus, or if you come to Hogwarts on your own.

-DM

Tonya was grinning. She was excited. Keeping her hands on the tiny little baby bump that was now starting to show, she looked up at Bill with a wide grin. This was it… it was perfect… they found a way inside of the vault now. It's been two days since he came home annoyed because of the goblin attacking the witch incident at work, and now he's presented all of them with this idea. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day.

Harry somehow got them a letter stating that the twins' patches worked and that Marietta didn't out the DA. It was perfect because they weren't caught, and they could continue to secretly train without being caught. Now they were hearing that Bill found the perfect way to break into the Lestrange vault, and he could get paid while doing it. There wouldn't be any more stories of how Hermione, Ron, and Harry broke into Gringotts and escaped on a dragon, but it would still work out perfectly because everything was working for them, finally.

It was interesting to hear everyone's guesses at who the killer was, and nobody got it right… (well one reader did, but we messaged each other, and she kept guessing until I said yes, but she knows she got it right)

I hope you guys liked this chapter, and the way that Draco came up with the idea on how to break into Gringotts. Please review, we've reached 90, and I really want to hit 100 before the next chapter(: