Before her talk with Remus and the issues with Harry Sonny had managed to put together a slap dash memorial service for James and Lily; it was not only to be a memorial for the slain couple but a memorial for all those who fought and gave their lives in an effort to stop Voldemort.

Of course a public memorial service was just that open to the public and with Death Eaters still walking free it was extremely dangerous. Sonny had not thought of this until Remus pointed it out and she couldn't afford to be killed right now. Thankfully she had been unable to find a place big enough and had been hoping to use Hogwarts hence why she had set up a meeting with Dumbledore. Now that she had nixed the memorial idea she needed some way to get the press interested in talking with her but the only way to do that was to come out as Harry's guardian which she refused to do. She knew people would ask about Harry her intention was to say that he was with family which isn't a lie. Most would believe that they meant Lily's family very few knew that the Potters and the Cromwells were distantly related and nobody outside of Albus and Remus knew about Sonny accidentally adopting Lily.

Instead Sonny had not cancelled her appointment with Albus. She told him about Harry's dreams and some of what Melanie had told her. Specifically that Snape was there and about Voldemort's disappearance. She had also made plans to have lunch with her former Transfiguration professor, Minerva McGonagall, who had been a good friend of her mother's from when they were in school. Though there was a three year age difference and they were in different houses they managed to forge a great friendship and McGonagall had always kept an eye on the Cromwell girls during their time at Hogwarts.

The plan was to explain to Aunt Min what had happened with Sirius and let the local Hogsmeade gossips, Madam Rosmerta specifically, to spread the word. By the time the week was out Rita Skeeter would be begging for an interview.

After leaving her meeting with Dumbledore, which left him summoning the spy come potions master, she headed to McGonagall's office to ask if she was ready for lunch. When she arrived she found Aunt Min ushering a shame faced boy out of her office he couldn't have been more than a third year. The stern glare on the woman's face morphed into a small smile at the sight of one of her favorite students and Sonny turned to the boy and spoke out of the corner of her mouth, "If I were you I would get while the getting was good." The boy zoomed off with a muttered thank you which caused both women to laugh. As Sonny settled into the chair across from Minerva's desk, one which she had sat in numerous times as pupil, Minerva began to talk, "So Sonny, patron saint of troublemakers, what would you like to do for lunch go to Hogsmeade or dine in the Great Hall." "Hogsmeade, you need to get out of the castle a bit. But first if you have an questions about Harry ask them now we don't want people to know he is with me and Remus even the people at the funeral all thought he was being taken to live with family," Sonny told her. "But there's the kicker you are family," Min added. "Within every good lie there is a grain of truth. James and Sirius never did learn that," seeing the look on Min's face she quickly added, "Harry is adjusting well. We have had a few bumps but we are all learning and it helps that mum and the aunts are there to help." "So shall we go," Minerva asked and they headed out to Hogsmeade.

They settled into a table at the Three Broomsticks and began to chat about life. While her slip of Sirius' name in McGonagall's office was not planned it had planted the seed in Aunt Min's head to start asking questions about him or just generally ranting her opinion. Finally after their drinks were brought and they had some semblance of privacy Minerva began her questioning, "How can you so casually talk about Sirius and James after all that he has done. For Merlin's sake he was in league with You-Know-Who."

"Say his name Minerva the fear of the name only increases the fear of the thing itself. Plus I talk about Sirius so casually as you put it because he wasn't working for Voldemort," the woman opened her mouth to try and tell Sonny how wrong she was but the girl just plowed ahead, "it was Peter. I know this because Lily asked me to be the Secret Keeper because Sirius wanted to use himself as a decoy. I was still too weak to handle the charm and they went with Peter instead. Lily put it in the will. I have shown the memory to Dumbledore as well as the will but the Ministry refuses to give him the trial he deserves. That is why I have been meeting with Albus so much he is giving me progress, or lack thereof, reports."

Minerva McGonagall sat there as her former student made an impassioned case for her imprisoned and innocent cousin. "The worst thing is that everybody that knows him just wrote him off with an all Blacks go dark eventually. That hurts the worse because if you could all believe that of him what makes me any different," Sonny added her words relaying the fact that this is the first time she ever uttered those words aloud.

Of course Minerva began comforting the girl and asking what she could do to help the scene was being observed by Rosmerta, who had heard the whole conversation and would undoubtedly rely it whoever would listen. After sometime the duo finished their lunch and departed Minerva heading in the direction of Hogwarts and Sonny heading towards the floo in back of the pub.

It was exactly three days later when she received an owl from Rita Skeeter asking if she would be willing to speak about her belief that her cousin was innocent. She agreed to meet her in the private parlor at the Leaky Cauldron. Sonny had gathered enough information on Skeeter to be able to insure that the interview was totally in her control.