"So how was Arthur?" Sirius asked as the group returned.

"Better." Molly smiled happily. "I'll start dinner, Bill and Charlie promised to come."

"I'll give you a hand Mum." Ginny offered following her into the kitchen.

"We should take care of those orders." George said as the twins headed upstairs leaving Buffy, Sirius and the golden trio alone in the livingroom.

"Remus and Tonks finished their mission and should be back this evening." Sirius said sensing a sadness about his sister.

"That's good, I've missed them." Buffy said with a small smile. "I didn't get much sleep last night. I think I'm going to lie down for a while before dinner."

"Everything alight?" Sirius asked concerned as she disappeared up the stairs.

"We ran into Neville Longbottom." Hermione explained. "And His grandmother, they were visiting his parents."

"So you saw Frank and Alice?" Sirius asked surprised as Ron stood confused.

"I'm going to go see if she's alright." Harry said hurriedly walking out of the room.

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He reached her landing seeing her door open, pausing in the doorway he watched as she sat on her bed staring at a photo. It broke his heart to see the glistening tears on her cheeks as she silently cried.

"I knew the second I saw him, Before he introduced himself to me." She said sensing his presence. "He looks so much like Frank, but he has her smile. I was so excited." she smiled sadly.

"Neville Longbottom." he said offering her a shy smile.

"Buffy Black." She replied.

"I know...I mean I've heard a lot about you.." He blushed.

"You must be related to Frank Longbottom."

"He's my father." He nodded.

"Your Mother wouldn't happen to be Alice Jones would she?" She asked hopefully.

"She is" Neville said nervously.

"She was my best friend." Buffy smiled.

"I know, my Gram told me." He nodded.

"Your Gram?" Buffy said confused.

"Noone's told you have they." He sighed.

"It's not fair." Buffy said blinking back her tears. "What happened to them. I met Alice on the Hogwarts Express my first year, we were best friends ever since. When Neville told me...I just didn't want to believe it. It wasn't supposed to be like this. If I hadn't left...And poor Neville, I can't even imagine how it must be for him."

"That's why you spent so much time with him, talking about his parents." Harry began unsurely.

"I would have been his God Mother." Buffy smiled sadly. "I guess I sort of feel like it's my job to make sure he knows that his parents we're real people, not what you saw today. Alice was so sweet and shy, a lot like Neville and Frank, he was handsome and smart and so in love with Alice. I always knew they'd make it. We were going to do it all together, we had it all planned out, get married, live next door to each other, have kids at the same time so they could be best friends too."

"Have you tried the mirror?" Harry asked changing the subject. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know how different things would have been if she hadn't left.

"I'm afraid it wont work." She admitted quietly. "It's protected incase we lost them, muggles can't work them. My only hope is that Willow or Tara's wiccan powers will be able to sense it." She said puling the silver mirror out of her pocket. "Willow." She called hesitantly holding the smooth silver compact open in her palm. "Wills." She tried again hopefully. "Tara." She offered halfheartedly. "Come on guys." She said closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. "Willow, Tara." A light seemed to travel across the smooth reflective surface causing the two teens to freeze. "Willow?" Buffy called hopefully searching the glass for her friends familiar face.

"Why is it red?" Harry asked confused the surface of the mirror taking on a shining red hue.

"That's not red." Buffy said dropping the compact as if it burned. She knew that color all to well, red would never describe it, only one word could. "It's blood."

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"Willow, Tara."

"Buffy!" Dawn gasped pulling her hand away from Zander who was carefully wrapping it.

"What's happening?" Zander asked nervously not allowing his hopes to get up as the mirror began to shake.

"I don't know." Willow admitted as they all stood around it the ritual had been complete now they just had to wait.

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"What's going on?" Harry asked nervously as two balls of light filled the room.

"I don't know." Buffy admitted as they both stared down at the mirror on her floor where it had fallen from her hand moments ago. "This can't be good, We need to close it. Before it's to late." She demanded as the lights shot to the mirror. They both lunged towards it but they were to late.

"What just happened?" Harry asked unsurely as they stood the Mirror in Buffy's hand as she silently clicked it shut.

"Something went into the mirror." Buffy replied nervously. "Who knows what I just unleashed on their world."